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Is Justin Bieber?s driver?s license at risk? Neighbors allege recklessness in Ferrari.
Pop star Justin Bieber's neighbors say he drives dangerously fast in their gated community, endangering children. Of recent indiscretions, Bieber says, 'I'm young and I want to have fun.'
Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs on stage during a concert in Dubai May 4. Bieber is under investigation for speeding through his gated Los Angeles-area community in a Ferrari sports car after neighbors complained to police.
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Pop star Justin Bieber, with his right foot sometimes on the pedal of a white Ferrari, may be stepping over the line of safe driving, neighbors have alleged.
Let?s just say it doesn?t sound as if the 19-year-old singer has developed very promising habits behind the wheel. And for California drivers, a few infractions noted by police can result in a suspended driver?s license.
The incident that?s put Bieber in the news this week occurred Monday, when he allegedly drove his white Ferrari at freeway speeds in what is a 25 mile-per-hour zone.
Former NFL wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson was one of the neighbors who complained. Worried about the safety of his young children within the gated community where he and Bieber own homes, Mr. Johnson got into his Prius and followed Bieber?s Ferrari in an effort to talk about his driving habits. But Bieber scurried into his house.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department received two calls and responded to the location in Calabasas. But they were also turned away.
"His security detail said he declined to talk to us based on the advice of counsel," Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
"Their eyewitness testimony to our deputies was definitive ? not only the speed, not only the vehicle, but Mr. Bieber was sitting and driving in the driver's side seat," Whitmore said.
The matter will soon head to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office to consider filing misdemeanor charges.
In California, drivers may have licenses suspended or revoked if they acquire a certain number of negative ?points.? Four points within a 12-month period, for example, could result in suspension.
Many rule violations result in one point. ?Reckless driving? is a two-point violation, as is a speed contest or ?exhibition of speed.?
The Memorial Day incident comes after another publicized case of alleged speeding in his community. Another neighbor said that when he complained, Bieber spit on him and threatened him, according to news reports. That incident could also result in a prosecution.
Bieber hasn?t commented this week on his driving behavior. But amid a string of bad publicity, from concert cancellations to alleged drug use, he has offered a blend of apology and self-justification.
"I want to be a good role model, but some people want me to fail,? he told US Weekly magazine this spring. He said he?s ?not perfect.?
Bieber also said "I'm young and I want to have fun. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.? He also said ?mistakes? are ?part of growing up.?
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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UPDATED: Epizyme scores latest biotech IPO victory to advance ...
Epizyme ($EPZM) has become the latest IPO success story from a growing market for public debuts in biotech. The Cambridge, MA-based developer of targeted cancer drugs sold about 5.9 million shares for $15 per share when including the 771,300 shares granted for over-allotments, hitting the high end of its proposed $13-$15 per share price range and exceeding previous fundraising targets for the offering.
The company roared into action on the Nasdaq on its first day of trading Friday, soaring 53.27% to $22.99 per share at the close of trading.
Epizyme, a 2011 Fierce 15 company, plans to invest in advancing a young pipeline of small molecule drugs against epigenetic enzymes in the cancer field. Though the company has yet to report results from a Phase I study of its lead drug candidate, the executive team led by CEO Robert Gould and CFO Jason Rhodes has an aggressive strategy for rapidly advancing its compounds through development and a roster of corporate partners such as Celgene ($CELG), Eisai and GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK).
Three or four years ago, public investors might have balked at a company not quite finished with early-stage development of unproven compounds. Yet 2013 has been a comeback year for biotech IPOs, which are expected to easily dwarf the 10 completed maiden public offerings in 2012 and abysmal totals since the late-2008 financial meltdown. And Epizyme's predecessors in the cancer field have shown that molecularly targeted medicines that offer early proof of efficacy can indeed race through clinical development. So investors won't have to wait long to see how well the drugs work.
Epizyme's lead candidate, called EPZ-5676, entered Phase I development in September for patients with a lethal subtype of acute blood cancers known as mixed lineage leukemia (MLL). Celgene grabbed rights to the compound for outside of the U.S., with Epizyme retaining control of its domestic market. The compound targets DOT1L histone methyltranferase, which is part of a 96-member class of epigenetic enzymes.
Epizyme has banked on drugs against these HMT enzymes and so far the strategy has panned out on the fundraising front. The company's three venture rounds brought in $76 million, its deal revenue hit $120 million, according to an SEC filing, and now the IPO could reach $88.7 million if underwriters purchase all of the shares for over-allotments.
- here's the company's release
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify the conditional element of the over-allotment share purchases and the total potential amount of the offering.
