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At the beginning of the 2010-11 season the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a surprising record - one win and one loss. On Sunday, November 14th the team traveled to Old Dominion and suffered a 65-63 defeat marked by a 12-for-26 free throw performance by the Yellow Jackets.
Yellow Jackets head coach MaChelle Joseph marked the loss up to the free throw performance. According to Chris Carlson at the Virginian-Pilot, Joseph said, "You miss 14 free throws on the road, you're going to get beat. I don't care who you're playing. The game was won and lost right there."
This is when you regret being on vacation.
Georgia Tech won its home opener on the 12th against Georgia State 66-56 against the other Division I school in Atlanta - a school squarely in the middle of Division I schools - and then they go to Virginia and cough up the loss. I missed both of those games, so you might ask, "Why write about a game that you didn't see?"
The answer is that it's simply impossible to see every game of importance. In my case, I was in another country and I couldn't have seen either game even if I wanted to, having not so much as internet access. All we can do is examine the corpse and check for fingerprints, having not seen the murder.
So we'll take the head coach's statement at face value and conclude that yes, free throws lost the game. But were there any other games last year where Georgia Tech had a -14 difference in free throws made vs. free throws attempted?
Winthrop (-8): W 63-30
Mississippi Valley State (-8): W 89-41
Miami (-9): W 80-73
Wake Forest (-9): W 52-45
Penn State (-10): W 64-60
Clemson (-11): W 72-58
Savannah State (-12): W 80-51
Wake Forest (-12): W 72-66
Clemson (-13): W 68-53
Georgia Tech won all of those games last year despite the negative free throw differential. Part of the reason is that in many of the games listed above, the Yellow Jackets went to the free throw line about 30-plus times, usually against an undermanned team fouling Georgia Tech out of desperation. Look at the closest game on the list, namely the 68-53 win against Clemson on February 8, 2010. The Jackets went to the line 27 times compared to just 12 times for the Tigers. The Tigers, however, went 10-for-12 at the line, shooting 83 percent at the line compared to Georgia Tech's 14-for-27 performance.
That game was an ugly game, with each team having 25 turnovers. Clemson was actually the better rebounding team, edging out Georgia Tech 38-37 overall in rebounds, and furthermore Clemson had home court advantage. So why did the Tigers lose by 15 points?
Shooting, that's why. The Yellow Jackets had a 52.9 percent effective field goal percentage. Clemson had a 34.1 percent effective field goal percentage, unable to hit the side of a barn with the side of a barn. The Tigers couldn't make up the difference by shooting. They couldn't make up the difference at the free throw line, only visiting 12 times - Georgia Tech had more free throws made than Clemson's free throws attempted total. Everything else was even, and Tech walked out with their second win against Clemson.
Now, look at the box score from the Georgia Tech-Old Dominion game on Sunday. Georgia Tech had an effective field goal percentage of 53.1 percent compared to 44.6 percent from Old Dominion. That's a significant edge, but we all know cases where a team outshot another team but lost the game on the "fundamentals" - boxing out, ball control and of course at the charity stripe.
So where could Old Dominion make up the difference? What about turnovers? Old Dominion had 20 turnovers to Georgia Tech's 23 turnovers. It was a high-turnover game with Georgia Tech giving Old Dominion just a few more chances to score.
Rebounding? Georgia Tech held a minor edge on the offensive glass, with a 43.8 percent offensive rebound percentage compared to the Lady Monarchs and their 42.1 percent rate. However, Old Dominion had 16 offensive rebounds compared to 14 for Georgia Tech - there were another couple of chances for Old Dominion to score, and the final score showed that every chance counted.
Now, we can look at the free throw numbers. It's always difficult to evaluate the contribution of free throws to a game. In order to win games, you not only have to hit the free throws you make but it helps if you're given a lot of free throw attempts, hopefully more than 20.
Each side had at least 20 free throw attempts. Old Dominion had exactly 20, and made 15 of their attempts. Georgia, on the other hand, had 26 and made 12 of their attempts. Most of the time Georgia Tech went to the free throw line for a handout they came back empty-handed. But still, Old Dominion only made three more points at the line, right?
There's an old saying that "two missed free throws equals one turnover". That's definitely true if you miss both shots when you get two. Let's take the saying at face value and add one turnover for every two missed free throw shots and recalculate the game turnovers:
Old Dominion: 22.5
Georgia Tech: 30
Egad. That's a lot of turnovers, or pseudo-turnovers.
Free throws are the odd duck of basketball. Shooting, turnovers and offensive rebounds are, to some degree, something that you can control. If you're good at handling the ball or fighting for rebounds, you can tilt those stats your way. And of course, you can practice your heart out at the free throw line and make your attempts.
But the number of free throw attempts a team receives is something that it *can't* control. The other team has to give those away, where one team gets the opportunity to take advantage of the other team's inability to keep their hands to themseleves. The real sin of missing free throws is that missing free throws lets the other team off the hook for its lack of discipline. This makes the argument that "two missed free throws equal one turnover" more compelling, because if you're not going to make your opponents pay on the court you might as well just hand them the ball.
Did Old Dominion take advantage of Georgia Tech's flaws? They made 15 out of 20 of their own free throws. They did what Georgia Tech wouldn't, and that was the ball game.


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By Stephanie Springer - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) –
From budget cuts to layoffs 2009 was a tough year for businesses and employees. But things are looking up for downtown Moultrie. Several new businesses opened and that's created new jobs.
Its day one of business for coffee shop owner Eric Foster-Whiddon
"We opened the doors this morning at 6:30am we worked hard over the holidays and late nights and early mornings to get ready for this," said Foster-Whiddon.
From morning to noon nearly 30 customers dropped by to check out what all "Beans and Strings" has to offer.
"What we are doing is a combination of a guitar shop and a coffee shop together in the same space and have an environment where people want to come and build some relationships," said Foster-Whiddon.
Just across the square, Angela Henry is busy organizing her new decorating business she opened in November.
"I felt Moultrie needed a place to get rugs and fabrics an all inclusive decorating store," said Angela Henry.
These business owners are not alone. In the past four months eight new businesses have opened in downtown Moultrie.
"We've brought 30- 35 new jobs with these new businesses and we are expecting to have 20 more jobs by the end of January," said Amy Johnson, Main street Director.
Downtown officials say it's a trend we will see more of people flocking to downtown areas.
"All of these big towns their indoor malls are going away and being replaced with outdoor malls and those outdoor malls are replicating the downtowns that means there is success in downtowns.. it is the feel, the atmosphere the homey feeling," said Johnson.
Its what attracted both business owners to the location.
"There is the community aspect of being downtown and for what we are doing to succeed we felt we needed to be downtown," said Foster-Whiddon.
Downtown Moultrie employs close to 2,000 people and officials say they hope to never stop growing.
Some of the other new businesses that have opened in downtown Moultrie include a Curves workout facility, a florist, A Merle Norman cosmetics store, an art gallery a Georgia Department of Labor location and a brand new bakery.
In addition to the new downtown stores, the Economic Development Authority is working on a project to bring in more apartments downtown. Officials are also working on a intermodul facility to bring in more parking as well.
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Silver's Smoking Guns, Part 3: Market Paradox
Silver priced below $4/oz was one of the most one-way bets in the history of commodities. Any objective analysis of that market would have indicated silver clients required much less hedging than in any other commodity market, not more. This negates the lies of the bullion banks.
Instead, building and maintaining a short position at least an order of magnitude larger than what could possibly be justified by market conditions yields only one, possible conclusion: This blatantly manipulative short position was/is a millstone aimed at dragging down the silver market and the price of silver.
We can support this obvious conclusion with irrefutable empirical evidence: the collapse of silver inventories. As I explained in theoretical terms in a prior commentary, excessive shorting must always result in the collapse of inventories. What appears to be by dollar value the most grossly excessive/disproportionate short position in the history of commodity markets resulted in a 90% collapse in silver inventories. Case closed.
