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Alleged corrupt AFP cop out on $1m bail
The $1 million Benjamin Hampton had in the bank was supposed to buy him a new home.
But the Australian Federal Police officer has had to hand over the sum to be bailed from Sydney's Central Local Court after being charged with a dozen corruption and bribery offences.
Hampton faces a long stint behind bars if convicted after a 15-month investigation into allegations he sold AFP secrets to a member of the public.
Prosecutors said Hampton was a flight risk and had booked return plane tickets to Slovenia, where his father lived.
"(He) was going to a country where there is no extradition with Australia," the court heard on Thursday.
On top of the money, Magistrate Alexander Mijovich made Hampton surrender his passport and he has to report to police daily and avoid contact with others involved in the investigation.
A bribery conviction carries a penalty of up to 10 years' jail while the other offences carry penalties of two to five years each.
Hampton faces two charges of receiving a bribe as a commonwealth public official, two charges of receiving a corrupting benefit and two counts of abuse of public office.
He also has been hit with four counts of unauthorised access to data with intent to commit a serious offence and two charges of divulging or communicating prescribed information.
Hampton's lawyer earlier said his client had more than $1 million in the bank, earned from the sale of his home.
"The money in the bank account was to be used to buy another property," the court heard.
But it has now been used to buy Hampton freedom at least until his next hearing at the Downing Centre Local Court on November 11.
Hampton worked as a protection officer for the AFP and was suspended from duties in May.
At an earlier press briefing, AFP Sydney commander Ray Johnson said none of the alleged information sold endangered anyone or compromised any AFP investigation.
No one else has yet been charged over the allegations.
"Should it be proven, everyone (at the AFP) will be significantly disappointed," Mr Johnson said.
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EAGLEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Two workers were cleaning an empty water tower Wednesday outside Philadelphia when scaffolding collapsed under them, sending one man plummeting to his death and leaving another hanging for three hours in a safety harness until he could be rescued.
Three men from Corrosion Control Corp., based in Pedricktown, N.J., were working inside the 100-foot-tall tower when an apparent equipment malfunction occurred shortly after 11 a.m., Lower Providence Police Chief Francis "Bud" Carroll said.
One man fell roughly 50 feet to his death, while the other dropped only partway and dangled from a harness. It took a rescuer more than three hours to free the trapped worker by going through the top of the tower, descending and attaching a second safety harness so they could be lowered together and leave through a small exit at ground level.
The survivor was being checked out at a hospital. No word was immediately released on his condition.
"He was talking to us from the onset. That is why this was not a rushed operation," Lower Providence Fire Chief Bryan McFarland said. "We took our time and put as much safety into (the rescue) as we could."
A third man was working inside the tank on ground level and was not hurt, Carroll said.
Carroll said the crew had been hired by Audubon Water Co. to clean the inside of the tank, in a residential neighborhood in Lower Providence Township, about 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate, Montgomery County Coroner Walter Hofman said.


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At this year's recent PASS Summit I sat down with Bill Graziano, Vice President of Marketing for PASS to discuss some of the important changes that the PASS organization has made over the past year and what their future directions are. As an aside, if you're not aware of it, PASS stands for Professional Association for SQL Server and it is the premier user group for SQL Server DBAs and developers.
One of the most far reaching changes that Bill pointed out to me is the membership in the PASS organization is now free. PASS used to charge a yearly membership fee to belong to the organization. This past September PASS dropped the yearly membership fee making it easy for all SQL Server professionals to be a part of the PASS organization. This was news to me and certainly is a win-win situation for both PASS and SQL Server professional everywhere. If you're not already a member of PASS you should go check it out at www.sqlpass.org. The PASS organization is growing fast and now has over 32,000 members with 136 chapters world-wide.
Bill noted that this year's conference was the most successful event yet with over 3500 total registrations and almost 1000 first time attendees. The conference featured 144 sessions spread out over 3 days. Bill pointed out that the PASS Summit has a strong Microsoft presence making it easy for attendees to talk with members of Microsoft's SQL Server team. One of the most practical examples of Microsoft's involvement is the First Aid Station which is manned by Microsoft PSS support staff. The First Aid Station is available to answer all Summit attendee's technical questions.
In conjunction with this year's conference PASS has also kicked off a new section on their web site called PASSport that provides a Facebook style community site for SQL Server professionals. The site allows you to post your profile and interact with other SQL Server professionals.
In the future PASS is looking to expand its local chapters through a regional mentors program where experienced group leaders help new chapters get off the ground. In addition, PASS is looking to continue to grow its European Conference which is held in Neuss, Germany in April 2009. The next U.S. PASS Community Summit 2009 will be back in Seattle Nov 3-6. In the meantime, if you're a SQL Server DBA, developer or part time admin you should be sure to check out www.sqlpass.org


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Zack Snyder's 'Sucker Punch' is the cinematic equivalent of Max Fischer, the main character of Wes Anderson's 'Rushmore:' it may be in all of these really awesome and interesting after-school clubs, but it's barely passing its regular classes. As a longtime fan of Snyder, I was excited to see a completely self-generated project after four of them which were derived from existing works, but the film exemplifies both the director's strengths and weaknesses: as a visual stylist, his proficiency is almost incomparable, but he really seems to need an existing story, or at least story structure, to use as a foundation upon which to build those movie moments. A work of unsurpassed style but frivolous substance, 'Sucker Punch' is Zack Snyder's first misfire and ultimately, and for fans, unfortunately, just not a great film.
The film stars Emily Browning ('The Uninvited') as Baby Doll, a young woman committed to a mental institution after assaulting her stepfather with a pistol. Although she's watched closely by the administrator, Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), and his resident psychiatrist, Dr. Gorski (Carla Gugino), Baby Doll soon meets fellow inmates Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung), and forms a tenuous friendship as their world transforms from an insane asylum into a brothel where they're the main attraction. But when Baby Doll discovers that the High Roller (Jon Hamm) is coming in five days to perform a lobotomy/ take her innocence, the five of them hatch a plan with the help of the Wise Man (Scott Glenn) to acquire a series of items which in theory should help her escape to freedom.
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I can't say for certain now, need to ask for better translation. Seems this is the result of his firing, color is because of big difference in temperature of inside and outside of pot. Something like ~1300C outside pot and 1800 inside, but wonder if i got this right, feels way too big differencehopeofdawn wrote:Gorgeous clay--love the contrast of the interior against the white glaze of the outside!
One downside to this piece, it's rather expensive, well, as everything purely handmade in Japan. Would like a set of cups with it, but this will have to wait.
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Discussion in 'The Howard Stern Show' started by Morrisb, Jan 24, 2013.
He's pretending like he works out again "every day".
50: It's never gonna happen.
I maintain my six-pack by fucking my girlfriend about 6 nights a week. Howard can not do that.
Howard does way too much cardio, doesn't eat enough protein, doesn't weight train (to build muscle) and he eats like a god damned size zero teenaged girl.
But please Howard, keep asking people how you can get a six pack.
Skip the therapy sessions and do some fucking crunches. And eat enough calories so that you can actually develop and maintain some muscle mass.
What part of "It's never gonna fuckin' happen" doesnt Howard get?
We all know that, despite what he whines to 50 Cent about, all of Howard's time is spent in intensive show content meetings.
Why bother with a six-pack? I've got the whole beer barrel.
He gets protein from Ralph.
I thought Howard had a personal trainer?
Howard has a shrink too. They are both doing a great job.
Become 40 years younger.
Howard has womanly birthing hips.
you're right!
He's a delusional old fool to want a 6 pack at his age,
His face looks like it was smashed with a 6 pack of beer.
I know.
The "birthing" part
Howard is a mess.
should work on a bicep first
his arms look like wet noodles
Maybe HE could have the baby instead of Beff.


