This beautiful woven "plaque" was presented to the panel at SMTA Pan Pac. It was made by Dwight Howard's wife. Each one has 250,000 stitches.
I chuckle a bit with the angst that has appeared in the smartphone market because the sales of these ubiquitous devices has recently leveled off and decreased slightly. When one considers that about 1.5B of these miraculous wonders is sold each year, these numbers are still breathtaking. Why are the numbers leveling off? For one thing, almost all of the earth's 7.5B inhabitants have a smartphone or a mobile phone. There are an astonishing 5B mobile phones of all types in use! There are two-year-olds that own a smartphone! Another reason for the slowdown in smartphone sales is that the units are so good. In the mid-2000s, the mobile phone cameras were poor and the phones lacked many features. Each year brought better cameras and new must-have features. Several years ago these yearly improvements slowed down rapidly. Last fall I was thinking of replacing my iPhone 6s, but it occurred to me that I only use about 10% of its capability, and the new units were only marginally better, so why part with almost $1000?
Figure 1. Dr. Ron's almost 4-year-old iPhone 6s serves all of his needs.
So I expect this trend to continue. The same scenario was experienced by the PC market about a decade ago; you just don't need a new PC every three or so years, and the market is saturated. The market has settled down to about 260M PCs manufactured each year.
Don't get me wrong, the total mobile phone sales each year of around 2B is still unprecedented and deserves the close attention of those of us in the electronics assembly business; however, I believe that the lion's share of new electronics and electronics challenges will come from the automobile industry.
This belief was further reinforced when I participated in the a panel on harsh environments at SMTA's 2019 Pan Pacific Conference (Pan Pac). As autonomous autos emerge, these autos are packed with electronics and computers. While your smartphone performs many amazing tasks, it doesn't have to perform in the harsh environment that your car experiences. Not only do automobile electronics experience temperatures from -40º to 125ºC, but they are also exposed to salty water and extreme shock and vibration. I can foresee many cases where some electronics that are used in an office environment will be tasked to perform a similar function in an auto and fail miserably because it can't survive the challenging environmental conditions of the automobile world.
Figure 2. Autonomous vehicles will likely require more electronics and sensors than anticipated. All all of these devices must survive harsh conditions.
The harsh environments panel at Pan Pac was ably led by Dwight Howard. In the panel we discussed the many current and expected future challenges in automobile electronics. In private discussions with the panelists, they all agreed that fully automated vehicles are decades away; however, the journey to get there will be exciting with many new electronics and sensor demands, all requiring survival in the harsh automotive environment. Challenging and hopefully fun times are ahead as more and more of the 90M autos made each year require more and more electronics!


In any 21st century job, the work is hard and the hours are long. Thankfully, there's a secret mantra revealed to the truly courageous – if you are not in a perfect job; create one for yourself. That's where you stop swimming with the current and dare to go against it. Without a life jacket. From the cubicle cave you get to dunk yourself in the choppy waters of entrepreneurship.
The work is hard and the hours are long. The reward – being the master of your own destiny. A couple of years back; I mentioned ten websites where you could learn how to start a business 10 Best Websites That Show You How to Start a Business 10 Best Websites That Show You How to Start a Business The road to business success is littered with failures. On the other hand, it is also paved with success because people like you and me dared to venture and do it inspite of the obstacles.... Read More . The article generated a fair amount of eyeballs, and that hinted at the interest around entrepreneurship. Personally, I am not one yet. I want to be. Two of the prime requisites — a passion and a business idea — are there. If the same bug is buzzing around you, here are seven free online entrepreneurial courses to put the building blocks in place.
The name is usually found on top of any list on online study courses The 8 Best Sites for Free College Courses Online The 8 Best Sites for Free College Courses Online Interested in accessing free college-level courses? Here are some of the best sites to take free online courses. Read More . MIT OCW is an initiative from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to make all educational materials from its undergraduate and graduate-level courses freely available online to anyone in the world. MIT OCW is one of the spearheads of the MOOC (Massively Open Online Courses) movement. Of the 2000+ courses that are available online, the entrepreneurship courses probably come closest to the MIT ethos. Why? To cite a 2009 report – "…the then-active companies founded by MIT graduates employed about 3.3 million people and generated annual world revenues of $2 trillion".
All the material taught in regular online and offline courses are available for free download. It calls for self-study, but with the top-notch lectures and tutorials in front of you, you can pick and choose from the papers listed. If you are looking for one specific topic, use the Course Finder.
Steve Blank and Kathleen Mullaney take you through an intermediate class on how to build a startup from the ground up. The Udacity course takes off from the Customer Development Process and through nine lessons teaches you how to go out into the real world and gather customer feedback. The video classes' help you define your customer segment, construct your value proposition, market the product, and finetune the business model. The course is self-paced and you can start anytime. No prior knowledge is required; only a willingness to learn.
The Lean Startup Course was recorded at the SXSW Interactive 2012 and is still available online for free. It is another self-paced course that gives you six hours of video lectures from the SXSW Interactive Lean Startup event. Steve Blank whom you meet in the previous link, joins speakers Ash Maurya, Todd Park, and Eric Ries. "Lean startup" is a business methodology that was first proposed by Eric Ries and talks about iterative business processes to reduce market risks and minimize initial costs.
The Entrepreneurship Corner has a collection of 2000 free videos and podcasts, featuring entrepreneurship ideas 8 Websites For Creative Business Ideas If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur 8 Websites For Creative Business Ideas If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur When it comes to ideas you never know which ones will work. Without crazy ideas we wouldn't have the airplane or the Frisbee. If you are an enterprising entrepreneur, you probably are in search of... Read More and innovation strategies by thought leaders. This is not a formal structured course but a walkthrough of real-world wisdom given by some of the best brains out there on the field. Though there's no syllabus, the videos are neatly lumped into topics like Marketing & Sales, Product Development, and Social Entrepreneurship etc. Speakers like Mark Zuckerberg, Melinda Gates, Tim 'O Reilly, and Marissa Mayer give their insights through a series of videos. Then there's the YouTube channel itself where the videos are hosted. A must watch. You can also download the audio and carry it around in a media player.
Enjoy the best of entrepreneurship wisdom on technology at iTunes U given by Chuck Eesley (@eesley), Professor at Stanford University. Entrepreneurship is age old, but the term got a fillip thanks to the Silicon Valley rush. The basics of starting a business are introduced and from there on the 28 podcasts take you through the chain of processes to the stage where you have to manage rapid growth. The podcasts are free and specifically on technology, but they apply equally well to others like social entrepreneurship as well. As the description says – it encourages an enterprising mindset which doesn't see a problem, but rather a solution. You can also catch the playlist on YouTube.
Eventually, any successful business venture boils down to one simple fundamental – money. That's where the art (or grind) of raising capita comes in through venture capitalists. This 12 part course on iTunes U is a capsulation of all that you need for pursuing successful funding. Guest lectures from experiences Silicon Valley hands offer invaluable advice on how to raise and manage capital. The particular course is held by Stanford's School of Engineering and it is captured for free on iTunes U and YouTube for your benefit.
YEC doesn't run a structured course in the educational sense; Startup Labs started by them is more like an online mentorship program which connects you to entrepreneurship resources and successful entrepreneurs on the planet. YEC itself is a non-profit and includes among its rolls many successful young entrepreneurs of today who share their experiences and advice. The site was founded by Scott Gerber and today is well regarded for its programs. MyStartUpLab is the educational platform and brings a variety of learning resources to wannabe entrepreneurs (screenshot above). Digital downloads; live Q&A sessions; email tips; text chats; and local programs are on their roster. Join in by liking them on Facebook. It won't cost you a penny.
Open Culture also has a comprehensive list of 150 free business courses which you can take online. It deserves a bookmark.
These seven free entrepreneurial courses are among the best you can find online. The common feature is that they are self-paced, allowing you to jump in anytime. The second – and more important – feature is that the courses do not assume any prior business knowledge. Personally, I am drawing a lot of benefit from the Young Entrepreneur Council's MyStartUpLab program. I may or may not go on to have a venture of my own, but the principles and practices learnt can be applied to our daily lives as well. Come to think of it, there is a lot of space for entrepreneurial thought 10 Inspirational Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter 10 Inspirational Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter The Internet has peeled away much of the mystery. The personal magic of today's business leaders remains, but we can easily unravel the strategies and business ideas that make them prosper. In fact, they are... Read More in our daily lives. You can think like an entrepreneur in your present job, and take initiative while others hold back. Perhaps, the doors of success will open before anyone knocks. Tell us about your thoughts on this. Are there any other entrepreneurial goldmines I have missed? Have you taken a free business class yourself?
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RSPL Rumble: Maul all challengers! Humble Lion chairman demands title from Bailey
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Tivoli Gardens FC's Rodico Wellington (right) is pressured for the ball by Humble Lion FC's Ricardo Cousins during a Red Stripe Premier League match at the Edward Seaga Oval on Sunday, September 3, 2017.
Humble Lion FC chairman Mike Henry said new coach Glendon 'Admiral' Bailey has one mandate for this season's Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) - to win the title.
"We've knocked on the door two or three times, but still, my aim is to win the league," Henry told STAR Sports. "He's the head coach right now and has been there since last Saturday (September 8).
"He's come in to enforce the style of play and philosophy that relates. The philosophy of the Humble Lion structure, which is 35 years old. To be able to put in place a system that can grow, which is a continuity and development on the system, which is fast quick play, moving the ball and moving forward. He has won leagues at every level, I think, in Jamaica. And he's won the Premier League. We've had an affinity and an understanding of football."
Henry said that once Bailey achieves the club's objectives, he can remain in the club as long as he pleases. However, should Humble Lion win the RSPL this year, Bailey would then be set another target of retaining the crown each following year.
"I told him his contract is set for life, because once the cup comes, it stays. I'm not tying up those things overall."
The chairman also said that Bailey was chosen to replace Merron Gordon, who left because he took up a role as national Under 23 assistant coach on August 1. Gordon was also splitting his focus between the RSPL and schoolboy football, having spent many years at Lennon High School, and now at Garvey Maceo High School.
"What is also important for me is that he doesn't train any schoolboy teams," Henry shared. "We must be focused on the Premier League and not be in competition at the level which doesn't have, for me, the structure and the stability to stay. He can focus on the club and since the club is moving to an academy structure, and an associate structure with clubs outside of Jamaica, I need to have that aspect built in and widen the outreach of Humble Lion."
Bailey, who was most recently at Waterhouse FC last season, also had previous seasons at Arnett Gardens and Tivoli Gardens, where he won the league in 2011.

