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MethylGene Announces Cdn.$26.1 Million Private Placement
MethylGene Inc. (TSX:MYG) announced today its intention to complete a private placement in the United States of Cdn.$26.1 million (the "Offering"). The lead investor of the Offering is Tavistock Life Sciences ("Tavistock"), an insider of the Company, and other insiders participating in the Offering include funds managed by Baker Bros. Advisors, LLC (collectively, "Baker Brothers"), a fund managed by OrbiMed Advisors LLC ("OrbiMed") and Tang Capital Partners, LP ("Tang Capital" and, together with Tavistock, Baker Brothers and OrbiMed, collectively, the "Insiders").
The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Offering to support ongoing clinical programs for the Company's two lead programs, MGCD265 and MGCD290. For MGCD290, our novel antifungal Hos2 inhibitor, we intend to use the proceeds of the Offering to complete the ongoing randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II study in patients with moderate-to-severe vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC). Topline results from this trial are expected in Q1 2013. The Company also expects to use the proceeds of the Offering to advance MGCD265, our Met/VEGF receptor kinase inhibitor for oncology, into multiple Phase I/II expansion cohorts upon reaching MTD, in patients with renal cell, gastric and hepatocellular cancers who are c-Met positive. The Company also plans to use the proceeds of the Offering to initiate a study in NSCLC patients who express Axl. With the proceeds from the Offering, and based on its current clinical development and operating plans, the Company's cash runway is expected to extend into the second half of 2014.
Details of the Offering
Under terms of the Offering, MethylGene intends to issue 179,690,970 units at a subscription price per unit of Cdn.$0.145 (the "Subscription Price") (being the 5-day volume weighted average price of MethylGene's common shares at the close of markets on November 2, 2012 (the "Market Price"), less 19.4%), each unit consisting of one common share and thirty one-hundredths (0.30) of a common share purchase warrant, exercisable for a period of five years from the date of issuance at an exercise price of Cdn.$0.174 (being 97% of the Market Price and 120% of the Subscription Price). The common shares and warrant shares issuable pursuant to the Offering represent, in the aggregate, a total of up to 233,598,261 common shares (up to 73.41% of the issued and outstanding common shares as at close of business on November 9, 2012). The warrants include standard adjustment provisions for stock splits, stock dividends, mergers, recapitalizations and the like as well as a cashless exercise feature. The common shares and the common share purchase warrants (along with any shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants) will be subject to a four month hold period in respect of any resales in Canada.
All investors who subscribed for Cdn.$4,000,000 or more of units have been granted a pre-emptive right to acquire, in proportion to their respective holdings in MethylGene, any equity or voting securities subsequently issued by MethylGene for a term of up to 48 months following the closing of the Offering.
The securities offered will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act.
Out of the Offering, 129,303,078 units (representing approximately 40.64% of MethylGene's issued and outstanding common shares as of November 9, 2012) will be allocated to the Insiders. Prior to the Offering, Baker Brothers holds approximately 16.43% of the issued and outstanding common shares; Tavistock holds approximately 17.08% of the issued and outstanding common shares; and each of OrbiMed and Tang Capital holds approximately 12.64% of the issued and outstanding common shares.
Upon the issuance of the additional common shares at the closing of the offering, (i) Baker Brothers will hold 99,003,760 common shares (approximately 19.88% of the then issued and outstanding common shares) and warrants entitling it to purchase 29,701,217 common shares (for aggregate holdings representing approximately 20.28% on a fully diluted basis); (ii) Tavistock will hold 99,003,760 common shares (approximately 19.88% of the then issued and outstanding common shares) and warrants entitling it to purchase 29,086,188 common shares (for aggregate holdings representing approximately 20.19% on a fully diluted basis); (iii) Tang Capital will hold 60,914,917 common shares (approximately 12.26% of the then issued and outstanding common shares) and warrants entitling it to purchase 18,274,474 common shares (for aggregate holdings representing approximately 12.48% on a fully diluted basis); and (iv) OrbiMed will hold 57,466,641 common shares (approximately 11.54% of the then issued and outstanding common shares) and warrants entitling it to purchase 17,239,992 common shares (for aggregate holdings representing approximately 11.77% on a fully diluted basis). Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of Baker Brothers and Tavistock has agreed that it shall not have the right to exercise any portion of its warrants to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, it would beneficially own in excess of 19.99% of the common shares of the Company, except in certain limited circumstances. Save for the units issued to the Insiders, all units issued pursuant to the Offering will be issued to arm's length third parties.
The control of MethylGene will not be materially affected by the Offering.
Shareholders' Approval
The Toronto Stock Exchange requires MethylGene to obtain the approval of a majority of its disinterested shareholders with respect to the issuance of the additional common shares and potential issuance of the common shares underlying the warrants (i) since the TSX Company Manual deems the price per share underlying each warrant to be less than "market price" (as that term is defined in the TSX Company Manual), and (ii) given that the shares issuable pursuant to the Offering amount to more than 25% of the number of the issued and outstanding common shares, on a non-diluted basis, prior to the date of closing of the Offering, and (iii) given that the shares issuable pursuant to the Offering to the Insiders amount to more than 10% of the number of the issued and outstanding common shares, on a non-diluted basis, prior to the date of closing of the Offering. MethylGene intends to provide the Toronto Stock Exchange with written evidence that holders of more than 50% of its voting securities, on a disinterested basis, are familiar with the terms of the Offering, and are in favour of it, in order to benefit from the exemption set forth in the rules of the Toronto Stock Exchange from the requirement to hold a special shareholders' meeting to obtain this approval.
The closing of the private placement is expected not before November 19, 2012, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals as well as customary closing conditions.
About MethylGene
MethylGene Inc. (TSX:MYG) is a drug development company that is advancing novel therapeutics for cancer and infectious disease in human clinical trials. The Company's lead product candidates are: MGCD290, an oral antifungal agent targeting the fungal Hos2 enzyme that is in Phase II trials for vulvovaginal candidiasis, and MGCD265, an oral Met/VEGF receptor kinase inhibitor that is in Phase I/II clinical trials for patients with solid tumors. MethylGene owns all rights to its lead product candidates, and has partnerships with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., and EnVivo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for its other pipeline programs.
Certain statements contained in this news release, other than statements of fact that are independently verifiable at the date hereof, may constitute forward-looking statements including the expected closing date of the private placement. Such statements, based as they are on the current expectations of management of MethylGene, inherently involve numerous risks and uncertainties, known and unknown, many of which are beyond MethylGene's control. These risks and uncertainties could cause future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such results, performance or achievements include, but are not limited to, the timing and effects of regulatory action; the continuation of collaborations; the results of clinical trials; the timing of enrollment or completion of clinical trials; the success, efficacy or safety of MGCD265, MGCD290 or our other programs; the ability to scale up, formulate and manufacture sufficient GMP, clinical or commercialization quantities of MGCD265, MGCD290 or our other products, and the relative success or the lack of success in developing and gaining regulatory approval and/or market acceptance for any compound or new product including MGCD265 or MGCD290. Such risks include, but are not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, economic conditions in the pharmaceutical industry, changes in the regulatory environment in the jurisdictions in which MethylGene does business, stock market volatility, fluctuations in costs, expectations with respect to our intellectual property position and our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others, changes in the competitive landscape including changes in the standard of care for the various indications in which MethylGene is involved, and changes to the competitive environment due to consolidation, as well as other risks, as described in MethylGene's Annual Information Form under the heading "Risk Factors" which you are urged to read, and all other documents filed by the Company that can be found at www.sedar.com. Consequently, actual future results may differ materially from the anticipated results expressed in the forward-looking statements. The reader should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements included in this news release. These statements speak only as of the date they are made and MethylGene expressly disclaims any duty, obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in MethylGene's expectations with regard thereto of any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based except in accordance with law.
