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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finished testing the 2011 Ford Fiesta and has officially announced that the new FoMoCo compact will hit 40 mpg highway, making it the most fuel-efficient car in its class.

EPA certified the 2011 Fiesta at 29/40 mpg (city/highway), achieved with the 6-speed PoweShift automatic transmission. The 40 mpg highway rating is 5 mpg better than the Honda Fit and 4 mpg better than the Toyota Yaris.

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“We worked hard to deliver the class-leading fuel economy Ford is becoming synonymous for,” said Steve Pintar, Fiesta chief nameplate engineer. “To be the only vehicle in the segment to deliver 40 mpg is something we feel consumers will appreciate.”

The 2011 Fiesta will come standard with a 5-speed manual transmission with an EPA rating of 28/37 mpg.

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Refresher: The 2011 Ford Fiesta is powered by a 1.6L DOHC 4-cylinder engine making 120-hp with a peak torque of 109 lb-ft. The EPA rated the 2011 Fiesta at 29/40 mpg (city/highway) when mated to a 6-speed PowerShift automatic transmission and 28/37 mpg when mated to a 5-speed manual. Pricing for the 2011 Ford Fiesta starts at $13,320.

2011 Ford Fiesta:

Press Release:

ALL-NEW FORD FIESTA DELIVERS 40 MPG; TOPS CLASS IN FUEL ECONOMY

– Ford Fiesta with the six-speed PowerShift automatic transmission has been EPA certified for 40 mpg highway and 29 mpg city delivering class-leading fuel economy
– Fiesta features several fuel-saving technologies including its PowerShift automatic transmission, Twin Independent Variable Camshaft Timing, Electric Power Assist Steering, aggressive deceleration fuel shutoff and enhanced aerodynamics
– Fiesta joins Fusion Hybrid – America’s most fuel efficient midsize sedan – and other class leaders like Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner Hybrids, Ford Ranger, Mustang V-6 and Super Duty offering best-in-class fuel economy

DEARBORN, Mich., May 17, 2010 – Ford’s all-new 2011 Fiesta – an Internet star even before it goes on sale this summer – will now stand out on the highway with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified 40 mpg rating, making it the most fuel efficient car in its class.

The Ford Fiesta 40 mpg, achieved with Ford’s new six-speed PowerShift automatic transmission, is 5 mpg better than the Honda Fit and 4 mpg better than the Toyota Yaris.

“The new Fiesta is yet another car in Ford’s lineup that delivers class-leading fuel economy,” said Barb Samardzich, vice president, Global Powertrain Engineering. “From Super Duty to Fusion Hybrid and the new Mustang V-6, Ford is committed to fuel economy leadership with every new vehicle it introduces in all segments.”

Fiesta’s class-leading fuel efficiency follows Fusion Hybrid – America’s most fuel efficient midsize sedan – and other fuel economy champs such as the Ford Escape Hybrid, Mercury Mariner Hybrid and Ford Ranger pickup. For 2011, the streak continues with the Mustang V-6, Ford Super Duty and now the responsive, sporty and economical Fiesta. Moving forward, Ford is committed to being a fuel economy leader in each segment in which it competes.

The Fiesta achieves its best-in-segment fuel figures thanks to a host of fuel-saving technologies not normally seen at this price level. To increase fuel economy, Fiesta features a new 1.6-liter Duratec® engine with Twin Independent Variable Camshaft Timing (Ti-VCT) that delivers 120 horsepower, an aggressive deceleration fuel shutoff and an engine accessory drive system that improves efficiency by reducing the energy it takes to power the air conditioner and alternator.

In addition, the Fiesta also features the PowerShift transmission, a six-speed automatic that combines the fuel benefits of a manual with the convenience of an automatic. Combine that with electric power-assisted steering, another fuel saver and some aerodynamic optimizations and you have a car that can go a long way on a single tank of fuel.

The 2011 Fiesta with standard five-speed manual transmission is EPA rated at 28 mpg city and 37 mpg highway.

These efficiency innovations combine with the stylish and aerodynamically clean Fiesta body design to efficiently slip through the wind with both fuel savings and reduced wind noise.

Fiesta is built for North American markets at Ford’s manufacturing facility in Cuautitlan, Mexico. The vehicle goes on sale in four-door sedan and five-door hatchback body styles – with the sedan starting at $13,995, including destination charges – at Ford dealerships this summer.

