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South Texas teen charged with killing 6 in wreck
A teenager accused in the deaths of six members of a family after crashing into their SUV while fleeing a state trooper in South Texas earlier this week has been charged with six counts of murder.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger says 18-year-old Hector Ramirez of Roma was charged Thursday. Vinger says Ramirez was arraigned after being released from a hospital where he had been treated following the crash.
Ramirez was denied bond and remained in the Hidalgo County jail Friday morning. A jail official had no attorney information for him.
At the time of Monday's crash, Ramirez was out on bond after being arrested a week earlier while trying to cross into Mexico in a stolen vehicle. Customs officers also found him in possession of marijuana.

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On September 11, 2001, James Rockwell was camped out in a clinical-research unit on the eleventh floor of a Philadelphia hospital, where he had enrolled as a subject in a high-paying drug study. As a rule, studies that involve invasive medical procedures are more lucrative—the more uncomfortable, the better the pay—and in this study subjects had a fibre-optic tube inserted in their mouths and down their esophaguses so that researchers could examine their gastrointestinal tracts.
Rockwell had enrolled in many previous studies at corporate sites at places like Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline. But the atmosphere there felt professional, bureaucratic, and cold. This unit was in a university hospital, not a corporate lab, and the staff had a casual attitude toward regulations and procedures. "The Animal House of research units" is what Rockwell calls it. "I'm standing in the hallway juggling," he says. "I'm up at five in the morning watching movies." Although study guidelines called for stringent dietary restrictions, the subjects got so hungry that one of them picked the lock on the food closet. "We got giant boxes of cookies and ran into the lounge and put them in the couch," Rockwell says. "This one guy was putting them in the ceiling tiles." Rockwell has little confidence in the data that the study produced. "The most integral part of the study was the diet restriction," he says, "and we were just gorging ourselves at 2 A.M. on Cheez Doodles."
On the morning of September 11th, nearly a month into the five-week study, the subjects gathered around a television and watched the news of the terrorist attacks through a drug-induced haze. "We were all high on Versed after getting endoscopies," Rockwell says. He and the other subjects began to wonder if they should go home. But a mass departure would have ruined the study. "The doctors were, like, 'No, no!' " Rockwell recalls. " 'No one's going home, everything's fine!' " Rockwell stayed until the end of the study and was paid seventy-five hundred dollars. He used the money to make a down payment on a house.
Rockwell is a wiry thirty-year-old massage-therapy student with a pierced nose; he seems to bounce in his seat as he speaks, radiating enthusiasm. Over the years, he estimates, he has enrolled in more than twenty studies for money. The Philadelphia area offers plenty of opportunities for aspiring human subjects. It is home to four medical schools and is part of a drug-industry corridor that stretches into New Jersey. Bristol-Myers Squibb regularly sends a van to pick up volunteers at the Trenton train station.
Today, fees as high as the one that Rockwell received aren't unusual. The best-paying studies are longer, in-patient trials, where subjects are often required to check into a research facility for days or even weeks at a time, so that their diet can be controlled, their blood and urine checked regularly, and their medical status carefully monitored. Occasionally, they also undergo invasive procedures, like a bronchoscopy or a biopsy, or something else unpleasant, such as being deprived of sleep, wearing a rectal probe, or having allergens sprayed in their faces. Because such studies require a fair amount of time in a research unit, the subjects are usually people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves. In some cities, like Philadelphia and Austin, the drug-testing economy has produced a community of semi-professional research subjects, who enroll in one study after another. Some of them do nothing else. For them, "guinea-pigging," as they call it, has become a job. Many of them say that they know people who have been travelling around the country doing studies for fifteen years or longer. "It's crazy and it's sad," one drug-trial veteran told me. "For me, this is not a life. But it is a life for a lot of these people."
Most drug studies used to take place in medical schools and teaching hospitals. Pharmaceutical companies developed the drugs, but they contracted with academic physicians to carry out the clinical testing. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, as recently as 1991 eighty per cent of industry-sponsored trials were conducted in academic health centers. Academic health centers had a lot to offer pharmaceutical companies: academic researchers who could design the trials, publications in academic journals that could help market the products, and a pool of potential subjects on whom the drugs could be tested. But, in the past decade, the pharmaceutical industry has been testing more drugs, the trials have grown more complex, and the financial pressure to bring drugs to market swiftly has intensified. Impatient with the slow pace of academic bureaucracies, pharmaceutical companies have moved trials to the private sector, where more than seventy per cent of them are now conducted.
This has spurred the growth of businesses that specialize in various parts of the commercial-research enterprise. The largest of the new businesses are called "contract research organizations," and include Quintiles, Covance, Parexel, and P.P.D. (Pharmaceutical Product Development), a company that has operations in thirty countries, including India, Israel, and South Africa. (About fifty per cent of clinical trials are now conducted outside the United States and Western Europe.) These firms are hired to shepherd a product through every aspect of its development, from subject recruitment and testing through F.D.A. approval. Speed is critical: a patent lasts twenty years, and a drug company's aim is to get the drug on the shelves as early in the life of the patent as possible. When, in 2000, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services asked one researcher what sponsors were looking for, he replied, "No. 1—rapid enrollment. No. 2—rapid enrollment. No. 3—rapid enrollment." The result has been to broaden the range of subjects who are used and to increase the rates of pay they receive.
Most professional guinea pigs are involved in Phase I clinical trials, in which the safety of a potential drug is tested, typically by giving it to healthy subjects and studying any side effects that it produces. (Phase II trials aim at determining dosing requirements and demonstrating therapeutic efficacy; Phase III trials are on a larger scale and usually compare a drug's results with standard treatments.) The better trial sites offer such amenities as video games, pool tables, and wireless Internet access. If all goes well, a guinea pig can get paid to spend a week watching "The Lord of the Rings" and playing Halo with his friends, in exchange for wearing a hep-lock catheter on one arm and eating institutional food. Nathaniel Miller, a Philadelphia trial veteran who started doing studies to fund his political activism, was once paid fifteen hundred dollars in exchange for three days and two G.I. endoscopies at Temple University, where he was given a private room with a television. "It was like a hotel," he says, "except that twice they came in and stuck a tube down my nose."
The shift to the market has created a new dynamic. The relationship between testers and test subjects has become, more nakedly than ever, a business transaction. Guinea pigs are the first to admit this. "Nobody's doing this out of the goodness of their heart," Miller says. Unlike subjects in later-stage clinical trials, who are usually sick and might enroll in a study to gain access to a new drug, people in healthy-volunteer studies cannot expect any therapeutic benefit to balance the risks they take. As guinea pigs see it, their reason for taking the drugs is no different from that of the clinical investigators who administer them, and who are compensated handsomely for their efforts. This raises an ethical question: what happens when both parties involved in a trial see the enterprise primarily as a way of making money?
In May of 2006, Miami-Dade County ordered the demolition of a former Holiday Inn, citing various fire and safety violations. It had been the largest drug-testing site in North America, with six hundred and seventy-five beds. The operation closed down that year, shortly after the financial magazine Bloomberg Markets reported that the building's owner, SFBC International, was paying undocumented immigrants to participate in drug trials under ethically dubious conditions. The medical director of the clinic got her degree from a school in the Caribbean and was not licensed to practice. Some of the studies had been approved by a commercial ethical-review board owned by the wife of an SFBC vice-president. (The company, which has since changed its name to PharmaNet Development Group, says that it required subjects to provide proof of their legal status, and that the practice of medicine wasn't part of the medical director's duties. Last August, the company paid $28.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.)
