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On this Thanksgiving Day, NXIVM victims have a lot to be thankful for.
Keith Raniere – who a year ago was in Mexico with his sex slaves and using Clare Bronfman to threaten his enemies – is now in custody and faces life in prison. He is no longer a threat to many victims.
The bully, who used Bronfman's wealth to terrorize people he targeted, is now the target of a federal prosecution that seems likely to land him in prison for decades to come. Meantime, the judge who is presiding over his case, the Hon. Nicholas G. Garaufis, denied him bail in June and will likely deny him bail on his second application.
When it comes to the other defendants, who are all outside of prison walls this holiday – it is hard to feel the same concern as to the amount of danger they pose to society.
Clare Bronfman, of course, with her wealth, is a dangerous creature, willing to perjure herself and destroy others' lives. It is fitting that she – with all her money – is unable to buy herself out of this problem.
It seems that for justice to be served, Clare should not be able to walk free and hurt others, at least not until she has made restitution to her victims and sincerely repented.
As for Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, Allison Mack, and Kathy Russell? This is hard for me to judge. None of them worked actively to destroy my life, as far as I know. I can't judge for others. On the other hand, they all enabled a sinister creature and somehow, I suspect, they believed they were justified. That in itself is dangerous.
I suspect there is both victim and villain in all of them. Day to day, these women might have thought they were working for the cause of good, but somewhere inside they must have known that the lies and the proclivities of the man they took their marching orders from was evil.
How did they ignore him going after their former friends with a vengeance that seemed entirely disproportionate to the purported offense? How do you explain his hunting the mother of his first child; the savage attacks on longtime lovers; the suing of people who helped build his company; the deaths of former lovers; the disappearance of one woman; the allegations of rape and statutory rape; and the loss of tens of millions on the investments he guided?
Sure, he's a great conman but no one is so good that his inner circle can claim, after years of working with him, they knew nothing about his dark side.
Take Lauren Salzman. She was promised an avatar baby. Instead, he gets other women pregnant and she helps in the cover-up.
She even counsels a woman, Ivy Nevares – who Keith also promised an avatar baby – counseling her to keep working on her issues – and promising that he will impregnate her someday – without telling her that she herself was promised an avatar baby. And that Keith was lying to her. And meantime, Lauren – while laughing at how gullible Ivy is – fails to see it in herself.
In order to believe that NXIVM was good, you had to swallow the notion that the end justifies the means. And that Raniere's ruthless, dishonest and vicious methods would somehow bring about a more noble civilization.
If you believed that, you are rather stupid. And stupid is a word that often comes to mind when I think of the followers of Raniere. So, does brainwashed.
Was Kathy Russel stupid to believe in Raniere? Was she part evil? Did she just not care that he went after her old friends? Did she not realize he would do the same to her if she tried to leave?
Maybe it was selfishness. Maybe he cut off all her friends and family without her realizing it and now she was stuck. Maybe even comfortable. This was her life. These were her new friends and her new family. Kathy used to show films to – and play chess with – her NXIVM family. These were not evil deeds. She also used to clean up his sex lair – after the ladies he bedded went home and Keith went to sleep – which he did most of the day.
She knew what a promiscuous man he was. Yet, how many times did she not let on, did she lie by omission or outright lie about Keith being a renunciate – a man above all carnal desires? Was that lie for the greater good?
When she saw Keith grooming some new lady, her being fooled into thinking she would be the only one, did Kathy ever say to this blushing new, slender, naive woman that Keith was conning her? That he had done this same thing dozens of times? Maybe even did it to her once? Long ago. She knew but did she tell the young lady – who just went on a diet and was growing her hair long, and was misty eyed when speaking about him in hushed tones – all the telltale signs that he was grooming her – that Keith would court her and fool her and then, after she was hooked, after she fell in love with her idea of him, she would find out: He was having sex with 20 other women.? Did Kathy take the woman aside and tell her those things?
No, I rather think our Kathy looked the other way. Filling her head with her work and her notion that Keith's technology would help her become a better ballerina or chess player. And create a better world. And maybe having sex with him – in the sex lair – once a year – on her birthday was consolation enough for any misgivings in her heart.
Kathy saw the women come and go and let them get fooled. Some of them stayed and some of them left. Some of them left rather hurt that he lied to them. Some left rather frightened for what he threatened to do to them. Some were hunted down and were destroyed or nearly destroyed. And some stayed on promises, lies really, that he would one day father a child with them or make them number one or any such lie that would fool them and suck them in further. Kathy knew all this. She watched them come and go. And said nothing to the women. In that sense, it was a little selfish. She was looking out for herself and allowing Raniere to look out for himself.
Much of that occurred in NXIVM.
As for Nancy. Here was a woman who knew much. She knew about the smuggling of money. She knew about the fake marriages, the illegal immigration. She supported Keith in manipulation and punishing lots of people who were dependent upon them. She enjoyed being number 2. She enjoyed being almost worshiped and regarded as an oracle, a great lady, a woman of profound wisdom, a woman who knew so much, she could see right through you and could teach you great secrets.
She had to lie a thousand times to cover up for Raniere. He was having sex with her and she had to pretend he was monk-like. He had sex with her daughter and she had to believe that he would have the avatar child with her daughter. Otherwise, she is a monster too. Equal with him, or maybe worse. She had to find some kernel of hope that he was better than any rational person would believe if they judged a man by his actions and not by his words.
Nancy did all his bidding for 20 years. Never questioned the pain he caused others. She was living like a queen in NXIVM – at least on the surface. She was the Prefect. She was not to be questioned by the others. Next to Keith, she was the most enlightened, the wisest, next to him, the possessor of the most secret knowledge that could be conveyed from the smartest man in the world. And she was the one chosen to convey the message because only she had grasped his supreme wisdom. And what is more – by giving her tribute, she could share some of this – you too could be wise like her- if you gave her tribute. She held the keys – because she had glimpsed it – to what Raniere possessed and was eager to share it [for money and/or sex for Keith].
That Keith privately punished Nancy – took away her money, made her subordinate to the stupid and cruel Clare Bronfman, this she tolerated – in return for her glory before the others.
Maybe she got trapped over time. Living the life for 20 years. Having both of her daughters and her son-in-law in the group. All dependent on the income Keith permitted them to have.
And Keith knew how to pit one against the other. If Nancy was out if line, he offered something to Lauren and she nudged her mother. Or chastised her. If Lauren was off kilter in his opinion, Keith egged the mother to set her straight – or else. He even had them competing with each other. He was smart. He almost never had them both in the doghouse together.
They should consider that. All the times they were in the doghouse. But never both of them at the same time. These were women who were hooked and hooked long ago.
Nancy supported her daughters breaking off their relationship with their own father – because Keith got between them. Because Keith wanted Lauren's father – Dr. Michael Salzman – to fire an ex NXIVM member who was one of his employees – who had become, in Keith's mind, one of the enemies of NXIVM. The father would not fire the woman for he thought she did not deserve to be fired from his employ.
Keith commanded it and when Nancy insisted that he fire the woman and he refused, she led her daughters – to cut off their own father – cut him out of their lives – to show loyalty to Keith. Keith above father. And they justified this. And for nine years, they spoke not one word to their father – these daughters of Nancy Salzman.
I wonder now that Lauren is in jeopardy, if she ever stopped to wonder if she arrived in the fork in the road that led to hell starting on the day she took the path that denied her father, in favor of a man she knew was a stone-cold liar. Sure, Lauren was making good money — maybe more than she could make elsewhere in a world where they do not worship Vanguards. Maybe money kept her in. Maybe hope for that avatar child.
And maybe glory kept Nancy in. Maybe complacency kept Kathy in.
As for Clare, I think she honestly felt that Keith was the only one who loved her not for her money. Sure, laugh at that. It is laughable. But suppose this lonely and homely woman with little brains and lots of money, who maybe never had a person look twice at her other than for her money, honestly thought that Keith was different. That all his noble talk of a better society meant not nearly as much to her as the fact that he cared about her – not for her money.
That he wanted her – her – for herself. That even if she had nothing, even if she gave every last penny to him; or lost it all, he would still have her at his side and he would take care of both of them.