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A University of Cincinnati team is about to set off on a National Science Foundation-funded research expedition in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Led by Stephen Matter, a UC assistant professor of biological sciences, the team of three UC undergraduate researchers will continue ongoing research on how climate change can affect populations, in particular those of the Rocky Mountain Apollo butterfly, Parnassius smintheus.
The research will be conducted from mid-July until late August, during the adult butterfly stage. The butterflies lay their eggs in the Alpine meadows, where the eggs remain over winter and then emerge as larvae when the snow melts in the spring.
"The butterflies use snow cover to insulate their eggs during the winter," says team member and undergraduate researcher Olivia Eads, who is majoring in environmental studies and geology in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). "With increasing temperatures, there's less snow accumulation, creating less insulation for the eggs and therefore less chance of survival."
"These butterflies are encountering a more variable climate with greater frequency than they have in the last century," says Matter. "We have climatological data that shows that winters that are very warm and dry are bad for the population, as well as winters that are very cold and wet. We know that the overwintering eggs will die if they experience temperatures of minus 30 Celsius. If it's warm and dry, there's less likely to be snow cover, but temperatures may still reach minus 30. If the winter is cold and wet, it is much more likely to get to minus 30, but there is usually snow cover. Where we see problems for the butterfly is when it gets very cold early in winter, before there has been much snow accumulation. It's not unusual to have minus 30-degree air temperatures. But there's usually a nice layer of snow on the ground to protect the eggs."
Although the Rocky Mountain Apollo butterfly is a common butterfly in the region, lower populations due to climate change also affect pollination and therefore plant life. "They're a good species to observe in terms of alpine habitat," says Matter. "They pollinate a lot of alpine plants. Basically, they pollinate anything that has yellow flowers in the alpine habitat."
The paid undergraduate summer research internship program is supported by a $272,259 grant from the National Science Foundation that was awarded in 2009, followed by a $14,500 supplemental grant. Matter has led the summer undergraduate research project since 2000.
Research and Roughing It
Students who apply for the undergraduate research opportunity are warned that the trip requires hard work, including field research that demands long hikes in extreme conditions. Matter says the roads were washed out last year. They stay at the Biogeosciences Institute, which was once a Canadian-World War II POW camp for German prisoners, and is now a field station run by the University of Calgary. The field station holds a vast amount of meteorological data that follows climate change over the past 60 years or so.
"One project is a mathematical statistical project that has ecological implications. We can use the relationship between our meteorological data collected in the butterflies' habitat and the much longer data set from the field station to reconstruct climatological conditions that the butterflies experience in the past," explains Matter.
Nineteen UC students applied to be considered for the three undergraduate research positions this summer. Eads was among the three selected, as well as Elizabeth Ferguson, a UC senior environmental studies major, and Christopher Screen, a UC junior in environmental studies. The NSF funding provides for airfare, room and board and a summer stipend.
Although the team is in a meadow with GPS trackers and chasing butterflies with butterfly nets, the exertion does not involve much running. Matter says the butterflies tend to move slowly, so they're easy to catch and mark with a Sharpie marker. They'll be using their GPS and data markers to determine where there could be the greatest snow cover and where trees can provide shade and block snow in the winter.
Biological Mating Radar
The team is also investigating whether the butterflies use a sort of biological radar to pick a mate.
"The males tend to mate with the females as they're coming out of the pupal stage," says Matter. "The females can't fly yet, because their wings are wet and they have to wait a while for the blood to go into their veins and expand their wings.
"We believe the males are relying on a pupal pheromone to find the females - they can chemically sense where the newly hatched females are. They guard those areas, wait for the females to emerge, and mate with them before they can get away. We can tell whether or not a female has mated, because the male puts down a mating plug." Matter's research teams have collected three years of data in the field and in his lab to explore the pheromone mating idea, which supports why older females rarely mate. "If they've emerged from their pupa and haven't mated after two days or so, they have little chance of ever mating."
Matter says the butterflies can live up to three weeks. The team will be collecting caterpillars to bring back to their UC research labs to further research behavior.
"I hope to gain a greater understanding of how climate change is affecting the world in which we live," says Ferguson, who's from Wayne, West Virginia. "I'm looking forward to being submerged in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and exploring a different part of the world."
Leveraging research is among five key areas of UC's Creating Our Third Century initiative, as well as reimagining the student experience through real-world opportunities such as undergraduate research.


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The Jonas Brothers now have a new girl in the crew.
Kevin Jonas and wife Danielle welcomed daughter Alena Rose on Sunday. It's the first child for the couple.
The 26-year-old singer shared the news on Twitter:
The couple met back in 2007 while vacationing with their respective families in the Bahamas. They tied the knot about two years later at Oheka Castle in Long Island, N.Y. In 2012, they launched a reality show on E! called "Married to Jonas."Kevin may have some more time to spend with his little girl now that the Jonas Brothers are taking a break. Last fall, Kevin, Joe and Nick announced that it was "over for now." The guys said they came to the decision after meeting during which they expressed concerns over the future of the band.


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BOSTON (AP) — The transit police officer who was shot during a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he hopes the Rolling Stone cover story on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) doesn't glorify him in readers' eyes.
Officer Richard Donohue told NBC's "Today" show Thursday that he was surprised at the cover of the magazine's Aug. 1 edition. The close-up of Tsarnaev looks more like one of the rock stars that usually grace the magazine's cover.
Donohue criticized Rolling Stone's cover choice. In his words: "They could've picked anybody else. There's a number of people they could have picked for an arts and entertainment magazine than an alleged bomber."
Rolling Stone editors said in a statement that the story falls within the traditions of journalism and the magazine's commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage.


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I don't really like to. I like being by myself when I'm reading manga :S I read mostly romance manga, and I feel sorta weird having someone either watching me read or reading the same page with someone when it comes to the cutesy moments.. I don't know why I'm okay with anime sometimes, but sometimes I feel uncomfortable too and you?
And don't tell me I feel like this because the manga has smut or something because it doesn't
One Ok Rock
Heck, the manga is only big enough for one personso Idk who the hell would be reading a manga with another person. Maybe if it was like 3 feet wide or something. Plus, I feel more comfortable reading a manga by myself because I can think out the scene in my own head without worrying if the other person is finish with that page or not.
Jesus Christ Is LORD!!! <3
Haha no way. I like a lot of ecchi manga, so of course I can't read those in front of people. But even when it isn't ecchi, manga can be pretty unpredictable, and people tend to be very misunderstanding unless they also like manga. So I read alone.
I do too, I like to keep things to myself; even from my parents & brothers. They seem to like to know what I'm always doing, but I just keep it to myself. It feels awkward when I'm like reading a romantic manga, so I just read it to myself.
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i like to read manga by myself. i dont want others to get into it.
i feel like its my own world and i dont want to share it with people i know.
i noe its self ish but im sure all u guys feel the same way.
plus i tend to read loud 4 the voices so it embrassing
i dont want to fallin luv ever again...
I don't mind letting someone borrow my manga, unless they're known to ruin things easily. But I will not share it at the same time. It's just like with my computer. Don't stand over me when I'm reading or working on something. You will be threatened a violent and horrible end.
I just feel really uncomfortable reading manga around people because there is just so much room to remain comfortable and unlike watching an anime, I want to go at my own pace. Then there's reading manga in public which is also uncomfortable because it's pretty graphic(as in "visual" more so than censor-worthy) and i feel like I'd be more interrupted with someone looking.
Depends on who the person is.
I like a lot of ecchi manga, so of course I can't read those in front of people
If i read with people they usually distract me and i'll have to re-read the same parts again since i try to see the scenes inside my head so i usually read by myself
Plus if they started talking when i was reading i'd be pissed at being interupted constantly
Pick your poison, fast my dear. The apocalyspe is drawing near ♫
I don't like reading manga or much of anything else with another person because I think better alone, and it's nicer and easier to drift into fantasy world that way. But I can compartmentalize if I must and read almost anything, even the questionable stuff, just about anywhere even if people are around...as long as they're not crowding me and trying to read my book.
Manga is intended for one person, so yeah, I read it alone.
lol u mad bcuz im stylin on u
If it's a comedy manga without action/ romance like Yotsuba or.. Zoushoku Shoujo Plana-chan
then I wouldn't mind reading it with someone else. I do read online manga with my sister sometimes.
but she's been busy with schoolworks so I read manga alone most of the time.
i never read my manga with someone cuz i need my personal space
but i have shared my manga with other people only cuz there fans
No. It's like are you done reading this page yet? Can I turn? Did you finish before me or not? Random sex scene!? Awkward. And stuff like that. :]
Nobody's perfect. I'm a nobody, therfore I am perfect.


