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A listing of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain clinical trials actively recruiting patients volunteers.
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A Study Of Lorlatinib Versus Crizotinib In First Line Treatment Of Patients With ALK-Positive NSCLC
A phase 3 study to demonstrate whether lorlatinib given as monotherapy is superior to crizotinib alone in prolonging the progression-free survival in advanced ALK-positive NSCLC patients who are treatment nave and to compare lorlatinib to crizotinib with respect to overall survival in the same population
Observational Study of Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic NSCLC (Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer)
Study Design This will be an observational cohort study of patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer). Patients will be recruited from participating sites in Europe, Asia, and Canada. Patients meeting the study inclusion/exclusion criteria will be selected during a 24-month enrolment period per country and ...
Study of AG-120 (Ivosidenib) vs. Placebo in Combination With Azacitidine in Patients With Previously Untreated Acute Myeloid Leukemia With an IDH1 Mutation
Study AG120-C-009 is a global, Phase 3, multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of AG-120 (ivosidenib) + azacitidine vs placebo + azacitidine in adult subjects with previously untreated IDH1m AML who are considered appropriate candidates for non-intensive therapy. The primary endpoint is Overall Survival ...
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Prospective Observational Cohort Study (SPOCS)
SPOCS is an international, multicenter, prospective observational cohort study with bi-annual follow-up over 3-years maximum follow-up of patients with SLE confirmed by American College of Rheumatology (ACR) or Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) classification criteria, who have moderate-to-severe disease by SLEDAI-2K criteria (Modified SLEDAI-2K score 4 and/or SLEDAI-2K score ...
Collection and Characterization of Objective Measures to Explore the Specificity of Algorithms
The aim of this descriptive study is to collect and describe the characteristics of objective measures to explore the specificity of algorithms.
A Study to Assess Disease Burden in Terms of Health-related Quality of Life and Direct Healthcare Costs in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Who Are Not Candidates for Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (ASCT) in Spain
Following the baseline enrolment visit, the following data corresponding to the patient's visits scheduled according to routine clinical practice will be collected in accordance with the following model: Recruitment period: data collection at the baseline visit, every 4 months +/- 15 days in the first year (month 4, 8 and ...
A Study of the Anti-PD1 Antibody PDR001 in Combination With Dabrafenib and Trametinib in Advanced Melanoma
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of an anti-PD-1 antibody (Spartalizumab (PDR001)), a BRAF inhibitor (dabrafenib) and a MEK inhibitor (trametinib) in unresectable or metastatic BRAF V600 mutant melanoma
Safety and Efficacy of PD0332991 (Palbociclib) a Cyclin-dependent Kinase 4 and 6 Inhibitor in Patients With Oligodendroglioma or Recurrent Oligoastrocytoma Anaplastic With the Activity of the Protein RB Preserved
This multicenter, open-label, phase II trial aims to assess the safety and efficacy of palbociclib in adult patients with Oligodendroglioma or recurrent oligoastrocytoma anaplastic with the activity of the protein RB preserved.
Spanish Registry of Cryoballoon Ablation
With this study the investigators propose the performance of a prospective registry of pulmonary vein cryoablation in subjects with paroxysmal or persistent AF at Spanish sites to estimate evaluate the efficacy of the cryoablation procedure at 12 months, defined as the absence of recurrences of atrial fibrillation. Secondary objectives are ...


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At the beginning of each grading period, the instructor shall publicize his/her class policies. Excessive absences may result in the student not meeting the competencies of the course. Behavioral or disruptive issues may result in the student being withdrawn from the class at the request of the instructor by the Registrar. It is the student's responsibility to withdraw from the course for reasons of academic performance through the Registrar's Office.
- Each instructor shall publicize, both orally and in written form, to the students in his/her class, the attendance, course requirements, and grading policies which are in accordance with College policy.
- The student should adhere to the individual instructor's policy with regards to attendance.
- Late registrations will be accepted by the Registrar with concurrence of the instructor involved and approval of the Chief Academic Officer (CAO). Days missed will be counted as authorized absences.
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The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2013)
Resisting Complacency, Fear, and the Philistine: The University and Its Challenges
Leon Botstein
Reprinted from The Hedgehog Review 15.2 (Summer 2013). This essay may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission. Please contact The Hedgehog Review for further details.
The following essay was first delivered as a lecture at the University of Virginia on February 1, 2013, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures.
The first issue I wish to raise is the presence and presumed threat of technology. My position on this matter is simple. Technology, as it is now emerging, is still in a very early stage. As an instrument of university learning, it is a good thing and promising. The error is for scholars and teachers to be against it, in a Luddite fashion. Let us use and integrate it.
No one really knows what the technology or its uses will be like, and there is no reason, from an historical vantage point, to be anxious about it. When sound recording came into being, most informed observers thought it would become primarily an instrument of composition. Online courses are only now beginning to put bad teaching or non-teaching out of business. The larger universities in the United States have been guilty of ineffectual teaching, particularly of undergraduates, for decades. We are responsible for any destructive competition technology has brought our way. We have accepted the large lecture course in, for example, organic chemistry designed to discourage most of the students and to engender not a whit of interest in the subject. We leave the teaching of undergraduates to graduate students whose work therein has no reward to their professional career and no central role in their training. It provides no status. This is worst perhaps in the sciences where the assumption is that if you need teaching, you should not be in the field in the first place. Facility is mistaken for talent. These are grave, commonplace errors.
In one of our most prestigious universities, where I happened to be visiting, I came early to the hall (which doubled as a concert venue) for a rehearsal. A lecture course on Shakespeare was underway, given by a very famous scholar. I snuck in to catch the last ten minutes. There were fourteen hundred people in the hall. When the lecture was over, the undergraduates clapped. But teaching is not a performance art with passive spectators. Five very hardy, ambitious, and probably obnoxious undergraduates scrambled to the front of the auditorium in an effort to ask a question of the lecturer. At that point, a cordon of teaching assistants rose out of their seats to block access to the professor to whom the five hungry undergraduates were seeking to pose a question. One of them broke through the cordon, got to the faculty member, and before her question was asked, the professor quipped, "talk to my assistants." Such habits and practices will be put out of business, and they should be.
We are largely to blame for the so-called threat of technology. But technology actually will allow us to abandon these nonsensical lecture courses and begin to use some new serious teaching tools with undergraduates. Technology will help renew teaching in undergraduate programs by offering new modes of communication, new materials, and rapid responses.
The university must pay attention to technology and utilize it. It needs to be both aggressive and conservative: aggressive in experimenting with ideas and conservative in investments, since much of technology is still transitional. Remember the mini-computer and the CD-ROM? Technology in relation to university life, in terms of teaching and learning, is generally positive. At worst it is a neutral factor, as in the case of movies and video materials. It is not a major causal factor of change. One has to consider technology in teaching as analogous to the role of the elevator in the history of architecture. The elevator was an important innovation, but it was not transformative. It made for bigger, more efficient buildings—for taller buildings; it was a significant advance. But a technology-centered theory of historical change has never been persuasive. It was not even persuasive as a mono-causal factor in economic history with respect to the emergence and impact of industrialization in the late eighteenth century and the entire nineteenth century.
Another ahistorical analogy for thinking about technology is that the role of technology in learning is similar to the role of technology in sex. Technology may be enhancing, useful, amusing, diversifying, but at the end of the day, it will not replace the basic human transaction. So there is nothing to fear, only something to gain.
The second important issue we must face is the demand that the university be useful. We must not resist, in my view, the idea that the university should be in the business of being of use. We should not be fighting demands to be "useful." We should not assume that some fields of study are "useless" according to some reductive sense of utility. There is no reason to appeal to something that does not actually exist: "something for its own sake, in itself." People do not study for the "sake" of knowledge or curiosity alone. I have never met anybody who did so absent emotional pleasure or the search for the confirmation of faith. Denying utility, if utility includes the idea of "happiness" in the eighteenth-century philosophical sense and the idea of pleasure, is not necessary. As Seneca put it, "true joy is a serious thing." The truth is that everything we teach can, theoretically and actually, be defended as useful, as absolutely useful. The question is how we define that utility. Pleasure and joy are useful, but we can and ought to deliver more.
