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Contract research organizations dramatically cut costs and development time for drugmakers. As cutbacks continue in response to patent losses, we expect the cost advantages of outsourcing to persuade Big Pharma firms to hand over an increasing portion of their drug development work to CROs. We estimate that 35% of research and development is currently outsourced, but our valuations imply an increase to 40% during the next five years. Charles River Laboratories (NYSE:CRL) is one of the few top-tier contract research providers with the necessary expertise, infrastructure, and reputation to provide research models and conduct preclinical testing for the world's largest drugmakers. We think the market is undervaluing the cash flow power of Charles River's research models and services business, and the firm's early-stage franchise should provide substantial upside for investors as demand comes back on line.
Charles River's operations are divided into two segments: research models and services, which is a highly profitable and stable business, and preclinical services, a much more volatile segment with potential for considerable growth, in our opinion. Preclinical services have fared poorly in recent years as clients try to eliminate molecules earlier in the drug-development cycle and focus R&D spending on late-stage candidates closer to approval. Drugmakers are postponing or canceling planned trials to focus on near-term revenue opportunities; this especially has hurt early-stage providers like Charles River. We think the firm's PCS franchise could provide substantial upside as demand improves. In the meantime, Charles River has been able to lean on its RMS business to stabilize earnings and provide a floor for the firm's depressed valuation.
RMS Business Provides Floor for Valuation
The research models and services business provides stable cash flow generation and the foundation for Charles River's narrow economic moat. With a 50% market share worldwide, RMS is an extremely profitable and stable component of Charles River's operations. We expect Charles River to maintain RMS operating margins around 30% and see mid-single-digit growth on a normalized basis.
In calculating our expectations for RMS' profitability in 2012, we begin with our projection for the segment's operating income, subtract the segment's share of unallocated corporate expense, and factor in our estimates for interest and tax expense. We arrive at an adjusted earnings per share estimate of $2.36 for the segment.
Although Charles River has traded as high as 25.0 times earnings during the heyday of preclinical spending, we think a more appropriate multiple for valuing the RMS business is the average trading multiple over the past four years, which spanned the pullback in drug-development spending. During this period, Charles River saw declines in its preclinical services operating income each year and had to rely on RMS to buoy earnings. The average trading multiple during this period was 15.5 times, so we use 15.0 times as our baseline multiple for this rough valuation assessment (although we think the firm could also see multiple expansion as preclinical services demand recovers and operating leverage once again drives strong profitability in the segment). Using this calculation, we estimate that the RMS segment is worth around $35 per share. With the shares trading around this number, we believe investors essentially can acquire the cash flow generation power of the RMS business and Charles River's preclinical services business--which is still profitable and carries a substantial amount of upside potential, in our opinion--for free.
Research Model Production Provides Stable Base for Segment
Through research models and services, Charles River is the uncontested market leader in all things concerning laboratory mice and rats for scientific research, and we expect its competitive advantages to sustain strong cash flow generation. With a 50% market share worldwide, the RMS business is an extremely profitable and stable component of Charles River's operations. We expect Charles River to maintain RMS operating margins around 30% and see mid-single-digit growth on a normalized basis (although still-depressed preclinical activities will cause revenue growth to fall slightly below our long-run expectations in 2012).
Since it first supplied research models to the drug-development industry in 1947, Charles River has grown to become the largest provider of laboratory testing mice and rats in the world (it also sells large models, such as nonhuman primates, though this subset makes up less than 2% of total RMS sales). Half of all models sold come from Charles River's research models business, and the global market for model production is estimated at $1.2 billion.
Production constitutes roughly half of RMS segment revenue; although this portion has come down in recent years as the downturn in drug-development spending resulted in lower demand for models. Specifically, Charles River saw a decline in volume sold of outbred rats, which are the model of choice for toxicology testing (an area which has been hit the hardest during the preclinical spending pullback). Volume declines for outbred rats have been offset by small price increases globally, as well as growth in models used for discovery (including immunodeficient mice used for cancer studies or inbred mice used to make genetically modified knockout models). These specialty products command higher prices than outbred rats (price is based on age and weight, but outbreds typically cost $12-$47 per model while immunodeficients can run into the $100 range). However, margins are roughly the same because of specialty models' smaller litters and higher costs of production (including the need for isolators).
Charles River's models are regarded as the gold standard for laboratory testing and continue to claim a premium to the competition (primarily Jackson Laboratory, Harlan, and Taconic, which hold roughly 25%-30% of the market combined). Charles River's competitive advantages lie in the quality of its products, breadth of coverage, and extent of client support. The firm has 20 production facilities in seven countries in close proximity to its clients. Charles River's wide geographic footprint allows multinational pharmaceutical firms to use the same model colonies across different countries and ensures distribution with a minimal amount of travel-induced stress, all of which reduces the variability introduced into the research. To illustrate, in 2011, Charles River performed 18 rescue studies for clients after competitors incorrectly performed the original studies. We expect Charles River's research production segment to continue seeing roughly 2%-3% gains from price increases annually, as well as low- to mid-single-digit volume growth once demand normalizes.