"It was a human-subjects bazaar," says Kenneth Goodman, a bioethicist at the University of Miami who visited the site. The motel was in a downtrodden neighborhood; according to later reports, paint was peeling from the walls, and there were seven or eight subjects in a room. Goodman says that the waiting area was filled with potential subjects, mainly African-American and Hispanic; administrative staff members worked behind a window, like gas-station attendants, passing documents through a hole in the glass.
The SFBC scandal was not the first of its kind. In 1996, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Eli Lilly company was using homeless alcoholics from a local shelter to test experimental drugs at budget rates at its testing site in Indianapolis. (Lilly's executive director of clinical pharmacology told the Journal that the homeless people were driven by "altruism," and that they enrolled in trials because they "want to help society." The company says that it now requires subjects to provide proof of residence.) The Lilly clinic, the Journal reported, had developed such a reputation for admitting the down-and-out that subjects travelled to Indianapolis from all over the country to participate in studies.
How did the largest clinical-trial unit on the continent recruit undocumented immigrants to a dilapidated motel for ten years without anyone noticing? Part of the answer has to do with our system of oversight. Before the nineteen-seventies, medical research was poorly regulated; many Phase I subjects were prisoners. Reforms were instituted after congressional investigations into abuses like the four-decade Tuskegee syphilis studies, in which researchers studied, instead of treating, syphilis infections in African-American men. For the past three decades, institutional review boards, or I.R.B.s, have been the primary mechanism for protecting subjects in drug trials. F.D.A. regulations require that any study in support of a new drug be approved by an I.R.B. Until recently, I.R.B.s were based in universities and teaching hospitals, and were made up primarily of faculty members who volunteered to review the research studies being conducted in their own institutions. Now that most drug studies take place outside academic settings, research sponsors can submit their proposed studies to for-profit I.R.B.s, which will review the ethics of a study in exchange for a fee. These boards are subject to the same financial pressures faced by virtually everyone in the business. They compete for clients by promising a fast review. And if one for-profit I.R.B. concludes that a study is unethical the sponsor can simply take it to another.
Moreover, because I.R.B.s scrutinize studies only on paper, they are seldom in a position to comment on conditions at a study site. Most of the standards that SFBC violated in Miami, for example, would not be covered in an ordinary off-site ethics review. I.R.B.s ask questions like "Have the subjects been adequately informed of what the study involves?" They do not generally ask if the sponsors are recruiting undocumented immigrants or if the study site poses a fire hazard. At some trial sites, guinea pigs are housed in circumstances that would drive away anyone with better options. Guinea pigs told me about sites that skimp on meals and hot water, or that require subjects to bring their own towels and blankets. A few sites have a reputation for recruiting subjects who are threatening or dangerous but work cheaply.
Few people realize how little oversight the federal government provides for the protection of subjects in privately sponsored studies. The Office for Human Research Protections, in the Department of Health and Human Services, has jurisdiction only over research funded by the department. The F.D.A. oversees drug safety, but, according to a 2007 H.H.S. report, it conducts "more inspections that verify clinical trial data than inspections that focus on human-subject protections." In 2005, F.D.A. inspectors were finally given a code number for reporting "failure to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of subjects," and an agency spokesman says that they plan to make more human-subject-safety inspections in the future, but so far they have cited only one investigator for a violation. (He had held a subject in his research unit against her will.) In any case, the F.D.A. inspects only about one per cent of clinical trials.
Most guinea pigs rely on their wits—or on word of mouth from other subjects—to determine which studies are safe. Some avoid particular kinds of studies, such as trials for heart drugs or psychiatric drugs. Others have developed relationships with certain recruiters, whom they trust to tell them which studies to avoid. In general, guinea pigs figure that sponsors have a financial incentive to keep them healthy. "The companies don't give two shits about me or my personal well-being," Nathaniel Miller says. "But it's not in their interest for anything to go wrong." That's true, but companies also have an interest in things going well as cheaply as possible, and this can lead to hazardous tradeoffs.
The most notorious recent disaster for healthy volunteers took place in March, 2006, at a testing site run by Parexel at Northwick Park Hospital, outside London; subjects were offered two thousand pounds to enroll in a Phase I trial of a monoclonal antibody, a prospective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Six of the volunteers had to be rushed to a nearby intensive-care unit after suffering life-threatening reactions—severe inflammation, organ failure. They were hospitalized for weeks, and one subject's fingers and toes were amputated. All the subjects have reportedly been left with long-term disabilities.
The Northwick Park episode was not an isolated incident. Traci Johnson, a previously healthy nineteen-year-old student, committed suicide in a safety study of Eli Lilly's antidepressant Cymbalta in January of 2004. (Lilly denies that its product was to blame.) I spoke to an Iraqi living in Canada who began doing trials when he immigrated. He was living in a hostel and needed money to buy a car. A friend told him, "This thing is like fast cash." When he enrolled in an immunosuppressant trial at a Montreal-based subsidiary of SFBC, he found himself in a bed next to a subject who was coughing up blood. Despite his complaints, he was not moved to a different bed for nine days. He and eight other subjects later tested positive for tuberculosis.
A decade ago, shortly after I began teaching bioethics and philosophy at the University of Minnesota, I got a phone call from a psychiatrist named Faruk Abuzzahab. He wanted to know if he could sit in on an ethics class that I was teaching. There had been some trouble in a research study that he had conducted, it seemed, and the state licensing board had ordered him to take a class in medical ethics.
Despite some misgivings about my class being used as an instrument of punishment, I agreed. He seemed affable enough on the phone, explaining that he had been a faculty member at the university before going into private practice, and had once chaired the Minnesota Psychiatric Society's ethics committee.
I did not give much more thought to Abuzzahab until about three years ago, when a for-profit testing site called Prism Research opened in St. Paul. Prism was advertising for healthy subjects in a local alternative weekly. I discovered, on the company's Web site, that Abuzzahab was one of its researchers. A few more clicks revealed that he was also conducting studies at his private practice, Clinical Psychopharmacology Consultants. I began to wonder what, exactly, the incident was that had brought him to my class.
As it turned out, the disciplinary action was a response to the injuries or deaths of forty-six patients under Abuzzahab's supervision. Seventeen of them had been research subjects in studies that he was conducting. These were not healthy-volunteer studies. According to the board, Abuzzahab had "enrolled psychiatrically disturbed and vulnerable patients into investigational drug studies without ensuring that they met eligibility criteria to be in the study and then kept them in the study after their conditions deteriorated." The board had judged Abuzzahab a danger to the public and suspended his license, citing "a reckless, if not willful, disregard of the patients' welfare."
One case, which was reported in the Boston Globe, concerned a forty-one-year-old woman named Susan Endersbe, who had struggled for years with schizophrenia and suicidal thoughts. She had been doing well on her medication, however, until Abuzzahab enrolled her in a trial of an experimental anti-psychotic drug. In the trial, she was taken off her regular medication and became suicidal. When Abuzzahab gave her a day pass to leave the hospital unsupervised, she threw herself into the Mississippi River and drowned. In another case cited by the board, Abuzzahab had prescribed a "large supply of potentially lethal medications" to a woman with a history of substance abuse, "shortly after a serious suicide attempt." She committed suicide by taking an overdose.
The public portion of Abuzzahab's disciplinary file is freely available from the Minnesota licensing board, and has been posted on the Web site of Circare, a watchdog group that documents research abuse. When I ran a Google search on "Faruk Abuzzahab," the first hit I got was a 1998 article in the Globe on his trial disasters. Yet none of this seems to have derailed Abuzzahab's research career. Even after his suspension, the Times has reported, he continued to supervise drug trials, and to receive payments from at least a dozen drug companies. In 2003, the American Psychiatric Association awarded him a Distinguished Life Fellowship.