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Central Bank of Nigeria executives arrested in $33m theft
Jun 1, 2015, 3:18 PM
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Financial crime agents arrested 21 bankers including senior executives of the Central Bank of Nigeria for the theft of $33 million worth of defaced naira currency notes, Nigerian officials said Monday.
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission said a whistleblower alerted it to the "mega scam."
"The lid on the scam, which is widely suspected to have gone on unchecked for years, was blown via a petition to the EFCC alledging that over 6,575,549,370 naira was cornered and discreetly recycled by light-fingered top executives of the CBN," a statement said.
Among the suspects are officers from eight commercial banks in Nigeria, including bank leaders Ecobank and Zenith Bank, it said.
The fraud involved using cut-up pieces of newspaper to replace notes in Nigeria's naira currency that had been designated for destruction at the Central Bank. It charged the commercial bank officers then helped put the defaced and mutilated notes back into circulation.
Those arrested will be charged on five counts in a federal high court this week, the statement said.
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I started buying stock in SIGA (a firm that's developed an impeccably safe and effective cure for smallpox - including the weaponized varieties which are a major bioterror threat) at about $3.50 (my average is about $6), and, after remaining in the mid-teens as recently as June, it's now down to $1.90. I'll be holding onto my eight year old Toyota for a while.
All of this story is painful, but some of it's interesting, even if you aren't a SIGA investor. I'll compress it as tersely as possible. First, let's review the villains:
SIGA lost a lawsuit this year. Pharmathene, the company with whom they long ago discussed merger (but never signed a deal - all paperwork was stamped - by Pharmathene! - "Non-Binding") was awarded 50% of profits from SIGA's lead drug, ST-246, without any risk or participation in development or marketing. Nice work if you can get it! If that seems crazy, thank Delaware Chancery judge Donald Parsons. Oh, and just before this judgement came out, SIGA's stock was shorted massively
Note: a "short" is a bet that a stock will go down, and it can be hugely profitable when it works - because you don't put up any actual money.
Chimerix is SIGA's only competitor in smallpox antivirals (not vaccines; ST-246 is an out-and-out cure, which works even after infection, and works on weaponized varieties, which vaccines do not). Their drug doesn't cure smallpox in monkeys, and since we can't infect humans with smallpox in order to test it, that makes it a deal-killer, according to the FDA, according to the government agencies that want to stockpile a smallpox cure, and according to most scientists in the field. Chimerix won't go quietly into the night, however. They've protested every effort of the government to award a large stockpiling contract to SIGA. Their monkey-killing drug couldn't win the contract, but they could stall the bejesus out of the process via endless protests (finally, the government, in frustration, made it a sole source contract just to get the damned thing done). And, oh: before each stall, SIGA's stock was shorted massively.
Darrell Issa is an extraordinarily wealthy Republican congressman with numerous ethical and financial issues (for starters, this and this). A few months ago he made noise about a potential investigation of SIGA's contract. Issa proclaimed that this was a sweetheart deal, using a slippery sole-source contract, perpetrated by Obama (never mind that SIGA was supported and nurtured during the Bush administration, or that it might actually be good to protect millions of citizens from bioterror).
The investigation never occurred. But neither did Issa ever retract his allegations. The threat tanked the stock (already weakened from the lawsuit and the collapse of the biotech sector as a whole in light of the Tea Party slash-and-burn ethos - which actually won't affect SIGA, because funding for bioterror countermeasures is pre-allocated). And...just before Issa made his announcement, SIGA's stock was shorted massively.
It was revealed that Chimerix' lobbyist, McKenna, Long, and Aldrigde, is a longtime contributor to Issa. So the football was handed off to the right-wing press, salivating for another Solyndra-like boondoggle to trumpet. Last week's press wave was started by a journalist with impeccable credentials and no visible ties to Issa, Chimerix, or McKenna, Long, and Aldrigde, who published a wildly unbalanced and inaccurate hatchet job in the LA Times. I won't take time to rebut the article point for point, so let me just characterize it with a single word: "No."
Fox News picked it up, as did Rush and Glen and all the rest. Obama is throwing big money to SIGA (even though smallpox has been eradicated!) as payback to Ron Pereleman, the company's major investor, because he's a Democratic contributor (Pereleman also contributes to Republicans, and Frances Townsend, Bush's homeland security advisor, sits on SIGA's board, and, again, this deal was brewed by the Bush administration, plus - yes, I'm nearly hysterical at this point - this is the sole safe/effective cure for a major national security gap considering that any smart scientist with the right tools can synthesize smallpox virus in a lab and it's a dandy way to make tens of millions of Americans die....but, hey, let's not quibble).
Need I mention that SIGA's stock was massively shorted before this press onslaught launched? You see, shorting's where the real money is! It's hard to make a stock go up, so better to bet that it'll go down, and then do stuff to make it go down! That's a much smarter bet! Not unrelated, you may have seen the 60 Minutes report last week revealing that congressmen are free to short the bejesus out of stocks without restraint - even stocks impacted by their own actions.
Meanwhile, SIGA's drug is very close to FDA approval...and has been for a couple years. The hold-up is determination of dosage - a technicality. Why's FDA stalling? They're not an apolitical agency, so the aforementioned shenanigans are almost surely at play. Next month FDA makes a crucial ruling as to whether, gee whiz, monkeys are really the best test after all. Obviously, Chimerix - which is about to IPO, by the way - would love to see the rule overturned. This has been their game plan: use political leverage to overturn the monkey rule while stalling SIGA in every possible way. FDA's super-sluggish treatment of SIGA indicates they may be sympathetic - or even shorting! Stay tuned for more laughs and excitement.
So that's how my "sure thing" wound up at $1.90. It's basically deus ex machina. And if, meanwhile, terrorists unleash smallpox, just duck and cover. Works like a charm.
On the positive side: forces this titanic aren't randomly unleashed. This is all happening because there are, indeed, gobs and gobs of money at stake (which is why I invested in the first place). So unless SIGA completely dies, which I don't think it will, there should be eventual success. They may be forced to share profits with Pharmathene, thanks to the nutty judge. And they may split contracts with Chimerix, thanks to the crooked Congress and agencies. But it's a great big pot. And right now the stock price doesn't even reflect the $40M shortly due free/clear as down payment for their signed contract with BARDA. But even at $1.90, the shorts are still all in. So it may well go lower before then. The upshot is, as I wrote in September, the stock will go nowhere until multiple contracts are signed (for example, with any country concerned with bioterror) and money's in hand. At this point, news won't do it; only revenue will. So I hold and wait.
The best potential of all is completely undiscussed: ST-246 cures eczema vaccinatum (EV), a rare but life-threatening complication of vaccines that's very similar to smallpox. And lots of major impending medical breakthroughs depend on delivery via vaccine. Plus: don't even get me started on SIGA's pipeline of other drugs (it would be nice if SIGA would update us on them).
On the negative side, SIGA is not defending itself or talking to stockholders. They have not even issued a press release to (easily) rebut the outrageous claims of the recent press blitz. Which makes me wonder about Ron Pereleman's role in all this. I'm not nearly smart enough to see through the veil, but one thing's certain: so long as this company, with prospects so bright as to attract a blitzkrieg of nefariousness, remains a near-penny stock, we'll need to worry about Perelman finding some way to take it private....so he gets all the money (could he be shorting? My head hurts!). This remains my main long-term concern.
In the short and medium term, it's all about yet more patient waiting. Hey, I said from the start that the way would be slow and bumpy!
[Update: there've been some good comments to this post. You may want to give them a read]
Posted by Jim Leff at 3:40 PM
Labels: money, SIGA
Key phrase in your post ""sure thing", there is NEVER sure thing.
I'm still waiting to read your horse racing tips. ;-)
Oh, sure.
OTOH, this insane blitzkrieg indicates that lots of people way smarter, richer, and more powerful than me agree that this is a short thing.
If there turned out to be no pot of gold at all, I'd feel like a misguided sap. But the presence of bustling pepper-spraying crowds around the pot strikes me as vindication.
Expensive frigging vindication (friggication?)!
OTOH, it ain't over yet.
Or it could get bought out by the Russians at a bargain price.
The lawsuit seems headed for appeal. I don't believe the company will be acquired until that shakes out. It's impossible to assess valuation with that uncertainty.
Perelman is privy to plenty of inside information (he really controls the company; management is his employees), so better positioned to make such a play. Also he's a bit of a gambler. Plus he's used to judicial clouds; the guy is practically allergic to settling (unfortunately for us investors).
So Perelman is the concern, IMO.
I wrote, in a comment above:
" this insane blitzkrieg indicates that lots of people way smarter, richer, and more powerful than me agree that this is a short thing"
Interesting Freudian slip. I meant "sure" thing.
