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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Hurricane woman who embezzled nearly $400,000 from the Charleston law firm where she worked is going to prison for two to 20 years.
In an emotional hearing Tuesday, Teri Kay Workman, 44, apologized to the Hale Street firm of Bailey, Bucci and Javins, but a judge said she sounded "shallow."
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Workman used company credit cards and wrote herself checks to fund shopping sprees, vacations, concert tickets and even pizza for her church youth group.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom called Workman's crime "unthinkable." When he pronounced her sentence, the defendant's mother collapsed and slid from the bench where she was seated behind Workman.
Grief-stricken, she had to be helped from the courtroom afterwards, sobbing uncontrollably. Workman, clutching a tissue, turned to look at her briefly but revealed no emotion.
At least 40 friends, relatives and members of Workman's church turned out for the sentencing. None spoke, but many wrote letters on her behalf to the judge.
Bloom actually sentenced Workman to six one- to 10-year consecutive sentences for each of the counts to which she pleaded guilty. But he suspended the last four of those and will allow her to serve probation. She could have spent up to 60 years incarcerated.
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Submitted by Mark Mekkes on December 31, 2006 - 21:36
Due to the closing of Smartgroups, the WCCA planning commitee has been forced to do a little last minute scramble to create their own, original voting system for this year. So, unfortunately, the actual nomination mechanism won't be in place until next Monday (January 8th). However this is a perfect opportunity for everyone to take the time to familiarize themselves with the categories and procedures. By taking this time to research and plan your nomination suggestions, you'll help us all by making the best choices possible to create the best results possible.
Narbonic Is Over! Long Live Narbonic!
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 31, 2006 - 11:52
Shaenon Garrity wraps up her webcomic Narbonic with a googlepalooza of guest artists today. Next year she will be rerunning the strip with commentary.
Garrity also posted on her blog that she celebrated the completion of Narbonic by getting a Narbonic heart tattoo. Click through for pictures.
Bombay Bad Boy Quiz
Submitted by moovok on December 31, 2006 - 06:33
Always thought you knew everything that happened this year in the news? Webcomics in Print is testing your brain with its first annual Big Bad Webcomic Quiz. With 50 questions spanning the entire year's news, events and even a few trivia questions, do you think you can figure out the answers in time? You've only got until New Years Day before the answers are revealled... Good Luck!
December 30th
Working On Webcomics... Again
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 31, 2006 - 00:46
I've been scribbling out ideas for webcomics the last couple of months and I've been trying to get into the habit of sketching again. Before starting Comixpedia back in 2003 I was an update-delinquent, barely average webcomics creator. Well I don't want to rehash my history of making comics here so much as to let folks know that I'm going to use my "user blog" here at Comixpedia as a way to post updates on what I'm working on webcomic-wise. I won't front page these posts so you won't have to read them unless you seek them out. (Although I've been considering writing up my "efforts" to re-enter webcomics creating as a column to try and pass on what works and doesn't)
December 29th
First And Last: Last Days of the Year
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 29, 2006 - 12:35
We used to do a comparison of early to more recent editions of longer running webcomics called First and Last. Here's a thread for noting some webcomics that improved this year - art is easier to spot, but it could be art and/or writing.
I'll start it off with Home On the Strange which started off pretty funny, but has improved its ability to blend story and funny. The art has also gotten better if you compare today's strip with the first strip back in January of this year.
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Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 29, 2006 - 11:48
- Both the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun covers the charity Childs Play started by the Penny Arcade duo. I just checked the site and they may clear $900,000 in donations by the end of this year. Wow. That's an amazingly good thing.
- Tim Buckley posted a couple of videos showing the entire process of him creating Christmas art for his webcomic Ctrl-Alt-Del (as Buckley says the action is "sped up 600%"). Man I really want a Cintiq...
- Newsarama interviews T Campbell and Amy Mebberson about Divalicious their new comic book for Tokyopop. (link from Journalista!)
- An interview with Stephen Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine: lawyer, cartoonist, Renaisance Man!
- A review of Gene Yang's American Born Chinese at Monsters and Critics. (link from Journalista!)
December 28th
Thursday, December 28th News & Views
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 28, 2006 - 11:07
- Entertainment Weekly posts its "best of" graphic novels for 2006.
- An interview with Alison Bechdel who received a high honor in the December 17 issue of Time magazine: her graphic memoir Fun Home was named the best book of 2006.
- John Allison shows how he reworked some strips from Scary Go Round for inclusion in the next book collection.
- Ambrosia Digicomics founder Wesley Green wrote a couple of posts on digital distribution of comics earlier this month: the first one covers file formats and the second one covers making the file available on the internets.
- Kris Straub ponders the path of politeness on the intertubes.
- Drawn! flags the latest interwebs meme: redoing the redesign of the Archie characters.
- Drawn! also has a link to Chris Butcher's interesting review of the covers to various editions of Jeff Smith's Bone series.
PolitboroPublic Radio interviews Stupendous Stan Lee. - Fi-Sci science fiction website is running webcomics - apply for it here if you're interested. They are already posting GAAK there.
December 27th
Should Auld Webcomics Be Forgot?
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 27, 2006 - 11:57
Chris Baldwin is ending Bruno. This was a truly groundbreaking effort, one of the most comprehensive, mature works published in webcomics. The title character is a complex, fully-realized character that captures a great deal of the angst and concerns of life.
...I am going to be ending Bruno soon. I have just completed the final scripts, and although I may adjust them, or add additional strips, the current scheduled final strip is February 12th.
Over the last couple of years I have mulled over this idea (of ending Bruno) a million times, and on June 18, 2006 I finally decided to end it. At that point I plotted out the ending, although it has morphed and extended itself several times. I didn't announce it sooner because I couldn't bear to admit it to you all, let alone myself (I feel physical nausea right now as I write this). I also wanted to be able to back out if I changed my mind.
But I have now written the final sequences, and despite misgivings and sadness, I have never changed my mind that it was the right decision.
