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Does anyone on this forum have the Anniversary Limited Edition Expression 150? And if so, how do you like it? |
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- Posted by maritime_linda (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 8:17
Well I bit the bullet and ordered one. Will pick it up next week. Can't wait! |
- Posted by jackier123 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 9:27
Congrats! I hope you enjoy it. Jackie |
- Posted by bloomorelse (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 16:51
I just treated myself to that very machine before Xmas. Haven't done a whole lot other than hats with it so far, and hemmed a pair of jeans, but so far, I like it. |
Enjoy your new machines, ladies! I don't have a Pfaff dealer any where near me, so don't know anything about them. Donna |
- Posted by maritime_linda (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 20:04
Bloomorelse, I see you are a fellow NBer. Glad to hear you're enjoying your machine. My SIL and I are both getting one. She already owns one Pfaff, but was attracted as I was to the wide throat on this one which is a big boon to quilters and she is always raving about the way the machine senses and automatically adjusts for even feed, no need for a walking foot. The price right now seemed excellent as well. I'm currently using a Viking Platinum which I like for piecing but no so much for machine quilting. BTW, I'm curious as to what kind of hats you make. Do you have a pic? Actually Donna, there is no dealer in my city, either. We will be taking a little road-trip (about 1 1/2 hours away) to pick them up, hopefully Monday or Tuesday. |
- Posted by maritime_linda (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 17:59
Machines came in early and we picked them up today with a 2 hour lesson. Stopped at the cottage on the way home so too tired to do anything tonight other than have another look at the book. She went through it page by page with us. It's a beautiful machine and I'm anxious to play with it, lots of amazing features and 200 stitches. Won't I have fun! |
- Posted by magothyrivergirl (My Page) on Mon, Feb 11, 13 at 10:21
I am sooooooo jealous!!! :~) I own 3 Pfaff sewing machines. One is 40+ year old & was the top of the line when I bought it, and it is still stitching beautifully. I hope you all love your machines! |
- Posted by craftymummy9 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 29, 13 at 4:39
I just purchased the pfaff expression 150 Anniversary machine for a great price. So far so good live it |
I have a Pfaff tiptronic 6270. It sews like heaven! Even after I bought a babylock Jane for the harp space, I do all my other sewing on the Pfaff. I feel so smug when I don't have to pin things as much due to the even feed. I live in fear that it will break down. It's over 15 now. Love to hear more about your new one in case this one ever needs replacing. Have fun! LindaB/CA |
- Posted by magothyrivergirl (My Page) on Tue, Oct 29, 13 at 12:58
I recently bought 2 new Pfaff's! I traded in my Pfaff Quilt Expressions 2048 and the only way the 'deal' would work was to buy both the Passport 2.0 & Pfaff Performance 5.0 -- bells & whistles -- sewing only (not an embroidery machine). The Passport I took to Retreat in Sept and sewed on it basically for the first time. Nice little machine. I am learning the Performance 5.0 -- I haven't gone back for the classes yet due to a lack of time. Both have the IDT, a feature I have had for over 40 years and love-love love! I am now a 4 Pfaff family. |
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Michael Todd "Mike" Tirico (/tɨˈriːkoʊ/; born December 13, 1966) is an announcer for ESPN's presentation of Monday Night Football,.[1] In addition, Tirico calls a multitude of programming for ESPN/ABC, including college basketball, the NBA, golf and tennis.
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Tirico joined ESPN in 1991 as a SportsCenter anchor,[2] after 4 years as Sports Director at CBS affiliate WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York, during his undergraduate years at Syracuse University.[3] Tirico is noted for his versatile nature and the variety of assignments he has handled for SportsCenter; Tirico has handled the play-by-play for ESPN's Thursday night college football package (1997 to 2005),[4] college basketball coverage (1997 to 2002),[5] NBA coverage (2002 to present), and PGA golf coverage for ABC (1996 to 2006). Tirico has also hosted studio coverage of various ESPN and ABC covered events, including a stint on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown (previously known as NFL Prime Monday) from 1993 to 2001 and ABC's NBA studio shows. He also broadcasts NBA games on ESPN/ABC, and usually does the NBA Finals coverage for ESPN Radio. He anchored the 2009 U.S. Open (tennis).
