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Well NV, looks like my wife smoked me again! lol
My wife was one of the team to get this deal. Lots of Hours and hard work. There were days I did not see her. There will be many more. They continue to grow, my wife was part of the first 10 in the little startup in 7/02 now they are over 35 and continue to eat up space. I hope the people at NV work this hard.
Momenta Pharmaceuticals and Sandoz, Inc. Form Strategic Alliance for the Application of Breakthrough Sugar Technology to Product Development
Nov 18, 2003
CAMBRIDGE, MA and PRINCETON, NJ — November 18, 2003 – Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in applying advanced technology for complex sugars to discover and develop pharmaceutical products, and Sandoz, Inc., a Novartis company (NYSE: NVS), today announced a strategic alliance covering joint product development and commercialization in the area of complex pharmaceutical products. The collaboration will apply Momenta’s novel technological capabilities related to complex sugars and the leadership of Sandoz in the generic pharmaceuticals industry to pursue the joint goal of commercializing products.
Under the terms of the agreement, Sandoz and Momenta will jointly manage product development and commercialization. Momenta will receive a profit share based on product sales if the parties are successful in their commercialization strategy. In addition, Sandoz will pay development and commercialization costs and make certain other payments to Momenta.
“This partnership offers Momenta the potential to realize significant revenue at a very early stage in our company’s development. The success of near-term product opportunities will enable us to advance our mission of developing innovative novel therapeutics, addressing a wide range of clinical needs, while also improving existing marketed therapeutics,” said Alan Crane, Chairman and CEO of Momenta. “With the industry leadership of Sandoz, this partnership reinforces our vision of building value through the highest quality collaborations and validates Momenta’s ability to leverage its scientific expertise in complex sugars to bring important drugs to the marketplace.”
“We’re pleased to partner with Momenta, a company that has demonstrated strong capabilities in the area of complex pharmaceuticals. Working together, we will be able to provide alternative pharmaceutical solutions for patients,” said John Sedor, President and CEO of Geneva Pharmaceuticals, becoming Sandoz Inc. on Dec. 1, 2003.
About Momenta
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a leader in applying breakthroughs in understanding the chemistry and biology of complex sugars to the discovery, development, and commercialization of drug products. In its short history, Momenta has built a diversified pipeline of product candidates comprised of novel therapeutics and the application of its technology to existing products and molecules. Momenta’s proprietary technology provides a more complete understanding of disease and drug action by enabling high throughput sequencing, precise chemical structure characterization, and engineering of complex sugars and glycosylated biomolecules. Founded in 2001, Momenta is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Additional information is available on the company’s website, www.momentapharma.com.
About Sandoz
Sandoz is one of the largest prescription generic pharmaceutical companies in the world. Sandoz products range across many therapeutic drug categories including anti-infectives, anti-arthritics, cardiovasculars, gastrointestinal agents and psychotherapeutics. Sandoz is a Novartis company (NYSE: NVS), a world leader in healthcare with core businesses in pharmaceuticals, consumer health, generics, eye-care and animal health. In 2002, Novartis’s businesses achieved sales of CHF 32.4 billion (USD 20.9 billion) and a net income of CHF 7.3 billion (USD 4.7 billion). Novartis invested approximately CHF 4.3 billion (USD 2.8 billion) in R&D. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis Group companies employ about 72,900 people and operate in more than 140 countries around the world. For more information on Novartis, http://www.novartis.com. For more information about Sandoz, please see our website at http://www.sandoz.com. Geneva Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. becomes Sandoz Inc. effective Dec. 1, 2003.
This release contains certain “forward-looking statements” relating to Sandoz, a Novartis company, and its business or products, which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “will be,” “continue to,” or similar expressions, or by express or implied discussions regarding strategies, plans and expectations. Such statements reflect the current plans or views of Sandoz with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Management's expectations and sales of products could be affected by, among other things, ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property, competition in general, and other risks referred to in Novartis AG’s Form 20-F on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.
Contacts: Valerie Threlfall, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 617-395-5116
Kathryn Morris, KMorris PR 845-635-9828
Sandra MacTavish, Sandoz, Inc. 609-627-8571
Check out the PR 7:31 AM
http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/webquote.dll?ipage=qd&Symbol=nvs
You guys think on this 10 day chart that my wife's company might be good for NVS?
I thinks so
Isn't that called a cell phone?
Camels compete in beauty contest
Contest held in ancient dromedary junction
Saturday, November 15, 2003 Posted: 5:13 PM EST (2213 GMT)
Most beautiful? The camels in the contest were judged by experienced camel herders.
