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The Greening of Education
Right now, somewhere in the United States a newspaper or television show is talking about Jay Greene's education research. And, what he would consider even more important, it's safe to say that right now somewhere a researcher is replicating, criticizing or citing Greene's research. His goal – and passion – is to remake public education into an effective system, able to meet the needs of each individual child. As the first head of the university's department of education reform, he is in an enviable position: he has the resources – starting with a $20 million endowment – to assemble a band of colleagues who share his goal and bring their own energy and vision to achieving it.
Greene came to the University of Arkansas in 2005 with experience both in academia and as a fellow with the Manhattan Institute, a position he retains while leading the department of education reform. His research has been wide-ranging, including, but not limited to, issues in choice, accountability, graduation rates and social promotion. The department hosts its first conference in October 2006, featuring the best ideas for improving public schools, submitted by members of the department's Technical Advisory Board, which is made up of some of the leading education researchers nationwide. An edited book will follow.
After ten busy months of department formation and continuing research, Greene sat down to discuss his views on education today and his hopes for the future.
Q: What do you think are the most important questions facing public education?
I think the most important question facing public education is how we can improve productivity, that is, how we can get better results for the dollars we spend. The truth is that we've been paying a lot of attention to insuring that schools have adequate resources. We've double per pupil spending nationwide over the last three decades. We've done the same in Arkansas. And yet results have been basically flat. They haven't gotten worse, but they haven't gotten better. Anytime you spend more and don't get more in return, you have a productivity problem, and that's basically what we're suffering from in education.
We're spending more and more because we're not satisfied with the level we're at. We want to be better, which is good, but we haven't figured out how to get there. And simply spending more doesn't get us there. Unless the next three decades are different than the last three decades, doubling spending again won't improve our situation.
At the heart of the problem is that we don't connect resources to outcomes. So schools receive resources regardless of how well they do or how wise the decisions they make are. Essentially this is a lack of accountability. Whenever resources are completely unattached from the wisdom or foolishness of the choices that people make, they are essentially unaccountable and our school systems are to a great degree unaccountable.
Now we've started to address this, we've started to recognize this problem and in the last few years we've introduced accountability testing as one mechanism but it's a very imperfect mechanism for trying to have consequences attached to decisions. And only when there are consequences will people have incentives to start making wiser decisions and avoiding foolish decisions.
In the past what we relied on was goodwill, and luckily we have a lot of goodwill in public education. We have a lot of good people who care a lot about kids, who care a lot about improving the quality of education, and we've relied on that goodwill to produce a quality outcome. The problem is that goodwill is not enough. We see this in many other enterprises where there is a lot of goodwill – medicine, higher education – people who are engaged in these occupations or the professionals working in these fields all care about having good outcomes but that caring is not enough. There also have to be proper incentives for people to make good choices so that results are improved. And we've done a better job at that frankly in medicine and higher education that we have in public education.
At a general level there are two broad reform strategies that attempt to increase the accountability of people in the education system, that are strategies for improving productivity. They are what we call accountability which largely consists of testing….
Choice allows consumers of education, children and their families, to move from one school to another and bring their resources with them from one school to another, and this attaches consequences to decisions because schools that make foolish decisions lose students and their revenue, and schools that make wise decisions attract students and their revenue. And both kinds of reforms in theory could improve productivity by attaching consequences to decisions. Now we have tried both of these kinds of reforms on modest scales with encouraging results. So for example we have a fairly large number of studies now on what happens when you increase the amount of choice in education.
It's important to keep in mind that the real question here is not whether to have choice or not in education. We've always had it we always will have it. The most common form of school choice is residential choice. People choose where to live to gain access to desired schools if they have the resources to do so. The trouble is that it's a relatively inequitable and inefficient type of choice. Only some people have the resources and even the people who have the resources are reluctant to move frequently because there are very high costs associated with moving. It's disruptive to ones life and you have to pay taxes and pay realtors and move away from families and friends so it's not something people relish doing so this means it's a relatively inefficient way to exercise choice. So there have been a number of studies of what happens when we increase the amount of choice in an area. There's actually a nice review of that research done by Hank Levin and Clive Belfield at Teachers College. And they find that the results are pretty consistent.
When there's an expansion of choice and competition, public school performance improves and costs tend to lower. They believe that the results are relatively modest in their benefits, but the results are pretty consistent across the research that has been done on this question. In fact, I'm not aware of studies of expansion of school choice in the United States that find the public school performance goes down when faced with increased choice in competition. There are some studies on programs overseas where that is the case but none in the United State that I'm aware of.
So we have some encouraging results there that we might improve productivity in education if we were to expand choice and competition. Just to give you some ideas of where we've tried this sort of thing, there've been some good studies done of charter competition the competition between charter schools and traditional public schools because keep in mind that when student move from the traditional public school to a charter school, money leaves the traditional school system and enters the charter school. Or if a student leaves a charter school and goes to another charter school, money leaves one organization and goes to another. This by the way is the same as when a student leaves one school district and moves to another. Money leaves one institution and goes to another.
In Michigan, in Arizona, there have been large concentrations of charter schools so it has been possible to study the effects of this charter competition on traditional public schools performance. The results have been quite positive. Similarly we've had a voucher choice program, a private school choice program, in Florida and there've been four studies of that program, and all four find that public school performance goes up when public schools are faced with increased choice and competition from a private voucher program.
Now keep in mind, researchers always disagree but the overall thrust of the findings is the same. They disagree on how large the effect is and they disagree on whether it exists in all subjects or some subjects, the confidence with which we observe the effect there's disagreement about that. But it's useful to step back and look at the landscape and the landscape is that you have consistently positive results from this research, some of which I have done and some of which others have done. That's the great things about researching in these areas. If you do something that finds a certain effect, others have an incentive to attempt to replicate that and to show that you're wrong. There are extra brownie points for finding that earlier research was mistaken. That's the reward system, the status system within academia rewards researchers that find that earlier research was mistaken. That's what keeps us all honest and also helps us all gravitate towards the truth. We only imperfectly grasp the truth and any one study can be mistaken but one study invites other studies and if the other studies point in the same direction well then we have an idea of which way the truth lies.
Accountability is the other reform strategy out there. Keep in mind that choice is a type of accountability too; we just don't call it accountability. They're both accountability systems. One is accountability through market mechanisms and the other is accountability through command mechanism. You centrally determine a goal and you attach rewards and sanctions to meeting that goal. And this exists in the marketplace. Companies do this internally. The University of Arkansas has goals 2010. We have internally determined goals, centrally determined goals, the chancellor has said these are the things we need to do and there are rewards and sanctions attached to progress towards those goals.
And that's an accountability system. It can create discomfort but that's generally how organizations make progress. And they make that kind of progress because they are competing with other institutions. They have an incentive to develop these command systems so if we don't make progress to the chancellor's goals we're also in a competitive struggle with other institutions of higher learning and we may lose students and revenue and status to those other institutions, and we don't wish to do that so we're trying to figure out ways of preventing that and moving up on others and overtaking them and hopefully we will.
Because No Child Left Behind has made the implementation of accountability testing universal, we only really have research on this question from looking at the variation in adoption of accountability testing that predated the federal mandate that everyone have it. Some states adopted it earlier, some states adopted it only when required to do so by No Child Left Behind, which is the federal legislation. As point of fact, 37 states were already engaged in accountability testing by the time No Child Left Behind was adopted. So really the federal law solidified a developing consensus among the states about what they were going to do. But some of those 37 states were early adopters of accountability testing, like North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee. Others were late adopters or didn't adopt it until No Child Left Behind.
Some people have looked at whether early adopters made greater gains on measures of achievement than late adopters, to see whether this accountability system was beneficial and the evidence suggests that it was beneficial, that adopting these accountability systems did help improve academic achievement.