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A basic, long-sleeve shirt that is destined to be one of your wardrobe staples. Make it in a single weekend, and make multiples to pair with your favorite jeans and khakis.
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Nov 16, 2012, 02.23 AMby Monicao6
I LOVE!!! My favorite colors!
Mar 18, 2012, 12.41 PMby keron
Love it. I will surely post my own when am done. I think it's just one weekend.
Mar 9, 2012, 09.23 PMby JuliaBobbin
The pattern looks great but by GOLLY the model is stunning!
Mar 9, 2012, 08.04 PMby Andrea Delesdernier
good stuff. Love the entire look, colors and cut.
Jan 2, 2011, 08.10 PMby mwelland
I cut this pattern two sizes smaller than I normally would and found that it fit well. I could have gone down another size if I'd been using a stretchier knit and hadn't made a couple of pin tucks. I also recommend that taller ladies add an extra few inches to the length. If I hadn't done this it would have been too short on me.
Dec 3, 2010, 11.05 PMby bbbirddd
impossibly large! i hate wasting fabric, unfortunately this pattern helped me waste my favorite stock!
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Jan 30, 2011, 10.33 AMby lynzlyles
I cry when this happens to me, but as a beginner seamstress and a normal human, mistakes happen! sell the shirt to some who it will fit!
Sep 23, 2010, 07.23 PMby asperge11
why is this pattern 1 $, thats ridiculous ! i have no means of paying over internet and would love to have this pattern :(
Sep 6, 2010, 11.57 PMby strawberrypancakesbykim
This pattern is ridiculously oversized. I normally cut a size 32. I had to scale this pattern down and once I cut it out I had to take it in a ton! It's poorly sized so expect to cut about 3 sizes smaller than you normally are.
Jul 26, 2010, 11.25 AMby aynil
I was so excited about this basic pattern, and I'm sure it's great – if a tent is your idea of a close fitted sweater. I am a european 34, cut the 32 (smallest) pattern pieces because I thought it looked big, but I still had to take out about 4 inches (by making pleats in the foldlines). And yes, I did check the test square. The only positive thing I can say about this pattern is that it's only one wasted dollar. Sorry :(
Oct 14, 2008, 03.54 PMby missuscrime
Does anyone know where you can find the pattern for the vest she is wearing in this picture?
Aug 22, 2008, 06.31 PMby lealealea24
Wow! It's so pretty :}!
Im a newbie… Can anyone tell me where to get the pattern for this shirt?
Apr 22, 2008, 12.54 PMby luciaaguera
great and easy pattern!
Mar 17, 2008, 02.58 PMby thesusanne
oh I LOVE the vest!!! PLEASE let there be a pattern!
Dec 16, 2007, 02.21 PMby sojunggg
Is there a pattern available for the vest?
Dec 16, 2007, 02.18 PMby sojunggg
I was just wondering the same thing about the vest.
Sep 24, 2007, 02.41 AMby chirenai
I agree with Hjh, and this pattern is extremely versatile! I'm definitely making an alteration on it sometime in the near future =]
Oh yes, is that vest on the model 'Franzi #9302'? It looks lovely too.
Sep 21, 2007, 02.34 PMby marmota-b
Thanks for this pattern! It's really ready for alterations. :-) Well, we have problems with sewing knits on our machine as well, even with a ballpoint needle, so I prefer sewing them by hand…
Sep 20, 2007, 07.53 AMby tearsofpearls
Well, I have been scheming about purchasing a ballpoint needle for some time. That would most likely fix my problem. However…One thing you should know is that my machine is a 1963 White. It is a rather temperamental thing and requires many cleanings and manual tinkering. But I am very glad I have had it these seven years! I've sewn to the moon and back. :]
Sep 19, 2007, 09.55 AMby benedikta
Hi Tearsofpearls. Are you sure your machine does not take knits? Usually all home machines should be able to do it. All you need to do is make sure to switch the needle into a ballpoint needle, to avoid holes in the knit. Even though the instructions are asking for a twin needle, you can do it with a single one just as well. (thats what we did..)
Sep 19, 2007, 09.03 AMby tearsofpearls
My name is Lydia! Squee~ ^^ Too bad my machine does not take knits. :[
Sep 19, 2007, 05.30 AMby squirrellypoo
I love it! What a great, versatile pattern we can reuse and mixup again and again. You can make a thousand different shirts from this just by changing the sleeves and neckline!
Sep 19, 2007, 04.17 AMby das-fraulein
thank you so much for this basic pattern! i don't know why, but it's quite hard to find simple patterns like this one.
Sep 19, 2007, 03.06 AMby sunflowers
J'adore, les couleurs que tu as choisi rende ce petit top super original!! Lovely!! With these colours this top really becomes original!!
Sep 19, 2007, 02.35 AMby lilo
Thanks!! I was just looking for something like this.
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Pearl Jam Make 8-Year-Old Fan's First Concert Totally Awesome
Remember your first concert? You were probably somewhere in the nosebleed seats, trying to pick out the supertiny bassist from the supertiny rhythm guitarist onstage while hollowed-out versions of the band's most popular songs echoed throughout the arena's crappy audio system. An 8-year-old Pearl Jam fan's first concert was nothing like that.
Eight-year-old Nick Lebresco attended the band's show Tuesday night (Oct. 22) at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia with his parents. At the end of the night, he walked out of the concert with a tambourine, the set list, a drum stick and a bunch of guitar picks -- all given to him by frontman Eddie Vedder.
According to Philly.com, "Vedder took one of his tambourines and tossed it to an usher, appearing to tell the guy to make sure it reached 'the kid.'" Making this story that much more awesome is the fact that Pearl Jam were covering the Who's classic 'Baba O'Riley' at the time. You can watch the action in the above video.
But it didn't stop there. Later in the show, Vedder "sent a bunch of other stuff over to Nick," according to the report. And then the singer stood on a speaker and waved at Nick, who was holding up a giant "It's My First Concert" sign, before he fell onto the speaker. You can see video of all that below.
Apparently, this wasn't even supposed to be the kid's first concert. His parents were planning to take him and and his sister to see pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, but they wanted their children's first concert experiences to be a bit more memorable. After a friend bowed out of the Pearl Jam show, the ticket was freed up for Nick's mom and dad to take their totally lucky son to his first, unforgettable concert.
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FORT VALLEY, Ga. - Another career night for junior guard Shaniece Sheffield wasn't enough for GSW as the Lady Hurricanes dropped a 61-48 contest to the Albany State Golden Rams Sunday Afternoon, 61-48.
Sheffield continued her strong play leading the Blue and Gold with a career high 15 points. Sophomore Danisha Green tied her career high scoring 13 points on 6-10 shooting.
After a back and forth first half, Albany State used a strong second half performance from April Thomas and a 58-36 rebounding advantage to pull away from Southwestern in the second.
Thomas finished the night with 18 points, 15 coming in the second half, as ASU improved to 1-2 on the season. Forward Keedemya Cooper snagged 14 rebounds for the Golden Rams.
Georgia Southwestern falls to 0-5 on the year and will make a quick turnaround as they return to action Tuesday night as they take on Truett-McConnell at 6 p.m. in the Storm Dome.