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Cancer Treated With Stale Butter

RANCID butter, or rather the chemical called butyric acid which bacteria form in fresh butter, is the newest cancer treatment reported in England by a famous surgeon.

The acid of rancid butter is not to be eaten or injected but is applied directly to the cancerous growth. For some reason, which still is mysterious, the butyric acid bites much more viciously into the cancer tissue than into the healthy tissues which surround it. A graduated dose of the acid can kill and eat away all of the diseased cancer cells without damaging the nearby healthy ones. This is the same way that radium attacks cancer.

Ceiling Movies ROUT Fears of Patient

A BOSTON dentist has discovered a new sort of “anesthetic,” in the form of motion pictures, which he claims is so effective that patients refuse to leave the chair at the conclusion of their dental work. One peculiar effect of the new “drug” is that it soothes harsh feelings against dentists. Patients no longer fear the semi-annual visit.

The movies, projected on the office ceiling, divert the patients’ attention as the doctor fixes their teeth.

Mickey Mouse and Popeye the Sailor pictures are most popular with the younger patients, according to the doctor.

Young Detective Smashes Police Ring

MANY an officer saw stocky, youthful Wallace Jamie about the St. Paul police station the late winter and early spring of 1935 and laughed up their sleeves at his activities.

By midsummer that year, however, they wished sincerely in their hearts they never had heard of him.

For Wallace Jamie was the kind of a kid who liked to play “policeman” with a vengeance as a lad and then grew up to continue playing the game—but playing it for keeps. Before he finished, almost a score of the officers were under indictment and awaiting trial for alleged neglect of duty.

Wallace Jamie went to St. Paul at the behest of Howard Kahn, embattled editor of the St. Paul Daily News, and a World War veteran of the French army, and Henry E. Warren, Commissioner of Public Safety, who, at that time, had been just elected to office. St. Paul was rankling under label of “Poison Spot of Crime,” placed upon it by Attorney General Homer Cummings. The three men determined that the city must be cleaned up.

In secret conference, it was decided that 27-year-old Jamie, who had majored in police administration and criminal detection at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, would pose as an efficiency expert making a survey of police methods.

He was given an office in the new public safety building on the floor below Warren’s and took with him secret operators whom Kahn had brought to the city previously. To the coppers about the building, he became just another “smart college guy” whose duty it was to go to work on a report that would soon be forgotten.

First he tapped telephone lines.

It was decided next to supplement the tapped telephones with three dictaphones— new, compact, modern, highly sensitive instruments—the position of which should be changed from time to time. These were placed under desks, in desk lights, under chairs in which certain officials sat.

The method of listening to conversations and taking them down in shorthand soon proved cumbersome and slow. To be of any use later as evidence, the shorthand notes had to be transcribed, and this in itself was a herculean task. So Jamie went on a hunt for a short cut.

He found what he wanted in the pamograph, later to be known as the “mechanical stool-pigeon.” This machine, built like a portable phonograph, recorded conversations on an aluminum disk, cutting them deep into the metal with a sapphire needle. The tapped telephone lines and the dictaphones were rigged so that they could be switched to the pamograph in a moment’s notice.

Jamie naturally was acquainted with signal devices of all kinds used in public safety work and now he turned his attention to the apparatus used in fire department offices to punch out on continuous tapes the record of fire alarms sent in from alarm boxes.

Ticker Tape Records Telephone Numbers He set to work to fit one of these recorders to watch through the silent hours of the night in his office.

Should a police official, to take a number not used in St. Paul, call Duncan 3224, the record on the tape the following morning would show 3-8-3-2-2-4.

The regularity with which certain numbers were called led to undercover operations which served only to fashion more firmly the case Jamie was building up.

Janitor Tips Off Jamie’s Plot The tip-off came one day when a janitor was repairing a ventilating shaft leading to the office of a high police official. In the shaft was found one of Jamie’s high-powered dictaphones and the officials realized instantly what had been going on. But Jamie had been in operation for four months and had secured more than 400 disks of incriminating conversations. These were placed in the hands of the mayor, the city attorney and the county attorney, and immediately three detectives and a patrolman were dismissed and a number of other officers, including the chief of police, were suspended.

