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Today's jobless claims report showed a jump to both initial unemployment claims and continued jobless claims as initial claims trended below the closely watched 400K level.
Seasonally adjusted "initial" unemployment claims increased by a whopping 20,000 to 362,000 claims from 342,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted "continued" claims increased by 11,000 claims to 3.148 million resulting in an "insured" unemployment rate of 2.4%.
Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored "extended" unemployment benefit programs (the "extended benefits" and "EUC 2008" from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.
Currently there are some 1.84 million people receiving federal "extended" unemployment benefits.
Taken together with the latest 3.66 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.51 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.


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Internet angel @tannerstokes has created a browser extension that converts all YouTube comments to Herp Derp. (Available for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera.) Of course, just in case you actually care to read what the lurkers of YouTube have to say, you need only click the Herp Derps for a reverse translation.
The perfect dose of internet white-noise! Phew. [Tannr]

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An employee of the Jewish museum of Brussels died of injuries he sustained in the shooting there, bringing the death toll to four people.
The fourth fatality from Saturday afternoon's shooting passed away later Saturday night, the Benelux broadcaster RTL reported on its website. The other victims were an Israeli couple, the Israeli foreign minister said, and a female volunteer at the museum.
Belgian police said at a press conference that the shooter arrived in an Audi car to the Jewish Museum of Belgium in central Brussels, entered the building and began selecting targets before he escaped, as did the driver who brought him there.
Police briefly detained a person they initially said was a suspect, but later released him and said they regarded him a witness.
Authorities in Israel and Belgium did not immediately make known the identities of the people killed.


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6 David and Goliath Stories From the Corporate World
Every now and then, the little guy (or gal) wins.
Hasan Syed Vs. British Airways
Back in April, we reported on how corporations are on better behavior than ever before: "It's not that the powers that be have all experienced some collective spiritual awakening. It's not even that they've gained a newfound respect for their customers. It's that, thanks in large part to social media, when they screw up, we the people now have the chance to make a big, fat, lingering stink."
Well, sometimes making a stink takes a little cash, too.
When British Airways (OTCMKTS:BAIRY) lost a Chicago businessman's family's luggage en route to Paris and refused to answer his emails, he harnessed his Twitter account to get it back. Hasan Syed spent more than $1,000 on promoted "Don't fly @BritishAirways" tweets targeted to 50,000 Twitter users in New York and the UK with a barrage of messages about its "horrendous" and "pathetic" customer service.
Major media outlets picked up the story, other disgruntled customers began commiserating, and voila -- British Airways sent this reply: "Sorry for the delay in responding, our Twitter feed is open 0900-1700 GMT. Please DM your baggage ref and we'll look into this."
With a tweet that can only end up biting him in the you-know-what, JetBlue's (NASDAQ:JBLU) SVP of marketing, Marty St. George, weighed in on the story. "Interesting; a disgruntled customer is buying a promoted tweet slamming a brand where they had a bad experience. That's a new trend itself!"
Julie Miller Vs. Equifax
What do you get when a credit bureau refuses to fix serious errors on your credit report? According to a federal jury in Oregon, $18.4 million.
In one of the biggest judgments in legal history against a consumer credit agency, Julie Miller successfully sued Equifax Information Services (NYSE:EFX) for dragging its feet on correcting misinformation that ruined her reputation and blocked her access to credit. On eight separate occasions between 2009 and 2011, Miller tried to get Equifax to sort out mistaken identity accounts, collection attempts, and even a wrong birthday and Social Security number.
Given that as many as one in five people have similar mistakes in their credit reports, only 20% of whom manage to get them corrected, this verdict could be the push credit bureaus need to get serious about protecting the rest of us Davids from fraud.
Heather Peters Vs. Honda
Heather Peters' case is a win-turned-not-total-loss. Lured into purchasing a 2006 Honda (NYSE:HMC) Civic because of its 50 MPG gas mileage advertising claim, Peters found her hybrid sedan never reached that level of fuel economy -- in fact, she saw a reduction in gas mileage after Honda performed a software update on the car to sustain its battery life.
The former lawyer opted out of a class action settlement against Honda that would have reaped a $200 reward and instead took the auto giant to Small Claims Court in 2012 where she got nearly 50 times that amount. In his 26-page decision, a California judge cited a list of Honda's "misleading representations" that the Civic would use "amazingly little fuel" and awarded Peters $9,867 in damages. Suddenly, Peters was making headlines around the country as the consumer underdog who took on a corporate behemoth and won.
But the "victory for all Honda Civic owners," as it was called, was soon stripped away by a Superior Court that sided with Honda's file for an appeal and overturned the previous judgment.
While Honda may have won this particular battle, Peters started a war that will have the car company mired in litigation for the foreseeable future. Her DontSettleWithHonda.org website has inspired dozens of other wronged Civic owners to pursue their own legal fights in Small Claims Court -- a venue that bars lawyers from participating. Now Honda is being forced to devote resources to training non-attorney employees on how to mount a courtroom defense and, when the automaker loses, having to lawyer up for appellate court.
Personally disappointed with her ruling, Peters still doesn't regret the lawsuit and believes it was "effective to get the news out. It got a lot of people engaged. I am glad I did it."
800,000 Netflix Users Vs. Netflix
New consumer technology and media have certainly had their share of growing pains. With one really bad executive decision, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) went from the darling of the DVD rental world to its biggest villain in July 2011.
The announcement of a new fee structure would split video streaming and DVD rental from one bundled service into two separately charged plans, and add a 60% price hike to the bill. The DVD-only business was named Qwikster. Well, hell hath no fury like a scorned customer with a social media account. The widespread bashing in the comments section of Netflix's Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) page mushroomed into a mass exodus that took 800,000 subscribers and 75% off its bottom line.
By mid-October, Netflix couldn't weather the firestorm any longer and killed Qwikster in the crib, and returned the red envelope mail service to its regularly priced line-up.
Jes M. Baker Vs. Abercrombie & Fitch
"A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."
In a moment defined by an astounding lack of forethought and PR savvy, Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) head Mike Jeffries made that confession about his target customer during a 2006 interview with Salon. The senior citizen CEO -- whose plastic-surgery-bungled face apparently hasn't seen the reflective side of a mirror in a few years -- set the record straight that his image-conscious brand is meant exclusively for "the cool and popular kids... good-looking people."
