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EntreMed Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)
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Date: May 17, 2010 01:17PM
EntreMed Inc. (ENMD) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-03-31. Entremed Inc. has a market cap of $62.2 million; its shares were traded at around $0.65 with and P/S ratio of 11.77.ENMD is in the portfolios of Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.
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On January 11, 2010, we sold 3,125,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, to an institutional investor for an aggregate purchase price of $2,500,000 or $0.80 per share. On February 3, 2010, we sold 3,846,154 shares of our common stock to the same institutional investor for an aggregate purchase price of $2,500,000, or $0.65 per share. On April 16, 2010, we sold 5,791,505 shares of our common stock to the same institutional investor for an aggregate purchase price of $3,000,000, or $0.518 per share. Our net proceeds from these three offerings were approximately $7.4 million. Additional funds raised by issuing equity securities may result in dilution to existing shareholders. If we fail to obtain additional capital when needed, we may be required to delay, scale back, or eliminate our clinical program.
Additionally, we must continually maintain (1) stockholders equity of at least $2.5 million or (2) a minimum of $35 million in market value of our listed securities for ten consecutive trading days to be in compliance with the continued listing standards for The NASDAQ Capital Market. At March 31, 2010, our consolidated stockholders equity was approximately $817,000 and the market value of our listed securities was $65.1 million. There can be no assurance that we will be able to meet either of these listing standards in the future.
Research and Development Expenses. Our research and development expenses totaled $844,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and $1,953,000 for the corresponding 2009 period. Reflected in our R&D expenses for the three-month period ended March 31, 2010 are direct project costs of $803,000 for ENMD-2076, $29,000 for Panzem® and $12,000 for ENMD-1198. Additionally, during the period ended March 31, 2010, we wrote off approximately $268,000 of costs previously accrued for patients enrolled in MKC-1 clinical trials that wound down before all cycles of treatment were completed. The 2009 research and development expenses for the comparable period included $772,000 for ENMD-2076, $262,000 for MKC-1, $107,000 direct project costs for Panzem® and $97,000 for ENMD-1198. The overall decrease in research and development costs in the three-month period ended March 31, 2010, as compared to same period in 2009, reflects our continued focus on the clinical development of ENMD-2076 as we ceased clinical and manufacturing activities in our discontinued programs.
At March 31, 2010, accumulated direct project expenses for Panzem® oncology were $54,273,000; direct ENMD-1198 project expenses totaled $13,155,000; and, since acquired, accumulated direct project expenses for ENMD-2076 totaled $14,961,000 and for MKC-1, accumulated project expenses totaled $10,138,000. Our research and development expenses also include non-cash stock-based compensation totaling $10,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and $57,000 for the corresponding 2009 period. The decrease in stock-based compensation expense is related to fewer stock options granted in the three months ending March 31, 2010. The balance of our research and development expenditures includes facility costs and other departmental overhead, and expenditures related to the non-clinical support of our programs.
Interest Expense. Interest expense, which relates to a financing transaction with General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC) in September 2007, decreased to approximately $221,000 (including $20,471 of non-cash interest) in the three-month period ended March 31, 2010 from $454,000 (including $40,687 of non-cash interest) in the corresponding 2009 period.
In January 2006, we acquired Miikana Therapeutics, Inc., a private biotechnology company, in exchange for 9.96 million shares of our common stock and the assumption of certain obligations of Miikana. We acquired certain drug candidates in connection with the acquisition, including the lead molecule in the Aurora Kinase Program, ENMD-2076, which advanced into clinical development in 2008. ENMD-2076 is a kinase inhibitor with activity towards Aurora A and multiple other kinases linked to promoting cancer. Dosing of the first patient in ENMD-2076 trials triggered a milestone payment of $2 million to the former Miikana stockholders payable in stock or cash, at the Company s discretion. In June 2008, 2,564,105 shares of common stock were issued to the former Miikana stockholders as consideration for the satisfaction of the milestone payment. Under the terms of the merger agreement, dosing of the first patient in a Phase 2 trial for ENMD-2076 will trigger an additional milestone payment of $3 million, payable in stock or cash, at the Company s sole discretion. This milestone occurred during April 2010. Beyond the Phase 2 milestone payment, the former Miikana stockholders may earn up to an additional $13 million of potential payments upon the satisfaction of additional clinical and regulatory milestones. We do not expect such additional milestones to be satisfied during 2010. Through the Miikana acquisition, we also acquired rights to MKC-1, a Phase 2 clinical candidate licensed from Roche by Miikana in April 2005. Under the terms of the agreement, Roche may be entitled to receive future payments upon successful attainment of certain clinical, regulatory and commercialization milestones; however, since ENMD-2076 is the only program currently under active clinical evaluation by the Company, we do not expect to trigger any of these milestone payments during fiscal 2010.
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It's been a long, strange trip and on Sunday, the Botwin family saga will draw to a close when Weeds airs its final episode. From the well-manicured lawns of Agrestic to Bubbie's funky house in Ren Mar and the stately streets of snooty Old Sandwich, Nancy and her brood have amused, horrified, and occasionally grossed us out. And so, as we head into the homestretch, we here at TV.com thought it would be a good time to visit some of Weeds' most memorable moments. Here are the 20 that stand out in our minds most.
We love her as nefarious Cheerios coach Sue Sylvester over on Glee these days, but for one episode back in Weeds' inaugural season, Jane Lynch was "The Candyman," a fitness-obsessed pot dealer specializing in baked goods. At one time, The Candyman weighed in at a solid 300 lbs and through hard work and probably something bordering pathological determination, she lost it all, refusing to let waifish Nancy walk off with her tasty purchases unless she committed to a tough exercise regimen.
Not to be upstaged by the crate of soda-pop that crashed through the Hodes' ceiling as a cargo plane flew overhead, Celia decided that the late-night insurance nightmare seemed like the perfect time to drop a bombshell of her own. As her hapless husband Dean rubbed the sleep from his eyes and attempted to make sense of the gaping hole in their roof and the army of self-detonating Coke bottles, Celia calmly stated, "I have cancer," paying no mind to the destruction right in front of her.
While Weeds is first and foremost a comedy, from time to time, there are those dramatic moments that stick out. While the first meeting of Nancy's circle—Doug, Dean, Sanjay, Andy, Alejandro, and Conrad—had its fair share of humor, including Doug and Dean arguing over who should be the "hired muscle" in the group, the final image of the men and their female leader, gathered around the table to admire the plant that would make them thousands of dollars while the theme from The Godfather (or at least something that sounds very, very close) played in the background, was chilling. Especially when Lupita quietly shut the door in a curiously observing Shane's pre-homicidal face.
After Shane jammed up the plumbing in their Agrestic home by flushing his "goo gloves" down the toilet, Nancy instructed Andy to talk to Shane about his little masturbation habit. And, of course, because it was Andy, the discussion—while certainly informative—was also a little bit traumatizing. From the abrasive nature of socks to the wonders of "jerking it" in the shower to the versatility of banana peels, it wasn't a lecture Shane (nor any of us) were likely to forget. It even made Weeds' own list of memorable moments!
Andy's mangled foot caused him no end of turmoil in the seasons following his unfortunate altercation with an Armenian drug cartel's guard dog. When everyone thought Jill was knocked up with his oopsie-baby, he even considered prosthetics so that he could wear sandals when they took their spawn to the beach. However, Andy's lost toes had their perks: They got sexy rabbinical school teacher Yael to pay attention to him and led to a brief career in the porn industry.
Corrupt DEA agent Peter Scottson's death at the hands of Nancy's Armenian drug lord neighbors took place off-screen and was only ever mentioned in passing, however, the ramifications of his murder reached far into the series' run, particularly in son Tim's recent revenge quest. But even at the time, Peter's death brought a darkness into Nancy's empire. His was the first death that could be directly tied to her business, a distinction that, at the time, Nancy didn't take lightly. Despite Peter's own not-so-nice actions, including what essentially amounted to blackmail and extortion when his and Nancy's marriage of convenience began to crumble, Nancy felt guilty for his death and reached out to his remaining family. Of course, as we all know, that didn't end well at all.
