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Even with so many highly-recommended restaurants out there that we have yet to try, there are some spots we return to time and time again. Sometimes there's a specific dish (or cocktail) that keeps us coming back, but more often than not it's a combination of the food, the service and the atmosphere that makes a favorite.
Such is the case with Poste Brasserie, the restaurant in the courtyard of Kimpton Hotels' Hotel Monaco in Penn Quarter. Situated in the original sorting room of the 1841 General Post Office, Poste calls to mind European settings with its spacious, enclosed courtyard sheltered from the frenetic pace of the surrounding neighborhood. Cocktails, created by the bar staff, are inventive and tasty, with new classics like the Basil Lemontini and fresh offerings that make creative use of seasonal ingredients. The commitment to fresh and local ingredients at the bar echoes Chef Robert Weland's focus in the kitchen, where he creates dishes that can be comforting and high-end (his smoked duck reuben is an all-time favorite) or simple and fresh (a tomato gazpacho served over a dollop of dijon ice cream fills your mouth with the intensity of its flavor).
Weland doesn't just put the 'fresh and local' mantra to use in his menu – he is an ardent advocate who grows his own lettuces, herbs and heirloom tomatoes in the courtyard outside the restaurant and who shops the local Penn Quarter farmers' market. Poste has found a great way to reflect this: their "Market to Market" dinner series. What is that, you ask? Find out after the jump.
Every Thursday night from now until fall, Poste will be offering a unique experience that goes above and beyond the typical tasting menu. Patrons gather at the restaurant around 6 PM, where they are met by Chef Weland and escorted to the Penn Quarter Market. There they get to shadow the chef as he makes his way from vendor to vendor. It was abundantly clear when we walked with him that this wasn't just for show – most of the folks in the market recognized him immediately, and he knew many of them by name, as well.
After a walk through the market, during which the chef continued to extol the virtues of knowing the people who grow and produce your food (and supporting their local endeavors), we made our way back to Poste and were seated at a table that had been set up in the chef's garden. We were then treated to a seven-course menu that was clearly being revised even as the meal went along (a souvenir menu provided at the end of the meal confirmed that some of the courses had been last-minute improvisations).
And it was as delicious as you would imagine such a meal to be. We began with an amuse bouche that offered bites of hamachi, barbecued pork, and a briny, sweet oyster – familiar flavors to anyone who has dined at the restaurant before. But the meal quickly veered off into new territory with a green gazpacho made from pureed lettuce that had been growing where we sat just a few hours earlier. A salad featured more of the chef's garden topped with candied marcona almonds, fresh local goat cheese and beets. And then we got into the entree courses, where Chef Weland's talents really shone through. He started with a poached halibut served atop a pistou of fiddleheads, lima beans and other green spring vegetables and crowned with a slice of delicious applewood-smoked bacon. Then he gave us a succulent soft-shell crab that was lightly fried and served with a shot of rich foie gras that complemented the crab's slightly sour taste surprisingly well. And although the menu suggests that we were originally slated to have braised rabbit, the chef gave us one more twist with a spiced section of goat's meat that was tough but not stringy.
For dessert, we were treated to not one, but three different confections, including a sweet banana cake and a pandan ice cream that tasted fresh and grassy without being off-putting. Finally, when we were satisfied but not uncomfortably full, the evening was capped off with jars of homemade madeleines, brownies and creme caramels, as well as individual jars of strawberry-rhubarb preserves for us to take home.
Coming in at $75 per person, the Market to Market dinner is by no means a cheap evening, but it compares very favorably with other tasting menus around the city, especially when you factor in the fun of touring the market with Chef Weland and the showmanship that goes into the affair. Biodynamic and organic wines are paired with the meal for an additional $40 per person, though Elizabeth and I were perfectly content to enjoy a cocktail before dinner and then just a single glass as the evening went on.
Without a doubt, this is an experience that locavores and foodies will love and most diners will appreciate. It's a great way to celebrate a special occasion (as the three women who dined with us were doing), or simply enjoy the great weather and the vibe of Poste in a more refined setting.


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1.blog presentation
At first i wanted a space that allows me to save my findings and technical configurations i didn't want to forget. Then i tell myself why not put it on Internet to share with other ppl that are looking for information on something i already did.
for the moment i didn't activate any commentaries or anything else on the website. Indeed as i said i'm not a blogger, i just want to save my finding and share it with other people that might help. But if you have some questions, do not hesitate to ask me nicely by email and i will try to answer you.
i have a small lab at home to play with stuff i found, and experiments. my lab is made of a NAS, several raspberry, and recently a VM server ESXi because i'm tired of having too many Rpi & Co!
The blog itself isn't very powerful because i didn't want to spend to much time on it, but if one day it require more work, i will see. for the moment it met my need and that's all i want!
2. I, Me and Myself
It's very hard to present yourself, so i will be very brief!
I'm a french computer science ingeneer specialize in security. i always liked to try to understand everything i touch especially in computer science. I like to say i'm no expert in any technology but i'm trying to!
The security field is very interesting because you have the opportunity to think as a good guy trying to protect yourself, but also like bad guys trying to break or steal everything! Of course i'm kidding, but you have to understand (and try) how hackers do to bypass security equipment etc. To do so, you have to undertand a very large field of security starting from the computer : OS, hardware etc to the network : TCP, VLAN, Firewall, IDS etc.
As an example of how i like to undertand thing and try to be the bad guy you can find my final internship presentation at the defcon 18 in 2010 thanks to the security lab of stanford : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpMpmm0nlEM
But that's not everything, security field means also trying to protect your company from a governance point of view: how do you protect a company with thousand employees without knowledge in security ? you have to think policies, procedure, control etc! and from a bigger scale, it become harder and harder... it's easy to protect your frontdoor with titan but if you don't know that you have several backdoor in wood, what the point ?! ;)
I'm currently living in Montpellier after spending my studies in Paris Epita and working in Paris in several companies for over 6 Years!
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This tutorial is made for you to be able to test how to do SSH over a standard https SSL/TLS connection (at least for the CONNECT). the objective is to understand how it's working and to be able for you to make a POC if you want to. I'm not responsible for what purpose you are using it to. most of this tutorial was possible thanks to the hard work of blog.chmd.fr
this tutorial is definitely doable on a Raspbeery Pi
do not hesitate to let me a comment to ask questions.
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1.Architecture physique simplifiée
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1. Introduction
The idea of this tutorial is to understand and configure your client to build a ssh connection through ssl. Of course your server must have a specific configuration as well. see the server side configuration tutorial: ssh over ssl part 1 : server side
nowadays firewall block port, but can also do a DPI to see which protocol you are using. It means that if you try to ssh on port 443 it won't work even if port 443 is open. To avoid it, we have to trick the firewall to think we are doing a legitimate https connexion but instead once we are in SSL (firewall can't read anymore), we switch to ssh!
This tutorial is made as a Proof Of Concept and should be used only for better understanding and POC purposes ! i'm not responsible of any use of this trick.
2. prerequisite
if you are using windows, i would recommand to use a linux virtual machine. it's way easier.
windows software (didn't try them):
- Optional depending if proxy authentication to bypass too: proxifier (not tested yet)
- Stunnel/proxytunnel
- Putty
Linux software:
- Optional depending if proxy authentication to bypass too: cntlm
- proxytunnel
- OpenSSL
- openssh client
3. Proxy authentication
The first step is to be able to connect to the proxy, since most of the time it's the only way to access internet. If you don't have a proxy you can bypass this part, same thing if you don't need to be authenticate to use your proxy.
We need to have a way to authenticate to the proxy. to do so, if it's using basic auth, you can set your env variable http(s)_proxy. Look for it on Internet. But if it's using NTLM you will need another way.
