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New Orleans — Einstein Charter Group Inc. will receive a $1 million grant tied to the turnaround of an academically unacceptable school, an announcement made last week by the New Schools for New Orleans.
The Einstein group, which runs Einstein Charter School in eastern New Orleans, will take over Intercultural Charter School, located just over half a mile away.
The name of the school at 5316 Michoud Blvd., the former site of Intercultural, will be Einstein Extension for the 2013-2014 school year.
Einstein is one of 10 local operators to be awarded the federally funded Investing in Innovation (i3) grant program. Einstein applied for the grant in October. The official announcement from New Schools for New Orleans, which administers the grants, came in a Feb. 5 news release.
The changes for the two eastern New Orleans elementary schools involve the Recovery School District, the Orleans Parish School Board and the two charter operators, in that Einstein is part of the School Board's district, and the Intercultural Charter School was part of the RSD. Einstein Principal Shawn Toranto called it a "very cooperative endeavor" that was "very child focused."
At the School Board's January meeting, the board approved Einstein Charter's expansion and announced that all current Intercultural students will be guaranteed a seat at the new school, which has a maximum capacity of 500 students.
According to a report by The Lens, in addition to the federal grant, Einstein received an additional $800,000 from New Schools for New Orleans, earmarked to provide bus transportation for students. Intercultural provides bus transportation, while Einstein currently does not. Toranto said bus transportation will continue to be provided for the extension, and that it is something they are looking at for the original Einstein campus.
Toranto lauded the Einstein staff for recognizing every child's gifts and the extracurricular opportunities offered, including cultural dance, band, theater, art, and a gifted and talented program. She also called the school's population "beautifully diverse" and "culturally rich."
For the 2011-2012 school year, Einstein reported a student body that included 63 percent African American, 26 percent Asian and 11 percent Latino.
At Intercultural for the same year, the student body was 70 percent African American, 22 percent Asian and 8 percent Latino.
Toranto said at Einstein, 137 students are in the English as a Second Language classes, and the same language programs and translation services for families will be provided at the extension.
But while Intercultural's charter contract was not renewed by the state based on academic performance, some critics felt that the plan for Einstein to take over Intercultural was in the works long before December, when it was announced that Intercultural's board would have its contract terminated June 30.
Cristi Wijngaarde worked as a parent liaison for Intercultural for three years and then worked in the same role for Einstein before resigning about a year ago. With a new principal at Intercultural this year and what she described as a significant turnaround, Wijngaarde said she felt like the school wasn't given a chance to succeed.
Intercultural's board Chairwoman Cam-Thanh Tran sent a letter to parents Dec. 12, explaining that the decision was made "based on our School Performance Score of 72.7. The board met with Superintendent Patrick Dobard of RSD to present our case. After an extensive visit, he has made a decision which he believes is fair since we did not reach the required score of 75."
In the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years, Intercultural got passing grades from the state. For the 2010-2011 school year, the school received a School Performance Score of 71.7, then a D before the bench mark for an F was raised from 65 to 75 for the 2011-2012 school year. For the 2011-2012 school year, 41 percent of schools in New Orleans received an F.
Wijngaarde also pointed to a decision made by the RSD to require Intercultural to partner with the for-profit education management organization Edison Schools when it opened. Two years later, Wijngaarde said, the New York-based Edison Schools pulled out, and left Intercultural in debt, struggling to regain its financial footing.
Wijngaarde said that the RSD did not provide any support, and that "they were waiting for Intercultural to fail — they were literally waiting for it to drown."
Wijngaarde said she met with Toranto in November 2011, and Toranto told Wijngaarde she had been approached by the RSD about the possibility of taking over Intercultural. Toranto said she did not remember when she was first approached by the RSD about working with Intercultural.
She said she would provide the approximate date by email but had not done so as of Wednesday. Asked to confirm if the RSD approached Toranto in November 2011 about working with Intercultural, the RSD responded with the following emailed statement: "Yes — but we approached her about replicating her success at Einstein through the i3 program rather than about Intercultural specifically."
At an Einstein board meeting in October, the Lens reported, Toranto said the RSD had "actively" asked the group to manage an additional school, though Intercultural was not named at that meeting. When the Lens contacted Intercultural following the board meeting, Kathleen Carlin, secretary of Intercultural's board of directors, told the Lens that, "We are anticipating getting a passing score and applying to renew our charter."
Wijngaarde said that the Intercultural community is not entirely opposed to the changes but has concerns about translation services, the lack of recess at Einstein and the cost of purchasing new uniforms, which are priced at $20 for shirts and $20 for bottoms. Each student typically needs a minimum of three sets.
Parents also had questions about the facilities, Wijngaarde said, which she described as being in poor condition. Toranto said she does not know about any planned renovations and has not yet toured the extension's facilities but plans to soon.
Wijngaarde said the Intercultural teachers have also expressed concern about their futures.
Toranto said that Glendayln Lewis, part of her current leadership team, will take over as principal at the extension, and Toranto will oversee both schools. Toranto said that all Intercultural employees will have the opportunity to apply for jobs with Einstein.
In order to maintain the i3 grant, Einstein must meet milestones designed to monitor student achievement, growth and expansion readiness. The grant also requires an open-enrollment policy.


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U.S. military commanders had a big problem during World War II, when the Japanese routinely broke their codes, making it easy to predict the actions of American troops.
Commanders brought in 29 Navajo "code talkers" _ a group made up of farmers and sheepherders from the ages of 15 to 35 _ who went to Camp Pendleton in California in 1942 and used their language to create a code that the enemy could never figure out: Turtle meant tank, chicken hawk meant dive bomber and Wo-La-Chee represented the letter "A."
Overall, the U.S. military relied on 33 tribes to aid its efforts during World Wars I and II, beginning in 1918. U.S. officials say the code talkers saved thousands of lives along the way.
On Wednesday, Congress awarded the tribes with gold medals, the body's highest civilian honor, citing the dedication and valor of their members. Individual awards went to more than 200 code talkers and their families.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said the code talkers showed "what it takes to be the bravest of the brave" and that they joined a long line of Congressional Gold Medal recipients, including George Washington, the very first, in 1776.
"Heroes who for too long went unrecognized will now be given our highest recognition," Boehner said.
At Camp Pendleton, the secret code began with 200 terms and grew to more than 600 by the end of the war.
Code words never were written down and had to be memorized by the participants, who were sworn to secrecy for the rest of their lives.
"It worked perfectly," said Democratic Rep. Ron Kind of Wisconsin. "It wasn't deciphered. It wasn't decoded."
William "Ozzie" Sheakley, who accepted a gold medal on behalf of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, said the Tlingit tribe had five code talkers, including his late uncle. All of them are deceased now.
To the day his uncle, Richard Bean Sr., died, he'd never discuss his role as a code talker, said Sheakley, who's 64.
"He took his job seriously," Sheakley said in an interview.
The public didn't learn of the code-talker programs until the government declassified them 23 years after the end of World War II.
Many of the tribal members had received awards in 2001, but Congress wanted to make sure that all the participants got medals, and it passed the Code Talkers Recognition Act in 2008.
Tribes from Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin were among those awarded medals.
Sheakley, of Juneau, designed the medal given to the Tlingit tribe. One side depicts a kneeling soldier holding a radio, while the other features one of the tribe's ceremonial killer-whale hats.
"I've been working on this for four and a half years," he said. "It took me a long time to design the medal."
During the hourlong ceremony in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol, members of Congress said the medals would help immortalize the wartime contributions of the nation's tribes.