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Tirico's period at ESPN has not been without controversy. Two books about the network, ESPN: The Uncensored History (2000) by former New York Times sportswriter Michael Freeman and 2011's These Guys Have All the Fun (by Washington Post writers James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales), recount allegations of sexual harassment. Tirico, for example, was suspended by the network for three months in 1992 for multiple incidents involving attempted groping, sexual solicitation, and stalking of female co-workers.[6][7]
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Tirico has been paired in the college football booth with Tim Brant,[8] Terry Bowden,[9] Mike Gottfried,[10] Kirk Herbstreit,[11] Lee Corso,[11] and David Norrie.[11] His partners in NBA coverage have included Tom Tolbert,[12] Hubie Brown, and Greg Anthony,[13] and he has worked with Curtis Strange,[14] Judy Rankin,[15] Nick Faldo,[16] and Paul Azinger[17] in PGA coverage. He has worked with Len Elmore on college basketball coverage. Tirico is also partners with Jon Gruden on Monday Night Football.
On April 21 and 22, 2007, he appeared as a guest host, filling in for Michael Wilbon, alongside Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption.[18]
Radio career[edit]
Tirico hosted his first show from WAER radio in Syracuse, N.Y., the station where he started his sports broadcasting career, on the campus of Syracuse University. Fellow Orange alum Bob Costas was his first guest. On September 20, 2007, Tirico began hosting the short-lived Mike Tirico Show on ESPN Radio from 1:00–3:00 pm weekdays (Eastern time). The show filled the empty seat left by Dan Patrick. During the spring of 2008, the title of The Mike Tirico Show, which featured Scott Van Pelt as a co-host, was changed to Tirico and Van Pelt. On May 19, 2009, Tirico announced he would be leaving the show to focus more on his television play-by-play duties, and the name of the show became The Scott Van Pelt Show.
Personal life[edit]
Tirico grew up in Queens, New York and graduated from Bayside High School and Syracuse University.[19][20] Tirico and his wife Debbie have two children. The Tiricos have lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1999.[20]
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If a talk with Robert De Niro and Judd Apatow can be considered a meeting of drama and comedy, humor easily won out when the two took the stage at the Tribeca Film Festival.
De Niro, a co-founder of Tribeca, and Apatow, the director of "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," convened Thursday for a conversation built around the 100th anniversary of Universal Studios. Both have made numerous films for the Comcast-owned studio founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle.
But as stark as the differences between De Niro and Apatow, the yuck-filled conversation, if anything, proved the blurring of genre lines.
De Niro, who famously segued into comedy with "Meet the Parents" and "Analyze This," is far looser and jovial than his iconic, intimidating big-screen presence. And Apatow's films, while uproarious, are ultimately personal expressions that make room for drama, too, like James L. Brooks and Cameron Crowe movies.
"One movie might be a little broader than another, and something might be more serious," said Apatow, talking about "walking the line" between comedy and drama. "But I'm usually thinking about 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'or 'Broadcast News' or something like that."
The conversation, moderated by Mike Fleming of Deadline Hollywood, was sometimes awkward. (Meryl Streep had originally been planned to join, but canceled due to a family illness.) Apatow frequently joked at the impossible transitions between discussing such different filmographies.
Talking about casting the then less known Steve Carrel in "40 Year-Old Virgin," Apatow paused and then exaggeratedly added: "Much like Christopher Walken in 'The Deerhunter.'"
Apatow drew a more direct line between his "Funny People" and De Niro's "The King of Comedy" — both movies, he said, about performers and their wounds. "Goodfellas," he said, is hilarious," and that even "Cape Fear" ''has some humor in it."
But like many before him, figuring out De Niro proved too difficult for the filmmaker.
"You're a very, very warm, nice man," said Apatow. "Why do you think you're so good at playing tough guys or murders or all that?"
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Two suspects in the deaths of six people along the Tennessee-Alabama border last October are in custody, on unrelated charges.
District Attorney General Robert Carter told The Associated Press that he has asked the state crime lab to expedite the analysis of crime scene evidence. Authorities have not released the names of the suspects or what charges they are being held on.
Lincoln County, Tennessee Sheriff Murray Blackwelder held a news conference with the district attorney Friday on the case. Blackwelder said within 48 hours of the slayings, the two suspects were in custody on unrelated charges, and have remained in custody since.
Six bodies were found at four separate crime scenes in Tennessee and Alabama. Three women and a baby were killed in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and two men were found dead in Madison County, Alabama.
The bodies of 22-year-old Chabreya Campbell, her 18-month-old son, Rico Ragland, and 21-year-old Amber McCaulley were found inside a home on Huntsville Highway in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on October 22.
