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BANGALORE, India & NEW YORK, Mar 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Biocon and Pfizer today announced the conclusion of their alliance to commercialize Biocon's biosimilar versions of Insulin and Insulin analog products. The companies have agreed that due to the individual priorities for their respective biosimilars businesses, it is in their best interest to move forward independently.
Biocon and Pfizer are committed to ensuring continuity of patient care and will work together to effect a seamless transition. As of March 12, 2012, all rights licensed to Pfizer will revert to Biocon, and all insulin distributed under the brand name Univia(TM) and Glarvia(TM) will be commercially available from Biocon Ltd. only, and will be exclusively manufactured, supplied, marketed and supported by Biocon.
"Biocon remains committed to delivering its Biosimilar Insulins portfolio to global markets in its endeavour to make a difference to diabetic patients across emerging and developed economies. Biocon will continue to work with its existing partners in several markets and will pursue a commercial strategy on its own and through new alliances in other markets," said Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairman and managing director, Biocon Limited.
"Pfizer continues to be dedicated to developing a broad portfolio of biosimilars medicines, including monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins products, both internally and through collaborations," said Diem Nguyen, general manager Biosimilars, Pfizer. "In addition, we will continue to be active in our own research and business development efforts for diabetes, which represents a huge unmet medical need, and we remain committed to seeking new solutions to help physicians and patients."
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Biocon Limited (bse code:532523)(nse id:BIOCON)(isin id:INE376G01013) is India's premier biotechnology company with a strategic focus on biopharmaceuticals and research services. Established in 1978 by Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the Group is an integrated, innovation-driven healthcare enterprise with offerings that traverse the entire drug development value chain. Balancing its novel molecule research pipeline with a diversified product portfolio, Biocon delivers affordable solutions to partners and customers in over 70 countries across the globe. Many of these products have USFDA and EMA acceptance. Stellar products from Biocon's stable include the world's first Pichia based recombinant human Insulin, INSUGEN(R) and glargine, BASALOG(R) coupled with a state of the art insulin pen device, INSUPen(R) and India's first indigenously produced monoclonal antibody BIOMAb-EGFR(R). http://www.biocon.com
About Pfizer Inc.: Working together for a healthier world(TM)
At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to improve health and well-being at every stage of life. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacturing of medicines for people and animals. Our diversified global health care portfolio includes human and animal biologic and small molecule medicines and vaccines, as well as nutritional products and many of the world's best-known consumer products. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as the world's leading biopharmaceutical company, we also collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 150 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on us. To learn more about our commitments visit http://www.pfizer.com
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations include, amongst others general economic and business conditions in India, our ability to successfully implement our strategy, our research and development efforts, our growth and expansion plans and technological changes, changes in the value of the Rupee and other currency changes, changes in the Indian and international interest rates, change in laws and regulations that apply to the Indian and global biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industries, increasing competition in and the conditions of the Indian biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industries, changes in political conditions in India and changes in the foreign exchange control regulations in India. Neither our company, our directors, nor any of our affiliates, have any obligation to update or otherwise revise any statements reflecting circumstances arising after this date or to reflect the occurrence of underlying events, even if the underlying assumptions do not come to fruition.
PFIZER DISCLOSURE NOTICE: The information contained in this release is as of March 12, 2012, Pfizer assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this release as the result of new information or future events or developments. This release contains forward-looking information that involves substantial risks and uncertainties about the potential development by Pfizer of biosimilars medicines, both internally and through collaborations, and medicines that treat diabetes. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development; decisions by regulatory authorities regarding whether and when to approve any drug applications that may be filed for any such medicines as well as their decisions regarding labeling and other matters that could affect their availability or commercial potential; competitive developments; and the availability and cost of appropriate collaboration opportunities and competition from other pharmaceutical companies seeking similar opportunities. A further description of risks and uncertainties can be found in Pfizer's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and in its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K.
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***Preface***I'm new. Been lurking for a bit. I was pleasantly surprised at the civility/intelligence of this forum, even in ATM threads, so I decided to give it a shot. The model presented here isn't mine, I simply discovered it through an odd series of clicks (much like cosmoquest actually). There is a good bit published on the topic, in peer reviewed journals (http://www.jp-petit.org/papers/cosmo), two educational comics (http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.co...than_light.pdf http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.co...n_universe.pdf), a website http://www.januscosmologicalmodel.com and a 20-something part series of youtube lectures in french with English subtitles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYIu...LaK0-2_A_TQrKB). Still, from what I've seen the model hasn't gotten any traction in the mainstream scientific community due to the creator (Jean-Pierre Petit) having advocated quite strongly for some less-than-scientific ideas regarding extraterrestrials (specifically Ummites). As I am not able to find major problems with the model itself, I have been seeking out individuals more intelligent (or at least more astronomically literate) who might find and falsify what I couldn't. After all, I wanna make Popper proud.
JCM is a bimetric conception of gravity based on two coupled field equations which take into account both positive and negative masses. It's the only sensible way I've heard negative masses and negative energies talked about, but including those ideas at all puts you firmly against the mainstream. The negative mass it claims to deal with is already present and we can observe its effects, we just haven't explained it as negative mass yet. This shift in perspective, according to Petit, solves or makes irrelevant at least a dozen major cosmological issues including but not limited to: the nature of dark matter/energy, the isotropy of the CMB, the missing baryonic matter, the behavior of the early universe (an alternative to inflation), an explanation for what happens to matter that enters a black hole, etc.
Obviously I'm skeptical.
Though, to his credit, all of these appear to follow directly from Petite's bimetric conception of the universe (and his idea of a variable speed of light as a joint variation of all physical constants following a universal gauge relationship). He doesn't need to appeal to anything except observational data, his model, and a bunch of crazy maths I can barely follow. But then again... I can barely follow it.
***Foundation***This is synthesized from a bunch of places, but it's a lot of copypasta- I hope that's okay.
The precedent for negative mass begins with the Poincarė group and David Hilbert. In quantum field theory, the T operator acting on Hilbert spaces is complex, and can be either linear and unitary, or anti-linear and anti-unitary; but is arbitrarily chosen anti-linear and anti-unitary in order to prevent inversion of energy, as the vacuum state of the zero-point energy must have the lowest possible ground state and can not have negative values. However, when this axiom was formulated the accelerating expansion of the universe, which implies a negative pressure (pressure being understood as a volumetric energy density), had not been recorded, therefore it seems sensible to reconsider how we view negative energy states.
