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AIC Executive Director Ben Johnson's Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and provide testimony on behalf of the American Immigration Council. The American Immigration Council is a non-profit educational foundation which for 25 years has been dedicated to increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy and the role of immigration in American society.
Today's hearing on "Enhancing American Competitiveness through Skilled Immigration" provides an opportunity to engage in a thoughtful conversation about the role that immigration can and should play in building a 21st century America that prospers and grows. Prosperity is a shared goal that unites us all, and offers an important lens through which to evaluate the vital role immigration plays in our economy today, as well as the necessity of retooling our outdated and hopelessly broken immigration system. As we do so, however, it is critical for us to recognize that skilled immigration encompasses a wide range of individuals with very different educational and occupational backgrounds. Moreover, the talent we seek very often comes to these shores not only through employment-based channels of immigration, but through family reunification, the admission of refugees and asylees, and can even be found within the current population of unauthorized workers.
In other words, the quest for talent, and the role of immigrants as job creators, entrepreneurs, and innovators, is not an isolated enterprise. It is an integral component of systematic immigration reform. Unfortunately, in the highly politicized immigration debate of the last 10 years, the nuanced and complex role immigration plays in American economic growth, business development, and global competitiveness has too often been reduced to a few buzz words and myths designed to minimize the importance of immigration reform in this area, or to pit native-born workers against their foreign-born colleagues. In my testimony today, I will review the abundant research that supports the creation of a revamped and revitalized immigration system, address some of the common misconceptions about the impact of immigration on native-born workers, and highlight some of the critical policy choices that must be made if we are to truly fulfill the promise of an immigration system that serves a 21st century economy.
The Economic Contributions of High-Skilled Immigrants and Immigrant Entrepreneurs
The research on the positive impact that high-skilled immigration has on our economy is overwhelming, and the risk America faces if it does not continue to support the immigration of highly skilled workers is enormous. Economists, social scientists, business leaders, and a broad range of other experts agree that innovation is the key to growing the economy and creating jobs. And the key to innovation is building, growing, attracting, and retaining a skilled workforce. We will not keep pace with international competition without a robust innovation and entrepreneurial sector. The ability to attract and retain foreign-born workers has been and will continue to be a critical part of this equation.
High-skilled immigration is important for America's twenty-first century economy for several reasons. Immigration and job growth go hand in hand. Immigrant workers provide a needed and valuable complement to the native-born labor force. High-skilled immigration provides a boost to critical sectors of the economy that reach far beyond the high-tech industry. Finally, immigrants play critical roles in the economies of metropolitan areas across the country, including the nation's heartland.
High-Skilled Immigration and Job Creation Go Hand in Hand
Time and again, researchers across numerous disciplines have found that high-skilled immigration creates new jobs for Americans. For example, a 2012 report found that each foreign-born graduate from a U.S. university with an advanced degree who stays in the U.S. to work in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) occupation creates an average of 2.62 jobs for American workers. Innovation on the job also translates into strong entrepreneurial tendencies, which also creates jobs. According to a 2011 report from the Partnership for a New American Economy, immigrants were founders of 18 percent of all Fortune 500 companies, including many high-tech giants. The newer the company, the more likely it was to have an immigrant founder. A 2012 report concluded that from 2006 to 2012 immigrant-founded engineering and technology companies in the U.S. employed around 560,000 people and produced over $63 billion in sales. The report's authors note that immigrants will undoubtedly "remain a critical asset for maintaining U.S. competitiveness in the global economy."
Immigrants bring job-creating innovation and ideas not only to the businesses they create, but to the businesses within which they work. A September 2010 report from the Brookings Institution notes that "among people with advanced degrees, immigrants are three times more likely to file patents than U.S.‐born citizens." The benefits of these patents extend to native‐born researchers and scientists. There is evidence that foreign‐born and American‐born scientists are benefiting from and building off of each other's work. The increased number of patents received by immigrants coincides with an increase in the number of patents awarded to native‐born Americans, thus increasing the overall innovative capacity of the U.S.
High-Skilled Immigrant Workers Complement the Native-Born Workforce
Highly skilled immigrants complement their native-born peers; they do not substitute for them. This is true throughout all high-skilled occupations, but is particularly true in STEM fields. Arguments that immigrants are depressing wages or freezing out native-born workers belie the available evidence. For example, a 2012 report finds that many STEM occupations have very low unemployment compared to the overall national unemployment rate (which stood at 7.9 percent as of January 2013). For U.S.-citizen STEM workers with PhDs (Table 1), the unemployment rate is only 3.15 percent, and for those with master's degrees it is 3.4 percent. In some STEM occupations, the unemployment rate is even lower (Table 2). Unemployment among Petroleum Engineers is 0.1 percent, for Computer Network Architects it is 0.4 percent, and for Nuclear Engineers it is 0.5 percent. Further, those STEM fields in which large shares of workers are foreign-born have low unemployment rates among native-born workers. For instance, although nearly 25 percent of Medical Scientists are foreign-born, native-born Medical Scientists have an unemployment rate of just 3.4 percent.
An analysis of job openings data reveals that STEM jobs take longer to fill than non-STEM jobs and that there are more vacancies in STEM fields than there are STEM degree holders in the average metropolitan area. In 2010 there were seven job openings in computer occupations for every graduate from a relevant computer major at the national level. Yet in high-tech metro areas the demand was even greater: 25 to 1 in San Francisco, 19 to 1 in San Jose, and nearly as great in Austin; Seattle; Washington, D.C.; Des Moines; Charleston; and Charlotte. As a further example, nationally there were six healthcare practitioner job openings for every graduate of a related field, and four job openings for each engineer.
Immigrants are also refilling the talent pool across the country as members of the enormous baby boom generation retire. The National Academy of Sciences concludes that immigration will become increasingly important in maintaining the U.S. science and engineering labor force as more and more native‐born workers retire. According to a 2010 report by the National Science Board, "absent changes in degree production, retirement patterns, or immigration, the number of S&E‐trained workers in the labor force will continue to grow for some time, but the growth rate may slow considerably as an increasing proportion of the S&E labor force reaches traditional retirement age."
High-Skilled Immigration is Critical Beyond the High-Tech Industry
Although the high-tech industry garners the most attention on the subject of high-skilled immigration, the contributions of foreign-born workers reach far beyond the high-tech sector. High-skilled immigrants play a host of other crucial roles in the U.S. economy and society. One example is in our healthcare industry. As the country's population grows older and grows in size, immigrant physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers play increasingly important roles. Recent research finds that the United States is experiencing an expanding shortage of primary-care physicians and this shortage is expected to worsen in the coming decades. A 2012 study in the Annals of Family Medicine suggests that by 2025 the United States will require nearly 52,000 more primary-care physicians. The opportunity for immigrants to fill gaps in underserved areas is significant. In addition to primary and preventive care, immigrants also play a major role in specialized areas of medicine. For example, a 2013 report found that over 40 percent of cancer researchers in the U.S. are immigrants.
High-Skilled Immigration is Critical to Metropolitan Regional Economies
In addition to boosting the national economy and strengthening America's global competitiveness, high-skilled immigrants and immigrant entrepreneurs are important for metropolitan regional economies. This is true not only in San Jose and Silicon Valley, but in many regions across the country. In Texas, San Antonio and Austin have built knowledge economies around the universities and research industries located there. Houston attracts high-skilled workers for the area's oil industry. In South Carolina, Greenville and Spartanburg have attracted industries that need high-skilled workers. In Boise, knowledge-based employment has spurred the local economy and population growth. The universities and research organizations of the North Carolina piedmont, in Raleigh, Greensboro, and the Research Triangle area, create a high demand for high-skilled workers.
Long-term research shows that in addition to bringing more jobs and higher salaries to communities where they cluster, the impact of innovative industries in localities has a profound multiplier effect. Jobs in the innovation economy generate a disproportionate number of local jobs in other industries. An analysis of 11 million American workers in 320 metropolitan areas shows that each new high-tech job in a metropolitan area creates five additional long-term local jobs outside of the high-tech sector. Furthermore, the five new jobs created for each new high-tech job benefits a diverse group of workers: two new jobs for professional workers such as attorneys and doctors, and three new positions in nonprofessional occupations such as service industry jobs. In many U.S. metropolitan areas, the innovation economy, and the high-skilled jobs related to it, drive prosperity for a broader base of workers living in the region.
