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I started wondering about how columnists are chosen yesterday after reading Paul Krugman's column on the deceptive sales campaign for the war, which is, by New York Times standards, wonderful, and by Paul Krugman's standards, mediocre.
When Krugman's writing about taxes and jobs, he's doing something nobody in America can do one-tenth as well. He brings to the subject depth, detail, passion, and an astonishing ability to untangle webs of deceit. He's a Godsend.
But it's really hard to see the same qualities in his writing on foreign affairs. When it comes to commentary on international issues, the NYT is usually so bad that I'm grateful just to hear someone say the obvious: that if the administration didn't lie about the WMDs that were supposedly the cause of this war, they at least didn't tell the whole truth, and that there ought to be a price to pay for that kind of mendacity. (Compare the Times' most celebrated foreign affairs columnist, Thomas Friedman, on the same subject: "As far as I'm concerned, we do not need to find any weapons of mass destruction to justify this war." Or his sick and scary column today, urging Bush to take lessons in governance from Saddam Hussein.) I'm amazed to hear anyone even bring up the way Bush sabotaged sending a peacekeeping force to Ivory Coast -- a story I don't think the New York Times even bothered to cover. (Krugman must read the rival.)
But as refreshing as that is, Krugman isn't bringing any depth of knowledge to the topic. I could have written yesterday's column, as could the majority of people on the blogroll to the right. All it required was an ability to read the newspapers and tell the truth. Blogs wouldn't exist (or at least no one would read them) unless there was an unmet need for people who can dig around in a few news sources and tell the truth -- but shouldn't we expect more from a paper that has the enormous resources of the New York Times? Where is the columnist who can do internationally what Krugman does domestically -- write with knowledge, experience, and fire?
The weird thing is, the Times is sitting on at least one potential columnist who could probably be the foreign affairs equivalent of Paul Krugman. I recently read Chris Hedges' War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning -- an intriguing and beautifully written book by a veteran NYT war correspondent on both the mayhem and dehumanization of war and why people are seduced by it. This is Hedges, with a bit of his own "resume":
Here, before going on to write about culture in the former Yugoslavia, is Hedges describing a phenomenon we're also experiencing in this country:
States at war silence their own authentic and humane culture. When this destruction is well advanced they find the lack of critical and moral restraint useful in the campaign to exterminate the culture of their opponents. By destroying authentic culture -- that which allows us to question and examine ourselves and our society -- the state erodes the moral fabric.
And here is Hedges describing his experience in Gulf War I -- again, sadly relevant:
The notion that the press was used in the war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.
Hedges has a knowledge of war -- and of the seductions and deceits that surround war -- that would make him a valuable commentator. Moreover, he has an understanding of human rights issues that no columnist in the country that I know of has. He's also a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School (a personal prejudice -- I'd like to see someone other than Cal Thomas writing about spiritual issues) and a reader (you'd think they'd all be readers, but one of the things that grabbed me in Hedges' book was his knowledge, and obvious love, of literature, ancient to contemporary -- a rare passion in a modern political writer). I can't think of very many people whose perspective on international affairs I'd rather hear on a regular basis.
Chris Hedges has retired from war reporting (he told Bill Moyers last month that even if the New York Times asked him to go to Iraq as a reporter, he would not go), but he still works for the NYT, contributing to the "Private Lives" column -- profiles of interesting New Yorkers. He's done some fascinating profiles -- some of which touch on political issues -- from liberal theologians, to peace activists, to yesterday's story about George Rupp, the head of the International Rescue Committee. And maybe that's what Chris Hedges has chosen to do at the moment. But given the limitations of the New York Times foreign affairs commentary, it seems like a waste of a gifted writer with an experience of war and a concern for ethical and human rights issues that is desperately needed.
He's either a conservative whacko, or a damn radical. I don't think the Times' management would allow such a person. In the case of the Islamic Middle East, a few hours sitting down with the Encyclopedia Britannica (which I did a few days ago), reading the history of the Middle East since World War I (sic) would make the basics of the on-going conflict glaringly obvious, show just why so many people there hate us, and cure the common cold...well, maybe not that.
But there's not much mystery there. Problem is, on the Middle East your columnist would have to write a more educated version of the following bit, from a Usenet article I recently wrote:
"Between World War I and World War II, most borders in the region were drawn by the West and Russia, and all were drawn under Western and Russian influence...Thereafter the politics of the region was shaped by the Cold War, which was plenty hot in the Middle East, and the oil industry. I don't know much of the Cold War history, but generally the West and especially the USA allied itself with Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States, while the Soviets allied themselves with Egypt and Syria. The Iraqi and Afghan governments changed and changed again as the US and the Soviets played their global chess game. Some Middle Eastern states (notably Saudi Arabia) were able to play the two superpowers against each other, parlaying their oil into real wealth, but there never was any doubt that all successes ultimately were the result of persuading foreign powers -- none of the major states in the area had power independent of the superpowers.
"So since the fall of the Ottoman empire, Middle Eastern history has been shaped by the West, the Russians, and the Soviet Union. Of course they feel powerless. They were powerless for three generations. The Palestinians in particular were uprooted by the Israelis and ended up on the losing side of the Cold War.
"It is completely consistent with this that many Arabs have decided that peaceful methods will win them nothing and are willing to send young men and women to bitter deaths."
And this:
"Do you therefore account the taking of all their freedoms at the end of World War I as nothing? Is it only Westerners who may rationally want freedom? The most basic of freedoms -- the simple right to choose how they lived -- was taken from the Middle East when the Ottoman Empire was defeated. The West followed that humiliating defeat with many others, of which the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and this second sack of Baghdad have been the most recent. These were a proud people with a proud martial history -- how could they not hate us? To me, their reasons have become obvious. And, by the same token, I think I know what we might do about that hatred."
Which is nothing that could be seen on the editorial pages of the NYTimes without evoking a firestorm of controversy. The remarks about the Palestinians, though they are plainly true, would play very poorly with many New York Jews, who are after all a major portion of their paying readership. But that's almost a side issue; the plain facts of the history put the West and the USA in such a poor light that they would be met with intense criticism.
This point applies to many other world conflicts; the fact of the matter, as far as I can tell, is that by just about any fairly compassionate ethical reference, much foreign policy and the global order we have has a result of generations of policies (and not only Western policies) is cruel, destructive, and foolish, much of it has been so for a very long time, and the NY Times can hardly say so, even as a matter of opinion.
It occurs to me that Noam Chomsky -- who I don't know if I agree with -- has been saying such things for a very long time. -- Randolph


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DOWNEY - Downey resident Ryan Montgomery has been appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.Following his graduation from Valley Christian High School in Cerritos, Montgomery expects to begin the elite 4-year Naval Academy program this summer. "I am very proud of Ryan. He is an exceptional young man who earned admission to one of our nation's most prestigious service academies through his hard work, commitment and leadership abilities," said Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-34), who nominated Montgomery. "I'm certain Ryan's self-discipline, strong motivation to succeed and eagerness to serve our country will enable him to become a fine commissioned officer and leader that our community and nation can be proud of." Each year, Roybal-Allard nominates qualified students from her district for admission to the service academies, which also include the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King's Point, N.Y. Successful applicants receive a free education in exchange for a commitment to serve five years as a commissioned officer in the military following graduation. Entrance into the academies is highly competitive. Last year, for example, only 14 percent of 1,537 of all Naval Academy applicants were offered appointments. Montgomery currently holds a 3.9 GPA and "performed very well" on the SAT. In addition to playing football, track, the violin, and singing in the school choir, he has also mentored students at Tucker Elementary School in Long Beach. He also tutored at his church's Sunday school and volunteered at Camp Pendleton. For his efforts, he has received numerous awards and accolades, including induction into the National Honor Society in 2007. Admission to the service academies is based on a multitude of skills and attributes, including character, scholarship, leadership, physical aptitude, medical fitness, goals and motivation. To learn more about the service academies and the nomination process, visit Roybal-Allard's website at www.house.gov/roybal-allard.
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Have you ever followed a link only to find a 404 error instead of the page you wanted? This is called link rot. Where content "lives" on the internet can be unstable for a number of reasons, such as removal of content, website restructuring, and changes to domain names (hello SAGE Journals and Oxford Academic (OUP) who both have migrations in progress at the moment). Alongside link rot, trust and authority control (establishment and maintenance of consistent forms of terms) can be difficult to establish on the web.
