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RMI object used to establish connections to an RMI connector.
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 *
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     * created or exported, or if there is a communication exception
     * during the remote method call.
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5. SOUTHERN (1-0): Last week:
No. 4. The Rams began their dual-meet season with a 53-18 win over Toms River East. Southern won nine of the 14 bouts in the match. Next action: Sunday-Saturday at Governor Mifflin (Pa.) Tournament.
Here are the Robin Leff Invitational results from Saturday
6. LONG BRANCH (1-0): Last week: No. 6. The Green Wave opened their dual-meet season with a 63-3 win over Red Bank. Long Branch also finished second and had nine medalists in the Grapple at the Garden Tournament last Saturday at Madison Square Garden, New York. Next action: Sunday at the Hawk Classic at Manchester.
Here are Monday night's Shore Conference wrestling boxscores
7. WALL (1-0): Last week: No. 7. The Crimson Knights defeated Neptune, 60-12, in their first dual-meet of the season. Wall also finished third and had two champions in the Colt Classic. Next action: Saturday at the Mustang Classic at Brick Memorial.
8. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY (1-0): Last week: No. 9. The Colts rolled to a 55-9 win over Manalapan in their first dual-meet of the season. They won 12 of the 14 bouts. CBA finished second and had three champions in its own Colt Classic. Next action: Saturday in the Walter Woods Tournament at Middletown South.
Top-ranked Brick Memorial defeats No. 10 TR North
9.TOMS RIVER SOUTH (0-1): Last week: No. 8. The Indians were defeated by No. 3 Jackson Memorial, 41-21, in their first dual-meet of the season. Toms River South was second and had three champions in the TCNJ Pride Tournament. Next action: Saturday in the Walter Woods Tournament at Middletown South.
Here are opening day wrestling tournament results
10. TOMS RIVER NORTH (0-1): Last week: No. 10. The Mariners were defeated by No. 1 Brick Memorial, 45-22, in their opening dual-meet. They finished fifth and had two champions in the Colt Classic. Next action: Sunday in the Hawk Classic at Manchester.
Matt Russo trying to make his senior year a memorable one

