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Human-derived ventral mesencephalic dopaminergic grafts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease
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Objective: Regenerative therapy in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) by transplantation of ventral mesencephalic (VM) dopaminergic grafts is a highly promising prospect for future clinical treatment.
The aim of this study was to compare different transplantation strategies and grafting locations. Functional recovery and graft survival of human-derived VM grafts were evaluated after transplantation into the nigra or the striatum in a rat model of PD; the use of single cell suspensions or tissue pieces, and glass capillary or metal cannula were compared.
Methods: In a rat model of PD unilateral injections of 6-OHDA into the medial forebrain bundle (MFB) lead to a depletion of dopamine (DA) within the relevant striatum. 4 weeks after the lesion, fetal (6–12 weeks) human VM cell suspensions were transplanted using different techniques and different target locations: groups 1 and 2 received a single cell suspension transplanted via glass capillary into the nigra and into the striatum respectively by dividing one VM in two. Groups 3 and 4 were transplanted by metal cannula into the striatum and received small tissue pieces and single cell suspension respectively by dividing the VM. Each animal received a total of 4x105 cells. Drug-induced rotation tests were performed 3, 6, 10, and 14 weeks after transplantation. Immunosuppression was effected by daily injections of cyclosporine.
Results: All groups transplanted into the striatum showed a significant reduction in the amphetamine-induced rotation test after 10 and 14 weeks, whereas no changes were seen in group 1. Groups 1, 2, and 3 showed a significant reduction in the apomorphine-induced rotation test after 6 weeks, whereas group 4 only showed a tendency towards reduction.
The survival of TH+ cells was highest in groups 1 and 3 with a mean of 1100 cells. In groups 2 and 4, 600 and 800 cells survived, respectively.
Conclusions: Human VM cells transplanted into the 6-OHDA rat model survived well for up to 14 weeks. The reduction in the amphetamine-induced rotation tests in all groups transplanted into the striatum demonstrates a functional recovery, whereas human grafts in the nigra do not seem to increase the disposable dopamine in the striatum. The transplantation of tissue pieces by metal cannula seems to be more favorable when compared to the transplantation of a single cell suspension by cannula, which is demonstrated by a stronger reduction in the rotation tests and better cell survival. Taken together, our study provides useful and important information for further methodological refinements of neural transplantation for PD.


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Hearing the rave reviews my friends shared with me about past performances, JERSEY BOYS had performed across America since 2005, I felt somewhat deprived until the show returned to Chicago for a nine-week run, until June 3. And now, when it was my turn to finally see the show, when the orchestra began a medley of a few of their multi-million dollar hit songs, I was in the mood to exclaim "Oh What a Night" since this was the most enjoyable Broadway in Chicago experience I have had recently.
This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the Jersey tracks, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, turned life around to become one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all times. The excellent quartet and the talented ensemble sang and danced their hearts out at the Bank of America Theatre at 18 West Monroe Street.
Of course, their success wasn't all smooth sailing. Before and during their careers, there were bouts of mob friendships, loansharking and prison (Tommy Devito, played brilliantly by John Gardiner) plus band breakups and bumpy roads to stardom. Their devotion to reaching musical stardom and the scores of musical hits that Bob Gaudio (the affable Preston Truman Boyd) wrote with producer/lyricist, Bob Crewe, eventually led them to induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
We wholeheartedly loved Franki Valli, Joseph Leo Bwarie, who sang the lead brilliantly with so many high notes that gave us our own falsetto "highs" throughout the performance. He has toured with the show
for nearly four years in over 40 cities, and he puts his 'all' into every show he does.
Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) is terrific as an affable, faithful but sometimes clueless member of the group who doesn't make waves but sides with DeVito when the going gets tough and rough. He eventually leaves the group and is also the only member of the group to pass on, a few years ago
This nostalgic journey down rock and roll memory lane contains the hits that resonate with a mixed audience of young, middle-aged and older men and women, who adored it based on the applause and standing ovations. It's hard to choose a favorite from the 33 songs in the show (including Oh, What a Night; Sherry; Big Girls Don't Cry; Let's Hang On (To What We've Got); Dawn; Can't Take My Eyes Off You, for starters).
Accolades go to director Des McAnuff, choreographer Sergio Trujillo, set designer Klara Zieglerova, lighting designer Howell Binkley, Jess Goldstein's costumes, sound designer Steve Canyon Kennedy, and projection designer Michael Clark.
Of course, the book created by Tony Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice is the ultimate reason this storyline vividly captures The Four Seasons' ups and downs with humor, heavy dramatic scenes, and engrossing narration by each of the singers who describe his take on what really happened
during their careers.
For a matinee or evening of sheer joy and happiness, definitely see Jersey Boys. Tickets are available at all Broadway in Chicago Box Offices (www.BroadwayinChicago.com)or www.JerseyBoysTour.com and all Ticketmaster locations. The Broadway in Chicago Ticket Line can be reached
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Nokia (NOK) are down 6 cents, or 1.8%, at $3.62, perhaps pressured in part by leaked data from research firm Strategy Analytics that mentioned Nokia saw its share of China's smartphone market drop last year from first place to seventh place.
However, the shares are perhaps also under pressure by a note to clients today from Goldman Sachs's Rick Schafer, who reiterated a Sell rating and a €2.80 price target on the ordinary shares traded in Helsinki, after cutting his estimates for the company's smartphone sales, citing what he believes is overwhelming competition from Samsung Electronics (005930KS) and Apple (AAPL).
Schafer cut his 2013 revenue estimate by 4% to €27.6 billion, and cut his EPS estimate to €0.03 per share from €0.07, after trimming his smartphone sales volume by 4% for this year, to 29 million units. He also cut estimates for 2014 and 2015 by similar amounts.
Writes Schafer, recent models of the "Lumia" smartphone running Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system aren't sufficiently feature-rich, and the company may still face Microsoft's own phone hardware as a competitor:
(1) The launch of Lumia 720/520 smartphones does bring Nokia's Win Phone products to lower prices, but features remain relatively undifferentiated, in our view. Nokia continues to lack a flagship product that can challenge Samsung or Apple. (2) Our recent mobile survey results (Clash of the Titans Vol. 2, February 27, 2013) are supportive of our conservative investment thesis, as MSFT was a relative laggard in terms of retention (vs. Android and Apple's iOS) as only around 41% of Win Phone owners chose to buy another Win-based device over the last six months. Notably, our latest survey findings suggest that price consideration is less of a reason to "defect" than what we concluded in our prior survey, making it incrementally harder for Nokia to attempt to capture share with lower ASPs. (3) MSFT's ability to re- establish itself as a meaningful participant in the consumer compute landscape continues to be in question, in our view, and on top of that Nokia remains only one of many credible providers operating Win Phone OS. Nokia's 20-F additionally acted as a reminder that MSFT may focus more on their own devices, potentially at the expense of other manufacturers that operate on the Win Phone platform.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana tight end Ted Bolser and receiver Shane Wynn understand that if things are going to change for the Hoosiers, it starts at practice.
They need to start with more energy, pay more attention to details and need to apply the same attitude after wins and losses. They know it's the only way they're going to start winning games consistently in the Big Ten.
"It's something we need to work on," Bolser said Monday. "Beating Penn State was great. But we need to come out and practice well, by doing the things we need to do to win. I didn't think we practiced as well last week."
The result was a 42-28 loss at Michigan State.
Clearly, the Hoosiers (3-3, 1-1) have figured out what it takes to be competitive in this rugged conference.
At the midway point of the season, Indiana is one win away from matching last season's victory total, two wins away from doubling coach Kevin Wilson's victory total from his first two seasons in Bloomington and three wins away from being bowl eligible for the first time since 2007 and only the second time since 1995.
But Indiana fans still see some of the same old problems.