The study of classics offers a very good example. Classical literature is now used, in a program developed by Bryan Doerries (Theater of War), to help veterans returning from war to come to grips with their reintegration into civilized society. A great foundation of wisdom and understanding is located in those classical texts, which describe warriors returning home who have been abandoned, can't reintegrate into their families, and can't reconnect with civilian life. These classical texts hold the attention of veterans, many of whom have never been to college, and engender tremendous engagement. It is not a violation of the sanctity of those classical texts to create such utility. And then there is the general inability to predict utility—that which emerges frequently from the chase: the pursuit of knowledge as a form of life, a source of existential meaning.
The third thing we need to do, in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, is to stop trying to imitate the natural sciences. Let's forget about achieving comparable institutional criteria and structures on the same terms. The purpose of teaching music in the university is not to produce more musicians. The primary purpose of teaching English (or any literature) in universities is not to produce necessarily more writers or scholars. Training better teachers of literature for high schools would be a good goal. Perhaps our best objective is to educate more readers, more amateurs, more listeners. Why do we have to measure ourselves by the number of graduate students or the number of majors in a field? Why do we have to professionalize our discipline as discrete departments in a way that gives us the sense that we have a professional status comparable to that to which physicists or biologists lay claim? Many of the fields in universities have their primary purpose as service to other endeavors, not as careers in themselves. Too much of the teaching we do in universities derives from our own faculty-based, professionally centered conversation. The allegiance of most faculty members in an American university is not to the university in which they teach, but to an academic profession that transcends the boundaries of all universities and institutions. Careers are made within those professional rubrics by "professionals" publishing for peers, not through teaching.
It is not at all clear to me that undergraduates will respond to the terms of that professional conversation and to the way in which we are accustomed to talking about our subjects, particularly in the humanities. The most egregious case in point may be in the case of literature. Teaching a young person that reading is not just stripping the page for information or a plot, and stopping the reader in his or her tracks in an early stage to figure out possibilities of meaning are good things to do. To discover that Nabokov's Lolita is not "about" inappropriate sex any more than it is "about" America is a mark of learning how to read. Students require really careful teaching to read, re-read, to go back, think about meanings of words and the use of language. Those things can be taught without letting students as readers think that they are inadequate. We do not need to force on them a command of invented languages that are counter-intuitive, a theoretical language that is absurdly ugly, that is not user-friendly or necessary. In the humanities, as in science, elegance and simplicity are closer to truth. Jargon may sometimes be required, but topics and thinkers that justify it are few. Hegel and Heidegger come to mind as possible rare exceptions.
So we need to think about what we in the humanities do as professionals in ways that are different, in my view, from the way natural scientists think of themselves. Now the truth is, as far as teaching goes in the natural sciences, there is also a tremendous amount of ferment. The boundaries between disciplines are themselves not as rigid as they once seemed. What we call multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary teaching is actually now coming into its own in the sciences as well, as a result of a curriculum that concentrates on problems and issues, not traditional disciplines.
In science undergraduate teaching, one cannot simply delay the contact with the state of research until the student has, over many years, taken the established sequences, such as organic, inorganic, and then physical chemistry. By the time they get to do real science of their own, their curiosity and courage have been destroyed. The problems in chemistry today need to come first as a motivating factor in shaping the need to know. Segmenting chemistry from biology, or segmenting mathematics from biology, is no longer the best approach. An integrated approach to the teaching of science that is problem-based is what actually needs to happen.
We have a lot of reform work to do before we mount a battle in defense of the university as it is in its current form. Let us be honest with ourselves. No matter the outcome of such a conversation, a very important point is that we must make clear that the university will never be an efficient institution. A university is, by definition, inefficient. If one wants a great university, one has to put up with "wasted" time, unproductivity, seeming leisure. Consider the book that never came out, the long project that one is still dreaming of. The university is a place of unpredictability and inefficiency. No one can say ahead of time which faculty member, which graduate student, even which undergraduate student will produce breakthrough work or create work that is memorable and not simply imitative in a routine manner. Not that such work is bad. Even a field that is not fertile ground for new ideas has to be kept alive by imitation, has to tread water. Fields of inquiry do not always maintain over time the same vitality because the way fields change is through shifts in the way people frame questions. The historical context alters the frame in which new questions arise. There is a revival now after many years of low interest in, for example, the so-called Middle Ages. There are many reasons why that may be the case, from Tolkien to Harry Potter and Twilight.
The fact is that an inefficient institution designed to be creative and innovative—which is what universities are—is one for which one has to resist the argument of industrial and bureaucratic rationalization. A university is an irrational place, a messy place; it needs to be defended as such. This seems implausible in the current political context of the United States. It is less than plausible because we have fallen down on a very important task. We have been satisfied to let the public forge its primary allegiance, even among curious students, to the semi-professional sports function of the university. The highest paid employee of most universities is a coach, and the thing that citizens know most about a campus are its teams. Duke University, a great university, is known for basketball and sports-related scandals. This is an insult to the people who work there and study there, and we have permitted it. We have conspired with this and accepted fraudulent arguments that such semi-pro sports are economically productive. We have allowed the American university to be a farm team for professional sports. We have not defended the university by its primary contributions to knowledge, culture, and scholarship—even to the economy.
Small colleges suffer the same disease. We are unwilling to face, in an American democratic, egalitarian context, the public or the politicians, with the real and practical virtues of the university, which appear inherently discriminatory, elitist, exclusive, and judgmental. We hide behind the mask of the university's populist appeal as an instrument of sports and entertainment.
By that token we are also complicit with most of the problems in governance at a university— the failure to have serious leadership that focuses on teaching and research and that intersects with cultural and political issues. I cannot name a single university president in office today who could possibly approach the moral or political stature of James Bryant Conant or The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. Not only the trustees, but the alumni and faculty members, have made sure that no such person would ever be appointed president.
The constituents in a university really do not want leadership. Faculty enjoy their own authority. We like the absence of centralized leadership. We want paper pushers and fund-raisers; we do not want people at the helm guiding the major intellectual functions of the university. We love our anarchic independence. In this context, anybody who wants to be a university administrator ought to be disqualified by definition. Shirley Tilghman is retiring from Princeton—she was a fine and great university president because it had never occurred to her to be one. She is a distinguished scientist. Bart Giamatti at Yale was an accidental choice, a scholar and not a professional administrator. We have to decide once again that we need real substantive leadership.
We need to be very honest about this if we seek to confront the issue of the economics of the university. Because we don't have proper leadership and because we are in bad faith with our obligations to teach, we need now to use the actual intellectual content of the university as its main self-definition (including improving undergraduate life). What remains most memorable to Americans about undergraduate life is not what they learned in class. It is everything but what they learned in class, except maybe for very narrow professional training. Getting into law school or medical school and finding the first job are the focus. In that context it makes it very hard for us as scholars and teachers to defend the costs, since in terms of undergraduate teaching, we are actually not doing the job or defining the experience.
If we really want to defend the costs, we have to say the issue in the United States is not a matter of the cost of higher education, it is the financing. Except for the coach, nobody is overpaid. Given the level of achievement, the level of training, the salary scales for the faculty in the university are modest. Lawyers are overpaid; bankers are overpaid. But university faculty, even university administrators, are not. The overwhelming share of a university's budget is labor employment. There is no profit being made. Attending universities is indeed too expensive. It is only too expensive because the state and federal governments are unwilling to subsidize the cost to the student. Tuitions are high not because we are inefficiently run or too expensive to operate. Tuitions are high because there is no subsidy for those tuitions. It is not a priority of the public, either in state budgets or in the federal budget. Why should the cost of a research university be calculated on a per-capita basis and passed on to individuals without subsidy? Europe does not do this, for example.