It is stupid, of course, but people do a lot of stupid things under the spell of their delusions. This was her delusion and her spark of joy – that he loved her. This allowed her to be cruel to everyone else. And to be cheap and narrow and exacting and frightening. She would lie for him. She would steal for him, perhaps she would even kill for him or overlook his killing of others in body or in spirit. His attempts to lure women to their doom in Mexico. If she know about it, my guess is she would have approved because he wanted it and that the world's great mission could be accomplished sooner.
But even that was secondary. Primary was that she could show him that she was loyal to him, that her money or safety meant almost nothing. It was he who loved her that counted.
The real mission for Clare then was to be accepted by him. She was like a dog who can only abide one master. Not that her lascivious nature did not incline her a little – to want to bed some of the slender ladies. That was a perk. And women who normally would not desire Clare because of her inner and outer ugliness went to her bed because of her position in NXIVM and maybe at Keith's express orders. That they succumbed to her bed reluctantly, she may have been too obtuse to know.
But even this was secondary. Her real glory was Keith. She did not look at him as a lover. She looked at him as her daddy. And believed in his power like children do. How she feels now is hard to say. She has a lot of time to think alone in home confinement, cut off from him and from most of the people she associated with – most of them she ruled and I rather suspect she misses them more than they miss her.
Could she ever come out of this? Could she ever realize that the man she followed who is likely to ruin the rest of her life – is a scoundrel? That he never loved her and the moment she had no wealth – she would be disposable. That he gave her important work to do only because she helped fund the work. That he manipulated and blamed her for his failures, much like he did with Nancy.
I will always remember the story of how when the NXIVM 9 left – nine women left NXIVM – because of his promiscuity. If anyone was at fault, Keith was at fault, but he blamed Nancy and demoted her in favor of Clare. It was a perfect solution to his big blunder – of getting caught having sex with numbers of women in his organization, students, member of the NXIVM board [if they were slender enough]. And the nine women discovering the extent of this – and how it was dangerous to the organization – decided to leave. Keith blamed it on Nancy. And to make sure of Clare – he promoted her to the number two position in NXIVM – behind the scenes [keeping Nancy as number #1 for the rank and file] and gave Clare the opportunity she soon learned to love so much – to be the bad cop, while he played the martyr.
Should Clare have understood this? She probably did not. She was too invested in her relationship with him. She assumed the role of cruelty for the sake of showing loyalty. Perhaps in time, she enjoyed the cruelty almost as much as showing her loyalty to Keith.
Why would an heiress with hundreds of millions of dollars perjure herself over trifles in court – and risk getting caught? Why would she lie on visa applications, or hack into her father's computer and spy on him for Raniere? Why did she help Raniere smuggle money? Or use Pam Cafritz's credit card? She had all the money to pay for these things. She did not do this for money. She did this to show loyalty and because, in her foolish head, because she thought he cared about her.
What other heiress with her wealth committed such crimes? Normally, these kind of crimes are money driven. No, these swindling crimes, these lies on visas and cheating of women falsely brought into the country – this was not done for money. It was done for Raniere. To please Raniere.
Maybe fool that he is, he might have thought that because he signed nothing, that he actually had something over Clare. That if he ever had to go after her, as he had done to others – he had something illegal he could hold over her head. He could take her down, despite her money. I guess he never reckoned on RICO – and that he, despite not having his name on anything – could wind up being held the most culpable.
As for Allision Mack, she is a pathetic creature. Like he did for Clare, Keith brought out all the worst elements in her. It was a remarkable fall for this lady. She was an actress who had somehow crafted a TV character and persona of goodness and honesty, and he provoked her lascivious side and made her a creature of lust. He exploited her bisexual nature and whipped her up and then gave her a carrot.
She wanted to be his woman; he led her to believe she would be number 1. Then he used her beauty and fame to lure in other women. In no time at all, he had her running as his main pimp woman. It came at a propitious time. Pam Cafritz who had done all this before was dying. Pam too was bisexual, and Pam worked hard – you might say she killed herself – to get attractive women into his bed. And, occasionally, into her own bed.
Whether Keith trained Pam to be bisexual or whether she came to it willingly, she became that, a wing woman, who got some of the leftovers. So did Allison.
Keith may have taught Allison to love to bed other women or she may have wanted this anyway. But she got it and that too was part of the reward. He manipulated women to be under her thrall. Not only his thrall but hers too. This was his cleverness. But it was also his big blunder. For they went farther than Pam and Keith. Allison and Keith took it to new extremes.
I can understand how it happened. In 2015, Keith was at his pinnacle. He had vanquished most of his enemies: 2015 was the year when Joe O'Hara, Barbara Bouchey, Toni Natalie, John Tighe and myself were all under indictment. He was suing Microsoft and AT&T claiming he invented teleconferencing. He had spent a million and found Kristen Keeffe and their son – and had spies watching their every movement. He sued the journalist and even prompted Jim Odato to leave his position at the Times Union. He silenced Suzanna Andrews. The entire media world was now silent on Keith Raniere.
He had Sara Bronfman occupied with running his experimental Rainbow Cultural Gardens – and Clare running operations for NXIVM. He had 400 people pay $2,000 each to spend 10 days celebrating his birthday. He had Emiliano Salinas and Alex Betancourt – two men he had pushed into being lovers, running the NXIVM operations in Mexico and smuggling cash for him in and out of the country. And he had a famous actress, Allison Mack, pimping for him. Pam was on the way out – and he had her make her will to leave everything to him in trust.
Now he needed and felt he could achieve it – a way to make it easier for him to control more women. He was getting older. He was 55. On occasion, he found that despite his tricks and the tricks of the wing women who enabled him, some of the younger women did not really find him attractive. Not in the way he wanted. They thought of him as an older man and a teacher but did not crave sex with him.
And then too he had become impotent. All those years with all those women and possibly venereal diseases – prevented him from being the old studly he always thought himself to be.
Faced with being older and less virile, but not less egoistic, he concocted a perfect retirement package for himself. DOS. He would make women slaves. He would appoint a group of loyal women who would do anything for him at any time. And use them to recruit more women and then he could command them – by virtue of the rules of the organization – that they and their slaves too – must have sex with him any time he commanded.
It was wild,.It was capricious. But with victory all around him. Law enforcement not wanting to touch him. Innocent people indicted. And Allison able to recruit and actually pull this off – he launched DOS.
And because Allison got to recruit brand spanking new women which she controlled, she went for it with gusto. This was now her new life work. She did not mind him having other women, but she wanted to be number one.
For Keith, if he was to be the only man, in the henhouse, and impotent at that, he realized he had to get the women into bisexuality. For Allison, she wanted him, and he supplanted that with her being the top woman in secret slave group – with lots of commands to have sex on demand.
For Allison, she soon realized she had to be both sweet and hard depending on what it took to control women – many of whom were deceived – by Keith's design – to join the DOS group because they thought it was a group of all women – a true sorority. They were not told that a man was at the head and was likely going to command Allison to command them to have sex with him.
Allison – led in part by her love for Keith, in part by her lust and in part by her bisexual nature now growing in her, and being given free reign, and more power – found her niche.
When she was an actress, she had fame but little power. Now she was a leader of a group of women who were her slaves. And the purported goal of this was to empower women. To make women better – to make the world better. This factored in too.
And it was fun. When she terrified the Jane Doe women, she might have justified it as not so terrifying. She might have been thinking that she was just helping Jane get past her control issues. Being taught is often unpleasant for the student. And Allison may have thought that she was getting glorious women for the bed of her male lover, her dominant master and for her bed too. She was 80 shades of grey and working on 100.
You may ask how she could have been so delusional. Part of it was because of Keith's ability to appeal to a woman's latent desires.
Take Lauren for instance – who also joined the sex-slave cult. Lauren wanted a child, to be a mother. He promised her that. She wanted to be a teacher, a therapist like her mother – for the good self-satisfying feeling of helping others and being acknowledged with respect as a professional. Keith gave Lauren the latter and held out hope for the former.
For all of them, he assessed their desires and their character and gave them some of what they desired and offered hope for the rest. But there was yet another factor that kept them enslaved.
Keith kept them thin with low protein and low-calorie diets. This concept he mastered. All of them, even Nancy, even Pam, all of them, he kept the pressure on, and he used women to pressure other women too. With Allison, he made it an art form. But with all of them, over all the years, they were forced to eat little. Too little. In the old days, he even padlocked refrigerators – and kept the key. And for years he shunned women for gaining a pound or two.
