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I hate goodbyes. So, rather than get all sappy and sentimental, I'm just gonna say, "Thank you."
Thank you to CNBC President Mark Hoffman for hiring me.
I hate goodbyes. So, rather than get all sappy and sentimental, I'm just gonna say, "Thank you."
Thank you to CNBC President Mark Hoffman for hiring me.
My last day at CNBC is May 7th. I've decided to make a career change.
Because my next act will include working within the health care sector, to avoid even the appearance of a conflict in my remaining days here at CNBC, I won't be blogging or reporting anymore about stock-related stories on my previous beat.
So, yes, that means I won't be able to report on the next chapter in the Dendreon saga. The FDA is scheduled to decide on or before May 1st whether to approve the biotech's prostate cancer treatment.
I've probably been covering Dendrama longer than any other story I've reported on in my eight years or so following biopharma. And it's certainly been my favorite...not the drug, the company, or the stock, mind you...but the story.
My colleague Bertha Coombs, who you can follow on Twitter , and my producer, Ruth, will stay on top of the news. I'll be watching and, sure, wishing I were covering the culmination of a story I've owned—at least on TV—for so long. Dendreonian conspiracy theorists should not read anything into this. It's simply a matter of timing and ethics.
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With a nod to my colleague Jane Wells' "Funny Business" blog and at the risk of getting armies of pharma sales reps mad at me, I am sending out a DVR alert for Episode 15 from the second season of an HBO animated comedy called, "The Life And Times Of Tim."
The show is a bawdy, hilarious send-up of doctors' offices that are overrun by so-called "Meals on Heels." That's industry slang for the stereotypical short-skirted, wheely-bag toting, lunch-catering drug sales reps.
Alkermes CEO Richard Pops has company. Well, sort of.
Butler's Gordon Hayward threw a closing buzzer, half-court, long shot against Duke last night. It was oh-so-close. But when Butler coach Brad Stevens threw caution to the wind 10 years ago, it turns out it was a slam dunk.
I tuned in for only the last five minutes of the NCAA tournament final. So, I didn't hear Jim Nantz mention earlier in the broadcast the blogworthy backstory of Butler coach Brad Stevens. Fortunately, my colleague Jane Wells was watching and listening at the time and she tweeted the nugget to my attention.
Indianapolis' Butler recruited Stevens out of Indianapolis'Eli Lilly
, which had recruited Stevens straight out of Indiana's DePauw University.
Stevens started at LLY in 1999, but he didn't stay there very long. He worked at the drugmaker's headquarters for less than a year as a marketing associate, which a spokesman says means Stevens might have done strategy, research, support, promotion, financial stuff, etc. Stevens is reportedly a math whiz. The woman who hired, mentored and befriended Stevens at Lilly is apparently out of the country and wasn't available to fill me in on all the details.
ESPN.com quotes DePauw coach Bill Fenlon who had encouraged Stevens to leave behind the cushy confines of the pharmaceutical industry and give Butler basketball a shot. "If you do it and it doesn't work out, Eli Lilly isn't going anywhere. You're only 24 years old," Fenlon says he told Stevens at the time.
Stevens, of course, took his former coach's advice.
He recently told another reporter, "As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then. It's not like life was bad. It was just one of those things where I wanted to take a shot and see what happens."
Stevens eventually replaced Todd Lickliter as Butler's head coach. If he had stayed at Lilly, who knows? Maybe someday, as fate would have it, (and how else do you explain the uncanny similarity between the two uncommon names?) he would've replaced a guy who goes by Lechleiter.
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Ray Elliott put in less than six months on the job last year at Boston Scientific as the medical device maker's new CEO. But, according to "The New York Times," in that short amount of time Elliott received enough total compensation to make him the second-highest paid head honcho behind only Oracle's Larry Ellison (albeit a distant #2.) All in, Elliott reportedly received $33.4 million.
If you're interested in going behind the numbers, you can read all about it in BSX's SEC filing under the "Executive Compensation" section . Elliott's base annual salary is $1.2 million. The company also gave the former Zimmer Holdings CEO a sign-on bonus of a million-and-a-half bucks. Elliott also received nearly a million dollars to pay for his move to Boston. And, oh, they gave him a $78,000 "cost of living allowance."
But things may not be quite as they seem.
The overwhelming majority of Elliott's 2009 total compensation was in stock options that are under water and probably will be for a pretty long time. The deal gets rather complex and detailed, but the company granted him 3.4 million options that vest in installments over four years and with an exercise price of $9.51 a share, which was the closing price on the day he got them. The stock right now is worth a little more than seven bucks a share. There's also a bunch of performance-based rewards built in, including one-and-a-quarter million so-called "deferred stock units" that are only good if the stock stays above 20 bucks for at least 10 straight trading days. (The minimum stock value tied to Elliott's "DSUs" goes up to as much as $30 over time.) Again, BSX is trading for seven-dollars-and-change today.
Regardless of whether the $33.4 million figure is inaccurate or misleading, the timing and publicity over the rather eye-popping amount couldn't be worse for BSX. The company is reeling from a recall of and brouhaha over a redesigned implantable cardio defibrillator. Investors have punished the stock and rewarded the shares of Boston Scientific's top competitors Medtronic and St. Jude Medical . Given the current situation, Elliott certainly has his work cut out for him. Whether he's adequately, over- or under-compensated for that work is for shareholders to decide.
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FDA advisory committee votes sometimes end in confusion.
First, because the actual vote often gets all convoluted and recounted as some panelists hem and haw about voting thumbs up or thumbs down and try to equivocate their decision. And second, because no matter how many times I've explained it to people here, the votes get misread and miscommunicated as actual approval or rejection of a drug versus a recommendation that the FDA clear or spike a drug.
For the uninitiated, FDA advisory committees are outside panels of experts the agency convenes to review the safety and/or effectiveness of a product. They only give advice to the FDA, they don't make decisions for the agency, but nonetheless they represent a key regulatory hurdle. For investors they can be a major source of uncertainty ahead of a meeting and a fast, stock-moving trigger when a vote is tallied. The term itself may sound boring and bureaucratic, but in the biopharma/investment world advisory committees are a big deal.
And there could be a barnburner of a panel meeting this July.
Vivus recently announced that an advisory committee will review its diet pill Qnexa on July 15th. Some analysts believe Arena Pharmaceuticals , which filed for FDA approval of its weightloss drug around the same time, will get put through the wringer at the same meeting. So far, ARNA hasn't announced that it has a date. Then late yesterday, Orexigen pulled up the rear . It's the last of the three companies in this race to bring a new prescription diet drug to market to file for FDA approval. And even though OREX submitted its paperwork months after the other two, it's certainly possible that it, too, could be thrown onto the plate of the July 15th panel.
If that happens, my guess is the event becomes a two-day affair. For example, ARNA says its application is three million pages! Of course, the panel doesn't have to pore through all that, but you get the picture. It's dense, detailed data. And given the history of prescription diet pills, the FDA and its outside experts are going to go through the safety and side-effect issues of each company's drug with an ultra-fine-toothed comb.
But here's where the meeting could have high drama.
If this committee were to take up all three drugs at one sitting, can you imagine the anticipation as they vote on the fate of each pill? If the first one passes muster, would that mean the other two would sail through? Or might the panel favor one drug over the others? Or favor two drugs over another? The handicapping, spin and analysis would be intense, to say the least. For reporters it'd be a field day. For the companies it'd be a nail-biting experience. And for investors it'd be a crapshoot.
