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ScottieL has finally recovered and sent in this lengthy & ML flavor filled report from Bonnaroo:
I just got back from Bonnaroo at 3:00 on Tuesday morning, and after a long weekend of listening to music, dancing, partying, and doing everything else there was to do (I'll call it Roo'ing), I'm still exhausted. Half of me wants to crawl into bed and sleep for a week, but the other half wishes I was still in Manchester, Tennessee. I want to thank my friends at Metal Lungies for giving me the opportunity to attend this festival for the first time, and for a helluva weekend. I have heard things from friends who have attended Bonnaroo in the past, but nothing really prepares you for it until you actually experience it firsthand. In my day-by-day breakdowns, I'll do my best to review the music, as well as describe some of the other activities, people, and overall unique atmosphere that makes Bonnaroo different from anything I've ever been a part of.
We reached our destination of Manchester around 6:00 on Friday morning after a relatively uneventful (I did get a carton of cigarettes for under $30 in Virginia) twelve-hour drive. Me and three of my friends, we'll call them Dolla Bill, Mitya, and S-Money, were packed into a tiny Honda Accord stuffed with backpacks, suitcases, tents, blowup dolls, etc. As we drove on the main road through town, we noticed signs up outside most of the stores and restaurants welcoming Bonnaroo goers. We had finally arrived.
We met up with our buddy Drosci, who drove down yesterday and had been waiting for us to get there. He told us that his cousin, who helped set up Bonnaroo as well as many other festivals, hooked it up with guest camping passes for all of us. The passes allowed us to camp right by Centeroo, the main area of Bonnaroo. I didn't realize how crucial that was until later after seeing the distance between the regular campgrounds and Centeroo. Let's just say it was a hike. We picked up our wristbands at the local Holliday Inn and headed toward our campsite.
As we drove in to the site we were stopped by security guards, who checked to see if we had a guest parking pass. They saw the pass and waved us through. We pulled into the lot and the first thing I noticed was a long line of people waiting to use a shower. Showers at Bonnaroo??I'm really starting to feel like a big shot with these passes. We parked and set up our tents. Now it's time for the fun to begin! Well, fuck, after a little nap, I'm tired.
I woke up fully energized and ready to kick Bonnaroo's ass. Dolla Bill, also a Bonnaroo virgin, joined me for a walk around the grounds. Centeroo can best be described as a psychedelic fair complete with an assortment of stages, tents, shops, food stands, a ferris wheel and a fountain shaped like a mushroom (remember kids, just say no). It was still pretty early so there wasn't any music yet, but the place was alive and there was more than enough going on to keep busy. We passed by a stand called the MLB Road Show, complete with a batting cage and a radar detector to test how fast you can throw. The high speed was in the mid- 80's. Damn, I didn't know Jamie Moyer was going to be here! I thought about giving it a shot, but the line was pretty long and I didn't want to embarrass myself.
I was getting hungry so I grabbed a $10 burrito and wolfed it down. Definitely the worst thing I had the whole time I was there, it would come back to haunt me later. Overall, the food was decent in Centeroo. I recommend the kabobs or the pizza. There's something about paying $5 for a slice that makes it that much better. If you're looking for more variety and better prices and don't mind walking, your best bet is to make the trek up to 3rd street, or Shakedown Street as it's more commonly known. Shakedown Street is full of vendors selling food, clothing, glass, as well as whatever other products hippies sell. Also, there are just a lot of strange people around, and it's always good for a laugh. One of my friends said they saw a topless girl get tackled into a puddle of mud by a cop, while she screamed "I want my hoverboard! Give me back my hoverboard!" Unfortunately, there was no hoverboard in sight.
The music after the jump:
I'm sure I've bored you enough with my rambling about camping, food, and crazy people so I'll move on to the meat and potatoes of my review: the music.
Umphrey'sMcgee: I've seen them a few times already, and while they are excellent musicians, they never really do much for me live. This time was no different. They'll get going in a nice groove, then just start playing some prog-metal shit out of nowhere. Not my cup of tea.
Stephen Marley: I'm a pretty big Bob Marley fan (who isn't?), so I was pretty excited to see what his son had to offer. He had a lot of energy and kept the crowd dancing the whole time. It was nice change from Umphrey's. He played a few of his dad's songs, satisfying the legions of Bob Marley fans in the audience. Definitely a fun, entertaining performance.
Les Claypool: If you've seen him you know what one of his performances entails. If not, the best way I can describe him is a modern day Frank Zappa. Widely regarded as one of the most talented (and eccentric) bass players today, Claypool has been a staple at Bonnaroo since it's inception in 2002, playing four of the seven years. He has a variety of projects, most notably Primus, as well as others with the likes of guitarists Trey Anastasio and Buckethead, and drummer Stewart Copeland of the Police. This performance was a treat, as he played with the band from his mockumentary, "Electric Apricot: The Quest for Festeroo." The movie may be a joke, but these guys can play. The band seamlessly switched between funky rhythms, psychedelic soundscapes, and non-sensical medleys. Needless to say, they were awesome.
The Raconteurs: After getting mind-fucked by Claypool for an hour and a half, me and S-Money decided to catch the end of The Raconteurs' set. Back to What Stage! (As you probably guessed, we did a lot of walking. Next year I'm bringing a Segway). I haven't really heard much of their stuff, but I've always been a fan of Jack White. He's just one cool motherfucker. The band played a few songs, including "Steady, As She Goes" and the crowd was loving it. It was refreshing to see a good, straight-up rock and roll band. Another surprisingly good act.
Chris Rock: Definitely the biggest crowd of the weekend. It was cool to see a couple of the members of Metallica introduce Mr. Rock. Guess they became tight backstage, shooting the shit over a fatty. Hilarious as usual, his act incorporated some of his old material with some stuff I'd never heard. He seemed a little bit nervous at some parts, but he played it off well and had the whole crowd laughing the entire time. (Well, besides the inevitable spunions who seemed to be more intent on studying the blades of grass. They're magical brahhhhh.) I was thinking, this has to be the biggest gig he's ever had. I can't think of any other time he's performed in front of tens of thousands of people. Who wouldn't be nervous? Respek.
Metallica: Chris Rock returned the favor and introduced Metallica after he was done. I've never been a big Metallica fan, but there's no way I was going to pass this opportunity up. They came out to a crowd slightly smaller than his, probably due to the light rain that started to fall. Unfortunately, right after they came on I started to feel like someone had simultaneously kicked me in the nuts and took a bat to my temple. Must've been that burrito. Who's got my heady Tums? I made it through two of their songs, which were awesome by the way, and decided my best bet was to go back to the campsite and get some rest. My favorite band, The Disco Biscuits, was playing late night and there was no way I was going to miss them, even if it meant missing Metallica, who, according to my friends, were amazing. Fuckin' burrito.
