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- Commentary
By Cody Willard
Cross-posted from TradingWithCody.com, where I post all my trades in real-time (a service not affiliated with Marketwatch).
With the Nasdaq now at 11-year highs, highs it hasn't seen since the good ol' dot com bubble days of late 2000, it's time to revisit the question that everybody's asking once again, "Are we in a new tech bubble?"
Before I give what I think is the answer to that question, let's take a look back at my answer to that question over the last couple years, when the Nasdaq was much lower than it was right now: How to get rich in the coming tech bubble 1:05 p.m. Dec. 27, 2010 | By Cody Willard
Why you must fight the Fed and get ready for a new tech stock market bubble 10:33 a.m. Dec. 31, 2010 | By Cody Willard
Tech investors need a wake up 12:13 p.m. Jan. 3, 2011 | By Cody Willard
Why we are headed into a new stock market bubble and how to profit from it 10:20 a.m. Jan. 28, 2011 | By Cody Willard
How to trade the oncoming stock market bubble 5:18 p.m. Jan. 30, 2011 | By Cody Willard
Tablet boom to bust already? Think again. 1:42 p.m. Feb. 22, 2011 | By Cody Willard
Stock picks for the next asset bubble 3:52 p.m. April 29, 2011 | By Cody Willard
How to make a fortune in the coming app bubble 12:09 a.m. May 2, 2011 | By Cody Willard
More recently, and closer to getting to the answer to my question: Facebook and twitter are already in a bubble. So what? 11:22 a.m. July 13, 2011 | By Cody Willard
Remember how we debated everybody who said we were already in a tech bubble over and over last year? And the year before? They were wrong.
Anyway, we have indeed headed into new all-time highs in the tech stock market. And many of those App Revolution stocks, including my long-time favorite since $7 a share, Apple AAPL is both up huge from where it was. Indeed, I'm still looking for a $1500 by 2015 price target for Apple as the App Revolution moves from the smartphone to the game console and TV set top box and TV computer and…you get the idea.
I don't care if we're in a tech bubble when it comes to my favorite app and tech stocks like Apple. I think Apple's likely headed much higher in coming months, quarters and years. And I've got ideas on what the next Apple might be. You can find a lot of potential "next Apple" stocks in App Revolution Stocks: 50 Stocks That Could Go Up 1000%, my report from late 2010 which predicted so much of the ongoing tech market (and which we updated with new picks and new data last year, available at AppRevolutionStocks.com and available for free for members of TradingWithCody.com).
And, no, while I do think there's a whole lot of great shorting opportunities already here in tech, I think there's a whole lot bigger and better shorting opportunity coming in tech. That is, I still don't think we're quite in a tech bubble…yet. We're closer and we're obviously more "bubblicious" in a lot of tech names right now, including LNKD and ZNGA, I'd probably rather be a long even those names than a short in those names for the next few months if not for the next year or two.
My echo-techo bubble looks to be arriving on schedule, in other words. Stay the course. For now.
And check out my book at AppRevolutionStocks.com for some ideas on how best to invest in the inflating tech bubble. And be sure to check out TradingWithCody.com, where I post all my trades in real-time and where I'll be flagging when it's time to run for the hills from the tech bubble. Which is not today. Oh, and if you sign up before Valentine's Day at TradingWithCody.com, you can get the App Revolution Book for free and we'll even rebate the first month's charge.
At time of publication, Willard, author of Revolution Investing and Trading With Cody a service not affiliated with Marketwatch, was net long Apple.


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Blazers Ride Winning Streak To Share Of First Place
St. Ben's basketball moved into a tie for first place with a 69-63 win over Concordia last night. The Blazers' tenth straight win improves their record to 18-4 overall and 16-3 in the MIAC.
Brianna Barret paced the Blazer offense with 21 points, including a 7-7 night from the free throw line. Whitney Canton added 17 for St. Ben's in the victory.
The Blazers will take on St. Thomas Saturday afternoon in St. Paul.

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Introduction to Volume 40
Blaise Cronin
ARIST is forty, a suitable moment to pause and reflect. Volume 1 appeared in 1966 and was published by John Wiley & Sons in conjunction with the American Documentation Institute (ADI), the forerunner of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). The inaugural volume contained 389 pages and cost $12.50. Its founding editor, Carlos A. Cuadra, was a System Development Corporation (SDC) employee and graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. The idea for a series of comprehensive reviews in information science and technology came to him in the early 1960s and found enthusiastic support from ADI notables such as Pauline Atherton Cochrane, Charles Bourne, Robert Hayes, and Donald Swanson
Cuadra launched ARIST with the financial support of both SDC and the National Science Foundation (NSF) but not without misgivings within the ranks of the ADI itself (see Bjørner, 2003 for some historical background). The NSF, however, had no doubts: in her foreword to Volume 1, Helen Brownson details the organization's commitment to both the editor and the idea of an annual review for the nascent field of information science and technology. Their early optimism was not misplaced. Forty volumes, several publishers, and three editors later, ARIST sails on, fulfilling its original remit and continuing to attract plaudits. Since this is an anniversary volume, a little blowing of one's own trumpet may be permitted: According to the most recent ISI data I have seen, ARIST ranks first in terms of its impact factor when compared with more than 50 other serials in its subject group, including its stable mate, the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Dr. Cuadra and his redoubtable successor, Professor Martha Williams, have much of which to be proud; reputations are not built overnight.
Cuadra's expansive introduction makes for interesting reading. Parts of it could have been written yesterday; indeed, his scene-setting remarks brought to mind the title of Bruno Latour's (1987) book, We Have Never Been Modern. There is, as Cuadra (1966, p. 1) notes, "very little agreement about the boundaries of Information Science and Technology, or about its parentage, its essential nature, or its future." This, after all, is a field which "draws on fragments and fringes of a number of sciences, technologies, disciplines, arts, and practices." Still, Cuadra (1966, p. 2) is a pragmatist at heart and rather than fret about definitions and essentialism, he focuses on what can be done to encourage "intercommunication in the field," specifically the role ARIST can play in creating an inter-discipline (although he doesn't use that term) and promoting what Gernot Wersig (1992, p. 214) later called "inter-conceptual work." Some of the chapter titles in the first volume (e.g., Automated Language Processing, Selected Hardware Developments, Content Analysis, Representation and Control, National Information Issues and Trends) could have been stripped out of the current ARIST, suggesting not only that Dr. Cuadra was a prescient and knowledgeable editor but also that some themes and topics are ever-present in the information science canon, even if, on occasion, the language of the first Review (e.g., Man-Machine Communication) signals that we are in pre-PC (political correctness) times.