A persistent identifier (PI or PID) is a long-lasting reference to a document, file, web page, or other object. Using PIDs helps to combat problems of link rot and authority control. There are different sorts of PIDs depending of the type of entity being referred to:
- A digital object identifier (DOI) (such as those registered with Crossref) is used to uniquely identify objects, particularly electronic documents such as journal articles. Loyal readers of this blog may remember Crossref as the sponsor of 23 Things Oxford back in 2010 🙂
- An ORCID iD uniquely identifies researchers – here is my ORCID iD. ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID.
Bibliographic identifiers such as ISBN and ISSN have been in use since the 1970s. As ISBN is to a book, DOI is to an article, and ORCID iD to a person.
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Article Archives
Volume 13 | Issue 6
The Changing Face of Challenges in the Management of Acne and Rosacea
James Q. Del Rosso DO|No abstract details for the moment.
Original Articles
The Duration of Acne Treatment
Karen E. Huang MS,a S. Evan Carstensen BS,a and Steven R. Feldman MD PhDa,b,c|BACKGROUND: Acne has a ~90% lifetime prevalence, however the duration of the condition and its treatment is not well characterized. The purpose of this study was to estimate for how long acne patients are treated.
METHODS: Electronic patient records from an academic practice were queried to identify dermatology visits with an acne diagnosis (ICD-9: 706.1) between January 1, 2009 and June 1, 2012. The duration of care for acne treatment was calculated as the time between the earliest and latest visits. Kaplan Meier analyses were used to describe treatment duration.
RESULTS: 1,130 patients had at least one visit acne-related visit to a dermatologist, with 631 (56%) having only one visit and 499 (44%) having multiple visits over the study period. For patients with multiple visits, the mean duration from first to last visit was 0.57 year (95% CI: 0.52, 0.62); 25% ceased visiting in 0.25 year, 50% in 0.40 year, and 75% in 0.64 year.
CONCLUSION: Our study provides a lower limit on the duration of acne treatment. The duration of acne treatment is longer than the duration of typical acne clinical trials. Understanding the duration of the disease can help set patients' treatment expectations, which may help improve adherence.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):655-656.
Tolerability of Topical Antimicrobials in Treatment of Acne Vulgaris
Kyle B. Bartlett MD,a Scott A. Davis MA,a and Steven R. Feldman MD PhDa,b,c|BACKGROUND: Thirty to 40% of patients using topical treatments do not comply with their treatment regimen.
OBJECTIVE: To examine how tolerability is assessed, tolerability ratings, and clinical significance of tolerability ratings of topical antimicrobials for acne.
METHODS: A literature search was performed using the terms "tolerability AND acne AND (benzoyl peroxide OR antimicrobial OR clindamycin OR erythromycin OR dapsone OR sulfur OR sulfacetamide)." Inclusion criteria were: 1) evaluation of tolerability, 2) use of an identified topical antimicrobial for acne treatment without combination retinoid use, 3) an original study, in English.
RESULTS: Thirty-four of 132 articles met the inclusion criteria. Tolerability was measured through subject and investigator assessment of specific tolerability parameters and by reporting of adverse events. Nearly all of the acne treatments were well tolerated. Treatment related study discontinuation rates were low and had little to no relation to the degree of tolerability measures.
LIMITATIONS: Patients may be more adherent in clinical trials than in clinical practice. Differences in the measure used to assess tolerability make comparisons difficult.
CONCLUSIONS: Topical antimicrobial acne therapy is generally well tolerated. Discontinuation rates are low under study conditions. Tolerability of topical antimicrobial therapy for acne may not have great clinical significance.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):658-662.
Results of a Phase III, Double-Blind, Randomized, Parallel-Group, Non-Inferiority Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Isotretinoin-Lidose in Patients With Severe Recalcitrant Nodular Acne
Guy F. Webster MD PhD,a James J. Leyden MD,b and Jason A. Gross PharmDc|BACKGROUND: Isotretinoin-Lidose, the first new formulation of isotretinoin in 30 years, differs from previously approved isotretinoin formulations in that it is less dependent on the presence of fat in the gut for absorption.
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the safety profiles of isotretinoin-Lidose and food-dependent generic isotretinoin in the largest clinical study with isotretinoin—925 randomized patients from 49 study sites. Determine if the efficacy of this new formulation is noninferior to an existing isotretinoin.
METHODS: Multicenter, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, noninferiority trial. Study medication was taken with meals twice daily for 20 weeks. Patients were followed for 4 weeks after the last dose. Safety evaluations included recordings of adverse events, assessments for depression, anxiety, emergent psychotic symptoms, and suicidal ideation/behavior, as well as DEXA and X-ray evaluations and changes in bone age. Two co-primary efficacy outcomes were measured to assess noninferiority: a) change in total nodular facial and truncal lesion count at from baseline to week 20 and b) percentage of patients who experienced at least 90% reduction in nodular facial and truncal lesion count from baseline to week 20.
LIMITATIONS: Although isotretinoin-Lidose can be taken without meals, it was given with food because the absorption of both formulations in the study had to be similar to detect noninferiority.
RESULTS: The safety profile of the 2 formulations was comparable. Criteria for noninferiority for both co-primary efficacy outcomes were met based on predetermined margins.
CONCLUSION: Safety and efficacy of isotretinoin-Lidose is similar and noninferior to food-dependent generic isotretinoin, respectively.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):665-670.
Safety and Efficacy Comparison of Minocycline Microgranules vs Lymecycline in the Treatment of Mild to Moderate Acne: Randomized, Evaluator-blinded, Parallel, and Prospective Clinical Trial for 8 Weeks
Jorge Ocampo-Candiani MD,a Luis Leobardo Velázquez-Arenas MD,a Alberto de la Fuente-García MD,a|
Carlos Treviño-Gómezharper MD,b and Arturo Berber MD PhDcBACKGROUND: Minocycline and lymecycline are used in the treatment of acne, but there is not enough evidence to support superior efficacy of one of them.
METHODS: 170 participants from 14 to 34 years old with mild to moderate facial acne vulgaris were recruited. 84 had 100 mg of minocycline in a single daily dose for 8 weeks and 86 had 300 mg of lymecycline in a single daily dose for 8 weeks. Participants were evaluated at baseline, week 4 and week 8.
RESULTS: 65 minocycline and 60 lymecycline patients were evaluable. The last observation carried forward for the count of non-inflammatory lesions changed from 37.5 ± 17.8 to 37.7 ± 17.8 in the minocycline group and from 36.9 ± 15.5 to 33.4 ± 19.3 in the lymecycline group (no significant changes); corresponding changes in inflammatory lesions were from 19.4 ± 12.4 to 12.2 ± 10.0 in the minocycline group and from 20.1 ± 11.3 to 12.6 ± 8.4 in lymecycline group (P< 0.05 comparing baseline vs. final in both groups). Porphyrin counts varied from 899.5 ± 613.9 to 233.5 ± 219.5 in the minocycline group and from 956.9 ± 661.8 to 411.8 ± 411.5 in the lymecycline group (P<0.05 between the groups at study end). 36 (42.9%) patients receiving minocycline suffered 55 adverse events (22 of them gastrointestinal), while 28 (33.3%) lymecycline patients had 37 adverse events (15 of them gastrointestinal). One patient in the lymecycline group withdrew the study due to gastritis, and one more patient in the same group experienced eosinophilia.
CONCLUSIONS: There were no differences between the groups in non-inflammatory and inflammatory lesion counts, and in the safety profile. Treatment with minocycline induced statistically significant decrease in facial porphyrin counts compared to the group treated with lymecycline (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00988026).
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):671-676.
Rapid Treatment of Mild Acne With a Novel Skin Care System Containing 1% Salicylic Acid, 10% Buffered Glycolic Acid, and Botanical Ingredients
Ashish C. Bhatia MDa,b and Felipe Jimenez PhDc|The biggest hurdle in the treatment of acne vulgaris is patient non-compliance that is due in large part to poor tolerability to common acne medications. As such, new acne treatments must be developed that balance good anti-acne efficacy with excellent tolerability in order to ensure patient adherence and by extension ensure good clinical outcomes. The goal of the present study was to determine the tolerability and efficacy of a novel skin care system, composed of a cleanser, containing 1% salicylic acid and botanical ingredients, and a treatment gel, containing 1% salicylic acid, 10% buffered glycolic acid and botanical ingredients for the treatment of mild acne. In this single-center, open-label clinical study, 25 male and female volunteers used the test cleanser and test gel twice daily over six weeks. Tolerability assessments showed that the skin care regimen was very well tolerated by all study volunteers. Acne severity was significantly reduced by two acne grades at six weeks. Inflammatory lesion counts were significantly reduced, on average, by 59.06% (P≤ 0.0001), 91.62% (P≤ 0.0001), 90.85% (P≤ 0.0001) and by 98.55% (P≤ 0.0001) at weeks 1, 2, 4, and 6, respectively. Non-inflammatory lesion counts were reduced, on average, by 13.54% (ns), 38.95% (P≤ 0.0001), 44.48% (P≤ 0.0001), and by 56.10% (P≤ 0.0001) at weeks 1, 2, 4, and 6, respectively. Standardized photography also demonstrated a progressive reduction in acne lesions over time. In conclusion, results of the present study suggest that the tested skin care regimen offers rapid acne clearance and excellent tolerability that together may help to improve patient adherence as well as treatment outcome.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):678-683.
