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The company's abstract was accepted as part of the "late-breaking" component of the meetings, which is a common mechanism for scientific gatherings that provides a way for conference organizers to balance advanced planning with the desire to include the most up-to-date events. Voclosporin only released data from the ph... |
The lead drug not only met the 48-week endpoints for remission, but achieved the highest remission rate of any global lupus nephritis study ever completed. Both the low and high doses of voclosporin performed significantly better than the control arm, which is doubly important considering no drugs to date have shown a ... |
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced that it would waste no time advancing the drug's development and initiate a phase 3 trial in the second quarter of 2017. Moreover, since the drug is intended to be used as a complement to standard care procedures, rather than completely upending standard care, it should have quick succ... |
Presenting at the National Kidney Foundation isn't necessarily important for Aurinia Pharmaceuticals stock in the near term, but it will introduce voclosporin to the very doctors that will be prescribing it if it successfully reaches the market. Investors are betting that approval is pretty likely after great phase 2b ... |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rap star Kanye West was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday after scuffling with photographers and smashing a camera, an airport spokesman said. |
West’s bodyguard also was taken into custody after he grabbed a television camera and threw it to the ground, said celebrity Web site TMZ.com, whose cameraman was involved. |
Los Angeles airport spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said West, 31, and his bodyguard were booked on suspicion of felony vandalism. The bodyguard also faces a possible charge of battery. |
They were released on bail. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to press charges. |
“We will wait for the police to complete their investigation,” said Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. |
Rodriguez said the two were arrested on Thursday morning outside the passenger security screening area. |
TMZ, which caught much of the incident on camera, said West rushed toward a photographer and grabbed his camera. A struggle followed and West took the camera and threw it to the ground. |
His bodyguard then ordered the TMZ cameraman to stop taping and to hand over his camera. |
“The assistant then grabbed the camera, ripped off the mic and viewfinder and smashed it to the ground,” TMZ said. |
The road rambled north of the lake called Rutland Water and, after a gentle rise, dipped into the village of Exton, a candidate, if ever I've seen one, for the sobriquet: "Prettiest Village in England." |
Cottages of honey-colored limestone--the pale golden hue that drives tourists to the Cotswolds--flanked the town common, which was aptly posted: The Green. |
Thatched roofs jutted over dormer windows like eyebrows raised in surprise. Clumps of iris and bluebells sprouted beneath oaks and beech trees. |
An enormous van, perforated with vents, was parked nearby. Racing Pigeon Transporter was painted on its side. I thought of Andy Capp's cooing birds, and the newspaper story I had just read in which one of Queen Elizabeth's royal flock had won a 5 purse at her country estate in Sandringham. |
On the far side of The Green, behind ivied walls, was a pub: the Fox and Hounds. I pushed into a small room that smelled of wood smoke and tobacco and ale. From a knot of talkers, a white-haired man doffed his cap and pointed to a second door. |
"The lav's through there," he said. Or so I thought. I was not looking for a lavatory, and hoped that my expression did not seem desperate. |
Still, it was his pub and so I went through the door and found a larger and less smoky room. Sturdy wooden tables and benches with tie-on cushions lined the walls. Sunlight beamed through paned windows onto a stains-will-never-show carpet of brown and blue and yellow. Men and women were sipping cold lager near a hearth... |
This was the lounge, not the lav--the sit-down side of the pub and, by tradition, the more genteel. It was a perfect place to relax on a breezy Sunday in the fabled hunt country, northwest of London. |
The Fox and Hounds has overnight accommodations, which would have been tempting except that I had already unpacked at the gracious estate of Hambleton Hall on the shores of Rutland Water. The Fox and Hounds went on my next-time list. |
English country inns--with their hearty food and chatty proprietors and olde sometimes spelled with an "e"--are an institution to savor, a traveler's way of life-before-hot-tubs that the glossiest motel will never know. |