High-Skilled Immigrants Contribute to America's Heartland
Beyond the Silicon Valleys and Research Triangles of the U.S., high-skilled immigrants and immigrant entrepreneurs are making significant contributions to local economies and communities in America's heartland. In many places, the need for foreign talent is critical. For decades, large numbers of U.S. workers have been migrating from "Rustbelt" cities to the "Sunbelt." The cities and towns experiencing native-born population declines must find ways to maintain a viable workforce. As a result, an increasing number of local communities are recognizing the need to be receptive to immigrants. A growing list of cities and towns across the heartland are officially becoming places of welcome and openness to immigration.
In Michigan, for example, while only six percent of the state's population is foreign-born, immigrants founded around one-third of high-tech companies in the state over the past decade. The state, through its "Welcoming Michigan" campaign of building immigrant-friendly communities, clearly sees the need to attract immigrants to the area. Detroit also recognizes this need. In 2010, the city released the "Global Detroit" report, which documents a start-up rate for immigrant-founded high-tech firms in Michigan that is six times the rate of the native-born population.
Additionally, cities such as Dayton have passed "welcoming resolutions"; formal proclamations by local elected leaders expressing their recognition of the importance of immigration to their local economy, and their openness to the continued contributions of immigrants. In Minnesota, local leaders also acknowledge the positive contributions of immigrants. As a member of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce states: "Immigrants aren't just an asset because they numerically increase the workforce. They are also playing a key role as entrepreneurs in Minnesota and have transformed neighborhoods in both Minneapolis and St. Paul while helping revitalize downtowns in several regional centers around our state."
The Problems with the Current Immigration System
Most observers agree that our current immigration system is outdated and dysfunctional, making it more difficult for the U.S. to compete in the global marketplace and attract the power and potential of high-skilled immigrants and immigrant entrepreneurs. Yet our immigration laws and polices remain mired in the past and are often an impediment to achieving economic growth, job creation, and global competitiveness. As it stands, the current immigration system simply does not provide the right kinds or numbers of visas needed to respond to the legitimate demands of our dynamic economy. High-skilled immigrants face years of waiting for an available visa and an endless array of bureaucratic delays. Immigrant entrepreneurs are completely left out of our current system. And immigrants who are enrolled in or graduates from U.S. universities are increasingly being recruited to other countries where immigration processes are far more welcoming.
Current Visa Caps and Per-Country Quotas are Out-Dated
Our current laws are out of touch with the economic realities of our current economy. The last major revision of our immigration system occurred with the Immigration Act of 1990, which raised the annual ceiling on employment‐based immigration from 56,000 to 140,000 and created the five employment‐based immigration preferences in place today. Despite dramatic changes to our economy since then (including the entire technology boom), our immigration laws have not been updated to conform to evolving economic realities. For instance, the H‐1B visa for highly skilled immigrants is currently capped at 65,000 visas per year, with 20,000 additional visas for foreign professionals who graduate with a Master's or Doctorate from a U.S. university. Since 2003, when the quotas were reduced from 195,000 back down to the 65,000 limit set in 1990, the demand for these visas has outstripped supply every year. In some years, the limit has been reached on the first day the visas are made available. The H-1B and other temporary nonimmigrant visa programs play an important role in U.S. economic growth, innovation, and competitiveness. Companies, including those that make world-class products and deliver services to clients across the economy, rely on these visa programs to fill labor-market gaps and perform critical business functions. A 2012 Brookings Institution report recommends that H-1B visa caps be adjusted each year based not simply on national economic indicators, but on the skill needs of local employers as well as regional economic conditions.
One lesson learned from the immigration reforms of 1986 and 1990 is that it is impossible to predict the business conditions or the demands of the U.S. labor market years in advance. We should not box ourselves in with arbitrary visa caps and per-country quotas. Instances of abuse must be taken seriously, and our permanent and temporary immigration categories can and should be strengthened to guard against fraud and to protect workers. But to deny the important role that these immigration policies play in a global economy is a dangerous mistake. Other countries are spending billions of dollars trying to recruit high-skilled workers, and global competition is only becoming more fierce. For now, the United States continues to be in a position of strength in the global battle for talent. But if we squander this opportunity to reform our immigration system we are jeopardizing a competitive advantage that has been critical to establishing ourselves as the world leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Talent of Immigrant Students and Graduates in the U.S. is Underutilized
The U.S. immigration system should provide clear and efficient pathways to both permanent residence and temporary work visas for immigrants already studying in U.S. universities, as well as those high-skilled immigrants who came to the U.S. through family-based immigration channels or as refugees and asylees. But, at the same time, the U.S. must also commit to strengthening and encouraging STEM education at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Immigration and education reforms together will help solve the problem of future flow in the STEM fields. Reforming the avenues for high-skilled immigration would be a fast way to solve half the equation, while reforming STEM education in the U.S. is a long-term goal for solving the full equation.
Policy Recommendations and Conclusion
More flexibility is needed in the U.S. immigration system. The permanent‐temporary visa dichotomy often fails to work in the best interests of employers or workers. In some cases, employers may only be able to obtain visas for temporary workers when they actually need permanent workers. Workers who arrive on temporary visas may find permanent jobs, but are unable to adjust to a permanent visa under the current system. Our immigration system does not have the flexibility needed to respond to the country's evolving economic needs.
Reforms to high-skilled immigration and immigrant entrepreneur policies should address the needs of both workers and employers. Specifically, reforms should provide job portability, labor protections, and economic opportunities for workers and their families. Reforms should create a nimble and efficient system that responds in real-time to the needs of the market by giving employers the ability to fill positions quickly with workers who are protected from exploitation. Reforms should also provide ample opportunities for immigrant entrepreneurs to spur innovation, job creation, and economic growth for local communities and for the nation as a whole.
We must also be mindful that family-based immigration need not be reduced to improve employment-based immigration. Family‐based immigrants contribute to the economy as well. On the one hand, employment-based immigrants in the U.S. are more productive if their families are with them. On the other hand, immigrants who arrive through family reunification are workers and innovators themselves. There is significant research showing that close family relationships facilitate entrepreneurship because families can provide important resources that foster entrepreneurship, such as support in caring for children and working in family‐owned businesses. According to data from the Small Business Administration, immigrant women in particular are one of the fastest‐growing segments of small business owners in the United States.
As the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy noted several years ago: "Immigration has helped make the U.S. economy, despite its recent difficulties, into the world's strongest and most dynamic; maintaining that economic advantage is the foundation of America's influence and power in the world. If the United States loses its economic edge, its power will diminish. Getting immigration policy right is therefore critical to U.S. economic and political leadership." Furthermore, "immigration has brought to the United States an inordinate share of the world's best talent, which has been a windfall in a global economy where heavy advantages accrue to the most innovative companies and the countries where they are based." Therefore, the U.S. must not squander the brain gain it has enjoyed in the past by letting its outdated immigration system continue to decay. Many other countries around the world have already updated their immigration policies to attract high-skilled workers who are now choosing other destinations when they encounter barriers for U.S. migration. For the U.S. to remain globally competitive, we must embrace the opportunities brought by high-skilled immigrant students, workers, and entrepreneurs.
While Washington continues immigration reform discussions, cities and towns throughout the U.S. confront the economic barriers imposed by a cumbersome and antiquated immigration system on a daily basis. A 2013 report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs asks: "Where does this leave…regions whose future competitiveness depends on a rational, functioning immigration system?" Their answer: "It leaves us high and dry – economically hamstrung, wasting invaluable human capital and increasingly frustrated by a political impasse that violates our values and ideals." Perhaps that is why Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations has characterized America's failure to reform its immigration system as "national suicide."
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Cited: Joyce M. Mattioli, 54, 3268 Wilson Ave., Mingo Junction, speeding; Gregory P. Bell, 38, 6956 county Road 56, Toronto, speeding; Gregory A. Higgs, 39, Lot 5, 185 Smallwood St., Empire, driving with suspended license; and Justin J. Dylewski, 37, 416 S. Fifth St., expired plates and illegal plates.
Charged: Jerry A. Crossland, 19, 726 Brady Ave., trespassing, Monday.
Arrested: Donald S. Mosser, 32, 827 Strupe Road, Rayland, possession of drug paraphernalia and consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle, Monday.
Arrested: Raymond Higgs, 40, 905 Washington St., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Arrested: William D. McGee, 32, 1626 Oregon Ave., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Arrested: Stephanie Lauttamus, 24, 458 1/2 Spring Ave., possession of drugs and failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
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Theft: Catalytic converters taken from three trucks parked off county Road 53, Irondale, Monday.
Theft: Jewelry taken from house in the 100 block of Ohio Street, Mingo Junction, from March 31 through Monday.