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AMAG PHARMACEUTICALS ENTERS INTO DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE PEROSPHERE PHARMACEUTICALS
December 13, 2018 | Investor News, Press Releases
Next Generation Anticoagulant Reversal Agent, Ciraparantag, Will Add Innovative
Clinical Stage Asset to AMAG's Hematology Portfolio
Conference call scheduled for 8:00 a.m. ET today
WALTHAM, Mass. December 13, 2018 – AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAG) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Perosphere Pharmaceuticals Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company. Through this acquisition, AMAG will acquire global rights to ciraparantag, a next generation anticoagulant reversal agent, further enhancing its development pipeline and leveraging AMAG's expertise in hematology. Ciraparantag is being investigated for patients treated with novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) when reversal of the anticoagulant effect of these products is needed for emergency surgery, urgent procedures or due to life-threatening or uncontrolled bleeding. Ciraparantag has been granted Fast Track review designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has patent protection through 2034.
"AMAG has been searching for a novel hematology asset to complement our existing portfolio and to leverage the expertise of our high performing Feraheme® hematology team," said William Heiden, AMAG's president and chief executive officer. "This acquisition represents a great strategic fit and a unique opportunity to add an innovative, durable and differentiated mid-phase clinical asset to our portfolio."
Ciraparantag is a small molecule anticoagulant reversal agent which is believed to bind to NOACs such as Xarelto®(rivaroxaban), Eliquis®(apixaban) and Savaysa®(edoxaban), as well as to Lovenox® (enoxaparin sodium injection), a low molecular weight heparin, thereby reestablishing the body's ability to form clots. Ciraparantag is in development as a single dose, ready-to-use solution that is delivered intravenously over approximately 10 minutes. NOAC therapy represents the fastest-growing segment of the anticoagulant market in the U.S. There are currently approximately six million patients in the U.S. and nine million patients in certain ex-U.S. countries on NOAC and LMWH therapy.[1] A recent study found that approximately 1.5-2% of patients taking certain NOACs were at risk for serious bleeding complications each year.[2]
"The number of patients on NOACs continues to grow and hundreds of thousands of these patients will experience or be at risk (e.g., urgent surgery) of a life-threatening bleed while on therapy," said Dr. Jack Ansell, Professor of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. "These patients often present in an emergency room setting where doctors have to act quickly, sometimes with incomplete patient information and limited reliable treatment options. Therefore, if approved, I believe ciraparantag's ability to rapidly normalize whole blood clotting time, as well as sustain this effect for up to 24 hours, will be extremely beneficial to patients, especially those in life threatening emergency situations. In addition, ciraparantag has not demonstrated any procoagulation signals, which is very reassuring given that this patient population is already at greater risk for clotting complications."
In the Phase 2b clinical trials, ciraparantag was administered to healthy volunteers after achieving steady blood concentrations of Eliquis®, Xarelto®, Savaysa® and Lovenox®. In these studies, ciraparantag showed complete and sustained reversal of the anticoagulant effect of each drug studied by normalizing whole blood clotting time (WBCT), an important laboratory measure of clotting capacity. Subjects in these studies experienced a rapid and statistically significant (p<0.001) reduction in WBCT one hour after the administration of each of the three NOACs studied, as well as LMWH compared to placebo and the effect was sustained for 24 hours. Ciraparantag has been well tolerated in clinical trials. To date, the most common adverse events related to ciraparantag were mild sensations of coolness, warmth or tingling, skin flushing, and alterations in taste.
"Over the past few years, AMAG has broadened and deepened its in-house clinical development focus and expertise," said Julie Krop, M.D., chief medical officer and executive vice president of development at AMAG. "We are extremely excited to add ciraparantag to our portfolio. Based on its attractive product characteristics and promising clinical data, we believe it has the potential to positively impact patient care in this rapidly growing patient population. We look forward to working with the FDA to confirm the design of our Phase 3 program, which is expected to include a Phase 3a trial in healthy volunteers followed by a Phase 3b/4 trial in patients."
Under the terms of the agreement, at closing AMAG will pay Perosphere equityholders $50 million (subject to customary adjustments) and will assume $12 million under a term loan and up to $6.2 million of Perosphere's other liabilities.[3]
Perosphere equityholders will be eligible to receive regulatory milestones of up to $140 million (based on a final label with no boxed warning in the U.S.), inclusive of a $40 million milestone payment upon approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Perosphere equityholders are also eligible to receive commercial sales milestone payments of up to an aggregate of $225 million. The first commercial sales milestone payment of $20 million would be payable upon achieving annual net sales of $100 million
Provided certain clinical milestones are met, the Phase 3 program will be partially funded by an existing agreement with a global pharmaceutical company, which does not currently have commercialization rights to ciraparantag. In addition, as part of the Phase 3 program, AMAG plans to utilize a bedside coagulometer, currently being developed by Perosphere Technologies Inc.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019, subject to customary closing conditions.
The costs expected to be incurred in 2019 to advance this new pipeline asset do not change AMAG's preliminary view of 2019 negative adjusted EBITDA of approximately $50 million, as previously disclosed on November 1, 2018. AMAG plans to issue 2019 guidance in early January.
Conference Call and Webcast Access
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will host a conference call and webcast today at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss the acquisition of Perosphere Pharmaceuticals.
Dial-in Number
U.S./Canada dial-in number: (877) 412-6083
International dial-in number: (702) 495-1202
Conference ID: 4997658
Replay dial-in number: (855) 859-2056
Replay International dial-in number: (404) 537-3406
A telephone replay will be available from approximately 11:00 a.m. ET on December 13, 2018 through midnight on December 20, 2018. The webcast with slides will be accessible through the Investors section of AMAG's website at www.amagpharma.com. A replay of the webcast will be archived on the website for 30 days.
About AMAG
AMAG is a pharmaceutical company focused on bringing innovative products to patients with unmet medical needs. The company does this by leveraging its development and commercial expertise to invest in and grow its pharmaceutical products across a range of therapeutic areas, including women's health. For additional company information, please visit www.amagpharma.com.
This press release contains forward-looking information about AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. Any statements contained herein which do not describe historical facts, including, among others, AMAG's belief that ciraparantag will increase AMAG's leverage in the hematology space; AMAG's belief that the acquisition represents a great strategic fit and a unique opportunity to add an innovative, durable and differentiated mid-phase clinical asset to its portfolio; statements regarding ciraparantag, including its mechanism of action, its ability to rapidly normalize whole blood clotting time and sustain that effect for up to 24 hours, the safety data to date and its' expected benefit to patients; expectations regarding the U.S. and world-wide market size; AMAG's expected plans regarding the development activity of ciraparantag, including the planned Phase 3/4 programs; AMAG's beliefs that the ciraparantag is promising and that it has the potential to positively impact patients in life-threatening emergency situations; AMAG's expectations that it will utilize a coagulometer as part its Phase 3 clinical trial; the timing and value of future milestone payments; the expected timing for the closing of the transaction; and the impact of the transaction on AMAG's preliminary view of its 2019 adjusted EBITDA are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements.
Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that the closing conditions to the proposed transaction will not be met and that the parties will be unable to consummate the proposed transaction; the risk that ciraparantag will not be approved on the expected timeline or at all, including as a result of the clinical trial design and enrollment, or as a result of any safety issues that may arise as part of such trial; the risk that, even if approved, the market for ciraparantag may be smaller than expected or AMAG may not be successful in accessing such market or otherwise realize the expected benefits of the acquisition; and those risks identified in AMAG's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ending June 30, 2018 and September 30, 2018 and subsequent filings with the SEC. Any such risks and uncertainties could materially and adversely affect AMAG's results of operations, its profitability and its cash flows, which would, in turn, have a significant and adverse impact on AMAG's stock price. AMAG cautions you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made.
AMAG disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
AMAG Pharmaceuticals® is a registered trademark of AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Contacts:
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[1]Perosphere sponsored commercial assessment report conducted by a third party in May 2016.
[2] Tepper, Ping G et al. (2018 ) Real-world comparison of bleeding risks among non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients prescribed apixaban, dabigatran, or rivaroxaban" PLoS ONE 13(11): e0205989. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205989.
[3] AMAG was issued a $10 million convertible note from Perosphere as part of an exclusivity arrangement. Proceeds to be offset from up-front consideration at closing.
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Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900
Dixieland: The Country of Tomorrow, Everyday (yet another Confederate TL)
Thread starter TastySpam
anti-colonialism confederate states in world war 2 confederate victory (sort of) economic development
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Chapter 113 - The Russo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 Chapter 114 - The Confederate Crisis and Presidential Election of 1903 Chapter 115 - The US Presidential Election of 1904 Chapter 116 - The Kanitz Incident Chapter 117 - The African Marathon Chapter 118 - Le Desastre de Lisbonne Chapter 119 - The Cold War Goes Hot Chapter 120 - America Enters The War
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4. Spain was allowed to maintain its presence in Savannah as a "free trade port", where the Spanish could freely dock ships and garrison troops. In addition, Spanish traders were subject to Spanish law instead of Confederate laws. This port was granted to Spain as a 50-year lease, thus expiring in 1938. However, Spain was forced to pay for the lease, with the proceeds going into the Freedman's Fund. Interestingly, Spanish finances were heavily wrecked by the war, so to pay into the Freedman's Fund...they were forced to borrow from American banks. The Confederates agreed to this because it was catastrophic when the Spanish blockaded Confederate ports - giving the Spanish a port basically ensured that the Confederacy would always have a lifeline in a future conflict. Unless they supposed that war was with Spain again.