Oklahoma Republican Rep. Tom Cole, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, compared the code talkers to Japanese-Americans and African-Americans during World II, saying they "often were barred from full participation in American life" but still served the nation "with pride, with patriotism, with honor, with sacrifice."
"They saved lives and they won battles, and they did so by giving the United States a unique battlefield advantage: secure communication," Cole said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, noted the irony of having U.S. government officials turn to Native Americans for help during times of war, using languages that the government had first tried to eradicate. He called it "the perfect secret weapon" for the military.
In an interview, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska recalled how tribal members in her state were sent to boarding schools and punished for speaking their language.
"Here you've got your government that's yanking you out of your homeland and uprooting you from your culture, and your commitment to serve your country was still paramount," said Murkowski, adding that the ceremony made her "feel proud as an Alaskan, to see this incredible recognition conveyed."
In a speech on the Senate floor, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy called the recognition "historic and overdue," adding that Native Americans have served in every conflict since the Revolutionary War, in disproportionately high numbers.
"No group of Americans has a higher per-capita service rate in the military than Native Americans," Leahy said, calling their role in U.S. history "both proud and painful."

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I think this screening tool would be very helpful for parents to determine where their child is concerning their individual level of reading readiness.
Get Ready to Read: Screening Tool
"Get Ready to Read" is a fast, free, research-based, and easy-to-use screening tool. It consists of 20 questions that parents and caregivers can ask a four-year-old to see if he or she is on track for learning how to read.
Because skills with sounds, language, and letters are so important, we encourage you to take a few minutes to use this tool to screen the four-year-olds you care about – children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or students. We recommend that you screen each child twice, first in the fall (a year before entering kindergarten) and then again before kindergarten starts.
To use the tool, all you do is read the question that appears on the screen. Your child will answer by pointing to one of four pictures. When you're finished with all 20 questions, a score will appear. This score will show if your child's pre-reading skills are weak, strong, or somewhere in between.
- Don't coach your child. The purpose of the screening is to find out which skills your child has already mastered and which skills are not yet strong.
- Find a quiet time to use the tool. Set aside about 10-15 minutes to complete it.
- Sit side-by-side with your child in front of the computer screen. Give your child control of the mouse only if your child knows how to use it.
- Try a sample question. This will familiarize your child with how the screening tool works.
- Point to the pictures on the page and say to your child: "Let's look at some pictures. I will ask you a question about them, and you point to (or click on) the picture that is the best answer. Let's try one."
- Because this is a sample question, you may give hints and feedback to make sure your child understands the instructions.
- When you're ready to start, get your child settled and then begin. Read aloud the question that appears at the top of each page slowly, clearly, and word for word. It's important to say the exact words on the screen. Do not rephrase the questions or put them into your own words.
- Ask your child to point to or click on the best answer. Once your child has settled on an answer, don't change it. Don't give hints or second chances.
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- Wants to stop. Say, "We have just a few more. Let's try to finish."
- Stops paying attention. Take a short break. Start with the next unanswered item. If your child is not able to start again, restart the screening tool at the beginning a few days later.
- Asks for help. Say, "Try to do it yourself." You can repeat a question, but don't offer more help.
- Says the answer instead of pointing to or clicking on it. Say, "Can you show me? Put your finger on it."
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- Answers too quickly, or points to the picture in the same position every time. Say, "Take your time. Look at all the pictures before you decide." Your child may be tired. Take a short break.
- From time to time, say encouraging things like, "You're doing a great job!" But don't let on that an answer is right or wrong. For example, don't say, "Good," for a correct response and nothing when the answer is wrong.
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The following are some resources to help you continue developing your child's skills.
Activity cards
The National Center for Learning Disabilities has created a set of activity cards you can print out. These cards relate directly to the skills in the screening tool – language awareness (look for activities coded with the seahorse); print knowledge (look for activities coded with the octopus); and emergent writing (look for activities coded with the starfish). The cards are formatted to print out on your choice of Avery postcards or regular paper.
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Reading Rockets offers a free Ask the Experts service. A reading expert will provide you with a personal and confidential answer to questions you might have about a child's or student's reading ability.
LD OnLine
For about five to seven percent of children, a learning disability – a different way of processing information and learning – may account for their difficulty learning to read. These children will need additional specialized instruction and support. Our companion web site, LD OnLine, has hundreds of resources to help with learning disabilities and ADHD.
Your school district
Your school district is almost always the best place to begin looking for help for a child. Federal law provides for early comprehensive screening of preschoolers. This service is available at no cost to parents. If the school district can't help you, they will refer you to someone who can provide you with an independent educational evaluation and will generally pay for this assessment if a disability is found that meets the criteria for special education placement. When you call, ask for the district's "Child Find" program.
Parent resource centers
Parent Resource Centers are in each state and provide answers to questions and one-on-one help to parents, particularly those who think their child may need to be assessed or need extra assistance. Ask them if a "Child Find" or similar agency can assess your child.
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Some parents prefer to have a professional outside of the school system assess their child. Ask the school district for referrals or visit LD OnLine's Yellow Pages to search for a professional near you.
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The Get Ready to Read! website has a free interactive reading game called "Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure." Gus, a character who is struggling to learn how to read, is the rabbit who appears on PBS's Emmy Award-winning show Between the Lions.
This tool was developed by Grover J. Whitehurst, Ph.D. for the National Center for Learning Disabilities and its Get Ready to Read! program. The tool was generously donated to Reading Rockets by Pearson Early Learning. Many thanks to both organizations.
Schools, preschools, and childcare centers may want to purchase the print version of the screening tool and other related materials from Pearson Early Childhood.
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I don't believe this screener is working properly. The only result we were able to get was 0-6 correct out of twenty. Even when an adult selects all the correct answers, it still gives a result in the 0-6 correct range.
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When Ike Hall got out of the Army in 2007, he waited just less than nine months for the Department of Veterans Affairs to agree that he'd been permanently disabled in the Iraq war.
The time it took VA to decide his claim and begin paying Hall a little more than $500 a month felt like forever.
And that's why Hall, now settled into a job he loves at a digital publishing company, is getting involved in the campaign to press the federal government to do better.
"It's taking too long, and it's continually getting worse," says Hall, of Murray, one of the 45 veterans recently trained for grassroots advocacy by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
As of the end of February, the VA's average wait time for disability claims was 280 days nationally and 306 days for the Salt Lake regional office.
The VA is even further than it was last year from reaching its goal of deciding all claims quickly. Nationally, the backlog is 885,068 pending claims, and more than 69 percent of them are older than 125 days.
By the same measure, the proportion of older claims has soared to 76 percent at the Salt Lake City VA Regional Office.
Veterans groups like IAVA are turning up the heat on Congress and the Obama administration to demand VA process claims faster.
Two weeks ago, IAVA "stormed" Washington to meet with senators and representatives and to deliver to President Barack Obama a petition signed by tens of thousands of U.S. citizens. The group wants Obama to appoint a presidential commission. Hall was part of that effort, though back home in Utah, working the email banks.
The campaign is getting attention; Jon Stewart blasted Obama's VA in an episode of The Daily Show, and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki made a rare appearance on a Sunday talk show to explain the backlog and reiterate his promise that the VA will catch up by 2015.
"No one should have to wait for their claims to be processed," Shinseki told CNN's Candy Crowley.
Hall hopes to meet with Utah's congressional delegation and begin working with other veterans to press for quicker action.