For the female shopper tipping the scales at anything over a size 10, Jeffries wants you to know that his brand is totally not you. The A&F clique is, like, way out of your league.
Jes M. Baker of the Militant Baker blog presented an artistic difference of opinion on beauty ideals by posing with model John C. Shay in a mock Abercrombie & Fitch ad campaign called Attractive & Fat. The slick, black-and-white photos shot in the retailer's suggestive style created a media frenzy and turned the size 22 Baker into a spokesmodel for the full-figured woman.
Meanwhile, Abercrombie & Fitch has been finding it harder and harder these days to get a seat at the popular table. Last month, the company reported worse-than-expected earnings and revenue, with same-store sales taking a double-digit nosedive during the second quarter. The cool kids are turning their backs on the brand in favor of hipster havens Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN), Forever 21, and H&M (STO:HM-B) -- of which the latter two offer plus-sized fashions.
So Jeffries' company went from high school trendsetter to social outcast -- John Hughes couldn't have written this last act better himself.
Dmitry Agarkov Vs. Tinkoff Credit Systems
In 2008, Dmitry Agarkov of Voronezh, Russia, received a letter from Tinkoff Credit Systems in his mailbox. It was a credit card application form with an agreement contract enclosed, much like the applications Americans receive daily from Visa (NYSE:V), Mastercard (NYSE:MA), American Express (NYSE:AXP), and Discover (NYSE:DFS). Agarkov filled in the form and returned the signed application, though what he sent back was not exactly the same document the bank had sent him.
Agarkov changed some parts for his own benefit -- most notably, the small print. He opted in for a 0% APR and no fees, and added that the customer "is not obliged to pay any fees and charges imposed by bank tariffs." He also changed the URL of the site where the terms and conditions were published fromwww.tcsbank.ru to tcsbank.at.ua. Finally, he added a special clause that would protect him should the bank not honor the agreement. For each unilateral change in the terms provided in the agreement, the bank would be asked to pay the customer (Agarkov) 3 million rubles (about $91,000), or a cancellation fee of 6 million rubles ($182,000).
Agarkov then sent his updated agreement to the bank, and shortly thereafter received the bank's signed and certified copy, as well as a credit card.
Agarkov used the card for two years before the bank closed his account. According to Tinkoff Credit Systems, Agarkov was late paying the minimum required payments every month. In 2012, the bank sued Agarkov for 45,000 roubles ($1,363) – an amount that included the remaining balance, fees, and late payment charges. Surprisingly, the court did not side with the powerful bank in this case. It decided that the agreement Agarkov had crafted was valid, and only required Agarkov to settle his balance of 19,000 rubles ($575).
But the squabble did not end there. Agarkov's story made headlines around the world and was a favorite topic on social media sites. Agarkov started proceedings to try and claim a larger settlement -- to be paid by the bank -- per the terms he had added to his personalized contract. The bank's founder made some unflattering comments about his most famous client on Twitter and Agarkov threatened to sue him again. Eventually the two parties were able to settle their differences and call an end to the media circus. By then, Agarkov had become a kind of folk hero.
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A palindrome is a word or phrase that is spelled the same both forward or backward - like taco cat or as I pee sir, I see Pisa. The name of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW is a palindromic 535, but could you go either way on its price?
No two ways about it, yesterday's wine-colored '93 Audi S4 brought its seller an 85% Nice Price win, despite ominous rumblings about its relatively low cost of entry being only the tip of the Teutonic iceberg when likely future mechanical repairs were taken into account.
While six years more senior, maintenance on today's BMW e28 535is shouldn't be much of an issue as its reverent current owner provides a litany of parts that have been either updated or replaced outright over the past half decade. It's almost as though he has jacked up the radiator cap and then drove a new car in underneath. Now he's moving to back home to Australia and needs to part with the car before parting these shores.
As noted, the car comes with pretty much every consumable renewed, a good thing considering both its 191,000 mile life and the evanescent nature of some e28 parts - notably the wear points of the suspension. The engine isn't typically as ephemeral, the seven main SOHC six being a particularly robust motivator. The M30B34 - despite the 535 nomenclature - displaces 3,430-ccs making it closer to a 3.4 litre, and in U.S. guise it produced 185-bhp.
This one's M30 benefits from a 5-speed manual having its back and a 3.78 rear-end sending the power to the wheels. Unfortunately, those spiffy BBS alloys in the pics don't come with the sale, but the prospective buyer can look forward to a set of style 5s, which, the seller reassures, do. Other exterior accouterments are the M-Tech body additions, M5 blackout window frames, and body-colored - in Zinnoberrot - door pulls. The only truly questionable addition is that kevlar wing weighing down the trunk lid. The seller claims that its installation interfered with the factory radio antenna placement, which has been removed and welded over before the car received a partial respray. It's up to you to determine if that was an equatable trade.
The seller doesn't yet provide any interior shots, stating down the thread that he's waiting to have it detailed before doing so. If the insides look anything like the exterior, then it'll be worth the wait. He does note that the dash does sport a crack in it, and as it's not anywhere near as appealing to view as Jessica Alba's coin slot, he keeps it covered with a dash mat. Other issues are some clear coat pee lon the C-pillar, a brake warning light that he claims is crying wolf, and a knock-knock joke from the rear end.
The 535is edition of the e28 is relatively rare in the States, the majority of those sold here seemingly being the son, I am disappoint, 528e editions. Those cars were like the BMW equivalent of Applebee's food, and were part of the company's '80s effort to combat their reputation for putting performance over fuel efficiency. The freaky 524td diesel was another, and both were sold alongside the 535i which, unapologetically, would leave each of those in its dust, even if it had to make more trips to the pump.
This one's not only near the top of e28 performance food chain - the single-year and much more expensive to maintain M5 standing alone on its shoulders - but it's been owned by someone who obviously takes both great joy and pride in its stewardship. That is evident in both the fact that he has eschewed the broader reach of Craigslist or eBay for the narrower, but more appreciative confines of mye28.com to market his ride, and that he's asking $6,500 for a car that's obviously been a labor of love.
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Finally, a Worthy Heir to Outlook Express
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If you didn't know any better, you might think Microsoft Corp. was trying to confuse you into using the wrong email program — or wanted to scare you away from email altogether. Throughout roughly the past year, the company has introduced two would-be successors to its well-liked Outlook Express email program. One attempt, now discontinued, featured annoying advertisements that couldn't be hidden; the other comes loaded on PCs with the new Windows Vista operating system but amazingly doesn't work with Microsoft's own Hotmail.