BEIJING, China (AP) -- Shiny hair. Upright humps. Sharp outfits. And definitely no swimsuit competition.
If you're in the market for a beautiful camel, those are apparently the things you might want to consider. And in northern China, they're doing just that -- holding a dromedary beauty contest as part of what is billed as "the first international camel festival."
The beauty competition in the Inner Mongolia region attracted nearly 100 dressed-up camels "as well as more than 2,000 fans," the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. It didn't specify who the "fans" were or where they came from.
The judges, mostly experienced camel herders, described the criteria for victory to Xinhua: The camels, they said, "should have good appearance -- shiny hair and upright humps -- and should be good dressers wearing beautiful halters and saddles in a proper way."
The contest was held in a community called Alxa League, known as the "camel hometown." It has one-third of China's camels and is the main habitat for the double-humped Bactrian camel, Xinhua said. The two-humped Bactrian is indigenous to Mongolia and was domesticated some 3,000 years ago.
Dry weather in recent years has hurt the area's environment, though, and Xinhua said the number of camels has dropped to 68,000 from 250,000 in the 1980s.
Festival sponsors said they wanted the camel beauty competition to generate more attention for the beasts.
"We hope the government can set up a natural reserve and a genetic database for Bactrian camels to keep a stable population of the species while promoting the development of camel product enterprises," said an Alxa League official, quoted by Xinhua.
Truth is Stranger than Fiction
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I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology
at the Poison Control Center. Today, this woman called in very
upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants.
I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there
would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to
mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in
order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her
daughter in to the Emergency room right away.
********************
Seems that a year ago, some Boeing employees on the field
decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were
successful in getting it out of the plane and home. When they
took it for a float on the river, they were quite surprised by a
Coast Guard helico pter coming towards them. It turned out that
the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator that is
activated when the raft is inflated.
They are no longer employed there.
******************
A true story out of San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a
downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote "this
iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." While standing
in line waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to
worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call
the police before he reached the teller window. So he left the
Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After
waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells
Fargo teller. She read it and surmising from his spelling
errors that he wasn't the brightest light in the harbor, told
him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was
written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would
either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to
Bank of America.
Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK" and left. The
Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the man a
few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of
America.
*********************
Drug Possession Defendant, Christopher Jansen, on trial in March
in Pontiac, Michigan, said he had been searched without a
warrant. The prosecutor said the officer didn't need a warrant
because a "bulge" in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun.
"Nonsense," said Christopher, who happened to be wearing the
same jacket that day in court. He handed it over so the judge
could see it. The judge discovered a packet of cocaine in the
pocket and laughed so hard he required a five-minute recess to
compose himself.
*********************
Ok lahoma City: Dennis Newton was on trial in a district court
for the armed robbery of a convenience store when he fired his
lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Larry Jones said Newton,
47, was doing a fair job of defending himself until the store
manager testified that Newton was the robber. Newton jumped up,
accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should have blown
your (expletive) head off." The defendant paused, then quickly
added, "if I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20
minutes to convict Newton and recommended a 30-year sentence.
*********************
R.C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were
showing their squad car computer equipment to children in a
Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the
officer asked him for identification. Gaitlan gave them his
drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and moments
late r they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen
showed Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in
St. Louis, Missouri.
*********************
A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and
demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier
put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he
wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to
put it in the bag as well, but he refused and said, "Because I
don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the
clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn't believe
him. At this point the robber took his drivers license out of
his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over
and agreed that the man was in fact over 21, and he put the
scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his
loot. The cashier promptly called th e police and gave the name
and address of the robber that he got off the license.
They arrested the robber two hours later.
*********************
A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously
waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!"
When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.
************************************
Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert,
an hour east of Bakersfield, California, a woman new to boating
was having a problem. No matter how hard she tried, she just
couldn't get her brand new 22-ft Bayliner to perform. It
wouldn't get on a plane at all, and it was very sluggish in
almost every maneuver, no matter how much power she applied.
After about an hour of trying to make it go, she putted over to
a nearby marina. Maybe they could tell her what was wrong.
A thorough topside check revealed everything was in perfect
working order. The engine ran fine, the outdrive went up and
down, the prop was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the
marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up
choking on water, he was laughing so hard.
(wait for it........)
(remember, this is supposed to be true.......)
Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the
trailer!
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years..
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left-handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know.
They will get a kick out of it !!
You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?
I also want to give thanks to the Veterans and my Great Uncle Carl.
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What are your guys thoughts on my ex CEO's retirement package?