I'm just curious: What qualifies you to evaluate a biotech company? I searched you on the web and could not find any info indicating you are a medical or financial expert.
Funny you should ask. As a matter of fact, I'm sanctioned by the very same body that found you expert enough to evaluate bloggers!
This comment came in via email from a banker friend:
It's dangerous to aggressively short a small cap! curiosity piqued, i looked up nasdaq
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/siga/short-interest
so it looks like the short interest is fairly consistent between 6 to 8 million shares - or between 12 to 14 percent of the outstanding shares. that is fairly average i'd say.
fwiw, its not true that shorting requires no cash - you have to put up margin, which could be as much as 50%. also, the guys who own siga shares could easily make short selling tough - all they would have to do is tell their broker not to lend the shares.
I'll respond in a separate comment later today.
Gee. I feel a lot better. For a moment or two I was thinking that the market might be rigged against small guys.
Don't feel too much better. Again, stay tuned for my response (busy day).
And it's not rigged against small guys. It's rigged against small guys who try to invest like big guys - i.e. counting on fast, dramatic results. Big guys for the most part can't buy-and-hold for years (opportunity cost issues). But we can. And SIGA remains an excellent buy-and-hold opportunity (with all the caveats I keep repeating). Small guys with a narrower window got clobbered. But small guys with narrow windows, IMO, shouldn't be in this game.
Ok, responding to the banker's comments, posted under my name three comments up:
"fwiw, its not true that shorting requires no cash - you have to put up margin, which could be as much as 50%. also, the guys who own siga shares could easily make short selling tough - all they would have to do is tell their broker not to lend the shares."
I'm not talking about retail (i.e. small investor) shorts. I'm talking about big powerful shorts for whom margin isn't an issue. And, as you know, margin calls are only a risk if the stock goes up. The point of my article is that the people shorting are not horse race bettors, they seem to be the people controlling the horses.
"It's dangerous to aggressively short a small cap!"
Again, I'm not talking about retail shorts, I'm talking about hedge funds, congressmen, and powerful parties privy to lots of insider information (e.g. the timing of Chimerix's protests, the direction of the judge's decision, the timing of the congressman's statement and of the LA Times article, etc.). Golman Sachs, for example, is in the mix, as I reported here: http://jimleff.blogspot.com/2011/08/sigas-pipeline.html
For those parties, it's not at all dangerous to aggressively short this small cap. And they've made a mint as they've brought it down from $16 to $1.90.
" curiosity piqued, i looked up nasdaq so it looks like the short interest is fairly consistent between 6 to 8 million shares - or between 12 to 14 percent of the outstanding shares. that is fairly average i'd say. "
First, not for a company with a firm, signed contract with BARDA, a $40M downpayment due before the end of the year (plus $12M cash on hand). The contract is for $433M over five years, and BARDA is brewing up a more ambitious RFP worth well over $1B. The science is proven and tested, the need is obvious, and the sole competing drug kills monkeys, and we're at $1.90 and the sole material diff between now and $16 is that a judge made a stupid, likely overturnable decision to divide some profits (for limited time and only after expenses are recouped) with another company. At this point, in this situation, with this company, an "average" short interest seems appropriate?
Second, that's a freeze frame. Look at the history and correlate the dates.
I'm not so confident about the Russians. The thing that makes a bio-weapon powerful is if you also have the antidote.
Jim, you can do better than that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJS_zTnUiBc
Anonymous -
I loved that scene. I had huge hopes for Cuba Gooding, but he's never done anything this good since!
After the chuckle, my first thought was horror - do I really carry that sort of unrestrained greed?
No. Thing is, I'm not really making a living. I discovered, to my horror, that, post-chowhound, people have long ago forgotten me as a writer. My sole appeal is as a zany web personality, and that's something I have no interest in capitalizing on. So....investment's been how I paid the bills the past few years. And it went pretty well, until all this stuff happened.
So: no jumping up and down over profit. And no despair over loss, either. Just trying to see things clearly....and getting quite upset at the corruption. Forget my investment, America needs to stockpile this drug. Smallpox bioterror would be very bad news indeed. How can anyone the least bit patriotic (or even just humanistic) work to destroy the only proven cure?
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I have been a major buyer of SIGA stock in the past month. I own 3-4% of the company. The risk to the stock is Perelman did something inappropriate to facilitate the single source contract, and the sanction is the loss of the contract. But as you point out, since SIGA has the only drug that works and is safe, and since the need is clear and, more than that, already funded, even this risk has a finite impact on ultimate value. The sources of upside are many: The PIP appeal is very valuable; the options being exercised to increase dosage above 1.7mm units are much more valuable than that; foreign government demand for the product is assured if the FDA approves the drug, though the odds there seem more uncertain.
You can make a fair case for 15-20 in value if PIP appeal is won and some of the options are exercised to get the units toward 8-10mm. We will indeed need more than 1.7mm doses if a terror attack with smallpox occurs. (Scary and disturbing, but imagine the panic if smallpox reports occur in a major city). The money to pay for this is there. Against 2 dollars of risk, the risk reward here is clear. The short case is hard to understand at 2.
Thanks, Darrell. I had to read this part a few times to suss out what you were saying:
"The risk to the stock is Perelman did something inappropriate to facilitate the single source contract, and the sanction is the loss of the contract."
I believe you mean that the risk would be IF Perelman HAD done something inappropriate. You're not saying he did....right?
Of course, the contract process was completely open. All parties were given open opportunity to compete. But there was a requirement for monkey testing as proof of effectiveness (because, again, we can't test smallpox on humans), which is reasonable and widely-accepted among scientists. Chimerix, the only other company competing, couldn't meet those terms. They protested via every mechanism and technicality available, stalling award for 2 years. When it became clear they'd stop at nothing to block stockpiling of a drug needed for nat'l security, a compromise was reached: the gov split off the more lucrative portion of the contract to be dealt with at a later date (and, as I said in my article, it's worth well over $1B), and awarded SIGA a sole-source contract worth something like $400M.
The gov well knew only SIGA'sdrug met the stated requirements, but went through an open contract process to avoid the appearance of impropriety that comes with sole source contracting. Having forced the gov to resort to sole source, Chimerix played the obvious next card: they got friendly politicians (and press) to scream about sole source "IMPROPRIETY!!!", as if there was never open competition. That's what's happening with all this press (almost none of which even mentions Chimerix). It's entirely trumped up.
So while I hold nothing past him, I see no room in this instance for Perelman to have perpetrated actual impropriety re: the sole-source contract. Again, there was open competition - to the point of absurdity, given that SIGA has the only safe/effective drug meeting the gov's original terms. Occam's Razor says this is just a crafty competitor slinging mud to mire a company with a superior product about to reap great reward.
"The short case is hard to understand at 2."
The short case is indeed hard to understand at $2, but it was equally bewildering at $10, $8, $6, $4, and $3. But cards have played, shoes have dropped, the shorts were always right (because, per my article, I find it obvious at this point that the shorts are themselves the shoe droppers). So I'm disinclined to scoff at them at $2.
A secondary seems unlikely, but are you at all worried about a PIPE?
One concern is that if this stalls terribly much more (like 8 years +), the coming generation of broad spectrum antivirals will make ST-246 obsolete. On the other hand, such drugs are burdensome to test. And, as a human, if not as a SIGA investor, I'd love to see such drugs available ASAP.
Also, how did you manage to accumulate all those shares without the price rising?
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You can make a fair case for 15-20 in value if PIP appeal is won and some of the options are exercised to get the units toward 8-10mm
That's the level we were at before the judgement, with only the base contract rewarded. Are you saying it was overbought at that time?
If appeal wins and options are exercised (which would mean multiple clouds lifted and quite serious revenue) I'd hope we'd be quite above that level.
>Funny you should ask. As a matter of fact, I'm sanctioned by the very same body that found you expert enough to evaluate bloggers!
I'm sanctioned to evaluate bloggers because you are writing for me - you want readers, right? But evaluating securities and biomed securities is a fairly complicated business. And to evaluate this company, you also need some insight into the legal and political systems.
I'm just curious. I don't mean to be casting any aspersions.
No, I'm not writing for you. I never invited you here; you simply showed up. But you're welcome to stay, in the event that your evaluative skills find me well-informed and clear-thinking.
And that judgement must be entirely yours. I haven't yet matriculated from Bio-Tech Stock Blogging University, so I'm regrettably unsanctioned!