A way is to use a local proxy authenticating itself to the remote proxy and giving you a local port already connected to the remote proxy.
cntlm do this job very well. download and install it (direcly for official website or apt-get).
then look into my config file. to generate the PassLM, PassNT, PassNTLMv2 you must first create the config file with all info, then in the console type in : "cntlm -H", it will ask you your password then generate you the 3 lines !
you can find lot of other option into this:
# # Cntlm Authentication Proxy Configuration # # NOTE: all values are parsed literally, do NOT escape spaces, # do not quote. Use 0600 perms if you use plaintext password. # Username yourusername Domain yourdomain #Password password # NOTE: Use plaintext password only at your own risk # Use hashes instead. You can use a "cntlm -M" and "cntlm -H" # command sequence to get the right config for your environment. # See cntlm man page # Example secure config shown below. # PassLM 1AD35398BE6565DDB5C4EF70C0593492 # PassNT 77B9081511704EE852F94227CF48A793 ### Only for user 'testuser', domain 'corp-uk' # PassNTLMv2 D5826E9C665C37C80B53397D5C07BBCB PassLM 72C89120E4z1A9C966DDD358Cazeihaze7 PassNT Dzazzazaza97D6azeazeaze9BA7C414A36 PassNTLMv2 0B9163D719A31A2azeazeeazefghrghaD0 # Only for user 'bla', domain 'bli' # Specify the netbios hostname cntlm will send to the parent # proxies. Normally the value is auto-guessed. # # Workstation netbios_hostname # List of parent proxies to use. More proxies can be defined # one per line in format <proxy_ip>:<proxy_port> # Proxy 10.0.0.42:8080 # List addresses you do not want to pass to parent proxies # * and ? wildcards can be used # NoProxy localhost, 127.0.0.*, 10.*, 192.168.* # Specify the port cntlm will listen on # You can bind cntlm to specific interface by specifying # the appropriate IP address also in format <local_ip>:<local_port> # Cntlm listens on 127.0.0.1:3128 by default # Listen 3128 # If you wish to use the SOCKS5 proxy feature as well, uncomment # the following option. It can be used several times # to have SOCKS5 on more than one port or on different network # interfaces (specify explicit source address for that). # # WARNING: The service accepts all requests, unless you use # SOCKS5User and make authentication mandatory. SOCKS5User # can be used repeatedly for a whole bunch of individual accounts. # #SOCKS5Proxy 8010 #SOCKS5User dave:password # Use -M first to detect the best NTLM settings for your proxy. # Default is to use the only secure hash, NTLMv2, but it is not # as available as the older stuff. # # This example is the most universal setup known to man, but it # uses the weakest hash ever. I won't have it's usage on my # conscience. :) Really, try -M first. # #Auth LM #Flags 0x06820000 # Enable to allow access from other computers # #Gateway yes # Useful in Gateway mode to allow/restrict certain IPs # Specifiy individual IPs or subnets one rule per line. # #Allow 127.0.0.1 #Deny 0/0 # GFI WebMonitor-handling plugin parameters, disabled by default # #ISAScannerSize 1024 #ISAScannerAgent Wget/ #ISAScannerAgent APT-HTTP/ #ISAScannerAgent Yum/ # Headers which should be replaced if present in the request # #Header User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) # Tunnels mapping local port to a machine behind the proxy. # The format is <local_port>:<remote_host>:<remote_port> # #Tunnel 11443:remote.com:443
once your config file is ready, you can test it in your terminal using this :
sudo cntlm -v -c /etc/cntlm.conf
if everything goes well, cntlm should tell you it's ready.
you can test it by connecting through it with firefox (set your proxy settings to use localhost and your define port in your confiuration)
4. Tunnel to your remote server on 443 port
this part is made to build a connection to your remote server on the port 443. if the firewall you are trying to bypass isnt looking into protocole it wont be necessary to go farer. indeed once you are connected you could directly do ssh into it. But if your firewall is watching, it will instantly close your connection since it's not https!
if you want to know build your proxytunnel connexion, then try to type in anything into it. your connection should close !
So, download proxytunnel and using the previous cntlm tunnel launch it like it :
sudo proxytunnel -p 127.0.0.1:3128 -d yourremoteserver.com:443 -a 7000
if your proxy wasnt using auth, you could directly type in your proxy address:port instead of 127.0.0.1:3128. we chose the local port 7000 for our tunnel
5. SSL tunnel
once you have a connection to your server, it's time to trick the firewall thinking we will do HTTPS.
To do so, we will use openSSSL like this :
openssl s_client -connect localhost:7000
if everything is working well, you should see your server certificate.
So for your ssh to use this tunnel SSL, it's simple: create or edit the file ~/.ssh/config
and add :
Host monserverdistant.com ProxyCommand openssl s_client -connect localhost:7000 -quiet
it's telling your ssh for this host, to use this has a proxy! so instead of trying directly to ssh, it will first execute this ssl tunnel, then use it!
everything is done for your client side!
for windows, you should look into stunnel but i didnt try
5. Sum up
sudo cntlm -v -c /etc/cntlm.conf sudo proxytunnel -p localhost:3128 -d monserver.com:443 -a 7000 ssh -D 1080 email@example.com #with proxycommand in .ssh
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- Shinken: http://shinken-monitoring.org/
- capacity planning (graphite), compatible nagios.
- Documentation peu clair
- PandoraFMS: http://pandorafms.com/
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More than 13 years after the end of the war in Bosnia, deep ethnic divisions still exist between Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims. Secession calls from Republika Srpska could lead to the country's collapse.
A sign saying "welcome to Republika Srpska" clearly marks this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The recent EU progress report on countries in the western Balkans expressed concern about political instability in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It criticized the rabble-rousing rhetoric of the countries' politicians, saying it blocked the functioning of Bosnian institutions.
With three ethnic groups, two entities and one country, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an identity problem. When the war ended in 1995, the Dayton peace agreement laid the foundations of the country, splitting it into two entities: the Bosnian Serb-led Republika Srpska and the Bosniak/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ethnic divisions have time and again stalled badly needed political and administrative reforms and weakened the central government. Hans Juergen Moeller has been working on development issues in Bosnia for more than a decade and is based in Banja Luka. He says ethnic tensions are clearly getting worse.
"Just after the end of the war, people were busy rebuilding their lives, making sure they had food," Moeller says. Now, the situation appeared to have stabilized, giving people more time to think about identity. This led to exclusion, he says, especially as there was always a majority that clearly dominated the other groups.
"And in good old Balkan fashion, the majority oppresses the minority, and if that's not the case, the minority thinks it's being oppressed by the majority," Moeller says. "It has always been like this here, and it's still the case today."
Public opinion just as divided as the nation
In Republika Srpska, almost 90 percent of the population is Serb. In the center of the entity's capital Banja Luka, Serbian flags not Bosnian ones are flying everywhere -- not only on official buildings, but also on churches and sport stadiums.
Both Bosnian and Serb flags fly in front of the Assembly
Talking to the people on the street, one gets the feeling that their opinion is just as divided as the country is.
"I don't see a future here in Republika Srpska and no perspectives for young people," says one woman. "I think Republika Srpska would be better off on its own."
A man says that people's mentality plays a major role in wanting to divide the country.
"We can no longer live with people who slaughtered us in 1941, and tried it again in the 1990s, wanting to create an Islamic Bosnia," he says. "We need three completely ethnically clean national states."
But another woman says that is not the solution.
"We're better off together than separated," she says.
Impossible to satisfy everyone
Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik deplores foreigners meddling in his country's politics. He accuses the international community of consistently weakening Republika Srpska. According to Dodik, the concept of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its territory and structure is absurd.
Dodik is pushing for greater autonomy
"Only Bosnia and Herzegovina was forced to work with a structure which didn't survive in the former Yugoslavia," Dodik says. "Before the war, people said Bosnia and Herzegovina is a small Yugoslavia. But if the big one couldn't survive, how can a small one survive?"
Despite his criticism, Dodik concedes that it's difficult to find a solution for Bosnia's future that would satisfy everyone. Serbs want as much autonomy as possible -- even as far as independence. Croats are also seeking more autonomy, while Bosnian Muslims demand a more centralized and unified Bosnia.
Serbian politicians see more centralized powers as a threat and want the right to hold a referendum on any issue including secession. Sulejman Tihic, one of the most influential Bosnian politicians, says Serbian nationalism only fans the flames of Bosnian and Croat nationalism. He says Republika Srpska should remain part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"Milorad Dodik tries with his secession intentions and the constant mention of a referendum to play a political game with his own people," Tihic says. "He tries to create an image that a third power -- be it the state, the EU or whoever -- is trying to eliminate Republika Srpska."
This generated fear among Serbs that they need to defend themselves, Tihic says.
"But if he really wants to make Republika Srpska independent, he will definitely lose," Tihic says.
Even love can't bridge the divide
In the east of the country, close to the border with Serbia, nationalism is rampant. This had made life extremely difficult for Zorica, an unemployed young Serb.