Contact Information:
MethylGene Inc.
Joseph Walewicz, CFA
Vice President, Business & Corporate Development
514-337-3333 ext. 373
[email protected]
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Thomas Hoffmann
Vice President
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Welcome all!!! Thanks to those who made it happen! To Team Guido: How epic was the Rob and Amber elimination? What do you think of them as fellow racers? (No offence to Romber fans!)
Thanks for sharing and being so active Guidos! Appreciate it! Anyways I probably have 1 more question. What do you guys think of Dustin and Kandice? Were they unfairly targeted by some because simply they were blonde and "fake". Did you guys feels they were "fake"? What do you think of their competitiveness?Unfairly targeted! We liked Dustin and Kandice. Kandice was particularly kind to us during All Stars. We don't think they were fake....they were very strong competitors...Dustin and Kandice wanted to team up with us at the intersection, but Mirna and Charla beat us to intersection box! If only......sigh~Anyways, just refreshing the memory, nice quote in episode 1, Joe: It seems that maybe the people from Race 10 arent tired yet. The Gutsy Grannies here. Thanks! :>)
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A youthful Al Gore stepped from the Port-O-Potty that served as his dressing room.
He moved toward the octagon set in a hidden field where Bill Clinton stood in the center, drawing everyone's attention.
No one noticed Al, even though he wore MMA fight shorts and fight gloves.
The crowd riveted their attention on Clinton, but mostly on Michelle Obama who worked the crowd like a pro.
She moved around striking classic body-building poses to the delight of all.
President Obama, Oprah, and Tipper sat ringside laughing together.
Al Gore was not one of the delighted.
No one recognized him in the context of MMA, and no one cared.
"Jesus, I'm a ghost again. This is worse than being Vice President," he said to himself.
Suddenly, he felt exposed and naked. He stopped walking.
"Come on, Al," he said. "Keep moving. Just like Vietnam, keep moving. Just like the Presidential campaigns, keep moving."
A stranger, a young man on the fringe of the crowd, recognized him.
"Hey man, what are you doing in your swimming suit. You look like Al Gore, but he wouldn't show up to a cage fight in a swim suit."
Al covered his chest with his arms, then reconsidered.
"It's not a swimming suit. It's a…"
"What's that say on the front?" the man said. 'Don't stop?' Had a girlfriend with a pair of trunks like that. Mine said, 'Can't Stop.' Maybe you've got the wrong pair."
Al turned around to show the other half of the Fleetwood Mac lyrics, 'Thinking About Tomorrow.' "It's part of a song," he said. "Before your time."
"I'm thinking tomorrow isn't looking too good for you, Al, running around here in some cabana-boy outfit at your age. Did someone slip you some X, or what?"
"Excuse me, young man," Al told him. "I'm the main event in that ring."
"Actually, it's an octagon," the man said. "There's two people in there, Clinton and Mrs. Obama. You're gonna fight one of them?"
"I'm not sure, but I'm going in."
"Going in is the easy part. Coming out is another story."
Al left the man to make his way to the cage steps. More people recognized him, but stood tongue-tied at his appearance. Al tried shaking hands, but they all recoiled.
"What's the matter? You never seen a cage fighter? Never got this close to an MMA guy?"
He heard Lindsey Buckingham sing the first lines of what he took for his entry music,
"If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way."
He passed Tipper, who sang along. She stopped when she saw Al.
"You'll see things in a different way after you get pasted," she said. "Your shorts look a little tight, Al."
He stepped up to the octagon and froze at the door. John Irving came over and pulled him the rest of the way in.
"It's okay, Al. Everyone gets nervous right where you are. You'll get the swing of it after you take a few hits and kicks. Let's go."
President Obama handed Bill Clinton a microphone just in time.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Welcome to the one, the only, Rumble on the Ridgeline, featuring Michelle 'The Menacer' Obama against Al 'Nobel and Oscar' Gore. Today's event is the last preliminary, with the winner moving to the finals against last weeks winner of the Jonathan Franzen versus Oprah Winfrey fight, OOOOOOOOOOOpraaaaaaahhhhhh Wiiiiinnnnffffffreeeeeey."
John Irving stepped in and held both Al Gore and Michelle Obama by their wrists. Clinton backed up and snaked the microphone under Irving's right armpit and up to his face so he could speak into it.
"You've both received your instructions. I want a clean fight with clean breaks. Come out on the bell, and step away at the end of each round. I'll get you to your feet if you don't show progress on the ground. Are the fighters ready?"
Al Gore looked at John Irving in disbelief; Michelle Obama stared at Al without blinking. If body language counted for anything, the fight was already over.
Clinton moved to the side of the cage and knelt with the microphone.
President Obama stood near him. Both started slow.
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"I thought Buffer had a copyright on that," Clinton said.
"He gave me permission," the President said. "Office perk."
The fighters circled each other, Michelle Obama ducking and weaving, hooking and jabbing the air. Al Gore side-stepped awkwardly with his hands straight out like a sleep-walker.
The crowd screamed their approval, and a demand for blood.
At ringside, Oprah passed a book to Tipper, who slid to the front edge of her seat.
Inside the octagon, Al backed up when Michelle moved toward him. He ran out of backing room and found himself up against the cage wall near Tipper. She tried to stand, but Oprah held her back, shaking her head.
The two fighters navigated the cage a few more times before Al backed into the wall near Tipper again. She was looking at the cover of the book Oprah gave her, Bill Clinton's 'My Life.'
Oprah gave her a shove.
Michelle threw an overhand right that missed. Al fell down anyway. Tipper jumped from her chair and, through the cage wall, whacked Al on the head with 1007 pages of hardback fury. He didn't get up.
John Irving knew exactly what to do. He called the fight, declaring Michelle Obama the winner. He thanked the crowd for coming out and urged them to be careful leaving the field.
The ring doctor brought Al Gore around with smelling salts.
Irving leaned toward Tipper. "I think Volume II would have been a better choice. Those extra three hundred pages on the first book drilled him."
"That was the idea," Oprah said, fist bumping Tipper. She turned toward Michelle.
"Looks like we've got a date to dance, girlfriend."
"Bring it on, Oprah. I'll be waiting."
"No, I'll be waiting."
"You don't keep the First Lady waiting for anything," Michelle said.
"The First Lady of Daytime Television has other priorities."
"Like ducking a fight? Are you and Gayle taking another trip?"
"The only trip will be you leaving the octagon on a stretcher."
"Someone will be on that stretcher. You got that right."
"Straight up."
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Practicing Psychology: Pinning Down Criminal Psychopaths
When you think of the perfect example of a criminal, a few images may come quickly to mind — the criminal mastermind plotting the ultimate crime, the callous armed robber putting a pistol in a bank teller's face, or the serial killer cleverly evading the police.