Wesley Green writes that Ambrosia Digicomics, his webcomics and blog hosting service, is almost done. Green must also have caught my post on journalist independence earlier this month as he writes:
There's been a little news bite going around regarding a conflict of interest in regards to myself owning both Ambrosia Digicomics and Independent Propaganda. Honestly, I don't foresee a conflict of interest ever happening. It's not like I'm going to ask the reviewers who contribute to the IP site to just review web comics on this site, or anything along those lines. Hopefully making this public will put any slight rumblings to rest.
My original post was a general question (not an accusation) and it's been useful to me (even if boring to all of you!) to hear the range of answers provided.
- Fleen links to Liz Greenfield's write-up (pictures included) of her appearance at the Birmingham Comics Show. Danielle Corsetto and Ali Graham were there too.
- The Daily Cartoonist wraps up the year in newspaper comic strips.
- Comic Book Bin interviews Rosena Fung who draws the Soap Box for her college paper. (Link via Journalista!)
- Jennifer Contino interviews John Lustig who creates the wacky romance comic parody, Last Kiss.
December 26th
Rolling After Christmas News Post (UPDATED)
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 26, 2006 - 16:16
Wow - I'm exhausted. Grey skies and a little rain for the day after Christmas. Hope you all have had a happy winter solstice season so far.
- On the heels of Comicne.ws comes Plugg.us which is another digg-clone for comics. There's nothing wrong with comics-focused versions of more popular social networking tools, in fact it's great that this stuff is emerging. But the trick to success with these comic clones is whether or not they garner a critical mass of users (which is the same key to success for the original versions of any social networking site). Comicne.ws came pre-sold to CBR's significant audience, ComicSpace came pre-populated with OnlineComics large directory of webcomics. I'll wait and see with Plugg.us as it doesn't seem to have any similar affiliations to jumpstart it.
- Joey Manley has been using Alexa to show trends of various webcomics hosting services (here and more recently here). It's a bit tangential to interest in tracking individual webcomics' audience numbers but nevertheless interesting to see how other hosting services match up to the somewhat entrenched coke and pepsi of the market.
- Writer Caleb Monroe has set up a page intended to be a guide for beginning comic creators.
- Wizard interviews John Allison, creator of Scary Go Round.
- The WordBalloon podcast has an interview with Steven Bryant, creator of Athena Voltaire.
- The Digital Strips podcast has a review of Butterfly by Dean Trippe.
- Minimalist Stick Figure Theater reaches number 600.
- I can't tell whether Chris Crosby's Sore Thumbs spin-off project, Cecania's Private Party is a webcomic or a porn site. Time will tell I guess...
- Aeire and Chris Daily are teaming up for a new webcomic project debuting sometime next year. Check out a few preliminary sketches here.
- Art Room is an online drawing tool and gallery from the Saatchi Gallery. Holy high-low culture collision Batman!
December 23rd
How To Deal With Corporate Overlords
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 23, 2006 - 15:09
I asked this question earlier this week:
I didn't realize that it was a common practice for comics publishers to own comics journalists, but today's Journalista! also alerted me to the fact that Platinum Studios bought the comics news site Broken Frontier earlier this month. (Similarly, Journalista! and TCJ are owned by publisher Fantagraphics.) I'm sincere in asking: how do such journalists deal with the obvious conflict of interest this presents? Is there a corporate separation that protects the ability of the journalists to cover the news without interference or does the journalist just not cover their owners?
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You have to hand it to Muamar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad. They and their minions have an unerring instinct for finding what Lenin called "useful idiots," and they know their prey.
For a measly quarter of a million a month, the Libyan tyrant hired the Monitor Group, founded by a group of faculty members at Harvard, to shill on his behalf, and in the process he managed to snare not only the London School of Economics but also – as I pointed out last week – an American political scientist inclined to think he is "an internationally renowned political theorist," who has even now not yet figured out that he and a host of others were snookered by Gadaffi's well-heeled and charming son Saif.
Gadaffi's Syrian counterpart is evidently up to similar tricks, and I would not be surprised to learn that he, too, recently made an appearance among the clients of the Monitor Group. In an article which that "internationally renowned political theorist" wrote for The Huffington Post in early February, he not only told his readers that Gaddafi "rules by means other than fear" and is "not detested in the way that Mubarak has been detested." He also fawned on "former ophthalmologist Bashar Assad and his British-educated, banking career wife Asma," whom he describes as "relatively popular among Syrians with whom they mix regularly at restaurants and in the Sukh, where they wear blue jeans." These two, he tells us, "are not passionate Baathists, but members of the Alawite minority and Syrian patriots who have experimented (ever so cautiously) with opening society, engaging young people, developing a pluralistic cultural legacy (through a new program with the Louvre)."
I quote this passage as I did in my earlier post – because you will find sentiments of a strikingly similar sort in an article published in this month's Vogue. Entitled Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert, it begins by telling us, "Asma al-Assad, Syria's dynamic first lady, is on a mission to create a beacon of culture and secularism in a powder-keg region – and to put a modern face on her husband's regime."
She is, you see, everything that Vogue readers admire: "glamorous, young, and very chic – the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. Her style is not the counture-and-bling dazzle of Middle Eastern power but a deliberate lack of adornment. She's a rare combination: a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement. Paris Match calls her 'the element of light in a country full of shadow zones.' She is the first lady of Syria."
Now I will readily admit that Bashar al-Assad has an eye for the ladies. If we are to judge by the photographs taken by James Nachtwey for Vogue, we have to admit that Asma al-Assad is easy on the eye. "Dark-brown eyes, wavy chin-length brown hair, long neck, an energetic grace. No watch, no jewelry apart from Chanel agates around her neck, not even a wedding ring, but fingernails lacquered a dark blue-green." You get the picture: a classy dame – well worthy of your admiration – what every woman wants to be, and what every man desires.