Randomized, Phase 2, Dose-Ranging Study in the Treatment of Rosacea With Encapsulated Benzoyl Peroxide Gel
James J. Leyden MD|OBJECTIVE: Compare the safety and efficacy of 1% and 5% silica encapsulated benzoyl peroxide (E-BPO) in patients with papulopustular rosacea.
DESIGN: Multi-centered randomized, double blind, vehicle controlled parallel group, 12 week treatment in 92 patients with papulopustular rosacea. Primary endpoints were dichotomized IGA with success defined as clear/near clear and reduction in inflammatory lesions.
PATIENTS: 92 patients: 74% graded as moderate IGA, 14% severe and 12% mild. The mean inflammatory lesion count was 24.
INTERVENTION: Once daily treatment for 12 weeks with vehicle, 1% or 5% E-BPO.
RESULTS: 1% and 5% E-BPO were superior to vehicle in reducing papulopustular lesions P=0.01 and P=0.02. 5% E-BPO was superior to vehicle for IGA P=0.0013.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):685-688.
The Quality of Life Impact of Acne and Rosacea Compared to Other Major Medical Conditions
Nicole D. Cresce BS,a Scott A. Davis MA,a William W. Huang MD MPH,a Steven R. Feldman MD PhDa,b,c|BACKGROUND: Acne and rosacea cause significant negative impact on quality of life. There is limited information comparing the health-related quality of life (HRQL) impact associated with acne and rosacea to other patient populations.
PURPOSE: We review available literature to assess the HRQL impact of acne and rosacea and compare them with major medical conditions.
METHODS: A PubMed search identified studies that utilized the Short Form 36 (SF-36), the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), and the willingness-to-pay (WTP) metric to assess the HRQL impact of acne and rosacea. These data were compared to HRQL values for other diseases.
RESULTS: The HRQL impact of acne is similar to asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, back pain, arthritis, and coronary heart disease using SF-36 data. DLQI scores for acne ranged from 2 to 17.7 and for rosacea ranged from 4.3 to 17.3; the DLQI scores for psoriasis ranged from 1.7 to 18.2. WTP data identified ranged widely for both acne and rosacea.
LIMITATIONS: There was limited broadly generalizable data for acne and rosacea.
CONCLUSIONS: Acne and rosacea impact HRQL to a similar degree as other major medical conditions by indirect comparison to psoriasis, a skin condition causing significant disability, and by direct comparison for acne. In the setting of limited health care resources, allocation should be grounded in the evidence that acne and rosacea are not trivial in their effects.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):692-697.
Improvement in Facial Erythema Within 30 Minutes of Initial Application of Brimonidine Tartrate in Patients With Rosacea
J. Mark Jackson MD,a Joseph Fowler MD,a Angela Moore MD,b Michael Jarratt MD,c Terry Jones MD,d|
Kappa Meadows MD,e Martin Steinhoff MD,f Diane Rudisill BSc,g and Matthew Leoni MDg
on behalf of the Brimonidine Phase III Study GroupBACKGROUND: Brimonidine tartrate (BT) 0.5% gel demonstrated significantly greater efficacy versus vehicle gel once-daily for the treatment of moderate to severe erythema of rosacea.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the 30-minute speed of onset of topical BT 0.5% gel in reducing facial erythema in Phase III studies as measured by subject and clinician assessments of erythema.
METHODS: Two Phase III, randomized, controlled studies with identical design in which subjects with moderate erythema of rosacea (study A: n=260; study B: n=293) were randomized 1:1 to apply topical BT 0.5% or vehicle gel once-daily for 4 weeks. Evaluations included severity of erythema based on Clinician's Erythema Assessment (CEA) and Patient's Self-Assessment (PSA) prior to study drug application and at 30 minutes after application on days 1, 15, and 29.
RESULTS: 97.7% and 96.6% of subjects reported normal study completion for studies A and B, respectively. The percentage of subjects achieving a 1-grade improvement in both CEA and PSA was significantly increased at 30 minutes post-dosing with BT 0.5% gel compared to vehicle gel on visit days (day 1: 27.9 vs 6.9%, P<0.001; day 15: 55.9 vs 21.1%, P<0.001; Day 29: 58.3 vs 32.0%, P<0.001 for BT 0.5% gel vs vehicle) in study A. Similar results were shown for study B.
CONCLUSIONS: Once-daily topical BT gel 0.5% is not only efficacious at reducing facial erythema but also exhibits response within 30 minutes of application in a significant number of patients throughout both Phase III studies.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):699-704.
Cutaneous Tolerability to Tretinoin Shows Little Variation With Fitzpatrick Skin Type
Guy F. Webster MD PhD|Determinants of skin irritability are poorly understood. This study aims to assess differences in cutaneous safety/irritation based on Fitzpatrick skin type among patients with acne treated with tretinoin gel microsphere (TGM).
This was a phase 4, 12-week, prospective, nonrandomized, open-label, multicenter study. Approximately 500 patients with mild to moderate acne were treated with TGM 0.04% or 0.1% and assessed for cutaneous irritation at baseline and weeks 3, 6, and 12.
In this post hoc analysis of patients with Fitzpatrick skin type I-III vs Fitzpatrick skin type IV-VI, there was a general trend toward initial worsening of cutaneous adverse events (AEs) by week 3 across all variables and groups. This was followed by a trend toward improvement and resolution of skin-related AEs from week 3 to week 12 regardless of Fitzpatrick skin type, with a few exceptions. Erythema was the only cutaneous AE that consistently decreased among patients with darker skin. Results from a subsequent 3-group analysis (Fitzpatrick I-II vs Fitzpatrick III-IV vs Fitzpatrick V-VI) generally mirrored those from the 2-group study.
Study limitations include patient nonadherence, lack of a placebo arm, and lack of data regarding the impact of concurrent medications on outcomes. There was no correlation between irritation and Fitzpatrick skin type.
ABBREVIATIONS USED: adverse event (AE), analysis of variance (ANOVA), benzoyl peroxide (BP), case report form (CRF), modified Global Acne Grading Score (mGAGS), tretinoin gel microsphere (TGM)
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):706-711.
A Retrospective Analysis of 72 Patients on Prior Efalizumab Subsequent to the Time of Voluntary Market Withdrawal in 2009
Elizabeth Farley Prater MD,a Antoinette Day BS,b Mahir Patel MD,c and Alan Menter MDc|BACKGROUND: Efalizumab was voluntarily withdrawn from the market in April 2009 after four cases of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy.
OBJECTIVE: To review the baseline characteristics and psoriasis phenotypes of patients with prior excelled response to efalizumab, and to determine the response of these patients to prior as well as subsequent therapies. By defining this subgroup of patients, particularly relating to palmoplantar psoriasis, future therapeutic considerations could be improved.
DESIGN: A retrospective review of 72 patients who were on efalizumab at the time of market withdrawal was conducted. Data was obtained through chart review of patients at a specialty psoriasis clinic in Dallas, TX.
MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Patient characteristics, details of efalizumab use, and efficacy of efalizumab compared with other psoriasis treatment modalities.
RESULTS: Of the 72 patients, 24 (33%) were found to have palmoplantar disease. As a group, these patients were older, more likely to be female, and less likely to have a family history of psoriasis. 48 patients (67%) were on one or more systemic and/or biologic medication prior to starting efalizumab. Their BSA improved from 5.45 to 0.8 as a group. Six patients were identified as having failed TNF alpha antagonist treatment prior to starting efalizumab. All responded well to the medication with an average BSA of 0.54. Five of these six patients had evidence of palmoplantar disease prior to starting efalizumab and five of these six patients were female. Eleven patients (15%) experienced neurologic side effects and 13 (18%) had infections while on efalizumab treatment.