Model Services Add Switching Costs for Customers
Charles River's expertise in biosecurity, breeding, and distribution outfits the firm with sustainable competitive advantages, enhanced by its service wing, which establishes switching costs for clients once they transfer care of their models to the firm. Constituting roughly 30% of RMS revenue, model services include four subsegments: genetically engineered models and services, insourcing solutions (largely composed of consulting and staffing functions), discovery services, and research animal diagnostic services. We think GEMS and drug discovery hold the greatest growth potential for Charles River. Within GEMS, Charles River is hired to assist with the breeding and maintenance of its clients' genetically engineered models. Given the advent of personalized medicine, genetically altered research models are playing an increasingly critical role in drug discovery, and we expect GEMS to contribute a substantially larger portion of Charles River's revenue over time.
Turning to drug discovery, Charles River provides in vivo pharmacology and non-GLP (unregulated) testing assistance to clients investigating new therapeutic agents. Two recent acquisitions--Piedmont Research Center (which specializes in oncology) and Cerebricon (central nervous system)--have expanded Charles River's discovery capabilities. Large biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly emphasizing shorter-term efficacy studies aimed at eliminating nonviable molecules earlier in the drug-development cycle. Although this dynamic has taken a toll on Charles River's preclinical services revenue, it bodes well for demand for drug-discovery services, which are nonregulated--and thus cheaper--than GLP testing. Given its scale, Charles River can support a broader portion of the drug-development pipelines at large pharma firms and was recently awarded an expanded five-year preferred provider agreement with a major drugmaker for discovery services (sales to client are expected to double to more than 5% of total revenue in 2013). Drug discovery is relatively underpenetrated compared with other markets usually targeted by contract research providers--Charles River estimates than only 15%-25% of discovery is outsourced compared with as much as 40% of toxicology services. Drug discovery could be a key area of growth for Charles River, although we expect it will take time for companies to become comfortable with outsourcing an activity that historically has been conducted in house.
Other Products Buoy RMS Growth
Other products--the last 20% of RMS revenue--make up a small but fast-growing portion of the business. They include in vitro testing and avian vaccine services. The former represents nonanimal (or in vitro) methods of testing medical devices and injectable drugs for contamination. This business has seen robust growth following the Food and Drug Administration approval of its next-generation products, which allow for rapid and portable testing in central labs or manufacturing centers and are poised to continue to see low-double-digit growth for at least the near term, thanks to continued innovations.
Charles River's avian business, which produces clean eggs for the development of vaccines, is included in other products. Roughly 85% of clean eggs sold are used for the manufacture of poultry vaccines, while the remaining eggs are sold to produce human flu mist and for research purposes. This is a very mature business, although supply issues in prior years helped boost 2011's performance. Over the long run, we do not expect higher than flat to low-single-digit growth from it.
Preclinical Services Segment Offers Investors Significant Upside Potential
Charles River's current stock price assigns almost no value to the preclinical services segment. We estimate that RMS is worth about $35 per share. With the stock trading around this number, investors can acquire Charles River's PCS business--which is still profitable and carries a substantial amount of upside potential, in our opinion--for free.
Charles River is a leading provider of early-stage testing services through its PCS business. Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device companies outsource their R&D activities to contract research organizations to improve the efficiency and speed of testing, lower staffing and operating costs, and benefit from CROs' specialization and expertise. Charles River estimates that it saves clients as much as 30% of costs and three to six months of development time compared with in-house activities. PCS continues to be affected by soft demand from large pharmaceutical clients, as well as the impact of sales mix, which remains more heavily weighted toward short-term studies. However, sales and pricing have begun to stabilize in recent quarters, and we expect this segment to soon return to growth as drugmakers unfreeze their early-stage development plans because of the fundamental need to drive new therapies through development. We expect the market for outsourced drug-development services to rapidly expand over the next few years, driven by growth in R&D spending and increased outsourcing penetration. We think top-tier players like Charles River will gain share at the expense of smaller competitors, as larger drugmakers increasingly employ long-term strategic partnerships with a select group of preferred providers.
We hesitate to use a similar relative value analysis for PCS, as we do not believe current segment earnings reflect normalized long-term conditions. However, the implied valuation of $15 per share for the segment makes intuitive sense to us. This valuation constitutes about 30% of our total fair value estimate of $50 per share for Charles River. Although PCS represents about 40% of revenue, the segment is half as profitable as RMS, which contributes a disproportionate amount to the company's overall value. To further verify, we took a look at the historical price/sales trading multiples for other CROs in the industry, which have averaged around 1.8-1.9 times during the past three years. We expect PCS to generate more than $8 in sales per share in 2012, allowing us to come up with a value between $13 and $15 per share through the use of 1.5 and 1.7 times sales, respectively (we handicap the multiple slightly given rivals' higher reliance on late-stage testing, which carries higher margins than earlier phases). We are comfortable with this back check, especially considering our use of still-depressed PCS revenue as its basis.


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Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete isn't getting around on his wooden leg like he used to. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete gets quite agitated and warns him of screams in the night, of terrors associated with the red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring. Meg begins falling in love with Nath, but his girlfriend Tibby has other plans for him. Meanwhile they all get closer to real danger and the dark secret of the red house.