Conversely, some of the chapters making up Volume 40 could have featured in Volume 1 (e.g., Information Seeking, Semantic Relationships, Information History). Even the chapter on social epistemology could, conceivably, have seen the light of day in 1966, as Jesse Shera (1961) had published on that very subject five years earlier. But some things do change, and Volume 40 addresses a number of topics that even the most farsighted founding editor could not have anticipated (e.g., The Geographies of the Internet, Open Access). Constancy and change: Such is ARIST.
One of the questions posed by Cuadra is why anyone would willingly undertake to write a comprehensive annual review chapter, given the enormous amount of work involved. This, as you may imagine, is a question often asked by the present editor, but, mirabile dictu, there are still enough individuals motivated by enlightened altruism to keep ARIST on course. Now, whether all of these selfless souls meet the requirements for the ideal author as specified by Cuadra is a question for you, the reader, to answer. Permit me to quote in full Cuadra's (1966, p. 8) five desiderata. "(1) he must have a strong grasp of the basic issues in his field and must be able to understand and express them in their historical perspective; (2) he must have an established habit of keeping informed by reading reports and published literature and by making effective use of his contacts in the 'invisible college'; (3) he must be able to write lucid, incisive prose and must be willing and able to make objective value judgments—in public—about the merit and implications of given lines of reported work, research, and experience; (4) he must have, in addition to this technical and literary talent, sufficient prestige in the field to invite the reader's respectful attention to his contribution; and (5) he must be willing to do an immense amount of sifting, reading, and evaluation on an extremely tight schedule."
I could not have put it better myself—this is a near perfect pen portrait of the ideal ARIST author. I hope that forty years on we still come respectably close to the benchmark set by Carlos Cuadra. Given the increasing pressure on authors to publish frequently and communicate widely in order to maintain their professional salience (Cronin, 2005), we are mightily grateful to those who commit the time and energy needed to craft a good ARIST chapter. At the risk of sounding like a fogey, there is something to be said for deliberative writing and deferred gratification. Paradoxically, in an economy of attention (Simon, 1971), less may well be more. Perhaps what academia needs is a Slow Writing movement akin to the Slow Food, Slow Cities movement (see http://www.slowfood.com).
Bjørner, S. (2003). Online before the Internet, Part 3. Early pioneers tell their stories: Carlos Cuadra. Retrieved March 1, 2005, from http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct03/CuadraWeb.shtml
Cronin, B. (2005). The hand of science: Academic writing and its rewards. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
Cuadra, C. A. (1966). Introduction to the ADI Annual Review. In: Cuadra, C. A. (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 1, 114.
Latour, B. (1993). We have never been modern (C. Porter, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Shera, J. (1961). Social epistemology, general semantics and librarianship. Wilson Library Bulletin, 35, 767770.
Simon, H. (1971). Designing organizations for an information-rich world. In: M. Greenberger (Ed.), Computers, communications and the public interest (pp. 3772). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Wersig, G. (1992). Information science and theory: A weaver bird's perspective. In: P. Vakkari & B. Cronin (Eds.), Conceptions of library and information science: Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives (pp. 201217). London: Taylor Graham.


text: Thursday, October 06, 2011 Join Running Experts on APTA Livestream Event APTA will be co-hosting with Pacers Running Stores the "Running Experts LIVE," livestream event, which will take place both online and in person in the Pacers Alexandria store on October 12 at 8 pm ET. Pacers is a highly regarded running and walking specialty retailer in the greater Washington, DC, area with more than 60,000 followers. This event is being held to celebrate National Physical Therapy Month and is in line with its 2011 theme of sports injury prevention across the lifespan. Olympic marathon runner Magdalena Lewy Boulet and APTA member and spokesperson Robert Gillanders, PT, DPT, OCS, who specializes in endurance athlete performance and injury prevention, will lead a discussion about training technique, injury prevention and tips for improving performance. DC area residents can register to participate in person at the Pacers Old Town store and anyone can participate in the live online event at www.moveforwardpt.com/running. Questions for the experts can be submitted online prior to and during the event by contacting Move Forward via Twitter and Facebook. Encourage your patients, friends, and family to participate.


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(1) Alabama - 44, Tennessee - 13
- Rolltide.com
October 20, 2012
Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper catches a pass over Tennessee defensive
back Prentiss Waggner.
Photo Credit - Mark Almond/al.com
Knoxville, Tenn. - Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron passed for a career-high
306 yards and four touchdowns, connecting with freshman wide receiver Amari
Cooper seven times for 162 yards and two scores as the top-ranked Crimson
Tide (7-0 overall; 4-0 in the Southeastern Conference) dominated Tennessee
(3-4 overall; 0-4 SEC) in a 44-13 victory before a capacity crowd of 102,455
at Neyland Stadium on Saturday night. Freshman running back T.J. Yeldon
rushed for 129 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Alabama ground game.
The latest renewal of the storied "Third Saturday in October" rivalry was
marked by an explosive night by the Alabama offense, which rolled to 539
yards of total offense behind a potent passing game. The Alabama defense
bottled up what had been an exciting Tennessee offense, limiting the
Volunteers to 282 total yards on the night while forcing two turnovers.
Alabama repelled Tennessee drives inside Crimson Tide territory several
times, including a fourth-down stop at the Tide 33 and an interception by
safety Robert Lester in the end zone that snuffed another Volunteers' threat.
Cooper had six catches for 120 yards and a touchdown in the first half alone
as the Tide raced to a 23-10 lead at intermission before putting away the game
in the second half. The victory was Alabama's sixth straight in the series.
McCarron enjoyed an efficient night passing as he completed 17 of 22 attempts
just one week after suffering a minor knee injury in the second half against
The teams exchanged punts following the game's first three possessions before
Cyrus Jones took a Tennessee punt at the Alabama 21-yard line and returned it
32 yards via excellent blocking to set up the Crimson Tide offense at the
Volunteers' 37-yard line with 11:28 left in the first quarter. McCarron and
Cooper keyed the ensuing drive. A 12-yard pass to Cooper on the second play
of the march got things moving for Alabama to the Tennessee 33. After a key
five-yard pass to tight end Michael Williams converted a third-and-four play
to the Tennessee 23, McCarron found Cooper all alone in the right corner of
the end zone for a 23-yard touchdown and a 7-0 Alabama lead with 8:18 remaining
in the first quarter.