LIMITATIONS: This was a retrospective review. Quality of life issues could not always be fully assessed from the data available.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Efalizumab was effectively utilized in our clinical practice to treat patients with palmoplantar psoriasis, including six patients who had failed prior treatment with one or more TNF alpha antagonist agents.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):712-718.
Only Skin Deep: Optimism and Public Self-Consciousness Did Not Associate With the Placebo Response in a Dermatology Clinical Trial
Marisa Kardos Garshick MD,a Anne Lynn S. Chang MD,b and Alexandra Boer Kimball MD MPHa|OBJECTIVE: Although not well-understood, dermatologic diseases studied in clinical trials often demonstrate substantial response to placebo. The study objective is to determine if optimism, public self-consciousness and other personality traits predict response to placebo or active treatment in a dermatology clinical trial.
METHODS: A questionnaire was mailed to subjects previously enrolled in a two-center rosacea study who had been randomized to either a treatment or placebo gel. The questionnaire included the Revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R), the Public Self-Consciousness Scale, and questions to assess personality traits.
RESULTS: Forty-seven subjects out of 83 (57%) returned the questionnaire. There was no statistically significant difference in the LOT-R score in those who responded to placebo versus those who did not (18.08 vs 17.92, P= 0.92) nor in those who responded to active treatment versus those who did not (16.27 vs 15.86, P= 0.79). There was no statistically significant difference in public-self consciousness among placebo or active treatment responders versus non-responders (11.75 vs 10.67, P=0.66; 13.55 vs 14.45, P= 0.68). The placebo responders were more likely to report that they were not unusually sensitive to most drugs/medications (X2= 8.33, P= 0.004).
CONCLUSION: Although this pilot study is small, there was no meaningful difference in levels of optimism or public self-consciousness among those who responded to placebo. Placebo responders were more likely to report that they were not sensitive to most drugs/medications, raising the possibility that they are actually less likely to detect when they are on medications.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):719-722.
The Effect of Desonide Hydrogel on Pruritus Associated With Atopic Dermatitis
Leon H. Kircik MD FAAD|Itch is a common and troubling symptom of atopic dermatitis. It is not mediated by histamine, and standard anti-itch therapies, therefore, have limited benefit for most AD patients. Instead, anti-inflammatory agents are used to reduce inflammation and therefore improve associated itch. Studies confirm that long-term use of corticosteroids can lead to a reduction in pruritus. A pilot study was designed to assess the effects of one week of twice-daily application of desonide hydrogel 0.05% for the treatment of atopic dermatitis. Active treatment was associated with significant improvements in IGA scores at day 3 and day 7 (mean score 0.55, 75.83% improvement from Baseline; P<.0001) and pruritus VAS scores at day 3 and day 7 (mean 6.35-point, 86.61% reduction in VAS scores; P<.0001). Treatment with the convenient, hydrating hydrogel formulation is effective and associated with an improvement in subjects' quality of life.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):725-728.
Systematic Review of Vismodegib Toxicity Profile in the Treatment of Advanced Basal Cell Carcinomas Compared to Other Systemic Therapies in Dermatology
Margit L.W. Juhász MSca and Ellen S. Marmur MDa,b|Vismodegib is a first-in-class, hedgehog-signal inhibitor that is FDA-approved for use with advanced basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) that cannot be removed by either surgical resection or treated with radiation. Release of the drug was fast-tracked because of need for this type of drug, and its overall efficacy in clinical trial by producing either regression or even resolution of advanced BCCs. Compared to placebo, patients using vismodegib have arrested BCC progression, reduced size of BCC, and decreased recurrence of BCC. Unfortunately, vismodegib has notable adverse effects (especially those of alopecia, gastrointestinal, muscle spasms, and dysguesia) that make dermatologists reluctant to prescribe the drug and patients unwilling to undergo therapy. In this article, we tackle this dilemma by comparing the toxicity profile of vismodegib to the adverse effect profiles of other dermatologic chemotherapeutics, immunomodulators, retinoids, and biologics. Considering that many of these drugs carry their own risks and those drugs used to treat advanced melanoma have similar toxicity profiles to that of vismodegib, we hope dermatologists and patients alike will be more willing to try vismodegib as a treatment option for advanced BCCs in the future.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):729-733.
Incorrect Reconstitution of IncobotulinumtoxinA Leads to Loss of Neurotoxin
Wayne D. Carey MD|BACKGROUND: IncobotulinumtoxinA (INCO) was approved for aesthetic use in the United States in 2011. When reconstituted per manufacturer's instructions, diminished delivery of INCO in US may result.
OBJECTIVE: Investigators sought to determine whether potential loss of decreased motor activity could be demonstrated, using a simple reconstitution technique.
METHODS and MATERIALS: In this 5-patient study, investigators added 2.0 mL of saline to INCO powder at the bottom of the first of 5 vials, swirling gently to dissolve INCO powder at the bottom. Reconstituted INCO was discarded and the cap was replaced. The "empty" vial then received 0.6 mL of saline, and was swirled and inverted 3 times to ensure dissolution. The 0.6 mL from the first vial was added to the second "empty" vial and the process was repeated for the remaining 3 vials (5 vials per patient). Patients were injected from reconstitution of "empty" vials to determine neuromodulatory activity. Pre- and post-treatment patient photographs of maximal contraction were taken.
RESULTS: Markedly diminished maximal frown could be observed in all 5 patients.
CONCLUSION: Improper reconstitution of INCO, or swirling without inversion of the vial following saline injection, can result in significant loss of units of the neurotoxin in the clinical setting.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):735-738.
Efficacy and Safety of Ingenol Mebutate 0.015% Gel After Cryosurgery of Actinic Keratosis: 12-Month Results
Brian Berman MD PhD,a Gary Goldenberg MD,b C. William Hanke MD,c Stephen K. Tyring MD PhD,d|
Wm Philip Werschler MD,e Kim Mark Knudsen PhD,f Thomas Larsson Dr Med Sci,g and Neil Swanson MDhINTRODUCTION: Recurrence rates of actinic keratosis (AK) lesions after cryosurgery are high, and this treatment does not address field cancerization. We investigated the efficacy and safety of field treatment of AKs with ingenol mebutate gel following cryosurgery.
METHODS: In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled study (NCT01541553), patients ≥18 years with four to eight clinically typical, visible, discrete AKs within a contiguous 25-cm2 treatment area on the face or scalp underwent cryosurgery followed 3 weeks later by once-daily ingenol mebutate 0.015% or vehicle gel for 3 consecutive days. Endpoints included complete clearance at week 11 and safety and efficacy over 12 months.
RESULTS: In 329 randomized patients, complete clearance rates were greater with ingenol mebutate than vehicle (week 11: 60.5% vs 49.4%; P=.04; month 12: 30.5% vs 18.5%; P=.01). Fewer patients experienced the emergence of new lesions with ingenol mebutate than with vehicle (38.9% vs 51.9%; P=.02). At month 12, mean percentage reduction of AKs was higher with ingenol mebutate than with vehicle (68.2% vs 54.1%; P=.002). The probability of remaining free of lesions was sustained longer with ingenol mebutate compared with vehicle gel: 78% vs 68% at 6 months; 64% vs 57% at 9 months; 55% vs 40% at month 12, respectively. Ingenol mebutate 0.015% gel was well tolerated and no unexpected adverse events occurred; all adverse events resolved within 2 weeks of starting treatment.
CONCLUSIONS: Field treatment with ingenol mebutate 0.015% gel following cryosurgery significantly enhanced clearance of baseline lesions, and was well tolerated. Furthermore, ingenol mebutate 0.015% gel following cryosurgery reduced development of new lesions in the treated field.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):741-747.
Case Reports
Successful Desensitization to Brentuximab Vedotin After Hypersensitivity Reaction
Sara K. Story MD,a Andrej A. Petrov MD,b and Larisa J. Geskin MD FAADa|Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have become the standard of care for numerous diseases. However, side effects including infusion and hypersensitivity reactions experienced by patients continue to be a limiting factor in their use. In the therapy of cancer, treatment choices are frequently limited and minimizing side effects of a life-saving or life-prolonging therapy becomes of the utmost importance. We report the successful use of a rapid desensitization protocol in a patient with NHL, treated with a novel antibody-drug conjugate, chimeric monoclonal antibody linked to the antimitotic agent monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) Brentuximab vedotin, who had previously developed a hypersensitivity reaction.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):749-751.
