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Deal with Garmin. Intermap Technologies has signed an agreement with Garmin Ltd., a manufacturer of satellite navigation equipment. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Intermap will furnish 3D elevation data for the United States and Western Europe derived from its NEXTMap countrywide digital map database. Initial Garmin products utilizing NEXTMap data are expected to reach the consumer market beginning in the first half of 2010.
With NEXTMap data, Garmin can enhance its outdoor product line through terrain rendering and the creation of shaded raster imagery. Additionally, with seamless three-dimensional data across multiple countries, Garmin can create elevation-sensitive content and applications across the range of its product line. Neither company has released detailed contract terms. See www.garmin.com.
Agreement with Skyguide. Intermap has signed a cooperation agreement with Skyguide to deploy an advanced terrain and obstacle solution in support of the Electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) mandated initiative of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Intermap and Skyguide, the organization responsible for providing air navigation services within Swiss airspace and in the airspace of certain adjoining regions in neighboring countries, will provide ICAO-compliant and seamless terrain data for eTOD Areas 1 and 2 as well as any customer-supplied data in an industry-compatible database.
Under ICAO mandates, member states are required to provide more accurate terrain and obstacle data in the vicinity of aerodromes as part of a strategy to increase safety while efficiently managing the growth in air traffic. Intermap's aviation data service will allow air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and civil aviation authorities (CAAs) to operationally plan more efficiently while providing an increased level of quality, all enabled by the unprecedented accuracy and consistency of Intermap's NEXTMap elevation data and its multi-nation coverage.
The NEXTMap dataset will enable ANSPs and other users to create more accurate planning of arrival and departure routes. Historical cross-border harmonization problems, such as lack of standardized data format and ease of use, are no longer issues, allowing users to concentrate on the operational use of the data. The seamless data can also be used by other applications such as radio navigation coverage calculations, simulations, or terrain warning systems, including minimum altitude warning systems.
The service will incorporate options to include the collection of terrain and obstacles in eTOD Areas 3 and 4, provision of a Web interface, and the creation of powerful analytical tools not typically present in ATM-industry-standard software. The process for collecting the NEXTMap dataset is currently undergoing certification by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). See www.intermap.com.
Listing in Fast Company. Intermap was listed in Fast Company's annual Most Innovative Companies issue, which honors major brands including Facebook, Google, Cisco, Disney, and GE, along with such rising newcomers as Foursquare and Clearwire. Overall, Fast Company recognized more than 250 companies in 24 categories, including advertising and marketing, biotech, film and TV, media, music, and mobile. Intermap was named in the top 10 mobile companies list that also included Google, Apple, Amazon, Ford, and others.
To create this year's Most Innovative Companies issue, Fast Company's editorial team analyzed information on thousands of businesses across the globe. The result is a package unlike that of any other business media. It's not just about revenue growth and profit margins; it's about identifying creative models and progressive cultures – to define the many forms of innovation that exist across the business landscape. Fast Company recognized Intermap's AccuTerra product, a navigational application for Apple's iPhone that allows users to track, store, and share their outdoor recreation experiences – all without a WiFi connection. Intermap's high-resolution digital elevation model serves as the foundation map source for AccuTerra. Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies issue (March 2010) is on newsstands now, and is online at www.fastcompany.com.
A provider of digital content products and technologies, ebrary has created a publicly available research center featuring hundreds of government documents related to natural disasters and extreme weather. The company gathered authoritative public domain information from government Web sites and created an interactive, searchable database. Using DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast) and other ebrary services, it aggregated PDF content and developed its new Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center.
The new site (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/disaster/home.action) launched by ebrary is one of a series of research centers that the company's employees are building on topics that are important to them. Last November, ebrary staff created the H1N1 Searchable Information Center, which is freely available at http://h1n1.ebrary.com/home.action.
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Information from MDA's Information Systems group's RADARSAT-2 satellite will help guide the Catlin Arctic Survey expedition that includes lead explorer Ann Daniels and an international team of research scientists. The expedition, which set out on March 15, will investigate the potential effects of carbon dioxide on the Arctic Ocean. This is the second Caitlin expedition that MDA has supported.
From the vantage point 798 kilometers above Earth, RADARSAT-2 data are charting the way for the three British polar explorers. RADARSAT-2 imagery will assist the team in identifying potential hazards and obstacles as they trek over the ice, in addition to locating safe sites that will allow aircraft to deliver vital supplies to them. The satellite will provide nearly real-time operational information that will give them the bigger picture of ice conditions in the hours and days ahead. For its part, MDA plans to correlate the data collected by the expedition with the RADARSAT imagery to determine the ability of the technology to measure ice thickness.
MDA has a strong history of supporting Arctic surveillance for the Canadian Government using RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 imagery for daily surveillance of Canada's Arctic and its ocean passages. The Canadian Ice Service and the Canadian Coast Guard rely heavily on RADARSAT imagery to chart ice conditions to assist ships in route planning and navigation, not only in Canada's high north, but also along key transportation corridors such as the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Representing a major enhancement of Canada's successful RADARSAT program, the federal government recently announced funding for the construction of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM). RCM is a three-satellite configuration that will further enhance Canada's ability to ensure its sovereignty and security through space-borne maritime surveillance, including the Northwest Passage. See www.mdacorporation.com.
Merrick & Company is acquiring and processing light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and visible near infrared (VNIR) hyperspectral imagery for a U.S. Army Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) project located in Orlando, Florida. The work is being done under a contract for Applied Research Associates, a 1,400-person, international research and engineering company.
STTC's mission is to ensure the dominance of the U.S. Army by creating, integrating, and delivering technology-enabled solutions. These advanced technology simulators provide key training opportunities for war fighters. The collected data will provide the basis for urban terrain modeling and will be used to design a 3D simulation training model. The data provided includes 128 spectral bands and .5-meter pixel resolution VNIR hyperspectral imagery, along with 0.5-meter ground sample distance (GSD) LiDAR data in order to provide a very high-fidelity data set. Features that will be extracted from the data include bare earth, building footprints, tree canopy points and polygons, surface hydrology, road networks, and utilities. The data are being collected over a 19-square-mile area.
The company recently released Version 6.1 of the Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS) software suite, a production-grade Windows application designed to manage, visualize, process, and analyze LiDAR data with powerful visualization capabilities and unparalleled performance. See www.merrick.com.
GCS Research, a developer of advanced geospatial technology solutions, has introduced a downloadable property information application that allows users to view location-specific information from smartphones running the Android operating system. The 'Montana Parcel App' leverages mobile geographic information system (GIS) technology, phone-based GPS, and other Web services to access publicly-available property data and geometry from two Montana databases.
The Montana Parcel App allows smartphone users to access real estate information remotely from anywhere in the world or while standing on a property in Montana. Users can rely on the phone's built-in GPS receiver to pinpoint their current location in the state, or they can zoom into a mapping interface to select an area of interest. Within seconds, the application retrieves location-specific property information for the selected site from two Web-enabled databases.
