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PLx Pharma Inc.
PLxGuard Delivery System
PLxGuard Pipeline
Vazalore 325 mg
PL1100/PL1200 Ibuprofen
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Home › Investor Relations › News Releases › PLx Pharma Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter 2018 Results
PLx Pharma Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter 2018 Results
– Company Completes Successful $15 Million Financing –
HOUSTON, March 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PLx Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXP) ("PLx" or the "Company"), a late-stage specialty pharmaceutical company initially focused on developing its clinically validated and patent-protected PLxGuard™ delivery system to provide more effective and safer products, Vazalore™ 325 mg and Vazalore™ 81 mg (referred to together as "Vazalore"™), announced today certain financial and operational results for the three- and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2018.
Highlights of, and certain events subsequent to, the fourth quarter of 2018 include:
Net income totaled $2.9 million, or $0.34 per share, compared to net loss of $7.9 million, or ($0.90) per share, for the fourth quarter of 2017. This includes a non-cash gain of $5.7 million for a change in the fair value of warrant liability, or $0.65 per share;
Successfully completed development scale batches to enable generation of data to be submitted in the briefing package for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Type C meeting;
Completed a $15 million financing with the Company's largest shareholder, Park West Asset Management, LLC (Park West) and welcomed Tony Bartsh, Portfolio Manager at Park West, to the Board of Directors;
Pleased to announce that Mark J. Alberts, MD, FAHA, Physician-in-Chief at the Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford Healthcare and Chief of Neurology at Hartford Hospital, has joined PLx's esteemed Scientific Advisory Board;
Presented at the Cardiovascular Clinical Trialists (CVCT) conference and attended the American Heart Association (AHA) conference to continue to engage with thought leaders in the field and build awareness about the benefits of Vazalore in the treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD);
Continued to advance the Company's commercialization plans, including discussions with key retailers; and
Remain on track for mid-2020 launch of Vazalore.
"We continue to advance commercialization plans by creating awareness among healthcare professionals through key cardiology and neurology conferences. We held our second Scientific Advisory Board meeting, where our commercialization plans to position Vazalore as the new standard of care were enthusiastically endorsed. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Mark Alberts, a renowned national leader in stroke care, who adds valuable neurologist's perspective to our Scientific Advisory Board.
"We have successfully completed our development scale batches and are preparing for our next meeting with the FDA. Our recent $15 million financing serves as validation of our business strategy and our commitment to addressing a large unmet need among the more than 43 million patients with ASCVD and diabetes. We are delighted to welcome Tony Bartsh to our Board of Directors, and we look forward to working with him. We appreciate Park West's confidence in Vazalore's potential to impact so many patients' lives," said Natasha Giordano, President and Chief Executive Officer of PLx Pharma.
"Park West is excited to provide the capital necessary to advance Vazalore. We believe Vazalore offers many compelling clinical benefits and has the potential to become a best-in-class aspirin therapy. The PLx team has a proven track record of successfully launching products and we look forward to working with them as they advance toward commercialization," said Tony Bartsh.
Fourth Quarter 2018 Financial Results
The Company recognized revenue of $0.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to revenue of $0.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2017. All the revenue recognized in 2018 and $0.1 million of the revenue recognized in 2017 is attributable to work performed under an award of a National Institutes of Health grant. 2017 also included $0.2 million of deferred revenue recognized upon the completion of effort of a licensing agreement.
Research and development expenses were $0.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to $2.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, a decrease of $1.6 million, which reflects timing of continued product development and manufacturing activities for Vazalore.
General and administrative expense remained roughly flat at $1.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, as lower stock-based compensation of $0.2 million was offset by higher prelaunch marketing spend of $0.2 million.
In the fourth quarter of 2017, operating expenses also included a non-cash impairment charge of $2.3 million, or ($0.26) per share, related to the impairment of its intangible assets (trademarks and in-process research and development) acquired from Dipexium in connection with a change in operational strategy related to its Locilex assets.
Other income (net of expense) totaled approximately $5.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to $1.6 million of net other expense in the prior year period. The fluctuation is largely attributable to the change in fair value of warrant liability of $5.7 million of other income versus $1.4 million of other expense in the prior period.
Net income for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $2.9 million, or $0.34 per share, compared to a net loss of $7.9 million, or ($0.90) per share, for the fourth quarter of 2017.
Full Year 2018 FinancialResults
For the year ended December 31, 2018, total revenues were $0.8 million, as compared to $0.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2017. All the revenue recognized in 2018 and $0.6 million of the revenue recognized in 2017 is attributable to work performed under an award of a National Institutes of Health grant. 2017 also includes $0.2 million of deferred revenue recognized upon the completion of effort of a licensing agreement.
Research and development expenses totaled approximately $3.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $4.2 million in the prior year, a decrease of approximately $0.2 million. The expenses in both periods included continued product development and manufacturing activities for Vazalore.
General and administrative expenses totaled approximately $7.8 million in the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to approximately $10.2 million in the prior year. This decrease of approximately $2.4 million was primarily attributable to public offering costs of $1.5 million related to the June 2017 equity offering, lower compensation expense of $1.1 million, lower professional fees of $0.2 million, partially offset by prelaunch marketing spend in the 2018 period of $0.4 million.
For the full year 2017, operating expenses also included a non-cash charge of $2.3 million, or ($0.26) per share, related to the impairment of its intangible assets (trademarks and in-process research and development) acquired from Dipexium, in connection with a change in operational strategy related to its Locilex assets.
Other income (expense), net totaled approximately $11.9 million of net income for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $0.4 million of net expense in the prior year. The fluctuation is largely attributable to the change in fair value of warrant liability of $12.1 million of other income.
Net income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018, was $0.9 million, or $0.10 per basic and diluted share, compared with a net loss of $15.3 million, or ($2.19) per basic and diluted share in the prior year period.
As of December 31, 2018, the Company had $14.3 million in cash and cash equivalents.
As previously announced, PLx management will host its fourth quarter and full year 2018 conference call as follows:
Date Friday, March 8, 2019
Time 8:30 a.m. EST
Toll free (U.S.) (866) 394-2901
International (616) 548-5567
Webcast (live and replay) www.plxpharma.com under the 'Investor Relations' section.
A replay of the conference call will be available for two weeks after the call's completion by dialing (855) 859-2056 (U.S.) or (404) 537-3406 (International). The conference ID for the replay is 8166135. The archived webcast will be available for 30 days via the aforementioned URL.
About Vazalore
Vazalore 325 mg is an FDA-approved aspirin product being developed to provide patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and diabetes with more reliable and predictable antiplatelet efficacy as compared to enteric-coated aspirin, while also reducing the adverse gastric events common in an acute setting. PLx is focused on manufacturing, scale-up and label finalization for Vazalore 325 mg aspirin dosage form and preparing an sNDA for Vazalore 81 mg maintenance dose form. Our goal is to begin selling both products in the United States by mid-2020, subject to approval by the FDA.
About PLx Pharma Inc.
PLx Pharma Inc. is a late-stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing its clinically validated and patent-protected PLxGuard™ delivery system to provide more effective and safer products. The PLxGuard delivery system works by targeting delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) to various portions of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. PLx believes this has the potential to improve the absorption of many drugs currently on the market or in development, and to reduce GI side effects—including erosions, ulcers and bleeding—associated with aspirin and ibuprofen, and potentially other drugs.
To learn more about PLx Pharma Inc. and its pipeline, please visit www.plxpharma.com.
Any statements made in this press release relating to future financial or business performance, conditions, plans, prospects, trends, or strategies and other financial and business matters, including without limitation, the prospects for commercializing or selling any products or drug candidates, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In addition, when or if used in this press release, the words "may," "could," "should," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "predict" and similar expressions and their variants, as they relate to PLx may identify forward-looking statements. PLx cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties, which change over time. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or historical experience include risks and uncertainties, including the failure by PLx to secure and maintain relationships with collaborators; risks relating to clinical trials; risks relating to the commercialization, if any, of PLx's proposed product candidates (such as marketing, regulatory, product liability, supply, competition, and other risks); dependence on the efforts of third parties; dependence on intellectual property and risks that PLx may lack the financial resources and access to capital to fund proposed operations. Further information on the factors and risks that could affect PLx's business, financial conditions and results of operations are contained in PLx's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which are available at www.sec.gov. Other risks and uncertainties are more fully described in PLx's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC on March 8, 2019, and in other filings that PLx will make going forward. The forward-looking statements represent PLx's estimate as of the date hereof only, and PLx specifically disclaims any duty or obligation to update forward-looking statements.
Lisa M. Wilson, In-Site Communications, Inc.
Source: PLx Pharma Inc.