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Cited: James C. Turner, 43, 2406 township Road 246, Toronto, leaving an animal in a vehicle; Brandon J. Conrad, 24, Dryfork, W.Va., red light violation; and Jonta P. Lucas, 29, 155 Garfield Way, Follansbee, driving while suspended.
Arrested: Catherine C. Scott, Pittsburgh, public intoxication, Thursday
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- BSO Case Number: DR01-08-2200
- PIO Number: 01-8-21
- Date: June 20 – Aug. 11, 2001
- Time: varied
- Place of Occurrence: GCC theatre, 3990 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield Beach
- GCC theatre, 3990 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield Beach
- 1. Joshua Burgess, 13, 515 Wildwood Lane, Deerfield Beach
- 2. Catherine Lemire, 12, 614 Hollows Cir., Deerfield Beach
- 3. Patrick Lemire, 13, 614 Hollows Cir., Deerfield Beach
- 4. Rafael Alvin, 12, 778 NW 45 Ave., Deerfield Beach
- 5. Matt Zinn, 17, 292 NW 48 Ave., Deerfield Beach
- 6. Jonathan Raspperry, 12, 292 NW 48 Ave., Deerfield Beach
Description of Incident:
Six Deerfield Beach youngsters, ages 12 to 17, were rounded up Thursday night on charges of causing $200,000 damage to a movie theatre which they burglarized.
On Monday (813/01) BSO District 10 deputies were called to the GCC cinema at 3990 West Hillsboro Boulevard. The theatre, which closed 10 months ago but had been maintained intact, had been broken into and severely vandalized. The screens were slashed, projectors were smashed, coca cola syrup was poured on the floor, eight fire extinguishers were discharged, and graffiti was spray-painted on the walls. The graffiti included the names "Josh B, Patrick, Matt, and Catherine." Deputies checked their field interview cards and found one Joshua Burgess, 13, whom they questioned on Thursday. The boy admitted that he and five friends broke into the theatre on several occasions, starting on June 20th, and committed the acts of vandalism. He named his cohorts and they were all taken into custody and were transported to the Juvenile Intervention Facility.
The six suspects include a 12-year-old girl, two 12-year old boys, two 13-year-old boys and a 17-year-old boy. All are charged with Burglary of a Structure with over $100,000 damage and Criminal Mischief over $1,000.
- THIS REPORT BY: Sgt. M Weiner, Lt. T. Varona, Det. D. Argenti, Dist. 10 Jim Leljedal / PIO 8/17/01 1200
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In its monthly report on the oil sector, the IEA said that the projected daily average for refinery runs was up year-on-year by 950,000 bbl, to 75.3 million bbl. Growth is expected to continue into the first quarter of 2013, when refinery throughput is forecast to be 75.8 million bpd.
By CASSIE WERBER
LONDON -- The volume of crude oil passing through global
refineries is forecast to rise in the fourth quarter of 2012,
with China and India leading growth in the sector,
according to the International Energy Agency.
But profit margins for refiners fell in every region other
than the U.S. Midwest in November, the IEA said, due largely to
falling prices for gasoline and fuel oil.
In its monthly report on the oil sector, released Wednesday,
the IEA said that the projected daily average for refinery runs was up year-on-year by
950,000 bbl, to 75.3 million bbl. Growth is expected to
continue into the first quarter of 2013, when refinery throughput is forecast to
be 75.8 million bpd.
report noted that the main driver of this growth would be Asian
countries outside the Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development, a group that represents some of the world's
most affluent countries.
"Growth is concentrated in non-OECD Asia, with both India and China expected to expand
as new capacity is commissioned," the IEA report said.
In October, India recorded record-high refinery throughput of 4.5 million
bpd, while China's refining productivity in September
and October grew year-on-year by 600,000 bpd. China refined a
total of 9.5 million bpd in the fourth quarter.
The IEA said that Russia "surprised" the market by refining
a record 5.6 million bpd in the quarter.
In Europe's refining sector, where there was
some growth in the third quarter of 2012, a return to
contraction is expected in the fourth quarter. The report cited
"weak underlying demand and falling margins' for the slump.
Looking forward into 2013, the report said that China's
independent refining industry is "undergoing
strong reforms," with some small refineries closing and others
gaining permission to import increased quantities of crude.
The impact of these moves isn't yet clear, but could become
significant in the coming year, the report said:
"If the license to import crude oil is extended to all
independent refiners in China, fuel oil market dynamics in the
region could be severely reshaped," the IEA said.
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Given a hyperbolic PDE, the domain of influence of a spacetime point $x$, say $I_x$ though $x$ could be replaced by any set, can be defined in two ways. Lets call one of them geometric ($I_x^G$) and the other analytical ($I_x^A$). In Lorentzian geometry, the geometric domain of influence consists of the interior of the cone of null geodesics emanating from $x$ (let me not bother about whether to include the boundary in the definition of $I_x^G$ or not). In general, a similar definition can be given using characteristic cones instead of null cones. The analytical domain of influence can be defined as the set of all spacetime points $y$ such that for every neighborhood neighborhood $O$ of $x$ there exist two solutions $u_1$ and $u_2$ satisfying the condition $u_1(x')=u_2(x')$, for all $x'$ on a Cauchy surface passing through $x$ except for $x'\in O$, and also the condition $u_1(y)\ne u_2(y)$. The latter one is the definition used in Lax's book on Hyperbolic PDEs.
Similar defintions can be given for the geometric and analytical domain of dependence, say $D_S^G$ and $D_S^A$. Such a definition should capture the desired equality $D_K = I_{S\setminus K}$, for a Cauchy surface $S$ and $K\subset S$ (once again, being sloppy with boundaries). I know that energy methods can be used to establish that $D^G_K \subseteq D^A_K$ (the analytical domain of dependence is at least as large as the geometric one). Hence, by duality, the same methods establish $I_K^A \subseteq I_K^G$ (that the geometric domain of influence is at least as large as the analytical one).
My question is about the reverse inclusion, $I_K^G \subseteq I_K^A$ or by duality $D_K^A \subseteq D_K^G$. Maybe it's too much to ask for the analytical and geometric definitions to coincide. But when they do, what methods are used to establish that? When they don't what methods can identify the obstruction? Except briefly in Lax's book, I don't know what references discuss this problem explicitly, so those would also be appreciated!


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In July 1996, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. This news was devastating because I never thought I would get cancer with my healthy lifestyle. I live with my husband and four adopted kids in a homemade cabin in the Lolo National Forest in Western Montana, where we raise goats and chickens. After my diagnosis, my life went topsy-turvy. The shed that my husband and I had overhauled to be my menopause room became my cancer-recovery room instead. My shed became known as The Pouting Shed, where I went to escape, to sleep, to paint, to write and to pray.
Some of my survivor sisters urged me to join an art program, where I wrote and painted my disease, my treatment and my cure. I sewed dozens of prayer flags and strung them around my Pouting Shed and garden.
Rainbow Prayer Flag was created from a collection of beads or baubles from many of my cancer sisters. I sewed them onto the flag with their initials and then decorated them. I think of each bead as holding a prayer -- for those who have gone through the cancer experience and for those just beginning. The black-and-white background represents the darkness and light in the world with the circular form symbolizing the eternal circle of life. The colors of the rainbow are a reminder of God in all His glory, who is in charge of this bewildering journey and the final outcome.


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MICHETTI, Alphonse, 87, of Wellsburg, WV, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, November 15, 2012.
Alphonse retired from Gen Pac in Wellsburg, where he was a shipping supervisor, and was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Wellsburg, WV.
He was born in Wellsburg on February 3, 1925, to the late Santarella and Alexander Michetti.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by the love of his life, his wife of 65 years, Rose Mary Quattrocchi Michetti in 2009. Alphonse was also preceded in death by his son, Paul E. Michetti, granddaughter, Amy Fithen, brothers, Dom, Joe and Felix Michetti and sisters, Mary Campagna and Rose Janoski.
He is survived by three children, JoAnn (Del) Knotts of Reynoldsburg, OH, Shirley (Charles) Fithen of Moundsville, WV, and John (Jan) Michetti of Concord, NC, a daughter- in-law, Kaye Michetti of Wintersville, OH. grandchildren include, Robert Sohovich (JoAnna) of New Albany, OH, Jennifer Erwin of Reynoldsburg, OH, Charles Fithen of Moundsville, WV, Blake and Brandon Michetti of Concord, NC and Marco and Stacia Michetti of Wintersville, OH. Alphonse has three great-grandchildren, Libby Erwin, Xavier Sohovich and Sophia Fithen. Alphonse is survived also by his sisters, Annie (Joe) Carissimi, Lucille (William) Bayless of Wellsburg and Mildred Bayless of Follansbee, sisters-in law, Edna Michetti, Ann (Albert) Stasiulewicz, Marg (Matt) Kovarik, and brother- in-law, Robert Quattrocchi.