But there's more. When precious metals commentators were accused of being "conspiracy nuts" for pointing toward obvious, serial manipulation of the silver market they were frequently asked, "Where is your whistle-blower?"In rebuttal, GATA (the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee) produced veteran metals trader Andrew Maguire who was ready, willing, and able to explain in detail how and when the silver market was being manipulated. GATA produced Maguire just as the CFTC was about to hold its farcical "hearing" about allegations of precious metals manipulation. The CFTC's response was to refuse to allow Maguire to testify, crossing the line between acute tunnel-vision and willful blindness. Then we have the "attack" on the silver market by the administrator of the Comex itself, the CME Group (CME). In the Spring of 2011 the CME Group bombarded the silver market with five, large rapid-fire increases in margin collateral requirements, the last four increases coming after the price of silver was already plummeting lower. Here readers need to understand that margin collateral requirements are flat rates, not percentages. Thus the plummeting price of silver itself was already rapidly increasing the effective size of margin requirements (in percentage terms). Indeed, the (only) appropriate regulatory action for a commodity that is rapidly falling in price is to reduce margin requirements. There can be no possible defense of that succession of margin increases.
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On September 11, 2013 a group of Muslims planned a march called "One Million Muslim March Against Fear" set to take place in Washington D.C.
Controversy arose when 9/11 first responders organized a bike ride through the Facebook page called the "2 Million Bikers to DC" to protest the Muslim March. The Bike Ride organization is a memorial to the victims of 9/11 and their goal is to "honor armed forces who fought those who precipitated the attack".
The "One Million Muslim March Against Fear" was able to receive a permit, meanwhile, the first responders bike ride were unable to attain one. However, that didn't stop the active and retired first responders from protesting.
Hanshi, who is a member of the Rolling Badges Club, was in charge of organizing other first responders in Paulsboro, New Jersey to start their ride down to D.C. He said, "We're not about anything other than honoring the victims of Ghazi last year, and those who served in some capacity or died in 9/11."
Although both groups might have the same intent, honoring those who suffered from this devastation, there are still people who are passionate about their beliefs, which could easily cause the opposite of unity.


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Boston-based John Hancock made two appointments to its global compliance team. The carrier named Kevin Cloherty to the new position of VP and chief counsel of global and U.S. compliance and appointed Mitchell Karman to fill the existing position of VP, counsel and U.S. chief compliance officer.
Cloherty will provide strategic legal advice and related services on compliance issues affecting the financial services businesses of the company and its parent, Manulife Financial Corp. (Toronto; $347.7 billion in funds under management). Karman will oversee compliance resources related to the carrier's distribution of protection and investment management products in the U.S.
"We are very pleased to be adding two highly talented and experienced attorneys to further strengthen our compliance team," says James Gallagher, John Hancock's SVP and global compliance chief. "Mitchell Karman helped create and build the compliance program and department for MetLife affiliate New England Financial. Kevin Cloherty brings us a wealth of both public and private sector experience in governmental and regulatory compliance issues."


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Kevin Madge's future as the leader of Carmarthenshire county council has been thrown into question after the Public Services Ombudsman confirmed an inquiry had been launched into his comments regarding Sainsbury's double planning application.
Cllr Madge was lambasted after a county council press release quoted him as accusing MP Jonathan Edwards and AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas of "deliberately trying to sabotage"
the supermarket giant's plans for new stores at Llandeilo and Cross Hands.
A spokesman for the Ombudsman told the Guardian that after considering an initial complaint against the Garnant councillor, the watchdog believed there were questions over whether he had breached the code of conduct to which all councillors in Wales must adhere.
"We can confirm that we have had a complaint made against Councillor Kevin Madge," said the spokesman.
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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Health officials say Delaware is making progress in the fight against cancer thanks to better screening and treatment.
Public Health Director Dr. Karyl Rattay says the state has fallen from second highest in the nation for cancer mortality in the late 1990s to 14th place 10 years later.
The rate for cancer cases overall remained about the same in the five-year measurements between 1995 and 1999 and 2005 and 2009. But officials say Delaware's cancer death rates decreased nearly 19 percent over that period. Rattay credits better screening and treatment for the drop.
However, Rattay says Delaware has seen increases in several cancers. She and other health officials stress the importance of prevention by eliminating risks such as smoking, alcohol abuse, poor diet, inactivity and exposure to UV light.
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Fooch's Note: Harbaugh conversation is going on HERE. We'll likely have a new thread relatively soon.
Amidst all the hubbub of the Jim Harbaugh, Trent Baalke, and the 49ers GM/coach search, a small item has slid by without a ton of fan fare. Earlier today the 49ers officially announced that they had signed five players from their practice squad to Reserve/Future Contracts. Those five players were G Nick Howell, WR Kevin Jurovich, WR Lance Long, RB Xavier Omon and K Fabrizio Scaccia.
The most notable name missing from that list is QB Nate Davis, arguably the most popular and least popular 49ers player on this site. The 49ers decision to not sign him to a Reserve/Future Contract means that he is now a free agent and eligible to sign anywhere in the NFL (or other leagues for that matter). This does not spell the end of the Nate Davis "era" in San Francisco because he has expressed an interest in returning to the team. Of course, the decision to not extend to him a Reserve/Future contract could mean Trent Baalke does not want to bring him back. However, it remains to be seen what input the new head coach (be it Jim Harbaugh, Hue Jackson, or whomever) has on the situation.
Every year a different 49ers player jumps out as the underdog fan favorite. We've all joked about the former user Kory Sheets Was Our Future but his name really was fitting for the way folks latch on to certain players. I even fit in that group given my man-crush on outside linebacker Jay Moore. You just see something you like in a player and he becomes "your guy" no matter what else happens.
Nate Davis became that guy for most folks back in 2009 when he put together some solid moments in the preseason. Folks liked him so much we even saw someone put together a compilation of his entire 2009 preseason.
Davis never saw the field in 2009 but came back for another year in 2010. The highlight of Davis' 2010 preseason had to be this throw. After Davis rolled to his right, he uncorked a 65 yard rocket. The Davis crowd had to feel validated when Cris Collinsworth made a comparison to John Elway. We know it was contextual to that throw, but it reminded me of when Bob Costas compared Stephen Strasburg to Randy Johnson, Sandy Koufax, and Greg Maddux over the course of his debut. Now Strasburg brought a little something more to the table, but when you start making those comparisons you suck people in to the growing legend.
However, shortly after that Mike Singletary basically stated that Davis had not adequately prepared in the offseason and was not in a position to step forward as a viable option for the 49ers at that point in time. Matt Barrows provides some excellent insight about Nate Davis amidst the contract signings and the 49ers QB situation. While some columnists might be more inclined to turn it into a full-on hatchet job, Barrows uses facts and Singletary quotations in his article. Weight gain isn't always a sign of laziness, but give his situation over the last season with the 49ers, one has to wonder how serious he is taking his NFL future.
It remains to be seen whether Nate Davis will return to the 49ers in 2011. All things considered I'd guess he will not be with the 49ers. Of course, the addition of a new head coach could change that. However, at this point Trent Baalke does not seem to be interested in bringing him back. I suppose some might view this as Baalke not wanting to saddle a new coach with any QBs he doesn't want, but the value of the contract would have been so minimal that he could just as easily be cut. I think as of today, the 49ers career of Nate Davis is finished.


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Biography: Mark Waterswas born in England on the 12 February 1985. Moved to South Africa at an early age, with the ocean being his back garden, an enduring passion for surfing begun. At the age of 15, his parents bought him a video camera to capture his youth spent in the ocean, which instantly created a film making hobby. When he was 19 he left the shores of Cape Town to travel the world and seek a more creative path to begin shaping himself into the person he is today. He has travelled to over 25 countries, 6 continents and just about every corner of the world, experiencing many different cultures and lifestyles. With his camera in his hand he shot and documented all that he experienced! This camera hobby, developed into a passion. He started creating short inspirational films that he directed, shot and edited from start to finish with no profit in mind. His sole reason for doing this was for his own enjoyment and education with the hope to inspire people to get out into the world and experience this amazing lifestyle. This opened up his creative portal where he was filled with inspiration to master the art of film making. He never attended university or film school but he refers to the world, as his class and his experiences to be his text books. This has created his own style and approach to composing visuals and stories. Once he felt like he had acquired sufficient skills, he entered the the freelance world where he has continued to travel the world directing, shooting and editing projects from sustainability documentaries, award winning films, working with international bands and musician and more recently working with some of the biggest action sports brands on the planet.