FINANCIAL TABLES FOLLOW
Cash and cash equivalents $ 14,250,267 $ 24,404,368
Accounts receivable 18,234 19,384
Inventory, net - 246,374
Vendor and security deposits 12,564 719,667
Prepaid expenses 409,369 300,169
Deferred financing costs 174,976 -
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 14,865,410 25,689,962
Property and equipment, net 1,394,230 1,029,875
Security deposit 67,714 67,714
TOTAL ASSETS $ 18,388,376 $ 28,848,573
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 653,049 $ 852,155
Accrued bonus and severance 1,048,393 849,703
Accrued interest 60,366 54,219
Current portion of term loan, net of discount and fees 2,909,709 -
Other current liabilities 61,143 59,614
Accrued interest, net of current portion 309,440 89,717
Term loan, net of discount and fees 4,280,385 6,942,151
Warrant liability 2,537,317 15,242,915
Other liabilities 84,281 141,707
TOTAL LIABILITIES 11,944,083 24,232,181
Common stock; $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 8,743,950 and 8,722,823 shares issued and outstanding 8,744 8,723
Additional paid-in capital 72,871,317 71,939,917
Accumulated deficit (66,435,768 ) (67,332,248 )
TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY 6,444,293 4,616,392
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY $ 18,388,376 $ 28,848,573
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
December 31, Twelve months ended
REVENUES:
Federal grant $ 287,662 $ 140,447 $ 753,108 $ 578,657
License revenue - 200,000 - 200,000
TOTAL REVENUES 287,662 340,447 753,108 778,657
OPERATING EXPENSES:
Research and development 890,239 2,444,564 3,922,665 4,157,454
General and administrative 1,920,855 1,911,978 7,791,600 10,174,997
Impairment of intangible assets - 2,294,048 - 2,294,048
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 2,811,094 6,650,590 11,714,265 16,626,499
OPERATING LOSS (2,523,432 ) (6,310,143 ) (10,961,157 ) (15,847,842 )
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)
Interest income 78,426 64,295 297,800 112,377
Interest expense (296,304 ) (273,062 ) (1,145,761 ) (1,164,897 )
Change in fair value of warrant liability 5,687,675 (1,365,247 ) 12,705,598 633,631
TOTAL OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) 5,469,797 (1,574,014 ) 11,857,637 (418,889 )
INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAX BENEFIT 2,946,365 (7,884,157 ) 896,480 (16,266,731 )
Income tax benefit - - - 920,000
NET INCOME (LOSS) $ 2,946,365 $ (7,884,157 ) $ 896,480 $ (15,346,731 )
Net income (loss) per common share - basic $ 0.34 $ (0.90 ) $ 0.10 $ (2.19 )
Net income (loss) per common share - diluted $ 0.34 $ (0.90 ) $ 0.10 $ (2.19 )
Weighted average shares of common shares - basic 8,741,994 8,721,765 8,733,220 7,020,479
Weighted average shares of common shares - diluted 8,741,994 8,721,765 8,733,220 7,020,479
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【Why Don't You...?】知識がなくてもワイン楽しんでみたらどう? Enjoy Wine Even If You Don't Know Much About It?
Enjoy Wine Even If You Don't Know Much About It?
The young people on this planet are able to master things like SMS and the Internet at the speed of light, but anything that requires a little bit of knowledge, they tend to shy away from, don't they?
Wine appreciation for example, that's abundantly clear isn't it?
It would be quite difficult to educated young people about wine unless they are going to start working in a liquor store.
But the men who want to be cool and succeed with the girls are few and far between.
The reason that 50 year-old men are proficient about wines is exactly because they wanted to be popular with the ladies.
I mean, it's impressive to know about wines, right?
I mean, sure, there are people who really like this subject itself, but most just use the knowledge to chat women up or to make themselves look good.
It's pointless to lecture to young people with such a different mindset, but you don't really have to be knowledgeable about wine.
If you're too busy, then studying years about something isn't realistic; and young people's salaries are insignificant,so they can't possibly be expected to spend much on wine.
But, and I'm not advertising here or anything, I recommend BYOW (Bring your Own Wine), and I will now explain why.
Young people should not bring their own because they know wines, but in order to get to know them.
Because when you BYOW, you first have to go to the shop. There you should ask for help from the staff you have your eye on (like a good-looking girl or a cool guy).
For example, today I'm going to a Korean BBQ place where the beef short ribs are good; what wine should I bring?
Or, I'm bringing my mom a porcini cream pasta... etc.
You tell them about the food you are going to eat at the restaurant you're going to. Then I suppose the wine shop attendants must have some qualifications (at least be sure to choose such a shop), and they will for sure give you the right advice.
At such a shop, you can easily ask what the differences are between Cabernet and Pinot Noir.
What is the purpose of having professionals?
Instead of studying at your desk for a year, and instead of quitting just because it's not for you... It's quickest to find an expert in the field, and ask them; while you're listening, you're also learning.
But wait a minute, before that, when you're choosing a restaurant for a dinner party, for a meal between friends, a date, whatever, you don't pick the most suitable one, do you?
"Let's see, what do I want to eat...? I don't know, you pick something." If you are one to leave things to others, you are not looking at a bright, typical-you future.
Even if today isn't your last supper, you should be capable of choosing a venue that will make your significant other feel relaxed. You should choose the best restaurant for the type of food your date likes. Or even if you're going on your own food quest, thinking "Oh well, we'll just go to the closest family restaurant" is a terrible waste of money and time due to laziness.
It's because you have such unaware dinners, that you're putting on weight.
First, be clear on what you want to eat and what your partner wants to eat. Then choose the best available restaurant that serves food in that category (with consideration to your budget of course).
Then, not just slap-dashedly when you get to the restaurant, but beforehand be aware of the tastes you are about to experience that day.
Then... you make your way to the wine shop.
If you get to say "Today, I have selected a wine that will best accompany our food", you will surely impress you dinner companion.
See, the thing I'm trying to say is that it's important to be aware of things.
If you make yourself aware and pay attention, you can make it into an inspiring last supper, which will create deep memories.
Why don't you try to use wine for the performance? That's what I'm talking about.
You don't have to have knowledge about things; that's why there are experts in the world.
Don't waste even another supper.
Why don't you try to enjoy wine even if you don't know much about it?


CAI International (NYSE:CAI) was downgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report issued on Tuesday.
Several other analysts also recently commented on the company. ValuEngine downgraded CAI International from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 16th. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgraded CAI International from an "outperform" rating to a "market perform" rating and cut their target price for the company from $34.00 to $29.00 in a research note on Thursday, February 21st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company. The stock currently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $29.40.
CAI traded down $0.34 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $22.85. 139,176 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 217,767. The company has a current ratio of 0.52, a quick ratio of 0.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.09. CAI International has a 12-month low of $19.58 and a 12-month high of $27.43. The company has a market cap of $433.89 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.28 and a beta of 1.75.
CAI International (NYSE:CAI) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 20th. The transportation company reported $0.89 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.06 by ($0.17). CAI International had a net margin of 17.78% and a return on equity of 12.65%. The business had revenue of $115.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $121.21 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.03 earnings per share. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 23.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts forecast that CAI International will post 4 EPS for the current year.
In other CAI International news, insider Victor Garcia bought 10,608 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 27th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of $22.24 per share, for a total transaction of $235,921.92. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Company insiders own 13.80% of the company's stock.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Legal & General Group Plc lifted its holdings in shares of CAI International by 32.3% during the 4th quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 3,223 shares of the transportation company's stock valued at $75,000 after buying an additional 786 shares during the period. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. NY lifted its holdings in shares of CAI International by 384.5% during the 4th quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. NY now owns 5,465 shares of the transportation company's stock valued at $127,000 after buying an additional 4,337 shares during the period. Citigroup Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of CAI International by 17.9% during the 4th quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 6,234 shares of the transportation company's stock valued at $145,000 after buying an additional 947 shares during the period. Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC bought a new position in shares of CAI International during the 4th quarter valued at $241,000. Finally, MetLife Investment Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of CAI International by 53.5% during the 3rd quarter. MetLife Investment Advisors LLC now owns 12,444 shares of the transportation company's stock valued at $285,000 after buying an additional 4,337 shares during the period. 86.43% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
CAI International, Inc operates as transportation finance and logistics company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Container Leasing, Rail Leasing, and Logistics. It leases, re-leases, and disposes equipment; and contracts for the repair, repositioning, and storage of equipment.
