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Art Biz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 881 diseños de 114 diseñadores freelance.
Gallery Asie
Logo is for a new Art Gallery and Art Consulting Business that will specialise in Contemporary Art from Asia.
The logo will be used on gallery signage, our website, business cards, stationery and marketing materials.
After having lived and worked across Asia for the last 20 years in the banking industry, I'm turning my passion for art into a business. I am launching (with a partner) an art gallery and art consulting business specialising in contemporary art from Asia. We will sell contemporary art from China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia with a focus on new and emerging artists.
We will start off with retail art galleries in two locations: one in Asia, one in Western Europe. In addition to selling art to collectors and the public at large, the business will also work with corporate clients to advise on art acquisitions and leasing.
The target market for the business is both retail clients and corporate clients. Our target retail clients are art lovers, amateur collectors, and interior designers. The target corporate clients are large and medium-size multi-national and regional companies.
Given the range of clientele, the logo needs to appeal to both the retail market and the corporate market. Retail customers will span a wide range of demographics and ages (25 years old and up).
Most buyers will be English-speaking but the business is expected to attract some local clients in Asia and globally via the website and eCommerce (in the future).
Brand Name: Gallery Asie
Tag Line: Contemporary Art from Asia
Desired Colour Scheme: Open to suggestions for colour; also open to simple black & white designs
Image: the Logo Design, Colour Scheme and Fonts should convey the following values and image:
The logo will be used for a website, business cards, stationery and marketing materials
No cartoons. No clip art or stock images.
Languages: Logo and branding to be in English only but one option is to use a Chinese or other script character in the logo (this is not a requirement, just one potential idea).
Accepted File Formats: Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Logo should include full color and black/white version. 72 and 300 dpi files should be supplied for all iterations of logo design in the accepted file formats listed above.
We really want to see different ideas and are not entering into the process with a preconceived notion of what the "Gallery Asie" logo should look like. Black and white and color ideas are both of interest.
We are committed to following the contest closely and giving feedback throughout the process to narrow the focus and give designers the feedback they need to come up with the winning logo.
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Happy Monday Everyone!
Welcome to My Craft Spot's Monday Challenge #108!
Today we have a NEW and FUN Challenge over at My Craft Spot. This week's challenge is all about COLOR INSPIRATION! Simply create a NEW - no backlinking, please - COLOR INSPIRED project based on the photo below.
As soon as I saw the COLOR INSPIRATION Photo, it reminded me of the My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose Mabel Collection.
I based the card on this week's Deconstructed Sketch #113 to create a Thank You Card. The "You Shouldn't Have..." Sentiment is from the My Craft Spot "Thank You" Stamp Set.
Following a stacked circle from the sketch, I layered together the "Scallop Circle" and "Single Doily" from the My Craft Spot "Tiny Doilies" Metal Dies.
On top I added My Craft Spot's "Vintage Vanilla" Crinkle Ribbon bow with some Natural Jute String - available at My Craft Spot. I added three small leaves cut with my Cricut Flower Shoppe Cartridge and custom Rose misted with my Blue Jazz Glimmer Mist.
The card's inside was stamped with the "Thank You soo Much" Sentiment from the My Craft Spot "Thank You" Stamp Set.
I hope my GLAD YOU DID Card has inspired you to create a card based on this week's COLOR INSPIRATION Photo.
NOW, its YOUR turn! Link up your COLOR INSPIRATION project to the My Craft Spot Blog by Monday, August 19th 11:59 MST for your chance to win this week's prize.

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Putting on new clothes
Hans Christian Andersen tells about an emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them. Alas, the emperor was so committed to his clothes that he neglected to take care of his people's needs. Instead, he spent all his time in his dressing room, admiring his garments.
One day two swindlers came and claimed they were weavers who could weave the "finest cloth imaginable." Their colors and patterns, they said, were exceptionally beautiful, and the clothes possessed a wonderful quality--they were invisible to any man who was unfit for his office, or who was hopelessly stupid.
The emperor was impressed at the prospect of finding out which people in the empire were unfit for their posts, as well as telling the clever from the stupid. So he gave the men large amounts of money. The men pocketed the money and pretended to be weaving cloth.
Eventually, the emperor became curious about the progress on the clothes, and decided to send his "honest old minister" to the weavers. The emperor was sure that the minister's unquestionable intelligence and fitness for office would make him a good emissary. But the minister could not see the cloth. He began to question his own intelligence and fitness for office, and decided not to tell anyone that he had been unable to see the material.
Instead, he announced that the cloth "is very pretty--quite enchanting! . . . What a pattern, and what colors! I shall tell the emperor that I am very much pleased with it." Eventually the emperor himself went to see how the clothes were coming. What a shock when he realized that he saw nothing at all! But he did not want to admit that he was stupid or unfit to be emperor, so he announced that the cloth was very beautiful, and all the courtiers rapidly agreed.
The next day, the emperor took part in a great procession, and everyone pretended that they saw his new clothes. No one wanted to be shown to be unfit for his office or too stupid. But then a child spoke up.
"But he has nothing on at all," the child said. The people whispered to each other. "The child said he has nothing on!" "He has nothing on at all!" cried all the people at last. And the emperor too was worried, for it seemed to him that they were right. But he thought to himself, "I must go through with the procession." And he continued in the procession, wearing nothing at all.
Another great storyteller, Jesus of Nazareth, said, "Except as you become a little child . . ." It was, after all, a child who was the only one with the courage to speak the truth about the emperor's (lack of) new clothes. Except for the witness of that child, everyone in the city was willing to live in a world of deception and lies. Everyone was captured by fear--fear of the powerful, fear caused by the grip of sin. Even after the child names the truth, the people and the emperor do not have the resources to know how to change their way of life. And so the emperor continues with the charade.
The emperor's new clothes allowed him, and others around him, to pretend to see something that wasn't there. By contrast, the clothes that Christians put on in baptism (see Galatians 3:27) invite us, and others around us, to see that which really is there--to become truthful with ourselves and one another in fidelity to God.
But what happens when we clothe ourselves with Christ? Does the transformation occur overnight, as if by some magic wand? Or does it begin a process of being initiated into habits and practices of a way of life, an initiation in which we become apprentices to those who have gone before us?
In the early church, entry into the Christian community was marked by an apprenticeship guided by sponsors. At the time of baptism on Easter, new Christians signified the power of their turning from a world of sin and deception to a life clothed in Christ. Unlike the emperor's new clothes, the apprentice's new clothes were a sign of commitment to see what really is there in the world--in praise and penitence.
Jesus' announcement and enactment of God's inbreaking reign calls disciples then and now into a new community marked by forgiveness and repentance. In so doing, God is shaping a truthful community capable of radical discipleship and witness in the world.
