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Even amid aggressive cost-cutting, many big pharmaceuticals companies continue to seek biotech acquisitions in the hope of finding new drugs to replace those lost to generic competition.

But they will have to pay more than they did a year ago. The average value of U.S. biotech companies is increasing as funding flows back into the sector after a drought caused by the credit crisis.

At the start of the year, 51 percent of the 328 publicly traded U.S. biotech companies had a market value of less than $100 million each, according to Burrill & Co, a San Francisco-based investment bank. Now that figure is only 41 percent.

"This clearly shows that conditions have improved considerably since the initial capital markets meltdown," said Steven Burrill, the firm's chief executive.

Financings and partnership deals brought in more than $13 billion for the biotech sector in the third quarter, up 147 percent from the same period a year ago.

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Most big pharmaceutical companies are trying to conserve cash as they prepare for the loss of revenue from big-selling products that are set to lose patent protection over the next few years. And several, including Merck & Co (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Pfizer Inc (PFE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) are busy consolidating big mergers.

Even so, executives at the Reuters Health Summit said they need to make acquisitions and form partnerships to fill holes in their pipeline of new products, even if the terms are not quite as advantageous as they were a year ago.

"We continue to see business development as a major contributor to future growth," said Jeffrey Kindler, chief executive of Pfizer, "and we have the capacity to do it."

Some 233 mergers and acquisitions were announced in the healthcare industry during the third quarter, and though volume was in line with the prior quarter, the number of dollars spent rose 38 percent to $38.4 billion, according to a recent report from Irving Levin Associates.

Merck, which has averaged 50 biotech deals a year since 2003, says it plans to keep up the pace and possibly double that number, even as it prepares to cut around 16,000 jobs as part of its $41 billion merger with Schering-Plough.

Richard Clark, the company's chief executive officer, said the company would remain cautious and "fiscally responsible" in its acquisition strategy but sees partnerships and acquisitions as crucial to future growth.

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John Lechleiter, the chief executive of Eli Lilly & Co (LLY.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), said that though the company must be "mindful" of its cash position, it would consider deals in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, a level also indicated by Merck's Clark.

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 “We are excited to partner with DonorsChoose because it supports our teachers in creating innovative and exciting classrooms,” said Thomas Parker, Superintendent of the Allentown School District.  “The District partnership will allow us to leverage the DonorsChoose platform to expand that philanthropical impact across our district and fulfill the needs of 17,000 children.  We are thankful to DonorsChoose for the opportunity and excited and proud to be part of this movement.”

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“As the board president and former teacher, I am excited to give our staff the opportunity to connect with local businesses and individuals nationwide who have the desire to help those in urban classrooms,” said Audrey Mathison, ASD Board of Directors. “This partnership will enable teachers to acquire additional supports above and beyond what the district can afford to supply when creating 21st century classroom of their dreams.”

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“We're excited to have Allentown School District as a new member of the DonorsChoose District Partnership Program,” said Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose. “Allentown School District teachers and administrators continue to work hard to make sure students succeed, so far they’ve raised $236,000 towards classroom materials from donors across the country. We can't wait to see how the DonorsChoose community can support these educators even more through our partnership.”

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Primis’ broker network will also have direct access to Landbay’s underwriting team as well as being able to make quick decisions using the fintech’s two-minute decision principle (DiP).

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Social media can be a valuable resource for marketing your business. Unlike many traditional marketing channels – Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social platforms allow you to communicate with your customers and analyze their feedback in real time.

Unfortunately, there can be a downside to this. The “instant connection” with consumers creates a greater risk of making mistakes that can damage your brand. For example, an employee or third party community manager could forget to log out of the corporate account and post personal information, or information intended for another site by mistake. A mistake like this can go against your brand’s image and adversely affect the public’s perception of your company.

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Photography student Joanna Ornowska was turned away by a store in Coventry when she asked staff to print portraits of her best friend.

?The staff at the shop said they looked professional and that I needed to write a letter with headed paper to show who I am, but I didn?t have any,? Joanna told the Daily Mail newspaper

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Today's AnalogPlanet WFDU HD2 radio show consists of songs about infidelity and cheating. It covers most musical genres, which demonstrates that people cheat regardless of their musical preferences! Whether or not you have cheated, I think you'll dig the songs about it by artists who may or may not have themselves cheated.

BTW: One tune is from a CD, not from vinyl. Any guesses which?