On the next possession, Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray hit running back
Marlin Lane on a screen pass that Lane took for 25 yards to the Crimson Tide
47-yard line. Four plays later, Bray hit receiver Cordarrelle Patterson on a
fly route for 25 yards to the Alabama nine-yard line. A fumbled pitchout by
Patterson two plays later moved the Vols back to the 14-yard line to set up a
third-and-goal play that ended in a pass incompletion in the end zone. A 32-yard
field goal by Michael Palardy put the Vols on the board with 3:38 left in the
first quarter as the lead was narrowed to 7-3. That score marked the first
first-quarter points allowed by Alabama this season.
Alabama marched to the Tennessee 27 on the ensuing drive but Cade Foster missed
a 44-yard field goal attempt. On the third play of the ensuing Tennessee
possession, Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley intercepted a Bray pass at the
Tennessee 32. After T.J. Yeldon rushed for eight yards on first down, five
yards on second down and burst for 19 yards to the Tennessee 1 before taking
it into the end zone for a one-yard run over left tackle with 11:23 left in
the second quarter. Jeremy Shelley's extra point attempt was blocked by
Tennessee and the Crimson Tide held a 13-3 lead.
On Alabama's next possession, after a Tennessee punt, the Tide started at
its own 28. Lacy ran for three on the first play, then Cooper made a leaping
catch on a fly pattern on a 54-yard pass play to the Tennessee 15-yard line.
Lacy spun around a would-be tackler on the next play and ran for 14 yards to
the one-yard line. McCarron hit Williams for a one-yard touchdown pass on the
next play and Shelley's kick was good for a 20-3 Alabama lead with 6:55 left
in the second quarter.
Patterson returned the ensuing kickoff 45 yards to the Alabama 48. One play
later, Bray connected with tight end Mychal Rivera on a short in the middle
of the Alabama defense and Rivera took it 43 yards to the Alabama five-yard
line. After an Alabama penalty took the ball to the two-yard line, Tennessee's
A.J. Johnson, a linebacker by trade, lined up at quarterback in the wildcat
formation and rushed two yards for a touchdown to narrow the Alabama lead
to 20-10 with 5:32 left in the second period.
On the first play of the next possession, Cooper took a short pass and eluded
several defenders on a 14-yard catch to the Alabama 44. On third-and-six play
at the Alabama 48, McCarron patiently hit wide receiver Kenny Bell on a short
crossing pattern that Bell turned into a 29-yard gain to the Tennessee 23. The
drive stalled at the Tennessee 17 where Shelley's 34-yard field goal attempt
split the uprights to give Alabama a 23-10 lead with 1:24 remaining in the
second quarter.
Alabama took the opening kickoff of the second half and march to apparent
touchdown by Cooper on a 30-yard scoring play that was nullified by an illegal
formation penalty on the Crimson Tide. Foster's 45-yard field goal attempt on
the next play was off the mark and the Crimson Tide had missed another scoring
After an exchange of punts, Tennessee started a possession at the Alabama 42,
but that potential threat was stopped when the Alabama defense stuffed a
fourth-and-one rush by A.J. Johnson at the Tide 33. Alabama took over after
that exchange and put the game away. On the sixth play of the ensuing drive,
McCarron dropped back and connected with Cooper on a deep route at the goal
line and Cooper scored to give Alabama a 30-10 lead with 2:56 left in the third
quarter. The catch set a new single-game receiving yards mark for an Alabama
freshman, giving him 162 yards at the time.
McCarron connected with receiver Kenny Bell down the right sideline for a
39-yard touchdown pass with 12:46 remaining in the game to give Alabama a
37-10 lead. That march was jump started by five runs by Yeldon that covered
41 yards, including bursts of 16 and 13 yards, prior to Bell's catch and run
to the end zone.
Yeldon capped the Tide's scoring on Alabama's next drive with a 43-yard run
to cap a three-play, 58-yard march, to extend the margin to 44-10 with 9:07
left in the game. Michael Palardy's 21-yard field goal for Tennessee with 3:57
left capped the scoring while narrowing the margin to 44-13.
The winning margin of 31 points equaled the largest margin of victory for the
Crimson Tide over Tennessee in Knoxville, matching the 41-10 win by Alabama in 2010.


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jamesgray needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 250 designs submitted by 75 freelance designers.
Red Tag Technologies, Red Tag Media, and Red Tag Alliance are dedicated to fueling bargain communities with a feature-rich technology framework, multiple bargain sites, and a team of professional bargain hunters. We are looking for three distinct logos to represent these three different businesses, but want a common look and feel that unites all three.
Red Tag Technologies, Red Tag Media and Red Tag Alliance
This project is to create THREE different logos using a unifying style.
A brief description of the 3 separate companies:
RED TAG TECHNOLOGIES has built a technology framework that allows non-developers to create their own feature-rich bargain shopping/affiliate marketing websites. Customers of Red Tag Technologies license the Red Tag Tech deals engine as the basis for their own site, or to add a bargain-shopping component to an existing, more information-focused site.
RED TAG MEDIA owns and operates multiple bargain shopping websites targeting a wide spectrum of product niches and user demographics. These affiliate marketing sites are similar in nature to sites such as xpbargains.com, bensbargains.com or fatwallet.com.
RED TAG ALLIANCE is a group of professional bargain shoppers who can be hired to add fresh, revenue-generating deals content to websites interested in serving up dynamic content. Once Red Tag Alliance knows the types of bargains that a site's web visitors would be interested in, Red Tag Alliance ensures that a steady stream of profit-creating deals is added to the site or application that they have been hired to update.
All three of these companies are fun, tech-savvy, quality-focused and forward-thinking and the three logos should all reflect this. "Red Tag" literally refers to a red price tag as you would see as part of a "red tag sale". Whether we are serving up technology, updating our own bargain shopping sites, or finding deals for other website owners, enabling a fun bargain shopping experience with quality products and services is our constant theme.
- We need 3 different logos: one for "Red Tag Technologies", one for "Red Tag Media" and one for "Red Tag Alliance"
- The 3 logos should obviously relate to each other in some way, whether it is through the use of fonts or similar graphic style. This is why we are running this as 1 contest rather than 3 contests. We want all 3 logos to reinforce the same brand idea.
- Each logo should be easily distinguishable from the other 2 without me having to read the logo.
- Fun, techie, memorable.
- Palette: Created in color but should also look good in greyscale. We have no specific color palette in mind and want your ideas. The 3logos don't have to use the same palette as each other, but can. Prefer no more than 3 colors in any single logo. If you use red as the primary color, consider adding a unique accent color to each logo (completely optional).
- Will mostly be used on the web and prefer wide logos over a tall logo orientation.