The story of the emperor's new clothes reminds us that the issue we face is not whether we will be apprentices or not. We are apprentices who are influenced by others, for good or for ill. In the world of the emperor, we are shaped by sin and deception. Whether we are swindlers who deceive others for the sake of our own gain, or townspeople so concerned about appearances that we are unwilling and even unable to discern the truth, we become chained to habits of sin and being sinned against. Our lives become marked by fear.
The real issue is whether we are willing to don the apprentice's new clothes, and to struggle to bear witness with one another to the truthful and life-giving character of God's inbreaking reign. In so doing, we learn to "be not afraid" as we find a sense of new life. But that will also require that we recover the importance of shaping our own and one another's lives in habits and practices that enable us to unlearn the world of emperors and to learn to see the world as apprentices to the true Master.


text: Don: > -- but am I correct, then, that ALL the 64 or so members of the > Disney group see the same messages as the 11 Digest-receivers, but > they simply don't receive it all in digest form, right??? Exactly. The digest is just an option for those of you who thinks it more convenient to get less messages in your mail boxes, at the expense of not receiving the messages immediately. > And they can all post messages which would appear in the Digest? > If that's true, they are very quiet! I think most members of most mailings lists are quiet lurkers. I'm a "read-only member" of most mailings lists I'm on anyway, so I see nothing wrong with that, even though I'd also welcome more voices here. Probably there are several subscribers who just have a passing interest in Disney comics and skim through the messages looking for something that might be of interest to them. > Also, you made a point of mentioning that several of the US > users are on General Electric Co. computers. Just two... Harry: > Remember "Rug Riders In The Sky?" (US fifty-something). In that Barks story, > Magica is after a (flying) carpet, not after a dime. Oops, I forgot about that one. It seems like there will always be exceptions to general statements. > BTW: has anyone ever heard of Jim Fletcher? Yes, he is mentioned in Beccatinis Index. (BTW, did you ever get that? BTW2, does anyone know if part 2 of it will be published soon?) -- " Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at student.docs.uu.se "Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"


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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Word 2007 Add-In: Getting Started Tab
Here's another good resource for those of you who are responsible for deploying Office 2007 and want to cut down on the frantic, what-do-I-do-next? phone calls you may receive from confused end users. The Getting Started Tab is a downloadable Word 2007 add-in that adds a Getting Started tab to the Ribbon, listing links to online articles, videos, and more users can use to find additional help on common tasks. Click here to go to the download page.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
PC User's Toolkit
I saw this article on the front page of MSN.com this morning: 35 Things Every PC User Needs To Know. It's a good resource if you're not particularly tech-savvy yourself or you provide support for people who aren't. It's worth keeping in a Favorites folder somewhere. Enjoy. :)
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Free Office 2007 online courses
There's an article in InfoWorld this morning that quotes Chris Capossela, VP of Microsoft's Business Division, as saying that the fears that Office 2007 training will be difficult are unfounded. Although I agree that Office 2007 is ultimately easier to use, more efficient, and a smarter way to create and publish documents (meaning with an eye toward reusability), I also think businesses would be smart to think through their training plans carefully and make sure employees have the time and support they need as they learn the new program.
Here's a link to some of the free Office 2007 courses that are available online now. I'm not sure how long these courses will be free, so if you're responsible for deploying Office 2007 and training your staff, check these out--the sooner, the better!
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Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #16: Shining a Light on Supervision: Lessons from the Beacons
This commentary takes readers inside the world of the Beacons, to understand their approach to supervision. In it, we ask and answer the questions: What does good supervision of youth work professionals look like? How can we strengthen supervision in ways that improve practice and reduce turnover? What is the effect of high-quality supervision on programs' bottom line – youth participation and retention rates, program quality and organizational capacity? Lessons from the Beacons Young Adolescent Initiative and the Youth Program Quality Intervention Study as well as interviews with local and national experts provide the context for bringing the principles of good supervision to light.


text: I went to visit my son tonight, he's been in the juvenile detention center for two weeks (hopefully not much longer!). Anyway, he told me that a kid offered him pot today! This kid was able to get it in because it was in the small inner pocket of his jeans when he was busted and brought in. The police didn't find it, neither did anyone in the detention center. Today this kid had a hearing and was given the clothes he was wearing when he came to wear to the hearing today. He checked and found out the pot was still there, so he transferred it to under his mattress. My son did not accept his offer (thank God) but also didn't tell anybody but me. Now I'm nervous about calling to report it because I don't know if my son is the only one that knows about it and don't want him to be retaliated against for telling someone. I'm also nervous about not reporting it because what if they decide to check for some reason, find it, then my son somehow gets in trouble??? Uugghhh, I think he's safe but he continues to be offered drugs in places that drugs should not be!! I left a message on his PO's voicemail and also sent her an email, but not sure if I should just leave it alone now. Anyone have any advice???


text: This isn't as stupid as you might think when you here this, or at least I don't it is...anyway, you all know about Jessica Simpson and Nick right? (I have no clue how to spell his last name) Well, I was just thinking randomly, but I believe Sailor Moon could be considered the "Jessica Simpson of Anime", they both have a lot in common as far as what they lack upstairs (chuckle). And additionally, it would be reasonable to assume that Tuxedo Mask would represent Nick in this relationship, he is the smarter one (chuckle). Anyway, I don't mean to be mean or offend anyone, but I just figured I'd just share my random thought. WOOSA!!!h34r:


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Office of Marketing & Communications
Our office provides promotion and public relations support for the university to build awareness of academic degree programs and achievements of our students, faculty, and staff.
Digital Sign/Marquee Request
The digital sign at Loop 56 and the entrance to OSUIT reaches students, employees and visitors. When submitting information for your event or deadline, keep these guidelines in mind:
- Only events sponsored by official OSUIT organizations will be included.
- The frequency and duration of post will be prioritized according to the number impacted.
- Your information may be shortened because of space restraints and for quick readability.
- Any entry with an invalid website, email or phone number will not be published.
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CITIES -- Powers and Duties (requirement that claims be certified)
CLAIMS -- Certification of (necessity for in city)
LOCAL LAWS -- Claims (certification requirement)
SECOND CLASS CITIES LAW, §64; MUNICIPAL HOME RULE LAW, §10(l)(ii)(a)(5): A city is not required by general State statute to accept only vouchers which have been certified.
You ask whether a city is required by State law to accept only vouchers which have been certified by the claimant.
There is no State statute applicable to cities generally which requires certification or verification of claims against a city (see 12 Opns St Comp, 1956, p 442). In this regard, we note that Second Class Cities Law, §64 prescribes the audit of claims procedures for most claims against cities governed by that provision (see Second Class Cities Law, §4). That section provides, in pertinent part, that "[t]he common council, by resolution, may require that claims be certified or that they be verified ...". The quoted language was added by chapter 550 of the Laws of 1983 for the express purpose of making vendor certification or verification "optional with the [city] governing board" (Memorandum of the State Comptroller in Support of the bill which became L 1983, ch 550, 1983 Legislative Annual, p 239; 1990 Opns St Comp No. 90-9, p 21). Prior to this amendment, section 64 required that claims be verified.