The first is a parcel boundary file maintained in a Montana cadastral database. This cadastral information is managed in an ArcSDE geodatabase and served over the Web by ESRI's ArcGIS Server solution. The smartphone application traces the property boundaries in red on the phone's map display. Next, the application accesses the State of Montana CAMA (Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal) system, where it retrieves property details, such as owner name, parcel legal description, acreage, assessed value, and zoning code. The mobile mash-up leverages the Android mobile operation system to deliver a personal solution for anyone wanting to have the information at their fingertips.
Users may download Montana Parcel App for free by searching for "GCS" in the Google Android Marketplace on their Android OS phones. GCS Research will soon migrate the Montana application and other mobile GIS tools to additional smartphone operating systems. GCS plans to continue development of location-based services that harness the GPS-based sensors, other embedded sensors, and video/still imagery cameras on smartphones for mobile GIS applications involving augmented reality, geospatial analytics, and advanced geometric calculations. See www.gcs-research.com.
Aerotec, LLC recently provided airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for IBM's "Smarter Planet" series of videos. "Data Anthem" was produced by Ogilvy & Mather New York and directed by James Frost of Zoo Films. Aerotec's airborne LiDAR was used for the opening scene and some of the follow-on scenes. The videos sought to use the most compelling, arresting ways of visualizing actual data to complement the message of the importance of data, the context for its proliferation, and the enormous opportunities that lie within it.
IBM's "Smarter Planet" videos are being used to convey the idea that the data all around us is spatially and logically "connected" and can be processed in a variety of ways to enrich our daily lives on the planet while preserving the planet and its resources at the same time.
Aerotec provided airborne LiDAR point cloud data for approximately seven square miles of the downtown area of Houston, Texas at a nominal point density of 40 LiDAR points per square meter. Emphasis was placed on detailed definitions of all buildings, from their top down to street level. Street details were also provided, including cars, trucks, and pedestrians. Additionally, emphasis was placed on infrastructure, such as elevated roadways, railroads, drainage features, and other elevated structures. Post-production added dimension and space within the environment to convey the idea that our world is alive with data. See www.aerotecusa.com.
The video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cj6VtYpBI4 or downloaded at http://www.yousendit.com/download/THE3ZGVkWkJFd2QzZUE9PQ.
Hiparc Geotecnologia has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamL medium format camera system. The deal was brokered by Vexcel Imaging reseller GeoToolBox Ibérica S.L. (GTBi), based in Madrid, Spain.
Taking advantage of the large-format camera concept that has proven successful with the UltraCamX, UltraCamXp, and UltraCam Xp Wide Angle, the UltraCamL offers the same geometric accuracy and dynamic range in the medium format market. The UltraCamL is the largest medium format camera system on the market today suitable for smaller aircraft and projects requiring a rapid response. The system is ideal for smaller large-scale and photogrammetric projects, high-resolution (true) orthophoto production, DSM (digital surface model) production, aerotriangulation, corridor mapping, and LiDAR integration. See www.vexcel.com and www.hiparc.com.
MapMart, an online source of mapping and imagery data sets, has added ATLIS Geomatics 10cm-30cm aerial imagery to its offerings. A growing number of Canadian cities from the ATLIS Geomatics data set are now available online at MapMart, as well as from the free MapMart On-Demand Toolbar.
Until recently, geospatial data users had few options in purchasing aerial imagery of Canada, but ATLIS has emerged as a premier provider of high-resolution Canadian data. MapMart has partnered with ATLIS tooffer high quality data for the Canadian urban and rural areas in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Canadian cities that will be coming online during Q2 are Calgary, AB, Morden and Winkler, MB, and municipalities throughout Southern Manitoba. See www.mapmart.com and www.atlis.nl.
LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, has released a new version of LiDAR Compressor, which enables users to turn giant point cloud data sets into efficient MrSID files. This latest release, version 1.1, offers improved lossless compression performance, better data quality for lossy compression and many other user interface improvements.
A trial version of LiDAR Compressor is available as a free download on LizardTech's website at www.lizardtech.com/download.
RapidEye – a geospatial solutions provider that owns and operates a constellation of five identical Earth observation satellites that allows it to combine large-area coverage, frequent revisit intervals, and high resolution – recently signed a partnership agreement with Florida-based Harris Corporation's Government Communications Systems Division. Harris Corporation is an international communications and information technology company that produces wireless equipment, electronic systems, and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense, and commercial sectors.
Harris already incorporates RapidEye's 5-meter resolution data into its TrueTerrain true-color orthomosaic products for the visualization-simulation and mapping markets and will be able to offer new, image-based products covering large areas to its global customer base. RapidEye is very focused on expanding awareness of its products in those markets. RapidEye's satellite constellation of 5-band multispectral 5-meter data provides a new source of commercial imagery that will allow Harris to build a suite of value-added products to better serve its commercial and governmental customers alike. RapidEye's worldwide network of partners and distributors is continuously growing to provide customers an avenue to purchase RapidEye products in their own region and in their own language.
The RapidEye Geodata Kiosk, an online shop for satellite imagery, now has more than 6.5 million square kilometers of North and South America as well as the whole area of Germany. All satellite data in the Geodata Kiosk are multi-spectral, orthorectified level 3A products and are ready to be integrated into any GIS. The data includes the full states of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas in the United States, as well as the Brazilian states of Bahia, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraná, and Săo Paulo.
Millions of additional square kilometers of Earth are available in the RapidEye Library. It contains more than 730 million square kilometers, of which around 410 million square kilometers have less than 20 percent cloud cover. The library is continuously growing as the company downloads new images from its satellite constellation daily. See www.harris.com and www.rapideye.de.
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I want to share my recent experience as a random act of kindness recipient. Sunday morning I stopped at a restaurant on Eisenhower Boulevard for breakfast and a take-out-order for dinner. The lobby was filled with people waiting for their tables. While I was sitting on the bench waiting for my table, a young couple said hello to me. After being seated I noticed this same young couple were seated near me.
After finishing my breakfast the waitress brought my take-out order to the table and told me she had a surprise for me. She proceeded to tell me my bill was totally paid for by the young couple who were seated near me. By this time they had already finished their breakfast and left the restaurant. Needless to say I couldn't believe the random act of kindness they showed to me, a total stranger.
With tears in my eyes, I left the restaurant wishing I could have thanked this special young couple for making Sunday a very special day for me, a senior citizen.


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Evidently, hickory flew out of Universal Percussion's shipping dock throughout 2009, because Vic Firth, Inc. has named the Midwestern percussion distributor its North American Distributor Of The Year for 2009. Firth presented Universal with a plaque and personal letter from company chairman Vic Firth and sales and marketing director Mark Dyke. After receiving this prestigious distinction, the entire company put on matching t-shirts lined up for a photo. Boy, they sure know how to party at Universal, don't they?


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"The Canyons" opens with several shots of decaying, abandoned movie houses. Marquees are empty, theater seats hang off their hinges, neglected lobbies are strewn with debris. In these moments, as the credits run, Grand Rapids-born director Paul Schrader establishes the tone and theme of his film – the cinema is in a depressed state. Many images are of dead cineplexes, so the movie isn't just another lamentation about the classic theatrical experience being Wal-Marted, and replaced by multi-screen corporate monsters. Rather, it's a thoroughly modern commentary on how the art of filmmaking is corrupt, and bankrupt.