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The conference center at 16 Beacon Street was packed once again, this time thanks to eager volunteers looking to get involved in pro bono work in the Boston Housing Court. The Real Estate Public Service Committee and Volunteer Lawyers Project teamed up to host the annual Boston Bar Association Landlord Tenant Basics Training. Volunteers were prepped on what to expect and how to prepare to volunteer for the Lawyer for the Day in the Boston Housing Court Program by First Justice of the Boston Housing Court Jeffrey Winik, Katy Ward (Mintz Levin), Seth Malamut (Sherin & Lodgen), and Maria Theophilis (Broderick, Bancroft & Goldberg).
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50 years young and still gorgeous
You'd never guess it unless someone told you, but Ann Curry, famous Today Show host, turns the big five-o today.
We'd like to take this opportunity to salute Ann, her great work and gorgeous looks.
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This seems to be one of the rare instances where the open collusion/consultation between AIPAC and the Israeli government is so clearly stated. From Ynet:
The West Bank construction freeze of all things should not be a problem: Firstly, because there was really never a full freeze, even for a moment. Secondly, because it's possible to maintain a freeze without declaring it. A few days ago, AIPAC's top brass visited Israel. AIPAC leaders met with Netanyahu and other ministers. They agreed that once the freeze period ends, Israel will engage in restrained, moderate construction in the West Bank and report to AIPAC accurately and in advance on every house or balcony to be built.


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Anderson, Jamison to fill in for Texans' Williams
With Texans DE Mario Williams out for the season because of a sports hernia, ex-Bears DE Mark Anderson and former undrafted free agent Tim Jamison will play more.
Texans place DE Williams, two others on I.R.
The Texans have placed three players on injured reserve, including DE Mario Williams.
Texans to sign former Patriots, Broncos DE Green
The Texans will sign former Patriots and Broncos DE Jarvis Green, PFW learned Wednesday.
Ravens beat Texans in overtime, 34-28
Josh Wilson intercepted Matt Schaub's pass and returned it 12 yards for a touchdown in overtime. lifting the Baltimore Ravens to a 34-28 win over the Houston Texans on Monday night.
Texans' run defense a positive
The Texans' defense has had a disappointing season overall, but their play against the run has been a strength.
Faulty radar in Houston
Mixed signals are once again the order of the day for the skidding Texans, a talented but inconsistent team that just can't ever seem to find a way to seal the deal.
Texans' Williams contends with sports hernia
Texans DE Mario Williams, the team's top pass rusher, received treatment for a sports hernia the day before the loss to the Eagles and is playing through the injury.
Vick rallies Eagles past Texans 34-24
Michael Vick threw for 302 yards and accounted for three touchdowns, rallying the Philadelphia Eagles to a 34-24 victory over the Houston Texans on Thursday night.
CB Samuel out for Eagles
Eagles CB Asante Samuel is inactive for tonight's game vs. the Texans, who will be without No. 1 TE Owen Daniels.
Texans place S Williams on IR, promote OG Smith
The Texans placed rookie S Torri Williams on injured reserve and promoted rookie OG Shelley Smith to fill his roster spot.
Texans stand up and fight — and get huge break
Losses by the Jaguars and Colts on Sunday leave the Texans just one game out of first place in the AFC South as they prepare for a road game at Philadelphia on Thursday night. And in more good news for ...
Johnson and Finnegan each fined $25,000 for brawl
Texans WR Andre Johnson and Titans CB Cortland Finnegan were each fined $25,000 by the NFL on Monday for fighting in Sunday's game. Neither was suspended.
Brawl overshadows Texans' shutout of Titans
The Texans snapped a four-game losing streak while Houston WR Andre Johnson and Tennessee CB Cortland Finnegan were ejected for an ugly two-man brawl in the fourth quarter of a 20-0 Houston win over Tennessee on Sunday.
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Texans WR Andre Johnson and Titans CB Cortland Finnegan were each ejected during the fourth quarter of the team's game today after exchanging punches.
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The biggest positive in what has been a disappointing Texans season to date has been the sustained success of RB Arian Foster, who is on pace for more than 1,600 yards rushing and has become a significant factor in ...
Joseph is active for the Houston Texans after missing two games with a hamstring injury.||||||| Joseph's presence should help contain the Patriots' high-powered passing attack.
Texans coach Gary Kubiak says cornerback Johnathan Joseph, linebacker Bradie James and offensive linemen Derek Newton and Antoine Caldwell will miss Sunday's game at Tennessee. All of those players sat out Friday's workout, as did cornerback Alan Ball, who has a sore foot. Kubiak had already ruled out linebacker Brooks Reed, who's sidelined indefinitely with a groin injury.||||||| Joseph (hamstring), Caldwell (hamstring), Newton (right knee) and James (hamstring) have sat out practices all week. Ball will be a game-time decision.
Joseph sat out practice Wednesday with a groin injury.||||||| Texans coach Gary Kubiak said he was optimistic that Joseph would play against the Ravens Sunday.
The Texans have agreed to terms with Joseph.||||||| Houston went 6-10 last season and was desperate to land a top-tier cornerback. It was reportedly a front-runner to land Nnamdi Asomugha. The Texans had the league's worst pass defense in 2010, allowing a league-high 18 receptions covering 40 yards or more. The 27-year-old Joseph is three years younger than Asomugha, and intercepted nine passes in his last two seasons in Cincinnati. The Bengals drafted Joseph out of South Carolina with the 24th overall pick in 2006.
Joseph will miss the rest of the season with a foot injury. The team on Friday placed Joseph on injured reserve, the third defensive starter lost to injury this season after linebacker Keith Rivers and safety Dexter Jackson.||||||| Joseph missed two early games with the injury, but had played in six straight games before aggravating it Sunday against Philadelphia. He didn't play in Thursday night's loss at Pittsburgh.


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Apple pushed Intel to develop Light Peak cabling – "it reviewed evidence that Apple began talks with Intel in 2007 to develop a new cabling standard with the capacity to handle "massive amounts of data" and replace a variety of existing ports, including USB, FireWire, and DisplayPort…"
Canadian team makes cancer diagnostic breakthrough – "Researchers say a microchip developed at the University of Toronto could change how cancer and infectious diseases are diagnosed, allowing doctors to conduct quicker and less invasive testing…"
The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind – "Henry the schnoodle just did a remarkable thing. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can…"
New image editing tools for Photoshop CS5 – "The project is a collaboration between Adobe, Princeton University, and the University of Washington…" See also these amazing manipulations:
CitySailer – A Two Wheeler To Cruise on Public Roads Without a Helmet – "The CitiSailer is powered by fuel cells and would be the perfect gadget for people who are just so tired of getting stuck in traffic for hours. It is a two- wheel vehicle which has a sleek slim design that can be maneuvered easily and is really light to drive…"
A History of Storage Cost – "When I got my first computer in the early nineties, I remember wondering how I could possibly fill all 30 megabytes of hard drive space, even if I had a thousand years. A decada and a half later, on a sunny August afternoon, I decided that it was time to invest in a terabyte drive. A terabyte. Seriously? How did this 100,000x increase in needed space happen without me really noticing?"
Contraception fights global warming – "Each $7.00 spent on basic family planning over the next four decades will reduce CO2 emissions by more than a ton. To achieve the same results with low carbon technologies would cost a minimum of $32.00. If we just meet that need that women have already expressed for fewer children and access to contraception, we will save 34 gigatons between now and 2050, equivalent to nearly six times the annual emissions of the US."