Visitation will be held Sunday, Novrmber 18, 2012 from 6-8 p.m. and again Monday November 19, 2012, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. with a Rosary service being held at 7 p.m. at Reasner Funeral Home, 1515 Charles St., Wellsburg, WV.
Funeral Liturgy with Mass will be held Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Wellsburg, WV, with Father Dan Pisano as Celebrant. Interment will follow at Brooke Cemetery, Wellsburg, WV.
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Curious as to what the 'Cl' stat is listed on the character sheets, seems to be gone from 2nd and 3rd edition. I searched on the 'nets but have been unable to find any solid info on stats for 1st edition.
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When converting characters to 2nd edition (2e), 2e Will Power is computed as the average of Will Power (WP) and Cool (Cl) from 1st edition (1e) characters.
It's Cool. Which was used in both WFB1-3 and WFRP1 for the morale checks.
In fact, here's the whole list:
WS, BS, S, T, W: all were 1-10 in both WFB and WFRP1


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A sleepy driver drove off Fairground Road around 11:43 a.m. Friday and struck a manhole cover and a fence before coming to rest just south of Oak Street on the White County Fairgrounds property.
A Carmi Police Department accident report identified the driver of the Pontiac Grand Am involved in the crash as 49-year-old Sylvia Seibech of Carmi. The owner of the fence is the Fairgrounds and the owner of the manhole and cover was identified as the City of Carmi.
The damage topped $1,500 and the vehicle was towed from the scene.
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I had a pppoe connection and I am trying now to connect to another network without pppoe. I've made the following modifications in the
/etc/network/interfaces file:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# auto dsl-provider
# iface dsl-provider inet ppp
# pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
# provider dsl-provider
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Also, a have deleted the
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file.
Now, I am unable to restart the network service with
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
and the booting of the system takes me up to 5 minutes.
Please help. :) Thank you.
PS: I've figured it out. I had the dhcp turned off. I used
sudo dhclient eth0.


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Google Nexus 4 - T-Mobile for $0 + free shipping
Free after $50 mail-in-rebate.
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Cool deal, but for new customers only. It's like $385 for an existing customer.
I'm curious if this comes with all the t-mobile + other bloatware that their phones come with.
At least it's easily rootable.
It shouldn't come with any extra software - that's the point of the Nexus line, pure Google.
No bloatware at all... My source is having just had to help my father set one up.
dum fone doeznt have siri
@bsmith1: Call them if you are eligible for upgrade. If you have been with them for a while, they would honor the promo price for new customers for renewing ones, too. I just got mine (I have been with them for 10 years) at this deal.
Good deal on the phone, but check out your options with their 4g prepay plans. It might be less expensive in the long run for you to buy the phone outright from Google and then enroll in one of their prepay plans. The 2-year contract plans are more expensive.
I wish t-mobile had better coverage so I could use it around here. I'd love to get one of their prepay plans and save a ton of money and get a badass phone like the nexus 4.
No contract extension price is $549? Aren't these $300 straight from google?
Get this, then pay the ETF after 30 or 60 days or whatever it is and then go prepaid. :-)
I almost got one of these until I realized it has a fixed memory (16GB in this case). No card slot. My music alone would eat that.
just use google music, problem solved. I got the 8 gig because I didnt have the extra cash. Between google music and a free 50gigs from box, I haven't ran out of memory yet and don't think I will
@squidboots: I agree with this. I bought the phone from Google's Play Store when it first came out and have been using it with T-mobile's online/walmart only $30 per month plan (5 GB of 4G data, unlimited text, but only 100 min. talk). The savings in my phone bill alone will basically make up the cost of the phone in about a year, and plus I'm not under contract.
I don't know why mickster1245 got downvoted. If you're coming from an Android phone with an SD card slot, this is definitely something to be aware of.
I've had this phone for about 2 weeks now and I'm blown away! The speed is ridiculous. And it's a pure Google experience so it's updated direct from Google, no waiting on carriers to tweak things. Mine was updated to 4.2.2 after two days. And on a side note, Tmobile's coverage is spotty but I'm lucky enough to pull their HSPA+ in my area. I hit a 28 mb/s dowload speed the other night. My buddy sitting next to me on Verizon's 4G LTE hit 9 mb/s.


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I've recently been thinking about why my peers and other people I've helped learn vector spaces had trouble intuitively understanding the concept, and it occurred to me that non-numerical (i.e. nothing like $\langle 3,2,3 \rangle$ or obvious addition/multiplication operations) examples could reinforce intuition. For example, a huge problem was understanding that a vector space is simply a set of vectors with two operations that follow 10 axioms, and that a zero vector isn't necessarily all zeroes, and so on.
Does anyone have any great examples of vector spaces (and the vectors and operations in them, of course) that are non-numerical, and thus can't lead to those trying to prove their validity to being stuck in ruts (like assuming the zero vector is all zeroes, that the inverse vector is the negative scalar multiple, etc.)? Pictures, letters, and any others would certainly be interesting!
Note: I know that there are questions about vector spaces with unusual (and only partially valid) characteristics or out of the ordinary operations, but I'm looking for examples that have minimal numbers involved, to remove all automatic assumptions that are involved in them.


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Offering yet another illustration of the true agenda behind what the United Nations mischaracterizes as "human rights," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claimed the polarizing U.S. Supreme Court ruling purporting to redefine marriage for all 50 states was a "great step forward for human rights in the United States."
Hundreds of Haitian women and children were raped and sexually abused by predators in the United Nations "peace" military, according to a draft UN report obtained by the Associated Press, adding to a growing deluge of sex and murder scandals surrounding the controversial "blue helmets." The news comes just months after UN troops in Mali slaughtered unarmed civilian protesters and UN forces in the Central African Republic were exposed systematically raping children as young as nine years old. Of course, the latest scandals also follow decades of similar abuses by UN forces, especially across Africa.
In response to the mushrooming scandals surrounding predatory UN troops who rape and abuse civilians, the tyrant-dominated global outfit is reportedly working a plan for paternity testing to uncover so-called "peacekeeper babies." But instead of truly dealing with the grotesque revelations, the UN is busy persecuting whistleblowers who exposed the horrors while plotting ever-grander "peace" missions by its military forces. Critics worldwide and from across the political spectrum, however, say it is time for real investigations and an end to UN impunity.
The pro-transparency organization WikiLeaks is raising cash to offer a $100,000 reward to a whistleblower willing to leak the top secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, a radical pseudo-"free trade" treaty so nefarious that the Obama administration and its foreign allies and cronies are working overtime to hide it from the American people and even their elected representatives.
As the threat of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack grows, the North American Aerospace Defense Command is moving back into its previous Cheyenne Mountain underground bunker in Colorado Springs.
As the Obama administration makes ready to normalize relations with Castro's Cuba, a new tell-all book shatters the mythology spun by America's leftist media to romanticize Fidel's brutal Communist dictatorship.


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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
When Elizabeth first came to The Salvation Army, she was losing hope. Just released from the hospital, she'd come home to discover her electricity had been disconnected due to nonpayment.
When Elizabeth first came to The Salvation Army, she was losing hope. Just released from the hospital, she'd come home to discover her electricity had been disconnected due to nonpayment.
Salvation Army Farm Gears Up for Olympic Host Role with International Mountain Bike Event
The Salvation Army's Hadleigh Farm, in Essex, UK, stepped up its preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games by hosting an international mountain bike competition this weekend. The competition was a trial run for when the venue hosts the Olympic mountain biking in August 2012.
The sold-out Hadleigh Farm Mountain Bike International attracted more than 4,000 spectators to see 82 of the world's top mountain bikers get to grips with the London 2012 course. France's two-time Olympic champion Julien Absalon won the men's race and described the course as "difficult technically and also physically." The women's race was won by Catharine Prendel from Canada.
The mountain bike course sits on part of The Salvation Army's 900-acre Hadleigh Farm, which has a long history of helping unemployed individuals and adults with special needs with training and employment. The land was bought in 1890 by Salvation Army founder William Booth as the location of a farm and training center to help poor people from industrial London.