One has to wonder, nonetheless, just how much her husband's minions paid Vogue to have Joan Juliet Buck write regarding Syria that "it's a secular country where women earn as much as men and the Muslim veil is forbidden in universities, a place without bombings, unrest, or kidnappings" and to remark that "Asma's husband, Bashar al-Assad, was elected president in 2000, after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, with a startling 97 percent of the vote."
Of course, Ms. Buck is not stupid. She provides herself with ample cover. When she speaks of Syria as "the safest country in the Middle East," she acknowledges that "the State Department's Web site says, 'the Syrian government conducts intense physical and electronic surveillance of both Syrian citizens and foreign visitors," and she prefaces her discussion of Assad's election with the observation that Syria's "shadow zones are deep and dark." But this literary maneuver is not only self-protective; it also serves to increase the Syrian tyranny's allure. Who, after all, would not want to explore "shadow zones" that are, ahem, "deep and dark."
I will not spoil all the fun. You can read the article for yourself. In it, you will earn about Asma's education in computer science, her career at JP Morgan in London, the beginnings of her whirlwind romance with the son of the president of Syria, and their marriage nine years ago not long after he succeeded his father. You will be told about the visit of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, and you will be taken on a tour of the apartment Asma shares with Bashar and their children. You will be told that "the household is run on wildly democratic principles." It is all quite endearing.
But anyone who has read the book Strong Democracy by that "internationally renowned political theorist" or who paid attention to his description in The Huffington Post of Saif Gaddafi as a man who has written "two forthcoming books focused on liberalism in the developing world," in which he "has pioneered a gradualist approach to civil society in Libya, insisting along the way that he would accept no office that wasn't subject to popular elections," will find a mite bit familiar Buck's claim in Vogue that the "central mission" undertaken by Syria's 35-year-old first lady "is to change the mind-set of six million Syrians under eighteen, encourage them to engage in what she calls 'active citizenship.'" "'It's about everyone taking shared responsibility in moving this country forward, about empowerment in a civil society'" Asma al-Assad reportedly told Buck. "'We all have a stake in this country; it will be what we make it.'" In 2005, we are told,
she founded Massar, built around a series of discovery centers where children and young adults from five to 21 engage in creative, informal approaches to civic responsibility. Massar's mobile Green Team has touched 200,000 kids across Syria since 2005. The organization is privately funded through donations. The Syria Trust for Development, formed in 2007, oversees Massar as well as her first NGO, the rural micro-credit association FIRDOS, and SHABAB, which exists to give young people business skills they need for the future.
And then there's her cultural mission: "People tend to see Syria as artifacts and history," she says. "For us it's about the accumulation of cultures, traditions, values, customs. It's the difference between hardware and software: the artifacts are the hardware, but the software makes all the difference—the customs and the spirit of openness. We have to make sure that we don't lose that. . . . " Here she gives an apologetic grin. "You have to excuse me, but I'm a banker—that brand essence."
In short, Asma al-Assad is the Saif Gaddafi of Syria, and she is peddling to the American press the same snake oil that her Libyan counterpart sold to that gullible "internationally renowned political theorist" I wrote about last week. When I read of her achievements, I cannot help but suspect that the Syrian and Libyan tyrants are advised by the same public relations firm, and I wonder just how often the "internationally renowned political theorist" taken in by the debonair son of Muamar Gaddafi has been taken for a ride by the lovely bride Bashar al-Assad brought from London to Damascus.
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Sure do miss Queen Noor .
How does one say " let them eat ......" in that language ?
They are doomed and ,as Mr Ledeen says : faster please."
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"she founded Massar, built around a series of discovery centers where children and young adults from five to 21 engage in creative, informal approaches to civic responsibility. Massar's mobile Green Team has touched 200,000 kids across Syria since 2005"
Leaving aside the question of what it means to have touched 200,000 kids, I wonder if the Massar Discovery Centers include "The Hama Experience," where kids can get a feel for what it's really like when your country's dictator decides to put down your insurgent tendencies by surrounding your town with artillery and firing into it until you and everything you know have been literally pulverized.
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Paul A. Rahe: [...] Syrian and Libyan tyrants are advised by the same public relations firm [...] |
With one facet of that hagiography, "For us it's about the accumulation of cultures," the family of Rafic Hariri does not disagree.
Giving journalistic credit to what these useful idiots have to say makes their readers as much a fool as they.
But then again, between the lines, keep reading them like a sleuth, you will discover "colossal gems of glittering" truth:
"Why read Arab newspapers? They are much better. Because in Jewish newspapers—and in our own tribal media—Jews must give up their land, Israel deserves attack, will not survive the Mahdi, or before that, Hamas will sweep Israel into the sea. In Arab newspapers, Jews own all the banks, control all the news, each is rich and powerful, from time immemorial, Jews rule the world!"
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I love freedom, especially freedom of speech. It allows, no encourages these displays where seemingly smart educated, sophisticated people prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are vacuous idiots.
Oh, just to add. The fact that these regimes have the power and ability to kill anyone who challenges them is not a bug to these folks. It is a feature.
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One of my favorite blogs, Abu Muqawama, had this to say:
Joan Juliet Buck's breathless profile of Asma al-Assad, "A Rose in the Desert". Probably should have spiked this one, Vogue! The only thing worse than Buck's prose -- "Despite what must be a killer IQ, she sometimes uses urban shorthand" -- is seeing the skills of a fine photographer like James Nachtwey applied to taking cuddly shots of Bashar al-Assad playing with his kids.
Gross. What's next, Vogue? At Home with Kim Jong-il? Dining with Grace Mugabe?
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Whose Sacrifice Is It Anyway? The So-Called Grand Bargain Would Fleece the Middle Class
So now that the election is done at last, we can get down to the hard work of striking a "grand bargain" on the budget by cutting spending and raising taxes, and thus avoid the looming "fiscal cliff."
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Chances are you can't. Unless they are all knocked out sleeping and you bash them one at a time, really quietly.