Ignoring RIAA lawsuits cheaper than going to trial – "The same federal judge who oversaw the Joel Tenenbaum file-sharing trial earlier this year passed out default judgments this week against other file-swappers who never bothered to show up—and they now owe far less than Tenenbaum…"
DNA test shows Hitler skull is that of a woman – "ADOLF Hitler may not have died in a bunker after fresh research suggests the skull thought to be the tyrant's was from a woman…"
Lower-cost solar cells to be printed like newspaper, painted on rooftops – "Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle "inks" that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight…"
Lattice Effect – "When I initially viewed the 256-byte intro Puls by Řrřola that took first place at Riverwash 2009, I think I shared a common sentiment with many other developers out there: That's impossible! Řrřola was kind enough to release his x86 assembly language source code, revealing that the effect is computed without the aid of 3D libraries or hardware acceleration. It's mind-blowing…"
Afghanistan, September, 2009 – "Violence in Afghanistan has reached its most intense of the eight-year-old war despite record levels of U.S. and NATO troops being sent to fight the Taliban. July and August were the two deadliest months to date for coalition forces, and September is already the 3rd-deadliest, with 38 U.S. deaths – 68 total including all coalition members. With an apparently resurgent Taliban and over 120,000 foreign troops on the ground, and a recent push for the U.S. to consider sending 40,000 more (beyond the additional 21,000 troops still committed but yet undeployed), the situation in Afghanistan could possibly become even more intense in the near future…"
Some artists use paint, others bronze… – "Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks. LEGO bricks to be exact…"
A brief guide to DNA sequencing – "Understanding technology shouldn't be limited to processors and memory. Developments in DNA sequencing are already changing the face of medicine, and the pace of technology development in the field is staggering. Read on to understand the basics of DNA sequencing…"
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Erasing Dark Energy – "Why do we need dark energy to explain the observable universe? Two mathematicians propose an alternate solution that, while beautiful, may raise even more questions than it answers…"
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Melting memory chips in mass production – "South Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics announced this week that it has begun mass production of a new kind of memory chip that stores information by melting and freezing tiny crystals. Known as phase-change memory (PCM), the idea was first proposed by physicists in the 1960s. Here, Nature explains how PCM works, why it has taken so long to develop and how it could change your mobile phone forever…"
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First time posting to the site but Ive been a fan of ToDp for a few years now. Here a few pics from our little trip out the other day. It was a pretty nice afternoon so we got a babysitter and took the bike for a ride to a nature area near our home. Once we decided to walk some of the hiking trails I told my wife Sharon since its such a beautiful day out how about you let your tits get some of the breeze, since my wife has always does as I ask when its anything sexual she was more then happy to oblige. In these pics you'll see her as we start out shes standing by the road near the bike then we found a little bridge then we have her posing with an appropriate trail marker and the last two photos are of Sharon on my bike.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy visited Brownstone Exploration and Discovery Park in Portland on Thursday morning as part of his summer-long effort to promote tourism in Connecticut.
Malloy, who was joined by members of the state's "Still Revolutionary" campaign, met with Brownstone owner Sean Hayes, who guided the Governor on a tour of the popular waterpark built in the town's historic brownstone quarries.
Following the tour, Gov. Malloy expressed optimism over Hayes' efforts to purchase and restore Powder Ridge ski area in Middlefield.
The governor's promotional tour follows the unveiling in May of the state's new "Still Revolutionary" marketing campaign, which features Brownstone Park as one of the state's attractions.
The promotional video can be seen here.
The Governor also had scheduled stops in Middletown, Haddam and Middlefield.


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What Is a Lumpectomy
A lumpectomy is a surgical procedure to remove a small area of breast tissue that is cancerous or suspected to be cancerous. The lumpectomy procedure is known by several names, including breast conservation surgery, excisional biopsy and partial mastectomy.
Lumpectomy surgery is typically performed by a surgical oncologist, a physician who specializes in the treatment of cancer with surgical interventions. The surgery can be performed on an inpatient or outpatient basis. If general anesthesia is used, the patient typically remains in the hospital overnight. If local anesthesia is used, the patient may go home the same day as the surgery.
This surgery is typically reserved for women who have a single, relatively small area of tissue that must be removed. Women with a large mass may need to have significantly more breast tissue removed, which often requires a more aggressive approach such as a mastectomy.
While a lumpectomy is less disfiguring than a mastectomy and typically does not require reconstructive plastic surgery afterward, a lumpectomy can cause significant changes in the appearance of the breast if a large amount of tissue is taken. In addition to the scar or scars left by surgery, there may be a visible change in skin texture over the site. There may also be an obvious lack of tissue in the area, even after the skin heals.


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Author: Warren Boroson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Keywords: buffett, warren, stocks, pick, lasser
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Author: Warren Boroson
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: buffett, warren, stocks, pick, lasser
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-10-26
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A PROVEN INVESTMENT STRATEGY FROM A PROVEN WINNER "Buffett is much praised, but seldom replicated. Now with Warren Boroson's J.K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett investors have a template for both identifying fund managers who pick stocks like the master and for improving their own techniques for identifying great stock market values."–Don Phillips, Managing Director, Morningstar, Inc. Warren Buffett's investment strategy of buying and holding good stocks at good prices has proved profitable for thousands of investors. Now, with J.K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warre
Author: Jodi L. Brandon forWarren County Historical Socie
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, warren
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-05-27
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Nestled in the heart of northwestern Pennsylvania in the Allegheny National Forest, Warren was founded in 1795 and incorporated as a borough in 1832. The new borough was a thriving lumbering center in its early days and continued to grow along with the burgeoning oil and railroad industries. Over the ensuing decades, Warrenís prosperity and other attractions lured flocks of new residents who combined to create a proud community. ÝÝWarren is a compilation of nearly two hundred photographs drawn from the extensive collections held at the Warren County Historical Society. This invaluable book
Authors:Warren W. Willingham, Nancy S. Cole, Warren W. Willi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: assessment, fair, gender
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1997-05-01
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There have been many important changes in the participation of women and men in American society over the past quarter-century. Tests play a role in those changes by providing evidence of the diverse achievement and proficiency of women and men. They aid the learning process and reflect inequalities in opportunity to learn and participate. In addition, they provide useful information in considering what alternatives in education and work make most sense for individuals and influence views about groups of students, educational programs, and a wide range of issues. For all of these reasons, it i
Author: Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: warren, foreign, law, american, legacy, court, earl
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-11-27
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Earl Warren and the Warren Court comprises essays written by leading experts from the fields of law, history, and social science on the most important areas of the Warren Court's contributions in American law. In addition, Scheiber includes appraisals of the Warren Court's influence abroad.
Authors:Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi,
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: plan, money, lifetime, ultimate, worth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-01-09
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You work hard and try to save money, so why is there never enough to cover all the bills, to put some away in your child's college fund, to pay off your credit card debt -- or to relax and have some fun, for once? In the New York Times bestseller All Your Worth, mother/daughter team Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi -- authors of the acclaimed The Two-Income Trap -- tell you the truth about money. The authors lay out a groundbreaking approach to getting control of your money so you can finally start building the life you've always wanted. The result of more than twenty years
Authors:Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi,
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: plan, money, lifetime, ultimate, worth
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A guide to achieving financial stability and prosperity encourages new ways to think about and manage money, discussing such topics as balancing a budget, planning for entertainment, and getting out of debt.


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It was last thursday night, I was out sarjing with a wingman and my pivot. We noticed these two hb10s at the club we were at in Toronto. They must have been hit on five times in maybe ten minutes. Every guy just kept on hitting on them. My pivot and wing give me the look. Get her done they say.
In I go, I approach, just as I get to them I open with my fake boobs opener...They bite, I turn my back almost completely away from them and ftc and body rock. I neg, ( what kind of models? hand models?) they were hair models which was perfect for another neg. I stack forward and in comes my pivot and wing... AAAANNNDDDD back to the fake boobs, now my pivot and I have the obstacle and my wing begins gaming the target. I dhv, and routine away. Im getting Kino from our obstacle, but I noticed my wing hasnt gotten any I.O.I.s.
Every guy in the bar was eyeballing us as well. I love the pressure though.
At this point ive already isolated the target. But my wingmans target left and she was on the phone. When she came back I say,"Well introduce yourself, thats the polite thing to do." It works. After more fluffing and routine, I knew I had to number close at least.
Me: Hey we were thinking of checking out a club called This Is London. Ever here of it?
Them: Yes we go all the time
Me: Well then, enter your digits her. And I give them my phone.
Them: Ok, We'll take oyou to this is london
Me: For sure
Number close done. We fluffed a bit more but they had to go back to work.
Every guy in the club couldnt believe what had happened. Not only did the number close happen in front of them but the girls were so entertained and had so much fun.
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Everyone slows down on the freeway to look at a car accident. It always irritates me. I think to myself, "everybody stop slowing down to look at the mess." But, sure as the sun when I get there I turn, slow down, and check out the damage.