The U.S. regulatory system is built on the tacit assumption that the main threat to research subjects comes from overly ambitious academic researchers, who might be tempted to gamble with subjects' health in the pursuit of medical knowledge or academic fame. The system was intended to check this sort of intellectual ambition, mainly by insuring that studies are reviewed in advance by boards made up of the researcher's academic peers. But, like most physicians supervising clinical trials today, Abuzzahab does not work in an academic setting. The studies conducted at for-profit sites such as Prism are not the natural domain of academically ambitious researchers. They are rarely published and, even if they were, would bring little intellectual credit to the physicians carrying them out, because they are designed by the industry sponsor. A researcher like Abuzzahab would not become famous by supervising subjects in studies like these. But he might become rich.
Abuzzahab represents a new, entrepreneurial breed of physician-researcher; in fact, many of his colleagues have moved even farther from the academic realm. In 1994, according to the Tufts Center for Drug Development, seventy per cent of clinical researchers were affiliated with academic medical centers. By 2006, that figure had dropped to thirty-six per cent. The work can be lucrative, and some sponsors offer researchers additional financial incentives to recruit subjects. One doctor told the Department of Health and Human Services that he was offered twelve thousand dollars for each subject that he could enroll in a trial, plus a thirty-thousand-dollar bonus and an additional six thousand dollars per subject after the first six.
Some of the people conducting clinical trials have little training in how to conduct research. And, as the Abuzzahab case suggests, not all drug companies are especially selective about the researchers they hire. In 2001, the F.D.A. asked the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis to perform new studies of the antibiotic Ketek, which was suspected of causing liver failure. Reports later revealed that the top-recruiting investigator hired by P.P.D., the firm contracted to conduct the studies, was a graduate of an offshore medical school who tested the antibiotic on clients in an obesity clinic she ran in Alabama. She was sentenced to five years in federal prison for fraud. Another top-recruiting investigator was arrested when the police found him carrying a loaded semiautomatic handgun, and hiding cocaine in his underwear.
In early December of 2002, a man named Bob Helms took part in an industry-sponsored "drug delivery" study. Helms and his fellow guinea pigs were required to take a new anti-anxiety drug and, later, to defecate into a small basket. The unfortunate clinic staff members then searched for the remains of the tablet to determine how much had been absorbed by the body.
The guinea pigs were paid thirty-three hundred dollars and were required to live in the unit for five periods of four days each. But before the end of the first period, Helms says, the guinea pigs decided that they were getting a raw deal. The process of fecal collection was smelly and unpleasant; the amount of time allowed outside the unit had been shortened from three days to thirty-six hours; and the subjects were required to abstain from alcohol, even though the study—because of unexpected delays—was taking place over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The guinea pigs wanted a raise.
Since the staff was collecting their feces, Helms suggested that the guinea pigs all swallow notes that said "More money." This idea was rejected. Instead, they presented a one-page memo to the staff, detailing their concerns and requesting a pay increase of eleven hundred dollars. When the memo was ignored, they began hinting that they might decamp for a better-paying study at another site. Eventually, the clinic agreed to pay each subject an additional eight hundred dollars.
Helms is a pioneer in the world of guinea-pig activism. A fifty-year-old housepainter and former union organizer, he has a calm, measured demeanor that masks a deep dissident streak. Before he started guinea-pigging, in the nineteen-nineties, he worked as a caregiver for mentally retarded adults living in group homes. There Helms began to understand the difficulties in organizing health-care workers who were employed by the same company but in far-flung locations—in this case, group homes that were spread over two hundred miles of suburbs. "The other organizers told me right off the bat that I could not organize workers who might meet each other once a year at best," Helms says. "How could we ask them to take risks together? They were strangers."
Helms saw that guinea pigs faced a similar problem, and, in 1996, he started a jobzine for research subjects called Guinea Pig Zero. With a mixture of reporting, advocacy, and dark humor (a cartoon in an early issue shows a young man surrounded by I.V. bags and syringes, exclaiming, "No more fast food work for me—I've got a career in science!"), Guinea Pig Zero published the sort of information that guinea pigs really wanted to know—how well a study paid, the competence of the venipuncturist, the quality of the food. It even published report cards, grading research units from A to F. "Overcrowding, no hot showers, sleeping in an easy chair, incredibly cheap shit for dinner, creepy guys from New York jails—all these are a poor man's worries," Helms says. "Where are these things in the regulators' paperwork?" Guinea Pig Zero was not aimed at sick people who sign up for studies in order to get new treatment. It was aimed at poor people who sign up for studies in order to get money.
And here is where its perspective diverged most radically from the traditional ethical perspective. Guinea Pig Zero assumed that subjects should get more money, while many ethicists and regulators argued that they should get none at all. The standard worry expressed by ethicists is that money tempts subjects to take part in dangerous, painful, or degrading studies against their better judgment. F.D.A. guidelines instruct review boards to make sure that payment is not "coercive" and does not exert an "undue influence" on subjects. It's a reasonable worry. "If there were a study where they cut off your leg and sewed it back on and you got twenty thousand dollars, people would be fighting to get into that study," a Philadelphia activist and clinical-trial veteran who writes under the name Dave Onion says.
Of course, ethicists generally prefer that subjects take part in studies for altruistic reasons. Yet, if sponsors relied solely on altruism, studies on healthy subjects would probably come to a halt. The result is an uneasy compromise: guinea pigs are paid to test drugs, but everyone pretends that guinea-pigging is not really a job. I.R.B.s allow sponsors to pay guinea pigs, but, consistent with F.D.A. guidelines, insist on their keeping the amount low. Sponsors refer to the money as "compensation" rather than as "wages," but guinea pigs must pay taxes, and they are given no retirement benefits, disability insurance, workmen's compensation, or overtime pay. And, because so many guinea pigs are uninsured, they are testing the safety of drugs that they will probably not be able to afford once the drugs have been approved. "I'm not going to get the benefit of the health care that is developed by this research," Helms says, "because I am not in the economic class to get health insurance."
Guinea pigs can't even count on having their medical care paid for if they are injured in a study. According to a recent survey in The New England Journal of Medicine, only sixteen per cent of academic medical centers in the United States provided free care to subjects injured in trials. None of them compensated injured subjects for pain or lost wages. No systematic data are available for private testing sites, but the provisions typically found in consent forms are not encouraging. A consent form for a recent study of Genentech's immunosuppressant drug Raptiva told participants that they would be treated for any injuries the drug caused, but stipulated that "the cost of such treatment will not be reimbursed."
Some sponsors withhold most of the payment until the studies are over. Guinea pigs who drop out after deciding that a surgical procedure is too disagreeable, or that a drug seems unpleasant or dangerous, must forfeit the bulk of their paycheck. Two years ago, when SFBC conducted a two-month study of the pain medication Palladone, it offered subjects twenty-four hundred dollars. But most of that was paid only after the last of the study's four confinement periods. A guinea pig could spend nearly two months in the study, including twelve days and nights in the SFBC unit, and get only six hundred dollars. SFBC even reserved the right to withhold payments from subjects whom it dropped from the study because of a drug's side effects.
Guinea-pig activists recognize that they are indispensable to the pharmaceutical industry; a guinea-pig walkout in the middle of a trial could wreak financial havoc on the sponsor. Yet the conditions of guinea-pigging make any exercise of power difficult. Not only are those in a particular trial likely to be strangers; if they complain to the sponsor about conditions, they risk being excluded from future studies. And, according to Bloomberg, when illegal-immigrant guinea pigs at SFBC talked to the press, managers threatened to have them deported.
