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I like the draft, would have liked to had a receiver, but knowing Farmer doesn't like first round WR it doesn't surprise me they didn't take one. But the OL guy is versitle and could end up playing center for the Browns if Mack decides he wants to leave Cleveland. But he could fill in at most of the spots if injuries happen. Be curious to see what they do tonight. There are some receivers still on the board, that are pretty good play makers yet.
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What's everybody's take on the Ray Rice talks? Legitimate possibility or just fluff? I think giving the guy a 2nd chance to come out and prove himself could be an extremely good thing and granite he has struggled in his previous few seasons but lets not forget this guy is a former pro bowler and elite running back in the league.
Posted 14 August 2015 - 01:53 PM
I would think they could sign him for a one year for next to nothing, and I would hope he would play with a lot of fire to be back in the game, and with JOhnson being out, Maybe he would be the spark that makes West and Crowell work harder. His wife wants him to work, and she is the only one that he needs to prove himself too. He's been out a year....so I think the league has made it's point.
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While a baby is still in the womb, its intestines (bowels) form. As they form, they move into their normal position in the abdomen (belly). Intestinal malrotation happens when the intestines don't form in the right position. The intestines may bend the wrong way. Or, parts of the intestine may end up in the wrong part of the abdomen. Bands of tissue called Ladd bands can grow between the intestines and body wall. These secure the intestines in the wrong place. Ladd bands can also block part of the intestine, causing digestive problems.
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The daughter of a musician/educator, Nedelka Prescod continues to walk in the tradition as a member of the new Contemporary Improvisation faculty in New England Conservatory's Continuing Education program, as an ensemble coach in the corresponding College program.
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The era of using pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) is OVER! Or it could be ...
Those two drugs take 48 weeks to work, cost a lot, are replete with horrific and sometimes permanent side effects and are at best only marginally effective.
But in the past two weeks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two new drugs, simeprevir (brand name: Olysio, from Janssen) and sofosbuvir (brand name: Sovaldi, from Gilead). While the specific indications are not necessarily for these two drugs to be used together, the COSMOS study has shown that they can result in "cure" (sustained viral response) in 12 weeks of treatment in over 90 percent of patients.
These two can be combined and prescribed off label. But the bad news is: Who will cover them? Simeprevir is coming in at $66,000 for a 12-week course and sofosbuvir at around $90,000 -- for what amounts to a total of maybe $300-400 worth of drugs.
So, even though I just signed up for the Affordable Care Act, I probably won't get these drugs. Nor will most of the 150 million (or more) of us living with HCV. What these companies are doing is beyond outrageous. Add in the effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, if that piece of evil is passed, and you guarantee most of us will never see these drugs.
While we know other drugs from other companies are fast coming down the pike, the history is not good. When the first drugs come in at a certain price, all the other companies follow along and never significantly rock the boat (which some could argue is a form of price fixing). And there is NO rational reason for these prices (by all means, get and read Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre).
The story starts unpleasantly enough. When studies showed Gilead's drug sofosbuvir plus a Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) drug, daclatasvir, cured 100 percent of genotype-1 HCV-infected individuals, instead of seeking larger, better studies, Gilead STOPPED further study to corner the market with its version of daclatasvir (which doesn't work as well).
Worse, Gilead did NOT do any of the research. It simply BOUGHT the owner/developer of sofosbuvir, Pharmasset, for $11 billion -- a company with only four drugs in its portfolio, one of which is already abandoned, while the other two are not being developed. So, Gilead basically bought ONE drug for $11 billion ... when it costs (they claim) $1 billion to bring a drug to market (it's much less, actually; that's just another pharma exaggeration).
These companies do this KNOWING the vast majority cannot afford it. They do it KNOWING that many states will not be able to sustain the rape of so many HCV patients being on Medicaid. They KNOW they will cause enormous suffering and more death around the world due to their outrageous greed. This is something I refer to as nothing short of economic genocide.
With the announcement of the FDA approval of sofosbuvir (and the laughable litany of lies from Gilead about how it'll work to get the drug to all who need it) and the previous approval of simeprevir, the era of PEG-IFN/ribavirin is over. These nasty drugs can be thrown in the trash heap (or, more politely, reserved as an extreme last resort).
There are options we can consider:
- We can demand more trials of combinations like sofosbuvir and simeprevir or daclatasvir from the NIH (National Institutes of Health), either through petitioning Griffin Rodgers at NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) or Tony Fauci at NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), for example, among HIV/HCV coinfected individuals. There are no doubt a litany of studies that should be undertaken.
- Generics should be made immediately. Any price over $500 for the two drugs for a course of treatment is an obscenity. People with HCV in middle-income countries will be murdered. In the United States, state Medicaid and other formularies may simply refuse to permit people to use sofosbuvir if the cost per patient is approaching $90,000. It will take only ONE state to say NO to Gilead and seek to import the generics.
These are not complicated or unusual molecules nor difficult to manufacture. And indeed, there is some evidence that sofosbuvir is not even legitimately patented.
The usual polite efforts to get companies to be sane about drug pricing have failed horribly. We have to up our game if we are to break the chains of bondage that place our lives in jeopardy. The era of interferon for HCV will only end if we end this long, cruel era of greed and economic genocide. These companies will no longer listen to reason -- but they do not have the right to destroy our lives in the service of their avarice.
George M. Carter is a founder and director of the Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR), and is the treatment information director and administrator of the New York Buyers' Club, the last U.S. buyers' club. He has been living without health insurance for most of his adult life and with hepatitis C since the early '80s.