MSTRKRFT: I woke up feeling much better, and booked it to That Tent to catch MSTRKRFT. Described on their website as, "a shit-hot addition to the global community of sonic warriors currently smashing down boundaries between punk, house, hip-hop, grime, electro, and all kinds of electronic experimentation," these guys know how to get a party started. The second they started playing, the entire crowd started to get down. (Minus the spunions of course. "These lights are magical brahhhhh.") They had a bunch of people on stage dancing, and the energy definitely spread throughout the crowd. They played a few Daft Punk covers, which were tight, but they did get a little repetitive after awhile. All in all, it was a fun show, and it definitely set the tone for the ass-kicking the Biscuits were about to give us.
The Disco Biscuits: Alright, it's time to rage. These guys have been my favorite band since I first saw them back in 2005. If you've never seen them, I suggest you do as soon as possible. They are pioneers in the music scene, having created a new style of music known as "trance-fusion," which is basically an eclectic mix of trance with a smorgasbord of other styles such as jazz, funk, rock, and classical. My expectations for this show were extremely high. I just saw them a couple weeks ago at Starscape in Baltimore, and it was the first time in 14 shows that I left feeling disappointed. At Roo, I was positive that they were going to throw down, and I knew the moment they came onstage and grabbed their instrumentswith a sense of urgency that it was on. I could review this show for pages, but I will keep it short and sweet because I know most of you probably haven't even heard of them. From the opening notes of "M.E.M.P.H.I.S," to the last note of "Mulberry's Dream," they played like they were on a mission to own our souls. Basically, this was one of the best shows I've ever been to, as well as my favorite act at Bonnaroo.
Pearl Jam: Just like with Metallica, I've never been a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I still had to see them. They played a lot of crowd pleasers including "Even Flow," "Betterman," and covers "All Along the Watchtower," and "Love Reign O'er Me," which were good for casual fans like me. Me and my friends were the uber-noobs yelling for them to play "Jeremy." Hey, it's a good song… about a kid who goes on a murder spree at school…yeahhhhh. One of the most interesting parts of their performance was Eddie Vedder basically saying "fuck you" to Kanye West. He started to promote his set, then stopped and said, "I can't do it." They also played about an hour over their scheduled time limit, which would come into play later that night.
Phil Lesh & Friends: This was my first time seeing Phil, one of my favorite bassists, from the Grateful Dead, one of my favorite bands. Needless to say, I was very excited about this performance. Throughout the entire set, I was incredibly impressed with the tightness of his new band. His current lineup includes guitarists Jackie Greene and Larry Campbell, keyboard player Steve Molitz, and drummer John Molo. It was pretty surreal to be dancing to some Dead classics. The highlight for me was "Fire on the Mountain," which was unusually uptempo and drenched in psychedelia. Unfortunately, with Kanye's performance rescheduled during the same time, I had to leave early. Well, that's what I thought…
Kanye West: Definitely the most interesting performance of the festival, but it had nothing to do with the music. Initially scheduled to go on at 2:15, his starting time kept getting pushed back due to his elaborate stage setup. He finally came on at 4:27 to a barrage of "Kanye Sucks" chants. Without apologizing, or even addressing the crowd at all, he started his show. The show itself, complete with spaceship and huge led screen, was actually pretty good. I heard from a reliable source that he had a 75-piece band underneath the stage, and it definitely showed. Unfortunately, it definitely wasn't worth the wait and missing other music I could have seen. He finished his set as the sun was coming up, then quickly ran off the stage. More booing ensued. I don't think Kanye will be coming back to Bonnaroo next year.
Widespread Panic: The last act of the festival for the past two years, these guys blew me away. I've never been a huge Panic fan, but I was interested to see them with the addition of new guitarist Jimmy Herring. His addition to the band has definitely added a new layer to their sound, and I was very impressed. Add a surprise sit-in from Robert Randolph, and you've got yourself a good fuckin' time. The crowd seemed intent on dancing their asses off, knowing that this would be the last time they could this weekend. They played until about 11:30, and when they went off the stage it was bittersweet. We had just enjoyed an amazing weekend of music, but now it was over and we knew we would have to go back to reality soon.
Overall, Bonnaroo was everything I thought it would be and then some. I tried to focus my review on music, but some of the highlights for me definitely took place in the Comedy Tent. Every act I saw there was hilarious, most notably Louis C.K. and Brian Posehn. I could write 10 more pages on everything I did, all the cool people I met, and some more stories. It was hard enough just cutting my review down to four pages. Basically, if you're looking for a weekend full of good music, entertainment, and lots of like-minded people, I would recommend Bonnaroo. I'll be there next year. Alright, I'm out. Where's my hoverboard?
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LOS ANGELES, CA -- UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced that it will be offering the Business Technical Assistance Program (BTAP), an initiative designed to provide minority entrepreneurs with basic business training with an emphasis on new technology. Approximately 35 candidates will participate in the four-day program, to be held at UCLA Anderson School of Management on November 13-16.
"In a marketplace that demands the mastery of rapidly advancing technological applications, entrepreneurs cannot afford to miss a beat," said Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., senior associate dean at UCLA Anderson School of Management and BTAP faculty director. "For many minority, woman and disabled veteran owned enterprises, formal training in technological applications is unaffordable or difficult to obtain. To address this need, UCLA Anderson has created a uniquely-tailored curriculum that provides entrepreneurs and small business owners with the tools to not only learn these technologies, but also to fully utilize them in order to take their businesses to the next level."
Developed in conjunction with AT&T and the Greenlining Institute, the BTAP curriculum consists of vital business training in technology, management, finance, marketing and strategy. Traditionally, participants are entrepreneurs in existing businesses already positioned for growth. UCLA Anderson's world-renowned faculty members will share their expertise in entrepreneurship and small business consulting through case discussions, lectures and workshops for BTAP participants. As part of the program's graduation requirements, each entrepreneur is required to complete and submit a Business Improvement Project, a strategic assignment to significantly strengthen the entrepreneur's business model and practice.
"Minority and women owned businesses are the fastest growing sectors of new businesses in the U.S. and especially California," said Samuel Kang, managing attorney at the Greenlining Institute. "BTAP exemplifies how corporate-community partnerships can, and should, foster the development of this growing segment of entrepreneurs."
The BTAP is presented by UCLA Anderson's Management Development Program for Entrepreneurs (MDE), an executive training program aimed at building and supporting entrepreneurial competence in the greater business community. Established in 2006 with over one million dollars in funding from AT&T and the Greenlining Institute, MDE annually hosts a series of management programs to address the unique issues most often faced by minority, women and disabled veteran entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x20716.xml.
About UCLA Anderson's Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE)
Management Development for Entrepreneurs is an intensive executive training program utilizing lectures, case discussions, applied workshops, and tailored business improvement projects. Presented by the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA Anderson School of Management, MDE was first offered in 1990 in Southern California and in 1995 in Northern California. Over 700 graduates from diverse backgrounds and experiences make up MDE's alumni base. (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x663.xml).