With Savannah under some degree of Spanish law - and prohibition the rule in the rest of the Confederacy - I'm assuming it's going to become a sort of Macau-Atlantic City den of vice and free trade for the Confederacy's more alcoholic elites...
Alpha-King98760
Now imagining gang wars over New Orleans' illegal booze trade between Triads, Irish mobsters, and Black gangsters. By the way, the would be a good nickname for Blacks working in the Crescent City's criminal underworld?
traveller76
The families or crews? I also see new Orleans being a center of prostitution and pornography.
traveller76 said:
Gentleman Johnny
New Orleans quickly became the most ethnically, racially, and religious city in the United States.
I think you mean Confederate States. Other than that, great update!
Forestalld
Atlantic the port city along the Mississippi - and Atlanta, the second largest city.
Do you mean New Orleans here?
TunguskaStorm
Man. New Orleans is more like Los Angeles in the 1990s than Chicago or New York
TastySpam
Forestalld said:
yeah, I'm always impressed by how good people are at catching errors, since I'm terrible at it.
CountofDooku
Same here I feel you.
Virginia Liberal
Its funny anit it
LuckyLuciano
Confederate Liberal said:
ain't*
LuckyLuciano said:
Point in case lol
In OTL prostitution was legal from 1857 to WW1. The feds pressured New Orleans to close the red light district.
How is the Confederate colony in North Borneo and will they (the confederates) give a new name?
Alpha-King98760 said:
Spain seized it during the war.
Odinson said:
Right, right. I forgot, thanks.
Threadmarks Chapter 96 - The Filipino Revolution Begins
The Filipino Revolution Begins
The Spanish Empire emerged from the Spanish-Confederate War triumphant, though unfortunately for Spain, as its triumph in the Spanish-Confederate War came after the Congress of Kiev that divided up much of Africa. That being said, the draft map floated at the Congress wasn't final in any sense, and an emboldened Spanish Empire was determined to make its mark on the world. King Guillermo I of Spain was widely popular for directly travelling to Puerto Rico to visit and support wounded Spanish soldiers. The long-standing Prime Minister of Spain, Juan Prim, had died shortly after the Spanish-Confederate War at a ripe old age of 1888, shortly after he was criticized by some for "giving up Cuba." Despite that, he was generally praised for leading Spain to war. Ironically, whereas Cuba was a constant drain on the Spanish treasury due to the rebellion, what they had received in return for Cuba, extraterritoriality in the Confederate port of Savannah and control over the Confederacy's sole colony abroad, North Borneo (which they had always claimed because of their claims on the Sultanate of Sulu), was actually profitable. In particular, the Port of Savannah became a crime-ridden, but very profitable port in the aftermath of the Confederate State's prohibition of alcohol. An incredibly number of wealthy Spaniards turned Puerto Rico and Savannah into common vacation destinations because of the high quality of life they could enjoy with Spanish purchasing power.
Juan Prim was replaced by two dueling, but friendly rivals. First was Emilio Castelar, a moderate Republican who eventually grew to accept the Hohenzollern monarchy in Spain, largely because it wasn't actually a very strong monarchy at all (due to the King's extremely young age). Even more, by law, his regent was originally meant to be his uncle, Carol I...who was too busy being the King of Romania...and had also converted to Eastern Orthodoxy...and was just generally quite unpopular in Spain. By the time the King had reached maturity, the norm in Spain was for the Prime Minister to run the nation, which meant the only thing he could do to slowly regain political power was to engage in public ceremonies (like visiting wounded soldiers). Indeed, King Guillermo was largely focused on ceremonial matters, which enhanced his political powers, but gave him little domestic influence.
Castelar would eventually trade the role of Prime Minister with Jose Lopez Dominguez, the nephew of Francisco Serrano (the famous general who had worked with Juan Prim to overthrow Isabella II in the Glorious Revolution). Dominguez generally had the upper hand in this struggle, being closer with Juan Prim, whereas Castelar was the outsider. Furthermore, Dominguez enjoyed the support of Antonio Canovas del Castillo, who thought both men as too liberal for him (but preferred Dominguez).
The creation of the Confederacy of Cuba, a dominion of the Kingdom of Spain, brought the incredibly bloody Cuban War of Independence to an end, but it outraged others in the Spanish Empire who asked why they couldn't get a similar deal. The Spanish had agreed to reform Puerto Rico into an "overseas province" of Spain with its own legislature as headed by autonomy activist Luis Munoz Rivera, which satisfied most activists there once they also received representation in the Spanish Cortes. The colonies in Equatorial Africa and most of the Pacific islands weren't populous and developed enough to seriously strain the Spanish state or army.
However, one region quickly became a problem spot. The Spanish, having narrowed down their problematic colonies to only one through various unwanted concessions, were not in a mood to let the Philippines go. Most notably, unlike Puerto Rico (which had a mostly European, Spanish-speaking population), the Philippines was largely not European or Spanish-speaking, which caused most liberal Spaniards (who had supported representation for Puerto Rico) to reject such a possibility for the Philippines. The Liberals in particular believed that rural and religious non-Europeans would "vote like reactionary peasants., oriental Carlists." The repeated refusals of a seemingly otherwise reformist liberal Spanish government outraged Filipino intellectuals, who quickly began to organize.
In addition, although the liberal government had reformed the Spanish crminal code to highly discourage capital punishment and internment without trial (moves that went over well in Cuba/Puerto Rico), the Philippines quickly became a place to exile unwanted conservative politicians to, who generally took a very hard line on law and order. Simply to get him as far away from Puerto Rico as possible (where he was disliked), Valeriano Weyler was reassigned to be Governor-General of the Philippines in 1885. During the Spanish-Confederate War, the actually extremely popular Confederate Governor-General of North Borneo, John S. Mosby (who like the Governor-General of the Philippines, was sent there largely so that the rest of the Confederacy's politicians didn't have to deal with), accurately believed that Confederate aid would not be coming to his support anytime soon due to the obvious fact that the Confederacy had no Pacific Coast line - and a ship ride from New Orleans to Borneo was...not going to come anytime soon.
Notably, the Spanish were going to come for him - he knew, especially as the Sultanate of Sulu, a Spanish protectorate, claimed more or less the entire territory of Confederate North Borneo, while only holding the Eastern coastline. Largely because of Mosby's obsessive preparations for a possible Spanish invasion of North Borneo, Confederate troops actually won a successful and total victory when the local Confederate garrison seized the Spanish tip of North Borneo, completely destroying the slightly larger Spanish garrison (4 killed, 11 wounded, ~800 captured), while only having one man wounded after he ate a suspicious plant. Of course, the Spanish garrison in the Philippines was deployed to crush Confederate New Borneo in force. In response to his hopeless fate, Mosby took the entire Confederate garrison, commandeered several civilian ships, and sailed directly to the Philippines. Ironically, his former prisoners were put in charge of North Borneo by virtue of the Confederate garrison leaving (though they stole their weapons and uniforms), which amusingly led to Spanish troops breaking into government compounds they were surprised that they already controlled.
Landing in Zamboanga, the Mosby Army, without any orders from Confederate High Command, declared an independent "Republic of Zamboanga", run "by locals, for locals". Oddly well read about the Philippines, Mosby called on Filipinos to rise up in revenge of the Gomburza - three Catholic priests who were strangled a decade ago by Spanish colonial authorities on suspicions of promoting a mutiny against the Spanish government. Most Filipino intellectuals believed that the meddling Confederate was acting truly bizarrely...but they weren't hostile. Some in the Confederate government believed that they could actually conquer the Philippines on behalf of the CSA, but Mosby had no illusions and thus no qualms on signing a document whereas the Confederate government supposedly warranted in perpetuity sovereignty of the "Republic of Zamboanga - and any sister Republics throughout the Philippines." This inspired Paciano Rival, a former student of one of the strangled Gomburza priests, to officially endorse the Zamboanga Republic. In practice, it was never really a functional government, but rather just hundreds of Confederate and Filipinos fighting a strange guerilla war in Mindanao, with a few exception of a third source of soldiers.
Although the samurai class had never been officially abolished in Japan, in practice, the primacy of samurai in the military and society was steeply declining. The only real privilege afforded to samurai was the right to carry a sword - a right that quickly ended when they weren't given unique rights to wield actually more useful weapons, like firearms. A variety of samurai however - deeply unhappy that their services were no longer required by the Imperial Japanese Army, decided to seek glory abroad. In particular, Toyama Mitsuru, a samurai veteran of the disastrous Sino-Japanese War, founded the Black Ocean Society, a growing underground network of ex-samurai with a distinct agenda of overthrowing "European colonial regimes", namely the British, Spanish, and Qing (their own writings questionably described the Qing as European). Notably, they refused to come to the aid of pro-Qing/British monarchies, such as the Kingdom of Hawaii. Much to their own surprise, the Zamboanga Republic received a steady stream of samurai recruits from the Black Ocean Society and other disaffected Japanese samurai.
Although never defeated in battle, Mosby also wasn't actually ever able to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines like he had desired - and a condition of the Spanish-Confederate peace deal was for him to return home with all of his men, which he did (after conveniently leaving behind all of his weapons). Notably, the Japanese operatives did not stop. Governor-General Weyler, triumphant, believed that this was an opportunity to "cleanse" the Philippines of anti-colonial activists for good. As soon as Mosby left the Philippines, Spanish colonial authorities arrested Paciano Rival and summarily had him strangled in the public square as a "lesson" to other activists, much like Spanish authorities had once strangled the Gomburza priests. Weyler chose not to have a trial, because he accurately understood that the Spanish government in Madrid would have likely pardoned him if Weyler attempted to hold an actual trial. What Weyler incorrectly reasoned out - was the actual outcome of this act, which would only fan the flames of revolution...
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I really like the idea of a Spanish Empire that still has some juice left in it.
I especially like them being able to utterly humiliate the Confederates.
The long-standing Prime Minister of Spain, Juan Prim, had died shortly after the Spanish-Confederate War at a ripe old age of 1888
I believe this is a typo. If not, it looks like Spain did find the fountain of youth
That was a great update. Weyler has doomed Spain's hold over the Philippines.