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> Thanks Chris. I'm using Firefox now and it's running smoothly; it's my
> default, though it opens slowly. I have one very important question about
> it though. I just bought gloves on ebay via paypal. I did not see a
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I also get a little padlock on the bottom right of my browser.
> > and most importantly, has plugins!
> As far as I know I've never used a plugin. Not sure I need any. I have
> weather.com in my links bar if I want to check the weather. I don't use
> facebook, myspace, or any of those sort of things. Better image browsing?
> I don't know, I just google what I'm looking for and browse them there.
> Thanks for the link though. I'll see if there's anything I'd use.
For example, there's a plugin that displays the image EXIF headers. Those
are secret headers that cameras put into images to list what all of the
camera settings are. If I see a cool picture on Flickr, I can right
click on it, look at the EXIF headers, and see that they shot it at
ISO 200 with an f-stop of 8 and a shutter speed of 1/8s. It's helped
me understand what kinds of things I need to do in my own photography.
Another plugin that I use is called Web of Trust (www.mywot.com). People
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without having to log in to gmail. Adblock Plus will hide any advertisements
on pages. The YouTube Video downloader will pop up a window asking
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Four Fiduciary Puzzles
James J. Edelman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
October 1, 2010
EXPLORING PRIVATE LAW, E. Bant & M. Harding, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 68/2010
The nature and operation of fiduciary duties is an area bedeviled by difficulties, confusion and uncertainty. This chapter considers four puzzles which arise in relation to fiduciary duties. The four puzzles are as follows: 1. Which fiduciary duties can be excluded by agreement? 2. When do fiduciary obligations come to an end? 3. What is the proper law to be applied to fiduciary duties where they arise in a cross-border context? 4. What is the level of fault required before a person can be liable for inducing or assisting in a breach of fiduciary duty? This chapter begins with the premise that fiduciary duties are voluntary undertakings and shows how that analysis helps to understand and provide answers to four contemporary puzzles in the law concerning fiduciary obligations. The point I make in this chapter is that each of the four conundra can be easily understood once we see fiduciary duties as duties which are expressed or implied into voluntary undertakings. The chapter begins with a brief introduction to the nature of fiduciary duties as terms expressed or implied into voluntary undertakings before showing how this conception explains the pattern of development of the law in each of the four areas.
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Already a good mother and she hasn't hatched the eggs yet! Did her mate
ever go into the barn before? Being a "wild" bird, I wonder weather the
building might be intimidating to him. Yes, all the male Canadian Geese
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State educational establishment of higher education "Saratov State Academy of Law" is one of the oldest law schools of Russia. At present it rates fourth in the country after three Moscow Law Academies. According to the index of international acknowledgement it rates second after Moscow State Academy of Law.
Beginning of legal education in Saratov dates back to 1917. It is then that Law Department was set up in the Saratov State University. In 1931 this Department was reorganized into Saratov Institute of soviet Law. In 1936 it got the name of Saratov Law Institute. In the thirties of the 20th century Saratov law Institute was a small educational establishment. 140 students studied there. In the forties the institute had a good building in the center of the city and a student hostel for 325 persons. The total number of students was 542 people. 37 faculty members worked there. In the sixties of the 20th century the number of students increased. About 700 students were admitted to the institute every year. At that time there were 15 departments with 190 faculty members. In 1981 the Government awarded to the Institute the Order "The Badge of Honor".
In 1994 the Institute was renamed. Now its official name is State educational establishment of higher education "Saratov State Law Academy".
Now the Academy is one of the biggest centers of training lawyers. At present 10000 students study there. There are also 25 departments staffed with 530 faculty members. The teaching staff consists of very experienced lecturers and assistants capable of giving their knowledge and experience to students. Most of them are Masters and Doctors of Science. Famous scholars work in the Academy now. They are all-known not only in our country but also abroad. Well-known politicians were former students and faculty members of the Academy: Yu.Kh. Kalmykov (former Minister of Justice of the RF), B.S. Evseyev (a member of the RF Constitutional Court), L.K. Sliska (Vice-Speaker of the State Duma).
Now the Academy has 6 buildings and 3 hostels. There is a good library with about 800,000 copies of books, computer and video classes, sports facilities. The students have access to Internet and two legal database systems.
Main achievements of the Academy are connected with the development of the legal doctrine and practice. In 1998 Information center of the Council of Europe was opened in the Academy. Ordinary people may receive legal assistance there. A branch of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences was the first branch set up in the Russian province.
One of the priority directions in the activities of the Academy is the development of international relations with law schools and scholars of different countries.
The Astrakhan branch of the Saratov State Academy of law was founded in 1995. Today there are about 1000 students in our branch.
In order to enter the Academy an applicant must pass the entrance examinations successfully. The studies in our Academy are paid but about one third of students get grants.
The full-time students of the Academy have a five-year course of studies while the part-time students study for 5 years and a half.
Each academic year is divided into 2 terms. During the term students have to attend lectures, seminars and practicals according to the time-table. They also make reports, submit course papers according to the basic program. The first-year students study such traditional disciplines as history, foreign languages, the Russian language, and logic. In the second year students begin to study in depth the subjects connected with their future specialty.
At the end of the term students have tests and take midterm examinations. Those who fail in an exam are allowed to make a second attempt.