Street vendors sell nationalistic t-shirts in Banja Luka
"Whenever something bad happens here, family, neighbors, friends, everyone says, 'oh God, it's the Muslims again'," Zorica says. "There are great ethnic tensions here, especially because we're close to Srebrenica where so many Muslims were massacred."
Zorica -- not her real name -- was just a child during the war and grew up with an ingrained fear of Muslims. During the fighting, Muslim soldiers forced her and her family to leave their home in central Bosnia. Two years ago, in an ironic twist that echoes Romeo and Juliet, she fell in love with a young Muslim man. She says she knew it would deeply disappoint her family.
"My boyfriend asked me to marry him, but I didn't dare, because I would have hurt my parents," Zorica says. "A Muslim boyfriend was out of the question and a Croat for that matter as well."
Her relationship lasted seven months, but the fear of how their families would react became unbearable. Even though Zorica says politics is something she doesn't want to care about, ethnic tensions and nationalism destroyed what she calls the love of her life.
International community will not tolerate secession
The EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn recently expressed his alarm about the deteriorating political situation in Bosnia.
"Bosnia must be able to speak with one voice," Rehn told the European Parliament in Strasbourg. "Politicians can continue to quarrel and fall behind their neighbors or move forward to the EU."
The EU will not stand for any questioning of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, says Eldar Subasic, the EU spokesman in Bosnia.
"Calls for a referendum, threats of secession by one entity will not be tolerated by the international community," Subasic says. "We've said clearly this is a red line."
The position of the international community is clear. But is there a way forward for Bosnia and Herzegovina? The only unifying force is the possibility of joining the European Union. But the road to Brussels is subject to bitter debate, says Ognyan Tadisch, a delegate of one of the most nationalistic parties of the Republika Srpska parliament.
"Economically speaking, Republika Srpska has a much bigger chance alone than with the Federation," Tadisch says. "We don't have such a large deficit, we have less unemployed, our population is not as poorly educated, and we have a much simpler system when we're talking about market competition and everything else. In every respect, we're in a better position."
If this sounds like grounds for Republika Srpska to break away from Bosnia, it's not, says Tadisch. Independence would only jeopardize peace.
For Bosnia and Herzegovina, putting aside ethnic divisions is clearly the only way forward. But 13 years after the war, its people and politicians are still struggling to deal with the legacies of the past.


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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
He would have been a 100!!
Bill Bernbach - an advertising legend, would have celebrated his 100th Birthday on August 13th.
This man who taught me valuable lessons, was widely recognised for leading the creative revolution in the advertising Industry during the 50's and 60's. And for creating the creative structure that most agencies still adopt today!
I studied him in my dissertation - the work he produced, the methods, his style of thinking ... all of which inspired me to work the way I do and will continue to in the future. He based his work on being engaging, interesting, intelligent and most of all believable. He is a credit to our industry and to the way we work, here are just a few of his most iconic from DDB - you will recognise them all.
Happy Birthday Bill !
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Once upon a time I was exceptionally quiet in the online space. I silently observed what others were saying and doing. I did this for a good long time…years in fact. Yes, I was a lurker. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to find my voice and to actually begin sharing it.
Silence can be a scary thing. Overwhelming too. In many ways breaking that silence can be even scarier – even though in the long run it changes everything for the better. I am incredibly thankful to a number of folks who encouraged me to truly show up and to begin engaging. The people who supported my journey always saw me for the person I am. And they took the time to reach out to me. To see me. Their actions and wisdom taught me that sharing my voice and my true self in the online space really does matter. I firmly believe that their support has changed everything about the way I approach my business and my life. Because certain people chose to believe in me….I was able to begin believing in not only myself, but in others too. Guess what? There is true magic in a formula that works like that. I will spend the rest of my life giving to others because of those folks who gave to me when I most needed it. They helped me understand the true power of connection and generosity.
And so with my own experience long behind me – but the lessons never forgotten – it makes me incredibly happy to announce that starting next Tuesday at 10:00 AM Pacific I will begin co-hosting #LurkerChat with Nick Kellet! It will be a weekly Tuesday morning event – a combination Twitter chat meets HOA. I am both honoured and humbled to be doing this with Nick. He is someone that I respect hugely and that I love spending time with. Nick and I are committed to reaching out to the folks who stay in the shadows, to having truly interactive discussions and to generously engaging with folks. Something tells me it's going to be more than a little special. I hope you will join us.
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Alere is a point-of-care diagnostics and health management firm specializing in diagnostics and monitoring for cardiology, infectious disease, drugs of abuse testing, women's health and diabetes. Alere's goal is to merge the diagnosis and monitoring of chronic disease with health management leading to more focus on home healthcare with the result of lower overall healthcare costs through reduced hospitalizations. The main growth drivers for Alere are:
Alere is currently trading at just over 7 times conservative 2012 cash EPS guidance of a minimum of $2.50. I believe this is a very attractive valuation for a company that achieved almost eight percent organic growth in its core diagnostics business in the TTM and has a very clear, and significant, growth runway for the next 3-5 years. The reasons for the low multiple are evident but I believe increasingly in the past.
At the recent JPM Healthcare conference Ron Zwanziger, CEO, gave guidance that was about 10 percent below analyst's estimates. This is the third time in the last 18 months that this has happened and investors are understandably frustrated. Also, Alere recently was the subject of an FDA product recall for certain cardiology products related to their Triage platform with financial impact to margins on about $50 million in quarterly revenue. Importantly, Alere continues to ship product to their customers of these products and hopes to have the issue resolved by September of this year. Even with the recall the company did not revise guidance. While there have been many frustrating issues with the company, Alere is going through the launch and ramp of six new products with an aggregate market opportunity of over $3 billion and along with launch costs, and acquisition integration, has had to work out manufacturing inefficiencies and fund clinical trials. These issues will sunset over the next 18 months and should lead to significant operating leverage.
The company's net Debt/ EBITDA (post the acquisition of Axis Shield) is over 5 times so an equity investment requires the belief that Alere will not be significantly impacted by global macro issues. While this is clearly not for the faint of heart, Alere's business is quite stable and extremely cash generative under almost all economic conditions (the core diagnostic business was flat during the great recession) and alleviates most concern. Zwanziger has hinted that he could sell Alere's drugs of abuse franchise for $1 billion (when it was much smaller and based on implied multiples would be more like $1.5 billion today and this value is confirmed by the recent acquisition of Medtox by Labcorp) leading to a more palatable 3.2 times Debt/EBITDA and, in the event of an acquisition, any potential acquirer would have an easy "synergy" through refinancing Alere's debt leading to pre-tax savings of at least $50 million in interest cost. I would note that Zwanziger has said in the past that he is "quite comfortable" with Debt/EBITDA at 4-5 times so expectations of debt reduction should be managed.
Finally, the cause of the debt is a significant number of acquisitions made over the last five years and investors generally perceive Alere as roll-up with associated concerns about its true growth rate. Over the next 18 months Alere will be launching six new products, with an aggregate market opportunity of more than $3 billion (not including blood glucose monitoring, a $9 billion market), that are the result of these acquisitions and will provide significant organic growth for the company over the next 3-5 years. While the company is likely to continue to make small acquisitions over the next few years (especially in diabetes/blood glucose monitoring) they now have a very comprehensive product offering for the future and are focused on delivering on their forward strategy of in-home chronic disease monitoring and shifting their traditional diagnostics business toward a much higher value molecular platform (CPHD would be a comp for this part of the business and trades at 8x sales). As launch and clinical trial costs come down and new product revenues ramp over the next 12-18 months I believe investors will switch their focus to the significant opportunities ahead as opposed to the stumbles of the past.
Zwanziger is also not very "street friendly" and can often come off as abrasive with sell-side analysts and this is obviously not favourable to sell-side valuation expectations/ recommendations.
Analysis of professional diagnostics segment:
I have provided segmentation of this business by the existing business and then provided details for each new product being launched over the next two years.
I have the existing professional diagnostics business (tests for infectious disease, cardiology, drugs of abuse) growing at five percent annually and maintaining its 14.5 percent EBIT margin. Many analysts have point-of-care diagnostics growing at high single to low double digit rates as more testing is being done in hospital labs and average physician office size has grown from about 5 to greater than 20 providing the scale to do in practice testing. While both these things are true, I have decided to be conservative looking forward. Also, the medical device tax of 2.3 percent will be implemented in 2013 and could affect margins on the slightly less than 50 percent of the business that is done in the U.S. if the company doesn't manage opex accordingly. Any margin aggression in my estimates should be offset by revenue conservatism.