- Should look good when scaled to smaller size (like for banner ads, etc)
- Prefer logos with text and a graphic, though we're open to your text-only concepts, too.
- Format: vector, preferably with layers intact, and would like one greyscale version of each, also in vector format. I will ask the winner where I can find the fonts they used.
- Don't want three of the same logo.
- No overly-thin fonts that are hard to read when scaled down
- No complex logos that look cluttered when scaled down
- No clipart, no iStockPhoto, no copying other designers' work here or elsewhere on the web, and please let us know if you see anything suspicious.Thanks so much for helping to ignite the brand identity of these three companies! We are so impressed with the work we've seen you create here, and look forward to seeing where your creativity will take our branding.
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Professor Asserts Men have Multiple Identitiesby Brandon Stewart '08 • March 29, 2007 Share:
What are white male identities? How many are there? What is behind the power structure of patriarchy and how is it perpetuated? These are some the questions that were raised by Dr. Harry Brod's lecture Tuesday evening entitled, "White Male Identities: Privilege, Pain, and Pride".
Dr. Brod was introduced by Wabash English faculty member Dr. Warren Rosenberg who described Brod's work as particularly influential in his own scholarship. Dr. Brod is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. His main scholarly interests surround the topics of gender and Jewish studies. While at the University of Southern California, he founded the Center for Men and Womens Studies.
The lecture began with the bold assertion that men have multiple identities. Other groups, said Brod have already realized this, but white men haven't had to face this fact because those who are in power have the privilege of not being reflective about themselves. As he put it, "men have a gender, whites have a race, and starlights have an orientation." Too often, says Brod, white males tend to "other" everyone who is not like them without including themselves in a category. Everyone else is defined in their relation to straight white men. According to Brod, recognizing his own identities as "a child of the 60s and a child of Holocaust survivors" has been influential in helping him analyze himself and his complex identity. He also stressed that he wanted to make it very clear that white males need to embrace the idea of multiple identities if they want to be healthier people. He cited statistics that women, on average, live longer than men as proof that men's inability to deal with the baggage men carry is detrimental.
Turning his attention towards men's violence, Brod suggested that socialization could help alleviate the problem men have with violence. Despite the fact that this sort of aggression is attributed to men, Brod was quick to oppose the notion that men are naturally aggressive or violent. Instead, men have been socially constructed and conditioned towards violence. Indeed, he went farther than even that, stating that "acceptance becomes encouragement". Therefore, those who accept men's aggression and write it off as natural are sending the message to children that violence is acceptable.
Joseph Cooper '07 was one of the attendees who had asked a question during the abbreviated question and answer period following the lecture. His questions was in related to white privilege and how that would affect a white male's ability to interact with people of color in inner-city environments. His questions was particular personal interest to Cooper because he is headed to Memphis next year to serve in the Teach for America Program. "My question was about how the possibility of privilege would affect the interaction I have with my students and how my recognition of it could affect my ability to teach," said Cooper. "It's all about awareness."
Brandon McKinney '09 was another student who attended the lecture. He thought Brod's comments about tutoring white males about their privilege was particularly illuminating. Brod had suggested that although it may be helpful for whites to learn about their privilege from persons of color, minorities had no particular responsibility to do so. As McKinney put it, "I liked that answer because otherwise you have to speak for your whole race."
Brod's lecture Tuesday was a part of a two day program sponsored by the Gender Issues Committee. He hosted another lecture on Monday entitled, "The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent" and attended various classes in between the two engagements.


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Do they or don't they?
It's the question that paper after paper after paper after paper has tried to address over the past decade: does industry sponsorship of clinical trials bias the outcomes of the study? Does such sponsorship influence how doctors interpret the research findings? Does it affect healthcare professionals' willingness to believe the results and integrate an experimental treatment into their practice?
The latest attempt to navigate the thicket of pharma funding is in this week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a paper titled, "A Randomized Study of How Physicians Interpret Research Funding Disclosures," Aaron S. Kesselheim and co-authors report their results of a study designed to test how scientific rigor and funding disclosure influence the credibility of a clinical trial in the eyes of doctors.
(And let's just get the obvious out of the way now: Kesselheim et al's study was not funded by a pharmaceutical company. The disclosure forms are available online as a PDF.)
Survey says…
Here is how the authors set out to determine how funding disclosure affects what doctors make of a study's findings. First, they made up studies for three new drugs for common disorders: hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and angina. And really, the invented drug names are spectacular: lampytinib, bondaglutaraz, and provasinab. Bondaglutaraz! Fantastic.
Then, after what must have been a very enjoyable name-creating session, the authors wrote fake abstracts describing fake trials. The abstracts varied according to their level of scientific rigor (high, middle, and low for each drug) and funding status (no funding source mentioned; funded by the NIH; or funded by a pharmaceutical company with a lead author that was financially involved with the sponsoring company). The companies fake-sponsoring the studies were selected at random from the 12 pharmaceutical companies on this list.
So – three drugs, three study designs, three funding types, for a total of 27 abstracts. Then it was time for the survey, which was mailed to 503 physicians randomly selected from a total 45,398 applicable physicians listed with the American Board of Internal Medicine. The physicians were offered $50 for completing the survey in several notifications. Nonrespondents were even mailed a crisp five dollar bill, with promise of the remaining $45 upon return of the completed survey.
The physicians weren't asked to review all 27 abstracts. Rather, each participant was asked to review three abstracts, each for a different drug. The physicians knew that these were made-up drugs and they were told to assume that the drug had recently been approved by the FDA and was covered by insurance – in other words, satisfying all the criteria that would otherwise be needed for a doctor to consider a drug safe and practical to prescribe. The levels of rigor and funding were selected at random for each of the three studies provided to each physician.
The survey asked the respondents to score each abstract according to their likeliness to prescribe the drug.
What is a rigorous clinical trial?
It's worth pausing here to talk about what makes a clinical trial rigorous. The question at the heart of this NEJM report is: If a trial is conducted in a highly rigorous manner, will industry funding still diminish its credibility? And the accompanying, more editorial question: Should industry funding diminish the credibility of a rigorous clinical trial?
Here is what makes a clinical trial rigorous (according to the NEJM paper authors, and just generally speaking):
• The study should randomized
• The study should be double-blind; that is, neither the investigators nor the participants know who's receiving which treatment (the experimental or the control)
• The study should have an active comparator; that is, it should not be a single-arm study, but should be comparing two or more regimens
• The dropout rate (the number of enrolled patients who leave before the study is concluded) should be less than 9%
• For these hypothetical new drugs, the study was to have a sample size (ie, total study population) of 5,322
• The enrolled patient population should accurately represent patients with the disease/condition in question. In other words, if the average age of patients with the condition in question is, say, 65, then the average age of patients in the study should not be, say, 35.