He would get a woman to leave her job, her home, her family, sometimes her husband, and promise her a monogamous life and maybe a baby. Then, he would force upon her his idea of slender in a woman. He would begin to deprive her of food in the name of ideal beauty.
Weak undernourished women are pliable women. And it they are tired too, they are even more susceptible to doing things that just months before they met him – had anybody asked them – they would have recoiled at the notion that they would do such things as, for instance, be part of a harem.
And then there was sleep deprivation. How come Nancy fell asleep at NXIVM gatherings? Why did Allison fall asleep at meetings? Even prior to DOS, he was on them not to sleep much. He disguised this manipulation as hope. That a person who is fully unified like he was did not need much sleep and, of course, he lied that he rarely slept much himself. He gave it out that he slept just two hours per night and all the women, if they wanted to advance in NXIVM, in the life, in this respect and with honor – they had to sleep as little as him.
Of course, he was lying. He didn't sleep little. He slept a lot – seven, eight, nine hours a day. The women of NIXVM were in a state of perpetual sleep deprivation. While he slept as much as he liked.
As for food, he also ate just as he liked. He deprived himself of nothing. While women were suffering bone loss and hair loss and premature menopause from eating too little, he was stuffing his face with pizza and hot sauce. They would eat calorie free squash and he would eat macaroni and cheese and chocolate cake.
The point is that the women were proud of their low-cal diets. He was proud of fooling them. So everyone suffered and no one suffered. All the defendants got just the life they wanted. It's hard to say they were brainwashed. Whatever that means. They hypnotized themselves that they were doing good, yet part of them knew they were not nearly as unselfish as they pretended. Keith helped to remind then of this too – that they were weak and fickle and only more obedience to him would cure it.
Maybe part of them knew that Keith was not as unselfish as he pretended. Or maybe they did not know.
Keith's greatest teaching to them was that ethics meant nothing more than consistency. To be the same. The highest ethics then could be to consistently lie for the sake of the mission. It didn't somehow come under the dominion of analysis by these women, these defendants, that a mission that required so much lying and secrecy was a corrupt one, that the lies and secrecy were meant to serve the leader and not the world. That there were no noble civilizations built on lies. Or that the cornerstone of ethics is truth.
But to see it from their point of view, behind the sleep deprivation, they saw themselves as becoming more evolved – as if no sleep might do that for them. Behind food deprivation was the ideal body for a woman, as inspiration for men and women both. Behind the manipulation of women for sex and servitude to a man was the idea that this sex – even coerced or obtained through deception – was a form of wondrous spiritual therapy – healing and growth. That behind the slavery to a man was ultimately female empowerment as if in order to learn to command first learn to obey.
Behind the secret sex cult DOS was that this was for women's good. Behind the power, the lawsuits, the tricks, the lies to students and lovers was the idea that this was for their good – both the world and the women themselves.
In the end, it was a perfect stew of self-interest, hoped-for altruism, and lust. And the only one who really understood that there was only self-interest and lust was the man who operated everything.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I, for one, am thankful that justice has placed each one of the defendants in the most appropriate place. Keith is where he belongs — in a cage. Lauren, Nancy, and especially Clare, are cooped up in their homes, allowed out only a few hours per week. They are not suffering as much as Keith but they are still rgreatly estricted – especially Clare – from harming others or intimating them or even holding their lying-ethical organization together.
And the lowest in rank of them all, the hapless Kathy Russell – a real nobody in the organization – who just happened to sign her name on things and helped accomplish illegal things only because she was told to – of all the defendants, she has the most freedom. She can go out all day and just must be home at night.
That's perfect.
And more than perfect perhaps is that the guy who claimed he was the smartest of them all, the master manipulator, who put his name on nothing, thinking that if ever the shit hit the fan [which it did], he would be off the hook – since he signed nothing. Boy, did he miscalculate. He's the one spending Thanksgiving in prison.
So perhaps on Thanksgiving or maybe on Christmas, something magical will happen. I really hope it will. I hope that the codefendants begin to realize they were stooges for him. That there was really nothing more to NXIVM than him and his selfish desires. That even any good he might have done to help another was not done for the sake of being good but so that people would think him good.
If NXIVM happened to help a few, or many, if the teachings, a hodgepodge of other people's teachings and a little of his – if it helped people – that was not the goal. The goal was him – his ego. To get tribute and worship and obedience and sex and power and every whim of his carried out by others as if it were a sacred trust and a duty to fulfill.
My wish for the defendants is that they eat hearty, sleep well and for as long as they please and begin to realize this: That Keith Raniere was not who they thought he is, and that the sooner they recognize it, most probably the sooner they can begin to heal and seek freedom.
And finally get freedom.
Happy Thanksgiving
Is that turkey fully cooked?


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FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Lorcaserin New Drug Application
23 Oct, 2010, 02:14 ET
SAN DIEGO and WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Oct. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) and Eisai Inc. announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) regarding Arena's New Drug Application (NDA) for lorcaserin. Lorcaserin is intended for weight management, including weight loss and maintenance of weight loss, in patients who are obese (Body Mass Index, or BMI, >/= 30) or patients who are overweight (BMI >/= 27) and have at least one weight-related co-morbid condition.
The FDA has completed its review of the NDA and determined that it cannot approve the application in its present form. In the CRL, the FDA outlined the non-clinical and clinical reasons for their decision.
The non-clinical issues identified by the FDA included diagnostic uncertainty in the classification of mammary masses in female rats, unresolved exposure-response relationship for lorcaserin-emergent mammary adenocarcinoma, and unidentified mode of action and unclear safety margin for lorcaserin-emergent brain astrocytoma.
The CRL included the following requests related to the non-clinical issues: provide a detailed accounting of all slides prepared from female rats that contributed to mammary tumor incidence data in each update to the FDA and to the final study report; in consultation with the FDA, identify an independent pathologist or group of pathologists to re-adjudicate all mammary and lung tissues (neoplastic and nonneoplastic lesions) from all female rats; demonstrate that the apparent increase in aggressiveness of adenocarcinoma in rats administered lorcaserin is reasonably irrelevant to human risk assessment; and provide additional data/information regarding the distribution of lorcaserin to the CNS in animals and human subjects that would clarify or provide a better estimate of astrocytoma exposure margins.
With respect to the clinical reasons, the FDA stated in the CRL that the weight loss efficacy of lorcaserin in overweight and obese individuals without type 2 diabetes is marginal and recommended that Arena submit the final study report of the BLOOM-DM (Behavioral modification and Lorcaserin for Overweight and Obesity Management in Diabetes Mellitus) trial. The FDA also stated in the letter that in the event evidence cannot be provided to alleviate concern regarding clinical relevance of the tumor findings in rats, additional clinical studies may be required to obtain a more robust assessment of lorcaserin's benefit-risk profile.
The BLOOM-DM trial evaluated lorcaserin versus placebo over a one-year treatment period in obese and overweight patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The trial is complete, and Arena expects to announce top-line results in the next few weeks and to have a completed study report by the end of the year.
Additionally, the FDA stated in the CRL that it would recommend placement of lorcaserin in Schedule IV of the Controlled Substance Act based on its review of the materials submitted in the NDA. The CRL provided the opportunity to complete preclinical studies that may lead to a different recommendation.
"This is an important step for us toward the FDA's approval of lorcaserin," said Jack Lief, Arena's President and Chief Executive Officer. "While the complete response letter provides us with recommendations from the agency, we intend to meet with the FDA to obtain further clarity on the approval path and timeline. We will work with the agency to address the issues with our NDA as quickly as possible."
Arena intends to request a Type A meeting with the FDA to clarify its requests, and, if the meeting is granted, the FDA's guidance states that it should occur within 30 days of the request.
Lonnel Coats, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eisai Inc., stated, "Eisai is committed to collaborating with Arena to address the FDA's requests. Obesity is an epidemic in America, and our goal is to bring lorcaserin to physicians and patients who need additional weight loss options."
Conference Call & Webcast
Arena will host a conference call and webcast on Monday, October 25, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (5:30 a.m. Pacific Time). The conference call may be accessed by dialing 877.643.7155 for domestic callers and 914.495.8552 for international callers. Please specify to the operator that you would like to join the "Lorcaserin" conference call. The conference call will be webcast live under the investor relations section of Arena's website at www.arenapharm.com and will be archived there for 30 days following the call. Please connect to Arena's website several minutes prior to the start of the broadcast to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be necessary.