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Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman today signed LB 968 which appropriates $7.5 million toward a renovation of Peru State College's Oak Bowl.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman today signed LB 968 which appropriates $7.5 million toward a renovation of Peru State College's Oak Bowl.
President Dan Hanson said, "Peru State is another step closer to realizing an important vision for our future. I want to thank Senator Lavon Heidemann for his support of our vision, his dedication to southeast Nebraska and his leadership throughout the legislative process. I also want to thank Governor Dave Heineman for seeing this need and agreeing to invest in Peru State and southeast Nebraska."
Total costs for the Oak Bowl renovation, including a Fieldhouse, are estimated at $14 million. To complete the project in its entirety, the college will immediately begin work to generate private gifts and donations.
Hanson said, "We are up to the challenge and excited about this tremendous opportunity.
The state's willingness to invest in our future is largely due to the college's progress and forward momentum over the past several years. This is an exciting time for Peru State and we look forward to making a facility enhancement that is a critical part of our comprehensive campus improvement plan."
For more information regarding the Oak Bowl project or how to help in the early stages of this process, contact the Peru State College Foundation email@example.com or 402-872-2304.
PSC's "Campus of a Thousand Oaks," an arboretum, is nestled in historic southeast Nebraska. The state's first college, Peru State offers a unique mix of innovative online and traditional classroom undergraduate and graduate programs, including online graduate degrees in education and organizational management. Peru State is a college of choice fostering excellence and student achievement through engagement in a culture that promotes inquiry, discovery and innovation.


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WWE 'Raw' still running wild after 20 years
PHILADELPHIA - Let's put this just how "Stone Cold" Steve Austin would quiz all his fans on Monday nights.
If you think World Wrestling Entertainment's "Raw" is the original wild and live sports entertainment show where anything can happen and any personality from The Rock to Bob Barker can show up on any given Monday night, then give me a "Hell yeah!"
(This is the part where thousands of fans at the arena and millions more watching at home repeat back his catchphrase).
Then it's agreed: There's nothing on TV quite like the promotion's flagship show, the one that rocketed Austin and
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson into stardom, shook the wresting industry out of its staid Saturday morning ways, and filled highlight reels for 20 years with over-the-top personalities, eye-popping feats, total silliness, outrageous storylines, and memorable matches -- with so much more yet to come.
From its birth on Jan. 11, 1993, "Raw" set out to be a special kind of wrestling show, from the name, to the locale and the live action.
"Welcome everyone, to Monday Night Raw!" announcer Vince McMahon bellowed. "We are live from New York City!"
Since that greeting, "Raw" has become as much a fixture on Monday nights as the NFL and remains one of the highest-rated weekly shows on cable television. The 20th anniversary show Monday on USA is about as big as two behemoth Big Shows -- episode
No. 1,025 -- and the promotion has long outlasted its closest competitor. Heck, it even changed its name from the World Wrestling Federation over that span. In the anything-goes reality landscape of Honey Boo Boo and Snooki, the WWE has proved there's still room on the dial for Hornswoggle and The Funkasaurus.
"We're an animal of entertainment," WWE star John Cena said.
Oh, he's right. "Raw" has had an Animal. And a Hawk. HBK and RVD. I.R.S and C.M. Punk. A lord of darkness. An Olympic gold medalist. "Raw" has been more welcoming than the United Nations. It takes all types of revolving characters to endure 20 years in prime time and WWE has found a way to make the mix of gimmicks work.
"It's successful because it changes with the times," said Punk, the longest-reigning WWE champ of the "Raw" era. "It's not just a wrestling show, it's a complete spectacle."
The bulk of pro wrestling television before the 1990s was mostly one-hour weekend shows filled with noncompetitive matches in which a superstar would squash some enhancement talent. WWE, though, had been a staple on Monday night's since "Prime Time Wrestling" debuted on USA Jan. 1, 1985. The show featured taped matches from arenas around the country before the format for the weekly wrestling show was revolutionized with "Raw."
The one-hour debut aired live from New York's Manhattan Center and kicked off an uncooked, uncut and uncensored slice of wrestling history with the 500-pound Yokozuna making quick work of Koko B. Ware ("Go get him, Birdman!" McMahon exhorted from the broadcast booth).
Punk, who knew at the time he wanted to become a pro wrestler, appreciated the quick shift into more main event quality matches. Ric Flair vs. Mr. Perfect and Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Jannetty were early indicators to Punk this was not a normal wrestling show.
Wrestling fans and promoters took notice.
Ted Turner's now-defunct World Championship Wrestling would follow with a Monday night show ("Nitro") that heated up the race for ratings and marquee talent. The Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling carved a niche with its hardcore style.
Soon, one wrestler would turn "Raw" into a phenomenon.
The foul-mouthed anti-hero interrupted a Mike Tyson segment in the buildup toward 1998's WrestleMania. Tyson shoved Austin to start a wild melee and the WWE's "Attitude Era" was soon in full swing. Austin easily became WWE's biggest star in 20 years of "Raw." The Rock, Mick Foley, Degeneration X, and The Undertaker rumbled their way up toward 9 million viewers for one 1999 show. McMahon shed his good guy announcer's gig to become the hated boss who messed with Austin at every edge-of-the-seat turn.
"We were editing the ECW television show. We had 'Nitro' on one monitor and 'Raw,' on the other," WWE personality and former ECW owner Paul Heyman said. "When I saw Steve (confront) Mike Tyson, I realized we have entered into a new era and Steve Austin is leading the way."
WCW would go out of business and so would ECW. By mid-2001, WWE was left without any serious competition.
The show expanded to two hours a couple of years after its 1993 debut, then jumped to three hours for the 1,000th episode in July 2012. "Raw" also left USA for TNN in 2000 before returning to its original cable network home in 2005.
"RAW" turned to guest hosts for a spell, where stars as varied as Barker, Shaquille O'Neal, Snoop Dogg, Johnny Damon and Jewel did everything from backstage segments to making matches.
The early years of "RAW" marked the end of the cartoon characters that made up the "Say your prayers" heyday of Hulk Hogan before giving way to the rebellious Austin. Cena has led a shift to more PG family-friendly programming -- though the cage matches and brutal battles still remain -- over the last 10 years.
"We have fans who loved the 'Attitude Era' and still watch today, that are upset with where the product is," Cena said.
"But we have a lot of newer, younger fans, and more family fans, that are now introduced to a product they never would have thought to watch before."
The frivolity has paused through the years when life hasn't followed the script.
"Raw" held tributes following the deaths of Owen Hart and Eddie Guerrero. A similar show that aired for Chris Benoit was denounced the next night by McMahon after it came out the wrestler had killed his wife and his young son before committing suicide.
Long-time wrestler and announcer Jerry "The King" Lawler collapsed with a mild heart attack while calling the show in September 2012. He returned to the air in November.
Lawler, who said he won't stop wrestling, has called more "Raw" matches than anyone over the last 20 years.
"I'm the voice of the fans," Lawler said. "I just try and react to what I see like most of the fans would."
Fans still tune in: last week's show averaged 4.42 million viewers, a stout number against the BCS championship game.
The third hour, highlighted by a confrontation between Punk and The Rock, averaged 4.65 million viewers. Alabama's 42-14 rout over Notre Dame drew 26.4 million viewers. "Raw" was the highest-rated, non-sports programming cable show of the night.
"We still feel like we're an underdog and we have to work harder to get attention," Foley said. "But enough people give us attention. Our biggest report card comes from our fans."
At a recent "Raw" stop at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, some building employees couldn't help but gawk as they walked by the oversized wrestlers stretched out on a sofa for interviews.
"I see you guys everywhere," one small child said.
"We are everywhere!" a smiling Lawler replied.
For 20 years and counting, the biggest stars always been found on Monday nights.