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Ever wondered why a guy didn't call you back? Rachel Greenwald has the answer. She spent ten years interviewing over 1,000 guys, and she lays it all out in her new book, Why He Didn't Call You Back: 1,000 Guys Reveal What They REALLY Thought About You After Your Date.
According to Greenwald, "there are more failed first dates today than ever before." With the popularity of online dating, singles have come to expect perfection. Because why wouldn't you, when you can land a new date with a few clicks of a mouse?
But when it comes to marriage-minded men, Greenwald's research reveals that there are clear, consistent reasons men don't call women back. It all comes down to stereotypes.
"You can't make a meaningful decision about whether that person is right for you from a first or second date," says Greenwald. But in order to decide if someone has long-term potential, guys (and gals) use small cues to make big assumptions about their date's personality, lifestyle and character. "People are making decisions about whether a relationship could ultimately work based on very superficial data points."
Greenwald's book encourages women to be aware of the image they're projecting, and to make small adjustments to their behavior so that they can land a second or third date. "I don't want to change you," says Greenwald. "I want to change the way you come across on the first date."
Greenwald has an MBA from Harvard business school, and published her first book, Find a Husband After 35: (Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School), in 2003. She leads a successful matchmaking business, and used her own tactics to find her own husband, so she knows whereof she speaks.
YourTango spoke to Greenwald about why you should never Facebook friend a guy before going out with him, who should pay for dinner and the number one reason men don't call you back.
YourTango: What is a successful first date?
Rachel Greenwald: To me a successful first or second date is simply an invitation to go out again. You can't really get to know who the person is deep down until you spend more time with them, so the lack of a follow-up date invitation means that someone has quickly stereotyped you.
What's the most common reason guys don't call back?
The number one reason why men didn't call a woman back is what I call The Boss Lady. This is a stereotype of a women who is very accomplished and successful and frankly fabulous in so many ways, but the man walks away from the date thinking that he's more interested in hiring her than dating her. He thinks she's argumentative, competitive, not feminine, controlling and not nurturing.
This is NOT a reflection of whether he could be happy with a Boss Lady. He probably would be, because the traits that initially come across as bossy may later be deemed forthright or confident.
So, what do you do if you're a Boss Lady?
If a women identifies herself as a Boss Lady I don't suggest that she change her personality; I suggest that she show the softer side of herself first, before the stronger side emerges. A lot of that has to do with just changing how she speaks.
There's an example of a date in the book about a couple that goes to a dinner party and the man watches his date argue with another guest about global warming. She very aggressive and she's trying to win every point, and he thinks that she's very argumentative and competitive.
The right way to change your delivery would be to make a softer. You could say, "It's great to see this issue get so much attention. I guess we'll see who's right in the long run." The delivery of these statements is a very superficial thing. You're actually saying the same thing, but you're delivering it in a more gracious and open minded way.
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Complications that the influx of Apple iPads and iPhones bring to enterprise Wi-Fi networks and wireless LAN administrators are illustrated vividly at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario.
The hospital decided in 2010 to deploy 3000 iPad tablets to doctors, internists, and pharmacists in support of strategic patient care applications. All data was going to be streamed to the iPads, and the Apple tablets only communicated over Wi-Fi. "Therefore, the [wireless] network became quite important," says CIO Dale Potter. "We invested a mound of money in the network [in summer 2011]."
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The hospital picked Aruba Networks to design and deploy a Wi-Fi network that currently numbers nearly 1,600 802.11n access points. "No one could answer me when I asked 'what will happen when we scale to 3000 iPads by year-end, and eventually to about the same number of other iOS devices?'" Potter recalls.
Aruba CEO Dominic Orr called in the Aruba Customer Engineering (ACE) team, a small, elite consulting group that among other things handles the toughest, most baffling challenges that the vendor encounters in enterprise deployments.
Based on their experience over the past couple of years with enterprise WLANS, ACE has identified a range of issues that these networks face with the surge in iOS and Android mobile devices, according to Chuck Lukaszewski, senior director of Aruba's professional services group, and the ACE team. Currently, iPhones and iPads overall remain the most popular brands of new smartphones and tablets in the enterprise.
"We're seeing extremely rapid increases in the aggregate number of mobile devices on customer networks, across all sizes of organizations," says Lukaszewski. Especially in higher education, numbers are doubling or tripling from year to year.
The issues confronting IT groups include changes in RF design and the appropriate level of access point density; poor device roaming; and new and different loads on the WLAN's control path - the demand for authentication services, for IP addresses, license management, multicast and broadcast traffic spikes.
RF design, density
For years, an industry rule of thumb was to deploy one access point for every 3,600 to 5,000 square feet for data networks, and every 2,500 square feet for VoIP. ACE routinely now goes with the higher density for mobile device deployments.
There are two key benefits, Lukaszewski says. One is better Wi-Fi signal levels. Virtually all smartphones and tablets with 802.11n radios support only one data stream, and use one antenna. As a result they cannot make use of techniques like Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC), which can exploit multiple streams and antennas to boost the signal to noise ratio on the radio link.
Many mobile Wi-Fi radios are actually quite powerful in terms of transmit power. The iPhone 4S and iPad, and many other devcies, use Broadcom's BCM4329 chipset, which "easily rivals or exceeds the power of many laptop chipsets," Lukaszewski says. The "weakness" lies in the receiver's more limited capacity to process inbound frames and the inability to fall back on MRC to compensate if the signal is impaired. "They're more vulnerable to frame loss than a multi-antenna device," he says. "So keeping the signal levels high compensates for this."