Lorcaserin New Drug Application
The lorcaserin NDA is based on a data package from lorcaserin's development program that includes 18 clinical trials totaling 8,576 patients. The pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial program, BLOOM (Behavioral modification and Lorcaserin for Overweight and Obesity Management) and BLOSSOM (Behavioral modification and LOrcaserin Second Study for Obesity Management), evaluated nearly 7,200 patients treated for up to two years.
About Lorcaserin
Lorcaserin is a new chemical entity that is believed to act as a selective serotonin 2C receptor agonist. The serotonin 2C receptor is expressed in the brain, including the hypothalamus, an area believed to be involved in the control of appetite and metabolism. Arena has patents that cover lorcaserin in the United States and other jurisdictions that in most cases are capable of continuing into 2023 without taking into account any patent term extensions or other exclusivity Arena might obtain.
About Arena Pharmaceuticals
Arena is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing oral drugs that target G protein-coupled receptors, an important class of validated drug targets, in four major therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory and metabolic diseases. Arena's most advanced drug candidate, lorcaserin, is intended for weight management and has completed a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial program. Arena's wholly owned subsidiary, Arena Pharmaceuticals GmbH, has granted Eisai Inc. exclusive rights to market and distribute lorcaserin in the United States following FDA approval.
Arena Pharmaceuticals(R) and Arena(R) are registered service marks of the company.
About Eisai Inc.
Eisai Inc. was established in 1995 and is ranked among the top-20 U.S. pharmaceutical companies (based on retail sales). The company began marketing its first product in the United States in 1997 and has rapidly grown to become a fully integrated pharmaceutical business with fiscal year 2009 (year ended March 31, 2010) sales of approximately $3.9 billion. Eisai's areas of commercial focus include neurology, gastrointestinal disorders and oncology/critical care. The company serves as the U.S. pharmaceutical operation of Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai has a global product creation organization that includes U.S.-based R&D facilities in Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania as well as manufacturing facilities in Maryland and North Carolina. The company's areas of R&D focus include neuroscience; oncology; vascular, inflammatory and immunological reaction; and antibody-based programs. For more information about Eisai, please visit www.eisai.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements include statements about the future activities related to the complete response letter, including meeting with the FDA, the outcome of such meeting and working with the FDA to address issues related to the NDA; Arena's response to the complete response letter; the importance of the complete response letter; Arena's collaboration with Eisai and activities thereunder; BLOOM-DM, including the announcement of top-line results and the completion of the related study report; the advancement, therapeutic indication and use, safety, efficacy, tolerability, mechanism of action, scheduling and regulatory review and approval of lorcaserin; lorcaserin's patent coverage; and Arena's focus, goals, strategy, research and development programs, and ability to develop compounds and commercialize drugs. For such statements, Arena claims the protection of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual events or results may differ materially from Arena's expectations. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the risk that regulatory authorities may not find data from Arena's clinical trials and other studies sufficient for regulatory approval; the timing of regulatory review and approval is uncertain; Arena's response to the complete response letter may not be submitted in a timely manner and/or the information provided in such response may not satisfy the FDA; the FDA may request additional information prior to approval; unexpected new data; Arena's ability to obtain and defend its patents; risks related to commercializing new products; the timing, success and cost of Arena's research and development programs; results of clinical trials and other studies are subject to different interpretations and may not be predictive of future results; clinical trials and other studies may not proceed at the time or in the manner Arena or others expect or at all; Arena's ability to obtain adequate funds; the timing and receipt of payments and fees, if any, from Eisai and Arena's collaborators; and satisfactory resolution of pending and any future litigation or other disagreements with others. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by Arena's forward-looking statements are disclosed in Arena's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements represent Arena's judgment as of the time of this release. Arena disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements, other than as may be required under applicable law.
Contacts: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Investor Inquiries:
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Cindy McGee
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858.453.7200, ext. 1479
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Office 2010 is something of a conundrum. First the good news: it is the fastest selling version of Office in history, according to US analyst Forrester. Half of the businesses the firm surveyed in March had started the migration process, and the "vast majority" of the rest planned to upgrade in the future.
According to Gartner, Office 2010 sales "brought 9.5 per cent growth" for the Office suites market in 2010, rising to 10.6 per cent in 2011. Demand for the update from Microsoft is expected to continue to grow through this year.
Savings galore
Microsoft is also keen to demonstrate that Office 2010 will save you bucketloads of cash. With consultants at Forrester it has produced a report (registration required) showing that the costs of upgrading to office 2010 could be repaid within five months because, among other things, the system allows for smarter sharing of documents and better version control.
Even with the pinch of salt that must be added to any consultant's report, these quantified productivity gains can at least be understood as time saved and life simplified.
Simon May, a tech evangelist at Microsoft, describes the Office 2010 document management as "a single version of the truth", and says it makes collaboration on projects less of a headache.
Forward thinking
Yet the news is not all good. Towards the end of 2010 research showed that companies were delaying upgrades to Office 2010 because of its "assumed complexity". IT pros said the amount of training needed to get users up to speed was as much of a concern as managing the migration.
Is this still a problem? Now that Office 2010, with its ribbons and Backstage interface, has been around for over a year, are people right to be nervous?
The early adopters have already adopted, and this is great news for everyone else because now the rest of us laggards can learn from their
mistakes experiences.
So if you haven't migrated, and you are thinking about it, what sorts of things should you be aware of? And can this software really help your budget?
Back to the future
Tom Unwin, technical architect at Plymouth City Council, says that if he could go back in time to give himself advice before he began the council's migration, it would be to start sooner.
"More time, more analysis would have been good," he says. "We did take a bit of a seat-of-the-pants approach. We felt pretty confident, but there is always room for things to go wrong."
Unwin's timetable was challenging, to say the least. Plymouth City Council was moving its 4,000 or so seats to an open-plan office with hot-desking, the idea being to save space and reduce the office overheads. The deadline for the move was set, if not in stone, then in quite tough dried mud and IT had to be ready.
There was a lot to do, so Unwin did what any sane man would: renew everything, from his servers and desktops right through to the phone system.
"We did everything at once," he says. "We had shown we couldn't accommodate hot-desking with the existing stack, so we migrated from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to Win7, and from Office 2003 to Office 2010.
"The old Cisco phone system was end-of-life so we decided to move that over to MS Lync, too."
Cloud was not an option because of compliance issues regarding where data needs to be kept, and also because the council has a lot of line-of-business applications that would have been complicated to move to the cloud.
With a tight timeframe and such a massive to-do list, Unwin decided that each element of the work would be separately outsourced. Tenders went out before Christmas 2010, the first work began just after Christmas and the pilot started around Easter.
Knowing me knowing you
Unwin mulls over whether or not it might have been better to give the whole job to one contractor to get a better deal, but says that no, that could have spiralled out of control. You get the impression he has had that particular conversation with himself more than once.
The key to a good software migration, according to Simon May, is thorough preparation.
"You have to know what you have, what your environment is like," he says. "There are tools that will give you an overview of what you have, so that you know what is going to be a problem and can fix it before you start."
Although Unwin and his colleagues at Plymouth City Council didn't have much time to prepare, dividing and outsourcing the project made it manageable and the move to Office 2010 has been reasonably smooth, he says.
There were some machines that needed a bit more memory, and one partner suggested a network upgrade might be in order, but Unwin's team decided they could live with the 100Mb they already had.
For small businesses running only a few copies of Office, a machine-by-machine install might work, but for Unwin and his 4,000 users, a seat-by-seat installation was never going to be an option.
Plymouth City Council opted for AppV for application delivery and did the build using SCCM. It looked at other options, but since Citrix and VMWare also rely on an MS stack, it decided it would be better just to keep it all with one supplier and reduce budget pressures.
"We had just one base image for Office. We took off Access for most users, and decided to make Publisher available only by special request, too."
Sans Gill
This caused the biggest glitch in the Office 2010 migration. The council's house style font is Gill Sans, and as Unwin found out, if you don't install Publisher, you don't have Gill Sans.
"It took a while to discover this, though. Which I guess shows how closely everyone sticks to corporate templates," Unwin recalls.