While the offense continues to play fast and is scoring 42 points per game, the defense is allowing an alarming 216.5 yards rushing and an audacious 32.8 points.
On Saturday, Michigan State exploited Indiana's weaknesses by running 47 times for 238 yards, 5.1 per carry, and four scores. Defensive coordinator Doug Mallory explained many of the problems stemmed from 18 missed tackles and giving up 130 yards rushing on just three carries.
"You get a breakdown here or there and those are the things we continue to harp on and try to correct," Mallory said.
If the Hoosiers have a repeat this weekend against angry Michigan, it could be even worse.
The Wolverines (5-1, 1-1) have two runners, Devin Gardner and Fitzgerald Toussaint, ranked in the league's top 10 and are averaging 173.2 yards on the ground. They're also coming off a four-overtime loss on the road.
Indiana has lost 17 straight to Michigan, dating to 1987, and hasn't won in Ann Arbor since 1967 — the Hoosiers' Rose Bowl season.
The Hoosiers don't care about those numbers. They opened October by snapping a 16-game losing streak to Penn State, then fell to 2-16 since 1970 at Michigan State this weekend.
But they haven't won, or lost, back-to-back games this season and haven't won more than two straight since the start of the 2010 season.
The Hoosiers interpretation is simple.
"It's kind of frustrating," Wynn said. "It's telling you that you're not as good as you thought you were."
Wilson, usually the toughest critic in the Indiana locker room, doesn't see it quite the same way.
Though he has repeatedly challenged his team to handle success better, Wilson tempered his practice critique. Yes, he noted, that the Hoosiers need to improve their practice habits to avoid "sloppy" play on game day, however, he did not take issue with Indiana's overall performances as practice.
"I thought last week was pretty good, not as good as the week before," he acknowledged. "I thought we had a pretty good week against Missouri. I don't think we practiced the same way against Navy, I thought we were just a little giddy after scoring all those points (73 against Indiana State), but overall it's been pretty good all year."
Wilson could change the equation by mixing things up at quarterback as he has done the last three weeks, too.
Nate Sudfeld went 14 of 30 for 137 yards at Michigan State, while Tre Roberson finished 11 of 17 for 122 yards with two TDs and one interception after running for two touchdowns and a 2-point conversion in the win over Penn State.
Wilson, of course, didn't say how he would use the athletic Roberson and Sudfeld, the pocket passer, this week, forcing Michigan to game plan for both.
But this week, the rest of the Hoosiers will simply focus on trying to getting things right in practice.
"You can't win one and then lose one and then win one again," Wynn said. "We've just got to practice the same way we did before (Penn State)."


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March 2, 2012 > Dems seek state-run pensions for private workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP), Feb 23 - Two leading California Democrats introduced legislation Thursday that attempts to provide retirement savings for private-sector workers of modest means, creating a government-run program for private-sector workers whose employers do not offer pensions or 401(k) plans.They said it could help an estimated 6.7 million California workers.Sen. Kevin de Leon and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg introduced SB1234, which would require employers with five or more workers to enroll them into what they have termed a ``personal pension program'' to be run by a state board. Their idea is to get small-business employees and hospitality workers who don't make much money to save more for their retirement.``We must take action on the impending retirement tsunami,'' de Leon, of Los Angeles, said during a news conference in front of the state Treasurer's Office. ``We cannot afford the rampant poverty and devastation that awaits us if we continue on our present course.''The lawmakers said they believed their program would be the first in which a state government established a retirement program for workers in the private sector. As a program with little or no precedent, several issues remain unsettled, such as whether California taxpayers would ever be on the hook if future investment returns failed to meet projections.In Michigan, the state's Municipal Employees Retirement System began offering retirement services to Indian gaming tribes in 2009 to manage benefits for tribal government employees. According to a draft, SB1234 would establish the Golden State Retirement Savings Trust, which would be administered by a six-member board, including the state treasurer, controller, director of finance and an appointment each by the governor, Senate and Assembly. Private-sector workers would automatically have 3 percent of their earnings set aside in the trust, unless they opted out.Unlike in an individual IRA or 401(k) account, their benefits - defined as their contributions plus earnings - would be guaranteed when they retire. The draft language does not specify how the earnings would be guaranteed. The board would then contract with a fund administrator, such as the California State Public Employees Retirement System, the state's main pension fund. Republican lawmakers warned that taxpayers or employers could wind up on the hook to cover any shortfalls if the government starts guaranteeing benefits to private-sector employees. Under proposed legislation, an employer who fails to enroll in the program or offer their own pension plan would be fined $1,000 per employee after a 90-day grace period.``Before we start discussing creating a new pension system, California needs to focus on the current pension crisis,'' said Sen. Mimi Walters, R-Lake Forest, vice chairwoman of the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.She noted the Democrats' proposal comes four months after Gov. Jerry Brown put out sweeping reforms to public employee pensions. The largest of those funds, CalPERS, is underfunded by at least $75 billion.Unlike most retirement plans for private-sector workers, public employees receive a guaranteed pension for life that is not subject to the ups and downs of the stock market. CalPERS, for example, has the ability to impose higher contributions on state and local governments without the Legislature's permission.Additionally, some public employee groups contribute nothing or only modest amounts to their pensions.Walters dismissed the legislation as a way for Democrats to deflect attention from the problems with public pensions. Public employee unions are fighting against Brown's 12-point reform package and are key campaign supporters of Democrats.De Leon, whose previous efforts to open CalPERS up to private-sector employers have failed, said he believed California taxpayers would not be burdened by his private pension program. He said the board would be expected to invest conservatively, offering low earnings tied to long-term treasury rates.``This is a minimal risk,'' de Leon said.Steinberg, the Senate's leading Democrat, said the majority party is not running away from reforming public pensions.``The challenge is not how we settle for an insufficient level of retirement for all Californians, whether they be public or private employees,'' he said. ``The question is how do we bring everybody up to a responsible decent standard of living during their retirement years.''Ilana Boivie, director of programs at the National Institute on Retirement Security, a not-for-profit organization in Washington, D.C., funded in part by public pension systems, said half of private-sector workers offer no retirement program.One small business owner said it was a good idea.Andrew Blaskovich, owner of Drewski's Hot Rod Kitchen, a mobile food truck business in Sacramento, said most of his 25 employees make $2,500 to $3,000 a month and he can't afford to provide them retirement benefits. ``This gives them an easier opportunity to put away money for the future,'' he said during the press conference. The draft bill said employers would not be forced to contribute to the retirement plans, but a summary of the legislation from de Leon's office leaves open the possibility for ``companion legislation that requires employers to assist their employees in saving for retirement.''


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A small town in Michigan, which happens to be the true hometown of Michael Moore; despite his claims that he is from Flint. In reality Flint Michigan is roughly as far away from Davidson as South Central is from Beverly Hills.
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A small college town north of Charlotte North Carolina. It is patrolled by cops who have eaten quite a few too many donuts in their careers, yet will pull you for 5 over or passing on the right. The people are nice enough to you unless you are under 35. Great place to start a family!
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Calling someone a davidson is another way of saying someone is a lost cause and is a waste of space. Davidson's often crawl deep into the anus of unusually gargantuan chimpanzees and suckle the nutritious juice from monkey dangle berries.
My technology teacher is a davidson, his front door resembles the anus of a monkey.
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Muscogee Superior Court Judge John Allen ruled today that a warrant authorizing police to search Michael Curry's Dalton, Ga., home in 2008 was valid, but that doesn't mean everything seized in the search will be admitted into evidence in the accused bush-ax killer's murder trial next week.
The warrant was based on information Curry's then-estranged wife Susan provided to Columbus cold-case investigator Randy Long, who was looking for a letter Curry's mother Joyce wrote him saying that when she died, only one other person would know what happened to Curry's wife and children.