The lens, however, was turned back on Schrader in January. The New York Times published a piece, bearing the ominous headline "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie," about the troubled production of "The Canyons." It depicted the filmmaker as desperate - "Schrader is now 65, and still begging for coins," it reads.
In the wake of the expose, the movie has become an exhibition of bitter irony: It tells the story of five morally deficient individuals skirting the edges of the motion-picture industry. They live in a chintzy, empty and thoroughly clichéd version of Los Angeles, and "The Canyons" is ultimately a chintzy, empty, thoroughly clichéd work. It's not the cinematic catastrophe we may expect it to be. It's merely dull, and wafer-thin. It's something you'd watch when you need to catch up on your magazine reading.
The movie within the movie is kind of an idea MacGuffin. The characters talk about it, and it's the gasoline fueling the plot. But Bret Easton Ellis' screenplay is more licentious soap opera than cultural criticism. One line addresses something more than just the tangled interpersonal affairs of its principal characters: "Tell me something: Do you really LIKE movies?" The answer, directed towards Tara (Lohan) is most likely "no." Schrader's attempts to give the film any depth via setting and photography – a scene shot in an Amoeba Music store slowly pans over the rows of DVDs – seems haphazard.
A long-winded opening sequence establishes the primary players. Tara is living with her beau Christian (James Deen), a bored trust-fund kid producing a slasher movie to be filmed in New Mexico. As a favor to Tara, he has cast her ex-boyfriend, Ryan (Nolan Funk), as its lead. Ryan's girlfriend is Gina (Amanda Brooks). All four have engaged in various sexual interminglings with each other, some in secret. The characters seem unable to speak the truth to each other, and pose, often shirtless or scantily clad – as superficial Los Angelino scenesters apparently do – reciting plot points. They are terrible conversationalists, uncharismatic and generally unpleasant to be around.
They also have very dour, stilted sex. Christian routinely invites strangers to his Malibu Hills mansion for nude group shenanigans. He also has a mistress, would-be actress Cynthia (Tenille Houston), but is hypocritically jealous of Tara's potential extracurricular activities, and hires a kid in a hoodie to follow her around. The much-discussed sex scenes – of the NC-17 variety, although the film is released sans MPAA rating - sputter when they should smolder. One foursome, during which Tara tries to wrest control from sexual commandeer Christian, is comically awful, spattered with neon laser lights and drenched with sullen synthesizer pop music that seems like a public-domain ripoff of the "Drive" soundtrack. Even as exploitation, "The Canyons" is a failure.
In order to acknowledge its few flimsy attempts at subtlety, the film needs our attention. But its script, direction and acting do not demand it. Tara is allegedly game for Christian's sexual experimentation, but Lohan performance is more out of duty for a paycheck ($100 a day, plus a percentage of the profits, according to the aforementioned Times article) than her character's compulsion to please her man out of love and/or fear. Deen, subverting his porn-star career for a "serious" role, wears one trite expression of arrogant malevolence throughout the entire film. The screenplay is structured as a series of repetitive scenes of cruddy dialogue, leading to a predictable climax bearing very little dramatic weight.
Schrader has openly discussed how difficult it is to get an independent movie made in 21st-century Hollywood. "The Canyons" exhibits precisely that – its dramatic inertness is symptomatic of a production saddled with a miniscule budget and a troubled star. Its infamy most likely will make it modestly profitable. The director apparently believes in the film and stands behind Lohan, as he should. He steers away from camp, suggesting a larger artistic intention, which is a hopeless cause. There's very little entertainment or insight to be found here.
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and Dr. APRIL C. LEE,
Your Sept. 23 story concerning women's services represents that free and low-cost family planning services on Staten Island have been "scattershot, limited to a few options for adolescents and Medicaid recipients."
This conclusion does not reflect our experience at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), where, since 1992, we have been proud to offer a well-evaluated and model comprehensive Family Planning Program to all Staten Islanders. In 2009 alone, our Family Planning Program provided necessary care to 2,583 patients, cumulating in 5,444 visits. For these visits, 98 percent resided in Richmond County, 63 percent of patients were seen at no charge, and 28 percent were under age 20.
Over the past 18 years, at four geographically diverse and accessible sites (SIUH-North, the Bay Street Health Center, the Center for Women's Health and SIUH South), we have provided comprehensive reproductive health visits for women and men, From the beginning of our program, SIUH has paid attention to the reproductive health care needs of women, as well as men, providing all with education and the tools to become, and stay, healthy partners.
Thank you for the opportunity to share our successes as we rededicate ourselves to providing health care to all who would request it.
[The above writers are the vice president of Ambulatory Services and the director of Adolescent Medicine, respectively.]


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Featuring a 15.4 in a padded laptop compartment, fleece lined pocket for your phone, camera, phone or sunglasses. The backpack expands to allow more space for your sailing gear when needed. Two main compartments separate your dirty clothes from your clean clothes. Four external volume reducer straps ensures that your gear stays locked in place. Comfortable, padded shoulder straps that feature a chest buckle and a removable waist strap. Has a bottom and top handles for multiple carrying options.


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FOLEY, Ala -- Ivan Jones Stadium was eerily quiet Saturday morning. The stands were empty despite the historic event happening on the field.
Gathered together for a unique photo op were eight of the nine living Foley football coaches, a group of men that have combined to lead the Lions the past 56 years while accumulating 371 wins.
In attendance were Winton Wise, Ivan Jones, Lester Smith, Barry Pennington, Teddy Suttle, Jimmy Nazary, Russ Moore and Todd Watson. Bill Meredith, who coached FHS from 1945-52, was hospitalized just days before the event. Anna Campbell, the youngest daughter of Harry West, who coached Foley in its first season of football in 1924, joined the group.
"He'd be amazed, I'm sure," Campbell said when asked what her father, who died in 1966, would think about the growth of Foley football. "Even though he gave up teaching school and coaching many years ago, he was still interested in sports."
They gathered in the L-Den to reminisce about their days leading the Lions and what Foley has meant to their lives.
Smith (1969-85, 2001-04), the winningest coach in Foley history with 127 victories, was able to poke fun at himself for what happened after each of his departures.
"To show how you how smart I was, I left Barry with Herbert Casey, probably one of the top-five players ever at Foley, and I left coach Watson with Julio; shows something about my brains," he said with a smile.
Jones (1955-68) led the Lions to undefeated seasons in 1960-61 and both teams were voted state champions. The Lions' stadium was named in his honor in 2004.
"The early 60s was a great run for Foley with coach Lester Smith at quarterback," he said. "I was real, real fortunate to be at Foley at that time."
Nazary (1991-97) spent 15 years as the junior high coach prior to being named head coach by Smith, then the principal. Nazary's 1995 team was the first in school history to win 11 games. The night before the coaches' gathering, he called the offense for both teams in the first FHS alumni game.
"I've always believed in Foley blue and gold and that's just the way it is," he said.
Pennington (1986-87) was hired as an assistant coach by Smith and worked the 1974-77 seasons. He left to become the head coach at Jackson for three seasons and won a 3A state co-championship in 1979 before eventually returning to Foley.
