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Over the course of 15 years, Train has made its mark on music history with their Grammy-Award-winning song "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" and chart-topping singles "Meet Virginia" and "Calling All Angels." Since forming in San Francisco in 1994, the multi-platinum selling band has traveled a long, successful and sometimes arduous journey. Following their 2006 release, For Me, It's You, the band took a three-year hiatus, and in that time, Train has, for all intents and purposes, experienced an epiphany as a whole. Now, with their fifth album, Save Me San Francisco, Train has channeled their early days, revisiting the roots rock sound that has made the band such a tour de force and, in turn, the band is united stronger than ever before.
"I think taking time away from each other really made the heart grow fonder," frontman Pat Monahan says of the break. "We realized how important we were to one another and taking a few years off helped us all really look at ourselves and what we could contribute to this band as opposed to what we weren't getting from the band."
When looking back, Train credits the city ofSan Franciscowith cultivating the band's identity and foundation, so it's no wonder than the title track of the record would pay homage to the Bay Area metropolis the band holds so dear. "We owe all of our gratitude toSan Franciscobecause they embraced us back when, if they hadn't have, no one would have," Monahan explains. "Basically, this album is our way of paying tribute, giving thanks and also recognizing that we kind of needSan Franciscoto OK this band before anybody else does. Those were the best times of our lives even though we didn't know it living inSan Franciscoand struggling to make a band work."
"Save Me San Francisco" is an autobiographical account of Train's beginnings, and embodies not only the spirit of the album, but also the soul of Train as a band. The song's lyrics take the listener through the three-piece's humble start in the mid-90s up through the time when Monahan, in particular, left the City by the Bay. "It's very related to my existence, but Jimmy, Scott and I have been through a lot together in the last 14-15 years, so it represents a lot to them, too, because they don't reside in San Francisco anymore, and we all miss it."
Train spent April and May of 2009 holed up inLondon's Kensaltown Studios with producer Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall, Jason Mraz, James Morrison) with whom Monahan credits with helping the band "get back to the roots of the first record." "It was an incredibly refreshing environment that Martin created for the band," the singer says. "I'm really appreciative of his approach on things because he's really great at what he does. I had more fun making this record than ever in my life. I think I've made seven records and it was by far the most fun."
Save Me San Francisco taps into Train's organic sound, recalling the blues and folk-infused rock that put the band on the map from the start. "It's pretty basic," Monahan explains of the record. "But really cool because there's super catchy riffs and melodies in it, which I think are way more important that any production trick or great-sounding vocal production. It's kind of us going backward so we can go forward."
It is befitting that the focus of Save Me San Francisco is as uncomplicated as the record sounds. Monahan explored the age-old concept of love through his signature storytelling lyrics and the album, as he explains, is "about love in every way you can think about it."
"There are certain songs that, instead of there being an intention, there was almost a theme," he says. "I think a lot of the way I wrote on this wasn't necessarily, Hey, this reminds me of a situation I was in,' but more how I see certain things being lived out in life, whether it's from myself or someone else's perspective."
In this day and age, career artists are few and far between, and after a decade and a half of being a band, Train is ready to present one of their strongest efforts to date. Monahan recognizes the band's accomplishments, and, as he states so clearly, is more than grateful for the success they have experienced. However, for a band as consummate as Train is, Monahan still sets his goals high and hopes the band's fans will continue to come along for the ride.
"I still remember what it's like to paint houses," he recalls. "I had fun because I loved the people that I worked with, but it's really not what I want to do not because it's a degrading job or anything, but because when I'm on stage I feel so much more connected to who I think I truly am. I just want to stay connected to the highest level myself can be and I think it comes through music. With that said, I'll never stop wanting to sell outMadisonSquareGarden, so my goals are very simple, but they're pretty big at the same time. I think Train fans who have watched the good and the bad, have been a part of all of it and have loved some of the music and not liked some of the music, are really going to like this record a lot -- I think, much more than they have in years."


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SET 1: Golgi Apparatus[1], The Landlady[1] > Bouncing Around the Room[1], David Bowie[1], Fee > Cavern[1], The Squirming Coil, You Enjoy Myself[1], Gumbo[2], Touch Me[3]
SET 2: Suzy Greenberg[1] > Divided Sky[1], I Didn't Know[4], My Sweet One, Magilla[1] > Tweezer[5], The Mango Song[1], Big Black Furry Creature from Mars[1]
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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The capital hasn't seen this kind of an architectural makeover since the Mongols overtook the city, but a new Beijing may not be what's best for a modern China.
Over the summer I found myself on a dusty lot overlooking Herzog & de Meuron's newest creation: an elegant jumble of I-beams that Beijing residents wryly refer to as the "bird's nest." When it's completed, the stadium will house 90,000 spectators for the opening of the Olympics, marking what many believe to be the "Century of China." I struggled to see anything beyond the gawking tourists, imposing cranes, and cough-inducing smog.
Beijing isn't very Beijing-ish anymore. Just a decade ago, I could amble through the labyrinths of hutongs – narrow alleyways unique to the capital – and sip some cha at the neighborhood teahouse. Now I barely recognize the new Beijing.
The sleepy outpost once considered the architectural backwater of Asia now rivals Shanghai and Hong Kong as a cosmopolitan juggernaut and its ambitions do not stop there. "Beijing desperately wants to be accepted as a global city," says Jeff Soule, a consultant on China for the American Planning Association. In the last few years, Beijing has snatched the attention of the world's top architects away from the usual gang – New York, London, Paris – to power its metamorphosis at a frenetic pace that threatens to eclipse Dubai's.
It boasts the world's largest airport terminal, designed by Britain's Norman Foster (which opened last month), the immense national theater by France's Paul Andreu, and the megarestaurant LAN by Philippe Starck. But towering above anything else – both figuratively and literally – is Rem Koolhaas's 750-foot doughnut-shaped marvel for China Central Television (CCTV), which will be broadcasting this year's Olympics from the skyscraper to the 1.3 billion Chinese. "The sheer possibility of designing it, something of that magnitude and ambition, is only possible in China," says Ole Scheeren, the partner in charge of the project.
The CCTV building sits squarely in the middle of the newly established Central Business District (CBD). "Five years ago, there was nothing there besides abandoned factories," says Mr. Scheeren. He recounts being shown a blueprint of the district by government officials with 300 skyscrapers etched in – planned construction for the coming decade. Their postmodernist wonder has rewritten the playbook on space and context.