On Aug. 29, 1985, Curry's pregnant wife Ann, 4-year-old daughter Erika and 20-month-old son Ryan were hacked to death with a bush ax in the family's 5433 Rockhurst Drive home, off Macon Road in east Columbus. Charged with three counts of murder in their slayings, Curry goes on trial Monday.
After the killings, Curry moved from Columbus to other cities before finally settling in Dalton, where he went to work for the school district. Cold-case investigators took an interest in his then-wife Susan upon learning she had been arrested for drunkenly assaulting Curry in May 2008. Checking Curry's 911 call, they heard her in the background say, "Why don't you tell them how your kids got killed?"
Curry's defense team challenged the search, saying the warrant did not specify what authorities were looking for and had no factual basis. The information Susan Curry gave Long was stale, because she had not seen Joyce Curry's letter in months, and later told detectives it had been destroyed, said defense attorney Robin King.
Those conducting the search found other letters and documents they seized, including papers related to three insurance policies that paid Curry following the homicides of his wife and kids. The defense and prosecution were to argue today over what's admissible in court and what's not.
Allen had wanted those arguments settled today, and lectured attorneys when they could not specify what they wanted."I'm moving this case," the judge declared, of the documents later adding, "We are not going to fight this battle in trial."
Saying he would be out of town for two days, he ordered the lawyers to have a list of evidence ready for him Saturday morning.
Another question was whether an ex-girlfriend of Curry's could testify that he held a staple gun to her head and so badly frightened her she jumped through a window to escape. Allen said she could testify and be cross-examined on that particular incident, but not on any general behavior Curry exhibited if she could not document its time and place.
Allen instructed the prosecution to cover that incident in testimony, and not cite it in opening arguments. Anything attorneys say to the jury without first establishing facts could result in a mistrial, Allen warned, again declaring, "This case is going to move."
The trial is going to be moved, too — from Allen's courtroom on the Columbus Government Center's seventh floor to the ninth-floor courtroom Judge Bobby Peters usually uses.
The larger ninth-floor courtroom has seating for 145 spectators, adjacent chambers where witnesses can be sequestered, and space in the rear for photographers.
Jury selection will begin Monday at 9 a.m., said Allen, who plans to question jurors first himself, to ask whether they've been exposed to so much pre-trial publicity that they can't fairly judge Curry's guilt or innocence.


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For frequent fliers, the perks that come with elite status often outweigh miles.
As airline competition heats up, many airlines are offering elite customers a way to switch carriers and take their silver, gold, platinum or diamond status with them.
(Daily News File Photo/Lance Murphey)
In the fiercely competitive airline industry, carriers are increasingly relying on "status matches" that go far beyond mileage points to woo top customers.
While mileage perks can be hard to come by and difficult to redeem, other perks like access to complimentary seat upgrades, waived baggage fees, special phone lines to airline agents, airport clubs, priority boarding, being at the top of standby and rebooking lists, and free room upgrades can often make or break an elite flier's experience with an airline.
As competition has heated up, many airlines across the industry are offering elite customers a way to switch carriers and take their silver, gold, platinum or diamond status with them, rather than flying thousands of miles in a year.
After Delta Air Lines Inc.'s June announcement that it will drastically cut its flight offerings in and out of Memphis International Airport, some local customers with elite status may be casting a wandering eye on other airlines.
Airlines that provide flight service to Memphis International – like United Airlines, American Airlines, US Airways and Delta Air Lines – allow a customer to send one airline a recent statement showing his or her top status on a rival airline and the carrier will often match it and let the customer keep the status permanently if the traveler hits certain mileage goals within a set period of time.
Industry experts say status matches allow airlines to court the best customers, while offering clients an out when they grow disgruntled with their preferred airline carrier.
While some airlines like Virgin America advertise status matches blatantly on their websites, others do it more covertly. Virgin's program allows a customer with elite status on United Airlines, American Airlines or Southwest Airlines to switch to the carrier's Elevate Silver or Gold status without losing benefits at other airlines. The airline's priority perks include free Wi-Fi, drinks on demand and nonstop entertainment, according to the company's website.
While Southwest Airlines has announced it is entering the Memphis market Nov. 3, it might not be as easy for elite Delta clients to switch to Southwest. Like most air carriers, Southwest carefully measures local enrollment in its frequent flier program, Rapid Rewards, as one gauge of local demand, but sites that allow frequent fliers to carefully monitor status match programs like FlyerTalk.com or InsideFlyer.com say the airline generally doesn't grant status matches.
Other airlines like American try to protect longstanding status members who earned their status the old-fashioned way by withholding some benefits from new status-match customers until they meet certain requirements within a 90-day trial period, an airline representative told the Wall Street Journal in June. The paper reported the airline sends status-match invitations to customers who have American accounts, but fly more with rival airlines. Customers with the most miles, generally receive the best offers.
United is another airline that openly advertises its status match program online. United is offering top-tier fliers with elite status on other airlines comparable status in its MileagePlus program through Aug. 31. United allows status match customers to upgrade for 90 days, but to extend premier status, fliers will need to earn a specific amount of qualifying miles in the 90-day window.
Soaring gas prices have led mainstream carriers like Delta to eliminate smaller hubs like Memphis and to route more flight traffic through larger hubs like Atlanta using larger planes. Other airlines like American and US Airways have sought relief from high gas prices by seeking merger partners.
Earlier this month, shareholders approved the two airlines' plans to merge, clearing one more obstacle to a deal that could create the world's biggest airline. While the companies expect to complete the merger by September, antitrust regulators still have to sign off on the deal.
These constantly shifting dynamics within the industry could lead to more customers seeking status matches down the road. The possible American Airlines-US Airways merger highlights new possibilities for elite customers. US Airways is a member of Star Alliance, but the combined carrier would be a member of Oneworld Alliance. The merged airline – if it goes through – is likely to court Star Alliance clients, as well as those with other airlines.
In Memphis, there still isn't a clear path for Delta elite status passengers seeking other preferred carriers. While Delta is drastically scaling back its flight offerings, no other airline has stepped up to fill its shoes in the meantime.
That leaves many local customers in a conundrum: stick with Delta despite displeasure at the recent flight cuts, or switch to another carrier with less frequent service and fewer direct flights.
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SAN FRANCISCO — For all the success the biotechnology industry enjoyed in 2013 — including record-breaking share gains — company leaders and investors who attended this week's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference were frequently reminded of a blunt reality: Making life-extending drugs is a high-risk enterprise.
Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. chief executive Harvey J. Berger knows it firsthand. While other captains of biotech at the conference boasted about their stock prices, the best news he could offer was that his Cambridge company is relaunching the leukemia drug it had to pull off the market last fall amid safety concerns.
The problems with the drug, called Iclusig, cost Ariad more than $2.5 billion in market value and forced it to put 160 employees out of work.
"Yes, 2013 was sort of a wild ride at the end," Berger conceded in a presentation to investors.
Ariad's experience underscores what is sometimes underplayed in the heady world of biotechnology: If you want to pursue big wins by developing cutting-edge drugs, you have to accept the chance of spectacular failures. And as researchers try to conquer ever more complicated and elusive diseases, the risk of falling short rises along with the degree of difficulty.
Massachusetts drug makers — while increasingly the drivers of innovation — have not been exempt from these reversals of fortune.
Food and Drug Administration officials rebuffed Genzyme's application for approval of a much-anticipated multiple sclerosis therapy already on the market in Europe and Canada, faulting the design of the Cambridge company's clinical trials. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. disclosed that sales of its pioneering hepatitis C drug were falling faster than anticipated, prompting the company to shed 15 percent of its workforce on the eve of moving to a gleaming new headquarters and research center on the South Boston Waterfront.
Executives at Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Cambridge company that appeared on the verge of launching an important new kidney cancer drug at last year's J.P. Morgan conference, didn't even show up this year. The FDA turned thumbs down on the drug, also citing safety risks and clinical trial problems. The deflated biotech had to scrap the program and eliminate nearly two-thirds of its staff.