After their friendship fell apart due to Dean's incompetence costing Doug his reelection to the city council and Doug banging Celia, the two Agrestic residents who would have probably felt more at home in the Delta Tau Chi frat house needed some serious bonding time. What makes for better bonding time than locking yourself in the host's bathroom during a party to raid the medicine cabinet of the good stuff? While drunk on liquor and high on painkillers and cough syrup, Doug and Dean worked through their rough patch and got their bromance in order... complete with a competition to see who had the bigger junk.
It was like a game of Hot Potato except the potato was Conrad and Nancy's entire harvest of MILF, and the cost of losing the game was their lives. Silas stole the weed from the grow house and, when pulled over for stealing "Drug Free Zone" signs around Agrestic, lost his car and his precious cargo to Councilwoman Celia Hodes. While Celia would later start a drug business of her very own, at the time, she was the driving force behind "a drug-free Agrestic" and saw it as her civic duty to dump the entire stash in Nancy's pool. Okay, and she really, really wanted to spite Nancy too. Still, CIVIC DUTY.
Look, we were all thinking it. Okay, I was thinking it. I realize that the world is hard and Nancy wasn't qualified to so much as take phone messages and that any job she was lucky enough to land would never have provided for her family on the level that her late husband's engineering job did. But still, she seemed to jump to the illegal stuff awfully quick. Before professional thug U-Turn took Nancy on as his Padawan, she was little more than an errand girl, working off the debt of the drowned MILF harvest. When she realized that the only payment for her services would be credit toward her debt, she asked U-Turn how she was supposed to provide for her family—to which he responded, "I don't know, get a fucking job like everyone else!" Thank you, U-Turn.
Oh snap, another one of those pesky dramatic moments. As Agestric burned down around her in the aftermath of Guillermo's arson overkill, Nancy decided to burn down her own house and start over. Having finally snapped, Shane was convinced that his father was still roaming the house as a ghost, a fact that Nancy vehemently denied. However, as she doused the living room with gasoline and prepared to strike the match, Nancy seemed to finally understand just how dramatically her life—and the lives of her sons—had changed. She apologized for what she was about to do and assured the "ghost" of her late husband that, despite what it looked like, she had tried to do the right thing.
I know they all had the best of intentions in euthanizing Bubbie, the Botwins' bedridden great-grandmother, but I can't get over the fact that when turning off her life-support failed and she kept breathing, the next logical step was "Shane, bring Mommy a pillow." I was both delighted and disturbed. I'd have to say it's my favorite one-liner in the entire series.
With Shane jerking off to pictures of his mother from her college years and Silas banging the neighbors' thirty-something mom, Nancy finally realized that her teenaged sons had some pretty blatant Oedipal issues going on upstairs. Her attempt to talk to them was a clear reminder of why it was just better if she pawned mom-duty off on somebody else. Shane hid under a blanket. Silas left the room. And it was back to business as usual.
Nancy Botwin is a drug dealer. She's okay with that. She's not a bad person. I mean, she totally IS, but it's not the drug-dealing that makes her an awful human being so much as the fact that she's just an awful human being. However, Nancy Botwin is not a slave-trader, and when she learned that the tunnel to Mexico beneath her drug-front maternity-wear shop was being used NOT to smuggle weed across the border, but to traffic young women into the sex-slave trade, she began to hallucinate the various frightened young women who she allowed to pass through her shop. Guilt-ridden, she eventually betrayed Guillermo to end the trafficking in her tunnel.
It was going to be awkward. Of course it was going to be awkward. When Andy went to the bank to gain access to a rich, dead uncle's fortune, he had to pass himself off as dead brother, Judah. Unfortunately, the nice head-case at the bank, Margaret, knew what the real Judah looked like and was devastated by the news of his death. She offered to give Andy access to the account if he would take her on a date... as Judah. Okay, weird. But still workable. Andy's alarm bells started to sound when she showed up for date night in full '80s regalia and insisted that he say things that Judah once said. But the icing on the cake was when Judah's old flame revealed that the relationship was never consummated and Andy-as-Judah had to take her virginity if he wanted his money. Despite the fact that he was beyond freaked out at that point, and that the formerly quaint park that lovesick Margaret claimed was the sight of their first date was now overrun by leering homeless dudes, Andy said yes.
Esteban Reyes was not the self-made man of the people he liked to campaign as and he owed quite a bit of his political success to the manipulations and machinations of Pilar Zuazo, a Mexican media mogul and control freak. With elections coming up and Esteban's insistence on keeping Nancy and Stevie in his life despite the inconvenience their presence caused for the campaign, Pilar figured she could just arrange for the other Botwins, the ones not necessary for favorable photo-ops, to conveniently (and tragically) meet their ends in a car crash, or maybe a plane crash. Pilar herself met the end of Shane Botwin's croquet mallet and landed face down in the pool.
Nancy was the only Botwin who seemed shocked and appalled by her middle son's homicidal urges. Okay, maybe Silas too, but he wasn't so shocked as to take offense at Andy's nonchalant response to Shane's gleeful confession. It was only a matter of time, really. Nancy, however, didn't appreciate the swiftness with which her former brother-in-law determined Shane to be the killer who took out Pilar. "Why does everyone assume it was Shane?" Uh... have you talked to Shane for more than thirty seconds in the past six years? Yeah, didn't think so.
Nancy loves her kids, though. Usually. She just has a dysfunctional way of showing it. With her luck running out, Esteban and Guillermo back in her constantly-in-moral-peril life, and her growing sons increasingly headstrong in response to their awareness of what she was doing to get by, Nancy realized that Silas, Shane, and Stevie's only chance at normalcy hinged on being away from her. With Silas and Shane on a plane to Europe with Andy and Doug, Esteban and Guillermo most certainly plotting her death, and the FBI surrounding all the exits, Nancy surrendered willingly. She admitted to murdering Pilar in order to clear Shane's name, setting us up for the three-year jump in Season 7, where we learned that Stevie was raised by Jill and the rest of the family was still in Europe.
Frankly, if the Botwins showed up at my front door after destroying my lucrative pot business, burning down the town, and running away, I'd greet them with a shotgun, too.
Safe in Old Sandwich, cocooned in a new inner circle comprised of her closest family, The Godmother prepared a toast, only to be (seemingly) taken out by a sniper's bullet. The sniper later turned out to be mentally unstable orphan Tim Scottson, back from Nancy's past—and the cliffhanger, of Nancy in the crosshairs, kept us talking all hiatus long.
Who are you and what have you done with Nancy Botwin? In the aftermath of her shooting, Nancy decided to start over and do things right. She wanted to be a real mother to Stevie and try to repair some of the damage she did to her oldest sons. She also wanted out of the drug business, barring one last goodwill donation to her fellow patients at the rehab center. She used her sass and smarts for good, standing up to the price-gouging Clown and handing out free weed-laced goodies to all. It looked like Nancy had turned over a new leaf.
Yeah, not so fast. After a mildly successful stint in the legal drug trade, Nancy realized that her true passion lies in weed. She quit her Big Pharma job and teamed up with Silas to revive MILF... except Silas didn't have any seeds, plants, or cuttings. A trip back to Agrestic—renamed "Regrestic"—was in order, to rebuild the empire. It was a pretty awesome trip back home, and lots of familiar faces stopped by; Silas rekindled his romance with Megan, and Nancy teamed back up with Conrad and Guillermo.
We've seen 100 episodes to date and these were some of the most memorable moments to us, but we know there are more out there! List your own favorite Weeds moments in the comments!


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Authorities lifted the shelter-in-place warning at about 2:15 p.m., after crews sealed a leak on a 5,000-gallon holding tank at the Santa Clara Valley Water District's Santa Teresa plant, San Jose fire Capt. Steve Forman said.
The fire department's hazardous materials team responded at about 11:15 a.m. to reports of a leak at the plant, and the warning was issued at about noon after crews discovered about 250 gallons had spilled from the tank, Forman said.