Jamie now came to his reward. In the resultant shakeup in the police department, he found himself made assistant commissioner, a post next to that held by Warren. Later he was invited to join the force of a large private detective firm in New York City at such a salary that he could not possibly turn it down.

Earth Friendly Products was one of the first natural cleaning companies I discovered before going green was in vogue.

Our family began by making cleaners for industrial use before Corvettes had fins. When your grandmother was wearing a poodle skirt and drinking a float at the soda fountain, we were earning our first patents

Decades later, when Jimi Hendrix turned rock upside down and played guitar with his teeth, we started our own quiet rebellion. We decided: only cleaners that were plant-based. Only paper that was recycled. Only products not tested on animals, period.

Does it sound boring to say we’re family owned and operated? Because what it means to us is that it’s personal. We’ve been around, well – seems like forever. We know how to make cleaners that CLEAN, paper goods that work (with 80% post-consumer content, and that’s good,) detergents that won’t harm a fiber of your clothing, and a phosphate-free auto dish soap that won’t etch anything. Ever.

Earth Friendly Products has introduced three new products we have tried:
Baby Liquid Laundry Soap, Organic Chamomile & Lavender:

Our new Baby Laundry Soap is a hypo-allergenic, everyday laundry soap containing only the highest quality ingredients. Gentle enough for baby’s sensitive skin, Baby Laundry Soap rinses thoroughly, leaving baby’s laundry clean and soft. As always, it is plant-based, non-toxic, and environmentally responsible. Baby Laundry Soap employs soothing chamomile and lavender essential oils, and is suitable for hand-washing wools, silks, and other fine washables.

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DuoDish™ is a revolutionary breakthrough in dishwashing. For the first time ever, you can handle your dishwashing needs with one detergent – DuoDish™. Have a few dishes to clean? Just hand wash to avoid waste. Is your sink cluttered? Use that same liquid for a full automatic machine load. Say bye, bye to etched dishes, glassware and utensils and hello to clean and clear dishwashing results with DuoDish™ Enjoy another “first” by Earth Friendly Products.

I love the baby liquid laundry soap, and I don’t think it has to be just for babies! The use of organic essential oils is a bonus and a first that I do not recall encountering in laundry products. I don’t use vegetable and fruit washes. I think that water and a little dish soap is all you need, but I don’t even use soap usually, just a rinse in water. Of course, I only buy and grow organic produce, but I have never thought of the need to also remove bacteria when washing fruits and vegetables. The DuoDish is a great idea eliminating the need for two soap products in the kitchen. It also contains organic essential oils.

Disclosure: I was sent free samples of these products to review. No prior assurances were given as to whether the review be positive or negative.

Nesse segundo dia de testes para a Indy 500, Helio Castroneves repetiu a dose do sábado e novamente foi o piloto mais rápido no Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dessa vez, além de ser o único a ultrapassar a marca de 227 milhas de média, alcançou performance melhor do que a da pole position no ano passado, conquistada por ele mesmo.

Na 18ª das 32 voltas que completou ontem, o piloto do Team Penske registrou 227,046 mph ou 363,2736 km/h. Se comparado com as 224 mph que garantiram a pole para o brasileiro em 2009, o desempenho de ontem se reveste da maior importância, embora não tenha sido superada apenas por Castroneves. “O dia foi muito bom, começamos com o acerto de ontem e continuamos trabalhando para melhorar. Por enquanto consegui me posicionar bem e pegar vácuo na volta rápida, mas ainda estamos pensando em corrida e não classificação. Hoje teremos o treino das 12h00 atá as 18h00 e vamos continuar trabalhando muito!”, explicou Castroneves.

Nesta segunda-feira, 17, e até a próxima sexta, 21, todos os inscritos continuarão a desenvolver treinamentos livres, sempre entre 12h00 e 18h00, no horário local. No sábado, 22, será conhecido o pole position da prova do dia 30 de maio.