Now, Microsoft is hoping to clear up the confusion and simplify lives with a third release to replace Outlook Express: Windows Live Mail. And judging by an early version of the program, the third time could be the charm.
Microsoft's Windows Live Mail, a free download, enables photo embedding, resizing and touch-ups in the email.
Outlook Express, or OE as it's called, garnered popularity as a slimmed down, consumer-friendly version of its big brother Outlook, which many people are already familiar with thanks to its widespread use in the workplace. Outlook Express was a straightforward program that let users set up email accounts in a few short steps without help from an IT department.
But in 2004, seven years after its debut, Microsoft stopped investing in OE, causing it to lag behind new email programs with more advanced features. Even so, its simplicity was so attractive that three years ago when Microsoft started charging $20 monthly for new users to check Hotmail emails using OE, people paid.
Now comes Windows Live Mail. The program can be downloaded free at http://get.live.com/betas, and while it's still in its testing phase and has kinks, it's already rather good. It includes new bells and whistles like photo-embedding tools, syndicated feeds and integration with instant messaging. But if none of these extras interest you, you'll be glad to find that Windows Live Mail still offers the same familiarity as OE in all its uncomplicated glory.
It has a few glaring bugs. Its email sound indicator doesn't notify you of newly received emails. It lost its connection a few too many times when attempting to retrieve email — especially when I first installed it. And when I tried to email a Word attachment using Windows Live Mail, it failed, but this only happened when I used Windows Vista. Unless Microsoft fixes these bugs, which could take until the fall, all of its good intentions might be for naught. But the pluses of Windows Live Mail make me think it could be a worthy successor to OE.
On a separate but confusing note, Microsoft's Web version of Hotmail was just overhauled, giving it more Web 2.0 functionality such as the ability to drag and drop messages from one folder to another without changing screens. It now incorporates a reading pane for each email like that found in Outlook or Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Hotmail, as it's now called, is separate from Windows Live Mail.
Windows Live Mail offers new features like integration with instant messaging, but still resembles its predecessor, Outlook Express.
Windows Live Mail works on computers running Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista. I tried both, and noted a few slight differences, most of which are aesthetic.
Before Windows Live Mail, I was up a creek when I wanted to set up my long-standing Hotmail account on Vista. My Vista laptop came with a separate but similarly named program called Windows Mail, which didn't work with Hotmail. I had to set up the Hotmail account on my laptop's full version of Outlook, which was more exasperating and far too slow. Outlook is designed primarily for Microsoft Exchange email — corporate email set up by companies — and can be slow and clumsy with Web-based or other consumer email accounts.
When I downloaded and installed Windows Live Mail on my Vista and XP machines, setting up email accounts (including Hotmail) took just about 10 seconds each. There's no limit on the number of email addresses that you can add to Windows Live Mail, as was also the case with Outlook Express. But it took a bit longer for my various Hotmail folders to get set up. Windows Live Mail supports full two-way synchronization, a plus that guarantees any changes made on one computer will be reflected on others through your account.
A feature within Windows Live Mail called Active Search automatically reads emails that are visible in your preview pane and extracts keywords from those messages for advertisements that appear in a column on the far right side. But Active Search can be closed with one click, never to be seen again.
I was excited to use the new photo-embedding tools in this program, though this isn't a new idea; Apple Mail, Apple Inc.'s equivalent to Outlook Express, already offers photo sizing and slide shows within emails. While composing an email using Windows Live Mail I selected "Add Photos," choosing pics of a friend's wedding from various folders on my PC. These shots appeared in my email with designated space below each for titles. Without leaving the email body, you can choose one of three frames to place around each shot, or you can change the picture itself by automatically enhancing it or by changing a color shot to black and white.
Windows Live Mail lets you choose photo sizes within the email to avoid unknowingly sending gigantic emails. Two categories help, labeled "Size in Email" (small, medium or large thumbnails) and "File Size" (small, medium and large; large offers up to five megabytes per photo). If you're sending these embedded pics with a Microsoft Live ID, a link to a slide show of the photos is sent with your shots and recipients can copy hi-res versions of each image for up to 30 days.
I missed hearing a sound notification whenever new emails arrived. Microsoft says it will fix this and other bugs by the fall, at the latest, which is a long time to wait.
Another thing that bothered me was that each contact name has an icon beside it showing a generic photo, which you'd assume could be replaced with an actual photo of the person. But instead, that icon will only show an image if that person is on your Live Messenger buddy list (Microsoft's integrated instant-messaging program) and if he or she chooses to show a photo. This seems like a real waste of space for the majority of your contacts who won't be Live Messenger users.
Junk-mail settings can be adjusted to "Low," "High" or "Safe List Only," meaning that only those emails on a list that you create can be received.
As I kept my Windows Live Mail account open, it didn't seem to be checking email as rapidly as my old Outlook Express program did; this was the case on my XP desktop and on my Vista laptop. The program seemed to have trouble establishing an Internet connection through Windows Live Mail on both PCs more than a few times, though I was simultaneously using a Web browser. This occurred less the more I used Windows Live Mail, but it was irksome at first.
Other interesting features of this new email client include RSS feeds that are specifically organized in your account like emails; I set up five to start and kept a steady stream of news coming in. You can also be notified when of one of your contacts signs on to Live Messenger, letting you link directly into an instant-messaging conversation rather than an email for faster communication. Also, content from emails can be uploaded to your Microsoft Spaces site in a single click.
As usual, contacts from other programs like Outlook and certain file types can be imported into your Windows Live Mail contact list; compatibility will be expanded when the final version of Windows Live Mail is released later this year.
For now, though this email program is still in beta and has its wrinkles, you'll find it to be a helpful and straightforward program to use, just like its predecessor, Outlook Express.
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Quick reminder on some great news
A range of Women Grow Business bloggers are scheduled to present at the first GrowSmartBiz Conference this September. …agenda to be released soon so please check back shortly!
And(!) WIRED's Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson, also great author of The Longest Tail and Free will keynote the event.
So get ready for these panelist topics:
- Driving Small Business Performance with Marketing & Innovation
- Raising Capital with Effective Finance Strategies
- Getting Ahead in the Current Economy
- Integrating Traditional Marketing with Social Media
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- Small business events and write-ups, plus suggested networking events for women entrepreneurs per Women Grow Business.