But again there's plenty of disagreement about how large these benefits are, how certain we are about them and so you can't say in either the area of accountability or choice that the debate is over. The debate will never exactly be over but I think we've made progress in understanding how incentives that attach consequences to decisions can improve productivity and we're seeing some initial signs that these reforms can produce results.
Civic Consequences
Another large category of questions that I think is very interesting and important is the civic consequences for education. We don't just have a system of public education to produce high achievement, which then we hope leads to economically useful skills. We also have a system of public education to produce engaged citizens, who will hold the values necessary for our democratic system to function properly. This topic receives significantly less attention than the achievement question but I think it's also quite important.
Q: You have a rare and exciting opportunity to form a new department with exceptional support for a cohort of endowed faculty chairs. You have already filled several of these chairs. Gary Ritter holds the chair in education policy and directs the Office for Education Policy. Robert Costrell has recently assumed the accountability chair and Patrick Wolf the chair in choice. The chairs in teacher quality and leadership remain to be filled. What mix of expertise and interests do you look for in the faculty who join the department of education reform?
We have hired two new people for the chairs in accountability and choice…The Endowed Chair for Accountability will be Robert Costrell who is the chief economist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, an education advisor to Governor Mitt Romney and a professor of economics at UMass Amherst.
The Endowed Chair for Choice will be Patrick Wolf who is professor at Georgetown University and has the government contract to evaluate the voucher program in Washington, D.C. and is also leading an evaluation of the voucher program in Milwaukee. He's a professor of public policy and his degree is in political science.
Both Bob and Pat have doctorates from Harvard…
We're looking for extremely bright, hardworking people, and I think we've found people like that. But also we're looking for people whose work is both academically rigorous and easily accessible. This is a very hard combination to find. We want people doing the best, cutting-edge work on these questions and who have an interest and ability in communicating their results to policymakers, educators, and the general public, because after all, finding interesting answer to questions is not very helpful unless you tell people about it and you have to tell people about it in a way they can understand.
It's very important to our department to find people who have both of these skills. We're not there to do this work for our own amusement. We are trying to make a difference by conveying what we learn to others so that they can use it. Or not. We're not tyrants so we're not trying to impose any particular set of findings on people but we're trying to add information to the discussion.
There is a difference between doing and knowing, and I think that one of the difficulties we've had with education reform and I think one of the arguments for having a separate department of education reform – I mean, arguably the whole college of education is in one way or another engaged in education reform. Everyone's trying to make schools better, they're trying to make schools better though in a very direct way, the training of future educators, future principals, and that's important. But it's also important to step back and look at the systems that shape the behavior of the educators that we're training, and so there is something to be said in this department in emphasizing these systematic forces and putting somewhat less emphasis on direct experience in the schools.
So similarly in an army you need very well trained soldiers and you need people to train those soldiers and equip them with all the right gear but then you also need strategists who think about how you use the soldiers for the right effect. I think we need to be doing both in the college of education, and I think this is part of why this new department was created.
Q: Tell us about what research the department has already undertaken and what's on the horizon.
We have our hands in so many things that I actually had to write down a list so that I wouldn't forget too many things. I'm sure I've forgotten some things even with a list.
One thing that we've done already as a department is develop what we call the School Performance Index, which we released in January, and it's an attempt to measure the quality of schools in what we think is a more precise way using current accountability testing.
The difficulty with current accountability testing is that it often tells us more about the demographic characteristics of the students in the school than about the quality of the school itself. So schools with advantaged students are said to be good schools when they may not be good at all. They may be mediocre but with very advantaged kids. And other schools with low test scores are said to be bad schools but they might actually be good schools bringing up student with severe disadvantages and bringing them to higher levels of achievement.
So we attempted to disentangle these demographic characteristics from school quality characteristics with the School Performance Index. It's a work in progress. We received a fairly big reaction to it and a fair amount of criticism, but I thought it started a very good conversation about how it is that we really measure school quality, because after all, if accountability systems are going to work they have to attach rewards and sanctions to the thing that really matters and not to the things that are outside of the control of the schools.
Otherwise we simply incentify schools to find advantaged students and avoid disadvantaged students and we don't want them to do that. That raises serious equity concerns.
So that was, I think, one important thing that we've done already, in addition to recruiting. We are now working on revising it and incorporating some of the criticisms to improve it and expanding it to other states, and eventually we hope to have this nationwide. We think it's a very handy metric for assessing school quality. It's not perfect, and as we receive more criticism we'll revise it again and try to make it better. It is important that we have good tools for tracking how our schools are doing. So that's one thing that we have already done as a department. Everyone in the department was involved in the creation of the School Performance Index.
Also, we've done some other research on policies that exist in other states but have potential application to Arkansas. For example, Marcus Winters and I have published research on the effects of ending social promotion or what's called test-based promotion. This is when students are promoted from one grade to another if they can pass a test or if they receive a certain exemption by a specified process.
We've looked at this policy in Florida and analyzed the results and published those results in a journal [http://www.educationnext.org/20062/65.html], and we're actually in the process of looking at the second year of that program so we can see whether the initial positive effects of that program that we observed hold true.
In the future if they reverse over time and it's conceivable that they do – there was a result of a study in Chicago of their similar program. There were positive results after one year but the results started to turn negative after two years. We're very eager to find out whether Florida's results are more positive or whether they're consistent with the Chicago results. And we also can see that there are certain differences between the policies in Florida and Chicago so if one is more beneficial than the other that might tell us about how to design these programs more effectively.
Gary Ritter and I have done a study on integration in public and private schools which is an area of research which we each have done separately before joining this new department. In fact, what happened is that I did a study and Gary replicated it and found that opposite result, and that's how I learned. I didn't know Gary before then but I came to know Gary because he had refuted a study that I had done with very good data and very good methods but was using a different data set. It was based on a different grade, and so we had possible explanations for the discrepancy in results and we wanted to do a project together to see if we could resolve the question. And we've done that.
So we have a new study coming out that will we hope help resolve the disagreement that we had on that question. The sneak preview of the result – Gary has to write this up; he's taking the lead on writing it – but the sneak preview of the result on that research is that we partially confirm his earlier results and partially confirm my earlier results. We find that private schools are somewhat less well integrated than public schools, as Gary had earlier found but that the financial barrier of tuition seems to explain the difference in integration. So that if we control for that tuition, then public and private schools are equally well integrated. In other words, there's no special desire on average in private schools to avoid integration, but there is the net effect of financial barriers preventing as much integration as there would otherwise be.
I do have a new book project underway to follow up on "Education Myths" and the tentative title is "The Carrot and the Stick." If "Education Myths" was primarily about how we misunderstand the nature of the problem in education, the new book is largely about the promise of incentive-based reforms.
Q: In the field of education research and reform, who would you call a mentor or model? Who is a respected critic, one who stimulates your thinking?
My mentor and advisor was Paul Peterson. He was a professor at Harvard while I was a graduate student there and was my advisor. It was with him that I did my initial work on education policy. I feel a very large debt to Paul.
He produced actually a number of students that are involved in this area including Patrick Wolf, who was also a student of Paul Peterson; Rick Hess, who is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Marcie Canstrom, who's at the Fordham Foundation; Ken Wong, who's at Brown University; Marty West, who'll be joining him at Brown University. So he's produced a cadre of a new generation of education researchers. I think that's evidence of his excellence as a mentor and teacher.
There are other people in the field that I feel assisted me and inspired me. They include a variety of people: Checker Finn, who is the president of the Fordham Foundation and was assistant secretary of education, is someone that has helped me along in a number of ways. Terry Moe, who's a professor at Stanford: his work has always been interesting to me and he's always a helpful person to bounce ideas off of.