"We're leaving too many people behind right now," says the 32-year-old father of two sons, who is considered 40 percent disabled. He required knee surgery because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and suffered traumatic brain injury when he was hit by a brick thrown from a tall building. He served two tours as an Army police officer in Baghdad.
More claims than ever • While the VA has a multi-pronged plan to eliminate the backlog including switching from paper to electronic records the fact is the number of disability claims is skyrocketing.
Veterans Affairs in recent years opened the door for veterans to claim an array of maladies associated with Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam, Gulf War illness and combat-related PTSD.
Moreover, the military drawdown means thousands of men and women are leaving the military and entering the VA. And after 12 years of war, 45 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are seeking compensation for their service injuries.
The newest veterans claim compensation for an average eight to 10 medical issuesdouble the number filed by Vietnam veterans, in part because medical advances helped more of them survive injuries that would have killed their fathers.
That makes the medical and administrative review more complex than ever, says Terry Schow, executive director of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs.
Schow believes the current "piling on" the VA by politicos and the media is unfair; he has seen more progress under Shinseki than in any VA administration in the 26 years he's been in veterans advocacy, Schow says.
"Beating up on them is not the answer," says Schow. "We need to realize the sheer number we're dealing with."
The VA processed more than 1 million claims each of the past three years, although those numbers were eclipsed by new claims.
Half of the veterans with pending claims nationwide already receive some form of disability benefits, notes Karl Pfanzelter, assistant director of the Salt Lake City VA Regional Office. Typically, they are filing because of new medical issues or to secure a higher disability rating.
Don Reed, supervisor for the Disabled American Veterans service office, says wait times for veterans are longer than he has seen in the two years he has been in Salt Lake City.
The DAV, The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and The Military -Order of the Purple Heart are service organizations that help veterans put together and bird-dog their claims.
Veterans get frustrated waiting, says Reed. "They do get into financial difficulties and, due to the disability, they can't bring in the money they once could," says Reed.
The DAV is pressing veterans to file what are called Fully Developed Claims, with all available supporting evidence, such as private treatment records, in the file from the start.
Such claims are decided in 101 days on average, Reed says.
"Even if we get the backlog completed, what we want the VA to focus on is getting the rating done right the first time," says Reed. "Accuracy matters a lot."
Becoming an advocate • Hall, the former MP who served two tours in Baghdad, says it took him six years and a lot of life lessons to get to the point he wants to advocate for other veterans.
He and his wife divorced shortly after he left the Army, although they live near enough to each other that their boys, 8 and 12, can run from their father's condo, where they live, to visit their mother.
Hall worked for a time as a security guard, and studied culinary arts at the Art Institute in Draper. Although cooking remains his passion, Hall jumped at the chance to work for StoryRock, a Salt Lake City company that helps schools, military units and other groups tell their stories electronically. He is the production manager.
Working with the IAVA for Utah veterans, he says, "is going to take a lot of my free time."
Twitter: @KristenMoulton
VA disability claims
Some 20,000 Utah veterans out of a population of 167,000 veterans receive disability payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Those amount to $30 million every month, according to the Salt Lake City VA Regional Office.
The proportion of disability claims older than 125 days the target maximum wait time has soared at the Salt Lake office in the past year, from less than 59 percent to nearly 76 percent. That means that 16,849 of the 22,292 claims as of last Saturday were more than four months old.


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Mile Square Theatre kicked off their eighteen day run of "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry" on Thursday, Dec 6. Directed by Mary Catherine Burke and produced by playwright and producer Joseph Gallo, "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" is a quirky and comical adaptation of Frank Capra's classic on "It's a Wonderful Life." Before the play began, the Hoboken Children's Theatre Choir set the tone by singing a variety of traditional Christmas carols.
Live on the air
Set in a 1940s radio station, the entire live rendition is delivered from only five cast members and three old-school radio mics.
Narrating a long prequel of George Bailey's life before he considers ending it, the animated and multi-charactered cast nailed it.
Clarence the angel watches Bailey take a journey through his life in hopes of scoring his wings.
Bailey, a dreamer with 100-story high hopes and a hatful of wishes, has hit a series of forks in his road. His selfless nature lands him a life he never wanted and cost him the horizons he never saw. He settles down and marries good-girl Mary though he never wanted to marry at all. He takes over the family building and loan business because otherwise greedy nemesis Potter would have seized it. Turn after turn, he is forced to stay in his one-horse town. Finally, some missing money (which wound up in the hands of antagonist Potter) forces Bailey to wish he'd never been born.
The five actors, Charlie Kevin, Martin Landry, Eliza Simpson, Whitney Brown, and Andy Nogasky, play over 30 different parts between them, sometimes going from one character to the next in the same sentence from the same microphone. Nearly every time an actor approaches the mic, he is somebody new, yet the audience never gets lost.
Couple this with accents ranging from crotchety townspeople at a board meeting to pubescent children to rough-and-tumble New Yorkers and a multitude of organic and on-point sound effects, the story keeps your attention right to the end.
Martin Landry plays a perfect doe-eyed dreaming Bailey. Eliza Simpson is a great fit for cheekily traditional Mary Hatch. Radio host "Freddie Filmore" played by Charlie Kevin astoundingly takes on a multitude of characters, sometimes two different characters in conversation with one another, moving from accent to accent with out a hitch. Whitney Brown takes on over 10 characters, including sexy Violet. Andy Nogasky brings life to Clarence the Angel and 10 others with shared enthusiasm for every single one.
"The world needs more like George Bailey" and Hoboken needs more plays like this one.
Times and dates
The play runs until Sunday, Dec. 23, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are available online at www.milesquaretheatre.org and at the Monroe Theatrespace box office or by calling (201) 683-7014. Tickets are $20, students and seniors are $12. The Monroe Theatrespace is located at 720 Monroe Street, Second Floor.
There is a "pay what you will" performance on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m., where audience members can pay what they wish, in the spirit of Christmas.
There is also a selection of wines to enjoy for a suggested donation of $3.
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Eagles Outlast Hi-Liners
Valley City (1-0, 5-2) and Fargo Davies (2-0, 8-1) locked horns on Monday night for an Eastern Dakota Conference clash as the third-place Hi-Liners looked to replace the Eagles in second place behind undefeated Fargo Shanley.
The Hi-Liners rallied from a 2-0 deficit to force a fifth and final set, but it was the Eagles who held on for a 3-2 (25-16, 25-12, 26-28, 20-25, 15-9) win.
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Pharmas to biotechs: let's make a deal
The pheromones are flowing this week in Chicago, where BIO is wrapping up its annual International Convention, a kind of marathon corporate speed dating session whereby established biopharmas looking to replenish their pipelines romance startups shopping developmental treatments, and vice versa.
Mergers and acquisition activity has been in a slump of late—the aggregate value of these deals fell to a six-year low of $90 billion in 2012, according to Deloitte figures cited by Biopharma Dealmakers. But 2013 is expected to prove a banner year for acquisitions and in-licensing deals—in number if not in value. That's partly because the cost of capital for small companies on the sell side is prohibitively high, while that for larger companies is at rock bottom. There's also been a paradigm shift among buy-side companies, which have finally accepted external R&D as a big part of the future.
"Companies that once swore by the belief that their internal R&D was the best now say explicitly that they're looking for outside help," says Jeff Stewart, director of corporate development at Campbell Alliance. "It's been true for a while that the assets that work in pharma have come from small biotechs, but it's now okay to say that within the ranks of Big Pharma."