Each of these images represents an aspect of the stereotypic villain — intelligent but demented, cold and ruthless, violent and destructive. Batman fought against the Riddler, Catwoman, and the Joker. Superman battled Lex Luthor. All of these super-criminals represent people who often engage in extreme criminal behavior and challenge our concept of morality. Such people have intrigued professionals for years. They're on the front page of the newspaper, and they're the lead story on the evening news. They sit in our prisons, and they're sometimes executed for their horrific behavior. These are the psychopaths.
Definitions of the psychopath abound. In fact, some professionals don't see psychopaths as necessarily criminals at all but rather as suffering from a clinical disorder. The title of this article may imply that all psychopaths are criminals, but in fact, this may not be true. It is a fact, however, that many psychopaths act criminally, and when they do, they typically represent a level of seriousness unparalleled by non-psychopathic perpetrators.
Psychopath expert Professor Robert Hare gives a comprehensive list of psychopathic personality traits that outline the major features of this disordered personality.
- Glib and superficial charm
- Callousness and lack of empathy
- Grandiose sense of self worth
- Parasitic lifestyle (lives off of other people)
- Need for stimulation, prone to boredom
- Poor behavioral controls
- Pathological lying
- Promiscuous sexual behavior
- Conning and manipulativeness
- Early behavior problems (temper tantrums and disobedience)
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Failure to accept personal responsibility
- Shallow affect (no deep feelings about anything or anyone)
- Revocation of conditional release (put back in jail after failing at reform)
- Lack of realistic, long-term goals
- Many short-term marriages
- Impulsivity
- Juvenile delinquency
- Irresponsibility
- Criminal versatility (good at a lot of different crimes)
Wow, that's quite a list. But this checklist has become a real standard for evaluating people in court cases, prisons, and forensic hospitals. Some of these traits seem more "villainous" than the others and are worth taking a closer look at.
Two hallmarks of psychopaths are their smooth presentation and charm. They're not easily embarrassed or even mildly self-conscious. They're calm in social situations because they couldn't care less about what other people think of them. Sometimes, they come off as if they're the hottest things since sliced bread. They're often full of themselves and see other people as inferior and easy prey. They'll lie, cheat, and manipulate to get whatever it is they want, and they'll do all of this with a coldness of heart. Psychopaths don't feel remorseful or guilty for any of their transgressions and can sometimes be so cold that they are extremely ruthless, possessing no empathy for the suffering of others. Finally, a host of crimes that they have either been convicted of or have admitted to doing represent their criminal versatility. The range is impressive, from murder to fraud, forgery, kidnapping, arson, tax evasion. . . . Get the picture?
Setting apart the serial killers
Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Ramirez, Jack the Ripper, Fish, the list goes on. Serial murderers represent perhaps the most serious and morbidly fascinating image of criminality. They're modern-day bogeymen. They commit horrific acts of violence and indulge in strange and perverted acts with their victims. The concept of evil comes quickly to mind when thinking of their deeds.
Psychologists, however, are not scientists of evil. They're scientists of behavior and mental processes. That doesn't mean serial murderers' behaviors and minds cannot be studied from a psychological point of view. Richard von Krafft-Ebbing is understood by many experts to have provided the seminal work on serial killers, Pscyhopathia Sexualis (Sexual Psychopathology), published in 1886. Many contend that much of what is known about serial homicide is contained in that work. Before you get into some of that information, however, a quick definition of serial murder is in order.
Serial murder is commonly viewed among professionals as a sexually motivated "subtype" of sexual homicide. That is, serial murder is sexually motivated. Forensic psychiatrist Don Grubin states that the sexual nature of these crimes is seen in the way a perpetrator's sexual arousal is connected to his victim's pain and humiliation. Serial killers are distinguished from mass murderers (killing a bunch of people at one location at one time) and spree killers (killing a number of victims at different locations within hours or days).
Krafft-Ebing identified three main components of sexual homicide that experts still focus on today.
- Sadism: Sexual arousal from the physical suffering, humiliation, or control of a victim is central to the serial killer's psychology. There's an absolute need to control another, weaker human being, and great sexual satisfaction is derived from this act.
- Fantasy: Psychoanalyst David Beres defines a fantasy as a group of symbols combined into a story. It's a mental phenomenon, inside the minds of those who fantasize. You might fantasize about being rich. Sexual murderers fantasize about killing and torturing their victims. Their ritualistic behaviors at the crime scenes are seen as outgrowths of their fantasy life, a way to make the fantasy real. Fledgling serial murderers begin to engage in fantasy early in their life, building on the complexity and intensity of the fantasy as they go along.
- Compulsion to kill: Plenty of people have kinky sexual urges and sometimes even destructive fantasies. Even normal men can have sexual fantasies involving violent and aggressive images, including rape scenes. So, just being a sadist and having a violent fantasy life does not a serial killer make. At least for now, in this society we are responsible on the level of our behavior — no "thought police" yet. Drs. Eugene Revitch and Louis Schlesinger believe that acting out sadistic fantasies is made possible by a compulsive need to do so. A compulsion is like a burning and irresistible need, driving you to do whatever it is that you need to do. When you finally do it, you feel an intense, almost-orgasmic sense of relief. Revitch and Schlesinger believe that the sequence is something like this: sadism –> fantasy –> tension state –> compulsion –> action. The murderous act is, therefore, experienced as an act of release, which is pleasurable and therefore reinforcing of the prior sequence of events and make its repetition likely.
This information is powerful and very interesting. The only fear is that, after reading this, people will go out there and think that they've got serial killers all figured out. This discussion is a really crude introduction to the topic of sexual homicide. Some professionals have devoted their entire careers to figuring out how these people tick. It's not that easy.
Speaking of the professionals devoted to figuring these people out, the attempt to apprehend these individuals based in part on information about their personality and mental state is called psychological profiling. Forensic investigators Dr. Robert Keppel and Dr. Richard Walter call it crime scene assessment. It's an attempt to ascertain important information about the perpetrator of the crime(s), such as his physical, behavioral, and demographic characteristics, and figure out the signature of the perpetrator. A signature is a component of the crime that is unique to that particular killer and can be found across multiple crime scenes.
Keppel states that two very important features for developing a psychological profile of an offender are his signature and his modus operandi. The signature may be the way a rope is tied around a victim's hands or the particular way the victim is tortured. Modus operandi (MO) refers to the particular method of operation of the killer, including the object of the crime, the means, the time, and so on. The MO can change, but the signature usually doesn't.
Park Dietz is a very well-known forensic psychiatrist who sees psychological profiling as a systematic problem-solving activity with five basic steps:
1. The profiler gathers data, including crime scene photos, autopsy reports, witness statements, and forensic lab reports.
2. She attempts to reconstruct the sequence of events before, during, and after the murder.
3. The profiler tries to reconstruct what the perpetrator(s) and victim(s) were experiencing mentally and emotionally that may have led them to act this way. It's an analysis of their motivations, the "why" of their crime.
4. She uses the information that she has gathered to develop a criminal typing — an attempt to fit the offender into a category (sexual sadist or thrill-killer, for example).
5. The profiler tries to use the previous information to figure out what kind of person would do this — man, woman, tall, short, and so on. They even try to figure out what kinds of work he or she may do and any other activities that he or she may engage in. From this information, the expert establishes a profile and gives it to law enforcement officials to use at their discretion.