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The Fall of Arthur
|The Fall of Arthur
|J.R.R. Tolkien
|Christopher Tolkien
|HarperCollins (UK)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US)
|23 May 2013
The Fall of Arthur is the title of an poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, concerned with the legend of King Arthur. It will be published on 23 May 2013.[2]
According to Humphrey Carpenter, who published a few brief extracts from the poem in his biography about Tolkien, the poem "has alliteration but no rhyme [and] did not touch on the Grail but began an individual rendering of the Morte d'Arthur, in which the king and Gawain go to war in 'Saxon lands' but are summoned home by news of Mordred's treachery". "The Fall of Arthur" was read by E.V. Gordon and R.W. Chambers, who both approved of the poem.[3][4]
The writing of the poem was abandoned in the mid 1930s,[3] but in a 1955 letter to Houghton Mifflin, his American publishers, Tolkien mentioned that he hoped to finish the "long poem".[5] Although the state of the manuscript(s) is unknown, there is a rumour that the poem has 954 lines.[6]
Carl F. Hostetter mentions the transcription of a manuscript by Tolkien which seems to be a fragment of his The Fall of Arthur.[7]
- Foreword
- The Fall of Arthur
- Notes on the Text of The Fall of Arthur
- The Poem in Arthurian Tradition
- The Unwritten Poem and its Relation to The Silmarillion
- The Evolution of the Poem
- Appendix: Old English Verse
From the publisher
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.
The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere's flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.
Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him 'You simply must finish it!' But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of The Hobbit and the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that 'he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur'; but that day never came.
Associated with the text of the poem, however, are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting and experimentation in verse, in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed, together with narrative synopses and very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion, and the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, which was never written.
See also
External links
- ↑ "The Fall of Arthur", Amazon.co.uk (accessed 10 October 2012)
- ↑ "The Fall of Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited by Christopher Tolkien", HarperCollins (accessed 10 October 2012)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977 ed.), pp. 168-8
- ↑ Verlyn Flieger, "Arthurian Romance", in J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, pp. 34-5
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 165, (undated, written June 1955)
- ↑ N.E. Brigand, "Comment to the blog post 'Lewis's Lost Aeneid [Updated]'" dated 5 March 2011, Lingwë (accessed 8 March 2011)
- ↑ Carl F. Hostetter, "Tolkien's handwriting scans" dated 20 December 2009, The Fountain Pen Network (accessed 4 May 2011)