He gets all of this + now is Bush's right hand man. Nothing wrong with that but did he have to get so much from my company and now we have to pay for it???
Q. What does this have to do with NVEI? A. I get paid from CSX so I can pay my broker to buy more NVEI.
There has been 2000 layoffs back in July and another 2000 due at the end of the year.
This July all the workers and I had to start paying $80 a month for our Rail Road benefits.
Could it be from this????
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Treasury Secretary John Snow was paid $60.8 million by CSX Corp. when he retired from the railroad company earlier this year to take the federal post, according to a regulatory filing Monday.
In addition, upon his resignation from the company in February, CSX paid Snow $8.1 million to satisfy the company's obligation to pay for his insurance premium under a $25 million life insurance policy.
The $60.8 million amount included $8.7 million in accrued deferred cash compensations, stock valued at $18.9 million on the date of distribution, and a $33.2 million lump-sum payment that represented the actuarial present value of Snow's unfunded pension benefit.
Snow waived all future payments and perquisites, including 200,000 restricted shares, under his employment contract with the company when he resigned, the filing said.
Snow's salary for fiscal 2002 was $1.25 million in salary and $810,000 in the form of a bonus.
Snow, sworn in as the Treasury chief on Feb. 7, has pledged to exercise all stock options and sell all his stock and bond holdings within 90 days of confirmation, including CSX holdings valued at between $32 million and $158 million.
Shares of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company (CSX: news, chart, profile) fell $1.19, or 4 percent, to trade recently at $28.80.
Anyone think we got it bad check out FAOO on a 1 week chart
FAO, Inc.
Quick Quote
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Previous Close 1.73
Day's Low 1.25
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Volume 773,214
UPDATE 2-FAO says gets default notice from lenders
November 10, 2003 10:36:00 AM ET
(Recasts, adds analyst comment, stock quote)
CHICAGO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - FAO Inc. (FAOO), the parent of FAO Schwarz toy stores, said on Monday it received notification from its lenders that it was in default, after it asked for more money to finance the holiday sales season.
The lenders said they no longer consider themselves obligated to make further loans or extend letters of credit, FAO said. The retailer said it was in discussions with the lenders but could give no assurances that the talks would be successful.
Shares of FAO tumbled 31 cents, or 17.9 percent, to $1.42 in morning trade on the Nasdaq.
"FAO sales are declining, meaning one source of capital is insufficient, and supplier credit from vendors was probably insufficient before today," said Richard Hastings, retail analyst with Bernard Sands, which advises vendors.
"Now they have no commitment from their banks, and that puts an end to vendor credit," he said. "Another bankruptcy filing is a possibility."
A spokesman for an outside public relations firm representing FAO was not immediately available to comment.
The company said on Friday that unless sales picked up it would not have enough liquidity to operate normally in November, the start of the holiday shopping season, typically the most important period of the year for toy retailers.
It also asked its banks for more money, and said the request for an overadvance might lead to a notice of default. An overadvance is a loan in advance of sales that allows a company to build inventory ahead of peak sales periods.
FAO, which also owns Zany Brainy and Right Start stores, said on Friday it was considering selling the company and needed more money after initial holiday sales came in well below its expectations. The company said it asked some vendors to reduce shipments and that it wants most of them to extend payment dates until the first of the year. REUTERS
You put the Groove in GroveMaster baby
34, what you posted sounded very familiar to me so I sent a copy to my wife and she responded with this...
Yeah, everyone has a certain target. I haven't heard of them specifically, but it is in the general realm of angiogenesis, which is Folkman's baby. I'm sure he has many such spinoffs.
Folkman is on my Wife's company's BOD
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cancer/folkman.html
Al
NVEI should have made some kind of Pirate broadband, look who owns Napster now!
http://www.napster.com/partners.html
What ever happened to the kid who started Napster?
ABOUT US
Napster is the world’s most recognized brand in online music. Napster has extensive content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalog of online music, with more than 500,000 tracks spanning all genres from Eminem to Miles Davis. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world. Napster has offices in Los Angeles and New York.
Hey look its Mikey behind bars!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1692056
New Delhi up to asses in monkeys
NEW DELHI - In a capital city where cows roam the streets and elephants plod along in the bus lanes, it's no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys
But the officials who work there are fed up. They've been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on office windows.
The Supreme Court has stepped in, decreeing that New Delhi should be a monkey-free city after citizens filed a lawsuit demanding protection from the animals.
Easier said than done. A past initiative to scare off the army of Rhesus macaques with ultrahigh frequency loudspeakers didn't work. A plan to deport them to distant regions has stalled because local governments refused to have them.