Lawsuits on behalf of injured subjects are growing, though, and they have begun to target not just research sponsors but also institutional review boards and bioethicists. Alan Milstein, an attorney in Philadelphia, has pioneered this area of law, most notably with successful litigation against the University of Pennsylvania on behalf of the family of Jesse Gelsinger, who died in a gene-therapy trial in 1999. Milstein has represented volunteers injured at commercial sites, but most guinea pigs are in no position to hire a lawyer. "This is not something you or I do," Milstein says. "This is something the poor do so that the rich can get better drugs."
During our early years of medical school, my classmates and I were given a course in physical diagnosis. Usually, we practiced on one another. Each of us would percuss a classmate's chest, or listen to his heart with a stethoscope. But some procedures were considered too personal to practice on a classmate. For some of these, we were assigned a "model patient"—someone from the community who was "compensated" in exchange for undergoing an examination.
This was how I performed my first rectal exam. A large group of us were led into a room, where our model patient was bent over an examining table with his pants around his ankles. One by one, we approached him nervously from behind, inserted a gloved, lubricated finger into his rectum, and felt around for the prostate. "Thank you," we all said politely to the model patient as we removed our index fingers from his anus. The model patient stared straight ahead, saying nothing.
What made the experience oddly disturbing was not just the forced, pseudo normality of the instruction, or the fact that the exam could have been done more privately, but the instrumentality of the encounter: a pretend "patient" bending over naked for anonymous strangers in exchange for money. The fact that the model patient had been paid did not make his work seem any less degrading. (Tipping him would have made it even worse.)
Perhaps there is something inherently disconcerting about the idea of turning drug testing into a job. Guinea pigs do not do things in exchange for money so much as they allow things to be done to them. There are not many other jobs where that is the case. Meanwhile, our patchwork regulatory system insures that no one institution is keeping track of how many deaths and injuries befall healthy subjects in clinical trials. Nobody appears to be tracking how many clinical investigators are incompetent, or have lost their licenses, or have questionable disciplinary records. Nobody is monitoring the effect that so many trials have on the health of professional guinea pigs. In fact, nobody is even entirely certain whether the trials generate reliable data. A professional guinea pig who does a dozen drug-safety trials a year is not exactly representative of the population that will be taking the drugs once they have been approved.
The safety of new drugs has always depended on the willingness of someone to test them, and it seems inevitable that the job will fall to people who have no better options. Guinea-pigging requires no training or skill, and in a thoroughly commercial environment, where there can be no pretense of humanitarian motivation, it is hard to think of it as meaningful work. As Dave Onion puts it, "You don't go home and say to yourself, 'Now, that was a good day.' " ♦


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The top is together! Now to move on to the borders!!!
|Here's the November section.
What I thought we could do for December is add the borders and work on the applique. If that means you want to do half, then that's great! I'll probably add the border, get the vines on, finish my bucket handle and get a few flowers or leaves appliqued. Then finish up in January.
For those that stuck with this, thank you so much! It has been so fun to look forward with anticipation to the end of the month. Let's finish strong!!


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Peace Paradise Beach
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Koh Lanta, Krabi 81150
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The Peace Paradise Resort is located directly on the white sandy beach of Klong Nin,
on the west coast of Koh Lanta. The resort offers 17 rooms which are equipped with all modern amenities. Facilities at the resort include a swimming pool, a restaurant and bar and a massage sala. Because of it's quiet location it is the perfect destination for
families and honeymooners alike. The National Park and other attractions are close by and all kinds of excursions and activities can be arranged by the resort. Enjoy a memorable stay at one of the most beautiful beaches of Koh Lanta and get pampered by the friendly staff of the resort.
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Jan 07, 2018
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Really nice place to stay. Had a room with pool access. Nice and big room. Unfortunately you hear the road when you go to sleep. Maybe next time I would book the beach front rooms instead. Very nice and friendly staff. Good food in the resturant. Location perfect right on the beach. The pool is long so its good for swimming. Its clean.
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1. In the first night at the hotel, I became food-poisoned at the hotel restaurant after ordering Chicken in Oyster sauce. I became very ill and spent two days (including New Years Eve) in bed. We told the hotel and the restaurant, but they never apologied. 2. No PEACE. Three of the beach-front de luxe apartments are next to the beach bar, which plays loud dunk-a-dunk music every day from 14 p.m. until 23. They use a strong bass and the music was sometimes so loud that I could not talk to my husband inside the apartment with the doors closed. It was impossible to sit on the terrace and relax/read/talk. 3.There was a lot of traffic and people walking to and from the beach right in front of the apartment terrace, - no privacy. 4. When cleaning, housekeeping took all our towels, but did not leave new ones. We asked in the reception for new towels several times, but at 18 o'clock, we still had not got any new towels. This felt especially terrible because I was ill. 5. The day before leaving the hotel, we asked if we could keep one of the apartments until 2 p.m. They said it was possible and would let us know the details later. They told us nothing. Next day, when we asked again, they said that it was not possible. However, after I left, kind of frustrated, they told us that we could keep the beach-front apartment until 2 o'clock. Then, at ordinary check-out-time (11) and after we had moved out of the pool-apartment , they told us that we could not keep the beach-front apartment anyway, and asked us to leave at once. We could however, get the pool-apartment back for 2 hours. 6. Big cockroach in one of the rooms.
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Great location. Great view from our room.
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Easy and good prices.
Jan 09, 2016
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The beach front bungalow is perfect, will definitely choose this hotel again. good cleaning, friendly service and nice beach.
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We had a pleasent stay at the resort on november 2013. We had the beachfront room and it was really nice. It was really easy with kids because everything was so close. By this I mean beach, restaurant and pool. The owners were also really nice and helpful people! I only would wished that cleaning would have been a bit better. The room was quite dusty.
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Everything worked well. The reservation page is really informative and it s easy to see how much it costs to take extrabed or extra breakfast for a child.
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Jan 10, 2013
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nice beach, nice location. but the hotel is very new, and managed without passion, without love. unforunately the staff seem to be not treaten well, you are not welcome friendly as it is so common in thailand. toilets are not working well! the pictures they sell the house with are NOT what you will see in reality. absolutely not recommendable. we left after two nights, as we originally planned to stay there four nights. absolutely not worth its price!
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Peace Paradise Beach Resort...
If you want to stay in a serenity place nestled amidst in the pure natural, pleasant atmosphere, simplicity and private. Peace Paradise is a brand new beach resort, provides room ideal for family and honeymoon couple.
Resort located on one of the most beautiful beach in Koh Lanta, Klong Nin Beach where the white powdery sand & crystal clear blue waters suit for swimming. At the beach rich of Panan Pandanus spread across the beach.
From the resort you can be seen Koh Haa and Koh Phi Phi in a far distance. In the evening, you can admire the magnificent of the sunset that you will never forget this memorable! This place is still beautiful nature, quite, romantic as a paradise island await for your visit.
Peace Paradise Beach Resort comprising 17 rooms.
:: Deluxe Room (32 sq.m.) - 1 Unit ::
Located on the 35 meters long Pool side come with 32 sqm using area, Private Balcony fully furnished within contemporary Thai style, and fully room's facility.
:: Deluxe Pool Access (32 sq.m.) - 10 Units ::
Located on the 35 meters long Pool side come with 32 sqm using area, Private Balcony fully furnished within contemporary Thai style, and fully room's facility.
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Deluxe Beach Front located on the beach side come with 40 sqm using area, Private Balcony fully furnished within contemporary Thai style, and fully room's facility.
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Deluxe Beach Front located on the beach side come with 44 sqm using area, Private Balcony fully furnished within contemporary Thai style, and fully room's facility .
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Perhaps as a result of hearing them for so long, Chargers coach Norv Turner was fairly nonchalant about questions about his job security Monday.