The Zags imploded, rolled across lanes, and ran into a telephone poll. (15 to 25) All the Zag faithful want to drive by, and keep going but we can't. We just cant look down the road and speed up. As I drive by I am asking myself a few questions. 1. Are there any fatalities? 2. Is this car able to be repaired? 3. Will they be able to put the fire out?
Ok so the metaphor is over. What is this going to do to the psyche of our team? Will they rebound? This is a young team and clearly they buckled under the pressure. Now they know what it feels like. They have now excelled under pressure (Michigan State, Wisconsin, Cincinnati) and melted down under pressure (Duke). We all know this team is better than that, and I expect them all to move forward with a chip on their shoulders. But what caused this accident?
My diagnosis of the meltdown:
Bouldin is out of it, keep him on the bench until he can spell his name. Gray looks either half dead or on fire- bench him until he puts in some effort. Stick with your diaper dandies until you see some consistent fire. Tough defense and driving it straight down their throats was working- when we started running our pass it around the top turnover offense they started taking us apart. Man to man was keeping things slow and ugly (in our favor) when we switched to zone defense they ate us up for lunch. Then, Few didn't see the wheels coming off, he didn't call a timeout and adjust his strategy like he did in the Wake game (a game we almost won due to great adjustments) For some reason in these big games it seems like Few gets stuck on a strategy and doesn't adjust. Thats how I saw it, what do you think?


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The Chicago Bears have released tight end Kellen Davis.
The Bears announced the move Wednesday, one day after signing versatile tight end Martellus Bennett away from the New York Giants. Bennett spent one year with the Giants and had career highs with 55 receptions, 626 yards and five touchdowns.
Davis appeared in all 80 games with 35 starts over five seasons for the Bears. He had 47 receptions for 529 yards and 11 touchdowns. In two playoff games, he had two catches for 42 yards and a TD.
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Aaron M. Sackett joined the Opus College of Business faculty in 2009. Before his arrival at the University of St. Thomas, he spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
He teaches classes at both the undergraduate and graduate level and also serves as the faculty supervisor for the Behavioral Research Center on the Minneapolis campus.
Sackett's expertise lies in the domain of consumer psychology. His work focuses on understanding how consumers form judgments about past, present and future experiences, and how their goals and expectations influence their behavior. Professor Sackett is an active reviewer for numerous scholarly journals and academic conferences including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology - General, the Association for Consumer Research and the Society for Consumer Psychology.
Sackett received his B.A. summa cum laude in psychology from St. Olaf College, and M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in social psychology from Yale University, where he was awarded a NSF graduate research fellowship for his work on optimism in personal forecasts.more
Academic Background
B.A., psychology, St. Olaf College
M.S., social psychology, Yale University
M. Phil., social psychology, Yale University
Ph.D., social psychology, Yale University
Research Specialties
- Judgment and decision making
- Consumer psychology
Current Research
- The relationship between goals, performance, and satisfaction
- How illusions of control over outcomes influences sports fanaticism
- Sources of optimism in people's predictions about their own future
- Time's influence on consumer judgments and behavior
See Aaron Sackett talk about perception of time progression and its impact on consumer satisfaction and experiences in a short video, part of the Ahead of the Curve series »
Major Works
- Alexander, David L. and Aaron M. Sackett, "If Only I Had the Time! The Impact of Time Salience on Consumers' Evaluations of Product Offers," Journal of Consumer Behaviour 12 (2013): 382-388.
- Hazlett, Abigail, Daniel C. Molden and Aaron M. Sackett, "Hoping for the Best or Preparing for the Worst? Regulatory Focus and Preferences for Optimism and Pessimism in Predicting Personal Outcomes," Social Cognition 29 (2011): 74-96.
- Sackett, Aaron M., Tom Meyvis, Leif D. Nelson, Benjamin A. Converse and Anna L. Sackett, "You're Having Fun When Time Flies: The Hedonic Consequences of Subjective Time Progression," Psychological Science 21 (2010): 111-117.
- Armor, D., C. Massey and A. M. Sackett, "Prescribed Optimism: Is It Right to be Wrong About the Future?" Psychological Science 19 (2008): 329-331.
- Armor, D. A. and A. M. Sackett, "Accuracy, Error, and Bias in Predictions for Real versus Hypothetical Events," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 91 (2006): 583-600.
Significant Scholarly Honors
- Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2005-2006
- Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2002-2005
- Graduate Research Fellowship, Yale University 2000-2003


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Evan, with Paige and Hank assisting, finally gets a shot at signing an elite country club to a HankMed retainer. First, Hank must discover what ails the club manager. Divya has angry words with her father that have unexpected results.
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By Tom Service [6 August 2014, The Guardian]
Some aperçus and soupçons based on those of Paul Morley, with whom I was talking recently for a film I'm making for BBC4 on Mozart. As well as Paul's Mozartian epiphany - thanks to a darkened room and a Google-lottery of K numbers, but you'll have to wait until the autumn for more on that - Morley suggested something that got me thinking: that today's era of technological fluidity, flexibility, and almost-instant access to an entire world of musical possibility suits classical musical culture better, potentially, than it does rock and pop.
[The Telegraph, 5 August 2014]
Opera star Christiane Karg took the old saying "the show must go on" to painful extremes recently when she completed a performance with a broken leg.
By Mark Lowry [TheaterJones, 20 June 2014]
The Dallas Opera's previously announced world premiere of Great Scott in 2015 will now be co-produced with the recently saved San Diego Opera.
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New York, NY (June 17, 2014 ) — After an outpouring of concern that its plans to transmit John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer might be used to fan global anti-Semitism, the Metropolitan Opera announced the decision today to cancel its Live in HD transmission, scheduled for November 15, 2014. The opera, which premiered in 1991, is about the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship and the murder of one of its Jewish passengers, Leon Klinghoffer, at the hands of Palestinian terrorists.
"I'm convinced that the opera is not anti-Semitic," said the Met's General Manager, Peter Gelb. "But I've also become convinced that there is genuine concern in the international Jewish community that the live transmission of The Death of Klinghoffer would be inappropriate at this time of rising anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe." The final decision was made after a series of discussions between Mr. Gelb and Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, representing the wishes of the Klinghoffer daughters.
In recent seasons, the Metropolitan Opera has championed contemporary operatic masterpieces as part of its ongoing efforts to keep opera artistically current. Previously, the Met has presented John Adams's other two major operas, Doctor Atomic (in 2008) and Nixon in China (in 2011). "John Adams is one of America's greatest composers and The Death of Klinghoffer is one of his greatest works," said Gelb. The Met will go forward with its stage presentation of The Death of Klinghoffer in its scheduled run of eight performances from October 20 to November 15. In deference to the daughters of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer, the Met has agreed to include a message from them both in the Met's Playbill and on its website.
In recent years, The Death of Klinghoffer has been presented without incident at The Juilliard School (2009), the Opera Theatre of St. Louis (2011), and as recently as this March in Long Beach, California. The Met's new production was first seen in London at the English National Opera in 2012, and received widespread critical acclaim.
By Michael Cooper [NY Times, 11 June 2014]
Nothing about Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle is small in scale, but when a would-be impresario came up with the idea of staging it in West Hartford, Conn., he envisioned replacing its massive orchestral forces with the digital sounds of sampled instruments.
By John Suchet [Classic FM, 11 June 2014]
I love opera, but sometimes even the thought of going to see it is nerve-wracking. Are the tickets going to bankrupt me? Do I have to dress up? And how much will I actually see (if I am up in the gods will the action be too far away and if I use those little binoculars, will I be able to read the surtitles)? In short: is it worth the hassle?
In 2014, American baritone Thomas Hampson celebrates Richard Strauss' 150th anniversary.
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The town of Malcolm is getting a little safer. The Malcolm Fire Station held an open house Sunday to show off its brand new ambulance.
Before purchasing the ambulance, Malcolm Fire and Rescue relied on ambulances from Lincoln and Raymond.
Nearly 200 people came out to take a look. The open house featured a bouncy house, face–painting, plenty of food and an appearance by Smokey the Bear.
"It'll be a very nice thing for the community to have the ambulance, knowing that it can get there quicker, get patients to the hospital a lot quicker," Joy Plautz said.