It is our insecurity and shortcomings that make us powerless, in my view, to frame the proper argument against the economic habit of passing the cost on to customers. It is not necessary to segment the costs of university by dividing it among the people who attend. This is not the way to think about it. That there should be some tuition probably makes sense. The Europeans are increasingly going in that direction, and perhaps there is some truth to its necessity, especially in America. People here have so little respect for anything that is free of charge. Under the old-fashioned Freudian view, patients have to put some of their own hard-earned money into learning; that is probably reasonable, but the balance in the United States is wrong. Tuition is not too high because universities are inefficient; it is too high because the nation is not willing to raise the resources to subsidize higher education properly.
The future of the humanities and the basic research sciences rests in the way we create a curriculum of the liberal arts for the college years. The key to our successful defense of universities has to be in the way we construct and develop undergraduate curricula. Graduate and professional education is easier to explain than the liberal arts tradition in the college years. The current undergraduate system, in my view, is dead, and the advent of technology only makes it more obvious. If all it entails is offering an interchangeable lecture course in English Literature in the nineteenth century, you do not have to go to university. I can buy a good Coursera course that is well done by someone who seems to know what she is talking about on the very substance of that same subject.
The real advantage of a residential or classroom-based education comes from the physical reality of the university and the nominal community of scholars, which rarely really exists. Faculty members in a university do not actually talk to one another beyond narrow circles of colleagues or beyond the level of gossip. Curricula that lead students through a really well-thought-out rite of passage of learning are therefore rare. We need to offer an intellectual rite of passage, which helps students define who they are, what career they will take, consider what they do or do not believe and why, and to have a real conversation based in the intellectual tradition that makes a difference to their conduct of life. That curriculum is hard to find today. A curriculum is not an amalgamation of courses put out in a course catalogue, which really is the result of the narcissistic ambitions of various departments. We assign students courses we think are important for them, but those courses arise from our conversation with each other as faculty, not with the undergraduates. There is no consideration of their genuine need to know.
Why should anyone be interested in Dickens or Tolstoy, in Mozart or Raphael? It is a very good question. I can answer the question, but there is not one single answer to it. There are many answers. A curriculum should be designed around how a new generation might ask such a question. How do I make that curiosity germane to an undergraduate today?
In a well-designed curriculum, the teaching material is chosen not because of its political symbolism or fashion, but because of its pedagogical power. Take, for example, the essays of Montaigne. One of the reasons the essays of Montaigne work is because they touch in remarkable ways on common issues, and in very sophisticated, ironic, and challenging ways. In a general education course I teach, I chose to assign the essay on "Friendship" to my undergraduates. They had to write a paper in imitation of the essay, using its strategies. With the advent of Facebook, there are more "friends" in the world than have ever existed. A serious critique of what "friendship" might mean and the uses of that word is counter-intuitive. Without the intellectual traditions of that discourse, students would never be motivated to think in new ways. They need to ask: What do I mean by this word? How do I differentiate it from other relationships with human beings? How do I construct meaning? Is the notion of an idealized relationship with someone that has no advantage or aspect of self-interest even possible?
When a student, coming out of high school in the United States reads Plato's Republic, he or she discovers that one can really think that, for example, the experience of the senses, such as of sight, is a secondary form of truth. A new light turns on to the origins of metaphysics, which is located in our daily use of language. Students need to think counter-intuitively about things that they have accepted without thought. The brightest students come to us with a pastiche of linguistic habits borrowed thoughtlessly from the environment. We have the tools to enable them to think about basic issues in ways in which they didn't know they were capable of.
The last time American higher education really worried about a coherent curriculum was a very long time ago. During the First World War, Columbia University decided that if Americans were going to die in France, they should know something about what they might be dying for. As a result of America's entry into the First World War, Columbia made the first attempt at the common core curriculum. Robert M. Hutchins, Stringfellow Barr, and Scott Buchanan, at Chicago and at St. John's, put in the Great Books course and designed interdisciplinary courses around issues that fit the historical context of the 1930s. They were worried, in the wake of the Great Depression and of the allure of Fascism on the Right and Communism on the Left. They sought to defend the cultures and traditions of democracy.
We are in a similar historical crisis about the nature of America, our place in the world, about the structure of society, the nature of work, longevity, inequality, notions of fairness, and the role of government. We have all the materials to begin a serious conversation that is internal to the individual and useful in building our democracy.
The ability to think empathetically about someone who appears not identical to ourselves, who thinks differently from ourselves is crucial. Consider the revival of religion in American society. For those of us who are concerned about the sort of religion that has been revived, the dangers of fundamentalism, we need to design a curriculum that offers a deeper immersion in the theological worldviews of all the great religious traditions. It is hard to get young religious people to think critically about faith, in a way that seems not to violate the idea of faith, without close reading of great theological texts—without reading Augustine, Calvin, Luther, or Aquinas and the Koran and the central texts of other world religions, including Judaism.
Young people come to college eager to be helped. Even if they feign disinterest and boredom, we can demonstrate that everything we have to teach them in the so-called Liberal Arts is intensely useful. Fifteen years ago we were asked to set up a Liberal Arts College inside the leading university of Russia, St. Petersburg State University. We now have such a college, Smolny, with five hundred Russian students. They get a Liberal Arts education. It is eagerly sought after. Why does the Russian government support this? Because it believes that our tradition of liberal arts, the best of seminar and tutorial teaching—close reading, a coherent curriculum, extensive attention to writing, analysis, and debate in a cross-disciplinary context—is key to economic and scientific innovation. They blame their inherited backwardness in the competitive modern economy not on a lack of talent in their scientific establishment, but on the outdated character of their higher educational system.
The public is prepared to hear this sort of argument, but in order to make that argument we have to have a curriculum that makes a difference. For that to happen, faculty have to get together and agree—not on the ideology of content and conclusions—but on questions, problems, materials, skills, and a variety of goals. The solution is not to imitate St. John's or Chicago; that would be a terrible mistake. A course of study is not about canons; it is not about Great Books. It is about a coherent process of serious education and self-education within a tradition of scholarship and learning.
If we end up serving people who become graduates of business school, schools of commerce, or engineering schools, that would be great. I would love to see lawyers educated in their college years in this way. I would love to see physicians who have been tempered by a close encounter with humanistic pursuits. Before we rise in offended defense of ourselves, let's make the case for what we do, and that case can only be made with the undergraduates, in the manner of teaching and in the structure of the curriculum.
Faculty members, especially those outside the sciences, have to defend themselves, from ill-informed critics, journalists, and from each other. Unless the faculty get into the debate and control it, the debate will continue to unravel to their disfavor. They will be easily categorized as irrelevant and useless. They will be pushed out in the allocation of resources. They will be easily "replaced" by gimmicks that cannot do what face-to-face teaching can. The only thing to do, I think, is to realize the danger and to collaborate within the context of a given institution and rethink the educational path that we offer. When students come to university, they should come with some idea of the distinctive intellectual journey that they will go through. Not a journey in a catechism—there is always an implicit ideology about evidence, argument, and reason—but a plan by which the traditions of learning are linked to freedom, dissent, curiosity, and discovery.
Let me close with the most obvious plea: that the amount of time in the undergraduate's life assigned between majoring and nonmajoring fields be rethought. Faculties fight over a very little bit of the time that is allotted to general education, and they hog, for institutional reasons, resources, numbers of faculty, all based on the number of people who are signed up in their departmental enclaves as majors. Those budgetary structures have to be changed. The incentives have to be turned around, and there has to be real credit given for teaching.
I am always amazed that we complain as a nation about the quality of our political discourse, the ads, and what has happened in the last ten years to the ability to have a real debate. We all know there is no presidential debate. There is a presidential debate analogous to a singing contest: one person sings, and then the other person sings and the audience votes. When was the last time we heard a presidential candidate say, "that's a good point." I would vote for a person who conceded in a debate, "I hadn't thought of it quite that way."