Leuprolide Acetate-Induced Generalized Papular Eruption
Geoffrey F. S. Lim BS,a Catherine Y. Ding MD,b Katy Burris MDb|Leuprolide acetate, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, is used in the treatment of prostate cancer. We report a unique case of a disseminated papular rash following leuprolide acetate injections in a 65-year-old man that shares clinical and histopathological features of papuloerythroderma of Ofuji. Leuprolide-induced papuloerythroderma, as well as a limited number of other disseminated cutaneous eruptions caused by this drug, is extremely rare, with only one case previously reported. Our case calls attention to this uncommon side effect in a commonly used hormonal therapy.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):755-757.
Rosacea Fulminans With Extrafacial Lesions in an Elderly Man: Successful Treatment With Subantimicrobial-Dose Doxycycline
Lauren A. Smith MD, Shane A. Meehan MD, and David E. Cohen MD MPH|Rosacea fulminans, previously known as pyoderma faciale, is a rare disease occurring almost exclusively in young women characterized by the sudden eruption of coalescing papules and pustules, and large cystic nodules limited to the face. Patients generally respond well to standard therapy consisting of systemic isotretinoin in combination with topical and systemic corticosteroids. Lesions usually resolve with minimal scarring with appropriate management. We describe an elderly male patient with extrafacial rosacea fulminans successfully treated with daily subantimicrobial (40mg) dose doxycycline (SDD). To our knowledge, this is the first report of rosacea fulminans with extrafacial lesions in an elderly male. We suggest that SDD may be a safe and effective alternative, particularly for those unable to tolerate standard therapy.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(6):763-765.
Therapeutic Update on Acne Scarring
Amy E. Rose MD|No abstract details for the moment.
Resident Rounds Part I. Program Spotlight: University of Oklahoma Dermatology Residency Program
Neil Crowson MD,a and Travis W. Blalock MDb|Resident Rounds is a section of the JDD dedicated to highlighting various dermatology departments with residency training programs. Resident Rounds includes three sections: (1) a program spotlight highlighting pertinent information about the department and residency training program; (2) a section presenting study materials used by residents at the program; and (3) a section designed to highlight recent interesting cases seen at the institution. This issue of Resident Rounds features the University of Oklahoma Dermatology Residency Program. The editor of Resident Rounds is Dr. Ali Alikhan. If you are interested in highlighting your training program in a future issue, please contact Dr. Alikhan at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Resident Rounds Part II: Anesthetics Review
Julie Nguyen MD|No abstract details for the moment.
Resident Rounds Part III: Plaque on Left Areola of an African-American Woman
Lindsey Goddard BBA,a Todd Mollet MD,b and Travis Blalock MDb|Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cutaneous malignancy, and usually presents on sun-exposed areas of the skin. Unsurprisingly, BCC appearing on the nipple-areola complex (NAC) is rare, and even more so in females and dark skin types. BCC of the NAC is more aggressive than other locations, thus diagnosis and treatment are imperative. We present a case of an African American female with a lichenified, scaly plaque on her left areola that was unresponsive to clobetasol. After biopsy, the lesion was identified as pigmented BCC of the NAC. The patient denied surgical treatment and was treated with topical 5-fluorouracil. The BCC initially resolved but recurred at 22 month follow-up. We plan to treat the recurrence with Mohs surgery.
Pipeline Previews brings to you information on the newest drugs and medical products as they become available to the dermatologic community. This department may include additional information from the manufacturers, plus reports from physicians who wish to share their clinical experience with these new products. In addition, we will inform our readers about the latest drugs receiving Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
Acne: Novel Findings and Treatment Paradigms
Acne is perhaps the most prevalent skin disease in Western societies, yet dermatologists are now learning that simply "dubbing the medicine on the pimples" is not the way to manage it successfully. Acne is primarily an inflammatory disease, so treatment needs to be aimed not only at eradicating existing lesions but also at preventing long-term scarring and hyperpigmentation by rapidly reducing inflammation.
Moreover, the old-fashioned way of using antibiotics long-term as monotherapy is contributing to the global public health challenge of antibiotic resistance, which requires a new treatment paradigm emphasizing antibiotic stewardship. Antibiotic limiting regimens, including a combination of topic retinoids and benzoyl peroxide, are shown to be effective; and topical probiotics can also play a useful role.
These new understandings of acne pathogenesis, treatment targets (including those in skin of color), and antibiotic stewardship are all discussed in this supplement.
Evolving Concepts in the Pathogenesis of Acne Vulgaris
Leon H. Kircik MD|No abstract details for the moment.
Re-evaluating Treatment Targets in Acne Vulgaris: Adapting to a New Understanding of Pathophysiology
Leon H. Kircik MD|Two primary factors are changing current approaches to the management of acne vulgaris (AV): the continuously evolving role of Propionibacterium acnes in the pathophysiology of AV and recent evidence of an inflammatory basis for AV via innate immunity. The developing concepts emphasize that acne is primarily an inflammatory disease. The emerging concept of subclinical inflammation and its effect on development and progression of acne lesions correlating with the sequence of the underlying inflammation process has been a major change in our understanding of acne pathogenesis. Thus, inflammation has become the major feature of the disease process from onset to resolution, including postinflammatory erythema, postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, and scarring. Our treatment targets may also need to be reconsidered, with more emphasis on anti-inflammatory treatments.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(suppl 6):s57-s60.
Acne Vulgaris in Skin of Color: Understanding Nuances and Optimizing Treatment Outcomes
Andrew F. Alexis MD MPH|According to the United States national survey data, acne vulgaris is the leading dermatologic diagnosis among African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asians/Pacific Islanders. This patient population, collectively referred to as having skin of color, exhibits clinical and therapeutic nuances that are relevant in the management of acne. Understanding the nuances in clinical presentation, safety considerations, cultural factors, and desired treatment endpoints is key to ensuring successful outcomes.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(suppl 6):s61-s65.
Antibiotic Resistance and Acne: Where We Stand and What the Future Holds
Whitney P. Bowe MD|Antibiotic resistance is described as "a global public health challenge" and a "major health security challenge of the 21st century" by global health authorities,1 and there is a growing need for dermatologists to counteract it in their treatments of acne.3,4 Antibiotic limiting regimens, such as a combination of topical retinoids and benzoyl peroxide, have shown effectiveness in the treatment of acne; and topical probiotics could also play a needed role.
J Drugs Dermatol. 2014;13(suppl 6):s66-s70.
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MMA has today broken down another barrier with the news that Ontario are set to legalize the sport. The province has long been seen as one of the last major regions, along with New York, still to accept the sport in North America.
It is now expected that the first mixed martial arts event could be held in Ontario in 2011, with the province adopting the same rules and safety regulations that have been adopted as standard practice elsewhere.
Canada has become established as one of the sports biggest markets, with the UFC in particular having enjoyed considerable success selling out arenas in Montreal and Vancouver and establishing a strong pay-per-view following. Indicating their continued commitment to the region the promotion recently opened up an office in Toronto.
Despite that success Ontario had until now remained stubborn in their refusal to embrace the sport, and earlier this year appeared to put any plans of revisiting the issue on the backburner.
That makes today's announcement somewhat surprising, but certainly most welcome news for the sport.
"MMA will have fights in Ontario starting in 2011…we're excited!" UFC Vice President Of Regularity Affairs Marc Ratner, who has been at the forefront of the situation, commented on twitter after hearing the news.
It's also good news for Ontario with MMA fans set to generate an estimated $6,000,000 in the region as a result of the legalization.
"Our government has been monitoring MMA for some time. We know that the sport has evolved and that Ontarians want to see it here," Minister Of Consumer Services Sophia Aggelonitis said in a statement released Saturday.
"My goal is to make sure we have the tools to keep the competitors safe, and provide an economic boost to communities that want to host MMA events."


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I just saw Big Hero 6 in theaters yesterday. It's been out for a while now, but it's still being shown in first run theaters, which just goes to show how popular it has been. It has good reason to be popular, too, because it is easily one of the best movies I have seen in theaters in a long time, maybe since Last Stand with Arnold Schwarzenegger beginning of 2013. It easily blew away the other movie I saw in theaters that day, Taken 3, which has just come out but got bad reviews and already is attracting only a small audience in theaters just days after it came out.
Big Hero 6 is about a young kid, who surprisingly is participating in shady robot fighting, not the typical premise for a kids movie. His older brother gets him on the right path, though, by taking him to college. The kid at first doesn't want to go, but soon realizes that his older brother's cool friends are worth spending time in college with. Predictably, the older brother who is one of the most likable characters in the movie gets killed off and sets up a revenge vendetta for the main character. This has been done many times before in animation such as Black Cat and Trigun.