Second, the greater number of access points can handle the growing client population. Enterprise users increasingly have two or more mobile devices per person. "If we have more devices in the same space [than planned], I need additional APs to support them," Lukaszewski says. Aruba and most other WLAN vendors have various techniques to distribute devices across other access points.
The real limiting factor is "how much data you can actually put on a wireless channel," Lukaszewski says. "If you slice this 'pie' too thin, they won't get the throughput they need...Customers are used to seeing '300Mbps' on access point product literature. But these mobile devices don't run close to that."
Mobile devices today typically will have an 802.11n radio that supports one data stream and has one antenna, and can only use the conventional 20-MHz wide channel (802.11n gains a lot of throughput by bonding two of these into a "fatter" 40 MHz channel, and using two or more antennas). "That means the highest data rate they can achieve is 65Mbps, the maximum single-stream rate without bonding two channels together," Lukaszewski says. And actual throughput will be even less: in the area of 40Mbps.
"If I can get 40Mbps of throughput on the access point, and I want an average of 1Mbps per device, I can only have 40 devices" on one access point, Lukaszewski says.
Channel challenges
Just when enterprises have finally begun aggressively embracing the open 5-GHz band, first netbooks, and then smartphones and other portable devices, arrived with radios that run only in the 2.4 GHz band. Besides being crowded with devices, the 2.4 GHz band has only three non-overlapping Wi-Fi channels (tablets, like the iPad, run also on the 5 GHz band, which can have up to 21). With lots of access points in a small area, avoiding channel overlap can be tricky.
"These devices are technologically taking us back about two years from a spectrum management perspective while at the same time we're adding many, many more devices into the environment," Lukaszewski says.
Aruba now routinely recommends that in high-use areas like lecture halls, stadiums and the like that bonded 40-MHz channels simply be disabled, and more access points be packed in.
Roaming between access points for mobile devices is still a problem, though not as bad as it was just a few years ago. "In the past, early mobile devices had very poor roaming algorithms," Lukaszewski says. Once connected to an access point, many devices simply clung to it, even when the user had moved to another location with a nearby access point that had had a much better signal.
"Apple devices used to be very challenged in this regard though they've made some improvements," Lukaszewski says. "Their driver behavior is better but it's still nowhere near what we see in, for example, voice-over-IP Wi-Fi devices."
Universities and colleges in 2008 were already seeing scaling challenges with high-density WLANs, which strained such backend enterprise services as DHCP servers and IP address allocation [see "Wireless LANs face huge scaling challenges"]. The new generation of mobile devices is creating new strains all over again.
Impact on network services
"The impact of smart devices on AAA [authentication, authorization, and accounting] is massive, as these devices don't roam so much as they come online randomly as users take them out and put them away frequently," Lukaszewski says. "You will need a minimum of two times the number of AAA servers that you would need in a laptop-only environment."
Another burden is the use by mobile devices of chatty discovery protocols, especially Apple's Bonjour protocol, based on multicast DNS (MDNS). Bonjour in particular works perfectly fine in a home Wi-Fi network, to find and connect with Apple TV, or an Apple AirPrint printer. But these devices are constantly broadcasting, generating heavy loads across enterprise networks, and doing so at lower data rates than standard data traffic.
The result, says Lukaszewski, is multicast traffic can swell and bog down the WLAN. Aruba this week unveiled software that will filter MDNS traffic, and rival Aerohive announced a solution earlier this month.
At Ottawa Hospital, CIO Potter is still astonished to find doctors sitting at their desks next to a wired-in PC but using their iPads. When he asks them why, they say "Because [the iPad's] faster," a function of the tablet's instant-on capability and the WLAN's consistent reliability and throughput.
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Vaccine best prevention for bacterial meningitis
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said there is likely no health risk to other students on campus following the death of a student from bacterial meningitis.
Henry Mackaman, 21, died days after going to the hospital with symptoms.
Mackaman was an economics and English double major. He was a popular musician and a DJ at the campus radio station.
A doctor at the Medical College of Wisconsin told WISN 12 News one out of every 10 people carries the bacteria.
It occurs naturally, living in the back of one's throat. When it enters the bloodstream it can become deadly within a matter of hours.
The best prevention is the vaccine.
The symptoms start off mild, and then progress to high fever, stiff neck, blurry vision, confusion and vomiting.
"When you see somebody who goes from being healthy and successful and about to graduate college to dead, it really makes you wonder whether something as safe and simple as the vaccine isn't worth it. Again, I don't know what the vaccine status was for this young man, but it's sure an easy way of avoiding a lot of heartbreak," Dr. Rodney Willoughby said.
Willoughby said pre-teens should get the vaccine.
A booster is now recommended for teenagers entering college because the vaccine wears off.


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New products introduced over the last week include the iShares Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index Trust.
In addition, Emerging Global Advisors said it has launched the EGShares EM Dividend High Income ETF, and Edward Jones is in the process of introducing its own fixed-income mutual fund to clients using its fee-based platform.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) iShares Launches iShares Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index Trust
BlackRock, Inc. (BLK) announced recently that its iShares ETFs business has launched the iShares Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index Trust (CMDT). It is the first ETF based on the Dow Jones-UBS Roll Select Commodity Index, which currently tracks 22 commodities futures contracts, including agriculture, energy and metals, and is designed to minimize the costs of closing expiring futures contracts and replacing them with new ones.
CMDT accesses commodities exposure through commodity index futures contracts. When the contracts are close to expiring, the fund replaces the contracts with new ones in a process known as "rolling." If the fund is rolling contracts for costlier later-dated contracts, then the commodity market is in "contango," which may detract from performance. If the later-dated contracts are less expensive than the contracts held by the fund, then the commodity market is in "backwardation," which may add to performance.