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Joke's got legs
By Dr. Conspiracy on August 28, 2012 in 2012 Presidential Election, Media
I am frankly surprised at how much press Mitt Romney's "birther joke" (assuming it was birther and that it was a joke) has gotten. Even today, there are many articles on the subject:
"Chris Christie, a Republican who was rumored to be on the shortlist for the vice presidential nod, said Tuesday that he suspects GOP candidate Mitt Romney "wishes he could take" his birther joke back." Huffington Post.
So is Romney a Birther? That isn't clear; nor does it matter. The Root.
"Wagner: Romney's birther joke 'irresponsible,' 'truly pathetic'." NBCNews.com
"This weekend, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus complained that the media is taking Mitt Romney's "birther" joke far too seriously, saying, "Nobody seems to have a sense of humor anymore." United Liberty.
"Why blacks aren't laughing at Romney's birther "humor." The Grio.
"Move beyond the 'birther' jokes." Lexington Herald Leader.
"Mitt Romney Makes Birther Joke."Midweek Politics
"Romney's 'birther' joke obviously just a joke." CBS Baltimore
"Falsehood takes the funny out of the 'birther joke.'" Washington Post.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Amazing fact found in the National Archives: birthers will believe anything
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8 Responses to Joke's got legs
misha August 28, 2012 at 7:42 pm misha(Quote) #
It was not a joke; it was a dog whistle. Romney and his surrogates are being disingenuous.
Dr C: This bolsters my comment that I am not letting Romney off the hook. The damage has been done, which is Rmoney's intention.
J'accuse.
foreigner August 29, 2012 at 12:11 am foreigner(Quote) #
in America humor is important
shall the best comedian become president
misha August 29, 2012 at 12:31 am misha(Quote) #
foreigner: shall the best comedian become president
No one Jewish will ever become president.
John Potter August 29, 2012 at 1:00 am John Potter(Quote) #
See, birfers? The media is paying attention to you. 😉
LW August 29, 2012 at 2:08 am LW(Quote) #
Is the title a… BC reference, by the way?
Lupin August 29, 2012 at 3:04 am Lupin(Quote) #
misha: It was not a joke; it was a dog whistle. Romney and his surrogates are being disingenuous.
I could not agree more.
See the Obama-being-lynched cartoon I posted yesterday.
The Magic M August 29, 2012 at 4:33 am The Magic M(Quote) #
– Wanna hear two short jokes and a long joke?
– Sure.
– Joke, joke, jooooooooooooooooooooooke.
Politicians trying to be funny usually ends up in disaster, unless they are funny people to begin with. An organization in my country gives out an annual award "Wider den tierischen Ernst" (loosely translated as "For not taking things too seriously") to politicians of the latter kind.
The real problem is that stuff like Romney's comes across as truly dishonest. As if he can't even admit having made a small mistake. Makes you wonder to what lengths he would go to cover up a real big one. That's not what I am looking for in a politician. I admire those who admit they crossed a line, or made a promise they weren't really sure they could keep. Even those who do a 180 turn on an issue, as long as they go "I was wrong before" and not "I never really said anything else". Those are people I would vote for again. Because I've had my share of changing my mind entirely on an issue (such as going pro-choice after being pro-life for several years, or pro-immigration after being rather xenophobic before) and know these things happen. I just need to feel they didn't happen because the party line demanded it or someone opened his pockets or because it's the more popular opinion now.
sponson August 29, 2012 at 4:01 pm sponson(Quote) #
The media are properly focusing on the non-joke because it is indicative of the new direction of the Romney campaign. Even the USA Today, an incredibly timid newspaper, reported that the new Romney strategy would be to court white voters of the racist persuasion, "going to the base" rather than trying to pick up independent or middle of the road voters. The video clip of Romney making the "joke" and the crowd's reaction (very few laughs, lots of very loud cheers) is exactly the kind of shorthand today's lazy news media likes to use; it also is as close as you can get to one candidate personally insulting the other on camera, at least until the debates begin. The media loves the clip for both of those reasons.


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I then insert an image (successfully) using the editor.
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Here's the weather report for Barbados, Tuesday, February 19, 2019.
According to the Barbados Meteorological Services, the western Atlantic high-pressure system is the dominant feature affecting the island.
Today is expected to be fair to occasionally cloudy and breezy with a few brief isolated showers.
Winds are generally from the East at 20 to 40 km/h.
The sun rose at 6:19 am and will set at 6:05 pm this evening.
Throughout today, the temperature is predicted to reach a high of 29.3⁰C during the morning and drop to a minimum temperature of 24.2⁰C tonight.


Last week I was at my home town, Patna. This time it was not a vacation... this time the matters were real serious, this time it was my Parents' health. Well with God's grace and with the good wishes of well wishers, the situation, if not fine, then it's better than a couple of weeks before.
But again, development is only infrastructural. The mindset of the common man over there still needs the tide of change and development. In a traffic jam I can see a couple of college student taunting a person of their father's age in slang.... doctors just denying to see a traumatized patient just because it's a Sunday and it's his day to "Rest".... and many other things.... and really, this is a discussion which would take ages to settle down and "Throttle" is not a particular forum for this discussion.
What really amazed me was.... the driving tactics employed over here. It's like, if you need to cross the road, you will cross the road no matter what is coming from the other side.... you will not give a damn to the traffic.... you will just look straight and start walking or riding your bike or driving you car (be it a Maruti 800 or the oblivion obese architecture Tata Sumo). And you would not cross the road in a hurry!! You would take your time, as if there is no one else on the road. Your fellow Road Sharers' frustration doesn't bother you..... NOT A SINGLE BIT!! But in all this, what's really amazing is..... people have kinda accepted such kinda traffic sense and people actually don't get frustrated by this..... because everybody is moving in the same fashion in the traffic.
People have given the term Maneuvering a new limit, which is hard to breach. It's a world where the average speed mostly stays between 25kmph-30kmph..... you should be happy if you are able to reach 40kmph!! And if somehow you are able to reach 60kmph... boy it's time to rock-n-roll coz you are just blasting off the Patna streets. Cars and bikes crossing each other within millimeters..... a Tata Sumo, making a turn through a 4 feet wide turn opening into 5-6 feet wide road with incoming traffic. Really it's maneuvering reloaded!!
Hope all is well with your family and Happy Birthday!!
It's been a busy year so far and I have yet to make it to a bike race this season. Looks like the next one I can make is June 27th and 28th. I'll try for some pictures for you.
Despite all the traffic problems, the accident rate of Patna is far less than those of Mumbai/Delhi/Gurgaon.
Kya kare hum aise hi hai.
The traffic condition in all over India is the same..... the accident factor comes into play with varying levels of speeds and condition of the infrastructure.


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Jennifer Lawrence Loses It Over Matt Damon at the Golden Globes
By Elizabeth VanMetre 6:12 AM PST, January 11, 2016
Jennifer Lawrence's reaction to seeing Matt Damon would be our reaction to seeing Matt Damon.
The 25-year-old actress was all business when she caught up with ET on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, revealing how "easy" it was to decide on her beautiful red Dior dress.
"I just put it on. It was very nice. I just said 'I'll take it!'" Lawrence candidly explained.
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Then it happened.
While telling ET that she thinks her gal pal Amy Schumer's new beau, Ben Hanisch, is "really sweet," Damon popped up behind her.
In this moment, J. Law was all of us.
"Matt Damon is behind us," she said in whisper, totally wigging out. "This is not a drill!"
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Damon, 45, being the gentleman he is, eased Lawrence's fan girl moment by offer her a big hug, which she willingly accepted.
Lawrence's reaction wasn't the only one that had us all in stitches during the glamorous award show. Watch the video below to see Leonardo DiCaprio's facial expression that broke the Internet.
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5G besides "fast", what else?
The advent of 5G will also bring about tremendous changes in user content services and experience, such as high-definition video, VR games, the Internet of Things and other industries will be profitable, accelerate the pace of development.
First of all, the high-definition video industry will usher in the spring, and the user's visual experience will be greatly enhanced. A few days ago, China Mobile completed the 8K HD video on demand demonstration based on 5G network, compared with 4K video, 8K ultra-high definition video can not only improve the quality of the picture, achieve a high degree of restoration of real scenes; and 8K high definition video technology combined with 5G network will change the traditional media industry, and help the broadcasting and television industry in an all-round way. The transformation and upgrading of end-to-end production mode will promote innovative applications in all walks of life, including the popularity of consumer entertainment in sports, live performances, film and television broadcasting, and thus effectively promote the accelerated development of 8K ultra-high definition video industry. Thanks to the development of HD video in 5G, the user's video viewing experience will also continue to improve.