"Lester used to tell me when I was coaching at other places, we'd be coaching against each other, he'd come up, shake my hand and say, 'Remember this: Once a Lion, always a Lion,'" Pennington said. "That stuck in my mind a long time."
Suttle (1988-90) played under Smith in the 70s and worked as an assistant before being hired as head coach during Smith's tenure as principal. Suttle remembers his '89 team that reached the second round of the playoffs most fondly.
"I was very proud of them for that because there wasn't a whole lot of talent, but there were a lot of great people," he said.
Moore (1998-00), the current FHS principal, has connections to several of the other coaches. He played summer league baseball for Jones, junior high football for Nazary -- who he later coached under -- and played varsity for Smith, Pennington and Suttle.
"I'm just proud to be part of Foley football," he said.
Wise (1953-54) coached under Merideth before taking the reigns. He started the school's track team in the spring of 1955.
"I had a good bunch of guys, a good group of young men," he said. "I'm still in contact with a number of individuals that were on my team. They were the ones that made me the coach that I was."
Watson said his best and worst memories of football happened at Jones Stadium. The low came during his playing days when he had a PAT blocked and missed a potential game-winning field goal as BCHS lost 7-6 to Suttle's Lions in 1988. The high was Foley's 16-14 win against Daphne in 2007 that was nationally televised on ESPN2.
Watson noted that he's heard former players do impersonations of Jones and Nazary.
"What it tells me is they were listening and were very influenced by these guys that came before me," he said. "And what a foundation of tradition that they've started; it's just amazing."


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At 4:55 p.m., traffic is moving without significant delays on Route 78 in both directions through Hunterdon County, according to 511nj.org and HART Commuter Information Services.
Likewise, there are no major delays on Route 202 or on the major secondary roads in the county.
Earlier this afternoon, an accident due to a jackknifed tractor trailer.was cleared from Route 31 in West Amwell Township in the area of the Amwell Valley Self Storage facility, according to an alert issued at 2:13 p.m. HART Commuter Information Services
There was also a two-car accident with a vehicle fire reported at about 1:50 p.m. today, June 5, on Route 22 in front of the Spinning Wheel diner.
Two vehicles are involved, according to radio reports, and one caught fire. In the second vehicle, someone initially was reported as being trapped..
Information about traffic conditions in Hunterdon County came, in part, from HART Commuter Information Services. For the latest traffic alerts, visit the HART Commuter Information Services page.
To sign up for traffic alerts from HART, go to the sign-up page.
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The day after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon causing death and injury to innocent spectators, Western Massachusetts runners who had close ties to the event were still reeling in shock and disbelief.
"It's the families, friends and spectators I think about," said Longmeadow's Seth Roberts, who has run Boston 15 times and writes the running column for The Republican. "I know how much work it is for families, and friends who come to watch."
This time, many watched in horror as two bombs exploded. Now Boston will forever be linked with places like New York City, Oklahoma City, Aurora, Colo. and Newtown, Conn.
Chicopee High School athletic director Jim Blain was among the 127 area runners taking part in the race for Griffin's Friends. He was not more than 500 yards past the finish line when the first of the two bombs went off.
The tents blocked Blain's view of the explosion. But he did see the plume of smoke from both blasts.
"It was confusing and so surreal," Blain said. "It's something I will never forget and I can't help but wonder what if I had stopped to stretch or for another water break? I would have been right there when it happened."
Race officials walked the runners past the finish line and told them to keep moving after they finished in order not to block the finish line.
"When we got to the Public Garden, the duck boats were running, people were playing soccer and then we saw the first responders," Blain said.
Blain the rest of the Griffin's Friends boarded the bus to bring them home and they all watched the news.
"Physically, I'm fine," Blain said. "But mentally and emotionally, I'm not myself and my thoughts and prayers go out to the families."
Steve Buoniconti, a former state representative and state senator from West Springfield, who has run the race 11 times, crossed the finish line about five minutes before the bombs went off.
At the end of his 26-mile run, Buoniconti, feeling fatigued, but satisfied with his time of 3 hours, 48 minutes, was near Boston Common about five minutes later.
That's when he heard the two explosions. His and a sea of other heads swiveled toward the noise. It was not immediately clear what happened.
"There wasn't a panic at first," Buoniconti said. "You could see something was going on, but it turned fast."
Within 15 minutes, he was in his car passing Massachusetts General Hospital and saw first responders pulling the wounded from police vehicles, their hands, legs, heads and shoulders bandaged, in many instances.
When he made it to Storrow Drive, Buoniconti could see a mass exodus below, heading toward Cambridge. Throngs of police cruisers with their lights and sirens blazing went by, adding to the chaos. Buoniconti turned the radio on and listened to initial reports, learning he missed passing the two bomb sites by mere minutes.
"It took some time to register the magnitude of it, and the impact of it, and the fact that I just missed it," Buoniconti said. "It's something that'll stay with me forever."
Michael Gentile, 56, of Longmeadow was there. He participated in his 22nd Boston Marathon.
Gentile started in the second wave and went off at 10:20 a.m.
"Had I gone off in the next wave, I might have been right there when it happened," he said.
Gentile finished the race in 3 hours, 21 minutes. He missed the explosion by 1 hour, 9 minutes.
Gentile showered, changed his clothes and was ready to meet family and friends for dinner.
"All of a sudden, there were all these people running toward me, crying and screaming – it was just a mass of running people," Gentile said. "Everyone was telling us 'run, get out of the area.'"
Although he did not hear or see the bombs go off, it didn't take Gentile long to find out what happened.
"I saw the result of it," he said. "I started running like everyone else. I called my friends and they told me TV was breaking the news of the explosion. They told me to come to the restaurant and that's what I did.
"I was thankful my friends and family were okay, but it was quite the chaotic scene. "We sat around at the restaurant and our phones were full of text messages. For some reason, you couldn't call out. As surreal as it was, I can only imagine what those people who were right there went through," Gentile added.
South Hadley resident Bob Flaherty, who hosts a morning talk show on WHMP-AM in Northampton, was in Boston with his family Monday to watch daughter-in-law Jennifer Flaherty run the marathon. Jennifer and her husband Brendan Flaherty live in Easthampton.
"We missed (the bombs) by about 40 minutes," Flaherty said, noting that Jennifer runs about a 3½ hour marathon and crossed the finish line before the blasts.
Flaherty was in the Public Gardens with his wife, Annmarie, their children and grandchildren when he heard a loud bang.
"I didn't think much of it," he said, "but Jennifer said, 'It sounds like something bad.'"
Following his journalistic instincts, Flaherty wanted to go back to the finish line near the Prudential Center, but his family demanded he stay away. Public safety officials closed the subways, so the Flahertys had to walk back to South Boston, where son Patrick lives.
Meanwhile, the crowd in the vicinity of the finish line was being moved to Boston Common.
"It was a surreal scene," Flaherty said.
Sam Coons of Northampton was at a Boylston Street bar, but did not hear the nearby explosion because of the loud music that was playing inside the establishment. When he and his friends got up to leave, they saw it immediate aftermath.
"They told everyone to come back in," Coons said. "They put on the TV and we watched the news until they told us to leave through the back exit."