Graduates have to take final exams and defend diploma projects worked out with the help of their supervisors. ....
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At the end of the term students have tests and take midterm examinations. Those who fail in an exam are allowed to make a second attempt.
Graduates have to take final exams and defend diploma projects worked out with the help of their supervisors. On graduating from the Academy students are awarded special certificates - diplomas; some of them who carry on research work can become post-graduates of our Academy.
The Academy trains specialists of legal profession for our law offices, Courts, Procurator's offices, Notary offices, the Bar, the organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and so on. The students will become judges, public prosecutors, investigators, notaries, defending counsels or advocates and other legal specialists.
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Paranoia in patients diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in adulthood is discussed and illustrated with the help of a case study. Impaired mentalisation, characteristic for Asperger disorder, influences the way an individual experiences life, making him more vulnerable for the development of delusional beliefs.
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Business Development Manager
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honestbee is Asia's leading online grocery concierge service. We offer more than 60,000 products from 36 partners, delivering to your doorstep on the same day in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan.
Three months at honestbee are like a year at any other company. Things move fast. You learn more, you accomplish more. We're shooting for the stars. We celebrate diversity. Our team is multicultural, motivated, strong-minded, passionate and fun. We take both work and play very seriously.
To be the largest and most convenient online supermarket in Asia.
To create sustainable and profitable jobs.
· Identify and increase business partnership to reach and exceed company targets.
· Determining requirements through discussions, presentations and demonstrations.
· Develop and execute a comprehensive business development plan.
· Understand honestbee business model and apply a smart and consultative sales pitch.
· Present honestbee platform as a unique opportunity for businesses to acquire new customer base and establish their online presence.
· Maintain current partnership accounts to develop long term strategic relationship.
· Plan and execute marketing campaigns to help increase revenue for merchant partners
· Perform end-to-end account management, including month-end reporting to merchants, stock updates, price changes etc.
· Play a key role in developing an entrepreneurial, proactive, high-intensity culture in honestbee.
· Bachelor's Degree in any discipline
· At least 5 years' of working experience in any industry, within a client-facing role.
· Entrepreneurial mind set, willingness to shatter existing paradigms and break free of own comfort zone, and ability to find innovative solutions to problems in the quickest possible time.
· Excellent command of both written and spoken English.
· Track record of meeting and exceeding business established goals
· Talented and collaborative coworkers who will both push and support you
· Personal development that stretches you
· Market competitive salary
· Medical benefits
· Great office space – River Valley area
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We strongly believe in giving back to the society. By creating flexible equal employment opportunities, we aim to empower people from all walks of life to upgrade their skills and gain access to training.
Join us if you believe you can help us create a great product. We promise we will help you grow your career like never before.


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Just going for a nice quiet dinner, sitting across from each other, taking and getting to know each other,
Anything involving food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, my favorite first date could be anything really.... lunch or dinner at a nice byob restaurant, with a glass of a great red wine, in a quiet corner where we can talk and share stories, and get to know one another.
I always thought a picnic would be a great first date. Something more interesting than dinner or a movie!
Fine wine and dine and a spontaneous actitvity after
Discover an outing neither of us have done before
Dinner, a movie, maybe shoot some pool,
I would suggest a cool cafe or coffee shop. Or maybe go to a cool show.
I would enjoy a nice dinner an a walk in a cool park to talk a relax after a great dinner.
Mybe cooking. I love to cook for a girl
Tea and Scones and talk, talk, talk
Something Fun for both of US. I'm open to new ideas.
Depends on the day of the week!! lol Sometimes I feel more romantic, sometimes more quiet, somtimes a little more adventurous....I guess we will see!! lol
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It's that time of the year again, so I picked up a box of the full-leaf from Starbucks yesterday. Checked out Tazo's fancy new website (redone for the launch of the standalones, I suspect?), and noticed that it describes Joy as having "peachy notes".
Didn't think much of it at the time, as it could just be describing one of the teas in the base as having a fruity note to it.
Picked it up from Starbucks and returned home, opening the tin to take a whiff. And getting… a strong peach scent. Confused, I looked it over—still Joy, still black, green and oolong. But looking at the "ingredients", I found "natural flavours".
I've had this tea many times before, last year. My brother worked at Starbucks back then, and he brought me home the full-leaf bag, which is what introduced me to this tea. I got it many more times after that, and I don't remember any peach.
This is the second time I've made a cup from this tin. It's definitely lighter than I remember, less unforgiving with steeping parameters despite being green, black and oolong. And I'm getting definite notes of peach. But I don't remember any peach before.
I could have sworn this tea didn't have peach in it last year. Am I going crazy?
I googled for an article about blend changes. Maybe this is the first year they've added peach? But I keep coming up with no results. So I don't know (then again, when they switched from earl grey fannings to full-leaf, didn't they throw lavender into the mix without saying anything too?). Maybe, because I had always had this tea from an already-opened tin, the 'peach' flavouring had dissipated before the tea made it to me. And since I bought a fresh tin…? But the tea overall is lighter.
Seriously, am I going nuts? I checked Steepster's "Joy" reviews for any mention of "peach". I found that the ONLY mention of peach was from a review from a few days ago—from this year's release of Joy. No mention of peach in any reviews from last year or earlier, that I could find.