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Republicans should force Biden to spend less in coming debt-ceiling showdown
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As Congress returns from Thanksgiving fresh from carving turkeys, eating pumpkin pie and serving up polemics about the manifest blessings of America, it will be wrangling about raising the federal debt ceiling—again.
The federal government collects too little in taxes to pay its bills, and most months it issues new bonds as old ones come due to pay interest and for new deficit spending.
Social Security, Medicare, and other key programs on the line as Dec. 15 debt limit deadline nears
Democrats in Congress and pundits argue that they helped raise the ceiling when the Republicans were in charge . The government is required to pay for programs and commitments already in place and if the ceiling is not raised, the U.S. government will default, Social Security benefits won't get paid , Democrats say.
The worst of that is demagoguery.
Under current law in fiscal year 2022, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the government will spend $5.5 trillion but only take in $4.4 trillion . Over the next decade, the annual increases in the debt held by the public will average $1.3 trillion.
If Congress does not act to raise the debt ceiling, the director of the Office of Management and Budget would have money—just not enough to cover everything.
The president could declare a state of emergency—and direct them to set priorities, for example according to those expenses deemed essential during the 2013 government shutdown.
This could give priority to paying interest on the national debt, Social Security benefits, the salaries and essential procurement for the Army and Navy, and Medicaid and other benefits for mothers of young children and their offspring, while telling the states to suspend payments for working-age adults.
Federal law enforcement and prisons would need funding but the bureaucrats at the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department antitrust and civil rights divisions could be furloughed—along with many other government agencies.
How pleasant it might be for local school boards, universities and state governments to not receive new mandates from the Education and Labor departments and the Environmental Protection Agency for the duration.
Funding could be suspended for regional agencies such as the Appalachian Regional Commission , which seem to cultivate dependency on federal programs more than economic development. And for National Public Radio , which is endowed and richer than most private broadcasters and cancels conservative voices.
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Q: How to rotate a skinned model's bones in c++ using assimp? I could load an animation of a skinned model using assimp by interpolating between key-frames. Now, I have been trying to orient or position bones from a user defined transformation matrix instead of just loading it from an animation file. Like, rotating an arm by a certain angle in which the angle would be specified by the user. I loaded the model in it's bind pose as:
void recursion(aiNode* gNode)
{
 std::string gNodeName(gNode->mName.data);
 if(boneMapping.find(gNodeName) != boneMapping.end())
 {
  //if node corresponds to a bone,
  Matrix4f boneMatrix = IdentityMatrix;
  aiNode* tempNode = gNode;
     //find combined transform of a bone
     while(tempNode != NULL)
     {
        Matrix4f NodeMatrix(tempNode->mTransformation);
        boneMatrix =  NodeMatrix * boneMatrix;
        tempNode = tempNode->mParent;
     }