I think a better example of something that can kill massive amounts of people at once would be automobiles, and planes. We don't ban those. Anyone who wants to ban guns totally is misguided and is for punishing people for crimes of others, myself as a marijuana enthusiast would be very hypocritical if I stood by the banning of anything.
Saw a dem on tv today trying to compare home gun owners to that of sex offenders. The discussion was based on gun owners info being published. Sad thing is this guy has absolutely no gun knowledge to make any claims period.


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In Monday's environmental law news, the World Health Organization (WHO) has conducted a study that shows normal mercury levels in people, fish and water around a mine in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Newmont Mining Company, the world's largest gold producer, is currently engaged in a court battle that alleges the company dumped toxic waste from the mine into the Buyat Bay. The Indonesia Ministry of Health has issued a press release on the study. Reuters has the full story. In other news, the EPA is seeking comments on a proposed rule to change the Clean Air Act designation around Maricopa County Arizona. Comments are due November 8, and can be made here.
Hawaii Senators Inouye and Akaka have secured a pledge by Senate majority and minority leaders that the so-called Akaka bill [PDF], which will begin the process for the recognization of Native Hawaiians as an indigenous people, will be considered during the next Senate term. The bill will need to be reintroduced in the new Congress that begins in January and reconsidered by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The House will also have to approve the bill. The Honolulu Advertiser has more.
In Monday's corporations and securities law news, the defense has begun its case in the fraud and conspiracy trial of the former Enron and Merrill Lynch executives indicted in the Nigerian barge deal. Read the indictment here. The Houston Chronicle has continuing coverage of the Enron barge trial. AP has more.In other news...
US authorities have shut down 20 independent media websites spanning 17 countries by seizing their British-based webservers. Rackspace [corporate website], an American-owned web hosting company in Uxbridge, Middlesex, was issued a court order Thursday under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty [text], which allows countries to assist each other in investigations relating to international terrorism, kidnapping, and money laundering. The FBI subpoenaed Rackspace to hand over two servers used by Indymedia [corporate website], an international media network which provides a "news wire" to which its users contribute; no specific reason was given, although FBI sources say the action was taken at the behest of French and Swiss authorities. The general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists has condemned the seizure, calling it intrusive and intolerable [IFJ statement], noting that "the seizure follows visits by the FBI to Indymedia personnel in the US inquiring about the publication on the French site Indymedia Nantes of photographs of Swiss undercover police photographing protestors. The photographs remain available on other websites." Indymedia has more information on the server seizure here. Monday's Guardian has more.
The UK Saville Inquiry [advocacy website] investigating the civil rights march in Londonderry Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972 ("Bloody Sunday") in which 13 civilians were shot dead by British soldiers may be further delayed as the soldiers may take the tribunal to court. The soldiers have argued against the use of any standard below the criminal standard of proof because of the potential consequences facing them. Lord Saville [Wikipedia backgrounder], the head of the inquiry, has indicated that the tribunal will not use a criminal standard of proof to find if a soldier shot anyone without justification because the tribunal is merely investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths and issuing a report. Read the Saville Inquiry's standard of proof ruling here [PDF]. BBC News has more and has in-depth coverage of the inquiry.
A New Hampshire judge has upheld a state attorney general's order which temporarily bars the Republican Governors Association [official website], the official public policy and political organization of the Republican governors in the United States, from engaging in political activities in New Hampshire. Superior Court Judge Carol Ann Conboy, who issued a temporary injunction today, will hold a hearing for a permanent injunction on Thursday. The New Hampshire attorney general's office issued the order last week after the Democratic Party filed a complaint accusing the Republican Governors Association of hiring polling companies to conduct negative polls against Democratic gubernatorial challenger John Lynch [official website]. According to the order, the association must suspend its political activities until it registers as a political committee. Read the injunction here. AP has more.
The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament [official websites] has narrowly voted to oppose Italian European Affairs Minister Rocco Buttiglione [BBC profile] as the next EU Justice Commissioner. Opponents cite Buttiglione's views on homosexuality and the role of women as causing unease in the committee. Their finding is not binding on the EU but usually signifies a refusal of a nomination. The European Parliament, which votes on a new commission October 27, cannot veto European Commission members, but instead votes for or against the entire 25-member team. An MP3 audio file of Buttiglione's appearance before the Civil Liberties Committee on October 5 is here, and a print summary in English is here [PDF]. BBC News has more.
Outgoing US Ambassador Ralph L. "Skip" Boyce [official profile] on Monday cited Indonesia's lack of progress in human rights as preventing the resumption of military relations with the US. Hoping for another ally in the war against terror, the Bush administration has attempted to normalize relations with Indonesia, but the move was rejected by Congress. The US initially cut back military ties to the nation in 1999 when rampaging pro-Jakarta forces killed 1,500 people and destroyed a large portion of East Timor after the half-island had voted to break away from Indonesia. AP has more. Boyce takes over as Ambassador to Thailand later this year.
The Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic [official website] will review whether the country's new anti-discrimination statute, and specifically its policy on positive discrimination, is permissible under the Slovak Constitution. The law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, sex, religion, nationality, race, and the state of a person's health. Those opposed to the law, led by Justice Minister Daniel Lipsic, claim that it establishes quotas for people from protected groups in education and employment. CTK has the full story. The Slovak Spectator has more on the debate surrounding the law.
The US Senate has passed a $136 billion corporate tax reform bill which cuts taxes for certain businesses while also closing tax loopholes. HR 4520, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 [text], was two years in the making, and after passage in the House last week required a last-minute weekend session in the Senate to complete. Senators passed the bill today by a 69-17 vote. The bill, which now goes to the President, also addresses a WTO ruling that subsidies for US exporters were illegal. Reuters has more.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, addressing parliament, vowed on Monday to submit his controversial Gaza withdrawal plan to a parliamentary vote on October 25. The plan involves the evacuation of 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, and has been fiercely opposed by pro-settler nationalists. Sharon added that following the vote on "disengagement," he would present legislation detailing compensation for evacuated Jewish settlers in the first week of November. Isreal's Prime Minister's Office has posted the full text of Sharon's Knesset speech here. Reuters has more.UPDATE: In a show of symbolic opposition to Sharon's initiative, the Israeli Knesset Monday voted down his speech on Gaza by 53-44. From Israel, Haaretz has more.