Os primeiros nesse segundo dia de treinos livres para a Indy 500 foram:

1º – #3 – Helio Castroneves (Brasil/Team Penske) – 227,046 mph
2º – #9 – Scott Dixon (Nova Zelândia/Chip Ganassi Racing) – 226,202 mph
3º- #10 – Dario Franchitti (Escócia/Chip Ganassi Racing) – 226,044 mph
4º – #12 – Will Power (Austrália/Team Penske) – 225,600 mph
5º – #11 – Tony Kanaan (Brasil/Andretti Autosport) – 225, 245 mph
6º – #32 – Mario Moraes (Brasil/KV Racing Technology) – 225,043 mph
7º – #4 – Dan Wheldon (Inglaterra/Panther Racing) – 224,583 mph
8º – #6 – Ryan Briscoe (Austrália/Team Penske) – 224,559 mph
9º – #26 – Marco Andretti (USA/Andretti Autosport) – 224,489 mph
10º – #30 – Graham Rahal (USA/Rahal Letterman Racing) – 224320 mph

Fonte: www.heliocastroneves.com

WITH VIDEO — Most people have seen the Old Town section of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, Calif., once a year–during the Rose Bowl parade.

Well, finally, there’s a new and good reason to interrupt traffic on Colorado: Concorso Ferrari. It’s a splendid gathering of beautiful Ferraris for which the city closes down two whole blocks of the busy thoroughfare for anyone who wants to ogle the hundreds of Italian works of wheeled art parked there for the day. This year it happened on May 16. A total of 152 Ferraris (and a Porsche Carrera GT, a Mercedes-Benz Gullwing and at least one Lamborghini Gallardo) blocked the street as thousands of spectators took photos and gawked at the best of vintage and modern Maranello.

It was a good mix of cars. The first car we came across was collector Bruce Meyer’s 1957 Testa Rossa, first owned by John von Neumann, who alternated driving with future Formula One pilot Richie Ginther. After that, the car was driven by Ken Miles and now, by Meyer, as often as he can.

“It’s like catnip to car people. It’s a wonderful, wonderful car and it’s just great fun to bring it down and share it,” the ever-enthusiastic Meyer said.

Watch video of the 2010 Concorso Ferrari in Pasadena, Calif.:

Auto restorer Steve Tillack brought a 1958 Ferrari Grand Prix car, which he also occasionally drives.

“It’s a delight to drive. You kind of drive it like a sprint car; you throw it at a corner and power-slide it out. If you can get used to doing it, it’s so much fun you can’t imagine,” said Tillack. “You can look like a hero and not be a really good driver.”

Peter McCoy won Best in Show with his stunningly simple 1958 PF Cab Series I.

“It’s been two years in restoration,” said McCoy. “It’s been in a fire. A lot of parts melted, and we had to remake a lot of parts . . . a lot of great Ferrari collectors helped put this thing back together.”

A well-deserved win, in our opinion.

There were many tifosi on hand who just loved the marque, and who can explain that?

“Once you hear a Ferrari run, you’re done,” event organizer Marv Landon said.

“My veins are filled with Ferrari-red blood,” vintage-racing organizer and former Hollywood Sports Car employee Chris Vandergriff explained.

The region also benefits from a large number of Ferrari owners and fans.

“We have more Ferraris here in Southern California than they do in all of Italy,” said racing historian Alan Bolte, master of ceremonies of the event, explaining why this region of the FCA is such a huge success.

The event is put on by the Ferrari Club of America’s Southwest Region, a relatively new branch of the club that just happens to be headquartered in the place of highest concentration of Ferrari owners in the country, Southern California.

Next year’s Concorso is scheduled for May 22. Get all your shopping out of the way now.

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Poor Sarah Jessica Parker — the gal just can’t catch a break. The quirky mother of three — beloved by women across the globe as cocktail-lovin’ designer shoe whore Carrie Bradshaw — has been snubbed by fans of Sex And The City, who voted her iconic character as the show’s least sexy female…

The nerve!

(I never pass up the opportunity to post this video….)

Kristin Davis’ conservative art dealer Charlotte York came in No. 1 in a recent poll conducted by Pincer Vodka to mark the May 27 opening of Sex And The City 2. Kim Cattrall’s aging maneater Samantha Jones finished second, while legal eagle spitfire Miranda Hobbes (played by Cynthia Nixon) claimed fourth place.

Even Pincer Vodka bosses were taken aback by the poll results. “We were stunned with the outcome of the poll and we suspect Sarah Jessica Parker might need more than one Cosmopolitan to drown her sorrows,” says Pincer CEO Jonathan Engels.

In June 2007, SJP became the laughing stock of men’s mags readers after she was dubbed Hollywood’s “Unsexiest Star” by Maxim Magazine.

Who’s your favorite Sex star?