We do not have a real political debate or conversation. Yet we have more people who complete higher education than ever before. There seems to be an inverse relationship between how many people go to university and the quality of American political discourse. What does that tell us? It tells me that we are not doing the presumed job that universities were created to do. They were designed to educate people to function not only as skilled professionals, but as citizens in a democracy in a way that is specifically attuned to the needs and opportunities of America and now those in the rest of the world.


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In the garden area, the 100% south facing sun terrace with swimming pool is equipped with lounge beds, garden furniture, and an outside solar shower. Retreat from the midday sun and chill out in the garden, in a hammock, or with a book in the love seats - no problem at the surf lodge!
Surfing is an experience that is more than a fashionable sport. Learning how to surf requires perseverance and time. The ultimate goal is that after the paddling, you stand up from a lying position on your board and drive down the wave. Under the guidance of a qualified surf instructor, you'll receive proper instruction and direction, which give you quick success when surfing.
Pura Vida works only with qualified specialists who are both lifeguards and surf instructors. All their instructors are ISA (International Surfing Association) certified. They make themselves fully available during the week for both beginner and advanced surfers.
During the theory sessions, you get an explanation of the material, maritime safety, and basic techniques. After that, you go under their supervision and in small groups to experience your first surfing experience on the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Once you catch your first wave, you will see and feel that surfing is more than a concept, it's a way of life!
Guests at the Pura Vida Surf Lodge get a six hours course (one hour per day). During class, you use a soft-top (soft surfboard), but after class, you can start practicing on Pura Vida's other boards with different lengths. The whole week, you can make free use of the surfboards, wetsuits, bodyboards, and skimboards. All lodge guests have a beach cruiser with board rack, so you can go surfing on the spot you want.
The region Les Landes is known for its vast pine forests and kilometers of golden beaches. Mimizan is a seaside town nestled into the luscious green landscape of the Landes Forest of Gascogne. Silvercoast, an ocean coast with silver reflections, as observed by the poet Maurice Martin, at the beginning of the century.
Mimizan Bourg centralizes the majority of commercial, industrial, cultural, sports, and administrative activities of the town. This part of the town is symbolized by its bell-tower, the only surviving relic of Saint Marie Priory, a stopover on the route to Saint Jacques de Compostelle.
Mimizan sprawls the south-west bank of the lake, at the edge of which tourist accommodation has been constructed, structures for water-activities, open-air activities, nine hole golf course ratified by the French Golf Federation, and Woolsack Castle a Tudor type hunting house built for the Duke of Westminster in the 1910, which welcomed famous characters such as Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel, and Salvador Dali, among others.
Mimizan is a leading, very sociable surfing spot in the Southwest of France. You'll find an international mix of surf dudes and surf chicks. Mimizan guarantees the perfect surfing holiday to remember. With the immense Atlantic Ocean at your doorstep, Europe's most beautiful waves always roll in here. Because the waves break on sandbars just offshore, it's excellent for novice surfers as the perfect place to learn how to catch your first wave. For the experienced surfer, there is more than enough to do in the high rear.
In the evening, Mimizan is alive with action; a beautiful boulevard with many cozy bars and great nightclubs where you can rock until the small hours. Pura Vida Lodge's favorite bar, 'Pura Vida', is the place where you can go for after surf. Here, you can not only party, but also relax and watch surf movies.
Eight breakfasts and five dinners are included in the price. Tasty and healthy food is Pura Vida's aim. Every morning, you will wake up with a delicious and healthy breakfast buffet on the sunny terrace to get the day off to a good start. Freshly brewed coffee and tea, juices, hot sandwiches, eggs, jam, yoghurt, cereals, cheese, and fruit are served.
At dinner time, their fantastic chef makes a surprising menu, an irresistible mix of traditional and international dishes. An exquisite barbecue simply can't be missed. If you have specific dietary needs or allergies, Pura Vida Lodge will take this into account.
The more active guests can play darts, table tennis, or a game of bowls. You can also enjoy a cool beer by the pool during the after-surf. In addition, the lodge provides free Wi-Fi (wireless internet connection) throughout the house and garden. Surfing costs energy. Therefore, it is important to reload your batteries in order to best enjoy the sun, sea, surf, and beach.
Please book your flight to arrive at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport (BOD) or Biarritz Pays Basque Airport (BIQ). Transfer from and to these airports are available upon request. The price is 50 EUR per person one way.
From Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport (BOD), take the airport shuttle (Navette) to Bordeaux Saint Jean Train Station. The shuttle leaves every 30 minutes and costs 7.20 EUR for one way (6.20 EUR with discount). From Bordeaux Saint Jean Train Station, you take the train to Labouheyre (which is the closest stop to the lodge). It takes about 50 minutes and will cost you about 16 EUR one way.
At Labouheyre, you can take the local bus to Mimizan or Pura Vida Lodge will be happy to pick you up if you let them know in advance when you are arriving. One way pick-up costs 20 EUR which you will pay on arrival straight to their chauffeur.
From Biarritz Pays Basque Airport (BIQ), take the Chronoplus line C bus, which travels from the airport to the Biarritz train station at La Négresse with a journey time of ten minutes. It will only cost you a few euros. From Biarritz Gare, you can take the train to Labouheyre (which is the closest stop to the lodge). It takes about 80 minutes and will cost you 21.20 EUR one way.
At Labouheyre, you can take the local bus to Mimizan or Pura Vida Lodge will be happy to pick you up if you let them know in advance when you are arriving. One way pick-up costs 20 EUR which you will pay on arrival straight to their chauffeur.


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DIY Key Hanger
After spending countless hours looking for my keys, I decided it was time to buy/make a key hanger. I looked around on Pinterest and Etsy for a while before deciding on a basic design to begin with. I liked this one and this one. The design I came up with is a mix of both. I liked the chalkboard design, except without most of the materials being leftovers, it would cost way too much to buy and build. The other design is nice, but I ultimately decided it was too bland.
I happened to have the leftover top from a desk that I was cutting down to make two bedroom end tables ( I'll post about that later ). When I unscrewed the top, I noticed how bent it was and how it wouldn't work for my end tables. Something told me to hang on to it. Turns out, it was perfect for this.
I looked for the "most straight-ish" piece that I could find and cut two small pieces out. I made sure to utilize the routed edge of the top as the top of my key holder. The desk had a hard life before I got it, so there was already a somewhat distressed look in the wood grain. Luckily, the underside of the top had some 1×1.5 inch slats under it. I took those off to be used as spacers for the front. I took my orbital sander and sanded everything with 80 then smoothed it out with 220 grit sand paper. Next, Chloe grabbed some Rust-Oleum "Dark Walnut" and stained it. I used some 160 grit sandpaper that I had left over to scuff up the edges and get it a distressed look (less is more).
After letting the stain dry, I lined up the hooks where they looked decent and evenly spaced. Chloe and I went to Hobby Lobby and found a old-ish looking glass milk bottle on sale for %50 off. I attempted to find a pipe tie strap like used in this design. However, I don't think that Lowes carries that product anymore. With this in mind, I went after a radiator clamp and mounted it on the key holder with a screw (I drilled a hole in the clamp for the screw to go through).
The end result is a simple, little key holder that can also hold mail. I will try in the future to take more photos, to achieve a more detailed walk-through.
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It took me a while to figure out where Pattaya escort girls fit into the whole naughty nightlife scene, but I think I am starting to understand it now. The best escorts in Pattaya do offer reasonable value for money, and they do offer a great deal more discretion - it is that discretion that really sets these girls apart from the rest, and this is their unique selling point. You do need to make sure you find the right escort agent though; if you don't, some of these Thai call girls will charge you an absolute fortune just for their company! Anything more than the mere pleasure of the girl's company will cost even more!!