"You're coaching on a week-to-week basis," Turner said Monday, via the Associated Press. "I'm coaching to do the best job I can to get our team ready to play Kansas City.
"All those other conversations, they're going to take place. You know they're going to take place."
Of course, they haven't taken place yet, as Turner said he hasn't spoken about his future with either general manager A.J. Smith or owner Dean Spanos.
The best the reeling Chargers can hope for is that the Chiefs, which haven't led for a second of a game this year, can fix what ails them.
Then again, they were probably thinking the same thing about the Browns, before losing 7-6. They haven't scored a touchdown in six quarters, they've lost three straight and two in ridiculous fourth-quarter collapses.
"We've not been able to put together the kind of consistency we need to," Turner said. "Usually, it's a different thing in each situation where you have an opportunity to make a big play. You only get so many in a game. One play it might be protection, one play it might be we didn't make the throw we wanted to make, one play it might be we're still trying to get on the same page. Yesterday, obviously, we had a couple of opportunities for big plays."
The Chargers have ridden Turner this long when questions swirled, so it seems hard to figure they'd fire him midseason. But if they continue their slide against a horrid Chiefs team, who knows what comes next.


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It seem that all we do in New Orleans is eat, and listen to music, and go to festivals to eat and listen to music. So what's wrong with that? This weekend's Annual Creole Tomato Festival, together with the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, at the French Market combines two of our favorite things-cajun/zydeco music and the aphrodisiac Creole tomato.
The Louisiana state legislature designated the Creole tomato the official vegetable plant of Louisiana in 2003. (Okay, we know it's technically a fruit, but that's irrelevant for this discussion. We honor the Creole tomato, no matter what its horticultural designation). We locals look forward to their arrival the way folks in the Midwest do to the first sweet corn. The Creole tomato usually means any tomato grown in southeast Louisiana, typically in St. Bernard and Placquemines Parish in that famous alluvial river soil. They're "open-pollinated," and they have a crown at the root! There's no specific breed as such, although they were originally developed by LSU. (Some sources say it was developed in the West Indies, but who knows?) It just has to do with the soil, and the sultry Louisiana humidity. You can grow your own—if you're in the right place, with the right soil and climate—from varieties like Celebrity, Better Boy, Fantastic, Monte Carlo, Bingo, Big Beer, and Sunleaper. Slap a slice or two on some white bread, add bacon and mayonnaise, and you're in summer mode for real.
The Annual Creole Tomato Festival celebrates all things tomato-y, with cooking demonstrations and samples available of the star of the show—and many different tomato dishes offered by local restaurants. At the same time, some of the southwestern Louisiana's favorite zydeco and Cajun musicians will be doing their thing at the French Market and Old U.S. Mint, making it a perfect summer twofer destination. The music festival takes place on two stages, including at the nearby Old U.S. Mint, with two days' worth of music and dancing. There's a crafts fair as well.
And yes, you can see youngsters dressed as large tomatoes strolling the French Market and handing out tomato-shaped fans. It's a quirky little festival, but that's what we do best here.


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It seems that every now and then a small movie makes big noise. They're usually an independent film that was made for almost no money, if they're lucky they get a star or two and they become noticed at film festivals. CLERKS was one such film and so was LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. So when I heard that CEDAR RAPIDS was this years talked about indie film I wondered if it was true or not. Yes, the movie lives up to its reputation. It's hilarious.
Ed Helms (of HANGOVER and THE OFFICE fame) stars as Tim Lippe, a modest insurance salesman in a small town who was destined for great things but never seemed to get there. His life is rather hum drum, he's never been anywhere outside of this small town and the thrill of his life is his girlfriend Macy (Sigourney Weaver), his old 7th grade teacher.
Currently he plays second fiddle to Roger, the top guy who has always represented the company well at the national convention, bringing them back 2 Double Diamond trophies in a row. When Roger is found hung with his own belt in an act of autoerotic asphyxiation, Tim is selected as his replacement. The company's owner Bill (Stephen Root) gives him advice and books him in a room with a safe fellow insurance salesman.
Unfortunately the best laid plans…
His roommate Ronald Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) and he are upgraded to a suite since the hotel overbooked. Unfortunately they have to take in a third party and that person is Dean Zeigler (John C. Reilly), a wild man that Bill warned Tim to stay away from. As is usually the case, Dean isn't quite as bad as Bill made him out to be even if he is a horn dog and a guy who likes to have far too much fun.
As the threesome gets acquainted they're joined by Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Anne Heche), another insurance salesperson who knows everyone but Tim. The four become fast friends as the film progresses and find themselves in various predicaments.
As Tim attempts to become one of the boys, he finds friendships tested and his morals questioned due to a twist in his plans he didn't account for. He finds himself forced to question a few of his beliefs, to open himself up to the world outside of his small town and to basically grow up. Through it all he makes some fantastic life long friends.
I know, an insurance salesman convention doesn't sound like the most interesting thing on the planet. But the fact is that these characters are likeable, crazy, fun, interesting and more complex than you would think. The spots they find themselves in are funny at times and touching at others. These characters are ones you'd like to have a drink with.
The film offers some great writing and directing as both bring out the best in these actors. I've not seen Heche do a character as well as she does Joan, a woman in what could be a loveless marriage who makes the convention a time to let loose. Reilly has this character down pat having played similar ones before. There was no way anyone else could have played this character. And Whitlock does a great turn here as a straight laced salesman who has a side he rarely lets anyone else see.
But the central character here of Tim as played by Helms is great. He could have gone for goofy, he could have overdone the aw shucks attitude. But Helms plays it straighter than that and the character of Tim Lippe is better off for it. You first think of him as a buffoon but by the end of the film come to care about him deeply.
CEDAR RAPIDS proves one thing. You don't have to have a mega-million dollar budget to make a great movie. You just have to make something original, something entertaining and something that will make people laugh. This film does all three and does them well.


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This week I want to talk about personalized power and empowerment. What does it mean maintain your energy? What gets you there, what contains you there, and what will get you off of monitor? When you know more about these dynamics you are able to utilize actually deeply pushes for development and improvement. Brendon Burchard
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Like many expression of your self improvement field, the words personal power claims anything in a way that helps us discover how to transfer our point of view. We have the capacity to do or say stuff that will provide us more potential. We have the ability to carry our energy in a manner that is more about our serious respect for our own personal than it is about holding it around or working with it on yet another. Personalized potential and our very own power is the effect of our being aware of we are able to opt for and also in influence the countless elements of our existence.
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Well it's Halloween, I live in the Castro, and it's also Critical Mass. Just so I can get this off my chest: I FUCKING HATE CRITICAL MASS. I'm sorry, but it's not anarchy, you're not protesting anything, and you're not making any statement. Idiots.
Anyway, because of this odd perfect storm of chaos, I'm stuck at home on a Friday night. Which led me to stumble upon this, which made me laugh hysterically. I don't know if it's actually funny or if I'm just punchy from cabin fever.
The impressions are just spot on. Venus (2.31), Serena (4.39), Ana (3.37), JJ (5.00), Rafa (1.56)...awesome.


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If you have the entrepreneurial spirit in you, there is no looking back. Despite all of the high-tech start-ups or big ventures that need huge funding, there are still plenty of small business options out there. These businesses neither require you to know the difference between CSS and QR codes nor do they need huge investments. All you need is a passion for doing something worthwhile and you are good to go.
Let's have a look at 15 low cost business ideas.
#1 Graphic Designer: If you like working on your own and are a creative soul then freelance graphic design can be a great way to make a living for you. With e-commerce on an upswing, demand for graphic designers is on a rise.