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There are some stellar performances on this DVD, which captures a number of these artists before they became well-known throughout the world, particularly The Police, U2, and REM. The late Peter Tosh was still a member of the Wailers, taped before he struck out on his own as a solo act. Several of the performances are of almost epic length -- Lynyrd Skynyrd's twelve-minute take on "Freebird", Edgar Winter pounding on a whirring synthesizer and hopping from instrument to instrument in the nine-minute "Frankenstein", and an unbelievably energetic filmed performance by Bruce Springsteen. REM precedes "Pretty Persuasion" with an a capella version of "Moon River", and Elton John turns in an unaccompanied rendering of "Tiny Dancer". The biggest draw for me was XTC's "Statue of Liberty", taped in 1978 with their original line-up, which included keyboardist Barry Andrews. XTC is one of my favorite bands, and as they'd given up a life of touring some twenty years ago and rarely appear on television, this DVD marked the first time I'd seen a live performance of theirs outside of small, grainy video files downloaded off the web. Although the eclectic assortment of artists is unlikely to appeal in its entirety to all that many viewers -- I wouldn't count myself as a fan of Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart, for instance -- I'd imagine that most of those who are particularly interested in one of the bands on this set will find at least a few of the other performers compelling enough to want to sit through the DVD in its entirety.
The bulk of the performances are preceded by newly-recorded introductions from some of the series' personable hosts, who provide various notes about the artists and their appearances on the series, such as John Lennon's payment in Chocolate Olivers and Sting having to wear grotesquely large, octagonal sunglasses that kept slipping perilously down his nose.
The British release of The Old Grey Whistle Test has proven popular enough that a second volume is slated to hit stores next month, with a third volume planned for release early next year. Though the selection of artists on its U.S. release isn't quite as extensive, there are enough great performances from a variety of excellent groups to make this DVD well-worth a look.
Video: This compilation of performances from The Old Grey Whistle Test is presented full-frame, just as the series aired throughout its run from 1971 to 1987. Nearly all of the footage on the DVD was shot on video, aside from the filmed performances of John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. The filmed segments exhibit modest wear and speckling, but the remainder looks much like I'd expect a decades-old TV series to appear. Crispness and clarity are respectable, though limited by the source material. Perhaps as a result of any necessary conversion from PAL to NTSC video, portions exhibit an almost rippling effect where the screen is divided into a series of bars of varying opacity. It occurs frequently enough to be noticeable, but not so often as to pose a particular nuisance, and the effect isn't terribly distracting. Scattered throughout are also a handful of small blips, and it's a safe bet that's an issue with the source tapes rather than a flaw at the authoring stage. There is also some discoloration in areas of fine detail, such as the second guitarist's shirt in the Talking Heads' performance, and some mosquito noise and slight blocking in backgrounds were spotted as well. Such concerns are exceedingly minor, and none of them have any appreciable effect on its overall appearance.
Audio: The Dolby Digital 2.0 track doesn't boast as high a bitrate as the British release, encoded at 192Kbps as opposed to the 448Kbps track on the other side of the pond. Similar to the video, the audio is comparable to what I'd expect from a performance of a vintage television show, fairly close to what I'm used to hearing from episodes of Saturday Night Live from around the same time. As these songs were recorded over the span of thirteen years, the quality varies somewhat throughout. Bass response in particular differs greatly; at times, it's flat and muddy, then fairly hefty (such as the performances by Roxy Music and Rory Gallagher), and occasionally thin and insubstantial, as was the case with Springsteen's "Rosalita". Some instruments, particularly horns and some of the keyboards, are less prominent in the mix, and the near-bootleg quality of XTC's performance sounds almost muffled. Again, unlikely to mark a significant difference from how the original broadcasts would sound piped through a modern home theater, but from an archival perspective, nothing much to complain about.
Somewhat unexpected was the inclusion of English subtitles, a transcription of both the lyrics in each song as well as the spoken portions of the various introductions.
Supplements: Producer Mike Appleton contributes an audio commentary, although it's not a screen-specific discussion and doesn't run for the entire duration of the program. Appleton speaks at length about some artists such as Bruce Springsteen, but his comments are primarily about Whistle Test as a series rather than the individual performances. The producer talks about the early hurdles getting the program off the ground and the technical limitations that had to be overcome with such scant resources on hand. He also notes how Whistle Test opened the door for music videos, provided the sort of fairly intimate interviews with artists that hadn't been seen to any appreciable extent on television before it, punk's influence on its evolution, and how they opted to retire gracefully while their star was still burning rather brightly. Appleton also notes the different ways in which he as a producer had to interact with bands, their management, and record labels, and it's interesting to hear that a British series was somewhat dominated by the presence of American bands. Interspersed throughout are some great stories from his tenure on the series. He mentions how he'd played a portion of one unlabeled record anonymously, learning later that they'd probably given the emerging Queen their first significant airplay. Among the other highlights are an interview with Brian Wilson in which he and the interviewer were hobbling around on walking sticks and swollen feet, Jimmy Carter inadvertently impaling a baby with a Whistle Test badge, and the unusual demands from Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton to get them on the program. The informative, entertaining commentary moves at an excellent pace, and there isn't a single pause throughout its nearly two-hour length. Very much worth a listen.
There are also seven interviews, which can be played individually or consecutively, running just under forty-five minutes in total. The first set is conducted by Richard Williams, who chats with Elton John and Bernie Taupin (3:22) about the critical reception to their music, as well as Mick Jagger (6:09) and his band's approach to the recording of their then-upcoming album. Bob Harris heads up the remaining four interviews, continuing where Williams left off with another member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards (3:22). Next, Robert Plant (6:24) talks about Led Zeppelin's first double-album and an impending tour. The lengthiest and most interesting of the interviews, running over seventeen minutes, is with John Lennon. He talks about his duet with Elton John, life on the road without pudding, and his not-entirely-fruitful recording sessions with Phil Spector. Although Lennon is posed the inevitable query about a Beatles reunion, the highlight is his response to a related, but more interesting question -- "would it be a good idea?" Finally, Bruce Springsteen (7:35) talks with Harris about his musical influences, the pressure of following up on the success of "Born to Run, and the drive necessary to become such a large concert draw.
Each of the individual performances can be selected in the "Artist's Gallery", which also provide brief notes about the artists and occasionally about their appearances on Whistle Test. These entries can be selected both through the 'Bonus Features' menu and the "Enhanced Performance" mode on the DVD. The latter displays a guitar icon in the upper-righthand corner of the screen, and when selected, the related entry in the Artist's Gallery is displayed. There's also a "Random Play" feature that, as the title suggests, randomly selects a performance.
The single-sided, dual-layer disc is packaged in a keepcase, alongside a two-page set of liner notes that provides a list of the performances and a brief rundown of the series. The DVD features a set of 4x3 animated menus with a simulated sound check playing underneath.
Conclusion: The Old Grey Whistle Test is a solid collection of performances by artists that include established superstars, then-unknown bands whose popularity exploded soon thereafter, and underappreciated acts who never enjoyed the success they deserved. Available for less than twenty dollars shipped from several online retailers, this DVD is recommended as a rental or a purchase to fans of any of the talent involved.
Related Links: DVD Savant has a written a review of the British release. Selections from the DVD, including excerpts from some performances and interviews as well as a full trailer, can be streamed from Warner's Old Grey Whistle Test site.


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The deaths of 74 militant football fans in a politically loaded football brawl in the Egyptian Suez Canal city of Port Said has political forces across the country's political spectrum scrambling to score points and counter a tsunami of rumours as security forces appear to have gained the upper hand in days of clashes with ultras and youth groups near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo.
With the military and security forces accused of at best negligence and at worst having deliberately instigated the violence that led to the death of the fans immediately after last week's match between Port Said's Al Masri SC and crowned Cairo club Al Ahli SC, businessmen associated with the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and fundamentalist Salafi politicians are being drawn into the maelstrom.
Yasser el-Mallawany, the chief executive of EFG-Hermes, the Arab world's largest privately owned, London and Cairo-listed investment bank, denied allegations that he had funded an unidentified group of thugs who reportedly had mingled with the Al Masri fans and instigated the violence that led to the 79 deaths. Al Masri fans said they had noticed a group of people in the stadium that they had never seen before.