An exit poll conducted by Afghanistan's International Republican Institute [IRI report] has projected that interim president Hamid Karzai will win the country's first presidential election. Preliminary results show US-backed Karzai ahead of main rival Yunus Qanooni by an overwhelming 43 percentage points. AP has more. JURIST's Paper Chase has more on the Afghanistan elections.
Canadian defence minister Bill Graham, speaking from Glasgow Scotland on Monday, said that he would not rule out a lawsuit [CBC report] against the British government over a recent fire on board the Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi. The ship was one of four diesel-powered subs purchased from Britain's Royal Navy by Canada in 1998; last Tuesday, on its maiden voyage as a Canadian vessel, a major electrical fire started which severely damaged the ship, injured eight, and killed one [CBC report]. Graham said a naval inquiry would guide the Canadian government as to future legal action. British defence minister Geoff Hoon commented this weekend that the sub was fit to sail [CBC report]. However, the Vancouver Sun reports that the Chicoutimi had so much rust on its hull that Canadian military officals had to restrict how far it was allowed to dive. The Guardian has more. Canada's Department of National Defense has set up a special website on the events surrounding the Chicoutimi.
The jury hearing the UK torture case against alleged Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad has asked the judge to explain who is behind the prosecution and whether Zardad had ever sought asylum in Britain or entered illegally. Zardad, who served as an Afghan commander from 1991 to 1996 before immigrating to Britain, faces charges of conspiracy to torture and take hostages under the UK Criminal Justice Act of 1988 [text]. Justice Treacy told the jurors that evidence given in the case would clarify if the questions were relevant. BBC News has more. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on the trial.
North Korea Monday threatened war if UN sanctions are deployed to bring the recalcitrant country back to the negotiating table of the Six-Party Talks [opening remarks]. An official statement released by the Korean Central News Agency declared "sanctions mean a war and war does not know any mercy' and "if the US applies more sanctions to the DPRK (North Korea) by putting the UN in motion, the DPRK will promptly and resolutely react to it with self-defensive war deterrent force." The multiparty talks have been aimed at uncovering the extent of North Korea's nuclear testing and capability and ensuring that those test are abandoned. North Korea refused to attend the latest round of talks in September, citing the United States' 'hostile attitude', prompting some to speculate on the possibility of implementing UN sanctions against the country. South Korea's President Roh Koo-Hyun has cautioned against pushing his communist neighbor too hard over the nuclear issue. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on the nuclear talks in North Korea. The Khaleej Times has more.In other international news...
By handing over Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ljubisa Beara to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] this weekend [JURIST report], Serbia passed a deliberate cooperation test set by ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte. Belgrade radio station B-92 reported Monday that del Ponte set the test in order to determine whether the Serbian government remains sincere in its efforts to comply with international justice, despite prior delay and reluctance by Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Del Ponte is scheduled to report to EU foreign ministers Monday on Balkan states' cooperation with the UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Reuters has more.
AP is reporting that European Union foreign ministers have lifted sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo. UPDATE: The EU decision to end sanctions against Libya is meant to reward the country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction. The EU move follows a US decision to lift most of its commercial sanctions against Libya earlier this year. AP has more.
Nigerian unions have begun a four-day general strike over rising fuel prices, in defiance of a court order banning them from striking for reasons other than working conditions. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) [official website] has indicated that the strike would end only if the recent 25 percent increase in oil prices is reversed. NLC leader Adams Oshiomhole has said the strike would be suspended after four days to give the government the opportunity to change its position and start talking to the unions. BBC News has more.
AP is reporting that a Moscow court has ruled that oil giant Yukos must pay $1.4 billion in fines and penalties on their $4.1 billion back tax bill for 2001.UPDATE: The Moscow Arbitration Court Monday dismissed a request by Yukos lawyers seeking the appointment of a new judge in the case and ruled that the oil company must pay an additional $1.4 billion in fines and penalties on its 2001 $4.1 back-tax bill. Yukos also must pay a $3.4 billion tax bill for 2000 by the end of the month. Additionally, last week, its main subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz was given a separate tax bill for 2002 totaling nearly $1 billion. AP has more. The Russia Journal has continuing coverage of Yukos' court battles.
The counting of ballots in Afghanistan's presidential election has been delayed while negotiations proceed on what form an investigation into alleged voting irregularities should take. Candidates running in opposition to interim President Hamid Karzai initially called for the results of Saturday's election to be nullified because ink used to prevent voters from casting multiple ballots could be washed off. However, several candidates are now saying that they would instead accept the findings of an independent inquiry into the allegations. BBC News has more.UPDATE: Afghanistan's Joint Electoral Management Body has asked the UN to appoint a panel of independent experts to investigate allegations of voting fraud. The JEMB also said Monday that it hopes to start the vote count late Tuesday, but it could take three weeks before it is completed. Reuters has more. Also Monday, Yunus Qanuni, Karzai's main rival, confirmed that he and several other candidates had dropped a plan to boycott the election process, saying that "we want unity in this election, not a boycott. The people want it and we appreciate their feelings." Again, Reuters has more.Previously on JURIST's Paper Chase...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, October 11.Today is Columbus Day in the United States, a federal holiday. Federal and state courts are closed in observance.The US Senate will convene at 10 AM ET and will resume consideration of the conference report to the JOBS bill (HR 4520) [text]. Following its Saturday session, the US House stands adjourned until after the November election.Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law will host a lecture on False Campaign Ads: Pros and Cons of Regulation, featuring UNC Kenan Professor of Law William Marshall. Moritz professors Edward Foley and David Goldberger will also speak. Watch a live webcast.At the United Nations, the UN General Assembly will meet at 10 AM ET and will hear the annual report of the Security Council, which will address the question of equitable representation on and possible increase in the membership of the Council. The report will continue into the Assembly's 3 PM ET session. Watch a live webcast of both sessions.... The Security Council will hold 11 AM ET closed consultations on Cyprus and a letter from the Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea to the UN.In Denmark, the trial of former Defense Intelligence Service officer Frank Grevil begins. Grevil is charged with breaching Denmark's official information act by leaking classified reports about Iraq to a Danish daily. BBC News has background.