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Battery is viewed as a serious criminal offense under Illinois Law, found in the criminal code at 720 ILCS 5/12-3, it states the following:
A person commits battery if he (or she) intentionally or knowingly without legal justification and by any means causes bodily harm to an individual or makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an individual.
As the definition says, in order to be accused of battery, a person has to cause bodily harm to an individual. In other words, if your ?intentional? actions, (even if your body did not touch the other person) cause injury to the individual, you can be accused of battery.
In most cases, battery is punished as a Class A misdemeanor. Usual sentences include up to $2,500 in fines and up to one year in prison. However, the judge is allowed to sentence the defendant to probation instead of prison.
One fact that most people don?t know about battery is that law enforcement officials have the right to arrest only one of the individuals and charge them with battery even if others were involved. As an example, if two people are involved in a physical fight and the police arrive, the officer has the right to choose who they will arrest and charge with battery. He or she may arrest one or both of the individuals based on their assessment of the situation.
The individual charged with battery has the right to a trial in which he or she has the right to assert a defense based on self-defense, defense of another or defense of personal property.
?If you have any legal matters, contact The American Law Firm?to speak with one of our qualified attorneys. Please call The American Law Firm?at 815-394-1776 to schedule a free consultation.
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Turkish police raid sit-in against tree removal
Riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a demonstration by hundreds of people trying to prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul?s main square, Taksim. (AP Photo)
Riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a demonstration by hundreds of people trying to prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul?s main square, Taksim. (AP Photo)
A man runs through smoke of tear gas fired up by riot police in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. Riot police used tear gas and pressurized water to quash a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of people staging a sit-in to try to prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park. (AP Photo)
A man falls as riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of people staging a sit-in protest to try and prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. A number of protesters were injured. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul?s main square, Taksim. The protesters are demanding that the square?s park, Gezi, is protected. (AP Photo)
A woman protects herself as riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of people staging a sit-in protest to try and prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. A number of protesters were injured. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul?s main square, Taksim. The protesters are demanding that the square?s park, Gezi, is protected. (AP Photo)
Women try to protect themselves as riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of people staging a sit-in protest to try and prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. A number of protesters were injured. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul?s main square, Taksim. The protesters are demanding that the square?s park, Gezi, is protected. (AP Photo)
ISTANBUL (AP) ? Turkish riot police used tear gas and water cannon Friday to end a peaceful sit-in by hundreds of people trying to prevent trees from being uprooted in an Istanbul park. The dawn raid ignited a furious anti-government protest that took over the city's main square and spread to other cities.
In a victory for the protesters, an Istanbul court later ordered the temporary suspension of the project to uproot the trees. But demonstrators around the country kept up protests denouncing what they called a heavy-handed crackdown and a government seen as displaying increasingly authoritarian tendencies.
Police took action on the fourth day of the sit-in against a government plan to revamp Taksim square. Officers clashed with angry demonstrators in surrounding areas, firing tear gas canisters and pushing people back with water cannon. A cloud of smoke from the gas filled the square and scattered protests continued into the night.
In solidarity with protesters in Istanbul, some 5,000 people gathered at a park in the capital, Ankara, swelling into a busy street nearby. They chanted anti-government slogans and called on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign. Police used tear gas to push back a group that tried to march toward the Parliament building.
Protests were also held in a dozen other cities, including one that drew thousands in the third-largest city of Izmir, reports said.
The Istanbul protesters were demanding the square's Gezi Park be protected from plans that include the construction of a shopping mall. Many also aired grievances against Erdogan, whose style has become increasingly uncompromising during his government's third successive term.
Last week, the government enacted a law restricting the sale and advertising of alcohol, a move that has alarmed secular Turks.
Earlier this week, the government went ahead with a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a disputed third bridge across the Bosporus Strait that some say will destroy the few remaining green areas of the sprawling city. It also named the bridge after a controversial Ottoman sultan believed to have ordered a massacre of a minority Shiite Muslim group, instead of choosing a more unifying figure.
Protesters in Gezi Park held up a large poster Friday with a caricature depicting Erdogan as an Ottoman sultan with a caption that read: "The people won't yield to you."
Protester Serdar Sanman accused Erdogan of "trying to install his dictatorship."
Erdogan's Islamic-rooted, conservative government has a strong support base in the mainly Muslim but secular country, and many of the protesters appeared to be from more secular-leaning sections of society.