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Charles Kondek (pictured left), a 45 year old police officer and a 17-year veteran of the local police department was shot and killed yesterday Dec. 21st in Tarpon Springs, Florida, by 23 year old Marco Antonio Parilla Jr (pictured right), a fugitive wanted for a parole violation.
The married father of six was killed while responding to a noise complaint at an apartment complex. According to reports, Kondek arrived at the complex and saw Marco confronting another man with a gun in his waistline. When Marco spotted the officer, he immediately opened fire, killing the officer.
He then stole a car and ran over the cop he'd just shot but he then lost control of the car and hit a power pole. That was where he was apprehended by back up police.
Marco later told police he killed Kondek because he did not want to return to prison. He has now been jailed on first-degree murder charges.


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Underexposed–New book unearths 50 movies from major filmmakers that almost made it to your theater
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Stanley Kubrick's The Lord of the Rings starring The Beatles. Peter Jackson's A Nightmare on Elm Street. George Miller's Justice League. Robert Rodriguez's Barbarella. Shane Black's The Monster Squad. Two John Carpenter movies you've never seen. If you're wondering what the best movie was in any given year, you have plenty of options. You can look for the movie that had the biggest take at the box office. You can look to critic reviews. You can scroll through the Internet Movie Database. You can review awards lists or Alternate Oscars. Or you can just watch the movies and choose for yourself. Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, a new book arriving this month from Abrams, could have been called False Starts–it's a book about movies that almost made it to the big screen.
Peppered with movie poster mock-ups from art group PosterSpy, filmmaker and film enthusiast Joshua Hull tracked down interesting histories of some of the best and most quirky movies that almost got made, but were either abandoned, had legal rights issues, lack of funding, lack of interest, or simply were not made to save audiences from a bad idea. They aren't from obscure creators, either. The list includes projects from Alfred Hitchcock to Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg–and some are ideas that sound like they could have been pretty great. What were they thinking? Find out in this book.
Tags: Abrams Books, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien 5, Aliens 5, Alternate Oscars, Andy Wachowski, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cheech and Chong, Chloe Grace Moretz The Little Mermaid, Chloe Moretz movies, David Fincher, David Lynch, film production, filmmaking, Fletch 3 movie, Fletch Won, Fred Dekker, George Miller, Guillermo del Toro, Hollywood movie business, Jason vs Cheech & Chong, Joel Schumacher, John Carpenter, John Carpenter Shadow Company, John Hughes, John Hughes Oil & Vinegar, Joshua Hull, Kevin Smith, Kurt Russell, Maya Hawke, Maya Hawke The Little Mermaid, Neill Blomkamp, Neill Blomkamp Alien 5, Peter Jackson, Peter Jackson A Nightmare on Elm Street, PosterSpy, Quentin Tarentino, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Shadow Company, Shane Black, Shane Black The Monster Squad, Sofia Coppola The Little Mermaid, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick The Lord of the Rings, Steven Spielberg, The Beatles, The Coen Brothers, The Lord of the Rings, The Wachowskis, Tim Burton, Underexposed book preview, Underexposed book review, Underexposed The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, Underexposed The 50 Greatest Movies Never made book review
Delve deeper into the world of Alita: Battle Angel in Dr. Ido's Journal
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We have a review of the first of three tie-in books to the new Robert Rodriguez film Alita: Battle Angel coming your way. Alita: Battle Angel should appeal to any fan of cyborgs–the story as envisioned by James Cameron was a pet project of the director for several years, one he'd picked up from Guillermo del Toro. When Cameron decided to pursue management of his several Avatar sequels directly and finally handed over the project to Rodriguez he did so with more than 600 pages of notes he'd prepared. The film is an adaptation of the manga Battle Angel: Alita by Yukito Kishiro, a story about self-discovery and empowerment via a centuries-old human brain that finds its way into the cybernetic body of a young girl. A part-time doctor, part-time bounty hunter, Doctor Ido, played in the film by two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, takes center stage in Alita: Battle Angel–Doctor Ido's Journal, the new release by writer Nick Aires for Titan Books.
After losing his human daughter's struggle to live, the Dr. Frankenstein-inspired Dr. Ido finds the "core" of a cyborg in a scrapyard with a surviving, living human brain. He uses the prosthetics and futuristic body parts he'd designed for his daughter to rebuild a new girl, quasi-Pinocchio style, naming her Alita after his daughter. The sci-fi story follows Alita as she tries to learn about her past and survive in a dystopian world that mixes inspirations from John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Neill Blomkamp, and George Miller. The visions of each of these directors' best futuristic films comes through in Doctor Ido's Journal, an in-universe document which reprints concept art, sketches, and photographs from the film, combining them with a diary entry narrative written by Aires in the place of Dr. Ido. Doctor Ido's Journal will be familiar to fans of Aires' past in-universe books, including Oliver Queen's Dossier, S.T.A.R. Labs: Cisco Ramon's Journal, and Arrow: Heroes and Villains and works by others reviewed here, including Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report, The Book of Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual, and the Batman v Superman Tech Manual. Fans will first find a cleverly designed flex-cover that mimics metal (a great design effect that would make for an attractive blank journal), followed by pages of dense notebook entries that track the action of the film, all from Dr. Ido's perspective.
The artwork is exceptional, vivid engineering-level drawings like those found in Mark Salisbury's Elysium: The Art of the Film, reviewed here at borg, and the combination of horror and beauty found in production artists Dan Hallett and Matt Hatton's elaborate designs in Alien: Covenant: David's Drawings, reviewed here (it's worth noting the Weta Digital created much of the designs for both Alita: Battle Angel and Elysium, and the similarly realized scrap-metal worlds of Blomkamp's District 9 and CHAPPIE). At times the gear-heavy animatronics inside the cyborgs echo the real-world 19th century automaton past of these creations, making these modern borgs into something that feels almost steampunk.
Here are some preview pages from Alita: Battle Angel–Doctor Ido's Journal courtesy of the publisher:
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Warner Bros & FIDM display original costumes from Mad Max: Fury Road
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Movie fans who live near Southern California have a chance to get an up-close look at several screen-used costumes from George Miller's Academy Award winning film Mad Max: Fury Road. The Warner Bros. Hollywood Studio Tour will feature as part of its "Stage 48: Script to Screen" interactive exhibit key cast costumes, including Tom Hardy's Mad Max, Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa, Richard Carter's The Bullet Farmer, Angus Sampson's Organic Mechanic, and John Howard's People Eater.
Costume designer Jenny Beavan, who won this year's Oscar for her costumes created for the film, also garnered the Critics' Choice Award for Best Costume Design, and has nominations for Best Costume at the BAFTA Awards and the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film.
For $62 per person visitors to Warner Bros. Studio in Hollywood can take a three-hour tour, or for $295 they can take a deluxe six-hour tour, including a guided tour of the famous Warner Bros. backlot. Check out the Warner Bros. Studio Tour website for more information.
Check out this video preview of the Mad Max: Fury Road costumes displayed at the Studio:
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3D Blu-ray Review–Fury Road, there and back again, a Mad Max tale
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How do you like your post-apocalyptic nightmare? Hot or cold?
This month brings the release of Max: Max Fury Road on 3D Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray, digital HD Ultraviolet, and DVD. We reviewed the 3D Blu-ray and found it to be one of the best of the converted 3D Blu-rays to come to Blu-ray from a pure quality of film standpoint. Story aside, 3D fans will have plenty of in-your-face explosions and old school 3D gags, like a steering wheel flashing out of the screen and into your lap, as well as other unexpected oddities–and a whole lot of bleak, ugly, and sand, in perfect clarity.
Nine behind-the-scenes featurettes accompany the home release, including Maximum Fury: Filming Fury Road, Mad Max: Fury on Four Wheels, The Road Warriors: Max and Furiosa, The Tools of the Wasteland, The Five Wives: So Shiny, So Chrome, Fury Road: Crash & Smash, I Am A Milker, Turn Every Grain Of Sand!, and Let's Do This.
If you haven't seen Mad Max: Fury Road, trust your instincts and skip this one. If Fury Road is for you, you would have seen it in the theater already. As post-apocalyptic storytelling is concerned, Fury Road is thin and uninspired. As world-building goes, Fury Road adds nothing to the mythos in the original Mad Max and Road Warrior. It is less silly than Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, but Fury Road cries out for humor, or any other pleasantness of the third film in the series. When humor arrives it is absurd (the lead bad guy takes along a turbo-charged guitarist and over-sized timpani band) and reminds us we're well outside the realm of any possible future reality. How did these repulsive creatures become leaders so soon after the downfall of today's reality? How was a religion based on cars so quick to arrive in the same lifetime let alone the few years since the young star was a police officer in today's world? The number of unanswered questions are endless. Writer/director George Miller, who directed each entry in the series, would have done better directing someone else's story. This is definitely a "story" in need of a backstory, which is available in prequel comic books for those wanting to delve further into the "revisited" Mad Max universe.
Miller's success is his ability to nicely copy the cinematography from epic scenery-laden films like those of the great John Ford–the technical production is top-notch (Oscar winner John Seale will likely net another Oscar nod for his efforts here). But Fury Road is nothing but a Western updated for an ugly future, one long "cowboy and Indians" race to escape the Indians, and one shorter race back to the fort again, and a B-Western at that. Sure, spiked and retooled 1960s and 1970s cars are inexplicably swapped for horses, but plenty of stuntwork is piled on as with the old Westerns. We see some similarities: instead of wise old men mentoring John Wayne how to avoid the noose, here it's wise old women helping to save the day at film's end. Miller's other success is his selection of Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL to compose the film score–this is a rousing, pulse-pounding score worthy of a much better film.
Tags: Charlize Theron, George Miller, John Ford, John Seale, Mad Max, Mad Max Fury Road 3D Blu-ray movie review, Mad Max: Fury Road, McFeasting, Nicholas Hoult, Snowpiercer, Terminator Genisys, Tom Hardy, Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL
First look–Mad Max returns to the open desert in Fury Road
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First there was Mad Max in 1979. Then Road Warrior in 1981, the film that put Mel Gibson on the international stage. And the trilogy was complete with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. Or so we thought. Is another Mad Max movie the sign of the Apocalypse? How about a Mad Max movie minus Mel Gibson, but with Tom Hardy in an origin story for the villain Bane from The Dark Knight Rises? No, that's not right. Hardy just gets to wear another mask like Bane's. His agent must really like Tom Hardy in that mask. Check out the first trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road after the break and you'll see what we mean.
And is it the Apocalypse or post-Apocalypse? Will we get to see just what turns our world into the Australian desert wasteland where only those with 40-year-old muscle cars survive? Mad Max Rockatansky (yep, that's really the character's last name) is an Australian ex-cop facing a future world that is as bleak as any post-apocalyptic franchise has envisioned. This time he is joined by a rough and tough Charlize Theron.
At its release it will have been 30 years since we last saw Mad Max meet Tina Turner's Auntie Entity at Bartertown's Thunderdome. But George Miller is still making movies and after decades of stops and starts the movie is just around the corner.
Tags: Charlize Theron, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, Road Warrior, Tom Hardy