There's an ape patrol of fierce-looking primates called langurs, led about on leashes by keepers. But whenever a langur looms, the pink-faced, two-foot-tall hooligans simply move elsewhere on government grounds.
"Please do not feed the monkeys," implores a sign at Raisina Hill, the complex of colonnaded buildings that includes the president's residence, Parliament, and Cabinet offices.
To no avail. Hindus believe that monkeys are manifestations of the monkey god, Hanuman, and worshippers come to Raisina Hill every Tuesday handing out bananas.
Last year the monkeys made their presence felt by hanging from window ledges and screeching at reporters arriving for a news conference with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"It's a big problem, especially in the evening," says Defense Ministry spokesman Amitabha Chakrabarti. Monkeys break into offices at night and paw through the files looking for food, he said. "Those who work late hours have to be careful when it is dark."
The city estimates at least 1,500 of New Delhi's more than 5,000 macaques live on Raisina Hill.
In the latest effort, a monkey relocation initiative, 400 monkeys have been caught at Raisina Hill in the past year and moved to a holding area on the outskirts of New Delhi to await their return to forests in neighboring states, said Madan Thapliyal, a municipality spokesman.
But governments of those states have so far refused to take the furry exiles, saying they have more than enough of their own.
Maneka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of the late Indian leader Indira Gandhi and an independent lawmaker in the lower house of India's Parliament, believes the monkeys should be left in peace.
Gandhi, an animal rights advocate, has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.
She claims that captured macaques, despite their holiness to Hindus, have been given to laboratories for experimentation or have died in their holding area cages. They were "relocated to monkey heaven," she said.
The government says more than 200 monkeys have been relocated to Gandhi's parliamentary district about 125 miles east of New Delhi. Gandhi denies it. "It's all rubbish," she said. "Not one monkey has been relocated to my constituency."
Atul K. Gupta, of the Wildlife Institute of India, says macaques belong in forests, but deforestation and human settlement are driving them into cities in search of food.
Macaques are crafty pickpockets, know how to open refrigerators, and brazenly snatch lunch pails from government workers, he said. "They have learned the tricks of finding food in an urban environment."
The answer, he said, is to save the forests. Otherwise, he says, "the problem will get worse."
HANALEI, Hawaii, Nov. 3 — She was a member of the "dawn patrol." Every morning before sunrise, Bethany Hamilton, a 13-year-old and one of the country's top female amateur surfers, would follow the pull of the turquoise water and head to a favorite reef, to defy gravity on a wave.
Hanalei fireman Tim Terrazas shows off the board Bethany Hamilton was riding when she was attacked.
"She's aggressive and a really good surfer," said Alana Blanchard, also 13, her best friend and fellow champion. "She pushes me and I push her."
But on Friday, while the two girls were surfing with friends at Tunnels Reef, a legendary surfing spot, Ms. Hamilton was bitten by a shark. She lost her left arm in the attack, believed to have been from a 14- to 15-foot tiger shark, the most dangerous species in Hawaii. Ms. Blanchard's father, Holt, 49, who was surfing with them, swam Ms. Hamilton to shore and fashioned a tourniquet out of his rubber surfboard leash. Ms. Hamilton is in stable condition at a local hospital. It was the fourth shark attack in Hawaii this year.
In this rainy, out-of-the-way town, Bethany Hamilton's trauma is an attack on a communal daughter. Since the early 1960's, when surfers and hippies fled here from the crowded waves of California and Oahu, the stunning reefs and bays of Kauai's north shore have nurtured some of the world's top surfers.
This is a ragtag, bohemian place where surfing is basketball, football, baseball and soccer rolled into one, where toddlers in water wings surf tandem on their parents' boards, and some schools signal the end of classes not with a bell but with surfing music piped through loudspeakers.
Among the many girl "groms" here, as child surfers are called, people talk about Ms. Hamilton as a shoo-in for stardom. She and Ms. Blanchard, on the same competitive surf team, have already earned sponsorships from surfwear companies. Like practically all young surfers here, many of them preorthodontia and prepubescent, Ms. Hamilton is the child of surfers. Most important, perhaps, she represents a new generation of powerful young women who joyfully meet the challenge of taking on huge, barreling waves on a little bits of foam and fiberglass. When she surfed, friends say, she squealed with delight.
"The personality expresses itself inside the wave, and hers was just blossoming," said Suzanne Bollin, 55, summing up the feelings of many who came here on a lark in the early 1970's and stayed. "That girl has saltwater in her veins."