The allegations were reported after Mr. El-Mallawny was barred from boarding a flight from Cairo to Dubai on instructions from Egypt's attorney general. Associated Press quoted a justice ministry official as saying that Mr. El-Mallawny was together with Mr. Mubarak's imprisoned son Gamal, whom he was grooming as his successor, being investigated for having paid the thugs to attack the Al Ahli ultras. The ultras played a key role in toppling Mr. Mubarak and have since been the most militant critic of the military that succeeded the ousted president with a promise to lead the country to democracy.
Mr. El-Mallawany was a member of the policies high committee of Mr. Mubarak's National Democratic Party. He said he was on the committee to "give ideas regarding the technical issues of finance".
Sources close to EFG-Hermes said Mr. El-Mallawny was among 300 people barred from leaving Egypt because of their alleged ties to the ancient regime and corruption but that it had nothing to do with the incident in Port Said. Gamal Mubarak is believed to have an 18 percent stake in one of EFG Hermes' numerous subsidies, EFG-Hermes Private Equity that contributes an estimated 7% per cent to the bank's total profits. EFG-Hermes has denied managing any funds or portfolios for Mr. Mubarak or members of his family.
"No charges of any form have been laid against Mr. El-Mallawany. The firm has been informed that the ban was issued as a precautionary measure, as similar bans have been imposed in the past 12 months on other individuals in Egypt," EFG-Hermes said in a statement.
EFG-Hermes has offices in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Lebanon and employs more than 850 people. It has advised companies such as Vodafone, Sainsbury and Heineken on deals in the region.
At the very other end of Egypt's political spectrum, Sheikh Abdel Moneim El-Shaha, a controversial Salafist preacher, was attempting to talk his way out of reports that he had condemned football as a sin and said that the 74 ultras were killed because they had been watching a forbidden form of entertainment. Mr. El-Shaha charged that he had been misquoted. He said that while he considered football a sport that was encouraged by Islamic law, he objected to large sums of money being spent on it instead of on youth centres.
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Mr. El-Shaha however did little to correct the impression that he was in-line with hard-line Salafist beliefs that condemn football as a game of infidels with his refusal to acknowledge the 79 dead ultras as 'ash-shuhada' or martyrs, an Islamic and Arabic term used to describe among others those who died in innocence. The families of the 74 describe their lost ones as martyrs.
"What I said exactly was that not everyone who died unjustly is a martyr. And the people who died in Port Said died unjustly and no more. In sharia (Islamic law), a martyr is someone who died in battle or dies a painful death, drowns, or dies under the rubble of a building. But those who died in Port Said only died unjustly," Mr. El-Shaha told Al Arabiya.
Mr. El-Shaha was quoted by Al Arabiya Asharq Al-Awsat and El-Badil as telling an audience in the El-Fath mosque in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, a Salafist stronghold, that the 74 died while watching an a forbidden sport that is alien to Muslims, distracts from praying to God and that had been imported from the West. "They were not in a war fighting for God, they were just having fun. This fun distracts Muslims from worshipping God," Mr. El-Shaha was quoted as saying.
The Salafist Noor party won a quarter of the votes in Egypt's recent first-post Mubarak parliamentary election. Mr. El-Shaha, who failed to win a seat in that election, earlier stirred controversy by condemning the writings of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz as "prostitution literature."
Mr. El-Shaha's comments are in line with the banning of football on the threat of execution by the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabab militia, which controls chunks of war-torn Somalia, earlier remarks by Egyptian Salafi Sheikh Abu Ishaaq Al Huweini and a 2005 attempt by Saudi Salafi clerics to rewrite the rules of the game to allegedly Islamifying it.
"All fun is bootless except the playing of a man with his wife, his son and his horse… Thus, if someone sits in front of the television to watch football or something like that, he will be committing bootless fun… We have to be a serious nation, not a playing nation. Stop playing," Sheikh Al Huweini said in a religious ruling published in 2009 on YouTube. Al Noor has yet to distance itself from Sheikh Al Huweini's comments.
Al Noor has also yet to take issues with views such as those expressed in 2005 in a controversial ruling by militant clerics in Saudi Arabia, the world's most puritanical Muslim nation where football was banned until 1951. The ruling denounced the game as an infidel invention and redrafted its internationally recognized International Football Association Board (IFAB) rules to differentiate it from that of the heretics. It banned words like foul, goal, and penalty and ordered players to spit on anyone who scored a goal.
In Egypt's political centre, a parliamentary committee meanwhile blamed Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim for the deaths of some 15 protesters in the wake of the Port Said incident and called for a vote of no confidence in the minister.
Outside the interior ministry security forces appear to have gained control of streets that were the scene of four days of pitched battles with ultras and youth groups. Leaders of the ultras have denied that they were involved in the fighting but admit that many of those attempting to storm the interior ministry are members of their groups who are beyond their control. The security forces gained the upper hand by using tear gas and bird shot after attempts to mediate a truce by clerics and activists had failed.


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Portobello sandwiches take less than half an hour to prepare, but with their substantial ingredients, including mushrooms, cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and other vegetables, they make a nutritious and filling hot meal.
Portobello Sandwiches
Preparation 10 minutes, cooking time 15 minutes
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 medium-sized portobello mushrooms (about 1 pound), stems removed
6 ounces sun-dried tomatoes in oil (about 1 cup)
6 ounces feta cheese
2 medium-sized garlic cloves, minced (about 2 teaspoons)
1/4 cup lightly packed fresh basil leaves or 1 tablespoon dried basil
8 slices crusty white or multi-grain bread
4 cups spinach leaves
In a large skillet (preferably nonstick), over medium-high heat, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Add caps, gill side down; cover and cook until caps look moist, about 8 minutes. Turn caps; cover and cook until browned and tender, about 7 minutes; drain on paper towels, pressing excess moisture from mushrooms.
Meanwhile, drain sun-dried tomatoes, reserving 2 tablespoons of the oil; coarsely chop tomatoes. In a food processor container, combine tomatoes, feta and garlic; pulse until coarsely chopped. Add reserved tomato oil, the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and the basil; pulse just until mixture is spreadable but a bit chunky.
To assemble sandwiches: Spread tomato-feta mixture on bread slices, dividing evenly. Arrange spinach leaves and mushroom caps on 4 of the bread slices; top with remaining bread.
Makes 4 sandwiches.
Portobello Reubens
Preparation 10 minutes, cooking time 15 minutes
2 tablespoons olive oil
11/2 pounds portobello mushroom caps, sliced (about 6 cups)
8 slices deli-style rye bread with seeds, toasted
1/4 cup prepared Russian dressing
4 slices Swiss cheese (about 4 ounces)
1 cup prepared coleslaw
4 thin slices red onion
Preheat broiler to 375 F.
In a large skillet (preferably nonstick), over medium-high heat, heat oil until hot. Add portobellos; cover and cook until they begin to release liquid, about 5 minutes; uncover and cook until tender and liquid evaporates, about 5 minutes longer; drain on paper towels, pressing excess moisture from mushrooms.
Arrange bread slices on a rimmed baking sheet; toast on both sides, about 2 minutes. Lower oven heat to 375 F. Spread warm toast on one side, with dressing, dividing evenly. Arrange mushrooms on half of the toast slices; top each with a slice of cheese folded in half; bake just until cheese melts, about 2 minutes. Top each sandwich with 1/4 cup coleslaw and an onion slice; cover with remaining toast.
Makes 4 sandwiches.
Recipes from the Mushroom Council.
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Hallowe'en Meeting FRI 2ND NOV – 7pm till midnight.
Your Branch is holding a Hallowe'en meeting / social event at Edinburgh City Football Club (Baxters Place, Edinburgh - just down from the Playhouse Theatre).