According to Jean-Marie Soureau's dynamical group theory, the action of elements of this group on movements in space-time result in some movements which follow a time reversal; they appear to be going "backwards through time". Modern physicists use the restricted Poincarė group, limited to only orthochronous movements, and therefore ignore this issue. In group theory, however, the T operator is real and we can explore retrochronic movements. Smarter people than I have shown, (http://ayuba.fr/souriau/Souriau-time...-inversion.pdf) using maths I can only begin to understand, that when using the full Poincare group time reversal goes with mass and energy inversion. So at least the precedent for negative mass is there, determined mathematically by an independent researcher.
I've developed an illustrative way to explain this concept of negative mass in a bimetric universe using the classic rubber sheet example that Sagan and others have adopted over the years, but given the character constrains I'll leave it. You're all smart, you'll get it.
So if we want to consider the universe this way we need two metrics, g(+)µν and g(−)µν, from which two different families of geodesics are calculated, referring to positive mass particles and negative mass particles respectively. From these metrics, we calculate Ricci tensors R (+) µν and R (−) µν as well as Ricci scalars R(+) and R(−) .
Personally, I prefer to refer to "negative mass" as "inverted mass" simply because, the way that this model requires you to look at it, negative mass is not an intrinsic feature of some exotic matter, but instead stems from topological consequences; it is purely relative. The "bigravity" associated with inverted masses is an extension of general relativity describing the universe as a Riemannian manifold associated to two conjugated metrics generating their own geodesics, solutions of two coupled Einstein field equations:
where χ is Einstein's constant
Notice that if there is very little negative mass, the negative energy-tensor, T(-)µν, approaches zero and the upper equation for space-time according to the positive metric gets closer to Einstein's original field equation with a cosmological constant of zero. Thus we see that the two coupled field equations reduce to the Einstein field equations of general relativity for regions of space-time where positive mass largely dominates. Therefore this model automatically fits with local relativistic observations and measurements without any ad hoc changes in the same way GR reduces to Newtonian mechanics with small gravitational potential and at low velocities relative to c.
I can't go through the proofs for the field equations here, but there are Lagrangian Derivations (https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ological_model) as well as the original formulation (http://www.jp-petit.org/papers/cosmo...voCimentoB.pdf) for the extremely invested.
You may be asking about the bottom equation for space-time according to the negative metric. Wouldn't this mean the same material can be forced to follow two different equations of motion? No, the second equation gives the metric and spatial curvature for the "negative sector" of the manifold. This is the equivalent to being on the balloon side of the sheet. Positive mass (marbles), viewed from the underside of the sheet, will produce a negative curvature and an anti-gravitational effect. The system of two coupled field equations involves a 4D hypersurface with two sides, each type of mass belonging to its own metric. What is important to note however, is that the two field equations are coupled, i.e. a mass always creates a positive curvature in space-time according to its own metric (where the mass appears visible), and it also always induces a negative curvature in the conjugate metric (where the mass appears invisible). To reiterate, "negative mass" is not an intrinsic feature of some exotic matter. According to an observer measuring any mass in the same sector where it lays, that mass always appears positive. Fundamentally, a mass is not "positive" or "negative"; it is both. Its sign depends on from "which side" we are measuring that mass. It is therefore a purely relative concept.
There's a lot to unpack, and it makes sense to talk about the observational evidence for negative masses, but there's a character limit so I may not do it justice. The 1995 paper goes far deeper into this.
Consider the three boxes above. Current cosmological models insist there's far more dark matter than regular matter. If visible matter takes the pattern of the far left box, we can assume there is more inverted mass in the area. If visible matter takes the pattern of the middle box, we can assume there is more regular mass in the area. For reference, and to illustrate the reality, the far right box has been included. This would be the full distribution of all matter on both sides of the manifold, assuming there is a large difference in how much mass/energy is present in either sector.
Standard models of the universe describe large galaxy clusters linked by hundred-lightyear long threads of galaxies surrounding massive empty voids. This can be pictured like bubbles from a pot full of dish soap. Planes of soap would be fairly rarified areas of matter, lines would be the galactic threads, and vertices of the bubbles would be galactic clusters. The ΛCDM model proposes "galactic filaments" which accrete around threads of dark matter that I have yet to see anyone convincingly locate.
When we look at the universe on a grand scale, it seems to imply there is a greater distribution of inverted masses due to the filamentous shape (like the left box). But if we deign to zoom in on a section of the universe, say our solar system or galaxy, we find something like the middle box. What this implies is that the third box describes reality at both the grandest and more local cosmic scales- but at some point they switch. So on the universal scale the dark clusters are inverted mass matter pushing regular matter into filaments, but on more local scales we consider the dark clusters galaxies held in rotation by the inverted matter surrounding them. The fuss made by Dr. Farnes's negative-mass fluid (which I'm sure took this place by storm) does a similar, but less ontologically justified, thing by nestling galaxies in a field of repulsive material.
"Ah, Okay," I can almost hear you mutter, "but what about gravitational lensing?"
This illustration shows the effects of negative and positive lensing. You can mimic it at home with two paper circles, a pair of scissors and some tape if you have them.
This negative curving would, in the presence of a large hole empty of any matter, give a focalization effect. This focalization would be reinforced by a positive mass in the center of that empty space, accounting for the massive discrepancy between apparent matter and matter required for strong [positive] gravitational lensing. An illustration follows:
In the JCM, there is no cosmological constant because it's unnecessary. The math is well beyond me (found https://januscosmologicalmodel.com/p...ysSpaceSci.pdf in section 6, non-steady state solution for dust universe). It seems the identity of matter/energy in the negative sector is sufficient to calculate the deceleration parameter, which Petit gives as −0.087 ± 0.015. The JCM can calculate this due to precise knowledge of what comprises dark matter, which is determined using group theory. A recently published peer-reviewed article (http://www.jp-petit.org/papers/cosmo...ysSpaceSci.pdf) shows how the Janus Cosmological Model is compatible with modern observational data.
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- Dead Man Down – Swedish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev follows up The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo his original dragon-tattooed girl, Noomi Rapace. Colin Farrell plays the right hand man to an underground crime lord in New York, who must avenge the deaths of both his wife and daughter.