Today the site includes The Salvation Army's Hadleigh Employment Training Centre – providing employment and life skills for a wide range of vulnerable adults – as well as tea rooms run by the trainees which are open to the public. Trainees from the center helped make signs for the viewing area of the mountain bike course.
The Salvation Army and Essex County Council are developing legacy plans for the course to ensure not only a great event in 2012 but also long-lasting benefits for the local area and community.
A short video clip about the event and the work at Hadleigh Farm can be found by clicking here. Find out more about Hadleigh Farm and its association with London 2012 at www.salvationarmy.org.uk/london2012.


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GROESBECK (October 16, 2012)--A man from Grand Prairie pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Limestone County to charges stemming from a brutal double murder that happened on Sept. 11, 2011, just outside Mart and was sentenced to two 60-year prison terms.
Judge Patrick H. Simmons sentenced Charles Griffith, 39, to serve concurrent 60-year terms after Griffith pleaded guilty to murder in the September 2011 deaths of Jeffrey Summers, 42 and Pam Lykins, 56, whose bodies were found early in the morning on Sept. 11, 2011 on Limestone County Road 318, about a tenth of a mile from the intersection with Ranch Road 342 just outside of Mart.
Griffith originally was charged with capital murder but agreed to the two 60-year terms in exchange for his guilty plea to murder, assistant Limestone County Attorney Brodie Brooks said.
Brooks said Griffith's wife, Katherine Diane Griffith, pleaded guilty two weeks ago to aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon finding for stealing Summers' truck and was sentenced to serve 30 years.
Both originally were indicted for capital murder in November of 2011 in the stabbing deaths of the Mart couple killed in what authorities described as a brutal frenzy.
Autopsy results showed that Summers died of sharp force injuries to the torso" and that Lykins was also stabbed to death.
"This was a very gruesome crime scene," Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said at the time.
"It was a very brutal murder."
Griffith admitted to investigators he stabbed the couple to death in a bloody frenzy, but he didn't reveal a motive, Wilson said.
Wilson said Griffith led investigators to a set of keys to a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that was stolen after the murders.
Wilson said the evidence indicates Griffith, Summers and Lykins were "old, long-time acquaintances" who were last seen together on the night of Sept. 10 at the drag races in Prairie Hill.


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Do You Like Beyonce's New Red-Lipped Look?
We're used to seeing Beyonce in modern-goddess-mode at red-carpet events — soft waves, colorfully defined eyes, and glossy lips. So, we almost had to check that the singer-actress wasn't in character for her role in the upcoming Dreamgirls when we saw her in red lips, penciled brows, perfectly-set retro curls. But, she was actually using a friend's birthday party last week to test out a new look. We think Beyonce can pull off any style, but we can't decide if she should keep the new look or stick with the tried-and-true? Tell us: Which is Beyonce's best look: Red-carpet goddess or red-lipped retro?
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The BLM, a leader in our nation's wildland fire management efforts, undertakes a broad range of activities to safely protect the public, the natural landscape, wildlife habitat and recreational areas for our country's citizens. The program includes fire suppression, preparedness, predictive services, fuels management, fire planning, community assistance and protection, prevention and education, and perhaps most significant, safety. The BLM meets these challenges by fielding highly trained and skilled professional firefighters and managers. Reducing the risk and consequence of wildland fires continues to grow in importance; however, suppression operations and safety continue to be the core of the overall fire program.


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Shouldn't VIVUS Raise Capital Now? (VVUS)
While we have started mostly using The Wire at 247wallst.com for our biotech and active trader posts (among many other aspects 50 to 100 times per day), we have a question for BioHealthInvestor readers after VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) has basically doubled on news of Qnexa getting a recommendation for approval from a FDA panel…
If you were the CEO or CFO of VIVUS, wouldn't you immediately go out and raise capital now?
Our take is not just "yes" but a resounding yes. With $150 million or so in net tangible assets as of September 30, 2011, with a ten-year history, and for many more reasons, this would seem like a shoe-in for a capital raise.
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Rare Analyst Calls With Huge Upside in Vical and VIVUS (VICL, VVUS, BMY)
Vical Inc. (NASDAQ: VICL) and VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) are both running higher this Friday on news that Credit Suisse initiated both biotech outfits with "Outperform" ratings. What matters more than the call are the price targets and the inferences made in the research calls.
Vical Inc. (NASDAQ: VICL) is rarely given huge analyst calls due to what is a small $250 million or so in market cap. The team at Credit Suisse initiated Vical with an "Outperform" rating this morning but more important is its price target of $7.00 per share. This represents more than a 100% move compared to the $3.45 close on Thursday. What was more impressive was the $7.00 price target versus a $3.45 close before, indicating just over 100% upside.
Credit Suisse noted that Vical's lead product Allovectin is in a Phase III trial for the treatment of metastatic melanoma but noted that it also has a pipeline of other vaccine product candidates. The firm's discounted cash flow target is based solely on Allovectin, which the firm noted "makes Vical a high risk investment because Allovectin still needs to successfully complete Phase 3 and the FDA approval process." The firm went on to note impressive Phase II data with overall survival of chemo-naïve and experienced patients as being 18.8 months. It further noted that the drug did even better in chemo-naïve patients with a median overall survival of 22.5 months versus 11.2 months from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) Yervoy+DTIC in chemo naïve patients.
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) was also started as "Outperform" with $15 target at Credit Suisse. The firm noted the title "The Road to a New Obesity Drug Is Tough, but
It Ain't Over 'Til the…" The firm believe that VIVUS' weight loss pill Qnexa will be approved in the United States as a drug to treat obesity with a restricted label in the second quarter of 2012 and then will be approved in Europe in the third quarter of 2012. Credit Suisse's discounted cash flow based target price is driven entirely by Qnexa. The firm went on to note, "which makes Vivus a high risk investment because our target price is dependent on US approval."
Vical is up 5% at $3.62 on normal trading volume and VIVUS is up 4.5% at $9.92. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) is down 1.5% at $31.26 on the day.
More Signs of Life for Obesity Drugs (VVUS, OREX, ARNA)
VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is getting yet one more sign of life for its Qnexa drug aimed at treating obesity. The emerging drug outfit has reached an agreement with the FDA on resubmitting its new drug application as an obesity treatment.
Here is the plan: "VIVUS intends to resubmit the QNEXA NDA by the end of October 2011, prior to completion of the FORTRESS study. Top-line results from FORTRESS are expected in December 2011, with validation of FORTRESS expected in the third quarter of 2012. The FDA also stated that an Advisory Committee meeting for QNEXA will be held in the first quarter of 2012."
It was also just earlier this week that its Avanafil phase III study results were shown again to be positive in its REVIVE study in diabetes.
What helps VIVUS here is that treating obesity also in effect treats diabetes, heart and respiratory conditions, hypertension, dyslipidemia, allows for more active lifestyles, and more. It also needs to be noted that the FDA has treated most obesity treatments as taboo due to side-effects and and due to a lack of results in many instances. The history of obesity drugs is a marred one.
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) and Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) are also both up a limited amount as they are "the other obesity drug contenders" by Wall Street's eyes. Those are not as close, not by a mile, if you note the share prices. Orexigen is up 2.5% at $1.41 and Arena is up 3% at $1.43.
VIVUS stock is up almost 8% at $9.14 but the stock was up in the double-digits at $9.62 earlier. As of 11:15 AM EST there have also been more than 2.7 million shares traded when the average volume is only 1.5 million shares.
Before the effects of this news pop, Thomson Reuters had a consensus price target objective of $11.69 on VIVUS and the 52-week trading range has been $5.28 to $11.48.
Analysis Sizing Up FDA Approval Chances of Obesity Drugs (VVUS, OREX, ARNA)
We have a new report sizing up obesity drugs this morning from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The long and short of the three ratings is that Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) and Vivus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) are both rated 'Buy' at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, but Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) is 'Underperform' rated. As always, it is the devil in the details that offers the most insight.
Vivus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is finalizing its study design and the company's President said efforts to finalize the trial design is assessing the risk of fetal malformations from Qnexa use in pregnant women. The company will complete its retrospective analysis and re-file the Qnexa application by year-end. If the fetal malformation results are bad, then Vivus will re-file for a limited indication that excludes excluding women of child-bearing age. BofA believes this will boost the chance of commercially available in 2012 and it has a discounted cash flow model price of $10.00 ($7 of which is based upon Qnexa). An earlier than expected approval or securing a commercial partner could offer upside.