The issue of macro compatibility did raise its ugly head in the accounts department, where a few macros didn't do what they were supposed to, but this was quickly sorted out. "We haven't had any rumblings since," Unwin says.
One of people's biggest concerns about moving to Office 2010 is that the interface is very different, especially for Office 2003 users.
Dhaval Brahmbhat, a director at Cloud IT, which installs Office 2010 to get clients up to spec for moves into the cloud with Office 365, says it generally takes a couple of weeks for clients to feel comfortable with the new features.
"Most people just want to open a document and start typing"
Unwin was also conscious of this potential issue, and although he was short of time in the initial stages, is now proceeding at a more measured pace. The system is rolled out to at most a couple of hundred users at a time, and new users get half a day's training before the switch.
Once that is done, the IT team comes in over the weekend to set everything up so the new users are up and running on Monday. Unwin also keeps an IT presence on the floor for a while after a group has made the switch to pick up any pieces.
"Really, moving to 2010 is probably easier than moving to 2007. And most people just want to open a document and start typing. It is a small percentage of users who need to access the more sophisticated features, and in our experience they were up to the challenge," he observes.
As to the original goal – enabling hot-desking to reduce overheads – the smaller office spaces are being closed down and gradually sold off.
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Diaries vs. Memoirs - Thoughts to ponder . . .
A diary tells what happens within a specific time frame and is written about specific things that have happened. It doesn't address the person to whom these things happened. Diaries are usually written as a record of events, transactions or observations kept daily or at frequent intervals.
In Calkin's book, Living Between the Lines, Ernest Becker states: "What human beings fear is not growing old, but growing old without things adding up."
That is why we write our memoirs.
Memoirs are not personal narratives. Memoirs are not single moments. Memoirs are about the plot lines or patterns that bind those moments together.
Virginia Woolf says, "A memoir is not what happens, but the person to whom things happen."
Writing a memoir has everything to do with rendering the ordinariness of our lives so that it becomes significant. Rather than writing with statistics, memoir is written with scenes.
Memoir allows one to select images, events, and treasures that reveal important things about themselves. The central challenge in memoir writing is to find out how particular moments fit into the plot lines of one's own life. One must not only discover the moment of their lives, but the meanings in those moments.
Memoir is always double-edged. In memoir the unfolding story is always being remembered by a writer who is now older and wiser. Interestingly enough, whenever there is a "then" and a "now" in memoir, there seem to be both moments and meanings.
In this light, memoir writing makes the past real and vivid and compelling, as if it happened yesterday. The smells, and sounds from other times develop rich, evocative writing. We in turn learn more than a diary provides.
Noreen Brand, Program and Education Coordinator, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Disscussion Questions:
- What makes diaries unique?
- How can diaries be used to teach the Holocaust?
- What are the important issues that can be addressed through diaries?
- What are some famous diaries that you know of that came out of the Holocaust?
- Why has Anne Frank had such widespread appeal?
- How can these themes be translated into the classroom?
- How much of the story does Anne Frank tell?
- What is the difference between a diary and a memoir?
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology,
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.2 x86_64 (nginx, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
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This tutorial shows how to prepare an OpenSUSE 12.2 64bit (x86_64) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx and Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
If you want to use nginx instead of Apache with ISPConfig, please note that your nginx version must be at least 0.8.21, and you must install PHP-FPM as well. For CGI/Perl support, you must use fcgiwrap. This is all covered by this tutorial.
I will use the following software:
- Web Server: nginx with PHP 5
- Database Server: MySQL
- Mail Server: Postfix with virtual users
- DNS Server: BIND
- FTP Server: pureftpd
- POP3/IMAP: Dovecot
- Webalizer and AWStats for web site statistics
In the end you should have a system that works reliably and is easily manageable with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. The following guide is for the 64bit version of OpenSUSE.
I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
Notice: This guide is for ISPConfig 3.0.4 or newer. It is not suitable for ISPConfig 2.x!
ISPConfig 3 Manual
In order to learn how to use ISPConfig 3, I strongly recommend to download the ISPConfig 3 Manual.
On about 300 pages, it covers the concept behind ISPConfig (admin, resellers, clients), explains how to install and update ISPConfig 3, includes a reference for all forms and form fields in ISPConfig together with examples of valid inputs, and provides tutorials for the most common tasks in ISPConfig 3. It also lines out how to make your server more secure and comes with a troubleshooting section at the end.
ISPConfig Monitor App For Android
With the ISPConfig Monitor App, you can check your server status and find out if all services are running as expected. You can check TCP and UDP ports and ping your servers. In addition to that you can use this app to request details from servers that have ISPConfig installed (please note that the minimum installed ISPConfig 3 version with support for the ISPConfig Monitor App is 22.214.171.124!); these details include everything you know from the Monitor module in the ISPConfig Control Panel (e.g. services, mail and system logs, mail queue, CPU and memory info, disk usage, quota, OS details, RKHunter log, etc.), and of course, as ISPConfig is multiserver-capable, you can check all servers that are controlled from your ISPConfig master server.
For download and usage instructions, please visit http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-monitor-app-for-android/.
1 Requirements
To install such a system you will need the following:
- The OpenSUSE 12.2 DVD. You can download it here: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.2/iso/openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
- A fast Internet connection...
2 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100 and the gateway 192.168.0.1. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
3 The Base System
Boot from your OpenSUSE 12.2 DVD and select Installation:
Select your language, keyboard layout and accept the licence terms:
The installer analyzes your hardware and builds the software repository cache:
Select New Installation:
Select the region and timezone:
We select Other > Minimal Server Selection (Text Mode) here as we want to install a server without X-Window desktop. The X-Window system is not necessary to run the server and would slow down the system. We will do all administration tasks on the shell or through an SSH connection, e.g. via PuTTY from a remote desktop.
Click on Edit Partition Setup... to change the proposed partitions. As this is a server setup, we need a large /srv partition instead of the /home partition:


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In the ongoing question as to whether Napoleon Bonaparte was a Freemason or not, Blog Maconnique is reporting on an 1805 manuscript for sale that describes a Masonic banquet attended by "Brother Bonaparte".
According to Jacques Huyghebaert's translation, a French bookshop " La Librairie des Colporteurs", in Saint-Emilion ( http://www.man.uscr.it ) is currently selling a Masonic Manuscript dated about 1805 which specifically refers to Napoleon Bonaparte being a Freemason for €600.
"Complete manuscript fully organizing a Freemason banquet at the very begining of 19th century. The manuscript is softbound with marbled paper and a handwritten label in the middle with "Banquet works" in French. The banquet is a Masonic ritual meal held most often during astronomical solstices, each lodge having its own rituals. Thus, one will find in the manuscript a series of health and hymns with air normalized by the French music reference book Clef du caveau (key of the vault), some instructions on the symbolic placement of the brothers and many details on the ceremonies.The names of the utensils are listed on a table which contains common names and their equivalent in Masonic symbolism (for example, bread becomes rough stone). Each page is written on watermarked laid in the fleur-de-lys (pre-Revolution period) with a beautiful writing inside black and red frames; pages are numbered and composed with care. Cover is fragile, some pin size holes through the pages, good overall condition.
The manuscript, referring to f. -. Bonaparte and the first victory of the French consul must be dated around 1805, when the FreeMasonry is reborn at the end of the Terror and at the time Napoleon Bonaparte proposed an alliance with the Grand Orient of France. Many dignitaries of the imperial regime were also Freemasons."


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President Barack Obama used a television interview set to air Monday night to defend his administration's use of far-reaching surveillance programs as carefully supervised and controlled.
Obama also appeared to reject comparisons between himself and Vice President Dick Cheney, who strongly backed similar surveillance efforts in the George W. Bush administration and has defended Obama's continuation of national security-related programs similar in many respects to those pursued by the previous administration.
"Some people say, 'Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before. Now he's, you know, Dick Cheney.' Dick Cheney sometimes says, 'Yeah, you know? He took it all lock, stock, and barrel,'" the president told interviewer Charlie Rose in the exchange recorded Sunday, according to excerpts of the transcript published by BuzzFeed. "My concern has always been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances?"
( PHOTOS: Pols, pundits weigh in on NSA report)
In an interview that's been heavily promoted by the White House and Obama aides, the president acknowledged that a program which collects massive amounts of data on telephone calls made in or through the U.S. could theoretically be used to invade individuals' privacy, even potentially yielding conclusions about callers' health conditions.