But also some people outside of the area of education have been great mentors as well. For example, Morris Fiorina, who was on my dissertation committee at Harvard and is now a professor at Stanford: He taught me a lot about myth-busting, how to take on a conventional wisdom with dispassionate evidence and how that can be done productively. I looked to Moe Fiorina as a model for that.
And James Q. Wilson, who wrote the forward to my book and actually held the same endowed chair that Paul Peterson currently holds. He is the prior holder of that chair but is now in California associated with – I think he's emeritus now with UCLA and Pepperdine. I don't know how that works that he is in more than one place but if you're James Q. Wilson, you can do it. I think that what James Q. Wilson did for me is that he provided a great example for how one can both engage in rigorous academic work and be engaged in public discussions of policy.
Now as to critics that I respect, one is someone I mentioned earlier, Hank Levin, who's a professor at Teachers College. I always like listening to what Hank has to say on my work and on the questions of education reform. I think he's been an excellent critic of for-profit education companies and some of their limitations, and I think that he also is just a useful gadfly for those who have too much confidence in market forces. He readily points out lots of inefficiencies in markets, particularly in education. He's someone whose work I respect a lot. Rick Hess at the American Enterprise Institute similarly has been fairly critical of the ability of markets to operate effectively in education. He's someone else that I pay close attention to.
Q: In your experience, what are some differences between think tanks and universities?
Actually I think done properly the two are no different. They're the same thing, if you do it well. That is, you want to engage in rigorous work that is influential in public discussion. That's what think tanks are mostly about, and that's what universities ought to be about, try to be about. Now both think tanks and universities fall short of this ideal. Think tanks sometimes are lacking in the academic rigor that they need for their research and sometimes universities are lacking in the ability to insert their research into public discussion. University work done properly and think tank work done properly has a nice marriage of both. That's our goal in the department, to do both. So I think that there really isn't that much of a difference between the two.
What are the advantages of being at a university? One is there's a certain amount of respectability that is attached to universities because of, again, their reputation for rigor. But also, colleagues. There are real benefits to having a critical mass of people all together thinking about related questions and talking to each other. I find that really beneficial.
Similarly, students. Students are colleagues in the making, and I learn a lot from students. I enjoy teaching. We've hired a bunch of people, both undergraduates and graduates, to work with us and we're looking to hire more. They're extremely helpful and I always enjoy working with students on projects. I regularly co-author pieces with students. That's how I was trained is that I was essentially in an apprentice program, and that's how I'm attempting to train our students, and they're fantastic. That's working out very well.
One thing that people might think is a particular advantage to universities that I don't think is an advantage is academic freedom. People think, wrongly, that you're much more free to say what you want in universities than in think tanks, that in think tanks somehow you're beholden to someone and can't speak your mind, while in universities you're completely free with tenure to say whatever you want. Neither is exactly right.
Universities have all sorts of limitations actually on effective free speech, in that if you wish to continue receiving resources from the university you have to control what you say to some extent. Also we're a public university, and there is the specter of political involvement in our operations, and while no one is specifically threatening that now, it's always a possibility so that puts some restraint on our ability to speak freely. On the other hand in think tanks, the thing that gives a fellow at a think tank a fair amount of freedom to speak his or her mind is the fact that you don't have to work for that think tank. You could go work for another one. There're lots of them, and they have lots of different kinds of people and endorse lots of different ideas, and if you say something that one group doesn't like and it's an important enough difference to them that they don't you to work for them anymore, then you work for someone else. It's not such a big deal.
Think tanks are looking for bright, energetic fellows, and they don't try to control what they say for the most part, at least in my experience. They just try to let you go and say what you want to say. Of course, they select people who they think do the kind of work that interests them, but so do universities. So I really don't see nearly as much a difference between think tanks and universities as other people might think. My experience—I mean I was in academia for many years before going to a think tank for a number of years and then back into academia, and to me they feel very similar.
Q: When your children grow up and walk into a public school as parents, teachers or researchers, what would you like them to see and experience?
I want them to experience an effective institution, but here's where I think a lot of people go astray in education reform is that they think that there is a successful model, that if only we were to find it then everyone should do it. I'm actually of the belief that there is no single successful model for schools. There are many different successful models, and there are many different successful models for different circumstances.
Many years from now when my children enter a school as a parent or educator, I expect that they'll see very different things in different circumstances, if we do it right, because the notion of the best practices, which has been imported to some extent from the business world, can be misapplied in education.
I'm not convinced that there is a best practice. What we end up with if we pursue that too far is we have system that's one size fits none, and that's the real danger in education. I know that children have very different needs, and what they need is a school that will be effective for them. It's not always easy to achieve, it's certainly not easy to achieve, but that's our goal.
I guess what I'd want my children to see is just a school that is effective for the students that are there. Exactly how they do that – it will depend.
We increasingly have the technology to customize our education, and we're not using that technology at all. And why are we not using it? Because there are no rewards or penalties, there are no consequences, out of bothering to innovate, to use the technology effectively. So we have computers in schools, we just don't use them for anything useful, because it doesn't matter whether you use them well or not. Again, it's not that the people in the schools are bad; it's that it requires some motivation to do something different.
A typical teacher, unfortunately, will do the same thing for the rest of his or her career that he or she did the first year of teaching. The same lessons, the same approaches forever. No matter what kind of school they teach in, no matter what kinds of kids. They're comfortable with that. It works for them as they see it. But the goal is not to have it work for them; it's to work for students. It's useful to be reminded of that by external rewards and sanctions.
All of us, even the best willed of us, do better when properly motivated, when recognized for putting in that extra effort.


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Drug Conjugate Tested in Resistant Ovarian Cancer
The investigational compound targets overexpressed folate receptor-alpha.
BY Ariela Katz
PUBLISHED April 27, 2017
A NEW TARGETED THERAPY compound, mirvetuximab soravtansine (IMGN853), is being investigated as a monotherapy for patients with advanced, platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian cancer with high expression levels of folate receptor–alpha (FR-alpha) in the hopes of providing an effective option for a population facing a difficult prognosis.
The phase 3 FORWARD I trial, which is currently enrolling patients, is seeking to randomize 333 women in a 2:1 ratio to either the experimental mirvetuximab soravtansine or to chemotherapy consisting of investigator's choice of paclitaxel, pegylated liposomal doxorubicin or topotecan (NCT02631876). If successful, the novel drug would offer an alternative to patients who have not responded to platinum-based chemotherapy, and possibly to individuals who have become resistant to chemotherapy.
"This is a bold initiative to try and bring what we think is a very active drug to market for patients who desperately need therapies," says Kathleen N. Moore, M.D., a co-principal investigator on the study. "It's an exciting trial, and we're hoping for it to accrue quickly, so that we can get this drug to people who need it."
Mirvetuximab soravtansine is an antibody–drug conjugate that targets FR-alpha, a cell-surface glycoprotein found on approximately 80 percent of epithelial ovarian cancer tumors; overexpression of receptors may be associated with negative outcomes in patients treated with chemotherapy, Moore and colleagues reported in earlier research.
One element that composes the drug is a monoclonal antibody, a laboratory-created protein that can bind to chemicals on the surface of cancer cells — in this case, the FR-alpha receptor. That monoclonal antibody is linked to a chemotherapy agent. Once in the body, the antibody delivers the drug to the tumor cell, where the chemotherapy agent is released; then, the molecule further diffuses into the surrounding tumor cells in a secondary effect.
The FORWARD I study is open to women with advanced epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers that have been defined as platinum-resistant, meaning the disease has progressed within six months of treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy. To be eligible, participants must have received from one to three prior chemotherapy treatment regimens.
Patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer currently have a poor prognosis; in the primary setting, the response rate to subsequent therapies is less than 20 percent, and in the acquired resistance setting, median overall survival is 21.9 months.