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) is getting ready for an FDA meeting this quarter and its CFO focus is on that meeting. The company hopes for FDA approval on cutting the time required for pre-approval. It so far is assuming 0.5% per year in major cardiac event risk. The company indicated that Takeda would participate in the upcoming FDA meeting for Contrave. BofA sees a relatively low downside risk for Orexigen with a discounted cash flow price target of $5.00. It is using a 50% chance of success in its model but noted that upside could be seen if the FDA approves trials faster, if it secures an international sales partner, or if managed care organizations add weight loss drugs to formularies.
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) will conduct a three month "rat carcinogenicity trial" of Lorcaserin to satisfy the requirements in FDA's complete response letter. Arena will conduct several non-human studies to assess the potential role of elevated prolactin levels. The company submitted results from its BLOOM-DM trial on obese patients with diabetes showing a statistically significant reduction in A1c and fasting glucose levels from lorcaserin. Bank of America remains cautious and has a $1.00 discounted cash flow target on Arena. The risks to its $1 target are an FDA request for long-term trials, a rejection of the lorcaserin NDA, an approval with restricted use, and a slower than expected sales ramp after approval. Some upside could be there if lorcaserin gets approval before expectations, if production costs are lower, and if lorcaserin can gain market share faster than is expected.
For whatever this is worth, BioHealthInvestor's take is that the most likely of these three to get approval is Vivus for Qnexa and then Orexigen for Contrave. Our take is that Vivus will get approval but it will exclude pregnant women and those who may wish to become pregnant. Most doctors already monitor pregnant womens' medications as is and it seems that a doctor would not want at all for a pregnant woman on a weight loss drug during pregnancy going in. Many doctors are even against most basic vitamins and supplements during pregnancy, let alone most prescription drugs.
After Orexigen's Implosion, Now What? (OREX, VVUS, ARNA, ABT)
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) is beyond ugly after the FDA said that the company must now submit more trial data before its new diet pill Contrave may be cleared for sale. The vote was 13-against versus 7-for votes and now the FDA is asking for another study on the drug's cardiovascular risks.
Outside FDA advisers said back in early December that the benefits of the weight loss exceed the dangers of a higher pulse and blood pressure, with the indication that a larger study targeted on risks of the heart might until after the final drug approval. That wasn't so.
Both VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) and Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) have been in a race with Orexigen to introduce the first approved diet pill for weight loss in a about a decade. Now all of these products are on the back-burner and approval will not likely be seen in the near-term on any of these drugs.
Orexigen is down 71% at $2.63 and shares hit a new year low and the new 52-week range is $2.50 to $11.15. VIVUS is down 15% at $7.57 and its 52-week range is $4.69 to $13.68. Arena shares are flat at $1.58 as its hope was already diminished.
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) recently pulled its Meridia weight loss pill off of the market due to heart risks. Orexigen was expected to receive royalties from partner Takeda if it was approved. At issue with all these drugs is that they all have the possibility of becoming blockbuster drugs with more than $1 billion in annual sales from America alone. The competing drugs Qnexa from VIVUS have concerns about birth defects tied to one of the ingredients, while lorcaserin from Arena has tumor risks associated with it.
Contrave uses two approved drugs as a cocktail and the target areas are different parts of the brain which influence appetite and influence cravings. One is an antidepressant and one is a treatment for alcohol and opioid addictions. While patients lost generally 5% of their weight after a year, the weight loss group had a higher pulse and higher blood pressure than the placebo.
What just happened is that Orexigen was put in a situation where it has to evaluate what to do with its lead candidate. A new trial will easily run into the millions and millions of dollars and the time frame could easily run well over a year. Just how big the costs and how long the time would be, well that is still up for debate. Orexigen had just over $100 million in cash and short-term investments at the end of September-2010. Chances are that this is not enough cash.
Things went from maybe to awful here. Now it is dire.
M&A Bonanza For Drug & Biotech in 2011 (MRK, PFE, ALXN, DNDN, HGSI, CEPH, UTHR, CADX, AMAG, SNY, GENZ, AMGN, BEC, TEVA, SGMO, LLY, ALTH, CBST, VVUS, AUXL, VRTX)
The game of predicting mergers and acquisitions in the biotech and in pharma sectors is not a new one. The talk heats up, then it dies down. A deal comes, followed by another deal, and the activity goes quiet. This next week is likely to have at least more chatter in the biohealth sector for possible mergers and acquisitions after Barron's gave a cover story called "The New Doctor in the House: Consolidation."
Barron's noted that "as big drug firms buy up smaller, specialty outfits and their most innovative products, better pipelines and sales-force efficiency will boost profits." Here is the thing to consider: Barron's did not really offer anything new or ground-breaking this weekend. It will have rekindled some hope that M&A is coming in the space. At issue: pipeline fatigue. A note we'd throw in as well, dead-dead stocks. We are going to at least address some of the Barron's roster, but we want to show you many others which are just as or even more likely acquisition targets. Some of ours have even been in-play before.
Barron's threw in Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) and Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE) as the largest of the Big Pharma players and it threw out biohealth names with stock-market values below $10 billion:
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALXN) with a $7.5 billion value after a hueg run-up;
- Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) for Provenge for prostate cancer (and future cancers) with a $5 billion market value today;
- Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI) for its Benlysta in patients with severe active lupus nephritis and CNS lupus and a $4.5 billion market cap;
- Cephalon, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH) is one we have rarely looked as since things quieted down there;
- United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ: UTHR) for its treat pulmonary arterial hypertension and an almost-$4 billion value;
- Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CADX) was noted for its pain medication without the addiction aspects of morphine and its value is only $369 million;
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAG) was called a value stock despite its recent weak sales and despite its cash burn with a $368 million market cap.
Much of the biotech M&A game hinges on Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) in its chase to acquire Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ). The latest talk is that a work-out could come to $80 all-in if certain milestones were achieved but the deal is still south of there officially. As noted above, we have our own opinions on which biotech companies and drug companies could find their way into the hands of a larger acquirer.
Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) is likely to continue being an acquirer. The company recently announced a deal worth potentially $1 billion to acquire privately-held BioVex. Last year the company said it was aggressively looking for new targets and its $52 billion market cap is the largest of all the independent biotechs in America. The company has more tricks up its sleeve.
Beckman Coulter Inc. (NYSE: BEC) went into play in early December with private equity firms being the likely acquirers of the portfolio of biomedical testing equipment and supplies. We argued at the time of the premium that it seemed shares fully reflected that value, and shares are actually lower now.
And don't forget Sangamo Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: SGMO), where shares rallied in November on rumors of a potential bid interest from Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY). It had good news on ZFP Therapeutic program to develop SB-509, a zinc finger protein transcriptional activator (ZFP-TF) of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A gene as a treatment for ALS and the news flow has continued to propel shares higher. It went above $4.50 on the rumors but now shares trade at $7.39. The market cap is still low here at $334 million.
Allos Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTH) has been another name floated out there for M&A possibilities, but things are looking less and less bright for the company. Shares hit a 52-week low just on Friday.
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CBST) has not really gone anywhere as it is deemed a mature company, but it is one we thought for sure that would find its way into being part of a larger company. Its Cubicin is on the market and it fights severe hospital-induced infections and the market cap is $1.3 billion here.
VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) remains a wild card due to the FDA. Diet and weight-loss pills have not been given any real love by the FDA. The exception here is that Qnexa does have serious benefits. There are side effects, particularly in cases of pregnancy. We would ask this though: How many pregnant and soon-to-be-pregnant women really diet? Most doctors don't even want pregnant women taking supplements, let alone drugs. IF the FDA approves Qnexa, that $680 million market cap may be worth far more.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NASDAQ: TEVA)… We have also noted Teva's mega-cap ambitions, and making more acquisitions would generally get there.
Last year, Morningstar put out a list of three favorites that it sees as acquisition targets in the biohealth space: Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL), Human Genome Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI), and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX). FULL ARTICLE
This should at least give you a better and more concise list of possible deals and deal-makers for 2011. Just remember this, regardless of what Barron's or other media outlets try to tell you: not all biotechs have to be acquired, not at all.
VIVUS Takes QNEXA Obesity Fight to Europe (VVUS)
VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) has done what was expected. It is not going to bet its entire future on the US FDA regulatory process for its QNEXA obesity pill. The company is applying for marketing approval in the European Union.
The company filed its European Marketing Authorization application for QNEXA as a treatment for obesity. The indications it filed for in the EU are for weight loss and maintenance of weight loss which should be used in conjunction with a lower calorie diet.
The EMA review will follow a centralized marketing authorization procedure and the company noted that, if QNEXA is approved, that it could receive marketing authorization in all European Union nations possibly as soon as late-2011.