1) June Christy: Something Cool
2) Billie Holiday: I’m a Fool To Want You
3) Hank Williams: Your Cheating Heart
4) Lefty Frizell: Long Black Veil
5) Pixies: Bone Machine
6) Stephen Bishop: On and On
7) Dion: Runaround Sue
8) Shirelles: Baby It’s You
9) Tommy Roe: Hooray For Hazel
10) Dolly Parton: Jolene
11) Billy Paul: Me and Mrs. Jones 13) Johnny Taylor: Who’s Making Love
14) The Shields: You Cheated You Lied
15) Love: Hey Joe
16) Adele: Cold Shoulder
17) Rilo Kiley: Does He Love You
18) Marvin Gaye: I Heard it Through The Grapevine
19) Paul McCartney: Girlfriend
20) Michael Jackson: Girlfriend
21) Elvis Presley: Suspicion
22) Gram Parsons: We’ll Sweep Up and Ashes In The Morning
23) The Eagles: Lying Eyes
24) Amy Winehouse: You Know I’m No Good
25) James Carr: Dark End of The Street
26) Elvis Costello: High Fidelity
27) The Beatles: Run For Your Life

AnalogJ's picture

In the words of the late Artie Johnson. I find it very interesting that you do a show on infidelity just after being away at the Consumer Electronics Show. Hmmmmm.....

Michael Fremer's picture
That's precisely what my wife said when I told her the show's subject!
AnalogJ's picture

If so, an absolute admission of guilt.

Michael Fremer's picture
In greater detail but I'm applying ointment..
gMRfk6LMHn's picture

I thought this radio show was about 'Fidelity' and 'Honesty'!!!!

James, Dublin, Ireland

Michael Fremer's picture
You are a saint!
Jerry belben's picture

Hi Michel
Great list of cheating songs. There is one great song missing though..... the most vitriolic one ever!!! Marianne Faithful.....W'dya Do It?

Love Your Radio Show

Michael Fremer's picture
One of many great ones for a future show on the same subject....thanks.
Jerry belben's picture

One more Q. What is the means or process by which I can listen to your radio shows with the highest fidelity?

Michael Fremer's picture
In the NY/NJ Metro area with an HD radio tuned to WFDU 89.1 when the show airs live is best. Otherwise you'd have to compare the Soundcloud widget on this site with streaming from the site but they only archive for a few weeks. All of the shows are on this site.
Jerry belben's picture

The famous Michael Fremer reach extends far beyond NJ and NY all the up to and including Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Michael Fremer's picture
or streaming?
moby grape's picture

Joni Mitchell sang a wonderful version of Long Black Veil with Johnny Cash. Would enjoy having you visit my weekly drive time program on KXDU here in St. George. Bit of patter and wonderful music.
I can imagine the work involved in presenting most of your music from digitized from.vinyl. I recall your review of the Alexis Masterlink several years ago. Are you still using as a means of capturing your needle drops?

Michael Fremer's picture
I use a Lynx HiLo A/D, D/A. It's really quite good in both directions, versatile and reasonably priced too. I got mine with a Thunderbolt not USB interface. Where are you? Where is St. George?
cdvinyl's picture

Thanks for reminding me. Any chance you can mention that this month is the 50th anniversary of the Doors first album. Listened to my Japanese pressing last night. Great album. Brought back memories of my So. Cal senior year and the fact that Jim's brother Andy was in my grad. class.

Michael Fremer's picture
Why not?
Michael Fremer's picture
Jac Holzman on the left, Bruce Botnick in the middle and moderator Mike Mettler (of Sound&Vision) on the right, reminiscing about Jim Morrison at the Hi-Res Pavillion at CES last week:
cdvinyl's picture

Thanks. I love it.

Jim Tavegia's picture

When we were young kids with little resources it was how we listened to music, new and old. Those who complain about the fidelity of this stream (I'm not one as I am listening through an affordable Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 24/192 usb box & powered JBL LSR 305's on my computer desk) never listened to a "swell" transistor radio at night. It was about the music after all. Thanks, Michael.

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Submitted for your consideration:
Hungry Heart, Norwegian Wood and Your Time Is Gonna Come.

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Johnny's joined a ceilidh band
They're known quite well throughout the land, The Drones
The Drones are signed up on a cruise
While Tracey's laying in the booze back home
She's got herself another man, a smoothie
While the kids are in the front room watching movies
She's got him in a head lock, in an arm lock, in a jam
She says, I can't express myself with my old man

While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea.....

moby grape's picture

Located in southern Utah; stones throw from Zion NP and a couple of hours northeast of Las Vegas. 91.3 fm KXDS is is part of Dixie State University. It would be fun to have you on. Tuesday's from 4-6pm must. My program is a real mash of great music with a special affinity for the WB Records label. Pushing hard for a TT in the studio...

moby grape's picture

Would Enjoy Having You On...can we arrange a call in for a future Tuesday?