Accordingly, a city is not required by general State statute to accept only vouchers which have been certified. We note, however, that a city charter may provide a certification or verification requirement (see Municipal Home Rule Law, §10[1][ii][a][5]; Second Class Cities Law, §4). It is our opinion that such a charter provision may be amended by local law to eliminate that requirement (see 12 Opns St Comp, 1956, supra; Municipal Home Rule Law, §10[l][i], [ii][a][5]).
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Friday, 12 September 2014
Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
My Synopsis
Leila is a young woman who lives on the fringes of society. As a teenager she did not understand her peers let alone conform to their ideals. She finds popular culture baffling. As a result, she is considered a freak in their eyes and was bullied. The one friend she had moved away and the only family member close to her, her mother, died recently of a debilitating illness. She is a loner who spends most of her time in her flat on her computer. When she is not doing her computer-based job from home she is playing World of Warcraft or scouring the internet for websites that interest her. She discovers Red Pill; a website with what appears to be like-minded people who share philosophical ideas run by Adrian. Adrian is a charismatic leader who has a certain amount of control and power over the site users. Leila's participation on the site starts to gain her respect and admiration by other users and she is invited to become part of an elite group on the site that take part in intellectual discussions. Adrian soon becomes impressed with Leila's contributions to the group and he starts sending her direct messages. After some time Adrian asks for a face to face meeting with Leila and she agrees. They meet in a public place, a park in North London, and he offers her a job. It is a unique project which involves taking over the online persona of another woman who wants to 'check out'. In this way, when she disappears her friends and family will be none-the-wiser that she is no longer around. Leila agrees to take on the project and is put in contact with Tess, the woman who she is to impersonate.
Leila begins working with Tess, learning all there is to know about her life in order to impersonate her. In doing so, the two women get to know each other and develop a (strange) relationship. Tess is very different from Leila. She is attractive to others, has many friends and is well cared about by the people close to her. Now in her early 40s, she has had a very eventful life and there is much for Leila to learn.
The 'project' starts when Tess 'checks out' - telling her friends and family that she is moving to a remote island off the coast of Canada. Leila takes on Tess' virtual life and discovers that the project is far more complicated to manage than she could have imagined. She also hadn't anticipated the effect that Tessa no longer being around has on her. In time, she also learns that there are things about Adrian, his relationship with Tess and the Red Pill site that could land her in serious trouble...
My Review
This book came out last year and was nominated for the Guardian first book award - and I can see why. For me, Lottie Moggach shows the kind of imagination that any writer/aspiring writer would envy - I certainly do. I wonder if I could ever come up with such a brilliant premise for a novel - sadly I doubt it.
I love an underdog and am drawn to characters who are misfits [I'll even get behind the 'poor little rich boy/girl' if (s)he is being oppressed]. That said, Leila isn't necessarily easy to love. This is because she makes a series of unwise choices - the kind that will have many readers rolling their eyes. It is difficult to see someone as a victim when their misfortune is self-inflicted. However, her unwise choices result from her naivity and this is her saving grace. As I progressed with the story Leila grew on me more and more and I came to the conclusion that the 3 major events that occur in her story (associated with her mother, Tess and Connor) have something in common. They are all the result of unconscious acts of kindness on Leila's part (all be they extreme, unethical and not without risk to herself) and THAT is what makes her loveable. This also suggests to me that, although she is literally disconnected from the real world, she is not emotionally disconnected from people - so there is hope.
I believe most people would consider Leila's choice to take on this project as an indication that something is not quite right with her psychologically, but her back story and her character makes it understandable. I found the premise highly plausible and the characters realistic.
I liked seeing the world through Leila's eyes. Her description of her peers demonstrates how perceptive the author is to the shallow and vacuous side of social networking. As you can imagine, it is somewhat anti 'the beautiful people' and I suspect those who consider themselves 'too cool for school' aren't going to like this book at all. I admit it has a melancholic undertone running through it but it isn't bleak like JKR's The Casual Vacancy or Lionel Shriver's Big Brother because it is hopeful and, in the end, has an uplifting feel to it.
I probably would not recommend this book to others because it really is a matter of personal taste - and if you hate it you won't thank me. Let me put it this way: if you like watching the TV show 'The Voice' but cannot tolerate 'The X Factor' you're more likely to be fine with it than if your TV-viewing preference is the other way around ; )
I will conclude by saying Kiss Me First is one of my favourite reads for 2014 and one I intend to revisit.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Mar 2010 14:04 UTC
Over the past couple of months, I've been getting a number of emails asking me about SkyOS' status. Since I didn't know anything beyond what's on the SkyOS website, and because, well, I have no affiliation with SkyOS, I couldn't really reply to these emails. However, after yet another email sent to me late last week, I decided to simply... Email Robert Szeleney, the man behind the project.
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RE[2]: I vote for NetBSD - Huh?
by SpeechManiac on Tue 2nd Mar 2010 22:47 UTC in reply to "RE: I vote for NetBSD"
Choose...? Plan...? WILL be behind...?
Don't bet on that one - he's too busy baby-sitting and writing software for the iPhone...
Hmmm, writing software for the iPhone? But I thought he didn't have time any longer to write software but yet he writes iPhone apps? What the ... ????!!!!!
I'm sure, all those having forked over money for the "beta" program have learned their lessons...
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Hunger Watch Report 2007-08: The Justice of Eating - the Struggle For Food and Dignity in Recent Humanitarian CrisesBy: Action Against Hunger (author), Samuel Hauenstein Swan (editor), Bapu Vaitla (editor)Paperback
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DescriptionThis is the first annual report from leading NGO, Action Against Hunger. It presents an accessible jargon free account of the causes and consequences of acute malnutrition around the world. It is the most up to date account which will be valuable to journalists, policy makers and anyone working in international development. The report assesses the problem of acute malnutrition from the ground up. Beginning with the immediate causes of hunger (inadequate dietary intake and disease) it progresses to study the larger structural and social factors that perpetuate it. Case studies include the impact of HIV/AIDS, conflict, weak markets, mortality and malnutrition. This analysis draws on 450 surveys undertaken by Action Against Hunger, presenting maps and graphs to give a comprehensive global overview of malnutrition. The report recommends that a shift in traditional emergency objectives needs to be considered as part of a holistic approach to persistent hunger.
About AuthorAction Against Hunger is an international, non-governmental, non-religious, non-profit organisation that was created in Paris in 1979. Since then, it has developed into an international network, with headquarters in Canada (Montreal), France (Paris), Spain (Madrid), the UK (London), and the US (New York). Samuel Hauenstein Swan heads Hunger Watch, Action Against Hunger's research and advocacy department. He is the co-author of Seasons of Hunger (Pluto, 2008). Bapu Vaitla is an advocacy and research officer for Action Against Hunger. He is co-author of Seasons of Hunger (Pluto, 2008).
ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction Report Summary 1. The Burden of Survival:Inside the Pain of Darfur's Livelihood War 2. Free Markets, Imprisoned People: Niger and The Dangers of Deregulation 3. Portraits of a Pandemic: Families on the Abyss in Zambia and Malawi 4. The Meanings of Dignity: Quiet Tragedies and Indomitable Spirits in Ethiopia Postscript References
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|| Excitement doesn't have a expiry date ||
My lungs expand as I take in my first hit of ocean air in just over six months.
The West coast of La is bursting with colourful personalities. Our adventure took us from the start, or the end, of Route 66 at Santa Monica, taking in the sights of the pier & vintage arcades, walking South until we hit Venice Beach. Home of the world famous skate park, body building beach gym, and a incredible variety of arts and crafts stalls. It also allowed me to rekindle my fear of seaside birds(why do they have to fly so close!).
Ever since I started traveling a year and a half ago, I have collected a postcard from every city or town that has inspired me. They will all be collected together when i'm done & put in an album. Im like a magpie for collecting things that trigger laughter and memories.
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It's that time of year again when the days get shorter and the weather gets colder. While some people enjoy (or at least brave) the colder air for outside runs, I am not one of them. I like to call myself a fair-weather runner which means I enjoy running outside in the spring and fall when the temperature is around 75 degrees.
This is also the time of year when people start working towards their new goals. Most New Year's resolutions revolve around losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle. In order to reach these goals, one must start an exercise routine and also eat healthy. Our routines typically involve a combination of weight training and cardio. While much of our cardio is hiking, we also incorporate cardio machines into our routine. Our favorite plan is the She Sweats 12-Week Transformation which focuses on using different cardio machines and different styles of training to keep your body guessing (which is a good thing!).
While training indoors I love to use the incline on the treadmill. It's a great way to get a good burn and also help prepare my legs for hiking. One of our favorite cardio equipment companies is Horizon Fitness. They are simple to assemble and easy to use. They have five different versions of treadmills which all go up to at least a 10% incline (one even goes up to a 15% incline!). One of our favorite things about Horizon is that you are buying direct from the manufacturer so when you buy Horizon, you can rest assured you're getting a dependable machine for the best value. Just a side note: if you go to the gym you might have access to the stronger, commercial equipment – the Matrix Fitness brand. The same company that makes these commercial machines also makes the Horizon brand and now the Matrix for home line.
I've created a new Beginner 30-Minute Treadmill Workout for you to try! I'm not a big fan of people just running on the treadmill day after day which is why I love to incorporate incline training. This workout routine has a little bit of speed training and incline training all in one workout! You can customize this to your fitness level, just use it as a guide. Even if you aren't a beginner you can still do this workout, just increase the speed and/or the incline! If this is too hard for you, dial back the speed and/or the incline.
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|"Hatchman", by Paul Ciaramitaro
To ensure the longevity of our much beloved association; keeping it relevant and growing in this rapidly changing world, this year the NSAA focuses on expanding the reach and scope of our mission and extends our energies to not only serving the artistic and cultural community, but the larger community as well. To define our efforts, 2016 will be NSAA's "Year of Art in Action: Connecting Communities".
This year the North Shore Arts Association commits to using our art space to experiment and to learn what we do not already know. We commit to using our social space to be a place where new ideas are generated about Art, society, and the role of Art as a catalyst for positive change. We commit to shared experience with our larger community and creating meaningful dialogue within that community.
Explore with us as we join Ocean Alliance and the Rocky Neck Art Colony in a series of collaborative events this June, examining the health of the worlds oceans and the impact that human activity is having on marine life, the atmosphere, and the people of the world. The events of the month will include a NSAA artist member exhibition "Art Exhibition of the Sea and Science", performance art, and speaker series presented by the distinguished scientists who are the principals of Ocean Alliance, Dr. Roger Payne, Founder and President; Mrs. Roger Payne; Dr. Ian Kerr, D.H.L, Chief Executive Officer; and Karen Ristuben, President of Rocky Neck Art Colony, artist and advocate on marine environmental issues.
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More than 400 flights have been cancelled at one of the world's busiest airports, after a massive power outage temporarily shut down Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International.
Passengers were left stranded on the tarmac when an underground fire knocked out power to the entire airport on Sunday morning. More than 1,1000 flights were cancelled that day, and approximately 30,000 people were affected, according to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
Power was up and running by 12am on Monday, but 412 further flights out of the airport were cancelled as airlines struggled to address the situation, according to FlightAware.com.
Susan Riley-Hayes, a businesswoman travelling home from Sarasota, Florida, was one of those trapped on a plane on Sunday. At first, she said, it seemed like there might only be a minor delay getting to the gate. But then the pliot came over the intercom with some troubling news.
"He said, 'I don't know where we are, or how many planes are in front of us, but we're probably in the very back third of the line'," she recalled. Her business partner, who had flown in on an earlier flight, called to tell her he had been waiting for an hour.
Ms Riley-Hayes said her fellow passengers tried to stay positive as one hour turned to two, and then three, and then four. The crew on her flight, she added, was "great". But when the plane finally made it to the gate five hours later, the captain let slip some of his true feelings about the situation.
"He said, and I'll never forget this: 'In my 26 years with Delta and my 14 years as a captain, this is unprecedented,' she recalled. "You could just tell that even he was in shock."
Other passengers reported being trapped on the tarmac for up to six hours, as their planes slowly ran out of food and water. Those stranded in the airport waited on developments in the dark, using their cellphones as flashlights while concession stands closed down around them.
According to Mr Reed, all of the passengers waiting on the tarmac were safely emptied of passengers by 10 pm. But that did not mean their ordeal was over.
Ms Riley-Hayes described disembarking her plane in pitch-black darkness and descending into a terminal jam-packed with impatient travellers.
"I can't describe to you the number of people," she told The Independent of the scene at the terminal. "There were people walking everywhere, there were people laying everywhere, there were people sleeping everywhere … It was chaos."
As she made her way towards the exit, Ms Riley-Hayes saw people lined up just to get to the staircases. She watched security agents hauling wheelchair-bound passengers up the inoperable escalators by hand. But the most striking thing, she said, was what she didn't see: any meaningful official response.
"You're thinking, 'Where is the police presence, where is the fire presence, where is the traffic control?'" she said. "How is this happening like this, in the complete dark?"
Ms Riley-Hayes eventually arrived home around 9 pm on Sunday. By Monday morning, she had yet to receive her checked luggage. When she called the airport to see about getting it back, a representative told her they had no idea when she could expect that to happen.
But many travellers were even less lucky; trapped in Atlanta overnight on what was supposed to be a layover. Some managed to find hotel rooms, while the Georgia International Convention Centre provided temporary shelter to others. Airport officials said on social media that they had served more than 5,000 meals to passengers by early Monday morning.