The format of the evening will be a branch meeting for the first hour
Scottish zombie movie writer/director/producer Kieran Parker & producer Naysun Alae-Carew will be doing a tag-team discussion of their film-making experiences. Black Camel Productions has made the highly successful 'Outpost' zombie films and Hallowe'en marks the first week of production on their film version of 'Sunshine on Leith - The Musical'. Question and answer session to follow. AND THEN...
there will be a Fancy Dress Hallowe'en party with music, games, prizes and buffet, to which guests are welcome.
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Arsene Wenger's men put their recent woes behind them to complete a stunning turnaround at the Emirates, thanks to a devestating second half performance
Three goals in a destructive 10-minute spell turned the game on its head, after Villa deservedly had lead at the break thanks to goals from Richard Dunne and Darren Bent.
Arsene Wenger's side, who had lost their last three games in all competitions, appeared to be on course for another miserable day until two Robin van Persie penalties and a Theo Walcott effort rescued the day and eradicated their recent woes.
Both teams named strong sides for the encounter, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Van Persie starting for the hosts, whilst Thierry Henry, whose goal dispatched Leeds United in the previous round, had to be content with a place on the bench.
LA Galaxy loanee Robbie Keane continued up front for the visitors following his impressive two-goal haul against Wolves in the league last weekend.
Lukas Fabianski also started in the Arsenal goal in place of first choice keeper Wojciech Szczesny.
The home side started brightly, with a short free-kick leading to Thomas Vermaelen rifling a ferocious 30 yard effort that Shay Given palmed over at full stretch.
Minutes later, Tomas Rosicky's through ball sent Theo Walcott racing through on goal, but the England international got it all wrong as he skewed horribly wide.
Villa briefly responded when Alan Hutton's cross found an unmarked Bent, but the Villans' top scorer hesitated as Fabianski charged out of his goal, even though the striker was first in line to reach the ball.
Although Arsenal looked the more comfortable team in possession, they failed to create any end product and were punished for their lack of urgency just after the half-hour mark.
A short-corner routine lead to Keane clipping the ball into the box, and Dunne rose highest to power a header into the top corner and give the visitors the lead.
Arsenal instantly fought back when Rosicky's tame shot was spilled by Given, but the Irish keeper gathered the loose ball.
Alan Hutton then carelessly lost the ball in his own box, but Ramsey couldn't beat the keeper once more from a tight angle.
After Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his ferocious effort saved, Villa capitalised by racing up the other end to double their lead with a classic breakaway goal that exposed the flaws in the hosts' brittle defence once more.
Bent, who had scored six goals in his last eight appearances against Arsenal prior to this fixture, continued his good record against his boyhood club by running onto Stephen Ireland's precise throughball and clinically tucking the ball home from a tight angle after Fabianski had saved his initial effort.
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Arsenal came out a re-energised side after the break, and were unfortunate not to instantly pull a goal back when Per Mertesacker's header was cleared off the line by Ireland.
The hosts handed themselves a lifeline soon later when Ramsey won a penalty after being cynically felled by Dunne in the area.
Van Persie stepped up to cooly send Given the wrong way and dispatch his 24th goal of the campaign.
Just moments later Hutton's goal-line clearance fortuitously struck Walcott and bounced into the net after the winger had initially tricked his way through the defence and seen his low shot blocked.
The turnaround was then completed when referee Michael Jones awarded another blatant spot-kick after Laurent Koscielny's surging run was brought to a halt by Bent, with Van Persie emphatically converting into the roof of the net.
Arsenal had further chances to extend their lead, with man of the moment Van Persie looking to seal his hat-trick by testing Given once more but narrowly blazing Walcott's cut-back wide.
Villa wasted a good chance to equalise when Ireland's pacey cross was met by the head of Ciaran Clark, but Fabianski gratefully clung onto the ball.
Thus the Gunners held on for the win and sealed a trip to meet north-east opposition in the next stage of the competition in the form of Sunderland or Middlesbrough.
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ALBANY, 06/05/12 – State Senator James L. Seward (R/C/I – Oneonta) today spoke out against the state Thruway Authority's plan to hike tolls by as much as 45 percent on commercial truckers.
"The number of businesses that utilize the Thruway to ship their goods is vast and hiking the tolls will be costly – not only to those truckers but also to consumers," said Senator Seward. "For example, if the price to deliver milk to manufacturing plants skyrockets, who do you think will foot the bill? The increase will be felt across the board by those who can least afford to pay more.
"Small towns and villages located near the Thruway can also expect an increase in traffic as truck drivers seek out alternative routes to avoid the outrageous toll hike. That will mean property tax hikes as local highway crews work to keep up with the wear and tear on roads not equip to handle such volume."
The New York State Thruway Authority recently announced plans to increase Thruway tolls 45 percent on commercial vehicles with three or more axles. To implement any toll hike, the Thruway Authority is required to conduct an environmental review and hold at least three public hearings.
"At a time when we are trying to upgrade our business reputation, raising the cost of shipping for New York made products sends the wrong message. The proposed Thruway toll hike will cause major upheaval for self-employed truck drivers, farmers and businesses. We need to slam the gate on this idea before it goes any further," concluded Seward.


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You get a URL to give out to your friends which identifies you as the referrer. Then when they register it should automatically fill in your login id in the 'referrer id' field.
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Display Distortion under ATI Drivers on iMac
I have a 2008 Intel iMac running Windows 7 through Boot Camp. I am seeing some weird display behaviors in Windows 7 that I can't explain or seem to fix. There are diagonal lines that move across the screen from right to left. There seems to be some distortion on certain images. For example sometimes areas of the screen will suffer from visual degradation similar to what you see with JPEG compression on the web. Certain colors and patterns appear to produce the effect more than others.
The graphics card is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT.
I doubt it's a hardware issue because it doesn't happen in OS X. It also didn't happen in Windows XP.
If I have downloaded all the latest drivers per Boot Camp's recommendations. I have been on the phone with Apple support and they have basically told me that they won't help since it only happens in Windows and not OS X (despite the fact that I still have a year left on my Apple Care).
I tried contacting AMD, who apparently not owns ATI, and they basically refused to help as well. Actually, they told me that they recommend I use the Boot Camp drivers but that if I did that they wouldn't support me. Jackasses.
If I manually update the ATI drivers the problem immediately goes away, but as soon as I reboot, log off, or even lock the computer, it comes right back.
Does anyone have any ideas about what I can do? Apparently nobody wants to take responsibility for this issue.
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Welcome to Seven Forums: You could always try to use the latest ATI driver for your card then follow the instructions on this site ATI MobilityModder - HardwareHeaven.com and modify your .inf file since your card is listed. I would suggest uninstalling the current driver, then use Driver Cleaner or Driver Sweeper to completely remove all remants of the driver. Then try the mod. Both of the cleaner programs can be easily found on guru3d. Fabe
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Welcome to Seven Forums: You could always try to use the latest ATI driver for your card then follow the instructions on this site ATI MobilityModder - HardwareHeaven.com and modify your .inf file since your card is listed. I would suggest uninstalling the current driver, then use Driver Cleaner or Driver Sweeper to completely remove all remants of the driver. Then try the mod. Both of the cleaner programs can be easily found on guru3d. Fabe
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Universal, the world's largest record company, began slashing prices of compact discs in America yesterday by nearly a third.
The move, which underlines the turmoil in the music world, reflects the battering record sales have recently suffered because of online piracy.
It will enable fans to buy recordings by such best-selling acts as Eminem, Sir Elton John and U2 for a suggested retail price of £8.37, but in practice many CDs will now cost just £6.44.
It is predicted that the decision could have repercussions in Britain, where CD prices are traditionally higher.
Just two days ago, an influential market research group predicted that within five years CDs could be obsolete.
Bertelsmann, the German media giant, has just reported a 10 per cent decline in sales and a 91 per cent fall in net income, attributing the red ink to a combination of delays in the release of albums by popular bands such as Outkast and The Strokes, and slow sales of CDs by Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton.
Universal's action on its labels, which include A&M and Island Def Jam, ended years of industry orthodoxy, with music executives contending that prices were justified by the risks of investing enormous sums in raw talent.
Don Van Cleave, a music retailer in Birmingham, Alabama, said: "This is like a bombshell. People are saying, like 'Oh my God, are you kidding?' "
Doug Morris, the chairman of Universal, said: "We are in the middle of a terrible situation where our music is being stolen.