Driving toward it one day this summer, the "trouser legs" (a local nickname for the CCTV) looked imperial and gargantuan. A split moment later, as I glanced in the rear-view mirror, it seemed gaunt and teetering on collapse, like a stack of poorly placed Jenga pieces. "The role it plays is of a one-off that illustrates new possibilities," explains Scheeren. "It escapes the straitjacket of the [architectural] discipline."
Across town, and next door to the Forbidden City, developer Handel Lee is busy converting the former American Embassy – built in the dying days of the Qing Dynasty – into another international icon of Chinese extravagance, featuring chic imports like a Daniel Boulud restaurant from New York and the swanky nightclub Boujis from London. As the perfect example of Beijing's "me, too" attitude, it's telling that Mr. Lee's last project was Three on the Bund, a cultural venue that revitalized Shanghai's riverfront. And because he's gunning for the same glamorous feel, Lee has been quick to eschew provincial themes like gaudy pagoda roofs. "It's contemporary architecture," he says. "We're definitely not trying to mimic Chinese motifs."
Thankfully not everyone's quick to take the Beijing out of Beijing's architecture. Last year, Shauna Liu, born and bred in Beijing, opened Côté Cour, the first upscale hotel set in a traditional courtyard or siheyuan. Here, in one of the last cultural enclaves in the city, not much has changed since Ms. Liu's siheyuan was first built 500 years ago. Neighbors exchange gossip, kids run down the packed hutongs, and vendors hawk everyday goods like fresh fruit and pirated DVDs (OK so one thing's changed). She's managed to fuse the authentic Chinese design with a Western splash of style, bringing in Venetian plaster, glass tiles, and a lily pond. And guests couldn't be happier – she's almost booked for this year's Olympics. "You need people to experience history," Liu tells me.
Sadly, even though China's populace is no longer so complacent or disconnected, in the push to modernize, the central government has gutted Beijing's very soul.
A generation ago, some 6,000 hutongs wove through the pedestrian-friendly city. Now less than a thousand remain. More than a million local residents have been tossed into the streets, their homes commandeered in the Olympics frenzy. The whole situation ominously smacks of Mao's conquest of the capital in 1949, when he seized the siheyuans and tore down the historic city wall to make room for a humdrum slew of factories.
Millions of peasants and migrant workers are expected to pour back into Beijing after the Olympics, and the city's wealth gap continues to widen, making it hard to maintain President Hu Jintao's vision of a "harmonious society." One thing's for sure though, a doughnut-shaped icon won't be able to feed the poor.
Jerry Guo is a freelance writer. He has reported extensively throughout China.


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Giacomo needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 46 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
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FINRA issued on Thursday a voluntary Interim Form for Funding Portals designed for prospective crowdfunding portals under the JOBS Act.
Those intending to become a funding portal may voluntarily submit information regarding their business on the interim form. FINRA says the information received will help it develop rules specific to crowdfunding portals.
In applying for membership, crowdfunding portals will not be bound by the responses provided on the interim form, FINRA states, as once the SEC and FINRA have adopted funding portal rules, FINRA will issue a final funding portal application for FINRA regulation.
FINRA and the SEC are "engaging in an open dialogue" about the rules that should apply to funding portals.
"FINRA is committed to ensuring that the capital-raising objectives of the JOBS Act are advanced in a manner consistent with congressional intent and investor protection," said Thomas Selman, executive vice president, Regulatory Policy at FINRA. "Crowdfunding portals that file this form will provide FINRA with important information regarding portal business models, which will inform our rulemaking."
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The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) fired off a warning in early December about a surge in crowdfunding domains on the Internet.
An analysis of Internet domain names by state and Canadian securities regulators found nearly 8,800 domains with "crowdfunding" in their name as of Nov. 30, 2012, up from less than 900 at the beginning of the year. Of these websites, about 2,000 contained content, more than 3,700 had no content and more than 3,000 appeared to be "parked" and serving as placeholders to reserve a domain name for later use or sale, NASAA says. Of the domains with "crowdfunding" in their name, about 6,800 have appeared since April 2012 when the JOBS Act was signed into law.
Last year, FINRA solicited comments on the specific rules it should adopt for registered funding portals that become FINRA members. FINRA has also asked for comment on the application of existing rules to broker-dealers engaging in crowdfunding activities.


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BOULDER – I caught up with Colorado running backs coach Darian Hagan and he said he might try to get more tailbacks some work on Saturday in the homecoming game against Texas Tech at Folsom Field.
Hagan said third-stringer Quentin Hildreth and senior Corey Nabors have done some good things in practice. A redshirt freshman, Hildreth (5-feet-8, and 185 pounds) is a walk-on from Denver East. Nabors (5-9, 195) played high school ball at Rangeview and is a former walk-on.
Sophomore Will Jefferson remains the top back-up to starter Rodney Stewart, who has drawn 90 percent of the tailback carries the past two games. Guys will get in when Speedy needs to catch his breath, Hagan said.
Hagan has been part psychologist this week, trying to help Jefferson "move on" from nightmarish flashbacks of his fumble into the end zone against Baylor.
"You can't let that linger," Hagan said of fumbles. "If you let it linger then you're always going to doubt yourself. I told Will, 'Just let it go. You're not the first person that fumbled.'"


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The biggest problem with the Emmy nominations, which were announced Thursday, boils down to this: too many strong programs, not enough slots.
Which is a good problem to have. Still, in a year that yielded much quality television – and Netflix – some deserving programs got shut out of the running for Outstanding Drama or Outstanding Comedy series, even if they were represented in various acting and production categories.
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Check out our omissions list – which is not intended as a knock on the major nominees, although we remain among the .001 percent of the population that doesn't understand the widespread appeal of "The Big Bang Theory."
Good Wife/Bad Snub
"The Good Wife," TV's best major network prime time drama, delivered one of its finest seasons – offering both a culmination of the political comeback storyline that began in 2009 and a risky new beginning for the title character's career. Like most good wives, this CBS standout deserves better.
Empire Games
HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" emerged as the most compelling crime-driven TV drama since "The Sopranos," thanks to an explosive third season that served up a combustible brew of nuance, unremitting tension and action. One saving grace: Bobby Cannavale's electrifying performance – as Gyp Rosetti, the scariest psycho gangster seen on a screen of any size since Joe Pesci's Oscar-wining turn in "Goodfellas" – earned him an Outstanding Supporting Actor nomination.
Developmental Issues
Many critics didn't like the return of "Arrested Development" on Netflix. Many fans, judging by the online reaction, did. As we know from "AD" history, the verdict will become clearer with time and repeated viewings. But this much is certain: The Buster episode alone merited the series an Outstanding Comedy nod.