"We're just focusing on the comfort of our passengers," Mr Reed said at a news conference on Sunday. "We know they have had a very, very long and difficult day."
Georgia Power's top executive apologised for the outage in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday. CEO Paul Bowers said the fire that caused the blackout started when a switch gear failed in the airport's underground power station. The company is unsure what caused the failure.
Such incidents are rare, Mr Bowers said, but Georgia Power will be looking into how to deal with them going forward. He suggested they may try to isolate the switch gear from the power cables, possibly by encasing one or the other in concrete.
Delta Airlines, which is based in Atlanta, said it would issue a waiver to passengers travelling through Atlanta with the airline on 17, 18, or 19 of December. American, United, And Spirit Airlines also offered waivers or flight changes. Delta offered to reimburse customers who had to book hotel rooms on Sunday.


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Swastikas, the Broken Crosses of Paganism
The Broken and Twisted Cross from the East
The swastika...which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic.
- Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler
Hatred makes the straight crooked.
- Old Jewish Proverb
One of the little known facts concerning the swastika, and perhaps one that is of the utmost importance, is that the Eastern religions of Buddhism and Hinduism have drastically changed their symbolic use of the swastika since the terrible days of Nazism earlier in the 20th century. Apparently, both of these religions tended to use the Swastika twisted to the Left (the Nazi Swastika), rather than the Swastika twisted to the Right, thus favoring it in their own religious iconography, writings, and architecture. Even today, the swastika is found throughout the towns and cities of India, as well as other Asian nations, and it is the exact same symbol that the Nazis used during World War II. The facts are this:
The [swastika] appears to have first been used in Neolithic Eurasia, perhaps representing the movement of the sun through the sky. To this day it is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Odinism. It is a common sight on temples or houses in India or Indonesia. Swastikas also have an ancient history in Europe, appearing on artifacts from pre-Christian European cultures.
Various Swastikas in History
Put bluntly, both Swastikas are age-old Pagan symbols which have no place in the Judeo-Christian tradition, except perhaps as a symbol of evil or something to be avoided in the least. Now, at the dawn of the third millenium, Buddhism happens to be no longer using the Nazi swastika and is, instead, nearly always using the Swastika twisted to the Right as the 'official' symbol of their faith. This is actually a very recent decision on the part of the Buddhist leadership. The so-called 'ancient' Buddhist folk-lore has been changed to fit and enhance their modern public image as a religion of goodness and peace, rather than a barbaric Pagan faith destined to go extinct.
The Nazi Flag
In reality, it remains completely untrue to say that Buddhism, let alone Hinduism, did not actively use the Swastika twisted to the Left, namely the Nazi swastika for many, many centuries. They both did, and there is ample proof that the recent switch between swastikas is nothing more than a ploy of the Eastern religions to disassociate themselves from the Nazis, their genocidal policies, and to avoid any and all blame. One source notes:
Can there be two completely opposite meanings for one symbol?...Since the Nazis use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings of the swastika by varying its direction - trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version would hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck. Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.
Buddhism, in particular, is now avoiding any and all use of the Nazi swastika (Left Hand) and has fabricated their own folk-lore to match this modern myth. One source states that in today's world, 'Buddhists almost always use the left-facing swastika,' namely the Right Hand swastika, or sauvastika, which the Nazis did not utilize during the World War II. Historically speaking, this is a deliberate falsehood which allows Buddhism to cover up, ignore, and even deny their long and extensive use of the Nazi swastika as a religious symbol of goodness and well being. At best, both symbols were used as one researcher notes specifically:
In the footprints of Buddha the Buddhists recognize...auspicious signs, the first of them being the Svastika...the fourth is the Sauvastika, or that with the arms turned to the left.
- Burnouf (1852)
This means that the distinction between the two swastikas is little more than a modern attempt to explain, or explain away, the ikon of the Nazis as compared to that of Buddhism and/or Hinduism. In reality, both swastikas, sometimes known as the swastika (Left) and the sauvastika (Right), were used in the East with the same meaning for both ikons. Two different sources state the following:
Although the more common form is the right-facing swastika, the symbol is used in both orientations for the sake of balance in Hinduism.
In ancient times, the direction of the swastika was interchangeable as can be seen on an ancient Chinese silk drawing.
Thus the confused, modern distinction about the two swastikas should be discarded and then re-evaluated in a proper manner. One must understand that the Eastern religions deliberately use this broken, twisted symbol as a ikon of goodness, instead of evil as the Bible does in several places, mainly because they are Pagan religions outside of Judeo-Christian monotheism. All things considered, any notion 'that sauwastikas are considered "evil" or inauspicious versions of the auspicious swastika in Indian religions' are without validity especially since Buddhism 'counts the svastika and the sauvastika equally among the...auspicious signs.' Another researcher also confesses doubts about any distinction between the two symbols:
Would it not be simpler to admit that the direction of the branches is of secondary importance in the symbolism of the gammadion (swastika)? When it is desired to symbolize the progress of the sun...little attention will have been paid to the direction given to the rays.
- D'Alviella (1894)
In addition to this general lack of distinction between the two ikons, the alternative name for the Swastika twisted to the Right as a so-called sauvastika, rather just another swastika, also happens to be a historical fiction that was invented by scholars in the West. Namely, 'the term sauvastika thus cannot be confirmed as authentic and is probably due to' 19th century Western researchers making things up as they go along. Well the damage is done, and once again Paganism gets off without any blame for the evil and wickedness inherent in the swastika.
A Modern Buddhist Temple
Most tellingly, the Eastern religions readily admit in their folklore, both Swastikas are emblems which have demonic origins and was initially created by a diabolical serpent being as a emblem for 'good luck'. Careful to use the other swastika, the sauvastika (Cross twisted to the Right), these Pagan faiths, like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, now insist that this ikon has always represented good luck, blessings, and the light of the sun while the swastika used by the Nazis always symbolized bad luck or misfortune. As already discussed previously, this is a modern fable, a Pagan fairy tale, which is historically invalid. As one source writes:
Some contemporary writers assert that the swastika as used in Nazi Germany is in fact the "evil sauwastika". Since the swastika on the Flag of Nazi Germany was "right-facing" when displayed one-sided, this requires a redefinition of "sauwastika" as the variant current in Hinduism, and the "swastika proper" as the "left-facing" one current in Buddhism, contrary to [historical evidence]. The notion that Hitler deliberately inverted the "good left-facing" Buddhist swastika is, however, wholly unsupported by any historical evidence.
Simply put, the swastika is, in fact, an Eastern, or Asian, symbol that never really caught on in the West, most probably due to the spiritual power, influence, and importance of the Christian Cross, an ikon that is mainly opposed to the broken crookedness, the asymmetry of the Swastika. One scholar notes that this ikon 'is rarely seen on its own in Western architecture'.