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Every day, 34 children are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for choking on food, and the food they're most likely to be choking on is candy, according to a new study.
Hard candy accounted for 15.5% of the nonfatal choking incidents documented in a report published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, making it the food item most frequently cited. No. 2 was "other candy," which caused an additional 12.8% of choking incidents requiring serious medical attention.
By the time kids were 4 years old, a whopping 55.2% of choking incidents involved some kind of candy.
The findings are based on nearly a decade's worth of data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – All Injury Program, which is run by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions examined cases reported from 2001 to 2009.
During those years, an estimated 111,914 kids ages 14 and younger were seen in emergency rooms because of a nonfatal choking incident involving food. That works out to 12,435 kids per year, on average, or 34 per day. The overwhelming majority of these kids – 87% – were treated and released, though 10% were admitted to the hospital and 3% should have been hospitalized but left against medical advice, according to the study.
The average age of choking victims was 4.5 years old, though 38% of these kids had not yet reached their first birthday and 62% were under the age of 4. In general, the younger a child, the greater his or her choking risk – until the age of 7, at which point the risk seemed to level off. Among cases that reported where choking incidents happened, 90% occurred at home, the study found.
What were all these kids choking on?
15.5% on hard candy
12.8% on other candy
12.2% on meat other than hot dogs
12% on bone
9.7% on fruits and vegetables
6.7% on formula, milk or breast milk
6.5% on seeds, nuts or shells
4.6% on chips, pretzels or popcorn
3.1% on biscuits, cookies or crackers
Only 2.6% of the nonfatal choking incidents involved hot dogs. However, the researchers noted that hot dogs frequently appear on lists of foods most likely to be involved in choking cases that result in death.
There are many laws designed to protect children from choking on non-food items such as small balls, marbles, balloons and pieces or toys or games that may wind up in a kid's mouth. The Federal Hazardous Substances Act requires warning labels to be placed on such items, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission issues recalls when warranted.
But there are "no similar monitoring systems, legislation or regulations … to address food-related choking among children," the study authors noted. The American Academy of Pediatrics, which publishes the journal Pediatrics, supports a system to require warning labels on high-risk foods, among other choking-prevention measures. So far that hasn't happened.
For more information on choking prevention, check out this tip sheet from the AAP's Healthy Children website. The academy's official policy on choking prevention is online here.
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Partnerships in Character Education Program
2004 Awards
|New Mexico Public Education Department
300 Don Gasper
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Contact: Pat Cocannon
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (505) 827-6525
Fax: (505) 827-6694
Award: $717,342
The New Mexico Character Education Partnerships will bring together the New Mexico Public Education Department, Albuquerque Public Schools and the Character Counts Cooperative in a project to build statewide leadership for sustainable character education in New Mexico schools and communities. The partnership will fund and support 60, 3-year projects to establish character education in schools and communities in the following core values: trust, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
Project leadership councils composed of representatives of all stakeholders–schools, community leaders and parents–will guide local projects and ensure the involvement of all members of school and community populations. Local project partners will encompass community youth organizations, such as Boys' Clubs, Girls' Clubs and the YMCA, chambers of commerce and organizations representing ethnic or cultural minorities.
By renewing, strengthening and expanding programs initiated in the nineties, the partnership will build statewide leadership and sustainability into character education in New Mexico. Our plan features two tiers of training, a basic tier to renew and expand programs and a second tier to create and implement a sustainability model that infuses character education into the academic curriculum, aligns it with state expectations and integrates it into competitive sports programs.
Project evaluation includes both impact and process evaluation. The plan features training and support for teacher-researchers who will work with the evaluator to assess the impact of the project on students and school communities. The evaluator will monitor implementation of project strategies through process evaluation. Together, the two components will provide performance feedback and guide the project toward meeting its goal of statewide leadership and sustainability for character education in New Mexico.
|Fresno Unified School District
Fresno Unified School District Education Center
2309 Tulare Street
Fresno, California 937721 Contact: Caran Resciniti
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (559) 457-3711
Fax: (559) 457-3179
Award: $476,097
The Fresno Partnerships in Character Education Program Grant is a joint effort with the Fresno Unified School District, the Bonner Center for Character Education at California State University (Fresno), and WestEd, an evaluation and educational research entity. This grant proposes to: 1) Train adults in the school system at all levels in ethical decision-making, conduct and to create positive role models; 2) Instruct students directly in desirable character traits and resulting behaviors associated with those traits, through the Second Step character education curriculum and the creation of Language Arts lessons incorporated in the baseline core curriculum at the elementary level; 3) Support teachers in the implementation of those lessons using research-based effective teaching strategies designed to improve student achievement and classroom management; and 4) Work to improve the physical/psychological factors at school sites that research suggests influence student behavior and achievement.
|Baldwin County Public Schools
Baldwin County Public Schools
2600-A N. Hand Avenue
Bay Minette, Alabama 36507
Contact: Dr. Lawanna Sharpless
Phone: (251) 972-6862
Fax: (251) 972-6891
Award: $306,990
Baldwin County Public Schools (BCPS), in partnership with its parent support organizations, the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, and Alabama Gulf Coast Young Life, an ecumenical faith-based organization, will conduct a four-year, district-wide implementation study of the ShowMe CHARACTER Program and evaluate its impact on school improvement and student achievement. It will demonstrate the efficacy of an evidence-based character education program that is integrated into the classroom for improving the climate in a school district–resulting in healthy schools with high levels of student achievement.
The project will use a stratified random, treatment and control group, multi-tier design; the sampling unit is the school. All 46-district schools (24,000 students) will participate. Four surveys and a behavior form will be used to collect climate and implementation data annually from parents, staff and students. The instruments were developed through other projects with established reliability and validity. Data on student discipline referrals will be obtained at the school level. Data from state assessments in math, reading and writing will be used to relate student achievement with program implementation.
Six research objectives are scientifically based–and include the following: student achievement, student discipline, school climate (students, staff, parents), and effective project implementation. Each as an applicable measure, time frame, mode of analysis and factor measured. Expected outcomes are: systemic high quality character education in all schools; school leadership teams that are skilled in data-based planning and ShowMe Character strategies; community involvement in every school; district policies and support for character education.
|Quitman County Board of Education
Quitman County Board of Education
P.O. Box 248, 215 Kaigler Road
Georgetown, GA 39854
Contact: Dr. Charles Culver
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (229) 334-4298
Fax: (229) 334-4700
Award: $297, 298
The Quitman County Board of Education is implementing a character education program that can be integrated into the teaching curriculum in grades K through 8 and which will prove to be culturally appropriate for a small, poor, rural predominantly African American one-school system and community. This project, Character Education for Partners in Education (CE PIE) will use the Too Good for Violence (TGFV) program that teaches students caring, cooperation, fairness, and respect. The goals are to (1) develop an implementation strategy for the use of Too Good for Violence, a prevention and character education program that will be integrated into classroom instruction, consistent with state academic content standards, and with other educational reform efforts; (2) empower parents to be better able to support the character education of their children; and (3) to teach students caring, cooperation, fairness, and respect. Expected outcomes are: (1) an approach that will be fully informed of applicable standards and local needs; (2) parents better able to support the desired character traits in their children; (3) fewer incidents of disruptive behavior at school and between home and school; and more practice of positive caring, cooperative, fair, and respectful behaviors by students.