Within the professional diagnostics segment the company has a business for home monitoring of patient's Warfarin levels that has been growing at greater than 30 percent and is currently annualizing at about $105 million even though home monitoring was only approved three years ago. The growth rate will slow as new branded competitive products to Warfarin are introduced that don't require monitoring (although this still a question mark) but even at 15 percent this product would provide almost 20 percent of the total growth for this segment. Again, I think my revenue growth estimates are reasonably conservative.
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|Current Product Professional Diagnostic Revenue
|$ 1,769,080
|$ 1,857,534
|$ 1,950,411
|$ 2,047,931
|$ 2,150,328
|$ 256,517
|$ 269,342
|$ 282,810
|$ 296,950
|$ 311,798
|$ 267,527
|$ 275,553
|$ 283,520
|$ 292,026
|$ 300,786
|Axis Shield Revenue
|$ 189,907
|$ 205,100
|$ 221,508
|$ 239,228
|$ 258,367
|$ 15,572
|$ 19,484
|$ 24,366
|$ 29,904
|$ 36,171
|$ 12,154
|$ 13,126
|$ 14,176
|$ 15,311
|$ 16,535
|CD4/ NAT Analyzer
|$ 45,000
|$ 80,000
|$ 125,000
|$ 160,000
|$ 185,000
|$ -
|$ 5,000
|$ 12,500
|$ 20,800
|$ 26,825
|$ 40,000
|$ 70,000
|$ 100,000
|$ 140,000
|$ 165,000
|$ -
|$ 2,800
|$ 11,000
|$ 18,200
|$ 23,925
|Epoc blood gas
|$ 50,000
|$ 100,000
|$ 160,000
|$ 180,000
|$ 200,000
|$ 2,500
|$ 8,000
|$ 16,000
|$ 22,500
|$ 29,000
|$ 11,000
|$ 22,000
|$ 37,000
|$ 53,000
|$ 60,000
|$ 990
|$ 2,640
|$ 5,365
|$ 7,685
|$ 8,700
|$ 3,000
|$ 12,500
|$ 17,500
|$ 25,000
|$ 40,000
|$ -
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|$ 1,925
|$ 3,625
|$ 5,800
|Infectious Disease Molecular
|$ -
|$ 12,000
|$ 32,000
|$ 65,000
|$ 120,000
|$ -
|$ 1,320
|$ 4,640
|$ 10,400
|$ 19,200
|Professional Diagnostics Revenue
|$ 2,107,987
|$ 2,359,134
|$ 2,643,418
|$ 2,910,159
|$ 3,178,694
|Revenue Growth %
|EBIT Total
|$ 275,579
|$ 309,587
|$ 358,605
|$ 410,064
|$ 461,419
|EBIT Margin
|% Growth
|$ 279,681
|$ 288,679
|$ 297,696
|$ 307,337
|$ 317,321
|$ 555,260
|$ 598,266
|$ 656,302
|$ 717,400
|$ 778,740
|Axis Shield Revenue
|$ 189,907
|$ 205,100
|$ 221,508
|$ 239,228
|$ 258,367
|$ 15,572
|$ 19,484
|$ 24,366
|$ 29,904
|$ 36,171
|$ 12,154
|$ 13,126
|$ 14,176
|$ 15,311
|$ 16,535
Alere acquired Axis-Shield in Q4 2011. Axis-Shield is a UK/ Norway based provider of point-of-care instruments (they have a small but decent lab business as well) and diagnostics. I am a former shareholder of Axis-Shield and believe Alere got a decent deal in their hostile takeover of Axis-Shield. Axis-Shield provided Alere with a re-entry in to the diabetes market with a decent franchise (about $35 million in revenue) in the testing for hbA1c, a $300 million global market. Testing for hbA1c is typically only done a couple times of year versus often daily testing for blood glucose but the market could expand well over time if projected growth in the diabetic population comes true.
In the developed world Axis-Shield's primary point-of-care instrument platform is Afinion and the company has placed 12,000 of these instruments in only three years. The primary test is for hbA1c what the test menu continues to grow and this will provide high margin growth going forward.
Axis-Shield was also defensive in that the company is about to launch an Afinion based lipid panel for cholesterol testing that presented a threat to Alere's greater than $100 million LDX/ Cholostech business. Importantly, Axis-Shield's lipid panel was the first test they had developed that allowed for multiple tests with a single sample and will allow Alere to develop other panels (multiple tests from a single sample) for other chronic diseases. It should be a good contributor to growth when approved by the FDA.
Finally, and probably most importantly, but completely ignored in all the coverage of the transaction is that Axis-Shield has placed 43,000 Nycocard instruments mostly in emerging market countries. Nycocard is a low cost, semi-automated instrument that is largely used for hbA1c testing. This will provide Alere access to large and growing diabetes markets (India has the largest diabetic population in the world) and will also give Alere greater distribution access to sell their other large menu of products for infectious disease and cardiology. Growth could also come as Afinion replaces Nycocard at higher ASPs.
Alere is in the process of consolidating its European (and some Global) operations in Galway, Ireland and Axis-Shield will be incorporated in to this process and location that was already operational in Q3 2011. Both companies also have R & D facilities in Stirling, Scotland that will allow for easy integration. With top level management removed and operations consolidated to scale, Axis-Shield's margins should improve well over the investment horizon and probably more quickly than my estimates.
New Products
For each of the new products listed below, Alere gave guidance at their analyst day in November 2011. The low-end of this guidance was for $350 million in revenue in 2013 but given the fact that these are new products and involve regulatory approvals I have estimated revenue at $310 million.
HIV Viral Load Monitoring
|CD4/ NAT Analyzer
|$ 45,000
|$ 80,000
|$ 125,000
|$ 160,000
|$ 185,000
|$ -
|$ 5,000
|$ 12,500
|$ 20,800
|$ 26,825
HIV viral load monitoring is used both to diagnose HIV and to manage therapy. As a diagnostic tool it can diagnose infection a few days after infection versus an antibody test that requires the patient to have been infected for 2-6 months prior to the test. For managing the therapy it is recommended that tests be done every quarter to ensure antiretroviral drugs are managing the level of infection.
This is a fairly virgin monitoring market and Alere has been launching this product in sub-Saharan Africa. In the past the company has commented that there have been contracting delays and manufacturing issues. Demand is high so revenue will come once the contracting issues are resolved but the company is currently losing about $5 per test because of lower pricing in Africa (funding to purchase tests typically comes from the Clinton Foundation or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and the manufacturing issues which are expected to be resolved in Q4 through automation. Alere will be launching in the U.S. and Europe in 2012 and expect margins to be in the range of other professional diagnostics products so while this year's zero EBIT contribution may be accurate, I believe this product will make a bigger EBIT contribution than my estimate in 2013. The FDA has been more flexible in approving products related to infectious disease so the company seems confident they will get approval by early 2013 at the latest.
The company will have a follow-on molecular instrument and test that will be going through clinical trials this year with a PMA and CE mark submission in 2013. The menu will be extended to Hepatitis C after 2013. No guidance on revenue has been given for this product.
|$ 40,000
|$ 70,000
|$ 100,000
|$ 140,000
|$ 165,000
|$ -
|$ 2,800
|$ 11,000
|$ 18,200
|$ 23,925
HeartCheck is a monitor for patients with congestive heart failure to regularly monitor levels of BNP. BNP is secreted by the heart's ventricles in response to changes in pressure that occur when heart failure develops or worsens. As the symptoms of heart failure become more severe, the level of BNP in the blood increases.
The company is currently running two clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of BNP monitoring in the home in reducing re-hospitalizations and total healthcare costs. Zwanziger is optimistic based on early results from one trial, HABIT, and expects results of both trials to be published in 2013. The other trial, HOME, is also being done in Europe and Asia and based on the trial results the company hopes to launch HeartCheck in the home in these regions as well.
The company already has large market share of BNP testing in the point-of-care (they have the only clia-waived test on the market) and lab setting (runs on Beckman's machine) but expects that even if home testing isn't approved that the point-of-care market will grow significantly from $40 million in 2011 to $175 million by 2014. If approved they expect the global home monitoring business opportunity to be greater than $300 million by 2015. My revenue estimates are conservative as the home monitoring market opportunity has yet to be proven.