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The Greenlining Institute is a multiethnic public policy and advocacy think tank that advocates for low income and minority communities through economic development, consumer protection, health advocacy, campaign finance reform, civil rights, and leadership development. (http://www.greenlining.org).
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AT&T Inc. is one of the world's largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, AT&T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to business and as leading U.S. providers of high speed DSL Internet, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services. AT&T Inc. holds a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which is the No. 1 U.S. wireless services provider with 57.3 million wireless customers. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and AT&T products and services is available at http://www.att.com.
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In the end of September/beginning of October, I went first to DC for a meeting of all of the people funded by our funding agency in DOE and then on to Germany the following week to two conferences, first one on Multiscale Modeling of Materials held in Freiburg and the second on Nuclear Materials in Karlsruhe. Just sharing some random thoughts from those trips.
- The meeting in DC was held in a hotel way out in Rockville (ok, so not in DC proper, but in the outskirts). My last night there, I went into town, catching the subway and walking around the mall. I made stops at the Washington Monument (always impressive in its simplicity), the Jefferson Memorial (a favorite stop, as Jefferson, in spite of his flaws, is still a hero of mine), the Lincoln Memorial (which had way too many people as the AFL-CIO was setting up some rally there; but still great to see), and a very brief stop at the American History Museum (which didn't really impress me all that much, but to be honest I only stayed 10 minutes). I walked the length of the mall as the sun set, watching as the lights came on. A very pretty view. Though DC is often a symbol to us of the problems of the country and the agendas of politicians so removed from our own interests, it is still a very powerful symbol of the greatness of our country, of the men who worked so hard to build a solid foundation on which all of this rests.
- On the flight to Germany, I watched two movies (I usually use flights to catch up on things I haven't had the chance to see): The Losers and Kick-Ass. Both are based on comic properties. I enjoyed both. I'm a bit surprised at what they show on these flights, as it isn't exactly private, and these are both reasonably violent movies. The Losers was simply entertaining, with some nice stunts and an overall plot-line that was interesting. The main villain was a little over the top, but there were enough twists to keep me interested. Kick-Ass, on the other hand, I enjoyed greatly. Maybe a little overly violent, but there is something in the story that is the ultimate teenage wish-fulfillment, of a guy just fighting back at the injustices around him. The acting was good, the story was good.
- It took us a little while to figure out the German train system. Connected to the airport in Frankfurt was a massive train station, but we landed at Terminal 2 and it wasn't completely clear where to go to catch the train. Turns out we had to catch a bus to Terminal 1 and the train station was right there. But, once we figured that out and where we had to transfer (to get to Freiburg we had to transfer in Karlsruhe), it went smoothly. A nice train system is always very pleasant. I understand the difficulties of building a comprehensive train network in the US, especially the West, but it sure would make some kinds of travel easier.
- The first place I went for dinner in Freiburg had outdoor seating, with the tables spread out underneath a huge chestnut tree. It was a bit surreal to have dinner, completely jet-lagged, with chestnuts falling all around us. Every once in a while there would be a crack of a chestnut crashing down on the cobble stones. Fortunately, none of them hit our food or beer. The food, incidentally, was the German version of pizza, which as a crust with onions and cream cheese. It was actually very tasty.
- This was my second visit to Freiburg and it was just as charming as I remembered. Freiburg is known for the Cathedral in the center of town, one of the few places to survive World War II without much damage. They've channeled a river through the center of town, in some places about as wide as a lane in a road, in other places just a small stream maybe 1 foot wide and half a foot deep, but which runs along the streets through the town. Children were playing in this stream, putting little toy boats and watching them float away.
- Karlsruhe, on the other hand, was simply much bigger. I had essentially two nights there, but they were spent with colleagues at dinner, so I didn't get a chance to see anything. The impression from others was that there wasn't much to see. I'll have to go back some time and check for myself.
- The conferences themselves were overall good. I had some good discussions with old and new friends, with some potential new collaborations established. These conferences are better and better experiences as I know more and more people. I was only at the Karlsuhe conference for one day, so didn't experience a whole lot. The hotel was very nice, though maybe a bit vanilla, while that in Freiburg was plainer but because of that maybe more charming. It had a nice restaurant for breakfast as well. The Karlsruhe felt more like a chain that catered a bit more to business types. Both of my talks went well and generated some discussion, which is all one can ask for, really.


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2bn mobile social network accounts
There's nothing terribly new about trying to make 'over-the-top' (OTT) voice and messaging services for mobile phones. There was a major flowering of voice-OTT services (mainly based on call-back) half-a-dozen years ago (most of which died off), while Skype has migrated from desktop to mobile as well.
However, the flat route to market offered by app stores, the immediate scope to save money over SMS and the enhanced social and sharing features that are all possible mean that there has been another explosion in the last couple of years: in effect, these are all now social networks, not just 'cheap SMS' tools. Meanwhile, the fact that there are close to a billion users of iOS and Android means the addressable market is huge.
By my count there are:
- At least 14 mobile OTT services with over 50m users
- At least 20 with over 10m users
- At least 2bn total user accounts
The chart below shows just the ones I found in an hour's searching, most of which have given a user number in the last 3 months or so (the major exception is WhatsApp, which I estimated here.) Adding Twitter and Sina Weibo (which are both desktop and mobile) would add another 500m or so users.
Obviously, there is massive duplication here: lots of people have 3 or 4 different services installed for different groups of friends. One can also quibble about definitions: Opera does not offer messaging but does subvert the operator relationship and the data package (it is not included in the totals above); Facebook is used for more than messaging, and so on.
But the core point is that hundreds of millions of people have installed third party apps to do messaging on their phones that is neither SMS nor email, but within some form of new, closed, proprietary - and much richer - form.
One of these, incidentally, is the mainly Spanish social network Tuenti, recently bought by Telefonica, which with 13m users is by my count only the 19th largest such network. The 'JOYN' standard announced by the GSMA at the beginning of the year, which aims to allow MNOs to offer the same rich services using their own networks and integrated into SMS, does not have meaningful number of users yet.
What does this mean for mobile operators themselves? The naive view would be that this is lethal. People will move their messaging from operator bearers to these third-party networks, and then switch to wifi, and the operators will be dead. Or they'll cancel their voice plan and just use data, or their SMS plan and just use voice or data.
The truth is a bit more nuanced. Consider these chart from Vodafone Group for its European segment.
Vodafone's view of OTT, pretty bluntly, is that it's mainly a problem if you don't do anything about it.
The first piece of revenue that is vulnerable to an OTT service is the 'out of bundle' charge: the usage that is charged on a marginal basis, and hence where you have immediate scope to save money by using eg WhatsApp. This is only 11% of Vodafone's European mobile revenue.
Second, 'integrated tariffs'. Consider two scenarios:
- You pay €20 for 600 minutes, €5 for, say, 500 meg of data and €5 for 500 SMS.