Mirvetuximab soravtansine "would give another option for standard of care, and it would introduce another drug for patients with platinum-resistant disease where there's not much that works well at this point," says Moore, associate director for clinical research and director of the TSET Phase I Drug Development Unit at the Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma. "It would give another line of therapy that really has a very well-tolerated safety profile."
Strong Early-Phase Findings
In a phase 1 expansion study, mirvetuximab soravtansine demonstrated a confirmed objective response rate (ORR) of 26 percent among 46 patients with FR-alpha–positive platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, including one complete and 11 partial responses. The median progression-free survival (PFS) was 4.8 months and the median duration of response was 19.1 weeks. Notably, patients who had received three or fewer prior lines of therapy (n = 23) had an ORR of 39 percent, median PFS of 6.7 months and median duration of response of 19.6 weeks.
FR-alpha expression was determined by immunohistochemistry (IHC) testing on archival tissue, with samples put into categories. Low expression was defined as 25 to 49 percent of tumor cells having a staining intensity of 2 or more; medium meant that 50 to 74 percent of cells had an intensity of two or more; and high indicated that 75 percent of cells or more had a staining intensity of two or more.
Although most patients experienced tumor shrinkage regardless of FR-alpha expression level, participants with medium and high scores were more likely to respond, with median ORR rates of 28.6 percent and 26.1 percent, respectively.
Side effects in the phase 1 trial were generally mild (grade 2 or lower), with diarrhea (44 percent), blurred vision (41 percent), nausea (37 percent) and fatigue (30 percent) being the most commonly observed all-grade treatment-related toxicities. Grade 3 fatigue and hypotension were reported in two patients each (4 percent). There has been some neuropathy, according to Moore, observed in less than 10 percent of patients, and no reported alopecia compared with chemotherapy.
Similar side effects are expected during the FORWARD I trial, and investigators will be counseling patients about diarrhea and administering prophylactic medications. There is also a risk of keratopathy (a disease of the cornea), which surfaced in 12 patients (13 percent) at grades 1-2 severity in the phase 1 trial. Keratopathy "is 100 percent reversible, but we want to prevent it from happening rather than having it reverse," says Moore. To achieve this, investigators are mandating the use of steroidal eye drops in the study protocol.
Moore notes that ease of administration is another benefit of mirvetuximab soravtansine treatment. Patients will receive the drug intravenously at a dose of 6 mg/kg every 21 days.
Looking toward the future, researchers also have opened the four-arm phase 1 FORWARD II trial in patients with advanced ovarian cancer, in which mirvetuximab soravtansine is being tested in combination with either the anti-angiogenic drug Avastin (bevacizumab), the chemotherapy carboplatin, the chemotherapy pegylated liposomal doxorubicin or the immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab).
"The combination studies are aimed at getting a better idea of what the biomarker should be in selecting patients for this treatment, and potentially exploring it in frontline chemotherapy in combination with carboplatin," says Moore. "I also think there's potentially a role for this drug in other malignancies where FR-alpha is overexpressed, and there are several studies that are launching across the United States that are exploring those questions." ImmunoGen, Inc, is developing mirvetuximab soravtansine. The company is working with Ventana Medical Systems to develop an IHC-based FR-alpha assay for use as a companion diagnostic with the drug. Visit
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"If the squirrels complain about a program, that's the one to follow!" LRH
Unable to contain the awareness on the part of some of his personality cult members that the Church of Scientology does great works, Marty Rathbun once again has to reach hard to invalidate anything that actually helps people.
But from long exposure to his mean-spiritedness, we know that Rathbun will attack anything resembling reach on the part of Scientology. It clearly scares him to death.
So now, he's trying to convince even his own choir that genuine help is bad, and that social betterment isn't to be trusted.
"As any science which betters people gathers unto itself considerable numbers of people who can dramatize only how bad it is over there, we get a great deal of crank, squirrel, neurotic and psychotic communication flow… We call this an entheta line simply because people use Scientology to explain to others how bad it all is over there…We even have publications which pretend to be part of Dianetics and Scientology which couldn't possibly print anything but bad news. That there is not one word of truth in all this news so far detected by the most searching inspection here, that these rumors and perjuries and falsehoods haven't even the dignity of a background in fact, does not stay their passage." LRH
Rathbun complains that non-Scientologists are happy to celebrate the Church's good works and community outreaches, and tries to present it as an outpoint. If it were the other way around – if only Scientologists appeared in public touting our good works – Rathbun would present that as an outpoint, you can be sure. But this heads-I-win, tails-you-lose approach to criticism is nothing new for Rathbun or his lapdog Rinder; you can see it daily in their bitter whining from the sidelines.


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The Studia Sociologica journal invites authors to contribute to its next issue dedicated to Borderland, Diffusion, Transculturation. The journal is published by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. The principal purpose of the journal is to publish international scholarly researches in social sciences to make possible the exchange of knowledge in the field. The journal also considers conceptual or…Continue
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You found the perfect replacement investment property, purchased it and then successfully sold your relinquished property by setting up a Reverse 1031 Exchange. You have deferred your capital gains and depreciation recapture for 2019. However, your replacement property is owned by a new LLC set up specifically for the reverse 1031 exchange – how can you transfer the new replacement property into your name as the original taxpayer doing the exchange?
It is important to follow through and complete the rest of the process so that you actually own the replacement property. Once you complete your reverse exchange, your exchange company will forward you an assignment document that assigns the interest in the LLC from the exchange accommodation titleholder (EAT) to you (or the entity that was the taxpayer for the exchange). The EAT and you will execute the assignment. This assignment of membership interest also assigns the ownership of the property held by the LLC to you, the taxpayer. This makes you the manager of the LLC and the owner of the replacement property.
At the same time, you will need to submit the appropriate amendment to the state that the LLC was formed to make sure they record you as the new member/owner/manager of the LLC. Once this has been processed and recorded you can do one of the following:
- Keep the property in the name of the LLC and maintain the LLC – typically, you will be required to file an annual report and pay an annual fee
- Have a deed prepared that transfers the replacement property from the LLC to you (or the entity that was the taxpayer for the exchange).
- Check your title insurance and make sure that you will be covered if you transfer the property from the LLC to your name
- Check with your insurance company to make sure that your coverage will continue under your name
- Check with your loan officer (if applicable) to ensure that the transfer of title will not affect your loan terms or conditions
Once you have verified that the items listed above are not affected by the transfer via deed, your attorney may prepare the deed and record it. The property is now in your name (or the entity that was the taxpayer for the exchange).
Just getting started? Complete this form to get started with your reverse 1031 exchange!


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Beauchamps tourism and travel guide
Photo is of Eu at 7 km from Beauchamps
Visit Beauchamps: highlights and tourist informationTo Visit Attractions
Beauchamps is situated in the Somme department and Picardy region (now part of the Hauts-de-France region), in the north of France at 66 kilometres from Amiens, the department capital (general information: Beauchamps is 142 kilometres from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Eu at 7 km and Ault at 10 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Beauchamps, France: places to visit and attractions
Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Beauchamps in Hauts-de-France.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Somme
Map of places to visit near Beauchamps
Markets in and near Beauchamps
- Eu: market Friday (8km)
- Mers-les-Bains: market Thursday & Monday (10km)
- Le Treport: market Tuesday & Saturday (10km)
- Blangy-sur-Bresle: market Sunday (13km)
- Criel-sur-Mer: market Thursday - seasonal market only (14km)
- Cayeux-sur-Mer: market Tuesday & Sunday & Friday (18km)
- Saint-Valery-sur-Somme: market Sunday (21km)
- Le Crotoy: market Tuesday - seasonal market only (24km)
- Abbeville: market Thursday & Saturday (26km)
- Rue: market Saturday (30km)
More information about Beauchamps, Picardy
Tourist attractions near Beauchamps, France
What to do at Beauchamps? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Beauchamps.