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One thing you learn quickly in the "live" TV-news business is that you're always at the mercy of the technology. Sometimes, Murphy's Law rules and there's nothing you can do about it. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. A camera battery dies right as the anchor in the studio is tossing to you out in the field, a competitor's microwave signal (inadvertantly?) interferes with yours and causes the picture to fill with static, the sound being fed back into your earpiece gets left on reverb because someone in the production booth didn't push a button. All those things and many more have happened to me and my colleagues repeatedly. It's never fun, but you've gotta get used to it.
Well, today beleaguered biotech Genzyme is getting schooled on all that.
This afternoon GENZ is holding an analyst/investor meeting and conducting a show-and-tell tour at its Boston manufacturing plant. It's the one that got contaminated last year and which the FDA will almost certainly assume temporary jurisdiction over in the near future. The stock tanked on that regulatory revelation and a subsequent analyst downgrade last week.
But, oh! The irony. At a meeting designed to convince the Street the company is well on its way to correcting a major manufacturing problem, a simple technical glitch keeps executives from conveying that message to a broader, off-site audience.
The webcast of the event started without a hitch. As the embattled Chairman and CEO Henri Termeer kicked it off with prepared opening remarks, I was sitting at my desk listening to it, ready to tweet away with quoteable quotes But shortly into his presentation, the audio suddenly cut out and for nearly half an hour all of the presentations were muffled and unintelligible.
Eventually, it got straightened out.
Investors only wish the manufacturing problems could have been solved as quickly, easily and inexpensively.
After the audio came back, Genzyme officials said they expect to start negotiations with the FDA soon, but that it's too early to tell how much, including a to-be-determined amount of profit disgorgement, this whole mess is ultimately going to cost in time and money. But it could cost Termeer, the longest-serving big biotech CEO, his job. Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is trying to get himself and three of his people on the GENZ board. And if he wins, many say heads are gonna roll.
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You need to buy the paper edition for $5 or subscribe to the website to see it for yourself, but Barron's has put only one biopharma honcho on its annual list of the world's top-30 CEOs.
Vivusannounced this morning that an FDA advisory committee is tentatively scheduled to take a look at its diet drug Qnexa on Thursday, July 15th. If the outside panel of experts gives the weightloss pill thumbs up then the company expects the agency to make a decision on whether to approve it on or before October 28th.
But Leerink Swann analyst Steve Yoo thinks that Vivus and Arena could have a double-date on the 15th of July. Although Arena hasn't made an announcement yet, Yoo is telling clients in a research note that because the two companies filed for FDA approval of their diet pills within days of each other, that they'll probably both get their drugs reviewed by an advisory committee at the same time. Orexigen , the remaining little biopharma company with an obesity fighter in late-stage development, says it plans to file for approval of its drug Contrave by the end of next month.
The FDA usually, but not always, follows the advice of its outside panels. And with diet drugs, in particular, the agency is, no doubt, going to apply extra scrutiny. There's the fen-phen diet drug craze of the 90s that led to some people having heart trouble. The pill ended up being pulled off the market and Wyeth had to pay billions of dollars in damages. Then, a few years ago Sanofi-Aventis had a drug called Zimulti that some analysts were saying was going to be a mega-blockbuster wonder pill. But an advisory committee killed it over concerns about psychiatric side effects.
That kind of uncertainty is why many believe that potential corporate partners for VVUS, ARNA and OREX are going to wait to see if the companies can clear this huge regulatory hurdle before handing over any cash. Again, these are small companies and so if or when their drugs get approved, they're likely going to need the help of a much bigger company's sales force to market them. And, of course, there's always the possibility that one, two or all three of them just get bought.
July is shaping up to be a big month for regulatory action in biopharma. In addition to the Qnexa meeting, the FDA had already announced it's going to have a special super-sized advisory committee in July re-review the safety of Glaxo's diabetes drug Avandia. Better book a room now in Gaithersburg or Silver Spring, Maryland--the two places the agency holds these things. Why the FDA doesn't do them in Washington, DC is one of the many mysteries surrounding the agency.
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Not finding much love at home, Chavez courts autocratic allies
CARACAS, Venezuela — Stymied in trying to advance his anti-U.S. agenda in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is tightening the screws at home — and touring friendly autocratic regimes abroad.
Opponents are organizing a massive march for Saturday in Caracas, disregarding warnings by Venezuela's top federal prosecutor that protesters could face prison sentences of up to 24 years for disturbing the peace.
"We dare the government to put into prison not only the leaders of the 25 groups heading up the march but the hundreds and hundreds of people who will call for a democratic end to this government," Henry Ramos, head of the Accion Democratica political party told a crowd of supporters on Wednesday.
Chavez won't be in Venezuela to hear these calls, however. He is in the midst of visiting friendly autocracies in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Chavez began this trip after failing to convince other South American presidents at a regional summit last week to condemn the expanded U.S. military presence planned for neighboring Colombia.
Not winning their backing marked the latest in a string of defeats for Chavez in Latin America, including the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a key ally in Central America.
Analysts don't expect Chavez to retreat despite the setbacks.
"Chavez is most dangerous not when he's strong but when he's weak," said Matias Spektor, a foreign policy specialist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. "He needs to show the grand gesture and crack down at home."
Chavez thought he could capitalize on the leaked word that Colombia was planning to allow U.S. troops to have access to seven of its military bases throughout the country. U.S. allies such as Brazil and Chile, reflecting age-old regional resentments against Uncle Sam, voiced concern about the agreement.
Chavez warned repeatedly that it "loosed the winds of war" and would lead to a U.S. invasion of Venezuela. To dramatize his concern, Chavez threatened to cut off trade with Colombia — a major source of food, machinery and cars for Venezuela — as well as diplomatic relations.
At Friday's meeting in the Argentine ski resort of Bariloche, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe vigorously defended the agreement. He said the U.S. would never have more than 1,400 troops in Colombia at any time and they would be there only to assist the government fight drug traffickers and the FARC guerrillas.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia challenged Chavez's talk of an "invasion threat," by reminding everyone who's buying his oil.
"Why are they going to dominate the petroleum if you already sell it all to the United States?'' Garcia playfully asked Chavez.
The room erupted in laughter — that is, everybody but Chavez.
The summit's final declaration didn't condemn the U.S.-Colombian deal, as Chavez sought. Instead, it called for strengthening the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking — Uribe's main goals — while saying that foreign powers couldn't threaten other nations.
"Bariloche was a defeat for Chavez," said Maria Teresa Romero, a foreign policy specialist at Venezuela's Central University in Caracas. "Uribe emerged in a more advantageous position."
Rafael Nieto, a political columnist for Colombia's main newspaper, El Tiempo, said Chavez had already lost ground in Latin America when Honduras' military forced Zelaya into exile at gunpoint on June 28, the same day that Argentine voters handed a stinging election defeat to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, another of his allies.
On top of that, Nieto added, Paraguay's Senate recently blocked Chavez's move to join the Mercosur trade bloc, and El Salvador's new leftist president, Mauricio Funes, declared Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be his model, not Chavez.
"Chavez's authoritarian measures in Venezuela scare people in other countries," Nieto said.
That doesn't seem to be the case in the countries he's visiting during his 11-day trip. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi awarded him a medal, and Algeria's president discussed strengthening oil ties.
Still to come: Syria, Iran, Belarus and Russia.
Back home, Chavez remains a formidable figure. He continually outwits the opposition.
His unmatched political charisma and continued ability to hand out money generated by oil profits have kept him popular among slightly more than half of all Venezuelans, pollster Luis Vicente Leon said.