VIVUS is not exploding higher on the news but shares are up. After a $9.78 close on Friday, VIVUS shares are indicated up around $10.12 in Monday's pre-market trading.
Analyst Highlights VIVUS Against Orexigen (OREX, VVUS)
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is out with a very positive call for VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) after Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) received an FDA panel backing yesterday for its Contrave diet pill for weight loss. The thesis here is that the path for FDA approval of Qnexa for weight loss will also be set.
BofA/ML raised its rating to BUY and more importantly it raised its price target objective to $12.00 from $6.00 in the call.
The note says, "We previously had low expectations for a near-term approval for VIVUS' obesity drug Qnexa, due to concerns that the FDA would require a large scale cardiovascular events trial prior to approval, consistent with the agency's more cautious stance on CV risks for metabolic drugs.
The FDA advisory panel's vote for Orexigen's Contrave is expected to provide VIVUS with a more clear path to overcome the FDA objections and requests.
Another issue is better efficacy for Qnexa from VIVUS. BofA noted that Qnexa has a better effect on blood pressure reduction and a better risk/reward profile with better efficacy against Contrave at 9% weight loss versus 5% weight loss.
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) is trading up above $11.00 in early pre-market trading after a $4.87 close and against a 52-week range of $3.81 to $8.88. VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is trading up at almost $9.00 in early pre-market indications after a $7.80 close and against a 52-week range of $4.69 to $13.68.
Contrave Panel Backing, New Love for Diet Pills (OREX, VVUS, ARNA)
What? An FDA panel backing in the diet pill arena? Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) had seen some controversy grow around its Contrave diet drug pill to assist in weight loss, but tonight is good night at the company. An FDA panel voted 13 YES to 7 NO in an advisory panel recommendation before a formal FDA review for approval. If approved, this would mark the first real diet drug in a decade. This news is likely to bolster rivals as well.
Contrave was voted on favorably after its benefits in weight loss in the obese are greater than the risks. Earlier comments voiced concern over heart risks.
While the FDA formal approval or denial is not assured, the general trend is that the FDA follows a panel advisory recommendation when the votes are a large majority in favor of approval.
Orexigen's news is going to be a win for other speculative emerging pharma companies. VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) closed up over 10% at $7.80 and the stock rose over 8% to $8.45 in the after-hours trading session. Despite delays at the FDA, this is one we have thought would get approval even if the conditions are great. Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) closed up 2.15% at $1.41 and shares are up over 11% at $1.57 in the after-hours.
Today was not an assured win for the diet pill drug segment. It was the next best thing.
VIVUS Marches on in Erectile Dysfunction (VVUS)
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is indicated higher on news after it announced positive results from is Phase III study of Avanafil or TA-314. This is VIVUS' investigational drug candidate for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
The company reported that this study met all primary endpoints with improvement from baseline in erectile function as measured by the Sexual Encounter Profile (both SEP2 and SEP3) and improvements in the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF). Patients treated with avanafil who attempted sexual intercourse (SEP3) within the first 15 minutes of dosing had success rates of 80%.
The open label study was in over 700 enrolled patients using avanafil as needed and at a dose of their choosing. The company noted that continues to anticipate the completion of the new drug application filing for avanafil in the second quarter of 2011.
Additional gains in the study were that 80% of sexual attempts among patients on avanafil had erections sufficient for intercourse. Some 67% of patients taking avanafil experienced successful intercourse, and successful intercourse was achieved as early as 15 minutes after dosing.
In the safety profile, Avanafil was well tolerated as evidenced by a low rate of discontinuations due to adverse events with only 2.8%. The most common side effects reported were headache (5.6%), flushing (3.5%), nasopharyngitis (3.4%) and nasal congestion (2.1%)
Lastly, there were no drug-related serious adverse events reported in the study.
VIVUS shares are indicated up around $7.15 right after 8:00 AM EST, a gain of about 4.1%. The 52-week trading range is $4.69 to $13.68.


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Grid viewready event?
I had previously been handling the viewready event in my grid to automatically select the first row after the data was loaded. The viewready event is no longer available, so is there another way to accomplish this?
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I think I've figured it out. For anyone else who's having this issue, the afterrender event of the Ext.grid.Panel seems to provide the same functionality.
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Ext.grid.View refresh event seems to be a closer match.
I found that the Grid 'afterrender' event was occurring before the view was ready with the data display, so I changed my code to listen to the grid.View 'refresh' event. Here is a code snippet:
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Independence Bank hosted the Chamber of Commerce's After Hours event Thursday and it was all about the men and women who are first responders
Local firefighters and police officers filled the room, as the bank presented each station with a framed print, of a painting of an exhausted firefighter sitting on the sidewalk, after working all day on September 11th.
The picture was given as a token of appreciation, to 14 local stations.
President of the bank, Brad Howard, says,"we look at them as kind of the unsung heroes in the community. They really put their lives out on the line for us and I don't think they get enough recognition for that."
The painting by Peter O'Neil, is titled, "Two Minutes of Silence."
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Why Linear Algebra named in that way?
Especially, why we call it
linear? What does it mean?
Why Linear Algebra named in that way?
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Linear algebra is so named because it studies linear functions. A linear function is one for which
$$f(x+y) = f(x) + f(y)$$
$$f(ax) = af(x)$$
where $x$ and $y$ are vectors and $a$ is a scalar. Roughly, this means that inputs are proportional to outputs and that the function is additive. We get the name 'linear' from the prototypical example of a linear function in one dimension: a straight line through the origin. However, linear functions can be more complex than this (or indeed, simpler: the function $f(x)=0$ for all $x$ is a linear function!
Of course, I've brushed a lot of detail under the carpet here. For example, what kind of space are $x$ and $y$ members of? (Answer: They're elements of a vector space). Do $x$ and $f(x)$ have to belong to the same space? (Answer: No). If they belong to different spaces, what does it mean to write $ax$ and $af(x)$? (Answer: you need an action by the same field on each of the vector spaces). Do the vector spaces have to be finite dimensional? (Answer: no, and in fact nearly all of the really interesting linear algebra takes place over infinite-dimensional vector spaces).
I hope that's enough to get you started.
I think linear refers to the fact that vector spaces are not curved. For instance, the wikipedia page for linear spaces gets redirected to the page on vector spaces. So does the one at MathWorld.
From Moore in The axiomatization of linear algebra: 1875–1940 I've learned that:
The word "linear" means "of or pertaining to a line or lines". See http://jeff560.tripod.com/l.html for some of the earliest known uses of various types of "linear" objects.
The subject studies linear transformations between vector spaces. Hence the name. If you read up the definition of a linear transformation in Wikipedia, you will agree that the adjective linear is apt.


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EU biodiesel makers have long complained that subsidies and incentives for biodiesel makers in Argentina and Indonesia give them an unfair advantage. Argentina's Foreign Ministry denounced the duties as an attempt to shield EU companies from more competitive Argentine producers.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The European Union has decided to slap
anti-dumping duties on biodiesel imported from Argentina and
Indonesia following an investigation at the behest of European fuel producers.
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and may be reconsidered for the purpose of any definitive
measures," according to a filing published this week in the
EU's Official Journal.
The EU launched an investigation into the alleged dumping
after the European Biodiesel Board, which
represents producers that account for 60% of EU biodiesel
production, lodged a complaint in July 2012.
EU biodiesel makers have long complained that subsidies and
incentives for biodiesel makers in Argentina and Indonesia give
them an unfair advantage.
Argentina's Foreign Ministry denounced the duties as an
attempt to shield EU companies from more competitive Argentine
"This is a protectionist decision that lacks technical
justification," the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Argentina frequently finds itself embroiled in trade
disputes with its major trade partners.
The South American country has filed complaints with the
World Trade Organization against US barriers to Argentine beef
and lemons.
Last year, the US, the EU, Japan and other countries filed
WTO complaints against Argentina's trade policies. President
Cristina Kirchner has resorted to controversial trade barriers
since late 2011 to help domestic industry and to reduce her
country's import bill.
Argentina is the world's top biodiesel exporter, but
production and exports have dropped off sharply since
September, when the government modified the industry's export
tax incentives. Biodiesel exports fell 11% on the year to $1.85
billion, according to Argentine data.
Earlier this month, Argentina filed a new WTO complaint
against the EU's biodiesel import rules.
Argentina has requested consultations with the EU. If those
talks don't resolve the dispute in a 60-day period, Argentina
can seek a WTO dispute settlement panel.