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Fidelity Institutional announced Wednesday that is has opened an intriguingly named "Office of the Future" on its Smithfield, R.I., campus. The office was designed with input from the Fidelity Center of Applied Technology to address macro technology trends that have the biggest impact on advisors in the near future: mobile, pervasive video, evolving interfaces, cloud computing, social media, big data and gamification.
"What we're doing here is taking those macro trends and identifying which are most likely to evolve to influence advisors' offices to some extent in the current state, but we're looking in the three- to five-year time horizon," Ed O'Brien, senior vice president and head of platform technology for Fidelity, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday.
The office is an example of what Fidelity thinks newer offices will look and feel like, O'Brien said. Advisors can visit the office or see it online in a virtual tour, similar to what you might see on a real estate company's website. "We recognize that not every advisor that we serve or that wants to work with Fidelity is going to travel to the Northeast," O'Brien said. "We wanted to make it a place where people could come and learn what's new in technology and hopefully be able to see practices where good technology is getting good utilization and good innovation."
O'Brien said 80% of advisors want to do more with technology and get better utilization, referring to data from Fidelity's "Insights on Advice" study conducted last year. "Part of what we can do here is take new technologies and put it into practice so that advisors can hopefully learn ways to make their investment in technology more efficient."
Fidelity has a "pretty robust practice management offering," O'Brien said, that includes technology and operations consultants to help advisors implement new technology or get better utilization of what they currently have. "It's a pretty scalable offering. For instance, let's say somebody calls and says, 'I'm thinking about moving some of my software and applications to the cloud.' We have white papers, we have checklists that say, 'Here are the top 10 questions you should ask when thinking about cloud technology.' From that kind of tactical [support] all the way through to helping advisors decide if they should have their own data warehousing strategy to support their multiple lines of business. It's a pretty broad spectrum that we can help them on."
O'Brien said of the experimental office, "It gives you a sense of a room that is much more open to collaborative discussions with their advisors either working with associates in an office or when they have clients in the office, moving away from what tends to be 'you and I sit down across a six-foot wooden table with a monitor in between us.' Instead, we're putting technology in our hands that we can work with together."
As for the kind of technology on display, some is familiar, like monitors and cameras that facilitate virtual meetings. The office also showcases things like gesture controllers "so that we can start to use more human interaction as opposed to things like mouse clicks."
This kind of technology is an attempt to "make the environment more user-friendly," O'Brien said. When people feel "more comfortable with technology, hopefully they're going to use it more."
Advisors' adoption of technology isn't so much a strategy to appeal to younger, more tech-savvy clients, either. Research from the "Insights on Advice" study found one-third of advisors are already using cloud technology and another third want to adopt it. "Very quickly you see it's not really based on generation [of clients], it's firms that want to do two things: They want to drive more efficiency in their practice and they want to have a better client interaction."


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April 7, 2011: In what executives called the largest deal in team history, the Washington Mystics have signed a multi-faceted "marquee partnership" with Inova Health System, which will be anchored with jersey-front branding on home and away jerseys, shooting shirts and community apparel beginning with 2011 WNBA season.
The Mystics are the fifth WNBA team to sign a jersey-front branding deal. The others are the Phoenix Mercury (Lifelock), Los Angeles Sparks (Farmers Insurance), Seattle Storm (Microsoft search engine Bing) and the New York Liberty (Foxwoods Resort Casino).
Financial terms of the alliance were not disclosed. Inova Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia that consists of hospitals and other health services.
The deal coincides with adidas unveiling WNBA uniforms with Revolution 30 technology and women's basketball specific TechFit base layers. Revolution 30 uniforms, which were introduced by NBA players this season, are 30% lighter and dry twice as fast as previous uniforms, according to adidas. All 12 WNBA teams will wear the new uniforms beginning this season, which tips off on June 3.
As part of the alliance with the Mystics, Inova Health System will have signage and other touchpoints within Verizon Center and marketing that includes TV, print and Internet. Inova Health System also becomes the presenting partner of the Mystics and NBA Washington Wizards Youth Basketball Camps. Inova Health System will receive co-branding on signage pertaining to camps and clinics, in-arena recognition at all Mystics and Wizards home games and presence in marketing and social media platforms.
A major focus of the relationship will be to "design a program that will help improve the overall health of the community by promoting various initiatives and awareness programs."
According to Mystics' COO Greg Bibb, "We look forward to wearing the Inova name on our uniform with great pride while we work together with their outstanding personnel to create a platform focused on childhood obesity, women's health issues and preventative health."
Inova's first public on-court role with the Mystics will be during a scrimmage against the visiting China national women's basketball team on May 23. On May 26, Inova will be title sponsor of the Mystics' third annual School Day Game, a pre-season contest against the Chicago Sky during which students from the Washington metropolitan area will watch the game in conjunction with a variety of educational components.
"Working together as professional caregivers and professional athletes, we know there is nothing more important than the health of our community," Mark Stauder, president and COO of Inova Health System, said in a statement. "Inova's teaming up with the Washington Mystics is a natural outgrowth of shared commitments to preventative care, chronic disease management and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Together, we will make better use of our resources to transform our community's health, empowering individuals through excellence in patient care, education and research."
Said Bibb, "Not only is the Inova partnership the largest in terms of scope and commitment in the history of the Mystics, it is also one of the most important in terms of the opportunity it creates for us to make positive change throughout the greater Washington, D.C., region."
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Victoria Szabo
Research Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Ph.D., University of Rochester 2000
M.A., University of Rochester 1996
M.A., Indiana University at Bloomington 1992
B.A., Williams College 1990
My primary teaching and research interest is in the intersection of digital humanities and media studies, especially in relation to spatial and immersive media forms. I am especially intrigued by the potential of augmented reality to invoke the presence of the past through lived experience in space and time, and have worked on archives-based projects focused on Durham, western NC mountain music, and Venetian architecture, among others. I also co-create video game based art installations with the Psychasthenia Studio, and engage in digital arts curation projects with the ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.) In addition, as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, and of the Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, I have become increasingly focused on the future of the university and the ways in which disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge is created, shared, and understood within higher education, libraries, museums, and the public sphere in the digital age. She/her.
ExpertiseSpatial media, mobile applications, media history, digital humanities, visualization, information science and information studies
Contact Information
114 S Buchanan Blvd Bay 10, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90766, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, Durham, NC 27708
Szabo, V. "Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory." The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, vol. 1, Routledge, 2018.