I feel like I missed something. Maybe I just suck at finding news articles. It's an all-right tea, but definitely not the tea I remember (and loved) from last year. Peach just doesn't do it for me in this (and peach is a fine tea flavouring—I have a peach white). I loved this tea because it was a black-green (and oolong) blend. My favourite.
Not changing my rating from last year. For now.
Last year's tasting note, for comparison: http://steepster.com/supermoon10/posts/55853
I've been waiting for this tea all year. I picked up a cup last year, but they ran out of regular supply before I had decided on buying a few ounces.
The strongest chocolate flavour I've ever found used in a tea (their other chocolate teas don't seem quite as strong), although it and the spices COULD be stronger, but the smell is delicious and what I get in the taste is lovely too. Very reminiscent of the two-bite brownies.
My mother tried to make off with my cup.
Drank this one up without even logging it.
Pretty straightforward chai. Didn't get much from the peppercorns, honestly. I liked that it had them and cardamom added, plus ginger—always my musts for a chai. Only picked up a small sample, and never once made it the proper way as I hadn't the time.
It seemed like it would have made a good one, although otherwise I never found it particularly strong.
I guess I didn't make a note of this tea the first time I tried it. I made it as per the instructions on the packet, and it came out too strong. Very astringent, even bitter as it cooled.
This time, just under boiling, twenty seconds (plus a ten second rinse). This time, it's almost sweet, becoming vaguely astringent as it cools (which seems to suit it).
Steep two: More astringent. Bit stronger overall. Darkly vegetal.
I finished this in record time. I like it. It's bold and deep, toffee sweet, vaguely salty but not in a way that turns me off. I'm not a huge fan of salted caramel, but I see the appeal. It's just that all the salted caramel I've tried have been giant salt crystals mixed with caramel, so instead of a consistent salty-sweetness, it's just giant pockets of salt with sweet.
…Huh. Could have sworn I'd written up a tasting note for this.
Well, long story short, this was one of the two teas my aunt sent to me while I was working up north. I found the base rather bitter, and thus wasn't much a fan of this.
However, I've been using it to make London Fogs with since I got home. Milk /mostly/ tempers the bitterness, although it still makes its way through. It's just a really cheap black tea base, I suppose.
Used this one up with one last tea latte today.
Wasn't sure what to expect. Would the leaves be dry? You can't "dry" honey. Maybe crystalized. Nope, I realized when I got the vacuum-sealed bag open and went in to scoop some out. Honey coated. Not leaves in a pool of honey, though. Really infused.
Couldn't smell the honey on anything but my spoon after I'd scooped. Brewed in a gaiwan, the liquid is a cloudy, toasty yellow. Smells like a toasty oolong, no sweetness.
First Steep: Despite the obvious stickyness of the leaves, I'm not getting too much of a honey flavour. A nice oolong—not sharply vegetal, very pleasing, buttery notes. When I breathe out… Sweetness, I think, bordering on honey. As if the honey does not directly add any flavour, but somehow enhances the oolong itself so that I am enjoying this immensely.
More sweetness as I sip. I have a feeling the honey may have settled to the bottom—as it tends to do when you stir it directly into the tea anyhow. Starting to get a sticky honey taste with just a touch of sweetness.
Second Steep: Bolder taste in the second steep, as I didn't actually rinse this. I think I'm getting more honey. Just a faint, sticky sweetness under the toasty oolong notes. I like darker, roasted oolongs, and I think the honey goes with it well.
Third Steep: Didn't pay as much attention to this one. Still fifteen seconds. Didn't get any sweetness.
It tastes all right, steeping it in boiling water? I'm leery of doing that with my oolong teas, ordinarily, and aim for a few degrees cooler.
Whoops, didn't realize I'd set that to boiling. I let the boil fade completely (but didn't take the temperature) before I poured, but still pretty close.
Yeah, most companies recommend that you don't us boiling, but Teavivre and a few others recommend that you do, but also suggest very short steeps. Was playing with that first, and then was going to try cooler water and longer steeps with what's left of the sample. It didn't taste bitter with near-boiling, or flat. Luckily.
But I think a cooler temperature and longer steep would help the honey.


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MMORPG.com's Garrett Fuller had the chance recently to ask a few questions of Dragon Oath General Manager Martin Tan about the game and what players might expect from it.
MMORPG.com:Dragon Oath has a great social aspect to the game. Can you start by telling us about some of the features players can explore on a social level?
Martin Tan:
Dragon Oath is a Free-to-Play MMORPG that encourages players to socialize and work with each other. One of the many ways that players can keep in touch with each other is through the player journal. Each player can keep journal entries on their character so that other players can keep tabs on what they have been up to in the world. Another great feature is the ability to become "kin" with other players once a strong enough bond is built. Being kin with fellow players will provide an experience bonus when playing and leveling together. These are just two main features that Dragon Oath has which promote sociability and working together.
Another aspect that increases the social interactions in Dragon Oath is its quests. There are over 410 storyline quests and many of these quests are not easy to be finished by one player. Many monsters are stronger than those of other MMORPGs that players are need to team up in order to explore deep inside of each maps to finish quests.