Secondly, the VR industry will also expand with the advent of 5G. VR technology has gradually emerged in the 4G era and entered the consumer's eyes, but it has not yet been popularized and popularized. Most of it is used for user experience, because 4G network is still not enough to carry large-scale VR applications. The data throughput of 5G network is 10 times higher than that of 4G, the communication capacity is 100 times higher, and the delay is one tenth of the previous. Therefore, the barrier of VR transmission will be cleared up, and the problems that perplex the application of VR technology in mobile terminal will be solved. Based on this, the interactive content of 5G+VR live broadcast, VR game and so on can be introduced. Users have better visual experience. According to the forecast, the whole VR industry is expected to reach 45 billion US dollars by 2025, which will bring new opportunities to all walks of life. The huge development space will attract more enterprises to participate in it. The future development of VR industry is full of potential.
Finally, 5G will bring about an era of interconnection and create a more convenient, intelligent and efficient production and living scene. With the advent of 5G high-speed network, the development space of the Internet of Things will be further enlarged. By 2021, 28 billion mobile devices will be interconnected, of which 16 billion will be IoT devices. In the next decade, the Internet of Things (IOT) will expand to all walks of life, and the number of M2M terminals will increase dramatically. It can be said that 5G is designed for the interconnection of all things.
In addition to improving the intelligence and efficiency of industrial production, transportation, education, medical care, security, tourism and other aspects closely related to us will become more intelligent because of the interconnection of all things. Vehicle networking, automatic driving, remote surgery, smart home will become more and more popular because of 5G, further improve and enhance The quality of our lives.
The change brought by 5G is not only the improvement of network speed, but also the change of thinking mode and business mode, which will affect all aspects of our production and life more profoundly. Only by following the trend of development and keeping up with the pace of the times can we make our life more colorful.


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The purple Wiggle responds to his TikTok heartthrob status: 'It's opened up a new world of followers'
On TikTok, parents and nonparents alike have been thirsting after a member of one of the biggest children's acts in the world — the new purple Wiggle from The Wiggles.
John Pearce, 31, has been a member of the Australian children's entertainment group since 2021, but in the past week, he's seen a surge of attention, earning him the title of TikTok heartthrob.
The newfound attention focused on Pearce — who sings lullabies and originals such as "I'm John, I'm Strong!" — likely stems from a video Pearce posted this week in which he participated in a trend that stems from the movie "Zoolander."
John Pearce of The Wiggles performs on stage in Auckland, New Zealand, on Aug. 21, 2022.Dave Simpson / WireImage file
The trend plays out by having two different people or personas bumping into one another.
Originally, Pearce wanted to film the clip with the original purple Wiggle, Jeff Fatt, while the two were on a recent tour together. When Pearce returned home and realized he'd forgotten to film the clip, he decided to do it alone.
In the clip, Pearce's purple Wiggle persona bumps into his everyday self dressed in a cutoff T-shirt, revealing his toned and tattooed arms.
The comments on the video all share a similar sentiment.
"Bro I'm going to start watching the wiggles and i don't even have a kid," one reply reads.
Pearce's "Zoolander" video had more than 4.1 million views as of Friday afternoon. Pearce's other videos as the purple Wiggle also had millions of views, and the hashtag "#purplewiggle" had more than 1.2 million views across the platform on Friday.
Pearce said he's flattered by the attention during a Zoom interview with NBC News.
"The last couple days — it's definitely informed me of my demographic online. It's great," Pearce said with a laugh.
Pearce rose to prominence as a member of the song and dance group Justice Crew, which won the fourth season of Australia's Got Talent in 2010.
While Justice Crew was grounded from touring during the pandemic, Pearce had a stroke of luck when he ran into Anthony Field, who has been in The Wiggles since co-founding the group in 1991.
Pearce said that a conversation at a pizza shop about the music industry led to a friendship with Field, who invited him to The Wiggles headquarters. They began a project that led to Fruit Salad TV, a YouTube exclusive series featuring a diverse cast of eight Wiggles.
Eventually, Pearce was asked to come on full-time.
"It's a very rewarding job … you impact these families' lives in different ways and you do see that at meet-and-greets and at the shows, from Australia to Canada," Pearce said. "I love it."
One of his favorite parts of being in The Wiggles is getting to incorporate the dance skills and physicality he honed while in Justice Crew into his performances as the purple Wiggle.
From left, Tsehay Hawkins, John Pearce and Simon Pryce of The Wiggles perform in Auckland, New Zealand, on Aug. 21, 2022.Dave Simpson / WireImage file
"It's really exciting, and for young kids, young boys especially, they really pick up on the break dancing and the athleticism that I try to bring to The Wiggles, and it's kind of cool they see me as the 'Spider-Man' or the superhero of The Wiggles," Pearce said.
After this past week, one thing is clear: It's not just young boys who are interested in Pearce.
"It's definitely opened up a whole new world of followers," Pearce said.
Many of the videos posted to social media about Pearce include young women and mothers expressing shock that their new celebrity crush just so happens to be a member of a decades-old children's group.
In one video, Evelien Langeveld, 36 and a mother of one, fans herself as she lays eyes on Pearce during a Wiggles performance. Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams" scores the clip, setting the mood as Langeveld appears to fall in love.
Langeveld, who lives in Sydney, said she discovered Pearce after her 21-month-old son, Archie, asked to watch The Wiggles' Christmas version of the song "Baby Shark." On repeat.
"That's when I was like 'Ohhh, helloooo John! Mama actually doesn't mind watching this either' LOL!," Langeveld said in an email.
In another video, one TikToker suggested following The Wiggles as they go on tour. The group is slated to tour in the United States this fall, the group's spokesman said.
"Back in my wiggles era, who wants to follow the rest of the tour with me," TikToker @onetoomanytwizzlers wrote.
TikTok user @KaylaMichelleFisher declared her entire "For You" page is filled with videos of The Wiggles.
"I really fell for the purple Wiggles' thirst traps," @KaylaMichelleFisher said in the video. "I ain't mad at it. Keep it coming, Wiggles. Keep it coming."
The TikTok love for Pearce has been a slow burn, according to some of his fans. TikToker Daphne Flack, 22, said she remembers seeing Pearce on her "For You" page last year as people began dubbing him the "hot" Wiggle. But Flack, who is from Australia but lives in New York City, said Pearce's new videos have created a fresh surge of attention, and he is once again all over her "For You" page.
"He is so precious and so wholesome and I just love him," Flack said.
Pearce said he's been moved by all the attention on TikTok, which he says has been only positive.
He added that he's looking forward to meeting his newest slew of fans when The Wiggles tour later this year.
"It's really cool, and some of the followers don't even have kids and they're saying it's given them a reason to start families because they want to watch The Wiggles, which is all great," Pearce said.
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"Loss of Signal" #WiFi
One can tell just how compromised Hollywood now is by its output for the entertainment machine prefers to explore its market-driven predilections than deal seriously with real issues (hence there has never been a, "Nigel the Puritan" flick -taking on the powers of darkness with a mangle and a bar of carbolic-, vampiric producers would rather indulge the Papacy, after all there's no money in Puritanism), one may gasp at the schlock-horror of all embracing technocracy but one must never examine the realpolitik of the alternative. Recent events, however, do perhaps indicate that it is time that the entertainment industry contemplated its own demise (at least in terms of the pleasure-button pushing ephemera which have become ubiquitous to the milieu), quote;
"A third of traffic collisions involving autonomous vehicles in 2018 so far featured humans physically confronting the cars, according to data released by California.
In one case, a taxi driver exited his cab and slapped the front passenger window of a General Motors Cruise parked behind him. No one was hurt, though the car sustained a scratch.
In another case, a pedestrian hurtled across an intersection despite a "do not walk" sign, shouting as he went, and rammed his body into a different Cruise's rear bumper.
If they were hoping to register their disapproval of autonomous cars, they were working against both the burgeoning autonomous car industry and the state of California, which last week said it would allow driverless cars to operate without onboard backup drivers." Go to: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/san-francisco-driverless-cars-autonomous-vehicles-attacks-a8243081.html
for full article.
Such reactions may just be the thin-end-of-the-wedge for there is a now a growing and vocal movement opposing the imposition of 5G Wi-Fi technology...
How far one wonders will people be prepared to go? An unexamined response might be both disastrously polarising and catastrophic, reliance on mobile-phones and Wi-Fi technology has meant that attacks against infrastructure would (undoubtedly), eventually result in unnecessary deaths. Could it be considered by protestors that any fatalities were causalities of war and that none are hors-de-combat? Schisms in the ranks of any "Anti-Wi-Fi-Brigade" may be caused should some believe that those who use Wi-Fi tech are lying in the bed they have made for themselves. Is it not therefore prudent to examine these issues seriously before things come to such a head?