Chavez needs to remain popular to deepen his so-called "revolution," which amounts to a government takeover of more of the economy, Leon said.
To that end, Leon said, Chavez has had the government take over private radio stations and has threatened to close Globovision, the lone remaining TV station that regularly airs critical coverage of him.
"He wants to control the message," Leon said. "If you ask people if they are in favor of the government taking over private companies, they overwhelmingly say no. If you ask them instead if they want to make sure that companies fairly distribute goods and services to prevent shortages, they favor that."
Middle-class opponents of Chavez have heightened their resistance since a compliant Congress approved a Chavez measure three weeks ago that opponents say would force teachers to indoctrinate students with communist ideas.
Two recent marches that led to street clashes have resulted in the arrest of over 40 people, including the deputy mayor of Caracas, and the police are seeking one march organizer, who's in hiding.
Chavez has denied that his jails are holding "political prisoners," as opponents claim.
"What the government wants is for us to surrender, Antonio Ledezma, Caracas' mayor, told supporters Wednesday. "We will continue to fight."
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It's gotten pretty darn cold, pretty darn fast. We're very lucky because my oldest son's bus comes right to the driveway, but since he can have any where from 3 to 5 different bus drivers a week, all with a seemingly different idea of who should get picked up when, we tend to stand at the end of the driveway from anywhere between 10 to 30 minutes. Since we live in Scandinavia, that means we get cold.
With that in mind, and a need for small gifts that will fit in those lovely stockings we've hung by the fire with care, I made the boys each a set of hand warmers. This is one of those presents you can work on while you relax in front of your favorite TV show after the kiddos are asleep.
– 100 % wool felt scraps (Do not skimp here!!! I have no idea what would happen to a poly blend when you throw it into the microwave to heat up, but I'm guessing it would be something along the melting lines.)
– Superhero Font (download here)
– 3 inch diameter circle to trace
– water soluble marking pen
– short grain rice
– small funnel or envelope/zip-lock bag with a corner cut off
– thread and needle
Step 1: Cut out 3 inch base circles for each hand warmer. Then either hand draw or use the font provided in the supply list to make each superhero logo. I went with the hand drawn method, but the font has pretty much any of the superhero symbols you can imagine. Also cut a 3 inch diameter circle for each backing.
Step 2: Glue the pieces together to form your hand warmer front. Optional: sew around each piece for added security.
Step 3: With right sides together, sew around the circle, back stitching at the beginning and end and leaving a 2 inch circle at the top for filling"
Step 4: Turn right side out and fill with rice or lentils.
If you don't have a funnel hanging around, simply cut one corner from a zip lock bag,
and place the hole inside the hand warmer.
Be careful not to over fill the hand warmers. You'll want to leave enough space to turn each side under.
Use a slip stitch to close up each opening.
Simply place each hand warmer in the microwave for about 30 seconds, place in your coat pocket, and enjoy the warmth of nice toasty hands while awaiting the bus.
Added benefit, if you don't live in a cold winter climate, these make great bean bags.
The boys in this house love superheros but if your little one is into Backyardigans, Super Mario Brother's, or Star Wars, feel free to follow the same process changing up the "faces" of each hand warmer. And then e-mail me a pic, cause' I want to see them.
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Spooky Digital Scrapbook Border
Capture the feeling of Halloween on your scrapbook layouts using the following treat we've gathered for your creative trick bag.
Spooky Eats by Keri Babbitt. Supplies: Cardstock: Provo Craft; Patterned paper: Making Memories; Stickers: American Crafts and Jenni Bowlin Studio; Chipboard: Jenni Bowlin Studio; Rhinestones: Kaisercraft; Punch: EK Success; Adhesive: Therm O Web; Digital Supplies: Software: Adobe; Frames: Rhonna Farrer; Fonts: Carbonated Gothic, Gravestone Bats, KR Boo Lane, Spiders Club, and Uncle Typewriter.
Batty Border
Create this spooktacularly simple title trick by designing a border using dingbat fonts or digital elements. Print it directly on your cardstock or on a transparency that you can then adhere to your cardstock. Spell out your title over the printed border using bold stickers or chipboard letters to complete the page title.
Tips for Terrific Results:
1. Use an 8.5" x 11" layout format instead of 12" x 12", so you can easily print the border. Or trim your cardstock to 8.5" x 12" to print your border, then reattach the cardstock to your 12" x 12" background.
2. Remember that you can change the color of your digital elements. Use two to three colors on your border for a lively look.
3. Put your dingbats in text boxes (set to Fill>No Color; and Line>No Line), if you want to layer them for a more complex arrangement.
Looking for just the right dingbats to tempt you to try this technique? Download one (or all!) of these free options online at a site like dafont.com.
Accent a layout about trick-or-treating by creating a border with these spritely dingbats:
Halloweenies by The Scriptorium
Use these dingbats to add atmosphere to layouts about your little vampires and zombies:
Express your delight at carving jack o' lanterns by crafting a border with these dingbats:
Punkinhead by Cumberland Fontworks
Want more ideas for your Halloween layouts? Dig up the secrets for carving tombstone accents using cardstock and your favorite creepy fonts for your Halloween layouts.
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Dr. King Would Oppose Bush's Surge
Now the Decider-In-Chief has decided to send more troops to Iraq. He argues that "we cannot afford to lose� in an attempt to scare the American public. He has cried the sky is falling too often. The Public, judging by the November votes, is saying be damned Mr. President.
Last week President George Bush in an address to the nation said that he was about to send 21,500 more American troops into Iraq. He claims that this will lead to the victory of a mission so far unaccomplished. It won't. The only thing that this troop increase will bring is more misery, more destruction and more death.
Today, as we all honor Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, we should all dedicate ourselves to opposing this President's desire to send more Americans into harms way---with more promised deaths, of Americans and Iraqis. Dr. King, who opposed Lyndon Johnson's troops "surge" in Vietnam, would have led a March on Washington to oppose Bush's plan.
Every day we hear the horror stories about the spiraling violence in Iraq with an estimated 100 deaths per day. And in a recent survey done by researchers at John Hopkins the body count of Iraq civilians killed in this immoral and illegal invasion is estimated at over 600,000 Iraqis. The official figure of the U.S. soldiers who have died stands just over 3,000. But there is evidence that this figure is lower than the true number due to semantic spin—those who later die of wounds aren't being counted.
Now, many have touted this Bush surge "plan" as the "new way forward" in Iraq. But anyone who truly believes this is delusional. There can now be no victory in Iraq since its definition remains unstated. America has not only lost the war in Iraq but will also lose the so-called war on terror if the Bush strategy continues.
In the early days after 9-11, a horrified world was very sympathetic with America and quickly rallied support. Thanks to the avaricious arrogance and greed –converting tragedy into no-bid contracts for cronies— of the Bush Administration those days are long gone. The US alienated potential allies by the Administration's do-it-alone cowboy diplomacy. Even Bush's favorite ally, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is now being driven from office this summer by his deputy.
The Administration's willingness to tolerate high civilian death tolls to achieve oil and geo-political aims has dissipated the sympathy most of the world felt for the US after 9/11. One could argue that deaths and destruction in Iraq will invite more terrorism and volunteers.
It all started with the mendacious claim that Iraq somehow represented a "grave" and "immediate" threat to the United States with Condoleezza Rice talking about "mushroom clouds." In February of 2003, then Secretary of State, Colin Powell said "We know Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction." That statement didn't square with what Powell said only two years before, on February 24, 2001 at a press conference in Cairo. At that time Powell said Saddam Hussein "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass of destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
So, for all of Powell's recent protestations he knew all along that the weapons of mass destruction war rationale was false at the time he was selling it to the world at the United Nations. Now Bush is trying to gloss over this increasingly costly, bloody lie.