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Passion, dedication and ambition are three qualities we like a lot here at OneAgency. Add to the mix, a determination to succeed and the desire to push yourself to be the best you can be and, well, you've pretty much described our ideal candidate for any role.
As it stands, all of the above – and more – apply to our digital creative, David Cannell, who will in June take all these qualities he demonstrates in the workplace and put them towards scaling the three tallest mountains in the UK – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike (pictured) and Snowdon.
Here we catch up with David and ask him: why?
"I like to challenge myself," he says. "Last year I ran a half marathon to raise money for The Big C and I really liked everything about doing it, the training beforehand, the camaraderie of the actual race and the fundraising. So I decided to set myself another challenge for 2017 and it's very much for personal reasons I decided to do the Three Peaks Challenge. I haven't been to Ben Nevis or Scafell Pike and I haven't been to Snowdon since I was seven! I also haven't challenged myself this much before.
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did, I'm filing this as a bug for someone who knows what they're doing.
Hopefully we can all enjoy plugging random usb devices into our phones.
s3c2410-usb-switch.patch (3.6 KB) - added by zeroping@… 12 years ago.
GPB9 ? At least that's what the schematics of GTA01Bv4 and GTA02v4 say.
so I've remove it from the patch.
It's now in the 2.6.24 tree in SVN, revision 3909.
merged upstream. For instance having the pull-up pin hard-coded is a no-go.
I'll propose a patch either here on the moko kernel list later this week.
to 500mA if connected to a host charger and up to 100mA if in an otg session.
Should I open a bug about this hw issue on Neo ?
The patch in question works fine, I tried it.
We are stuck with charger / ID pin in hardware, so nothing to be done there now.
We can use ID pin detection to automatically select host based on cable type inserted, but we do not provide the correct cables. So for now closing as fixed.
With this marked as fixed will it be included in the kernels available for download?
Would anybody be able to supply me with a prebuilt kernel to test whilst I work out how to rebuild my own?
Just to clarify what I meant on the last post, I have tried USB host mode and it works fine, whether what we have used this patch or not I am not sure. But what we got does work on kernels for some months.