If money is a concern, you could try subscribing to a Thai dating agency. My recommended Thai dating site is well worth a look. The online girls are many and varied and there is every chance you will find a nice, good-looking girl that is willing to provide everything you desire without need for payment in the morning!
There are some places that you can go to that operate much like any other agogo bar, but I think the selling point of the top-end establishments is that there is a much more personalized experience. They will offer a range of fetish type services and they are happy to cater for single men, single women, or couples. Some girls will also offer a fully bisexual experience.
I think you can see from this that they do fulfill a role, most couples that I know of would be very reluctant to start asking for this sort of thing from bar girls or from a gogo girl if they didn't already know that it is on the menu.
The better establishments offer both
in-call and out-call options. The standard of room that you will use for
an in call service tends to be much higher. The beds will probably be
huge, there will be a large screen TV showing naughty videos, there will
even be a range of equipment for use for the fetish aficionados.
At least one establishment that I know of, 'Devils Den' on Soi LK
Metro, is renowned for the quality of the service they offer. They offer
a range of escort services including a V.I.P. bus service to and from
the airport. There is also an in-call or out-call service. For disabled
customers wanting an in-call service, there was talk at one time of
providing wheelchair access, but I'm not sure if this is available at
the current time.
In any case, as far as wheelchair access is concerned, most disabled customers prefer to opt for an out-call service. The outcall option is, of course, the main distinguishing feature of Pattaya escort services. You can easily arrange for a girl to come and visit you in your hotel room without having to trawl the bars for company. That makes the whole thing much more discreet.
Some Pattaya escort agencies even offer an airport pick up service! This means you get collected at the airport in a VIP bus. This bus will have a TV, a mini bar, leather seats, curtains on the windows, and two or more girls that will entertain you in style! These pick up services run either from the airport to Pattaya or the other way around for an airport drop off.
Modern technology is having a big impact on the bars in Pattaya... the best girls have always been reluctant to work in bars for fear of being seen by someone from their hometowns, but there are lots of girls online at my:
The prices that you will need to pay vary quite a lot depending on where you locate your girl. There are websites on which self employed Pattaya escorts promote themselves with a picture and description of what they offer. The prices tend to be extremely high for this though; $200 US dollars for one hour seems to be the going rate!
There really is no need to pay anything like $200. You don't even know
what that price covers, and you can't be sure that the photos used are up
to date. If you do go for an escort agency, my advice would be to stick with a
reputable company where you can have some confidence that the photos are
realistic, the girls are clean, and the prices affordable (out-call
costs should be about 3,000 to 4,000 baht or so for 2 hours).
Pattaya escort girls, for the most part, offer a high end service for clients that value discretion. It is important to find a reputable establishment from where these girls work though. It is possible that using the services of a self employed Thai call girl, via the internet, will result in dissatisfaction because there just isn't anywhere to lodge a complaint if things go badly.
Also see: Pattaya escort girls and long term satisfaction
I believe that European girls are a
popular choice for this kind of service, but I have heard that these
girls are not the best company. That's only what I've heard though;
you'll need to do some research of your own on this one. However, I do
believe that you will have to pay a large amount of money to get a
European Pattaya escort if that's what you want. My advice; if you do
want European girls, go to Europe. Cities like Prague have girls that
are much better looking, well behaved, and affordable!
If you are interested in finding a Thai lady for a romantic relationship, have a good look at my section on Thai Dating for info about finding a trustworthy lady. Don't make the mistake of thinking that your intuition about Thai girls is all you need in order to find a good one. Without some knowledge of Thai culture, with regard to romantic relationships, you will be like a lamb to the slaughter. Protect yourself by reading up!
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Borders to Edinburgh railway: Galashiels property price impact assessed
A housing expert has said the Borders railway has had "no dramatic or even discernible" impact as yet on property values in Galashiels.
The town is the site of one of seven new stations on the Borders to Edinburgh line due to open next year.
Richard Clowes, director of chartered surveyors DM Hall's Galashiels office, said local opinion was "strongly in favour" of the link.
He said that had "not translated into a general uplift in prices".
The Borders railway is due to open in September next year with three of the new stations in the Borders, including a transport "hub" in Galashiels.
In a blog on DM Hall's website, Mr Clowes said it was not having a big impact on property prices in the area at present.
"The significant interest in the area when the project was announced in 2004 appears to have developed into a wait-and-see approach," he said.
"The likelihood of price increases seems to have been postponed until the line and the stations are actually up and running."
'Faring better'
He added that where the rail line had had an effect was on seller expectations.
"Recent prospective sellers in the railways 'catchment area' have been disappointed that their properties have not appreciated as much as they anticipated and in many cases they are selling at, or below, home report valuation," he said.
"Having said that, the market in the Borders is faring much better than last year."
He said that while there was no evidence of "marked growth" in values there was still "healthy activity" in most towns.


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You'd better watch your behinds, cinema fans. Because the 2013 MTV Movie Awards are less than two weeks away, and as Percy Jackson would say...
Hey, wait a minute. Percy Jackson doesn't have a catchphrase?! Well, that's not okay! Thank everything for MTV's Josh Horowitz and this week's After Hours feature "Logan's Slogans," in which we got the son of Poseidon himself, Logan Lerman, to visit our studios and try a few quips, witticisms, and outright threats on for size. With our help, Percy Jackson will soon be a thoroughly quotable bad-ass in the proud tradition of the Terminator or John McClane!
...Or not. As you can see, Logan isn't quite taking the journey with us when it comes to delivering his lines—and not only that, he doesn't even necessarily feel that the tough-guy thing is right for the demigodly Mr. Jackson. (Case in point: Logan turning to Josh with flashcard in hand and protesting, "Why would I say that? That's mean!") But hey, it's something to work on, right? Add in a few lessons in Wolverine Voice and we think this could really work. ...Okay, except for the one where he refers to his biceps as "The Lightning Thief" and "The Sea of Monsters," that one actually is kind of silly.
Check out more of our chat with Logan during Rated MTV on Friday!
Will Jennifer Lawrence get her silver lining in the form of a Golden Popcorn? Which beefcake will sizzle in our brand-new Best Shirtless Performance category? It's up to you to decide the winners of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards! Vote now, and tune in Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m. ET, as star Rebel Wilson takes the stage at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California.
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Demon rocker Gene Simmons and his family hide nothing from the cameras in Season Two of this hit reality series. Whether he s showing a young friend the ropes in Vegas or planning to buy himself an island, the legendary KI... more »
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"Season Two of Gene Simmon's Family Jewels finds the Simmons clan dealing with plastic surgery, taking a trip to London and much more, the Camp Pendleton episode is a season highlight. Family Jewels is much like The Osbournes, the difference is that Gene and Co. are much more fun to be around. This is a family that truly loves each other. As eldest son Nick says "Outside of this house dad is "Gene Simmons ~ Rock God" but at the house he's.......well he's more like Richard Simmons". That sums it up perfectly.
This set includes all 23 episodes from season two as well as a bonus episode. If you liked the first season, you'll like this one as well. The only complaint I have about this season is many of the escapades come off as very scripted, in particular from the people outside the house in the real world. We all know that reality TV isn't exactly real, but there are moments in this season where it's just over the top. Aside from that, this is a great show with a great family that you wouldn't mind being invited over to spend a day with."
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In celebration of Palm Sunday last weekend at First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, a live donkey led off services, recalling how Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday.
Monica Barner, director of Christian Education, said legend has it that the donkey who carried Jesus into Jerusalem stayed with him until his death. The shadow of the cross, which appears across the donkey's back (photo No. 2), symbolizes Jesus' final days leading to his crucifixion.
On Easter Sunday, First Presbyterian will offer an ecumenical sunrise Easter service at Old Fort Niagara at 6:30 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Charles Lamb will preside. Following service, breakfast will be served at the church for a nominal charge. Additional Easter celebration services are at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.


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One of my goals for 2014 is to bake a different pound cake each month of the year.