Roberts did not run this year, but was in contact with friends who were there.
"Monday afternoon, I texted my friends the Cormiers, from Florida, about four hours after his 10:40 race started, to see how their son, Tim, had run,'' Roberts said. "We had spent Sunday together in Boston with their son, who lives in Boston and was running the marathon.
"Yes they told me, Tim had just finished in under four hours but as they walked to their meeting spot at The Marriott Hotel, they told me they had heard the two explosions. The confusion and chaos they had to endure for the next half hour until they received a text from their son was the longest 20 minutes they had ever endured."
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Tests on DNA taken last year from the exhumed body of a man in Alabama have solved the 1992 slaying of a woman whose body was found burned in a fire in an abandoned building in central Massachusetts, prosecutors said Wednesday.
An analysis of tissue recovered from the exhumed remains of James Earl Johnson showed that his DNA was a match for the sample recovered from the autopsy of 30-year-old Denise Comeau and DNA profiles in two other rape cases from the 1990s, Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early said.
"The match means that Mr. Johnson was responsible for killing Ms. Comeau and for a rape in May 1993 and a rape in September of 1995," Early said in a statement.
The rape victims have died.
"We hope that this development can give some closure to the victims' families," Early said.
Firefighters battling a blaze in an abandoned building in Worcester in 1992 found Comeau's body. An autopsy showed that she was strangled before the fire burned her body.
Investigators later compared DNA recovered from her body with samples from rapes in the 1990s. Johnson was identified as a suspect in one of the cases, but he was never charged "because the victim did not wish to go forward with a charge," Early said.
Johnson lived in Worcester, one of New England's biggest cities, from the 1970s to the '90s. He died at age 58 in 2008, about a year after a Worcester County grand jury indicted the unidentified person whose DNA was linked to the rapes. His body was exhumed from a cemetery near Tuskegee, Ala., for DNA testing last October.


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my son needs to suck a lot. he wont take a pacifier regularly, will only do it on rare occasions.
i know that the DCP use the milk as a way of soothing him. i have asked that they use other methods but it always comes back to the over use of milk in my opinion. i have allowed this to an extent because i just cannot stand the idea of them letting him cry.
i think a big part of it is his primary teacher right now is not someone who bf and she has no interest in understanding bf. she claims to understand but it her actions show me that she doesnt. she is not an attachment caretaker. i have watched her while i nurse. that doesnt mean she is bad. she just seems very detached if you know what i mean. i would personally do things a lot different. the past few days she has texted me about how hungry he was and he needed another bottle, then he only sucks a half oz and falls asleep. she even admits "i guess he just needed to suck". i am very frustrated. i feel like i keep repeating the same things.
overall i really love the place and i am comfortable with the teachers. i just feel like this teacher doesnt get it and isnt really willing to put the extra effort in. my son needs that extra effort, esp when there are no breasts around.
SO to my point... today she told me he is moving to the next room soon. i am somewhat happy about it. he will be one of the only little babies in there though, everyone else is crawling or walking. i am not really happy about that but i want to use the opportunity to make it a better situation with the milk. the woman in the next room i know very well from my older son being there. but that does not mean it will be easy to get her to use other methods to soothe my lo, esp if she has older kids in there running around.
What things should i say or give his new teacher to help out with not using bottles too much? should we try to transition to a sippy cup, would that help at all?
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Ford learned a valuable lesson last year when it equipped hundreds of thousands of Ford and Lincoln vehicles with versions of the MyFord Touch system for controlling entertainment and climate systems inside the vehicle. The problem was that the interface was cumbersome and difficult to navigate leaving many users confused and distracted while driving.
The complicated nature of the system led to Ford taking a beating in the important J.D. Power Initial Quality Study rankings in 2011. In 2011, Ford
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"We expect to do about the same or a little better than last year," said Bernie Fowler, Ford's vice president of global quality.
"Technology is one of the main reasons why people see us differently now today than they did just a few years ago," Jim Farley, Ford's group vice president for global marketing, sales and service, said to reporters Tuesday.
Despite the huge dip in rankings based on the technology, Ford remains committed to adding technology in automobiles and its MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch systems.
"They certainly have made some improvements," said Edmunds.com Senior Analyst Michelle Krebs, who reported problems getting the voice-recognition system to locate certain cities. "Whether they've gone far enough remains to be seen."
Ford sent out upgrades to the system to owners of vehicles equipped with the optional hardware on a USB flash drive. The drivers plug that flash drive into the USB port inside the vehicle to apply the software update. According to Ford, 90% of the 377,000 vehicle owners who receive the software update have installed it, and 70% of those people installed the software without assistance from a dealership.
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Would you like to have a vegan tattoo, wondering which tattoo inks are vegan ?
(Unfortunately, not all inks are vegan, yet.)
This article is several years old. It will be updated when I find the time. Meanwhile, you can ask the Vegan Society for more up-to-date information.
What is ink, anyway ?
Ink is a suspension of dissolvents, binders and pigments - the latter of which can be derived from animal sources.
Especially China Ink (for drawing, artistic writing and calligraphy) and tattoo ink often do contain animal materials, even today.
Animal components may be:
Don't panic
There's no reason to be frustrated, however. Vegan tattoos are demanded by more and more people around the globe and they're absolutely doable.
You're on your way when you can either find a tattoo artist who has one of the following inks - or when you buy the ink yourself and offer it to the artist of your choice.
The following inks are vegan according to the British Vegan Society (VeganSociety.com):
✿ Classic Colour Systems
✿ Dermaglo
✿ Electric Ink
✿ Eternal Inks
✿ Intenze
✿ SilverBack Ink
✿ Skin Candy – Bloodline & Skin Candy tones
✿ Stable Colour
✿ Waverly Color
One big thank you to the British ! Considering that, according to estimations, there are about 150.000 vegans in Britain and 600.000 vegans in Germany, our British friends are much more progressive than we are.
I know of vegan British tattoo inks, vegan British wall paint, but no German ones... Kind of sad, isn't it ? I hope some German tattoo artists read this and change something about it. You're lucky if you live in the U.S. or the U.K. because many things are much more easily available to you ;-).
With the following inks further research won't hurt because the Vegan Society doesn't list them as vegan (yet?).
✿ Pelikan black - vegan
✿ Starbrite - all but "black" are vegan
✿ Unique (Permapro)
My list may not be complete, but it's a start, eh ? You're warmly invited to contact me in case you know more than I do. It will help fellow vegans !
What about tattoo artists ?
Question: "How do I find an artist who knows what she or he is doing (that is: what colors they're using) and doesn't give me crap for being vegan ?"
Sadly, this sometimes is a tough question. Everyone has their own opinion and often, people just don't know enough about veganism and may say things like "Vegans can't stand the needle, anyway".
There is also the sterotype that vegan colors fade sooner.
Well, this depends on the color and the brand alone, not the
"being vegan" parts.
Especially synthetic pigments usually do not fade out sooner. Green color that's based on animal Indigotin or red color that's based on Cochenille (also from Lice) for example, usually fade out sooner than inks that contain mineral oxides as pigments.