     pBoneData[boneId].FinalTransform = GlobalInverseTransform * boneMatrix * pBoneData[boneId].OffsetMatrix;
  }
 for(int i = 0; i < gNode->mNumChildren; i++)
 { //repeat this process for child nodes
    recursion(gNode->mChildren[i]);
 }
}

To orient one of the meshes of a model using transformation matrix, I tried searching for name of the bone that corresponds to the parent-bone of the mesh and then replace it's node matrix with the required matrix. However, that didn't work at all as it deformed a bone at a different mesh.

The model to the right is in T pose and I intended to modify it by rotating the bone at the neck by a 45 deg angle, but it remained the same and the leg portion got deformed as seen in model to the left. So, any links to existing articles or answers could be really helpful.

A: I think the order of the multiplication matrix is wrong in this line:
boneMatrix =  NodeMatrix * boneMatrix;

it should be:
boneMatrix = boneMatrix * NodeMatrix;

In OpenGL the order of multiplication is reversed.
Although this approach doesn't sound right to me:
while(tempNode != NULL)
{
    Matrix4f NodeMatrix(tempNode->mTransformation);
    boneMatrix =  NodeMatrix * boneMatrix;
    tempNode = tempNode->mParent;
}

you are multiplying your local transformation by the bone matrix in bone space and not in world space. This is why your character appears deformed.
I solved this problem for my animation project, using assimp and OpenGL. I used a slightly different approach by saving all assimp information into my own data structure. (skeleton and bones). By the look of your code and the data structure you are using I guess you are basing your code upon this tutorial.
Here is the code I used, I'm sure you can use it to compare with your implementation:
glm::mat4 getParentTransform()
{
    if (this->parent)
        return parent->globalTransform;
    else
        return glm::mat4(1.0f);
}

void updateSkeleton(Bone* bone = NULL)
{
    bone->globalTransform =  bone->getParentTransform() // This retrieve the transformation one level above in the tree
    * bone->transform //bone->transform is the assimp matrix assimp_node->mTransformation
    * bone->localTransform;  //this is your T * R matrix

    bone->finalTransform = inverseGlobal // which is scene->mRootNode->mTransformation from assimp
        * bone->globalTransform  //defined above
        * bone->boneOffset;  //which is ai_mesh->mBones[i]->mOffsetMatrix

    for (int i = 0; i < bone->children.size(); i++) {
        updateSkeleton (&bone->children[i]);
    }
}

EDIT:
For matrix conversion from Assimp to glm I used this function:
inline glm::mat4 aiMatrix4x4ToGlm(const aiMatrix4x4* from)
{
    glm::mat4 to;

    to[0][0] = (GLfloat)from->a1; to[0][1] = (GLfloat)from->b1;  to[0][2] = (GLfloat)from->c1; to[0][3] = (GLfloat)from->d1;
    to[1][0] = (GLfloat)from->a2; to[1][1] = (GLfloat)from->b2;  to[1][2] = (GLfloat)from->c2; to[1][3] = (GLfloat)from->d2;
    to[2][0] = (GLfloat)from->a3; to[2][1] = (GLfloat)from->b3;  to[2][2] = (GLfloat)from->c3; to[2][3] = (GLfloat)from->d3;
    to[3][0] = (GLfloat)from->a4; to[3][1] = (GLfloat)from->b4;  to[3][2] = (GLfloat)from->c4; to[3][3] = (GLfloat)from->d4;

    return to;
}

Hope it helps.