- You pay €30 for a combined bundle of 600 minutes, 500 meg of data and 1000 SMS
Operator revenue is the same in both cases, but in the first there is an arbitrage opportunity: if all of your friends are on WhatsApp, you can cancel your SMS plan. In the second, there is no such opportunity to save. The same applies on prepay - different pricing changes the opportunity.
Hence, a key objective for mobile operators is to rebalance their tariffs to remove an arbitrage opportunity: to move to integrated tariffs and cut out this risk. This is not necessarily easy: it is difficult to tell the people happy paying just €20 in the scenario above that they have to start paying €30. Any change in tariff structure creates churn, especially in highly competitive markets, which most mobile markets are. Hence, there is a potentially major transition problem, but this is not necessarily a structural problem.
So, how could such services become a problem for mobile operators? If they were combined with a more fundamental change in the customer relationship. Consider another scenario:
- Mainstream smartphones prices move to $100 unsubsidised (the iPhone is currently $650) and hence can be sold unsubsidised without contract (currently, almost all smartphones are notionally available with no contract, but sales are tiny)
- Widespread adoption of LTE makes mobile VOIP practical (on 3G data, Skype uses 3-4x more radio network capacity than a circuit-switched call)
- Substantial numbers of people move to one-month contracts (currently about 10% of the UK market), buying their own phones
- These people move their voice and messaging to OTT players, and hence have no residual stickiness to the phone number (number portability is in place today in most markets but imposes significant friction)
- Therefore, such users switch between operators month-by-month chasing the best data plans
This is only one scenario, but all of the moving parts have to happen, and some of them have major barriers. Of course, if we move to a zero subsidy, zero contract market, a lot more would change than just SMS pricing, including Apple's margins.


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COLUMBUS: An Ohio community college student has been arrested and charged after police said he threatened to shoot GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
A teacher at Lorain County Community College said that during the time students were doing group work in class Monday she overheard Shaquille Brown say he wanted to shoot Romney.
The 19-year-old Brown of Elyria was charged Wednesday in Elyria Municipal Court in northeast Ohio with one count of inducing panic.
Police say Brown told them he didn�t even have a gun to do such a thing. He was booked into Lorain County Jail and later released after posting a $5,000 bond.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 n.6 Cape Town Jun. 2009
MCC 'tardy' as couple suffer Mefliam 'nightmare'
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The Medicines Control Council (MCC) took 20 months to respond to an urgent Cipla-Medpro application to include vital new safety information in their generic antimalarial tablet Mefliam packaging, forcing the drug company to go ahead regardless.
Now a middle-aged KwaZulu-Natal couple are suing Cipla for over R1 million after allegedly suffering years of anxiety, insomnia, depression and income loss which they claim is a result of taking Mefliam with inadequate package warnings.
The aggrieved couple also laid criminal complaints accusing Cipla of trading without a valid drug registration certificate and failing to include appropriate and timely health packaging warnings. At the time of writing the Commercial Crimes Unit was probing this.
However, Superintendent Kallie Lourens, of the Commercial Crimes Unit in Cape Town (where the Cipla Medpro headquarters are), said his men would be visiting the MCC in Pretoria to verify Cipla's claims that it registered Mefliam 'by the book'. 'It also seems there are no statutory provisions requiring all the relevant drug package information on the generic drug to match that of the original (ethical) drug but we'll double-check this at the MCC,' he added.
MCC Registrar, Ms Mandisa Hela told Izindaba (after conducting her own probe) that she was 'satisfied there were no irregularities with the registration'. However, it emerged from documentation that the MCC took 20 months to respond to the Cipla application to amend their Mefliam package insert to reflect additional information. This included psychiatric disorders under the headings 'contraindications, warnings, side-effects and special precautions'.
Cipla Medpro said their request for a new package insert was made in October 2002, after the company was alerted to a Medinfo press release entitled 'Suicide alert issued on malaria drug'. This press release prompted Cipla to consult the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) website that contained an updated mefloquine package insert.
The MCC evaluated Cipla's request and responded in June 2004, asking that the package insert be 'brought into line with the innovator product Lariam (Roche)'
It also asked Cipla to respond to this recommendation 'within six months' and when Cipla failed to do so, sent a reminder on 23 October last year. 'We're still checking to see whether there was a response or not,' Hela told Izindaba on 29 April this year.
Dr Nic de Jongh, Medical Director of Cipla Medpro, said the original MCC request to amend was 'done in the public interest' by way of sending the MCC a newly drafted package insert. In spite of the ensuing nearly 2-year delay (the MCC eventually sent them back the wrong insert) his company had gone ahead and included the new packaging information in all Mefliam boxes from December 2002. 'Due to the severity of the warnings, we had no doubt at the time that it was our responsibility to warn patients of these potentially serious adverse effects,' he wrote in a January 2009 letter to the MCC.
Hela earlier told Izindaba that medicines were registered on the basis of clinical trials with contraindications signals sometimes only picked up once the drugs were in the field. The packaging was then updated accordingly. 'Every medicine registered or information required is a living document. Safety information changes dynamically and we ask the applicant to adapt accordingly.'
She did not explain why it took the MCC so long to process Cipla's request. De Jongh said the drug's actual registration was a 'matter of public record in the government gazette', adding that it was 'up to the court to decide' on the legitimacy of the civil claim. 'Our version of the facts is quite simple. There was an FDA warning about suicide risk which we updated (on the package insert) with any new side-effects about the time the complainants came with their insomnia claims. Their symptoms were included in the update when we got the FDA alert' he said.
In the claim before the High Court in Durban, insurance broker Paul Kotze (48) and his wife Sharon (47), of Kloof, said they took Mefliam before, during and after a Mozambique holiday in June and July of 2002.
Soon after arriving at their destination, Marangula Cottages, they and their two sons, Kelvin (then 13) and Christopher (11) began suffering from insomnia. After a 'nightmare' trip back home their GP's locum advised them to complete the Mefliam course but added sleeping tablets and some vitamin B injections to address the symptoms. A fortnight later their own GP put Sharon, who was by then suffering 'insomnia-related anxiety attacks, intense fatigue and headaches', onto Doxyhexal, another antimalarial.
Her husband also suffered from insomnia, high temperatures and headaches, even though malaria and other probable causes were eliminated. After 2 months of sleeping tablets having 'little effect', Paul Kotze had lost weight while Sharon began suffering blurred vision, slurred speech and suicidal ideation by October that year (as a result of sleep deprivation), and was put on antidepressants. The couple, who said they ran marathons, swam competitively and lived a highly sociable life before the holiday, began to withdraw socially. They described themselves to concerned friends as 'zombies'.
Lives turned upside down
The Kotzes described themselves as financially independent with no abnormal stresses or pressures before their ordeal began, neither having ever suffered from any form of depression, sleeping well to awake around 4am daily when they would usually go for a run or cycle.
By January 2003 Sharon had resigned from her three mornings a week half-day job and was suffering from 'chronic sleep deprivation, forgetfulness, impaired vision, pins and needles around her head and down the back of her shoulders and ongoing slurred speech plus loss of libido'. Her husband continued to suffer 'ringing ears, blurred vision, short-term memory loss, loss of libido, chronic fatigue, depression and anxiety', all symptoms she shared.