"We need to invigorate the market, and as an industry leader we felt we had to be bold and make a move."
He explained that the price cut was part of a strategy that would include legal and technical assaults on the pirates. "We are making a very bold, strategic move to bring people back to music stores," Mr Morris said.
Universal is slashing the prices of every act, from Ashanti to Abba, with the exceptions of classical, Latin music and multi-CD box sets.
Whether other industry groups such as EMI, Sony, Warner and Bertelsmann will follow suit remains to be seen. It appeared that none was planning cuts immediately.
Universal added extra muscle to its move last night by telling retailers that, in exchange for cuts, the company expected stores to guarantee that at least a quarter of their shelf space would be devoted to its acts.
The company is also halting discounts and "positioning" fees for prominent shelf displays, which have long been a custom in the industry. Many record stores have earned more cash from fees than from selling CDs.
Jeff Kwatinez, the chief executive of The Firm, whose Universal clients include Mary J Blige and Limp Bizkit, said: "As a company concerned with overall artist development, we feel anything that increases consumer appetite for music, as a price decrease should, is good for the artist."
The price reductions come as the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the music business, is about to prosecute hundreds of people who have been downloading songs from the internet without paying.
California lawyers are fighting the case of a woman from Brooklyn, New York, saying that her constitutional rights were breached by a search for the 300 songs that she allegedly pirated.
It has just emerged that US music deliveries to shops dropped 15 per cent in the first half of this year, twice the rate of decline of a year earlier. This fall has caused widespread closures of record stores, mergers and redundancies.


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It's nice to get the first Pac-12 win. It took us more tries than I would have liked but we ended up getting it.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lit up its annual blackout game Saturday with a 27-8 win over Oregon State at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
The Utes made history in the process, brightening up a dark and dreary start to their inaugural Pac-12 campaign. They're now 4-4 overall and 1-4 in league play entering next week's game at Arizona.
"It's nice to get the first Pac-12 win," said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. "It took us more tries than I would have liked but we ended up getting it."
And in impressive fashion, too.
While Utah's defense recorded six sacks, forced four turnovers and limited the Beavers to just 32 yards on the ground, the offense was effective with running back John White rushing for 205 yards and quarterback Jon Hays throwing two touchdown passes.
"Everybody was focused," said cornerback Conroy Black. "The offense came out and had our backs and it ended up with a good result."
Utah's offense came out firing, attempting a long pass from Hays to DeVonte Christopher on the Utes' first play from scrimmage. The throw down the left sideline was incomplete, but provided an initial attempt to prevent Oregon State from loading up the box on defense. To Whittingham's surprise, though, the Beavers never really did so — opting to stay in base coverage as they have all season long.
The Utes, meanwhile, marched downfield with a nine-yard completion from Hays to Kenneth Scott and three consecutive runs to move into into scoring position on the first drive. An 18-yard keeper by Hays was bookended with gains of five and nine yards by White.
Utah eventually capped things off with a 48-yard field goal by Coleman Petersen with 8:14 to go in the first quarter to take a 3-0 lead.
Oregon State had a chance to strike first, but kicker Trevor Romaine was wide right on a 50-yard try on the game's opening drive.
The Utes had 71 yards rushing by the end of the quarter, 58 more than they had in the 34-10 loss at California a week earlier.
Utah's next points came via the air. With 7:04 remaining in the half, Hays completed the longest touchdown pass of his career with the Utes — a 35-yard strike to Dres Anderson.
Leading 10-0 after Petersen added the PAT, Utah's defense set up the next score when cornerback Mo Lee returned an interception 30 yards to the Oregon State 16-yard line. Two runs by White culminated with another touchdown for Utah. The 6-yard scamper gave the Utes their highest point production in five Pac-12 outings, having never exceeded 14 before.
The tally rose to 24 before the half was complete. White, who had 161 yards at the break, inflicted most of the damage on a late drive. His 60-yard run helped set up a 3-yard touchdown toss from Hays to Christopher with 24 seconds left to play in the second quarter.
"I thought they had the edge on our team in the first half in every phase of the game — offense, defense, special teams," Oregon State coach Mike Riley said of Utah's 24-0 halftime advantage.
Although the Utes only added a late 20-yard field goal by Petersen the rest of the way, the defense stepped up with three takeaways after the intermission. It overshadowed the fact that the offense managed just 52 yards and three first downs over the final 30 minutes.
"The thing we didn't do was turn the ball over excessively, which was key," Whittingham said before noting the three interceptions and fumble recovery made by the defense. "When we win the turnover margin, we're a pretty good football team. We can compete with who we need to compete with."
The second-half takeways began with an interception by Ryan Lacy in the third quarter. Things got even more pivotal in the fourth period after Oregon State put its first points — on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Sean Mannion to Markus Wheaton — with 14:55 to go.
After having their lead cut to 24-6, the Utes suffered additional adversity two plays later when White fumbled and the Beavers recovered it on the Utah 12.
A reversal of fortune soon followed, however.
On Oregon State's third play in the ensuing possession, linebacker Chaz Walker jarred the ball away from running back Malcolm Agnew and Trevor Reilly secured the fumble on the 1-yard line to thwart the threat — sort of.
Just one minute later, a Utah holding penalty in the end zone resulted in a team safety and two points for the Beavers.55 comments on this story
An exchange of punts followed before linebacker Matt Martinez intercepted Mannion with less than five minutes to play. Utah then took 3:08 off the clock before concluding all scoring with Petersen's second field goal of the game.
The victory ended Utah's two-game skid at home and kept the Utes from dropping to 0-5 in conference play for the first time since 1986.
"It was really important (to win). We hadn't been playing the way we wanted to," said safety Brian Blechen. "That's on us and it's up to us to turn it around. This was the game to do it. We owe it to ourselves, coaches and fans."
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Game 13 – Unlucky Number for the Cubs
Written by Joe Aiello, Posted in General
Box Score – It's always tough to lose, but even tougher to lose like that. This game was right there for us to take and for one of the first times all year, we failed to take advantage of it. You can stand around at the water cooler today and blame Dusty Baker for bringing in Will Ohman in the 9th, but when you really get down to it, what other options did he really have? When you look at the pen last night, you see that the options were limited. The other option may have been to go with Scott Williamson, but with Lofton and Drew both hitting from the left side, Ohman was the logical choice. You can't bash Ohman and say he's trash when last year everyone was on the Ohman bandwagon. Give him some time to figure things out and I would bet you any money, he'll get that ERA down where it needs to be by seasons end. Then, he'll be big for us when we need him in October. Be patient with him and trust.
Derek Lowe was dealing tonight and the Cubs just could not touch him. If you want to blame someone for this loss, blame Lowe who was just awesome tonight. I don't have much other than that to say. It's a tough loss and we'll come out better tomorrow night hopefully. I'll be glad when this series is over so I don't have to stay up so late.
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- Why would Derrek Lee's grandparents name their son Leon? Derrek's dad is named Leon and it just doesn't sound right. Leon Lee sounds like a gay porn film if you ask me.
- Is it just me or was it really annoying listening to the strikeout song they played each time a Dodger pitcher recorded a K. I've never been more sick of Queen in my entire life.
- I was taking a look at David Aardsma on the Cubs website and noticed his player picture. This guy looks like he's tripped out of acid or something. If i'm a hitter and I look out to the mound and see a guy making a facial expression like that, i'm ducking out of the way of every pitch because there is a very good chance he may be criminally insane.
I ran across this video cartoon short featuring GW Bush, K-Fed and Brittany Spears and My Space. It's work looking at. It has to do with the fact that Bush is not popular with the people right now and decides to change that with the advice of Kevin Federline by getting a My Space page on the internet.


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Three Alums Launch New Charity, True Hero Ties, on Veterans Day
November 11, 2011
November 11, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Ryan Tinker, a 2009 graduate of DePauw University, visited Cincinnati Fox affiliate WXIX-TV this morning to discuss a new charity, True Hero Ties. Launched with fellow DePauw alumni Johnny Buchta '08 and Matt Newill '08, the organization sells ties with 50% of the proceeds sent to U.S. veterans organizations. The site began collecting orders today, Veterans Day.