Szabo, V. "Guidebooks and mobile applications: a new mode of communication.." Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City, Routledge, 2017.
Szabo, V. "Visualizing Venice summer workshops for for graduate students and beginning scholars.." Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City, Routledge, 2017.
Szabo, V. Introduction. 2015, pp. 328–29.
Szabo, V. Introduction. Vol. 48, 2015, pp. 328–29. Scopus, doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01085. Full Text
Szabo, V. E., et al. "Digital Cities: A Collaborative Engagement with Urban Heritage." Proceedings of the 2013 International Digital Heritage Congress, vol. 2, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2013, pp. 349–52.
Szabo, V. "On the Algerian Sands: Reviving Cigarette in Under Two Flags." Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film, Popular Press, 1999.
Szabo, V., and Angela D. Jones. "The Uninvited Guest: Erase of Women in Ordinary People." Vision/Re-Vision Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film, Popular Press, 1996.
Szabo, V. Knowledge in 3D: How 3D data visualization is reshaping our world. Parameters: Knowledge Under Digital Conditions. Social Science Research Council., July 2018.
Szabo, V. "Psychasthenia studio and the gamification of contemporary culture." Media and Communication, vol. 6, no. 2, Jan. 2018, pp. 90–102. Scopus, doi:10.17645/mac.v6i2.1351. Full Text
Szabo, V., et al. "From Landscape to Cities: A Participatory Approach to the Creation of Digital Cultural Heritage." International Information and Library Review, vol. 49, no. 2, Apr. 2017, pp. 115–23. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10572317.2017.1314141. Full Text
Szabo, Victoria. "ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art Introduction." Leonardo, vol. 48, no. 4, Aug. 2015, pp. 328–29. Wos-lite, doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01085. Full Text
Szabo, Victoria. "Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History." American Literature, vol. 87, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 418–20.
Szabo, Victoria. "From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution." American Literature, vol. 87, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 418–20.
Lanzoni, K., et al. "Wired! and Visualizing Venice: Scaling up Digital Art History." Artl@S Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 20–39.
Timothy, J., et al. "Digital Cities: A collaborative engagement with urban heritage." Proceedings of the Digitalheritage 2013 Federating the 19th Int'L Vsmm, 10th Eurographics Gch, and 2nd Unesco Memory of the World Conferences, Plus Special Sessions Fromcaa, Arqueologica 2.0 Et Al., vol. 2, Dec. 2013, pp. 349–52. Scopus, doi:10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6744778. Full Text
Szabo, V. "Introduction." Leonardo, vol. 46, no. 4, Aug. 2013. Scopus, doi:10.1162/LEON_a_00611. Full Text
Szabo, V. E. "XYZN: Scale." Leonardo, vol. 46, 2013, pp. 386–417.
Jaskot, Paul, et al. Shaping the Discipline of Digital Art History: A recap of an advanced summer institute on 3-D and (geo)spatial networks. The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty, 19 Dec. 2018.
Szabo, Victoria, and Joyce Rudinsky. Psychasthenia 3: Dupes. 2018.
Szabo, V., and J. Rudinsky. Psychasthenia 2. 2012.
Szabo, V. E., and Joyce Rudinsky. Psychasthenia 2. Feb. 2012.
Technology, MLA Committee for Information. Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Jan. 2012.
Szabo, V. E. Augmented Reality Gallery Guide, CHAT Festival 2012. 2012.
Szabo, V. E. "Assistant Editor, Special Issue." Leonardo, vol. 44, MIT Press, Aug. 2011.
Szabo, V. E. Augmented SIGGRAPH/Vancouver. Aug. 2011.
Rudinsky, Joyce, et al. Psychasthenia. Feb. 2010.
Szabo, V. E. Kenan Institute for Ethics "Good Question" Brochure. 2010.
Szabo, V. E., et al. Multimedia Mapping: Muhuru Bay. 2010.
Szabo, V. E., et al. Virtual Duke Tour. 2010.
Dobin, Hank, and et al. "Technology Fluency and its Place in Liberal Education." Teagle Foundation White Paper, 2007.
Digital Art History + Media Studies: Scholarly Encounters. Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D Geospatial Networks. College Art Association. February 13, 2019
Critical Approaches to Virtual and Augmented Reality.. TC Digital Humanities. Modern Language Association. January 3, 2019
Decomposing the Disciplines. B³ - Bildung Beyond Boundaries, Part II: Beyond the Discipline. Academic Innovations and the Role of Inter and Trans Disciplinarity.. Jacobs University. November 9, 2018
Contested Histories: Cultural Heritage and the Digital Archive. Digital Humanities. Ursinus College. October 30, 2018
Collaborative Approaches to Modeling the Past in 3D/VR: The Interdisciplinary Lab Model for Teaching, Research, and Public Outreach. Council on Library and Information Resources 3D/VR Symposium. March 8, 2018
The Future of Digital Teaching and Learning. NOWETAS Group Meeting: Is Powerpoint the Answer to Modern Learning and Teaching?. HWK . November 15, 2017
Humanities, Science & Technology: The Interdisciplinary Lab and the City. PhD Academy on The Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Tackle Societal Challenges. KU Leuven, Belgium. September 20, 2017
Visualizing the City: Objects, Landscapes, Networks. Centre de Recerca i Debat. Museo D'Historia de Barcelona. July 5, 2017
Cultural Approaches to Digital Heritage. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities. University of Rochester. March 2, 2017
Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present. 2018 - 2019
Committee on Information Technology : Modern Language Association. October 19, 2011 - October 19, 2014
Committee Member. Transdisciplinary Connections: Digital Humanities. Modern Language Association. January 2017
Information Aesthetics Showcase (Curation) | ACM SIGGRAPH Exhibition at ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Psychasthenia 2 | Exhibition at International Digital Media and Arts Association's IDEAS_14. Orem, UT..
Psychasthenia 3: Dupes. Creator. (2017)
Psychasthenia 2. Creator. Psychasthenia 2 Web Documentation (2012)
Psychasthenia 2 is an interactive artwork that explores the culture of psychological diagnosis and treatment within the context of a highly mediated consumer culture that often produces the ills it purports to treat.
The project is a navigable 3D interactive space built with the game engine Unity.