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"Parks and Recreation," in its fifth season on NBC, struck its best mix yet of quirk and substance as Amy Poehler's relentlessly upbeat do-gooder Leslie Knope confronted the realities of politics. The maturing show – sweet, funny and smart – proved as good as ABC's "Modern Family" this season, sans the family (even if we can't wait to see how Ron Swanson deals with impending fatherhood come the fall).
Office Politics
"30 Rock" enjoyed a strong final season. So did "The Office," which, unlike its longtime Thursday night NBC tag-team partner, missed out on an Outstanding Comedy nomination. Sentiment doesn't enter into the picture: "The Office" briefly struggled to find its way after Steve Carell left in 2011. It would have been easy for the creative team to take a final-season victory lap, recycling old Jim-and-Dwight pranks. Instead, the show boldly broke the third-and-a-half wall, revealing the unseen documentary crew – offering a reminder of why they were there and why we watched for eight years. At least the largely satisfying finale notched an Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series nod.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.
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KVim 0.1 announced
The first developer release of KVim is out, thanks to Thomas Capricelli. In case you've been living under a rock, VIM is one of the most popular Vi variants out there, and KVim is evidently the KDE port of that worthy editor. A screenshot or two are available. KVim will shortly be ported to KParts, so it won't be long before you can embed it in Konqi... (As an aside, rumor has it that progress on a KDE/Qt port of XEmacs may not be too far off either.)
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Rumors about XEmacs in KDE? Wonderful! At last. Please say it's true!
We need to hear more about this. Especially after the VI people are getting theirs :-)
By johanw at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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You're the first poster! It's a relief to know it works. ;) Was getting a bit worried when we were getting all those hits but no posts.
As for the rumors, well I'm afraid we need to be a little bit more patient... What I can add though is that reportedly the author of the GTK port originally preferred Qt/KDE for technical reasons but didn't go through with the idea for license reasons. Now that Qt is GPL, there's nothing stopping anyone...
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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That's very interesting Navin - I downloaded the GTK port to have a look at how hard a KDE version would be a couple of weeks back. I came to the conclusion that while it isn't trivial it isn't too hard either.
By Richard Moore at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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I'm not sure about the licensing problem. It might be even worse, because the vim license is definately not GPL compatible (GTK is LGPL not GPL), so you cannot link vim to a GPL'ed Qt.
Arnd <><
By Arnd Bergmann at Wed, 2000/10/04 - 5:00am
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By Mats Eriksson at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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Hey, I'd like that too... I've started using nedit almost exclusively at work, it's very clean and functional. Default syntax highlighting looks good, too.
By Bill Soudan at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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I love this editor too. I hope they make a native Qt/KDE version. It's heavy reliance on LessTif makes it doubtful but who knows.
It would be great though.
By Robert at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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[20020126: Added text. Long standing bug that killed cataloguing. --NU]
By Martin Uhl at Fri, 2000/09/22 - 5:00am
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Ups, Konqueror lost the Text, when I clicked back in the Preview page... )-:
Here it is:
Yes, a port of Nedit to KDE/QT would be a real benefit to KDE. I'd really like to see such a port. Then you could choose if you'd like to use kwrite oder such a new knedit.
Keep up the good work!
Greetings Martin
-- The gui in Penguin is pronounced K-D-E
By Martin Uhl at Fri, 2000/09/22 - 5:00am
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This is great! Maybe I'll take the time to really learn Vi now (seriously). Gvim is pretty good, but it's just not a KDE app. (No offense, I just like all my apps to look the same).
And since there is no font configuration in Kwrite in KDE2 like there was in KDE 1.x, I might need to find a new text editor w/ syntax highlighting... Then again, vi doesn't exactly have font configuration either... :)
By Thomas Philpot at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
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Editor for a programmer, with syntax highligting? Look at kfte and be saved!
Ok, so I did the KDE port, but it *is* nice ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
Re: KVim 0.1 announced
Ok...you did the port...now clean up the code and improve it! : )
By Robert at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
no font configuration in kwrite 2 ??
Maybe you should take a 2nd look at kwrite...in fact it's got font configuration. Only that it's a bit hidden under "configure highlighting" :(
By FranzBE at Fri, 2000/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: KVim 0.1 announced
Great news, however, the programmers editor
By Moshe Vainer at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
Is there a homepage of kfte? I didn't know this text editor (or I forgot it....)
By raphinou at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
Re: KFTE
KFTE once had something akin to a homepage, but I switched jobs and lost access to the server.
Anyway, you can get KFTE for KDE1 from ftp.kde.org, and KFTE for KDE2 from cvs, module kfte.
Here's a (old) screenshot: http://www.conectiva.com.ar/kfte.gif
The toolbar should look more KDE2 now, but it should also be broken ;-)
Anyway, the toolbar was never useful.
By Roberto Alsina at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
KFTE ain't dead!
In fact, if you want a KDE2 version that works, just get it from CVS, module kfte!
I regularly make sure it at least builds.
It's not really dead, more like finished, since development of FTE itself seems to have stopped, and I can't understand the code ;-)
I might write a config GUI for it someday, but it's a large project.
Also, making KFTE into a real KPart is something I can't even imagine myself doing. KFTE's guts are scaryly overengineered :-)
By Roberto Alsina at Thu, 2000/09/21 - 5:00am
Re: KFTE ain't dead!
Great news, but if it's in CVS, why is it not on Beta & in RPMS?
By Moshe Vainer at Sun, 2000/09/24 - 5:00am
Re: KFTE ain't dead!
Because CVS has a whole lot of stuff that is not beta or in RPMs :-)
I'd say that after KDE2 is officially out I will just package what's in CVS and release it so people will build packages from it.
KFTE is not beta, it's just... well, finished, kinda :-)
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2000/09/26 - 5:00am
Icons are not kde icons
My Icons in the toolbar ( menubar? ) are the exact same ones you get with gvim. But I didn't have vim on my system and compiled the full ( heavy ) version and not the reduced on. How do I get my icons from kde to appear instead? Nice work though.
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Each Wednesday, blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Ravens.
133 -- the number of Peyton Manning's 204 passing yards on Sunday that came after play-action fakes.
For the first three quarters of Sunday's 34-17 loss, the Denver Broncos showed the Ravens what a balanced offense should look like. Knowshon Moreno was effective running the ball, opening up the play-action pass for Manning, who picked apart a Ravens defense that had two new starters at inside linebacker and a fill-in at safety. Manning completed eight of his 11 throws after using play-action fakes for 133 yards and a touchdown, according to ESPN Stats and Info. Wide receiver Eric Decker caught five of his six targets on such plays for 101 yards and that touchdown. With a win pretty much in hand in the fourth quarter, the Broncos took the air out of the ball, finishing with 45 carries, the most ever for a team quarterbacked by Manning.