Michael Fremer's picture
I would love to do a call in. I have many great Zion National Park stories. My favorite national park..
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Michael, next Tuesday works. That would be anytime between 6pm and 8pm eastern time. I'm on the air from 4-6pm Mountain time. I don't mind providing my personal e-mail which is
You can catch a sample if you'd like via the Tune In Radio app. 91.3FM KXDS Radio Dixie this afternoon.
best, Dave

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WFDU is running a fund drive. They are in need of a new transmitter. Any donations counts. Plus it keeps Mike on the air lol . Thanks for all you do for the audio world Mike


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The Anomaly games gained attention not only because they are staggeringly gorgeous, but because the gameplay was a clever twist on the age-old tower defense genre. Past games had you playing as the creeps fighting through the towers, but Anomaly Defenders is more traditional—you're in control of the towers, but it's the humans you're fighting, not aliens.

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This is the final installment in the Anomaly series, and the humans are close to wiping out the alien menace. Not just on Earth, but everywhere. Have they maybe gone a little overboard with this whole genocide thing? We humans do tend to do that sometimes. Your character has been recruited by the aliens to hold off the human invaders just long enough for them to reach their escape pods and leave this corner of the galaxy behind. To do so you get access to all the devious defense towers you have been battling against for the last few games.

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This isn't just a run-of-the-mill TD game, though. Anomaly Defenders includes resource management, a full tech tree, and some cool strategic planning like rerouting the enemy troops to spring traps. Of course, the game is still visually amazing. You're looking at $3.99 to pick up Anomaly Defenders, which is $1 less than Anomaly 2. Seems like a good deal.

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Monday, August 30, 2010

Carnival Carnage

This morning, when I stomped off in a bad mood, John called after me, "I'm gonna drop you off at Notting Hill tube station later today," which was enough to stop me in my tracks and make amends for my bad behavior.

That's because yesterday, I somehow found myself standing ankle-deep in litter on Ladbroke Grove, with two cans of Red Stripe in one hand and a foil container full of jerk chicken accompanied by rice and beans in the other.  Chaos had ensued around me, consisting of drunk middle-aged upper class women wearing Toast and swaying to salsa beats pretending to be "cool" (believe me, it was more cringe than cool) and hipster twenty-somethings wearing brogues and black tights also pretending to be cool (which was apparently expressed by screaming the names of their missing party across the crowds in hopes of reuniting.  At one point, I joined in).  I was so confused.  Where was the parade?  Where were the half-naked ladies I was so looking forward to seeing?  The steel drums?  You know, everything the Notting Hill Carnival promises to be?  Instead, we seemed to be wandering aimlessly through one crowd to the next, negotiating elbows, bags, bottles and cigarettes.

I thought about it for a long while and I think I had an answer.  A couple, actually, as to why I wasn't having a good time.  1) I think we missed the parade.  You see, about 10 minutes before we had arrived on foot, it looked like Hurricane Whatever was raging outside.  So we hid out in our flat for a while before venturing out.  I think the parade had started before Hurricane Whatever, so that by the time we got there, the only thing left of the so-called procession were some very slow moving trucks carrying sound systems.  Okay, cool, but like I said - I went to see the half-naked ladies.  2) To mask my disappointment of having missed the said ladies, what I should have done was gotten ever-so-slightly drunk, which probably would have made me a little more cheerful about the whole situation.  But instead, I sulked and allowed myself to be carried along from stage to stage.  John helpfully explained that if he had been "a bit better organized", we could have picked a spot around each stage to dance at.  Whatever.

"You okay?" asked John, looking at me with a bit of concern, while bobbing his head to the powerful bass emanating from the drum and bass stage where we were supposed to meet some friends.  The friends we had arrived with had wisely absconded earlier, due to their petrified dog's state, with promises to return - to no avail.  "Mmm ... yeah, fine!" I responded brightly, wincing as an empty vodka bottle was knocked into my Aldo boots.  The carnival had very quickly descended from my idea of fun to a version of my own personal hell.  He grinned.  "You hate it, don't you.  You absolutely hate it," he said.  "I don't hate it," I said, glaring at him.  "It's just, you know, like, um ... not really ... um ... my scene," I managed, as I was shoved sideways by a rather largish woman's breasts (the sheer weight of those things ... amazing) and ricocheted off some broken bottles.  "I liked the parade!" I volunteered.  Well, the bit that we saw, at least.  "I liked the jerk chicken!" I said brightly (which was true - the jerk chicken was a gastronomic delight).  "And um ..." I trailed off.

So yeah, I'd give the carnival another go - but I think I'd have to get there a bit earlier, be in a better mood, and at least a little bit drunk.