- Estran Cité de la mer (32km)
Grand sites of France
- Baie de Somme (23km)
Heritage sites
- Beffroi d'Abbeville (Belfries of Belgium and France) (25km)
- Beffroi de Rue (Belfries of Belgium and France) (31km)
- Beffroi de Saint-Riquier (Belfries of Belgium and France) (34km)
- Beffroi d'Hesdin (Belfries of Belgium and France) (55km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)
- Eu (7km)
- Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (21km)
- Forges-les-Eaux (45km)
Remarkable gardens
- Parc et roseraie du château de Rambures (15km)
- Herbarium des remparts (21km)
- Jardin de Miromesnil (34km)
- Parc du château de Digeon (34km)
- Bois des Moutiers (39km)
- Jardins de Valloires (43km)
- Jardin de Bellevue (44km)
- Jardins de Bosmelet (45km)
- Jardin du château de Maizicourt (48km)
- Clos du Coudray (49km)
- Le jardin des Lianes (50km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé)
(see also historical French towns)
- Mers-les-Bains (10km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Hable-d'Ault (15km)
- Pointe du Hourdel (23km)
- Réserve naturelle de la Baie de Somme (26km)
- Parc du Marquenterre (28km)
- Forêt de Crécy (33km)
- Montagne de Montenoy (39km)
- Baie d'Authie (42km)
- Forêt d'Hesdin (55km)
Towns of Art and history
- Dieppe (33km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)
- Forest-l'Abbaye (31km)
- Mureaumont (47km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Beauchamps
from Amiens (prefecture): 66 km
from Paris: 142 km
from Calais: 107 km
from Nice: 827 km
from Bordeaux: 597 km
from Strasbourg: 479 km
Getting here
Beauchamps is in the north of France. Most visitors take a a cross-channel ferry to a nearby port such as Dieppe or Boulogne or the channel tunnel to Calais. For driving distances to Beauchamps from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 17 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Bouvaincourt-sur-Bresle, Buigny-les-Gamaches, Dargnies, Embreville, Fressenneville, Gamaches, Incheville, Le Mesnil-Reaume, Longroy, Meneslies, Millebosc, Monchy-sur-Eu, Oust-Marest, Ponts-et-Marais, Saint-Pierre-en-Val, Woincourt and Yzengremer.
This page in French: Visiter Beauchamps


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This week Ashmere Care Homes (a Partnership) admitted its guilt of failing to ensure the health and safety of residents at Sutton Court care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
The case arose as a result of a lengthy investigation following a choking incident which occurred on 13 July 2013 at the Sutton care home. Carmen Barker, an 80-year-old resident with dementia who had no teeth or dentures, died after being provided with a meal which was not suitable for her needs. The partnership has accepted that its failings were a significant cause of the fatality.
The sentencing hearing will take place on 2 and 3 November 2017 at Nottingham Crown Court.


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Friday, 11 June 2010
Developing overgrown land
The Court of Appeal decision in R (Morge) v. Hants CC [2010] EWCA Civ 608 in which judgment was given on 10 June is an interesting example of the problems facing developers of derelict sites which have become overgrown and have consequently become the habitat of various fauna and flora including protected species. It also reinforces the rule that elected members are not automatically bound to follow expert advice, but must make their own decision (subject to its being reasonable in the Wednesbury sense).
I don't propose to discuss the detailed facts of the case but as Ward LJ put it, this was a case "about bats and badgers, Beeching and busways". Hants CC (acting through 'Transport for South Hampshire') had proposed a busway along an old railway line, closed some 40 years ago by Dr Beeching. In the meantime, the route of the line has become the habitat for, among other things, bats and badgers.
The appellant sought to have the planning permission for the busway scheme quashed due to various alleged breaches of the European Habitats Directive and the regulations giving effect to the directive in this country, specifically relating to the deliberate disturbance of protected species. The judge at first instance decided that the regulations had not been breached, and after a careful analysis of the regulations, the Court of Appeal upheld that decision. [For those interested in the interpretation of 'disturbance' in this context, there is a useful discussion of that issue in the judgment.]
Another ground of challenge had been that the Planning Committee in deciding to grant planning permission failed to have due regard to the Directive as required by the Regulations in the sense that it needed to consider the protection afforded to protected species and to consider whether the derogation requirements (allowing a scheme to go ahead notwithstanding adverse effects) could be met. The Court of Appeal was satisfied that the committee had discharged this duty, including paying proper regard to an updated bat report.
Counsel for the appellant had submitted that the members of the Planning Committee could not rationally have concluded that the environmental effects on the bats, the badgers and local amenity were not significant when the material in the various reports to which the Committee had access expressly stated that the impacts would be significant. Counsel for the appellant questioned whether in circumstances where expert consultants for the Planning Authority have reported to it that there will be certain significant effects, it is open to the Planning Authority to reach the contrary conclusion. He submitted that the LPA must be guided by its experts and that it is irrational to disagree with them.
The Court disagreed. This proposition went too far. A conclusion which is reached against the weight of evidence is not necessarily unlawful. This argument was based on the assumption that reaching a contrary conclusion constituted an error of law, because as a matter of law the Committee must willy-nilly accept the experts' opinions, and that no other option is available to it. That must be wrong because it would emasculate the members' duty themselves to decide the question. It is their decision to make, not the experts'. Whilst of course they must pay due regard to the evidence before them, they are not bound to follow it. The weight to give the reports is a matter for the members to assess. The members must exercise their independent judgment about the significance of the effects looking at the information overall. This was quintessentially a matter for the Committee to exercise its planning judgment and form its independent opinion. In those circumstances it could not be said that the decision was irrational.
Cases of this sort, involving the development of sites that have become overgrown and have therefore become the habitat of various flora and fauna, possibly including some protected species, can sometimes result in a refusal of planning permission where development might reasonably have been allowed in other circumstances. The practical lesson for landowners and developers is that they should keep potential development sites clear of plant growth, so as to prevent the site gradually becoming a wildlife habitat. If the site is derelict, make sure it stays that way!
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Ravana Chhaya : Jiwan Pani
Ravana Chhaya is the traditional shadow-puppet theatre of Orissa, dealing with the Rama story as told by Viswanath Khuntia, a medieval Oriya poet, in his Vichitra Ramayana. While the lyrics are borrowed from the latter epic, the play itself exists only in the oral tradition. Ravana Chhaya is unique for its striking puppets — made of deerskin — and engrossing in its presentation: traditionally on seven consecutive nights according to the seven kandas of the Ramayana. This monograph has a detailed note on the origin of the form and its nomenclature besides a description of the performance — with stage, lighting, music and manipulation. The presentation is detailed Kanda-wise in tabular format with synopsis, song sources, and the puppets employed. Size 185 X 235 mm / 36 page / 14 halftones Published 1978 / Rs 125


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Persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm or pain — that distress you or strain your relationship with your partner — are known medically as female sexual dysfunction. Many women experience problems with sexual function at some point. Female sexual dysfunction can occur at any stage of life. A woman's sexual responsiveness is not the same as a man's. Ignoring its complexity can make difference look like dysfunction. Have you ever heard anyone use the term, "female plumbing"? Despite the primitive nickname, it's actually a good analogy. The female reproductive system is a series of orifices (openings) for intake and output through tubes and passages. The interior part of the system performs the most important functions; the exterior acts as a cover to protect the delicate interior organs. When it's in good working order, it's a marvel. When it's not, it can be disastrous. To continue the image a little further, it pays to understand how the system works so you can maintain, rather than repair it. Many people think that sexual activity is motivated by physical desire, such as the desire of the body to want sex, which leads to sexual arousal and then orgasm. Although this may be true for men, research suggests that women's sexual motivations and responses may be more complex.The female orgasm continues to be the subject of intense scientific debate. Doctors puzzle over the different means by which women can achieve orgasm, and the things that can prevent orgasm in women. When women do achieve orgasm, "There are changes throughout the whole body, a head-to-toe kind of experience," says Sandra Leiblum, PhD, a sex therapist and director of psychological services at the New Jersey Center for Sexual Wellness in Bedminster.