Four -- games this season in which Ravens running back Ray Rice has not touched the ball on a single third-down play.
One week after setting a season-high in rushing yards in the loss to the Washington Redskins, the Ravens struggled to run the ball early and were forced to abandon the running game in the second half after falling behind by four touchdowns. Running back Ray Rice finished the game with 38 rushing yards on 12 carries and just 3 yards on three receptions. It was the fourth time this season and the second time in three weeks that he got 15 or fewer touches. It was also the fourth game this season in which Rice didn't touch the ball on third down, according to ESPN Stats and Info. In related news, the Ravens were 1-for-12 on third down.
64.9 -- percentage of Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta's catches that came when he was lined up as a slot receiver.
I wrote before the season that tight end Dennis Pitta was poised to have a breakout season, one of the few predictions I have actually nailed. His production has been spotty on a game-by-game basis, but if you add up his numbers, Pitta is having one of the best seasons by a tight end in team history. Pitta has seven receiving touchdowns, tying Todd Heap's team record for a tight end. And his 57 catches are second on the Ravens, one behind wideout Anquan Boldin. Pitta has done most of his damage as a slot receiver. According to Pro Football Focus, Pitta has 37 receptions for 409 yards and six touchdowns on routes he has run from the slot.
10.3 -- Courtney Upshaw's run stop percentage, which is second-best among 3-4 outside linebackers in the NFL.
Though he has only played about two-thirds of the defensive snaps this season, rookie outside linebacker Courtney Upshaw has subtly been a pretty impactful run defender for a team that has struggled to tackle running backs. Upshaw is tied for fifth on the injury-riddled unit with 57 tackles, and his seven tackles for a loss lead the Ravens. He has missed just five tackles, according to Pro Football Focus, though four have come in the past three weeks. However, they say he had three defensive stops -- they define that as forcing an offensive failure, like tackling a runner after a minimal gain or knocking down a pass -- against the Broncos, and eight in the past three weeks. With 29 of his 34 tackles resulting in a stop on 281 snaps against the run, Upshaw is second among 3-4 outside linebackers with a run stop percentage of 10.3 percent.
Less than 1 -- percent chance the Ravens had of coming back Sunday after their touchdown made it 34-16 with 4:08 left to play.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh was scrutinized by fans and media -- including this blogger -- after he didn't go for a two-point conversion with just over 4 minutes left in Sunday's loss. After Pitta's second touchdown catch made the score 34-16, Harbaugh had Justin Tucker kick an extra point instead of trying to cut the deficit to 16 points -- and two scores -- with a two-point conversion. I'm standing by my opinion on that one, but the reality is that it probably didn't matter. According to Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats, the chances of a comeback were less than 1 percent either way. He said that two-point conversions are successful roughly 50 percent of the time, and that onside kicks in that situation -- where the opponent knows that one is coming -- are recovered about 10 percent of the time. "The chances of coming back were so low with 4 minutes to play, that it would be impossible to make a realistic estimate to conclude one path was better than the other," Burke said in an email. It's a fun topic to debate, though. Well, unless you are John Harbaugh.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for CBS claim the producer of an upcoming ABC reality series copied materials from his time on "Big Brother" and deleted emails that could have proved important in a case over whether the new show should be allowed to air.
The allegations were included in a filing Thursday that asked a federal judge to block the June 18 premiere of ABC's "The Glass House." CBS claims the series copies heavily from its hit show "Big Brother" and relies on experience and techniques used on that long-running series.
CBS' case focuses heavily on the notion that ABC is relying on the experience of roughly 30 former "Big Brother" staffers now working at "Glass House," including Executive Producer Kenny Rosen.
Rosen acknowledged in a recent deposition that he deleted emails after ABC had been warned by CBS that it would be sued, court documents said. It also alleges that Rosen directed a staffer to copy manuals he obtained while working on "Big Brother."
That would violate a non-disclosure agreement Rosen signed while working with CBS and could be a basis for blocking ABC from airing "Glass House," CBS' attorneys argue.
"It may be rare that a court enjoins a television show from proceeding ... but if ever there were a time to do so, this is it," CBS attorneys wrote in their motion.
Much of Rosen's deposition testimony was redacted from public copies of the filings, but CBS said in a statement that his testimony "further demonstrates the brazen lengths that former 'Big Brother' producers have gone to use confidential material, obtained while under our employment, to develop this new show."
U.S. District Judge Gary Feess denied ABC's request to delay hearing the motion until after "Glass House" premieres, ordering the network's attorneys to respond by late Monday afternoon.
No hearing date on CBS' motion has been set, but both sides have been arguing for weeks over evidence. ABC and Rosen have denied wrongdoing and issued statements in response to CBS' motion.
"CBS first tried to intimidate me and then sued me for agreeing to work for a competing network," Rosen wrote in a statement. "What CBS is doing is wrong on many levels and I look forward to our day in court."
ABC wrote in a statement that it was "a naked attempt by CBS to stifle competition and creativity by claiming that reality techniques that have been developed over many years, on many shows by countless producers, are somehow exclusive to CBS."
ABC has continued work on its show even after CBS sued the network on May 10, alleging copyright infringement and violation of trade secrets. Its filing Friday argued that CBS cannot win on copyright grounds, noting that an idea itself is not protected by copyright laws.
Fourteen "Glass House" contestants were announced Monday, including a bail bondsman, a scientist and a bar mitzvah DJ. The contestants will become housemates and compete for a $250,000 prize. Audience feedback will help shape the contestants' daily life and who stays in the game.
"Big Brother" is scheduled to begin airing its 14th season in the United States in early July.
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Guinea Frontline Reporter: Diallo Nassirou
Before he fled from the stadium Diallo says he saw the boy who had been following him, now lying dead, with his cell phone next to him. He also saw an ugly scene, of a soldier who had run out of bullets, ripping a woman's belly with his bayonet.
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Diallo Nassirou is a frontline journalist. A reporter who has dodged bullets and death in the interest of bringing out the news. He's lucky to be alive today, as he told me when we met recently here in New York.
It's always an honor to meet people like Diallo--those who pursue the news without fear.
On September 28, 2009, Diallo was at the stadium in Guinea, when soldiers fired the shots that were later heard all over the world.
Ironically, the stadium is also named September 28; it recalls the famous day in 1958 when Guineans voted in a referendum to separate itself from France, which was then the colonial power. Few countries had dared follow that bold move.