Both of the pound cakes I've made this summer have been inspired by refreshing summer drinks. In June, I baked a Lemonade Pound Cake, the least favorite of the year; and this month I tackled a recipe based on a favorite summer beverage of adults…a Pina Colada Pound Cake. This one did not disappoint!
I found the original recipe on Shugary Sweets, a blog devoted to "easy to make dinners and desserts, along with a few 'over the top' sweets" written by a mom of four. While I'd make some minor changes in the recipe, the Pina Colada Pound Cake not only tasted great, but looked just as good as the photographs on the Shugary Sweets site. That's the sign of a well written recipe!
The first step of the recipe calls for the coconut to be toasted for 30 minutes in a 225° oven. While the coconut was toasting, I made the batter for the cake, step 2 of the recipe. According to Shugary Sweets, the cake preparation should take about 15 minutes, but it took me a full 30 minutes which worked out pretty well since I needed to wait for the coconut to come out of the oven anyway.
Step 1
- 1/2 cup sweetened coconut (half as much as original recipe)
Step 2
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 cup crushed pineapple, drained
- 2 tsp rum flavoring
Step 3
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 Tbsp rum flavoring (different than the original recipe)
- 1/2 cup sweetened, toasted coconut (different from original recipe)
I found the cake did not need to bake an hour and 25 minutes in my oven. I set the timer for 1 hour 15 minutes, and it was ready so make sure you check early in case your oven bakes more quickly like mine.
The glaze was by far the best consistency of any I've made up to this point, yet it's the one part of the recipe I'd change. The original recipe called for one tablespoon of rum flavoring, but I felt the taste was too strong. To compensate, I doubled the recipe to cut the rum in half. Next time, I'll reduce the rum flavoring to 1/2 tablespoon, and I wonder if using rum instead of rum flavoring would work just as well…it would definitely be cheaper. I also changed the amount of coconut to 1/2 cup since I used less than half of what I toasted.
Click here for the Pina Colada Pound Cake recipe as found on Shugary Sweets, and while you're there, you may find a couple more recipes to try. I'm thinking about the mango salsa!


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Improved 9-patch
I'm off to the post office to mail my quilt up to Kaleidoscope who will be at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham this August. So even though I will not be able to make it myself this year my quilt will be able to enjoy it! And I know my quilt will be in good hands, as I've known Susan and her Mum for ages from all the shows that they do with their great books and fabrics. When I started out with my first book, they were so supportive, which really meant a lot!
This quilt is the Improved 9-patch block, and is so easy , but so effective as a showcase for scraps!
I hand quilted it in the all over pattern called 'wine glass' or 'tea cup'.
I do love these all over quilting designs, yet not often seen today. It's a shame as they are so easy and quick to quilt!


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I had 4 blogs. None getting the attention, I thought I would give them. In the years that I have been blogging, I have resisted the urge to start forty six blogs, even though I really wanted to. I realize that there are many facets to our existence. Even though I occupy one body I live several lives. I don't suffer from any disorders I can assure you. Just because I like food, travel, theater, medicine, research, or would love to write about varied topics, I know that people who read this blog might not have the same interests. Hence the need for different blogs. You know to tease out the right audience, so I can generate some conversation on the blog. We all would like a meaning conversation on our blogs. With the way my blogs were going (no where), I wanted to change things up. So I merged three blogs into one. For now I have two blogs. I plan on starting another but I will wait a while before I get into that.
I don't recollect when I stopped being vociferous about my opinions. I have plenty like all of us do. Like all of us should. I even disagree strongly. I just don't voice my thoughts. I find people very volatile with poorly researched facts voicing their opinions based on their emotions and perceptions rather than putting the facts together, or listening to other points of view. There is no discussion to be had with such people. Which over the years I find is almost every body. Small minded people, who lack intellect, are really not worth getting into a discussion with. So over time I have changed from talking to listening missing real conversations with real people. Unfortunately those very ignorant think I agree with them because I don't oppose them. If only!


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Almost all of us have suffered the pangs of love and have looked for anything to treat the pain. Some people try to forget their pain at night life, some hold new love. Some forgets their pain in the movies, especially about love. Here are 10 movies that will be good for you after separation.
500 Days of Summer is about a couple who have to stay apart because of their work. Life was not easy when love was the word. The amount of time you spend with you is always very low, and you will not be satisfied with it. Being the hits of the recent independent filmmaker, the leading actors of 500 Days of Summer will affect you with chemistry, music and, of course, empathy.
Before Sunrise: If you want to do something about knowing the worth of your time, this movie is for you. The movie is about the one night of two young people who love each other, emphasizing the importance of continuing with the message that the right person is near you.
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind takes attention to the fact that memory is the greatest enemy of man in separation. Memories left behind after every relationship, short or long, are among the most pressing ones. The envy kind of reminder element such as the cafes, the sitting parks that are given during the mourning period also make it difficult for the individual to forget about the past. But then you will be able to understand how important it is to keep your memories and to shed light on your way.
The Holiday: The big city man often thinks of staying away from everything when he is on holiday. Sometimes he finds love while trying to stay alone as it is in the movie The Holday.
Under the Tuscan Sun is a movie showing that it is not possible for adult women to be happy with others as long as they cannot be happy in themselves after separation. In addition to these, the unique images of Italy also suggest that you make an itinerary trip like the hero of the movie at the first opportunity.
The First Wives Club: We see in the movie Goldie Hawn, Bette Middler, and Diane Keaton, who are the favorite actresses of this comedian era, trying to get revenge on their ex-husbands. This comedy movie may trigger your feelings for revenge, but if you already have one in mind, you can also have a mission to inspire you.
Eat Pray Love: Getting divorce decisions is not easy. The ones to be experienced after the decision can be more challenging than the dark. The main character of the movie, adapted from the best-selling novel, is having a journey of self-discovery after the divorce. The men who stand in opposition at everywhere she stops teach her about a different aspect of her life. At the end of the day, it is worth noting that what you do is what you do after that point has a key role in shaping your future life.
Sliding Doors: This production, one of the innovative ideas at the time of its release, tells about the same female character in two different parallels, capturing the metro and capturing her love with another woman at home and missing the metro and not even knowing about the current deception. Gwyneth Paltrow's movie is one of the best works in her career, giving the message that another life is possible and happiness is turning around you.
Bridget Jones's Diary: Life overtakes us all the time and we lose our ability to look ourselves from the outside. Regardless of what we live in, it is inevitable that we have time to confront the reality we are in. This movie suggests that you should remove yourself from your current location and question the facts.


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So I've been getting a lot of email requests and Faeebook messages of people asking for my address to send a Christmas card to and as much as I appreciate the thought I was thinking about our veterans who are in Sunnybrook Hospital in Ontario who would probably appreciate getting a card for Christmas a lot more than I would so I contacted them and got the ok to give out an address to do so.
When you are filling out your list of Christmas cards this week please address one to the following address :
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Room L1108
c/o Nancy Bowers-Ivanski (Thankasoldier)
2075 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, On M4N 3M5
Think of how much it will mean to a Veteran of this amazing country of ours to open a Christmas card from someone they don't even know simply saying "Merry Christmas & Thank You" I would say thats $0.59 for the price of ONE stamp put to pretty good use this season.
The program provides cognitive support, physical support, mental health support and stroke care to Canada's war Veterans. We also provide palliative care for Veterans and the community at large. The palliative care unit (K1E), offers twenty-four beds and is located on the first floor of Kilgour wing. The professionals and volunteers on the palliative team are compassionate and committed to providing the highest quality end-of-life care. We also provide leading-edge, innovative dementia care for Veterans with challenging behaviours due to Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias in the Dorothy Macham Home. This residential-style home with ten beds, offers a unique specially designed therapeutic environment. It is the first facility of its kind in Canada.