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Gravehill/Mordbrand – Skullbearer/In Nighted Waters [Split] Review

Gravehill/Mordbrand - Skullbearer/In Nighted WatersStrap on the gauntlets and prepare to get dirty. Two years after their last album, California’s Gravehill are teaming up with Swedish trio Mordbrand to bring you nine tracks of teeth-gnashing, no-apologies death metal to get your head banging and your roommates finding somewhere else to live. Both bands have been toiling in the underground for over a decade, taking that time to build solid back catalogs and hone their own unique take on the style. As heard on 2014’s Death Curse, Gravehill specialize in riffy, thrashing, to-the-point metal that sounds like a more uncivilized version of Deceased or a more melodic version of GoatwhoreMordbrand, meanwhile, showcased their Swedish roots on 2014 debut Imago by drawing comparisons to Dismember and Grave. Sounds like a rollicking good time and an exciting matchup, so let’s get started!

Gravehill kick things off with their Skullbearer side, and right away it’s obvious this is the same band that shoved dynamite up my ass with 2011’s When All Roads Lead to Hell. “By the Edge of Our Knives” bashes in with a bobbing melodic riff that repeats a note in sequence before twisting it down the scale, closing with a battering, thrashy finish and roars of ‘Feel our blades! Feel our fire!’ With the band’s typical ‘angry Muppet’ growls here in full force, I was actually surprised to learn that — among other lineup changes — former bassist ‘J.T. Corpse’ had stepped up on vocal duties with the departure of longtime member ‘Mike Abominator.’

Nevertheless, Gravehill’s other three songs show that the quintet hasn’t lost their mojo yet. “Away From the Light” shows the group’s knack for snappy rhythms, while “Redeemed in Blood” introduces frantic tremolos and diminished chords which recall second-wave black metal, before concluding with sweeping harmonized leads and solos that could have been pulled from an old Amon Amarth album. Music this straightforward demands to be catchy, and while these songs aren’t always as memorable as past works, there’re still a couple of fist-raising moments if you’re paying attention – most notably the repeated cries of ‘Death! Death! Hear the ancient bells!’ on closer “Upon the 6th Chime.” Topped off with a fiery and raw production, I’d chalk this side up as a win.

Gravehill 2016

But while Gravehill largely offered what I expected from them – albeit slightly less polished – the real surprise came from Mordbrand. Somehow being halfway around the world wasn’t enough for the group to escape the shit-kicking influence of American bands like Arghoslent and Abominant, and I’m perfectly okay with that. Opener “Decimation Reigns” kicks in like a lost Incorrigible Bigotry B-side with its galloping NWoBHM-tinged riffing, swift melodic trills, and throaty growls that even sound like Arghoslent’s former vocalist ‘The Genocider.’ (Rest easy, the racist lyrics are thankfully absent).

Later tracks tone down this influence somewhat, with “Cold Womb” sounding more like Unleashed with its chilly strumming. Like Gravehill’s side, after the opener the songs aren’t quite as strong, but there’s still fun to be had in the squealing ascending licks of “Parishioners of the Bleeding (Storm Against Creation).” Mordbrand also end on a high note with their cover of the obscure Dutch band Bluuurgh…, whose track “Compost Christ” works remarkably well with its delightfully blunt chorus and quick punky drumming that offsets the blastbeats used on Mordbrand’s other cuts. The mix on this side remains just as heavy and incendiary but sounds a bit cleaner without entirely giving up the grit.

Mordbrand 2016

Is this the best thing I’ve heard this year? Maybe not. A few more standout riffs and memorable songs would have helped, but flourishes like the echoing bells on “Upon the 6th Chime” and the synthy outro of “Decimation Reigns” make for some cool touches that add a smidge of atmosphere. There’s certainly much worse out there, and for those looking for a taste of two lesser-known bands who put a little pizzazz in the typical death metal formula, this will do the job just fine.

Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 6 [Gravehill Side]; 9 [Mordbrand Side] | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Doomentia Records
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Releases Worldwide: November 18th, 2016

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It’s time to meet a few more inhabitants of this system we call the body.

Earlier today, the official Cells at Work! (Hataraku Saibo) anime’s official website updated with four new cast members. The series will add the following:

  • Dendritic Cell: Nobuhiko Okamoto
  • Eosinophil: M.A.O
  • Helper T Cell (T Lymphocyte): Takahiro Sakurai
  • Regulatory T Cell: Saori Hayami

Chibi-styled visuals for all four characters were also revealed, which you can check out below:

Cells at Work! will hit Japanese TV this July. Aniplex of America has already opened an English-language website for the series, though they haven’t specified streaming plans as of press time.

Kenichi Suzuki (Drifters, Gundam Evolve) is directing the project at David Production, with Takahiko Yoshida (Welcome to the NHK, Yowamushi Pedal) providing character designs. Yuuko Kakihara (Chihayafuru 2, Tsukigakirei) is in charge of series composition.