The history is this: long before Nazism came to power in Germany in 1933, the Eastern nations were using both Swastikas frequently and, never forget, as a crucial and integral part of their religion. Along with the somewhat black/white circle of Yin/Yang, the Swastika, most especially the Swastika twisted to the Left, played a prominent role in the religious symbolism of both Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism for many centuries. These Pagan faiths have called what is crooked, straight. They have claimed that what is broken, is actually well-made, and what is evil, good. One should remember the Book of Isaiah which laments: 'Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.' The proper Biblical understanding of the Pagan swastikas can be summarized as follows:
The Right and Left Hands of Paganism


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Ted at TEDxBerkeley
Mar 25, 2014 - CEGA Faculty Director, Ted Miguel, spoke to an enthralled theatre on climate, conflict, and African development at the annual TEDx Berkeley conference on Saturday, February 8th. More than 1,700 attendees packed into Zellerbach Hall for a full day of presentations by leaders and visionaries called upon to "rethink", "redefine", and "recreate". Ted's talk is highlighted an an "Editor's Pick" on the official TEDx website. View the video here!
Rise in violence 'linked to climate change'
Aug 2, 2013 - CEGA Faculty Director, Edward Miguel and co-authors Solomon Hsiang and Marshall Burke are featured with the BBC for their new study linking climate change to human violence. The researchers reviewed 60 studies from around the world with data spanning hundreds of years and found consistent and strong correlations between climate change and human conflict. Findings from the study suggest that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by over 50 percent in many parts of the world.
Will rising temperatures derail Africa's rise?
Apr 26, 2013 - World Bank poverty economist Tom Bundervoet discusses ongoing work by CEGA Faculty Director Ted Miguel on the impacts of climate change on human violence. Applying a common statistical framework to a large number of studies, Miguel and his co-authors Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang find a remarkably consistent and strong correlation between exceptionally high temperatures and manifestations of violence.
What's at Stake in the Kenyan Election?
Mar 6, 2013 - CEGA visiting scholar and EASST affiliate Amos Njuguna was featured on NPR's "Forum With Michael Krasny" discussing the Kenyan presidential election. Amos, an Assistant Professor of Finance at the United States International University in Kenya, provides his insights on what the election means for Kenya, as well as the challenges faced during the actual election process.
Ghana's John Dramani Mahama: Man of the People?
Dec 3, 2012 - CEGA Faculty Director Edward Miguel is quoted in this week's Newsweek article, which discusses Ghana's role in the economic and political development of Africa. According to the IMF, Africa is expected to become the world's fastest-growing region over the next five years. President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana believes that his country will be a leader in Africa's emergence on the global stage.
From Schooling to Learning
Sep 18, 2012 - A nationwide survey of primary schools in India by Karthik Muralidharan and colleagues finds that pupil-teacher ratios fell by 20 per cent from 2003 to 2012. Yet literacy and numeracy continue to lag, suggesting the need for new strategies. For example, Muralidharan has shown that providing teachers with modest bonuses can improve teacher performance and student learning outcomes.
Food for the Hungry Sees Incredible Success with De-Worming Children in Burundi
Sep 11, 2012 - Research led by Edward Miguel and Michael Kremer provides strong evidence that school-based deworming programs can impact school attendance and, in the long term, increase adult earnings. Burundi's Ministry of Health now provides deworming to 3 million school-aged children each year, in partnership with NGO Food for the Hungry.
Better housing for poor to be tested in South America
Sep 10, 2012 - Poor and unsafe housing is a serious problem for millions of people living in slums across the world. Paul Gertler is working with researchers in Latin America and the UK to evaluate the impact of constructing inexpensive houses in informal settlements across Latin America. The researchers work with a youth-led organization called Un Techo Para Mi PaÃs (UTPMP) or TECHO, which is now rolling out more durable and environmentally-friendly houses in Brazil and Ecuador.
Joint Response to Cochrane Study on Education and Deworming
Jul 20, 2012 - A recent Cochrane Collaboration summary of the evidence on treating school-age children for soil-transmitted intestinal worms (or STH) is incomplete and misleading. Review a new statement by CEGA, Deworm the World, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab on the evidence justifying mass school-based deworming.
Despite Grim Headlines, Africa Is Booming
Jul 11, 2012 - CEGA Faculty Director Ted Miguel discusses Africa's economic growth on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Commonly overshadowed by headlines about violence and poverty, Africa is now home to six out of the ten fastest growing economies in the world. Professor Miguel examines how the rise of mobile technology, improved infrastructure development, and international business partnerships have contributed to better standards of living and a high potential for future generations of growth.
Would Paying Politicians More Attract Better Politicians?
Jun 21, 2012 - Do higher public sector wages improve the quality of politicians? CEGA Affiliates Fred Finan and Ernesto Dal Bo are working alongside other researchers to answer this question in Latin America. In Brazil, Fred Finan and Claudio Ferraz find evidence that higher wages increase political competition, while subsequently improving the quality of legislators.
Mobile Money and Direct Cash Transfers
May 8, 2012 - GiveDirectly, an NGO founded by a group of researchers including CEGA Affiliate Paul Niehaus, is pioneering a new way of delivering cash transfers by using mobile technology to send unconditional cash transfers directly to recipients in Kenya. By eliminating the middleman, this direct mobile transfer provides an efficient and effective way to transfer money and reduces the opportunity for corruption.
What Determines India's Right-to-Work Program Wages
Apr 25, 2012 - CEGA Affiliate Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar have found unique ways to analyze the impact of India's landmark right-to-work program. In this evaluation, they uncover that worker wages are pocketed by local officials, but only up to a point; where workers have an outside income-generating option, local officials pay them just enough so that the workers (and their wages) do not "exit†out of the program for the alternative.
In India, A Small Pill with Positive Side Effects
Apr 8, 2012 - Worms affect 600 million school-age children worldwide, but a study co-authored by CEGA Faculty Director, Ted Miguel, has played a role in 'Deworming the World', one country at a time. This New York Times article describes how an evaluation of a 30,000-person deworming program in Kenya has been translated into national initiatives targeting millions of children globally.
African Elections: How to Save Votes
Mar 28, 2012 - Could smartphones help reduce electoral fraud in Africa and in other regions? Local researchers were deployed to polling stations armed with digital cameras and smartphones to take photographs of the publicly posted election tallies. The research found that this alone can cut electoral fraud by up to 60%.
The Economics of Corruption
Mar 2, 2012 - Is corruption a result of socio-cultural norms or legal enforcement? CEGA Faculty Director, Ted Miguel, with collaborator Raymond Fisman, finds that it is both. Their study of country corruption as measured by parking violations of UN diplomats is featured in this week's Hindu Business Line.
Making the case for rigorous, evidence-based policymaking
Feb 16, 2012 - Rachel Glennerster, executive director of the MIT Poverty Action Laboratory, explain how they used randomized control trials to discern what worked in poverty reduction and what didn't. Quite simply, things they thought would work did not, and things people assumed would not work proved surprisingly cost-effective. By building a rigorous evidence base, more effective policies could be designed, based on the ways people actually behave rather than guesses about how they might behave.