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The EPA has finished calculating the fuel economy of the 2011 Fiesta and as Ford projected, its new baby has hit 40 miles per gallon. The official numbers from the Feds are 29 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway for Fiestas with the new six-speed dual-clutch Powershift gearbox. Those highway numbers top the Toyota Yaris and Honda Fit by four and five mpg, respectively.

Fiestas with the base five-speed manual gearbox get a rating of 28 mpg city and 37 mpg highway. All North American Fiestas for now are equipped with a 120 horsepower, 1.6-liter inline four regardless of which gearbox is selected. The first batches of Fiestas should be on their way to dealers in the coming weeks now that production has started.

Photos by Damon Lavrinc / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

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	Nissan Leaf profitable by year three; battery cost closer to $18,000 This isn’t what we heard last time.		AFVI 2010: CNG-powered Gasser hugs trees and hauls ass Oh, the things you can do with a 1933 Ford.
	New study expects electric vehicles to only be 2-5% of market by 2020 Any disagreements?	Other news: Ghosn says Renault-Nissan will have capacity for 500,000 new EVs a year Nissan Leaf general public reservation period opens tomorrow, 9,500 orders in Suzuki will begin testing 61 mpg-Swift plug-in hybrid in Japan this fall

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O traçado do Velopark sediou neste domingo uma das corridas mais movimentadas e disputadas da história do Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Brasil. E coube a Constantino Júnior receber a bandeirada quadriculada em primeiro lugar, depois de uma sucessão de disputas e acidentes. Ricardo Rosset terminou em segundo lugar e Tom Valle em terceiro. Com esse resultado, Rosset assumiu a liderança do campeonato.

A corrida começou com um acidente logo na primeira curva. Uma sucessão de toques culminou com o pole position Otávio Mesquita rodando à frente do pelotão e causando uma reação em cadeia que prejudicou, além do próprio Mesquita, a Alexandre Barros (até então líder do campeonato), Miguel Paludo, vencedor da prova 5 (realizada no sábado) e Elias Azevedo, terceiro no grid. Barros precisou parar no box para trocar um pneu e fez toda a corrida uma volta atrás dos líderes, enquanto Mesquita caiu para último. Paludo perdeu várias posições e se atrasou ainda mais ao evitar um acidente com Esio Vichiese, que rodou à sua frente. Tom Valle também recebeu uma batida, mas escapou da confusão e assumiu a liderança seguido por Constantino Júnior, Clemente Lunardi, Leo Burti e Ricardo Rosset. Lunardi e Constantino chegaram a trocar de posição, enquanto Burti rodou na quarta volta ao tentar ultrapassar Rosset e perdeu muitas posições.

Nas primeiras dez voltas, Valle, Lunardi, Constantino e Rosset disputaram a liderança. Após 14 passagens, Constantino ultrapassou Lunardi e partiu para cima de Valle, que tinha problemas de estabilidade em seu carro e escorregava muito nas curvas. Mais quatro voltas e Constantino assumiu a liderança, deixando para Valle a tarefa de se defender dos ataques de Rosset. Com o equipamento desgastado, Valle não teve condições de evitar a ultrapassagem de Rosset a três voltas do final. Ele terminou em terceiro lugar, tendo Baptista e Lunardi em seu encalço. Miguel Paludo recebeu a bandeirada em sexto, fazendo uma corrida de recuperação depois dos incidentes no começo da prova. Outros destaques foram Felipe Johannpeter, Lucas Molo, Maurizio Billi e Daniel Paludo. Eles largaram do meio para o final do pelotão e completaram nesta ordem os dez primeiros colocados, com Johannpeter e Molo conseguindo seus melhores resultados na 997.

Fotos: Jorge Sá

Fonte: Porsche Cup

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Two years ago, Roku launched the first set top box dedicated to Netflix’s Instant Streaming. Since that time, Roku has added enough partnerships to make that $99 box into its own little a la carte TV service.

In addition to the Netflix channel, the Roku streamer has Amazon Video on Demand, MLB.TV, NBA Game Time, Revision3, Blip.tv, DreamTV, Moonlight Movies, Kung-Fu Theater, Drive-In Classics, Cowboy Classics, Midwest Cage Championship, Pandora, Weiss Money Network, MediaFly, Motionbox, Twit.TV, Flickr, FrameChannel, MHz On Demand, Facebook Photos, Blubrry Podcast Community, MobileTribe, The Highway Girl, SmugMug, and Tech Podcasts Network. There are more than 50,000 instantly streamable movies, TV Shows, live sporting events, and podcasts available on Roku with more being added every day. Since it’s an open platform, users can even create and add their own stations.