"All of that is true. Except for the fact that for the government, under the program right now, to do that, it would be illegal. We would not be allowed to do that," the president said, according to a transcript. "The number of requests are surprisingly small. ....Folks don't go with a query unless they've got a pretty good suspicion."
In the interview, Obama appears at one point to equate transparency of the surveillance programs with their oversight by the courts and Congress — even though the public was kept in the dark about the nature of the snooping until the leak of highly-classified documents by an National Security Agency contractor via Britain's Guardian newspaper earlier this month.
( Also on POLITICO: Cheney: Snowden is a 'traitor')
"Should this be transparent in some way?" Rose asked.
"It is transparent," Obama insisted. "That's why we set up the FISA Court," the president said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — which carries out its work almost entirely in secret.
Later in the interview, the president acknowledged that the public didn't know about the full scope of the programs.
"Even though we have all these systems of checks and balances, Congress is overseeing it, federal courts are overseeing it — despite all that, the public may not fully know.The public may not fully know. And that can make the public kind of nervous, right?" Obama said. He said he'd asked intelligence officials to determine "how much of this we can declassify without further compromising the program." if people are making judgments just based on these slides that have been leaked, they're not getting the complete story.
( POLITICO Junkies: NSA leaks cause flood of political problems)
Obama said some of the reports based on recent leaks had exaggerated the programs and ignored the safeguards.
"There has been a lot of misinformation out there," the president said.
At one point in the interview, the president referred by name to the former NSA contractor who has admitted leaking a series of highly-classified documents and is now taking refuge in Hong Kong. Obama described as "revealed by Mr. Snowden, allegedly," the call tracking program and another that targets foreigners' web traffic.
However, the president declined to comment on efforts to pursue Snowden criminally.
( PHOTOS: 10 famous/infamous whistleblowers)
"I'm not going to comment on prosecution," Obama said. "The case has been referred to the DOJ for criminal investigation… and possible extradition. I will leave it up to them to answer those questions."
Both the White House and PBS said the contents of the interview were embargoed until its scheduled 11 p.m. Monday airtime. However, the BuzzFeed website published extended excerpts from the interview Monday afternoon, more than seven hours before the embargo expired.
BuzzFeed editor McKay Coppins said the outlet "did not agree" to the embargo, and was not bound by it.


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Most of us have been there before. Your cruising down the freeway listening to a good song when all of the sudden you realize you have been on this road for what seems like too long.Your written directions advise you to get off at exit "X", but did you already pass that exit? You drive for a bit longer before you decide that you missed it, and now must make your way back and hope you were right.
Today we are taking a look at the Magellan Roadmate 2230T-LM, which will help you avoid that whole fiasco. The 2230T-LM is one of seven new units released by Magellan whose new features include landmark guidance, which tells you where to turn based on landmarks nearby rather than just street names, as well as traffic camera alerts. The seven units are divided into the 22xx series with a 4.3″ screen, and the 52xx series boasting a 5″. The "T" and "LM" in the name stand for lifetime traffic alerts and lifetime map updates respectively. Read on to see if this little GPS has what it takes to stand out in this competitive market.


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This looks really good. The publisher's description:
Using Paul's radical letter to the Philippians as his road map, Matt Chandler forsakes the trendy to invite readers into authentic Christian maturity.
The short book of Philippians is one of the most quoted in the Bible, yet Paul wrote it not for the popular sound bites, but to paint a picture of a mature Christian faith. While many give their lives to Jesus, few then go on to live a life of truly vibrant faith.
In this disruptively inspiring book, Chandler offers tangible ways to develop a faith of pursuing, chasing, knowing, and loving Jesus. Because if we clean up our lives but don't get Jesus, we've lost! So let the goal be Him. To live is Christ, to die is gain—this is the message of the letter. Therefore, our lives should be lived to Him, through Him, for Him, with Him, about Him—everything should be about Jesus.
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4 in. firestop sleeve kit
Please note: MINIMUM ORDER QUANITTY OF 2 FROM MFG
4 in. firestop sleeve kit: includes one 4 in. (102 mm) sleeve, two large escutcheon plates, two firestop gaskets, firestop putty and labels.
SpecSeal READY(TM)SLEEVE Pathways are a complete UL Classified out-of-the-box solution for new cable penetrations through walls.
Each sleeve kit contains a precut metallic sleeve, mounting escutcheons, intumescent escutcheon gaskets, wall warning labels, and the amount of putty required to seal both ends.
SpecSeal READY(TM)SLEEVE Pathway kits are simple in design and installation.
The larger 2" and 4". (51 and 102 mm) trade sizes, include a unique rolled lip design to eliminate potential sharp edges and do away with the need for conduit bushings.
Bushings are required (and included) for the 1" (25 mm) trade size sleeve.
SpecSeal READY(TM)SLEEVE Pathways are sized to the same O.D. as standard EMT (Electrical Mechanical Tubing) and will accept EMT accessories such as grounding bushings.
Additionally, SpecSeal READY(TM)SLEEVE Pathways provide an easy method for compliance with the sleeve attachment requirements of the 2000 IBC Section 711.2 without the need for struts or other bracing.
- Economical - significant material and labor savings vs. field fabrication
- Ready to install "out of the box" firestop sleeve kit - kit comes complete with no additional parts required
- No external firestop seal required - factory-supplied intumescent firestop gasket
- UL Classified and code compliant
- Putty is FM Approved
- For rated and non-rated barriers
- Solid or split sleeves available
- Available in three sizes - 1 in., 2 in. and 4 in.
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When import your shopping cart, you are asked to upload the bridge file to provide File2Cart access to your store. You may also be asked to provide your direct database connection to speed up the process. This information is only used to fulfill your specific request, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner.
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We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to MagneticOne employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to disciplinary action, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
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We do not share, sell or rent any kind of personal information provided by our users, customers or website visitors to third-parties. We ensure the confidentiality of your private data.
Certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, which does not identify your personality, may be shared with third-parties to optimize File2Cart service. This may include the number of users that imported to a particular shopping cart, the number of clicks on a certain ad, etc.
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Through contact forms or similar submission available on the website, users can submit any type of information to File2Cart. It will never be made public or accessible to third-parties. Requests for service, support or additional information may be forwarded as needed to the appropriate departments in the company. This kind of notifications are retained for internal administrative purposes and are not disclosed to the outside sources.
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Saints Raffle Ends Monday, Get Your Tickets NOW!!
The American Lung Association is holding a raffle, with a HUGE prize: 2 tickets to the Saints/Bucs game December 29, dinner for 2 at Redemption, and a 2-night stay at the Hyatt Regency French Quarter, and there are only 40 tickets remaining!!
That's a great prize, but it comes with more good news: only 400 tickets were printed, so the odds are pretty good on this one! ONLY 40 TICKETS REMAIN, GET YOURS NOW!!
Tickets are $10 each, and the drawing will be held on Monday, December 23, 2013 at 5pm. All proceeds from the sale go to the American Lung Association.
For more information, email me at email@example.com, or call my cell at 337 849 8928.... I would be happy to sell you a ticket, or two.... or however many you would like to buy!!
If you would like to help sell some of these tickets, please get in touch!!


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These have been about for a while now as I developed them for my S4K (now the RS4K) track car.
These are waterjet cut steering arms that are used to replace the factory steering arms on audi strut tubes when doing a coilover conversion (or not)
A pair are used on each strut and are spaced approx 2" apart. these are welded to the strut tube and allow you to adjust bump steer (by moving the tie rod end up and down between the two plates using spacers, note that this requires a change from the standard tie rod end to a spherical joint type of rod end). You can also adjust Ackerman using the 6 holes to mount the rod end, the outermost hole is stock location (assuming the plates are welded to the strut tube with that hole in the same position as the stock tie rod end), the other holes then affect Ackerman and steering ratio, the further in you go the quicker the ratio.
4 are required per conversion.
These are made from 1/4" steel plate and can be gusseted but gussets are not required.
Install pics: (note these pictures are of the previous first generation product, the new version is much improved over the original design.
Several sets are out there already on projects that should see track action in the spring and I will get some updated pics and user feedback when available.
If you are interested in a set please shoot me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com or PM me here.