Epoc Blood Analysis System
|Epoc blood gas
|$ 50,000
|$ 100,000
|$ 160,000
|$ 180,000
|$ 200,000
|$ 2,500
|$ 8,000
|$ 16,000
|$ 22,500
|$ 29,000
It is a bit misleading to say that this is a new product since the company acquired the distribution rights and contingent takeover rights from Epocal in late 2010 but revenue in 2011 was not significant. The epoc monitor is the first and only point-of-care, portable and wireless blood gas and electrolyte analyzer. The company will leverage its relationships in hospital labs to introduce epoc in to the hospital setting. The primary competitive product is Abbott's i-Stat that was developed by the Epocal team and sold to Abbott in 2004 for $240 million or about 5 times sales. The easier competitors to displace are the portable monitors (think computer on a trolley) or lab based tests. Alere's goal is to penetrate 25 percent of the 15,000 hospitals worldwide that perform about 8,500 tests p.a. at $7 asp by 2015. To achieve this Alere will have to continue to expand the test menu and ensure integration with the hospitals IT systems so the advantages of the epoc's wireless, handheld being used at the patient's bedside are fully realized. On the Q1 conference call Zwanziger said the epoc monitor was starting to gain good traction in the U.S.
Tests for Acute Kidney Injury and Pre-eclampsia
|$ 11,000
|$ 22,000
|$ 37,000
|$ 53,000
|$ 60,000
|$ 990
|$ 2,640
|$ 5,365
|$ 7,685
|$ 8,700
|$ 3,000
|$ 12,500
|$ 17,500
|$ 25,000
|$ 40,000
|$ -
|$ 1,000
|$ 1,925
|$ 3,625
|$ 5,800
To be honest, while the company continues to highlight these two tests Alere is always entering the market with new tests. Three years ago they entered the market for c. difficile testing and rapidly gained share generating an estimated $50-60 million last year. These test are interesting because they are novel but certainly not critical to estimates.
NGAL is a novel marker to determine acute kidney injury with the expected benefit that it can detect a kidney injury earlier than the current standard creatinine test. Creatinine also has many false positives and negatives and NGAL is believed to be more effective. While the research thus far is positive (Finnish NGAL researchers are suggesting every ER patient with elevated creatinine be given an NGAL test at Helsinki hospital) the product has not been approved in the U.S. The company has said they believe NGAL could potentially be as big as their $200 million + BNP franchise.
PLGF is a test for pre-eclampsia with a low PLGF result being indicative of a pregnant woman with hypertension and often placental problems. Pre-eclampsia affects 6-8 percent of all births worldwide so early detection can save significant healthcare costs from early pregnancy hospitalization. The company will use the test for diagnosing pre-eclampsia and, once diagnosed, patients will be monitored with the test until childbirth. Based on 6 percent of the developed world pregnancies being monitored this could be a greater than $200 million market as well.
Point-of-care Molecular Testing
|Infectious Disease Molecular
|$ -
|$ 12,000
|$ 32,000
|$ 65,000
|$ 120,000
|$ -
|$ 1,320
|$ 4,640
|$ 10,400
|$ 19,200
The U.S. diagnostic industry is in the early stages of converting from legacy immunoassay testing to molecular testing. In the point-of-care market the first test to gain some traction was Cepheid's test for staph infection. Cepheid currently sports a $2.3 billion market cap and is trading at 8x TTM sales and 200 times 2012 estimates. In 2010, Meridian Biosciences received approval for a c difficile test and after 18 months sales are expected to run at an annualized rate of $25 million. The most important thing about the trend toward molecular testing is that the tests are being reimbursed at a rate of $50 versus the traditional immunoassay test reimbursement rate of $15. Alere's current immunoassay infectious disease business is about $450 million. The reimbursement for an immunoassay test is about $14 so as infectious testing converts to molecular the market will grow substantially. Molecular tests are more sensitive and specific and thus find more infected patients and require less confirmatory testing and will ultimately save the healthcare system money. Clearly there will be pricing pressure over time but Alere should still experience good growth from this conversion over the next 3-5 years (expands current infectious disease revenue opportunity from the current $450 million to at least $1 billion). The company expects to have their first test for flu by 2013 and will also be entering markets where they have not participated in the past such as MRSA. Notably, their test should be much faster than Cepheid's and their instrument will be much cheaper.
|Health Management
|Health Management
|$ 384,800
|$ 392,496
|$ 400,346
|$ 408,353
|$ 416,520
|Health Management with Devices
|$ 141,000
|$ 152,280
|$ 164,462
|$ 177,619
|$ 191,829
|Total Health Management Revenue
|$ 525,800
|$ 544,776
|$ 564,808
|$ 585,972
|$ 608,349
|-$ 42,064
|-$ 21,791
|-$ 11,296
|$ -
|$ -
|$ 109,161
|$ 112,436
|$ 115,809
|$ 119,284
|$ 122,862
|$ 67,097
|$ 90,645
|$ 104,513
|$ 119,284
|$ 122,862
|$ 47,000
|$ 54,050
|$ 60,536
|$ 66,590
|$ 71,917
|$ 2,820
|$ 3,243
|$ 3,632
|$ 3,995
|$ 4,315
|Total Health Management
|$ 572,800
|$ 598,826
|$ 625,344
|$ 652,562
|$ 680,266
|-$ 39,244
|-$ 18,548
|-$ 7,664
|$ 3,995
|$ 4,315
|$ 69,917
|$ 93,888
|$ 108,145
|$ 123,279
|$ 127,177
Alere also has a health management business that provides disease management (cardiac, diabetes, cancer) and health management consulting (smoking cessation, diet consulting) on a corporate and individual patient basis. The long-term goal is to merge at home patient monitoring with professional health management and the company currently does this for prothrombin time monitoring (patients on Warfarin), diabetes (500,000 patients monitored), congestive heart failure and cancer. This business has been a huge disappointment as corporate budget cuts and industry price competition have hurt more commodity health management programs and cuts to Medicaid have hurt Women's health programs such as pre-natal monitoring.
The company believes most of the pain has been felt in contract and more commodity service related revenue and they will continue to build their more proprietary service revenue in PT monitoring, CHF monitoring and diabetes monitoring. The company has about 1,000 nurses internally that consult with patients based on alerts provided by their internally developed patient management portal, Apollo. The objective is continue to get cardiologists to adapt to using Apollo so the monitoring programs will continue to focus on cardiology and related disease such as diabetes.
The company has also said that if they don't begin to see improvement in their lower value added service business they are likely to sell it and have said there are "numerous" people interested in the business. Nevertheless, I believe most of the bad news has passed here and investor focus will start to shift to the growth opportunities described above.
|Consumer Diagnostics
|Consumer Diagnostics
|$ 101,000
|$ 105,040
|$ 109,242
|$ 113,611
|$ 118,156
|$ 14,300
|$ 15,126
|$ 15,731
|$ 16,360
|$ 17,014
|$ 5,600
|$ 5,768
|$ 5,941
|$ 6,119
|$ 6,303
|$ 19,900
|$ 20,894
|$ 21,672
|$ 22,479
|$ 23,317
Alere's consumer diagnostic business is a 50/50 JV with Procter & Gamble that primarily involves OTC pregnancy and fertility diagnostic tests under the Clear Blue brand. There have been rumors that the JV will also involve home molecular diagnostic testing outside of cardiology and diabetes but there are few details at this point.
|Total Alere
|$ 2,781,787
|$ 3,063,000
|$ 3,378,004
|$ 3,676,333
|$ 3,977,116
|$ 250,635
|$ 306,165
|$ 366,672
|$ 430,419
|$ 482,748
|EBITDA (excl. amtzn def. financing/ non-cash int.)