In Ankara, demonstrators held up posters reading: "Don't Interfere in my Lifestyle" and "Resist the Dictator." Many drank beer and other alcoholic beverages during the protest in defiance of the alcohol restrictions, raising their drinks as they chanted "Cheers Tayyip!" They lined the pavement with empty beer and liquor bottles and cans.
Erdogan this week dismissed the Istanbul protesters' demands, saying the government would go ahead with the renovation plans "no matter what they do." The forestry minister said more trees would be planted than those uprooted at Gezi.
The dawn raid was the latest in a series of aggressive crackdown on protests. Human rights activists frequently accuse Turkish police of using inordinate force to break up protests and of excessively using tear gas and pepper spray against protesters.
Interior Minister Muammer Guler said that authorities would investigate the reports of disproportionate use of force. Still, he defended the crackdown, saying officers were carrying out their duties against an illegal occupation of the park.
In Istanbul, several protesters were injured when a wall they climbed on collapsed during a police chase, and at least two people ? including a journalist ? were hit in the head by tear gas canisters. Two opposition legislators were among several hospitalized after being affected by the gas, the private Dogan news agency reported.
Istanbul Gov. Huseyin Avni Mutlu said 12 people were treated in hospitals for injuries and least 13 people were detained.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. was concerned about the number of people injured as police dispersed protesters.
"We believe that Turkey's long-term stability, security and prosperity is best guaranteed by upholding the fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly and association, which is what it seems these individuals were doing," she told reporters. "These freedoms are crucial to any healthy democracy."
Psaki said the U.S. was still gathering information about the incident.
There was very little coverage of the protests on television channels in Turkey, reflecting the environment of self-censorship by the media, which has, among other things, been pressured into dismissing staff too critical of the government.
The media rights group Reporters without Borders said the injured journalist, Ahmet Sik, and others were deliberately targeted by police and urged Turkish authorities to halt the "excessive" use of force. A Reuters photographer was also injured.
Amnesty International also deplored what it called Turkish police brutality and said some officers should be brought to justice.
Demonstrators affected by tear gas sought shelter at a luxury hotel at Taksim and were tended by guests. Police removed tents and the demonstrators' belongings and mounted barricades around the park.
The state-run Anadolu Agency said 15 demonstrators were detained in Ankara.
"The people are demonstrating against the government's intolerance toward demonstrations," said Metin Feyzioglu, who heads Turkey's lawyers' association, during the protest in Ankara. "The government must display understanding and immediately stop the violence against the demonstrators."
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Fraser reported from Ankara.
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China circa 2008? six babies die from severe kidney damage while another 300,000 suffer kidney stones. As it turns out, melamine isn?t meant to be in infant milk formula! The result was a few Chinese businessmen taken out back and shot, literally? and a nation that, for good reason, doesn?t trust the dairy industry (for starters?).
Since then China has ?enjoyed? multiple infant formula scandals, including formula containing aflatoxin, a known carcinogen, and a scandal involving milk powder containing mercury.
Outside of infant formula, but remaining on the topic of food found on Chinese supermarket shelves, it?s also possible to buy ?glow in the dark? meat. Turns out bacteria-laden pork does that. I figure there may be a market serving it in night clubs, instead of glow rods you could have ?glow kebabs? ? call it theme food.
Not to be outdone by the Europeans, who were recently caught passing off horse meat as beef, below I present a list of culinary delights to be found in the middle kingdom:
- Rice containing cadmium. A heavy metal which destroys your internal organs and causes cancer. Not a great ingredient in food methinks.
- Rat, Fox and Mink meat sold as Lamb. Come on?let?s face it, most any meat deep fried and doused in sufficient amounts of soy sauce tastes pretty much the same anyway.
- Dead, diseased pigs sold as food. This was stylishly referred to as ?swine gate?. Turns out the pseudo-rabies virus in the pigs doesn?t gel well with humans.
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In short, buying food off a supermarket shelf in China is a high risk adventure sport. What the average man may risk on his own behalf, he is far less likely to risk on his precious spawn. Those reading this article who have loved ones, especially children will likely agree with me when I say I would NEVER let my kid so much as look at any infant formula originating out of China. Even if there is a statistically small chance of poisoning, the ultimate penalty is death. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks!
It appears many Chinese parents feel the same way, which has led to mainland Chinese buying infant formula in bulk from Hong Kong, Europe, the US, and Australasia, thereby prompting a rationing in some countries by companies such as Danone and Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.
In a move reminiscent of US anti-drug trafficking efforts, the Chinese Government, exhibiting the intellectual capacity of a stuffed bear, have since restricted imports to just 2 cans per person. This has opened up a massive smuggling opportunity. You know the world is a screwed up place when transporting something so innocuous as infant formula is a punishable crime!