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Thank you to Marie who has given us JOURNAL A QUOTE as our theme at the Three Muses this week.
Credit to HolliewoodStudio and the talented ladies of the WaterLO Project.
Thank you for looking.
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Elegant and perfect!ReplyDelete
Your picture is filled with energy and life it makes me want to well..."Seize The Day!"....well done!ReplyDelete
Excellent artwork and quote.ReplyDelete
what a great quote to do!! a very necessary reminder to live by!ReplyDelete
Make everyday count, great expressive way to illustrate the quote, Ann, I can just see you 'jumping for joy!'ReplyDelete
The lady is full of energy - great picture and the quote is one of my favourites.ReplyDelete
Your talent just shines through everything you do Ann. Wonderful work! xxReplyDelete
energetic, lovely piece of work.ReplyDelete
Oooooh, this is really a modern art pic!ReplyDelete
You blow me aways once more my dear Ann!
This quote is the more wise I know.
Bravo! So well done!
A joyful invigorating piece of art, dear Ann.ReplyDelete
Fabulous quote and piece, Ann!ReplyDelete
The texture on this piece is fantastic. The paper person looks like I could pick it off the page. Outstanding!ReplyDelete
Words to live by! Great, lively piece, Ann.xxReplyDelete
Brilliant use of a silhouette, Ann, and words to live by! The bsckground is varied and interesting. Great work.ReplyDelete
wonderful mix of designs!!ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous! And full of Joy!ReplyDelete
Yes, full of joy AND movement. This is such a creatively whimsical and happy artpiece. I love it.ReplyDelete
this is fantastic!! may i sort of copy it for one of my prayer flags? this silhouette jumping of joy is wonderful!ReplyDelete
this is really fantatsic - Johanna is right!ReplyDelete
Wonderful quote and I love the swinging motion of the shape person.ReplyDelete
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Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Financial Statements and
On August 7, 2013, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") announced that Brigitte Smith resigned from her position as a director of the Company, effective as of the close of business on August 7, 2013. Ms. Smith has stated that her resignation is not because of a disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company's operations, policies or practices.
On August 7, 2013, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Company appointed V. Bryan Lawlis, Jr., Ph.D. to serve as a director of the Company, effective as of the close of business on August 7, 2013. The Board also appointed Dr. Lawlis to serve on the Audit Committee of the Board (the "Audit Committee"), effective as of the close of business on August 7, 2013. Dr. Lawlis co-founded Itero Biopharmaceuticals, LLC, a privately held developer of value-added follow-on and novel therapeutic proteins and antibodies, in 2006. From August 2004 to August 2006, Dr. Lawlis served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Aradigm Corporation ("Aradigm"). Dr. Lawlis served as Aradigm's President and Chief Operating Officer from June 2003 to August 2004, and as its Chief Operating Officer from November 2001 to June 2003. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Lawlis served as Chairman of Covance Biotechnology Services Inc. ("Covance"), a contract biopharmaceutical manufacturing operation that he co-founded. From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Lawlis served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Covance. From 1981 to 1996, Dr. Lawlis was employed at Genencor, Inc. and Genentech, Inc., where he served for a period as Vice President of Process Sciences. Dr. Lawlis holds a B.A. in microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Washington State University.
In connection with his appointment to the Board, Dr. Lawlis will receive compensation consistent with the Company's current compensation arrangements for non-employee directors, including cash compensation in the amount of $40,000 per year payable as an annual retainer. Dr. Lawlis will also receive cash compensation in the amount of $10,000 per year payable as an annual retainer in connection with Dr. Lawlis's service on the Audit Committee. Dr. Lawlis will also be granted an option to purchase 20,000 shares of the Company's common stock.
A copy of the press release announcing Ms. Smith's resignation and Dr. Lawlis's appointment is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit Number Description 99.1 Press release issued by KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on August 7, 2013.


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Lacing Up the Gloves, and Holding Up the Flag of Ulster
By COREY KILGANNON
Published: April 16, 2005
The city's latest great boxing hope is in the Rockaways, an undefeated middleweight from County Derry, Ireland, named John Duddy.
''See his build?'' his trainer, Harry Keitt, said the other day while watching Mr. Duddy shadowbox at the Irish Ropes Boxing Club in Far Rockaway, Queens. ''A lot of people think he's a guitar player, not a boxer. But not after they see him punch.''
Mr. Duddy, 25, is 9-0, all knockouts, and Mr. Keitt, 47, hopes to match him soon with a contender.
''We're still on the welfare line now,'' said Mr. Keitt, a Bedford-Stuyvesant native who sparred with Muhammad Ali. ''But we're moving up quick.''
He methodically taped Mr. Duddy's hands and then slid on a pair of boxing gloves the colors of his homeland's flag.
''John's our flag carrier,'' crowed Mr. Duddy's manager and promoter, Eddy McLoughlin, 48, a former amateur fighter from County Mayo.
Mr. Duddy's father, Mickey Duddy, was a successful lightweight in Ireland. John Duddy began learning boxing at age 5 and had his first fight at age 7; he won his first Irish national title at 15. ''Even when I was a wee kid, me father always said I had a gift of punching power, so he did,'' Mr. Duddy said in his thick Irish accent. ''But Harry's taught me technique and increased me power dramatically. When me father came over and saw how much I've improved, he was gobsmacked.''
Mr. Keitt explained: ''He was punching from his toes, so I showed him how to sit down on his punches, how to squat down and turn at the waist to punch. You have to fight smart, not brave.''
Mr. Keitt usually works his fighters out of Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, but in the Rockaways, the 5-foot-11-inch, 165-pound Mr. Duddy can train in his unusual way. He runs in the sand on Rockaway Beach and spends 20 minutes at a time in the alley outside hitting a big tractor tire with a sledgehammer, reminiscent of Sylvester Stallone punching sides of beef in ''Rocky.''
Mr. Duddy finished punishing a heavy bag and walked over to a wall of lockers with Irish names scrawled on them -- Kenny McLoughlin, Sean McCormack, Tommy McGloc. -- and took a pair of work gloves from his own locker. He pulled a sledgehammer from under the ring and went outside to pound the tire.
In 2003, he immigrated from Northern Ireland to train at Gleason's. Then Mr. McLoughlin, who had first opened Irish Ropes at the rear of the Grandstand bar in Maspeth, moved it to the Rockaways. ''He showed me the beach here and the Rockaways, and I've never felt more at home,'' Mr. Duddy said.
Mr. Keitt said: ''When he fights, he can sell out a small arena just with his own following. The Irish support their own.''
Mr. Duddy nodded. ''I never knew how lucky I was to be Irish till I came to America,'' he said.
Photos: John Duddy went through his paces last month at the Irish Ropes Boxing Club in Queens under the watchful eye of his trainer, John Keitt. Part of the workout for the middleweight from Ireland is a sledgehammer-on-tire drill. (Photographs by G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times)


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Shreveport police have arrested the mother of the man wanted in connection with a deadly shooting earlier this week in north Shreveport.
Just before midnight on Friday, police investigators say they arrested 36-year-old Demetrice Smith, who they say played a key role in assisting her 19-year-old son Andrew Smith avoid capture by authorities.
Andrew Smith is accused of shooting 21-year-old Prentiss Britton on Tuesday night at the Cooper Road Plaza Apartments in the 2900 block of Peach Street.
Witnesses told police that the gunman stood over Britton and pumped as many as a dozen bullets into him. Britton died about an hour later at LSU Medical Center.
Demetrice Smith has been booked into the Shreveport City Jail, charged with accessory after the fact to second degree murder. Police are still looking for her son.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest on a charge of second degree murder.
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Archive for August 2011
Woolwich wall: Now Greenwich Council mounts a cover-up
Attention drones! Your council has replaced your "graffiti" with educational messages! Remember: "Greenwich will be a royal borough from January 2012. A third of Olympic and Paralympic events…"
Puts Greenwich Council's distancing itself from the painting-over of the wall in a different light, doesn't it? Instead of talking to and listening to Woolwich residents, still shocked from seeing their town centre burn three weeks ago, Greenwich Council chooses to hide behind slogans.