#2 Coders: If you are the kind of person who has all the patience in the world to be meticulous and is detail-oriented then this is the career for you. It is a niche skillset, which has high demand.
#3 Online Retail Consigners: This is an interesting thing to do. Often we get bored with our clothes or there are other unused things like toys, accessories, books etc. Online consignment offers you a great opportunity to make money, selling them through a completely virtual process instead of trashing them.
#4 Instagram Consultants: Online marketing is the new traditional marketing now and many businesses are using Instagram to promote their products and services. If you have a flair for such thing, some basic marketing knowledge and a smartphone with a good digital camera, this is the right field for you.
#5 Writers: A good command over the language, focused, organised and able to go with the flow is a recipe for a good writer. All you need besides your motivation is a bit of networking to get projects. If you already have a good command over the language, just look out for some content writing tips from the professionals
#6 Landscape Photographers: If you love photography and have access to high-quality digital camera, opportunities are enormous for you. You can click for websites, you can sell your prints to whosoever is interested and also if you want you can start classes for other aspiring photographers.
#7 Business and Life Counsellor: If you have great listening skills, calm demeanour and empathise with people, then you can be a business and life counsellor. If you think you have that ability to internalise events, closely listen to others and make them feel great, then this is an apt low cost business for you.
#8 Online Blogger: Another lucrative low-cost business opportunity for people who love writing, editing, copywriting and marketing! All you need to do is create content that keeps readers engaged and meet your client's goal.
#9 College Application Advisors: In this era, when children fill numerous forms to get a good college, being a college application advisor is a good option. Helping students explore educational options, having a list of colleges, their admission pre-requisites, helping them narrow down their options and finally helping them to get through the application process is what you need to do.
#10 Online Tutors: People have been giving classes since long, but creating your own online tutoring business is a great way where you can earn sitting at home. You have the option of working flexible hours. Follow this link for a guide to start online tutoring.
#11 Dog Walking Service: In cities, people love to have dogs, but normally they are hard pressed for time. If you love hanging out with dogs, you can offer your services as a dog walker. As it is a localised service, you need to put some flyers initially and later it will work by word of mouth.
#12 Video Conference and Board Room Facilities: What if you have space, a bit of capital and expertise? You can convert your space into board room or video conference facility. There are many SMEs that need this facility, but making one of their own is not feasible for them. You can earn substantially by hiring your facility to such enterprises.
#13 Dietary Consultancy Services: People are generally worried about what they should eat and are always ready to spend bucks if someone can guide them on it. If you are healthy yourself and have a fair knowledge about eating habits and diet charts then you can plan to start dietary consultancy service.
#14 Babysitting: With the continuous rise in the population of working women, a business of baby-keeping in any big city is bound to flourish.
#15 Home Cooked Meals: If you love cooking, you can prepare meals for clients and get them delivered. They will be happy to get home cooked meals.
There is no dearth of ideas. All you need is the zeal to be an entrepreneur and you will definitely get something that suits your calibre. Even if you start small and do it with passion, you will always find means and ways to make it big.


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Veteran hockey executive Brian Burke was named the team's president of hockey operations, a position the Flames created for him in an effort to return to the playoffs after a four-year absence.
Burke will "assume overall responsibility of the sport side of the Calgary Flames."
General manager Jay Feaster will report to Burke, while Ken King remains president and CEO of the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation.
In addition to the Flames, the company encompasses the American Hockey League's Abbotsford Heat, the Western Hockey League's Calgary Hitmen, the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders and the National Lacrosse League's Roughnecks.
Burke's description of himself on Twitter is "a dash of truculence". He's brutally honest and unfiltered, so reporters both love and loathe him depending on the day.
"I don't intend to be front and centre," Burke said Thursday during a news conference at the Scotiabank Saddledome. "That would be a nice break after being front and centre and getting into a lot of little scraps in the media.
"I know people think I need to be driving the bus all the time. I'm actually a pretty good teammate.
"The guy you should talk to every day should be the coach. The transactional guy, if you make a trade . . . the guy that should explain it should be the guy that pulls the trigger on the trade and that's Jay."
Flames owners aren't normally present at team announcements, but chairman Murray Edwards and others in the ownership group sat in the front row of seats Thursday.
Burke was fired as president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs in January. He had been working as a part-time scout with the Anaheim Ducks since February.
Reporting to Burke instead of King is the only change Feaster expected in his job description.
"To be able to bring somebody in who has won a Stanley Cup, who has taken a team to that lofty level and who has been in the game in as many capacities as Brian has been throughout his career, to be able to tap into that wealth of knowledge on a daily basis, it's a great thing," Feaster said.
"I endorse it as the GM."
A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Burke sits on the board of directors for Rugby Canada and is the director of player personnel for the American men's hockey team at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
He was general manager of the U.S. team that won Olympic silver in 2010. He also won a Stanley Cup as GM of the Ducks in 2007.
"Brian's worked pretty hard in our game to do a lot of different things," Ducks forward Ryan Getzlaf said in New York. "Obviously I've seen first-hand what he can do. I'm happy that he's back to work and I'm sure that'll make him happy."
It took some convincing by King for Burke to accept the Flames job because he wasn't clear on what it entailed.
As part of his research into similar pro sports management models, the 58-year-old lawyer said he consulted Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti.
"This is a relatively new structure in professional hockey," Burke said. "There are two teams in the NHL that have this type of management structure. There are a number of teams in the National Football League that do, a number of teams in Major League Baseball that do and a number of teams in the NBA that do. And it works effectively. And it's going to work here."
Burke will be an adviser to Feaster.
"I'm not the general manager of the Calgary Flames," he declared. "Jay Feaster is. He is going to be in charge, but with my guidance.
"I think I add a value. I've been able to fix just about every team I've worked for, sometimes quicker than others."
Burke's contract with the Flames doesn't have a set term, but is instead an open-ended work agreement.
"There's a long runway here for Brian," King said. "He can do this job for 10 years, maybe longer than that. He's got that sober second-thought opportunity to take a long view, a long vision, to help Jay, who by nature has to have a shorter vision."
Burke plans to embrace a job where he'll be on the road less after scouting the world junior championship in Ufa, Russia, in January.
"I didn't enjoy that. I got as sick as a dog. The food was awful," Burke said. "I was saying to myself 'This was not a good use of my time.'
"This job allows a guy of my seniority to do less the grunt work, the day-to-day stuff, but still be involved."
Flames coach Bob Hartley said his club will benefit from Burke's sheer passion for the game and his hockey knowledge.
"There will be no grey areas with Brian," said Hartley.
The coach said he doesn't feel any extra pressure with a second executive above him.
"Any time that you can add a gentleman like Brian Burke to your team, and teamed up with Jay Feaster, I feel that I'm very well surrounded as a coach," said Hartley.
"We know one thing about Brian: The roles will be clear, and the expectations will be well put there. At the same time, he always backs you up."
Also Thursday, the Flames promoted John Bean from CFO and senior vice-president, finance and administration to chief operating officer.
After graduating Harvard Law School in 1981, Burke was a player agent until 1987 when Vancouver Canucks general manager Pat Quinn asked him to become the director of hockey operations for the franchise.
Burke held that post for five years, until the 1992-93 season when he became the GM of the Hartford Whalers. He stayed in Connecticut for a year before moving to the NHL's head office, becoming commissioner Gary Bettman's executive vice-president and director of hockey operations.
In 1998, Burke returned to Vancouver to become the GM of the Canucks. He drafted players such as twins Henrik and Daniel Sedin, as well as centre Ryan Kesler. Team management elected to not renew Burke's contract after the 2003-04 season.