The index on which the ETF is based, a version of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index, aims to mitigate the effects of contango on performance. For each commodity, the index rolls into the futures contract that shows the most backwardation or least contango, selecting from those contracts with nine months or fewer until expiration.
2) Emerging Global Advisors Launches EGShares EM Dividend High Income ETF
Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) announced Thursday that it has launched the EGShares EM Dividend High Income ETF (EMHD), an ETF designed for income-oriented investors. EMHD tracks the FTSE Equal Weighted Emerging All Cap ex-Taiwan Diversified Dividend Yield 50 Index, which has a dividend yield of 8.8% (as of 7/31/2013) and screens for emerging market companies that have consistently generated high income for their shareholders.
EGA and FTSE collaborated to design an index that seeks to provide a higher dividend payout relative to other widely used EM dividend indices. The equally weighted index measures the stock performance of the 50 highest-yielding, liquid EM equity securities in its universe, excluding the least capitalized dividend-paying companies. As a result, the index is designed to deliver a broad basket of securities across EM countries that are screened for high dividend yield and quality.
3) Edward Jones 'Not Altering Direction of Ship' With Proprietary Fund
Edward Jones said Wednesday that it was introducing its own fixed-income mutual fund to clients using its fee-based platform, a move that the St. Louis-based broker-dealer says represents a course correction rather than a radical shift in corporate strategy.
"We are not altering the direction of the ship and are putting the needs of our clients first," said Steve Seifert, principal with the firm's investment-advisory operations, in an interview with ThinkAdvisor. "As we continue to grow and look for the best ways to perform for our clients, this is an important step forward for Edward Jones."
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After graduating from high school, Rodney attended Texas Lutheran University in Seguin where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and was a four-year letterman and three-time captain on the Bulldog Tennis Team. Rodney was selected as All Southwest Conference each of the four years he played tennis at TLU. He also helped lead the TLU Bulldogs to two American Southwest Conference Championship tournaments, including the first in school history in 2005.
Upon graduating from college, Rodney began coaching the intramural tennis teams at San Antonio College and has played an integral role in developing both the men's and women's programs. He has also continued to volunteer at both his high school and college alma maters, providing lessons and helping to coach the schools' tennis teams.


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Innovative Pakistani mosque takes on sectarianism
By Sebastian Abbot and Zarar Khan
Islamabad: In a country where sectarian violence is spiking, Zahid Iqbal is playing an innovative role in trying to bring peace to Pakistan's competing Islamic sects by simply not taking sides.
His mosque in the capital Islamabad markets itself as "sect free" and is open to everyone. Despite pressure, Iqbal has refused to follow convention and define the mosque as Sunni, Shiite or any of the other subgroups that divide Islam, sometimes violently.
"We don't belong with any sect of Islam," said Iqbal, a real estate businessman in his 30s who also serves as the mosque's president. "We only belong to Islam."
Much of the sectarian violence that Pakistan has experienced in recent years has been attacks by radical Sunni militants on minority Shiites they consider heretics. There were 77 such attacks between January 2012 and June 2013 that killed 635 Shiites and wounded 834 others, according to a recent report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The schism between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims traces back to the early days of Islam and arguments over successors to Prophet Muhammad. But over time, the divide between the Sunni, which represent about 85 percent of the world's Muslims, and Shiite has taken an increasingly bloody turn across Pakistan and the greater Middle East.
There has also been occasional conflict between different strains of Sunni Islam in Pakistan, such as Wahabbi, Barelvi and Deobandi.
Iqbal said he thought the conflict between Islamic sects was based on ignorance and invited everyone to come to his mosque, including Christians and Jews, to learn "the reality of Islam." A large sign on the side of his mosque says it is "open to all Muslims irrespective of their sect."
The businessman collected nearly $300,000 to build his mosque, which first opened in 2010 but is still a work in progress. There are piles of red bricks and cinderblocks in the courtyard, and wooden polls hold up a shaky looking brick archway that marks the mosque's entrance.
Iqbal said he had difficulty registering the mosque with the government because authorities told him it must be affiliated with a specific Islamic sect. Amir Ali Ahmed, who heads the department that registers mosques in Islamabad, said there was no such requirement. However, he suggested a low-level employee could have pushed the issue since it's relatively unusual for a mosque not to identify itself with a sect.
"We would encourage someone to say they aren't attached to any sect," Ahmed said.
Iqbal said he also encountered difficulty when a rival imam and his students seized the property before the mosque was built, a common problem in a country where land is often taken by force. He managed to resolve the conflict by calling the housing society that donated him the property.
The businessman has faced persistent pressure from rival religious leaders to link the mosque to their sect, but always has refused, he said.
"I'm not afraid of them," Iqbal said. "I believe my life is in God's hands, not in the hands of others."
There are at least three other mosques in Islamabad that aren't affiliated with a specific sect, Iqbal said. But he touted his facility in Islamabad's Sector E-11 as the only full-fledged Islamic center that also included a separate section for women and a library filled with books about various religions. Some of the more surprising titles included "Angels, Jinns and Satans" and "Sanctity of Circumcision in Bible."
More than 200 men and young boys filed into the mosque on Friday for prayers, lining up on rugs under whirling ceiling fans that sought to beat back the oppressive heat and humidity.
The imam, Mohammed Yasin Rashid, delivered his weekly sermon over a microphone headset that looked like something a call center employee would use. Rashid spoke of the importance of religious harmony.
"The best people are those who promote harmony and treat people well despite their affiliation," Rashid said.