It does take us from what I thought the movie was going to be about, a comedy with a balloon robot in it, to something drastically different that I did not expect. A team of the science people is set up and they each get science based powers based off of real science ideas and not the magical science in Full Metal Alchemist. This is legitimate science, even if it is drastically over done for the sake of the movie. I doubt that these science ideas could actually be used to fight crime with, but we go with it none the less because this is an animated kids' movie whose creativity should not be shot down for the sake of realism.
There are six characters in the team. Five people and one robot. The robot we see at the beginning of the movie is absent for the rest of the movie as attention moves away from the combat robot to the medical robot. The leader is the main character. We also have a biker chick who takes over as the older sister of the main protagonist when the protagonist's older brother gets killed off. She is easily the strongest character of the four friends. The other three friends are all kind of the same, a bunch of quirky goofballs. It would've been nice to see those other three characters get better developed, but my favorite characters were the ones with the most screen time anyway, so it's O.K.
Time for a comparison. As the movie progressed I became more and more aware of the fact that each of these five characters seemed an awful lot like the Teen Titans, characters from one of my absolute favorite TV shows when I was a kid back in the day. The leader is obsessed with catching the main villain and even willing to go to the dark side to bring the villain down. He goes too far even for his friends sometimes. The leader of course is Robin.
The biker chick is quiet and sarcastic but independent, clearly the Raven character. Even their hair color is the same. The ditzy, bubbly girl with the purse that somehow switches between uber nerd and valley girl is Starfire. The black guy who is always flipping out about something and is obsessed with his tools is Cyborg. He even has his weapons mounted on his arms, only this time instead of an arm cannon it's a couple of arm swords. Finally we have the comic relief mascot who isn't nearly as great as Beast Boy was, but the similarity is definitely there.
The two teams are so incredibly similar, particularly when the Big Hero 6 team becomes super heroes. I even thought they were similar before the Big Hero 6 team becomes super heros, but once they became heroes, too, I knew for sure that I was on to something. One reason for this could be, I did not realize this at the time but upon closer research later on because this movie really did both entertain and interest me a ton, that the Big Hero 6 team is not an original Disney creation. This team was yet another typical team of young super heroes owned by Marvel and then the comics were turned into a movie.
Another factor to take into account is this team was originally "owned by Marvel". Marvel's movies for the Avengers are great, but one thing you have to take into account is how many times both DC and Marvel have ripped off each other's ideas. I have a suspicion that this Big Hero 6 team was based off of the Teen Titans, used by Marvel in some of its comics and then landed to my complete surprise into the popular Big Hero 6 movie we have in theaters today. Regardless of influence, though, this really is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time and deserves a solid five out of five stars. It is good to be a nerd these days… and it's about sweet damn time!


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NEW! VALENTINE'S DAY PRINTABLEs!
Valentine's Day is almost here and these guys are ready to party. If you love dinosaurs as much as I do, or if your kids do, then print yourself a few of these lil' guys and have yourself a crayon party! The file includes a 3 page PDF with six valentines in all! Buy and Download them today!
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As we wrote back in February, the three young Italian tenors from Il Volo have arrived in America and tomorrow night they will perform on American Idol. After "Idol," the boys will appear on CBS' "The Early Show" on May 21.
As noted by Kerri Mason of Billboard Magazine, "With a name to fit their ambition — Il Volo means "flight" — Barone, Boschetto and Ginoble possess the youth, looks, charm and, most important, the voices to match. The hope is that they'll transcend their built-in constituency of doting grandmothers and classical apologists and win the youth vote." We bet they will! Buona fortuna Piero, Ignazio e Gianluca!


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princess superstar
living indigo performance. long time no indigo go go. last weekend, while my nose was bugging me still. groovy outfit, sexy show, another dude experience. the video art was scary time to time but enjoyed the colors. hip and hop paralyzed with electricity. excellent weight parallel to height and volume. flash gordon kicks. cool glasses. amazing intro. another random blonde with magic lyrics. her name is superstar.
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Set of 3 Happy Valentine's Day Card with Hearts and Ribbons MKC022
$ 15.00
This set of 3 Happy Valentine's Day Cards sparkle with red, pink and light pink hearts and pretty matching bows. Inside of each card has a heart stamp in lower right corner and is stamped by artist on the back. Cards measure 4.25" x 5.5" and come with 3 white envelopes.
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Holly Berry gifts from now on to 'preserve the restoration'
Going into the 33rd year of the Holly Berry House Folk Art Festival Sept. 16-18, plans call for the Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site to be, as always, the recipient of event proceeds.
The only difference, according to Kathy Read, owner of the Holly Berry shop in Old Colorado City and festival founder/ organizer, is that earnings from now on will be assigned to a special foundation fund to "preserve the restoration [that's taken place there over the years] and purchase artifacts for historic educational programs."
The city-owned, 1880s-style working ranch is off Gateway Road at 30th Street.
Featuring about 165 artisans from around the country selling a variety of craft items, the festival will set up again in a temporarily fenced-off area of the Rock Ledge hayfield.
Festival times are Friday, Sept. 16, from noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission costs are $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and $2 for children ages 6 to 12. Tickets are good for all three days.
Over the years, the event has raised more than $1 million for the ranch, according to Read. Previously, the money had gone to the city for designated restoration projects (including the work at the Orchard and Rock Ledge houses). But with the city having slashed its funding for the ranch over the last couple of years, Read is pleased that its volunteer Living History Association (LHA) has brought to life a foundation dedicated to ranch preservation, separate from the city. "I just think it's important because so much has been done but has to be taken care of," she said. "With this fund, if something breaks, Andy [Morris, the ranch manager] can go and get things fixed pretty quick."
Live music at the festival will be provided by Jody Adams, playing all three days. Outside the festival gates, at no charge, there will be a silent auction for quilts by the Piecing Partners organization in the ranch's Carriage House, tours of the Rock Ledge House and an opportunity to watch blacksmiths in the ranch's Blacksmith Shop.
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Jaypee to pay Rs 100-cr fine, demolish thermal plant: HP HC
In a major setback to Jaypee Associate Limited, the Himachal high Court has directed the company to demolish its thermal power plant in Bagheri village in district Solan and imposed Rs 100 crore damages for violating the law and making false pleas before the authorities and court.chandigarh Updated: May 04, 2012 22:04 IST
Hindustan Times
In a major setback to Jaypee Associate Limited, the Himachal high Court has directed the company to demolish its thermal power plant in Bagheri village in district Solan and imposed Rs 100 crore damages for violating the law and making false pleas before the authorities and court.
A division bench comprising justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjay Karol observed that the entire foundation of the environmental clearance obtained by Jaypee Associates was based on falsehood as the company lied about the cost of the cement plant.
The court said that the company managed to get permission without Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) clearance and even after it was brought to the notice of the company that EIA clearance was required, it continued to build the thermal plant.
When company submitted a new proposal for grant of environmental clearance, it successfully managed to fool the Himachal government, Pollution Control Board, the MoEF and the EAC into believing that the plant being set up by it was a standalone grinding unit not requiring environmental clearance. This statement was also totally false.
Writing for the bench, Justice Deepak Gupta observed that the company had the audacity and temerity to again give totally false information with regard to the cases and tried to give an impression that the company was not aware about these cases at that time.
The court added that the manner in which the company obtained possession of the property as well as managed to get the government to allot land from the common pool clearly indicates that it was successfully managing to exert its influence to get highly illegal decision taken in its favour.
The HC added that the company had wrongly projected the project cost of the cement plant at less than Rs 100 crore to circumvent the EIA notification of 1994. Not only this , in the second integrated draft EIA report, it was wrongly projected that what was being set up was a standalone grinding unit.
The court added that the company behaved as if it was above law and set up the plant in total violation of the EIA notification of 2006 which had come into force at the time when consent to establish this plant was given.
It was set up without any valid approval and construction was carried out even after the consent to establish was withdrawn. In fact the HP Pollution Control Board was negligent in not withdrawing the consent to establish the thermal plant much earlier.
"…normally, the only course open to the court would have been to revoke the environmental clearances and direct that the cement plants and thermal plants be dismantled," the court observed.
However, the court said, being a court of law, we are also not oblivious to the effect which our order may have if we quash the environmental clearance and direct that the cement plant be demolished.
The court said it imposed damages of Rs 100 crore upon the company, which may be paid in four equal installments, the first to be paid by August 31, 2012; second by March 31, 2013, third by March 31, 2014 and the last installment by March 31, 2015.