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After witnessing his unit ripped to shreds by artillery fire in Afghanistan, Joey Jones (Jason Statham) has been living on the streets of London, trying to forget his past and stay of out trouble. On the run from a ruthless gang, he breaks into the apartment of a wealthy man in Convent Garden and assumes his upper-class identity. Just as Joey is on his way to making amends with his friend and sponsor Sister Cristina, his pregnant girlfriend is found dead in the river. Now, Joey must use his connections in the Chinese mob to find the man responsible, stopping at nothing until justice is served. From acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight comes an elevated thriller about a broken man with a battered past, fighting to do what's right, even if that means breaking his own rules.
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Cable One, Inc. [PHOENIX] (NYSE: CABO) announced that Kevin P. Coyle, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, intends to retire from the company in early 2019. Coyle joined Cable ONE in 2015. Before joining Cable ONE, he served as CFO of Elauwit Networks, Inc.
MaxLinear, Inc. [CARLSBAD, Calif.] (NYSE: MXL) announced that Adam Spice, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has given notice that he will be leaving the Company on May 23, 2018, to become Chief Financial Officer of Rocket Lab.
Rocket Lab [Huntington Beach, California] announced the appointment of Adam Spice as Chief Financial Officer. Spice joins Rocket Lab following seven years at MaxLinear, Inc. Prior to his time at MaxLinear, Mr. Spice held a variety of executive roles at Broadcom Corporation, including Vice President, Finance, Corporate Development, Treasurer, and Vice President and General Manager of its Mobile Power Management Business. From June 1996 to July 2000, Mr. Spice held Senior Finance Management positions at Intel Corporation in its Planning and Logistics group and Intel Capital. Mr. Spice previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Symwave Corporation. Spice commences his role at Rocket Lab on 24 May 2018.
Genius Brands International [BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.] (NASDAQ: GNUS) announced the appointment of Robert Denton as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 18, 2018. Denton previously worked alongside Genius Brands' Chairman and CEO Andy Heyward for five years while serving as CFO of DIC Entertainment. Denton has spent the past six years in the role of CFO/Controller for Atlys Inc. Other previously held executive positions include Chief Operating Officer at Artisan Home Entertainment; Vice President of Finance for LIVE Home Video and VP, Chief Accounting Officer of LIVE Entertainment. He got his professional start with Ernst & Young's Century City office most recently as a Senior Manager.
JAKKS Pacific, Inc. [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] (NASDAQ: JAKK) announced the appointment of Brent Novak as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Until March 2018, Mr. Novak served as Chief Financial Officer of the Ixia Business Group, a business unit of Keysight Technologies, Inc. Mr. Novak began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, most recently as a Manager in the Emerging Technology Group, before joining Idealab, where he most recently served as its Director of Finance and Corporate Development.
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. [NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.] (NYSE: WTS) announced that Todd A. Trapp, its Chief Financial Officer, has decided to leave the Company to pursue a new opportunity. Robert J. Pagano, Jr., the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will act as Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis.
Abiomed, Inc. [DANVERS, Mass.] (NASDAQ: ABMD) announced that Todd A. Trapp was appointed as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Trapp joins Abiomed from Watts Water Technologies, Inc., where he served as CFO since 2015. Prior to joining Watts Water Technologies, Mr. Trapp spent 13 years in a variety of financial and operational roles at Honeywell International Inc. At Honeywell, Mr. Trapp served as Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, Chief Financial Officer of the Airlines Business Unit, Director of Finance for the Transportation Systems Division, Investor Relations Manager and other senior finance positions. Prior to joining Honeywell, Mr. Trapp held several treasury and finance operational roles at United Business Media, Inc. and Pearson, Inc.
Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] (OTC Pink: AMBS) announced the appointment of Barney Monte as interim Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Monte co-founded Ozado Partners LLC. Prior to co-founding Ozado Partners, Mr. Monte's senior-level investment banking positions included head of International and Asia investment banking for a middle market focused U.S. based broker-dealer.
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. [TULSA, Okla.] (NYSE: HP) announced the hiring and appointment of Mark W. Smith as Chief Financial Officer Designate effective May 1, 2018, and that Mr. Smith shall be appointed to succeed Juan Pablo Tardio as Chief Financial Officer upon Mr. Tardio's retirement from that position, which shall occur on June 30, 2018. Smith previously served in various leadership roles at Atwood Oceanics, Inc., including as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2015 to 2017, Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller from 2014 to 2015, Vice President–Corporate Services from 2011 to 2014, and Director–Internal Audit from 2009 to 2011. Prior to joining Atwood Oceanics, Mr. Smith served as Partner at Calvetti Ferguson P.C. from 2006 to 2009, Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 2003 to 2006, and Consultant at Gunn Partners from 2000 to 2003. Prior to joining Gunn Partners, Mr. Smith served in various roles at Arthur Anderson LLP.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. [BRIDGEVILLE, PA] (NASDAQ: USAP) announced that Christopher T. Scanlon has been named Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Scanlon most recently served as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Nasdaq-listed L.B. Foster Company, which he joined in 2012. During his tenure there, Mr. Scanlon served as Acting Chief Financial Officer, from April 2017 until September 2017. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Scanlon was a Division Controller for Education Management Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Scanlon held positions of increasing responsibilities with Bayer Corporation, and previously Nasdaq-listed Respironics, Inc.
Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. [MADISON, Wis.] (NASDAQ: CLRB) announced the appointment of Brian M. Posner as chief financial officer. Mr. Posner joins Cellectar from Alliqua BioMedical, where he was chief financial officer. Prior to Alliqua, he was chief financial officer at Ocean Power Technologies and at Power Medical Interventions. Earlier, Mr. Posner spent nine years at Pharmacopeia, where he rose from director of finance to chief financial officer before the company was acquired by Ligand Pharmaceuticals. Before Pharmacopeia, he was chief financial officer and vice president of operations at Photosynthetic Harvest, and regional chief financial officer at Omnicare.
FalconStor Software, Inc. [AUSTIN, Texas] (OTCQB: FALC) announced the appointment of Brad Wolfe as Chief Financial Officer. In concert with this appointment, Pat McClain, FalconStor's current Chief Financial Officer, will transition into a senior advisor role in continued support of the Company's strategic plan execution. Wolfe was most recently serving as CFO for Asure Software.
JVM Realty Corp. (JVM) [OAK BROOK, Ill.] announced the promotion of Jason Kovich to chief financial officer. Kovich joined the company in 2005 as a financial analyst and director of property management software. He subsequently served as an asset manager and controller before being promoted to vice president of finance in 2017.