As for "back to business", it's anything but at one of Woolwich's oldest businesses, just yards from the wall, still shut because of riot damage:
Where were the police that night? What is the council doing to make people feel safer? Where are the skilled jobs and affordable housing people will need instead of jobs stacking Tesco shelves and "investment opportunities" behind brick walls? Never mind. You don't need to know. Say after me: "Greenwich will be a royal borough from January 2012. A third of Olympic and Paralympic events…"
Still, according to this letter in this week's Greenwich Time, we know who to thank…
Dismount corner: The Thames Barrier's cycle path folly
Now the rain's starting to clear, how about a bank holiday bike ride? In the year I've been cycling, I've discovered two words which no cyclist obeys. "Cyclists dismount". Nine times out of ten, it's usually there instead of a more sensible instruction like "slow down" and "pedestrians take priority".
I saw this at the Thames Barrier last night. One of the footpaths there has been inexplicably closed off for a couple of weeks, with pedestrians directed to the cycle path. No big deal, pedestrians usually use the cycle path anyway. At a tight corner…
What's behind it? A big trench that make the path impassable? No, another sign. Which reads…
So cyclists on a designated cycle path are supposed to get off, walk four metres, and then get back on again, instead of being instructed to slow down and watch for people on foot.
Did the person at the Environment Agency who installed these signs really expect this to happen? Did they really expect normal cyclists to do this, never mind the idiots and children it's presumably aimed at? No wonder why "cyclists dismount" is the most ignored street sign that I know of.
(See also the plan to create a permanent anti-cycle chicane at Deptford.)
Woolwich foot tunnel now closed until 2012
(For later readers: The tunnel reopened – without lifts – just before Christmas 2011. The signs still said it was closed though. Read on for a tale of woe and secrecy, if you like.) (Hello LFGSS forum.)
Woolwich Foot Tunnel will now be closed until spring 2012, pushing its reopening a year beyond schedule, according to notices placed at the shut-down river crossing by Greenwich Council.
Work began in April 2009 on both the Woolwich tunnel and its sister crossing at Greenwich as part of a refurbishment programme originally costed at £11.5 million, with the job due to be finished within two years.
But the work at both tunnels, which is being carried by contractors Balfour Beatty, has been beset by problems and delays.
While both tunnels were meant to stay open while work was taking place, the Woolwich tunnel closed altogether last autumn, firstly because of problems with its stairs, and later because of "additional works to the crown of the tunnel", according to Greenwich cabinet member Denise Hyland, who said in March that the tunnel would re-open in June.
Pedestrians and cyclists at Woolwich are able to use the Woolwich Ferry during daytimes, with walkers also able to pay to use the Docklands Light Railway as an alternative.
The council's website still claims the Woolwich tunnel will reopen in August 2011, and no news of the delay has been published in its weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time.
Greenwich Foot Tunnel has been closed at night since February while its lifts are being replaced, following a period of regular sudden closures and a period when it was shut altogether because the old lifts kept breaking down while the stairs were out of service. There is no alternative for cyclists at Greenwich, although pedestrians can pay to use the Docklands Light Railway or a limited river boat service.
There is no news at the moment on whether delays have also affected work at Greenwich.
Meanwhile, the London Assembly's transport committee chair has formally complained to Greenwich Council after it failed to respond to her questions on the foot tunnel repairs.
Liberal Democrat Caroline Pidgeon first contacted leader Chris Roberts in 2009 on the issue, only to receive a reply refusing to answer, and telling her to ask her Labour colleague Len Duvall for information.
A further letter in February 2011 received no response, and nor did a letter to council chief executive Mary Ney – whose £190,000 job is supposed to be apolitical – in April 2011.
She said: "The record of Greenwich Council in upgrading these tunnels and keeping users updated has been appalling.
"The situation over Greenwich Foot Tunnel has been bad enough, but they have taken incompetence to new heights over the Woolwich Foot Tunnel.
"How can a council say on its website that a public highway will finally be re-opened by the end of this month and then have signage at the entrance to the tunnel saying it will be another six months before it is actually open to the public?
"There would be uproar if motorists were treated like this. The fact that Greenwich Council think they can treat pedestrians and cyclists in such a poor manner says everything about the low priority they give to walking and cycling."
She added that she was "appalled" that her own enquiries into the issue had been ignored, and was prepared to take her complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman.
New tower blocks for Woolwich riverside
The last undeveloped section of Woolwich riverside looks finally set to be built upon. Greenwich's planning board gave permission last night for the completion of the Mast Pond Wharf development on Woolwich Church Street, by the ferry terminal.
Walkers and cyclists who use the Thames Path will be familiar with the two existing towers, which have been in use for five years and are built on stilts because of the lack of flood defences on that stretch of river.
Now they are due to be joined by two more towers, providing 204 homes, a restaurant and office space. Developers will have to allow an archeological dig on the site first, since this land used to be part of the Woolwich royal dockyard.
The board voted 4-2 to allow the development, with Conservatives Dermot Poston and Geoff Brighty voting against because of concerns the towers would block the view of St Mary's church from the river.
On Blackheath planning 2012 date change
A bit late with this, but the organisers of next year's On Blackheath festival are planning to hold the event on 22 and 23 September, a little later than the weekend they'd usually aim to hold it on. It's all down to the Olympics and Paralympics, with the police planning to use the Territorial Army building at Hollyhedge House as a base, and On Blackheath wanting to use it too.
An application has gone into Lewisham Council, which needs to approve the date change, with responses due in tomorrow. Lewisham's certainly learned a lesson from being criticised in the court case surrounding the festival's licence – with the site of the event covered in notices for what's only a minor change. Even the side of Shooters Hill Road without a pavement is festooned with notices.
While on the heath, what's with the fence surrounding the bank holiday funfair? Apparently there was one there for May's fair (I was away then) as well, which dispels my notion that it's some kind of post-riot measure. But it doesn't look particularly welcoming with a steel fence around it…
Why the News Shopper's Woolwich witch-hunt is all wrong
The News Shopper's got its knickers in a twist…
SHOULD the man in charge of tourism in Greenwich be telling the world he has to hide his wallet before visiting Woolwich?
News Shopper is calling for the resignation of Neil McCollum after he posted the following message on social media website Twitter: "Guest Appearance in Woolwich today. Wonder if it has changed. Mental note, make sure wallet is not visible."
The Petts Wood-based newspaper has discovered an old and unflattering tweet by Greenwich Council's tourism boss. Fair enough, it was a bloody stupid thing to type. But something to resign over? Really? Who in this area hasn't cracked a joke about Woolwich being a bit of a tip over the past few years?
I've seen Neil's account a few times, and nowhere has he mentioned his employers – there's been a couple of tongue-in-cheek references to being a tourism supremo or something like that. The first time I saw his account, I didn't know he was a council employee although I thought the name was familiar. I scoured for proof, couldn't find it, and left none the wiser.
So while he was stupid to have tweeted this, and it's a clear case of how not to use social media, all this surely deserves is a firm-telling off. Not a call for resignation from a newspaper which isn't even based locally.
There's a reason why the Shopper smells blood – earlier this year, a Labour council candidate in Gravesend, which is even further away from Petts Wood than Woolwich is, resigned after the paper revealed even older tweets containing bad jokes and a thirst for red wine.
But Shopper reporter Nina Massey, who wrote the story, doesn't seem so keen on SE London either….
There's serious problems with the way Greenwich Council conducts itself, and its reaction to the riot in Woolwich neatly demonstrates many of them. But someone who works for the council saying something stupid on the internet isn't one of them.
What really worries me about all this is that an already-secretive council will close ranks even further as a result of this. Communication with the public is already funnelled through a weekly propaganda paper, Labour councillors are discouraged from speaking independently on even the most trivial of matters, although thankfully some disregard this.
But councillors and their staff should be free to speak in public, and talk to the people who pay their allowances and wages. If they use social media to do this, then that's good. The odd furore over a stupid comment is a small price to pay for greater openness. If anything, it shows the need for some kind of code of social media conduct in people's contracts. After all, leading councillors can already say stupid things without having to take to Twitter or Facebook.
It would be a tragedy if the Greenwich Council went even further into its shell, just because a newspaper based outside its borders hung, drew and quartered someone for a moment of stupidity. For if that happened, we'd all lose out. Woolwich is still recovering after the worst civil disorder for decades. It'd be far better if the News Shopper called for pride in the place, rather than someone's head.