What Can Mexico Teach Us About School Choice?
Feb 8, 2012 - Paul Gertler's study on the Mexican education program, Apoyo a la Gestion Escolar (School Management Support), demonstrates that incentives to increase parental involvement in schools can lead to a decrease in failing grades and grade repetition for their children in primary school. "What Can Mexico Teach Us About School Choice?" discusses the highlights of study and offers a commentary on how such findings in Mexico can inform the debate on vouchers in the US.


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Hearty Italian Meat Pie
Time needed
10 min preparation + 30 min cooking
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4 servings
- 10 oz. box spinach, frozen, chopped
- 6 slices salami,
- 1 ¼ lb. ground meatloaf blend
- 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
- ¼ C. pimientos, diced, drained
- ¼ C. turkey pepperoni
- 1 jar bruschetta spread
- 2 eggs
- 2 C. Italian-blend cheese, shredded
- 1 ready-to-bake rolled piecrust
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Thaw out your spinach and preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Chop your salami into smaller pieces. Preheat a large skillet for 2-3 minutes and add ground meat and Italian seasoning and cook for 5-7 minutes. Make sure your spinach is drained well. Add the pimientos, pepperoni, salami, spinach and bruschetta spread to the meat and cook for 1-2 minutes. Pour meat mixture into a medium bowl and let cook for 1-2 minutes.
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Jay Hart Sex Tape: English Soccer Player Filmed Nailing Fan in Dugout After Match (Pic)
Jay Hart was never going to become famous for his soccer skills playing for Clitheroe FC, a semi-pro team in the Evo-Stik League Division One North, which sits all the way down at the 8th tier of the English league pyramid. However, at least he'll always have a claim to fame as the soccer player who got filmed nailing a fan in the dugout after a game and got fired.
Hart's romantic encounter with the fan occurred on Saturday, after Clitheroe's 4-1 away loss at Mossley AFC. Apparently it was "Ladies Day" at Mossley's Seel Park, so after the game Hart found him a (presumably drunk) lady who was DTF and got busy in the dugout right next to the field. And obviously somebody filmed the nasty escapade, because this is 2015.
Of course, it didn't take long for the video to spread across the web like wildfire. And as soon as the Clitheroe FC management heard about it, Jay Hart, a 24-year-old father of two, was out of a semi-pro job. (Please take a moment to come up with your own joke about the name Clitheroe.)
Amazingly, the Jay Hart sex tape has (at time of writing) disappeared from the interwebz.
"I'm full of regret," Hart later told the Mirror. "I'd had a couple of drinks. I was away from everyone and thought I was hidden."
Yeah, whoops. I guess we can add this one to the list of people having sex at sporting events.


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As promised some days ago, here are four short videos to show you how to fold the Origami box. The original idea is not from me, I did not invent it, but I wouldn't be able to tell you where to find the written instructions as I learnt how to fold it with my mother-in-law, who learnt it in a craft-group...
Anyway, I hope the videos will be enough to teach you how to do this lovely box. However, if you think that more detailed explanations are needed, please do let me know.
You need 16 square sheets of paper (80g/m³ is the best, under isn't ideal), 8 for the lid, 8 for the bottom. Both sides of the sheets are visible, so I tend to prefer using sheets which are coloured on both sides. You can easily find origami paper online or in your local craft-shop. The ones I use are 10x10cm.
Folding the lid:
Folding the bottom:
Assembling the bottom:
Assembling the lid:
Now it is your turn to give it a go. I would love to see your boxes afterwards, to leave me a comment with a link to your blog, or simply send me some pictures by email if you don't have a blog!
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Zac Efron by Matthew Rolston for The Rolling Stones
Okay, I have to admit my last post of Todd from "Survivor: China" was a tad selfish and self centred. In contrast to that, here is a totally unselfish post for a change. No, it's not Daniel Radcliffe, I'm not actually want to go to that extreme (yet). It's our favorite pretty boy from High School Musical, Zac Efron. Why post Zac pictures when we literally can find these on other (millions) websites you may ask?
The answer is simple. Because I've been getting a gazillion requests for a Zac's page regardless since the cro-magnon era. Most of them sound like, "Have you ever heard of Zac Efron?" or "Did you know there's a total hottie named Zac Efron, he's very famous like OMG" or "It's weird that you don't have a Zac's page here". See, I totally care. Of course, you've probably seen these shirtless beach pictures of Zac Efron before, but what the heck. For all Zac's fans out there, hope you really enjoy his prettiness to the max!


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By Vinay Prasad, MD; Sham Mailankody, MBBS
JAMA Internal Medicine, September 11, 2017
Key Points
Question: What is the estimated research and development spending for developing a cancer drug?
Findings: In this analysis of US Securities and Exchange Commission filings for 10 cancer drugs, the median cost of developing a single cancer drug was $648.0 million. The median revenue after approval for such a drug was $1658.4 million.
Meaning: These results provide a transparent estimate of research and development spending on cancer drugs and show that the revenue since approval is substantially higher than the preapproval research and development spending.
From the Introduction
The cost of anticancer drugs continues to increase, with drugs routinely priced more than $100, 000 per year of treatment and some nearing the $200, 000 per year threshold. High drug prices have negative effects on patients and society, and groups of physicians, patients, and policymakers have voiced their opposition to these prices. However, one persistent argument in justification of high drug prices is the sizable outlay made by biopharmaceutical firms to develop new drugs. In a widely publicized analysis from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, the authors estimate $2.7 billion (inflation adjusted for 2017 US dollars) is needed to bring a single drug to the US market. This figure is more than 8 times higher than the $320.0 million (inflation adjusted for 2017 US dollars) estimate to develop one drug reached by the group Public Citizen. Given such divergent estimates, closer examination is warranted.
We focused on publicly traded pharmaceutical companies with only one US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved drug. We used SEC filings from the approximate time of discovery or initial acquisition of the compound to drug approval to estimate the cost to bring one drug to market. Because, in all instances, these companies were simultaneously developing several compounds, our analysis considers the cost of failure (ie, we include R&D costs for each company's entire portfolio of drugs, of which only one drug was ultimately approved).
Prior estimates for the cost to develop one new drug span from $320.0 million to $2.7 billion. We analyzed R&D spending for pharmaceutical companies that successfully pursued their first drug approval and estimate that it costs $648.0 million to bring a drug to market. In a short period, development cost is more than recouped, and some companies boast more than a 10-fold higher revenue than R&D spending—a sum not seen in other sectors of the economy. Future work regarding the cost of cancer drugs may be facilitated by more, not less, transparency in the biopharmaceutical industry.
By Don McCanne, M.D.
This study confirms that the pharmaceutical firms are using inflated costs of bringing a product to market in order to gouge us. This cries out for government intervention. A well designed single payer system would fix this while addressing a great many of the other problems with our dysfunctional system of financing health care that results in us paying too much for too little.