InnerSpace Adventure. Creator. (2012)
Psychasthenia 1. Creator. Psychasthenia Studio (2011)
Co-Convener, Interdisciplinary Working Group - Experiencing Virtual Worlds. Franklin Humanities Institute. 2010
Selected Grants
Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI) awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2020
Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks awarded by (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2019
MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Stereoscopic Interactive Visualization System for Research and Education in Scienc awarded by National Science Foundation (Investigator). 2014 to 2016


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Harris Search Associates appoints West Chester University Dean of Health Sciences
Harris Search Associates has successfully appointed Dr. Linda Adams as Dean of Health Sciences at West Chester University .
A former associate vice chancellor and provost of North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been named dean of West Chester University's College of Health Sciences. Linda Adams, who holds degrees in public health and nursing, replaces Donald Barr, who retired after 15 years with the University.
"Dr. Adams brings years of successful leadership in academia, as well as impressive experience here and abroad teaching and conducting research," notes West Chester University provost Linda Lamwers. "We are delighted that she has accepted the position."
Prior to her tenure at North Carolina A & T State University where she served as provost and as associate vice chancellor for University Outreach, Professional Development and Distance Education, Adams served as dean and professor at Oakland University's School of Nursing. She also held leadership positions in higher education at the University of Maryland, Coppin State University, and Hampton University.
From 1989 to 1993, Adams served on the cabinet of Mayor Schmoke as the Director of Occupational Medicine and Safety, and from 1995 to 1999 under Governor Glendenning as Special Secretary of Children, Youth & Families for the State of Maryland. As such, she was the governor's chief policy advisor on all matters related to children and youth, managing an interagency budget of over $100 million.
Adams has spent the majority of her career promoting policies and programs to improve the quality of life for children and youth both here and abroad. More than 20 years ago, she was one of the first nurses to assess the characteristics of incarcerated youth, risk factors for delinquent behavior, and the importance of collaborative partnerships to promote healthy behaviors. This research led to the development of a national policy requiring mental health assessments of all detained and adjudicated youth. Adams also has been an integral part of policy development for children and youth through her advisory and consulting roles in China, India, Korea, Brazil and the Caribbean.
A member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health and the National Advisory Council of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, Adams has served on numerous boards, including the National Initiative on Children's Healthcare Quality, the Urban League, and the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. She also has served on the government affairs committee of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the Magnet Hospital Recognition Board of the Department of Veteran Affairs, and the American Medical Association's advisory panel on improving health provider's cultural competence.
Over the course of her career, Adams has been honored by more than three dozen organizations, including the American Academy of Nursing, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Alpha, the National Black Nurses Association, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow.
A graduate of Wayne State University where she received her undergraduate and a master's degree in nursing in 1974 and 1978, respectively, Adams went on to earn a master's and doctorate in public health at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.


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Jamie Moyer to throw out ceremonial first pitch at home opener
From the Mariners press release ...
Jamie Moyer, the winningest pitcher in Seattle Mariners history, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Night, Monday, April 8, when the Mariners take on the Houston Astros. Game time is 7:10pm. Pregame ceremonies will start at approximately 6:30pm.
Moyer, who played 11 years with the Mariners (1996-2006), won 145 games and holds Mariners records for games started (323), innings pitched (2093.0), batters faced (8802) and fewest walks per nine innings pitched (2.253). He is third in win percentage (.625), and is tied for sixth in shutouts with 6.
Moyer was the Mariners Most Valuable Pitcher four times (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003), twice won 20 or more games (20 games in 2001, 21 wins in 2003), was an All-Star (2003), and was the starting pitcher for the Inaugural Game at Safeco Field on July 15, 1999. He was the Mariners Opening Day starter in 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Moyer also received numerous awards for his philanthropy and community service including the Roberto Clemente Award, the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award and the Hutch Award, all in 2003, and the Branch Rickey Award in 2004. Jamie and his wife Karen founded the Moyer Foundation in 2000 to "serve the needs of children in distress."
Moyer was best known for control and mixing his five main pitches – sinker, cut fastball, slider, changeup and curveball – to keep hitters off balance.
Moyer was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 6th round of the 1984 amateur player draft. He made his Major League debut on June 16, 1986, with a win over the Philadelphia Phillies and starting pitcher Steve Carlton. He was acquired by the Mariners in 1996 in a mid-season trade that sent outfielder Darren Bragg to the Boston Red Sox. Moyer has played for eight Major League teams (Chicago Cubs 1986-88; Texas Rangers 1989-90; St. Louis Cardinals 1991; Baltimore Orioles 1993-1995; Boston Red Sox 1996; Mariners 1996-2006; Philadelphia Phillies 2006-2010; Colorado Rockies 2012), and won a World Series Championship in 2008 with the Phillies.
Single-game tickets for the 2013 Mariners season go on sale Saturday, March 16 at 10am. Fans can register for a special online pre-sale opportunity to buy tickets on March 14, two days before they go on sale to the general public. Log onto mariners.com/register to sign up for the pre-sale.


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Jordan will send more men to Sierra Leone "very soon" to join UN peacekeeping forces there, a military spokesman announced Thursday.
The spokesman, quoted on state television, did not give any figure for the new contingent, but said they would bring the total number of Jordanians serving with the UN mission in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, to nearly 2,000.
He said the decision to send them had been taken by King Abdullah II in answer to a request from the United Nations.
UNAMSIL currently has about 10,000 men, from seven countries, and aims to end up with just over 11,000.
Meanwhile, Libya sent helicopters belonging to its civilian air fleet to Liberia Thursday to help evacuated wounded UN peacekeepers released by Sierra Leonean rebels, Libyan state television reported.
It did not say how many helicopters had gone to Foya airport, nor where they would be taken to.
"The gesture is a response to African and international appeals to Libya for it to intervene to obtain the release of the UN forces" held by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the television said.
So far 137 members of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, have been released by the RUF to Liberia, whose president, Charles Taylor, is negotiating with the rebels to secure the release of the UN hostages.
UNAMSIL spokesman David Wimhurst said Thursday 337 UN personnel were still being held captive.
The UN is still demanding the immediate return of all its personnel and equipment, including weapons, taken by the RUF.