Given that it is the purpose of the dramatic medium to highlight social problems and the possible consequences of certain courses of action I would say that it is irresponsible for the media to ignore this growing division, especially given our current global economic situation where many who profit most from the wirelessly connected world are those far more privileged than the mass of the population. The civil-strife that was common to both the developed and "developing" nations during the twentieth century may well rear its head again but this time with an agenda that targets the tools of oppression rather than (at least not directly), the perpetrators .
A production which dealt with such eventualities would undoubtedly be controversial (the "timely" usually is), and might not attract much sponsorship from the status quo or the vested-interests of the world's "Silicon Valleys" but surely it might be possible to find some amongst the well-healed glitterati whose consciences one could prick (and souls stir), sufficiently for them to back such a project?
A "war" of the kind I describe could be fought without the need for conventional weaponry; the catapult, cross-bow, D-lock and the bull-dozer (or any vehicle heavy enough to take-down a Wi-Fi mast), might be all protestors would be armed with forcing the authorities to make difficult choices in terms of proportionality of response. Might the Powers-that-Be be tempted to go over-the-top in order to put down such rebellious behaviour and if so would this not inflame an already volatile situation? If a "storm" is on the horizon defusing any possible conflict must be a priority.
The Luddites were not attacking automated looms and knitting-frames because the technology itself was inimical to social progress they were doing so because they were skilled artisans and that in the hands of a few exploitative magnates such new inventions threatened not only to rob them of their jobs but to enslave the working class as-well, a reaction against Wi-Fi tech would be different for the technology is dangerous in and of itself therefore many may be prepared to go further in their attacks against what they see as exemplifying the social-divisions and inequalities growing all around them than the Luddites did.
It's not just the physical dangers of the technology which could spark such a conflagration of-course, there is also the way it's being used, quote;
"The Dangerous Technology of Surveillance.
How much longer will it take I wonder for people to realise just how "unprofitable" it is to collude in their own oppression? An increasing number allow access to all sorts of important data about themselves by utilising wireless-free technologies (and this is before one takes into consideration the ubiquitous security flaws in "closed software" and the ease of hacking such connections). The fondness for the-sound-of-our-own-voices has allowed obsession to consume us and it has created a false-economy for the continued expansion of the debt-bubble has been aided and abetted by the addiction to these gee-gaws and "ghafla"*"..
"Users dumbed-down to accept ephemera as true experience are encouraged in their posturing and cupidity whilst being discouraged from engaging in reasoned discourse (and if they do such is labelled "Fake News" -using capitals advisedly-). I only use "hardline" Ethernet connections when I go online and have had the wireless signal to my domestic router turned off at source (Nb. there is no "wireless-off" button on any of the major service providers' home routers as far as I am aware)."..
"*Quote; "Ghafla is a Chakobsa term meaning "distraction"- in the Dune books by Frank Herbert, Ed.-, Herbert took this term directly from the Arabic where "Ghafla" means anything that distracts one from God. The term is especially important in Sufic Islam" Go to: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Ghafla
"Every year in the U.S., almost a half million people are injured or killed in traffic accidents attributed to the combination of texting and driving. The statistics are shocking, especially in view of the fact that this danger could be completely avoided. With the latest statistics available as of 2018, in 2015, according to statistics compiled by the Department of Transportation, 3,477 people died and another 391,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes caused by drivers who were distracted because they were texting or using cell phones." Go to: https://www.personalinjurysandiego.org/topics/facts-about-texting-driving/
Quote; "According to the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), 80% of accidents and 16% of highway fatalities are caused by distracted drivers. The National Safety Council (NSC) estimates that crashes from cell phone use account for 27% of all auto accidents. In Ohio in 2015, 41% of distracted drivers in fatal crashes were texting or talking on a phone.
Texting while driving increases your chances of being in an accident by 23 times. When you are driving 55 mph, diverting your attention for five seconds (the average time it takes to read a text message) means you are driving the length of a football field without looking at the road. A crash typically occurs within three seconds after a driver is distracted.
Even with the staggering statistics, the National Safety Council found that evidence indicates that under-reporting of driver cell phone use in accidents is causing a substantial under-estimation of the extent of the public safety threat." Go to: https://www.lawyersthatfightforyou.com/auto-and-truck-accidents/2016/12/06/distracted-driving-from-cell-phone-use/
for full article." Go to: http://www.arafel.co.uk/2018/03/the-whole-story-epidemiology.html
Any of the above are sufficient to provoke one to righteous indignation or even anger. What if your; spouse, child (or any family member), close friend or beloved pet were to be killed by a distracted driver? It is therefore far from beyond possible that a "pro-active" movement against the imposition of yet more etheric snooping be formed to address the removal of the parasitic technology of an untrammelled profit driven economy!
Also see; "The Dangers of #Wifi to our Whole System" go to: https://twitter.com/i/moments/930097464530690052
To follow "Abaris" go to: https://twitter.com/Williamtheb
Exposure to microwave radiation from cellphones, routers, cordless phones, smart meters, baby monitors and other wireless devices causes massive mitochondrial dysfunction due to free radical damage
Quote; "It took me awhile to figure this out. I got rid of all the wireless devices and Wi-Fi in my house, yet the EMFs were still high. Then I finally realized that it was my phone (while on) that caused it. My levels dropped below 0.01 volts/meter once I put it in airplane mode. This is a key point. For nearly everyone reading this, the majority of the radiation you're exposed to is not coming from the outside into your home; it's coming from the items in your home."..
"Most of the radiation we're exposed to today is microwave radiation, which does include radiation from your microwave oven. If you still have one, I recommend replacing it with a steam convection oven, which will heat your food just as quickly but far more safely. When you turn that microwave oven on, it will expose you to very dangerous microwave radiation at levels that are far in excess of your cellphone. We're not talking about thermal (heat) damage here. We're talking about nonthermal damage.
I recently interviewed Martin Pall, Ph.D., who has identified and published several papers describing the molecular mechanisms of how EMFs from cellphones and wireless technologies damage plants, animals and humans.2,3,4,5 Many studies have shown that when you're exposed to EMFs, intracellular calcium increases. Pall also discovered a number of studies showing that you can block or greatly reduce the effects of EMFs using calcium channel blockers — medication commonly prescribed to patients with heart disease.
This turns out to be a crucial point, because it's the excess calcium in the cell and the increased calcium signaling that are responsible for a vast majority of the biological effects of EMFs."..
"Importantly, the cellular membrane is 7 million times more sensitive to EMFs than the charged particles inside and outside of the cells, which are what safety standards are based on. In other words, the safety standards are off by a factor of 7 million!*"..
"So, EMFs are not "cooking" your cells. It's not a thermal influence. Rather, the radiation activates the VGCCs in the outer cell membrane, which triggers a chain reaction of devastating events that, ultimately, decimates your mitochondrial function and causes severe cellular damage and DNA breaks. It also decimates your cell membranes and cellular proteins. In a nutshell, it dramatically accelerates the aging process."..
"The first step to lower your exposure would be to identify the most significant sources. Your cellphone is a major source of exposure, as are cordless phones, Wi-Fi routers, Bluetooth headsets and other Bluetooth-equipped items, wireless mice, keyboards, smart thermostats, baby monitors, smart meters and the microwave in your kitchen. Ideally, address each source and determine how you can best limit their use. For example, remedial interventions could include:" Go to: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/09/24/electronic-devices-emf-dangers.aspx?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=twittermercola_ranart&utm_campaign=20181023_electronic-devices-emf-dangers for preventative measures and full article.
*Italics mine.
Dr.Mercola also recommends switching to "Ethernet only" and identifies many different negative health impacts in his excellent article (highly recommended).
Also see; "Google — One of the Largest Monopolies in the World" Go to: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/06/16/google-one-of-the-largest-monopolies.aspx?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=twittermercola_ranart&utm_campaign=20181023_google-one-of-the-largest-monopolies Yup this blog is a Google site too sorry folks but we're not doing anything wrong are we?
Quote; "One brave individual who has taken Google and other monopolies to task is Margrethe Vestager, competition commissioner for the European Union (EU), who during the last four years fined Facebook $122 million for a merger violation, ordered Apple to cough up $15 billion owed in Irish taxes, and fined Google $2.7 billion for illegal anticompetition activities.
Vestager says she wants Google to stop its illegal behavior, saying there's proof the company is on the wrong side of the law. Using its proprietary search algorithms, Google promotes its own products and services while burying its competitors so far down the list that most people will never find them. According to Vestager, "It is … the algorithm that does it. Both the promotion of Google themselves and the demotion of others … And it is illegal.""