• The drug should be documented as being safe
• For the hypothetical drugs, a rigorous study was one with a follow-up of 36 months; that is, patients had been treated for at least three years with the experimental drug
Okay, so. With the three abstracts in hand, the physicians were asked to say how likely they were to prescribe the new drug (1=very unlikely; 7=very likely), and to score the methodological rigor of the trial (1=not at all rigorous; 7=very rigorous), and to score their confidence in the conclusions reached by the investigators (you guessed it: 1=not confident; 7=very confident). And participants were also asked to respond to the juicy question:
"Do you think that pharmaceutical company funding is likely to influence the outcome of scientific studies about the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals in favor of the drug in question."
(Survey respondents were also asked to disclose their own financial support received in the previous year.)
Dim the lights, it's time for the results!
Well, despite the promise of fifty bucks, only about half of the solicited physicians responded to the survey (53.5% to be exact, for a total of 269 respondents). Interestingly, about 75% of the respondents reported receiving at least one type of industry support in the past year. And they generally agreed with that question about whether industry funding can influence trial outcomes.
Also – there was a high correlation between the rigor of the abstract and the perceived rigor. In other words, the respondents correctly discerned which abstracts were for the most rigorous studies and which for the least. The confidence in the study outcome matched the level of rigor; the least rigorous studies engendered the least confidence in the results.
More interesting, there was a definite, clear association between the funding disclosure and how physicians perceived the rigor and results of a trial. When industry funding was disclosed, the trial was perceived as less rigorous compared to abstracts where no funding was disclosed. And, regardless of the design, physicians had less confidence in the results of industry-sponsored trials, even when the trial was highly rigorous (I know, the word "rigor" is getting irritating right about now. Sorry for that. My inner thesaurus is on a coffee break right now). The respondents were also less willing to prescribe drugs tested in industry-funded trials compared to drugs tested in trials with no funding listed.
• Industry-funded trials were considered less important than NIH-funded trials
• Respondents were less interested in reading the entire report of an industry-funded study than they were in reading the entire report of an NIH-funded study
• The distaste for industry-funded research was evident at all levels of scientific rigor
• US-trained physicians were less likely to say they were willing to prescribe any of the pretend drugs than were physicians who'd trained outside the US.
• Older physicians were more likely to say they'd prescribe the new drugs than were younger physicians
As the authors write in their discussion:
"…respondents downgraded the credibility of industry-funded trials, as compared with the same trials randomly characterized as having NIH funding or having no source of support listed. The magnitude of this reduction in perceived methodologic rigor was about the same as that for low-rigor trials as compared with medium-rigor trials. Physicians' skepticism of industry-funded research affected their responses to high-rigor and low-rigor trials similarly."
The authors see the results of their survey as problematic. They point out that the pharmaceutical industry has funded the study of many major drugs that are now clinically important, and express their concern that excessive skepticism could hinder the translation of research findings into clinical practice. They call on the pharmaceutical industry to address this thinking so that the credibility of clinical trials will be more weighted in its rigor than in how its paid for. "The methodologic rigor of a trial, not its funding disclosure, should be a primary determinant of its credibility."
The source of skepticism
The skepticism evident in the surveys has accrued over years. There was this lawsuit, in which GlaxoSmithKline was accused of concealing data. There's the recent $322 million fine of Merck over off-label promotion of Vioxx, just a year after the company paid a $1 billion penalty for the way it promoted rofecoxib. Abbott recently paid $1.6 billion for promotion of unapproved uses of Depakote. And then there are the many disparaging insights in The Truth About the Drug Companies.
Yet in an editorial accompanying the report of the survey results, Jeffrey Drazen, MD, points out how many investigators in NIH-sponsored studies have incentives such as academic promotion and recognition that could influence the outcomes of their trials. He writes:
"A trial's validity should ride on the study design, the quality of data-accrual and analytic processes, and the fairness of results reporting. Ideally, these factors – not the funding source – should be the criteria for deciding the clinical utility. Patients who put themselves at risk to provide these data earn our respect for their participation; we owe them the courtesy of believing the data produced from their efforts and acting on the findings so as to benefit other patients."
That last clause might be a bit of a stretch. Feeling beholden to the patients who enrolled in the trial as justification for believing the results of the study? I'm not sure that I'd want my doctor prescribing me a drug because he owed it to the patients who'd been part of its investigation. But the call for balance seems warranted. After all, unless some very vast change sweeps across the twisted world of medical care, industry funding of clinical trials is here to stay.


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from the step-step-kick deptFor this week's awesome stuff of interesting crowdfunding projects, we'll take a look at a few attempts to rethink people-powered vehicles. This is clearly a popular concept on Kickstarter as it was just a few months ago that we had a few more examples, but these are all new from that last one.
- First up, we've got the Me-Mover, which looks like a cross between a step machine and a scooter. In some ways, it reminds me of elliptical bikes, but actually looks much smaller and more functional.
- Next up is the Paperino, a traditional kick-scooter, but designed to match the style of the classic Vespa motorscooter. While this is still in the concept stage, I actually think these guys may run into legal issues with Piaggio, the makers of the Vespa. I notice that the Paperino team is careful to avoid naming Vespa anywhere, but the style cues are fairly obvious, and most of the scooters they show as their "inspiration" are Vespas. As cool as it looks, you'd think they'd be a bit more careful to not follow the Vespa's design so closely.
- These next two I'm going to lump together, as they're both similar... and in some ways equally ridiculous. They're both pontoon-based water vehicles with propellers. One is powered by a bicycle and the other by an elliptical. The the Seahorse Bicycle Powered Boat and the Aqua Elliptica (should be obvious how each is powered). Both look fairly bizarre, though, the Aqua Elliptica's presentation is at least moderately more professional.