But the stadium became infamous in 2009. When the shooting was all over, an estimated 150 civilians had been killed, according to Human Rights Watch. "It was more than 200," Diallo estimates, noting that many bodies were quickly removed by the military.
Some died from bullets, some were trampled, while some women had their bellies and private parts ripped with bayonets; scores others were raped.
The United States, shamefully first had a muted response to the Guinea atrocities. Later, when details of the brutality of the crackdown against the pro-democracy movement began to emerge around the world, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the military junta headed by Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, who'd been in power since December 23, 2008. She called for those responsible for the massacre to be prosecuted. The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague later announced that charges were being considered against the junta leadership.
Diallo, 27, is now in New York City, a refugee from his country. He had been a reporter with Radio Nostalgie, one of several private stations opened in 2006 when the government in Guinea was pressured into liberalizing media space as condition for financial assistance from the European Union (EU). Even though Diallo studied law when he was at the university at Guinea, he says he had fallen in love with journalism when he covered a soccer game as a boy for a school newspaper.
On the day before the march, on September 27, Diallo had been picked up by the Guinean military and taken to a command post. It wasn't the first time he'd been illegally arrested. On each occasion, he would be warned and told that his journalism would one day get him in serious trouble. His boss, the owner of Nostalgie, often paid military commanders to get him
The September 27 arrest was different. The junta leadership was nervous because word had spread about the big march planned for the next day. When Capt. Camara seized power, Guineans had celebrated. He had promised to hold free and open elections within a year and vowed that he himself would not run for office.
Months later, Camara, enjoying the trappings of power changed his mind. He too would now run for office. Yet the junta sensed that things wouldn't be easy. On radio shows, such as Diallo's political program on Radio Nostalgie, callers voiced opposition to Camara's plans to extend the army's domination of politics.
When he was taken to a command post on September 27, Diallo says he was told to sign a statement affirming that he would not be at the protest march the next day. The military commanders feared that he would broadcast his show live--he often did shows away from the studio so ordinary people could hear themselves on radio.
Diallo, whose English is impressive for someone who's been studying the language for only a few months, says he was beaten on his back when he refused to sign. He says a commander pushed the barrel of a pistol on his neck and said he would shoot him if he refused--he still wouldn't relent.
The commander than ordered soldiers to strip Diallo naked. He says it was at that point that he feared fiendish torture and agreed to sign the papers and he was released.
When he arrived home that evening, his wife urged him to promise that he would not attend the march. But the next morning, he was there with his radio equipment at Belle Vue junction where the march was supposed to start, just outside the capital city of Conakry and 10 minutes from the stadium. "I could not live with my conscience. I told people to come on the radio," he says. After interviewing people about the impending protest on one of his shows, it would have been hypocritical for him to stay away.
Initially, the army blocked the road leading into the city and towards the stadium. Diallo, meanwhile, began a live broadcast. This did not last long, as soldiers went to the radio station and forced the owner to turn him off air. Yet the numbers kept swelling and soon the soldiers had to yield and allow the marchers to proceed.
As media accounts later showed, it was a peaceful march, with people denouncing Camara and demanding for civilian elections, Diallo says. The military became nervous because of the overwhelming turnout. Diallo says, on his way to the stadium, a young boy of about 13 started talking with him and following him, having recognized him from a television commercial which he was featured on.
When Diallo entered the stadium, soldiers started firing, initially at the deck reserved for VIPs and where leaders of the political opposition and the protest organizers were seated. Then they started firing wildly into the crowd.
A military convoy led by Lieutenant Toumba Diakite, who was the commander of Capt. Camara presidential protection unit, opened a path for Diakate by firing from mounted guns into the crowd.
Before he fled from the stadium Diallo says he saw the boy who had been following him, now lying dead, with his cell phone next to him. He also saw an ugly scene, of a soldier who had run out of bullets, ripping a woman's belly with his bayonet. He also saw people being trampled as he ran from the stadium.
Diallo rushed home and sent his wife and adoptive child out of the capital city. He was then smuggled by a friend in an ambulance to the airport and managed to get on a plane to Paris on the same night of September 28. The airport was closed for a while the next day.
Diallo had a following not only within Guinea but also among Guineans outside the country. Since fleeing Guinea, Diallo has travelled to Brussels, Belgium, to meet with Diaspora Guineans, as well as Washington, D.C., and now New York City.
Although he lost his platform on Radio Nostalgie, Diallo continues reporting, receiving information on a daily basis from sources in Guinea and by phone calls to the country. He now disseminates his information through blogtalkradio.com The show is called Le Quatrieme Pouvoir or "The Fourth Power."
"The show promotes democracy and good governance," he says.
After universal condemnation of the massacre from the international community the junta leadership itself split and Capt. Camara was wounded with gunshots to the head by his top security official Lieutenant Diakite, who is reputedly one of those commanders wanted by the International Criminal Court for his leading role in the killings.
Capt. Camara was flown to Morocco for treatment and is now in Burkina Faso.
Guinea has a new interim government that includes a civilian prime minister, Jean-Marie Doré, and the current army commander, Gen. Sekouba Konate.
Elections are scheduled for June 27, this year.
As for Diallo's own plans and what he hopes for his country?
"I hope now it will be a good opportunity for my country to become democratic," Diallo says. "If all the Guineans take matters into our hands. If we are vigilante. In 50 years we have had only two presidents."
Ahmed Sékou Touré was Guinea's president at independence. He ruled until 1984. Lansana Conté, who seized power after Touré, ruled with a heavy hand until he died in 2008; Camara then seized control.
Diallo says Guineans and the world must keep a watchful eye even though Gen. Konate has vowed that he and the rest of the interim leadership will not stand for the elections. "Konate was Camara's friend and they took power together. The difference here is the help of the international community. Now the international community is engaged with Guinea and Konate made the promise in front of the international community."
Konate may also have incentive to deliver on the promise. He too had been on the ICC wanted list --his name has since been removed, Diallo says.
"As for me when I was in my country I never studied journalism because we do not have a journalism school in Guinea at the time I went to university. Now I hope to improve my English and go to journalism school at Columbia."
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Can nice guys—and gals—finish first in the cutthroat business world?
Absolutely—yet they can also finish dead last, says Adam Grant, the prodigious Wharton School of Business professor who specializes in organizational psychology, the study of workplace dynamics.
In his new book, "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success," a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller, Grant examines why some individuals who help others succeed rise to the top, while counterparts with the same altruistic drive become doormats, burning out or fading into obscurity.