But he did take a dig at Christians and Jews, saying they became cursed when they started worshipping prophets instead of a single God.
Most of the worshippers who attended the service said they come to the mosque because it is close to their home, not because of its sect-free stance. But they tended to support the message, saying Pakistan needed less conflict between the different sects.
"There are a few fundamentalists who brainwash the people," said Aftab Malik, a surgeon who was building a home nearby. "We do not believe in sects. Sunnis and Shiites are all one because they both believe in one God."
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Blue Jays 10, Tigers 3
Prince Fielder's drive sailed well past the wall in right field, toward the roof of the batting cages at Joker Marchant Stadium.
Not to be outdone, Miguel Cabrera hit a home run two innings later to the back of the grassy berm in left-center.
''I have no idea how far either of them went, but they were both bombs,'' Detroit manager Jim Leyland said.
Detroit's two sluggers put on an impressive power show, and they were just the opening act in the Tigers' 10-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday. Bruce Rondon, the hard-throwing 22-year-old who could be Detroit's new closer, struck out J.P. Arencibia and Josh Thole to escape a fifth-inning jam.
The revamped Blue Jays, meanwhile, won their exhibition opener as John Gibbons began his second stint as Toronto's manager. The Blue Jays were without new shortstop Jose Reyes, but Brett Lawrie hit a two-run single in the third.
Brandon Morrow allowed Fielder's two-run shot in the first.
''Obviously down and in for a strike to Prince Fielder is not a good pitch,'' Morrow said. ''I wouldn't be throwing that during the season, but we're working on stuff.''
Lance Zawadzki hit a grand slam in the sixth to break a 3-all tie. There was a scary moment in the seventh when Toronto outfielders Mike McCoy and Ryan Langerhans collided on a flyball to right-center. McCoy left with a left quad contusion.
In their exhibition home opener, the Tigers started what could end up being their opening day lineup. Fielder gave Detroit a 2-0 lead, and Cabrera's solo homer in the third made it 3-all.
Tigers fans then had a chance to check out Rondon, the 6-foot-3, 275-pound Venezuelan who may end up closing in Detroit after Jose Valverde was let go.
He started off with a couple quick strikes to Maicer Izturis, but his next pitch was inside and appeared to catch plate umpire Jeff Gosney in the foot.
''I'm sure he was a little nervous his first time out, a little wild, but he settled down,'' catcher Alex Avila said. ''It was fun to catch him. By far he has one of the best arms I've ever seen.''
Izturis hit a weak flare that Cabrera caught in foul ground near third base. After a walk to Lawrie, Adam Lind doubled to right-center.
But the Blue Jays stranded both runners, giving Rondon a scoreless frame.
''It wasn't anything I didn't expect to see - a little antsy his first time out,'' Leyland said.
Anibal Sanchez threw two scoreless innings for Detroit. He caught a break in the second when center fielder Austin Jackson threw out Toronto's Moses Sierra at third for the third out, just as it looked like a run was about to score.
Detroit's baserunning wasn't much better. Sierra threw Jhonny Peralta out from right field for the first out of the bottom of the second when Peralta was trying to go from first to third on a single.
Morrow allowed two runs and three hits in his only inning.
''We were scattering it a little bit today,'' Gibbons said of his team's pitching. ''We weren't real sharp.''
NOTES: RHP David Bush pitched two hitless innings for Toronto to get the win. Detroit's Ryan Robowski took the loss. ... Although neither is expected to pitch too long, Sunday brings an appealing matchup in Lakeland when Detroit RHP Justin Verlander faces Philadelphia RHP Roy Halladay. ... Sunday is Toronto's only scheduled split squad date. The Blue Jays host Baltimore in Dunedin and face the New York Yankees in Tampa. LHP Mark Buehrle, acquired from Miami in the same trade as Reyes, starts against the Orioles.


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By Dan Danner
December's holidays can be the "most wonderful time of year," but smart small-business employers will keep a tight rein on "mistletoeing and hearts that are glowing." Otherwise, they could find their carefully hung stockings jammed with nasty lawsuits and hefty legal bills.
There's a lot more to planning a successful holiday party than picking out the hors d'ouevres and tree trimmings, says National Federation of Independent Business Legal Center Executive Director Karen Harned.
"You'd better watch out for two things, especially alcohol and sexual harassment," Harned said. "While one fuels the other, both by themselves can result in serious legal problems for small firms."
Several states have passed laws requiring employers to exercise "reasonable care" to prevent injuries by intoxicated employees leaving company festivities. Although no employer would deliberately set out to create liability issues for his company, it's easy to get caught up in the moment and turn over key decisions to employees in the interest of maintaining morale.
But by lessening the role alcohol plays in the year-end company event, an employer can avoid situations that quickly turn into disasters. First, make sure the party is voluntary and be sure to remind workers about company policies that regulate conduct and substance abuse.
Professional bartenders are always the best servers of alcohol. They not only know how to mix and measure the requested concoctions, but more importantly, they'll follow instructions not to serve anyone who appears intoxicated. An easy way to limit free drinks is to distribute drink tickets. And be sure to serve heavy foods throughout the evening so employees aren't imbibing on empty stomachs.
Additional eyes are helpful as well. Owners should ask trusted managers and supervisors to mingle with the crowd frequently to observe who has over-indulged and is unable to drive home. Make sure those who do exceed their limits have alternate transportation to their homes. Providing taxis or designated drivers for them can spare companies not only the agony of expensive lawsuits, but also the loss of valuable employees.
Socializing, mistletoe and alcohol combined can create an environment that breeds sexual harassment claims. Small-business owners can be held liable for what happens at a holiday party. Harassment suits can result from voluntary events conducted outside the office and after normal work hours.