In a Campbell Alliance survey of 129 licensing pros earlier this year, 62% of those from in-licensing companies said they anticipate doing more Phase I and preclinical deals this year.
"Everyone likes preclinical assets," says Stewart. "This is a sea change. Companies until recently were looking to fill bags. They had boots on the ground. They needed additional products to fill up the reps' bags. With the contraction in sales reps, you don't have this stark demand, and your priorities change to earlier stage assets that you can take fliers on. Even though companies are desperate for new assets, they've accepted that they're smaller."
As a result, giants that would have turned up their noses at Phase I therapies a few years ago are now in-licensing them, or buying their makers outright. They're not betting the house on them, though—instead, they're inking earnout deals wherein out-licensors net benchmarked payments if their products advance. Think of it as a biopharmaceutical pre-nup, one that limits the risk for large biopharmas while rewarding innovative smaller firms with milestone payments as their products perform.
"They have differences on what they think the value is, and this is a way to bridge that gap," said Stewart.The buy-side companies polled by Campbell Alliance were most interested in early-stage oncology products, with nearly a quarter of in-licensers saying they'll shop for preclinical oncology assets this year. In-licensers were nearly as interested in early-stage CNS assets, and expressed strong interest in preclinical, Phase I and Phase 2 candidates in the immunology, metabolics and cardiovascular categories.


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Among the designer brands from Prada to Chanel at the Harrods flagship store in London, Chinese housewife Li Yafang spotted a logo she knows from back home: the red, blue and green of UnionPay cards.
"It's very convenient that I can now use my UnionPay card" to shop abroad instead of carrying a stack of cash, said the 39-year-old, who was buying the same 1,190-pound ($1,920) Prada Saffiano Lux handbag carried by the hit woman in the "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" movie. "I hope more places abroad will accept UnionPay."
Her wish is becoming reality as UnionPay, founded 10 years ago in Shanghai by the State Council and central bank, extends its reach. With more plastic in circulation than any other payment network — 2.9 billion cards, or 45 percent of the world's total last year — UnionPay is now accepted in 135 countries. Its rise is causing friction as the firm grabs market share from Visa Inc. as well as MasterCard Inc., which UnionPay surpassed in customer spending in the first half of the year.
"UnionPay has absolute dominance in China, and it's now expanding beyond that to become a top global player," James Friedman, a New York-based analyst at Susquehanna International Group LLP who covers payments firms including Visa, said in a telephone interview. "Their numbers show they are already in the league of Visa and MasterCard."
WTO Challenge
A case brought by the U.S. government to the World Trade Organization and ruled on in July challenged China's requirement that foreign card issuers — including Citigroup Inc., which in August became the first Western bank in China to issue solely branded credit cards — must use UnionPay's network for yuan- denominated transactions.
The rules, along with those requiring all Chinese automated teller machines and merchants to use its network, prompted the WTO to order that China stop discriminating against foreign payment companies.
The decision didn't spell out specific measures, and the WTO also ruled against the U.S. claim that UnionPay is an "across-the-board monopoly."
"It's difficult to say which side won after reading the WTO ruling as you basically can't tell what's actually going to happen," Susquehanna's Friedman said.
A 2005 linkup with Discover Financial Services gave UnionPay access to a network that now reaches about the same number of U.S. merchants as Visa and MasterCard. On Nov. 30, the firm set up UnionPay International Co. to expand further. More than 10 million UnionPay cards have been issued by 65 lenders in 17 countries outside China, according to the company's website.
Chinese Shoppers
Chinese shoppers have overtaken Americans this year as the world's biggest buyers of luxury goods, accounting for 25 percent of global sales through purchases at home and overseas, according to a report released today by consultancy firm Bain & Co. Some 60 percent of such purchases by Chinese shoppers happened outside the mainland, the report found.
Debit-card transactions drive most of UnionPay's revenue. Its share of combined credit- and debit-card purchase volume for the first half of 2012 rose to 23.8 percent from 20.9 percent a year earlier, propelling UnionPay to No. 2 globally behind Visa, while MasterCard's climbed to 21.7 percent from 21.5 percent, according to the Nilson Report, an industry newsletter. Visa's fell to 46 percent from 48.9 percent.
The share of spending volume at American Express Co., which UnionPay supplanted in 2010 as the third-biggest network by transactions processed, slid to 7.2 percent from 7.5 percent.
UnionPay cards issued by banks rose 22 percent in 2011 from a year earlier to 2.9 billion, according to the Carpinteria, California-based newsletter. Visa cards rose 4 percent to 2.3 billion, Nilson said.
'Compete Vigorously'
Visa's relationship with its Chinese competitor is similar to that of other firms, Jeff Liao, head of Visa China, said in an e-mailed statement. The Foster City, Calif.-based company has provided technology to help China's payments industry and worked with UnionPay and the government on industry training programs, he said.
"We compete vigorously, but we also cooperate as appropriate on common industry issues," Liao said.
James Issokson, a MasterCard spokesman, declined to comment. UnionPay doesn't publish financial statements and interviews with its executives couldn't be arranged, said Wang Kongping, a company spokesman.
"If you look forward, the world has a new player that wants to be involved," Diane Offereins, head of payment services at Riverwoods, Illinois-based Discover, said in an interview in Beijing in August. "We do see them making good progress in building that international network."
Record Spending
Chinese residents increased spending abroad through credit and debit cards last year by 67 percent to 300 billion yuan ($48 billion), China Daily quoted UnionPay Chairman Su Ning as saying in March.
Chinese spent a record $7.7 billion on shopping in the U.S. last year, according to U.S. Commerce Department data. Their purchases climbed at least 30 percent annually in seven of the past eight years, the data show.
"Total transaction volume from UnionPay cards outside of China may not be so significant yet, but it's a game about future opportunities," Friedman said.
Domestically, UnionPay dominates the payments market. Its Chinese name, Yin Lian, which means "banks united," also reflects its ownership structure. Its founding shareholders in 2002 were 85 Chinese banks, led by the five biggest state-owned lenders and approved by the State Council and the People's Bank of China.
Chinese Leaders
Its largest bank shareholder is China Construction Bank Corp., with a 4.9 percent stake. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd., Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. and Bank of Communications Co. each hold more than 3 percent, data compiled by Susquehanna show.
UnionPay's top managers, including Chairman Su and President Xu Luode, are former senior officials at China's central bank. UnionPay boasts on its website visits by Chinese leaders such as President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and Xi Jinping, the incoming president.
Xu, in a 2009 interview in New York with Bloomberg News, said his goal was for UnionPay to be accepted around the globe. "My next step isn't any nation," he said. "It's the world."
UnionPay's 2011 profit rose about 78 percent to 1.07 billion yuan, on revenue of 6 billion yuan, China Business News reported in April, citing data from the company's shareholder meeting. Over the past four years, UnionPay's revenue has more than tripled while profit increased almost 11-fold, according to the report.
Merchant Commissions
The company gets about half its revenue from commissions paid by domestic merchants, the 21st Century Business Herald reported in July, without saying where it obtained the information. The rest is from fees on domestic ATM withdrawals, international operations and other businesses, the newspaper said, without giving a breakdown.
The only non-mainland Chinese banks allowed to issue solely branded credit cards in the country are Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia Ltd. and New York-based Citigroup. Citigroup's ability to get an issuing license was "a meaningful development for U.S. bank issuers," Craig Maurer and Matthew O'Neill, analysts at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, wrote in a Sept. 19 note.