WiSilica [LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.] announced the appointment of Scott Poteracki as Chief Financial (CFO) and Operating Officer (COO). Poteracki joins WiSilica from Cubex LLC, where he served as the company's COO and CFO. Scott has also held CFO positions at Cray Inc., MTI and Nexiant before continuing his career at Broadcom and Motorola.
Intralinks [NEW YORK] announced that Shay Gonen has joined the company as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining Intralinks, Gonen was the CFO of ClickSoftware. He also served as CFO of a business unit of Verint Systems. Before that, Gonen held senior positions at MRV Communications, including CFO at its Los Angeles headquarters and general manager of their Israeli operation.
Payspan [ATLANTA] announced that it has appointed Mark Chapman as the company's new President & CFO. Chapman was previously CEO of VoApps. Chapman also has prior experience with Primus Capital, the growth-oriented private equity firm that made a major growth investment in Payspan in December 2016. Prior to his role as CEO of VoApps, he served as CFO of Vendormate, Inc., a Primus-backed SaaS-based healthcare IT company, until it was acquired in November 2014 by GHX, LLC, at the time a Thoma Bravo-backed company.


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RoboThespian is a life sized humanoid robot designed for human interaction in a public environment. Fully interactive, multilingual, and user-friendly, it's a perfect device to communicate and entertain.
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Modern life is defined by humanity's love-hate relationship with its own technological creations. It's in our nature to see life, personality and intention where none exists. RoboThespian™ exploits this desire; it is an anthropomorphic machine, a dot on the graph that starts with automata and will end when we are no longer able to distinguish the living from the mechanised.
Combining the appeal of a sophisticated entertainment package with the capabilities of a versatile research platform, RoboThespian comes with standard content, like greetings and impressions. Whilst being easy to create and add bespoke content. With a web based interface files controlling movement, sound and video can be simply uploaded. RoboThespian was designed from the outset as a flexible communication medium. Engineered Arts can work with you to produce a robotic partner for your research, entertainment or communication needs.
With many of the interactive features found on RoboThespian, SociBot is a great choice if your robot budget is limited, or you don't have space for a full-sized humanoid. A desktop model, SociBot-Mini, is also available – perfect for research, or experimenting with at home.
The eyes follow you around the room; the expression changes to reflect its mood (or yours!). SociBot can be a he, a she, or any character you care to invent.
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I am Wagner Nogueira, Brazilian comics artist. I entered now this difficult and fun world of designs for shirts. I like so much of your designs and today, in addition to introduce myself, i came to ask a little help on a challenge that i am participating. See the post on my blog that you will better understand:
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My new artwork!!! have a look! xxoo
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Hi its kristina again, I was wondering what size are in the Shark Attack!
tee by Dadoff, becuase I was thinking I was a small in American Apperal, but im not sure, im like 5 feet if that helps.
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Hi my name is kristina, I was wondering what size are you in cirque-au-porter
tee by zerobriant, becuase I was thinking I was a small, but im not sure, im like 5 feet if that helps.
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Any chance you all will reprint the Shantyshawn red riding hood shirt? Love that one!
thank you very much once again Lisa for the third!! also for all staffs there, thank you so much guys!! as always, you r all the best!!
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hi Lisa! thank you so much for the 2nd print, such a great experience for me..
pliz tell everyone in DBH my thanks..thanks a lot guys!! you r all the best!!
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aHa! Great post Lisa!!(bout all the available T colors, format info, all the specific submission goodies, etc.)
Thanks for the heads up on my page, I had completely forgot we were even talking about it with all the time that had gone by. ..
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I was asked a few months ago to allow some advertising on my blog. I hadn't given the idea a whole lot of thought but was reminded again today about the request. For now, I think I will just give the requester a mention and add the tool he wants advertised to the growing list of tools that I have been compiling.
The tool looks like it has some merit and seems like it would be worth the trial. The tool is called DBDefence. You can find more about it here. The purpose of this tool is to help encrypt your databases – outside of the databases and prevent people from prying too far into what they shouldn't. I haven't yet tested the tool – but it seems quite interesting.
And since I have a captive audience already, I will add one more tool to the mix. Like DBDefence, this other tool is security focused. In SQL Server there is a bug that allows the savvy to view the unencrypted password of the SQL accounts that have logged in since last service start. One of the passwords that falls into this category is that of the sa account. Sentrigo has a tool that will clear that password from memory so it can no longer be viewed in clear text. The name of the tool is Passwordizer. You can check it out from here.


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Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration
This report describes four principles to guide policies and practices that aim to reduce violence: They should be survivor-centered, based on accountability, safety-driven, and racially equitable.
Explore social sector research that seeks to reform the criminal justice system, including the administration of courts and correctional facilities. This can include work around alternatives to incarceration as well as services and advocacy for prisoners, former offenders, and those in the juvenile justice system.
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Levers of Change in Parole Release and Revocation
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Torres told Red Uno television network Thursday that the students were between 16 and 18 years old, and were traveling to La Paz to participate in an inter-school sporting event.
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AnyMeeting WebRTC Hackathon
Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (PST)
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To be held on January 26, 2013, the "AnyMeeting WebRTC Hackathon," encourages engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and entrepreneurs to come together and work on building a new project, product or service involving WebRTC in an intense 12 hour hack session.
Thought to be a major game changing technology, WebRTC is an open framework for the web that enables Real Time Communications in the browser. It includes the fundamental building blocks for high quality communications on the web such as network, audio and video components used in voice and video chat applications.
For Participants
The event will begin with a keynote address by AnyMeeting's CEO, Costin Tuculescu, and a guest speaker (to be announced shortly). Contestants will then break into teams, and the event will officially begin. At the end of the session, each team will have time to present and answer questions about their project, and an awards ceremony will follow.
Consistently looking to inspire the great spirit of innovation and foster competition, AnyMeeting is offering a grand prize of $5,000 to the winning team. Follow up prizes will be awarded as well. Space is limited - get your ticket today!
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Our sponsors include, Influxis, a live streaming and real-time application hosting provider, and TokBox, an online video communications provider that announced support for WebRTC back in August of 2012.
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We'll be hacking all day, building some awesome things, giving out great prizes, and having a whole lot of fun.