Hong Kong border officials last year arrested more people for smuggling baby infant formula than they did for heroin!
Markups now exceed 100% above retail prices in Europe, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. When you consider I?m talking about the retail price and not the wholesale price, those of you who are not asleep, stoned, or dim, will quickly realise the obscene profits that smuggling generates. The average Chinese newborn consumes 22,630 grams of formula in their first 6 months of life, equating to a US$1,544 retail value. Demand is overwhelming supply right now.
When a market accepts and trusts people whom they don?t know from Adam, selling infant formula out of their garage, then you know you have a market ripe with opportunity. Done properly the potential exists to create a powerful ?trusted brand?.
At present 70% of the imported infant formula market is controlled by foreign brands, with most of the independent brands run by small ?Mom and Pop? companies from NZ and Holland, who as far as our analysis shows are successful mainly due to their product coming from ?safe? jurisdictions. None we?ve found have strong marketing or endorsement programs, or are taking advantage of this opportunity in a well thought out manner.
Below is a graphic representation of the major players in this $12.5 billion sector:
Mark and I, along with our CPAN members have recently completed a ?friends and family? seed financing round in a company seeking to change this.
Using a strong marketing platform they will seek to establish themselves as a niche, high-end supplier of infant formula to the China market. I?m here in NZ, and I just met with the CEO who is sourcing supply from a boutique New Zealand dairy company. He commented to me, ?you know I wouldn?t know what to do here in NZ, all the problems seem to be solved.? This is exactly what excites us about emerging and frontier markets. There is NO shortage of problems, and the greatest profits always go to those who solve problems.
We believe this company is in the right market, has a solid strategy which they are systematically executing on, and most importantly they have a very well-established team of professionals with solid track records of operating in China. Those factors, combined with a compelling valuation, are some of the reasons we got involved.
As mentioned on our blog numerous times, we ALWAYS bet on talented, proven management first and foremost. By doing so we think the odds are stacked more in our favour than otherwise. Executed well, the rewards in this sector promise to be substantial. What is a sure bet is that someone in this space is going to make a fortune.
We have placed our bet, now let?s see how it plays out. Time will tell, and nothing in private equity is ever a sure thing. However, I?m always cognizant of the deals which have vaulted my own portfolio, and most have had the ingredients of this one. We?ll likely introduce readers again to the company in question once they hit cash flow, but prior to going public.
- Chris
?Even if there is only a 1% chance that Chinese formula is not safe, I don?t want to be that 1%.? ? a ?Mrs Li? (a Chinese mother)
Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-30/investing-white-gold
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Soccer training improves heart health of men with type 2 diabetes
May 30, 2013 ? A new study from the Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, demonstrates that soccer training improves heart function, reduces blood pressure and elevates exercise capacity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Soccer training also reduces the need for medication.
The study, recently published in Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, investigated the effects of soccer training, consisting of small-sided games (5v5), on 21 men with type 2 diabetes, aged 37-60 years.
Soccer training makes the heart ten years younger
"We discovered that soccer training significantly improved the flexibility of the heart and furthermore, that the cardiac muscle tissue was able to work 29% faster. This means that after three months of training, the heart had become 10 years 'younger'," explains Medical Doctor, PhD Student, Jakob Friis Schmidt, who co-authored the study alongside with PhD student, Thomas Rostgaard Andersen. He adds:
"Many type 2 diabetes patients have less flexible heart muscles which is often one of the first signs of diabetes' effect on cardiac function, increasing the risk of heart failure."
Advanced ultrasound scanning of the heart also demonstrated that the heart's contraction phase was improved and that the capacity of the heart to shorten was improved by 23% -- a research result that had not been reported with other types of physical activity.
Blood pressure greatly reduced
At the start of the study, 60 percent of the participants had too high blood pressure and had been prescribed one or more pressure reducing medications. Soccer training reduced the systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 8 mmHg, which is greater than the achievements of prior training studies. These effects are as pronounced as those achieved by taking high blood pressure pills and the need for medication was significant reduced.
Great functional improvements
The study also showed that the participants' maximal oxygen uptake was increased by 12% and that their intermittent exercise capacity was elevated by 42%. "An improved physical condition reduces the risk for other illnesses associated with type 2 diabetes and makes it easier to get along with daily tasks and maintain a physically active life" says Thomas Rostgaard.
Professor Jens Bangsbo, head of the Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health at University of Copenhagen, adds that, "The results of the study, coupled with participants' interest in continuing to play after the study, show that soccer has a great potential to help diabetic patients. This does not only gain the patients, but also contribute socio-economically."
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