Harned says before the bash begins, owners should remind employees of their harassment policies and inform them that they have a duty to report any sexual harassment they experience or witness. Workers should understand that such parties are work-related activities where the rules for appropriate behavior apply.
Don't have an anti-harassment policy? Then don't let the party begin until you get one and have an attorney review it.
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BOSTON--( )--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced for the first time interim results from the global, D-LITE Phase IIb study, in which a 24-week regimen combining the investigational compound Peginterferon lambda-1a (Lambda) with the investigational direct-acting antiviral (DAA) daclatasvir (DCV) and ribavirin (RBV), achieved sustained virologic response 12 weeks post-treatment (SVR12) in 93% (13/14) of treatment-naïve, genotype 1b chronic hepatitis C patients who achieved a protocol-defined response (PDR)1. The SVR12 rate for all genotype 1 infected patients in the Lambda/RBV/DCV group was 76% (28/37). These study findings were presented in a late breaker presentation at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) congress in Boston. The Company also presented SVR4 results from the D-LITE Japanese sub-study, where all subjects were infected with HCV genotype 1b and SVR12 was 100%. SVR results from the EMERGE Phase IIb study of Lambda versus alfa interferon (alfa) in treatment-naïve genotype 1 or 4 patients were also presented.
In the D-LITE study, adverse events were mostly low grade and self-limiting. In the Lambda/RBV/DCV treatment group, only one of 37 patients experienced a serious adverse event (breast cancer), which was unrelated to study drug.
"Despite the desire for all-oral regimens without alfa interferons for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, it is likely that certain patient populations will require interferon-based therapies to eradicate hepatitis C. Development of lambda interferon is an important goal for such patients, especially those who cannot tolerate or refuse to use alfa interferon," said D-LITE lead investigator John M. Vierling, M.D., FACP, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director of Baylor Liver Health, and Chief of Hepatology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. "Treatment with lambda interferon combined with daclatasvir and ribavirin achieved high rates of sustained virologic response, and the data support further study of regimens using lambda interferon to address the medical needs of hepatitis C patients who cannot use alfa interferons."
PEGinterferon lambda-1a is the first investigational type III interferon in Phase III development for the treatment of hepatitis C. Daclatasvir is the first NS5A replication complex inhibitor to be investigated in HCV clinical trials and is currently in Phase III development
D-LITE Study Results
D-LITE is a randomized, double-blind, global phase IIb study designed to evaluate for the first time the safety and efficacy of Lambda 180 μg s.c. weekly in combination with an investigational direct-acting antiviral daclatasvir (DCV) dosed 60 mg orally once daily or asunaprevir (ASV) dosed 200 mg orally twice daily plus ribavirin (RBV), compared to alfa 180 μg s.c. weekly plus RBV in 119 treatment-naïve patients with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection. RBV was dosed based on weight twice daily in all three treatment groups. The primary endpoint of the study is the proportion of patients who achieve SVR24. The interim SVR12 results in patients who achieved a PDR (protocol defined response, based on viral suppression at weeks 4 and 12, qualified patients to complete therapy at 24 weeks), were presented.
Virologic Response
In the Lambda/RBV/DCV treatment group, 90% (37/41) of patients achieved a protocol-defined response (PDR). Of these patients, 76% (28/37) achieved SVR12 after 24 weeks of treatment. Response rates were higher in genotype 1b patients, with 93% (13/14) of genotype 1b patients achieving SVR12 and 65% (15/23) of genotype 1a patients achieving SVR12.
The Company also presented SVR12 data from the D-LITE study Japanese cohort of genotype 1b patients in an oral presentation. In the Japanese cohort, 100% of patients in the Lambda/RBV/DCV arm (8/8) achieved a PDR and went on to achieve SVR4 and SVR12.
Based on these study results, the combination regimen of Lambda/RBV/DCV will move into Phase III development.
Safety Data
In the Lambda/RBV/DCV treatment group, one of 37 patients experienced a serious adverse event (breast cancer), which was unrelated to study drug, and six patients experienced grade 3-4 adverse events. There were no adverse event-related treatment discontinuations. No patients in this treatment group experienced ALT elevation and two patients experienced AST elevation that were manageable. One patient who received Lambda/RBV/DCV experienced elevated total bilirubin, manageable with dose modification.
In the D-LITE study Japanese cohort, one patient experienced a grade 3-4 AE (transient leukopenia).
Safety and efficacy data for the Lambda/RBV/ASV treatment group were also presented at the AASLD annual meeting.
EMERGE Study Results
The EMERGE 2B study is a randomized, controlled, multicenter, Phase IIb study designed to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics of Lambda/RBV versus alfa/RBV, in 526 non-cirrhotic, treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 1, 2, 3 or 4 with 407 patients with genotype 1 or 4 chronic hepatitis C randomized into four dose groups: Lambda 240 µg (n=104), Lambda 180 µg (n=102), Lambda 120 µg (n=98) and alfa 180 µg (n=103), each administered weekly 48 weeks in combination with daily oral RBV. As of April 2011, all subjects who remained on 240 µg Lambda were reduced to 180 µg, the dose selected for further development. The primary endpoint of the study is the proportion of patients who achieved complete early virologic response (cEVR). HCV viral load and safety were assessed through 72 weeks (48-weeks on-treatment and 24-weeks post-treatment or to SVR24). Results in patients with HCV genotype 2 or 3 were previously reported.