If you have an idea, get your team members to join. If you don't have a team, register and we will assign you to a team the week before the hackathon. We will reach out to ensure we understand your skills and can assign you to the best team suited to your skills.
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Ryan Lochte Parties It Up in London -- Breaststroke, Anyone?
Ryan Lochte Parties It Up in London -- Breaststroke, Anyone?
Nothing says party time like a pair of boobs in your face -- which is exactly how 11-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte celebrated in London last night.
According to sources, Lochte -- along with American teammates Nathan Adrian, Cullen Jones, and Matt Grevers -- hit up Chinawhite nightclub in the Big Smoke around 11PM ... and left around 3:30AM.
We're told they drank gold bottles of champagne all night -- obviously -- and even ordered some Patron and Grey Goose for good measure.
But they didn't leave empty-handed -- they piled into a cab with several, very excited females ... one of whom sat on Lochte's lap, placing her fun bags a mere nuzzling distance away from his face.
Meanwhile, Michael Phelps was partying a few miles away -- with his medals.
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Vigo Co., Ind., has a knack for picking the election winner.
Nov. 1, 2008 -- You've heard of Joe the Plumber. Well, meet Joe the Boot Seller.
Joe Tanoos has owned Tromp and Tread, a work and sport shoe store, for 30 years. He lives in Vigo County in western Indiana, a place where they somehow always seem to pick a White House winner.
This county has gone with the winning presidential candidate all but two times over the last 100 years, and every time since 1952.
"I think we are probably a microcosm of the country," said Fred Bauer, a lifelong Terre Haute resident. "We've got a rural population, an urban population. And we are Hoosiers, so we are pretty independent."
Democrats outnumber Republicans in Vigo County and Terre Haute, the county's largest city, but even Democrats in this blue collar town tend to be socially conservative.
"The local Democratic label to the national label isn't very good, says Tom Steiger, a professor of sociology at Indiana State University. "So it really forces people here to become independent voters. They can't just sort of vote the ticket."
So it's not party affiliation but issues that rule in Vigo County. And this year, the economy is issue No. 1 for a community hit hard by manufacturing layoffs.
Fewer jobs in town mean less foot traffic at Joe Tanoos' boot store.
"I'm really concerned about my business and my pocketbook," said Tanoos. "I'm in safety footwear, and my factory business has really dropped off, as well as my walk-in business."
Tanoos voted for President Bush in 2004 because of national security issues, but this time around he's going with the Democratic choice.
"I believe we are ready for a change, definitely, a fresh approach, a fresh face. That's why I'm going to vote for Barack Obama," said Tanoos.
Indiana hasn't gone with a Democratic candidate for president since it chose Lyndon Johnson in 1964. And in the 2004 election, George W. Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry by nearly 20 points.
Both parties usually bypass this solidly red state, but this election season has been different.
Thanks to a hotly contested Democratic primary in May, Obama has made 48 campaign stops in Indiana, including eight stops since the Democratic convention.
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, on the other hand, has visited the state just two times.
Obama lost that Indiana primary and Vigo County to Hillary Clinton. Obama struggled among white working class voters in the Hoosier State. Clinton garnered 64 percent of white working class voters compared with 35 percent for Obama.
Polls show a virtual tie between Obama and McCain in Indiana. In an effort to shore up this once ruby red state, Sarah Palin has made three appearances in the state in the last month.


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The symbolism here is delicious. A certain 6-foot-1, near 200-pound Hawaiian was spotted this morning boarding a plane at Hartford's Bradley International Airport, on his way back to Houston.
Booted by Bob Bradley. Going home via an airport sporting his namesake. Perfect.
The early word out of USMNT camp is that Brian Ching was left off the final 23-man World Cup roster because of concerns over his fitness, combined with the allure of guys who have been scorching in club play.
"Throughout the camp, we emphasized fitness," Bradley told reporters after the roster announcement at ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn. "We got a good read as to where guys are in the whole thing. And [Tuesday night's game vs. the Czech Republic] helped us assess that in a game-like situation.
"As far as the experience, we recognize that we've made some choices, some younger guys—but we believe that they have qualities that can still help us and we felt that was the best way to go."
While I applaud Bradley's uncharacteristic willingness to take a chance on hot streaks—let's hope Edson Buddle and Herculez Gomez repay his trust—it is of grave concern that he sent Ching home.
Experience? Check. There are only seven players on the final 23 with more USMNT caps than Ching's 45. Beyond that, he's one of only nine holdovers from the 2006 squad who made the final camp this time around. Ching didn't play in Germany, but he knows the ropes and how to deal with the pressure.
Leadership? Check. The Dynamo have relied on Ching as captain this season, and despite his time off to recover from a hamstring strain, they've followed the Big Kahuna's steady lead.
Teamwork? A resounding check. Ching is uniformly liked by his USMNT teammates, and respected just as much. Even when he's not scoring goals—and granted, he has done little of that lately in a US kit—he does everything he can to put his team in position to win.
Take, for example, the pretty interplay with Gomez against the Czechs that should have produced an equalizing goal. Witness how much of a beating Ching took in the box from Czech defenders as well. That's what Ching brings to the table.
When it came down to it, the 32-year-old Ching was apparently too old and too battered. And that's a shame. Given where he likely would have been on the depth chart anyway, the guy almost deserves a spot for his contributions alone.
But this is my biggest worry. Without the size of Ching, the US is left without a single classic target man on its roster. Sure, I can see a scenario where Clint Dempsey or Landon Donovan play up top, maybe even both. But Bradley is gambling that Jozy Altidore will be able to satisfy that physical role in the box.
Yes, Altidore is big—the 20-year-old man-child is near the same size as Ching. And his role with Hull City last season was primarily as the big man, where at times, he shone. But he's coming off a horrible end to the season and it's no sure thing that he'll have the same confidence he did at last summer's Confederations Cup.
You want to believe Altidore will be able to keep doing the things he did against Spain, like holding the ball up in the box, shucking Joan Capdevila off his back and turning around and firing in a goal. Yet you worry that, much like that amazing result, it's an example of the US at its very best, a perfect aligning of planets.
Maybe Buddle can do some of that same work. Part of his amazing run with the LA Galaxy doesn't just involve the nine goals in nine games—it's been the pounding he has taken from defenders who key on him, the hold-up skills he has developed late in his career.