For many women, particularly those who are older than 40 or who have gone through menopause, physical desire isn't the primary motivation for sex. A woman may be motivated to have sex to feel close to her partner or to show her feelings. What it means to be sexually satisfied may differ for men and women, and even among women. For example, some women say the pleasure of sexual arousal is sufficient, while others want to experience orgasm. If you have concerns about your sex life, or you just want to find ways to enhance it, a good first step is talking with your partner.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Just when it began to seem as though gender-specific medicine was here to stay, medical research in males is once again being applied to women. The success of sildenafil (Viagra) in treating erectile dysfunction in men has spawned a spate of studies of that drug in women, which have shown little promise. It has also given rise to a movement to establish #female sexual dysfunction (FSD) as a new disease category, just as erectile dysfunction had been in the 1990s. The implied parallel between FSD and male impotence is deceptive. The word "dysfunction" — medical parlance for anything that doesn't work the way it should — suggests that there is an acknowledged norm of female sexual function. That norm has never been established. Unlike penile erection, which is a quantifiable physical event, a woman's sexual response is qualitative. It embodies desire, arousal, and gratification — and it can't be measured objectively. Without an empirical standard by which to assess female sexual function, it would seem difficult, if not impossible, to come up with criteria for female sexual dysfunction.
That hasn't stopped experts from trying. The American Foundation for Urologic Disease has held yearly international consensus conferences on FSD. The goal has been to mirror the work of a National Institutes of Health panel that developed diagnostic and treatment guidelines for erectile dysfunction. In doing so, the FSD panel built on definitions of sexual dysfunction from the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). The ICD-10 focuses on physical factors that influence sexual response, and the DSM-IV emphasizes the emotional and psychological factors involved. Although neither publication defines female sexual dysfunction as such, both have subsets of the sexual dysfunction category that apply exclusively to women.
The FSD panel's first report, which was published in the March 2000 issue of the Journal of Urology, proposed a working definition of sexual dysfunction in women that includes both physiological and psychological symptoms. Experiencing any one of them warrants an FSD diagnosis, but some must also be a source of distress for the woman to qualify as a sign of FSD.
Viagra alone didn't spark this interest in FSD. It can also be attributed to the publication of a 1999 study indicating that 43% of American women experienced sexual dysfunction (Journal of the American Medical Association, Feb. 10, 1999).
That simple number, which has become the mantra of FSD advocates, belies the complexity of the issue. The 43% figure emerged from an analysis of responses by 1,749 women and 1,410 men to a similar set of questions. Women who reported any of the following — lack of sexual desire, difficulty in becoming aroused, inability to achieve orgasm, anxiety about sexual performance, reaching orgasm too rapidly, pain during intercourse, or failure to derive pleasure from sex — were conside red to have sexual dysfunction. Women were more likely to suffer from sexual dysfunction if they were single, had less education, had physical or mental health problems, had undergone recent social or economic setbacks, or were dissatisfied with their relationship with a sexual partner.
In the years since the report's publication, researchers have revisited it and challenged its conclusions. Several critics have pointed out that the women were not asked whether their problems were severe enough to cause personal distress. Some have also noted that the duration of problems in the survey — two months — may have represented only a temporary response to illness or other stress.
In 2000, critics garnered additional support from a preliminary report by the Kinsey Institute, the organization that published a benchmark study on female sexual behavior in 1953. The most recent Kinsey data indicate that emotional health and personal relationship factors were more important for women's sexual satisfaction than achieving orgasm. In that survey, general well-being ranked at the top as a requirement, followed by emotional reactions during lovemaking, the attractiveness of one's partner, physical response to lovemaking, frequency of sexual activity with one's partner, the partner's sensitivity, one's own state of health, and the partner's state of health.
Your symptoms will depend on the type or types of female sexual dysfunction you have:
Sexual problems often develop when your hormones are in flux, such as after having a baby or during menopause. Major illness, such as cancer, diabetes, or heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease, can also contribute to sexual dysfunction.
Factors, often interrelated, that contribute to sexual dissatisfaction or dysfunction include:
Physical. Any number of medical conditions, including cancer, kidney failure, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and bladder problems, can lead to sexual dysfunction. Certain medications, including some antidepressants, blood pressure medications, antihistamines and chemotherapy drugs, can decrease your sexual desire and your body's ability to experience orgasm.
Hormonal. Lower estrogen levels after menopause may lead to changes in your genital tissues and sexual responsiveness. A decrease in estrogen leads to decreased blood flow to the pelvic region, which can result in needing more time to build arousal and reach orgasm, as well as less genital sensation.
The vaginal lining also becomes thinner and less elastic, particularly if you're not sexually active. These factors can lead to painful intercourse (dyspareunia). Sexual desire also decreases when hormonal levels decrease.
Your body's hormone levels also shift after giving birth and during breast-feeding, which can lead to vaginal dryness and can affect your desire to have sex.
Psychological and social. Untreated anxiety or depression can cause or contribute to sexual dysfunction, as can long-term stress and a history of sexual abuse. The worries of pregnancy and demands of being a new mother may have similar effects.
Long-standing conflicts with your partner — about sex or other aspects of your relationship — can diminish your sexual responsiveness, as well. Cultural and religious issues and problems with body image also can contribute.
How Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Treated?
The ideal approach to treating female sexual dysfunction involves a team effort between the woman, doctors, and trained therapists. Most types of sexual problems can be corrected by treating the underlying physical or psychological problems. Other treatment strategies focus on the following:
Providing education. Education about human anatomy, sexual function, and the normal changes associated with aging, as well as sexual behaviors and appropriate responses, may help a woman overcome her anxieties about sexual function and performance.
Enhancing stimulation. This may include the use of erotic materials (videos or books), masturbation, and changes in sexual routines.
Providing distraction techniques. Erotic or non-erotic fantasies; exercises with intercourse; music, videos, or television can be used to increase relaxation and eliminate anxiety.
Encouraging non-coital behaviors. Non-coital behaviors (physically stimulating activity that does not include intercourse), such as sensual massage, can be used to promote comfort and increase communication between partners.
Minimizing pain. Using sexual positions that allow the woman to control the depth of penetration may help relieve some pain. Vaginal lubricants can help reduce pain caused by friction, and a warm bath before intercourse can help increase relaxation.
Female Cialis is used to treat female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) and female sexual dysfunction. It provides satisfaction in sexual needs and lasting pleasure. According to latest researches about 85% of patients suffering from sexual dysfunction in all degrees taking generic Female Cialis have shown improvements in their sexual functionalities. Severe degrees have also been taken care of.
Benefits of Tadalafil tablets for females:
Increase in libido
It increases the chances of a woman's orgasms
It undoubtedly does away with the frustrations of sexual desires experienced by women
It increases a woman's sensitivity to stimulation
It increases blood flow to the female genital organs
Female Cialis strengthens woman's body and the ability to reproduce
Who Is The Maker Of This Product?
Cialis was discovered by Glaxo Wellcome, which is now GlaxoSmithKline. This was made possible under a partnership between Glaxo and ICOS, a biotechnology company. Cialis was among the newer drugs that were developed.
What Are The Various Claims On This Product?
Female Cialis
There are various claims that have been put across by the manufacturers. Firstly, there is the claim that women undergoing menopause may improve their sexual lives using the product. Secondly, there are claims that the product lasts in the body for 48 hours.