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Dislocation structure of 10° low-angle tilt grain boundary in α-Al2O3
E. Tochigi, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata, T. Yamamoto, K. P.D. Lagerlöf, Y. Ikuhara
Dislocation structure of 10° low-angle tilt grain boundary in α-Al2O3 has been observed by high-resolution electron microscopy (HRTEM). It was found that perfect 〈112̄0〉 edge dislocations, which are introduced to compensate the misorientation, dissociated into two mixed partial dislocations with {112̄0} stacking-fault in between. The distances between the two partials were estimated by the force balances between repulsive forces of periodical dislocations and attractive forces from stacking-fault. The stacking-fault energy for 10° low-angle tilt grain boundary was estimated to be much higher than the previously reported value.
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Tochigi, E., Nakamura, A., Shibata, N., Yamamoto, T., Lagerlöf, K. P. D., & Ikuhara, Y. (2007). Dislocation structure of 10° low-angle tilt grain boundary in α-Al2O3. In Recrystallization and Grain Growth III - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, ReX and GG III (PART 2 ed., pp. 979-982). (Materials Science Forum; Vol. 558-559, No. PART 2). Trans Tech Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4028/0-87849-443-x.979
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Recrystallization and Grain Growth III - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, ReX and GG III. PART 2. ed. Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2007. p. 979-982 (Materials Science Forum; Vol. 558-559, No. PART 2).
Tochigi, E, Nakamura, A, Shibata, N, Yamamoto, T, Lagerlöf, KPD & Ikuhara, Y 2007, Dislocation structure of 10° low-angle tilt grain boundary in α-Al2O3. in Recrystallization and Grain Growth III - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, ReX and GG III. PART 2 edn, Materials Science Forum, no. PART 2, vol. 558-559, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, pp. 979-982, 3rd International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, ReX GG III, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 07/6/10. https://doi.org/10.4028/0-87849-443-x.979
Tochigi E, Nakamura A, Shibata N, Yamamoto T, Lagerlöf KPD, Ikuhara Y. Dislocation structure of 10° low-angle tilt grain boundary in α-Al2O3. In Recrystallization and Grain Growth III - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, ReX and GG III. PART 2 ed. Trans Tech Publications Ltd. 2007. p. 979-982. (Materials Science Forum; PART 2). doi: 10.4028/0-87849-443-x.979
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In another of a series of tweets, Elon Musk wrote that the Tesla Full Self-Driving option will be more expensive over time.
Price increases are expected from May 1, which is about a week after the upcoming Tesla Autonomy Investor Day.
"Please note that the price of the Tesla Full Self-Driving option will increase substantially over time"
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Musk Describes Newest Tesla Autopilot Update As "Epic"
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Currently, the Full Self Driving Computer option costs $5,000 extra (in the U.S.), on top of the $3,000 Autopilot option (standard in some models/versions).
The description in the design studio says that later this year the car will be technically able to drive on its own on city streets, although it's unknown whether it will be allowed to in particular jurisdictions. Initial rollout might be limited to some states/countries, or even some particular 3d-mapped areas.
Anyways, it's great to see that finally there is a chance to see autonomous cars on the roads soon.
We can't imagine what could be the price and value of the autonomous cars above the $5,000 option today, as it depends on many factors - ultimately it could be a taxi robot ready for 24/7 duty (besides charging).
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Also this was posted on the door of the #cinerama #arclightdome today… looks like she might pull through after all @SaveArclight ? pic.twitter.com/82HWkI1NVP
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Bracknell Forest is one of 112 areas that has had a rethink on Brexit, according to a new poll.
The figures from consumer analytics company Focaldata draw on two YouGov polls of a total of more than 15,000 people, and show a swing in the area over two years from the referendum.
They show Bracknell has swung from 47 per cent supporting remain to 53 per cent.
Bracknell MP Dr Phillip Lee, who quit his ministerial post because of his concerns over Brexit, told the Daily Mirror the results "very much reflect the views that I have been hearing from residents and businesses in the Bracknell constituency."
The poll found 112 of the 632 seats in England, Scotland and Wales had switched from leave to remain.
They show 341 constituencies have remain majority, up from 229 in 2016.
The analysis was jointly commissioned by the anti-Brexit Best For Britain campaign and anti-fascist Hope Not Hate campaign, and published in the Remain-backing Observer newspaper.
Overall it put Remain on 53 per cent and Leave on 47 per cent.
Previous polling in Reading West showed a Brexit-supporting majority, despite the borough as a whole voting remain by 58 per cent to 42 per cent in the referendum.
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I want to help people accomplish their goals. It is awesome to see someone finish and do more than they ever thought possible.
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Filmmakers Nicole Steeves, Struan Sutherland share some thoughts on their industry during Y-Con 2019
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Published: Jun 25 at 9:03 a.m.
Updated: Jun 25 at 9:08 a.m.
Struan Sutherland and Nicole Steeves, Halifax-based filmmakers, were in Yarmouth for this past weekend's Y-Con gaming and comics event, where two of their films were screened. (Steeves is a former Yarmouth resident.) - Eric Bourque
Listening to Nicole Steeves and Struan Sutherland offer advice to aspiring moviemakers, a famous sports marketing slogan comes to mind.
Steeves and Sutherland, Halifax-based filmmakers, were in Yarmouth over the weekend for the inaugural Y-Con gaming and comics event, where two of their movies would be screened: Aliens with Knives and a short called Dogged.
On Saturday afternoon they spoke about filmmaking to a small group that wanted to know – among other things – how to get started. Their advice? Simply put: just do it.
Sutherland noted that modern technology has made a potential moviemaker out of almost everyone. So, to those looking to take the first step, the message – one they spoke about further in an in interview with the Vanguard – is pretty basic.
"Just make movies," Sutherland said. "Just use whatever you can. I mean, everyone has a cellphone now, so everyone can make a movie."
Said Steeves, "And don't be afraid to make a bad movie."
Steeves is a former Yarmouthian. Sutherland is from Ontario.
Filmmaking can be discouraging in the early going, Steeves said, "because it's such a visual medium and, you know, if you try it and the first thing isn't great, it can be a little daunting, but I think it's one of those things that you just have to do and do more of. Eventually you get better."
Said Sutherland, "You pretty much have to make bad movies before you can make good ones ... You've got to learn by making mistakes."
After graduating from high school in Yarmouth in 2004, Steeves attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, although she didn't finish the program there and spent some time out West before coming back.
She got into moviemaking about six or seven years ago.
"I was working as a production assistant and a makeup artist," she recalled.
Sutherland's interest in filmmaking started at a younger age than hers.
"I started with cartoons, made a bunch of those, before I moved to Halifax in 2011," he said. "I'm from Cambridge, Ontario. Once I moved here, I started getting involved in the film co-ops, started meeting people I could make things with ... It was a while before I actually started working on crews on films."
Sutherland's background also includes doing industrial and business videos.
(Aside from their own projects, Steeves and Sutherland work on the TV program These Woods Are Haunted.)
A few years ago, the film industry in Nova Scotia took a big hit when the province slashed the film tax credit. Asked to describe the filmmaking sector today, Steeves said, "I think it's rebuilding. It just takes a while because it became so that productions were scared to come to the Atlantic provinces. There was uncertainly around it."
It's hard to find crews, she said, because so many people moved away.
Meanwhile, as for their own films and creative interests, Steeves said she and Sutherland love comedy.
"That's basically all we do, whether it be horror comedy or sci-fi comedy," she said. Sutherland added, "It's usually dark comedy."
Asked about Y-Con, Steeves said she was impressed with how those attending their session on filmmaking were engaged and asking questions, "which makes it so much better, because sometimes you can feel like you're alone up there."
Sean MacLellan was the session's moderator.
Steeves said she and Sutherland are happy to be filmmakers and plan to keep doing it.
"Absolutely," she said. "I can't think of anything else I'd want to do. Even just working on other people's projects ... it's pretty rewarding."
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Awful. They will go down with Huddersfield and Fulham.
Bananas wrote: Awful. They will go down with Huddersfield and Fulham.
Getting dragged in haven't won this year, have they?
Between Burnley (who have had a really easy run of games), Southampton, Brighton and us for the final relegation slot, we need to pull away now as we have a reasonable run of games coming up.
I would say it will be Southampton as they've already had the Manager bounce which is now fading and they have a tough run of games, to shatter their confidence.
I've just put our predicted results against theirs and been pretty fair I think. We're level going into last game.
I know mate, didn't want to put that up. Have to admit though that I've been a little more generous with their results than ours - Ive got us taking 3 points from next 3 games.
We should better that !!!