After spending time as a TV analyst, Burke returned to management, becoming the GM of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in 2005-06 and winning the Stanley cup a year later.
He stepped down from the Ducks in November 2008 and two weeks later was hired by the Maple Leafs. The Leafs didn't make the post-season during Burke's tenure.
"There was a lot that needed to be done in Toronto that took longer than I thought," Burke said.
He believes the Flames are on the right path, but isn't imposing deadlines on the hockey team's re-build.
"I remember when I was a rookie GM, I called Harry Sinden and was complaining about my team. He said 'When you take over a non-playoff team, you inherit a leaky ship,'" Burke said.
"It's hard in a cap system to turn your team around. You have unrestricted free agency obviously, but in a cap system, it's a slower process.
"I think fans can be patient as long as they see a plan that's in place and being executed and faithfully stuck to. I think there's a plan here and I think the fans can see it."
NHL rookie camps are underway with main camps scheduled to start Sept. 11.
The Scotiabank Saddledome is undergoing restoration from massive flooding in June. The Flames main camp will be held at another facility, but the first exhibition game Sept. 14 is scheduled to be at the Saddledome.
— With files from Stephen Whyno and Monte Stewart
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Mr. Hardy and a student who couldn't sing / Joe Nathan's Column
This column appeared in a number of ECM/Sun Current newspapers during January, 2013.
As we start a new school year, I recall that there may be few people more miserable than a 7th grade boy whose voice is changing, in a choral music class…the kind of class where youngsters are expected to sing every day. That's the situation I found myself in many years ago at Robinson Junior High School in Wichita, Kansas.
Fortunately, James Hardy was the teacher. He adored music. He wanted everyone to love it. And he would not give up on me, although the "notes" coming out of my mouth were always unpredictable and often awful.
Hardy produced incredible music with 7th and 8th graders. I remember listening on the risers during our concerts. Mr. Hardy and I agreed that I would stand and mouth the words on most songs. I rarely "sang."
There were exceptions. One was the "Little Drummer Boy," generally sung around Christmas. "Come, they told me pa rupa-pa-pum…Our new born king to see, pa rupa-pa–pum. Our finest gifts we bring….To lay before the king, pa-rupa-pa-pum…."
We sang it in four parts. For some reason, my vocal chords did ok with the notes in this song that represented the drum. Singing that song is one of my favorite memories. It produced huge applause during our "Christmas concerts." We had four of them, two for other students, two for families.
Here's a version from the Harry Simeone Chorale that shows how beautiful the song is, and the drum part I sang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzJiYlSHfQ
This was many years ago, when students in Wichita and some other public schools began each day with "The Lord's Prayer", drew pictures of "the baby Jesus" and song Christian songs. But that's a subject for another day.
One of the things that I honor about Mr. Hardy is that he did not focus on what I couldn't do. He helped me, and other guys whose voices also were changing, see what we could do. Smiling, he praised us for working hard, and contributing to the concerts. He convinced me that he really meant it when he thanked me for working hard and being part of the choir.
Yes, he praised the youngsters whose voices were great. He helped some of them win state-wide awards. His concerts were well-known for their beauty and creativity. Our concerts drew many people, not just the families.
What I remember most, however, not just the beautiful music he helped immature 7th and 8th graders produce. What I remember most was his kindness and enthusiasm.
After 12 years at Robinson Junior High, Mr. Hardy was hired by Wichita State University. He became chair of the WSU Music Education Department. He died five years ago, at age 84.
Some might say Mr. Hardy wasted his time at Robinson, that he should have been at Wichita State much earlier. I disagree. I had a chance to see and thank him many years later.
"Some of my best work was at Robinson," he recalled. I agree. He did what many great teachers do…he encouraged. He didn't solve all my problems, or anyone's problems. He did help young people accomplish far more than they thought possible.
Drumbeat: "Pa-rapa-pa-pum."
Joe Nathan, formerly a public school teacher and administrator, directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, please comment below.


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My husband and I met our children and our grandchildren at a restaurant the other day. I stayed with my grandchildren at the table while their parents were busy gathering the children's and their food. As I was monitoring all the activity and sat down beside my granddaughter, she remarked, "You're very quiet today!" Coming from a 4 year-old, it sounded quite hilarious and made me think that she must have heard and stored this adult-like statement to retrieve it for the appropriate moment. This is an example of the process of language acquisition. Children listen to, process, store, retrieve, and produce language in dynamic and flexible ways. It is, at times, an amazing process to document and observe.
For internationally adopted children, they begin listening to and producing their birth language. After adoption, they often stop listening to and expressing their birth language to focus on learning an adopted language. For some children, their adopted families are able to provide a nanny or teacher who continues to speak to their children in their birth language while the parents and community may speak the children's adopted language. Several researchers have documented the rapid acquisition of the adopted language where adopted children score within normal range on most standardized general language and articulation tests in their adopted language by 2 or 3 years post-adoption (Glennen, 2007; Hwa-Froelich & Matsuo, 2010; Roberts et al., 2005). Yet other studies have documented that internationally adopted children use special services more often, may have problems with social communication (Glennen & Bright, 2005), and have poorer school achievement than same-aged peers (van IJzendoorn & Juffer, 2010).
Though rare, in some cases internationally adopted children appear to be developing the necessary prerequisite skills for academic and social success but later on begin to have learning difficulty. I have assessed children between 1 to 4 years after adoption and have had a few children demonstrate speech, language, and cognitive delays later as opposed to early in their post-adoption development. For some children, their developing relationship with their parents may not develop which may adversely affect the children's communication or their inattentive and overactive behaviors begin to negatively affect their learning and development. For other children, their speech fails to mature and what were considered developmental articulation errors at 2 years of age, become delayed articulation or phonological problems at 6 years of age. Because of these cases, I recommend that families seek follow-up evaluations if their child continues to demonstrate speech or communication problems at older ages or if the child develops new and different speech or communication problems.
Glennen, S. (2007). Predicting language outcomes for internationally adopted children.
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50, 529-548.
Glennen, S., & Bright, B. J. (2005). Five years later: Language in school-age
internationally adopted children. Seminars in Speech and Language, 26(1), 86-
101. Retrieved from https://www.thieme-connect.de/ejournals/toc/ssl
Hwa-Froelich, D. A., & Matsuo, H. (2010). Communication development and differences in children adopted from China and Eastern Europe. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 41, 1-18. doi:10.1044/0161-1461(2009/08-0085)
Roberts, J. A., Pollock, K. E., Krakow, R., Price, J., Fulmer, K. C., & Wang, P. P. (2005).
Language development in preschool-age children adopted from China. Journal of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48(1), 93-107. doi:10.1044/1092-
van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Juffer, F. (2010). Adoption is a successful natural intervention enhancing adopted children's IQ and school performance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 326-330. doi:10.1111/).0963-7214.2005.0039.x
Deborah Hwa-Froelich, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Saint Louis University associate professor and International Adoption Clinic coordinator with interests in social effects on communication such as culture, poverty, parent-child interaction, maternal/child health, and international adoption.


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John Cornyn voted today to prevent Senate consideration of gun legislation, but that hasn't stopped the Texas senator from pushing for a separate bill to increase gun use, aiming to protect prosecutors and judges.
The bill would allow prosecutors and judges to carry firearms at their offices and office parking garages. Prosecutors and judges can carry to courthouses in most states, but are barred from doing so in their offices on federal property. The bill would also allow local governments the latitude to pay for security detail.
"Public safety officers like prosecutors put their lives on the line every day, and they deserve the peace of mind to go about their work without fearing for their safety," Cornyn said in a statement. "This legislation would provide prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement officials more flexibility in how they choose to protect themselves and their families, as well as create stronger offenses for those who target our public officials."