Sunnybrook has a distinguished history of excellence in the care of the elderly. In 1948, Sunnybrook officially opened as a war Veteran's hospital, providing care to Canada's soldiers, sailors and airmen returning home from the Second World War. We are proud and consider it an honour to care for Canada's Veterans, the courageous men and women who served our country in the name of peace and freedom.


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As October descends upon us and the leaves start to fall I keep thinking about ways to save the harvest. Pickling, canning and the like are all back in fashion but I'm afraid I am afraid of anything involving a bit of chemistry. Boiling jars, sterilizing lids, monitoring temperatures all seems a little too involved for my needs right now. I guess I have more confidence in my freezing abilities. Make food, put in freezer. That works for me and my cooking mindsight at the end of the harvest season.
If you're clever at stocking up at the market and spend a few Sunday afternoons cooking you could be savoring the taste of real tomatoes and eggplant in January. Zucchini, as well as other fall squash are so abundant they can be had for a song in October. Prolong the shelf life of the zucchini by pureeing the squash to use in smoothies, stealth health cookies for the kids or maybe your Great Aunt's Zucchini bread recipe (which we all know is just cake but hey it's got Zucchini in it so it must be healthy). Eggplant Caponata freezes beautifully and makes an effortless hors d'oeuvres or pasta entree for all those fall dinner parties you've been meaning to throw. And with the abundance of the October harvest you'll have no excuse.
Zucchini bread
3 cups flour
1 1/4 tsp. salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup canola oil
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups shredded or pureed zucchini
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine dry ingredients. In a separate bowl combine the oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla and zucchini. Slowly add the dry ingredients. Do not overmix. Pour into 2 buttered and floured loaf pans. Bake for 60 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
Eggplant Caponata
2 pounds eggplants
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup olive oil
2 cups celery, chopped
3/4 cup onion, chopped
1/3 cup wine vinegar
4 teaspoons sugar
3 cups crushed tomatoes, drained
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1/4 cup kalamata olive, sliced
2 tablespoons capers, rinsed
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons pine nuts
Cut the eggplant into 1/2-inch cubes sprinkle with salt and place in a colander over paper towels or container. After 30 minutes pat dry with dry paper towels and set aside.
Mix the wine vinegar and sugar and set aside.
In a heavy 12- to 14-inch skillet, over moderate heat, add 1/4 cup olive oil then add celery, stirring frequently for 10 minutes.
Add the chopped onions to the celery and cook until soft and lightly colored about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon transfer them from the skillet into a bowl.
Add the remaining olive oil (1/4 cup) into the skillet, and under high heat add the eggplant cubes, stirring and turning them constantly for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Return celery and onion to the skillet and stir in the vinegar and sugar mixture, drained tomatoes, tomato paste, Kalamata olives, capers, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add pine nuts to finish.
This freezes beautifully in individual 2-quart Ziploc bags. Defrost and use on top of crostini for a quick appetizer or add to a pound of cooked Bucatini for a vegetarian entrée.


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Have Geithner's Zombie Ideas Won? Paul Krugman on the "Cash for Trash" Program
Editor's note: The following interview by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman with economist and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman continues AlterNet's coverage on this crucial political moment for the Obama administration and the country on the issue of what to do with the collapse of the financial and banking industries. Yesterday on this topic, AlterNet ran an editorial and articles by Bill Greider, Matt Taibbiand Frank Rich. In the coming days, look for more coverage and articles about activist campaigns sprouting up on this issue.
Amy Goodman: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has unveiled the Obama administration's plan to finance the purchase of up to $1 trillion in so-called toxic assets from banks and other ailing financial institutions. The plan relies on private investors, namely hedge funds and private equity firms, to team up with the government to relieve banks of assets tied to loans and mortgage-linked securities. There have been virtually no buyers of these assets thus far because of their uncertain risk. As part of the program, the government plans to offer subsidies in the form of low-interest loans to coax private funds to form partnerships with the government to buy troubled assets from banks. This is intended to unclog the balance sheets of banks and allow them to resume normal lending.
Also, the Obama administration this week is expected to announce new proposals for financial regulation, executive pay, accounting standards and other issues, ahead of the G20 summit in London on April 2nd. The new economic proposals come as Congress is to begin debating the administration's $3.6 trillion budget proposal for next year.
Meanwhile, public outrage over the AIG bonus scandal has further undermined support for Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. AIG is paying out over $165 million in bonuses after receiving a $170 billion taxpayer bailout. Geithner has been criticized in Congress and elsewhere for not doing more to block the AIG bonuses and his overall response to the financial crisis.
In an interview broadcast [Sunday] on 60 Minutes, President Obama expressed strong support for Geithner. He was interviewed by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft.
Kroft:Your Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, has been under a lot of pressure this week, and there have been people in Congress calling for his head. Have there been discussions in the White House about replacing him?
President Obama: No.
Kroft: Has he volunteered to or come to you and said, "Do you think I should step down?"
President Obama: No, and he shouldn't. And if he were to come to me, I'd say, "Sorry, buddy, you still got the job." But look, he's got a lot of stuff on his plate, and he is doing a terrific job. And I take responsibility for not, I think, having given him as much help as he needs.
Goodman: Geithner is scheduled to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday about overhauling financial regulation.
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and a columnist at the New York Times. His latest book is The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008. His column in today's Times is headlined "Financial Policy Despair." He joins us on the phone from his home in New Jersey.
Welcome to Democracy Now!, Paul.
Krugman: Good morning, Amy.
Goodman: Well, you say, "Zombie ideas have won." Why are you calling that Timothy Geithner's plan today?
Krugman: A zombie idea is an idea that you keep on killing, because it's a bad idea, but it just keeps on coming back. And what this is is we've had this idea since Henry Paulson came out with his plan six months ago, the Bush administration, that the real problem is that the market is undervaluing all of these toxic assets, and what we need to do is have taxpayers go in and buy them at a fair price, and that will solve all of our financial problems. And that's what happened. The Geithner plan is a complicated, disguised variant on the same idea. It's the zombie that you keep killing, and it just keeps coming back.
Goodman: Called "cash for trash"?
Krugman: Yeah, that's—that was the phrase that was out there six months ago, which I picked up. And yeah, it's basically saying that, you know, there's nothing really fundamentally wrong with our banking system; there's just this crisis of confidence, and so nobody wants to buy, you know, asset-backed securities, nobody wants to buy stuff that's ultimately backed by home mortgages, and if only we could get people to see that these things are really pretty decent assets, then the banks will be in fine shape. And that's the trouble. You know, there's an argument that says maybe they were somewhat underpriced, but to make this the centerpiece of your financial rescue plan is just—well, as I wrote in the column, it leaves me with a feeling of despair.
Goodman: Members of the Obama administration hit the Sunday talk show circuit yesterday to drum up support for the administration's plan to purchase up to a trillion dollars in troubled mortgages and other so-called toxic assets. Austan Goolsbee, a key White House economic adviser, was on Face the Nation. Harry Smith of CBS News quoted from your writing about the administration's plan. This is an excerpt.
Harry Smith:There's been a lot of negative press about this thing that hasn't even been unveiled yet, and Paul Krugman, in his blog today, said, "For the private investors, this is an open invitation to play heads I win, tails the taxpayers lose."
Austan Goolsbee:I don't think that's an accurate description. I mean, if the government doesn't make money, the private sector doesn't make money either. I mean, these guys are coming in in a partnership, and one of the reasons you want to have the partnership is precisely so that, A, the government doesn't massively overpay for these troubled assets that are on the balance sheets, and B, so that everybody's got skin in the game and you don't get into situations where you're paying guys for failure.
Goodman: Paul Krugman, your response?