What Ingredients Are Present In Female Cialis?
The active ingredient in the Female Cialis is Tadalafil. It is a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor (PDE5 inhibitor), and it is used in the treatment of sexual dysfunction. Other ingredients are not quite disclosed, but there is assurance that they improve sexual satisfaction.
What Is The Mechanism Of This Product?
It acts on phosphodiesterase 5(PDE5) whose main function is to bring about relaxation of the smooth muscle cells of the vagina. Arousal during sexual stimulation is often caused by increased blood flow resulting from the relaxation of the smooth muscles. Nitric oxide mediates this response from endothelial cells and nerve terminals which stimulates the Guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in the smooth muscles. cGMP causes increased blood flow to the tissues as the arteries expand. There is a decrease in the outflow of blood from the vagina due to filling up of the blood vessels, and this creates a gradient in the blood pressure that leads to sexual satisfaction.
How Does Female Cialis Work?
It blocks PDE5 and causes smooth muscles and blood vessels to relax. Blood flows smoothly due to the relaxation of the blood vessels. Inhibition of the action by the PDE5 causes a decline in the level of cGMP, and this allows a woman with a sexual dysfunction to have a normal sexual experience.
How Fast Does It Start Working And For How Long?
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VIMBY Hackerspace Competition, October 2010
DATE: April 21, 2014 CATEGORIES: Past Events
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"It is with great expectations that I envisage working with the Youth Orchestra Flanders for this exciting full Ravel project. Singing, dancing and of course playing this great and finest music with young talents is truly something to look forward to!
Working with young musicians was always one big luck I could enjoy during many years. As much as I want to give and offer them musically everything I can, I always have the feeling it is actually me getting richer from their enthusiasm and joy, while discovering whatever masterpiece you are doing together.
It is also a spectacularly nice feeling when you happen to observe and meet them later on, having become part of the greatest orchestras, or soloists, or singing in any opera house around the world. A glance into our future, in a way."
Alejo Pérez
Maurice Ravel
L'heure espagnole
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L'heure espagnole
Libretto Franc-Nohain
Direction Tom Goossens
Scenography Conrad Willems
Dramaturgy Lalila Goddard
Concepción Solgerd Isalv
Gonzalve Spencer Lang
Torquemada Daniel Arnaldos
Ramiro Ivan Thirion
Don Iñigo Gomez Justin Hopkins
Fri. July 10 – Ghent, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (CANCELLED)
Sat. July 11 – Ghent, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (CANCELLED)


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Day: October 5, 2013
Hardware from the past: The SS25
It was truly amazing when it first came out. In fact, I think it was a massive step forward. Of course, that was when the 30 pin connector was all you needed to work with. But as we've all learnt, Apple will change it's hardware design and move on without warning so it becomes increasingly difficult to assess the longevity of these things. Which is a shame, and can stifle innovation.
Any suggestions for how the weekly round up could be better?
So, what could I do better on the weekly round up? Do you have any suggestions? Anything that really annoys you? Or, is it just totally amazing already? Whichever it is, please let me know.


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St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center�s phone numbers have a new prefix. Because of the growth of phone extensions with its recent addition, the hospital has dropped its former 560 prefix.
The main number now is 557-4000 and all other phones will use the 557 prefix, too. The last four numbers are the same for all the extensions.


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|Conference Venue Cape Town ~ Round The Bend Camp offers Cozy thatched A-Frame chalets with en-suite bathrooms with a shared capacity up to 68 guests in the fixed accommodation.For larger Groups than our permanent chalet capacity, we would then set up our Tented Village to house the additional guests. Please note the tents will have beds + linen, carpets, tables, lights and plug points. Ablutions are however shared, separate male and female. Tents sleep 2 guests each.
Round The Bend Camp offers on site accommodation, conference facility with all equipment. We also cater for meal and dietary requirements for each group. There is also a wide range of acitivities available to all groups on site at no aditional cost, basically you call us and we can customise your getaway to suite your needs and budget requirements.
Round The Bend Conference Venue Camp Overview
24 x en-suite chalets – 1 room two single beds – sleeping 2 guests each
Tented village for larger Corporate groups.
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The new Leica 60th Anniversary of People's Republic of China limited MP edition was officially unveiled in China on June 2nd, 2010:
"The camera is decorated with red leather, the red picture of Tiananmen Square and the words "Long Live People's Republic of China" are engraved on the upside of the camera. The left side of the viewfinder is engraved with the words "the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, 1949-2009." Only 61 will be sold worldwide."


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|Meet Gilbert the bear a creation of my sister, Lisa, hope you can drop by and take a peek at what else we have been creating. Vicky


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Kawai ES110 – Top Only – Stylish Black
- Brand new Responsive Hammer Compact keyboard action
- Kawai EX concert grand piano sounds, full 88-key sampling
- 19 sounds, Dual & Split playing modes, 100 drum rhythms
- Dedicated stereo Line Out jacks
- Integrated Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
- Built-in classical etudes and Alfred lesson books
- Ultra-portable, sturdy chassis weighing just 12.0 kg
- Designer stand and triple pedal bar accessories available
Realistic touch, natural motion: Responsive Hammer Compact keyboard action
The ES110's brand new Responsive Hammer Compact keyboard action has been specially developed to allow portable instruments to reproduce the distinctive touch of an acoustic grand piano. Based on the highly-regarded RH action design, its spring-less technology and sturdy construction delivers consistent upward and downward motion for a smooth, natural, and highly authentic piano playing experience.
Acoustic piano key weighting
Just as acoustic pianos utilise heavier bass hammers and lighter treble hammers, the RH Compact keyboard action also employs different hammer weights, appropriately graded for each playing range. Such details provide greater stability during fortissimo passages, while preserving delicate pianissimo control, to satisfy the demands of even the most discerning pianist.
The Sound of a Grand Piano: Kawai EX concert grand
The Kawai EX concert grand piano is widely regarded by professional pianists and piano technicians as one of the finest instruments within its class. Hand-built by Master Piano Artisans at the Shigeru Kawai Piano Research Laboratory in Ryuyo, Japan, each EX instrument undergoes a meticulous regulation and refinement process within a specially designed anechoic chamber.
Following this lengthy crafting period, the completed EX concert grand piano receives a final series of rigorous quality inspections, before eventually taking centre stage in the world's most prestigious musical institutions and concert halls.
True character in every note
The ES110 digital piano captures the beautiful sound of Kawai's highly acclaimed concert grand piano, with all 88 keys of this exceptional instrument meticulously recorded, analysed and faithfully reproduced using advanced Harmonic Imaging technology.
Recording each key individually in this way, preserves the rich harmonic character of the EX concert grand piano, and guarantees that the sound heard when playing any one of the ES110's weighted keys is a faithful representation of the original acoustic source.
Harmonic Imaging technology
When playing a fine piano, the amount of pressure applied to the keyboard affects not only the volume of the sound produced, but also the unique tonal character of each note. Therefore, in order to construct a realistic acoustic portrait of the EX concert grand piano, not only is each key recorded individually, but also at various different volumes, ranging from gentle pianissimo to thunderous fortissimo.
The ES110 offers a highly detailed acoustic portrait, employing Kawai's proprietary Harmonic Imaging sampling technology to ensure smooth tonal transitions across the keyboard and throughout the entire dynamic range.
Reverbs, noises, & resonances
Additional reverberation effects that simulate the acoustic environment of a recital room, live stage, or concert hall are also applied, with settings to adjust voicing, sympathetic resonance, and other acoustic characteristics.
The result is a rich, vibrant piano tone that delivers breathtaking realism and authenticity.