The conceptual framework for CE PIE is based on Catalano's and Hawkins' Social Development Strategy, that proffers that behavior change occurs when individuals gain information about the risks and benefits of certain behaviors, form attitudes based on that information, and learn behavioral skills.


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My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team.
I think your best yet. Keep it goin, man. Make it into a book at the end, which hopefully will include more than 162 pages.
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text: Show Dad that you thought about the outside of his Father's Day gift as much as you pondered the present within: Wrap this year's package with a clever necktie-inspired now. Look for ribbon in menswear prints and colors (we picked mostly classic stripes in deep shades), and fasted onto your package the way you'd tie a standard Windsor knot. Check out the video below for a quick demonstration. Snip the ends of the ribbon on an angle or into a point. This is a tie guys will be extra-excited to loosen up.


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James Develin could help Patriots at tight end
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. >> Rob Gronkowski isn't ready for full-time activity. Michael Hoomanawanui has been sidelined the past two practices.
The New England Patriots are short-handed at tight end so James Develin is getting another chance to show the versatility that has earned praise from coach Bill Belichick.
"He gets better all the time," Belichick said Wednesday. "It's a little bit like a relief pitcher. He has a role, but sometimes you don't know when that role is going to occur."
Develin played defensive line at Brown but, at 255 pounds, realized any shot at making the NFL depended on his ability to contribute in other ways. With the Patriots, he's a fullback and a solid special teams contributor.
And once his NFL career is over, he can always use his Ivy League mechanical engineering degree.
"That's on hold," he said.
Now he's seeing more time at tight end while Gronkowski continues his comeback from knee surgery and Hoomanawanui nurses an undisclosed injury.
"The unique thing about James is he's a very versatile player," Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio said. "We saw that going back to last season. He was able to line up in the backfield, at tight end, detach from the formation."
Develin participated in 27.6 percent of the team's offensive snaps last season, mostly as a blocker. He caught four passes for 62 yards and ran four times for 10 yards and a touchdown.
"He's not a game-breaking type of (player). That's not really his role," Belichick said. "But the plays, like the play he had in Houston last year, breaking four tackles to get into the end zone from the 1-yard line, those kind of plays sometimes say as much as an 80-yard touchdown."
On his second rush of the season, Develin was stopped as he hit the middle of the line. He kept his legs churning and was stopped again and again and again as he kept moving to the left. Finally, he fell into the end zone. The Patriots ended up winning the game 34-31.
"The past is in the past and I'll leave it there," Develin said. "At this point, there's no use in looking back on it, just trying to do it again this year."
After leaving Brown, he played the 2010 season with the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League.
"I was just trying to stay in the game and get some film" of himself for scouts to study, Develin said. "That's the whole reason I went down there. I wasn't really getting any looks from NFL teams so I figured why not go down there and play the game I love and just keep trying and keep trying. And, luckily, everything worked out for me."
His coach with the Tuskers was Jay Gruden, now the coach of the Washington Redskins. The Patriots will hold joint practices at Washington's training facility next week before they meet in a preseason opener next Thursday night.
"I'm excited to see him," Develin said. "I'm glad that he's doing so well and that he's been given the opportunity to move up."
Playing for the Tuskers was a critical steppingstone.
"It was very valuable for me," he said. "I was a rookie. I didn't have really any experience playing professional football and that kind of got my feet wet in it and I was able to learn from a lot of ex-NFL guys."
After his stint with the Tuskers, he joined the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad for the last five games of the 2010 season. He stayed on it throughout the following season but was waived late in the 2012 training camp and was signed to New England's practice squad one day later. The Patriots waived him twice after that before signing him last Sept. 6.
He played all 18 games, including the playoffs, last season.
"James is very smart, works very, very hard. He had a great offseason ... very strong in the weight room," Belichick said. "From day one that he entered the program to where he is now, he's really improved."
Now he has a chance to improve at tight end.
"Wherever the coaches put me, whenever they give me an opportunity, I'm just trying to go out there and do it to the best of my ability," Develin said.


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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
25 years ago in the land of Hyrule, a stout, green-clad adventurer wandered into a dark cave where he found an old man alone between two torches. "It's dangerous to go alone," the old man said, as he offered the boy a sword and sent him out into the dangerous wilds. Whether he knew the destiny that awaited this boy, the tumultuous history of the land, or was just a crackpot in a cave giving out swords to little boys, is debatable. What's clear is that throughout the 25 year history of the The Legend of Zelda series Link, the Hero of Time, would find himself traversing land, sea, air and even time itself to rescue Zelda, defeat Gannon, and save the land of Hyrule over and over again.
"Skyward Sword is the prequel of prequels"This time around Link's adventure begins high above the clouds where people live simple lives, travel a floating archipelago on the backs of their majestic Loftwings, and think nothing of the world below. In Skyward Sword Link is a knight-in-training living at an academy with his childhood friend, and headmaster's daughter, Zelda. The two spend the opening of the game preparing Link for the bird race that will determine the next senior class member of the knight academy. The first few hours of gameplay are spent acclimating to the controls, developing the plot, and introducing us to the world above the clouds. Life in the sky is simple and all that people of Skyloft know. To them there is nothing below the clouds. They worship the goddess who gave them their home, their Loftwings, and the sky. They have no ruling body, relying on the knight academy to lead them and essentially making the headmaster their ruler, and Zelda their princess. The knight academy protects the people from forces unknown while the bazaar offers reprieve from the daily grind of flying and pumpkin harvesting.
Skyward Sword is the prequel of prequels; it aims to weave together the origin of Link, Zelda, the sword, the villain, the kingdom, and the legend to provide the backdrop for the rest of the series. The timeline of The Legend of Zelda is one of the most hotly debated stories among gamers, and this time around Nintendo has stepped in to say that this is how it all began. An origins story of great importance for the series canon, the question is: does Skyward Sword manage to deliver?
Nintendo presents the story through gibberish and a silent protagonist. There is no voice acting in an understood language, but rather dialogue is conveyed through text and emotional responses. In order to tell a story of such breadth, there is far more dialogue here than ever before. The story is presented in large, entertaining cinematic chunks that are some of the series' best storytelling moments. Usually these happen before and after you discover new areas, or take down a dungeon. Unfortunately there aren't enough smaller segments of story during the quest, which often results in hours of silent exploration. To make up for this you are given the chance to speak with a plethora of NPCs who all have something to add to the adventure. There are enough opportunities for fun, silly, and challenging side-quests to add dozens of hours to your play time with nearly none of them being required to complete the main quest. Some side-quests are simple fetch quests while others actually involve making choices that can impact the lives of the NPCs. You are even given a side-quest to complete side-quests. Even though they are optional, the quests are well worth the extra effort for their rewards and the fun of completing them.
The story of Link's sword plays immense importance, which is made obvious by the inclusion of a new, complex combat system via the Wii Motion Plus. Nintendo has implemented true 1:1 control over Link's arm. If you move your arm to the right, twist your wrist, and point the Wiimote downward, so will Link. It's certainly impressive, but the novelty wears off quickly. The obvious problem is that the controls don't always work as intended. The purpose of 1:1 control is to create a feeling of being a part of the action, yet when things become hectic, the best of us revert to wildly flailing the Wii Remote. The result is a never-ending clang of metal on metal. Even when taking your time and, say, attempting to slice from the left, the game all too often interprets that as an upward slice, which is deftly blocked by smarter enemies who now also have a greater range of movement. These moments of frustration don't happen often, but can cause a lot of frustration when they do happen.