A few hours later, investigators found the body of Jessica Brown at a home on Fox Wood Drive, just a few miles from the first crime scene.
The next day, Huntsville Police found Jeffrey Pope shot to death in a home on Ortega Circle. Lastly, utility crews found the body of Warren Crutcher in a wooded area off B H Reeves Road near the Alabama-Tennessee state line several hours after Pope was shot to death..
Sheriff's deputies searched the Flint River near Winchester Road in Madison County for possible evidence in the months after the crimes.
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Blackwelder said all of the victims were acquaintances.
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At St. John's, athletics are another way to approach the injunction
on the temple at Delphi: "Know thyself." The college's athletic
programs, therefore, are designed to ensure that every student—not
merely a select few—can participate. As amateurs, students strive to
realize the best in their nature, challenging themselves to explore
their limits and pressing opponents to do the same. As they do, they
experience the rewards of friendly competition: recognition among
their peers, the satisfaction of good sportsmanship, and the honor
that comes with both.
The fearless spirit that St. John's students bring to their
learning applies equally on the playing field. Just as students plunge
headlong into learning ancient Greek, they might join an intramural
team to play a sport they've never tried. And just as full participa-
tion in seminar discussions benefits all, so does wide participation
in athletics. The same applies to other forms of recreation—from
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intramural athletics. Even so, students do compete against other colleges—in fencing,
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David Beckham came, he sold, he conquered.
For the first two years after he joined the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007, he was more of a brand than a player, his impact at America's cash registers far greater than any transformation on the field.
By the time the 37-year-old English midfielder played his final game in Major League Soccer on Saturday, he had achieved his footballing and his financial goals, winning two more titles and expanding the U.S. audience for his sport. He gained attention for his ability, and not just for his ever-changing hairstyles, Spice Girl wife and celebrity friends.
"When I decided to come here, I think I raised a little bit of interest, and I hope that's what I've done," Beckham said. "If that's the single thing that I've done, then great. But I think the foundations are there now in this league. It's a 17-year-old league and the foundations are great. It will continue to grow."
The league expanded by about 50 percent, with new teams announced during the Beckham era that started play in San Jose (2008), Seattle (2009), Philadelphia (2010), Vancouver and Portland (2011), and Montreal (2012). That raised the total to 19.
Ground was broken for football-specific stadiums in Houston, Kansas City and Philadelphia, the long-delayed venue in New Jersey was completed, and extensive renovations took place in Montreal, Portland and Vancouver.
MLS' regular-season attendance averaged 15,504 in 2006, the last season before Beckham left Real Madrid to sign with the Galaxy. It was up to a record 18,807 this year, still well short of the record 44,293 set by the Bundesliga in 2011-12 and the 35,356 for England's Premier League.
Beckham said his goals were to win and increase awareness of the league both domestically and abroad.
"I don't think anybody would doubt that he has over-delivered on every one of those measures," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said. "There's arguably not a soccer fan on this planet that doesn't know the L.A. Galaxy and Major League Soccer, and David played a significant role in helping us make that happen. He was an unbelievable ambassador for the league, for the Galaxy."
Beckham made his debut for Manchester United's first team in 1992, the year when he turned 17 and played alongside Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville for the Red Devils' winning team in the FA Youth Cup. At 21, he made his debut for England.
He helped United win six Premier League titles, two FA Cups and the 1999 Champions League. Sold to Real for 35 million euros (then $41 million), he won Spain's La Liga in his fourth and final season.
By then, he had already announced he was moving to Los Angeles. While his handlers and the Galaxy hyped the deal as being worth "in excess $250 million," it turned out to be a $32.5 million, five-year contract. Still, he earned 50 times the league's average of $129,395 in 2008 and twice as much as any other player.
Following his first Galaxy appearance, in a friendly against Chelsea, he was given a welcoming party hosted by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. A crowd of 46,686 showed up for his MLS debut on Aug. 9, 2007, at D.C. United.
While injuries limited his playing time, the five games he played averaged 37,659 fans — in a league where the overall average that year was 16,770. MLS jersey sales rose 780 percent.
"I don't think there's any doubt that David has increased the visibility of MLS and the sport more generally," U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati said. "That very positive impact will be felt for many years."
When Beckham arrived, his mind seemed to be on England as much as it was on California. He commuted back to play for the national team, hoping to make its 2010 World Cup squad, and played on loan for AC Milan in early 2009 and 2010. While in Italy, he tore his left Achilles tendon, ending his England career after 17 goals and 115 appearances — second only to goalkeeper Peter Shilton's 125.