The Variety of a Digital Piano: Convenience & Flexibility
The impressive ES110 offers a variety of features to complement its authentic keyboard touch and rich grand piano sounds. The built-in lesson function, with adjustable metronome and song recorder, is an invaluable tool for aspiring pianists, while additional instrument voices, Dual and Split playing modes, and 100 drum rhythms allow players of all levels to indulge their creative spirit.
Live players will appreciate dedicated Line Out jacks for sound reinforcement, while integrated Bluetooth® and standard MIDI ports ensure flexibility when connecting with smart devices, computers, and other instruments.
Built-in lesson function
The ES110's convenient lesson function allows aspiring pianists to study classical piano using a collection of Burgmüller etudes, or learn time-honoured standards from the popular Alfred Basic Piano course books.
The left and right hand parts of each etude or song can be practised separately, with the built-in metronome and adjustable tempo controls helping to improve timing and rhythm.
Variety of sound
Supplementing its realistic acoustic piano voices, the ES110 also offers a selection of additional instrument sounds, including electric pianos, organs, strings, acoustic and electric bass, and vibraphone.
The Dual and Split playing modes also allow two different voices, such as an acoustic piano and a string ensemble, to be played together for a more complex sound that inspires even greater musical creativity.
Line Out jacks
Weighing just 12 kilos, the ES110 is ideal for gigging musicians looking for a portable instrument with authentic touch and high quality sounds.
Dedicated stereo Line Out jacks allow direct connection to mixers and PAs, with the ability to also leave the instrument's built-in speakers enabled for use as local monitors.
Integrated Bluetooth® connectivity
In addition to standard MIDI ports, the ES110 also boasts integrated Bluetooth MIDI, allowing the instrument to communicate with supported smart devices wirelessly. Once paired with a phone or tablet, ES110 owners can easily expand the piano's functions using a wide range of music apps – without the need for any extra cables or adaptors.
High quality damper pedal
While other portable digital pianos in its price range may provide a simple on/off switch pedal, the ES110 actually includes a high-quality damper pedal that allows progressive half-pedalling as standard.
This Kawai produced F-10H unit features a solid construction and realistically weighted metal pedal, and utilises a high resolution optical sensor for reliable and accurate velocity detection.
- Keyboard: ・ Responsive Hammer Compact action
- 88 keys
- Grade-weighted hammers
- Matte key surfaces
- Pedal: ・ F-10H pedal unit
- Damper (with half-pedal support)
- Piano Sound: ・ Harmonic Imaging (HI)
- 88-key stereo sampling
- EX recording
- 192 note maximum polyphony
- Piano Resonance: - Damper Resonance
- Piano Adjustment: ・Virtual Technician (7 parameters)
- Touch Curve
- Voicing
- Damper Resonance
- Damper Noise
- Fall-back Noise
- Temperament
- Temperament Key
- No. of Sounds: 19 voices
- Reverb: 3 types
- Brilliance: ✔
- Other Effects: Preset (can be disabled)
Output System
- Speakers: 12 cm x 2
- Output Power: 14 W (7 W × 2)
- Music Rest: Detachable type (included)
- Dimensions:
- Width: 131 cm
- Depth: 28.5 cm
- Height: 14.8 cm (not including music rest)
- Weight: 12.0 kg
- Basic Functions:
- Dual
- Split
- Transpose
- Tuning
- Registration (4 memories)
- Startup Setting
- Speakers On/Off
- Bluetooth MIDI *
- Internal Songs:
- Sound Demo: 12 songs
- Lesson Songs:
- Burgmüller 25 (25 Etudes Faciles, Opus 100)
- Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson Book Level 1A
- Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson Book Level 1B
- Internal Recorder:
- Total Memory: approximately 15,000 notes
- No. of Songs: 3 songs
- Parts: 1 part
- Metronome
- Time Signatures: 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 3/8, 6/8
- Drum Rhythms: 100 patterns
External Connectivity
- App Functions Virtual Technician app (iOS), Sound Museum app (iOS)
- Connector Jacks:
- Headphone: 2 x 1/4" Stereo jacks
- MIDI: MIDI IN, MIDI OUT, Bluetooth MIDI *
- Line Out: 1/4" L/MONO, R
- Others: Damper (for F-10H)
Power Supply
- Power Consumption: 9 W
Included Accessories
- Power: Power cable, AC adaptor
- Warranty Card *
- Owner's Manual
- Music Rest
- F-10H damper pedal (with half-pedal support)


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Winter Drive at Tinte Cellars
January 11 @ 12:00 pm - January 12 @ 5:00 pm
Attention Seahawks fans! Stop by Tinte Cellars anytime this weekend to taste or buy some wine…and you'll be entered into a drawing for a special prize! Simply come by dressed in your favorite Seahawks gear and/or bring in a blanket, hat or gloves for our "Warm up the Winter" drive for Friends of Youth, and you will be entered to win.
- —Come both days! You can enter once per day.
- —Go to both locations! You'll get an entry at both locations.
One prize will be awarded for our Hollywood District tasting room and one prize for Warehouse District winery tasting room for the weekend. Winners will be announced Monday.
- Hollywood Hill (tasting room) – 14455 Woodinville-Redmond Rd. Woodinville, WA 98072 Hours: Sun-Thurs 12-6pm & Fri-Sat 12-8:30pm
- Woodinville Warehouse District (tasting room) – 19495 144th Ave. NE, # A-100, Woodinville, WA 98072. Open: Sat & Sun 12-5pm.


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Innovative New Trade Show Exhibit Product Voted First By 60% of Judges
ST. PAUL – The Arrive(R) Portable Displays & Workstation was the runaway winner of the 2010 Skyline Online Best New Product Contest.
Judges were asked to choose their favorites from among three new Skyline products launched in the past year. Candidates included the Arrive Portable Display & Workstation, the Occasions™ Custom Modular Table, and the Envoy(R) Exhibit System. 124 judges participated in the contest.
Arrive garnered an astounding 60% of the first-place votes. Many judges selecting Arrive noted its elegant looks, portability, and time-saving set up. "The name of the game right now is getting a nice display in place with the least amount of hassle and cost," said Peter Oswald of Perma-Bound. "The portability factor and/or less weight are important features."
The judges also appreciated how Arrive converts from a single shipping case that holds an entire 10-foot display into a full-featured workstation. "The Arrive design is a great idea," said Jaclyn Isaac of QPharma. "So many of my employees complain about the drayage and having to wait for them to return boxes. This solves those problems. Very creative."
As incentive to judge the contest, Skyline offered a prize of a free 10-foot display or a credit of $6,000 towards a larger trade show exhibit. The winner of the free display is Miranda Pauken of Savage & Associates. She voted for Arrive as the best new Skyline product for 2010. "The Arrive Portable Display & Workstation is genius," noted Pauken. "Perfect! Congrats on a great product!"
Judges also praised the two other new products in the contest. "The portability and ease of set-up made the Occasions Custom Modular Table Top Display extremely attractive," said Scott Phillips of Forrest College about the second-place winner. In regards to the Envoy Exhibit System, the third place contest winner, judge Ron Bucher of MeSH Background Screening Services said, "The Envoy is absolutely magnificent. It can be reconfigured in different ways for different venues. Because it's modular, it gives the appearance of being very large yet I suspect it stores "small" and is relatively quick to assemble. Very cool."
About Skyline Exhibits:
Skyline Exhibits is North America's leading brand of exhibit systems. Known for high-quality manufacturing, cost-saving portability, innovative functionality, creative design and exhibitor education, Skyline has nearly 100 Design Centers in North America and representation in 38 countries. The company manufactures a broad range of products for trade shows and events-from banner stands and pop-up displays to large custom modular exhibits. With over 20 integrated exhibit systems, state-of-the-art production of large-format graphics and options for exhibit rental and services, Skyline provides exhibit solutions for virtually any size or budget.
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