Clearly, this war was never about fighting terror. It was always a war of convenience for an Administration joined to the hip by oil barons and war profiteers. Make no mistake about it—this war is about making the pockets of a few fatter at the expense of the many.
Now the "decider" has decided to send more troops to Iraq. He argues that "we cannot afford to lose" in an attempt to scare the American public. He has cried the sky is falling too often. The Public, judging by the November votes, is saying be damned Mr. President.
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We're psyched to have the best team of sponsored climbers and skiers out there, a crew that's constantly pushing the limits and redefining what's possible. They are a crucial and diverse part of the Black Diamond family, providing not only design feedback and field testing but also inspiring us to keep charging and never produce anything but the best gear possible.
Concepción with Hazel Findlay
Watch BD Athlete Hazel Findlay battle with the immaculate 230 - foot splitter, Concepción (5.13).Read Full Story »
The BD Beta with DPT Esther Smith: Episode 5—Loving the Downhill with Balance and Proprioception
BD Athlete Joe Grant and DPT Esther Smith share a series of ankle mobility exercises that enhance communication from terrain to brain.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Seb Bouin: First Ascents in Turkey—Episode 2 Lily's Eye
The adventure continues with BD Athlete Seb Bouin and his mom as Seb climbs Lily's Eye—their new 8c+ (5.14c) creation in Turkey.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Seb Bouin: First Ascents in Turkey—Episode 1 Lily's Eye
When BD Athlete Seb Bouin goes on an epic climbing trip to Turkey he takes his ... mom? Well, as they say, like mother, like son. They both crush.Read Full Story »
The BD Beta with DPT Esther Smith: Episode 4—Hip Control for Healthy Knees
BD Athlete Joe Grant and DPT Esther Smith explore the unsung heroes of your posterior and lateral hip muscle system to unload your knees and quiet down those bossy hip flexors.Read Full Story »
Black Diamond Presents: Hazel Findlay Rocks Down to Electric Avenue (5.13+R)
Hazel Findlay Rocks Down to Electric Avenue (5.13+R)Read Full Story »
The BD Beta with DPT Esther Smith: Episode 3—Joe Grant's Tips to Save Your Knees on the Downhill
BD Athlete Joe Grant teams up with DPT Esther Smith for tips to save your knees on the downhill.Read Full Story »
Hang Right Part 4: The Knowledge Quest—Lessons 2-4
BD Athlete Sam Elias and DPT Esther Smith explore how human anatomy and body mechanics can help us climb stronger and resolve injury.Read Full Story »
Gear Myths: Gear Slings vs Gear Loops
Gear slings have seemingly gone the way of the tri-cam. Is there a reason for the demise of a once crucial piece of climbing equipment? Are gear loops on your harness truly superior?Read Full Story »
Hang Right Part 4: The Knowledge Quest—Lesson 1
Esther Smith, DPT of Grassroots Physical Therapy, shares how knowledge of human anatomy and body mechanics can help us climb stronger and resolve injury.Read Full Story »
The BD Beta with DPT Esther Smith: Episode 2—The Warm-Up that Doesn't Suck
BD Athlete Claire Buhrfeind joins Esther Smith, DPT of Grassroots Physical Therapy to explore a select kit of mat exercises that touch on all of the key areas of our core and emphasize thoughtful, aligned movement for a strong and fluid climbing body.Read Full Story »
The BD Beta with DPT Esther Smith: Episode 1—Five Core Exercises for Climbers
BD Athlete Claire Buhrfeind joins DPT Esther Smith of Grassroots Physical Therapy to explore core exercises focused for climbing.Read Full Story »
Adam Ondra: The Road to Tokyo
Watch BD Athlete Adam Ondra train for Speed, Lead and Bouldering as he gears up for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and read a candid interview on his philosophy on all things climbing.Read Full Story »
The Lifer
A Soulful Journey into the Heart of American Climbing with Legend Russ Clune and BD Athlete Sam Elias.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: Cooking
We all know Ondra can climb, but did you know he's also a passionate cook? Check out this film capturing Ondra explaining his philosophy on cooking and eating for hard sending.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: Fame
Adam Ondra is arguably the best climber in the world, and because of that, when he shows up to the crag, everyone stops to watch. Ondra discusses how fame feels in this short film.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: The Balkans Road Trip
Watch this beautiful film documenting Adam Ondra's soul-climbing journey through the Balkans of southeastern Europe.Read Full Story »
Tobin Seagel: Skiing the Coast Mountain Range
Check out this new film capturing the journey of BD Athlete Tobin Seagel skiing a massive line in the Coast Mountain Range.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Noah Howell: Skiing the Ramen Couloir on Mount Hunter
In 2018, BD Athlete Noah Howell claimed the historic fourth ski descent of the intimidating Mount Hunter in Alaska. This is his story.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Mike Barney—The Consummate Ski Guide
As a ski guide, BD Athlete Mike Barney is living the endless winter. This is his story.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Carlo Traversi On the Second Ascent of Meltdown (5.14c)
In early November 2018, Carlo Traversi claimed the coveted second ascent of Yosemite's Meltdown—one of the hardest traditional lines in the world. Check out this beautiful film documenting the ascent.Read Full Story »
Will Gadd's Right Here, Right Now Playlist
Listen to the tunes that get BD Athlete Will Gadd in the zone.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: The American Road Trip—Battling the Offwidth of Belly Full of Bad Berries (5.13b)
Check out BD Athlete Adam Ondra having one of the biggest fights of his life sending the 45-degree overhanging offwidth Belly Full of Bad Berries (5.13b) in Indian Creek.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: The American Road Trip—Supercrack of the Desert
Adam Ondra heads to the Utah desert to climb the world-famous splitter cracks of Indian Creek.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: The American Road Trip—A Visit to the Black Diamond Headquarters
Adam Ondra recently toured the Black Diamond factory floor to learn first-hand how his trusted BD gear is made.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Adam Ondra: The Just Do It (5.14c) Onsight
Watch Adam Ondra on his historic onsight of Just Do It (5.14c) in Smith Rock, Oregon.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Thomas Gaisbacher: Skiing In the Shade of the 8000m Peaks
BD Athlete Thomas Gaisbacher shares his tale of an attempt to climb and ski the formidable Shimshal Whitehorn mountain in Pakistan.Read Full Story »
Safety First—Jackson Hole's High School Avalanche Program Comes to Life
Jackson Hole High School is leading the charge in snow safety by adding an avalanche awareness course to the curriculum. Check out this film documenting the movement.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Will Gadd Takes On Helmcken Falls with Natural Gear
BD Athlete Will Gadd heads into the unknown, by taking new prototype gear on a wild ride up the steep spray ice of Helmcken Falls.Read Full Story »
BD Athlete Antte Lauhamaa: The Arctic Journey
BD Athlete Antte Lauhamaa loves two things: adventure and skiing. That's why he chose to go on an epic dog-sledding, couloir hunting expedition in the remote mountains of northern Sweden. Check out this video documenting Lauhamaa's journey into the Arctic.Read Full Story »
Joe Grant's Short Shorts: The Mount Hiei International Trail Run—Legacy of Japan's Marathon Monks
In the summer of 2018, BD Athlete Joe Grant traveled to Japan and raced in the Mt. Hiei International Trail Run, paying homage to Japan's marathon monks.Read Full Story »
Gear Myths: Bottoms-Up or Top-Down—Is There A Correct Way to Thread the Rope Through Your Harness?