In the market town of Stamford, east of Exton, I wandered into the King's Head, hard by a graveyard. It was a small pub and somewhat frayed. The radio volume was high. Hundreds of old coins had been pressed into wax on the dark beams above the bar. Anells Best Bitter was on tap. There was no publican in sight. |
"What'll it be?" a man finally called. "I'll apologize in advance for the service. I'm just a regular--a guest like you. But the pub keeper is a friend of mine and he had to go down the street for a minute. Somebody's got to step in, right? . . . . Oops." |
The foam on the lager ran down the glass and he wiped it off with a rag. |
I ordered the Ploughman's lunch--crusty bread, slabs of cheese, relish, mustard and, at the King's Head, spicy Lincolnshire sausage. |
When I left, the pub keeper still had not returned, but his pal was carrying on and had even figured out how to work the cash register. |
It was a far cry from the most sumptuous of Stamford inns: the George on St. Martin's, where 46 rooms are tucked inside a 17th-Century hostelry with walled gardens. I marked it for next time, too, right there with The Fox and Hounds. |
In the heart of Stamford, where cobbled roads meet, an old pub sign promised: "Good Stabling and Loose Boxes." The girl behind the bar shrugged when I asked its meaning. "Anyone know about the sign?" she called. |
"Hmmm," nodded a codger. "This was once a coaching inn, you know. They had a stable for travelers' horses as well as empty stalls . . . or loose boxes." |
"Well, I learned something," said the girl at the bar. |
Nearby was a half-timbered pub named the Marsh Harrier, which led to another query. Someone said it's a dog that resembles a small foxhound and is used for hunting rabbits. Someone else said it's a hawk. |
Horses and fox hunting are traditional themes in this part of England. Hunt clubs rule in season, which is September through March. |
In the prosperous and beguiling town of Oakham, fashionable country-wear shops pose next to saddle-and-tack merchants and feed stores. On Market Place is a 12th-Century building called Oakham Castle, where centuries of ceremonial horseshoes are displayed. The Rutland County Museum, housed in an 18th-Century riding scho... |
A favorite Oakham pub and inn is the Whipper-In, and, yes, it's OK to ask. "Naturally, the whipper-in is the one who works with the hunter and whips in the hounds," a gentleman explained. |
Gorgeous builder's model home with 4 bedrooms & 2.5 Baths! Corner lot with largest dimensions in the neighborhood. So many upgrades! Wood flooring with tile inlay! Lovely Master Bath! Basement roughed in. Intercom System. Tiered deck with large hot tub & privacy walls. Great community offers pool, playground, trails & ... |
Sitting on about a 1/2 acre lot full privacy fencing. The owner added large concrete rear patio with large Jacuzzi. Full finished basement adding another 800 sq ft of living space. Large oversized 2 car garage. All newer mechanicals. |
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Meredith Smith, A&S ’16, founded the Mentorship Through the Arts program—an organization designed to address cuts to dedicated arts programs in America’s public schools following the Great Recession—last semester, with the goal of expanding the offerings at public schools with either no arts programs or limited offerin... |
While there was an uptick in arts education across the country following the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which mandated art as a core subject in public schools, the trend has begun to shift backward. Disparities in arts educations persist for schools with a higher percentage of students on a free or reduced lunch... |
Mentoring Through the Arts allows artists at BC to use their skill sets to address issues of social justice. Smith’s concept offers sustainable improvements to local public schools, helping them provide a well-rounded educational experience to K-4 students. |
Located in the heart of Texoma, it's about 20 miles south of the storied Red River that meanders peacefully along the border between Texas and Oklahoma. Over 25 years ago, Rolling Meadows set out to be a community where seniors of all ages could enjoy a retirement reflective of life and times experienced -- and th... |
Vail's Sarah Schleper on Saturday earned her first top-10 since the 2006 Olympics. |
December 12, 2009 — ARE, Sweden – Starting from 19th place in her second run on a cloudy Saturday in Are, Sarah Schleper (Vail, CO) likely didn’t imagine she was on the way to her best giant slalom finish in almost five years. The American veteran carved a picture-perfect final leg in 1:11.58 for the fastest second run... |
"I just skied clean and (I’ve) been doing what I’ve been doing in training, and that seemed to pay off today. I couldn’t have asked for a better second run," Schleper said of her first top 10 since before the Olympics in 2006. |