Sharon then got in touch with de Jongh, who promised input from other specialists, saying he would get back to them. This gave them 'short-lived hope, but no solution'.
They said a specialist physician and a psychiatrist were unsure of how to treat/solve their conditions, outside of continuing to take sleeping tablets and antidepressants. The Kotzes complained to the company about the lack of 'appropriate' warnings on the Mefliam package insert, contending that insomnia and other side-effects should have been included.
De Jongh told Izindaba that he had tried to help Sharon when she contacted him when she was struggling with her dependence on sleeping tablets, but later they claimed that the only reason that he helped them was because of their impending court action. He said that 'this is a crusade' and that the Kotzes would explore every possible avenue to gain leverage.
According to court documents, Sharon underwent a polysomnogram in July 2005 which confirmed extremely low levels of sleep. Her husband allegedly only began sleeping lightly after 3.5 years.
The Kotzes claim there were no warnings about suicidal ideation, sleep disorders, insomnia and the potential dangers to pregnant women on the package insert at the time, but that these were hastily added in December 2002. They discovered months later that the package insert for Lariam (the ethical equivalent and dated 17 January 1997) included warnings of insomnia and sleep disorders as well as flagging 'toxic encephalopathy of unknown etiology during prophylaxis'. Lariam warned users that the most frequently reported side-effects were nausea and sleep disorders (insomnia, abnormal dreams). Mefliam, however, in their original package insert (August 1997), allegedly had no such warnings.
In their 'particulars of claim', the Kotzes also say the company failed to take 'any or adequate steps' to warn users that once they experienced such adverse effects, they should desist from continuing to use the tablets.
In their initial filing of court papers, Paul Kotze claims to have lost R420 000 and his wife R378 000 in income over 3.5 years, R5 040 000 and R42 000 in medical and/or hospital expenses respectively, and R180 000 and R240 000 respectively in diminution of the enjoyment of the amenities of life, including the listed adverse effects.
Lariam was developed by the United States military during the Vietnam War when ground troops displayed resistance to the standard chloroquine then in use. Side-effects listed on its label include adverse heart, kidney, liver, skin, central and peripheral nervous system and psychiatric problems.
In 2003, the British Medical Journal published research by Swiss scientists comparing Lariam to three other antimalarial drugs. They found that 41.6% of the patients taking Lariam experienced moderate to severe neuropsychiatric side-effects, almost twice as many as those taking doxycycline or Malarone.
In a rare move in July 2003, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered that patients be warned directly of serious mental problems and reports of suicide linked to Lariam, ordering doctors to hand patients a 'medication guide' with the new Lariam warnings.
A mefloquine neurotoxicity literature review1 reveals that mefloquine neurotoxicity has been demonstrated at both the preclinical and clinical levels, with nausea, dizziness, sleep disturbances, anxiety and psychosis, among other adverse neuropsychiatric events reported in users. Females and individuals of low body mass index are at apparent greater risk.
The Kotze civil claim is set down for 27 July in the Durban High Court.
1. Toovey S. Mefloquine neurotoxicity: A literature review. Travel Med Infect Dis 2009; 7(1): 2-6. [ Links ]


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Saint-paul Area Code is 450 and Time Zone is Eastern (GMT -05:00).
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From Hawaii to New Guinea, natives of the South Pacific islands serve a special drink made from kava rootstock at weddings, coming-out-of-mourning celebrations, and other special occasions; visiting heads of state have indulged in kava during welcoming ceremonies. Considered an important part of the islanders' social and religious lives, kava's cultural role in the Pacific has been compared with that of wine in southern Europe.
In former times, the islanders prepared the ceremonial kava beverage by first scraping the root, then chewing pieces of it and spitting them into a bowl to which coconut milk or water was added. Next, they stirred the mixture until it took on a muddy, opaque appearance, then strained it into another bowl. During ceremonies, a cup of the beverage was first presented to a special guest, who was expected to down the contents without stopping. Then others attending the ceremony imbibed.
Today, the root is usually prepared by grating, not chewing. Initially, many islanders opposed giving up the chewing method because they believed that it produced a stronger drink. Some researchers, in fact, concur with this belief. Chewing apparently releases more kavalactones--compounds found in kava that relax muscles--than grating, because saliva contains an enzyme that breaks down the starchy components of kava pulp.
Islanders (as well as many new kava drinkers) take moderate amounts of the beverage to achieve a state of tranquility, happiness, and contentment (some describe it as a holistic sense of ``being''), but without the unpleasant side effects of alcohol, such as hangovers or boisterous behavior. Overindulging can lead to loss of muscle control and a strong urge to sleep.
The islanders have also used kava as medicine for centuries, brewing and taking decoctions made from its rootstock to treat gonorrhea, urinary infections, menstrual problems, migraine headaches, insomnia, and other conditions.
To the West
Captain James Cook is credited with introducing kava to the West after a voyage through the South Pacific from 1768 through 1771. Later, it was given its botanical name, Piper methysticum, reflecting both its close relationship to the familiar spice black pepper (P. nigrum) and its intoxicating effects (methys is Greek for ``drunken''). A member of the pepper family, kava is a shrub that thrives in humid, tropical climates with evenly distributed rainfall and stony soil at elevations of 500 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Plants can reach heights of 20 feet, and their sprawling rhizomes may reach lengths of 9 feet, alternately disappearing below and surfacing above the soil. The islanders harvest kava when the shrubs mature in two to three years, to use themselves or sell as a cash crop.


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June 05, 2008, 07:47:02 AM »
question: have you (i.e. all of you fellow hapless NY barbri takers) been outlining the lecture notes at all? i'm loathe to do this as 1) it takes me hours, 2) there are few things that i hate more, and 3) contrary to bar/bri company rhetoric, i learn close to nothing via the "process" of composing the f-ing thing. instead, a completed outline, with sufficient detail, would be 100x better as i could better use my time studying / memorizing that, instead of manufacturing (i.e. painfully transcribing) my own bad version.
i called bar/bri and asked them specifically if they provided one or if there was an "outlining" service that i could pay for .. they laughed at me. excuse me? did my firm not just fork over THIRTY TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS so that i may pile into a tiny, crowded classroom and watch a stupid 4 hour vid with all of the other suckers?
all the same, my Q is this: has anyone found an online source (maybe from last year?) of a NY Barbri lecture note outline? if so, could you please point me in the right direction? thanks ...
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I actually do outline every lecture, since I find it very helpful to have my own version of the lectures in a form (using various pictures, charts and color-coding) that I can visualize and remember in my head. Thousands of people have passed using BarBri's system, so I ain't gonna "fix" what ain't broke . . .
That being said, in my quest for efficient study methods, I did a search on-line for "BarBri study aids" through google, and stumbled upon several craigslist ads for people selling their outlines. You may want to give that a try.