Other confirmed crew members include:

  • Screenplay: Yuuko Kakihara
  • Screenplay: Kenichi Suzuki
  • Sub-Character Design: Kenta Mimuro
  • Sub-Character Design : Keiko Tamaki
  • Prop Design: Kenta Mimuro
  • Action Animation Director: Kenta Mimuro
  • Chief Animation Director: Takahiko Yoshida
  • Chief Animation Director: Keiko Tamaki
  • Background Art: Atelier Platz
  • Art Set: Ichiro Uno
  • Art Set: Hashiguchi Koji
  • Color Design: Aiko Mizuno
  • Director of Photography: Yuki Oshima
  • 3D CGI Director: Yutaka Nakajima
  • Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose (editz)
  • Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
  • Sound Production: Magic Capsule
  • Music: Kenichiro Suehiro
  • Music: MAYUKO
  • Producer: Yuma Takahashi
  • Animation Producer: Go Wakamatsu
  • Animation Production: David Production
  • Production: Aniplex
  • Production: Kodansha
  • Production: David Production

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • White Blood Cell (Neutrophil): Tomoaki Maeno
  • Red Blood Cell (Erythrocite): Kana Hanazawa
  • Macrophage: Kikuko Inoue
  • Killer T Cell: Daisuke Ono
  • Platelet: Maria Naganawa

Aniplex of America describes the series as:

This is a story about you. A tale about the inside of your body…

According to a new study, the human body consists of approximately 37 trillion cells.

These cells are hard at work every day within a world that is your body.

From the oxygen carrying Red Blood Cells to the bacteria fighting White Blood Cells,

Get to know the unsung heroes and the drama that unfolds inside of you!

From the popular manga “Cells at Work!” comes a brand new anthropomorphized anime TV series!

It’s the oddly relatable and interesting story that is the life of cells!

Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! manga launched in the pages of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius in March 2015. The series currently spans five compiled volumes, with the most recent book hitting retailers on August 9, 2017. Kodansha Comics currently holds the rights to the title in North America. They released the fifth volume on November 21, 2017.

Source: Comic Natalie


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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Appleseed

by Jason Thompson,

Episode LX: Appleseed

Masamune Shirow is a manga artist who became a pin-up artist. I can't blame him; there's more money there. His first art book, Intron Depot in 1992, was a taste of his future career, full of pictures of athletic-looking women in the embrace of giant organic-looking machines and wasplike mecha. Shirow, like Katsuhiro Otomo, rocked the world in the '80s and '90s with his hard science fiction cyberpunk manga and the anime based on them (the original Ghost in the Shell movie was the first anime to hit #1 on the US home video charts), and like Otomo he has moved from manga to another career. He's now basically an illustrator, who draws game and anime designs and books: books full of beautiful color, Photoshop effects, and women in skintight bodysuits with crazy detailed thigh muscles.

With the TV series Appleseed XIII coming out, I went back and reread Appleseed, Shirow's first lengthy hit manga that began in 1985. Originally translated by Eclipse Comics in 1988, it's still available from Dark Horse, making it one of the oldest manga continually in print in America. (Dark Horse keeps their old manga in print better than any other publisher.) Ghost in the Shell is more popular, but I went back to reread Appleseed because I like Appleseed better.

Appleseed is a postapocalyptic science fiction special-ops story set in the year 2127. (You have to read Shirow's extremely detailed notes to find the date.) Years after World War III and World War IV, the world we know it has been reshaped. New countries have risen up and old ones have fallen hard. Nuclear weapons were never used in the conflict, so most of the planet is still livable, but ruined cities and plant-overgrown wastelands abound, returning to nature like in that TV show Life After People. In one of the bonus sections, Shirow shows us a map of the Earth, with North America, Europe and most of Asia riddled with bomb and meteorite craters.

Two survivors travel among the ruins, which are intact enough (thanks to chemical weapons driving out entire populations without wrecking the buildings) for them to cook in the kitchen of abandoned apartments. They are Deunan and Briareos, former S.W.A.T. members, from a time when their government still existed. Deunan is short-haired, wiry and ripped, good with a knife and a gun. Briareos, her partner and boyfriend, is a hulking cyborg with his entire outer body replaced by metal (although he still bleeds); his face has five eyes, no obvious mouth, and two big antennae like bunny ears. (Like Batou in Ghost in the Shell, he's proof that Shirow would rather draw anything other than handsome men.)

The needs of survival have made them ruthless; when bandits in tanks attack them, Deunan doesn't think twice about shooting a man in the face. But when they meet Hitomi, a woman traveling inside a strangely advanced Landmate (a small mecha), they put aside their suspicions and accept her invitation to go back with her to her homeland, Olympus. Following Hitomi, Deunan and Briareos leave the wasteland and find a land of towering arcologies, gleaming skyscrapers, blue skies and lush green parks. Olympus, a new country only a few decades old, has risen from the ashes of the old world and already become the most powerful nation on Earth. While most of the world remains mired in mud, blood and filth, Olympus is like a paradise, justly administered by AEGIS, the "central management bureau," and protected by superior science despite its small size.