In a sense, Hanalei is a company town in the business of surfing. Although Kauai, the northernmost of the eight major Hawaiian islands, is less famous for its surfing beaches than Oahu, it is known among die-hard surfers for its wide variety of waves, from sand-bottomed beginners' breaks like Pine Trees to more fearsome ones like the Tunnels and Cannons.
Ms. Hamilton, who is a "goofy-foot" surfer — the surfing equivalent of being left-handed, pivoting with her left foot and leading with her right — could tackle them all.
Bethany Hamilton competes in a surfing competition in August.
She took second place this year in the National Scholastic Surfing Association's national championships in San Clemente, Calif., beating women up to twice her age and following an impressive wave of homegrown world-famous surfers.
In the last decade, Kauai has become "a hotbed of surfing talent," said Sam George, the editor of Surfer magazine. Among the local stars are Titus Kinimaka, one of the most respected all-around surfers; Keala Kennelly, 25, known for her fearlessness; and especially Andy Irons, 25, the reigning world champion. To children in and around Hanalei, Andy Irons is the hero next door, whose presence is akin to having Michael Jordan to shoot hoops with after school. Among Ms. Hamilton's teammates, half of whom are still in elementary school, Mr. Irons is the target of a game they gigglingly call DDD, for "Ding-Dong Ditch," in which they ring the doorbell and then quickly run away, only to return five minutes later to ring again.
To Ms. Hamilton's teammates, who wear two-toned glue-on fingernails and puka-shell necklaces, becoming professional, while admittedly a dreamy prospect, is less important than the role surfing plays in their lives day to day, especially on this small island where the one bowling alley and two movie theaters are at least an hour away.
"You get to be with your friends and catch really good waves," said Nagé Melamed, 9, a fifth grader at Hanalei Elementary school. "The water is really cool, and you don't hear your teachers telling you to do your homework."
Like parents everywhere in America, those here follow their children's sporting exploits with video cameras. Unlike most soccer moms, however, surfing moms and dads here excel at their children's sports — sometimes instantly replaying moves that need work.
"The ocean is different every time you get into it," said Joi Bonaparte, 45, the girls' coach on the Hanalei Surf Team and mother of a professional surfer, Dustin Barca, 21.
"It's such a thrill when you drop into a barrel, deep in a wave, as it comes over you in a cylinder," Ms. Bonaparte said. "Our whole community feels that way."
Ms. Hamilton's own precocious trajectory, including coveted and potentially lucrative sponsorships from Rip Curl USA and four other companies, mirrors the growth of the sport among young women and the marketing of its accouterments, a subculture portrayed last year in the film "Blue Crush."
"She'll be able to do 95 percent of what she wants to do ... Knowing Bethany, it's not going to slow her down too much."
-Dr. David Rovinsky, orthopedic surgeon
Surfing is now a billion-dollar-a-year industry, Mr. George said, fueled in part by female role models like Lisa Anderson, a four-time world champion. The X Games featured surfing this year for the first time.
Professional female surfers remain few — only about 25 worldwide, compared with several hundred men — and when promising young stars like Ms. Hamilton and Ms. Blanchard emerge, surfwear companies eagerly supply them with clothes, surfboards and travel expenses for competitions on other islands and on the mainland.
"Bethany represented a new generation of young women who never had to fight a stigma," Mr. George said. "Girls Bethany's age have been empowered by the whole women's surfing movement."
Ms. Hamilton's second-place National Championship trophy is prominently displayed in her hospital room in Lihue. Speaking by telephone from the hospital, Bethany's father, Tom, who is a waiter at the Princeville Resort hotel, said his daughter's spirits were high, bolstered by visits from her teammates and her North Shore Community Church youth group.
On Friday, Ms. Hamilton, Ms. Blanchard and their friends were about 1,000 yards off the beach, in calm water on the far side of the reef. The shark broke through the surface without warning and vanished, taking Ms. Hamilton's arm just below her left shoulder and creating a 16-inch-wide bite in her red, white and blue board.
When the shark struck, Mr. Blanchard recalled, Ms. Hamilton calmly said, "I got attacked by a shark," and started paddling. "It was strange, she just made a statement," he said. "She was the only one who saw the shark."
Mr. Blanchard bound the wound with his Lycra T-shirt, and Ms. Hamilton, who was conscious throughout the ordeal, held on to his leg until they reached the beach, where he fashioned the surf-leash tourniquet.
Dr. David Rovinsky, the orthopedic surgeon who has been treating Ms. Hamilton, said that had Holt Blanchard "not had the presence of mind to make the tourniquet, she wouldn't be alive." She has about a four-inch section of upper arm bone remaining.