Later today, Roku will be pushing out another official sports network to round out the offerings from Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association: The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) Channel.

Roku users will be able to add the UFC channel in the Roku Channel Store, and then be able to access the popular pay-per-view martial arts events (with a linked account on UFC.com.) Not only will users be able to watch live streaming events, but they will also be able to watch archived events, and behind-the-scenes bonus footage weigh-ins, pre-and-post fight press conferences, and interviews.

The official first live streaming event on the channel will be UFC 114 on May 29th, but we got a sneak preview of the service with the broadcast of 113 just over a week ago.

In typical Roku fashion, the channel’s layout is clean and simple. Most importantly, though, the actual streaming was flawless and high quality. With an appropriate connection speed, you will be able to watch the contents in high definition.

Besides offering on-demand access to all the bonus footage, 1.) events you have paid for are saved to your UFC account and are permanently accessible, like Amazon Video on Demand 2.) You can perform keyword searches of the archives.
The pay-per-view events cost the same on the Roku channel as they would through your cable provider.

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The Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag-produced reality series Fist-Pumping For Love is still shopping for a network to call home — and apparently one of Connecticut’s hottest nightspots doesn’t want anything to do with it either.

Once The Hills wraps up its run on MTV later this year, The Pratts will be teaming up with professional bodybuilder and Gold’s Gym trainer Emilio Masella — the former flame of Jersey Shore’s Snooki Polizzi — for the “guido-themed” dating competition.

Think Flavor of Love for the tanned and desperate. (Yep — it’s as bad as it sounds.)

The show, which is in pre-production, is casting ladies (We use that term loosely…) who will duke it out in a series of challenges in hopes of winning Emilio’s heart. But according to Life & Style’s Scene Queens, Masella may want to start looking for a new place to film his first foray on the small screen. While the buff hunk had hoped to film many of the scenes for Fist-Pumping inside hometown hotspot Shrine at Foxwoods Casino, management for the MGM-owned club has pulled out of a plan that would have pemitted the show’s cameras to roll beyond its velvet rope.

“We are not going to do it. We refuse to be associated with this show,” a representative for Shrine curtly told Life & Style last week.

Sounds like Emilio and his Skank Parade will be missing out on quite a party. A blurb posted to the club’s website describes a posh spot, catering to the well-dressed grown and sexy crowd: “At Shrine, you’re the Star. Unlike anything the area has seen before, Shrine combines a full throttle nightlife experience with Modern Asian Cuisine and Superior Bottle Service. Boasting a custom Funktion One Sound System, DJ Booth, Multiple bars and over 35 Private VIP Tables, Shrine is quite the stimulating diversion from other nightclubs in the rural hills of Connecticut or the East Coast for that matter.”

Social shopping site Groupon has acquired European imitator CityDeal, its second acquisition this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Just as Groupon bought Mob.ly as a quick way to extend its mobile services, the purchase of Berlin-based CityDeal is intended to give it a large European presence practically overnight (or 19 months, to be exact), the company said in a blog post.

In addition to local sites in the U.S. and Canada, there will now be a Groupon geographically tailored to users in Germany, the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Sweden. It is also working on adding sites for Norway and Belgium.

By way of explaining the reasoning behind the purchase of CityDeal Andrew Mason, Groupon’s founder and CEO explains on the company’s official blog, it was more than enough time and effort to make local sites from Miami to Philadelphia distinctive enough. To do the same for a more than a dozen country-specific sites required an established presence.