But as I've been screaming for weeks: What happens late in a game when the US is clinging to a result against a big, physical team like England? What happens when Bradley puts all 11 guys behind the ball so the Yanks withstand a furious, late charge by a capable team? Do Altidore or Buddle have the chops to outmuscle guys in the box?
Ching is a consummate professional. You know he'll be sitting at home during the World Cup, cheering as loudly as any US fan.
As former Dynamo teammate Stuart Holden told reporters, "I know Brian's disappointed, but he's gonna be supportive of guys going over."
Then again, you could hardly blame him if he just decides to head home to Hawaii and catch a few waves during his time off.
Additional reporting by Simon Borg and Nick Firchau in Bristol.


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Helping someone to launch? There are few things that you should look for:
1. Do the leading edge lines BOTH converge to the center of the control bar (forming a NICE Vee shape), AND does the kite size feel appropriate for the winds?
Crossed flight lines have caused serious injuries and recently too. Rigging errors are relatively easy to spot. If you don't see the leading edge lines vee into the center of the control bar, put the kite down, thoroughly anchor it, redo the necessary lines and preflight, again! If the kite seems too large for conditions, talk to the kiteboarder about it. Visiting and new kiteboarders sometimes just fly whatever and damn the consequences UNTIL they happen.
2. Are you in a good position for a launch?
That is well away from hard objects, powerlines, trees, slopes or walls (that might cause an uplift lofting), 200 ft. or more is ideal. If you can't be that far away, are you as far away as feasible. Also, at many launches it is safer to launch with the kite near or better still, from the water in the shallows offshore.
3. Are the kite lines near perpendicular to the wind?
Perpendicular works for winds in the mid range for a given kite. A slightly greater angle than 90 degrees may be necessary for launching at the light end. Slightly less than 90 degrees may be necessary to avoid "hot launching" the rider with strong winds in the upper range for a given kite.
4. Did you agree on a launch signal AND confirmation with the kiteboarder before agreeing to launch him?
Don't rely upon yelled signals or a single hand signal. Lots of guys have been dragged and injured by premature launching due to mistaken communication. Be sure!
5. Does the kite look OK?
Are all the battens and leading edge well inflated, lines free of knots, etc. as far as you can see? If not, abort the launch and fix it BEFORE launching.
6. You receive the first signal to launch, is the area downwind (ideally at least 300 ft.), free of bystanders, nearby dogs, etc.?
If the kite doesn't appear to be biting into the air and wants to take off you might indicate to the kiteboarder that he should wait for the wind to fill in. Does the wind appear to be excessively gusty and would waiting a minute or so bring less violent wind? Otherwise, give the acknowledgment signal to the rider and wait for the kiteboarders confirming signal and then GENTLY release the kite.
Do you have other ideas out there for things that a kiteboarding assistant should look out for? It goes without saying, DON'T USE UNTRAINED PEOPLE to help you launch and land. Go over procedures with whomever helps you including experienced guys. Misunderstandings can really HURT in a launch or landing gone seriously wrong. Some photos and ideas on launch communication signals appear in the KSR at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kitesurf/ ... EFERENCES/
7. Kiteboarding Signals
Universal signals to be used to coordinate launching, landing and rescues.
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Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson
For 15 years "Willie Boy" Johnson ratted out his mentor John Gotti and other major New York crime family figures to save his own skin and got away with it. And then an assistant U.S. attorney, in a turf battle with the FBI, deliberately blew his cover – and his chances for staying alive.
by Allan May
Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson was a mob guy that other wise guys loved to have around. He was a "gofer" who would do anything he was told in order to curry favor with the men he idolized. By the time he was in his mid-40s, his allegiance had already cost him 18 years in prison for assault, robbery, and murder. A long-time friend of John Gotti, Johnson served the Dapper Don in many capacities including driver, bodyguard, and gunman.
Willie Boy would come to have another moniker that Gotti didn't know about. To the FBI he was "Wahoo," a star mob informant with impeccable information.
Johnson's mother was Italian, but his father was part Cherokee Indian thus preventing him from ever becoming a made member of the mob. Nevertheless, with people like Gambino Family underboss Neil Dellacroce appreciating his talents, he became a trusted and valued family associate.
Retired Lt. Remo Franceschini of the Queens District Attorney's Squad in his book, A Matter of Honor, gives this description of Johnson:
"He was real stocky, about five-feet-nine inches and well over two-hundred pounds, looked like a professional wrestler. Size twenty-one neck, gravel voice. You didn't want to meet Willie Boy on the street, and if you met him you'd better have backup ammunition in your pocket because six bullets were not going to stop this guy. He was the type of guy who, if he got shot, he would almost try to rip the bullets out of his own chest and then get really pissed off. 'You shot me? Now you're in f—kin' trouble.'"
When Gotti joined the Gambino crew headed by Carmine Fatico in the mid-1960s, he brought Johnson with him. Willie Boy was used as an errand boy and to collect overdue loans. In the book Underboss, by Peter Maas, Sammy Gravano comments on the relationship between Gotti and Johnson:
"Although, on the surface, Willie Boy played the obedient Tonto to Gotti's Lone Ranger, he seemed to take special pleasure in reporting what Gotti was up to. Gotti's idea of humor left plenty to be desired. And Johnson seethed with resentment as Gotti delivered derisive asides about 'redskins' and 'half-breeds' and often treated him as a second-class citizen."
In the mid-1960s, Johnson was convicted of robbery and jailed. Mob protocol decrees when a crewmember is sent away to prison that the capo makes sure the wife and children are provided for. Apparently Johnson believed this myth and when Fatico failed in his duty, Willie Boy decided he would get even by becoming a paid government informant.
To the FBI, Wilfred Johnson became BQ 5558-TE. The "TE" stood for "Top Echelon," and the "BQ" meant "Brooklyn-Queens." Johnson's code name was "Wahoo."
In May 1973, John Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero, and Ralph Galione were involved in the murder of James McBratney in a Staten Island bar. A waitress from the bar soon identified Ruggiero and Galione as two of the killers, but the identity of the third man was still unknown. It was until Johnson heard Gotti bragging about the killing and notified the FBI, who then notified the New York City Police Department. When Gotti realized the police were looking for him he went into hiding.
Thanks to Johnson, The FBI arrested Gotti on June 3, 1974, over a year after the murder. A note placed in Johnson's FBI file stated that he "was the sole basis for the apprehension" of Gotti. For turning in his boss, Johnson was paid $600.