1.30pm update: Just spotted something which shows the News Shopper's knowledge of Woolwich's tourist hotspots possibly isn't what it thinks it is.
The story contains a list of "things to see in Woolwich" which neglects its two fine old military academy buildings, but includes the "big screen in Beresford Square".
That's only been there since the weekend, and is there to show images of alleged looters. Bleak humour about Woolwich? Never!
Woolwich wall 'like old flowers on lamp posts', says council chief
Greenwich Council's deputy leader has compared Woolwich's "wall of hope" to having "flowers on lamp posts for years", a day after the cherished landmark was painted over by contractors.
Locals were outraged when the wall on the side of the burnt-out Great Harry pub, created in the aftermath of the riot on 8 August, was painted over by building owners Powis Street Estates on Monday morning.
The wall contained messages of both hope and despair following the disturbances, but the messages were described as "graffiti" by both Powis Street Estates and Greenwich Council in press statements.
Asked by News Shopper reporter Mark Chandler to comment on the wall's destruction, Brooks said today: "The only thing I can say is Powis Street Estates wanted to paint over it.
"I can understand why people would be upset but we have to move on. It's like when you have flowers on lamp posts for years and years."
A wall of Post-It notes in Peckham is being preserved by Southwark Council, and while another one at Clapham Junction is also being saved. There had been moves to preserve the Woolwich wall before its sudden destruction.
Brooks' comment comes a day after council leader Chris Roberts said Woolwich did not need "a fixation with burnt-out buildings".
He spoke as London mayor Boris Johnson visited Woolwich, saying he was "sorry" to hear of the wall's destruction. He also visited the burnt-out Poundmart shop on Woolwich New Road.
Just when you thought the council leadership couldn't come up with anything more boneheaded and oafish – one of them has to open their mouths again. Credit to Mark Chandler and the News Shopper for putting the question to Peter Brooks. Even if you think the wall should have been painted over, it could all have been handled so differently. People wanted to express their pride in Woolwich – but the council wanted to cover these sentiments up. Apparently photographs were taken first – but will any use be made of them? (How about an exhibition of photos of the wall taken by us all, not just the council?)
How on earth did Greenwich Council get into this mess? There's plenty there fretting about this right now. The lack of public meetings and the painting over of the wall paints a picture of a council uncomfortable about dealing with real people. Chris Roberts' barely-edited rant against the media in Greenwich Time pretty much destroys any recent argument that the weekly paper isn't misused as a propaganda sheet. I've made the point here several times before that the council doesn't like listening to people. But the council leadership seems intent on daily demonstrations that it's more interested in governing and less bothered about serving.
Others, however, do seem alert to the anger felt over the wall.
It's worth pointing out that while dissent is usually not tolerated inside Greenwich Labour – sycophancy is preferred – several councillors have quietly used social media to speak out about the wall's destruction, whether in public or in closed accounts. That's very rare, and hints that the leader and his deputy aren't even speaking for their own party here. All this could rebound on them, because they face a re-election contest within the Labour group on the council in May 2012.
The Woolwich wall may have gone, but the consequences of its destruction, in their small way, might just be as much a turning point as the riot it sought to commemorate.
5:10pm update: One of the people behind the wall speaks out… (via Jellyfielders)
Boris Johnson finally visits Woolwich
It took him two weeks, but Boris Johnson finally turned up in Woolwich this morning to press the flesh and see how the town centre is battling back after the riot. Unfortunately, he was gone by half-past ten, so I missed him. Shame, because I was hoping to find out what he plans to do to help reinvigorate SE18.
Extending the Royal Docks enterprise zone south of the river would be a start; moving Woolwich Arsenal station into zone 3 would also help. It'd also have been nice to see what he thought of the wall, but… ah well, it's gone. The wall's last contribution, added last night, survived the rain and is pictured above.
Still, those who saw Boris seem happy…
OMG I just met Boris Johnson!!!!! This is sooooo random :-DDD—
Lili Smiles (@LiLi_Smiles) August 23, 2011
Just shook Boris Johnson's hand. "Jolly good," he said "who would've known there was a riot"—
Drew Lyddon (@drewlyddon) August 23, 2011
See, VIP visits and their "media circuses" do cheer people up, despite what some might think. As for Greenwich Council leader Chris Roberts criticising people for "focusing on burnt-out buildings", I wonder if he might get his own house in order and remove this burnt-out banner?
Incidentally, a few seconds after I took that photo a couple walked past The Great Harry, and saw the wall had been covered over. The woman turned to her partner, pointed at the freshly-painted wall, and yelled "why?"
PS. Boris wasn't the first mayoral hopeful for next year's election to visit Woolwich…
Thamesmead-based Femi Solola is hoping to stand in next May's poll. I bumped into him on Sunday, before the wall was painted over, and grabbed a very quick chat with him. He's certainly keen on the job…
Lewisham Literary Festival launched
Something's stirring down in Hither Green….
Everybody reads, whether it's War and Peace, the Metro over a fellow passenger's shoulder or an advert. We want to put on a Literary Festival that's less 'literary' and more 'festival' – not serious-faced, chin-strokey readings, but something for people to enjoy.
The first Lewisham Literary Festival begins next month, and has unveiled its programme. Most of it takes place at St Swithun's church hall in Hither Green Lane, although there's a couple of events taking place in nearby libraries and elsewhere.
Highlights include a bookswap where you get in free with homemade cake ("A Victoria sponge from Sainsburys will get you nowhere"), a clutch of children's events, a session on independent magazines featuring former Smoke editor and new Greenwich blogger Matt Haynes (welcome, Matt), an illustrated talk about the Docklands with historian Fiona Rule, and a night of performance poetry.
Proceeds will go to the Hither Green Hall and Arts Society and the Jimmy Mizen Foundation. It's worth noting how the festival got its funding – through Lewisham Council's local assemblies, in which local people can vote on causes to receive small sums of money from a fund set aside by mayor Steve Bullock. Through this system, the Lewisham Literary Festival got a leg-up from the Lewisham Central ward assembly a few months back. There's no equivalent in Greenwich, sadly.
Greenwich Council leader: No 'media circus' in Woolwich
Greenwich Council leader Chris Roberts has lambasted media coverage of the London riots – but not for ignoring Woolwich, whose town centre was wrecked in the disturbances a fortnight ago.
Roberts accused Sky News of glorifying looters in a column in this week's edition of council weekly Greenwich Time, and criticised the BBC for not allowing the council to show images of suspects on its big screen in Woolwich town centre.
He also said Woolwich did not need "a fixation with burnt-out buildings" – likely to be a reference to the Woolwich wall on the side of the Great Harry pub, painted over on Monday morning. There is no direct reference to the wall in Greenwich Time, despite it being covered by other local and national media.
This website understands Roberts declined two offers of interviews with Sky News when the channel's reporters arrived in Woolwich to film at the wall last week, claiming that coverage of the damaged town centre would further stigmatise the area.
"It is galling to witness Sky News interviewing rioters, dressed as though they were attending a paramilitary funeral, on the shores of Greenwich and then permitting them to walk away after confessing their crimes on camera," he said.
"After the News of the World, it appears our media have learned no moral lessons on how about behave."
He continued: "Even the BBC has not distinguished itself. They own our Big Screen in Woolwich, and yet, despite showing the riots live and screening programmes like Crimewatch, they refuse to let us post CCTV images of rioters on their screen in Woolwich [sic].
"The last thing Woolwich needs at this time is a media circus. What we need… is not a fixation with burnt-out buildings, but getting back into all of our shops and all of us buying what we need from our local businesses."
Despite the damage caused to Woolwich, the media all but ignored the area until nearly a week after the riot, when the Woolwich wall attracted the interest of Sky News, which returned the next day for a follow-up feature.
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No VIPs have visited the area either as locals come to terms with the damage done. Only junior minister Bob Neill (pictured above talking to police officers with Roberts) has come to Woolwich so far.
Greenwich Time is one of only two council weekly newspapers in the country. The council's cabinet decided to continue publishing it earlier this year even though it defies a government code which aimed to restrict council papers to appearing four times each year.
The code also states that council publications should be "objective", "even-handed", "appropriate", and "be issued with care during periods of heightened sensitivity".


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