Should you tie in bottoms-up or top-down? That's the question for this Gear Myths, which explores the different methods of threading a rope through your harness.Read Full Story »
Gym. Crag. Repeat.
It all started in the gym for BD Athlete Carlo Traversi. That's why he's put everything he has into creating what he experienced growing up—a gym that not only provides training, but also mentorship for young climbers heading to the crag.Read Full Story »
Hayden's Line: BD Ambassador Josh Wharton Honors Hayden Kennedy with a New Eldorado Testpiece
To honor his late friend Hayden Kennedy, BD Ambassador Josh Wharton established a new route in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado, dubbing it Hayden's Line.Read Full Story »
Speed Climbing 101 for Old Tradsters
Speed climbing might be the most talked about discipline in the world of competition climbing at the moment … and we have to admit, not all of it is positive. But amid negativity often lies curiosity, so with that in mind, we decided to take a deep dive into the world of SPEED.Read Full Story »


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Editor's note: Earlier this month, Arbor Day Foundation development manager Jared Carlson traveled to Peru to meet many of the people who grow the beans that become our award-winning shade-grown coffee. He was in Costa Rica in January to look at the potential for new sources, a trip we described here. Below is part two of Jared's first-person account about his most recent travels. Part one ran last week here. -SB
Day Four
Did you ever wonder as a child what it would be like to be a famous musician, actor or athlete? I always thought I would be the same person, real and down to earth, but would I really? I had a small glimpse as I visited the small town of Las Mercedes, altitude 5,400 feet.
Within a few minutes of arrival, the town became alive with activity. School teachers lined up their students in their uniforms and the whole town decided to come out for the program. Along with the people came the paparazzi….or in this case, anyone in the town who had a camera. But I learned that they were there not to take pictures of the program, but to take pictures of me.
I found out later that I was the first North American to ever visit their town. I felt very humbled to be their first real impression of the United States. To say the least, I can think of many other people that would have been a better choice, but I was grateful that I could be there in that moment.
The town of Las Mercedes produces two containers of coffee a year and we were fortunate enough to be able to purchase them this year. I was moved by their charity, friendship and how caring of a people they were. The coffee is amazing and so are the people. I hope you enjoy it.
Day Five and Six
I got up early on my last day and headed to the airport in Chiclayo.
I arrived back in Lima in the morning and made my way to the offices of our exporters. We discussed some of the problems facing farmers and how a recent co-op had been caught paper trading coffee certifications. The co-op had claimed falsely that its coffee was rain forest certified. Acts like these only taint the name of certifications that are making a real difference for the environment and the lives of farmers.
The Foundation has built several checks and balances – including tracking receipts – into the system to make sure that we don't run into the same issues. We also put in place a flavor profile matching system to ensure that the coffee that we ultimately receive is from the same farms. Beyond that, every crop is cupped before shipping, upon arrival in the U.S. and then again before it is shipped to the customer.
Following a whirlwind tour of Lima, I headed back to the airport to take my red-eye flight back to the United States.
Meeting these farmers in-person during this trip, I am confident that they are doing the things we want them to do for the right reasons/ I feel the same way about our suppliers and distributors too. Our farmers love their trees and forests and can name you almost every species they have on their farms. They are delighted that they can grow their coffee under the rain forest and still provide a good living for their families. It was very energizing to think of the impact that Arbor Day Specialty coffee is having on their lives.
All photos courtesy of Jared Carlson.


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Party like the Germans do this month when San Diego Museum of Man hosts its monthly Tower After Hours event.
October is appropriately devoted to Germany, in which a mini-Oktoberfest of sorts will be celebrated at the iconic museum.
While enjoying the museum, you can sample German fare and drinks and learning about the country's rich, interesting culture. Plus there's live music by local artists. But the best part? There will be plenty of beer and brats to go around.
The event will be held on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. at the San Diego Museum of Man. Tickets cost $10 for members, $15 for students and $20 for non-members.


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The sister restaurant to the fantastic Macintosh in Charleston, the Oak Table landed on Main Street a couple of weeks ago and immediately became a twitter sensation in the area, garnering critical acclaim from locals for their American Bistro fare. Just this past week, they added lunch service, allowing this foodie on a budget a taste of the hottest new restaurant in town. I can happily say that, just like the Macintosh in Charleston, the Oak Table is going to be the place to be here in Columbia for what I think will be a very, very long time if this lunch was any indication.
|Warning: This is going to be a bit of a food porn heavy review.
On the surface, we're talking about some really American stuff going on here. It is American bistro afterall, and looking up and down the list there's no doubt about it. The menu at Oak Table for lunch is fairly lean and mean, with your standard burger, BLT, salad options, and some steak options. There's even a mahi mahi dish. They do not mess around with the genre. What they do different, however, is really punch of the sex appeal of all these classics. The BLT, for example, is slathered in a lemon-garlic aioli, topped with the classic Southern fried green tomato and swabbed with some fresh pimento cheese on brioche. The bacon was reliably great as bacon always is, but the pimento cheese they slather here is what makes all the difference. Really creamy and tangy, with the crisp, chewy brioche and the excellent fried green tomato on top of that, it was a BLT that put all others to shame. There was also a housemade sausage sandwich floating around that looked spectacular, and came with an interesting beet Dijon to set it apart from the norm.
For all the interesting things they do, they don't mess with the classics completely though. The burger, for example (which was perhaps 90% of the lunch hour's orders, I understand Columbia, you love your burgers), is done how you want it and the way it should be, topped with a thick slab of cheddar and some applewood bacon. Take that beast and throw some bistro fries next to it that were cooked in truffled oil. Just straight solid and delicious. (Some people give a bad rap towards truffle oil. That might be true for a lot of things, but as far as fries are concerned, they are extraordinary and perhaps the To really set the Oak Table's lunch towards upscale, there's also the Oak Table Butcher Board sandwich, which this foodie had to order, hands down. Smooth chicken liver with a pork terrine, housemade pickles and pickled red onion with a slather of preserves, this was a real treat and a welcome find in a town where charcuterie is a rarity. Like a classic Vietnamese banh mi, it just had all the wonderful livery taste on top of the terrine, which were extenuated by the pickled cucumber and red onion. I know this may be a little out of bounds for a lot of people, but if you are into this kind of stuff, this is a no-brainer. Served with truffle fries, it was a steal at $9.
Columbia, and Main Street in particular, was sorely in need of a place like the Oak Table. With elegant indoor seating and casual outdoor seating, it brings an upscale atmosphere that's incredibly lacking in our downtown, and the fact they are producing what may be some of the best food in town right now makes it all the more exciting. Bring the party there for dinner, bring yourself there for lunch. You will not be disappointed.


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As you know, every Sunday I like to round up some of the various tweets I've seen out there talking about EMR, EHR, Healthcare IT and related subjects. Some are funny. Some are insightful. Some are interesting. Some are awkward. Some are way out there. In fact, isn't that the beauty and the beast of Twitter? It includes all of those things from anyone who wants to participate. The nice thing is that you can always ignore someone if you don't like what they're saying.
With that said, this week's edition of my healthcare IT Twitter roundup is focused on comments and announcements from a number of healthcare IT companies. Hopefully you'll find them interesting.