AP is reporting that according to his lawyer, the plane carrying Yaser Esam Hamdi has arrived in Saudi Arabia. A US citizen captured by American forces in Afghanistan, designated an "enemy combatant", held without charge by the Defense Department for over two years, and finally the subject of a lawsuit that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, Hamdi was freed to go to Saudi Arabia under a deal reached last month [settlement agreement]. Hamdi also holds Saudi citizenship, but his transit there was delayed while US and Saudi officials negotiated over how US conditions on his mobility would be enforced.UPDATE: An AP story on Hamdi's release and deportation is now available here. A timeline of the litigation in his case is available here from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which notes that "litigation involving Yaser Hamdi has included three separate cases, five decisions by the US. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and a ruling by the US Supreme Court." Previous reports on Hamdi in JURIST's Paper Chase are available here.UPDATE-2: A US Statement Department press statement on Hamdi's release is online here.
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It took emergency crews 30 minutes to get the man out. They had to use torches to cut away the metal to free the man's trapped leg.
Doug Bitton with the Layton City Fire Department said the man was very lucky that someone stopped the machine. "It's very aggressive and one that would surely do bodily harm if he was tangled up inside," said Bitton. "Luckily the auger was stopped by an observant, or another co-worker, because all it was was the leg. It didn't take him all the way into the hopper full body, just his leg."
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Forums >Off the Beaten Path>The Olympics random thoughts thread (may contain spoilers)
I was screaching and laughing like a girl for 350 meters and then some.
I was for like the last 1200m, when he started getting boxed in with a few to go by a few of the Ethiopians I have having a minor heart attack.
Once he came across the line I was jumping around the house shouting for like several minutes. The rest of my family seemed very confused and alarmed. Great day to be a fan of American distance running.
Also....screw NBC. I know distance running isn't super popular and not entertaining for most people and it's not like I am expecting great coverage of it or anything....but it's our first GDMN medal in this event since 1964 and all you do in primetime is at the very start without any background show a clip of less than the last lap and say "btw Galen Rupp got a medal". >.<
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For those who missed it live. Though, the camera-work, which might be the same as NBC, really sucks . . . or else it's the non-wide-screen format of the video compared to a wide-screen broadcast or something.
Looks like Rupp had a really rough go of it, being locked in the box. When he lowered the hammer it was with such authority, though. Wow.
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NBC Replay in HD. You need to be a US tv subscriber and know your username and password. At first I couldn't watch it because I'm in Canada right now but I connected through my company's vpn and it works.
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Shit. Freakin Gatlin. T_T
Bolt sure is able to deliver when it matters though.
Looks like Jager just didn't have his best stuff today, though maybe he just peaked a little too early as his run in Monaco was superb. Going to be super fun to watch his development over the next few years as he really does strike me as a very talented, promising runner.
Old age is when you move from illegal to prescribed drugs.
Yeah, my cable company (Virgin) carries all the BBC Olympic channels. There's live coverage for pretty much every venue whilst something is happening.
Im sorry your TV coverage is so bad we are so lucky this side of the pond as there are so many channels covering it that you can see almost every event live. Plus we have free to watch large,screen TV's in the centre of a lot of towns. In my city Leicester we have one in the centre and during the course of the triathlons from Saturday to Tuesday there is an "endless pool" turbo trainer and running machine and the local Tri clubs are running competitions on them.
That's why I just grab a proxy and watch the BBC feed anyway. No real human interest stories, announcing only when events are happening, no commercials, broadcasters significantly better....what's not to love?
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Video of a field hockey player getting hit in the head. I play when I'm not marathon training and this made me wince along with the crowd.
Re the Men's 10K (and the Women's Marathon, I suppose). What I thought was the best part of the race was the finish and you could see how happy they both were for one another. I think of running as a very individual sport so it was refreshing to see that kind of comraderie.
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Went home over lunch and flipped on the TV only to find yet another questional Olympic Sport: Rhythmic Gymnastics. Oh, and surprisingly, the Chinese weren't favored to win the gold.
At least it isn't more water polo.
Also, I missed whatever happened to Pistorius, but just heard the word 'obstruction' and 'very dejected' so I am off to learn.
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Combination Chemotherapy, Tacrolimus, and Mycophenolate Mofetil in Treating Patients Who Are Undergoing a Donor Bone Marrow Transplant For Hematologic Cancer
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RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy before a donor bone marrow transplant helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells and helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor are infused into the patient they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate mofetil, or tacrolimus after transplant may stop this from happening.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well giving combination chemotherapy together with tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil works in treating patients who are undergoing a donor bone marrow transplant for hematologic cancer.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders Leukemia Lymphoma Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm Myelodysplastic Syndromes |
Drug: busulfan Drug: cyclophosphamide Drug: mycophenolate mofetil Drug: tacrolimus Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation Procedure: bone marrow ablation with stem cell support |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | HLA Matched Related and Unrelated Bone Marrow Transplantation With Busulfan/Cyclophosphamide and Post Transplantation Cyclophosphamide for Hematological Malignancies |
- Dose Finding [ Time Frame: Day 100 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
To find the optimal dose of post-grafting immunosuppression with high-dose cyclophosphamide (Cy), FK-506 and MMF following myeloablative fully HLA-matched related or unrelated BMT for the patients with hematological malignancies who are at high risk of relapse.