Libyan Minister of African Unity, Ali Triki arrived in Freetown on May 6, for talks with President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah about the crisis in the peace process in the country – (AFP)
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Smoked Trout Pasta with Verde Sauce
The verde or green sauce is a loose translation at best. It couples the zestiness of salsa verde, which so perfectly cuts through the richness of the trout, with a traditional pesto, the perfect partner for pasta. Ideally the verde sauce will be prepared with a mortar and pestle to retain the greenest shade possible which the heat of the food processor blade tends to destroy. I've chosen a tubular spaghetti which is substantial enough to stand up to the strong flavours, but not far removed from the traditional pairing of spaghetti or linguine with pesto. Pound the sauce for a few minutes in the mortar and pestle to release a little work stress, boil some water for the pasta, toss everything together and dinner is on the table. Serve it with the simplest of green salads.
This is also my contribution to Presto Pasta Nights hosted by Ruth of Once Upon a Feast.
Serves 4
150g sliced smoked trout
400g tubular spaghetti
2 caper berries chopped (optional)
Verde Sauce
1 cup basil leaves
1/3 cup pine nuts or cashews chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp white balsamic vinegar (or any white vinegar)
Generous pinch of salt
In a mortar and pestle begin to pound the basil leaves and nuts with the salt. Pour in the olive oil and vinegar and pound to a stage where the nuts and basil retain their texture. You want a roughly chopped sauce mixture than a purée.
Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta according to packet directions. Drain, retaining a little cooking water.
In a pan combine the cooking water, sauce, pasta and trout. Reserve a little verde sauce to garnish with and serve in large bowls.
26 comments:
- Lucy said...
Just my kind of pasta meal Truffle; fast and stress relieving!
- 14 August 2007 at 3:45 pm
- Cynthia said...
This is the ideal pasta we use when making macaroni and cheese pie.
Your dish looks so flavourful. While I have had smoked salmon before, I've never had smoked trout. Those things are do darn expensive here.
- 14 August 2007 at 4:55 pm
- eatme_delicious said...
What an interesting pasta shape. I hope I come across it in a grocery store soon. :)
- 14 August 2007 at 5:06 pm
- Anh said...
This is delightful, Truffle! I like every single ingredient you have here! Yum yum!
- 14 August 2007 at 5:08 pm
- Truffle said...
Thanks Lucy. It's the perfect thing to cook after work for those reasons!
Cynthia- Your macaroni and cheese sounds fantastic. Smoked trout is very similar in texture to salmon but has a more delicate flavour I think.
eatme- It's fun to eat too!
Thank you so much Anh. I really appreciate all your lovely comments.
- 15 August 2007 at 1:42 am
- Ruth Daniels said...
It does look scrumptious and I'm glad you left a comment on my site because I didn't get the entry for this week's Presto Pasta NIghts. Now it's in the line up. Check back on Friday for the big roundup.
- 15 August 2007 at 5:41 am
- Patricia Scarpin said...
I love tubular pasta, Truffle, and this dish looks delicious!
- 15 August 2007 at 6:34 am
- Nirmala said...
This looks so yummy. I haven't seen that kind of pasta either.
- 15 August 2007 at 10:55 am
- Mansi Desai said...
Hi truffle
an excellent and easy recipe, as always:)
- 15 August 2007 at 12:05 pm
- katiez said...
That looks wonderful! I love smoked fish with pasta...and pesto...yum!
Back in another life, when I had a pasta machine I used to make that kind of pasta... I've never seen it to buy.
- 15 August 2007 at 12:16 pm
- Truffle said...
Ruth - thanks so much for hosting. Looking forward to the roundup.
Patricia- thank you! It's a lovely pasta shape, isn't it?
Nirmala- Thanks you!
Mansi Desai- thanks for your lovely comments.
Katiez- Thanks. I'm really impressed you made your own!
- 15 August 2007 at 1:27 pm
- Nora B. said...
Truffle, such a lovely dish! The paring of the verde sauce with the smoked trout is a terrific one. I haven't had tubular spaghetti for a long time. My mum used to stir fry that pasta the Asian way ;-)
- 15 August 2007 at 1:56 pm
- this little mainyacha said...
Impressive!!! Will have to try it.
- 15 August 2007 at 8:11 pm
- Truffle said...
Nora B. - thank you! Your mum's way sounds fantastic!
This little mainyacha - Thanks! I hope you enjoy it :)
- 15 August 2007 at 10:46 pm
- IronEaters said...
just the name of the pasta itself sounds divine =) they just look wonderful!
- 17 August 2007 at 1:35 am
- Christina said...
Simple, smoky goodness, cut through with the green sauce. Lovely! I can't wait tot try this myself.
- 18 August 2007 at 3:51 pm
- Serenity Later said...
Truffle your post inspired me so much that i prepared this last night for dinner (yours looks much nicer though)! And how well do pesto and smoked fish go together? Simply delicious!! Thanks!
- 18 August 2007 at 11:13 pm
- Truffle said...
IronEaters - thanks so much!
Christina - that's just the flavour combination I was hoping for! I hope you like it :)
Serenity Later - You just made my day! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
- 19 August 2007 at 2:31 am
- Brilynn said...
I have some home smoked salmon I'll have to try this dish with, and I love the looks of the tubular pasta!
- 19 August 2007 at 7:52 am
- Susan said...
Lovely, Truffle. I made a smoked salmon pasta for Ruth's event a while back. There's something about certain smoked fish that doesn't overwhelm. I'll have to look for smoked trout now!
- 19 August 2007 at 12:43 pm
- Truffle said...
Brilynn - I think that would work pefectly. Tubular pasta is becoming one of my favourites! Thanks for reading :)
Susan - Thank you! There seem to be a couple of types of smoked trout. The variety I used is sold and appears just like smoked salmon- very thinly sliced. They also sell the whole fish smoked but that has a much stronger taste and is quite fiddly to prepare if the bones have been left in.
- 19 August 2007 at 2:44 pm
- Big Boys Oven said...
such a lovely dish, simple , yet so warm and inviting.
- 19 August 2007 at 6:41 pm
- The Cooking Ninja said...
Very interesting pasta. First time I see such a pasta. Your dish is so simple yet so delicious.
- 20 August 2007 at 12:30 am
- Truffle said...
Big Boys Oven - thanks so much! That's very kind of you.
The Cooking Ninja - thank you! I thought it was time I used something just a little bit different.
- 20 August 2007 at 2:28 am
- chemcookit said...
Great dish! And what a great looking pasta you found.. I never saw anything like that. :) Thanks for sharing.
- 21 August 2007 at 9:59 pm
- jonathan said...
Looking for a simple recipe for tonight with some Smoked Trout I have in the fridge. This looks perfect. Thanks.