Virologic Response
In this study, at the dose selected for further development (180µg), Lambda/RBV achieved SVR24 rates that were comparable to alfa/RBV, with a greater early virologic response as demonstrated by RVR and cEVR rates.
|Lambda 180 µg
|Alfa 180 µg
(undetectable viral load at week 4 on treatment)
| 14.7%
| cEVR
(undetectable viral load at week 12 on treatment)
| 55.9%
(undetectable viral load at end of 48 weeks of treatment)
(undetectable viral load 24 weeks post-treatment)
Safety Data
Treatment-related serious adverse events were reported in three patients who received Lambda at the 180 µg dose (one case each of hyperbilirubinemia, nausea/vomiting and anemia) and seven patients who received alfa (two cases of sarcoidosis and one case each of hyperbilirubinemia, depression/suicidal ideation, pneumonia, appendicitis and neutropenia). Compared to alfa, Lambda was associated with a reduced rate of interferon dose reductions (Lambda: 7.8%, 8/102 vs. alfa: 28.2%, 29/103) and ribavirin dose reductions (Lambda: 10.8%, 11/102 vs. alfa: 33.0%, 34/103 patients).
The most commonly reported adverse events at the Lambda 180 µg dose were fatigue (46.1%), headache (27.5%) and nausea (21.6%). Certain adverse events commonly associated with interferon alfa treatment were less frequently seen with Lambda than with alfa in this study. There was a greater than 2-fold difference in frequency between Lambda and alfa in the rate of flu-like symptoms and musculoskeletal symptoms.
|Adverse Events of Special Interest
|Lambda 180 µg
|Alfa 180 µg
|Musculoskeletal symptoms
|Flu-like symptoms
|32.4 %
Lambda was also associated with fewer hematologic abnormalities than alfa, and similar rates of elevated liver enzyme and total bilirubin levels.
|Laboratory Abnormalities
|Lambda 180 µg
|Alfa 180 µg
|Anemia (hemoglobin <9 g/dL or Δ ≥4.5 g/dL)
|Hemoglobin-associated ribavirin reduction
|Neutropenia (neutrophils <750/mm3)
|Thrombocytopenia (platelets <50,000/ mm3)
|Hematologic abnormality-associated interferon reduction
|AST and/or ALT > 5.0-10 x ULN
|AST and/or ALT > 10 x ULN
|Total bilirubin 2.6 - 5.0 x ULN
|Total bilirubin > 5.0 x ULN
Efficacy and safety results for the Lambda 120 µg and 240 µg treatment groups were also presented at the AASLD annual meeting.
About Bristol-Myers Squibb's Commitment to Liver Disease
Bristol-Myers Squibb is researching a portfolio of compounds that aim to address unmet medical needs across the liver disease continuum, including hepatitis C, hepatitis B and liver cancer. The Company's hepatitis C pipeline includes compounds with different mechanisms of action, pursuing both biologics as well as small molecule direct-acting antivirals. These compounds are being studied as part of multiple treatment regimens with the goal of increasing SVR rates across diverse patient types and geographies.
Peginterferon lambda-1a is the first investigational type III interferon in Phase III development for the treatment of hepatitis C. Native human interferon lambda proteins are generated by the immune system in response to viral infection, and signal through a different receptor than native human interferon alfa proteins. Lambda receptors are present on fewer cell types within the human body than alfa receptors. This restricted distribution of the interferon lambda receptor offers the potential for more targeted delivery of interferon therapy. Lambda is in Phase III development for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C and in Phase II development for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. The Company has studied Lambda in more than 950 people for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C and B.
About Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver and is transmitted through direct contact with infected blood and blood products. An estimated 170 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C. Up to 90 percent of those infected with hepatitis C will not clear the virus and will become chronically infected. Twenty percent of people with chronic hepatitis C will develop cirrhosis and, of those, up to 25 percent may progress to liver cancer. Although there is no vaccine to prevent hepatitis C, it is a potentially curable disease.
About Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. For more information, please visit http://www.bms.com or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bmsnews.
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Comments (22)
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jul 21, 2008 at 2:02 pm
And where will Burns be NEXT year?
a resident of Castro City
on Jul 21, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Whatever happened to a hiring process that seeks to attract the most qualified individuals? It's as if the superintendent thinks he's got a special gift or sixth sense for picking leaders the way he babbles all the time. This guy is all about stuffing his own cronies into positions, and then, given that he's an idiot, everyone wonders why principals come and go. It's really that simple.
Now bring on the district trolls to go on the attack!
a resident of another community
on Jul 21, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Gee, resident. Um, sure is hard to refute such a well thought out, articulate arguement.
a resident of another community
on Jul 21, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Gee, um. You could start making more sense by spelling argument correctly. Let me guess, district troll right? For all I know you are the superintendent. Paranoia goes with that guy's personality.
a resident of Jackson Park
on Jul 21, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Hires? What was the hiring process?
There was none. Niether parents nor teachers had any say so in the process.
This was sprung on us in typical style behind the scenes while everyone is on vacation.
How about some transparency for once!
a resident of another community
on Jul 21, 2008 at 9:41 pm
So, your counter is to point out a typo and to toss out my favorite message board chestnut-- 'you must be an insider, you must really be so-and-so'. Both excellent substitutes for any valid knowledge. Or intellect...
a resident of Jackson Park
on Jul 22, 2008 at 4:42 pm
And your argument or opinion on this is what eric?
Concerned Parent has a good point as there was no transparency to this appointment occuring after school is out and there are no mre board meetings.
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I have no opinion. I dont know all the facts. Niether do you.