Other lenders, including London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, issue cards co-branded with Chinese banks. They typically pay a cut of each transaction to the Chinese partner as well as to UnionPay, whose network must be used for domestic payment processing. Visa's logo is now printed on cards issued by at least 16 Chinese banks, including Bank of China Ltd. and Bank of Communications, according to its Chinese-language website.
'Easy Access'
MasterCard, whose Chinese name means "easy access to everything," has 18 Chinese lenders issuing cards with its brand, its website shows. The Purchase, N.Y.-based company signed a memorandum of understanding with UnionPay in 2010 to boost its revenue by improving acceptance in China for MasterCard and outside of the country for UnionPay cardholders.
Amex has co-branded credit cards with UnionPay issued by four Chinese lenders including Bank of China and ICBC, according to the New York-based firm's Chinese-language website.
UnionPay had $660 billion of credit-card transactions last year, while debit-card volume was $2.1 trillion, according to Nilson.
Chinese banks had 3.08 billion debit cards circulating at the end of September, a 21 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the People's Bank of China. The number of credit cards printed jumped 19 percent to 318 million, according to the central bank, which said 88.2 trillion yuan of transactions were made through bank cards in the third quarter.
Card Circulation
China's consumer lending has grown at an average 29 percent annually from 2005 to 2010 and it's expected to increase at 24 percent a year through 2015, according to an August 2011 Boston Consulting Group report. Receivables from credit cards, which were broadly introduced to retail customers only in the early 2000s, could rise 40 percent annually to reach 2.5 trillion yuan in 2015, according to the report.
China will overtake the U.S. as the largest market for credit cards by 2020, with about 900 million cards in circulation, MasterCard said in 2010. Credit cards featuring UnionPay numbered 285 million and debit cards totaled 2.7 billion as of 2011, according to the Nilson Report.
Chinese tourists are fueling UnionPay's growth overseas. On Paris's Boulevard Haussmann, the cards are welcomed by retailers from Galeries Lafayette to Printemps.
France expects as many as 5 million Chinese tourists within five years, or about 700,000 annually, according to a report by its tourist development agency and consulting firm Roland Berger. Chinese tourists typically spend about 3,100 euros ($4,000) per household on shopping in Europe, the report shows.
Tour Buses
Across the English Channel, on an afternoon in July, two tour buses bearing Chinese signs were parked in London's Knightsbridge district outside Harrods, which opened in 1849 and has counted Sigmund Freud and Oscar Wilde among its customers.
Harrods has seen a sharp increase in sales and larger purchases from Chinese customers following the acceptance of UnionPay in February 2011, Katharine Witty, group director of corporate affairs, said in an e-mail. She declined to give specifics, citing company policy.
"China is certainly among Harrods's most significant customer base," Witty said of the store, which employs more than 80 Mandarin-speaking staff. "A large majority of Chinese customers are now taking advantage of the UnionPay option."
UnionPay introduced a summer promotion at merchants including Harrods, offering a Montblanc key ring to each customer who spent 500 pounds or more using a UnionPay card.
"I don't have a card issued by foreign banks," said Li, who was visiting London with her family from Ningbo, a port city in China's Zhejiang province, with a UnionPay card issued by China Construction Bank. "It's too much of a hassle to get one."


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A starfleet of science-fiction and fantasy authors descends for one galactic book signing event. Attending authors include: Camille Alexa, Brent Weeks, David Levine, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Peter Orullian, Mark Ferrari, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Kevin James Breaux, Meljean Brooks, Devon Monk, Lilith Saintcrow, J. A. Pitts, Timothy Zahn, Irene Radford, Ru Emerson, Adrian Phoenix, Andrew Mayer, Mary Robinette Kowal, Shannon Page, Claude Lalumiere, M. K. Hobson, Brenda Cooper, Vonda McIntyre, Louise Marley, and Ursula K. Le Guin. And in attendance will be the Cloud City Garrison of the 501st Imperial Legion with the Kashyyk Base of the Rebel Legion.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus have been found in Payette County.
It first detection of West Nile in Idaho this year.
The agency says the virus was found in mosquitoes trapped southeast of the city of Payette.
In 2006, Idaho led the nation in West Nile illnesses with almost 1,000 human infections, which contributed to 23 deaths. In 2013, 40 human cases were reported in 16 counties, with two deaths.
West Nile is usually contracted from the bite of an infected mosquito. It is not spread from person-to-person through casual contact.
Symptoms of infection often include fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes swollen lymph glands or a skin rash on the chest, stomach, and back.


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A con game that targets truck driving schools and carriers with student training programs is reportedly scamming money from student truck drivers.
Bob Harrigan, training manager for Star Transportation Inc., has asked us to spread the word on this scheme to protect new drivers from being victimized.
Harrigan was first notified of the problem by Sandra Goforth of Alliance Tractor Trailer Training Center in Arden, N.C.
According to Goforth, a man identifying himself as "Johnny" called Alliance, presenting himself as a driver recruiter. His demeanor is very professional, she said, and he appears to know a lot about the carriers he claims to represent (fleet size, pay scales, equipment, etc.).
Apparently, he uses this technique to obtain lists of truck driver school attendees/graduates with their phone numbers.
The scammer then calls the student and identifies himself as carrier management. He tells the unwitting driver that he/she has been hired and convinces the victim to send him money for additional training expenses.
The students are led to believe they are doing what's required to get the job. They're asked to send the money via Western Union, so the crook can pick it up anywhere.
Goforth said "Johnny" occasionally calls from the phone number (912) 238-1019, which she has learned is a pay phone at a Savannah, Ga. Greyhound Bus station.
"On the evening of 1/22/08, one of our student attendees in our driver orientation at Star Transportation was contacted by phone while staying at our off-site lodging facility in Nashville," says Harrigan. "The caller identified himself using the name of our recruiting department supervisor. The student accepted the caller as legitimate."
Harrigan said the caller insisted that when the student completed orientation he would immediately be assigned to a truck and a load to South Carolina. "Our student responded that his experience level would not allow him to do any such thing and the conversation ended."
The next day, the student driver reported the phone call to the orientation supervisor.
As the morning progressed, the student was contacted by his wife saying that she had received a phone call at their home, and the caller identified himself as "Jim Davis" from Star Transportation. Star has no such employee.
The caller asked for the driver's wife by name. He then convinced her that her husband was on his way to Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a load, that he needed money, and that she should immediately wire him $200.
The wife fell for the ploy and sent the money through Western Union, as directed by the scammer. The recipient was to be named "Star" and that's how the money was sent and picked up. The scammer had called from a Verizon pay phone (843) 448-8352, Harrigan says.
A police report has been filed on the incident. Two other student drivers at Star Transportation reported receiving similar calls that same day.
"Our recruiting department is now telling all student applicants about this scam, and that no one from Star Transportation will ever call them or their families asking for money to be sent anywhere for any reason," Harrigan says. "Students are being told that if they receive such a call, they are to report it immediately to Star Transportation and to law enforcement."
On the same day the Star driver was scammed, it happened to a student at Covenant Transport in Chattanooga, Harrigan says, and another at Werner Enterprises.
"There is great concern as to how the scammer(s) are obtaining detailed information about the students and the company representatives," Harrigan says. "This problem affects the entire transportation industry and the word needs to get out quickly."
We hope this helps, Bob. The industry is struggling hard enough to bring safe, qualified people onboard as truck drivers. Having those drivers get ripped off before they get started certainly won't help the cause.