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Eyelids weighted down by a marathon 29-hour day in transit, it hardly seemed worth fighting their slow descent. Nodding off for 15-minute stretches at a time while waiting, waiting, waiting endlessly to stop hurtling through the clouds, I eventually succumbed to exhaustion. Next time I came to, I was in paradise.
I don't care if it's horribly cliched- It's completely true. Honolulu, Hawaii is like no other place I've ever been, and I couldn't have dreamed up a place more perfect if I truly had died and gone to heaven. Stepping off the gangway into the cozy embrace of 80-degree air, the afternoon sun sparkling overhead, I wasn't quite sure I had actually woken up yet.
Though my hotel room wasn't ocean-front or even ocean-facing, the view was still unparalleled in its grandeur. Each sunrise and sunset was a sight to behold. On my last morning in the city, I rose while the sky was still dark, dragging a chair in front of the window for a front seat to the show. In those wee AM hours, nursing a large cup of hot Kona coffee, I watched as the streets slowly began to glow and come alive and the sky danced with a changeable rainbow of colors.
Readjusting to 12-degree days and 5:00pm nightfall has been challenging, to say the least, so I'm not yet fully back up to speed. Consider these landscapes just a small taste of what's to come, and keep checking my Flickr set for additional photos and descriptions, some of which won't be featured on the blog. Though all my photos are full of treasured memories, too beautiful to keep to myself, I don't want to bog down anyone's loading time further. Consider it a somewhat hidden bonus for the truly curious. Next up, a handful of island food finds simply too incredible to limit to mere images. Stay tuned!


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The Developer's Guide To Copyright Law - Part 1
This is part 1 in a three-part series on copyright law and open source licensing. After this, continue onto Part 2 and Part 3 of the series.
As is customary when a non-lawyer attempts to discuss the finer points of the law, I must start with a disclaimer. I know some fine lawyers, but I, sir, am not a lawyer. So please do not consider this to be legal advice. It is merely a rough primer on copyright law as it pertains to software based on my readings and conversations. If you need specific legal advice, talk to your own damn lawyer.
After finishing the Fogel book, "Producing Open Source Software", I followed up by reading "Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing" by Andrew M. St. Laurent.
This book combined with previous readings serves as the inspiration and source for this series. I will focus on the issues pertinent to software developers who wish to get involved in open source development. For a more complete treatment of the topics, I recommend reading the books mentioned.
In this first post in this series, I will discuss the basics of copyright law. This will set the stage for part 2 in which I will discuss software licensing.
Basics of Copyright
In countries that support the Berne Convention, as soon as you set pen to paper, brush to canvas, or fingers to that dirty keyboard, the work you create is automatically afforded protection by copyright law. This assumes that your creation is not itself infringing on another's copyright such as plagiarism. Also, there must be a small degree of creativity in the work. For example, you cannot simply jot down and copyright names copied from a phone book. Additional copyright protection is available through registration with the copyright office, but registration is not required.
Note that copyright applies to a particular expression of an idea, not to the idea itself. You can copyright a specific drawing of a penguin, but your copyright does not apply to drawings of penguins in general. Trademarks and patents are used to provide legal protections for concepts, ideas, facts outside of the scope of copyright law, but that is a topic out of scope for this post.
The Rights of Copyright
So exactly what rights do you have to copyrighted works? Well the obvious right is the right to copy. A copyright gives the owner full and exclusive rights to control who may copy or create a derivative of a work and how that may be done. As a copyright owner, you may state that nobody is allowed to copy or make derivative versions of your work (though the doctrine of "fair use" allows some non-infringing uses such as quoting from the work in a book review). A copyright gives the owner exclusive rights to a work, but this protection does not last forever.
If someone were to infringe on your copyright, you have the right to sue for damages, but this requires that you prove a loss occurred due to the infringement, which can be difficult. You may receive additional copyright protection by registering the work with the copyright office. For example, you can get "statutory damages", compensation fixed by law that does not require proving an actual loss.
Who Owns Your Code?
Therefore you own the copyright to every line of code you write. Well… sort of.
The code a developer writes while an employee or client fall under the doctrine of "work for hire" and therefore belong to the employer (or client). Some independent contractors will stipulate in their service agreement with the client that even though the client owns the copyright to the code, the client shall give the contractor a non-exclusive license to the code.
Next Time: Licensing
In the next post in this series, I will discuss licensing and get into the nitty gritty as it pertains to open source software. Many thanks to my friend Walter Impert for his legal editing.
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• January 24th, 2006
What's up with copyright law? Just curious ...
Are you going to write a book?
• January 24th, 2006
Well I'm going to talk about it as it pertains to soucre code and open source software. Bear with me.
• July 2nd, 2010
hi,i thing it's good the all I will focus on the issues pertinent to software developers who wish to get involved.


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Well now… this kind of gets weird. Remember all the awesome surrounding Girl Scouts lately? With them accepting MtF scouts? And standing behind their decision, despite the Conservative backlash? And not flinching at Bob Morris' claims that the Girl Scouts of Indiana are promoting an evil liberal agenda?
It seems those same Girl Scouts, the Indiana ones, have gone a bit past the tipping point in turns of the awesome. Awesomeness has gone awry. They have hired a trans man as a counselor.
Now, I'm totally 100% for trans inclusivity. That should go without saying. But the Girl Scouts is an organization for women and girls. A trans man being hired into a position that is barred to cis men does not send the message of "self-identification is what counts in someone's gender". It sends the opposite message: "biology and assigned sex is what counts in someone's gender". It sends a confusing and dangerous message. It gives ammunition to those who would segregate us based on karyotype rather than who we are.
This would not be an issue for me if Caden were genderqueer, or otherwise non-binary-identified. If that were the case, I'd be all for it, and cheering him on, and buying some more Caramel De-Lites. But he isn't. He's a man.
I've mostly tried to keep my mouth shut in regards to the social differences that occur between how trans men are treated and how trans women are treated. I haven't ignored the existence of trans-misogyny, and how it plays out, but I don't want to get into games of oppression olympics and "who has it worst". I don't think any of us do; which is to say we all do. I think that trans people, regardless of where they locate their gender identity, have a pretty rough time of things no matter what, and we need to stick together and look out for one another. I prioritize our community, and the importance of overcoming our shared oppression, far above my specific experience of gender.
That said, there are some things that are really starting to bother me. One of them is how it seems that trans men can enter into women's spaces (on the basis of their assigned sex) as well as men's spaces (on the basis of their identified sex), while trans women are barred from both women's spaces (on the basis of their assigned sex) as well men's spaces (on the basis of their identified sex… or are effectively barred due to the physical risk).
I am getting very bothered especially by trans men entering or supporting women's spaces from which trans women are specifically excluded, such as MichFest, and countless smaller women's or feminist spaces… where all it takes is for one woman to say she's "uncomfortable" or feels "unsafe" with a trans woman's presence to have her pushed out. I am getting sick of trans men being treated as these totally awesome hot sex-pots in the queer community while trans women are treated with open contempt and revulsion. While trans men's bodies are displayed as sexy or beautiful in various queer publications, when was the last time you EVER really saw a trans woman portrayed as a sexual being outside the context of degrading "shemale" pornography? I'm sick of lesbians who one moment talk up how sexy they find trans men and the next say trans women are committing "rape by deception" if they don't disclose to a female partner. I'm getting annoyed by trans men being perceived as radical super-duper gender rebels, smashing apart outdated norms, while trans women continue to be painted as tedious, conservative throwbacks to patriarchy- no matter how we express our gender. I'm getting annoyed by trans men receiving accolades for doing or saying or thinking things for which trans women have been ignored for years. I'm annoyed by trans men getting to be the intellectuals and trans women just the cheerleaders. I'm tired of the term 'erasure' being applied indiscriminately so as to tilt the conversation when what's really being discussed is just the absence of hostility, misrepresentation and ridicule. I'm sick of femme straight trans women being pushed out of the queer community entirely while trans men are appreciated as the vanguard no matter how they present or who they fuck. I'm getting REALLY annoyed by trans men continuing to insist on their right to use the term "tranny" despite not having to face the violence and trans-misogyny with which the term is associated and loaded, and sick of how even trans men's opposition to use of that term is taken more seriously than the feelings trans women have on the issue. I'm getting sick of trans men being the only ones who are allowed to talk about any of this.