Deunan and Briareos shack up with Hitomi and some other vagrants picked up from the outlands, and begin their new life in this perfect world, full of long showers (for Deunan at least) and picnics on the grass. But Hitomi didn't just invite them to Olympus out of sheer goodness; Deunan and Briareos' combat skills are a hot commodity, and they are recruited for jobs in the police. With some hesitation, they decide to join the cops and help protect Olympus from malcontents and terrorists, including the secret agents of other nations. There's just one problem: the people of Olympus aren't human. 80% of the population of Olympus are Bioroids, artificial humans cloned from the combined DNA of various scientists, notables and donors. "Personality and emotional responses can be conditioned by training, education, and the child-rearing environment…in a sense, they're the most compact, complex, and sophisticated robots imaginable." In the senate of Olympus, cybernetically augmented posthumans debate their plans for the planet Earth, planning to set up an Olympus-like system across the globe. Can Deunan and Briareos, who have lived their lives in the freedom and danger of the wasteland, support this New World Order which wants to change the very nature of humanity? "I thought it was good here, too…at first," says Chiffon, one of the other outlanders picked up from outside like Deunan and Briareos. "But it's a zoo…a zoo for those weird animals that build their own cages and hide inside of them."

Appleseed deals with a lot of the same issues as Ghost in the Shell, but at a slightly lower-tech level; instead of asking "Are you still human if you're a disembodied consciousness on Wi-Fi?", it asks "Are you still human if you're a vat-raised, genetically-engineered test-tube human whose aggressive and negative traits have been smoothed out?" There's A.I.s and cyborgs in Appleseed too, of course—the main character is sleeping with one—but Appleseed feels less like a posthuman cyberpunk story and more in the mode of classic Utopian/dystopian sci-fi, such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and, especially, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with a dash of Gattaca. The similarities to Brave New World (or if you prefer the Hollywood version, Demolition Man) are pretty strong; like the Savage in Brave New World, Deunan and Briareos are outsiders from a rougher, more violent world, who come into the perfect society and shake things up. "Seems our species has just two options left," muses one character, "Pursue our every want and desire, and thereby drag the whole world down to destruction, or change our very nature and preserve this present sterile utopia in stasis forever."

Sterile utopia vs. savage outsiders? Are Deunan and Briareos noble, pure, savage humans who are disgusted by the decadent bio-utopia of Olympus? Well, no, actually. There are weird things in this new world, such as gigantic spidery robots (Shirow's #2 favorite thing to draw, after naked chicks) and Artemis, a parthenogenetic catgirl bioroid apparently designed by the creators of Olympus to make sure that humanity's wild side never dies out. But unlike Brave New World, there's no sense of real nasty dystopia, no shock scenes where we discover that the Bioroids like to eat Soylent Green or mutate into puddles of slime or wear new designer faces every day. (In fact, in one of the few scenes where something really evil happens, it's normal humans, not Bioroids, who are found abusing slaves in the lawless outlands.) Compared to some of the weird posthuman things in Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed is as cozy as Baseball and Mom's Apple Pie, and you get the feeling that Shirow thinks that Olympus would be a pretty good place to live.

So good, in fact, that Shirow's protagonists would willingly trade their civil rights for it. When Deunan and Briareos become anti-terrorist squad members in Olympus, they don't screw around. "In this country, terrorists have zero rights, and don't you forget it!" "Money should be spent to protect victims, not criminals. Best thing to do with those thugs is wipe them out." There's even a scene when the cops put the i-don't-give-a-sh#t-down on some corrupt politician shouting "I have diplomatic immunity!", like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 2. Reading Appleseed in the year 2011, I was a little disturbed by how familiar Shirow's 25-year-old diatribes against terrorism sounded, even the subplot about Islamic terrorists, although in Appleseed's future they're partnered up with fascist American Southerners, since America, too, is now a rogue state. It's the sort of manga that Jack Bauer in 24 might like. It makes a good contrast with Dominion, another Shirow manga, a over-the-top parody of the whole bad-cops-in-a-dystopian-future thing. I think Shirow is being completely sincere when he praises the Olympus S.W.A.T. team members, and that he really is in favor of a more big-government (some would say totalitarian) society with far-reaching police powers, but it's nice to know he can also make fun of himself.