Cornyn's bill also creates a new federal statute for killing, attempting to kill, or conspiring to kill prosecutors and judges.
The bill comes in the wake of the murder of Kaufman county district attorney and his wife in their home. In January the assistant district attorney in Kaufman was shot in a parking lot on his way to the courthouse office.
Earlier this month, Houston federal prosecutor Jay Hileman withdrew from a case, with many speculating he feared for his safety.
No official version of Cornyn's bill exists at press time.


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For past and present students of Emporia State University Portland cohorts to connect.
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Erica Johnson Portland Cohort 7, Saturday, January 20th only
Please join the University of Washington Student Chapter of the American Library Association (SALA) for happy hour to kick off the ALA Midwinter Meeting, with your fellow Library school students at Garage!
Who: Library school students attending ALA Midwinter from out of town & all University of Washington MLIS students
When: Friday, January 19th from 4:30 to 7pm
Where: Garage (Bar, Billiards, Food) 1130 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122
SALA has reserved the Mezzanine room for the event. Happy Hour drink specials last until 7pm!
Garage is located on Capitol Hill at 1130 Broadway Ave. between Madison and Union just a few blocks east of downtown Seattle. Bus Routes #2 and #12 run between the Convention Center and Capitol Hill every 10 minutes! For more bus schedules go to the Metro online home page @ http://transit.metrokc.gov/ . For more details on the location, menu, and billiards, at Garage, visit their web site at: http://garagebilliards.com/ or go to SALA's home page at http://students.washington.edu/sala/ .
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So girls its summer and many of you might be traveling and going out all the time, I believe that's what summer was made for.
In this article, I will be giving you fast affordable 4 make up items and brands that doesn't leave my side, and that gave me the effect I want in 5minites.
So let's start :
First things first drink water, and keep your skin moisturized with some oil free creams to keep a fresh look, and always wear sun block.
This powder has SPF25, smooth finish, oil free, light texture, great coverage for spots and skin imperfections, enriched with vitamin C , long matt finish.
Now I use a very light sun block and then wear the powder and that's it , or for the night I use it alone or I use M.A.C studio fix powder .
Keep your skin light during summer and let it breathe no need for all that foundation and heavy
And they are just 9$ and really last long and have like a huge color collection to enjoy, and here are my three favorites .
Surfer babe : it's a shimmery green blue color fun for night day whatever you want its just a great color love it .
Go for a ride: it's a shimmery dark greenish color that is must have on all seasons for both a classic and fun look.
Black lace: it's a black matt eye pencil also a must all year long it's a good thing for a night look or even during the day just wear a line over you top lash line and you good to go, I like to play the fake Smokey eye with it as well I completely line the lower and top lash line with it and then go over it with an eye shadow and smudge it a little ,sephora also has great smudge brushes.
And those are my 3 must have eye liners.
I love this mascara now it's not water proof but it does have a strong hold, and I don't like water proof mascaras much as they break your lashes if you use it every day , try to use them only at occasions when you feel it is a must.
Now this is an everyday mascara costs about 12$ , has a great brush , and it's not liquid like the other mascaras so it doesn't leave a lot of mess and easy to apply more than one layer if you want more and more length and volume.
It's cool because you can get away only with the mascara on your eyes no liner no shadow nothing else.
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Now those are my favorites for this summer, because those products are simple fast to apply you don't need to be super careful with it in order to get a full make up look , its summer we will not spend it getting ready , tell us your favorites or if you try any of my favorites how do you like it??
Give us your comments and you photos on instgram if you try any, have fun.
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Sometimes you forget about the things you make all the time. These peanut butter cookies are the perfect example. I have been making them for years I add a different ingredient that you would not expect, that makes for a nice surprise. You can also use this recipe to make your own inside out peanut butter cup but spraying a muffin tin and forming the cookie dough inside the muffin tin. Bake and pipe chocolate fudge icing in the center. I have not made them that way for awhile, but now that I am thinking about it, I will have to add the picture and try next week. You do have to think ahead a little bit for this recipe, since it should be chilled for a couple hours before baking.
Peanut Butter Cookies – 2 dozen
1/2 C sugar, 1/2 brown sugar, 1/2 C peanut butter, 1/2 C butter, 1 egg, 1 1/4 C flour, 3/4 tsp. baking soda, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 salted peanut and a half of a bag of butterscotch chips, extra sugar for the topping. (peanut butter chips work well too, but butterscotch chips takes it to a whole different dimension.
Mix sugar(s), peanut butter, butter and egg in a large bowl. Stir in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nuts and butterscotch chips. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Shape dough into the size balls you want on a greased cookie sheet. Flatten in a criss cross pattern with a fork. Sprinkle generously with sugar.
Bake 10 minutes until light brown. Don't over bake unless you like them crunchy.


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Peter Molyneux has already told us that Fable III will piss us off... but now we know how Lionhead's outspoken frontman will be inciting bile and venom from the game's core following. Fable III is not an RPG.
It's a world that's moved swiftly into the industrial revolution Bowerstone's skyline is smothered by smoking chimneys and towering factory rooftops. The influence of Victorian Britain on Fable III means a darker vision than before; child labour is rife, the air is thick with soot and there's an ubiquitous layer of grime, giving it a resoundingly grim atmosphere.
Fable III, then, is going to be on a bigger canvas than ever before whereas before we've been promised games that can recreate the warmth of family, now Molyneux is telling us that this game will let us know what it feels like to be Barack Obama when he's faced with criticism about his failure to see through his commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay.
No, no, he did. In the everything else section, at least. Officially, this makes him king.
Sam is basically right, he's just cranky.
"You are going to become the ruler of the whole of Albion. You've played in this land in Fable 1, in Fable 2 you became a hero; this time, why not rule Albion? Why not be a king or a queen?""You can eradicate poverty by giving all the money in your treasure room to the people. Or you can keep it all yourself and be more of a tyrant. The point is, there are always consequences."
Hell, Skyward Descent is pure win!
I kill you in the name of DELICIOUS!
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Amateur actors should be forced to audition for roles. Up-and-coming actors should need to lobby filmmakers for parts. Kevin Spacey should have to do neither at this stage of his career. He's a two-time Oscar winner (for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty). He is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominee. And yet, as he tells it, he still has to petition legendary directors if he hopes of entering a collaboration.
In an interview with GQ, Spacey tells a fascinating story of the method he used to try and catch the eye of 77-year-old icon Woody Allen. According to Spacey:
"I wrote him a letter and introduced myself as an actor he may or may not know. And I sent him a Netflix subscription, because I want him to watch my work [in House of Cards. … I may write to Martin Scorsese next."
Guess what? It worked. Spacey says that Allen wrote back, thanked him for the subscription, and now says that the actor is in the pool of potential candidates for a future project. SO for those of you keeping score at home, Andrew "Dice" Clay has appeared in more Woody Allen films than Kevin Spacey, and probably didn't have to buy Woody a gift in order to secure his Blue Jasmine part. Hickory, dickory, dwell on that for a few minutes.
Spacey is fantastic in House of Cards -- mainly because he has the ferocious Robin Wright to play off of … but he's also mesmerizing in his solo scenes. I can understand why he might want to use the Netflix original series to showcase his talents, but there are countless other projects I'd use to show off his refined skills. What would you select for a Spacey highlight reel?
And, of course, this:
Spacey could be running out of time. Allen is 77, and peers like Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford are slowing down. Though the director is riding high on Jasmine, no one knows how many more films Allen has in the tank. I wonder if Spacey did enough to make sure he's part of one of the next ones?


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