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Prof. Zhi-Yong Li
Professor Zhi-Yong Li is the Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Department of Biomechanics of Biological Science and Medical Engineering Institute at Southeast University. He has a BEng degree in Civil Engineering from Tongji University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London. Between 2004-2010, he worked as a Research Fellow and then a Senior Research Fellow and elected Fellow of Wolfson College in University of Cambridge. His work is strongly focused on biomechanics of atherosclerotic plaque ruputure, publishing over 100 papers collectively on vulnerable plaque research. The main focus of his work has been the development of a better risk stratification for stroke in order to improve current clinical practice in the management of patients with carotid stenosis. His research interests also include cardiovascular biomechanics, image-based computational modeling and poroelastic theory.
Dr. Konstantin Volokh
Konstantin Volokh earned his Ph.D. in mechanics of materials from Moscow State University of Civil Engineering in 1991. He joined the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow in 1994 and became a faculty member in 1999. Professor Volokh works in the broad field of mechanics of soft materials including various soft biological tissues at different length scales. Biological tissue deformation, growth, remodeling and failure all feature in his research. Specific interests include the study of formation, development and rupture of aneurysms; constitutive description of blood vessels in health and disease; modeling of failure and fracture in soft materials and tissues; mechanical behavior of living cells. Professor Volokh authored and co-authored 90 technical papers in the refereed international journals and Springer published his book "Mechanics of Soft Materials" in 2016.
Dr. Ali C. Akyildiz
Dr. Ali C. Akyildiz, Marie Sklodowska-Currie Fellow, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands. Dr. Akyildiz received his BSc and MSc degrees from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). Following his MSc, he moved to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), where he was awarded a PhD degree in 2013 for his experimental and computational work on atherosclerotic plaque biomechanics for risk assessment. Following his PhD studies, Dr. Akyildiz accepted a post-doctoral position at CeMSIM (Center for Modeling, Simulation & Imaging in Medicine) of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York, USA). His primary research focus there was mechanical characterization of non-pathological soft tissues. In January 2016, Dr. Akyildiz rejoined the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Laboratory of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Erasmus MC. In January 2017 he received the prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Currie Individual Fellowship Funding from the European Union Research Council. His current research interests are in cardiovascular biomechanics and soft tissue biomechanics fields to elucidate healthy tissue mechanics and multifactorial mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of the related pathologies for improved diagnosis and prognosis of diseases, and developing effective preventive strategies and therapies.
Prof. Maria de Gador
Canton Maria de Gador Canton joins Mechanical Engineering Department from the University of Washington (UW), Radiology Department, where she was a Senior Fellow in the Vascular Imaging Laboratory. She earned her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she was a postdoctoral scholar until joining the UW. Professor Canton's research focuses on the interaction between the behavior of biological fluids and pathological processes. In particular, she is interested in the role that mechanical stresses play in the etiology of diseases in the circulatory system. Over the years she has developed expertise in experimental and computational techniques to characterize blood flow and identify flow conditions associated with cardiovascular diseases such as intracranial aneurysms, carotid atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms, and has established multidisciplinary collaborations with neurosurgeons, radiologists, vascular surgeons, and medical device companies. Canton looks forward to consolidating a program where medical imaging and mathematical modeling tools are used together to advance medical diagnostic processes and enable more effective treatment. Her honors include a fellowship from the UW School of Medicine Cardiovascular Research Training Program and a R.B. Woolley Jr. Graduate Leadership Fellowship from UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering.
Prof. Naomi Chesler
Dr. Naomi Chesler, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Biomedical Engineering at College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vice Chair and Associate Chair of Faculty and Academic Staff Development. Dr. Chesler received her Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1996. She was a post-doc fellow at GW Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 1996-1998 (Advisors: Profs. David N. Ku and Zorina S. Galis (Emory University)), and a faculty member at University of Vermont 1998-2002. She joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2002. She has received various awards including the Fulbright Scholar, United States Department of State, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Harvey Spangler Award for Technology Enhanced Instruction, UW-Madison, Diversity Award, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), etc. She is Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Executive Leadership Program in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) Program. She has published more than 100 journal and conference papers. Her research has been support by NIH, Veteran's Administration, NSF, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and others.
Prof. Linhong Deng
Linhong Deng obtained PhD from Bioengineering Unit, University of Strathclyde, UK in 2000. He subsequently worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Canada from 2000-04, and Research Associate at Harvard School of Public Health, USA from 2004-07, respectively. In 2007, he was appointed as Cheung Kung Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education of China, and served as Director of Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College, Chongqing University, China. In 2012, he founded, and since serves as Director of, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, Changzhou University, China. His current research interests include cell biomechanics and mechanobiology, in particular the biomechanical behaviors of the airway smooth muscle cell and its roles in the pathophysiology of asthma. His contribution to this field includes publications in prestigeous journals such as Nature, Nature Materials, and Am J of Physiology Cell Physiology. Professor Deng has also been recognized for research excellence by American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE Fellowship, 2015), Jiangsu Provincial Government (International Cooperation Award, 2017, Academic Leadership Award, 2013), Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (Outstanding Scientific Talents, 2011), The National Returned Overseas Chinese Association (Innovation Award, 2010), Thomson Scientific "Science Watch" (Fast Breaking Paper, 2008), FASEB (Smooth Muscle Research Young Investigator Award, 2003), International Society of Biorheology (Travel Award, 1992).
Prof. Baohua Ji
Baohua Ji is the professor of biomechanics and applied mechanics of Zhejiang University. He earned his B.S and Ph.D degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University of China in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He did his postdoc research at Institute of Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Science during 1998-2001, and at Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research during 2001-2004. Dr. Ji 's interests are multiscale modeling and experimental study of biological systems at molecular, cellular and tissue levels. His research is currently focused on cell-matrix interaction, collective cell migration, and receptor-ligand interaction. The objective is to provide a quantitative understanding of how forces and deformation affect human health and disease at tissue, cellular and molecular levels.
Prof. Shouqin Lv
Shouqin Lü received her Ph.D. from Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2006. She became a faculty member at Institute of Mechanics since 2006 and is now a Professor of Biomechanics. She is interested in understanding the biomechanics and biophysics rules of important bioprocess in molecular and atomic level, and the main focus of her work is to demonstrate the structure-function relationship of key molecules using molecular dynamics simulations and biomechanical assays such as atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Flow chamber. Professor Lü authored and co-authored 30 technical papers in the refereed international journals, and her research has been funded by NSFC/MOST/CAS funding agencies. She is now serving as the member of Biomechanics Committee of Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, and the member of Biomechanics and Biorheology Committee of Chinese Society of Biophysics.
Prof. Guixue Wang
Guixue Wang received his PhD in Biomechanics from Chongqing University. He is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the former Dean of Bioengineering College at Chongqing University. He is the director of Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology at Chongqing University, founding director of Public Experiment Center of National Biological Industrialization Base (Chongqing), and founding director of National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants (Chongqing), China. He is a Life Member of World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE), Standing Council Member of China Branch under International Society of Atherosclerosis, Council Member of Biomechanics Branch under Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering and Chinese Society of Mechanics, Associate Director of Atherosclerosis Branch under Chinese Society of Pathophysiology and Associate Director of Vascular Science Branch under Chinese Anatomical Society. His areas of research interests involve vascular biomechanics, mechano-developmental biology and biomedical materials, in particular the influence of hemodynamic factors on atherosclerosis formation and arteriovenous development and its mechanism, development of endovascular stent materials for antithrombogenesis and restenosis. He authored and co-authored 200 papers in the refereed international journals including Nat Neurosci, Adv Sci, Small, Biomech Model Mechan and J Biomech.
Prof. Ming Zhang
Prof. Ming Zhang received his BSc and MPhil from Beijing Institute of Technology and Ph.D from King's College London University. He is currently a Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering and the director of Research Center for Musculoskeletal Bioengineering in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Zhang currently is a council member of World Council of Biomechanics (WCB), President-Elect of World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE), Chair of Rehabilitation Engineering Subcommittee and Standing Council Member of Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering and China Association of Assistive Products. He has published more than 270 journal papers and book chapters. His current research interests include biomechanics of musculoskeletal system, computational biomechanics, prosthetic and orthotic bioengineering, human body support biomechanics, foot/ankle and knee biomechanics, etc. He has won the Natural Science Award (First-class) of the 2015 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards by the Ministry of Education China and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University President's Awards for Excellent Performance/Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities 2016.


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May 7, 2021 July 22, 2022 leebutler Review
Yes Day (2021) – Not On This Day
Seen: 6th May
Films, in general, are full of tropes. Some hide them better than others but every film has them. The trick is to either hide them well enough behind interesting characters and dialogue that no one cares or to find ways to subvert them or put them together in new and interesting ways. Then there's the films that don't even bother to try and hide their tropes and just hope you're stupid enough to enjoy them. Yes Day is kind of the queen of trope films for 2021 and unfortunately for it, I'm not as stupid as I look.