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haha nice .. good ole craig's list.. thanks for the heads up
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Look on the bright side: at least *your* firm paid for it...me, I'm shelling out the sh*t myself. Also, am I the only one who is extremely disappointed with the BarBri essay graders? They are simply AWFUL!
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i just submitted mine yesterday. apparently we will receive the critique in 7-10 days ...
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Quote from: T. Durden on June 05, 2008, 02:22:05 PM
i just submitted mine yesterday. apparently we will receive the critique in 7-10 days ...
Oh okay. But be forewarned: the graders are bad! In fact, they are so bad that I got an email from the NV BarBri rep, and she confirmed that the grader who graded my essay, and who was one of the many new graders on staff, "didn't meet [their] standards." She didn't meet their standards because she didn't call attention to the fact that I accidentally misread some of the facts on one of the issues and she gave me credit for spotting 2 issues that were not issues at all according to the sample answer in the essay book. I ended up missing 3 issues out of the 8-9 that were on the essay, and what was my grade, according to the genius grader? 80% for "spotting all of the main issues." So, the grader said I got a passing grade (you need a 75 to pass one of the NV essays), despite my missing 3 issues on a primarly issue-spotting subject (Torts): talk about ridiculous.
All of that being said, I don't believe the fault of this is due to the graders being new, for I've heard from countless people that BarBri's essay grading is "pathetic": NOW I see why. It's a good thing I'm taking Essay Advantage: I signed up immediately after I got my grade on this essay.
In any event, I hope *you* get more detailed feedback on your essay than what I received.
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I am outlining, and I too despise it. I am convinced that many people will not and that it's unnecessary, but I do as I am instructed because I am lame. I send my 1st essay off today, it's nice to hear such highly credentialed attention will be given to my practice exam. Money well spent.
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Excelsior College recognizes the academic achievement of its graduates by designating Academic Honors to students with the following overall GPAs:
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Beginning with the conferral class of January 2009, associate degree graduates who have earned at least 30 graded credits and baccalaureate graduates who have earned at least 60 graded credits are eligible for Academic Honors designation. All graded credits that are applied toward the degree, including transfer credit will be taken into account when calculating the overall GPA.
A grandfather clause applies for all students who enrolled prior to January 1, 2008, and will remain in effect until the January 2009 conferral class.
These students will follow the policy in effect at the time of their enrollment which requires associate degree graduates to have earned at least 20 graded credits and baccalaureate graduates to have earned at least 30 graded credits in order to be eligible. The GPA standards were unchanged. The February 2009 conferral class will follow the new academic honors criteria.
A second grandfather clause applies to associate students whose degrees were conferred February, March, April, and May, 2009. These students were required to complete 40 graded credits.


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The adaptation of Judith Viorst's classic children's book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has had its fair share of ups and downs as its moved through the pre-production process, but finally seems to be ready to get on its feet. While the project was originally set up over at 20th Century Fox with The Kids Are Alright director Lisa Cholodenko attached to helm, both the studio and the filmmaker eventually left the project, with the movie heading over to Disney and finding Miguel Arteta to direct. But now that the film has found stable ground, it's starting to put more pieces together.
Jennifer Garner, who worked with Disney on last year's The Odd Life of Timothy Green, is now in talks to join Steve Carell in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; according to The Hollywood Reporter. Carell has actually been attached to the film since April of last year, and should Garner sign on they will team up to play the titular character's parents.
The book was adapted by Cholodenko and Rob Leiber, and tells the story of a young boy who wakes up one morning and immediately starts having the worst day of his life, from getting gum in his hair to discovering that there's no prize in his cereal box. The trade adds that there will be an added twist to the film version, as Alexander "wishes his family experienced his suffering, which they later do."
Garner will next appear with Matthew McConaughey in the drama Dallas Buyers Club and was recently cast in Ivan Reitman's football comedy Draft Day alongside Kevin Costner.


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Is there a tutorial explanation as to how decoherence transforms a wavefunction (with a superposition of possible observable values) into a set of well-defined specific "classical" observable values without the concept of the wavefunction undergoing "collapse"?
I mean an explanation which is less technical than that decoherence is
the decay or rapid vanishing of the off-diagonal elements of the partial trace of the joint system's density matrix, i.e. the trace, with respect to any environmental basis, of the density matrix of the combined system and its environment [...] (Wikipedia).


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Our first damaging frost zapped the Dahlias and several other plants a few days before Bloom Day in the middle of the month, but a few of the hardier plants held on for a while afterward.
Even though I dread seeing the frost come, it can create a magic of its own.
It put a ruffled lacy edge on the blue bells of dwarf Campanula, seen here with white Alyssum,
sugar-coated the snapdragons,
Obedient Plant/False Dragonhead (physostegia Virginiana), which is still blooming,
.....and Wax Begonias.
A few honeybees have been spotted, still at work on the petunias earlier in the month,
And this little fellow on the Anemone de caen/Dutch Windflowers last Sunday.
Verbena "Homestead Purple" continues to bloom.
This is one plant I never want to be without. I usually find a few self-sown seedlings in the spring, and I also buy new plants in six packs at a local nursery.
I recorded my last sighting of a Juvenile Ruby Throated Hummingbird on September 23rd and couldn't resist putting its picture in this post. I'm completely amazed at their uncanny ability to find their own way on the long journey south, leaving a week or two after their parents. Nature is extraordinary!
And here's Park Princess.
The multiple flowers of Bonny Blue in the New Rock Garden were covered in bees on this sunny day.
And a Monarch enjoyed the flowers of the still blooming Phlox.
The seeds for this Castor Bean plant were given to me by my friend, Marie, who generously passes along so many interesting plants and seeds. If I'd managed to plant it earlier it would've grown much bigger, but it grew quickly once in the ground and I loved those gorgeous big leaves. I hope to do better with it next year. You can see that there were still a few blooms on the Butterfly Bush during the first part of the month too.
Here's that same spot after the hard frost.
And the Clematis in the Lily Garden which blessed us with such late blooms this year.
And look what she saw outside on the morning of October 16th!
Here's the view out the back door, looking across the snow-topped Cosmos to the Pink Garden.
Lately though, we've enjoyed a few more beautiful days, although they've been interspersed with some very wet days. Yesterday we had an inch and three quarters of rain, and an inch and a half last Friday night and Saturday.
In the photo above, taken last Sunday (October 25th), the Spirea glows in its autumn colors, while Lamium and Obedient Plant (on the left) are still blooming bravely, even after being cloaked with snow.
The Obedient Plant is past its glory stage, but still pretty. This is a real bee magnet.
Here's the New Rock Garden, still brimming with color near the beginning of the month. Dahlia Bonny Blue and Zinnias were putting on a wonderful show, amid other pretty annuals.
But that hard frost zapped the Dahlias, Zinnias and Coleus, and damaged most of the other plants. Only the pansies were unphased, and are still blooming today.