After Gotti pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempted manslaughter for the McBratney murder, he spent most of his prison time at the Green Haven Correctional Facility. There, ironically, he would share time with his good friend Willie Boy Johnson, who was serving time for armed robbery.
Johnson's FBI handler, Special Agent Martin J. Boland, let his superiors know how valuable an informant Johnson was. In addition to supplying information that resulted in Gotti's arrest, he helped solve several burglaries and provided information that led to the arrest of Gambino Family associate Salvatore Polisi. But, as Jerry Capeci points out in Mob Star, informants "whose value depends on maintaining criminal credibility can be troublesome. They test the patience and resourcefulness of agents." FBI Agent Boland noted:
"Case agent had handled this informant single-handedly; has to contend with the informant being arrested [for] counterfeiting,…receiving stolen property…and armed robbery… the above arrests and informant's activity within the underworld has presented problems which Agent Boland has handled efficiently without recourse to higher bureau authority. It is noted Agent Boland received a letter of commendation in [a fraud case] for handling liaison with the Brooklyn District Attorney."
In the late 1970s Johnson reported on the murders of several Gambino associates, including Tommy DeSimone, a minor mob figure made famous by Joe Pesci's fictionalized portrayal of him in the movie Goodfellas.
One of the cases Johnson came up empty on was the disappearance and presumed murder of John Favara, Gotti's ill-fated neighbor who was responsible for the accidental death of Gotti's young son Frank. Up until this time the FBI files had indicated how accurate Johnson's information was, but on this incident he crapped out. One would think that with his close friendship to Gotti, and the fact that he couldn't provide any information in this matter, that he had some involvement in it.
There was no doubt Willie Boy had been involved in the murder of Anthony Plate in Florida in 1979. Plate worked for Neil Dellacroce in a loan-sharking operation in Miami. Plate once jumped on the desk of a debtor, spit in his face, and threatened to bite chunks out of his flesh. Plate had been indicted with Neil Dellacroce in the death of another loan shark. Dellacroce was afraid that the mere presence of the sinister looking Plate by his side at the defense table would hinder his chances. Plate walked out of a Miami Beach hotel one August morning and was never seen again. Shortly after this Gotti, Ruggiero and Johnson appeared at the Bergin Hunt & Fish Social Club sporting deep suntans. Plate's murder helped Dellacroce win an acquittal in his case.
After Johnson's release from Green Haven, his FBI control agent, Martin Boland, was transferred. Although not sure of his new handler, James M. Abbott, Johnson agreed to continue with the same stipulation that "he never be compromised or told to testify." In fact, a memo placed in his file stated: "He will not testify under any circumstances and would deny he ever cooperated in the event he was ever surfaced. Source is very sensitive as to his confidential relationship and was given assurances by agents Boland and Abbott."
In December 1981, New York police detectives watched as Johnson handed a package to a drug dealer in exchange for a paper bag that he threw into the trunk of his car. Detectives followed Johnson to his home in Brooklyn. When Willie Boy opened the trunk to get the bag the detectives approached him. The bag contained $50,000 which Johnson quickly claimed came from his gambling operation. Still on probation after having served less than four years of a 10-year sentence for armed robbery, Johnson got scared. He told the officers to take the money because if his parole officer found out about it he would be sent back to prison.
The detectives arrested him for attempted bribery and Johnson was soon indicted. To avoid having to return to prison, Johnson agreed to become an informant for the New York City Police Department. Johnson did not tell the district attorney, who arranged for Johnson's indictment to be sealed, that he was already an informer for the FBI, nor did he tell the FBI about his new position with New York's finest.
With the $50,000 donated to the police pension fund, Johnson began work for the New York Police Department. One of his first tips was where they could find the body of Bonanno capo Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, a murder in which Johnson may have been involved. He also reported on Gotti and his brothers, and in June 1981 gave up a dice game in Little Italy where Frank DeCicco and Anthony Rampino were arrested, and $100,000 confiscated.
Most of Johnson's information, however, continued to go to FBI Agent Abbott. Johnson helped draw a layout of Angelo Ruggiero's home so agents could plant listening devices in the area where he held his meetings. They also tapped his daughter's telephone after Angelo blabbed to Johnson how he used it to make telephone calls. Johnson kept the agents abreast of Ruggiero's narcotics involvement, especially after his brother, Salvatore Ruggiero, was killed in a private plane crash. It was Johnson who let the FBI know that Angelo believed he was a "dead man" when he realized Paul Castellano and Neil Dellacroce, his uncle, were going to find out about his role in dealing narcotics from the FBI recordings.
When the arrests from the Ruggiero drug operation came down, they included, in addition to Angelo, John and Gene Gotti, John Carneglia and several others. Johnson reported to his FBI handlers that "John Gotti is on the carpet with Big Paul Castellano over the drug bust. Paul feels John was either involved himself and if he was not, then he should have known his crew was involved and therefore he cannot control his crew."
Shortly after the arrests the FBI picked up rumors that two FBI agents were to be hit. When an agent brought this to Gotti's attention he became annoyed and claimed, "That's just Angelo, shootin' off his mouth, blowin' off steam."
Johnson reported that "no personal recrimination will be made on any FBI agent as they would have to be approved by Big Paul and at this time Gotti and Ruggiero are lucky they have not been clipped themselves."
In late 1984 Assistant U. S. Attorney Diane Giacalone was preparing her RICO case against John Gotti and others. Giacalone was said to be a Lily Tomlin look-alike; she was portrayed by Lorraine Bracco in a made-for-television Gotti movie. (Bracco gained fame playing Karen Hill, the wife of wise guy Henry Hill in the movie Goodfellas, and Dr. Jennifer Melfi, Tony Soprano's psychiatrist in the HBO's hit series "The Sopranos.") Giacalone grew up in Ozone Park and claimed that she often walked past the Bergin clubhouse and its assortment of mobsters and mobster wannabes.
Giacalone asked the grand jury to indict Johnson. She then planned to expose him as an informant thereby forcing him into the Witness Protection Program. The FBI's Gambino Squad headed by Bruce Mouw was less than thrilled about Giacalone's case. They were working on their own "fool proof' case and were upset when they learned that Giacalone was threatening to reveal Johnson's informant status. They backed out of the case citing "administrative and procedural differences." Top FBI officials, fearful of losing one of their top informants and destroying the confidence of other informants about the FBI's ability to keep a bargain, fought back. However, efforts by FBI agents Thomas Sheer and James Kossler were turned back by the decision of Eastern District U. S. Attorney Raymond J. Dearie to support Giacalone.