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WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BG Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGMD) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012 and provided a business update.
Total revenue increased to $0.6 million in the third quarter of 2012 compared to $0.2 million in the same period in 2011. Product revenue from the BGM Galectin-3® test was $0.6 million in the third quarter of 2012, compared to $0.1 million in the same period in 2011.
Operating expenses for the third quarter of 2012 increased by $2.1 million to $7.2 million compared to 2011. This increase was driven by an increase in research and development investment of $0.6 million related primarily to the CardioSCORE™ test program and by an increase in sales and marketing expense of $0.9 million to support commercialization of the BGM Galectin-3 test. General and administrative expenses increased $0.4 million primarily due to personnel related costs and public company related expenses.
Net loss for the quarter was $6.8 million compared with a loss of $4.9 million in the third quarter of 2011.
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common shareholders was $(0.34) in the third quarter of 2012, compared with basic and diluted net income per share of $(0.25) for the same period of 2011.
At September 30, 2012, the Company had cash and cash equivalents totaling approximately $18.1 million compared to $24.4 million at December 31, 2011.
"Over the past quarter, we continued to make important progress with the BGM Galectin-3 test by augmenting U.S. sales and marketing efforts and expanding into other markets," said Eric Bouvier, president and chief executive officer of BG Medicine. "With our new corporate strategy and structure in place, we look forward to maximizing control over the commercial execution of the BGM Galectin-3 and CardioSCORE tests, which we believe will assist us to become a leader in delivering novel cardiovascular diagnostics that address significant unmet medical needs."
Financial Results for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012
Total revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $1.7 million compared to $1.3 million in the same period in 2011. Product revenue from the BGM Galectin-3 test was $1.6 million in the nine months ended September 2012, compared to $0.1 million in the same period in 2011. Service revenue from collaborations decreased to $0.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2012 from $1.1 million in the corresponding period in 2011 as the Company focused its efforts on the commercialization of the BGM Galectin-3 test.
Operating expenses for the first nine months of 2012 were $21.9 million compared with operating expenses for the comparable period in 2011 of $14.0 million. This increase in operating expenses included higher research and development investments of $1.7 million primarily related to the BGM Galectin-3 and CardioSCORE test programs and an increase in sales and marketing expenses of $3.7 million related primarily to commercialization of the BGM Galectin-3 test in the U.S. and European markets. General and administrative expenses increased $2.2 million, mainly from personnel related costs and public company related expenses.
Net loss was $20.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, compared with $12.9 million during the same period of 2011.
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common shareholders was $(1.04) for the first nine months of 2012, compared with basic and diluted net income per share of $(0.77) for the same period of 2011.
Cash used in operations was $16.5 million during the first nine months of 2012 compared to $11.2 million during the same period in 2011. In February 2012, BG Medicine borrowed $10 million under a $15 million term loan facility.
BGM Galectin-3 Test and CardioSCORE Test Commercial Strategy Update
In a separate press release issued today, BG Medicine provided an update on its new commercial strategy to speed the adoption of its cardiovascular diagnostic tests.
As part of BG Medicine's new commercial strategy, the Company implemented a strategic reorganization of its research and development department, away from its previous focus on early stage discovery and toward a more commercially-oriented role in support of studies designed to further differentiate and support the BGM Galectin-3 and CardioSCORE tests in the marketplace. As a result of this reorganization, 11 positions in early discovery research have been eliminated, enabling the company to dedicate a greater share of its research and development budget to commercial support and market growth activities. As a result, the Company will record a fourth quarter charge of approximately $150,000, with expected savings of up to $1.2 million in 2013.
Other Recent Business Updates
CardioSCORE Test
- BG Medicine is continuing its dialogue with the FDA regarding the additional information requested by the FDA with respect to the original 510(k) premarket notification submitted for the CardioSCORETM test
BGM Galectin-3 Test Commercial Progress and Expansion Into Additional International Markets
- In July 2012, Abbott Diagnostics, one of the Company's four diagnostic instrument manufacturer partners developing automated versions of the BGM Galectin-3 test, filed a 510(k) premarket notification to the FDA for regulatory clearance for the ARCHITECT® galectin-3 assay used with Abbott's fully automated ARCHITECT® immunochemistry instrument platform. This filing represents the first filing of an automated platform version of the BGM Galectin-3 test by one of BG Medicine's four partners.
- An independent research study, "Galectin-3, a Marker of Cardiac Fibrosis, Predicts Incident Heart Failure in the Community" was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) in September 2012. The study demonstrated that men and women with baseline blood levels of galectin-3 in the highest quartile had heart failure incidence rates that were more than twice as high as those of all other study participants, over a ten- year follow-up period. The results published in JACC emphasized the significance of being able to detect factors that impact the identification and progression of heart failure.
- In October 2012, BG Medicine entered into an agreement with Kindstar Diagnostics Co. Ltd., the largest esoteric diagnostic testing business in China, which will enable Kindstar to offer galectin-3 testing services for the management of heart failure patients in China.
- At the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2012 in Los Angeles earlier in November, the Company launched an aggressive marketing campaign focused on leveraging the role that the BGM Galectin-3 test can play in helping to reduce unplanned hospital readmissions.
- Also at the AHA Scientific Sessions 2012, researchers from Northwestern University, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the University Medical Center of Groningen, and the Company presented results on the utility of galectin-3 testing for identifying heart failure patients at risk of unplanned near-term rehospitalization, in a presentation titled "Use of Galectin-3 to Create a Simplified Heart Failure Rehospitalization Risk Model."
BGM Galectin-3 Test CPT Code Status
- In November 2012, BG Medicine announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in the Final Determination for the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule for 2013, assigned a payment rate for the BGM Galectin-3 test under new, analyte-specific Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 82777 effective January 1, 2013, and the payment rate will be crosswalked to the code under which the test is currently paid.
CardioSCORE Test Data Analyses Presented at American Heart Association (AHA) Meeting
Results of retrospective analyses of the BioImage Study cohort were presented during November 4th-7th at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2012 in Los Angeles. These presentations resulted from research sponsored by the company and included data on the CardioSCORE™ test.
In four scientific presentations, investigators from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and the Baptist Hospital of Miami jointly presented the following findings:
- "BioImage Study: Value of Novel Biomarker Panel (CardioSCORE) in Predicting Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events among those with Absence of Coronary Calcification";
- "BioImage Study: Novel Biomarker Panel (CardioSCORE) for the Prediction of First Major Cardiovascular Events across the Full Range of Framingham Risk Scores";
- "BioImage Study: Combined Use of Novel Biomarker Panel (CardioSCORE) and Computed Tomography Coronary Calcium Scores in Predicting Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events" ; and
- "BioImage Study: Reclassification and Discrimination by Novel Biomarker Panel (CardioSCORE), Coronary Calcium Score, Carotid Intima-Media Thickness & Plaque Burden in Asymptomatic Individuals."
Strengthening Senior Management and Commercial Team
- To support the Company's continuing transition into a commercial organization, BG Medicine further strengthened its Senior Management Team by adding four strong members with previous commercial cardiovascular disease and diagnostics industry experience, including Bill Densel as CardioSCORE General Manager, Howard Rosen as Vice President, U.S. Sales and Marketing, Thomas Bendix Mortensen as Vice President, European Sales and Marketing, and Chuck Abdalian, as Chief Financial Officer.
Upcoming Milestones
BG Medicine anticipates the following upcoming milestones for the BGM Galectin-3 test and the CardioSCORE test:
- Abbott Diagnostics and bioMerieux, two of the Company's four diagnostic instrument manufacturer partners developing automated versions of the BGM Galectin-3 test, are expected to obtain CE Marks and launch their respective automated versions of the BGM Galectin-3 test in Europe.
Obtain a CE Mark for the CardioSCORE test in Europe.
Conference call and web cast
The Company will host a conference call and webcast today beginning at 8:00 am Eastern Time. The conference call may be accessed by dialing (877) 845-1016 from the U.S. and Canada, or (708) 290-1155 from international locations. The conference call will also be available via the Internet at www.bg-medicine.com.
A replay of the call will be available approximately one hour following the end of the call through November 16, 2012. The replay may be accessed by dialing (855) 859-2056 within the U.S. and Canada or (404) 537-3406 from international locations, conference ID #39743107. The call will be archived and accessible on the Web site for approximately 30 days.
Listeners are encouraged to login at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the scheduled presentation to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
About BG Medicine
BG Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGMD) is a diagnostics company focused on the development and commercialization of novel cardiovascular diagnostics to address significant unmet medical needs, improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. The Company's first commercialized product, the BGM Galectin-3® test for use in patients with chronic heart failure, is available in the United States and Europe. BG Medicine is also developing the CardioSCORETM test, a blood test designed to aid in the assessment of an individual's risk for near-term major cardiovascular events. For additional information about BG Medicine, heart failure and galectin-3 testing, please visit www.bg-medicine.com and www.galectin-3.com.
The BG Medicine Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=10352.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding: our beliefs that our new commercial strategy will place us in a much stronger position to drive our own commercial success; our ability to implement our new commercial strategy and the effectiveness of our implementation; our expectation that we will open our own CLIA lab in the first half of 2013; our expectations that having our own CLIA lab will further strengthen our ability to strengthen sales of our diagnostic tests; our belief that identifying high-risk patients through galectin-3 testing is a potentially valuable and cost-effective tool in a hospital's strategy to reduce unplanned 30-day readmissions; our expectations that our hospital readmissions initiative will accelerate the sales ramp-up and adoption of galectin-3 testing; our expectations regarding the timing of the launch of automated versions of our galectin-3 test in Europe; our expectations for our business operations and outlook; our beliefs regarding the importance of our galectin-3 test to heart failure patients; our intention to proceed with the commercial offering of the CardioSCORE test; our intention to launch the CardioSCORE test initially in Europe through one or more partners; our belief in the significant potential of CardioSCORE to provide valuable information about an individual's risk of experiencing a near-term major cardiovascular event; and our expectations regarding the impact of the BioImage Study data on potential sales and marketing of our CardioSCORE test. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees of future performance, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things: our ability to transition into a commercial organization and generate sufficient revenue to sustain our business; our estimates of future performance, including the expected timing of the launch of our products; the timing, costs and other limitations involved in obtaining regulatory clearance or approval for any of our product candidates; our ability to successfully develop, receive regulatory clearance or approval, commercialize and achieve market acceptance for any of our products and product candidates; our reliance on third parties to develop or distribute our product candidates and products, including our ability to enter into collaboration agreements with respect to our product candidates and the performance of our collaborative partners under such agreements; our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others; our estimates regarding anticipated operating losses, future revenue, expenses, capital requirements and our need for additional financing; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in Item 1A in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and BG Medicine undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
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|$ 23,874
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|Intangible assets, net
|Deposits and other assets
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|$ 20,148
|$ 26,110
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|$ 2,237
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|Deferred revenue and customer deposits
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|Warrant liability
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|$ 20,148
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|The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2011 has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements at the date included in the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.
|BG Medicine, Inc. and Subsidiary
|Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
|Nine Months Ended September 30,
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|Net cash flows from operating activities
|Net cash flows from investing activities
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|$ 17,579
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|(1) For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, cash flows provided by financing activites include proceeds from the $10.0 million term loan. For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, cash flows provided by financing activities include net proceeds of $36.2 million from the initital public offering.
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OAKLAND — A clogged pipe was to blame for a sewage backup at the A's stadium over the weekend that created a stink and pools of water in the clubhouses used by the A's, the visiting Seattle Mariners and the umpires.
The two teams were forced to share the Raiders' locker room a floor above the baseball clubhouses after Sunday's game.
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Iran says refugees from 2009 protests may return
August 21, 2013
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's intelligence minister says opposition supporters who fled the country during street protests following the disputed 2009 presidential election have no reason to fear returning to Iran.
Iranian state TV broadcast Mahmoud Alavi as saying his ministry would guarantee the safety of those who have not "committed any crimes" during the tumult, which erupted after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory was contested.
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It's said that if the history play is a type of drama, its only successful practitioner was William Shakespeare. "The Liquid Plain," a baffling new play by the award-winning playwright Naomi Wallace, will do nothing to challenge that assertion.
Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, "The Liquid Plain," which had its world premiere Saturday night in the OSF's Thomas Theatre, shows the pitfalls of attempting to fashion the materials of history into a stage play.
It's based on an actual incident in which the captain of a slave ship who believed that an individual among his human cargo had smallpox and threw the woman overboard.
The play Wallace derived from that story was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as part of its American Revolutions history cycle, an ambitious, decade-long project conceived by Artistic Director Bill Rauch. The program has already given us such extraordinary theater experiences as 2010's fantastical "American Night" and 2011's multi-layered "Ghost Light," but it also served up last year's meandering "Party People."
"The Liquid Plain" is not a history play in the sense of Shakespeare, whose histories examined the gaining and losing of power in a search for a cure for chaos and a definition of right kingship. But the play certainly engages with history as it seeks to trace the harrowing effects of young America's "unique institution" between continents and generations.
Part history-inflected drama then, part dark comedy and part revenge tragedy, with a considerable dose of melodrama, the play is set in 1791 in Bristol, R.I. The seaport is a center for the slave trade, sending ships to West Africa to pick up slaves to be traded for molasses in the Caribbean, which will be made into rum to be traded for more slaves, and so on in an endless triangle.
This trade was an example of what's called a virtuous circle in economics. In human terms, of course, it was one of the most vicious circles imaginable.
The play's slaver, Capt. De Woolf (Michael Winters), boasts cheerily at one point in the play that he lost "only" a small number — fewer than 20! — of his human chattel to death on the voyage in question.
Adjua (June Carryl), an escaped slave who was born free in West Africa, and her lover, Dembi (Kimberly Scott), an escaped slave from South Carolina, are scavenging a living as wharf rats on the docks of Bristol when a white man (Danforth Comins), nearly drowned and suffering from amnesia, washes ashore. They call him Thomas, and he joins them. Tension rises between Dembi and "Thomas," who wants Adjua.
The three are soon joined by Balthazar (Armando Duran), an Irish sailor who unravels the mystery of Thomas, who is actually Cranston, a man who testified against Capt. De Woolf (Michael Winters), who de-shipped the unfortunate woman at sea, and Liverpool Joe (Kevin Kenerly), a black sea captain, rogue and dandy from England, who agrees to transport the lovers to Africa and enlist the white men as crew members.
If this sounds like the setup for an 18th century picaresque novel, it plays like it, at least early on. Meanwhile, Alex Koch's projections provide a roiling briny deep in the background of Brenda Davis's spare rendition of the hardscrabble Bristol wharf.
There are oddities. Thomas/Cranston, in 1791, has lines such as, "I'll be straight with you." Liverpool Joe reveals that he's named his new ship The Leak.
The characters have mysterious illnesses or disabilities. Adjua limps. "Thomas" has amnesia, and Cranston has a "guinea worm" in his leg. Balthazar wears a pirate eye patch (I kept expecting a parrot). And there's something just not right about Dembi.
These traits are metaphors for the deleterious effects of slavery on individuals and societies, or something.
Fear is another theme, as in the fear driving Wallace's characters apart, and fear of contagion when De Woolfe threw the helpless woman into the sea. Perhaps the fear of whites as rumors spread of slave uprisings in the Caribbean.
By intermission the whole thing had taken on a decidedly soap opera-ish cast. But it seemed to have a spine on which to hang its various trappings. The spine, I thought, was Adjua's quest for justice.
But after intermission it turns out that Wallace has hit the fast forward, and we are in a different time, and since to reveal Adjua's fate would be a spoiler, let's just say she's in no shape to seek justice. And once the potboiler escape-from-America plot is abandoned for presumably deeper matters, things grow as murky as New England maritime fog.
The reveal of the identity of a long-lost relative is a familiar meme from novels of the play's time, and we see this one coming. We also see coming from the time it's a speck on the sea's horizon the answer to a question of parentage. What we don't see is where whatever momentum the play had earlier is now heading.
Nor do we forsee in the midst of all this the coming of the corpse-like ghost of the English Romantic poet William Blake, who for some reason turns up on a gibbet on the docks of Bristol with his guts spilling out and engages in a long, poetic discourse about, well, lots of stuff that seems terribly important. By this time we are drifting very far from the shore.
There is no doubt that Wallace, who lives in Kentucky and in nothern England and is a winner of the Horton Foote Prize for most promising new American play and a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant), intends to trace some of the horiffic effects of slavery on disparate cultures and individuals over time.
And one doesn't doubt the commitment to the play of Kwei-Armah (who in his day job is the artistic director of Centerstage in Baltimore, Md.), whose great-great-great grandfather came from Ghana and was sold into slavery in the Caribbean.
But despite some nice flourishes here and there, "The Liquid Plain" fails to arrange itself into anything recognizable as compelling theater. The plot jumps the shark sometime around intermission, and we're lost at sea. Once that happens the actors seem to be foundering.
The overall impression is that of a play still in need of being workshopped.
Bill Varble writes about arts and entertainment for the Mail Tribune. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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It's said that if the history play is a type of drama, its only successful practitioner was William Shakespeare. "The Liquid Plain," a baffling new play by the award-winning playwright Naomi Wallace, will do nothing to challenge that assertion.