Only after the injury did he seem to focus on MLS. His relationship with Galaxy co-star Landon Donovan improved — Donovan took back the captain's armband — and Beckham helped Los Angeles to three straight league finals — beating Houston in the title game in 2011 and this year. He scored 20 goals in 116 competitive appearances over 6 1/2 years.
Only in television ratings did MLS fail to achieve a long-term boost. The league's regular-season telecasts on ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 311,000 viewers this year, up less than 5 percent over 2007.
Rafa Marquez, Thierry Henry and Robbie Keane followed him to MLS. Frank Lampard and Kaka may become the next big stars to join the league.
The very best players, Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Real's Cristiano Ronaldo, are far too good and far too expensive to leave Europe for MLS right now, a league still in its developmental stage.
Beckham, though, made it acceptable for stars just past their primes to trek across the Atlantic as salesmen and scorers. After the next stop in his playing career — likely the last — Beckham intends to return to MLS as an owner.
"I know it's the No. 1 sport in the world. There's other great sports here, of course, I believe it can compete with the basketball. I believe it can compete with American football and baseball," Beckham said. "That's why I'm totally committed to that."
AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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Lesson 3: You Become What You Believe
October 12, 2011
This workbook is designed to help you shine a light on your negative beliefs, so that you can move on from them. These workbook questions were curated by Martha Beck. The goal is to continue the conversation and go deeper into the lesson. Your answers are private, no one else can see them.
Close your eyes and "fast forward" to a moment 5 years from now, when you are living your best life to its absolute fullest. Describe the room where you wake up—where is it, how is it decorated, and who is there with you?
Think of something you wish to make happen— and in your mind create a concrete symbol to represent that wish coming true. What did you wish? What is the symbol?
What is the feeling in your body as you imagine this wish coming true? Feel for ways to shift and reshape your vision until it feels possible and peaceful. In fact, it's most likely to happen if it feels like a done deal—normal.
What is it you know you can do, with your eyes closed on your worst day? Thinking about your falling-off-a-log-easy skill, how might you see that leading not just to pleasant outcomes, but to huge success?
To find out what you truly believe, write a description of your life situation—the people around you, your circumstances, and "blind spots" where your self-concept fails to align with the beauty of your real self.
Look back on your previous answer, and investigate the beliefs that correspond to your life's worst elements. Rethink those beliefs.
When Oprah's grandmother said she'd be hanging out clothes as an adult, Oprah knew it wasn't true. When has a negative statement called forth a strong feeling in you that said, "No, this person is wrong. I
meant to succeed"?
In J.K. Rowling's first book, someone says of Harry Potter, "One day every child in the world will know his name." What offhand remarks have you said—or heard someone else say about you—that turned out to be a sort of prophecy?
Are your actions in alignment with what you say you want in life? Where are you staying in a situation where other people are treating you badly, waiting for
to change? Passivity in a situation of injustice creates a damaged life.
Do you undermine yourself by thinking, "I'll never..." or "that doesn't happen for people like us"? Instead, find examples of times your negative belief was wrong. Focus on the places where your life plays out in defiance of your negative beliefs.


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U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II blocked the permit in 1999, putting more than 300 United Mine Workers union members at Dal-Tex out of work. Since then, Arch has transferred the site to its nonunion operations, and the Spruce Mine has undergone one of the most detailed environmental studies ever in the coal industry.
Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the corps generally reviews and approves these permits, which allow mining operators to bury streams with millions of tons of waste rock and dirt.
The law says the EPA can "restrict, prohibit or withdraw" corps approval of any site for waste disposal "if the discharge will have unacceptable adverse effects on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas, wildlife, or recreational areas." In the more than 40 years that the EPA has had this veto authority, it has used it 13 times.
In challenging the EPA's Spruce Mine veto, lawyers for Arch Coal argued that the agency did not have authority to veto a permit after it was issued. The company also made a variety of arguments about the science behind the EPA's decision. A lower court that overturned the EPA veto addressed only whether the EPA had veto authority, so that was the only matter considered by the appeals court.
Corps officials in January 2007 issued a permit for a scaled-back 2,300-acre operation that would bury more than seven miles of streams. The mine eventually would employ 250 workers and mine about 44 million tons of coal over about 15 years.
EPA officials have questioned the Spruce Mine from the beginning and, in a comment letter submitted to the corps under President George W. Bush in 2006, complained about the potential impacts and said more changes in the operation were needed.