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Pruning peaches
I plan to write an ebook
about pruning...in 5 to 10 years. So far, I feel like I've gotten
the hang of training and pruning
young peaches to the open center system, and this year I'm
experimenting with maintenance pruning a mature peach.
Our younger peaches needed
more TLC. The one above should have gotten a bit more love over
the summer since the watersprouts coming up from the rootstock made the
main trunk lean. Except for removing the watersprouts, I barely
did any cutting, focusing on training my scaffold branches
instead. Remember --- the more you can train instead of prune,
the fewer watersprouts you'll have next year and the faster your tree
will achieve maturity.
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I take prunings into the woods when walking the dog, stab them in the ground, and cut them off above the first bud. Don't know if they'll take, but I have hopes.
Comment by Tue Feb 21 08:55:19 2012—
Eric --- Using them as scionwood is a great suggestion! I've tried to root peach cuttings that way with no luck, but other types of fruit trees might be easier. (I know grapes are.) And, if you have rootstock, you can always graft the scionwood on to expand your orchard.
Comment by Tue Feb 21 09:46:33 2012—
Is this the right time of year to be pruning fruit trees? My understanding is that most pruning should be done after the tree is in full leaf. That way, the energy stored in the roots produces the tree's appropriate complementary leaf mass. If you cut now, the energy in the roots produces water shoots. Also, the whole notion of "sanitation" to control fruit tree disease strikes me as not very permaculturish, or at the very least, a lot of bother with dubious results. I let dropped fruit rot where it lays. Here the big problem is coddling moth, two to three life cycles per season. Some years are good, some not so good. I figure the variables are weather, bird activity, soil health, tree mismatched to conditions. But if even only a quarter of the harvest is bug-free, it's still a bountiful harvest.
Comment by Tue Feb 21 21:17:53 2012—
Jackie --- That's a good question. I both winter and summer prune, since each seems to have its place. You're right that summer pruning is best for making the tree focus on fruits for next year rather than lots of watersprouts. But at the same time, if you don't prune at this time of year, a vigorous peach tree will have so many shading branches that your fruiting limbs won't get enough sun. I try to focus on training at this time of year, though, if I can, for that very reason.
I used to agree with you about sanitation, but then diseases started cropping on in my peaches right and left! We lost the whole crop last year to brown rot, which can be spread from year to year from spores on mummified fruits --- those, at least, should definitely be moved away from your tree. I'm not so sure about whether moving pruned branches actually makes any difference, though.
Comment by Wed Feb 22 08:00:19 2012—
By pruning after leaf-out, you still gain air and sun for the remaining fruit. And, the spores causing brown rot are everywhere, all the time. I'm guessing that in your climate, a rain-proof canopy would curb the opportunist; otherwise, I'm betting your peaches are doomed to brown rot forever. I'm not being pessimistic, just hard-headed.
Comment by Wed Feb 22 14:25:43 2012—
You've got a good point --- I was thinking of summer pruning as I've practiced it in the past, where I wait until the fruits are gone so I don't damage them. I haven't tried summer pruning (spring pruning?) earlier when the leaves are newly opened. Is that what you do in your own orchard?
What I've read about brown rot is that in certain years, we are just doomed. But that if we keep the canopy open and it doesn't rain quite so constantly, we'll sometimes get fruit. I'm hoping the latter is the case!
Comment by Wed Feb 22 15:25:42 2012—
I used my trimmings to make a raised bed garden. I put some stakes in the ground and laid the branches along. Then filled with dirt and compost. I figure every year I will have trimmings and as the wood dries it compresses and the border of the garden needs filled back up.
Comment by Wed Feb 22 17:13:34 2012—
Kathleen --- That's exactly what I've decided to do with mine! I figure there's a chance some diseases will get back to the peaches, but I'm making new beds quite a distance away in an area that's surrounded by apples instead, so hopefully it won't be a problem.
Comment by Wed Feb 22 18:18:25 2012—
Sorry I don't have references at hand, but from what I recall, one should prune after leaf-out but by the end of June. Winter pruning is reserved for apical cuts and diseased limbs. This timing goes against tradition but makes a heck of a lot more sense to me, and is working out well for my apple trees. Good luck with your peaches, and I trust you'll keep us posted.
Comment by Wed Feb 22 19:58:14 2012—
Jackie --- I've been getting my information from extension service websites (which could be a bit dangerous with new techniques like summer pruning....) All the ones I've read have listed much later times for summer pruning than you give. For example, NMSU says about apples: "summer pruning can be conducted as a once-over operation each year anytime from eight weeks after bloom until mid-August". Other sources list anywhere from the end of July to the end of August as the end of summer pruning, but all the ones I've read say that you're pruning once shoots are 12 to 18 inches long, so you wouldn't be pruning in the spring.
That said, who's to say that spring pruning doesn't work! I may have to try some this year and see what I think of it.
Comment by Thu Feb 23 08:52:51 2012—
Yes, you can prune thru the summer. I do mine early because I have to thin the fruit so why let the tree waste energy maturing fruit on a branch that is coming off anyway. My original inspiration for summer pruning I got from a cider press business site that is now defunct (the business owner retired). Basically he advised to keep dormant pruning to a minimum; start after the tree is in full leaf, concentrate on keeping new water sprouts cut back and maintaining the openness of the tree. "Dormant pruning is pruning for (forced) tree growth - summer pruning is pruning for fruit growth. You may cut off branches that have fruit already set, but what's left will be larger and healthier, and the energy not put into growing the branches you've removed can go into setting buds for the following year's fruit."
I know you don't like i-net sources of info; I have M. Phillips' The Apple Grower; there's a really good section called "intuitive pruning"; he says of summer pruning "Timing is very critical here: The trees have entered physiological dormancy by the end of July and therefore do not respond with renewed growth. The shoots being thinned out have contributed starch and sugar to terminal bud formation by this point, so taking away these 'excess growing tips' leaves photosynthesis primarily for the fruit-manufacturing end of the tree. [Net photosynthesis remains the same, because sunlight penetration to interior leaves makes up the difference. Only now fruit sizing takes precedence, precisely because additional shoot growth is not induced by midsummer pruning.]"
Massive subject, a lifetime to fully master.
Comment by Thu Feb 23 21:22:53 2012—
I really enjoyed The Apple Grower, but I could tell even as I was reading it that I was going to have to come back to it once my trees were more mature. My apples are all babies, so I couldn't entirely grasp everything he was saying.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with your quote from the cider business guy --- dormant pruning leads to vegetative growth and summer pruning to fruit. Now that I'm thinking it through with you, that makes me think that with young trees, you'd actually want to dormant prune more, then move over to entirely (or mostly) summer pruning as your trees become mature.
As usual, I'll have to keep playing with different things and perfecting my pruning techniques!
Comment by Fri Feb 24 09:14:37 2012—
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