MeaningfulUse2.0 = talk 2 patients? Government Poised To Provide Huge Boost To #Healthtech #Startups: techcrunch.com/2012/04/15/gov… #EMR #EHR #portal
— Stephen F Shaw (@stephenfshaw) April 16, 2012
This article is written by Dave Chase. I had the chance to see a demo of his Avado product last week. I'll do a full writeup on it at some point in the future. Let's just say I was impressed with Dave and his view of the healthcare IT world. I'm not sure I agree that meaningful use 2.0 is about talking to patients. Sure, it cracks the door open a little bit, but doctors can easily shut it again.
RT @EMRAnswers HIMSS: Increased HIPAA Compliance Has Yet to Increase Data Security | @scoopit via @PerminovaCardio bit.ly/InYddP
— Wm T Oravecz (@WTOAssociates) April 14, 2012
This won't be a surprise to those who work in the industry. Although, this was from a survey of professionals in healthcare IT. Doesn't seem like the best methodology for making this conclusion.
Dell Clinical Service Desk Provides Expertise and Support to Advance #EMR Adoption dell.to/IqXbwb
— Dell Healthcare (@DellHealth) April 10, 2012
I first learned about these services from Dell at HIMSS. I'd been meaning to write about them and just never have been able to fit it into my publishing schedule. Until I do, I think it's interesting to note that Dell's offering these clinical help desk services to hospitals.
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— Stephanie Schlegel (@schlegelsteph) April 12, 2012
I've been a fan of Practice Fusion's culture ever since the "scrappy" part was exhibited by their PR person trying to get me to write about them on my site a number of years back. It's been quite interesting to see the company evolve. In the past I described them as the most "silicon valley" startup EMR company out there. I'll be interested to see what "silicon valley" path the company takes from here. Startup companies are a hobby of mine and so it will be quite interesting to see Practice Fusion evolve as they continue to grow the company. Considering the amount of funding they've taken on, they're going to have to grow the company really big in order to provide their VC's the required return. When you grow that big that fast it's a challenge to keep the culture.
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Kona Espresso Ethnic Festival: Kept every year in Kona, the Kona Caffeine Societal Event is a wonderful way to preference a number of gourmet coffee types, understand more about gourmet coffee planting and harvesting, and investigate Hawaii's abundant caffeine culture. Furthermore, the festivity features craft reveals, contests, and parades, and also whimsical situations such as the Caffeine Scholarship Pageant and Espresso Dish Tournament. The event occurs in October and it is ready to accept the general public.
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What's News: The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using gadgets in flight. Protests in Brazil swell to more than a million people despite government concession. Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 7 to win NBA Championship. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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- WeBeHigh.com: http://www.webehigh.com - home page lists all cities.
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Special:Search works well. Click: "Global Marijuana March maps". Add city name to search, and state/province/nation as needed. This is an advanced search of main pages and templates. This will pull up all yearly maps in which the city is listed. Except for 2015, 2016, or 2017 in which only countries were listed for the most part. Putting quotes around multi-word city names helps focus the search: "New York City". This city, nation, or subnational area participated or signed up one year (or more) for the Global Marijuana March (GMM), Million Marijuana March (MMM), or 420. Cities and nations holding 4/20 events are also included in later years. Yearly maps: 41 nations participated on April 20 and May 4, 2019, or thereabouts. 42 nations participated on May 5, 2018, or thereabouts. 42 nations participated on May 6, 2017, or thereabouts. 45 nations participated on May 7, 2016, or thereabouts. 43 nations participated on May 2, 2015, or thereabouts. 213 cities from 43 nations signed up for May 3, 2014 or thereabouts.
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See also: 2019 page editors. The Global Cannabis March (GCM or GMM) is the first Saturday in May or thereabouts. 420 events are on April 20 or thereabouts.
See: GCM and 420 on Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Ask any of the local and regional GCM and 420 organizers for help about anything.
There are many Global Cannabis March and 420 Facebook pages organizing cities and countries for GCM and 420. Search Facebook. Find more people, groups, and organizations via the GCM links box (many links in one place), and the GCM links page.
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These classes designed for pregnant couples are not your average prenatal class. Regardless of your chosen birth setting, or level of intervention, you will have a chance to learn more about your own body and how birth works in a class that is supportive and full of beauty. Over the course of the series, both partners will have a chance to create real tools to use in birth and the rest of your life which address not only the physical, but the emotional and spiritual as well, to truly prepare you for your transition to parenthood. Honour the process and create community through ceremony and celebration, and take special time to develop a genuine, deep and meaningful bond with your partner that will serve you both in all things. Over 6 weeks, you will:
Honour and celebrate your journey into parenthood, regardless of what that looks like
Deeply connect as partners
Explore your emotions around birth and release your fears
Discuss your childbirth choices
Learn and practice a variety of comfort measures
Create mantras, malas and birth visualizations
Discover the power of the senses
Prepare for your new role caring for your baby
In addition to all this, the cost of the course includes a wonderful gift bag and deals on local resources that may be of interest to you.
To register, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 250-710-2489
Total cost per couple: $275
** If this fee is difficult for you, please do not hesitate to contact me about my alternate payment options!**
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This chick is immensely happy to be born and when it is chirping, it says, "Men, be happy to be born, life is wonderful" - Marcello Jori
Tradition and magic atmospheres are enclosed by Marcello Jori in a collection of decorations inspired by the famous jewel eggs realized at the court of the Tsars of Russia. The Fleurs de Jorì decorations remind you of this past by preserving its craftsmanship, executive quality, richness of decor and care for details. These ornaments are sought-after as precious gifts, unique objects to hang, creating a charming and special atmosphere. The Fleurs de Jorì decorations preserve and tell a story: characters who introduce allusions to the literary world or to the designer's poetic imagination.
Marcello Jori was born in Merano on 12 December 1951. He currently lives and works in Bologna. Having obtained his degree from DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies, Bologna), in 1977 Jori embarked on his career as an artist, soon exhibiting in national and foreign galleries and museums. In the mid-seventies, Jori took his first tentative steps in certain conceptual streams, from which he soon moved away and indeed openly went against their colder and most austere aspects, in an attempt to infuse art with a new lease of life. This he did with a series of photographic works, in which he reinterprets a number of classical masterpieces in a modern key. In this way, art is brought back to a human dimension; the artist "gives body" to the paintings, and takes possession of them so as to transform them into something true. Thus, an abstract painting depicting sunset is exposed to the lights and colours of a real sunset ("Tramonto sul mare sul mare a tramonto" - Sunset over the sea over the sea at sunset, 1976). In 1979, Jori painted himself on top of a ladder painting the fall of the angel, in contact with the heavens, which marked a turning point in his artistic career. This painting displays a new expressive energy that featured in his works over the entire following decade. It was during this phase that painting became central to his creative evolution. These were the years of the "Scritture" (Inscriptions), vertical and fluctuating words suspended mid air between the real and the artist's mental idea of space. These words were then caged in multicoloured "Teatrini" (Theatres), extravagant examples of architecture in movement that were the forerunners of the following "Cristalli" (Crystals) and "Gioie" (Jewels) series, enchanted and kaleidoscopic geometric patterns.


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Composer will premiere commissioned piece
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University's Department of Music will host a Composer-in-Residence week April 19-23 featuring the world premiere of Mark Hayes' Te Deum at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 22, in Harral Memorial Auditorium.
Hayes' rendition of Te Deum is a new setting for an ancient hymn used in church worship.