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German philosopher
Introduction & Quick Facts
Emancipation from Kantianism
Career as lecturer at Jena
Gymnasium rector
University professor
At Heidelberg
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Personage and influence
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Alternative Title: G. W. F. Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin), German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.
Where was Hegel educated?
In Stuttgart, Hegel's birthplace, he attended grammar schools from the age of three and the Gymnasium Illustre, an academic preparatory school, from the age of six or seven. From 1788 to 1793 he studied classics, philosophy, and theology at the University of Tübingen, earning an M.A. degree in 1790.
What were Hegel's jobs?
Hegel worked as a private tutor (1793–1801), an unpaid lecturer (1801–05) and extraordinary professor (1805–07) at the University of Jena, a newspaper editor (1807–08), a rector of an academic preparatory school (1808–16), and a professor of philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg (1816–18) and Berlin (1818–31).
What did Hegel write?
Hegel's major works included the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807; also called the Phenomenology of Mind); the Science of Logic, in two parts (1812 and 1816); Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817); the Philosophy of Right (1821); and posthumously published lectures on aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, among other topics.
Why is Hegel significant?
Hegel was the last of the great system builders of Western philosophy and the greatest and most extravagant representative of the school of absolute idealism. His philosophy inspired late 19th-century idealists such F.H. Bradley, spurred the development of existentialism beginning with Søren Kierkegaard, and was adapted in part in the dialectical materialism of Karl Marx.
Hegel was the last of the great philosophical system builders of modern times. His work, following upon that of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Friedrich Schelling, thus marks the pinnacle of classical German philosophy. As an absolute idealist inspired by Christian insights and grounded in his mastery of a fantastic fund of concrete knowledge, Hegel found a place for everything—logical, natural, human, and divine—in a dialectical scheme that repeatedly swung from thesis to antithesis and back again to a higher and richer synthesis. His influence has been as fertile in the reactions that he precipitated—in Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish existentialist; in the Marxists, who turned to social action; in the logical positivists; and in G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, both pioneering figures in British analytic philosophy—as in his positive impact.
This article treats Hegel's life, thought, and influence. For discussion of the various schools of Hegelian thought, see Hegelianism.
Hegel was the son of a revenue officer. He had already learned the elements of Latin from his mother by the time he entered the Stuttgart grammar school, where he remained for his education until he was 18. As a schoolboy he made a collection of extracts, alphabetically arranged, comprising annotations on classical authors, passages from newspapers, and treatises on morals and mathematics from the standard works of the period.
In 1788 Hegel went as a student to Tübingen with a view to taking orders, as his parents wished. Here he studied philosophy and classics for two years and graduated in 1790. Though he then took the theological course, he was impatient with the orthodoxy of his teachers; and the certificate given to him when he left in 1793 states that, whereas he had devoted himself vigorously to philosophy, his industry in theology was intermittent. He was also said to be poor in oral exposition, a deficiency that was to dog him throughout his life. Though his fellow students called him "the old man," he liked cheerful company and a "sacrifice to Bacchus" and enjoyed the company of women as well. His chief friends during that period were a pantheistic poet, J.C.F. Hölderlin, his contemporary, and the nature philosopher Schelling, five years his junior. Together they read the Greek tragedians and celebrated the glories of the French Revolution.
On leaving college, Hegel did not enter the ministry; instead, wishing to have leisure for the study of philosophy and Greek literature, he became a private tutor. For the next three years he lived in Berne, with time on his hands and the run of a good library, where he read Edward Gibbon on the fall of the Roman Empire and De l'esprit des loix (1750; The Spirit of Laws), by Charles Louis, baron de Montesquieu, as well as the Greek and Roman classics. He also studied the critical philosopher Immanuel Kant and was stimulated by his essay on religion to write certain papers that became noteworthy only when, more than a century later, they were published as a part of Hegels theologische Jugendschriften (1907; Early Theological Writings). Kant had maintained that, whereas orthodoxy requires a faith in historical facts and in doctrines that reason alone cannot justify and imposes on the faithful a moral system of arbitrary commands alleged to be revealed, Jesus, on the contrary, had originally taught a rational morality, which was reconcilable with the teaching of Kant's ethical works, and a religion that, unlike Judaism, was adapted to the reason of all people. Hegel accepted this teaching; but, being more of a historian than Kant was, he put it to the test of history by writing two essays. The first of these was a life of Jesus in which Hegel attempted to reinterpret the Gospel on Kantian lines. The second essay was an answer to the question of how Christianity had ever become the authoritarian religion that it was, if in fact the teaching of Jesus was not authoritarian but rationalistic.
Hegel was lonely in Berne and was glad to move, at the end of 1796, to Frankfurt am Main, where Hölderlin had gotten him a tutorship. His hopes of more companionship, however, were unfulfilled: Hölderlin was engrossed in an illicit love affair and shortly lost his reason. Hegel began to suffer from melancholia and, to cure himself, worked harder than ever, especially at Greek philosophy and modern history and politics. He read and made clippings from English newspapers, wrote about the internal affairs of his native Wurtemberg, and studied economics. Hegel was now able to free himself from the domination of Kant's influence and to look with a fresh eye on the problem of Christian origins.
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notable works
"The Philosophy of Right"
subjects of study
Absolute Spirit
The Basics of Philosophy - Biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Encyclop�dia Iranica - Biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Great Thinkers - Biography of G. W. F. Hegel
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Hegel: Social and Political Thought
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)