Why? Because metal oxides are oxidized already, whereas animal pigments can decompose more easily. So animal colors aren't all that great.
It's time to rethink all these stereotypes. There are billions of non-vegan tattoos in the world and they all fade out after a couple of years, just like vegan tattoos.
Your skin is yours. You have all the right in the world to demand a vegan tattoo. Not everyone wants the burnt bones (or other parts of innocent beings who were not given a choice) under their skin.
We're all born with a skin, aren't we ? We hope that all animals will one day be given the right to keep their own skin.
A good artist should respect that. If she or he doesn't - well, there are many both non-vegan and vegan tattoo artists who do indeed respect their customers' wishes.
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My name is Jharv G. Tull. I am the son of Robert and Billie Tull of Oak Harbor. I am a trooper in the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment based out of Ft. Hood, Texas and I am a veteran of the Iraqi Campaign of the War on Terror.
My friends have heard me complain far too many times about how far the country has started to slip in its support of the military and our current efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, let alone in our daily lives. I wrote to a high school friend when I was in Iraq and complained that it was my belief that even my own home town seemed to have forgotten the veterans.
At the time and for months after I thought that it was frankly a huge disservice to those who have given their lives in the name of freedom for hundreds of years. I believed and still believe today, that people simply go through their daily lives thinking that having a yellow bumper sticker on their car or some similar device is showing their support. Several members of our Oak Harbor community have done more, care packages, letter writing, etc. And that I say is a good thing. A care package waiting for you in your "chu" can be a unmeasurable morale booster.
I applaud those that constantly do these types of events and offers and gifts. And I certainly encourage them to continue. But it's to the average every day person who gets up each morning and goes to work or to do the daily chores of life I wish I could talk to. Do you really understand what our youth is doing when you sit down for your dinner at night or lay on the couch and watch Sports Center?
Across the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq and Kuwait the men and women of the U.S. military fight. We get up and patrol the lonely and dangerous mountain paths, the hot and sand swept deserts. We spill our blood almost every day while you sit and catch the Yankees' highlights.
I am a soldier. This is what I do. I knew when I raised my hand and made my vow that I would risk and give everything for the people I serve the right and privilege to do these things. I didn't ask or do I expect a ticker tape parade or the shiny bits of felt we get to put on our uniforms. I simply ask you earn the freedom my brothers and sisters have given our lives for.
It has been eight years since the war has started and I ask you, what have you done to earn what our blood has paid for? How much time do you donate to the needy. Not money. Time. How many soup kitchens have you worked in? Blankets you have collected and given out? Spent time visiting complete strangers in Nursing homes or gone to a veterans hospital and seen those who have given so much?
How many of you have helped at schools teaching or mentoring our children? Helped to teach our youth what it means to be free? Have you just spent time with those that need help? Maybe spent a day helping older folks push their groceries out to their cars or mowed their lawn. Not for their thanks, but because its the right thing to do.
We as American citizens have forgotten how lucky we are. How blessed we are to live free. Remember that oh so precious line, "Land of the free, home of the brave ..."? Be brave. Why rely on the sacrifices of others to cover each of our debts. I work about 14 hours a day, 5-plus days a week by the time I get home to my fiance, yet I do what I can. Why aren't we all?
I will leave you sir with this one question, well, I will leave this to all of you to answer for yourselves. What have you done to repay the cost of freedom?
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The Info Booth Coordinator will supervise a single information booth, leading its full set up and manage for the first shift. This position will supervise the volunteers assigned to the info booth. Additionally, the Info Booth Coordinator will assess and address problems, and communicate with the Event Managers to ensure a smooth event.
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C.J. Fair, 6-7, F, Baltimore City College High School: Fair is still rehabbing from ACL surgery in July and may be back in time for the playoffs in February, according to his father, Carl Fair.
C.J. Fair recently met with doctors and is awaiting a special brace for his knee, but his father still isn't sure if he wants C.J. to play this season.
Baye Moussa Keita, 6-11, C, Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.): Keita has been playing limited minutes as the Warriors have rolled up a 25-0 record and are ranked No. 4 in the USA Today Super 25 rankings.
Up next for Oak Hill is Grace Christian (N.C.) tonight, William Fleming (Va.) on Saturday and Mountain State Academy (W.Va.) on Sunday.
James Southerland, 6-7, F, Notre Dame Prep (Fitchburg, Mass.): Southerland has been dealing with a back injury suffered during the Big Apple Invitational two weeks ago.
"It's definitely improving," said Notre Dame Prep coach Ryan Hurd. "He'll be back to normal in no time"
Hurd expects Southerland to be in the lineup this weekend for Saturday's game against Bridgton Academy in the MCI Tournament.
Brandon Triche, 6-4, G, Jamesville-DeWitt: Triche had 10 points as J-D cruised to a 72-41 victory over Bishop Ludden last Thursday.
Triche is leading the unbeaten Red Rams with 21.9 points per game.
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Dion Waiters, 6-3, G, Life Center Academy (Burlington, N.J.): Life Center Academy coach Wilson Arroyo said Waiters' rehab on his injured left ankle is coming along well. Waiters has started participating in practice and is on target to return for Life Center's game against Our Savior New American of Long Island in the PrimeTime Shootout in Trenton, N.J., on Feb. 14.
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SAGINAW, MI — There are no friends in gaga ball.
That was just one of the things I learned Wednesday, Aug. 20, during my time volunteering with the Saginaw YMCA's day camp program.
First, of course, I had to learn what gaga ball is. And for those of you who have never played, I have to say that you are missing out.
With the help of my new friends, ages 8 through 11, I played my first rounds of gaga ball. The game puts you in a wooden ring with a single volleyball, which you use to try and hit the feet of everyone else in the ring. If you get hit, you're out.
And you are on a team all by yourself. Hence the "no friends" rule.
Despite the concept that everyone is a lonely island when playing the game, the feeling of camaraderie between the YMCA campers never disappeared.
"I don't want to be Ra'Moni's enemy," 8-year-old Kaitlyn Parsons moaned as she walked across the gaga pen to hug her buddy.
"That's why I was trying to get her out," Parsons said with a laugh just before the ball hit her feet and she was eliminated from the round.
Parsons, who is clearly a good sport, continued laughing and smiling as she exited the game.
And I couldn't help but notice there was a smile on my face all afternoon as I worked as a volunteer for the program.
We played floor hockey, and I smiled. We went swimming, and I smiled. When the kids sat down for snack and I had a chat with several of my new friends, I definitely smiled. And so did they. It was contagious.
"I like swimming, going to the park and gaga ball," 9-year-old Alexis Rankin said, when asked to choose her favorite activities at day camp.
"Mine is lunch and swimming," Ra'Moni Caldwell chimed in.
While some campers are new to the program this year, others have come back for multiple summers. Rankin is spending her third summer at the YMCA.
All the campers I asked agreed that they would all like to return next year.
"You get to do stuff that you don't do at home." Caldwell said.
"You get up and get active," Rankin added.
While I spent the majority of my time with the older campers, the Saginaw YMCA provides day camp opportunities for kids ages 3 to 12.
During the 2014 camp, YMCA members paid $90 per week for each child, while non-members paid $110 per week.