"It combines both Latin text and English text," said Dr. Scott Herrington, a professor of music and director of choral studies at Wayland. "It has some jazz elements and some classical elements. It is written for an eight-part choir with a baritone solo and mezzo soprano solo. It is a piece I think everyone will enjoy."
The work was originally commissioned by Wayland in 2002. Herrington, who worked with Hayes while teaching at Baylor and has followed the composer's career, contacted Hayes about working on the piece.
"He jumped right at the opportunity," Herrington explained. "It was interesting to him because it was something different for him. A lot of his work is more church or individual, short, anthem-oriented music. This is a more extended piece."
Due to health reasons, Hayes had to postpone working on the piece which was originally scheduled to be premiered in the spring of 2003. After recovering, Hayes returned to work on the music, completing the project and presenting it to Wayland early this year.
Herrington said the composition is around 15 minutes long and was written for choir and orchestra. Wayland's International Choir and the Wayland Singers will perform the piece along with an orchestra comprised of Wayland musicians and the Plainview Symphony. The groups will also perform other Hayes' works during the concert.
Hayes, whose career has included many international tours, has composed pieces which can be found in the music libraries of churches and universities around the world. His work is known for its unique, American sound, drawing from diverse musical styles such as gospel, jazz, pop, folk and classical. He has produced more than 50 recordings for various artists and publishers, 20 keyboard folios and four volumes of the Mark Hayes Vocal Solo Collection. He is an accomplished performer as well as composer and will display his talents during several workshops that will be held throughout the week.
Tuesday's workshop, "You Can Improvise at the Keyboard," will cover using the piano in 21 st century worship. The workshop will be held at 4 p.m. in the Miller Recital Hall and is open to the public. A meal will be served at 5:30 p.m. followed by a piano concert by Hayes. Cost for the workshop and meal is $15. Reservations will need to be turned in by Thursday, April 15.
On Thursday, April 22, Hayes will present a composer's workshop, "From the First Note to Publication," at 4 p.m. in the recital hall. There is no charge for this workshop.
The week will conclude with "A Conversation with Mark Hayes" at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 23, in the University Center, room 211. A lunch buffet will be served, followed by a reading session of Mark Hayes' music in the recital hall. The cost for the meal and reading is $25. Reservations must be turned in by Thursday, April 15.
To register for the workshops and meal, contact Herrington at 806-291-1062, or call Robert Black at 806-291-1067. For more information on the events, you can email Herrington email@example.com or Black at email@example.com .


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Coastal.com Receives Competition Act Clearance for Acquisition by Essilor International
Apr 25, 2014, 19:32 ET
VANCOUVER, April 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Coastal Contacts Inc. ("Coastal.com" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: COA) (TSX: COA) announced today the receipt of Competition Act clearance for the proposed statutory plan of arrangement under which Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d'Optique), S.A. ("Essilor") will indirectly acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Coastal.com for a purchase price of CAD$12.45 per share (the "Transaction"). Obtaining this clearance is a closing condition under the acquisition agreement governing the Transaction.
The Transaction was approved by Coastal.com's shareholders at an annual general and special meeting held on April 16, 2014, and was approved by the British Columbia Supreme Court on April 23, 2014. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all remaining customary closing conditions, the Transaction is expected to close on or about April 28, 2014.
About Essilor
The world's leading ophthalmic optics company, Essilor designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of lenses to improve and protect eyesight. Its corporate mission is to enable everyone around the world to access lenses that meet his or her unique vision requirements. To support this mission, the Company allocates more than €150 million to research and innovation every year, in a commitment to continuously bring new, more effective products to market. Essilor's flagship brands are Varilux®, Crizal®, Definity®, Xperio®, OptifogTM, Foster Grant®, Bolon® and Costa®. It also develops and markets equipment, instruments and services for eyecare professionals.
Essilor reported consolidated revenue of over €5 billion in 2013 and employs more than 55,000 people. It operates in some 100 countries with 28 plants, more than 450 prescription laboratories and edging facilities, as well as several research and development centers around the world. For more information, please visit www.essilor.com.
The Essilor share trades on the NYSE Euronext Paris market and is included in the Euro Stoxx 50 and CAC 40 indices.
Codes and symbols: ISIN: FR0000121667; Reuters: ESSI.PA; Bloomberg: EI:FP.
About Coastal.com
Coastal.com is a leading manufacturer and online retailer of eyewear products offered through a family of world class websites. Established in 2000, the Coastal.com family of brands offers an extensive, in stock selection of prescription eyewear, contact lenses and sunglasses. Coastal.com's vision is to make the process simple, either on-line or at one of our retail showrooms, so our customers can see everything life has to offer. For more information about Coastal.com, please visit www.coastal.com.
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Forward-looking information and statements are based on the then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and forecasts about the Transaction, Coastal.com's business and the industry and markets in which it operates. Forward-looking information and statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. You are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Coastal.com's control that could cause Coastal.com's actual future results or performance to be materially different from those that are disclosed in or implied by the forward-looking information. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with the completion of the Transaction, changes in the market; potential downturns in economic conditions; consumer credit risk; Coastal.com's ability to implement its business strategies; competition from traditional and online retailers; limited suppliers; limited availability of inventory; disruption in Coastal's distribution facilities; mergers and acquisitions; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; regulatory requirements; demand for contact lenses, eyeglasses and related vision care products; the risk that Coastal.com will not be successful in defending against litigation; dependence on the Internet; and the other risks detailed in Coastal.com's filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
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SOURCE: Coastal Contacts Inc.
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Aaah, the Quainton Reads, so many of them. A lot coming from the Nether Winchendon Reads, and a lot coming from Northamptonshire Reads and a lot just from, well, Quainton. And a few Reads marrying Reads in amongst these people too.
The quandary? Well, Cousin Maureen, Cousin Norman and myself all did our own research and were all of the same opinion that a particular William Read who married Elizabeth Read Bush was the son of one particular Read couple. But, Cousin Ann did her own research and was certain that the William Read who married Elizabeth Read Bush was the son of another Read couple.
I decided that I would check ALL Quainton Reads, including ALL strays that I could find, so I have gone through the baptism, marriage and burial parish registers for Quainton and I have gone through all the Censuses for Quainton and all the Censuses where Quainton Read people have strayed to elsewhere in the UK and other records besides!
It has taken a great deal of work, but I have enjoyed it immensely. It does not help that the William Read that Cousin Ann is rooting for for being the husband of Elizabeth Read Bush dies after the 1841 Census!! Why oh why did he not try and last at least until the 1851 Census, because that might have given a clue as to where he was really from. And it does not help that I can't find any other relevant William Read that could be the William that Cousin Maureen, Cousin Norman and I are rooting for anywhere.
The age of Elizabeth Read Bush's husband more appropriately fits the William that Cousin Ann is supporting but of course, we all know that ages can be incorrect in censuses and with only a baptism date someone could have been any age other than just a baby when they were baptised.
But after a great deal of searching, perusing, digging and delving, and poring over this record and that record, I have to say that I am now on the side of Cousin Ann!! I haven't been able to prove it conclusively … yet!! But I'm sure something will turn up that supports this more.
I have to sort out my research for the Quainton Read quandary and as soon as I do, I will add it here for everyone else to try and reach their own conclusion. It will certainly be very interesting to see what others think of this!!


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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are giving their marriage another try after the Hollywood actor moved back into the family home, according to a new report.
The pair shocked fans by announcing it was splitting in August after 13 years of marriage. Douglas downplayed rumors they were heading for divorce by insisting the marriage trouble was a "temporary situation" while keeping his wedding ring firmly on his finger.