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Game sounds interesting and looks great visually. I'd prefer some non-human classes, but that's just me.
However, I'm leery of installing software from a Chinese company. It's bad enough with the companies we know - Japanese Sony throwing rootkits on their CDs or Blizzard's pervasive anti-hacking software. NCsoft took a step in the right direction by removing GameGuard.
I downloaded Dragon Oath and started playing the beta. I did not like the graphics at all, or the player perspective. So that was that. Lol.


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100 of the best movies you've never seen, according to Richard Crouse
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension. (103 mins.)
Director: W.D. Richter
Stars: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum
Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist (1995 Documentary)
The first and only film to tell the story of Annigoni. From his artistic birth in Florence, to the height of his fame and fortune Annigoni pursued his own path, standing alone against the forces of modernism in art. (94 mins.)
Director: Stephen Peter Smith
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace. (172 mins.)
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success. (118 mins.)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell
Bedazzled (1967)
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams. (103 mins.)
Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch
The Believer (2001)
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter. (98 mins.)
Director: Henry Bean
Better Off Dead... (1985)
A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier. (97 mins.)
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Stars: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade
Beyond the Mat (1999 Documentary)
A heartfelt documentary focusing on the lives of professional wrestlers and how their sport is not fake. (102 mins.)
Director: Barry W. Blaustein
Stars: Terry Funk, Mick Foley, Jake Roberts, Barry W. Blaustein
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze. (109 mins.)
Director: Russ Meyer
Stars: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar
Big Bad Love (2001)
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His... (111 mins.)
Director: Arliss Howard
Stars: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette
Biggie and Tupac (2002 Documentary)
Documentary on the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and the East Coast/West Coast, hip-hop/rap rivalry that culminated in late 1996 and early 1997. (108 mins.)
Director: Nick Broomfield
The Brave One (1956)
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador. (100 mins.)
Director: Irving Rapper
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. (142 mins.)
Director: Christophe Gans
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Elvis and JFK, both alive and in a nursing home, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy. (92 mins.)
Director: Don Coscarelli
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988 Documentary)
A documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests. (47 mins.)
Director: Mark Lewis
Stars: Tip Byrne, H.W. Kerr, Glen Ingram, Bill Freeland
Carnival of Souls (1962)
After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival. (78 mins.)
Director: Herk Harvey
Chelsea Girls (1966)
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen. (210 mins.)
Director: Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol
Cherish (2002)
After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest. (99 mins.)
Director: Finn Taylor
Stars: Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Brad Hunt, Liz Phair
Cocksucker Blues (1972 Documentary)
This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their... (93 mins.)
Director: Robert Frank
Stars: Truman Capote, Dick Cavett, Marshall Chess, Chris Collins
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet. (88 mins.)
Director: Roman Coppola
Cyberman (2002 Documentary)
Documentary on the work of Steve Mann, Univeristy of Toronto Associate Professor in Computer and Electrical Engineering... (87 mins.)
Director: Peter Lynch
Stars: Steve Mann, William Gibson, Jeff Eleveld, Richard Mann
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
A wily old codger matches wits with the king of the leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker. (93 mins.)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends. (104 mins.)
Director: Peter Care
Delicatessen (1991)
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. (99 mins.)
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Dementia 13 (1963)
Whilst out on a rowboat with her husband, John, Louise Haloran kills him, and casts his body overboard... (75 mins.)
Director: Francis Coppola
Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchel
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. (106 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
The Dish (2000)
A remote Australian antenna, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing. (101 mins.)
Director: Rob Sitch
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
In 18th century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from the King's oppression and Naval press gangs. (98 mins.)
Director: James Neilson
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001 Documentary)
Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team. (91 mins.)
Director: Stacy Peralta
Stars: Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Jeff Ament
Eating Raoul (1982)
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant. (90 mins.)
Director: Paul Bartel
Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger
Eegah (1962)
Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage. (90 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Merriwether
Skyggen af Emma (1988)
Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem... (99 mins.)
Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
The Experiment (2001)
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence. (120 mins.)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become? (126 mins.)
Director: Elia Kazan
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
The bane of adolescent Bart Collins' existence is the piano lessons he is forced to take under the tutelage of Dr... (89 mins.)
Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig, Peter Lind Hayes
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. (120 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Frailty (2001)
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons." (100 mins.)
Director: Bill Paxton
Fubar (2002)
Headbangers Terry and Dean explore the depths of friendship, and the art and science of drinking beer like a man. (76 mins.)
Director: Michael Dowse
Fun (1994)
Hillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and on a rising wave of frenzy later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun. (105 mins.)
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Stars: Renée Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope
Funny Games (1997)
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. (108 mins.)
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Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster. (103 mins.)
Director: Paul McGuigan
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. (116 mins.)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf. (108 mins.)
Director: John Fawcett
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
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Director: John Cameron Mitchell
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Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy. (94 mins.)
Director: Alexander Hall
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A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. As he moves his way up the ladder... (85 mins.)
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A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India. (114 mins.)
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Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race. (98 mins.)
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Stars: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo
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A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. (101 mins.)
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
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A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise. (92 mins.)