If a principal isnt working out, they should go (I dont know if this was the case here-- did he leave for a better position? Was he squeezed out?). Hiring of staff is the job of the people at the top of an organization. Hiring with input from a huge group with disparate interests is impractical. Employees dont get to pick their boss.
Oh, and the school board does meet during the summer, so I guess you're not terribly involved in the district.
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2008 at 9:11 pm
For someone who has no opinion, eric certainly writes like he's got it all figured out so I would agree he's a district troll. Just read the dribble of rationales he gives. Hiring of staff for public school positions, or any public job for that matter, should be opened up to the entire qualified community and the school community should have a hand in the process. A timeline and hiring process should have been set in chosing this principal. Believe it or not eric, this is how really succesful schools operate. Openiings should be posted far and wide and a fair and objective hiring process should be followed. That, eric, is how people at the top of a public organization should act. But this superintendent lately does nothing but appoint people like a petty dictator and couches it all in phrases like, "it just makes sense". Really? I doubt it. What could have been? We'll never know. Meanwhile, this city is stuck with under-performing schools in comparison to the rest of the area while administrators playing musical chairs or are pulled out of a hat. I dread to think how this district hires teachers.
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2008 at 9:12 pm
and last time I checked eric, this is a place for opinions so if you don't have one, go away troll.
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2008 at 10:38 pm
My opinion is that you are uninformed. My evidence is your statements. My opinion is--- as I stated-- that expecting the entire world to be consulted on personnel decisions is unrealistic and short-sighted. My opinion is-- also stated-- that you have no ability to stand by your convictions and instead fall back on tired old "you disagree with me so you must be so and so". My opinion is that people who cant bother to back up their opinions are the actual trolls.
Finally, my opinion is that you have trouble reading.
a resident of another community
on Jul 23, 2008 at 9:09 am
ALL teacher/principal movement happens in the summer. This is the way it works in ALL districts. If a teacher or principal leaves mid-year something was really, really wrong. I don't feel parents should have input in the hiring or placement of the principals. The dynamics in education are often misinterpreted (innocently) by parents, therefore it would be irresponsible to involve them in the hiring process. This is why we have a school board.
a resident of Jackson Park
on Jul 23, 2008 at 9:37 am
Dear MVWSD Teacher:
You're right. Something is really wrong: principals come and go and are shifted around in this district all the time. The district is a ship adrift. There obviously IS something wrong with the hiring proces or the people that are hiring. Responsibility for hiring goes both ways, for successes and failures, no matter what the cause be.
In addition, as "resident" speaks to above, there should be a fair and equitable hiring process, maybe like the one you went through to get hired? You know, a job is posted internally and externally, applications are submitted, interviews take place by panels representing leaders, teachers, and parents. Then, the best candidate is hired based on input from all. This should apply to all positions. Public schools are part of our democratic institutions, not corporations to be run by slicked up superintendents spouting half-baked corporate jargon and philosophies.
If you don't feel parents should have input in everything that involves their children, then you shouldn't be teaching.
(Admittedly, I would like to see the candidate pool limited to Mountain View residents only, much as the way the City Council limits candidates, so as to create a real school community and get rid of all these leaches that come to our town to pass their time at the expense of our children.)
And if as you say, the "dynamics in education are often misinterpreted (innocently) by parents," I would say to you that most informed Californian's realize that education in this state is at nearly rock bottom. People are sick of it and of establishment responses such as yours. If you don't believe me then explain the number of private schools popping up in the area and declining enrollment.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 23, 2008 at 10:15 am
A little Max Weber needs to be invoked here. The cult of the personality, bureaucracy, political and insider appointments, an obscure hiring process, empty decrees such as "it makes sense" This is how fascism takes root.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 23, 2008 at 10:18 am
I forgot the systematic brainwashing of residents to believe there is no other way and no need for democratic and transparent public institutions. Oh, and control of the media.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 24, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Your cycnical and cruel Ned because that's way over the head of a Mountain View teacher!
Support A School Voucher System for Private School Education!
a resident of another community
on Jul 24, 2008 at 7:12 pm
You all need to get a life. My opinion. You degrade the level of debate every time you all post on these issues--and you have the gall to complain about the school district's processes.
What a waste of time this forum thing is. I'm done, have fun digging at each other until you all blow a gasket.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jul 24, 2008 at 8:29 pm
i think the dabate illustrates the underlying problem of principals that come and go, thankfully the teachers hang in their year after yaer
a resident of another community
on Jul 25, 2008 at 2:01 pm
It's too generalized a statement to assert that all teachers "hang in their year after yaer" (or hang in there year after year). In MVW as in other districts, statistically most teachers stay, but many do leave. Principals are sometimes steered out in a way that teachers, under union protection right or wrong, could never be.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jul 31, 2008 at 10:34 am
Oh please, Mizel was incompetent so this is how they get rid of her while saving face. She'll be gone by next year. The hiring process needs serious review.
a resident of North Whisman
on Aug 18, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Wow, what a vitriolic bunch of responses. Yeah, the school district is corrupt but so is everything in bureaucracy. There are lots of great teachers who give our children 110% even when they have to spend their own money doing it. The district mandates way too much time for what they deem "the basics" and way too little time for things that might actually be fun as well as educational. Wouldn't want our kids to have art, PE, and music for too long during the day. And we wonder why our kids are overweight, uncreative, and have never heard of Mozart.
a resident of another community
on Aug 24, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Maybe your kids are "overweight, uncreative" and have never heard of that music dude, but please don't generalize all kids. A teacher with a multiple subjects credential should be able to teach all subjects to a K-6 population--unless he or she didn't benefit from having that great, nostalgic education of art, PE, and music" back when the school system was perfect.
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