Now it has been claimed by Britain's The Sun that Zeta-Jones has allowed the "Fatal Attraction" star to return to their property in New York, where she has been living with their two children, Dylan and Carys.
A source tells the publication, "Michael's asked Catherine to give things another try and she's agreed. It's not just for the sake of the children.
"When they're good they're amazing together, so they're hammering out their issues at their home. It's good news and Catherine is on top of the world."
The news comes after the Welsh beauty was spotted wearing her wedding rings again at a gala in New York on Sunday. The beauty attended the New York Dance Alliance Foundation Gala at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, where she was honoured with the Ambassador for the Arts Award.
Before the separation, both stars had suffered turbulent times, with Douglas undergoing treatment for stage four throat cancer, while Zeta-Jones received professional treatment for her ongoing battle with bipolar disorder.


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Looking to lose weight? In addition to following a plant-based, whole foods diet, incorporating certain foods can help catalyze weight loss. Ingredients like grapefruit, wild salmon, almonds, avocados, and kiwi can trigger your body to process them more efficiently, mainly making your insulin more effective. Here are some fabulous, healthy, and delicious recipes that will also help you on your weight-loss journey.
Grapefruit has a compound called naringenin, which studies have shown can make our insulin more effective. This tea was featured on "The Martha Stewart Show." (And Martha loved it!)
The combination of grapefruit and wild salmon work double duty in this recipe. The naringenin in grapefruit can make our insulin more effective -- and the omega-3 fatty acids in salmon have an anti-inflammatory effect in the body and can increase our cells' ability to burn fat.
Foods such as almonds, avocados, and olive oil are high in fat, but about 70 percent of that fat is monounsaturated, the heart-healthy kind. "These foods help make our cells more insulin-sensitive," says Bagnulo. "Less insulin typically means weight loss."
Munch on this delicious granola during your next 3 p.m. snack attack -- or make it for breakfast and serve it with low-fat milk or soy milk.
A mixture of grains often served as a warm breakfast cereal, Kashi's 7 Whole Grain Pilaf also works beautifully as a savory side dish. Look for it alongside rice and other whole grains in natural-foods stores.
Although avocados help make our cells more insulin-sensitive, there's one note of caution: For optimal weight loss, avoid combining high-fat foods with simple carbs like white bread, baked potatoes, or sugar. For example, if you are going to eat an avocado, serve it on a high-fiber, multigrain bread rather than a white tortilla.
Avocados have high concentrations of many B vitamins, as well as beta-carotene, magnesium, and vitamins E and K. These nutrients support and sustain your overall health, not to mention your energy, and can speed up your metabolism.
When shopping for avocados, choose one that's firm to the touch with unbroken skin. Let it ripen a few days at room temperature. You'll know it's ready to eat when it feels soft.
Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish like wild salmon have an anti-inflammatory effect in the body and can increase our cells' ability to burn fat.
Salmon, an omega-3 powerhouse, is a great asset in your weight-loss arsenal. Omega-3 fatty acids promote weight loss in several ways. They help the insulin in your body work better and decreases insulin resistance. They improve blood-sugar control, which helps reduce food cravings and overeating. Omega-3s help your body burn off calories before they get stored as fat.
Raw apples, raw carrots oats, and beans are a good source of fiber and "resistant starches," those that the body has to expend a lot of energy to break down. Unlike foods that cause a blood-sugar rush, sugar from these foods will only drip into the bloodstream.
This breakfast alternative starts with carrot juice, a valuable source of beta carotene, which many juicing enthusiasts believe is best absorbed on an empty stomach.
The raw carrot sauce on this dish is a perfect foil for sesame-coated tuna steaks.
Complementing beans with grain foods, like rice, makes them a great substitute for higher-fat protein sources like meats. Beans are also filling enough to stave off hunger. The low-fat, high-fiber nature of a bean-centered diet makes them a great weight-loss staple.
You can make these as spicy as you like by varying the amount of chipotle peppers or using a spicier salsa. Fresh cilantro and lime are a vibrant complement to the smoky chipotle pepper in this dish. Canned chipotles in adobo can be found in the specialty section of most supermarkets.


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By Jo Ling Kent, NBC News
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- In a significant development in the Republican presidential contest, the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper endorsed former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as his campaign surges in polls both nationally and locally. Despite his tumultuous political past, Gingrich was cited by the paper to have conservative credentials they believe to be critical to win the GOP nomination.
"A lot of candidates say they're going to improve Washington," wrote publisher Joe McQuaid. "Newt Gingrich has actually done that, and in this race he offers the best shot of doing it again."
The paper called Gingrich's strategy "innovative, forward looking" and his leadership "positive." However, McQuaid was quick to conceded Gingrich is far from the ideal candidate.
Slideshow: Gingrich through the years
"Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate," McQuaid wrote. "But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running ... he has the experience, the leadership qualities and the vision to lead this country in trying times."
Gingrich: 'Enormous boost'
The paper's support is considered the state's most influential media nod ahead of the first-in-the-nation Republican primary and will certainly help Gingrich's prospects here. The Union Leader is the state's largest and only state-wide daily publication. It prides itself on being independent and conservative.
"We are honored to have the endorsement of the Union Leader," Gingrich's New Hampshire state campaign director Andrew Hemingway told NBC News Sunday morning. "This is an enormous boost to our campaign and further proof the the people of N.H. are wanting substance and solutions over soundbites and pandering." Gingrich was not immediately available for comment.
The Union Leader's Gingrich endorsement comes after significant courting by Mitt Romney, who has been campaigning in the state for several years. This is the second time that the Union Leader has chosen not to endorse Romney. In 2008, it notably backed John McCain who eventually went on to win the New Hampshire primary following a major comeback from a near-dead campaign the summer and fall before the primary. The paper's editorial team also took several significant swipes at Romney in the process, undoubtedly hurting his chances in New Hampshire.
Looking back, the Union Leader has only supported two Republican candidates who went on to actually cement the GOP nomination: Reagan in 1980 and McCain in 2008. The Granite State publication endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, Pete du Pont in 1988, Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996, Steve Forbes in 2000 and John McCain 2008.
GOP candidate Newt Gingrich was front and center in Tuesday's debate, reflecting his recent surge to the top of the polls. On immigration, Gingrich disagreed with the other candidates by calling for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are longtime residents and have paid taxes. NBC's Andrea Mitchell has more.
As for this election cycle, McQuaid recently told the Concord Monitor that "the future of the free world" is at stake. McQuaid said that the paper decided on its endorsement earlier this week and wrote the opinion ahead of Thanksgiving.
"I'm not kidding," McQuaid said of the upcoming 2012 contest. "I think this is a very important election in America."
In the latest New Hampshire polls, Gingrich is tied with Rep. Ron Paul for second place at 14 percent, behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney who garnered 41 percent, according to Suffolk University and 7 News. In another state-wide survey by WMUR and University of New Hampshire, Gingrich has 15 percent of support, behind Romney at 45 percent and ahead of Paul at 12 percent.
In the last month, Gingrich has retooled his New Hampshire strategy by building out a virtually non-existent structure, citing new funds as his impetus to expand. He has visited more frequently, brought in Hemingway and rapidly hired New Hampshire-based staff, most recently snagging Rep. Michele Bachmann's former New Hampshire director Jeff Chidester.
His campaign has also started rolling out "Newt Hampshire", a Granite State-focused web platform to attract supporters and get out the vote in the final weeks until the primary.
New Hampshire voters go to the polls on Tuesday, January 10.