Yes Day features very basic parents, Allison Torres (Jennifer Garner) and Carlos Torres (Edgar Ramirez). They have very normal relationships with their kids, they don't let them do stupid things and say no to things that all good parents would say no to… this of course gets them literally compared to Hitler and Stalin so the two of them decide to try and give their kids something known as a Yes Day.
A Yes Day, in this context, means that anything that the kids ask for the parents have to say yes to (within reasons, the kids can't ask to murder someone even though that would actually make for a more interesting film) which of course ends in a bunch of assorted games that involve mess, foam, water balloon fights and eventually an important lesson about responsibility that will be learned provided the audience stays awake until the end.
It's almost funny just seeing how similar Yes Day is to so many other kids films, from the father with an unspecified job in tech that constantly has him on a phone, to the overbearing mother who used to be fun but isn't because she had kids, to the three annoying kids who are either too old to need their parents (until they absolutely need them), the middle child who is seriously into science (until that interest backfires) and the youngest who is there to say cute things and adds nothing to the story other than existing. If you've seen enough of these (I'd say 3 family films will do the job) you can easily call every conflict and joke about 10 minutes before it happens.
There's just no actual substance here, Yes Day inoffensively blends in with everything surrounding it. That kind of makes sense considering the director is mostly known for his work in TV, that thing that doesn't encourage directors to show any personality but requires them to basically be indistinguishable from those who directed the episode before and after them. This same director did last year's big inoffensive comedy Like a Boss which doesn't shock me, except this time he doesn't have Billy Porter to liven things up.
That's not to say the acting is bad, honestly everyone is kind of just fine. Jennifer Garner is certainly trying her best to give Yes Day some energy and Edgar Ramirez is just so damn likeable that it barely matters that he does almost nothing in the film… but there's no standout performances, no lines made better because of the delivery. If you had this same script delivered by a set of monotone robots there would be no change in how many laughs you would get. The film just kind of keeps happening, hoping you'll laugh at the concept of characters getting wet or really needing to poop.
The bulk of Yes Day is focussed around this list of things the kids want to do. This list includes eat a very expensive ice cream in under a half hour because then it's free, go through a carwash with the windows rolled down, a giant water balloon fight crossed with capture the flag, putt putt golf (which is turned into "Go to Six Flags Magic Mountain" for no apparent reason) and throw a giant party. If they fail to do all 5 of these things, the eldest daughter gets to go to a concert on her own and but if all 5 of those are done the eldest daughter STILL gets to go to the concert but with her mom in tow… anyone else catch how boring and bland that is?
None of the things that they are obliged to say yes to are particularly dangerous or funny or interesting. With maybe the exception of the car wash with the windows rolled down all of that just sounds like an above average birthday celebration for a 16 year old, there's nothing here that's pushing a boundary of any kind or even that interesting. It kinda feels like this is a super cheap TV movie that built its plot around what company would give them money in exchange for being one of the big 5 activities, which I want to assume it's not but I also can't think of a better reason why the Magic Mountain stuff is in there.
Even things that could add actual conflict don't really matter. There's a semi-subplot right at the beginning where the dad character has a problem at work that he needs to call in about… never comes up again after the water balloon fight sequence. There's a point where they seem to leave their car at one of the locations, this is also never a serious issue because for some reason several emergency vehicle operators have time to give this family a ride anywhere they need to go. Any conflict is just kind of dropped or pushed aside so we can get to the next allegedly interesting thing that needs to be done on this day.
Yes Day is a film that isn't bad, but it lacks anything good. It's perfect neutral, a glass of water and a slice of unbuttered bread that somehow got turned into a film. It will technically sustain you but it won't excite you and you could do much better. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just nice… and nice is me being very charitable because I wasn't being actively annoyed.
Tagged Comedy, Edgar Ramirez, Everly Carganilla, Family, Film, Jenna Ortega, Jennifer Garner, Julian Lerner, Movie, Netflix, Review, Yes Day
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Q: How to use JAXB APIs to generate classes from xsd? I need to generate bean classes from .xsd without using xjc command or ant. i have found the implementation in Apache Axis2 but i am unable to generate the artifacts.
i  have written the following code but i get NullPointerException :
SchemaCompiler sc = XJC.createSchemaCompiler();
 URL url = new URL("file://E:\\JAXB\\books.xsd");
 sc.parseSchema(new InputSource(url.toExternalForm()));
 S2JJAXBModel model = sc.bind();
 JCodeModel cm = model.generateCode(null, null);
 cm.build(new FileCodeWriter(new File("E:\\JAXBTest")));

Can anyone help me / provide some links???

A: While I haven't tried Axis2's XJC, I tried Sun's and I am pretty sure that your URL for the schema is wrong: You need three slashes (since the "authority" part is left out since it's a local resource with an absolute path)
Or, even simpler, construct a File and call toURI() on it, like this:
SchemaCompiler sc = XJC.createSchemaCompiler();
File file = new File("D:\\my-dir\\my-schema.xsd");
sc.setErrorListener(... );
sc.parseSchema(new InputSource(file.toURI().toString()));
S2JJAXBModel model = sc.bind();
JCodeModel cm = model.generateCode(null, null);
cm.build(new File("."));

This produced the desired files for me. You need tools.jar on the classpath. Happy code generation!

A:     SchemaCompiler sc = XJC.createSchemaCompiler();
    File file = null;
    file = new File("Item.xsd");
    sc.parseSchema(new InputSource(file.toURI().toString()));
    S2JJAXBModel model = sc.bind();

    JCodeModel cm = model.generateCode(null, null);
    cm.build(new File("."));

//I am having Item.xsd in local directory and this code has generated classes. If i remove this xsd locally will get null pointer exception.
Also note i am having my jaxb related jars in Java Build path of eclipse project.

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The Hills Have Eyes: Trevor Cahill Vs. Rich Hill
April 5, 2017 April 5, 2017 Scott Andes
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Dodgers vs. San Diego
Tonight's Dodger lineup vs. Padres:
Toles LF
Forsythe 2B
Hill P#LetsGoDodgers pic.twitter.com/oeTDvzoFMG
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 5, 2017
Trevor Cahill-0-0 vs. Rich Hill-0-0
Game Time – 7:10 PM – TV-SNLA-KTLA 5
If the Dodgers know what's good for them they'll stop using these useless all-righty lineups against left handers and play their regulars. If they've learned anything they'll put Joc Pederson and Andrew Toles back in the lineup. Again Franklin Gutierrez and Enrique Hernandez are NOT better hitters than Joc and Toles. To be frank, those two aforementioned "lefty killers" can't hit anyone.
They can't hit lefties, they can't hit righties, and they can't hit middlies. It's time the Dodgers stop doing this and use these guys in the roles they were intended for. Gutierrez as a left handed late inning pinch-hitter, and Kike as a defensive replacement. Fortunately the Dodgers should see more right handers than left handers, and tonight's opposing starter is a right hander so we'll get a break from being shutout.
This won't be easy for the Dodgers either. Cahill revived his career with the Cubs last year primarily pitching out of the bullpen. He posted a 2.74 ERA in 50 appearances while striking out 9.0 per nine innings and giving up just 6.7 hits per nine frames. Now he returns to the rotation as a Padre. He's 6-5 with a 3.86 ERA in 14 career starts against the Dodgers and has a 2.18 ERA in 41.1 innings pitched at Dodger Stadium. Adrian Gonzalez has hit him the best of anyone in blue. Gonzo is batting .400 (12 for 30) with 3 home runs and 10 runs batted in versus Cahill.
Cahill vs. Dodgers
Name PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP
Adrian Gonzalez 35 30 12 3 0 3 10 4 8 .400 .457 .800 1.257 0 1 0 0 0
Franklin Gutierrez 21 19 4 3 0 0 2 1 4 .211 .238 .368 .607 0 1 0 0 2
Yasiel Puig 17 12 2 0 0 0 3 4 6 .167 .412 .167 .578 0 0 0 1 0
Chase Utley 17 13 3 0 0 1 1 4 4 .231 .412 .462 .873 0 0 2 0 0
Yasmani Grandal 14 10 4 1 0 0 1 3 0 .400 .571 .500 1.071 0 0 1 1 0
Logan Forsythe 9 9 3 1 1 0 2 0 1 .333 .333 .667 1.000 0 0 0 0 1
Justin Turner 6 5 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 .200 .333 .200 .533 0 0 0 0 1
Hyun-Jin Ryu 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .667 .500 1.167 1 0 0 0 0
Scott Van Slyke 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 1
Joc Pederson 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Corey Seager 2 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 0 0 1 0 0
Andrew Toles 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 1 0
Total 132 107 31 8 1 5 23 19 26 .290 .405 .523 .928 1 2 4 3 5
Hill vs. Padres
Rich Hill is coming off a great year in which he was 12-5 with a 2.12 ERA between the Dodgers and A's. Hill has only 4 career starts against the Padres going 1-3 with a 5.75 ERA in a little over 20 frames thrown. The current Padres do not have a hit against him and are 0 for 16 lifetime.