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Author Notes: The first time I tasted Pesce al Sale was at a restaurant in Milan. I remember the dramatic presentation of the baked fish encrusted in salt and cracked open tableside, revealing a steaming, aromatic and succulent fish. This preparation is my favorite way to eat a whole fish, and it's easy to do at home. Have your fishmonger clean and scale your fish for you. Once cooked, filet the fish and serve simply with extra-virgin olive oil, lemon and parsley gremolata. Note that since the fish cavity is stuffed the cooking time will run about 10 minutes longer than unstuffed. —TasteFood
Food52 Review: Whole Baked Fish in Sea Salt with Parsley Gremolata by TasteFood
This method for cooking a whole fish has the dual benefit of being both effective and fun. (Basically, it provides an opportunity to play with your food.) Another plus is flexibility, as it's the method that really counts here: cooking a whole fish in a salt crust keeps it incredibly tender and moist. TasteFood calls for a 5 pound fish, but we used a 2.5 pound red snapper, halved the rest of the ingredients and decreased the cooking time to roughly 25 minutes. The simple gremolata is a bright, refreshing adornment for an otherwise gorgeously simple piece of fish. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 6
For the fish:
whole fish, approx. 5 lbs., such as snapper or sea bass
lemon, thinly sliced
small bunch parsley sprigs
Fennel fronds from one bulb, halved lengthwise
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- Bake in oven 40-45 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest 10 minutes.
- Crack open crust with small hammer or knife. Remove and discard crust. Fillet fish.
- Arrange fish on warm plates. Drizzle with olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice from wedges. Serve with Parsley Gremolata.
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(The Sports Xchange) - The Edmonton Oilers agreed to terms with defenseman Jeff Petry on a one-year contract, the team announced Monday.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but Hockey Night in Canada reported Petry will make just under $3.1 million.
The San Jose Sharks announced they have reached an agreement on a three-year contract with restricted free agent forward Tommy Wingels.
While financial details were not disclosed, CSN Bay Area reported on Saturday that the deal is worth $7.4 million, with an average salary cap hit of $2.47 million.
The Nashville Predators signed defenseman Anton Volchenkov to a one-year contract worth $1 million.
Volchenkov, 32, had eight assists and 20 penalty minutes in 56 games for the Devils in 2013-14, his fourth season in New Jersey.
The Columbus Blue Jackets signed forward Corey Tropp to a two-year contract. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Tropp, 24, scored two goals and finished with 11 points in 53 games last season.
The Chicago Blackhawks hired Jimmy Waite as the team's goaltending coach. Waite appeared in 58 games with the Blackhawks over parts of eight seasons from 1988-97.
"I'm very excited to come back to the Chicago Blackhawks, the team that drafted me in 1987" said Waite. "I look forward to working with Corey (Crawford) and Antti (Raanta), and to help contribute to the success of this organization."
Ottawa general manager and executive vice president Bryan Murray was recently diagnosed with cancer. The specific type of cancer was not disclosed.
"Mr. Murray is undergoing further testing and will begin treatment immediately for this condition as prescribed by the team's doctors in collaboration with specialists," the team said in a statement. "Mr. Murray's treatment schedule may require him to be away from the Senators' office periodically."
The Vancouver Canucks announced John Weisbrod was hired as the franchise's Vice President of Player Personnel. Weisbrod was previously the assistant general manager for the Calgary Flames before being fired along with general manager Jay Feaster last December.
Weisbrod and Canucks general manager Jim Benning previously worked together in the scouting department with the Boston Bruins. Weisbrod has also served as the general manager for the NBA's Orlando Magic.
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Meyler drafted into Republic squad
Sunderland midfielder David Meyler has been called into the Republic of Ireland squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Germany and the Faroe Islands.
The 23-year-old was drafted in as manager Giovanni Trapattoni awaited news of a scan on the thigh muscle Wolves striker Kevin Doyle suffered in training on Friday morning.
A spokesman for the Football Association of Ireland said: "David Meyler has been called up to Giovanni Trapattoni's squad to face Germany in Aviva Stadium on October 12 and the Faroe Islands in Torsvrllur Stadium, Torshavn on October 16."
The spokesman added: "David will join up with the squad in Dublin in time for training on Monday morning.
"In other news, Kevin Doyle picked up a thigh injury during training with Wolves this morning.
"The extent of the injury remains to be seen. Kevin is having a scan later this evening with results expected tomorrow."
Trapattoni's players are due to meet up at their Portmarnock base in time to start their preparations for the Germany game on Monday having opened their Group C campaign with a hard-fought 2-1 win in Kazakhstan last month.


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Apple has acquired location data company Locationary, which provides data on local businesses around the world. Not just an acqui-hire, Locationary's technology will also be used by Apple in an effort to improve Apple's mapping efforts. Locationary uses crowdsourced data to continually update and maintain an accurate database of information about businesses, which Apple would find incredibly useful, says All Things D
Not only does Locationary ensure that business listing data is positionally accurate (i.e., the restaurant I searched for is where Apple said it would be), it ensures that it is temporally accurate as well (i.e., the restaurant I searched for is still open for business and not closed for renovation or shuttered entirely).
A lack of data for points of interest, especially of businesses, was one of the many criticisms of Apple Maps when it launched last fall. Locationary's team and technology should not only help Apple correct errors or fill in blanks, but help them do so quickly, and make any future changes rapidly as well. People use Maps, along with apps connected it, to find new and interesting places around them, like a new restaurant that they've been wanting to try. Having up-to-date, accurate information is essential for the Maps' long-term prospects, and Apple seems to be doing everything they can to not only improve what they already have, but to make sure that what they add is accurate as well.
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The cytochrome bc complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains are hetero-oligomeric integral membrane proteins. These proteins are responsible for most of the energy transduction and transport activities across biological membranes. Such complexes cannot be cloned and expressed. Only about two dozen such complexes have been solved by x-ray crystallographic techniques to a resolution of 3.0 A, compared to 40,000 independent structures of soluble proteins in the protein data bank. The cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis, which is the central electron transfer and proton translocating complex of oxygenic photosynthesis, has been solved to a resolution of 3.0 A. It is a dimeric structure of 220,000 molecular weight, containing 8 polypeptide subunits, with 7 tightly bound electron transfer and pigment groups per monomer. These groups, along with the lipophilic proton and electron carrier, plastoquinone, provide the pathways of electron and proton transfer though the complex. This charge transfer generates the trans-membrane proton electrochemical gradient that is utilized for synthesis of the chemical high energy intermediate, ATP. Among the 7 prosthetic groups, three, a chlorophyll, a beta-carotene, and a unique c-type cytochrome, are unique in terms of their structure or placement in the complex. Recent data on the location of quinone analogue inhibitors define its pathway of transfer through the internal labyrinthine structure of the b6f complex [Ann. Rev. Biochem., 75, 769-790, 2006].
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A Wedding Costs HOW Much?!
It's no secret that weddings can costs big bucks, but are you prepared for the actual number?
By the time you add up the flowers, the dress, the food at the reception, and that open bar, and maybe booking a cool place like the Storybook Inn or Cochino Lodge, the tally can reach the price of a small SUV.