"The gameplay has improved drastically since Twilight Princess"Nintendo has also taken this opportunity to add some manner of motion control across some other mechanics. Most of these do work well with the obvious being aiming projectiles, flying your loftwing, and making menu selections. You will use motion controls to insert master keys, draw symbols, break free of enemies, balance on ropes, swing from vines, and more. These instances don't detract from the experience, but other uses of motion controls are completely unnecessary and actually pretty annoying. The most frustrating example has to be with throwing and rolling bombs. Things get confusing very quickly when you're trying to aim the trajectory with the analog stick while flicking the Wii Remote to launch the bomb all while trying not to move either in the process and throw off your aim. I would have been fine with pressing the A button for this, or at least the option to customize the controls.
Aside from some motion control woes, the gameplay has improved drastically since Twilight Princess. One major complaint about the Zelda series is that menu navigation and item switching has never really been upgraded much from the original game. The issue is that in a Zelda game, you are often changing items, which means you are often removing yourself from the action. While Twilight Princess introduced the rotary dial of items, Skyward Sword has managed to refine the system into something completely unobtrusive. Your sword, map, and other main abilities are permanently mapped, while items and certain other abilities are categorized into three groups. These are accessed via a rotary dial where you can choose an item with a point of the Wii Remote all without the game even pausing the action. Throughout my play-through I probably accessed the actual menu twice. There is rarely any reason to do so other than changing some configuration settings. This seemingly minor tweak kept the action flowing much more smoothly than any previous Zelda game.
Another larger departure for the series, and a very welcome change, comes from the way the adventure unfolds. Fans of the series have come to expect most of their time to be spent traversing vast, yet sparsely populated worlds that simply exist as a means of getting from one dungeon to the next. You could always expect to find hidden secrets and dangers in the over world, but most of the action took place inside massive dungeons. Skyward Sword defies these expectations as the majority of the exploration, discovery, and action occurs outside. You'll spend far more time making your way to the dungeon than actually completing the dungeon, yet both are equally enjoyable experiences.
Although the series staple of acquiring new items to reach new places remains intact, another welcomed addition is that you won't only be using your latest gadget to progress. In Skyward Sword you're required to make use of your entire arsenal at any given time, so that item you got at the beginning of the game is just as useful at the end. Additionally you are able to upgrade your items using materials you collect from fallen enemies, chests, and hidden locations. Your shield also comes with a damage meter this time around. As you block, your shield gets weaker and can eventually break requiring you to repair it.
Since Skyward Sword represents the origin of Link in all his incarnations, the graphics have been stylized in a way that creates a mix between Twilight Princess and Wind Waker. They're detailed up close, but blurry from far away, full of pastel blues and greens that merge like water colors. The overuse of this effect may be due to the Wii's limitations, which are overly apparent in the system's fifth year, but it often works to the game's benefit. The style is interesting, yet still not as detailed as Twilight Princess nor as artistic as Wind Waker. One graphical flaw concerns the severely lacking variety of enemies. Often you encounter the same enemy with a different coat of paint to indicate a higher difficulty level. This is a design choice like that worked on the Super Nintendo, but even then there was a greater variety of enemies to encounter in A Link to the Past.
We have waited a long time for a true, Wii Zelda game. Skyward Sword clearly represents the pinnacle of the Wii's capabilities both graphically and in terms of motion controls. Unfortunately neither works perfectly. The improved mechanics as well as the fantastically told story certainly make up for the system's shortcomings. You can easily overlook occasionally frustrating controls and early 2000s graphics when the adventure itself consistently motivates you to want more and more for all of the nearly 60 hours it takes to complete. Skyward Sword isn't perfect, but it absolutely is not a game that should be missed by fans of the series. It easily warrants dusting off the Wii, finding some AA batteries, and getting your waggle on for one last hurrah.


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Mark W. Rosegrant is a Research Fellow Emeritus and Former Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. With a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, he has extensive experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on water resources and other natural resource and agricultural policy issues as they impact food security, rural livelihoods, and environmental sustainability. He currently directs research on climate change, water resources, sustainable land management, genetic resources and biotechnology, and agriculture and energy.
He is the author or editor of 7 books and over 100 refereed papers in agricultural economics, water resources, and food policy analysis. Dr. Rosegrant has won numerous awards, such as Outstanding Journal Article (2008), Quality of Communications Award (2004), and Distinguished Policy Contribution Award (2002) awarded by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (formerly American Agricultural Economics Association); and Best Article Award (2005) from the International Water Resources Association. Dr. Rosegrant is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Motivation and Emotion is the twelfth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. Based on the early research of Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow, this program explores the sources of motivation, causes of behavior, and interplay between motivation and action. It examines societal and individual motivation, sexual motivation, and cumulative effects of optimism and pessimism in human life.
Interview Excerpt: Martin Seligman on Optimism and Pessimism
Dr. Martin Seligman describes how attitudes of optimism and pessimism influence job performance.
In our research on the roles of optimism and pessimism, we conducted studies in the workplace. We looked for a demanding field in which there were a lot of challenges, frustration, and rejection. The question was: "What type of person copes with that kind of situation best?"
We tested 15,000 applicants for life insurance sales, a difficult job with frequent rejection and a high drop-out rate. We measured, by questionnaire, the explanatory style (a metric of optimism and pessimism) of the regular qualified people who were hired. Also included was a special force of 129 people who failed the industry test who wouldn't normally have been hired but who tested very well on optimism.
Our research followed both groups for two years and concluded with two basic findings. First, within the regular qualified group that was hired, the optimists significantly outsold the pessimists. Second, the special force of optimists who failed the industry test outsold everyone.
Within the American workplace, optimists overall stay with difficult and challenging jobs, while pessimists seem to do worse than predicted and even give up. There is an interesting parallel in academics and athletics. When subjects were given a lower grade in a class or a slower recorded time in an athletic event, thereby stimulating defeat, the optimists rose to the occasion and did better the second time around while the pessimists did worse.
This evidence supports the theory that there are two factors in human potential. One is our ability and the other is our optimism or pessimism. We're showing that there is a science to the interplay between our attitudes and our actions.
For more about this research, visit The Martin Seligman Research Alliance Web site at the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.psych.upenn.edu/seligman/
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Ben's Navel Clamp
Ben Carter was born in January 1993,
at Mayday Hospital,
West Croydon.
These three objects relate to his birth.
Ann Carter
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Ann Carter
Ben's mother Ann
describes giving birth to him:
"It was a very small room
and it seemed to be
full of hundreds of people.
It was a very hospital environment,
lots of monitors around
and all sorts of gear
in case something went wrong
with the child.
But when you're in labour,
you don't care,
you've lost all your dignity
by that point.
At that stage I just wanted to lie down
and have some pain relief.
I had the gas and air
and it really did the trick.
Instead of just breathing
when I had the contractions,
I was inhaling it all the time,
I went completely out of my head.
I closed my eyes
and I could see flashing lights
and there was all sorts
of sounds in my head.