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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Social Security Disability Case
On December 4th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case Biestek v. Berryhill, which asks the court to decide whether an administrative law judge hearing a Social Security disability appeal may rely on the testimony of a vocational expert who refuses to provide the data underlying his or her opinion. This case has massive implications on the determination of eligibility for Social Security disability claimants and will signal how seriously the court takes the appeals of eligibility for benefits.
Social Security disability benefits provide support to around ten million people in the United States and around seven million people, with some cases overlapping, receive Supplemental Security Income from the federal government, as well. When an application for Social Security benefits is denied and appealed, an administrative law judge hears the case and renders a verdict on whether disability benefits should be provided to the claimant. Often, a vocational expert is called in to provide expert testimony on whether the claimant fulfills the requirements for benefits. However, the rules and regulations governing vocational experts have largely been ignored until this case.
The determination of whether a claimant meets the standards for Social Security disability benefits is a multistep process, and one question is whether the claimant can return to past relevant work. If not, the question asked then becomes whether the claimant can perform any job of gainful employment. If the answer is no to both questions, the claimant is eligible for disability benefits. Typically, the Social Security Administration uses a grid of medical-vocational guidelines to determine the answers to these questions for exertional and non-exertional activities, but in cases where the grid cannot determine eligibility a vocational expert is called in to render an opinion on the case.
Vocational experts can be professional employees of an employment service or a local labor economist. The qualifications and requirements of a vocational expert vary widely, and their testimony often determines the outcome of the case. Vocational experts often testify by phone, where they are given a series of hypothetical questions relating to the claimant's disability to determine whether a job exists that the claimant could perform despite their limited function. Vocational expert testimony is almost always conclusory, and little publication exists on how to impeach or challenge an expert's testimony in these cases.
The decision in Biestek v. Berryhill could finally require the Social Security Administration to establish clear standards for the qualifications and expertise of vocational experts called to testify in Social Security disability benefit hearings. This has the potential to improve the quality of the opinions rendered and improve the overall determination of disability benefit claims.
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One of the greatest fights in recent years in boxing may finally be happening.
There are reports that Manny Pacquiao has agreed terms, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. is expected to follow suit.
The fight is scheduled to take place at Mayweather's favored MGM Grand on the 2nd of May.
The fight will be boxing's most valuable fight ever, with an estimated worth of £162 million.