Brides Magazine says the average wedding costs over $26,000 now, which is down a bit from the $28,000 peak in 2008. The bride's family is supposed to pay right? Anyone else with three daughters freaking out a little bit?
The Brides survey found that nine in ten couples set a budget.
The survey also found about a third of those couple say "budget be darned" and go over it as the wedding planning hits its stride and the couple decide wants and dreams for the wedding become needs.
To help pay for the wedding and reception, seven in ten couples dip into their savings account, and 30 percent decide a credit card is a good option.
As for parents paying for the wedding, a third of couples in the survey said they'll foot the bill themselves – and if not the whole shebang, the reception at least. I'm going to start prepping my daughters for that now, how about you? Save that tooth fairy money gals!
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Either sanity or winter prevailed as tonight's Mets game at Denver was snowed out. It is the third game this week the Mets had postponed by winter weather.
The Rockies don't want a doubleheader tomorrow, so their regularly scheduled afternoon game will be played with Jonathan Niese going against Jon Garland.
"It's been odd,'' manager Terry Collins told reporters in Denver of this week's postponements. "This is a game of consistency. This is a game of repetition. And when you lose those reps, you can change the outcome a lot and how things go. … This has been a tough trip for us. It really has been. Guys are tired of sitting at the hotel.''
Collins said not playing the doubleheader is beneficial to the Mets in the short-term, although the team have to squeeze in a trip to Denver later this summer.
The Mets return home Friday against Washington and the marquee match-up of Matt Harvey against Stephen Strasburg.
Tonight's starter, Jeremy Hefner, will be pushed back to Saturday against Gio Gonzalez, and Dillon Gee will face Jordan Zimmermann Sunday.
The way the Mets' rotation plays out, they won't need a fifth starter until April 27, when they host Philadelphia. That will give Shaun Marcum another ten days to get ready.
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a. You are not going to be handed everything. You have to earn it.
I think this is good English, but what does "it" stand for?
Or "having everything"? Or "being handed everything"?
Thank you.
A more common phrase (idiom) is "You won't be handed everything on a plate."
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Well, if you will not be handed everything, you will be handed some things! And you must earn those things you are not handed.
But maybe in this case 'you won't be handed everything' actually means 'you will be handed nothing'. In any case, it seems that 'it' refers back to 'everything'.
Many thanks.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
Many thanks to all of you!
a. You are not going to be handed everything. You have to earn it.
That was my problem with this sentence. If you will be handed some thing, then you will only have to earn the other things!
b. You are not going to be handed everything, You have to earn some things.
makes sense to me.
c-You are not going to be handed anything. You have to earn everything.
also makes sense.
The original does not make sense to me. It is not logical although it sounds fine.


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I'm trying to understand Veach's derivation of the adjoint of the specular refractive BTDF. It seems I hit a brick wall. Some of that stuff looks like black magic to me. Specifically, there is a relation for differential solid angle on the following page:
What is the underlined term in 5.3 mathematically? What confuses me is that there is a dsigma in both nominator and denominator. So it is unlike a regular derivative nor a Radon-Nikodym derivative?
Further down, we have Eq (5.4). Same thing. I read dsigma as a small patch of solid angle, which is determined by the spherical parameterization (*). So if (*) holds true, then how comes that for different values of (theta, phi) there is mysteriously a ratio of eta_i / eta_t appearing. Sure I get that Veach simply plugged in Snell's law in (*). But I don't get the meaning of it.
I should add that my knowledge of measure theory is practically non existent.
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Shades are a necessary aspect of any home's design scheme, but many people don't take the time to really consider which type is best for their windows. While there are many types of window coverings on the market, one particular kind is growing in popularity - roman shades.
Roman shades stack up in even panels when they're lifted, but fall in a smooth panel when they're let down, unlike other types of shades with slats or ribbed fabric. Because they're more ornate than other varieties, many homeowners opt to skip curtains altogether when they're using roman shades.
In addition to their decorative potential, roman shades are also practical because they're easy to use and maintain. They're easy to pull up and let down, and you won't have to struggle to clean them like you would with traditional blinds. They also come in a wide range of materials and fabrics (bamboo roman shades are a popular choice), so you can easily find a design that fits well with your other decor. When it comes down to it, roman shades are a great choice for individuals looking for both decoration and function from their window coverings.


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Here's one more preview of the cocktails Ezra Johnson-Greenough and I will be serving at our Brewing Up Cocktails Spirited Dinner at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans. Because we're gluttons for punishment, we're serving not one but two flips during our dinner. That means that if all 70 seats sell out, we'll be shaking up 140 flips in the course of an evening in addition to 140 other drinks. Our arms will be feeling it the next day.
New Orleans in summer doesn't exactly scream flips, but this one bucks the reputation flips have as heavy, wintertime indulgences. The four ounces of Belgian-style witbier used in this drink lightens and carbonates the cocktail, making it suitable for hotter weather. The orange peel and coriander often used in witbier also make a nice complement to the spice and herbal notes in Drambuie:
1 1/2 oz Drambuie
3/4 oz lemon juice
2 dashes orange bitters
2 dashes allspice dram
1 whole egg
4 oz witbier
nutmeg, for garnish
Pour the beer into a pilsner or wine glass. Shake all the other ingredients hard with ice. Fine strain back into the mixing glass and then pour into the beer. Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg. (Pouring the heavier flip mixture into the beer rather than the other way around ensures that it mixes thoroughly.)
If this drinks sound weird, you don't have to take my word for its tastiness: A version of it took third place in the Drambuie Nail or Fail cocktail competition earlier this year.
Tickets for our Spirited Dinner, happening this Thursday, are on sale here. It's at Emeril's Delmonic Steakhouse and is sponsored by Drambuie and El Dorado rum.
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The ethical and moral debate over the use of stem cells has taken center stage over the past decade. Stem cells are of great medical interest, since they have the potential to develop into almost any type of cell in the body. Regenerative medicine focuses on the potential uses of stem cells in medicine and how they can provide effective treatment for a range of diseases.
Stem cells have the capacity to divide indefinitely to replenish other cells in the body. When a stem cell divides, each daughter cell can remain a stem cell or become a more specialized cell, such as a red blood cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell. An increasing body of evidence also suggests that molecular pathways and properties associated with normal stem cells is relevant to cancer development [1].


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The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) is composed of three supraregional groupings of individual national and international sections or associations: The Regional Science Association of the Americas (RSAmericas), The European Regional Science Association (ERSA), and The Pacific Regional Science Conference Organisation (PRSCO). NARSC is a founding member of RSAmericas. RSAI has a world-wide membership of over 3,000.