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Sarah Frances Jones
Funeral services for Sarah Frances Jones, 80, of Sweetwater, will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, at McCoy Chapel of Memories with Rev. Jerry Payne and Rev. Don Casper officiating. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, at Taylor Cemetery near Lampasas. Interment will follow under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.Visitation will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, at McCoy Funeral Home.Jones died Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010, at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital.She was born Aug. 10, 1930, in Gilmer, Texas. She married Robert Eugene Jones on Aug. 15, 1947, in Burnet, Texas. Sarah moved to Sweetwater in 1998 from Round Rock. She had worked for the Round Rock ISD as the cafeteria manager for many years. She was a Baptist.Survivors include daughters, Wilma Hinds of Abilene, Sarah Guelker and husband Steve of Sweetwater, Debbie White and husband Randy of Sweetwater and Susan Alexander and husband Terry of Sweetwater; sons, Robert Alvin Jones of Sweetwater, Dennis W. Jones and wife Jo Ann of Leander, John Paul Jones of Sweetwater, Jimmy Jones of Sweetwater, Charles Jones and wife Frances of Sweetwater and Wiley Williams and wife Loraine of Austin; two adopted granddaughters, Sarah Miley of Georgetown and Natasha Miley of Sweetwater; sister, Linnie Wilma Adams of Sweetwater; brothers, Charles W. Taylor and wife Margaret of Fort Worth and Don Taylor and wife Joyce of LBJ Lake, Texas; daughter-in-law, Rose Jones of Buchanan; 30 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.She was preceded in death by her husband in August 1991; and a son, Joe Jones.


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When Apple introduced iCloud in 2011, it announced that every customer with an Apple ID would receive 5GB of iCloud storage space for free. You can add more storage at a rate of $2.10 per gigabyte per year, in 10GB, 20GB, or 50GB increments. But if you're not interested in ponying up extra cash for iCloud storage, that 5GB can quickly get tight.
That's especially true if you use your iCloud storage allotment to back up your iOS devices. Some Apple customers find that they're unable to back up both an iPad and iPhone to iCloud, because they don't have enough room. Does that mean you need to either pay for more storage or revert to old-fashioned iTunes backups?
Not necessarily. Instead, it means you need to exercise a little extra manual control over how you send items—and more specifically, what you send—to iCloud for safekeeping.
Once more unto the Settings app
To start, open the Settings app on one of your iOS devices, and then tap iCloud. Scroll down and tap Storage & Backup. On the screen that appears, you'll see the total amount of storage space you have on iCloud (5GB, if you haven't upgraded), along with the amount of space that's still unused. Beneath that is a Manage Storage button. Tap it.
At the top of the subsequent Manage Storage screen, you'll see a list of all the iOS devices that you're backing up to iCloud, including the current device. Examine the list closely. If it claims that you're still backing up, say, the old iPhone 3GS that you haven't used since before House was cancelled, you'll want to delete its backup so that it stops gobbling up your precious storage space. Tap the unneeded device's name, and then tap the red Delete Backup button that appears.
If you instead tap the name of the device you're currently using, you reach a screen offering fine control over the precise items you're backing up for that device.
The role of the Camera Roll
On that screen, you'll see the current size of your device's backup, along with an estimate of how large your next backup will be. Below that, you'll see a list of apps that can back up their data to iCloud. With one exception, the list appears in descending order according to the amount of space each app requires to back up its data in iCloud. The one exception: Camera Roll is always first. It isn't always the biggest item on the list, but it often is; for example, my own iPhone's Camera Roll accounts for 1.1GB of the phone's 1.7GB backup.
Tapping to turn off the Camera Roll brings up an intimidating question: 'Do you want to turn off Camera Roll backups and delete the backup data from iCloud?' You can choose Turn Off & Delete or Cancel. That first option is scary. If you think it means you'll lose your precious photos and videos, don't worry: You won't—or, rather, you probably won't.
By default, iCloud backs up your iOS devices' Camera Rolls. That way, if your iPhone croaks, chokes, or otherwise gives up the ghost, you can restore from iCloud and get all your photos and videos back. If you do tap Turn Off & Delete, then, you aren't deleting those visual memories from your device; rather, you're simply freeing up the iCloud backup space they consume, and removing the ability to restore those photos from iCloud should disaster strike your iOS device.
That isn't necessarily as risky a move as it sounds. Whenever you connect your iOS device to your Mac, you can back up its saved photos and videos to iPhoto. But even if you rarely—or never—sync your iOS devices over USB, you probably don't need iCloud to back up your photos, thanks to Photo Stream, which keeps up to 1000 of the last photos you snapped over the past 30 days. Since the iCloud Camera Roll backup is really there only in case of emergency, and you're likely to note a major emergency involving your iOS device in fewer than 30 days, you can generally trust that your photos are safe even if they're not backed up to iCloud directly. (Photo Stream photos don't count against your 5GB iCloud quota.)
Merely turning off the Camera Roll backup will shave off a significant chunk of your iOS devices' backups. That may be enough to allow you to back up all of your iOS devices without busting the 5GB cap. But you can do even more.
Trim the app fat
Depending on how you use your iOS device, you likely will want to continue allowing some apps to back up their data to iCloud. If you frequently create documents in an iOS text editor, create songs in GarageBand, or generate any content at all, and you don't regularly back it up (or export it in some other fashion), you should use iCloud backup for those apps.
But you probably don't need to use iCloud to back up data from many other apps you use. And even if most of those apps account for only a few megabytes per backup per app, they can add up to a significant chunk of storage. For example, you might disable iBooks' iCloud backup, since you can always restore your iBooks purchases from directly within the iBookstore. You probably don't need to back up whatever data is stored by games for your kids, or games for yourself in which you don't care about in-game progress or customisations that you might have made. And for apps that sync and back up their data on the Web—such as Instapaper—backup might be unnecessary, too.
Careful, though: Don't turn things off willy-nilly. For example, you might think, "Hey, I don't need to back up my data from the Cards app!" And you may well be right. But if you were to learn that, after an iCloud restore, your old photo cards were now but a memory, you'd be crushed.
Documents, data, and mail
At long last, let's back up one level from that device-specific screen in iCloud's settings. (Remember, though, to configure the settings for Camera Roll and other apps on each iOS device you back up.) On the main Manage Storage screen, past the list of your devices, you'll see two other sections: Documents & Data and Mail.
The Documents & Data section refers not to the kind of content iCloud should back up, exactly; instead it refers to all those bits of data that iCloud syncs between your iOS devices (and, in some cases, your computer). This data counts against your iCloud storage allotment.
Interestingly enough, this section of iCloud's settings can even refer to data that you saved only on your Mac. In my case, it revealed several megabytes' worth of content I'd saved in Preview while exploring; deleting those old, unneeded documents freed up a little extra iCloud space.
In addition, this section lists synced data from iCloud-leveraging apps and games. On my iPhone, that list includes Pages, Passbook, Keynote, and The Incident. I want my progress in The Incident synced between devices, and the sync data consumes just a single kilobyte, so it survives the cut. But if, for example, you see that Pages is taking up many megs (or more), you can tap it to get a listing of each document saved there, along with the amount of space it's taking up. If you notice files you no longer need, clean 'em out.
If you use iCloud as your primary email account, you may have your work cut out for you: All that mail counts against your iCloud quota. If you don't regularly archive email offline, prune attachments, and delete what's deletable, Mail may gobble up an increasingly large percentage of your iCloud quota. I don't use iCloud Mail, but I found that it was—at first—claiming about 20MB of storage space. I logged in to iCloud.com and cleared out my initial welcome message and a few other test messages to whittle that number down, though it never hit zero: I do use my iCloud account for syncing Notes between devices, and that data counts against the Mail tally, too.