With the share prices of 81 biotechnology companies more than doubling last year, Aveo was among the worst performing publicly traded biotechnology stocks, losing 77.3 percent of its value, according to data compiled by Burrill & Co., a San Francisco health care financial firm. Other big losers included Affymax Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., which dropped 95.9 percent of its value in 2013; Bio Lab Naturals of Tampa, down 97 percent; and Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc. of East Brunswick Township, N.J., which lost 98.4 percent.
The risks — of FDA rejections, the loss of revenue to competing drugs, the refusal of health insurers to pay for new drugs and devices — have forced companies and investors to proceed more cautiously and devise new business strategies.
"Over the years, clinical trials have become more risky, partly because we're going after harder problems," said Alan Crane, general partner at Waltham venture capital firm Polaris Partners and a former chief executive at Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge. "The reality is that a reasonable percentage of [late-stage] drugs fail. When we look at companies, we're thinking about whether there's something in the science and the business model that can minimize risk."
Polaris, for instance, wants to invest in early-stage companies with "technology platforms" that can potentially generate multiple products. One such company that made a presentation at the J.P. Morgan conference was Visterra Inc., a Cambridge startup cofounded by MIT professor Ram Sasisekharan. Visterra makes a drug discovery tool that can identify which regions of a protein to target in pharmaceutical labs. That, in turn, makes it easier to pinpoint how to treat particular diseases.
"From a risk standpoint, this approach gives us more shots on goal," Crane said.
Managing risk is also important in timing, in how money is spent, and in deciding how much funding to extend to how many startups — as well as how many co-investors to bring in to share the risk. As some venture capital firms have exited the life sciences arena, wary of regulators and the long road from drug discovery to approval and sales, those that remain increasingly look to take their chances with big pharmaceutical companies and seek to align themselves with corporate "strategic investors" as potential partners.
Michael Ringel, a partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group who advises health care businesses, said the fear of a costly setback can make drug companies — particularly smaller ones relying on a single product — more risk averse than their financial backers, who can hedge their bets by investing in multiple startups.
"Management has all their eggs in one basket," Ringel said. "Their jobs and their stock are tied up in it. Investors often prefer companies to do riskier things than they are willing to do themselves."
Perhaps the riskiest thing the head of a company that has stumbled can do is to be anything but upbeat in discussing what happens next. That often means changing the subject.
Ariad's Berger, for instance, talked of plans "to rebuild the confidence in Iclusig" through clinical studies aimed at using it to treat a broader group of leukemia patients, as well as people suffering from other diseases.
Vertex chief executive Jeffrey M. Leiden told investors in San Francisco that his company will shift its focus from hepatitis C antivirals to a portfolio of treatments for the rare genetic disease cystic fibrosis — and, later, to drugs combating other illnesses.
And spending little time dwelling on the FDA's rebuff of his firm's MS medicine, Christopher A. Viehbacher — chief executive of Genzyme's parent company, Sanofi SA — earlier this week unveiled plans to buy a $700 million chunk of a smaller Cambridge company, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing a pipeline of drugs for rare diseases.
"There aren't many companies that are going to grow over the next few years," Viehbacher predicted. "Sanofi's going to be one."Robert Weisman can be reached at robert.weisman@globe .com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeRobW.


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Duke Wins At Hoops On Court, Spending Off CourtPosted by jstevrtc on July 2nd, 2010
In this age of shrinking cereal boxes and contracting newspapers — our local paper is now the size of a DVD box, it seems — we read with wide eyes the three-part series on expenditures in college athletics by AOL Fanhouse's Brett McMurphy, especially the third offering which detailed how much money Duke spends on men's basketball and how it compares to the rest of the college basketball world (there are links there to the first two in the series, as well). According to McMurphy's statistics, which come from the US Department of Education, Duke wasn't just the top spender on men's basketball during the 2008-09 season — they spent more money on men's hoops than 22 programs in BCS conferences spent on football. The men's basketball budget at Duke for that season totalled $13.87 million, with Marquette — which doesn't have a football program — coming next at $10.3 million. If there's some chance that you think that such spending doesn't necessarily translate to success on the court, consider that ten of the 12 biggest spenders on men's basketball have been to a Final Four since 2003. There's a wealth (pun intended) of great stuff in the entire series of articles, not just in the third part linked above; we could pore over those revenue, expenditure, and money-based win/loss tables at the end of each installment for hours, and we suggest you check out all three articles for yourself. As we read, though, we kept wondering about Duke's opponent in March's title game, the Butler Bulldogs. More on that in a second.
When people talk about spending disparities in sports, the consensus favorite example is to compare the New York Yankees' payroll to…well, anybody. According to The Biz of Baseball, at the start of the season, the Yanks had the highest payroll of any MLB team — no surprise there — with a total layout of $206,333,389. Even though most people assume it's the Royals, the team with the smallest payroll on Opening Day of 2010 was the Pittsburgh Pirates, who shell out $34,943,000. This results in a Yankees-to-Pirates spending ratio of just under 6-to-1.
According to Basketball State (which is a college basketball stat nerd's paradise), the exact expenditure for men's basketball at Duke for 2009 was $13,873,859. The expenses for Butler's men's basketball team totalled $1,729,754. This reveals a Duke-to-Butler expenditure ratio of slightly over 8-to-1. Understandably, the eyes go right to the amount that Duke spends, but we feel that 8-to-1 ratio is the real newsmaker. We're certainly not taking anything away from Duke's title or how deserving they were of it, but is there any sane person out there who would argue that Duke was eight times as skilled or deserving of that title than Butler? An 8-to-1 spending ratio is just a ridiculous figure, considering how close the Bulldogs were to winning the title last season, and it truly underscores the magnitude of how much they achieved. If you look at the charts from Mr. McMurphy's third article in his series, you'll notice that Butler doesn't even appear on the top 20 list in terms of men's hoops expenditures of non-BCS schools. In fact, not a single Horizon League team shows up there. "Cinderella" is a word that gets tossed around too much during NCAA Tournament time, but it certainly applies to Butler's run — and near-victory — in the championship game a few months ago.
So, the next time you hear someone talk about spending disparities in sports while making a big market-vs-small market argument, let them roll out their Yankees-Royals or (if they're particularly well-informed) Yankees-Pirates stats. You can then counter with the fact that, as wide as that gulf is, Duke's spending ratio over the team that gave them all they could handle in the championship game was 33% larger than the biggest ratio that the Yankees enjoy over anyone. In that light, Butler's exploits during the 2010 NCAA Tournament are even more remarkable than previously thought. Also makes you wonder what the Padres can do this year, since they're next-to-last in terms of MLB payroll and currently sit first in the NL West…


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Lampronycteris brachyotis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Lampronycteris brachyotis (Dobson, 1879)
Common Name(s):
Micronycteris brachyotis (Dobson, 1879)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Includes platyceps.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
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|Date Assessed:
|Ochoa, J., Lew, D., Sampaio, E., Lim, B., Peters, S., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Cuarón, A.D. & de Grammont, P.C.
|Medellín, R. & Schipper, J.
This species is listed as Least Concern. It is widespread but uncommon and local, is strongly associated with forest and sensitive to habitat disturbance. However, given the extent of its range, it is unlikely to be declining rapidly enough to qualify for inclusion in a threat category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Central, and South America. This species ranges from Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, through the Isthmus, across northern South America and south to Amazonian Brazil; also Trinidad (Reid, 1997). It is found in lowlands to 700 m altitude; most specimens have been caught below 150 m asl in Venezuela (Handley, 1976; Reid, 1997). In Brazil it reaches the SE part of the country (TAVARES pers. comm.).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Belize; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
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|This is a rare species throughout its range. Rather uncommon and local (Reid, 1997). Widely distributed but not common in Trinidad (Goodwin and Greenhall,1961). Locally common in dry forests in Costa Rica (Bernal Rodiguez and Pineda pers. comm.). Rare in Nicaragua (Medina pers. comm.)