The 31-year-old Grant, Wharton's youngest tenured professor, has presented solutions for leaders of organizations including Google, the National Football League, IBM, Merck, the World Economic Forum, Goldman Sachs, Estee Lauder, and the U.S. armed forces.
The award-winning researcher and author will deliver his belief in the power of paying it forward in a keynote address at the America's Credit Union Conference July 3 in New York City.
While self-serving individuals might get to the top more quickly, people who put others first prime themselves for long-term success, Grant says.
"After we cover the usual suspects of hard work, talent, and luck, I find that in the long run the people who rise the highest are those who add the most value to others," Grant said in a recent Forbes.com interview. "The people who get promoted are those who establish a track record for advancing the interests of the group."
In his research through many industries and professions, Grant discerned three employee archetypes: Matchers, Takers, and Givers.
Most of us fall into the Matchers category—people who are glad to do favors in return for assistance of more or less equal value—a quid pro quo. A select number are Takers, who strive to obtain as much as possible from others with limited return, while Givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.
"Give and Take" shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity, how a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner, and how we could have anticipated Enron's demise four years before the company collapsed—without ever looking at a single number.
Three major developments have elevated the appeal of "pro-social motivation," Grant told Forbes.com. The confluence of these factors rewards Givers' altruistic track record while delivering Takers a costly reputational blow:
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►Shift to the service and knowledge economy; and
►Emergence of social media.
The main factor determining whether Givers succeed or fail is their ability to set reasonable boundaries, Grant says.
His advice: Take on tasks only when you can add unique value, develop a specialty that will naturally limit the type of requests you receive, and avoid doing favors for Takers—whom you can ferret out by asking whether they'll pay your contribution forward.


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Work with a Faraday Cage. Learn to stay a step ahead of cyber criminals. Experiment with a 3D printer and robotics. Refurbish scrapped computers in our lab. Lakeland's computer science program is an all-encompassing foray into the ever-changing world of computers and how they work. Here, you won't focus on just programming, database or system analysis. You'll learn it all, with multiple classes that span all disciplines.
"As a computer science student at Lakeland, you don't have to specialize," says Cynthia Lindstrom, assistant professor of computer science, who has a doctorate in computing and information technology and has more than 20 years of corporate computer science experience. "In fact, you can't specialize here. You will be a generalist; you will know a little bit about everything. And that's what businesses are looking for today."
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Recent Lakeland University computer science graduates have landed jobs at Briggs & Stratton and General Electric in Milwaukee, Kohler Co. in Kohler and The Manitowoc Company in Manitowoc, among many others. In addition, Lindstrom says, internships are a regular part of the program.
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Coffee craze has everyone a bit nuts
Posted by TheShot on 28 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends
Yesterday's Washington Post ran an article that pretty much embodied everything I despise about coffee: Coffee craze has everyone a bit nuts – Family Times – The Washington Times, America's Newspaper. It's the focus on all the sizzle and none of the steak. Apparently, few of us want to hear about what it takes to get the best single espresso possible in a ready and convenient location. Instead we're inundated with stories about all the ridiculous frippery that comes disguised as "gourmet" (oh, do I ever hate that over-abused word) coffee.
The article pushes all my basic "annoy-the-hell-out-of-me" buttons, including:
- The idea that good coffee must equate with a 17-adjective concoction of frothed milk, hazelnut syrup, whipped cream, chopped nuts, and a cherry on top that is oh, about, 2% espresso,
- Branded cafés opened by those purveyors of great coffee production, Kiss and Jackie Chan,
- Yuppies bored with the wine tasting routine who have now turned to coffee cupping as their latest taste bud fad (I still reserve that cupping is mostly a nasty, brutish task that's best suited for finding bean defects than for the enjoyment of coffee),
- McDonald's McCafé has been a repeat failure as dependable as the Sony Mini-Disc in most countries, save maybe Ireland, and yet it just won't go away,
- Starbucks has gotten bored with coffee and now is a media company wannabe, making book, CD, and movie deals,
- Kopi Luwak press for those who must pay the ultimate for the über exclusiveness of everything, including coffee beans crapped out of an Indonesian civet (I say we forget the weasels and go straight for "celebrity blends" — starting this month with beans passed through the bowels of Tom Cruise).
The problem isn't that a good cup of basic boring old coffee is such a rare breed these days. The problem is that society is easily distracted by anything beyond the simple merits of good coffee.
We probably owe some of that to all the people who really don't like coffee to begin with and yet now have vehicles for coming along for the ride. We probably owe the rest to modern product marketing techniques.
I've mentioned my experience with orange juice. And you can't even buy a toothbrush today without stumbling on the monthly patent war of marketing escalation: laser-guided plaque-interceptor technology is the only possible outcome where Moore's Law of disposable razors predicts we'll be using 14 blades by the year 2100.
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VIVALIS : Proposed Merger of Equals between Vivalis and Intercell to Create Valneva
Proposed Merger of Equals between Vivalis and Intercell
Creation of a European Biotech Leader in Vaccines and Antibodies
· Vivalis ("Vivalis") and Intercell AG ("Intercell") to merge and form Valneva SE ("Valneva"), headquartered in Lyon (France) and listed on the regulated markets of NYSE Euronext in Paris and the Vienna Stock Exchange
Intercell shareholders to receive 13 Vivalis new ordinary shares for 40 Intercell shares, implying a 31.7% premium for Intercell shareholders based on the average share prices over the last three months
· Additionally, Intercell shareholders to receive 13 new preferred shares for 40 Intercell shares. Each preferred share to be converted into 0.4810 new Valneva ordinary shares in the event of successful approval of Intercell's Pseudomonas vaccine
· Implied ownership of Valneva immediately post-merger completion: 55% former Vivalis shareholders / 45% former Intercell shareholders
· Merger unanimously approved by the Supervisory Boards of Vivalis and Intercell
· Irrevocable undertakings to vote in favor of the merger received from holders of 68.5% of the voting rights in Vivalis, including Groupe Grimaud
· Fully committed EUR 40 million rights issue to be launched shortly after merger completion, to further strengthen Valneva's financial profile. The Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement ("FSI") supports the merger and will participate in the rights issue
· Merger of Equals structure with each company contributing equally to Valneva's Supervisory Board, and Valneva's Management Board being comprised of two Vivalis and two Intercell Management Board members
Nantes (France) and Vienna (Austria), Dec. 16th, 2012 - The Management Boards of Vivalis (NYSE-Euronext: VLS) and Intercell (VSE: ICLL) announce that they have agreed the terms of a merger to create the newly-named Valneva, a leading European biotechnology company in vaccines and antibodies.