CityDeal has raised about €4 million ($5.6 million) after launching late last year. It is part of an increasingly crowded list of social shopping sites on both sides of the Atlantic, including leading sites like Gilt Groupe, which just raised another $35 million as it tries to expand its business and stay ahead of the pack. Release

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Previously exhibited at Burning Man in 2006, Duel Nature, by artist Kate Raudenbush, is unique in its materials, (Plasma cut steel, steel tubing, red acrylic mirror) scale (38’ x 38’) and artistic vision. During Artown, fire dancers and spinners from Controlled Burn will entertain Tuesday evenings 8:00 – 10:00.  Hula Hoopers from Velocity Movement and […]

Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed a distinct decline in the number of posts here at Nourished Kitchen.  Don’t worry, it’s because I’ve been busy – super busy – with an exciting new project: an online cooking class.  After hearing over and over again from readers who needed an simple, but thorough way to better incorporate local foods and back-to-basics, traditional cooking into their kitchens, I began work on How to Cook Real Food, which is scheduled to launch on June 1st.  If you’ve read Nourished Kitchen for any length of time, or participated in our recent 28-day challenge, you know what a great value I place on whole, traditional natural foods, but this knowledge has taken me several years to master, and it’s always a constant process of learning, evaluating and re-evaluating.

The blog here at Nourished Kitchen offers a glimpse into my passion for real food and natural cooking – and a peek into the work my husband and I accomplish as farmers market managers, but as yet – aside from weekly recipes – there really hasn’t been an opportunity for me to truly reach out to readers and teach them the basic approaches that I take in cooking from scratch using the bounty of my local foodshed.  That’s why I’m so very excited about this new project – with an online, multimedia approach we will take a comprehensive and thorough look at learning how to cook traditional, real foods from scratch in ways that meet your family’s needs and preferences as well as the seasonal bounty and availability of foods in your area.(…)
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GameStop’s throwing in a Harlequin character for those who pre-order Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood from their shops. How’s that for some wickedly evil fun?
 
 
 
 

Luke Timmerman wrote:

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has been in business for more than 20 years, and burned through more than $2.8 billion on a quest to develop drugs that shake up the medical standards of care. Now in the coming weeks and months, it will get the first definitive evidence that will say whether its lead drug candidate for hepatitis C has achieved its goal.

Investors, looking at data from preliminary and mid-stage clinical trials, have already pumped up the market value of Vertex (NASDAQ: VRTX) past $7.5 billion largely in anticipation that its drug, telaprevir, will transform the lives of patients with the chronic liver-damaging condition. But the operative word there is preliminary. Vertex, which is based in Cambridge, MA, and has significant operations in San Diego, is still waiting for its first proof from Phase III clinical trials, the final step of testing required by the FDA before a drug can go on sale in the U.S.

These pivotal trials began two years ago, and enrolled more than 2,000 patients combined in three studies. The results are completely blinded to doctors, patients, investors, and people at Vertex. To say all parties are in suspense for these results would be an understatement. They can’t wait to get their hands on the new data and start digging through it.

“This is a year of defining moments,” says Bob Kauffman, Vertex’s chief medical officer.

Vertex has generated the excitement around what could be a first-in-class protease inhibitor drug for hepatitis C. It has excited researchers because it has been able to double the cure rate while enabling patients to cut their standard course of treatment time in half. That means that many more of the 3 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide with chronic hepatitis C liver infections will be likely to seek out treatment, and be able to stand up to the side effects of standard therapy that causes flu-like symptoms. If Vertex can prove this idea once and for all in the three pivotal trials, Vertex could seek FDA approval later this year and bring telaprevir to the market in 2011. U.S. sales alone could amount to more than $2 billion after a couple years, analysts say.

To help our readers get ready for this data, I spoke to Kauffman for a refresher on what the three big Vertex trials were designed to ask and answer. The key point to watch for in all of these studies is what is called a “sustained viral response,” or SVR, which is recorded when researchers can’t find any sign of virus in a patient’s blood sample for a full 24 weeks after they completed their course of therapy. This is the gold standard measurement for all hepatitis C drugs, and is commonly known as a “clinical cure.”

The first study to watch for is called “Advance.” This trial, started in March 2008, enrolled 1,050 patients who had never been treated before for hepatitis C—a so-called “naïve” patient population. This study is essentially designed to confirm earlier trials called Prove 1 and Prove 2, Kauffman says. Patients either got the Vertex drug in combination with standard treatments for 24 weeks, or the standard treatments for the usual 48 weeks. The trial is designed to ask whether patients can stop treatment early with the Vertex drug, so they can avoid having to put up with the flu-like side effects of pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin, Kauffman says. Results from that study should be available by the end of June, he says.

Not long after that data arrives, Vertex plans to hear results from two other key trials before the end of September. One of them, called “Illuminate,” is enrolling patients who have never before …Next Page »

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