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|It is strongly associated with moist evergreen and deciduous lowland habitats (Reid, 1997). This bat roosts in the hollow trunks of trees, caves, mines, and old buildings. Group size is usually small; a colony may contain up to ten individuals; although a sea cave in Veracruz, Mexico, contained about 300 individuals; one male may occur with nine females, suggesting a polygynous mating system (Medellin et al., 1985). Greatest activity occurs in the first 2 hours after sunset, with a second activity peak after midnight. Bonaccorso (1979) caught twice as many in subcanopy mist nets than in ground-level mist nets. About equal amounts of fruit and arthropods (spiders, beetles, ants, bugs, and flies) are eaten (Humphrey et al. 1983). Although occasionally caught in secondary forest and clearing, this species appears to be sensitive to habitat disturbance: the large group in Veracruz disappeared as the surrounding forest was cut and burned (Medellin et al. 1985). Births usually coincide with the onset of rainy season, and a second pregnancy may follow later in the year (Reid, 1997). Occurs in moist forest and gallery forests in lowlands. Omnivorous. (Ochoa pers. comm.).
|Major Threat(s):
|There are no major threats throughout its range. Habitat loss is a localised threat given its strong association with forests and apparent sensitivity to habitat disturbance.
|Conservation Actions:
|Reduce habitat loss and protect from disturbance. In Mexico is listed as threatened under NOM - 059 - SEMARNAT - 2001 (Arroyo-Cabrales pers. comm.).
|Ochoa, J., Lew, D., Sampaio, E., Lim, B., Peters, S., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Cuarón, A.D. & de Grammont, P.C. 2008. Lampronycteris brachyotis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T13376A3877215. . Downloaded on 22 May 2018.
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Hey Im going out to the mud run with one other soob anyone is invited if you cant make saturday I am planning a browns camp trip for next month so give me a few ideas of a good time to do it.
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St helens mud run on the 28th
Started by michael appel , Feb 27 2009 08:51 AM
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Posted 27 February 2009 - 08:51 AM
Posted 27 February 2009 - 12:59 PM
Just about anytime for TSF.
Thinking the lower trails are proly pretty clear of the snow.
Was up there with Greg last time we went to SL though and trails like Hogsback were snowed in pretty deep.
Thinking the lower trails are proly pretty clear of the snow.
Was up there with Greg last time we went to SL though and trails like Hogsback were snowed in pretty deep.
Posted 01 March 2009 - 01:23 PM
I thought you got banned!
We want photo/video
We want photo/video
Edited by RAugur33, 01 March 2009 - 01:44 PM.
Posted 02 March 2009 - 08:44 AM
putting on some tonight
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• What: "Metalocalypse": Dethklok featuring Machine Head, All That Remains and Black Dahlia Murder.
• When: 6 p.m. today, Dec. 6.
• Where: Track 29, 1400 Market St.
• Admission: $35.
• Phone: 521-2929.
• Venue website: www.track29.co.
Brendon Small -- vocals/guitar
Gene Hoglan -- drums
Mike Keneally -- guitar/backing vocals
Bryan Beller -- bass/backing vocals
Pete Griffin -- bass
It's not often a venue hosts a performance by a cartoon band, but tonight, Dethklok, the animated death-metal quintet from Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse," will take the stage at Track 29.
Technically, the band will "perform" a pre-animated show synched to music played by a live ensemble led by guitarist/vocalist Brendon Small, who created the show in 2006, writes its music and serves as its primary voice actor.
"This tour is something I don't get to do that often because I'm usually busy making a TV show," Small explained. "It's really fun to be able to put on a [concert] like this and have a budget for it and be able to animate an entire fun, ridiculous thing. It's like going on a stupid Disneyland ride -- but there's murder."
Small took time to answer questions about his hopes for the show when he created it, how metal fans have responded to it and what the audience can expect tonight.
Q Is the cartoon Dethklok the kind of band you would have listened to as a teenager?
A I think in terms of "Would I want to be doing that?" as opposed to "Would I follow that band around?" When I write about "Metalocalypse" ... I think about myself when I was that age and try to do something that would have caught my eye as a 15-year-old.
For example, I make sure that the guitar-playing is accurate in the animation. Also, when we put the show together, I wanted to make sure the humans were of human proportion so they could carry actual guitars in the show.
Q Do you worry that "Metalocalypse" parodying metal music has negatively affected the genre?
A I get very few negative remarks. The people who get upset about Dethklok and "Metalocalypse's" success are typically people who haven't had their success with their own thing, or they say "This is not true metal," even though I never said it was.
Honestly, what my goal is is to make music that I enjoy playing and listen to with this project, and that's what I've done. We take the music as seriously as possible when we're playing it. We have this gigantic cartoon that's playing with us on this huge LCD JumboTron, and it's completely synched up with the music we're playing. It's extremely satisfying to see the music and the video at the same time.
Q In "Metalocalypse," the members of Dethklok are portrayed as self-absorbed imbeciles. What kind of feedback have you received from metal musicians about that portrayal?
A I don't think anyone wants to see themselves as that character. I'll get people who are like, "I've got a guy like that in my band." I think everyone has a Murderface in their band somewhere. There is always that squeaky wheel who doesn't do anything for the band but hold them back and is a loudmouth who drives everyone insane.
Q "Dethalbum III" came out in late October. Is that what you've been playing at shows lately?
A It's a best of "Dethalbum I" and "Dethalbum II," and we have a bunch of stuff from the new record, too. We have four or five songs from the new record that we'll be playing.
CP: You graduated from Berklee School of Music. Did going there in any way prepare you for what you're doing now?
BS: You know, I think you learn a lot of cool tricks in music school. I didn't know what I was going to major in. I just started taking classes, and the classes that I cared about were either performance-oriented styles classes or composing classes - harmony classes and arranging classes, things like that.
Learning a bunch of tricks and understanding chords and inversions, that gives you a big bag of tricks when you have to write a lot of music in a short amount of time. That's what "Metalocalypse" is about, writing things very quickly and committing to them.
CP: Does it negatively affect the quality of the music you write to have to produce it on such a tight deadline? Is
BS: No, you know what? I think the best thing you can do for any kind of writer, for a comedy writer or theater writer or music writer, is to give them a deadline and restrictions. It's nice to have something like, 'OK, here's the deal. You've got to use one of these open strings that's really low, and that will be your key center. It's probably going to be in a minor key. There won't be any kind of major key, and if there is, it can't stay there too long. It can't be too uplifting; it needs to be dark and doomy." So what do you do with that? What can you do that's interesting and, hopefully, worth listening to with that?
CP: When did you first hear metal music? Who was it and what do you remember liking most about it?
BS: Most of what I think about when I put music together is the music I grew up listening to. Fortunately, before I got into metal, my parents had "A Night at the Opera," the Queen album. That, to me, was grandiose and big and epic and heavy. It still is. When I go back and listen to "The Prophet Song," those are some of the heaviest riffs I've heard in my life, and more importantly, it's melodic.
When I was 14 years old, I made up my mind that I needed to do some guitar work and become a guitarist because I liked the sound of it. A friend of mine up the street did play guitar and, in one afternoon, introduced me to everything I probably would need to know, from who King Diamond was to who Metallica was to who Slayer was. He also introduced me to some classic rock stuff. I didn't really know that much about Led Zeppelin, but he showed me all that stuff and Jethro Tull. On my own, I would go find other things I was interested in, singer/songwriter stuff like ELO and David Bowie and The Beatles and all that shit.
My buddy was also very into metal, so Metallica was a really big one for me. King Diamond, the way way he would weave stories into his songs was very exciting to me. I grew up seeing "Tommy" and The Who and all that stuff, so story writing and music all gathered in one place I thought was really cool.