Krugman: The important thing is not the shared equity. I'm sorry, it's hard to avoid lapsing into jargon here. But 85 percent, at least according to the counts over the weekend, 85 percent of the money is going to be a loan from the government, which is a non-recourse loan, which means that it's backed only by the assets that these guys are buying, which means that if the thing loses more than 15 percent of its value, which is highly, you know, possible, given how uncertain these things are worth, then the investors, the private investors, just walk away. So there's—exactly, it's a heads I win, tails you lose. If the stuff—you buy something at $100 and it goes up to $150, you make $50. You buy it at $100 and it goes down to $50, then you only lose $15, because the other $35 gets even by the taxpayer. So it's a—it's the same thing.
It's basically what happened with savings and loans in the 1980s. They were deregulated and basically put in the position where the deposits were guaranteed, but the owners of the banks could do whatever they wanted, and so they took these huge risks, and most of the risks turned out bad. But if the risks turned out bad, it was the taxpayers' problem, not the bank owners' problem. Same thing here. They're deliberately setting it up, so that there's this huge incentive to—you know, basically where the upside belongs to the private investors, but most of the downside belongs to you and me.
Goodman: So you socialize the debt, you privatize the profit. Why—
Krugman: Yes, it's, lemon socialism. The minuses are the taxpayers; the pluses are the private investors.
Goodman: Why doesn't the government just buy all up all of the toxic assets then, like the FDIC does?
Krugman: Well, the FDIC guarantees a bank's debts, basically, so the deposits are secure, and then if it says the bank is bankrupt, then it goes in and it seizes the bank and then sells the toxic stuff for whatever it can get. That's what I advocate; that's what we ought to be doing. I think they're just daunted by the scale of this thing. The FDIC normally does, you know, two or three banks a week, even in bad times, and they're small banks. Here we're talking about quite possibly Citigroup, which is $2 trillion in assets. It's a very big thing. And I think the reason they keep on coming back, the reason the zombie ideas won't stay dead, is the lure of an easy solution, that you can just wave a magic wand and the problem goes away, and they're still looking for magic.
Goodman: Do you think Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, Paul, should step down?
Krugman: You know, I don't have a strong view on that. It's certainly becoming a problem, and he's really got to clean up his act if he wants to stay there. Basically, look, this is not Geithner. Ultimately, the buck stops in the Oval Office. The question is, why is President Obama going with the soft side, the hope over analysis, on this stuff? So I don't have a big commitment on Geithner, one way or the other.
Goodman: Can I ask you something about the AIG bonuses that have caused such an uproar? I mean, why wasn't there strict regulations about how the stimulus money could be used, how the TARP could be used? Why wasn't there regulation here?
Krugman: Well, if I was going to take the side of the government people, I'd say it's hard to write those regulations in a way that doesn't have unintended consequences. You know, there was a time when they tried to put limits on CEO pay, and it ended up leading to the explosion of stock options, which was not a good thing.
But I think it basically comes down to the mindset, that the view still, apparently, dominant in—even in this administration is that there's nothing really fundamentally wrong with the system. There were some mistakes, and there was some bad luck, but we don't want to shake up the system too much. We don't want to really rebuild it. We don't want to tear up the relationships with those people who we thought were so smart and now look so dumb, really are smart, and we want to keep them on the job. It's a problem. I think there's too much conventionality. To some extent, the Obama administration is still partying like it's 2006.
Goodman: Paul Krugman, what would a new system look like? What would you advocate?
Krugman: I think, in the end, we're going to have to go back to something that is kind of like the system that emerged from the New Deal, which was tightly regulated banks and financial institutions, limits on risk taking, fairly high taxes for high earners, which—it turns out that, you know, low tax rates create incentives, but the incentives are actually to play dangerous games with other people's money. A lot of things need to be updated for the twenty-first century and information technology and so on, but basically, our grandfathers got this thing right. Our grandfathers understood that finance is useful but dangerous and needs to be very tightly hedged about with regulations.
Goodman: You write, "The Obama administration has apparently made the judgment that there would be a public outcry if it announced a straightforward plan along these lines," which is, you know, government buying up the troubled assets, "so it has produced what Yves Smith calls 'a lot of bells and whistles to finesse the fact that the government will wind up paying well above market [value] for"—and you can't say the rest.
Krugman: Yeah, I still can't say the rest, which was not Times style. But yeah, ultimately, when you get the—when you get through the complexities and the salesmanship, this is just a complicated way of having the government pay, having you and me pay, for buying these assets at more than any private investor is willing to pay for them.
Goodman: You talk about why you're so vehement about this right now, why you see this is the critical moment.
Krugman: I think—this is a political judgment. We can argue this back and forth. But I think that Obama doesn't get many shots at this, maybe just one. There's already a huge public outcry, which doesn't distinguish between the things we need to do and the things that were just mistakes. And for Obama to go and do this plan and put a lot of taxpayer money on the line and for it not to work, which I'm almost certain is what would happen, I don't think he can come back to Congress for a plan that might actually work. I think that there's a real—the stimulus is something of the same thing. You have to do this right, right away, because the political mood is getting ugly, for good reason, and there's not a lot of patience with failed approaches, especially failed approaches that seem like your administration is just too close to Wall Street.
Goodman: Paul Krugman, can you talk about the role of foreign sovereign wealth funds and explain what they are?
Krugman: Oh, yeah. It's just when a foreign government has a bunch of money which it is investing in the United States or in other countries, and as opposed to—this is when you do something beyond just plain parking lots of money in bank deposits or US government debt, which is where most of the foreign money is. You know, I think that's a much exaggerated issue. It's—yeah, these are governments playing with large sums of money. At least so far, all the evidence is that they've been really pretty dumb investors. The Chinese appear to have given us a substantial subsidy by buying a lot of stocks at the top of the market and losing them. So I'm not that—I don't think it's a central issue.
Goodman: And this issue of counterparties, a word we're just learning right now, that AIG gets all of these billions of dollars, and they use some of it to pass through to banks once—well, to entities like Goldman Sachs, to UBS, which had to pay a massive fine to the US government, so we're paying their fine for violating us?
Krugman: Well, this is—the counterparties—basically, think of the financial system as this web of connections. And the reason that we're stepping in to rescue these companies in the first place is that we're afraid that if you break the web at one point, it unravels across a pretty wide range. And that's not just a theory. When Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail, in fact, a huge gaping hole opened up across the financial system. So this is the reason that we're rescuing them in the first place.
Now, the only thing you can say is that if we're going to be doing this, then we do need to look hard at who else we're rescuing, and we need to say, "Look, you guys have to make some sacrifices as part of this, as well." What we're seeing right now is that it's basically all free money from the taxpayer with no quid pro quo. And that gets to the heart of the dispute over what our policy is right now.
Goodman: Finally, Paul Krugman, has this made you reevaluate your support of NAFTA, the whole push for sort of unregulated globalization, why so many people took to the streets in the Battle of Seattle, for example?
Krugman: Yeah, the answer is no. There's a huge distinction between letting actual trade in goods, stuff, real physical stuff, proceed, which is terribly important to the poorest countries, above all—when somebody asks, you know, why am I in favor of, more or less, free trade, my answer is, I'm really thinking about countries like Bangladesh, which literally are only able to keep their heads above water by their ability to sell labor-intensive stuff, thanks to their low wages. It's really critical.
I've never been a fan of unregulated movement of capital internationally. This was a big fight back in the late '90s between some of us who say, you know, "We need to regulate, we need to limit this stuff," and people who said, "Oh, no. You have to trust the markets." And what's—it's the hot money that's the issue here; it's not the auto parts from Mexico. That's a different discussion. It's the hot money from all over the world that is the crisis right now.
Goodman: And the UN panel that will next week recommend the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies?
Krugman: You know, there have been millions of plans—well, I'm exaggerating, but there have been many plans along those lines. That's not a decision that can be taken by an international body. The dollar is the reserve currency because people think it's the safest place to park their money. The euro is a natural competitor, except that the Europeans are as messed up in their policies as we are, if not more so, right now. But the way to deal with that is not to have some body agree that we're going to do something different, but to simply have the world—have the natural competitors to the dollar make themselves worthy of the competition.