And I remember thinking,
oh my God,
my body must have reached
the highest pain
and it can't cope any more
and it's cutting out,
whereas I was really
out of my head on this drug.
And when the midwife
came back in she said,
'she's not supposed to be doing that,
take it off her',
and I was fighting,
fighting to keep the mask.
It was a brilliant experience
because even after I stopped inhaling
and I could feel
that there were immense pains,
I didn't feel tight and worried about it,
I just rode it, rode them on the drug."
Giving birth in the 1990s
The navel clamp
was put on Ben's umbilical cord
when it was cut just after birth.
The baby tag was attached
to Ben's foot after he was born.
This was to prevent him
getting mixed up
with other babies on the ward.
The birth card records
Ben's date of birth,
weight and the size of his head.
In 1990,
98% of Croydon babies
were born in hospital,
most of them at Mayday.
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Congratulations to J.S. Clark Magnet School and science specialist Nancy Farley - recipients of the 2011 Sustainability Grant for north Louisiana parishes and awarded by the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission and Keep Louisiana Beautiful. Ms. Farley will initiate Project YES (Young Environmental Scientists) at J.S. Clark with the $5000 grant that she was awarded.
Reminder! We are currently accepting a second round of Sustainability Grant applications from throughout the Louisiana. Go to the LEEC website at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/environmental-education-commission for an application. Deadline: May 25, 2011.


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A blueprint for high-volume, high-quality lung cancer screening that is detecting cancer earlier—and helping to save lives
If Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions ever actually consummate their planned $29 billion merger, what will that mean for health plans and other payers?
There are some real concerns about the merger, after all. "My first reaction was like everybody else's," says Sadhna Paralkar, MD, a health management consultant at Segal. "That this will reduce competition and will ultimately raise health care costs for the clients, because that's what usually happens when the competition goes down."
Expect the two pharmacy benefit managers to testify to the Federal Trade Commission (which has to rule on the match, considering antitrust concerns) that because the resulting company would have more bargaining power with drug companies, it could force lower prices.
But as Paralkar's colleague, Edward A. Kaplan (a Segal Co. benefit consultant) tells the New York Times, "The question is, Will they pass it on to the buyer or will they keep it for earnings?"
Paralkar says that the more she thought about it, the more she felt that such a merger might "give some other smaller and not-so-well-known PBM carriers some much needed momentum. Something like UnitedHealth's PBM, which is Optum RX, could become a commercializable entity where it could serve other customers."
Expect the approval process to be grueling, she says. "The bigger the carrier gets or the vendor gets, the less people tend to trust it because of its power, and they are suspicious of its willingness to work on your behalf as a client," says Paralkar.
In a discussion with Wall Street analysts on July 27, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini was asked about the Express Scripts-Medco merger, and he indicated that he did not view it as a threat. He alluded to the deal struck last year between Aetna and CVS Caremark in which the PBM will oversee the insurer's prescription drug program for 12 years.
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If the merger is approved, the new company could corner about 40 percent of the market, Adam J. Fein, an industry consultant, tells the newspaper. CVS Caremark controls about 16 percent of the market, he says.
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Washington, D.C.- The UMBC men's basketball lost a tough 63-61 overtime decision at American at Bender Arena on Thursday evening.
The Eagles (1-1) hit field goals with less than two seconds to play in regulation and in overtime to tie and take the lead for good.
UMBC senior forward Chase Plummer (Plainfield, N.J./St. Patrick) led the squad with 12 points and posted his 11th career double-double with 12 rebounds.
UMBC led, 53-45, after a Malik Garner (Philadelphia, Pa./Chestnut Hill Acad.) jumper with 3:52 remaining. UMBC still led, 55-51 after a Plummer field goal with 54 seconds left, but the Retriever senior missed an opportunity to extend the lead to five with a missed free throw.
American's Darius Gardner hit a driving layup with 41.2 seconds to play to cut the deficit to two. The Retrievers ran the clock down, but Plummer was called for travelling with 8.9 seconds remaining. Gardner drove into the lane and hit a runner with 1.8 seconds to play to send the game to overtime.
A disconsolate UMBC squad allowed the first six points of the extra session, but did rally at the line and tied the score at 61-all when freshman guard Rodney Elliott hit a pair with 14.7 seconds to play.
But Gardner drove the lane and dished to Jesse Reed, who hit his only field goal of the game to give the Eagles a 63-61 lead with 1.4 seconds to play. UMBC attempted a lob with 0.2 seconds to play, but did not get a shot off.
UMBC's struggles from the free throw line persisted, as the Retrievers missed seven of ten in the critical second half and finished at 12-of-22 (54.5%) for the game.
Gardner led all scorers with 22 points and he added nine rebounds, six steals and four assists.
The game was the second consecutive overtime contest for UMBC (1-2) and marked the second consecutive year that American defeated UMBC in extra time.
Both teams struggled from the floor and the game lacked flow with a total of twenty fouls whistled in the first half. UMBC got out to a 9-4 lead after a three-point field goal by freshman Charles Taylor, Jr. (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook) with 15:37 left in the first half, but a subsequent 8-0 American surge put the Eagles out front 12-9 three minutes later.
UMBC would knot the score at 18-all on a jumper by Taylor (initially ruled a three-pointer), but the Eagles scored the next eight points to take a 26-18 advantage with 3:20 to play in the half. The Retrievers rebounded to tally the final six points of the half, including a layup by senior post Brett Roseboro (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown) just ahead of the buzzer which sliced UMBC's deficit to 26-24 at the break.
All nine Retrievers to see action hit the scoring column. UMBC hit 14-of-26 shots from the floor in the second half and finished at 41.4% (24-of-58) for the game. They held AU to 36.4 percent shooting, but allowed the Eagles 16 offensive rebounds.


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With its off-the-shelf title, I had worked up less than a white-hot enthusiasm to see "Hit & Run," but it's a lot more fun than the title suggests. How many chase comedies have you seen where the hero's sexy girlfriend has a doctorate in nonviolent conflict resolution? Her counseling would have been invaluable to the U.S. marshal (Tom Arnold) in an early scene where he attempts to shoot his own SUV.
There's a lot of funny stuff, but the most unexpected comes from Arnold, who has been uneven, to say the least, in his movies. His marshal, named Randy, works with the Federal Witness Protection program and is assigned to protect a likable guy named, yes, Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard). We meet Charlie in the arms of his sweet girlfriend, Annie (Kristen Bell); they live in a bucolic northern California town, where she teaches in a local college. She has no idea he's a witness who needs protecting.
Good news brings trouble. Annie gets an interview to start the nation's first nonviolent conflict resolution department at a prestigious Los Angeles university. L.A. is, alas, the last place Charlie wants to go, and the very place where he most needs protection. Annie's boss (Kristin Chenoweth) orders her to go for the interview, because she's too good for her current job. Charlie's love overcomes his fears, and he's determined to drive her to L.A. himself, no matter the risk.
This introduces his slab-sided 1967 Lincoln Continental with a customized 700-hp engine. This classic car is necessary for the same reason all classic cars are used in movies: Most contemporary cars look generic. I learn that Dax Shepard is a car fan and used mostly his own cars in the movie, which is a brave gesture in the name of art, because the movie's vehicles have alarming experiences.