"We may make it clear that the damages shall be used only for improving the ecology and environment of the area," the court added.
SIT formed to probe role of officials
Himachal high court constituted a special investigation team to investigate the role of government officials in the grant of permission to Jaypee Associates for the construction of thermal power plant and cement plant.
The HC has observed in the 94-page judgment that the company was guilty of making false statements for obtaining environmental clearances for all its Projects and it successfully misled and hoodwinked the state government, HP State Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Environment Appraisal Committee and all other authorities. These authorities and officials who were manning these authorities were supposed to act like watchdogs to fiercely protect public interest. They unfortunately behaved like meek lambs being led for slaughter.
"We constitute a special investigating team (SIT) who shall investigate the matter and identify the public servants who connived with and helped Jaypee Associates and also those who were negligent in the discharge of their duties," the division bench comprising justice Deepak Gupta and justice Sanjay Karol observed.
The court added that the SIT may recommend initiation of criminal action/disciplinary proceedings against erring public servants/officials keeping in view the facts of each case.
The SIT shall be headed by KC Sadyal, ADG (Vigilance) and Himanshu Mishra, DIG (Vigilance) shall be a member of the SIT. These two may co-opt a third member not below the rank of deputy superintendent of police as member of SIT to assist them in the investigation.
The SIT shall also investigate whether any officials/public servants have directly or indirectly received undue benefits from JAL or any of its associate companies, whether in the form of grant of business outlets, reemployment etc.
The court directed the SIT to submit its report to the Court latest by December 31, 2012.
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Can the color you wear really affect your mood? Research says yes; color can absolutely affect your mood, behavior and stress levels.
Color specialist Leatrice Eiseman says how colors affect us correlates to that colors behavior in nature. Eiseman has asked thousands of people what they think of specific colors and has found many patterns. She explains, "We have a repository of information about a color. For example, the color blue is almost always associated with blue skies, which when we are children is a positive thing — it means playing outside and fun. Evolutionarily it also means there are no storms to come. This is why it is reminds us of stability and calm."
She cautions that there are no magic bullet answers, but there are generalities that can be gleaned from decades of research on the patterns of what people think about each color. So, how can you pick the perfect color for each situation? Based on the research, here is your personal color guide:
What Color You Should Make Your Desktop: Green
What color you choose for your desktop and the colors you choose for your website can greatly affect your productivity. The color green is restful for eyes and produces the least amount of eyestrain. This is a good choice for computer desktops if you are in front of a screen for many hours.
What Color to Wear for a Work Out: Orange
Orange is a color of stimulation and enthusiasm. Orange is a nice mix of red's passion and yellow's joy. Research has found that orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an energizing effect, and stimulates brain activity.
What Color to Wear on a Date (if you're a woman): Red
Red is the color of passion and gets blood pumping. Women can wear this to get their date's heart racing.
What Color to Wear on a Date (if you're a man): Blue
Blue is the most stable color. Women love seeing stable men. It is also calming and can help relax both you and your date's nerves.
What to Wear If You Want to Be Seen As Aggressive: Black
Researchers examined statistics from more than 52,000 National Hockey League games and found that teams were penalized more for aggression while wearing black jerseys. (Hockey teams have two color jerseys and switch for home and away games). Interestingly, the NHL in 2003 changed its jersey policy so that home teams had to wear white. The authors of the study compared the sets of data and found that the same teams were assessed significantly more penalties for aggression when they wore the black jerseys than when they wore white.
What Colors You Should Paint Your Office: Blue and Green
In 1999, researchers at Creighton University found that colors significantly influence employees' emotions and efficiency. Workers in blue offices felt the most centered, calm and hopeful towards their work. Since blue can lower heart rates and green reduces anxiety and is associated with money, a combination of blue and green is best for the workplace.
What Color You Should Never Wear to Work: Grey
Grey inspires people to be passive, uninvolved and have a lack of energy. If you like wearing grey, pairing it with a brighter color will help offset the effect.
Choosing the color of your office, your clothes or your desktop should not be taken lightly — colors do affect our moods and productivity. However, colors are not the only thing that affects us — one can still be efficient in a grey suit or workout well in a black outfit. But, when given the choice, picking a color that will work with you, and not against you can only help.
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It happened yesterday, April 27, 2009. I received my Pensionado Visa! Now can live in Panama indefinitely (or at least until politics get weird and I have to move to another country like Ecuador). Normally a Pensionado Visa only takes 4 to 6 months...but immigration laws were changed in late August, throwing a wrench into the works. Lea (my highly paid lawyer) said if I didn't get my Visa before the upcoming elections (May 3) I risked never getting it. So, I had the interesting experience of flying to Panama City where I met Jorge (taxi driver arranged by Lea to take me to the Migrations Office). It only took 2 hours (a record) of standing in circular lines to get my photo taken & placed on the card. I'm in deep dudu if I ever loose the Visa because it will take the Migrations Office 6 months to a year to replace it...better to just leave the country!
If you are wondering about these pictures (and the video) they were taken at the Las Garzas Jazz Night (April 25) that I helped organize. We even made $300 which will go to the lifeguard fund (to build a lifeguard station and hire lifeguards since many people get caught in the rip current along my beach). The first picture is of Dr. Jennifer Daniels & yours truly in front of the huge bonfire (taken by my new artist friend Patricia). The second picture is the Fantasy Jazz Band.
I had some interesting bird experiences today. Maybe it's because we are going from the dry to the wet season (no rain in 5 months) & the birds are getting anxious. Anyway, I was walking along the beach at low tide (heading east) when I spotted a low flying Brown Booby heading directly for me. I had to duck to avoid being hit (at least it "looked" like he might hit me). Weird! As the bird books say, "Brown Boobies rarely come very close to shore". Last year at this time I nearly ran into a Brown Booby sitting on the beach, looking like he was about to die. My evening walk took me to the farm behind the condo. I saw record numbers of birds (Yellow-Crowned and Red-Lored Amazon Parrots, a Lineated Woodpecker, loads of Red-Crowned Woodpeckers) and a new hawk... the Savanna Hawk. Very cool! They are "distinctly scarce in Western Chiriqui" (where I am) so I consider myself extremely lucky.
I'm headed to David tomorrow to get my Panama Driver's License so I can legally drive my truck & pick up my next company, Sherri Ann and Ken (Juice Plus friends).
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text: Avery's spreading his eggs into many baskets, but will it be enough to land a head coaching gig? "The other guy pacing the floor is Avery Johnson, who will meet with Thorn Saturday, but that doesn't necessarily make him a favorite for the Nets' job. Indeed, despite his brilliant record in his three-plus seasons in Dallas (a .735 winning percentage), Johnson hasn't exactly been regarded as a hot commodity, and it is clear that he has asked for a high salary and personnel power from other teams. But he is no longer the top candidate in New Orleans — which is his hometown team — because the ownership transfer to Gary Chouest, his primary advocate, has been delayed. And Johnson now has serious competition for the job in Atlanta, where GM Rick Sund has a relationship with the other frontrunner Dwane Casey."


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An assumption behind these initiatives is that
faculty members don't work enough. That the profession is relatively well-paid compounds matters.
Sample average salaries compiled by The Chronicle of
Higher Education for 2011-12: $181,600 for full professors at University of Pennsylvania, $89,900 for
associate professors at University of Texas at Austin, and $64,500 for assistant professors at Colorado
College. But while it may please naysayers to cast
professors as entitled do-nothings, it's a false picture.
Yes, the academic year runs merely 30 weeks, give
or take, and professors at research institutions typically teach only two courses per semester, averaging
five cumulative hours of weekly classroom contact
with students. (Teaching load and class size at small
schools vary widely.) But academics don't spend the
rest of their time in idleness. Far from it. They contribute — to their campus, to their community, and,
for the purposes of this essay, to their field.
In my area, English, professors labor diligently
on sundry manuscripts, conference
presentations, and professional service
(from joining committees to keeping up
with recent studies). Research projects
are particularly toilsome. For example,
in my 25 years of experience, I've
found that a substantial essay takes
200-plus hours from start to finish.
And, of course, a book requires years
of inquiry and revision.
Indeed, most English professors at research universities, even those faculty members with
tenure, give over much of their professional lives to
scholarship. My November 2011 study of English
departments at four large state universities bears this
out. (Go online to http://centerforcollegeaffordabil-ity.org/uploads/Literary_Research_Bauerlein.pdf).