Argentina is challenging measures taken by the EU and
several member nations that affect the importation and
marketing of Argentine biodiesel. Argentina's complaint also
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Rachel intended for Bilhah to be something of a "surrogate mother" - the children that Bilhah would bear would of course be biologically hers, but they would also be considered Rachel's. [She thus asks Yaakov to marry Bilhah, so that "she will give birth upon my knees" - as Onkelos explains, "I will raise the children" - "and I will thereby be built up through her" (Gen. 30:3).] Leah did the same with Zilpah.
So generally speaking, Bilhah's and Zilpah's contributions to the Jewish People are subsumed under the names of their respective (former) mistresses, Rachel and Leah.
That said, Arizal (Shaar Hapesukim to Deut. 4:20, et al) states that in several places where the Torah mentions ברזל, iron, it hints at the four mothers בלהה, רחל, זלפה, לאה, whose initials (in this order) form this word. So we see that they do indeed rank as mothers of the Jewish People (and indeed, note that they precede Rachel and Leah in this enumeration).
A parent isn't only biological.That is why you can refer to the parent who raised you as your father on a Kesuva with the qualifier "HaMegadel".
The four mothers participated in the Holy Education of their children, including the other four children of Bilha and Zilpa. Hence, although Bilha and Zilpa were great women, their role in the education and Holy development of their own children was secondary to Rachel and Leah's influence. This is why we all consider Rachel as our Mother, even though most of us are children of Leah.
I would also note that the surviving tribes, Yehuda, Binyamin and Levi are all decendents of Rachel and Leah. The tribes that came from Bilha and Zilpa are all gone.


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The island of Lombok will once again celebrate the age-old tradition of Bau Nyale or catching the Sea Worms Festival in the forthcoming month of March.
This year, the festival will be concentrated around the period of Bau Nyale Poto (the End of Bau Nyale) rather than the Bau Nyale Tunggak (the start of Bau Nyale) which occurred on the end of January. The festival will centerat the Kuta Beach, in the Loteng Area, while exact dates still await confirmation which will be decided by a meeting of the council of traditional community leaders and keepers of the four cardinal directions.
Bau in the Lombok language means "to-catch" and Nyale is a type of sea worm that surfaces only around this time of the year. Therefore, Bau Nyale is the festive ceremony when large crowds gather to catch the Nyale along a number of Lombok's finest beaches.The Sasak are the dominant ethnic group inhabiting the island of Lombok, in West Nusatenggara.
Held annually on the 20th day of the 10th month of the traditional Sasak Calendar, this year the festival will be highlighted with various traditional competitions such as bekayaq, cilokaq, peresean, begambus, berbalas pantun (traditional rhyme dueling competition), and boat rowing competition. As a grand event for the people of Lombok, the Bau Nyale festival also presents various art performances, such as: the Wayang Kulit (Leather puppets Show), and the theatrical play on the legend of the Nyale Princess.
The Nyale festival is also known on the neighboring island of Sumba, where the ceremony is followed by the Pasola Jousting Festival.
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François Englert and Peter Higgs Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Scientists' Theory Confirmed by Detection of Higgs Boson Particle
Peter Higgs and François Englert shared the Nobel Prize in physics for independently proposing a particle, now known as the Higgs boson, that confers mass to all other particles and whose recent discovery stands as one of the seminal moments of modern science.
Nearly a half-century after predicting the existence of the particle, the pair's work was confirmed last year, in a nail-biting experiment undertaken at the atom-smashing machine built by the European particle physics laboratory at CERN in Switzerland. That July day, in a packed hall in Geneva, Drs. Higgs and Englert met for the first time.
After further analysis, physicists at the Geneva laboratory said earlier this year they are confident that the particle they had discovered was in fact the one Mr. Higgs and his colleagues had predicted.
Though widely expected, the Nobel award is also a controversial one, partly because several other scientists—and CERN itself—can claim significant credit for work done on the boson. A Nobel Prize can be shared by a maximum of three people and isn't granted posthumously.
Dr. Englert, a Belgian who is 80 years old, published his landmark 1964 paper with colleague Robert Brout, who died in 2011. Other strong contenders were three scientists— Carl Hagen of the University of Rochester, Tom Kibble of Imperial College and Gerald Guralnik of Brown University—who published a very similar theory just a month after Dr. Higgs of the U.K. published his paper, which affixed his name to the fabled particle for posterity.
"I'd be lying if I said it doesn't sting a little" not to share in the prize, Dr. Guralnik, 77, said in a phone interview. "No matter what, [the Nobel committee] had a difficult time" in choosing the winners. But, he added, "we are amazed and delighted that our mathematical exercise turned out to play a huge part in describing how nature works."
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In a statement, Dr. Higgs, of the University of Edinburgh, congratulated "all those who have contributed to the discovery of this new particle."
The Higgs boson explains a big puzzle about matter concerning why some objects in the universe such as the quark, a constituent of protons, possess mass, while others, such as the photon, a constituent of light, have only energy and zip around the universe unhindered.
Until this enigma was resolved, physicists couldn't properly explain why many things in the universe exist, from stars and planets to germs and people.
Dr. Higgs and others explained away the problem by proposing a ghostlike field that pervades the universe—space, after all, is already filled with other invisible fields, such as the gravitational field and electromagnetic field.
The scientists' notion was that particles acquire mass only in contact with this field, which would become known as the Higgs field. How much mass they acquire depends on the type of particles they are. Some, like the photon, seem to ignore the field and don't acquire mass at all.
By contrast, electrons interact with the field. If the field were to disappear, the suddenly massless electrons would zoom away at the speed of light—and all matter would collapse.
"The Higgs field is always there," said Dr. Guralnik. "It slows down the particles and induces a mass to them."
The Higgs boson and its associated field neatly filled a potentially embarrassing hole in one of the most successful theories of physics, known as the standard model. But it was only a theory. It took half a century for the physicists' bold theoretical leap to be confirmed by experimental science.
Last year, hundreds of scientists assembled at CERN, and others tuned in to a live webcast, to hear a report on the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider. The quest for the elusive Higgs had involved some 6,000 scientists, cost millions of dollars and required billions of particle collisions. "I think we have it," said Rolf-Dieter Heur, CERN's director general.Dr. Higgs, now 84, received a round of applause when he entered the auditorium, and shed a tear on hearing the news. He was heartened that his main finding had been so concretely and dramatically confirmed.
"It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he said.
"The miracle of the standard model is that it works so well," said Dr. Guralnik. "But we have many, many open questions, such as [the mystery] of how gravitational interactions occur."
The Nobel Prize in physics is seen as the most prestigious award of its kind, and comes with an 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.25 million) cash award. The winner is selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, after a process in which thousands of scientists world-wide are invited to name contenders.
—Niclas Rolander in Stockholm contributed to this article.
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Devil's Den State Park will host a Birder Weekend Friday and Saturday at the park, 11333 W. Arkansas 74 in West Fork.
Park interpreter Terry Elder said the weekend will be a great opportunity for novice and experienced birders alike to learn from birding experts. Birders Joe Neal and Karen Garrett will lead hikes throughout the weekend and share their knowledge, while Lynn Sciumbato of Morning Star Wildlife Center will offer a presentation at noon Saturday with an upclose view of owls and hawks.
"There are lots of our annual warm-weather, feathered friends visiting now," Elder said in a news release. "Whether you are an experienced birder or whether you are just starting out, this weekend will be a great time to come to the park and learn from the experts."
Programs for Birder Weekend at Devil's Den include:
• 4-5 p.m. — "Eat Like a Bird," a fun game to learn about the interesting adaptations of birds beaks; meets in the Audio/Visual room at the Visitor Center.
• 6-7 p.m. — "Bird Observation Hour," in which birding expert Garrett will lead bird watching; meets at the parking area by the Highway Bridge at the Lake Trail Trailhead.
• 7-8:30 a.m. — "The Early Birder;" attendees should bring binoculars; meets at the Horse Day Use parking area on Arkansas 220.
• 9-11 a.m. — "Bird Identification Walk;" bring binoculars for the slow-paced walk; meet at the Lake Trail Trailhead by the Lee Creek Bridge on Arkansas 170 (not the suspension bridge).
• Noon to 1 p.m. — "Live Birds of Prey;" attendees can bring a camera; meets at the amphitheater near Area E.
• 2-3 p.m. — "Storytime with Mother Nature;" attendees will make an owl craft; meets at the Visitor Center in the Audio/Visual room.
• 7:45-9 p.m. — "Bird Game for the Bird Brains;" meets in the Amphitheater near Area E.
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