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Here's a guide to what sorts of contractions you might expertise, what they're going to feel like, and how to tell when it's time to head to the hospital. (Some ladies by no means notice them.) They're named for John Braxton Hicks, the English physician who first described them in 1872.
Visualize what the contractions are engaging in, the thinning and opening of the cervix and the pushing of the infant downward. Chances are you'll feel tightening of your uterus muscle tissue at irregular intervals or a squeezing sensation in your lower stomach and groin.
This tightening is called Braxton-Hicks contractions. If you've handed the forty-week mark and are officially overdue , you could be wondering how one can begin contractions and get this show on the road, already. Contractions can feel completely different for each girl, it is likely to be that the ache stays in your decrease back area but will usually transfer in a wave like motion in direction of the abdomen.


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Spotify for Artists: Bringing the Power of Analytics to Musicians
Posted on April 30, 2017 by Abigail Foster
Maybe you know Spotify as the app you open every time you go on a jog or hop in the car. Maybe you know Spotify as the awkward cousin of Apple Music or a copy-cat version of Pandora. What you may not know? Spotify provides crucial analytics to its artists through Spotify for Artists.
Spotify is a music application for phones, computers and tablets designed to provide the right music for the right moments. With over one million tracks available through the Spotify library, users create customized playlists based on personal tastes. Spotify also curates playlists based on mood, season and even time-of-day.
As of March 2017, Spotify claims 100 million active users and 50 million premium subscribers, making it the predominant online music application. However, while Spotify provides excellent service to individual listeners, the app constantly develops features that serve the artists themselves.
When "Fan Insights" launched in November 2015, it offered a simple way for artists to receive information about their fans. Spotify provided demographic statistics and listening habits to artists with large followings. However, a long artist verification process prevented lesser-known artists from utilizing the extent of these features.
Spotify's re-branded effort, Spotify for Artists, improves upon the features of Fan Insights while offering artists greater creative control. Here are the highlights:
Artists take back control
Artists can now manage the layout of their artist pages on Spotify. Previously curated by Spotify employees, artist pages provide background information, photographs and upcoming concert details for Spotify users. Spotify for Artists allows musicians complete creative control over these pages including the ability to promote specific songs, fan-made playlists and personal photographs.
Re-vamped Fan Analytics
Spotify for Aritsts features an array of new features helping artists connect with their fan-base in real-time. Whenever users "like" a page, add a song to their playlist or "follow" an artist, that artist receives a notification. Additionally, Spotify sends artists detailed reports that share how the user found their page. This feature allows artists to make strategic decisions about where, when and how to promote their music. For example, British artist Lucy Rose credits the success of her Latin American tour to Spotify's analytic tools.
"Spotify for Artists gave me the courage to tour Latin America," she said, "It was overwhelming to hear fans sing along so far from home."
New brand opportunities
As Spotify VP of Product Charlie Helman observes, new analytic features contribute to an ever-important commodity: an artist's brand. Spotify for Artists assists musicians searching for a new partnership, promotion or career opportunity.
"For them to be able to pull all-time stats to show how many people have been listening to this single, or how many people within this city," Helman said, "that just helps them create that sheet to walk into that meeting and pitch themselves with more force."
Helping the "little guy"
Perhaps most notably, Spotify for Artists places power back in the hands of smaller artists by simplifying its artist verification process. Now the road to becoming an official artist takes less than three-days, which allows artists to access improved analytic tools with ease.
Overall, Spotify for Artist encompasses several emerging trends in the music industry and highlights the diversity of musical success stories. Successful "grassroots" artists like Chance the Rapper seem to prove that all a musician needs is talent and a platform.
"What we're seeing now is how big the music ecosystem is," Helman says, "When you look at, whether it's record labels or radio stations, you only can handle a certain amount of releases and deal with a certain amount of artists, so the majority of artists around the world are kind of left behind from the mainstream system. I think these tools help them navigate that a little bit better."
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Top 10 Features in Windows Phone's 'Mango' Update
By Jared Newman May 24, 2011
A big update to Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is coming this autumn, filling in many of the missing pieces that made Microsoft an also-ran in the smartphone wars. But the so-called "Mango" update is more than just a game of catch-up; it also brings a bunch of features that other phones don't have, or can only add through third-party apps.
Here's a rundown of what Windows Phone 7's Mango update will bring:
Finally, Windows Phone apps will be able to run in the background, so if you're listening to some tunes in Slacker Radio, the music will keep playing even as you switch to other apps. The multitasking menu is accessed by holding the "back" button on the phone's hardware.
The Bing search function in Windows Phone now has a local "scout" function that lets you see what's nearby, based on the phone's current location. Categories include places to eat and drink, things to see, stores to shop and can't-miss highlights.
Bing Vision
Essentially, it's Google Goggles for Windows Phones. Again, through the Bing search function, users can scan objects with their phones' cameras to learn more about them.
Smarter Tiles
Live Tiles are a big part of Windows Phones. They're those little app grids that occupy the home screen, and they often show information such as unread message counts or the weather. With the Mango update, users will be able to control the types of information that third-party apps display through these tiles. For instance, you can bookmark a specific product in Best Buy's app, and the Live Tile will tell you where to find that product nearby.
Unified Inbox
The Mango update in Windows Phone will let users link multiple e-mails to a single inbox. On the phone's home screen, Live Tiles can be set up to include e-mails from any number of addresses.