The yellow mounds are Lemon Gem Marigold. It hung on for a day or two, but quickly faded. I've saved seeds for next year.
So sad to see the Zinnias go. They made such a bright, cheerful display. Do you see the Sunflowers behind them?
They are self-sown from bird seed. Sprouting later than the earlier "volunteers", they gave us a lovely splash of late color, and now the birds are enjoying their seeds.
Here's what the front yard looks like now.
I missed out on getting photos of the prettiest part of the Autumn because I kept waiting for a sunny day to take the camera out, when I wasn't working or running around doing other things. We've had a very busy month. Our fall foliage was rather disappointing this year, and most of the leaves fell quickly in the windy, rainy weather.
The red spot on the right is the dwarf Burning Bush.
Green, gold and brown are the predominant colors now.
The large Silver Maple holds on to its leaves much later than the big old Sugar Maple in front of the house.
I think that little tree is a Sugar Maple too, but being much younger and healthier, it holds onto its leaves longer than the old one too.
And so the days dwindle down to a precious few.... and every opportunity is taken to soak up those glorious rays of warm sunshine, between the windy, rainy days, before Old Man Winter comes to stay.
I hope you're all enjoying whatever season you're in at the moment, be it fall or spring.


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I have a basic dual setup with Linux Debian and Windows 7 (Grub is my bootloader). However, since this machine will be donated to a friend that does not know a lot about computers, I would like to install a more user friendly Linux distro.
I suspect that if I try to install on top of Debian, the bootloader will be overwritten and hell will break loose.
Any ideas on how to properly and safely install the new distribution? Maybe resize a partition, format it, install the new distro and then delete the Debian partition?


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Welcome to St. Mary's Episcopal Church
St. Mary's congregation reflects the great diversity of the Baltimore region. People are drawn to St. Mary's because of the sense of openness, fellowship, family size and outreach to all sectors of our community.
Universal stewardship is both preached and practiced at St. Mary's. We acknowledge, accept and celebrate the stewardship of all of God's creation.


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Hi Pythethron (I guess thats your name)
Yesterday I played thru youre game and it was quite addicting . The graphics are amazing (... yes I played with amazing graphics ) , as well as the sound effects and everything else. The game runs very smooth (just a good thing to mention?) and it´s a lot of fun to play.
Things I had problems with :
-What are the powerups for ? (I realized what the red and the green ... was , but I didn´t see any effect coming from the rocket ...)
-What do you need to do to get stars? I managed to get more than one after a while, but I didn´t always get why I got more than one. (Why do you always get one star ... I´d like it more if you´d had to earn the first star too)
-I equipped my ship with everything I could buy and it didn´t reach 100% . I think it was at 93% ... why?
-As I started to upgrade my ship I realized some changes (different bullets ... ship looks different) , but I was never shure what would change ... I am not a native speaker, but since there probably are more like me it should be explained a litle better
- I somehow manage to delete my game thru changing some folders :/
Things I´d tell you to improve the game:
-To play each lvl I had to repeat a few levels a few times (to get all the stars) . After doing so I was close to buying every equippment for the ship. The thing is if I was able to do so by just playing the few lvl´s available what am I going to do when the game is out one day? Are more equippment thingis coming? Or are they going to get more expensive?
-Sometimes the world seams a litle "thin" ... maybe it would be cool to have a few more ways to go .
-The most npc ships are pretty bad and there a few which are really strong ... maybe you could change that
-The bosses are fine, even though fighting against the snake was really hard . I only managed to kill it while speeding to the right (=regenerating ). Are you supposed to do that? There was no end..
-As the game gets harder more and more enemys come. The most aren´t too hard to kill, but I think sometimes there are just too many and you barely know where you are ^^ ...
Thanks for making this game. I hope more people will play it soon (maybe Gronkh will let´s play it and more germans will follow my lead ^^) .
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Prague is a city of literature, art and above all, music. It was home to Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, 2 of the world's greatest composers. Mozart also had a special relationship with Prague – his opera Don Giovanni had its première there, and he even wrote a symphony especially for the Prague public.
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This attack\'s Base Power is anything from 1 up to 110 making it a fairly powerful attack to be used. The means of determining the Base Power however is set based on the Opponent\'s Hit Points. The higher its hit points the better. This does not refer to the Base Stats for the Hit Points but rather the opponent\'s HP relative to its maximum at the current point in time.
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More Food Revolution Day news – this time from our friends at Jamie's Ministry of Food in Bradford. Andy writes:
We had a really good day for FRD2013 in Bradford. We set up some Marquees opposite the food centre and had some local partners who exhibited with us. Cafe West had a stand discussing the Eat Well plate and the importance of a balanced meal and The Hale project were talking about diabetes prevention. The local EHO were there to discuss the importance of food hygiene and having a clean kitchen and Foster College had a stand advertising their teaching college and training restaurant that is in the town centre.
Jamie's Ministry of Food Bradford decided to challenge the Fast Food mentality that seems prevalent in Bradford. We made over 100 Burger Sliders, using Jamie's Cracking Burger recipe and handed them out to members of the public. We used the burger to emphasise how easy it is to make a really amazing burger, that is cheaper, healthier and tastes better than ANYTHING that you could buy locally. We challenged anyone to bring us a burger of their choice and we would compare ours, confident that we knew that ours would be a better burger. I'm glad to say that nobody took us up on the challenge. We also spent time talking with a group of kids from Carlton Bolling College of the importance of a balanced diet and how too much junk food isn't good for you. They all tried a burger and helped us outside the food centre telling others about the things they had learnt whilst attending the 8 week course.
We also made two huge portions of veg chilli and gave out samples for people to try. Between 12 and 1.00pm we had more than 100 people outside the food centre looking to try a sample of the great food that we had produced. All feed back was very favourable and we had to take care making sure that people didn't sneak double portions. We also made available a special offer for people who were interested in signing up on a course. If they signed up on FRD2013 we gave them a MOF goody bag with a pen and a mug and we had more than 10 people sign up for forthcoming classes.
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12 LinkedIn gaffes to avoid at all costs
Don't commit any of the LinkedIn faux pas on this list. Your next job may depend on it.
LinkedIn is a social media platform for professional networking. It is also currently the largest professional networking community in existence, with more than 100 million users in more than 200 countries worldwide.
I wish people had a better understanding of the term "professional networking." LinkedIn is not MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter, and it never will be. It is simply a place where you establish professional connections.
I know most of you will laugh while reading these 12 "things not to do" on LinkedIn, as I do whenever I encounter them. Humor aside, though, I think it is time to clearly shout out loud to those who are doing these things on a regular basis.
Here are some of the things that I have witnessed during my five years of professional networking on LinkedIn:
1. Don't lie in your profile.
I think this should be self-explanatory, as we live in the 21st century, and things (and data) are easy to check. Be truthful about your name, title, employment, and achievements. I recall a young professional who was trying so hard to get a job that every time he applied for it, he changed his title. Over a period of one year, he was a buyer, a buying director, a merchandising director, and, finally, managing director, at which point I lost track of the many "achievements" he had accomplished at the age of 21. I personally know this individual, and I can tell you that he is still working as a shop assistant.