The charity was the brainchild of Buchta and Newill, who "have always been really grateful for the freedoms we enjoy here in America and they wanted to do something about it," Tinker told the station. "They wanted a way to say 'thanks' and say thank you for everything our veterans have done for us for the past 200 years."
Tinker, a self-described "technical nerd", provides support for the website. All three were Management Fellows at DePauw.
See the segment at the station's website.
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The volume of irrigation water returned to the Ord River is not included as the information was not available at the time this water accounting report was published.
Irrigation drainage is returned to the Ord River at six locations from the Ord River Irrigation Area, and is measured by the Ord Irrigation Cooperative using flow meters. Return flows from the irrigation area to the Ord River during the dry season (April–October) is representative of drainage as a result of irrigation. Flows during the wet season (November–March) are highly variable due to the large volume of rainfall in the region. Demand for water for irrigation is at its lowest during the wet season, and return flows reflect the runoff from the land surface.
Based on recent data, return flows to the Ord River from the Ord River Irrigation Area during the dry season can range between 25,000 ML and 55,000 ML.


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Frustrated rapper T-Pain is threatening to bypass his record company and "leak" his latest material online - just so his fans can hear it.
T-Pain took to Twitter.com on Tuesday (08Feb11) to grumble about his delayed new album Revolver.
The Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') hitmaker writes, "Since nobody wants to respect this form of art that you all say we 'love' so much, I'm just gonna go ahead and start leakin' the album myself tonight.
"Well maybe I shouldn't rant but everybody was lookin at me strange when I said I didn't wanna drop my album, it's not that album sales weren't doin good for hip hop and rnb, it just felt like no one respected 'music' anymore."


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Skoyles presented with top Boy Scouting honor
DETROIT LAKES - On Jan. 31, the Northern Sky District of the Northern Lights Council of the Boy Scouts of America presented the District Award of Merit to Karen Skoyles of Detroit Lakes in recognition of her outstanding service to youth in the Northern Sky District.
The District Award of Merit is the highest honor that a Boy Scout District can present to a scouting volunteer. Recipients must be registered scouters who have rendered noteworthy service to youth in Scouting, outside of Scouting, or both.
Consideration is given to the nominee's Scouting position and the corresponding opportunity to render outstanding service beyond the expectations of that Scouting position. The Northern Sky District includes Cass, Trail, Clay, Becker, Mahnomen and Norman counties in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Skoyles was recognized for her service to Boy Scouts as assistant Cubmaster, den leader, and unit popcorn chair of Pack 647, the chartered organization representative of Cub Scout Pack 605, Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 674, and merit badge counselor.
In addition, Skoyles has served as a regional popcorn chair for many years, coordinating popcorn delivery for units in Detroit Lakes and Frazee. The committee also noted that Skoyles serves as the service unit manager for the Detroit Lakes/Vergas Girl Scout Service Unit, and has been a Girl Scout leader for the past five years.
She was also recognized for her role as vice-chair of the Detroit Lakes Park Board and her past service to the Jaycees as the 59th Water Carnival Admiral, the noon Kiwanis Club as past president, and Dollars for Scholars as past chair of the awards committee.


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It was decades ago, but I still remember Jim Hightower's public affairs reporting class at Western Kentucky University.
The school had a top-rated journalism program and its teachers — and many of its students — took the subject matter seriously.
We learned about open records and open meetings law – generally called Sunshine Laws, because they help shed light on the actions and dealings of our government officials.
By CHARLES C. HAYNES
First Amendment Center
Award-winning author John M. Barry has done it again.
In two previous best-selling books, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, Barry not only told the gripping stories of two critical historical events, but he also helped shape public policy on issues of vital importance to the United States and the world.
The rock-ribbed coast of Maine is not noted for many products — timber and paper wood, potatoes, seafood, and L. L. Bean apparel being the principal ones.
But far and away the most important thing that has sprung from that rocky soil may well be its womenfolk.
This thought comes to mind in view of the announcement last week that Olympia Snowe, three-term Republican senator for Maine will not seek re-election this year, thus ending more than thirty years in the Congress, both House and Senate.
This is being written in reference to the Our Readers Write letter in the Dec 21, 2011, edition of the Roane County News.
The letter being referred to was titled "Pickup Sent to Drive Away Dead Man Not Appreciated."
First, being members of the Roane County Rescue Squad, we would like to extend our sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
Never in the past, present, or future will any member of our organization say or do anything intentionally to disgrace or shame anyone, whether they be rich or poor.
This is to thank the unknown person who helped me get aid in the early morning hours of Dec. 10, 2011.
I called the wrong number because I had fallen and broken my hip, and the man I misdialed was kind enough to get the police to notify my neighbor Buster Pierce.
To that unknown man, thank you so much — without your help, I do not know what would have happened. I was in University of Tennessee Medical Center and Fort Sanders Rehabilitation Center from Dec. 10 through Jan. 30.
God bless you and thanks a million.
A long winter for the Occupy Wall Street movement has seen a shift in tactics by cities, towns and state legislatures seeking to remove many of the estimated 600 encampments nationwide.
Some Occupy groups camped on public property have obtained court rulings that permit them to protest anytime in public spaces, but not to keep tents or sleeping bags on the sites. Elsewhere, formal or informal bargains have been struck that allow tents but not the accessories of camping — in effect permitting momentary shelters, not encampments.
Tennessee's new voter photo ID law is nothing less than state-sanctioned voter fraud.
Wait, that's not correct.
It's massive and intentionally deceitful state-sanctioned voter fraud.
The fact that five out of six, or 95 out of 100 people, questioned believe that the photo ID law is OK, good, excellent or just what the country needs is irrelevant.
The new law is not so cleverly cloaked in the language of reform: "to protect against voter fraud" or "ensuring the integrity of the electoral process."
It seems that the national news media have been prepping citizens to the idea that gas prices at the pump will once again reach $5-plus this summer.
Keep in mind that Washington politicians deregulated the commodities exchange in 1998, giving billionaire speculators a free hand to buy and sell all the oil they want.
Prices have nothing to do with supply and demand anymore.
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Involuntary Public Figures
I am teaching Advanced Torts this semester. I've never taught this course before, though I have taught aspects of this class in other courses. One unit that I found especially interesting was defamation and libel, which is not a subject that I took in law school or encountered much afterwards. I was really struck by this passage in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., which limited the actual malice standard of New York Times v. Sullivan to public figures.
"Hypothetically, it may be possible for someone to become a public figure through no purposeful action of his own, but the instances of truly involuntary public figures must be exceedingly rare."
This statement is highly questionable. There are lots of involuntary public figures today. Children of celebrities. Folks who are exposed to scrutiny on social media. And so on. Yet the Court used this premise (few involuntary public figures) to support the point that involuntary public figures should be treated like voluntary public figures (government officials or celebrities). Things are too well settled, I suppose, to challenge this rule, but its foundation seems weaker.
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Redirect issue on facebook.
What happens is when i post a link to facebook, it shows up as normal with the normal links even if i hover over it it shows my website in the bottom of the browser like normal. But when i click on it it says and redirects to this:
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You are not authorized to access the webpage at http://www.isfart.fartit.com/. You may need to sign in.
HTTP Error 403 (Forbidden): The server refused to fulfill the request.
My website isn't http://www.isfart.fartit.com/ its http://www.conmenpodcast.com any normal link i post on my site and i go directly without facebook works fine, its only when i post to facebook fanpage. I scanned for viruses on my computer and spyware and adware and its not that. I disabled all plugins still does it. I read somewere it could be a spider bot but i am not even sure how to remove it and make it work like normal.
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This morning's contract deal reached between Qwest Communications and its largest union will affect about 2,300 workers in the Twin Cities.
The announcement came a day after the last contract expired and members of the Communications Workers of America had authorized a strike.
The strike threatened preparations for both the Republican convention in St. Paul and the Democratic convention in Denver.