Losing an upper extremity is more complicated than losing a lower one, or an arm below the elbow, Dr. Rovinsky said, and it is too early to tell what the options are, although that will become clearer in the coming months.
"It will be an ongoing process," he said. "She'll figure out for herself what she can do."
Which could involve surfing. On Sunday, for the first time since the attack, Ms. Hamilton talked about wanting to surf again. Her best friend expects no less.
"We're going to get her back on a short board," Ms. Blanchard said.
Dr. Rovinsky said that surfboards and prosthetic devices could be modified for Ms. Hamilton, and that "she'll be able to do 95 percent of what she wants to do."
"She's an extremely strong woman," he added. "Knowing Bethany, it's not going to slow her down too much."
November 4, 2003
WASHINGTON (Nov. 3) - Federal regulators are proposing their first major penalty against a company for violating the 'do not call' rules for telemarketers: a $780,000 fine against AT&T.
The Federal Communications Commission accused AT&T of making 78 phone calls to 29 consumers who asked telemarketers to leave them alone. The proposed fine would cost the company $10,000 for each call.
'Today's enforcement action demonstrates our resolve in the fight to protect consumers from unwanted and intrusive telephone calls,' FCC Chairman Michael Powell said. 'This puts telemarketers on notice that we will take all measures necessary to protect consumers who chose to be left alone in their homes.'
AT&T officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Imagine that, A communications company and no one could be reached! LMAO!
The fine is based on alleged violations of FCC rules requiring companies to keep their own list of people who have said they do not want to be called with sales pitches. It is separate from the do not call list maintained by the Federal Trade Commission.
More than 53 million numbers have been placed on the list, which took effect Oct. 1. It is intended to block about 80 percent of telemarketing calls, with exemptions for charities, pollsters and calls on behalf of politicians. A company also may call people on the list if it recently has done business with them.
Good to hear you and all are ok, been thinking about you every time I hear about the fires.
Al
Lovely views from my vacation in Spain
I hope the Brady bunch all got out in time!
Home and cars burn as a fast moving brush fire pushes through San Bernardino, Calif. Thousands more homes in the area are in danger.
Hundreds of Homes Burn in California
By LAURA WIDES, AP
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Oct. 26) - Powerful Santa Ana winds kicked up before dawn Sunday, driving two ferocious firestorms that had already burned more than 200 homes across dozens more lawns and rooftops.
In a canyon at the edge of Claremont, about 50 homes were in flames as the winds swept a more than 34,000-acre wildfire to the west.
"We're not sure exactly how many burned because we can't get up there,'' said Los Angeles County fire Inspector Edward Osorio. "Our priority of the moment right now is structure protection, not containment.''
Closer to San Bernardino, a wildfire that burned at least 200 homes Saturday and was blamed for the stress-related deaths of two residents was threatening at least 1,000 homes. The smoke and flames forced the evacuation of a university campus, Indian casino and state mental hospital, and firefighters couldn't say when it might be contained.
The larger fire, near Claremont, started in the Rancho Cucamonga area Tuesday and destroyed 16 homes in San Bernardino County before spreading into Los Angeles County. Osorio said Sunday that authorities were going through the cities of La Verne and Claremont, urging people to evacuate.
In some areas, the two wildfires were only about a mile apart Sunday and were expected to eventually merge, said Ranger Gabriel Garcia of the San Bernardino National Forest's fire suppression agency.
Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino and Ventura counties late Saturday.
"We've lived in our home for 35 years. Fire has always stopped in the foothills. I never thought it would reach our home."
-Sharon Robinson, San Bernardino resident
"We are taking every possible step to support the firefighting effort,'' Davis said. He said he called on President Bush to issue a disaster declaration to free up federal loan money for people who lost homes.
The winds had died down as the temperature dropped over night but they picked up again early Sunday, sending authorities rushing to evacuate hundreds more homes in the resort areas of Lake Arrowhead and Crestline, just north of San Bernardino.
Garcia said firefighters he talked to Sunday morning were not optimistic they could save all the homes in the blaze's path.
"First thing they said is they're getting their butts kicked,'' Garcia said. "They're saving a lot but they can't save it all.''
About 100 miles to the northwest, in Ventura County, other wildfires were raging early Sunday in the hills above Simi Valley's Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and near Piru, where 300 homes were threatened for a time. The Simi Valley fire had burned 47,000 acres by daybreak, damaged 14 homes and was threatening as many as 2,000 structures. It had also shut down Highway 118, the main route connecting Ventura County to Los Angeles.