Johnson's handler, Agent Abbott, informed Willie Boy about what was about to happen.
"I will be killed," Johnson said. "My family will be slaughtered."
Abbott advised Johnson that his best bet was to take a plea, testify, and go into the Witness Protection Program.
"I will never testify," Johnson stated.
On March 18, 1985, Abbott and his boss met with Giacalone to turn over the "Source Wahoo" files. Giacalone told the agents that she planned on giving them to the defense lawyers, stating that they were entitled to them as discovery material. The agents were confused as to why she was doing this voluntarily. Why not at least wait until they were requested?
"Sorry, boys," she replied.
On March 25, 1985, Johnson's name appeared on an indictment along with John and Gene Gotti, Neil Dellacroce and his son Armond, Charles and John Carneglia, Anthony Rampino, Nicholas Corozzo, and Leonard DiMaria. The 10 men were charged with two RICO counts - racketeering and conspiracy – and faced sentences as severe as 40 years in prison and fines of $50,000.
Seven of the 10 indicted were soon rounded up and arraigned. On March 28, New York City police detectives and DEA agents arrested Johnson, John Gotti and his brother Gene just after 4 a.m. as they played cards at the Bergin Hunt & Fish Social Club. Neil Dellacroce was hospitalized and receiving chemotherapy, while his son and Charles Carneglia had not yet been located.
Johnson was the last to be arraigned. Giacalone told Judge Eugene Nickerson that Willie Boy, now the lone defendant in the courtroom, should be jailed because "no conditions of bail would secure his appearance."
The startled judge asked for an explanation.
Giacalone replied, "The reason is that Mr. Johnson has been an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a period of over 15 years, including a period up through the present time."
Johnson stood before the judge with his fists clenched so tight that his white knuckles clearly showed the words "true" and "love" that were tattooed on them. He adamantly denied Giacalone's statements.
"Not true, your honor," protested Johnson.
Giacalone repeated to the judge Johnson's statement to Agent Abbott that he and his family would be slaughtered. Nickerson bought Giacalone's argument and Willie Boy was carted off to the Metropolitan Correctional Center where he would spend the next two years. In Mob Star, Jerry Capeci describes Johnson's existence:
"Willie Boy was confined in his cell 23 ½ hours a day. His access to showers and recreation was restricted. A glass door to the pen enabled other inmates to taunt him. In a few days, he complained he found blood in his urine and needed medication. On Easter Sunday, his wife, who had sent messages from Wahoo to the FBI many times, was denied visitation. When his lawyers visited, he was led to them in leg shackles.
"The lawyers demanded a hearing to protest the 'cruel and inhumane' treatment, which they said was Giacalone's attempt to force Willie Boy to become a witness, and to reapply for bail because 'his life is not in danger.'"
Johnson spent 16 months in the special section until the pretrial moves were completed.
A year after the arrests Giacalone won headlines by getting Gotti jailed on a RICO indictment. She also persuaded the judge to revoke his bail. Gotti was placed in the Metropolitan Correctional Center that housed Johnson. Sammy Gravano discussed a meeting that took place between the two there:
"It was up on the ninth floor," Sammy said. "John told Willie Boy, 'You did a bad thing for all them years. But I'll forgive you. It's not the first time it happened. You can never be with us after this case. But nothing will happen to you.' Willie Boy asked John to swear on his dead son's head, and John did. And Willie Boy never did testify.
"John totally conned Willie Boy. I don't know how he fell for this, but he did. Lock, stock and barrel."
During the trial Gotti went back and forth daily to the courtroom for months with Johnson. Willie Boy, represented by lawyer Richard Rehbock, sat near John at the defense table as Gotti's attorneys, Bruce Cutler and Barry Slotnik, ripped apart the prosecution's turncoat witnesses – James Cardinali, Salvatore Polisi, and Matthew Traynor, who had been associates of Gotti. The trial ended on March 13, 1987. Gotti, Johnson and the others were found not guilty. This verdict would seal Gotti's famed nickname of "The Teflon Don." Later, it was discovered that one of the jurors had been bribed.
While in protective custody, Johnson was caught trying to set up a heroin deal over the phone with his son. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year, but since he had already served more than that much time awaiting the RICO trial, he was set free.
Based on Gotti's commitment to him, Johnson felt he was out of harm's way. Although banned from the Bergin, Johnson was back living in the old neighborhood with his wife and children and working at a construction job. Johnson was also rumored to be dealing in drugs again.
After the trial, the "Source Wahoo" FBI files became a ticking time bomb. The information confirmed that it was Johnson who led the authorities to Gotti when he was hiding after the McBratney murder. The information also revealed that Willie Boy had provided information that allowed the FBI's Gambino Squad to build its narcotics case against Gene Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero, and the others.
Gotti bided his time in reacting to the disclosed information. If Gotti had a soft spot for his old friend it hardened during the summer of 1988. Apparently Johnson had also passed on information to the authorities about the son of imprisoned Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Reportedly Alphonse Persico challenged the Gambino family by questioning, "What are you waiting for?"
In discussing the murder plans with Gravano, Gotti was concerned about the hit team failing and forcing Johnson into government protection where he could give up even more incriminating information. The contract was given to Eddie Lino, an ex-Bonanno associate and one of the shooters in the Castellano killing. Lino reportedly "sublet the contract" to a cousin in the Bonanno Family. The cousin in turn gave the assignment to three Bonanno gunmen to carry out.
On Aug. 29, 1988 the killers struck. At 6:05 a.m., as Johnson walked from his Flatland's home in Brooklyn to his car, the gunmen fired 19 rounds at him. Johnson was hit once in each thigh, twice in the back, and at least six times in the head. The hit team then dropped jack-like spikes on the street to prevent the possibility of pursuit.
Hearing the shooting, Johnson's wife ran out screaming. She cradled his head in her lap, but Willie Boy was dead.
In 1992, Bonanno capo Thomas "Tommy Karate" Pitera and Vincent "Kojak" Giattino were indicted and tried for the murder of Willie Boy Johnson. Giattino was found guilty. Pitera, suspected in as many as 30 killings, was acquitted, but was later convicted of six other murders.
Allan May's e-mail address is: email@example.com