The early favorites held their ground, however, with France’s Tessa Worley taking top honors after a blazing first run (1:10.55) and Slovenian Tina Maze rallying late to steal the second place spot from event master Kathrin Zettel of Austria. |
"The snow was actually breaking down quite a bit," she said. "You don’t feel it while you’re going down, but the times get really slow as they go toward the later racers, and it happened in both rounds." |
Three-time World Cup giant slalom runner-up Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) – 12th after her first run – finished 16th, 2.77 seconds back. |
Two-time defending World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) fell in her first run, tumbling side over side after missing an early gate on her first run. |
Vonn, coming off two downhill wins and a second-place finish in the super G at Lake Louise, Alberta, last weekend, has never made the podium in a World Cup giant slalom, where her best finish was fourth in Aspen last November. |
Jessica Kelley (Starksboro, VT), Megan McJames (Park City, UT) and Sterling Grant (Amery, WI) missed out on qualifying for the finals. |
Another technical event awaits the speedy Vonn in tomorrow’s slalom, again in Are. |
Fans can watch live at www.universalsports.com. |
VAL d’ISERE, France (Dec. 12) – Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) paced the U.S. Ski Team in Val d’Isere on Saturday morning with a second-place finish, the best of his career in a super G. |
"He’s a phenomenal technical skier, and he brought it out today in a very tough race, one of the toughest races I’ve ever seen," said Men's Alpine Team Head Coach Sasha Rearick. |
Indeed, Ligety’s run wasn’t mistake-free, but the rest of the field endured worse struggles. |
"It never felt good the entire way down the course, but to be in second place now is pretty good," Ligety said. "It was just a struggle today, nobody was gonna feel good, so I was able to use my GS skills and have a decent-enough run." |
Ligety’s previous high was a seventh-place finish at Beaver Creek in December 2008. |
Amazingly, the giant slalom specialist wasn’t even pleased after laying down a 1:21.06 that bested the first 16 skiers. |
"That’s not gonna hold up," Ligety said at the finish. |
He was right, Austria’s Michael Walchhofer took a lead nobody could refuse with a 1:20.78. |
Still, Ligety said he was pleased to get on the podium after a run that saw his hip brush with the unpacked powder on the side of the course. |
"My super G’s been going really well, and especially a hill like this that’s steep, I feel like I have a good chance," he said. |
The 2005 super G world champion, Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) failed in his bid to win a sixth career World Cup super G, but his run still was fast enough to garner a tie for ninth, 1.67 off Walchhofer’s pace. |
"Bode skied solid," Rearick said. "He hasn’t taken many runs on the super G skis. I think this was his fifth run on the super G skis since he’s come back." |
A day removed from a fifth place in the super combined, the two-time World Cup overall champion was the 24th skier out on a choppy course for a ninth-place finish. |
"For him to come down and be in the top 10 is a good day, solid skiing, but he’s got more speed than that, and we’ll look forward to getting that speed out of him here," Rearick said. |
Marco Sullivan (Squaw Valley, CA), Jeremy Transue (Hunter, NY), Erik Fisher (Middleton, ID), Jake Zamansky (Aspen, CO), Tommy Ford (Bend, OR), and Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, NY) did not finish for the U.S. |
"You just had to fight your way down, and you were lucky if you made it to the finish line," said Ligety, who added that he expected to be two seconds behind after his career-best run. |
Switzerland’s Carlo Janko maintained his overall lead in the standings despite failing to finish, while Austria’s Benjamin Raich inched closer to the leader with fifth place and 45 points. |
Ligety will get a chance to further improve his performance at Val d’Isere in Sunday’s giant slalom, a discipline for which he captured the World Cup title in 2008. |
How it works: : Fill with water to the top line in the reservoir, and steam away wrinkles until you reach the bottom line. Then refill. I was able to steam five cotton shirts in less than five minutes with one filling. |
The good: : I had no idea a steamer could work better and more easily than an iron. By the time you haul out an ironing board and power up the iron, you can be done steaming, and there is no worry that you will "fry" the clothing. |
I tried this on five cotton shirts from my carry-on. I had laundered all of them before returning from a trip, but they had wrinkled in my bag. One by one, I hung them on hangers from a door frame, and a simple once-over did the trick. |
They looked professionally pressed. This steamer is small and easily tucked into a carry-on. Use it to hold some of your smaller toiletries, and it takes up hardly any room. |