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"The 'fiscal cliff' will be a big deal for the stock market if it's not avoided," says Russ Koesterich, global chief investment strategist for BlackRock's iShares group. "But it's probably not such a big deal for many dividend-yielding stocks."
NEW YORK — If Washington allows tax cuts to expire at the end of the year, taxes on dividends will nearly triple for the highest-paid Americans. That's led some experts to warn of a looming collapse for popular dividend-paying stocks. When Uncle Sam charges a higher tax on something, they reason, it drives people away.
But judging by the country's previous experience taxing dividends, that may not be how things play out.
"Historically, big changes in taxes just have no effect on dividend stocks," says James Morrow, a fund manager at Fidelity Investments. "And our view is that you should lean on history."
Recent studies have examined how companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index have fared over the past half-century when taxes on dividends change. They found dividend-paying stocks performing in seemingly unpredictable ways.
Between 1990 and 1993, for example, when dividend taxes climbed to a maximum of 39.6 percent from a maximum of 28 percent, dividend-paying stocks outperformed the broader market.
"The 'fiscal cliff' will be a big deal for the stock market if it's not avoided," says Russ Koesterich, global chief investment strategist for BlackRock's iShares group. "But it's probably not such a big deal for many dividend-yielding stocks."
Tax increases and government spending cuts known collectively as the "fiscal cliff" are set to take effect Jan. 1 unless Congress and President Barack Obama reach a deal first.
Obama wants to keep the tax cuts in place, including the 15 percent dividend rate, for people making less than $200,000. Republicans want to keep the tax cuts for everyone, including the 15 percent dividend rate, but have not taken a hard line on the dividend rate publicly.
Dividend payments were taxed like everyday income, meaning taxed by increasing brackets, until 2003, when Congress passed sweeping tax cuts backed by President George W. Bush.
The 2003 cuts reduced the tax on most dividends to 15 percent.
If Obama and Congress can't make a deal, and perhaps even if they can, dividends will be taxed like everyday income again. And the top marginal income tax rate will climb back to 39.6 percent from 35 percent, where it has stood since 2003.
The country's top earners will be taxed an additional 3.8 percent on dividends to pay for the president's health care overhaul, meaning the wealthy will pay 43.4 percent on dividends — almost triple the tax they pay today.
For millions of Americans, a dividend tax increase won't matter. Stocks in most individual retirement accounts and 401(k)s will be unaffected until years from now, when the account holders cash them in.
Fidelity Investments has estimated two years ago that a third of U.S. stocks are held in tax-deferred accounts IRAs and 401(k)s. Another 13 percent are held by foreigners, who don't pay U.S. dividend taxes.
It's tricky to make any historical comparisons because nothing like this has happened before. There has never been such a large increase on dividend taxes, partly because they have generally gone down.
The closest historical parallel is probably the early 1990s, says David McGonigle, a fund manager at Copeland Capital Management. The top income-tax rate rose from 28 percent to 31 percent in 1991, then climbed to 39.6 percent in 1993.
So did higher taxes prompt investors to ditch dividend stocks? Not at all. Between 1990 and 1993, dividend-paying stocks returned an average of 12 percent a year. The S&P 500 returned an average of 10.7 percent.
Armed with these studies, some investors are arguing that dividend-paying stocks, especially those backed by large, cash-rich companies, will remain a relatively safe bet if Congress and Obama can't make a deal.
Without an agreement, stocks of all kinds are likely to fall. Since voters returned Obama and a divided Congress to power Nov. 6, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 700 points, more than 5 percent.
But dividend-paying companies, typically cash-rich and dependably able to churn out profits, could hold up better than others, even as taxes on them climb.
A group at Fidelity Investments took another angle and looked at dividend-paying stocks in the year before and after Congress approved the Bush tax cuts in May 2003.
If lower tax rates made stocks more appealing, they figured companies that raised their dividends would see their stock prices surge.
It turned out that the most generous companies, the top fifth in terms of dividend yield, fared the worst over the two years, while stingy stocks did well. Companies weren't being rewarded for paying dividends, and they scaled back.
Companies in the S&P 500 paid 27 percent of earnings to investors in dividends last year, according to research from Goldman Sachs. Over the past 50 years, the payout ratio has rarely dropped below 40 percent.
If history is any guide, companies may decide to protect investors from higher taxes by rewarding them with higher dividends, according to a Goldman Sachs report.
In 1960, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, rich Americans paid a tax on dividends as high as 91 percent because that was the top marginal income tax rate. And companies were much more generous. They paid 64 percent of earnings in dividends.
Even assuming dividend taxes rise, dividend-paying stocks will still be an attractive alternative to some other investments.
For example, 10-year Treasurys yield about 1.6 percent. That's substantially below the average 2.6 percent yield of dividend-paying companies in the S&P 500. Both would be taxed as ordinary income.
Koesterich, from BlackRock, says companies have plenty of room to raise dividends to compensate investors for the bigger cut they're handing to Uncle Sam.
"They certainly have the ability," Koesterich says. "And they know a substantial portion of people are buying their stock because of the yield."