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CHAPTER ONE, IN THE SHADOW OF MALICE
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Almost midnight, an empty parking lot, no prying eyes.
Adam Blake hit the key fob, locking his sedan as he stepped out of the shadows. His senses picked up a hint of the wild honeysuckle that grew along the chain-linked fence lining the west side of Pete's Diner. As a warm May breeze washed over him, he rolled the tension from his shoulders and scanned the perimeter. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary.
Quite frankly, the reason he kept coming back surprised the hell out of him. Even through the food was great, Adam craved the company the small diner provided. The regulars were all so damn normal. Adam needed normal.
His life had become a reflection of what he did for a living and he needed a drastic change. Pete's Diner had become a baby step in that direction. The occasional hour spent with familiar strangers chased away his lonely, harsh existence.
From his position, he could identify the two people who remained in the deserted restaurant. The wizened old trucker was there on his weekly run from Norfolk, Virginia, to New Haven, Connecticut. The young woman sitting alone in one of the booths was the owner's granddaughter. From what Adam could surmise, Calista Martin had no life outside the diner other than her music studies at the university a few miles down the road. The ever-present cello case propped on the bench next to her kept her company.
The double doors behind the counter opened and a big man in a navy blue double-breasted chef's coat and sculled cap set a large silverware caddy on the counter. Pete Bradshaw was built like a guerrilla on steroids. Strands of blond-gray hair escaped the edges of his cap and gray stubble covered his chin. But what stood out most was the enormous fried egg skull tattoo on his left arm, the yellow yolk resting right in the center of the left eye socket.
Calista approached Pete as he poured coffee into a travel mug. The hard angles of his face softened when he glanced at her. He replaced the carafe back on the heating unit and a grin spread across his face. A bellowed cheer loud enough to rattle the windows followed as he lifted her into his arms and swung her around like she was a little girl. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and gave him a quick hug before turning to the trucker and hugging him as well.
The celebratory moment could only mean one thing: Calista Martin posted her final assignment for her master's degree in music performance and secondary education. The bright smile on her face sent an unusual feeling of warmth into the pit of Adam's stomach. For reasons he was too tired to define, a sense of pride for her accomplishments raced through him. He recognized the strength and dedication it took for Calista to follow her dream. Adam had no dreams other than to protect those he loved and to stay alive one more day.
Her beaming smile pulled at Adam like a magnet, forcing his feet to step closer to the entrance. Removing her arms from around the older man's shoulder, she paused and turned toward the window. Their eyes held before she raised her hand and motioned for him to come inside. She moved toward the door and held it open for him.
"Am I too late for a quick burger?" Adam asked, closing the door behind him.
"The kitchen is still open. Pete will make you something."
Calista lowered her eyes and eased away from him. A hint of pink came into her cheeks. She acted the same jitterish way every time he got too close. Most people gave him a wide berth and that was usually fine with him. But Calista was so open and friendly to everyone who came through the door. For some reason, it pissed him off that she treated him with the same wariness like everyone else did. He wanted that normal symbol of kindness she gave to others too, at least here.
The trucker set his ticket and a twenty down by the register. "Calista. Heading out."
She stepped out of the path of the doorway. "Thanks, Nate. Be careful on the road tonight."
"Always. And you get out of this grease-hole. Celebrate." He placed a Nationals baseball cap on his head. "Yo, Pete. Where's my jitter juice?"
"Watch your mouth, or the owner of this grease-hole may just spit in your next meatloaf."
Pete's voice was low, menacing, but his jovial expression gave away his true nature. He took the travel cup, waited a second for the last drip of fresh brewed coffee to drop into the carafe, and filled the oversized mug.
The scent of fresh, hot coffee wafted across the room, masking the overpowering odor of greasy fries. Adam inhaled, hoping the scent of caffeine would revive him. Pete took a cup from beneath the counter, filled it to the brim, and set it at Adam's regular table.
"Same-old-same-old tonight, Adam?"
Adam took a deep sip of the hot brew. "That would be great, but make it to go. If I sit here for too long, I'll be out for the night."
"No problem. It will be right out," he said before facing his granddaughter. Calista busied herself with wrapping silverware into napkins and then placing them in the caddy next to the menus. Pete took out another cup, filled it half full, and set it next to her.
"I can't drink coffee this time of night," she murmured at her grandfather like he should know better than to tempt her.
"Half a cup isn't going to kill you." A smirky grin appeared on his face. "Neither would a good roll … "
"Pete! God, the things that come out of your mouth." Calista picked up the mug and brought it to her nose, taking in the scent of the strong, rich brew. "And you can't joke about spitting in people's food." She took a sip, closed her eyes and swallowed. A groan of pure pleasure rumbled in her throat.
Adam coughed out his coffee and almost swallowed his tongue. Calista Martin was a walking, talking sensual magnet if ever there was one. From her shoulder-length strawberry blond curls that bounced when she moved to those warm cocoa, almond eyes that made a man feel noticed, Calista was a natural beauty with a body that would give a blind man wet dreams. Her groan sent blood rushing to dormant places better left alone.
To hide the growl that slipped through his lips, he chortled. Calista gave him a hard glare but again quickly lowered her eyes. Pete let out another window-rattling laugh, which sent Calista's cheeks and neck into a deep crimson glow. Before he returned through the swinging doors to the kitchen, he nudged her and said, "Tell Adam your news."
"What news, Calista?"
"It's nothing really. I just turned in my last assignment for my master's degree."
Adam rose, and lifting his coffee mug, tapped her mug lightly on the rim. "Congratulations. That's fantastic." He eased back into the booth. "So, what's next for you?"
"After six years and 166 college credits, the only thing in my near future is uninterrupted sleep."
Adam let out a chuckle. "Will you teach or perform?"
"Both. I have sent several audition tapes to orchestras and applied to just as many teaching positions. Now I have to see who bites. The best scenario is I'm hired to perform where I can also teach."
When she lifted her eyes to meet his gaze, her mouth opened to say something, but all she produced was a noisy breath. She darted off her stool and pointed to the corner of his right eye. "You're bleeding."
Adam yanked a couple napkins from the dispenser and blotted the area around the small Band-Aid. A couple drops of blood must have pooled at the corner of the bandage and dripped down the side of his face. He gave the area a quick wipe, crumbled the napkin, and placed it in his pocket.
"It's nothing. Work accident. A protester didn't like the guy I was protecting. Threw a bottle at him but hit me instead. I should have grabbed a larger Band-Aid."
"I don't think it's nothing." She lifted his hair away from the area. "Have you seen it? The skin is turning a nasty shade of black and blue."
Calista moved behind the counter and pulled out a first-aid kit. She approached the table, cupped his jaw in her hand, and gently peeled off the Band-Aid. The feel of her hand on his face sent an unexpected jolt through him. He shifted his face out of her reach. "It's nothing."
Ripping open the gauze package, she folded it in half, and laid it on the wound, applying pressure. Something sharp slid over the cut, making him cringe.
"Damn, that's not helping, Calista."
She removed the gauze. A small, brownish piece of glass was mixed in with the blood. "Pete said you run a security firm. Maybe you need to ask for combat pay."
"Can't ask for more pay if it's your own company. I practically work for free so I can give my employees combat pay." He then eased her hand away from his head, holding down the bandage himself. "Don't fuss. It's no big deal."
"You could have a concussion, Adam."
"I don't." He grabbed another swatch of gauze from the kit and ripped it open. He added a squeeze of antibiotic ointment, and attached it with tape to his forehead. "See, all better."
Calista gave him a hard stare before she closed the first-aid kit and replaced it behind the counter. She picked up a spray bottle of cleaner and began to spray down the counter. "It's your noggin."
Pete came back through the kitchen door and set a to-go container down next to Adam before he addressed his granddaughter. "Put that rag down, Calista. You're not closing tonight. Pack up and get out of here."
"You let the other waitress go home. I'm all you've got. Besides, we shared a ride."
"Believe it or not, I can manage without you. And the night my granddaughter earns her master's degree, she doesn't close down this grease trap. Take the car. I'll catch a bus or walk home."
Calista placed her hands on her hips. "I'm not leaving you to close by yourself and walk home. How are you going to go by and visit Mimi if you don't have a car? I'll take the bus."
Adam stood. "I can give Calista a ride home." He reached into his coat pocket for his wallet. Placing a twenty down next to the register like the last customer, he grabbed his to-go bag and leaned his shoulder against the door. "Calista, "I'm ready whenever you are."
Calista busied herself by stuffing her laptop into her canvas bag, her fingers fidgeting with the zipper. As Adam waited for some sort of acknowledgment, he pushed down the irritation forming in the pit of his stomach. Even when he was trying to be a good guy, do a normal guy kind of thing, he was still treated like an asshole.
"It's just a ride home, Calista. I'm too scared of your grandfather to try anything."
"You don't have to do that. The bus stop is right there," she said, pointing toward the parking lot.
"I know where the bus stop is." Adam reached for her large case and paused by the door.
She stood still, studying him until he almost fidgeted. "I don't accept rides from anyone unless I know their last name."
"Blake. Adam Blake."
Calista first glanced at her grandfather. He gave her a nod. The room grew quiet while she made up her mind. She finally shrugged and said, "I would love a ride home. Lead the way." She reached up and gave Pete a kiss on his cheek. "Give Mimi my love."
"Your grandmother will be so proud of you. I can't wait to tell her …"
He stopped as if his words clogged his throat.
"It's okay, Pete. Mimi's heart knows, her soul knows, and you're right. She's very proud of me." Calista wiped away the tear that threatened to spill down her grandfather's cheek. With another quick hug, she walked out to the parking lot.
Adam moved ahead of her, positioning his body so it shielded her between him and the building. A soft crunch near the dumpster sounded behind him. He froze. With his arms tight against his body, the familiar rush of adrenaline filled his veins. He shifted his position toward the dark shadows. A large calico cat bounced off the structure and disappeared into the bushes.
"That's Max. He and Pete have an understanding."
"It's a cat. How do you have an understanding with a cat?"
"He brings Pete dead mice and Pete makes sure Max eats like a king."
Adam chuckled. Something he seemed to do a lot around Calista. With one final visual sweep, he relaxed his stance and opened the passenger door of his Acura. After Calista was settled in the deep leather seat, he ambled around and unlocked the trunk, placing her cello in the bay. He slammed the trunk and got behind the wheel.
Before he could stop himself, he asked the question that had been bugging him. "I thought I heard your grandmother passed away a while back. Did I misunderstand?"
"No, you heard right."
"But you just told Pete to …"
"He drives to the cemetery every night after he closes the diner, sits next to her gravestone, and tells her about his day. They were married fifty years. That isn't a loss you ever get over."
"And your parents? They are gone too?"
"Yes, it's just Pete and me. Mom and Dad died in a car accident when I was eleven. Mimi and Pete raised me." Calista twisted so she would face him. "What about you?"
"The same. Both parents gone."
Adam hadn't a clue why he brought the subject up. He had no business spending time with Calista outside the diner. That wasn't a baby step into a normal existence, but a giant leap off a high cliff. His life made him hell on relationships.
But there was just something about Calista he couldn't ignore. Maybe it was time to see if there was anything between them. If not, he could just walk away before he hurt her, too.
"I'm sorry about your parents." She placed a hand over his arm. Their gazes held before she broke away and scanned the interior of his car. "I figured you would drive some sporty number or one of those black, mysterious SUVs."
"What's a black, mysterious SUV?"
"You know. One of those cool bulletproof numbers with blacked out windows."
"Calista, just what do you think I do?"
"You're like Batman." Her voice was barely above a whisper and she squirmed in her seat, her gaze on a spot in her lap. "When you leave the diner, you return to your bat cave unless you're out fighting bad guys."
He grimaced. Now what, smartass? Lie to her, or tell her who you really are and what you do?
"Who knew music teachers had such active imaginations? I'm no superhero."
He could never tell her what he did for a living. His path may have been chosen for him, but he hadn't walked away when he had the chance.
"And I'm not a music teacher―yet."
"You're going to be hired so fast, your head will spin." He placed the key in the ignition and started the car. Backing out of the space, he pulled onto the side street.
"Where are you going?" Her voice sounded normal.
Adam slowed and stopped at the light. "I'm taking you home."
"But I didn't tell you where I live."
"Yeah, I guess I need that, don't I? This is the way the Metro bus always turns."
Calista grinned. "It's not far. Take the second left. My neighborhood is a couple miles on the other side of the beltway. Once you pass over I-495, I'll direct you."
Following her directions, Adam headed north on the deserted street. The faded streetlights casted a fluorescent gloom over homes on either side of the street, but the lack of lighting didn't distract from the well-cared neighborhood. People took pride in their homes much like the suburbs of Los Angeles, where he grew up. There was a time when someone like Calista was exactly the type of woman he dreamed of settling down with and raising a bunch of little Blakes. She had a kindness in her that he sorely missed. But with the twelve jaded, nightmarish years he had on her that he could never erase, that dream was gone. It couldn't exist in his reality now.
"What's wrong? You're so tense."
"Sorry, my mind was on something else."
"If you get on the Beltway here, you can get off at the next exit, avoiding all the lights."
Adam turned on his blinker and eased over a lane. Just as he entered the entrance ramp, a stabbing pain exploded in the back of his eyes, ricocheting across his frontal lobe. An involuntary, animalistic moan escaped through his clenched teeth and he squeezed his eyes shut against the searing pain. His hands shot up to cover his head as his foot slammed down on the accelerator. The car shot across the road, jumping the curb, and hurled up a slope. Adam hit the brake inches before the front bumper smashed into the trunk of an old oak tree. His forehead smashed into the horn, the blaring sound deafening.
Calista slammed the gearshift in park and shut off the ignition. She pulled his head away from the steering wheel. "Adam, what's wrong?" She tried to remove his hands from his head, but he held on tight.
He couldn't think, couldn't reason. He swallowed the acidic bile in his throat. The blinding pain increased until he thought his head would burst. Then the sound of a child's desperate cry filled his head. They're hurting Mommy! Help her!
What the fuck was that? Every word of the child's plea seemed to cut through his frontal lobe to the back of his head. A gripping panic slammed into him as he fumbled in his jacket pockets. "My cell. Find my cell."
Calista searched his pockets. "Here, Adam. I'll call 911."
"No. No."
He dropped his head back against the seat. Everything around him faded in and out of focus—except Calista. The pain pounded between his ears as dark, red spotted dots swam over his vision, allowing only minimal light in. Sweat beaded around his eyes and screamed down his spine. He shook his head to clear his vision and grabbed the phone. It took a couple tries, but a line on the other end began to ring.
Calista gasped, her hands covering her mouth. "God, you're bleeding again, but not from the wound on your head. It's coming from your eyes." She swiped a finger at the corner of his eye and her fingers came away dripping with his blood. "I need to get you to a hospital."
He began to shake his head, but the pain was so bad, he froze. The phone continued to ring in his ear. Eighth ring, ninth. On the tenth ring, it was picked up.
"Rina." His best friend's name came out in a raspy whisper. "Rina."
"Katrina is a little busy right now, Blake. Why don't you join the party?"
The man's voice came out in a thick, rough, eastern European accent. Adam recognized it and a chill spiked through him.
The agony in the scream he heard next pierced Adam's heart. He shoved down the sharp pain in his head and allowed the years of training to resurfaced.
"You're dead, Ludis. You hear me. Your fucking life is over," he ground out.
"Big words. I'm going to carve her open then hunt down the kid. Your kid, you motherfucker. And when I'm done with her, I'm coming for you."
The line went dead.
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I am so sorry to hear of Ed's passing. My heart is breaking for you all. May God comfort you all at this time. Love and prayers.
I am so sorry to hear this Sandy and family. I miss seeing you all and thank the Lord for the wonderful believer Ed always was. Praying for you all in this time of grief.
Sandy, Eric, and Lori, our most heartfelt condolences to you and all your family on the loss of a truly thoughtful, considerate, and respectful man. We were privileged to have known him. God's blessings to all of you.
Lori, I am so sorry about your loss. Your dad was such a great person. Hugs and prayers to you and your family.
All my love to Sandy, Lori, Eric, Kelly, Payton, Quin, and Hope. Keep on telling his story, there is so much love there and a lot of humor too. I enjoyed Ed's sense of humor. He would try to get me to believe some tall tale, but his grin and a twinkle in his eye invariably gave it away. He was a good guy and I will be happy to see him again one day.
So sorry for your loss Sandy, Lori, and Eric. Ed was a good man. He will be missed by all.
So sorry for your loss, Sandy.
I am so sorry Sandy. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.