The most difficult test was a linen shirt, always a tough garment to smooth out, even with an iron. One load of water finished it off nicely. |
The bad: : It doesn't hold much water, because it is meant to be small for travel, so if you're doing several garments, you will need to refill frequently. |
On the other hand, because it is small, the water heats very quickly. In a hotel, you could just fill the ice bucket with water and use a glass to refill from that, if you have managed to take that many clothes with you. |
One other problem: The first time I used it, I didn't wipe off the heating element when I was finished. The next time I used the steamer, there was an unpleasant residue on the element. Lesson learned. |
The site said the steamer was sold out when I checked, but a representative said more were scheduled to be back in stock. Another look last week showed the steamer available as part of a two-steamer set for $29.95, plus shipping. |
Samsung walked through the fire when the company was recently forced to recall and eventually discontinue over two million fire-catching Galaxy Note 7 devices. But it seems the tech giant hasn’t quite given up on its faulty flagship smartphone yet. |
According to a report from South Korean outlet The Investor, Samsung might be contemplating selling refurbished Note 7 units starting from next year. |
The rumor comes from an undisclosed “industry source” and further speculates that the South Korean manufacturer will mostly target emerging markets like India and Vietnam to retail its refurbished handsets. |
“Samsung has not made a final decision yet, but it will likely sell the refurbished Note 7 units next year,” the source said. |
The South Korean giant has been diligently investigating what’s possibly causing the Note 7 to spontaneously combust, but its engineers have been unable to conclusively identify the source of the problem. |
According to reports, Samsung opted to test the hazardous Note 7 series in-house prior to releasing it to the masses. By comparison, most electronics manufacturers leave it up to third-party firms to run safety diagnostics. |
Erratum: The Investor’s report was published in late September. |
The Criminal Investigation Department has been instructed, by Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya, to conduct the necessary investigations into issues arising out of the Bond Commission Investigation report, to enable him to prosecute the wrongdoers. |
The instructions were given two days ago. |
Investigations into the Bond Commission report are being conducted under the supervision of head of the CID, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police Ravi Seneviratne, Deputy Inspector General of Police Sugath Nagahamulla and Director of the CID, Shani Abeysekera. |
A senior official of the CID told Ceylon Today Superintendent of Police Ampavila is handling the investigation. |
Meanwhile, in another significant development, the Government is to move an amendment to the Commission of Inquiry Act 1948, so that the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) can also directly prosecute those responsible for Corruption or Bribery without having to start an investigatio... |
Based on an amendment made in 2008 to the Commission of Inquiry Act 1948, and according to statements and evidence revealed at a Commission, if he is satisfied, the Attorney General was assigned the authority to directly file legal action in connection with the relevant incident. At the same time, on occasions when the... |
A senior official in the Attorney General’s Department said that through the Cabinet Paper, to be presented next week, regarding the Commission of Inquiry Act 1948, the above-mentioned authority, which was assigned to the Attorney General in 2008 is also to be assigned to the CIABOC. |
It has been suggested, according to recommendations in the Bonds scam report by the Presidential Commission, to file legal action against Former Governor of the Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran and former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake on charges of corruption and bribery. |
“We further recommend that, in view of the determinations referred to above, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and the other appropriate authorities consider whether the aforesaid acts of Mr. Mahendran amount to acts of “Corruption” as defined in Section 70 of the Bribery Act and, if so... |
“We also recommend that, the Hon. Attorney General and other appropriate authorities consider whether some of the evidence given by Hon. Ravi Karunanayake, MP before us is shown to have been incorrect and, if that is the case, whether Mr. Karunanayake should be prosecuted under Section 179 and/or Section 188 of the Pen... |
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