In January 2011, the EPA rescinded the corps' approval for Arch to dump waste rock and dirt into 6.6 miles of Pigeonroost Branch, Oldhouse Branch and their tributaries. The agency said it would allow mining to continue on another portion of the site, burying nearly a mile of streams in the Seng Camp Creek watershed, because work there already had begun.
The EPA cited the growing scientific evidence that mountaintop removal mining significantly damages water quality downstream, and noted an independent engineering study that found Arch Coal could have greatly reduced the Spruce Mine's impacts.
The Clean Water Act section at issue in the case gives the EPA authority to prohibit the dumping of waste into streams and grants the agency authority for the "withdrawal" of streams or stream segments as waste-dumping sites. The law says the EPA can use that authority "whenever" the agency determines a permit "will have an unacceptable adverse effect on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds, and fishery areas ... wildlife or recreational areas."
Arch Coal's Mingo Logan subsidiary appealed the EPA veto. In a March 2012 ruling, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with the company, saying the veto was "a stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself when there is absolutely no mention of it in the statute."
In its Tuesday decision, the appeals court said the Clean Water Act contains "unambiguous language" that "manifests the Congress's intent to confer on EPA a broad veto power extending beyond the permit issuance."
"Section 404 imposes no temporal limit on the administrator's authority to withdraw the corps' specification, but instead expressly empowers him to prohibit, restrict, or withdraw the specification 'whenever' he makes a determination that the statutory 'unacceptable adverse effect' will result," the appeals court said.
Henderson, who wrote the appeals court decision, was appointed by President George H.W. Bush. The other two judges who heard the case -- Thomas B. Griffith and Brett M. Kavanaugh -- were appointed by George W. Bush.
Reach Ken Ward Jr. at kw...@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1702.


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BELLEVILLE — After nearly 25 years in Congress, former U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello announced Monday that he is launching a consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Belleville.
The Jerry Costello Group, LLC, will "provide services and advocacy for government agencies, trade associations and businesses seeking knowledge, assistance and results to achieve their goals," according to a press statement Costello released.
Costello, who retired in early January, is barred by federal law from lobbying members of the U.S. Congress or their staffs for a year after leaving office.
Most of his consulting work will be based in Belleville, he said.
"I will have an office in Washington, D.C.," Costello said, "but I will spend 80 percent of my time here."
Costello is opening his own consulting firm because "I'm going to keep it small," he said. "I'm going to have just a handful of clients that have causes and issues that I believe in. So I can be selective."
Conversely, working for a large law or lobbying firm in Washington "would not allow me to select my own clients or work on issues that I care about."
Costello said he expected to be working with clients in the transportation sector, "which is where I spent the last 25 years of my life specializing in."
Costello served on the U.S. House transportation and science panels during his congressional tenure. He was both ranking member and chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee of the Transportation Committee, and was ranking member on the energy and space subcommittees on the House Science Committee and co-chairman of the House Aerospace Caucus.
So far Costello said he has not hired any associates and is still developing a client list. He said he will be working with other firms "on a case-by-case basis."
Costello's firm will be based at 144 Lincoln Place Court in Belleville, the site of his former Belleville congressional field office.
Costello had represented the 12th U.S. House District since 1988. The district covers a dozen counties stretching from Alton, in Madison County, to Cairo, in Alexander County, in the state's southernmost tip.
Costello was replaced by freshman U.S. Rep. Bill Enyart, a fellow Belleville Democrat, who handily won the Nov. 6 election.
Costello also intends to lecture and recently delivered the key note address at a transportation symposium at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is also set to begin a lecture series at Southern Illinois University with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute later this month.


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After more than decade of research, scientists uncover genetic basis for the severe skin disease pytiriasis rubra pilaris (PRP).
SKIN AFFECTED by pytiriasis rubra pilaris disease
Photo: Courtesy Sourasky Medical Center
Only now, almost 200 years after it was first described, Israeli and other researchers have discovered the genetic basis for the severe skin disease pytiriasis rubra pilaris (PRP), which affects people of all backgrounds around the world.
After more than a decade, the lead researchers at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center finally identified mutations in the gene CARD14 that codes for a very important regulator of inflammation in the skin. The mutations associated with PRP lead to increased inflammatory activity within the skin, due to abnormal function of CARD14. The prevalence of the disease may be as many as one in 5,000 people.