Shepard (TV's "Parenthood") wrote the movie, co-directed it, starred, did stunt driving and in general is responsible for it. He also recruited his real-life girlfriend, Kristen Bell, to share the lead. IMDb reports the movie took only 10 weeks from plot outline to the martini shot, and most of the actors deferred their salaries. I mention that only because few action comedies are made with this much organization and precision. The plot grows complex, characters shuttle in and out, and everyone seems to be having a good time. I got the sense that it was a happy shoot, as if they knew it was going well; most action movies have characters who seem to be exhausted or victims of tunnel vision.
Among the other characters who speed things along is Gil (Michael Rosenbaum), Annie's intensely jealous former boyfriend, and Gil's brother, Terry (Jess Rowland), a gay cop who joins in a chase I'm not sure he completely understands. Terry has a cell-phone app that I suspect is now being written into a dozen other movies. It's called Pouncer, and he explains it with pride to his female partner. If you have it activated, it sends out pings to other nearby gay people, who display as little targets on a map. This app is an excellent reason not to use your iPhone while driving.
In the way Charlie gradually reveals his past to Annie, he's like a kid caught shoplifting. She loves him, she appreciates him for speeding her to L.A., but how many shocking revelations is he going to make? They work convincingly together, and the movie is ever so much better than a film titled "Hit & Run" has any right to be.
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During a seemingly casual morning conversation in spring training in Glendale, Ariz., Williams was asked if the team was planning to make roster cuts soon.
"If I can ever get a hold of that guy," replied Williams, pointing in the direction of Guillen's office.
UPDATE: Ozzie confirms there are disagreements:
"There are a lot of things that happened this year and we're not going to deny it, since spring training, a lot of disagreements between each other, but that doesn't mean we have personal problems. Personal problems, everyone has personal problems, but in the meanwhile, we respect each other the way we should. We still talk about the ballclub. One thing about it is the relationship between manager and GM in baseball, we played together, we grew up together, and that's the difference between another GM and manager and us. It's like a divorce, it's like a you're married – you argue with your wife, with your kids and then all of a sudden you turn the thing, blow it away and move on. Right now, there are a lot of things that have happened out there, I don't want to say miscommunication, a lot of disagreements, and they get to the point like we hate each other, well, I don't remember hating anyone. Is the relationship the same way it was? Not really, because a few things have happened in disagreements, but that's part of life."
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You're In Luck, Ladies! Taylor Lautner Doesn't Just Like Model-Types – He Says He Has A Thing For Plain Janes!
If you think Taylor's type is a girl as gorgeous as he is, think again! The Twilight star definitely doesn't discriminate when it comes to women!
Taylor Lautner may have dated gorgeous blond songbird Taylor Swift, but not all of his lady loves have to be so perfect looking. In fact, the ab-tastic one says he prefers average-looking women!
"[Twilight character Bella Swan] is just this plain girl, which sometimes – I know for me – is attractive," the 18-year-old hottie, who plays wereboy Jacob Black in the Twilight Saga films, told Now magazine. He added, "She's just an average girl, she's clumsy, but I think she's good-looking…she just has this thing about her, and Kristen Stewart plays her so well."
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I have a script which calls two commands:
long_running_command | print_progress
long_running_command prints a progress but I'm unhappy with it. I'm using
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The problem: Connection a pipe to stdout also activates a 4K buffer, to the nice print program gets nothing ... nothing ... nothing ... a whole lot ... :)
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Many businesses struggle to make even the smallest advances in recycling, energy efficiency, water conservation or other environmental initiatives.
Nov. 5LOGAN, Utah Many businesses struggle to make even the smallest advances in recycling, energy efficiency, water conservation or other environmental initiatives.
A blue recycling tub next to the copy machine may be a company's only measurable environmental success.
But business managers often don't see the forest for the trees. Today's green-business experts say companies need to implement a holistic approach to sustainability an environmental management system that addresses every aspect of the business's practices, not just one piece.
At a recent workshop, Utah State University professor Lynne Goodhart discussed an approach that has seen international success but is not well known in Utah. The Natural Step framework provides a methodology and resources that can help businesses drastically reduce their environmental impacts.
"It means we can do the right thing and still profit from it, 1/8without feeling like3/8 we are depriving ourselves," says Goodhart, who teaches a course about The Natural Step. "It means hope for our children's future."
As part of the national Bioneers conference, which was based in San Rafael, Calif. with satellite events around the country, Goodhart and four of her students laid out The Natural Step basics.
First, a business has to recognize the environment's threatened state and its own dependence on the natural world. Implicit in this recognition is that protecting the environment is in a company's best interest, because all resources originate with Earth.
Second, a business learns the definition of a sustainable society, which is generally described as being able to meet the present population's needs without compromising the needs of future generations.
The Natural Step lays out four conditions that must be in place to achieve sustainability: (1) materials from the earth's crust, such as fossil fuels and metals, and (2) human-made materials, such as plastics, must not systematically increase in nature; (3) the environment must not be degraded by physical means, such as deforestation or soil erosion; and (4) human needs, including food, water and clean air, must be met worldwide.
Third, a company's leaders use visioning techniques to outline what a sustainable version of their company would look like. This sets a goal of sustainable practices.
Finally, the company uses "back-casting," to step back from its goal and identify strategies needed to reach sustainability. The company then educates its employees about the new program.
This method has been used by large corporations such as Ikea, McDonald's Sweden, Nike, Bank of America, Starbucks and Home Depot. Nike now manufactures its shoe boxes to be 10 percent lighter, saving 4,000 tons of raw materials and $1.6 million annually, and McDonald's Sweden runs 75 percent of its stores on renewable energy, according to The Natural Step.
A nonprofit organization, The Natural Step was created in 1989 by Karl-Henrik Robért, a Swedish oncologist who worried about the health impacts of environmental degradation. The group provides business consulting services and has reference materials online at http://www.naturalstep.org.
The Natural Step has offices in San Francisco, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain.
Web site: Visit http://www.naturalstep.org
Books: "The Natural Step for Business" by Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare (New Society Publishers, $16.95) "Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business Through Nature, Genius, and Compassion." Edited by Sissel Waage. (Greenleaf Press, $30)
Recognize the unsustainable direction of business and society and the benefits of adopting sustainable practices.
Define sustainability and understand the conditions necessary for a healthy environment.
Envision what your company would look like if it were sustainable.
Identify strategic steps through "back-casting" to move the company from its current reality toward its desired vision.
Source: The Natural Step for Business
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I then open a number of separate emacs processes for each project I'm actively working on. I mainly do this as each project typically has it's own make invocation.
I have a similar issue myself where my work projects require different commands but I prefer to avoid running multiple emacs instances if possible. It is not too difficult to fix. The idea is to detect the name of the file and run a different make command depending on which directory the file is in. This can be extended to as many different directories as necessary.
(setq compilation-scroll-output t) (defun make-lib () (compile "make-lib-cmd")) (defun make-app () (compile "make-app-cmd")) (defun run-compile () (interactive) (let ((file (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)))) (cond ((not (stringp file)) (error "[%s] is not a string. Invalid buffer %s ?" f (buffer-name))) ((string-match "/src/lib/" file) (make-lib)) ((string-match "/src/app/" file) (make-app)) (t (error "Invalid location %s" file))))) (define-key c-mode-base-map [f7] 'run-compile)