To estimate the incidence and severity of acute GVHD and other toxicities following myeloablative fully HLA-matched related or unrelated BMT using this approach for the patients with hematological malignancies
- Immune reconstitution and disease control [ Time Frame: Survival ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
To evaluate immune reconstitution following HLA-matched related or unrelated myeloablative BMT and post-grafting immunossuppression with high dose Cy, FK-506 and MMF.
To evaluate disease control after myeloablative fully HLA-matched related or unrelated BMT for the patients with hematological malignancies who are at high risk of relapse when Cy is included in the post-grafting immune suppression
Enrollment: | 92 |
Study Start Date: | May 2004 |
Study Completion Date: | January 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | January 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
- Determine the optimal dose of post-transplant immunosuppression comprising high-dose cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil administered after myeloablative conditioning chemotherapy comprising busulfan and cyclophosphamide followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies.
- Determine the incidence and severity of acute graft-versus-host disease in patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine other toxic effects of this regimen in these patients.
- Determine immune reconstitution in patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine disease control in patients treated with this regimen.
OUTLINE: This is a pilot study. Patients are stratified according to age (≤ 19 years old vs > 19 years old).
- Myeloablative conditioning chemotherapy: Patients receive busulfan IV or orally 4 times daily on days -7 to -4 OR days -6 to -3 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour once daily on days -3 to -1 OR days -2 and -1.
- Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation: Patients undergo allogeneic bone marrow transplantation on day 0.
Immunosuppression therapy: Patients receive 1 of the following immunosuppressive treatment regimens:
- Regimen 1: Patients receive high-dose cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on day 3.
- Regimen 2: Patients receive high-dose cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on days 3 and 4.
- Regimen 3: Patients receive high-dose cyclophosphamide as in regimen 2 and oral mycophenolate mofetil three times daily on days 5-35.
- Regimen 4: Patients receive high-dose cyclophosphamide as in regimen 2 and mycophenolate mofetil as in regimen 3. Patients also receive tacrolimus IV or orally twice daily on days 5-50.
After completion of study transplantation, patients are followed at 30 and 60 days, 6 months, 1 year, and then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 30-60 patients (approximately 5 per immunosuppressive treatment regimen) will be accrued for this study.
Ages Eligible for Study: | up to 65 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Diagnosis of 1 of the following hematologic malignancies:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- AML beyond first complete remission (CR1)
- Refractory AML
- AML arising from myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
- Secondary AML
- Refractory anemia with excess blasts with > 10% blasts in bone marrow
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), meeting 1 of the following criteria:
ALL in CR1 with 1 of the following high-risk features:
- Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive disease
- Less than 1 year of age at diagnosis
- Cytogenetic abnormalities involving chromosome 11q23
- ALL beyond CR1
- Refractory ALL
- Chronic myeloid leukemia beyond first chronic phase
- Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Stage III-IV disease
- Does not meet criteria for other bone marrow transplantation (BMT) studies
Myeloproliferative disorders
- Ph-negative disease
Hodgkin's or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Chemotherapy-resistant disease
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria with life-threatening thrombosis
Multiple myeloma
- Stage II or III disease
Very high-risk disease
- Having an unrelated donor is considered a high-risk condition
- Meets medical criteria for myeloablative BMT for the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Bone marrow donor available, meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- Genotypically HLA-identical sibling
- Phenotypically matched first-degree relative
- Unrelated donor molecularly matched at HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1
- 6 months to 65 years
Performance status
- Not specified
Life expectancy
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
Endocrine therapy
- No concurrent dexamethasone as an antiemetic during immunosuppression therapy
- Not specified
- Not specified
- No concurrent immunosuppressants until ≥ 24 hours after the completion of cyclophosphamide (post-transplantation)
United States, Maryland | |
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins | |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231-2410 |
Principal Investigator: | Leo Luznik, MD | Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center |
Additional Information:
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00134017 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | CDR0000440164, J0373, P01CA015396, P30CA006973, JHOC-03121504, JHOC-J0373 |
Study First Received: | August 22, 2005 |
Last Updated: | January 25, 2012 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center:
adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission refractory anemia with excess blasts adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22) childhood acute myeloid leukemia in remission recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia recurrent childhood acute myeloid leukemia secondary acute myeloid leukemia de novo myelodysplastic syndromes adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
recurrent childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia childhood chronic myelogenous leukemia chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia stage III chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage IV chronic lymphocytic leukemia chronic eosinophilic leukemia chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis chronic neutrophilic leukemia stage III adult Hodgkin lymphoma stage IV adult Hodgkin lymphoma stage II multiple myeloma stage III multiple myeloma |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms Leukemia Lymphoma Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Multiple Myeloma Neoplasms, Plasma Cell Plasmacytoma Myelodysplastic Syndromes Preleukemia Myeloproliferative Disorders Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Immunoblastic Hematologic Neoplasms Neoplasms by Histologic Type Lymphoproliferative Disorders Lymphatic Diseases |
Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases Hemostatic Disorders Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Paraproteinemias Blood Protein Disorders Hematologic Diseases Hemorrhagic Disorders Bone Marrow Diseases Precancerous Conditions Neoplasms by Site Busulfan Cyclophosphamide Mycophenolate mofetil |
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Tiny Mouse Yixing Teapot
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A perfect little cute mouse pot for one. I received this as a gift and was delighted with it. It is lovely as a teapot or simply for display. The reviewer on here that says it does not have the built in strainer is correct...It doesn't. No matter as the leaves are mostly bigger than the spout and act as their own strainer. Only thing is, that it tends to dribble and not pour cleanly. I would buy it if I didn't receive it and hope to buy other products to compliment it.
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Got this as a gift, it doesnt have a strainer in it but I use larger tea leaves so its not a big deal. Only four stars b/c it drips when serving,
no big deal though. Its really cute. It really only makes one cup of tea but very quick and easy to brew a 2nd if you want to share. Just remember to only use one kind of tea in these kind of teapots. It does take time for them to take in the flavor. Great little teapot
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It does not have the spout strainer that the website says. Luckily I was in a store when I got it. Oolong leaves swell up so it doesn't matter that there's no strainer.