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Following its groundbreaking report that warned about a 4 degrees Celsius warmer world, the bank has now looked at what that warming would mean for South Asia, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The picture is dramatic, as this infographic illustrates, with climate change threatening the future prosperity of these regions.
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A cancer drug based on a tumor-killing virus has for the first time succeeded in a late-stage clinical trial, giving a lift to a technology that has long tantalized doctors and researchers.
Amgen, which is developing the drug, said late Tuesday that it had met the primary goal of a Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with advanced melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer.
In the trial, 16 percent of the patients who had the treatment, called talimogene laherparepvec, or TVEC, experienced a significant shrinkage of their tumors that lasted at least six months. That compared with only 2 percent of the patients in a control group.
Amgen said that while people getting TVEC were living longer, it was too early to say definitively whether the drug had improved survival, something that might be known late this year. A company spokeswoman said it was also too early to say if Amgen would file for regulatory approval based on the trial results.
TVEC is a herpes simplex virus, the type that causes cold sores, that is modified in such a way that it replicates in fast-growing cancer cells but not healthy ones. It also contains an implanted gene for GM-CSF, a protein that stimulates the immune system.
The drug is injected directly into skin tumors. As the virus replicates inside the cells, those cells produce GM-CSF.
Eventually the replicating viruses cause the cell to burst, freeing the virus and the GM-CSF in the presence of tumor components. That is supposed to stimulate a systemic immune response that can kill cancer cells throughout the body.
Amgen's Phase 3 trial involved more than 400 patients. Two-thirds received TVEC injections directly into the tumors every two weeks. The other third received injections, not directly into the tumors, of GM-CSF.
Dr. Antoni Ribas, a melanoma specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that while it was encouraging that an oncolytic virus worked, TVEC might not be that successful as a melanoma drug.
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FDA mulls immunotherapy pill that reduces allergies over time
TRENTON, N.J.Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Wednesday that federal regulators are reviewing its application to sell a new type of treatment for grass pollen allergy that gradually reduces allergy symptoms over time, rather than just temporarily relieving the sneezing and itching.
The treatment, a tablet that quickly dissolves under the tongue, could become the first alternative available in the U.S. to getting a long series of uncomfortable allergy shots. Both methods work by gradually desensitizing the patient's immune system to the substance triggering the allergic reaction.
Merck's immunotherapy, still unnamed, would be taken daily throughout allergy season for three years.
The company said six late-stage studies of the tablet in nearly 3,500 adults and children - conducted during peak spring and summer pollen season - found that it was safe and effective at reducing grass allergy symptoms. Those include runny nose, congestion, sneezing and itchy, watery eyes.
The most common side effects reported were itchiness of the mouth and ear and throat irritation.
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Brozak said he expects Merck will advertise the therapy heavily to consumers in hopes of attracting both patients considering allergy shots and the many more who regularly take prescription or over-the-counter medicines to relieve symptoms.
Dr. Linda Cox, president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, called immunotherapy tablets a "major advance" in patient treatment because they are being developed for multiple common allergy types.
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Merck, based in Whitehouse Station, N.J., said it expects the Food and Drug Administration to decide whether to approve the treatment in the first quarter of next year.
It has been approved for several years in Europe, where it is sold under the brand name Grazax by Merck partner ALK-Abello.
Merck wouldn't say Wednesday what it expects to charge for the tablets here. Box noted that when they were launched in Europe in 2006, the price was 2.95 euros per pill, or roughly $3.75 at today's exchange rates. Patients with insurance getting allergy shots typically have a small copay, often $5 or less, because a nurse gives the injections, but all those appointments are time-consuming.
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Merck recently applied to the FDA for approval to sell an immunotherapy tablet for ragweed pollen. The FDA has not yet determined whether that application is complete enough to accept for review.
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Sen. McCaskill announces gay marriage support
The Missouri senator joins President Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to publicly state support for marriage equality.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has joined a growing list of politicians who now support same-sex marriage.
"I have come to the conclusion that our government should not limit the right to marry based on who you love," McCaskill posted Sunday on her Tumblr page. "While churches should never be required to conduct marriages outside of their religious beliefs, neither should the government tell people who they have a right to marry."
McCaskill's announcement in support of marriage equality comes as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the controversial issue in two court cases this week. The justices will hear arguments Tuesday challenging California's Proposition 8. Then on Wednesday the high court takes up the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Last year, when President Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage, a McCaskill spokesman told the Springfield News-Leader that the senator believes states "should take the lead in determining marriage equality." This is the first time the senator, a moderate Democrat, has publicly stated her support for gay marriage.
In her Tumblr post, McCaskill acknowledged that her views on same-sex marriage "have changed over time."
"But as many of my gay and lesbian friends, colleagues and staff embrace long-term committed relationships, I find myself unable to look them in the eye without honestly confronting this uncomfortable inequality," she wrote. "Supporting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples is simply the right thing to do for our country, a country," which she said was founded on the principles "of liberty and equality."
McCaskill's announcement comes as prominent Democrats and Republicans have publicly announced their support for gay marriage. They include former secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act, and Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, who said his views changed because son Will came out and said he is gay.
In the past, McCaskill had expressed support for civil unions to same-sex couples. She was opposed to Missouri's 2004 constitutional amendment that banned gay and lesbian couples from marrying, and said it was unnecessary because existing Missouri law already prohibited gay marriage.
McCaskill, a moderate Democrat, won her second term in the U.S. Senate last year by defeating Republican Todd Akin, who garnered negative headlines for his controversial comments about "legitimate rape."
Portman's change of heart on gay marriage created a stir, in part because he is a prominent Republican. Portman said he told Mitt Romney's campaign that his son is gay as he was being vetted to be the GOP vice presidential candidate. Romney aide Beth Myers told NBC News Portman's son "did not play a role" in Romney's choice of a running mate.
In an op-ed for the Yale Daily News published Monday, Will Portman saluted his father and the senator's evolution on the subject of gay marriage.
"I'm proud of my dad, not necessarily because of where he is now on marriage equality (although I'm pretty psyched about that), but because he's been thoughtful and open-minded in how he's approached the issue, and because he's show that he's willing to take a political risk in order to take a principled stand," wrote the younger Portman, 21, a junior at Yale.
McCaskill closed her Tumblr post by acknowledging the divide on the issue.
"Good people disagree with me," the Missouri senator wrote. "On the other hand, my children have a hard time understanding why this is even controversial. I think history will agree with my children."