Appleseed's art is crude at the beginning, but it gets better. Its retro-cyberpunk world of gleaming metal, funky machines and diamond-nosed girls reminded me of MEE and early Kia Asamiya, until I realized that they started years after Shirow and were just copying his style. (On the story more than art side, it also feels like an influence on Hiroki Endo's manga Eden.) The art really improves in the 2nd and 3rd volumes, getting more and more detailed and elaborate as Shirow's manga output slowed down. Shirow's obsessiveness also comes through in the text. Appleseed is heavily researched hard sci-fi, and there are footnotes explaining everything. The timeline in the back of one of the books explains the backstory of the world from 1988 to 2147. Characters continually deliver long speeches about science, sociology and politics, which don't tell us much about their characters but do tell us what Shirow has on his mind. Rumor has it that Shirow used to be a schoolteacher, but now he lectures his readers, not his students. Occasionally these long science essays in manga form are delivered by scantily clad women lounging voluptuously (or muscle-ly, since that's more Shirow's thing) in bed, and other times they're delivered by heavily armored cyborgs and Landmates inbetween counterterrorist battles. The hard science doesn't stop in the action scenes: in one scene, Briareos jumps high in the air holding Deunan, and although they land safely, the G-force of the acceleration pools her blood, making her momentarily go blind. Even the Landmate mecha have been designed for realism. Shirow wants everything to be scientifically plausible: "I apologize for drawing a typical unrealistic manga fight scene," he writes in the notes for a scene in Appleseed Hypernotes, the final book so far of the series, which contains a portion of the unfinished volume five plus a lot of sketches and notes.

The density of Shirow's comics reminds me more of American comics than of manga. So do the characters, who are very cool and chill, not like the emo heroes and heroines of shojo and shonen manga. In Ghost in the Shell, this Shirow coolness finally reached the point that I didn't enjoy the manga that much. The problem with Shirow's manga for me is that it's not driven by the characters, it's driven by ideas: ideas about science, politics, whatever. But the core of Appleseed is the relationship between Deunan and Briareos, whose love for one another makes them more likeable than the Ghost in the Shell characters whose only bond is police comraderie. "Everything's all right now…my Briareos came back to me," says Deunan in one of their few quiet moments together between the gun battles. Their flirting and arguing is what convinces me that life in Olympus might be a good thing, much more than any of Shirow's lengthy rambles about the destiny of humanity.

The series doesn't really have an ending, but the climax of volume 2 feels like a conclusion, and the rest of the manga is isolated episodes or buildup for a longer plot that never got off the ground. I'd like it if Shirow went back to drawing manga, although I don't think he'd ever have it in him to tell a very emotional story, or a story about ordinary people. "Use ordinary people, and all you get is an ordinary society," says one of the Appleseed characters. Maybe, but some of the best moments in manga come from the moments about ordinary people doing ordinary things, even if one of them is a cyborg with bunny ears and another one is a highly trained mercenary. Details make an awesome manga, but I remember Deunan and Briareos so much better than I remember the muzzle velocity of the guns of Olympus.

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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that the next monthly ANSI Caucus Luncheon will be held on Friday, May 7, 2010. The meeting will feature guest speaker George Arnold, Ph.D., national coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Dr. Arnold was appointed to his position in April 2009. He is responsible for leading the development of standards underpinning the nation's Smart Grid, a modernization of the electricity delivery system to monitor, protect, and automatically optimize the operation of its interconnected elements. He joined NIST in September 2006 as deputy director of technology services, after a 33-year career in the telecommunications and information technology industry.

He served as the Chairman of ANSI's Board of Directors from 2003 to 2005, and as president of the IEEE Standards Association in 2007-2008. Dr. Arnold is currently vice president of policy for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), where he is responsible for guiding ISO's strategic plan.

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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards developer (ASD) and organizational member, has named three individuals - two of them current staff members - to the position of vice president. CEA promoted Siri Tyler to vice president of finance and Karen Chupka to vice president of International CES and corporate business strategy, and hired Jim Davin as vice president of membership.

In his new position, Mr. Davin - who previously worked at Johnson & Johnson as head of retail promotions and executions for Walgreens - will oversee member recruitment, member program activities, and membership development for CEA. Ms. Tyler, who joined CEA in 2004, will provide direct oversight of CEA's accountants and other finance professionals. Ms. Chupka, who has been employed by CEA for 23 years, will continue to oversee CES as part of her new position.

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The Commons Speaker has threatened to run Matt Hancock “ragged” over his failure to inform MPs first about major changes to coronavirus restrictions.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he accepted decisions are taken in a fast-moving way but blasted the Health Secretary for not telling the Commons about new rules banning social gatherings of more than six people.

The Covid-19 policy change was officially released via the media on Tuesday evening.

Mr Hancock made a Commons statement earlier on Tuesday to update MPs about Covid-19 without mentioning the new restrictions, even though details were already being reported by that point.

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Sir Lindsay suggested he would allow MPs to direct an urgent question (UQ) at Mr Hancock every sitting day in the Commons in a bid to bring the Cabinet minister into line.

The Speaker receives requests on a daily basis for extra issues to be added to the Commons schedule.

This includes in the form of UQs, although the Secretary of State of the relevant department is not required to respond and can send a junior minister in their place.