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I've decided to take another crack at Homer now that I have a bit of free time but I want it to be more succesful this time around. I've got a decent grounding in the grammar, so I'm okay with (eventually) figuring out what a sentence means. My big problem was getting a sense for the rhythm of the poetry (basically, I can't tell why it is poetry) and it's something I'd really like to understand so I was hoping someone here had some tips for me on how to get this feeling for the metre.
I'm okay with lines where all heavy syllables are caused by long vowels, and I think my main problem is with figuring out how a closed syllable (especially one that ends in a stop) can be heavy. Is it simply convention and I just have to adjust my thinking, or is there a phonetic basis for all this?
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After His Nobel Prize, Mo Yan's Books Should Win Wider Audience
Chinese writer Mo Yan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday. If past recent winners are any indication, Mo Yan's previously published books will now find plenty of new readers.
In the year since Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature, his 2006 book, "The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems," sold about 17,000 copies in the U.S. in all formats. Until the prize was announced, the book had sold about 3,000 copies.
"It's a really great performance for a book of poetry," said Jeffrey Yang, an editor at New Directions Publishing Co. who acquired the book.


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The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company.
Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research In Motion Ltd., will reveal the first phone with the new BlackBerry 10 system in New York on Wednesday. It will come with a marketing campaign that includes a Super Bowl ad. Repeated delays have left the once-pioneering BlackBerry an afterthought in the shadow of Apple's trend-setting iPhone and Google's Android-driven devices.
Now there's some optimism. Previews of the software have gotten favorable reviews on blogs. Financial analysts are starting to see some slight room for a comeback. RIM's stock has nearly tripled to about $16.30 from a nine-year low in September, though it's still nearly 90 percent below its 2008 peak of $147.
Most analysts consider a BlackBerry 10 success to be crucial for the company's long-term viability.
"The old models are becoming obsolete quickly," BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis said. "There is still a big user base but it's going to rotate off. The question is: Where do they rotate to?"
The BlackBerry, pioneered in 1999, has been the dominant smartphone for on-the-go business people. Corporate information-technology managers like the phones because they're relatively secure and easy to manage.
The BlackBerry has also crossed over to consumers. President Barack Obama couldn't bear to part with it when he took office. Oprah Winfrey declared it one of her "favorite things." People got so addicted that the device was nicknamed "the CrackBerry."
But when the iPhone came out in 2007, it showed that phones can do much more than email and phone calls. They can play games, music and movies. Android came along to offer even more choices. Though IT managers still love BlackBerrys, employees were bringing their own devices to the workplace — a trend Heins acknowledged RIM was slow to adapt to.
Suddenly, the BlackBerry looked ancient.
Even as BlackBerry sales continued to grow in many parts of the world, many BlackBerry users in North America switched to iPhones and Android devices. BlackBerry's worldwide subscriber based peaked at 80 million in the quarter that ended Sept. 1, before dropping to 79 million in the most-recent quarter. In the U.S., according to research firm IDC, shipments of BlackBerry phones plummeted from 46 percent of the market in 2008 to 2 percent in 2012.
RIM promised a new system to catch up, using technology it got through its 2010 purchase of QNX Software Systems. RIM initially said BlackBerry 10 would come by early 2012, but then the company changed that to late 2012. A few months later, that date was pushed further, to early 2013, missing the lucrative holiday season. The holdup helped wipe out more than $70 billion in shareholder wealth and 5,000 jobs.
Although executives have been providing a glimpse at some of BlackBerry 10's new features for months, Heins will finally showcase a complete system at Wednesday's event. Devices will go on sale soon after that.
RIM redesigned the system to embrace the multimedia, apps and touch-screen experience prevalent today.
"Historically there have been areas that have not been our strongest points," Rick Costanzo, RIM's executive vice president of global sales, said in an interview. "Not only have we caught up, but we may even be better than some of the competition now."
Costanzo said "no one else can touch" what RIM's new system offers.
The new operating system promises better multitasking than either the iPhone or Android. Simply swipe a finger across the phone's display screen to switch to another program.
All emails and notifications from such applications as Twitter and Facebook go to the BlackBerry Hub, a nerve center accessible with a finger swipe even if you have another application open. One can peek into it and open an email, or return to the previous application without opening the email.
"You are not going in and out of applications; you're flowing through applications with one simple gesture of your finger," Costanzo said. "You can leave applications running. You can effortlessly flow between them. So that's completely unique to us."
That said, multitasking will be limited and won't allow for extensive use of apps side by side, as is typically permitted on traditional computers. If you're watching a video, it will still run while you check for email. But it will pause if you decide to open an email and resume when you are done.
The BlackBerry's touch-screen keyboard promises to learn a user's writing style and suggest words and phrases to complete, going beyond typo corrections offered by rivals. See the one you want, and flick it up to the message area. Costanzo said that "BlackBerry offers the best keyboard, period."
Gus Papageorgiou, a Scotiabank financial analyst who has tried it out, agreed with that assessment and said the keyboard even learns and adjusts to your thumb placements.
The first BlackBerry 10 phone will have only a touch screen. RIM has said it will release a version with a physical keyboard soon after that. That's an area RIM has excelled at, and it's one reason many BlackBerry users have remained loyal despite temptations to switch.
Another distinguishing feature will be the BlackBerry Balance, which allows two personas on the same device. Businesses can keep their data secure without forcing employees to get a second device for personal use.


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Wii U gains Amazon Instant Video app
Amazon instant Video has arrived on the Wii U; the free app can be found on the Home screen or on the eShop. The service offers 140,000 movies and TV episodes available to purchase or rent as well as 30,000 free items for Amazon Prime subscribers. The Game Pad supports both navigation and playback; get on board here.
Nintendo wasn't kidding about quickly ramping up the Wii U's US video service. Although we don't yet have the promised TVii suite, the console launched with Netflix (now with less broken password support) and YouTube, and has already added Hulu Plus.