A review of publications by assistant, associate, and
full professors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Georgia, University of
Vermont, and what's now called University at Buffalo confirmed all four units as industrious and productive. From 2004 to 2009, University of Georgia's
39 English professors published 37 books (as author,
coauthor, editor, or coeditor) and 200 essays, for example, while University of Illinois' 57 English professors tallied 41 books and 188 essays. Volumes included Thomas Hardy's Vision of Wessex and Printer's
Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution,
and essays contained lengthy bibliographies and other
signs of deep inquiry. Even the smallest department,
University of Vermont's 20 English professors, made
big inroads to the corpus: 25 books and 74 essays.
The numbers put to rest the image of professors
lounging at home on weekday mornings. They
work weekends and nights and winter recess and
all summer on learned treatises. Add in writing letters of recommendation, preparing for class, and
engaging in campus outreach, and the faculty
image changes to one of conscientiousness and energy. Nobody needs to wonder whether taxpayers
get their money's worth from professor effort.
That's the good news about productivity.
other finding of my policy paper. Apart from the
rare exception, scholarly essays collect but a few citations in the six years following their appearance.
For example, University at Buffalo English professors published 13 research essays in 2004, and in
the following six years 11 of them collected 0-2 citations in essays by others. Subsequent books by
others picked up those essays at no higher rate. For
instance, a 2000 essay on fiction writer Henry
James in a prominent literary journal garnered
only one citation from among 23 relevant books
on the towering 19th-century American expatriate
published from 2007 to 2010. Books themselves
fare slightly better, but not much, with most averaging only a couple of citations per year. Of the
eight authored books by University of Vermont
English professors published between 2002 and
2005, four received 0-10 citations in subsequent
essays and four 11-20 citations.
The mismatch of production and consumptionis glaring. Considerable talent, expertise, andVictorian writer were published each year (684total). But from 1982 to 2011, the annual outputshot up to 133 per year ( 3,993 total). The sametrend holds for every other major poet and novelistwritten about. For example, disquisitions on the19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson aver-aged only eight per year from 1935 to 1964, butjumped to 66 annually from 1982 to 2011.
But while it may please naysayers to castprofessors as entitled do-nothings, it's a falsepicture. ... Far from it. They contribute — totheir campus, to their community, and, forthe purposes of this essay, to their field.
They publish a lot, too much, actuallyThe daunting amount of research cranked out,sweat resulted in intelligent books and articles thatwent into the library — and were forgotten. Itwasn't always so. An editor for Yale UniversityPress told me a few years ago that every work inliterary studies it had published in the 1970s ranup sales of 1,000-1,200 units. Today, she said, herpress can guarantee only 250 units sold, and al-most all of them standing orders from academiclibraries. Lindsay Waters, executive editor for thehumanities at Harvard University Press, stated in"Rescue Tenure from the Tyranny of the Mono-graph," an article he wrote for The Chronicle ofHigher Education in April 2001, that monographs inthe humanities published by his press "now usual-ly sell between 275 and 600 copies, no matter howgood they are." And in 2002, "The Future ofScholarly Publishing," a white paper by a commit-tee convened by the Modern Language Associa-tion, the main professional association in Americafor authorities in literature and languages, cited aveteran publisher who estimated in 1997 that "li-brary orders for scholarly books were 'now averag-ing 300 copies per title and falling fast'" and anindustry colleague who in that same year "couldrely on 'about 200 libraries' to purchase a givenscholarly monograph."What happened? Put simply, too much of agood thing. Starting in the 1960s, publication inliterary studies exploded. In 1959, according to theModern Language Association International Bibli-ography, the fields of English and foreign languagesand literatures produced 13,757 books, essays, re-views, and other scholarship. Every year after-wards the total went up; it now hovers around70,000. Charles Dickens serves as a revealing butby no means unusual example. From 1935 to1964, about 23 works of scholarship on the
English professors have to publish, though —
that's the rule at research universities. So English professors often end up writing about esoteric and idiosyncratic things. If they don't publish, they perish;
thus, the publication itself matters as much as if not
more than the actual content, at least for the career
of the author. If the book addresses a micro-topic
that fine-tunes several previous books' interpretations,
well, the author earns tenure, other promotion, or
sabbatical and proves currency even if the arguments
in the book mean nothing to anyone but specialists.
There might be no way to avoid specialization
— and the threat of inconsequentiality as a result.
A book on Walt Whitman in 1960 could offer
broad summaries that would be accessible and useful to everybody from poetry scholars to undergraduates in a 19th-century American literature class to
lay readers who enjoyed his enduring verse. But the
next round of books on Whitman couldn't do the
same thing and became more advanced, detailed,
intricate. Scholars had to find ever-smaller niches
that hadn't been covered by predecessors, apply
exotic new theories to well-worn materials, focus
on minor but overlooked parts of this or that text,
quibble with a previous thinker over the interpretation of something, or resort to far-flung connections
to other subject matter. It's true that these academics published items that usually were smart and
well-researched. But it's also true that these pieces
interested only a tiny circle of fellow specialists. No
wonder books and articles today collect so few citations, and so much dust.
Take this example of hyper-sophisticated prose
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Rob van Beek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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This year, I had a chance to view the Big Game at the U.S. embassy in Akasaka, Tokyo. Thanks to the liberal and gentle Ambassador to Japan John Roos from Stanford, we the Cal alumni were also invited to his official resident to share the moment when the Golden bears beat the Cardinal.
And Yes!! We surely did it!! Cal, finishing the game by 34-28 by spoiling poor Stanford's hopes, won the coveted Axe for 7 times in 8 years. Wheeee!!!
I also had great opportunities to see Ambassador Roos, who is such a nice person besides he studied at a school in Palo Alto, and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who was also studied in the south Bay for some reason. He brought his wife Miyuki, a well-know extraordinary Japan's first lady who insists that she has been to Venus by UFO before and was a good friend of Tom Cruz in the previous life.
Anyway, they are all good people by hosting & feeding us very nicely. We took pictures together though PM Hatoyama left the venue before he witnessed the historical moment when Cal won the Axe again.
In the end, the bear-throated roar echoed across the Akasaka area as we cried of triumph in front of the robust gate of the official resident of the U.S. Ambassador to Japan.
Go, Go Bears!!!


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Alviso Historic District
Alviso, now annexed to the City of San Jose, is a National Register Historic District and a California Point of Historic Interest. Historically, Alviso is one of the oldest towns in the County. It once was expected to be a great city. Alviso was the major commercial shipping point for the entire south county until the late 1800s because of its location on San Francisco Bay. The town was almost totally deserted, however, after the railroads diverted travel in 1865. Incorporated in 1852, Alviso is the site of the Bayside Cannery and the South Bay Yacht Club (1896). Because of its atmosphere resembling a small delta town and because of many of the old early town structures are still in existence, the character of Alviso is unique. [Your Old House: Guide for Preserving San Jose Homes, City of San Jose, 2003, www.sanjose.gov, accessed January, 2012.]
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While many schools introduce basic Geography skills and knowledge through year long courses, others only call for the integration of Geography into other Social Studies courses. This often leaves students with gaps in their learning, where basic map or cultural knowledge would come in handy. To remedy that, start off the school year with a quick refresher on the basic
Geography Skills and Knowledge needed to support learning with all the rest.
And to teach the skills or review the content,
use games to make it fun and memorable!
- Use inflatable globes for tossing games to review continents, countries, capitals, or other content needed for an upcoming lesson.
- Pass the globe from student to student. Where the thumb lands is the topic of discussion.
- Toss the globe in the air. Ask a review question. Students retrieve the globe and answer the question with the location identified.
- Cover the names of pertinent locations for review. Have students pass the globe, name one of the locations, remove the cover, and pass to the next student for the next location revealing.
- Paint a wall map or invest in a Dry-Erase Wall Map for daily use with bellringers, quick quizzes, or other skills practice.
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- Play relay games to identify locations, perform skills, or detail facts with dry erase markers assigned in varying colors to identify teams and create competition.
- Have a quiz bowl with 2 students at a time poised to find and label a country for quick location reviews. As students become more knowledgeable about locations, use culture clues rather than country names to make the game more of a challenge.
- Use the wall map as an entrance ticket or exit ticket each day. As students enter the classroom, they can identify locations tied to the day's lesson, or may be required to share a fact about the location gathered in the day's lesson on the way out of class.
- Play Matching Games to help students review key vocabulary, to match locations to facts or features, or to cluster information about a culture or location for further study.
- Set up teams for class competitions to complete world or us puzzles (available at Dollar Tree), to identify longitude or latitude for assigned locations, or to create maps that detail the locations learned about in historic lessons.
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