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A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur. (109 mins.)
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on... (121 mins.)
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Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life, seemingly entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum... (135 mins.)
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. (81 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Webster
Stars: John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon
Scarface (1932)
An ambitious and near insanely violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. (93 mins.)
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons. (100 mins.)
Director: George Pal
Stars: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson
S1m0ne (2002)
A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person. (117 mins.)
Director: Andrew Niccol
Stage Door (1937)
A boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses and their ambitions, dreams and disappointments. (92 mins.)
Director: Gregory LaCava
The Straight Story (1999)
An old man makes a long journey by lawn-mover tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother. (112 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
Sugar Town (1999)
Unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top... (92 mins.)
Director: Allison Anders, Kurt Voss
Stars: Jade Gordon, John Taylor, Michael Des Barres, Martin Kemp
Suspiria (1977)
A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders. (98 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability. (104 mins.)
Director: Jill Sprecher
Tadpole (2000)
Coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy, Oscar, who falls in love with his stepmother, Eve. (78 mins.)
Director: Gary Winick
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, Kate Mara, Robert Iler
Targets (1968)
An elderly horror film star, while making a personal appearance at a drive-in theatre, confronts a psychotic Vietnam War veteran who has turned into a mass-murdering sniper. (90 mins.)
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis
The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue (62 mins.)
Director: Sam Newfield
They Might Be Giants (1971)
In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes, is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson. (98 mins.)
Director: Anthony Harvey
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. (99 mins.)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose. (82 mins.)
Director: Michael Herz, Samuel Weil
Treed Murray (2001)
An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life. (90 mins.)
Director: William Phillips
Stars: David Hewlett, Aaron Ashmore, Clé Bennett, Kevin Duhaney
Trees Lounge (1996)
Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking". (95 mins.)
Director: Steve Buscemi
The Twist (1976)
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble. (107 mins.)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Two Family House (2000)
A dreamer finds that his wife and friends are binding him to his mediocre existence. (108 mins.)
Director: Raymond De Felitta
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s. (97 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
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Waydowntown (2000)
A group of young employees bet a month's salary, winner takes all, on who can last the longest without going outside. (87 mins.)
Director: Gary Burns
Stars: Fab Filippo, Don McKellar, Marya Delver, Gordon Currie
White Zombie (1932)
A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. (69 mins.)
Director: Victor Halperin
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer
Wild in the Streets (1968)
A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers. (97 mins.)
Director: Barry Shear
Zardoz (1974)
In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements. (105 mins.)
Director: John Boorman


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US real interest rates have suddenly turned northward, shooting straight up through zero, at a seemingly accelerating pace.
For me, analysizing the situation is a bit awkward. This is exactly the pattern that I expected roughly this time last year: housing markets would begin to cure rapidly, local governments would start running surpluses, auto sales would hit records and the US economy would accelerate out of the liquidity trap. Only it didn't happen. Car sales went along more or less as expected, but every other feature disappointed. Housing stalled and state and local governments were still struggling to close budget gaps.
Its tempting just to tell the same story over, but non-blogging concerns have prevented me from staying steeped in the data as I would like and I'm not confident in that story. What we can is that the broad outlines point to a "savings shortage" in the US. That term is way more loaded than I would like but there is no other quick and accurate way to say it. Hopefully, I can ease some the burden on those words by noting a "saving shortage" could come from folks saving less or folks investing more. At the end of the day savings and investment have to more or less equal one another, so more borwers looks very much like few savers.
What makes us think this is whats going on.
Well, the real interest rate is going up - that's one clue. Still, this alone is ambiguous. It could mean a higher risk premium on US bonds.
The dollar, however, is surging as well. That suggests that the rise in real interest rates is attracting evermore foreign investors in the US, not compensating for a lack of foreign interest.
Now, we could just say that the Fed is looking to tighten (loosen less aggressively?) monetary policy with the so called "taper." That's fine as far as it goes, but its fairly weak tea. If the fundamentals of the economy were the same as they were two years ago then tightening monetary policy would only lead to a slower recovery, weaker demand, falling inflation. In response the Fed would simply loosen again, only now with a damaged economy. When all is said and done that should produce lower real interest rates, not higher.
So perhaps the fundamentals are sharply improving - we are indeed bursting through the liquidity trap. Then we might expect higher profits as well. After all, the Fed is only raising rates because things are even better than expected. Yet, while the stock market as been on a tear this year, its faltered recently. This gives us pause about a sudden boost in expectations about corporate business conditions.
By process of elimination then we are left with roughly two broad possibilities.
1) A large expected in household borrowing - which means buying houses. Everything else is pocket change compared to mortgage debt.
2) A large expected decrease in household savings presumably as consumption rises. However, that consumption is not coming from increased exports or it would put downward pressure on the dollar. This would be an increase in domestic consumption. However, not a an increase that's strong enough to raise inflation expectations.
The first seems plausable, of course, but why now especially. These trends have been visible for quite some time.
I am more inclined to think in terms of the latter and that in particular we may be seeing a supply-side boost from easing commodity prices. A casual look across the board at energy, primary metals, petrochemicals and agricultural yields suggests that such a boost is a upon us. Moreover, the likely slowdown in demand from China will exacerbate that supply. That means rising real wages, which in turn could drive down both precautionary savings.