2. Don't ask or endorse people you don't know.
I am amazed every time I get an endorsement request from a person that I have never talked to or worked with. I have to wonder who would jeopardize their own credibility by recommending a person they have never met or worked with. Don't get me wrong—I do recommend people. But before I recommend someone, I make sure I can stand behind my words. This can be achieved simply by engaging in groups, Twitter chats, meet ups, or other forms of professional networking.
3. Don't buy or sell your contacts.
In the last few weeks I have gotten a few emails from my first connections on LinkedIn offering me the chance to buy "quality" contacts to expand my network. Prices offered were anywhere from $250 to $700 for 1,000 contacts. Here is my input on selling or buying a contacts list: Don't! You can get all the contacts you want free in open networker groups on LinkedIn if you really want the title "most connected."
You might get an "IDK" ("I Don't Know" this person) response from a person with whom you try to connect if that person is not an open networker. If you get too many IDK replies, LinkedIn can suspend your account.
Remember, the quality of your connections is more important than the quantity, just like you want to have quality followers on Twitter rather than a large number of followers who aren't meaningful to you. If you are a seller of contact lists, I strongly recommend that you put this in your profile headline, as I am positive any future employer would be more than happy to know that you like to sell data, and would guess you would be happy to sell their customers data info as well.
4. Don't ask your connection to set up a job interview for you.
It is close to impossible to get this done, especially for people who have had zero interaction with their connection. I might be willing to connect you with the hiring manager in the company that you are interested in, but I can't set up an interview for you. If this was easy to achieve, believe me, I would have a new job every month.
As I am not a recruiter, don't ask me or your other connections whether we think you are a good fit for a job. This gives the impression that you aren't willing to take the time to check out the job requirements yourself. The proper way to initiate a request to one of your connections is to explain in the request why you chose to ask that particular person for a connection.
5. Don't ask questions that might legally implicate you.
The Q&A section on LinkedIn is not a place to ask questions that could legally implicate you. Here is an example of this that gave me a really good laugh:
Q: "I am divorcing my wife, and I own a C-class corporation. Would you tell me how to hide the corporation so that I don't have to give that b**** half of it?"
First, if your wife is a direct connection of yours, she will see your question. Second, LinkedIn pages are indexed by Google, which means that whatever you ask will stay on Google forever, exposing your plan to commit fraud.
6. Don't ask to "date" someone; LinkedIn is not a Match.com.
LinkedIn is a professional networking community. While I am flattered when I receive an e-mail that starts with "hey sexy" or "hey gorgeous, would you grab a drink with me," I would only respond to a request like this on eHarmony.com or Match.com. I don't build my career under the sheets, and neither should you—at least not on LinkedIn.
7. Don't criticize your employer in groups.
LinkedIn is not a place to criticize or publish bad reviews about your current employer. I know how angry you can be; we've all had bad days in the office, but problems such as this should be sorted out offline, not online where everything stays forever. Stating in the first line that you need to stay anonymous will not help you, since your profile is tagged next to the comment and includes your full name and picture.
8. Don't publish profile pictures of your "wealth" when looking for a job.
Choice of your profile picture should reflect your professionalism. Pictures of you in a new Bentley or Mercedes or on a yacht will not help you when you scream out in your profile headline that you desperately need a new job. This kind of picture might give hiring managers the wrong impression. A clear headshot will work perfectly. And as much as we all would like our picture to be perfect and appealing, I need to say that we should all button up our shirts when taking a profile picture for LinkedIn. Chest hair or cleavage doesn't belong on a professional networking site.
9. Don't create a group if you have no intention of moderating it.
Creating a group and then not replying to members' questions and requests will leave a negative impression, especially if your job title is social media strategist or community manager. If you are not able or don't have time to interact with a group, don't open one, and save yourself from getting a bad reputation on LinkedIn.
10. Don't send the "Nigerian scam" emails.
This is an old scam that has gone on for many years. While we all understand how difficult it would be to lose your wallet in the back seat of a taxi, wouldn't it be a better idea to first contact your family before seeking financial help from your network? This scam has now started on LinkedIn, and I hope LinkedIn will do something about it.
11. Don't copy your résumé from other profiles.
Or, if you really need to, be sure you change all the achievements, job titles, and company names. You might encounter someone who knows the person that you copied the résumé from. I don't mind you looking at my resume and getting some inspiration from it, but make sure that, at a minimum, you correct at least the name of the company that you work for. And before copying anything, familiarize yourself with copyright law.
12. Don't ask for contact information of others in my network.
If professionals want their email addresses or phone numbers to be public knowledge, they will put these in their profiles, and many do so. You can check individuals' profiles. You also may use the so-called "Introduction Request," and many networkers would be glad to pass your request on to the person you are interested in. That person can then decide if they want to follow up on your request. But it is not my right to give contact information of others out, as I would not be happy if someone gave mine out without asking me first.
I am sure there are many more "things not to do" to be added to this list. Feel free to share them in the comments below.
Jure Klepic is a marketing sales and business development executive with 15 years of international markets experience in CPG industry. He currently holds the position director of sales & marketing and is studying law at American Heritage University, School of Law. A version of this story first appeared on the 12 Most blog.
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Ben Affleck Counts Down to Argo's Big Release
Ben Affleck looked good in a blue button-down shirt yesterday when he headed out for a meeting in LA. He's in the middle of a big press push for his third directorial effort, Argo, which will be out in the US in less than two weeks on Oct. 12. In a recent interview, Ben spoke about his love of film and desire to watch the 1,000 best movies ever made. Ben told The Boston Globe, "I got one of these books, you know, 1,000 Movies to See Before You Die, and I'd better not die soon, because I'm not there yet. Drives my wife crazy, because we go to bed and then she's gotta listen to The Battle of Algiers for an hour and a half."
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Fighting at 48: Bernard Hopkins Becomes Oldest Boxer to Win Major Title
(NEW YORK) -- Boxer Bernard Hopkins, 48, won the IBF light heavyweight championship on Saturday night.
Hopkins beat 30-year-old Tavoris Cloud by counteracting Cloud's strength by deftly moving around his opponent' s punches.
In the process, Hopkins became the oldest boxing champion in history, beating his own record that he set two years ago.
"This victory is sweeter than honey," said Hopkins.
It was a moment that never would have happened had he listened to his mother's dying wish that came a decade ago: don't fight past 40.
"My mother would always say get the hell off the ring and don't go in again. I probably wouldn't be boxing, I would have been gone 10 years ago," Hopkins said.
When Hopkins was 17, he served 4 1/2 years in prison. Behind bars, boxing became his release and eventually his meal ticket.
"It's a lot of victories that I had over the years, but this one means more because I am older. And 50 is around the corner," Hopkins said.
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