The team – headed by dermatology department chief Prof. Eli Sprecher and including Dana Fuchs, a doctoral student in his lab – published their paper on Sunday in the
American Journal of Human Genetics
. "The discovery of the PRP gene was a long and chaotic journey, with many dead ends and false routes; at some point, we were unsure whether all the participating families had the same disease," they said in the paper.
PRP used to be considered an immunological skin disorder, but it is in fact due to a genetic defect in the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin. Also known as Devergie's disease, it causes broad swatches of reddish-orange, scaly skin patches on the body and face, itching, serious flaking and thickened bumps around hair follicles in the scalp. Although most patients are over age 50, it may attack people of any age and any race or nationality, with men and women equally affected.
The CARD14 protein is strongly expressed in the epidermis, said Sprecher: "This is really shifting the focus of our attention from the immune system to the skin. The skin is often perceived as a passive victim of abnormal immunological activation in inflammatory skin diseases like PRP and psoriasis. In fact, it may play a more important, and even perhaps primordial role."
"More importantly, mutations in CARD14 are found in only a portion of PRP patients but were also recently found by a US group in a subset of psoriasis patients. No matter how you look at the data, these two sets of facts actually demarcate a new medical entity comprising individuals affected by two diseases once thought to be separate conditions, but in fact caused by the very same genetic defect," he continued.
The discovery was made thanks to the intensive study of four affected families, three in the US and one in Holland, who suffer from the skin disease. But the disease affects Israelis as well as other people around the world.
This is not the first time that genetics is redefining disease classification in dermatology, but it may be one of the first discoveries that is likely to have major therapeutic implications, Sprecher added. "Indeed, the mechanism found to be defective in our patients suggests that they may respond better than others to drugs known to interfere with the pathway found to be hyperactive in our studies."
Sprecher told
The Jerusalem Post
on Sunday that some of the people who in the past were thought to have PRP actually had a different skin disease – a type of psoriasis – caused by the same gene mutation. But not all those with psoriasis have this gene defect, he said. A sign of this was that some patients reacted positively to phototherapy (light treatment), while others' conditions worsened with it.
Once the gene involvement is known and we know the molecular path involved in it, we can better know what medications to treat it. There are side effects involved, but it's worth doing it," said Sprecher.
Among the possible medications are injections of tumor necrosis tactor (TNF) antagonists and interleukin 1 antagonists.
The research team also included Ofer Sarig of Sourasky Medical Center, Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University, Maurice van Steensel of Maastricht University, Jouni Uitto of Thomas Jefferson University, Philip Fleckman of the University of Washington and Gabriele Richard at GenDx.
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CRL4Cdt2-Mediated Destruction of the Histone Methyltransferase Set8 Prevents Premature Chromatin Compaction in S Phase
CRL4Cdt2-Mediated Destruction of the Histone Methyltransferase Set8 Prevents Premature Chromatin Compaction in S Phase
Molecular Cell, Volume 40, Issue 1,
Pages 22-33,
Publication Date 8 October 2010
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.09.015
Richard C. Centore
Courtney G. Havens
Amity L. Manning
Ju-Mei Li
Rachel Litman Flynn
Alice Tse
Jianping Jin
Nicholas J. Dyson
Johannes C. Walter
Lee Zou
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Corresponding author
► Set8 is degraded during S phase and DNA damage response ► Set8 degradation is mediated by the CRL4Cdt2 E3 ligase ► Aberrant Set8 stabilization in S phase leads to premature H4K20me1 accumulation ► Failure to degrade Set8 triggers a checkpoint-mediated G2 arrest
The proper coordination between DNA replication and mitosis during cell-cycle progression is crucial for genomic stability. During G2 and mitosis, Set8 catalyzes monomethylation of histone H4 on lysine 20 (H4K20me1), which promotes chromatin compaction. Set8 levels decline in S phase, but why and how this occurs is unclear. Here, we show that Set8 is targeted for proteolysis in S phase and in response to DNA damage by the E3 ubiquitin ligase, CRL4Cdt2. Set8 ubiquitylation occurs on chromatin and is coupled to DNA replication via a specific degron in Set8 that binds PCNA. Inactivation of CRL4Cdt2 leads to Set8 stabilization and aberrant H4K20me1 accumulation in replicating cells. Transient S phase expression of a Set8 mutant lacking the degron promotes premature H4K20me1 accumulation and chromatin compaction, and triggers a checkpoint-mediated G2 arrest. Thus, CRL4Cdt2-dependent destruction of Set8 in S phase preserves genome stability by preventing aberrant chromatin compaction during DNA synthesis.


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