CP: Looking back to that time, if Dethklok was a band, was it the kind of band you would have wanted to be a part of as a teenager?
BS: Umm ... I don't know. I have thought this way for a while, but I think in terms of "Would I want to be doing that?" as opposed to "Would I follow that band around?' I think it would be fun to be in Queen, you know? It's like when you see a movie, and you think, "Wouldn't it be fun to play with those actors and act with them?"
When I write about "Metalocalypse" now and how I write it, I think about myself when I was that age and try to do something that would have caught my eye as a 15 year old. I do a lot of stuff in the show that's specifically for me when as a kid discovering guitar.
For example, I make sure that the guitar playing is accurate in the animation. I'll have some kind of tricky guitar playing going on that I think would get me excited.
Also, when we put the show together, I wanted to make sure the humans were of human proportion so they could carry actual guitars in the show. I contacted Gibson and said, "I think the Explorer and the V's are some of the coolest rock guitars that ever existed, and I want to be able to use them. I want you guys to be part of the show." So I did.
I used a Fender Thunderbird bass and used real amps and all that stuff to make it as realistic for the metal heads and the kids who are excited about guitars. Seeing a real one is way more exciting than seeing a crappy one someone just drew.
I haven't seen anyone design a new guitar that's worth anything in the last maybe 20 years. They're all variations on a theme. The Strat is one really cool looking guitar, and the Les Paul is another really cool looking guitar, and then there's the (Flying) V and the Explorer, and that's it. I thought, "OK, I want these to look like real guitars."
By the way, we're having a whole bunch of people from the Gibson plant coming to that show.
CP: That's awesome.
BS: The cool thing about Nashville and Gibson is that over the years the relationship with Gibson has grown. We put out a Signature Series Dethklok guitar a couple of years ago - it's called the Thunderhorse Explorer - and it did incredibly well.
What I hoped to happen was to get people excited about the music. We could track the sales of guitars, and we also put out tablature books for all the music, and kids were buying it. When it premiered, it was the fourth most-purchased guitar tablature book between Van Halen and Led Zeppelin. It was really cool. We can say, "This is exciting these guitar kids."
CP: It's interesting that you take the time to achieve that degree of accuracy when even movie biopics about musicians sometimes don't come anywhere close to actually mimicking real playing.
BS: Exactly, and I'm not even an animator. I just direct people who make the animation. What I would do is, at the end of each episode, I go, "If we have time, I would like to do this. I'd like to do a close up on this thing." I get a camera on me and basically give the animators a guitar lesson. I go, "OK, I'm on this fret here, and I'm doing this. Watch my right hand and notice how there's hardly any movement at all. It's all about the left hand and that vibrato feel."
I did that at one point, and we had Billy Gibbons come over at one point doing voices, and I said, "Hey, show Billy Gibbons the sequence of animation." He watched it and then turned around to me and said, "Hey, that's right. That's pretty cool." I was like, "Yeah, right?"
But yeah it's amazing. Very few movies have done that accurately. Probably the most accurate music movie I've seen in my life - and I like it when movies really nail it - is "Spinal Tap" because they really are doing everything. They're thinking like musicians and playing like musicians. They're in the world, and the thing is, they're not shining a light on it; it's just around them constantly. As opposed to when you see a movie about cars, and they have to have some moment when you talk about the engines just so people go, "Oh, they really know their cars." "Spinal Tap" just had music around them constantly, so it was part of their tapestry.
CP: Speaking of "Spinal Tap," some people have linked that movie's parody of hair metal as being partially responsible for the decline of that genre's popularity. Do you worry about "Metalocalypse" doing the same thing for heavy metal?
BS: I get very few negative remarks. The people who get upset about Dethklok and "Metalocalypse's" success are typically people who haven't had their success with their own thing, or they say "This is not true metal," even though I never said it was.
Honestly, what my goal is is to make music that I enjoy playing and listen to with this project, and that's what I've done. For everyone else, it's up to them.
I think the thing that we do live that I think is hard to argue with is that we take the music as seriously as possible when we're playing it. When you see us live, you'll see that. We have this gigantic cartoon that's playing with us on this huge LCD jumbotron, and it's completely synched up with the music we're playing. It's extremely satisfying to see he music and the video at the same time.
And I'm playing with monster musicians on stage. That's one thing I can say - excluding myself. I'm playing with one of the best drummers in metal (Gene Hoglan) and Mike Keneally, who is one of the best guitarists living who has played with Frank Zappa and Steve Vai, and Bryan Beller is just a monster bass player. They play so well and have so much fun with it that I think that, if anything, if I were a kid playing music, I would be inspired by that.
Plus, every comedian and every musician wishes they were doing the other thing. We have a lot of comics who get excited by the whole music and comedy thing together. It is fun and exciting. It's fun to make people laugh and to play incredibly difficult, technical things and pull them off in front of a crowd at the same time.
CP: How much intersection is there between the comedy of the cartoon and the live performances? Is it just a straight melodic metal concert or is there a lot of humor worked in?
BS: I think the videos take themselves so seriously to the point of humor, but we have these interstitials where we have a character from the show talk to the audience and do an audience warm up like you would see in the '70s. There's this interaction where there's actually a chant that happens, and the audience participates every single night. It's really strange that they're participating with a pre-recorded cartoon, but it's really, really fun. They're all into the ride.
Then, there's advice they give, like "If you happen to see a lady at a metal concert, here is how you should behave. It probably won't happen, but here's how you treat a lady. Most of you are needle dick virgins." We have a lot of fun at our audience's expense. [Laughs.] It's kind of the nature of the show, too.
There are parts where there's blatant comedy, but also parts where comedy is out the door and people are experiencing something that is musical and visual and satisfying. They stop moshing and turn their heads. It's amazing to take a rowdy group of thousands of people and have them completely silent and paying attention and waiting to be told a story.
CP: In "Metalocalypse," the members of Dethklok are portrayed as self-absorbed, imbeciles who can't take care of themselves. What kind of feedback have you received from metal musicians about that portrayal?
BS: I don't think anyone wants to see themselves as that character. I'll get people who are like, "I've got a guy like that in my band." I think everyone has a Murderface in their band somewhere. They're like, "He's our Murderface, so we've got to deal with that all the time. There is always that squeaky wheel who doesn't do anything for the band but hold them back and is a loud mouth who drives everyone insane.
It's funny, as the show evolves, you'll see that what the show starts out with and ends with are two completely different things, as far as them being a bunch of raging narcissists who are inept and celebrities into something else. As you watch Season 4, you'll see that things do kind of start changing in a way that will be very satisfying to the audience.
CP: There's a lot of chatter online about the characters in Dethklok mirroring actual metal artists. Did you already have those artists in mind when you were coming up with characters?
BS: You know what? That's not true. I'm trying to dispel that because I get that all the time that, "Who are these guys based on? That's clearly blah blah blah." That's not true. The guy who did the drawings didn't really know anything about metal, so he wasn't trying to draw people who looked like anything.
The one connection we did was that the lead singer's stage presence is modeled on George Fisher from the band Cannibal Corpse. He has a really great stage presence and is a great performer and has the same dimensions as our lead singer, Nathan Explosion.
CP: What would the audition process for Dethklok consist of? What would candidates be expected to do?
BS: That's funny. I'm going to keep silent on that one because I have something like that coming up soon that I'm going to be exploring and writing. Yeah, you'll see.
CP: Can you say what would immediately disqualify someone from consideration?
BS: Again, you'll see. I have a sequence - ah, I can't talk too much about it. It's what's coming up in the next installation of the show, so those are really good questions, but I can't answer.
CP: Since 2007, Dethklok the live band has performed alongside huge names in metal. For this show, you'll be on stage with Machine Head, All That Remains and Black Dhalia Murder. Does it feel surreal to have a fictional band sharing the stage with actual metal artists?