The merger will create an integrated company with greater scale and diversification, strengthened financial profile and complementary talent and capabilities:
Complementary business models operating across the value chain with innovative technology platforms, discovery and development capabilities, state-of-the-art manufacturing and commercialization expertise
Diversified revenue streams from a marketed vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis Virus and income from multiple commercial technology licenses
A broad portfolio of promising partnered product candidates including a pandemic Influenza vaccine in Phase III, a Pseudomonas vaccine in Phase II/III and a Tuberculosis vaccine in Phase II
A portfolio of validated and commercialized technology platforms including the EB66® cell line for human and veterinary product development which is becoming the industry standard, the VIVA|ScreenTM antibody discovery platform and the IC31® novel adjuvant
EUR 5-6 million of expected cost synergies, on an annual run-rate basis, achieved within two years following completion of the merger
Substantially improved financial profile with a combined cash balance of EUR 94 million as at 30 September 2012 (adjusted for the planned EUR 40 million rights issue and the repayment of Intercell's outstanding convertible bond). This improved financial position will enhance the development of Valneva's vaccine and antibody portfolio and will de-risk the path to profitability
A complementary and experienced management team led by Thomas Lingelbach as President and Chief Executive Officer, Franck Grimaud as President and Chief Business Officer, Majid Mehtali as Chief Scientific Officer and Reinhard Kandera as Chief Financial Officer
Franck Grimaud, CEO and Majid Mehtali, CSO, co-managers of Vivalis, commented: "The merger with Intercell is an important step towards Vivalis' strategic goal of building a profitable, product-based biopharmaceutical company and laying the foundations for rapid revenue and profit growth going forward. The merger will significantly complement our core capabilities, in particular towards product development, while also adding strength and breadth to our R&D portfolio. As a result of multiple revenue streams, Valneva will also enjoy enhanced financial strength to fund its future growth."
Thomas Lingelbach, CEO of Intercell, commented: "Our strategy is to build a sustainable biotech company with a well-balanced and diversified value proposition enabling us to develop innovative products with a strong focus on preventing and treating infectious diseases. The merger will help achieve this goal by combining Vivalis' discovery and technology capabilities with Intercell's development, manufacturing and commercialization expertise. The increased financial strength will provide us greater capabilities to progress our pipeline. We expect both sets of shareholders will substantially benefit from the strengthened capabilities of the combined company."
Terms of the Merger
Upon completion of the merger, Intercell shareholders will receive 13 new Vivalis ordinary shares and 13 new preferred shares for every 40 Intercell shares that they own.
The merger consideration represents a premium for Intercell shareholders of 38.5% on the basis of the last closing share prices and 31.7% on the basis of the average share prices over the last three months, as at 14 December 2012.
Upon completion of the merger, expected to occur in May 2013, and based on the current issued share capital of each company, Vivalis former shareholders will hold approximately 55.0% and Intercell former shareholders approximately 45.0% of the issued share capital of Valneva.
Each preferred share will convert into 0.4810 Valneva new ordinary shares upon the issuance of a marketing authorization for Intercell's Pseudomonas vaccine in the United States of America or in Europe, which would result in the creation of approximately 8.6 million new ordinary Valneva shares. The preferred shares will not be listed but will be freely transferable.
The issuance of this potential market authorization will unlock the significant value of the Pseudomonas vaccine from which all Valneva shareholders will benefit. Through Intercell's current Pseudomonas partnership, Valneva will be entitled to either receive royalties tied to sales performance and potential development milestones of EUR 120 million or, should it elect to co-develop the product, participate in a profit sharing scheme.
The merger is subject to certain customary conditions, including, inter alia, the approval by shareholders of both Vivalis and Intercell and the obtaining of relevant regulatory consents. The terms of the merger will be reviewed by merger auditors in France and Austria. Additionally, a French independent expert will review the terms and conditions of the preferred shares.
Vivalis has received irrevocable undertakings from Groupe Grimaud and other Vivalis shareholders to vote their aggregate 68.5% voting rights of the outstanding share capital of Vivalis in favor of the merger.
Intercell has received an irrevocable undertaking from its principal shareholder under which this shareholder has agreed to vote its approximately 15% voting rights of the outstanding share capital of Intercell in favor of the merger.
Simultaneously with the completion of the Merger, Vivalis will be converted into a European Company (SE) with a Management Board (Directoire) and a Supervisory Board (Conseil de Surveillance). It will also change its corporate name to Valneva SE and will transfer its headquarters to Lyon.
The Supervisory Board will be chaired by Fréderic Grimaud, currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vivalis. The remainder of Valneva's Supervisory Board will be comprised of two additional members proposed by the Supervisory Board of Vivalis, three members proposed by the Supervisory Board of Intercell, and one member to be proposed by the FSI (upon completion of the planned EUR 40 million rights issue).
Michel Greco, a member of both Intercell's and Vivalis' Supervisory Boards, has resigned from the Supervisory Board of Intercell. Upon closing of the merger, he will be a Supervisory Board member of Valneva.
Valneva shares will be listed on the regulated markets of NYSE Euronext in Paris and the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Intended Rights Issue: EUR 40 million already secured
Shortly following completion of the merger, Valneva intends to launch a EUR 40 million rights issue, where its shareholders will have the right to subscribe on a pro rata basis.
Vivalis and Intercell have received the following commitments with respect to the intended rights issue, and therefore already secured the EUR 40 million capital increase:
The FSI has undertaken to participate in the rights issue for 62.5% of the total size of the offering, up to EUR 25 million
Groupe Grimaud and Unigrains (one of Groupe Grimaud's long-term shareholders) have irrevocably undertaken to subscribe in aggregate to the rights issue for EUR 5 million
Two banks have committed to underwrite EUR 10 million under market-standard terms and conditions
An analyst presentation available via dial-in conference call and webcast is taking place on Monday, 17 December 2012, at 2.00pm CET / 1.00pm GMT / 8.00am EST. To view the live webcast or consult the presentation, please visit the companies' websites (www.vivalis.com:
http://www.vivalis.com/ and www.intercell.com:
http://www.intercell.com/). To access the conference call, please dial-in on the following numbers:
Austria: +43(0)1 2530 10153
Germany: +49(0)89 1214 00699
Switzerland: +41(0)22 592 7641
France: +33(0)1 70 99 42 76
Sweden: +46(0)8 5876 9445
United Kingdom: +44(0)20 3450 9987
Netherlands: +31(0)20 721 9158
National free phone US: +1 877 249 9037
Local - New York, US: +1 646 254 3367
Please quote the access code "8043867" when dialing into the conference.