Officials have not released details of the three-year deal, but it would apply to about 20,000 workers in 13 states, including Minnesota.
Dawn Schnickels-Johnson is treasurer of Local 7200 in Minneapolis. She said this has been a stressful few days for workers who were not sure whether they would soon walk off the job.
"A settlement and a tentative agreement takes those worries and puts them aside and lets people do a little sigh of relief. However, the real sigh of relief will be once they've seen what's in that contract," Schnickels-Johnson said.
Schnickels-Johnson said a mail-in vote will determine whether the contract is adopted. A majority of workers nationwide need to approve the deal for it to take effect.


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'The Beast' Burger at CenturyLink Was a Highlight of the NFC Championship
Delaware North, the food vendor at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, debuted at the Saints game earlier this month. I had one Sunday and it set me back $15, but worth every penny. It was the biggest burger I've ever eaten.
The Beast Burger, honoring Marshawn Lynch, comes with lettuce, tomato, two patties, two pieces of bacon, ham, two pieces of cheese, onion rings, fries, and — get this — SKITTLES!
If it's continued next year, expect to buy one at the Gridiron Grill and 12th Man Grill.
There are a lot of things to eat at CenturyLink Field at Seahawk games — a lot of great of food. This is one of THE BEST things to eat.
It's probably the biggest hamburger I've ever eaten in my entire life.
When I tried to take a bite, I even squeezed the burger together and couldn't git it inside my mouth, and I have a big mouth! I had to take a bite from the top, then the bottom. It was impossible to fit the entire burger in my mouth. At $15 it's an expensive burger, but BOY IS IT GOOD!
If you want to find it at Seahawks games, I recommend you get it on the second level at the opposite end zones. Section 271 is one the one I'm familiar with.
Go into the stadium and walk around on the FIRST LEVEL WALKWAY between sections 100 and 200. Walk to opposite end zones of the Hawks Nest, or the "wide TV endzone" and look for section 270. Walk in the entrance and it will be right there. Otherwise you'll have to walk around all these stairs… it's difficult, to make a long story short.


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Before a packed grand ballroom in the Joe Crowley Student Union, University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick met with faculty, staff and students in a town hall meeting on Wednesday to discuss the upcoming round of budget cuts that the University will be facing.
Glick said his intention was not to "sugarcoat" the current budget crisis.
"I don't know how to tell the story without saying both the positive and the negative," he said during the meeting, which lasted for more than 90 minutes and included a question-and-answer session.
Glick admitted that he came to the town hall meeting with mixed emotions. On the one hand, there were many positives: continued growth and diversity of the student body, an increasing research profile and new facilities for students, faculty and staff.
"We are in that strange world that Dickens best described as 'the best of times and the worst of times,'" Glick said. He paused, and pointed to the new student union, which opened in November to much fanfare.
"We are in this magnificent new building," he continued. "We will open in a month the magnificent Knowledge Center. We broke ground yesterday on what will be a magnificent new math and science center … People would probably be saying, 'Well, everything (at the University) is fine."
As Glick quickly noted, though, the latest round of budget cuts requested by the state present the institution with one of its greatest challenges, coming on the heels of a 4.5 percent budget reduction that was already made in January. The new cuts would be for Fiscal Year 2009, which is set to begin in less than two weeks.
"We've now been told to plan for an additional two percent or four percent (cut) for the coming year," he said. "That will be very hard to do. We had planned – full disclosure – for a one percent cut. We were ready to do that – hoping not to do that – but we felt we had taken enough out of the budget to handle a one-percent cut.
"Two percent would be very difficult, and four percent would cause more dislocations."
Glick added that the prospect of further cuts requested by the state – perhaps reaching as high as 14 percent for FY 2010-2011, would "irrevocably change the future of the University."
"With significant cuts we change the University's trajectory," he said. "I have to say that we would be a less robust University with fewer choices. We'll still do a good job with what we do; but instead of having 'x' degree programs, we would only have 'y' degree programs. There will be services that will disappear.
"We will change the trajectory not for the short-term, but for the foreseeable future."
In order to meet the current budget cut requests, Glick announced that the University will continue the strategic hiring freeze implemented during the first round of budget reductions. Positions currently open or that become open would be filled only if they are sufficiently justified and critical to the mission of the university.
Second, he said the Provost's Office is developing the framework for a retirement incentive program for tenured faculty which will be announced in late summer or fall. Non-tenure track academic faculty and administrative faculty who are considering retirement sometime in the near future can work with Vice Provost Jannet Vreeland to explore options for early separation incentives on an individual, completely voluntary basis, Glick said.
Glick said these steps are intended to reduce the base budget expenditures of the University in ways that are least disruptive to people's lives.
Glick also emphasized that the University would not issue mass notices of non-reappointment to all non-tenured faculty or to all administrative faculty. He said such an effort would be disastrous for the University's future, particularly as it would relate to younger faculty who work to become the teaching and research backbone of the campus in the coming years.
Glick did say, however, that if the University is faced with a possible double-digit budget cut for FY 2010-2011, budget reduction scenarios would involve some notices of non-renewals in certain areas, and that such action could come in the next two weeks.
"What we will not do is the mindless blanket non-renewals," Glick said. "We will not non-renew all tenure track faculty. Let me say that as clear as I can, because that would be eating your seed corn."
From the question and answer session:
On the upcoming Nevada State Legislative Session, which will address the question of further delaying or eliminating cost of living adjustments for state employees: "We do not know and won't know until Sunday what the agenda will be. We do know that re-directing or eliminating the COLA will be discussed … (Eliminating the COLA) would cause a lot of pain, especially for those at lower pay levels."
On why construction of the Davidson Math and Science Center has continued, instead of diverting the money to operations: Glick noted his appreciation for the question but said it is an often misunderstood topic. He explained that bonds are issued to back the state allocation for construction projects, and that bonded money can't be applied toward operations.


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The Poly girls basketball team has been in the gym working to get better for the last week and a half, since they were eliminated in the CIF Southern Section Open Division semifinals.
The Jackrabbit coaches and players said they felt they were getting better, but wouldn't know until they took the floor against a quality opponent. Friday night, their suspicions were confirmed, as they bulldozed San Diego Section champion Bishop's 70-26 in a CIF State Open Division regional playoffs game.
"I was really pleased with our first unit's energy on defense and on the glass," said Poly coach Carl Buggs.
The Jackrabbits forced eight turnovers in the first eight minutes, and Lajahna Drummer scored nine points with five offensive rebounds. Drummer finished with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
"We wanted to make a statement tonight," she said.
The Jackrabbits (24-3) led the Knights (27-6) 19-2 in the first quarter, and were up 48-12 at halftime of the lopsided contest. What's more, they passed the ball willingly and made the extra pass to get the ball to an open player, something they often neglected to do in prior contests. "We're starting to finally develop that trust," said Buggs. "That's what always takes the longest, but it's coming along right now."
Arica Carter had 11 points, six rebounds and six steals for the Jackrabbits, and said she didn't want to look too far head.
Poly's next game will be against Mater Dei, a national top-10 program with the recently named Gatorade State Player of the Year in Katie Lou Samuelson. Tipoff at Mater Dei for the regional semifinal will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
"We won't really know how much better we've gotten until we play them," said Carter.
Poly's play on Friday was a perfect blend of inside out basketball, as their guards scored effectively, but they also got the ball into the paint. In addition to Drummer, freshman Ayanna Clark was very efficient, with 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting, and Jada Matthews had 10 rebounds as well.
Millikan basketball
Millikan is in a holding pattern after learning Friday that Narbonne forfeit its victory. The Gauchos eliminated the Rams from the firs -round of the CIF State Division 1 playoffs, but did so using an ineligible player.
The initial ruling of the CIF State office on Friday night, however, was that rather than put the Rams back into the bracket, Narbonne's next opponent, Alemany, would advance from tonight's game unopposed.
Millikan coach Lorene Morgan said her team and principal were looking for some clarification as to why their season would be over if their most recent game is now in the books as a win over Narbonne.
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