"Every day there is a new challenge, and that's a lot of fun," said Cara Cole, the on-site interim director of the day camp.
Cole is in charge of the staff of about eight people. She comes in before campers arrive to prepare for the day, and then she jumps into a day full of games, messes and lots of noise.
But, she loves the experience.
"My favorite things is when a kid is having a bad day and they turn around and have a really great day," Cole said. "Or maybe they're shy and they're hesitant, but then they make friends and they start laughing and giggling."
Like I said, the happy attitude at the day camp is contagious.
I'm not the only volunteer to experience that. While I was the lone unpaid helper on Wednesday, Cole said the camp regularly has volunteers who help throughout the summer.
"They are awesome, too," Cole said, explaining that many of the volunteers are a part of AmeriCorps.
As the summer comes close to an end, though, there are less helping hands inside the building located at 1915 Fordney. And soon, Cole, the counselors and the campers will disappear as well, since the last week of camp starts Aug. 25.
"I'm gonna miss my friends," Caldwell said.
Her fellow campers agreed with that sentiment.
And so did Cole.
"I think I'll probably cry," Cole said.
Even after just four hours of volunteering, I didn't want to leave the camp.
I even stuck around later than I had planned, because some of my new buddies hadn't been picked up by their parents yet.
I didn't want to leave behind all the laughter. Or the voices of the kids randomly bursting into song.
"Somebody once told me the world was macaroni," they sang, changing the words to the Smash Mouth song "All Star."
Alexis, Ra'Moni and the others have probably already forgotten that random reporter who visited them at camp. But I certainly won't forget them.
And, I probably will never hear "All Star" the same way when it comes on in the grocery store or on the radio.
Like many of my other volunteer experiences, it changed me. And if you haven't taken time to volunteer lately, you are truly the one missing out.
If you'd like more information on the Saginaw YMCA, its programs, membership details or if you'd like to inquire about volunteering visit saginawymca.org.
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Big Pharma has been in the news a lot lately - from the Supreme Court decision on "Obamacare" to the troubling fine that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) faces - but for Bristol-Myers (BMY) Squibb, the news has been mostly positive (and with GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to introducing two misbranded drugs to interstate commerce, a big competitor for Bristol-Myers Squibb has had its image tarnished).
The company has purchased the diabetes drug maker Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AMLN) $5.3 billion. This is a huge step for Bristol-Myers Squibb and its forward progress in the world of diabetes treatment. Prior to this acquisition, Amylin was trading around $30.70 per share and had a market cap for 5.00 billion. In addition to being financially successful for Bristol-Myers Squibb, this move will be incredible for the financial status of Amylin. The price of the acquisition is expected to increase to around $7 billion after Amylin's debt to Eli Lilly (LLY) is factored in. Eli Lilly & Company is currently strong at $40.85 per share (towards the high end of its 52-week range) and has a dividend yield of $0.49/$4.57. Basically, Bristol-Myers will pay off Amylin's debt to the pharmaceutical giant, making Bristol-Myers an even greater competitor to Eli Lilly & Company.
Eli Lilly, along with its partner Incyte (INCY) has had massive success in the trials of its up and coming rheumatoid arthritis. The drug, Baricitinib, has achieved all of its primary goals thus far. This news is a game changer for Eli Lilly, and even though its research is in a different market than Bristol-Myers' work with diabetes, it shows investors that Eli Lilly is not a stock to be taken lightly. It's a rising and worthy competitor to Bristol-Myers Squibb.
The same day Bristol-Myers agreed to purchase Amylin Pharmaceuticals, it also threw in a third act twist regarding AstraZeneca (AZN). Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca have an existing diabetes alliance, and now, with the purchase of Amylin, will be an even bigger diabetes research giant. AstraZeneca will $3.4 billion in cash as part of this deal, thus the two companies will share profits and losses equally. With the world's diabetes epidemic only getting worse, this is an advantageous move. The two main drugs for this partnership that are generating revenue are Byetta and Bydureon. Bydureon just received FDA approval in January, and this drug shows immense promise as it only needs to be administered to patients with Type II diabetes once a week, as opposed to the current products on the market that require twice daily injections. The company has also had success in a recent Type II diabetes research trial for a drug that caused significant reductions in blood sugar levels. All in all, this new acquisition and expanded partnership will greatly increase Bristol-Myers' cash flow.
Despite this potential price decrease, Bristol-Myers Squibb has some solid and advantageous projects and moves coming down the pipeline. These maneuvers are acting as insurance policies to protect the company in the event of such a financial storm. The pharmaceutical company has partnered up with the prestigious Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia to conduct drug trials for investigational compounds. The project will consist of Phase II, Phase III, and pediatric testing in the realms of oncology, metabolics, hepatitis C, and immunoscience. This trial puts the company at the forefront of research at Emory's Winship Cancer Institute with some of the best and brightest minds in the country.
In addition to the hepatitis drug, Bristol-Myers Squibb has also partnered with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals in Europe and recently released six-year follow-up results to its Phase III, randomized, open-label dose-optimization study of Sprycel (dasatinib) for chronic myeloid leukemia. The results of this trial indicated that this is the longest reported follow up of second generation Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for patients resistant or intolerant to imatinib. Financial information for competitor Otsuka is unavailable, due to the company being privately held and traded.
The company has four drugs - Plavix, Avapro, Sustiva, and Abilify - that will be going generic over the next four years. The first drug to go was Plavix this year in May. This was a challenge for the company considering that the company received $6.6 billion in revenue in 2011 alone. This is projected to lead to a 60% drop in sales and a 15% decrease in the company's revenue of $21 billion. Abilify is one of the company's biggest sources of revenue. Analysts are hoping that despite having it go off patent in 2015 the drug will still bring in substantial revenue for Bristol-Myers Squibb. It is projected to maintain its sales of $2.9 billion for 2012.
The company's forward progress in developing antidotes to chronic diseases has not particularly fueled surges in the financial realm. On June 21, 2012, Bank of America Merrill Lynch reiterated its neutral rating for Bristol-Myers Squibb. Bank of America (BAC) noted the promise and progress of the two previously mentioned drugs but wanted to see how the market responds before it changes any official opinion. Furthermore, Bristol-Myers Squibb has a relatively high multiple relative to its competitors in the same market. The company did note that it is increasing its PO to $36, up from $34.
Dividends matter for big pharma, and analysts are eyeing Bristol-Myers and competitor Abbott Laboratories with scrutiny. Abbott, consistently one of the strongest and most powerful companies in the pharmaceutical industry, has had dividends lower than the industry average (currently $0.51/$3.16). Bristol-Myers' dividend is even lower, hovering around $0.34/$3.79. Abbott consistently outperforms, however, and with an anticipated company split in the future, shareholders are in a good place at a good time. This will increase its dividend and may leave Bristol-Myers in the dust in some investors' portfolios.
There's big competition in big pharma right now. With GlaxoSmithKline dealing with a public image nightmare and a hefty $3 billion fine, all the other players are stepping up their game and fighting in the ring. Bristol-Myers Squibb and its competitors are all involved in strong research with great potential. Bristol-Myers Squibb is an attractive stock right at its current price around $35, and it will be worthwhile to follow its progress to see what's next.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Will Adding Gays to Immigration Reform Actually Increase Its Chances of Passing?