In that scenario we would expect to see the labor force rise and unit labor costs to accelerate, but overall cost growth to be mild because declining materials costs. This would feel similar to the boost that the US got in the late 90s when Asian growth fell off a cliff and commodity prices tumbled.


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Escherichia coli is the most common cause of community-acquired urinary tract infection (UTI) and a leading cause of nosocomial UTIs and sepsis. We have focused on a genetic island at argW in E.coli urosepsis strain CFT073 which contains the dsdCXA genes for D- serine utilization and ipuAB, homologs of fimBE, the type 1 fimbriae phase-switch recombinases. A CFT073 dsdA mutant lacking D-serine deaminase is 300-fold more competitive than wild type CFT073 in colonizing the bladder or kidney of experimentally infected mice. Compared to CFT073, 44 and 41 genes were respectively up- and down- regulated in the CFT073 dsdA mutant during murine UTI. Up-regulated genes encoded P and F1C fimbriae, hemolysin, OmpF, a dipeptide transporter DppA, and several genes with unknown functions. CFT073 as well as other uropathogenic E. coli show (+) chemotaxis toward D-serine, but not L-serine as is the case E. coli K-12. ipuA has fimB-like ON-to-OFF and OFF-to-ON fimS switching activity during murine UTI. A CFT073 dsdA::lacZ transcriptional fusion undergoes reversible phase-switching albeit by an unidentified mechanism affected by ipuA and ipuB mutations. ipuA and ipuB also control a fimS- independent reversible phase switch of a set of genes encoding secreted products that includes the hemolysin. Therefore, we generated strong support of our original hypotheses that D-serine represents an important signal for regulation of CFT073 virulence genes and growth in the urinary tract and that the dsdCXA-linked recombinases mediate phase-state regulation of important urovirulence and fitness factors besides the type 1 fimbriae. We will investigate the mechanism whereby elevated intracellular D-serine leads to up-regulation of urovirulence and fitness genes and characterize loci aside from fimS that are controlled by the recombinases. We will use the CFT073 dsdA mutant as a model of the DsdA OFF state to study the roles of P fimbriae and hemolysin in colonization of the murine bladder and kidney. The objective of our project is to identify and characterize virulence genes for E. coli involved in serious human diseases. This work will aid development of new vaccines and antimicrobials. To that end, we have recently acquired evidence that the D-serine deaminase can serve as a novel drug target for identification of new antimicrobials.
Escherichia coli is the most common cause of community-acquired urinary tract infection (UTI) and a leading cause of nosocomial UTIs and sepsis. The objective of our project is to identify and characterize virulence genes for E. coli involved in serious human diseases. This work will aid development of new vaccines and antimicrobials. To that end, we have recently acquired evidence that the D-serine deaminase can serve as a novel drug target for identification of new antimicrobials.
|Hryckowian, Andrew J; Battesti, Aurelia; Lemke, Justin J et al. (2014) IraL is an RssB anti-adaptor that stabilizes RpoS during logarithmic phase growth in Escherichia coli and Shigella. MBio 5:e01043-14
|Baisa, Gary; Stabo, Nicholas J; Welch, Rodney A (2013) Characterization of Escherichia coli D-cycloserine transport and resistant mutants. J Bacteriol 195:1389-99
|Hryckowian, Andrew J; Welch, Rodney A (2013) RpoS contributes to phagocyte oxidase-mediated stress resistance during urinary tract infection by Escherichia coli CFT073. MBio 4:e00023-13
|Raterman, Erica L; Welch, Rodney A (2013) Chemoreceptors of Escherichia coli CFT073 play redundant roles in chemotaxis toward urine. PLoS One 8:e54133
|Raterman, Erica L; Shapiro, Daniel D; Stevens, Daniel J et al. (2013) Genetic analysis of the role of yfiR in the ability of Escherichia coli CFT073 to control cellular cyclic dimeric GMP levels and to persist in the urinary tract. Infect Immun 81:3089-98
|Battaglioli, E J; Baisa, G A; Weeks, A E et al. (2011) Isolation of generalized transducing bacteriophages for uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol 77:6630-5
|Anfora, Andrew T; Halladin, David K; Haugen, Brian J et al. (2008) Uropathogenic Escherichia coli CFT073 is adapted to acetatogenic growth but does not require acetate during murine urinary tract infection. Infect Immun 76:5760-7
|Anfora, Andrew T; Haugen, Brian J; Roesch, Paula et al. (2007) Roles of serine accumulation and catabolism in the colonization of the murine urinary tract by Escherichia coli CFT073. Infect Immun 75:5298-304
|Haugen, Brian J; Pellett, Shahaireen; Redford, Peter et al. (2007) In vivo gene expression analysis identifies genes required for enhanced colonization of the mouse urinary tract by uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain CFT073 dsdA. Infect Immun 75:278-89
|Mansson, Lisa E; Kjall, Peter; Pellett, Shahaireen et al. (2007) Role of the lipopolysaccharide-CD14 complex for the activity of hemolysin from uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Infect Immun 75:997-1004
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