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Combine these tricks—disable Camera Roll backups, curate which apps get to back up their data to iCloud, limit what types of data you sync with iCloud, and prune unneeded iCloud mail—and you can dramatically shrink the space required to back up your devices with iCloud.
But if you just can't trim enough iCloud-stored data to fit everything you need, Apple is always happy to let you pay for more space.


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I want the Hawks to take a WR in round 2... and I'm concerned that Ryan Swope will be gone before our pick at #56 so I stated looking for an acceptable substitute (assuming we don't trade up in the 2nd round by trading Matt Flynn to a QB-needy team like J'ville).
For a while I was on the Hopkins bandwagon and still am to a degree, but Markus Wheaton has really caught my eye. Mind you, I also like Stedman Bailey, Robert Woods and Chris Harper as well but Wheaton's production in combination to his quick-twitch measurables make him very attractive to add to RW's arsenal.
I'm interested in what others think about Wheaton in general, as our 2nd round pick, and if they think that he'll still be an option to us with our 3rd round pick (#87).


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UK men sentenced over Oompa Loompa attack
Sep. 25, 2013
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been sentenced in a British court for attacking a man while they were dressed as Oompa Loompas.
Louis Gelinas and Matthew Wright pleaded guilty to "affray" — or disturbing the peace — at an earlier hearing for their role in the attack in December 2012 that left a 28-year-old man with cuts and bruises.
Prosecutor Stephen Spence noted it was ironic the two were dressed as "peaceable characters" employed by Willy Wonka "to keep them away from trouble" in the novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Spence said "far from keeping out of trouble" the pair — both 20 — got into an abusive altercation.
Gelinas was sentenced Wednesday to 240 hours of community work and Wright was sentenced to 10 months in a young offenders' institute.


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Who Killed Clinton's Dog?
What did Buddy know, and when did he know it?
[ Note: Kausfiles received the following from a gravelly-voiced outdoorsman in Arkansas who refused to give his name.]
"It was strictly an accident. The dog just darted out." That is what the media wants us to believe about the death of Buddy, Bill Clinton's 4-year-old Labrador retriever. (See "Who Is Buddy?" Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1997.) But is the truth about this—the latest Clinton casualty—that conveniently simple?
What do we really know about Buddy's death? Who stood to benefit? Consider the following:
- On Dec. 19, 2001 Clinton has a meeting in his Harlem office to discuss ways to repair his "battered" image. The meeting is described in the New York Times as having a "special urgency." An image-building speech on globalization at Yale has apparently not brought Clinton the expected public sympathy.
- Democratic leaders, Clinton is reported to have said, had not spoken up sufficiently on his behalf. They could not be relied on.
- Present at the meeting was Bruce Lindsey, Clinton's secretive consigliere and the man entrusted with the Clintons' most distasteful tasks.
Exactly two weeks later, Buddy was dead. As could have been predicted, Clinton benefited from a wave of public sympathy—sympathy he hadn't felt since at least Sept. 11. Clinton's office almost instantly issued a press statement saying the Clintons were "deeply saddened by Buddy's death."
It's almost as if it had been planned all along.
A look at the actual circumstances of Buddy's demise does little to allay suspicions. As many as nine strange facts remain uninvestigated. Consider:
1. With all the high-tech security available to an ex-president on the Chappaqua property, the Clintons had apparently somehow failed to install what a dog expert called "the one essential safety feature, an invisible fence." This system would have given Buddy a small shock as he neared the property line, warning him not to cross it. Unless, of course, it had been turned off.
2.We are told that on Jan. 2, the day of Buddy's mysterious, violent end, "neither Clinton nor his wife was at home." Is this really a coincidence? Would the former first couple pay $1.7 million for a suburban headquarters and then just happen to not be at home when their dog is killed? On the other hand, if you wanted to do away with your dog, you'd want no fingerprints. Wouldn't you arrange to be out of town that day?
3. Would the trained ex-presidential personnel entrusted with Buddy's care really unintentionally allow him to "bolt" through the "front door" chasing a "contractor"? Who were these handlers? Why haven't such key eyewitnesses been subpoenaed?
4. Who was the shadowy "contractor" and why did he leave in such a hurry? What was he installing at the Clintons' residence, which had been fully remodeled several years ago? Isn't it strange that he would leave the gate open, when any "contractor" worth his salt knows that an open gate plus a dog equals a lawsuit?
5. Buddy is said to have "scampered" fully "600 feet down the road," and then another 100 feet on heavily traveled Route 117 before he was hit. Have you ever "scampered" 600 feet, the length of two football fields?
6. The 17-year-old "high school senior" who allegedly ran over Buddy has been described in the press as a "pretty brunette"—the same description, practically, that was once applied to White House intern Monica Lewinsky. What, if any, was her connection with the ex-president?
7. It is illegal in Chappaqua to allow a dog to run outside your property without a leash unless the dog is "under the owner's voice or visual control." Was Buddy actually being controlled? If not, who decided, at what level, to break the law? Why did an employee of the town clerk's office in heavily Democratic Chappaqua tell the New York Post (Jan. 4) that the penalty for violating this regulation only applies if a dog is picked up by a dog catcher?
8. Celebrity dog trainer Bash Dibra has now come forward, in the Post (Jan. 4), to say that he strictly advised Clinton to always use a leash with Buddy outside the home. Why was this celebrity advice ignored?
9. Writing in the New York Times, a former Clinton aide, now a shadowy "communications consultant," discloses that when Clinton was in office—perhaps at the very height of the impeachment scandal—Buddy would "pad on down to the basement of the West Wing, poking his nose into the wastebaskets outside Sidney Blumenthal's office." Yes, that Sidney Blumenthal, the partisan conspiratorialist who is so often at the center of Clintonian machinations—the same Sidney Blumenthal who had seemingly eerily anticipated last week's deadly event by writing a play about a scandal involving the president's dog. Why Blumenthal's trash, and no one else's? What did the doomed Labrador find there? Had Buddy smelled too much?
Connect the dots. It doesn't add up. No other conclusion seems even possible. Perhaps some subpoenas would help shake loose the real story. But who in Congress will step forward to do what is necessary?
Remember: When they say it's not about the leash, it's about the leash!
One who might know the answer to some of the questions surrounding Buddy is Trumper, Buddy's neighbor. (See "Who Is Trumper?" WSJ, Aug. 2001.) But, as if to silence this witness months before the event, Trumper, a Shih Tzu, was put down by its owner in October. Was Trumper ill—or simply another name on the growing list of Clinton victims?


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Located on the east side of Grand Boulevard, the BSC offers programs and activities, places to eat and meet, and a vibrant, lively environment where the diversity of the SLU community is honored and enriched. The building is home to many student development departments and student organizations and lots of ways to get involved in campus activities. Offices housed in the BSC include:
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Getting Smart About Smartphones
Tips for Consumers
Consumer Information Sheet 15A • December 2014
Our phones have become pocket computers. Think of the information your smartphone holds: call logs, text messages, your location, your contacts, photos, videos, and your web browsing history. Think of what it can do: stream movies, hail a cab, make purchases, and talk to you, among other things.
If, like many Americans, you say your life is in your phone, then it's time to get smart about how you use it. Your safety depends on it.