This is the perfect size for 1 or 2 people (or more under certain circumstances). The size means you can do short and flavorful steepings without leaving the water in the pot too long.
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I absolutely love this little mouse. The yixing really takes the aroma into the clay. It does take time to absorb the flavor but with patience I have something have no regrets about. I also have three pet rats which made it even better for me! Perfect for any rat/tea lover.
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I received this little mouse as a gift, and it is absolutely adorable! It was a bit smaller than I expected, and holds only one small cup of tea at a time, but with a strainer built right in to the spout, it is easy to simply add more water when you are ready for that second cup. The Yixing teapots do take a bit of time to "season" before use, but it was not difficult. I would definitely recommend this little guy as a gift or as a wonderful addition to your own collection.
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Dec 02, 2005 — It's not your typical train. It's decorated with thousands of twinkling lights. And at each stop, local residents will be treated to concerts with musicians performing on a boxcar stage. It's the Holiday Train - with a mission of helping cash-strapped food banks -- on track for several stops in the US and Canada. Canadian Pacific Railway sponsors the annual train ride. The train will be in the Eastern Adirondacks tonight, with stops in Ticonderoga, Port Henry and Plattsburgh. Michel Spinard called us from the train yesterday evening. He spoke to Gregory Warner.


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Cancer Estrogens Block p53 in Breast CancerJohn F. Foley Science Signaling, AAAS, Washington, DC 20005, USA Most breast cancers are associated with aberrant signaling by the estrogen receptor (ER), a nuclear hormone receptor and transcription factor, and ER-dependent (ER+) breast cancer cells depend on estrogens, such as estradiol (E2), for survival. ER+ breast cancers are treated with tamoxifen or fulvestrant, which are partial and full ER antagonists, respectively. The proapoptotic tumor suppressor protein p53 is mutated most often in ER-independent breast cancers. Although ER+ breast cancer cells contain wild-type p53, chemotherapy-induced apoptosis of these cells is blocked by estrogens. Bailey et al. performed genome-wide analyses and viability and apoptosis assays to examine p53 function in ER+ breast cancer cells. E2 and tamoxifen independently inhibited the apoptosis of ER+ MCF7 breast cancer cells induced by doxorubicin, which activates p53; however, fulvestrant had no such effect. Microarray analysis showed that doxorubicin and E2 had opposing effects on the expression of two sets of genes, with doxorubicin inhibiting and E2 activating the first set of encoding products that stimulate proliferation, whereas doxorubicin activated and E2 inhibited the second set of genes, which encode products that stimulate apoptosis. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed that a subset of these differentially expressed genes contained binding sites for both ER and p53. Gene expression analysis of MCF7 cells treated with E2, doxorubicin, or both showed that ER inhibited the p53-dependent expression of genes that encode proapoptotic products. Tamoxifen had a similar effect to that of E2, whereas fulvestrant failed to inhibit p53-dependent expression of these genes. Gene expression profiling of breast cancers showed that patients who had enhanced expression of genes that are activated by doxorubicin but inhibited by E2 had increased survival rates compared to patients with the opposite profile. Together, these data suggest that an effective breast cancer therapy may involve agents that activate p53 in combination with fulvestrant, rather than tamoxifen, to completely inhibit ER signaling and prevent p53 antagonism. S. T. Bailey, H. Shin, T. Westerling, X. S. Liu, M. Brown, Estrogen receptor prevents p53-dependent apoptosis in breast cancer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 18060–18065 (2012). [Abstract] [Full Text] Citation: J. F. Foley, Estrogens Block p53 in Breast Cancer. Sci. Signal. 5, ec284 (2012). The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:In Science Signaling
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Born on February 24, 1931, in the Bronx, New York, Dominic Chianese is a versatile performer with a career spanning more than five decades, Chianese got his start on the stage. He appeared off-Broadway in the American Savoyards in 1952, which led to national tours of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado and Patience.
Now a veteran stage performer, Chianese has performed in musicals and dramatic productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival, among several other venues.
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Chianese made his film debut in 1972 in Fuzz. Shortly after, he appeared in one of the classic gangster movies of all-time, The Godfather, Part II (1974) which starred Al Pacino. Around this time, Chianese appeared in several of director Sidney Lumet's films, including the explosive drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
For the next two decades, Chianese continued to carve out a substantial career as a character actor in film, on the stage and on television. He showed his range as an actor by appearing on a diverse mix of TV shows, from the crime drama Law & Order to the comedy Hope & Faith. He often played the role of the gangster as he did in the HBO biographical film Gotti (1996). It would be Chianese's portrayal of another mob figure on another HBO program, however, that would make him a star and a staple of popular culture.
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The HBO television series, The Sopranos, began airing in 1999, with Chianese on board as Carrado "Uncle Junior" Soprano. Short-tempered with often frustrated ambitions, his character often experienced conflict with his nephew Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini) over the family business. Chianese brought this aging mobster character to life, presenting him as a complex human being rather than a stereotypical figure. His hard work paid off: He received numerous accolades for his performance on The Sopranos, including two Emmy Award nominations for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series, in 2000 and 2001.
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Dominic Chianese has been married to Jane Pittson since 2003. He also has a son, Dominic Chianese Jr., who is an actor.
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The Broward Sheriff's Office on Thursday released gripping surveillance video showing three masked men as they robbed a Pompano Beach Radio Shack last Sunday.
The high-quality video clearly shows customers and employees being surprised as three, armed masked men storm into the store at 167 S. Pompano Pkwy. around 6:30 p.m. on the night before New Year's Eve.
One of the men waves an automatic weapon as he orders employees and customers to first get on the ground and then leads them at gunpoint into the store's storage room.
Customers are seen led away at gunpoint.
Once everyone is corralled, the three suspects fill a large bag with cell phones and flee through the stockroom door.
BSO said all three men wore dark clothing and masks over their faces.
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