The initial part of the Regional Science Association International was founded in 1954 to promote the free exchange of ideas and viewpoints related to regional science. RSA membership is drawn from all parts of the world, and includes people from a wide range of academic disciplines and professions who share an interest in spatial issues.
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By Sandra Barrera
Celebrity chef Leticia Moreinos Schwartz will be on Olvera Street on Nov. 10 cooking up diabetes-friendly Latino dishes at the American Diabetes Association's "Feria de Salud sobre la Diabetes" event. The Rio de Janeiro native appears on behalf of the Cuida tu Diabetes, Cuida tu Corazon campaign, an educational program aimed at those living with type 2 diabetes that encourages small, but effective changes in lifestyle.
In the United States, Latinos are affected by diabetes more than any other ethnic group, according to campaign officials.
Schwartz's grandfather suffered a fatal stroke as a result of the type 2 diabetes that plagued him for many years. His death forced her entire family to reevaluate their lifestyle. As a chef specializing in Latino cuisine, she will demonstrate how easy it is to to prepare healthy, traditional dishes without sacrificing flavor. (Click here for a couple of her recipes.)
Live music, dancing and speakers round out the health fair.
"Feria de Salud sobre la Diabetes" is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 125 Paseo de la Plaza in downtown Los Angeles.


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The third and final Community Coffee with the Superintendent for this school year will be held on Saturday, March 10, 2018.
District 202 Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lane Abrell will host the Coffee from 8:30-9:30 a.m. at the district administrative center, 15732 Howard Street, Plainfield. The Coffees are free and registration is not required.
Attendees "set" each Coffee's agenda through their questions. Community members may ask about and discuss any appropriate subject, as time allows.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Creamy Vanilla and Rice Pudding with Rhubarb Compote
For a few weeks now, K's mum has supplied us with large bunches of rhubarb. In addition to several rhubarb cakes and tarts and pies, I've also experimented with different rhubarb desserts. Here's a recipe for a warm rice pudding served with rhubarb compote. It's best served warm, so make it in a weekend morning or as a pudding after a light weekday meal. The recipe is a very slight adaptation from the Australian Fresh Living magazine.
As always, choose the pinkest rhubarb stalks you can find, and don't peel them.
Creamy Vanilla and Rice Pudding with Rhubarb Compote
(Vanilli-riisipuding rabarbriga)
Serves 4
Rice pudding:
100 g short-grain pudding rice (known as 'porridge rice' here in Estonia)
500 ml (2 cups) milk
2 Tbsp caster sugar
1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise
Rhubarb compote:
300 g pink rhubarb (3-4 stalks)
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp water
In a medium-sized saucepan, bring water to the boil, add the rice and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain thoroughly in a colander.
Return the drained rice back to the saucepan, add milk, sugar and the vanilla bean. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer (without the lid!) for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the rice is soft and creamy.
While the rice porridge is simmering, prepare the rhubarb compote. Cut the rhubarb stalks into 5 cm (2 inches) lengths . Place in a small saucepan, add the sugar and water. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer on a medium heat for 5-7 minutes, until rhubarb has softened, but not mushy.
Remove the vanilla bean from the rice porridge, gently stir in the rhubarb compote for a striped effect. Serve warm.
More rice pudding recipes here @ Nami-Nami:
Danish Rice and Almond Pudding with Warm Cherry Compote
Pierre Hermé's Chocolate Rice Pudding
Similar recipes from my favourite food blogs:
Sweet Risotto with Rhubarb Compote @ SpittoonExtra
Strawberry Rice Pudding @ La Tartine Gourmande
Vanilla-Almond Rice Pudding @ SmittenKitchen
I haven't participated in any food blog events recently, so it's a pleasure to submit this to the Monthly Mingle # 33: Ravishing Rice, hosted by Nags and started by the lovely Meeta.
12 comments:
- MeetaK said...
i am thinking of making a rice pudding today too - rhubarb works so well! what a lovely treat!
- 11:37 am, June 10, 2009
- Alanna said...
Lovely, Ms Pille!
- 6:09 pm, June 10, 2009
- Nicole said...
Thank you for all the great Rhubarb recipes. I have several on my list to make as soon as my rhubarb is ready.
- 7:36 pm, June 10, 2009
- maybelle's mom said...
That rhubarb is the most lovely color. this is a brilliant way to use rhubarb.
- 11:14 pm, June 10, 2009
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Mmm... just bough rhubarb yesterday. My mouth is tingling in anticipation of this pudding.
- 11:38 pm, June 11, 2009
Actually, the color doesn't so much matter. In fact, hot house rhubarb is often pinker than field rhubarb, which can be mostly green. The field rhubarb, even green, always tastes better, though. I usually have my compote with yogurt and have never tried it with rice pudding - this looks delicious!
- 4:55 pm, June 12, 2009
- Pille said...
MeetaK - as always, great minds think alike :)
Alanna - thank you!
Nicole - you're very welcome. Hope you enjoy them!
Maybelle's mom - I'm very fond of the colour, too.
Susan - so pleased to hear that :)
Anon. - well, we do eat with our eyes, too, so I disagree about the colour not mattering. The rhubarb we use here in Estonia, is hardly ever forced (i.e. from a greenhouse/hothouse). All the rhubarb featured here on Nami-Nami is ordinary organic field rhubarb. And it tastes great - as you say. I'm sure that green varieties can taste as nice, but if I've got a choice btw a great-tasting red variety and great-tasting green variety, I go for the first one..
- 5:06 pm, June 12, 2009
- Katerina said...
yum! I am totally into the rhubarb compote, but I love the idea of making it as a topping for rice pudding. I haven't ever made rice pudding before.
- 7:09 pm, June 12, 2009
- the twins said...
that looks so good! thanks for the recipe, i'm going to have to make rice pudding now. :)
- 3:12 am, June 14, 2009
- ChichaJo said...
This looks so comforting! I love how delicately pink this looks!
- 5:14 pm, June 15, 2009
- Egy Azziera said...
Looks awesome and yummy! "Creamy Vanilla and Rice Pudding" has always been one of my favorite desserts. It's quick, it's easy, and it's creamy. What more can you ask for?
- 2:26 am, June 25, 2009
- Abdul Mannan said...
hi, great post, it's looking so good! thanks for the recipe i will make it on this weekend. can i make it with long and brown Indian Rice, suggestion required..
- 10:34 am, October 21, 2009


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