Smartphone Risks: Reality Check
Smartphones (and tablets and other portable devices that can access the Internet) bring privacy risks, like their desktop counterparts. They can be targets for malware and spyware and vulnerable to hackers. Even so, many consumers do not protect their phones with security software – or even with a passcode.
Smartphones hold very personal information that we want to keep private, such as text messages, photos, and our friends' contact information. If you use your phone for online banking, your account password may be stored on the phone. And some of the apps that make our phones so useful have been found to capture a wide range of our personal information.
Smartphone Privacy: Own it
Your privacy may be at risk even if you keep your phone with you at all times. Avoid complacency and take steps to protect yourself today. See the basic tips below and then go to the For More Information section at the end of this sheet for additional resources.
First, Secure Yourself
In public places, be alert when using your phone: smartphones are valuable. Criminals snatch phones from distracted texters and talkers, frequently hurting the victims. Stolen smartphones not only have value on the resale market, they are also valuable to identity thieves who use stored personal information to commit crimes.
In the driver's seat, turn off your phone. If you need to make a call or send a text, pull over to do it. Powering down your smartphone when you are behind the wheel can save lives – including your own.
Secure Your Phone
- Know where your phone is at all times. Don't let people you don't know have access to it – malware, spyware, or tracking apps can be installed in just a few minutes.
- Protect your phone with a password or pin. Install security software. Make sure to keep the software updated
- Keep your phone's operating system up to date. This will protect you with patches for newly discovered bugs or hacks.
- Use an app or a service that lets you remotely erase the information on the phone if it's lost or stolen. You must set this up in advance, before the phone goes missing.
- Back up your smartphone's contents to your computer or to mobile cloud storage. Device manufacturers and others offer mobile cloud storage.
- You can also better protect your private information by using your smartphone "settings."
- Auto-lock: Phones are small and easy to lose. Set yours to auto-lock within five minutes, with a password to unlock it.
- Location services make life convenient. They are how apps on our devices deliver accurate directions, traffic updates, nearby restaurants, and weather reports. However, an app can access your location even when you are not using the app.
You don't have to make your location available all the time. Adjust your settings and control location services:
- On Android phones and devices, go to Settings, then Location and uncheck the boxes. When an app asks for access to your location, you can choose to grant it or not.
You can also choose how accurate you want your location reporting to be. Location can come from GPS plus WiFi and cellular networks, or just one or the other. Keep in mind that a higher degree of accuracy will use more battery, so protecting your privacy protects your battery life too.
- On iPhones and iPads (iOS6 and later), go to Settings, then Privacy, then Location Services. You can turn it off. Or you can choose which functions and apps to give access to your location.
You may get notifications from apps asking to use your location in the background. For privacy, select "Don't Allow."
- On a Windows phone, you can disable all access to location information by apps and collection of your location information by the Windows Phone location service. Go to Settings, then Location, and toggle the location switch to off.
- On a BlackBerry 10, select the Settings icon on the main screen, then Location Services from list, and use Location. Services toggle button to turn on/off location services.
- On a BlackBerry 7 and earlier devices, on the home screen, select Options, then Device, then Location Settings. Use the toggle switch to turn on/off location services and GPS assistance.
- Be careful about banking where you buy your latte. Free public Wi-Fi is normally not secure, and information thieves know it. They sit in cafes, shopping malls, and other public places monitoring how you use the Internet. Your passwords, account numbers, and photos can fall prey to hacking. When using Wi-Fi hot spots, stick to window- shopping.
- In the app platform/store, look for a link to the app's privacy policy. Look through the policy for what it says about personal information they collect and how they use and share it. If you don't like what you see, don't download the app.
- On Android phones, the Permissions tab on app pages in GooglePlay store displays the information and features that the app can access on your phone. For example, it may show that an app can make phone calls and incur charges. If you don't like the permissions, don't download the app.
- Once you've downloaded an app, pay attention to any notices asking for your permission to access your location or other information.
- Look for a privacy policy and privacy settings within the app after you've downloaded it. You may be able to make choices about what information an app collects or how it uses it.
- California law requires apps to have a privacy policy.1 If you can't find an app's privacy policy on the platform/store or within the app, or if you have a complaint about the app's privacy practices, report it.
- For apps in the Microsoft Windows store: Look for a link labeled "Report app to Microsoft" or "Report concern to Microsoft."
- For apps in the Apple AppStore: Go to www.apple.com/privacy/contact/.
- For apps in GooglePlay: Visit the app's description page to "Flag as inappropriate"or go to https://support.google.com/ googleplay/android-developer/contact/takedown.
- For apps in BlackBerry World: Send an email to email@example.com.
- Report to the California Attorney General: www.oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
Review Location Services
Check Your Network
Check Out Apps
Over a million mobile apps are available today. They let us do many wonderful and useful things. They can also access our personal information and even our phone's functions. Pause a moment and check out the features of the latest cool app before you download it.
For More Information
App Reviews, Common Sense Media, available at www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews
"How to clear your data off a device," Computerworld (August 2012), available at www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229969/How_to_clear_your_data_off_a_device
"Before It's Gone: Steps to Deter Smartphone Thefts & Protect Personal Info," CTIA (the wireless association), available at www.ctia.org/consumer_info/index.cfm/AID/12084.
"The Best Mobile Security Apps," PC Magazine (May 2012), available at www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402099,00.asp
"How to Remotely Disable Your Lost or Stolen Phone," PC Magazine (April 2012), available at www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352755,00.asp.
1 The California Online Privacy Protection Act, Business and Professions Code §§ 22575-22579, is available at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpandedbranch.xhtml.
This fact sheet is for informational purposes and should not be construed as legal advice or as policy of the State of California. If you want advice on a particular case, you should consult an attorney or other expert. The fact sheet may be copied, if (1) the meaning of the copied text is not changed or misrepresented, (2) credit is given to the California Department of Justice, and (3) all copies are distributed free of charge.


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Trying to conceive a kid who's a chip off the old block? A newly published study out of Australia suggests that prospective fathers trim off excess love handles after finding that paternal obesity at the time of conception can likewise predispose offspring to becoming overweight.
After years of focusing on the impact of a mother's health on unborn babies, the scientific community has begun to take notice of how a man's diet can likewise predict an offspring's body weight and health - even as early as the time of conception.
In a new study out of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, researchers found that when a group of obese, diabetic male rats were mated with lean female rats, their offspring expressed a genetic predisposition for obesity and poor insulin control.
"While scientists have focused on how the maternal diet affects children's health, this study is part of exciting new research exploring the impact of paternal diet on offspring risk of obesity," said study co-author Margaret Morris.
For their research, scientists mated two groups of male rats with lean female rats: one group was fed a high-fat diet, the other kept on a normal, healthy diet.
Offspring born to obese fathers showed altered expressions in the pancreas - responsible for producing insulin and regulating blood sugar levels - and fat tissues.
Baby rats born to obese fathers, for instance, showed a poor ability to respond to a glucose challenge, even while consuming a healthy diet, scientists said.
The Australian study builds on previous research out of Montreal which likewise found that a father's diet can influence the health of his offspring, particularly when it comes to vitamin B9, also known as folate.
When male mice put on a vitamin B9-deficient diet were mated with female mice, scientists found the risk of birth defects rose nearly 30%.
Similar results were observed in a study out of Duke University early last year - the first conducted on humans.
After gathering medical information from mothers and fathers and DNA from the umbilical cords of newborns, researchers concluded that paternal obesity may be associated with an increased risk of children developing health-related cancers.
The Australian study was published in The FASEB Journal.