|$ 645,077
|$ 713,048
|$ 786,119
|$ 863,158
|$ 929,235
|Corporate and Eliminations (incl. stock comp)
|-$ 62,000
|-$ 63,860
|-$ 65,776
|-$ 67,749
|-$ 69,782
|Interest Expense
|-$ 178,000
|-$ 178,000
|-$ 178,000
|-$ 178,000
|-$ 178,000
|Preferred Dividends
|-$ 18,000
|-$ 18,000
|-$ 18,000
|-$ 18,000
|-$ 18,000
|Deferred Taxes
|-$ 44,000
|-$ 44,000
|-$ 44,000
|-$ 44,000
|-$ 44,000
|Accrued Expenses
|-$ 40,000
|-$ 41,600
|-$ 43,264
|-$ 44,995
|-$ 46,794
|Capital Expenditures
|-$ 105,000
|-$ 108,150
|-$ 111,395
|-$ 114,736
|-$ 118,178
|Free Cash Flow
|$ 198,077
|$ 259,438
|$ 325,685
|$ 395,678
|$ 454,480
|Free Cash Flow PS (Shares Out 86,011)
|$ 2.30
|$ 3.02
|$ 3.79
|$ 4.60
|$ 5.28
Incorporating all the segment analysis above, I believe Alere is a business that will generate slightly more than $3 a share in free cash flow next year and as growth and operating leverage kicks in from all the new product introductions, could make more than $5 per share in free cash flow in 5 years. With the current share price at $18 I believe Alere offers a compelling investment opportunity. For the free cash flow calculation it is important to note that Alere will experience $303 million in amortization charges across various income statement categories so GAAP income is not really useful. For those who are more short-term focused, I expect that current quarter numbers will have to come down as there are a couple of analysts that have not made appropriate adjustments to their EPS estimates given theTriage product recall and regular seasonality in the business (end of flu season). In my FCF per share calculation I have included all options even though they are all out of the money so I may have unfairly penalized the company by about 10%. Finally, given the high degree of financial leverage some may be more interested in either public debt (current yield about 8%) or the preferred shares that have a make whole provision in the event of a takeover.
|capex, def taxes
your capex #'s are lower than ttm. were there some one time items last year?
i doesn't look like they have paid cash taxes for awhile, what is your thoughts behind deferred tax drain?
Do mean the Nov 2010 analyst day. I was under the impression they didnt have a 2011 investor day
|RE: capex, def taxes
They had significant capex for the development of Apollo (the health management portal), which had a total cost of $250 million at least half of which was capitalized although that happened 2008-2010 with the bulk in 2009 and 2010. They also had a capacity expansion for Standard Diagnostics in Korea last year that was one-time. I might be a bit low but not enough to make much of a difference. The CFO confirmed in that it was a reasonable number including some growth capex.
Given geographic distribution of the business, intangibles amortization decline over the next five years and general income statement and cash flow statement complexity I didn't think it was a bad idea to penalize them with a deferred tax charge (or accrual reversal). I also didn't penalize them anywhere on the working capital side and probably should have so the two are a bit of a catch all. Not much more scientific than that.
You are correct, it should read 2010 analyst day.
|FDA issues
Do you have any thoughts on either:
1) how much of a 2013 cost impact dealing with the FDA issues will have
2) how much of a 2013 revenue loss as a result of the FDA issues
|RE: FDA issues
1) I actually think the 2013 EPS impact will be positive. The 2012 impact has been estimated at 14 cents (but remember, the company did not revise their $2.50 guidance) by the two analysts I believe have the best handle on things. Some of these costs will roll off as the manufacturing changes take hold and they have normalized inventory management and no one-time costs associated to the recall itself. There will be margin impact due to the manufacturing changes but the net will be positive versus 2012.
2) The recall related Triage products represent $81 million in quarterly revenue. As per the 8k there was no impact to the $31 million of BNP products that run on Beckman's lab instrument. Of the remaining $50 million, Zwanziger said at yeterday's Goldman Sachs healthcare conference that the point-of-care BNP products will be unaffected (this makes sense since their BNP product is the only clia-waived blood test on the market) so that leaves $20 million in quarterly revenue for cardiac panel products (troponin, d-dimer). Zwanziger said some clients have been switching BUT their alternative is a lab test and results can take 48 hours versus almost immediate results for a PoC test. So they will lose some revenue next year but as trust returns my guess is the bulk of the revenue will return as the customers want a PoC test not a lab test. Too hard to give a number now but even if its half the $80 million in annual revenue its not going to make much of a difference for a company doing $3 billion in revenue. I would note that both Beckman and Roche had troponin (one of the tests on the panel) related recalls in the last 6 months and were back in the market fairly quickly.
|sorry i meant 2012. thanks


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Dahmer (film)
Original movie poster
|Directed by
|David Jacobson
|Produced by
|Larry Ratner
|Written by
|David Jacobson
|Jeremy Renner
Bruce Davison
Artel Kayàru
Matt Newton
|Music by
|Christina Agamanolis
Mariana Bernoski
Willow Williamson
|Chris Manley
|Edited by
|Bipasha Shom
Blockbuster Films
DEJ Productions
Two Left Shoes Films
|Distributed by
|Peninsula Films
Release date
Running time
|102 minutes
|United States
|Box office
Dahmer is a 2002 American biographical true-crime horror film directed by David Jacobson and starring Jeremy Renner as the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, a recluse in Wisconsin, who murdered 17 men.
There are two timelines in the film: The "present" of the film runs in ordinary chronological order covering the period of one-to-two days; the flashbacks go in reverse order, and Dahmer is seen as successively younger until the film arrives at his first murder and the aftermath.
Jeffrey Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) is a shy and socially awkward factory worker in metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Troubled by a turbulent childhood and his religious father's denial of his homosexuality, Dahmer begins luring attractive young men to his home, where he conducts experiments on his victims before he murders them, trying to create a living zombie.
Flashback scenes from Dahmer's earlier life reveal that he killed one man this way in Bath, Ohio when he was a teenager. They also reveal his troubled relationship with his father, and Jeffrey's alcoholism. In the present, he rationalizes his crimes in Milwaukee over the divorce of his parents and his emotionally isolated childhood; nevertheless, he can't stop inviting more and more young men from bars and clubs to his home, where he successively kills them.
Jeffrey meets a young man named Rodney and invites him to his house with plans of murdering him, but as the night goes on and the conversations get more personal Jeffrey is faced with an emotional crisis. Rodney confesses his romantic feelings for Jeffrey, but finds him evasive. During the course of their evening together, Jeffrey strangles him with a belt until he loses consciousness; however, Rodney survives, and escapes the apartment. The film ends with a flashback to Jeffrey as a teenager, riding in a car with his father on the way to a therapy session, cross-cut with a scene in which he dissects one of his victims on his bed.
- The real-life counterpart to the fictional victim is in parentheses
- Jeremy Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer
- Bruce Davison as Lionel Dahmer
- Artel Kayàru as Rodney (Tracy Edwards)
- Matt Newton as Lance Bell (Stephen Hicks)
- Dion Basco as Khamtay (Konerak Sinthasomphone)
- Kate Williamson as Grandma Dahmer
- Christian Payano as Letitia
- Tom'ya Bowden as Shawna
- Sean Blakemore as Corliss
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Although the script recreates actual events, the names are changed out of respect for Dahmer's victims. In reality, the escapee who led to Dahmer's capture was Tracy Edwards, portrayed by Artel Kayàru as Rodney, and Dahmer's first victim was a man named Stephen Hicks, portrayed in the film by Matt Newton as Lance Bell. Production took place in Los Angeles and one scene in Milwaukee. The mask special effects were created by Christien Tinsley and Kelley Mitchell, who were involved two years later in the makeup of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 69% based on reviews from 39 critics.[2] On Metacritic the film has a score of 63 out of 100, based on reviews from 18 critics.[3]
Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, praising Renner's performance and the supporting performances, but said the film "falls headlong into the trap of imagining that it can somehow rationalize the monstrous."[4] Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a middling review, writing: "Filmmaker David Jacobson doesn't seem to know where to go with his version. He approaches crass exploitation by juxtaposing scenes of carnage with shots of chocolate spilling into a vat (Dahmer worked in a candy factory). Other moments carry real suspense and emotional weight."[5] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Renner's performance writing that he "imbues Jeffrey Dahmer with a very solemn desolation that looks just enough like "normal" pain to let you in on the way that this repressed, lonely freak could pass himself off as just another sad-eyed outcast."[6]
Shawn Levy of The Oregonian gave the film a positive review, noting: "Writer-director David Jacobson and his star, Jeremy Renner, have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted."[7]
Kathryn Bigelow said that she cast Renner in The Hurt Locker because of his performance in Dahmer.[8]
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- Independent Spirit Award - Jeremy Renner (Best Male Actor in a Leading Role) (nominated)
- Independent Spirit Award - Artel Kayàru (Best Newcomer) (nominated)
- John Cassavetes Award - Larry Ratner and David Jacobson (nominated)
- ^ a b Dahmer at Box Office Mojo
- ^ Dahmer at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ "Dahmer". Metacritic.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (June 21, 2002). "FILM REVIEW; Trying to Make Sense of the Irrational". The New York Times. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
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FC: Tommy And The Spill By: Cole Odette & Hazel Prater
1: Once upon a time there was a clown fish named Tommy and he lived in the ocean in a anemone. It was near the Gulf of Mexico and he loved his home.