BS: I gotta say, everything that has happened to the show that has been positive or successful is what I hoped would happen. I didn't know if it was going to, but it was definitely part of the plan.
At the top of the whole show, when I was putting it together, I thought I would write a lot of music for the show and episodes for the show, and if for some reason the show does well, I'm going to try and get the network to finance a record. If that works, I'll try and get them to finance a tour, and I want to tour with real metal bands and real venues. How do I do that?
That was all kind of three minutes of thinking in a straight line of, "Is that at all possible?" Hopefully, from the top of the show, we involved tons of people from the metal community to be comedy actors, from Metallica to Billy Gibbons to Dave Grohl to King Diamond. All these people would come in and lend their voices and be funny. The idea was that this was for metal people and the community of metal and for anyone else to come take a look, too. The idea was to integrate them all.
Honestly, all I care about is making a live show experience that is funny and has great really good musicianship that people walk out of with a big smile on their face. I see a lot of music, and even with my favorite musicians, I'm like, "OK, I get it. How bad is traffic going to be on the way out of here?" If I'm going to charge a ticket price, I want to really give them something worth watching that they'll remember and that will hopefully be the best concert they see this year.
CP: Did you start out creating the show by writing the episodes, working on the music or some concurrent combination of the two?
BS: I used to have a different show called "Home Movies," which is the polar opposite of "Metalocalypse" in that it was comedy-driven with a bunch of comedians who were actors on the show. It was a really fun show to do, and I enjoyed doing it, but it ended, so it was time to do something else.
I wanted to do something different, so I called the head of the network and said, "I have this idea for a show. It's about this extreme metal band that is the biggest act on earth. They'll do all this crazy stuff and blah, blah, blah." He said, "OK, I believe you. I know you can write music, and I know you can write story and characters and all that stuff. Why don't you write up a pilot treatment." I said, "I'm not going to do that right now. I'm going to write the theme song and then try and write four or five songs and see what this band sounds like."
That's what I did. I sold the idea first, and before I got into the pilot episode, I wanted to start recording stuff. That would help me understand who the band was and what their personalities were.
I knew I needed two guitar players because I wanted to do guitar harmonies like Brian May, even six-part harmonies, but as long as there are two guitar players [in the show] you would be like, "OK, they're harmonizing."
Then, I was like, "Oh, the bassist. I remember in the late '80s or early '90s, you couldn't hear the bass at all. What does that tell us about the bass player? This guy is going to be overcompensating because he's a guy who has no job really and who you can't even hear on the mixes." And the lead singer. I was like, "OK, the lead singer is the quarterback."
All that stuff just started fusing and the logic of the band started coming out.
With the music, I just kept tuning the guitar lower and making things heavier and putting more double kicks in there and doing more tri-tone bass things and uglier things that are a little bit out of my genre. My natural tendencies are melodic. I put in as much melody int the guitar as I possibly could. That all helped me understand what I wanted Dethklok to sound like, which was to have Queen-style harmonies with Metallica-style riffs tuned lower and some other weird black metal things thrown in there.
CP: Were you surprised by who the members of Dethklok turned out to be? Did their personalities evolve in ways you didn't expect?
BS: You know, I don't know. Sometimes, I think bands are like that. They have their personalities and their musicianship, and those are two different thing. It's like "Amadeus." Here's this guy who can compose these beautiful things that sound like the voice of God, but he's such a dildo; he's this laughing, giggling idiot buffoon, and Saliari was perplexed by that. That happens where there are these people who are blessed by the music gods, but they turn out to be buffoons in real life.
I think that's interesting. I used to have a theory back in music school that as good as person was at their instrument, that was equal to the amount that they were deficient and didn't know how to behave in society. I think I'm kind of right. Granted, I was just a 20-year-old in college, but it was true of musicians more than it was of theater majors people or people studying philosophy or law.
CP: "Dethalbum III" came out in late October. Is that what you've been primarily playing at shows lately?
BS: It's a Best of, of "Dethalbum I" and "Dethalbum II," and we have bunch of stuff from the new record, too. You'll hear some old stuff, some fan favorites, but also some stuff from the new record. So we have four or five songs from the new record that we'll be playing.
CP: Anything you'd like to add?
BS: This tour is something I don't get to do that often because I'm usually busy making a TV show. I think even if you're not down with the genre, you should come check the show out because you won't see anything like this anywhere else. It's really fun to be able to put on a show like this and have a budget for it and be able to animate an entire fun, ridiculous thing. It's like going on a stupid Disneyland ride - but there's murder. It's fun and it's funny, and if we do our jobs right, you'll have a really good time and want to tell somebody about it afterward.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A recording of a 911 call from the mother of a Wisconsin infant who was taken from his home last week shows the distraught woman didn't think her half-sister, who is now charged in the kidnapping, had committed the crime.
Authorities on Monday released the nine-minute recording of the call Brianna Marshall, 18, made when she realized her son was missing.
Marshall told dispatchers that her half-sister was in the home the night before and that she awoke to find her half-sister and the infant gone. But the mother also asserted that her half-sister wouldn't take her son.
"I called her, and she's balling her eyes out and told me to call the cops," Marshall said.
"But she's claiming she doesn't have the kid, correct?" the dispatcher asks.
"No, she wouldn't take my son," Marshall said.
Federal prosecutors charged the half-sister, Kristen Smith of Denver, with kidnapping Friday, hours after a police chief discovered the missing newborn, Kayden Powell, behind a gas station in West Branch, Iowa. The baby, wrapped in blankets and left in a plastic storage bin, was alive and well despite being left in freezing weather for up to 29 hours.
Smith, 31, is being held in her own cell at the Cedar County jail in Tipton, Iowa, while she awaits transfer to federal custody to face the kidnapping charge, Sheriff Warren Wethington said Monday.
"I don't feel comfortable putting her in with the general population due to the circumstances and media coverage other inmates would have seen," he said. "Some of the inmates over there are mothers, sisters, nieces and aunts. I don't think it would be in the interest for her safety."
The FBI alleges Smith took the boy from her half-sister's home in southern Wisconsin early Thursday, five days after Kayden was born, and began driving to Colorado. After Marshall discovered the baby was missing and called police, an officer reached Smith on her cellphone while she was passing through Iowa and instructed her to stop for questioning.
An officer who met Smith at a gas station in West Branch, Iowa, found no sign of Kayden. Smith repeatedly denied any connection to the disappearance, but she was taken into custody on a warrant from Texas charging her with tampering with government records and fraud.
About 29 hours later, the police chief found Kayden. The boy was reunited with his parents at an Iowa hospital, where he was discharged in good condition.
After the discovery, the FBI says Smith admitted that she took the baby and put him there. Investigators found online communications in which she falsely claimed to be pregnant or have given birth and a prosthetic pregnancy belly in her car.
Smith has an extradition hearing scheduled Friday on the Texas charge, but authorities said they believe her next move will be to Wisconsin because the federal case gets top priority.
Federal prosecutors in Madison have issued an arrest warrant for Smith, which gives them the power to place her in federal custody anytime. They will likely wait at least until a grand jury hands down an indictment, which could happen next week.
"She's not going anywhere" until then, Cedar County Attorney Jeffrey Renander said.
An attorney representing Smith in the extradition, Victoria Noel, didn't return a message from The Associated Press.


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"Defensively, as we know, an attacking style defense. Everything starts on defense with (Steelers DB) Troy Polamalu. He's still the playmaker that he has been. He made a big play in the Green Bay game and certainly all season long has made those type of plays. You have to account for him. In their front seven, (Steelers LB LaMarr) Woodley, (Steelers DL Brett) Keisel and (Steelers LB Lawrence) Timmons are still there. Those guys, we've been familiar with for a long time, but they do have some new guys who are making an impact. (Steelers DL Steve) McLendon is a guy that catches your eye inside. Their defensive line is playing very well. (Steelers LB) Jarvis Jones of course and (Steelers LB Jason) Worilds on the outside are some young guys that you see a lot from. (Steelers DB) Ike Taylor is still playing solid corner as ever, and (Steelers DB) Ryan Clark in the back end playing well.