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3. Trofej prvakinja se održao 1991. godine.

Mjesto i vrijeme održavanja
Održao se od 13. do 21. rujna 1991.

Utakmice su se igrale u njemačkom gradu Berlinu na Olimpijskom stadionu, usporedno s muškim Prvačkim trofejem.

Natjecateljski sustav

Ovaj turnir se igralo po jednostrukom ligaškom sustavu. Za pobjedu se dobivalo 2 boda, za neriješeno 1 bod, a za poraz nijedan bod.

Susrete se igralo na umjetnoj travi.

Sudionice
Sudjelovale su djevojčadi: domaćina Njemačka, braniteljica naslova J. Koreja, Nizozemska, Australija, Kina i Španjolska.

Sastavi

Australija
Trener: Brian Glencross

 Kathleen Partridge (vratarka)
 Debbie Callaghan
 Liane Tooth
 Loretta Dorman
 Lisa Naughton (vratarka)
 Michelle Hager
 Alison Peek
 Lisa Powell

 Juliet Haslam
 Kate Starre
 Sally Bell
 Jackie Pereira
 Tracey Belbin
 Rechelle Hawkes
 Sharon Buchanan (kapetanica)
 Lee Capes

Kina
Trener: Zhang Qingyou

 Ding Hongping (vratarka)
 Wang Yanhong
 Cai Donghong
 Yuan Ye
 Yu Shusheng
 Wang Yarhong
 Limai Qin
 Wu Yanshen

 Huping Yang
 Chen Jianbin (kapetanica)
 Yang Hongbing
 Hinzhu Chen
 Wei Hua
 Jingling Zhai
 Wan Wen
 Shi Yanhui (vratarka)

Njemačka
Trener: Rüdiger Hänel

 Susie Wollschläger (vratarka)
 Bianca Weiss (vratarka)
 Tanja Dickenscheid
 Susanne Müller
 Nadine Ernsting-Krienke
 Simone Thomaschinski
 Irina Kuhnt
 Melanie Cremer

 Franziska Hentschel
 Tina Peters
 Anke Wild
 Britta Becker
 Caren Jungjohann
 Vanessa van Kooperen
 Heike Lätzsch
 Katrin Kauschke

Nizozemska
Trener: Roelant Oltmans
Pomoćni trener i menedžer: Franklin DikmoetFizioterapeut''': Mark Haak

 Jacqueline Toxopeus (vratarka)
 Carina Bleeker (vratarka)
 Caroline Leenders
 Annemieke Fokke
 Martine Ohr
 Carole Thate
 Carina Benninga (kapetanica)
 Daniëlle Koenen

 Ingrid Wolff
 Mieketine Wouters
 Ingrid Appels
 Florentine Steenberghe
 Suzan van der Wielen
 Helen van der Ben
 Wietske de Ruiter
 Jeannette Lewin

J. Koreja
Trener: Kim Chang-Baek

 Kang Kyung-Ok (vratarka)
 Yang Hea-Young
 Sin You-Ri
 Choi Mi-Soon
 Cho Eun-Jung
 Kim Hyun-Young (kapetanica)
 Oh Seung-Shih
 Kim Myung-Ok

 Lee Eung-Kyung
 Yang Dong-Sook
 Kim Jeon-Mi
 Lee Ji-Young
 Lee Kwi-Joo
 Koo Mun-Young
 Im Gye-Sook
 Kim Hyung-Soon (vratarka)

Španjolska
Trener: José Brasa

 Marívi González (vratarka)
 Natalia Dorado
 Virginia Ramírez
 María Carmen Barea
 Silvia Manrique
 Maider Telleria
 María Ángeles Rodríguez
 Sonia Barrio

 Celia Corres
 Elisabeth Maragall
 Teresa Motos
 Begona Larzabal
 Mercedes Coghen (kapetanica)
 Nuria Olivé
 Inge Michelena
 María Isabel Martínez (vratarka)

Rezultati
nedjelja,  14. rujna 1991.

ponedjeljak,  15. rujna 1991.

utorak,  16. rujna 1991.

srijeda,  17. rujna 1991.

četvrtak,  18. rujna 1991.

petak,  19. rujna 1991.

subota,  20. rujna 1991.

nedjelja,  21. rujna 1991.

Završni poredak

  1.  Australija           5    4    1    0     (10: 4)       9
  2.  Njemačka             5    3    2    0     ( 9: 3)       8
  3.  Nizozemska           5    2    2    1     ( 7: 5)       6
  4.  Španjolska           5    1    1    3     ( 7:12)       3
  5.  Kina                 5    0    2    3     ( 6: 9)       2
  6.  J. Koreja            5    1    0    4     ( 6:12)       2

Najbolje sudionice

Izvori
 FIH Media Guide

Prvački trofej u hokeju na travi
Trofej prvakinja, 1991.

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Генералплан Ост (, "главни план Исток") је био тајни нацистички план за колонизацију источне Европе. Овај план је подразумевао спровођење геноцида и етничког чишћења на територијама које је Немачка окупирала у источној Европи током Другог светског рата. План је сачињен између 1939. и 1942. и био је део нацистичког покрета Лебенсраум и спровођење политике Продора на исток (), која је сама била део ширег плана за успостављање Новог поретка.

Види још
 Линија А-А
 Жртве Холокауста
 План глади
 Нови поредак
 Окупација Пољске (1939–1945)
 Пабстов план
 Ванзејска конференција

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Литература

  -{Helmut Heiber, Der Generalplan Ost, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Volume 6, 1958.}-
  -{Dietrich Eichholtz, Der `Generalplan Ost' Über eine Ausgeburt imperialistischer Denkart und Politik, Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Volume 26, 1982.}-
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