2: One day Tommy woke up in his anemone and couldn't breathe very well so he got out and saw that there was a big black cloud in the water. But he had no idea what it was?
3: So Tommy had to swim away as fast as he could but clown fish do not swim very fast and can easily get caught by a predator at any moment that's why it lives in the anemone, which keeps it protected from its predators.
4: As Tommy was swimming away he starts to get tired and starts to float down and gets caught in red algae. Which is a producer in the ocean biome.
5: The algae covered his eyes and he couldn't see a thing, and all of the sudden his friend "Courtney" a manatee came out of no where and started eating the algae off of Tommy.
6: While Courtney was freeing Tommy he heard a loud "SWOOSH" and all of the sudden "Freddy" a 400 pound hammerhead shark rammed his head into Courtney's side.
7: But luckily Courtney was able to set Tommy free before Freddy saw him. Tommy was so scared but he was able to find an anemone to hide from Freddy in.
8: Tommy was very fortunate that Freddy was very impatient. So only after 10 minutes of Freddy searching for tommy he swam away.
9: After Freddy swam away Tommy swam back over to Courtney struggling to swim but Tommy was relieved to see him alive. So Courtney decided to go home so he could get some rest, he said he had enough "fun" for the day
10: Tommy had to live in a different anemone for a long time until one day the black cloud was gone. And so Tommy swam as fast as he could back to his old anemone to find it just like he had left it before the weird black cloud.
11: Tommy finally figured out what and why that black cloud was because Courtney knew what it was. Courtney told Tommy that the black cloud was oil, the reason it was there was because there was a hydraulic leak in the blowout preventer which caused it to give out.
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Here's an assignment that I did almost a year ago for a storyboard class. It was suppose to be an earlier assignment about two characters interacting with something that falls from the sky, which I ended up doing another one (that's the two drunk guys post). So I did that one as my final assignment.
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Wow… I haven't post in a while. I was too busy with midterms, spring break and my animatic. Here are a few doodles that I've collected from my sketchbook. My film's main character is an uptight, old school, British guy on his late 50s. Wearing a gray suite with elbow patches, cardigan and brown oxford shoes. Bold, wearing thick glasses, pink white face with white mustaches. The typical British gentlemen stereotype that is all about being proper, elegant and well educated... indeed.
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Originally posted in December 2010.
My mother gave me a ticket for tonight's Christmas Sing Along with the Symphony. This was her second year to sing with the choir and she was so excited. I was happy to go, excited about singing some old favorites and who knows, maybe it would help my Christmas spirit.
The music was wonderful and the atmosphere inspiring. There were people of all ages singing, laughing. When the orchestra began to play "Frosty the Snowman" a person dressed as a Snowman came out into the audience.
The kids went nuts, rushing down the isles to see him and parents were snapping pictures like crazy people, and then it hit me. It hit me that Cooper would be 3 1/2 years old at this very moment, just like the little ones clamoring to meet Frosty, just like the little boy sitting behind me saying "look mommy!"
My throat started to get that hard to swallow feeling and the silent tears began to fall. I was never more thankful to move on to the next song, to see Frosty exit, and the children to return to their seats. During the next few numbers I was able to pull it together and enjoy the music – 12 Days of Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, a reading of The Night Before Christmas, Silent Night.
Oh, Silent Night and here come the tears. I just can't control it. I have no control over my emotions and I fear I will not be able to sit through Silent Night anytime soon. It's not that I in any way compare my son to baby Jesus, it's just the soft, somber, reflective tone of the hymn and the first verse which stirs me up. Even as I type, my eyes well up. Again.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm and all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
At this moment, it reminds me of Cooper's passing and not the birth of Jesus. It scares me that I felt like I had pulled myself together for awhile and now, suddenly, it feels as if I'm falling apart all over again.
This would be the point where I reason with myself and try to balance my emotions with logic. The reality, yes, Cooper would have been 3 1/2, but not like the other children who were running around tonight. Cooper could not walk, or talk, and he would not ever have had that ability. He had a progressive disease which would have gotten worse over time, not better.
Cooper died peacefully and I was ready to let him go. It was time, but that doesn't make me miss him any less. It's been one year, and I have to remind myself that it has ONLY been one year. There have been so many positive things that came from Cooper's life. I try so hard to focus on the good stuff and most of the time I feel like I do a pretty good job of it. Tonight is just not one of those nights.
Last year my husband and I didn't "do" Christmas. We did put up the tree and our stockings, but we didn't go crazy with decorations. We didn't buy gifts or even go to either of our families homes. Instead, we both took some time off and put together a puzzle of the beach because it reminded us of our last trip with Cooper. I'm sure it sounds lame, but it was what worked for us.
Christmas is a lot harder this year than I expected it to be. It's hard to be out there finding a way to be okay everyday. It's exhausting.
To read more about Cooper's story, please visit www.coopersquest.org


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text: AJSki2fly 3 Posted January 12 (edited) Price reduced to £1400. I may regret this but I am selling my lovely Impulse H2's as my best friend has offered me his Acoustic Vienna's that he has had sitting around for 3 years. Unfortunately I cannot keep the H2's as well as the Vienna's and so the H2's have to go up for sale. Plus my better half certainly will not entertain 3 pairs of speakers in the house. A bit about the H2's, I purchased them about two years ago from a professional musician, he had two pairs as he previously had two residences, one abroad, and when that changed sold these. When he purchased them he had the mid-range and bass drivers professionally refurbished, I think about 8 years ago, which involved having the driver ring foams replaced. I believe that the only other thing that has been done is the front speaker cover cloth has been replaced with a much thinner one than original, it is an excellent black match and is not noticeable, it probably improves the sound as well. The speaker cabinets are both in extremely good condition with no obvious scratches or damage to the oak veneer or the carcass, there are some minor cosmetic marks to the rears. The photos show clearly how good they are. Any body who is a keen on musicality from a HiFi system will probably know about Impulse H2's, they are a highly respected Horn loud speaker, with a mid-range horn at the top, a very good tweeter below and the Bass driver below that which is a horn and is ported out the bottom of the cabinet. They are a very, very musical speaker and I have found them to be very good on all types of music, and I listen to most genres. They have very good controlled low end bass, are well balanced and produce a very good soundstage. In my experience I would say they are more sensitive than stated below and I have easily driven them with my 24W mono block 300B Valve amps (and I use a passive pre-amp). Below taken from http://www.acoustica.org.uk/impulse/impulse.html "Impulse H2: Arguably the best of the lot. A derivative of the H1 which appears to have superceded it. Mostly handmade cabinet, same driver complement as H1, but a simplified bass horn folding leads to reduced cabinet volume with negligible loss of sensitivity and extension. Capable of stupendous bass quality and extension - although specified for cutoff at 40Hz, in-room measurements at home show extension flat down to 30Hz, -6dB at c.27Hz. Positioning close to the rear wall is recommended, but this speaker is remarkably unfussy about siting. Tractrix midhorn with driver open to rear and top, inverted-dome tweeter Sensitivity 95dB/W, 8ohm Drivers: 8.5" Seas bass; 4.5" Seas mid; Focal tweeter. Crossover ponts: 800Hz; 4Khz; 2nd order summed response. Size: 1160mm H x 270mm W x 480mm D Finishes: Rosewood or Oak with cloth inserts Weight: approx 65KG / 140lb a Pair" they weigh around 30kg each so postage would be very expensive hence pick up only, from Seaton Devon, just down the road from Lyme Regis in Dorset, I'd be willing to meet a buyer within 150 miles with them. I am very happy to demonstrate at my home, if you see and hear them then you are likely to buy. Please note these have not been played around with and are as described. The price was £1750 now reduced to £1400 (please note this does not include the Chord jumpers in the photos, I will supply high quality jumper speaker cable) I am also selling, on behalf of the same friend his Vincent SV-234 solid state amplifier, advertised on AOS, which works very well with the H2's, in case you are looking for a complete high end system. Any question please PM me. Note they are stood on platforms on rollers that I use to make it easier to move them, the purchaser is welcome to have these. Edited March 11 by AJSki2fly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Feb 28, 2010
Elegant Solutions in Diagnostics.