Wil Myers 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .250 .000 .250 0 0 1 0 0
Erick Aybar 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .667 .667 .667 1.333 0 0 0 0 0
Luis Sardinas 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0
Travis Jankowski 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Luis Perdomo 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Ryan Schimpf 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Yangervis Solarte 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Total 18 16 2 0 0 0 0 2 5 .125 .222 .125 .347 0 0 1 0 0
Let's just hope the Dodgers put out a better lineup. It's ok to lose as long as you lose with your best players on the field. It's not ok to lose with utility players in your lineup. But again at least Kike Hernandez not batting lead-off is progress. I never want to see that again.
For all of you non Spectrum subscribers, enjoy the game on the tube tonight! You'll be able to watch nine more on KTLA this season.
Scott Andes
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26 thoughts on "The Hills Have Eyes: Trevor Cahill Vs. Rich Hill"
Well take whatever SNLA gives us. We'll be driving in commercials from Time Warner/Spectrum or whatever it's called. First chance to listen to a trio call a dodger game.
Go Dodgers!
Michael N. Norris says:
Nice picture, looks like some place in Colorado. Anyway, infuriating is about the right word. My philosophy and what I have always believed is that you trot your best 8 out there everyday. The Dodgers have always been a better team when they do so. The other 5 guys fill in when someone is under the weather or they need a blow. Those 8 players are where they are for a reason. They are the best your team has. Screw Sabermetrics, and this guy does that against so and so. I have never liked the platoon system. Now in the first years in LA Alston used it because he did not really have great players at every position and it worked because those Dodger teams had superior pitching. They were pretty good defensively too. But hitting was not their forte. This team does not have that luxury. I do not care what Mark Timmons may think. FAZ has constructed a roster of good players at most positions and a mediocre starting staff save 1. Kershaw is a stud, the rest are hospital cases waiting to happen. That is not a fallacy. That is the facts. Even Kersh missed time last year, but he looks healthy now. Hit the nail on the head about the same problems as last year showing up in the 2nd game of the season against a journey man lefty. Although Richard has always pitched pretty good against the Dodgers. Cahill did remake himself in Chicago, but despite his career stats, the last few times the Dodgers saw him, they lit him up. We will see. I say just plug that every day pony in there and ride them home. But unfortunately, we all know that FAZ likes the playing of the saber metric games, and Dave Roberts, as good a guy as he is, will pretty much follow that mis guided path.
Nomar said on the post game show, that these line up changes, are not good for the hitters, to keep there rhythm, like we all know.
I don't really understand all of the antipathy toward platoons. If you have the right guys, platoons can help you win.
Platoons have been around since 1914. Casey Stengel won 5 straight World Series by platooning.
https://www.si.com/vault/2013/08/26/106361060/the-case-for–the-platoon
The problem isn't necessarily with platoons – it's with the guys who are used in the platoons. The problem may be that guys like Kike and Gutierrez shouldn't be out there platooning. It's only been one game though and Gutierrez has a good recent history against southpaws.
One thing for sure – they have to do something better against lefties than they did last year.
That article only mentions the times where there was success (Stengel, Weaver. Cox). He didn't mention when it didn't work.
I think the big problem is
1. Set in stone righty vs lefty
2. The team was horrible last year with that rule when they faced left handed pitching.
Dodger rick
The problem with there platoons, is that they sent the platoon team out there, all year, last year, even though they had the lowest offensive production, in all of baseball.
If it was working no one would mind. So far it is not.
I agree but only for platoons using players in their prime or later, for example Ethier.
The problem is that platoons are being used to justify lackluster overall play, usually based on statistical aberrations or a breakout year, and you know what, usually the fall takes longer and you lose more on the way back to the average than what you won in the first place. This is why arbitragers lose to long term strategic thinking. Good players get better as they head into their prime – don't waste those growth years (under team control) with platoons, which denies them the growth, especially in April and May.
If it was working, there would be no antipathy.
I have only a minor problem with the platoon philosophy. I've expressed it. I want to see the Dodger starters when I go to the park. I don't want to see the pathetic backups this organization has put together, I want to see the stars. As it has been, I think since the day Friedman took over, after Kershaw (Greinke) we get ? and Mysterians. Against guys like Bumgarner we get what looks like the hamburger squad. You want to pay $260 FCI for that? I don't. I'd pay to see stars like MadBum pitch, but only if we are playing our stars, which includes all our left handed hitters. If we fielded a team of thumpers it would be different. But these platoons just have not worked. Maybe that changes. I don't expect it. Just like I never expected much out of McCarthy, Latos, Anderson, Kazmir, Hill or Wood. I'm looking forward to the day they are all gone.
Really, who thinks a part time AAAA player, is going to hit better, then a almost everyday player, that is getting consistent at bats.
Even in the post season, too!
jonah says:
The Hills Have Eyes! I saw that movie more than 40 years ago and I still remember it. One of the scariest I ever saw…
Did they ever remake that movie?
I never saw the movie, but I saw the advertisement on TV, back then.
Did you see that Solarte got us again, last night?
Yes, there were two remakes, sequels, whatever. Not sure of the names…
Remember the commmercial they had for that?
Wow. I Little League error by Myers. These guys are terrible.
Hill with a hard hit double play to get out of a jam. AGon a pro. Seager can hack. Joc can't stop his swing. A good start.
Did SNLA just say Seager #1 in rookie batting avg 308?
Piazza hit 318 in his rookie season.
Maybe I saw wrong.
They were talking about last years crop, not Dodger history.
The two Hill's matched up very evenly – Hill 5 IP 1 earned, Cahill 5.2 IP 2 earned.
To bad you joined the service to fight for your country, then started a family when you got home, because you have such a way with written words, you could have been a really good sports writer.
Thank you. I took a few upper division composition classes and enjoyed the process. A grad school professor tried to talk me into becoming a local sports reporter, even made a call for me, but I wanted to coach and teach Special Ed so I passed on that offer. That same year Prop 13 was passed and California education went downhill fast. I was forced out by funding cuts.
Prop 13 benefited millions of home owners, saved them billions of dollars that would have been just flushed through the sewer system they call politics…
Let's how our bullpen holds up. First bullpen game this year.
Alex Wood looked really good in relief. I like him there!


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Greater Lowell KO'd by top seed
By Sam Feeley, Sun Correspondent
Updated: 03/06/2019 12:13:58 PM EST
WORCESTER -- You don't get to 22-1 without facing a little adversity.
Boys basketball tournament
The Hudson Hawks got a strong dose of that during Tuesday night's MIAA Division 3 Central semifinal in the form of a 17-point second quarter deficit to the Greater Lowell Gryphons.
But thanks in large part to Joey Cammarata, the top-seeded Hawks were able to weather the storm and eventually come back for a 67-63 victory over the No. 4 seed Gryphons at WPI's Harrington Auditorium.
Cammanata (21 points, 13 rebounds) nearly had a double-double in the second quarter alone, as he dominated the paint to chip away at the Gryphons' lead, which was built a balanced scoring attack by Paul Choate (20 points, 9rebounds, 5 assists), Luis Huertas and Luis Mota (11 points each). The Gryphons lead eventually shrunk to 38-33 at halftime.
Hudson took its first lead midway through the third quarter, and from there it was a back-and-forth game, contested primarily in the paint between Choate and Cammanata.
When Cammanata fouled out in the fourth quarter, it looked like the Gryphons would have the advantage to break the stalemate and come away with the upset. But Kris O'Brien (12 points, 7 in the fourth quarter) and Cam White (14 points) both came alive to hit clutch threes and nail pivotal free throws to tip the scales in their favor.
Trailing by four with 21 seocnds left, the Gryphons (17-6) had plenty of time to get a quick bucket and perhaps a steal or foul to improve their odds of forcing overtime.
But a point-blank layup was missed after O'Brien sank a free-throw, and the Hawks escaped the foul attempts by the Gryphons to dribble out the clock.
The Hawks will face No. 6 seed Dover-Sherborn Saturday afternoon at 3:15 p.m. at Worcester State for the sectional championship.