Mostly, I'm getting sick of some trans men happily accepting male privilege when they can while also happily accepting being perceived as women wherever or whenever it's convenient.
That's not every trans man. Not by a long shot. Most I'm happy and proud to call my allies in our struggle. But there are enough who are exploiting their privilege, or unaware of it, and kicking their sisters to the curb in the process, that I feel something needs to be said. Caden, if you have respect for your identity as a man, and for what it means to be trans, for our community, and for how hard trans women have to fight to be able to enter women's spaces like the one you're casually flaunting your presence in, you would turn this position down.


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The Believers (1987)
Directed by John Schlesinger
Genres - Mystery, Thriller | Sub-Genres - Supernatural Horror | Release Date - Jun 10, 1987 (USA) | Run Time - 114 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - R
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A police psychologist and his school-age son become embroiled in the machinations of a mysterious cult religion in this thriller from director John Schlesinger. After his wife is electrocuted in a freak accident, Dr. Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) and his son, Chris (Harley Cross), move back to Manhattan, where Cal went to school. When not spending time with his son and surrogate extended family -- husband-and-wife anthropologists Kate (Elizabeth Wilson) and Dennis Maslow (Lee Richardson) -- Cal settles into his new job and romances his landlady, Jessica Halliday (Helen Shaver). Soon, though, a series of brutal murders of young children begins to take over Cal's life. Through the ravings of policeman Tom Lopez (Jimmy Smits), who believes the killers have supernatural power over him after stealing his badge, Cal learns of Santeria, a voodoo-like Latin American sect that mixes elements of Christianity and pagan mysticism. Although the religion turns out to have ties to some of the richest men in the city and even Cal's well-meaning maid seems to be a practitioner, he can't get any straight answers as to whether the cult is responsible for the murders. But after a sinister African shaman (Malick Bowens) places a curse on Jessica, Cal finally begins to understand the danger that faces him -- and his son. The Believers was very loosely adapted from Nicholas Conde's 1982 novel The Religion.
cult, supernatural-forces, curse, death-in-family, electrocution, human-sacrifice, multiple-murder, psychology, voodoo


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In an art career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been a groundbreaking and influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prize-winning holocaust memoir Maus established the graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the expressive range of comics.
Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps is a comprehensive career overview of the output of this legendary cartoonist, showing for the first time the full range of a half-century of relentless experimentation. Starting from Spiegelman's earliest self-published comics and lavishly reproducing graphics from a host of publications both obscure and famous, Co-Mix provides a guided tour of an artist who has continually reinvented not just comics but also made a mark in book and magazine design, bubble gum cards, lithography, modern dance, and most recently stained glass. By showing all facets of Spiegelman's career, the book demonstrates how he has persistently cross-pollinated the worlds of comics, commercial design, and fine arts. Essays by acclaimed film critic J. Hoberman and MoMA curator and Dean of the Yale University School of Art Robert Storr bookend Co-Mix, offering eloquent meditations on an artist whose work has been genre-defining.


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Former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke, author of the book "Cyber War," served 19 years in the Pentagon, intelligence community and State Department. At the firm he founded, Good Harbor Consulting, he advises clients on security risk management; is an on-air consultant for ABC News; and also teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Speaking with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer, Clarke shares his thoughts on the hactivist group Anonymous, why we shouldn't trust SSL certificates, and more.
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Do you find the hactivist group Anonymous to be threatening?
I think of them more positively than most people, though I can't endorse their breaking the law. They're not trying to steal intellectual property to give it to the competition -- a lot of what is going on in the world is about that. But a lot of what [Anonymous is] doing is highlighting vulnerabilities we see in the enterprise. I'd just like to see this done legally. I'm not condoning law-breaking.
Who do you think was behind Stuxnet (the malware worm aimed at industrial control systems that hit the Iranian nuclear reactor last year)?
I don't know for sure, but many think it was the U.S. or Israel. I'd say the U.S.
Is it just dumb luck that the power grids here haven't been hit with a cyberattack like that?
We are having attacks here that go so far into penetrating the networks, but no attacks yet to take down the power systems. The only reason to get into the grid is for war. They're getting set up so if they were called on to attack the power grid, they can. Today, no one has the motivation. I don't know if I'd call an attack to disrupt and damage the power grid inevitable. We haven't yet seen non-state actors, like terrorists, try.
Does the U.S. have good cyber intelligence?
I think we have very good cyber intelligence with one exception: The U.S. government is not well-informed on attacks done on U.S. companies.
If you had the influence, what would you change to improve U.S. cybersecurity?
I would require the major Internet providers as a matter of regulation to filter the packets to look for signatures of attacks and blackhole them. I'd give the signatures to them. In a regulated industry -- finance, power and telecommunications -- I'd require all the software be vetted for all kinds of mistakes.
Over the years, you've been candid in your criticism of Microsoft and the endless cycles of patching month after month. These days, businesses are using virtualization software, primarily from VMware along with others such as Citrix. Do you think that brings any new security concerns?
I think virtualization and the cloud can be more secure or less secure, depending on how you configure. But there's a dialogue of the deaf going on between the user and the [cloud] provider. The user is saying, "It's up to you to provide security," and the provider says the same to the user.
In the past few weeks, the compromise of SSL server certificate providers such as Comodo, DigiNotar and GlobalSign have raised questions about certificates as a source of trust. Do you have any view on this?
My takeaway is you can't trust digital certificates. It's a turning point not just for digital certificates. In the attack on RSA, hackers are now going after two-factor authentication. Then they went after the defense companies, after having broken into a security company. That's a game-changer. I'm not just going to bust into RSA, I'm going to bust into Lockheed. RSA says you can continue to have confidence in two-factor authentication. But how much confidence? Are you really going to rely on them? I wouldn't be happy relying on RSA two-factor authentication or on an SSL certificate solution.
There are security regimens, such as PCI for payment cards. Would it be possible to come up with a security regimen for SSL certificates?
We've been willing to allow the marketplace to regulate them in effect. I'm not sure I could devise anything for this.
The trend we see in business today is that employees are insisting on using their own mobile devices, such as smartphones, for use at work. Sometimes, the corporation agrees to manage the device, sometimes they don't. Do you have any particular viewpoint on that in terms of security?
This is the newest and largest vulnerability in corporate America now. Employees say they must have these devices and the corporations have given in under pressure. That's the same corporation that put millions of dollars into firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems. But the CIOs are knowingly authorizing another way into the network. Maybe they've been told it's not secure, and done it anyway. There are thousands of apps for these mobile devices. Are they secure? What's in the Apple store or Droid store or elsewhere? No one has looked. If there is a corporate device, the corporation has a responsibility to its shareholders to ensure that everything that is allowed there is secured. They should insist they must vet the application, or have the provider vet the application. There should be a "secure app store" checked for security.
The Defense Department is also looking at using smartphones by giving them to soldiers. Is that a good idea?
It's a good idea if they're secure. Whether it's the Defense Department or a private company, they have every right to restrict use and every obligation to make sure they're secure.
When the question of supply-chain security comes up, and with so much manufacturing coming from China, do you think there's reason to be concerned about security of products made in foreign countries where sometimes there are political tensions?
My attitude is whether it comes from New York state or Shanghai, it probably has the same risk in software. There are people in the U.S. who can be bribed, too.
You recently joined the board of Bit9. Are you on the board of other companies as well?
I'm on the board of a few nonprofits, as well as Veracode. I joined Bit9 because I think their software can be used to help prevent advanced persistent threats [APTs].
APTs [stealth attacks to steal sensitive information such as intellectual property and proprietary information to advantage industry competitors or foreign governments] are now a huge concern. As in the RSA case, we hear about them more regularly. But when are we going to see justice? Why is it so hard to bring criminals to justice in APT cases?
If the attacker is a government or a cyber-sanctuary, you don't get justice. As long as there are cyber-sanctuary countries -- or a country that's a scofflaw.
What countries would those be?
Eastern Europe, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, China. It's sometimes unclear whether attacks are coming from China or authorized by the Chinese government. There are two types of non-government attacks, the attack the Chinese government is letting happen and the attacks they ask to happen. It's against organizations with political involvement, such as Tibetans or other groups to which China is opposed, or economic competitors. The Chinese government is engaged in espionage against the Defense Department.
Is the U.S. also engaged in this type of espionage?
Yes, the U.S. is also engaged.


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