In San Diego County, three wildfires were burning, including one that had destroyed seven homes in a neighborhood of estates near Ramona, Sheriff's Department spokesman Chris Saunders said. The fire, which forced hundreds of people to evacuate, started when a lost hunter set off a signal fire to get attention, Saunders said. The man could face charges.
The most devastating of the wildfires started Saturday in San Bernardino's Old Waterman Canyon, about 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Fierce Santa Ana winds propelled the flames across 10,000 acres within hours, spreading to a 12-mile front, as erratic winds gusting to 40 mph pushed the blaze in constantly changing directions. By Sunday morning, more than 200 homes had burned.
The fire forced the evacuation of the San Manuel Indian Reservation's casino and the campus of California State University, San Bernardino, where flames damaged two temporary classrooms and a temporary fitness center. Patton State Hospital, which houses about 1,300 mental patients, also had to be evacuated.
Two firefighters suffered second degree burns, and at least three others suffered minor burns or smoke inhalation on Sunday.
More than 4,200 people had been ordered to leave their homes in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, although some refused, staying behind to spray water on their roofs with garden hoses as flames danced all around them.
· Victims Recall Deadly 1993 California Fire
Robert Wilkes turned his hose on burning palm trees in an effort to keep the flames from his home and his neighbor's until he finally had to leave.
"He saved our house,'' said neighbor Dwane Caddell. Much of the rest of Caddell's property was damaged, however. His swimming pool was black with debris and singed palm trees and shrubbery surrounded the house.
The San Bernardino County coroner's office blamed the deaths of two men on stress caused by the fire. James W. McDermith, 70, collapsed while evacuating his home, and Charles Cunningham, 93, collapsed as he stood in the street watching his house burn.
The fires closed highways, cut power to thousands and choked the region with heavy smoke and ash.
Evacuation centers were packed, including one near San Bernardino International Airport, where as many as 1,000 people gathered, including about 50 people in wheelchairs who were taken from a convalescent home.
Hundreds of people sat beside their cars in the parking lot, some watching the burning hills through binoculars.
One family gathered in a prayer circle. Dozens of caged dogs and cats evacuated by their owners lined the roads. Authorities said at least three people were arrested on suspicion of looting in the devastated area.
Sharon Robinson, 62, and her daughter Kim Robinson, 46, left with their clothes and other belongings in the back of their truck.
"We've lived in our home for 35 years,'' Sharon Robinson said. ``Fire has always stopped in the foothills. I never thought it would reach our home.''
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Ya, I think Ill leave a nice hot steamer over there at the HRCT board.
Brad says feedback about the prototype from the major telcos by 1st half of next year. What do you guys think?
Need to get a return on my money some how, eh eh eh
jk ;)
300 Illegal Workers Arrested at Wal-Marts
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20031023113109990001&_mpc=news%2e6
No wonder why they are doinf so well, I thought it was becouse I started to buy my ammo there lol
If this dog was tied up in NVs backyard it would have a salary
An elderly lady phoned Verizon to report that her telephone failed to
ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions when it
did ring, her pet dog always barked right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this
psychic dog or senile elderly lady. He climbed a nearby telephone
pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house.
The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog barked loudly and
the telephone began to ring. Climbing down from the pole, the
telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar.
2. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the phone
number was called.
3. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and then
urinate on the ground.
4. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to
ring.
Which goes to show that some problems can be fixed by just pissing on
them.
Just having some fun, I have not sold a share :)
Yes it is back up again,I guess they were updating it last night lol
Also, the SIL site is not working , you think the feds closed in? lol yucka, yucka, yucka!
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Over at MIT we were running wireless thru the whole dorm. Also you would be able to bring your lap top out on the grass with no strings attached.
Since we left MIT they have upgraded and I think MIT's network is running a 100 MBPS and you can use your lap top walking across campus @ 100 MBPS. But sometimes you would hit some dead spots or slow spots depending who was near you, and you still can't get real time video @ 100 MBPS after that its Embarq™
Ah, so do I but you still don't get it.
Didn't we say 2 years ago that no matter how fast they get with Wireless it will still not be dependable?
"This award has become world-renowned as the avionics industry's highest award for individuals."
At how many feet is the Award at???
Sheesh, you like some of those peoples I know at MIT!
Congrats Ben!
Rumor has it that NV will be holding next year's Shareholder's meeting here....
3 out of 3 stars
China has launched its first manned space flight, Xinhua state news agency reports.
Was this a left out seen from SIL?
The Terminator wins!
Afghan children pose before a billboard featuring Schwarzenegger in Kabul after the election. He is a hero among many there, where bodybuilding is popular.