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking is advising Vivalis in connection with the merger. Goldman Sachs International is advising Intercell in connection with the merger.
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About Vivalis
Vivalis is a biopharmaceutical company that provides innovative cell-based solutions to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry for the manufacture of vaccines and recombinant proteins, and develops monoclonal antibodies for the prevention and treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs. Vivalis' expertise and intellectual property are leveraged in two main areas:
1. EB66® Cell Line
Vivalis offers research and commercial licenses for its EB66® cell line, derived from duck embryonic stem cells, to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for the production of therapeutic and prophylactic viral vaccines, virosomes, VLPs and recombinant proteins, including monoclonal antibodies. Clinical trials of EB66® produced vaccines are currently on-going in the USA and Japan and in 2012 a vaccine produced in EB66® cells received market approval in Japan for use in animal health. Through these programs, Vivalis receives an upfront payment, clinical stage milestone payments along with royalties on licensees' net sales.
2. VIVA|Screen(TM) Human Antibody Discovery Platform
Customized solutions for the discovery, development and production of rare, fully human monoclonal antibodies are offered by Vivalis. Through these programs, Vivalis receives payments associated with the funding of discovery research, an upfront payment, clinical stage milestone payments along with royalties on net sales of licensed antibodies that are commercially developed from the use of the platform.
Based in Nantes and Lyon (France) and in Toyama (Japan), Vivalis was founded in 1999 by the Groupe Grimaud (approx. 1,700 employees), one of the worldwide leaders in animal genetic selection. Vivalis has established more than 30 partnerships and licenses with world leaders in biopharmaceutical industry, including Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Transgene, Pfizer Animal Health, Kaketsuken, Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo Vaccine, Merial, Merck Animal Health and SAFC Biosciences. Vivalis is a member of the French ATLANPOLE BIOTHERAPIES and LYON BIOPOLE bio-clusters and a member of the Japanese HOKURIKU INNOVATION CLUSTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCE based in Toyama.
About Intercell AG
Intercell AG is a vaccine-biotechnology company with the clear vision to develop and commercialize novel immunomodulatory biologicals to prevent disease and reduce suffering across the world.
Intercell's vaccine to prevent Japanese Encephalitis (JE) - IXIARO®/JESPECT® - is the Company's first product on the market. This is a next generation vaccine against the most common vaccine-preventable cause of encephalitis in Asia licensed in more than thirty countries. A comparable vaccine for endemic markets based on Intercell's technology was launched in 2012 by Biological E. Ltd. under the trade name JEEV® in India and is currently under review for WHO prequalification.
The Company's technology base includes novel platforms, such as the patch-based vaccine delivery system and the proprietary human monoclonal antibody discovery system eMAB®, in addition to well-established technologies upon which Intercell has entered into strategic partnerships with a number of leading pharmaceutical companies, including Merck & Co., Inc., and Sanofi.
The Company's pipeline of investigational products includes a development program for the pediatric use of Intercell's JE vaccine IXIARO®/JESPECT® in non-endemic markets. Furthermore, the portfolio comprises different product candidates in clinical trials: a Pseudomonas aeruginosa vaccine candidate (Phase II/III), a vaccine candidate against infections with C. difficile (Phase I) as well as numerous investigative vaccine programs using the Company's IC31® adjuvant, e.g. in a Tuberculosis vaccine candidate (Phase II).
Intercell has in-house cGMP capability to manufacture both clinical and commercial biologicals at its fully owned site in Livingston, Scotland. The manufacturing site is currently dedicated to the production of the Company's novel Japanese Encephalitis vaccine. It is licensed and operates under a Manufacturing Authorisation granted by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and it is also registered by the FDA. As such, the facility is subject to routine inspection by the MHRA, FDA and other Competent Authorities in connection with the manufacture, sale and supply of Japanese Encephalitis vaccine (trade name IXIARO®/JESPECT®).
Intercell is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange under the symbol "ICLL" (U.S. level one ADR symbol "INRLY").
For more information, please visit: www.intercell.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This Press Release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to the business of Intercell AG, Vivalis SA or Valneva, including with respect to the progress, timing and completion of research, development and clinical trials for product candidates, the ability to manufacture, market, commercialize and achieve market acceptance for product candidates, the ability to protect intellectual property and operate the business without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others, estimates for future performance and estimates regarding anticipated operating losses, future revenues, capital requirements and needs for additional financing. In addition, even if the actual results or development of Intercell AG, Vivalis SA or Valneva are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this Press Release, those results or developments of Intercell AG, Vivalis SA or Valneva may not be indicative of their in the future. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "could," "should," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "intends," "estimates," "aims," "targets," or similar words. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the current expectations of Intercell AG, Vivalis SA or Valneva as of the date of this Press Release and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievement expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. In particular, the expectations of Intercell AG, Vivalis SA or Valneva could be affected by, among other things, uncertainties involved in the development and manufacture of vaccines, unexpected clinical trial results, unexpected regulatory actions or delays, competition in general, currency fluctuations, the impact of the global and European credit crisis, and the ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protection. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements made during this presentation will in fact be realized. Intercell AG, Vivalis SA and Valneva are providing the information in these materials as of this Press Release, and disclaim any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Important Information
This Press Release and the information contained in it do not constitute an offer to buy, sell or subscribe for any shares in Vivalis SA, Intercell AG or Valneva SE in any country. The distribution, publication or release of this Press Release may be prohibited or restricted by the laws or regulations applicable in certain countries. Persons who are physically present in those countries and in countries where the Press Release is distributed, published or released must comply with local restrictions.
This Press Release has not been and must not be distributed published or released in Australia, Canada, Japan or the United States of America.
This announcement does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, securities to any person in the United States of America (the "United States") or in any jurisdiction to whom or in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. The securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or another exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The offer and sale of the securities referred to herein has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act. Any public offer of the securities in the United States will be made pursuant to a prospectus that may be obtained from the issuer or the selling security holder and will contain detailed information about the company.
The merging companies are European companies. Information distributed in connection with the proposed merger and the related shareholder vote is subject to European disclosure requirements that are different from those of the United States. Financial statements and information may be prepared according to accounting standards which may not be comparable to those used generally by companies in the United States.
It may be difficult for you to enforce your rights and any claim you may have arising under the U.S. federal securities laws in respect of the merger, since the companies are headquartered outside the United States. You may not be able to sue the companies or their officers or directors in a European court for violations of the U.S. securities laws. It may also be difficult to compel the companies and their affiliates to subject themselves to a U.S. court's judgment.