Joanna Burgos, a National Republican Campaign Committee spokeswoman, says Democrats like Illinois' Rep. Luis Gutierrez would be smart to leave the gays out of their immigration reform if they have any hope of courting Hispanic votes, but what she meant to say is, "Run, Hispanics! These disgusting Democrats are trying to force the homosexual lifestyle down your throat!"
So far more than 100 House Dems (including Hispanics, notes Politico) have signed on to Gutierrez's comprehensive immigration bill, introduced in December. Now a whole bunch of Democratic lawmakers are trying to get their friends to stand behind adding the Uniting American Families Act, which would let Americans sponsor same-sex foreign partners for immigration. But — scary! — we're so close to November's mid-term elections, and anything that mentions The Gays will scare off those Hispanic voters everyone is trying to court.
Which leads to Burgos saying things like, "If [Democrats are] trying to appeal to the Hispanic vote, gay marriage is not the right issue for their socially conservative values. I think it puts Democrats in Hispanic districts in an awkward position because they are very socially conservative."
But with support stalled for his bill, Gutierrez is taking a different approach: Specifically targeting the gays to entice them into getting behind an immigration bill they might otherwise ignore, or believe they have less of horse in the race. Muy interesante!
UAFA (LGBT inclusive immigration reform) is a law that we should STRONGLY encourage our lawmakers to support. It's ACTIVELY being discussed, unlike many other LGBT issues that have stalled. We need progress in multiple areas, including immigration equality.
We need to see more progress before November.
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"The Gays"? That's as vile as saying "The Blacks".
UAFA is critical legislation that needs to be passed, to do anything less is nothing more then bigotry at the highest levels of our government and makes an absolute mockery of those words…'We hold these truths to be self-evident..'


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And how are you on this miserable rainy day? It's pouring here, grey sky, sideways rain, but it's not too cold for winter, I've got windows open airing out the house which is quite nice, and rain is not a problem for people who like cozy days creating things from woolly goodness… It's an excuse really for not going out for a jog or to the post office or anything like that… what a shame, I'll have to stay inside all day making my blanket and spinning! So sad!
So today is a catch up post for me because I've got quite ahead of myself lately after my craft-a-thon two weeks ago! I did a lot of spinning which I haven't poted yet but want to because it is all part of my spinning journey, so here is Miss Molly, another Maude and Me braid which I spun before Monsoon…
God I love those pinks and purples! I haven't decided what to do with it yet, but I'm thinking about making a purse with it which will involve a sewing machine to line it and make it nice and strong… that involves learning to sew, so for now Miss Molly is the stuff of dreamy inspiration.
It's a few hours later and I've just come back to the computer after being horrifically sidetracked… can you believe the sun is now shining and it is a lovely day? Unfortunately I've run out of time to finish what I started and give you a blanket update, so that is going to have to wait until next time! I'm off to stitch and bitch to hang out with some cool fun knitters and hookers, so I'll catch up on my catch up post soon!
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Another Harry Potter film hits theaters everywhere Friday and Steve Wohlberg, author of the new book Exposing Harry Potter and Witchcraft: The Menace Beneath the Magic, strongly advises against seeing it.
Wohlberg, a bestselling author, expressed his concern to The Christian Post. He said the trend toward witchcraft, vampirism, and occultism among teens has rapidly increased since the Harry Potter Craze began in 1997 in the United Kingdom. Written by J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series explores sorcery, witchcraft, and Wicca, noted Wohlberg.
He outlined his discoveries of evil themes in the series.
"The more I read the books, the more I realized how spiritually dangerous the material is," he said. "Even though it's fiction there is a lot of reality woven in it. My warning is that Harry Potter is a major contributor to Wicca."
Wohlberg also argued that although Rowling claims that there are Christian themes in the seven-part series, the author is being used as a channel for evil.
"To me she is just like Eve, not realizing she has become a channel for the devil, she is not aware of it," he said.
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Since the beginning of the Harry Potter craze, several Christian and religious leaders have come out denouncing the series. Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, was one of them, along with Pope Benedict XVI, who voiced fears in 2003 – then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – that the "subtle seductions" contained in the Potter series could "corrupt the Christian faith" in impressionable young children.
Wohlberg has seen the negative effects of the fantasy novels and films on young people.
In his book, he gives several personal accounts of people who have dabbled in witchcraft specifically because of Harry Potter. Teenagers, he explained, are vulnerable to these themes because they are fascinated with the message that magic gives you power. He gives accounts of teens at bookstores on the day of the release of a new Harry Potter book, describing how they have "the book in one hand, and a wicca book in the other."
Wohlberg wants to remind them of a greater power.
"God has power far superior to witchcraft – power of love and eternal life," he said.
Wolhberg has published more than 25 books denouncing the Harry Potter series as well as the Twilight series – another wildly popular novel series among youths.
The author emphasized the role that parents must play in assisting their children to steer away from the culture of witchcraft and cults.
He cited Proverbs 22:6: "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it."
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Tis year's Glasgow Mayday Carneval was quite relaxed and fluffy for the majority of about hundred to two hundred participants, such as every year. Three soundsystems invited the demonstrators to dance and celebrate International Workers Day. The forthcomig G8 casted a shadow in form of stricter and more nervous policing, including never before seen use of 8 policehorses, and at least 3 police camera teams. Three people were unnecessarily arrested in the final minutes of the "street" party, which lasted from about 1pm till 4 pm, when entering the park and continued as a "park" party unter the cloudy grey and rainy West Coast sky. From Indymedia UK: A Reclaim The Streets Party started off at 1pm, the Camcorder Guerillas screened their new G8 film "Why Close the G8" at 4pm, while the usual STUC Mayday Rally takes place at George Square at 11am. On Friday there was also a Critical Mass bike ride. Camcorder Guerillas: http://www.camcorderguerillas.net/g8_home.htm Scottish Trade Union Congress: STUC http://www.stuc.org.uk/ Glasgow Critical Mass http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1299/index.php Indymedia UK followed the events in Glasgow even with a timeline reporting: [13.30] Reclaim the Streets: A few hundred people have met up in Buchanan Street, where a Sound System started up. A second Sound System arrived, full of clowns, with banners saying "Cre8 not G8", "Make Poverty History" and "DIY Party People". All are now moving off on a route around the city with a good atmosphere, and little police presence apart from 4/5 fit teams photgraphing everyone. [14.45] The party protest has now moved to St. Vincent street, where there was an attempt to get a third sound system in, one van made it but not the rig. Still good natured and taking over the streets! [15.45] After a few scuffles at the entrance to the park, where the crowd negociated the someones release, the 3 Sounds Systems are now playing and the party continues. Three arrests during the day. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309995.html#glasgowtimeline Also see: Report and pictures: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/2005/05/310388.html Glasgow Mayday 2002: http://www.ourmayday.org/glasgow/2002.htm Mayday 2003: Pocket of Resistance http://www.ourmayday.org/glasgow/2003.htm Glasgow MayDay 2004: http://www.liveinthemoment.org/