Happy 50th There Cos!
Hey its my Birthday!
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News update! NVEI/Rim while working on last mile solution found a better technology to work on that the world has never seen before and bound to set records! story at 8:00
Faster then ever!
lol, this is not a true statement, just having fun in this funny world we all live in! Whooo hoooo, yacka yacka yacka, whooop whooop whoop!
Al
Breaking news! NVEI/Rim get new CFO in an attempt to rase extra finding for their technology, story at 8:00.
lol, this is not a true statement, just having fun in this funny world we all live in! Whooo hoooo, yacka yacka yacka, whooop whooop whoop!
Al
I bet they got plenty of funding too! lol
Swedish scientists have scooped an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that chickens prefer beautiful humans.
The trophies, which offer an antidote to next week's more serious Nobel's, honour research that makes people laugh, then think. "There are many people who have done work that will never win a Nobel Prize, but that deserve recognition," says organiser Marc Abrahams.
The winning team trained birds to peck portraits of preference1. The fowl favoured hunky guys and longhaired ladies with bee stung lips - as did Swedish college students.
This suggests that man and chicken share similar wiring, explains co-author Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University. It could be one in the eye, he suggests, for the evolutionary theory that we chose 'fit' mates to share their genes with our offspring.
The team fought off over 5000 competitors vying for awards in ten categories to bag the Interdisciplinary Research Prize. The Physics Prize went to Australian researchers who determined the best floor to drag sheep across for shearing2.
Sloping, slatted, wooden platforms are preferable, explains independent occupational safety consultant John Culvenor from Melbourne. "It's a serious problem," he says. Sheep shearers often develop back trouble from hauling animals across unsuitable surfaces.
Sloping, slatted, wooden platforms are preferable for sheep dragging.
© J. Culvenor
"The prizes are great for getting people interested in science," says neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire from University College London. Her team carried off the coveted Medicine Prize for showing that London taxi drivers have bigger brains.
The rear part of the hippocampus - an area involved in learning and memory - may grow as cabbies learn routes and shortcuts3. The finding could help researchers develop stroke rehabilitation programs.
A case of homosexual necrophilia in ducks and a chemical analysis of a Japanese pigeon-repelling statue also received awards.
Winners collected their trophies - nanometre-long gold bars - last night from genuine Nobel laureates before a paper-airplane-throwing audience of 1200 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Scientists can nominate themselves and others, but an undisclosed board of Ig Nobel governors chose the victors.
References
Girlanda, S. et al. Chickens prefer beautiful humans. Human Nature, 13, 383 - 389, (2002). /Article/
Harvey, J. T. An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surface. Applied Ergonomics, 33, 523 - 531, doi:10.1016/S0003-6870(02)00071-6 (2002). /Article/
Maguire, E. A. et al Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 4398 - 4403, doi:10.1073/pnas.070039597 (2000). /Article/
© Nature News Service / Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2003
I like cheken but did not know that chicken liked me lol
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 4) - A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of duo ''Siegfried & Roy'' during a Friday night performance, leaving the superstar illusionist in critical condition, authorities said.
An audience member at The Mirage hotel-casino said the white tiger lunged at Horn, who tried to beat the animal off with a microphone.
''The tiger went for his neck, then drug him offstage,'' said Andy Cushman, a 23-year-old reporter from New Jersey. ''He looked like a rag doll.''
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Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said Horn had a serious injury to the left side of his neck. Feldman said Horn, who turned 59 on Friday, was taken into surgery.
Horn was in critical condition at University Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman Cheryl Persinger. Clark County Fire spokesman Bob Leinbach said that on the way to the hospital Horn was able to talk with the ambulance staff.
Cushman said Horn, the dark-haired member of the duo, appeared alone on stage with the tiger about 45 minutes into the show, and told the audience the animal was making his debut.
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After the attack, Siegfried Fischbacher appeared on stage and said the performance was canceled, Cushman said.
''Roy is a very, very strong-willed person as well as having physical strength,'' said Bernie Yuman, the duo's longtime manager. ''I'm cautiously optimistic.'' Yuman thanked friends and fans who have sent their support.
''It's touching to hear from so many people all at a short time,'' Yuman said.
Hotel officials said the show has been canceled indefinitely. The tiger involved in the attack, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was quarantined at the hotel, officials said.
The German-born pair perform six shows a week, 44 weeks per year and have been performing in Las Vegas for more than 30 years.
The illusionists, who put on one of the most well-known and expensive Las Vegas shows with their signature white tigers and lions, signed a lifetime contract with the Mirage in 2001.
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