After concerns were raised by Tory former minister Sir Desmond Swayne about the Government’s “ability to govern by order without debate”, Sir Lindsay told the Commons: “It’s really not good enough for the Government to make decisions of this kind in a way which shows insufficient regard for the importance of major policy announcements being made first to this House and members of this House wherever possible.”

The Speaker said he had written to Mr Hancock and criticised his “total disregard” for the Commons.

Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth added: “There was no reason why the Secretary of State could not have told the House yesterday this was the Government’s plan.”

He also said: “Should we assume ministers don’t know what they’re doing from one day to the next?”

Sir Lindsay, in his reply, said: “I expect the Secretary of State to apologise to members and make sure that this chamber knows first of when he was fully aware of what was going to be said later.

“And let me say, if this minister wants to run this chamber ragged I can assure you now I’m sure a UQ (urgent question) every day might just begin to run him ragged.”

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Thank you for choosing Associated Physicians of WNY. It is our privilege to care for you and to provide you and your family with the quality service you deserve. The heart of what we do centers on caring with compassion and treating you like family. That means your safety and well-being are our top priority. Our caregivers are passionate and dedicated to being there for you at every step of your health and recovery journey.

By now, you have likely heard a great deal about the new Coronavirus. Coronavirus, also referred to as COVID-19, is an infectious disease first detected in China and now making its way to various parts of the world, including the United States.

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You should give Kim Boberg a follow on Instagram and you’ll see the craziest training routine for skiing in your life. He is dedicated, driven, and more fashion forward with his go to bowl cut than anyone we know. Celebrating a full decade working with us, Kim has always pushed the boundaries from the park, to the street, to the BC and shows no sign of ever slowing down.

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Not 100% right now, but there’s some rough plans for next season, together with The Bunch. I might be hanging with those guys as much as I can, they’re like my family now so I’m super hyped to do some more skiing with them.

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I feel like they made skiing more relatable to more people. It just looks really fun when they ski, even if they hit small stuff, they just make it look so nice and fun. I respect them for that, because I feel that a lot of people got inspired and that’s a good thing.

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That’s a hard question. I just want Armada to keep its spirit, as it has been. When I was a kid, I saw Armada as this rider-owned brand and just this great team. They kept the team spirit, which I feel is pretty rare with some brands. That’s what I want Armada to keep doing and listening to us and our input. Do projects with us, because then it’s more like a family than a brand. That’s what I want Armada to still be and I think they’re doing a good job with it. Us being here now, in my home resort. It feels amazing and I’m super stoked.

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On May 6, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund held an opening ceremony to unveil the newly built community center of Bavra, a village in Armenia’s Shirak Region. Among those attending the jubilant community event was a delegation led by Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the fund, and including project sponsor Nshan Devejian as well as other Argentinean-Armenian benefactors with their families.

Officials in attendance included Armen Gevorgyan, deputy prime minister of Armenia and minister of territorial administration; Felix Tsolakyan, governor of Shirak; and Mkrtich Petrosyan, mayor of Bavra, among others.

The new community center will house the mayor’s office, a library, a computer room, and an events hall.

The construction of the community center is the second development project in Bavra to be sponsored by Nshan Devejian and his family. Earlier this year, the benefactors provided the school of Bavra with new furniture and computers.

During the opening ceremony, the village administration recognized the far-reaching support of the Devejians by naming them Honorary Citizens of Bavra and granting them a 300-square-meter tract of land.

Currently Nshan Devejian’s son, Daniel, is making possible the 5,000 Sport Balls project, through which regional schools throughout Armenia are being provided with playing balls. On May 6 alone, 625 balls were gifted to 151 schools.

“Despite the arduous trip to Bavra, my wife insisted on attending today’s ceremony,” Nshan Devejian said in his remarks, and wished that the new community center will become a “source of happiness” for the town’s residents.

“Since our meeting with our Argentinean-Armenian benefactors two years ago, their financial support has enabled us to launch several projects in Armenia and Artsakh,” Ara Vardanyan said. “The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund is the hand of one Armenian extended to another. Today Argentinean-Armenians have extended a helping hand to our fellow Armenians in Bavra. May this community center become for them the start of a new life.” Subsequently Vardanyan presented medals to Mr. and Mrs. Devejian as well as the other Argentinean-Armenian benefactors in attendance, Krikor Simsiroglu and the Ekserciyan brothers.

As he addressed the audience, Mayor Mkrtich Petrosyan conveyed his community’s gratitude to the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund and the benefactors for implementing vital development projects in Bavra, which is known as the northern gate of Armenia.

On his part, Shirak governor Felix Tsolakyan said, “The new community center is the first public building to be constructed in Bavra since 1956. My wish is that, with each new structure, the villagers’ faith in their land and water will be further bolstered.”

Bavra, which is located about half a kilometer from the Georgian border, has a population of 570.

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