"Special teams are very good. Antonio Brown is a big huge of that. That's a big challenge for us to be able to handle him as a returner in our coverage units. They're solid in the punt and kick game and the rest of their special teams. We're looking forward to the challenge.
"Let me go into some injuries here, just to give you an injury update again: As far as practice today, (DL Phil) Taylor, (OL Jason) Pinkston and (TE Jordan) Cameron, they'll all be out of practice today. (DL John) Hughes will be out with a knee sprain, and (DB Joe) Haden will be out with his hip for practice. (LB)
On if the Browns have a roster spot to fill after placing WR
On if the Browns will fill that position: "We will. We're working on that right now and should have an answer here shortly on that."
On if the Browns will add a player on the defensive line due to Taylor's and Hughes' status: "That would be a possible area that we would add."
On if Pittsburgh is playing better than when the teams met in Week 12: "I think they've been playing, as I mentioned, really good football since the bye. Their first four games they lost, and since then, I believe they're 7-4 and have beaten some very good teams. I think from the looks of it, they've played at a pretty consistent level since our game and are playing real good football right now."
On if Steelers RB Le'Veon Bell fits the mold of a typical Pittsburgh feature back: "That's what the word has been coming out of Pittsburgh, that he's that type of runner, that type of back, a Pittsburgh-style guy. Again, as the season's gone on, he's gotten more and more involved. He's not just a runner; he's caught a lot of balls for him well so he has some versatility in the passing game, as well."
On getting players mentally and emotionally prepared for the game with the holiday week: "There's always something to play for anytime you step on the field. Our guys are competitive guys. This is our last game, and we want to finish this thing strong. Every week is a challenge, and that's the way we play."
On a chance QB
On Campbell's comments about him about lingering effects from the New England loss: "When you lose in some of the disappointing losses that we've had, that takes its toll on guys. The key is bouncing back and having that resiliency and letting that drive you and push you forward. I think that as I look at the games, I think that from a team perspective we've come out strong and played well early in the following games. I think that's a credit to our guys in that ability to bounce back. I talked to them, and those disappointments, getting knocked down and having to get back up and fight, that's one of the toughest things in sports that you have to do. If you can do it and as you continue to do it, you'll get better, you'll grow and that's what our focus is on. Ultimately, to be a winning team and a winning program, that's the thing that we have to be able to do."
On if Campbell pressed or was frustrated as Sunday's game progressed: "I didn't necessarily see it as the game went on. He said he felt like he may have been pressing, trying to make a play instead of just, like I said the other day, letting the game come to him. That's when he's played his best is in that kind of rhythm."
On WR
On RB
On if OL
On if Greco's knee has improved: "Yeah, he's going to practice limited today, and we'll see as the week goes on if he'll be ready."
On if it helps to defeat division rivals, knocking them out of playoff contention: "Our guys are aware of that. There's a lot of things, as I mentioned, that we're playing for and want to play for. Certainly, that's one of them."
On if Baker is better than expected, considering the Browns signed him from a practice squad: "You never know. Sometimes it's about timing; sometimes it's about familiarity and opportunity. All of those things, I think, are involved in this. The fact that he was able to come in and play right away was because of his familiarity with the system. Certainly (Browns offensive coordinator) Norv (Turner) knowing him and knowing about him and getting him here, giving him the opportunity, it's a good thing for him, and he showed well when he's gotten his opportunity. That's what you want to see guys do. You want to see guys earn an opportunity, and when they get an opportunity, to make to make good on it and continue to grow in that way."
On if Baker's decisiveness comes naturally or can be taught: "It's both. I haven't watched him a lot prior to him being here so I can't tell you if it was his style or if it was how he's always run in college or what have you. Certainly, that's the way he's running now, and when there's not a lot there, he's still finding a way to get two, three, four yards. When there's some things there, he's getting through the hole quickly and making things happen to extend those runs. Knowing where the first down marker (is), there's a number of times where he's getting himself in position where he can get a first down, and he goes and gets it."
On how C
On expecting Campbell to return to the Browns next season: "Again, I think all of those discussions are after the seasons over."
On if the Browns have heard from Bess: "Yeah, we're aware of what's going on with Davone. Again, that's personal and private. I'm just not going to get into much there."
On if Bess will play for the Browns again: "I'm not going to get into any of the situation or any speculation regarding anything."
On if WR
On if the Browns planned to play Tyms as much as they did Sunday or if it was a reaction to dropped passes: "We had wanted to give him an opportunity to show what he can do."


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Released: 2012, Bakerteam
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviewer: JP
Hmmmm.... This is interesting. An Italian Power Metal band that does NOT sound like Rhapsody! Weird. They sound like Sonata Arctica on crack! Cool!
Bejelit has for the most part gone unnoticed or at the very least unappreciated here at http://www.Metal-Rules.com, until this year. Despite four albums worth of material this is the first review of the band on our site. EMERGE was released earlier this year on the Bakerteam label and Power Metal traditionalists could be forgiven for overlooking this little gem because at first blush the band do not meet the standard archetypes of the genre. They have a non-Power Metal name. They have a non-Power Metal logo and the album cover looks more like it belong in the melodic Death Metal camp on a Soilwork or Darkane album. However the music of the long, 67 minute album is undeniably Power Metal with a strong Northern European influence.
The lineup of this quartet changed slightly as the band added Marco Pastorino (formerly of Timesword and Shining Fury) who is also in Secret Sphere. The rest of the band, in case you are not familiar, feature members of some lesser known, but no less worthy bands from the region such as Crystal Empire, Drakkar and Pandaemonium. Pretty much every review I have read about Bejelit has referenced the uncanny similarity between vocalist Fabio Privitera and Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica. There is no denying it but both men have an excellent voice and Fabio puts in a fine performance behind the microphone, his skill and talent is also undeniable.
The band is fast for the most part, very quick, lots of good double kicks and really fast galloping drum beats. The solos generally rip and accentuate the keyboard as well. There are certainly many orchestral parts but these are understated for the most part but do shine through on some songs. For example, there is even a nice violin solo on the epic 11 minute+ cut called 'Deep Water' and some slower solos with acoustic piano and some cellos perhaps before a sudden stop and a massive return to just punishingly fast speed Metal, sort of like Pathfinder might do, and then an abrupt stop and back to some acoustic guitar and a mellow vocal line, swelling to a big conclusion and then, at last drifting off with sound effects of breaking waves accompanied by acoustic piano bringing the song to a gentle finish. The song is a tour-de-force, and certainly an album highlight for me.
All of EMERGE is fantastic, there are no weak or filler songs. They cuts are well arranged, interesting to listen to superbly performed by all members. The production is full and robust with the keyboards often quite high in the mix along with Fabios voice. There are many different little pieces on the heavier-than-usual tracks and there are even short instrumental with industrial sounds called 'DefCon 13'. Afternoons mountains with huge doses of aggressive speed the album closes with a lush and gorgeous ballad with a bit of an odd title of 'Boogyman' but it is a bit of a haunting piece again with atmospheric, acoustic piano, so the title fits. It's a nice counterpoint to the surprisingly heavy guitar tone on the rest of the album.
Bejelit have really caught my attention and I'm going to enjoy discovering their back catalogue and champion this band to Metal fans everywhere especially those who yearn for the early days of Sonata Arctica. EMERGE has emerged (I can't believe I actually typed that) as one of my discoveries of the year and is assured a place in my Top 20 this year.
Track Listing
1. The Darkest Hour
Fabio Privitera Vocals
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