Paper is a ubiquitous material, fundamental to our natural ability to communicate thoughts and document our past. Its origins can be traced back to ancient China (second century AD)1, and the value of paper as a carrier of information still permeates all aspects of society. In recent years, the intrinsic properties of paper – porous matrix of fibers, ability to bind functional chemical groups, and biocompatibility – have facilitated new advances in biomedicine that may meet the health care needs of the developing world. In the eyes of George Whitesides, University Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, paper represents a powerful substrate for advanced diagnostic devices the size of postage stamps, in which a single blood droplet (microliter volume) could be used to detect and analyze multiple health problems (including liver disease, diabetes, and HIV) without requiring expensive, heavy laboratory equipment. Paper enables low-cost diagnostics at the point-of-care (POC), irrespective of available infrastructural resources like electricity and hazardous waste management. This synergy between paper and POC diagnostics exists because paper is inexpensive, biodegradable, combustible, light-weight, and has no severe power constraints for rapid fluid transport2.
The Whitesides Lab recently demonstrated intricate hydrophilic patterns in paper substrates that exploit the natural affinity of paper to absorb and wick small volumes of fluid2,3 via capillary action. As a result of this work, a new class of paper-based microfluidic devices for low-cost diagnostics has been realized. In principle, paper-based microfluidic devices are like other "lab-on-chip" devices, whose value is in their small size (smaller than a credit card) and ability to perform multiple laboratory functions. However, there is a clear distinction between paper-based microfluidics and other lab-on-chip devices, in that the foundational substrate is not a plastic mold or an elastomer like (poly)dimethylsiloxane (PDMS), both of which require external pumping or gravity to transport fluid. In contrast, paper devices contain arrays of channels that allow fluid to wick to multiple reservoirs pre-treated with reagents. Chemical reactions occur at these reservoirs and initiate color changes, whose reflectance intensities depend on the concentration of analytes (e.g., glucose and proteins) in the biological fluid samples (e.g., blood, urine, or saliva). The color intensities of the reflected light are then captured digitally with a camera or scanner and can be transmitted via a cellular device. These recording methodologies currently facilitate off-site diagnostics through transmission of digital information from locations where there is virtually no health care infrastructure to anywhere in the industrialized world. Although telemedicine with cell phone cameras is feasible, the lack of controllable lighting conditions, camera resolution, and image focusing2 present key challenges. Advancements in cell phone camera resolution, auto-focus and light emitting diode (LED) flash features are poised to improve imaging, enabling more accurate color analysis.
Alternatively, more quantitative tests may be achieved by integrating low-cost, high performance electronics directly into paper devices. The costs associated with manufacturing silicon-based electronics in bulk are considerably lower today, particularly in large lots (>100,000 units), which will enable the future convergence of these two technologies. Recent work by several research groups has introduced new ways to integrate electronics and energy storage elements into paper-based substrates4-7. With embedded electronics, the paper-diagnostics platform could expand to include electrochemical sensing with flexible electrodes and optofluidic detection with arrays of photodetectors and micro-LEDs. Much of this multi-functionality falls into the realm of future research and development. Nevertheless, given the breadth of the paper platform, there is some consensus that a myriad of commercial applications could arise even at this early stage. For example, Technology Review recognized Whitesides' novel paper-based microfluidic systems as one of the top innovations of 2009.
Recent innovations in paper diagnostics have collectively spurred commercial interest from multiple entities. Several funding agencies, including government institutes (e.g., National Institutes of Health8), venture capitalists, and private non-profit foundations (e.g., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation9), have already invested in paper diagnostic technologies that are currently being developed at universities and non-profit entities (e.g., Diagnostics For All; http:www.dfa.org), particularly because paper is a compelling platform for use in resource-limited settings, where electricity and water resources are unreliable.
Moving forward, wide adoption of paper diagnostic solutions will depend on market growth in POC health care as much as it will on technology. The POC market has grown steadily (11% rate of growth), exceeding $US12.5B in 2008 (ref. 10). However, this market growth and the general excitement in the industrialized world could also distract from the core vision and appeal of the technology, as envisioned by Whitesides – the deployment of vital health monitoring and diagnostics solutions in developing regions where profits may not be as large as in the US. Despite the lower profit margins, economists like C.K. Prahalad have argued that low-cost technologies can indeed be deployed via capitalistic, rather than philanthropic, mechanisms in poor regions where there are massive economies of scale whose needs have remained largely untapped11.
Alternatively, achieving the core mission of health care equality could require social entrepreneurial resolve to outweigh the profit-oriented mindset that prevails today. In the words of Muhammad Yunus: "Mindsets play tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see." This particular mindset is pervasive in capitalist markets where profit is king, but one that is worth breaking, given the potential for wide dissemination of a technology whose origins date back nearly 2000 years.
- Hart, M. (1978) Ts'ai Lun. In 100 A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History (pp36-41). New York: Hart Publishing Co.
- Martinez AW, Phillip ST, Whitesides GM, & Carrilho E. (2010) Diagnostics for the developing world: microfluidic paper-based analytical devices. Analytical Chemistry. 82, 3-10.
- Martinez AW, Phillips ST, Whitesides GM (2008) Three-dimensional microfluidic devices fabricated in layered paper and tape. PNAS. 105,19606–19611.
- Nie Z, Nijhuis CA, Gong J, Chen X, Kumachev A, Martinez AW, Narovlyansky M, Whitesides GM. (2010) Electrochemical sensing in paper-based microfluidic devices. Lab Chip. 10, 477-483.
- Siegel AC, Phillips ST, Wiley BJ, Whitesides GM. (2010) Thin, lightweight, foldable thermochromic displays on paper. Lab Chip. 9, 2775-2781.
- Hu L, Choi JW, Yang Y, Jeong S, La Mantia F, Cui LF, Cui Y. (2009) Highly conductive paper for energy storage devices, PNAS. 106, 21490-21494.
- Kim DH, Kim YH, Wu J, Liu Z, Song J, Kim HS, Huang Y, Hwang KC, Rogers JA. (2009) Ultrathin Silicon Circuits with strain-isolation layers and mesh layouts for high-performance electronics on fabric, vinyl, leather, and paper, Advanced Materials 21, 3703–3707.
- National Institutes of Health, Recovery Act Investment Reports RC1 EB010593-01 A sensitive multiplexed diagnostic platform using disposable 2D paper networks, University of Washington, Yager, P.
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Research and Development Grant. To support the discovery of rapid economical point of care assay systems that can be utilized by the developing world. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Whitesides, GM.
- https://www.espicom.com/Prodcat.nsf/Search/00001325?OpenDocument
- Prahalad, CK. (2009) The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. Wharton School Publishing, New Jersey


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Going Global: South AfricaJune 16, 2010, 09:45 am Posted by Lark Jewelry & Beading
I've definitely come down with World Cup Fever. Side effects include a sudden and profound interest in all things South African. Occasional glimpses of the landscape make me want to book the very next flight to Capetown. Ocean + mountains + a large cosmopolitan city in between = I am so there! Stunning football stadiums provide an inspirational bonus to the whole sporting affair. Now if there was only a thriving community of jewelry makers…
Guess what? There is! And a superb sampling of South African jewelry is coming to the United States this year. "Dichotomies in Objects: Contemporary South African Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area" is an exhibition co-curated by Lauren Kalman and Carine Terreblanche and includes several artists featured in this post. There are more than 100 pieces in the exhibition by 20 South African jewelers, each of whom is affiliated with Stellenbosch University. The exhibition begins at Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco, where it will be exhibited for the entire month of July 2010. Afterwards, it travels to the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, from September 12 through October 31, 2010.
South Africa's motto translates to English as "Unity In Diversity." This slogan seems apt to describe the country's vibrant craft scene as well. Africa Nove Gallery and Tinsel are two galleries that promote handcrafted jewelry and local artists. This month, millions of eyes (mine included) will be turning to South Africa for sport. The time has come to begin discovering its abundant creative talent as well.
Thanks to Eric Loubser for being my cyberguide to South African jewelry. Please visit his website as well as other featured artists:
Happy Youth Day South Africa!