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Alex Gladstein mourns Cameroonian musician Lapiro de Mbanga, one of the most prominent opponents of the country's dictator.
Christian Caryl argues that President Obama deserves more credit for a shrewd move in support of Libya's embattled central government.
Anna Nemtsova finds out how Russians feel about U.S. sanctions, and checks in with Kiev's bad news.
Andrew Foxall and Oren Kessler examine the role of ultra-right-wingers in Ukraine's current government.
Mohamed Eljarh reports on rapidly deteriorating conditions that have pushed Libya to the brink of civil war.
Uzra Khan explains how front-runner Narendra Modi is exploiting the moral and institutional decline of India's private media.
And now for this week's recommended reads:
A group of 65 Middle East experts, former members of Congress, and ex-U.S. diplomats send a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urging increased support from Washington for Tunisia's nascent democracy.
In El País, Spaniards mark the death of Adolfo Suárez, the prime minister who guided their country in its post-Franco transition to democracy.
Writing for the New Republic, Anne Applebaum argues that people-powered movements are overrated.
Writing for the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Sara Abdel Rahim asks whether Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, widely expected to be Egypt's next president, can claim to represent the interests of the country's women. David D. Kirkpatrick, writing for the New York Times, reports on an Egyptian court's decision to sentence 529 pro-Morsi protesters to death.
In Reuters, Andrew R.C. Marshall argues that Indonesia's pro-democracy decentralization program planted the seeds for today's widespread corruption. Writing for cogitASIA, Derwin Pereira suggests that Indonesia's newly-nominated gubernatorial candidate Joko Widodo might be able to turn the country around.
Human Rights Watch explains why Russia's takeover of Crimea amounts to a military occupation.
A new International Crisis Group report urges Cote d'Ivoire's government to address post-electoral violence in the country's unstable regions before it boils over into full-blown conflict.
In the Wall Street Journal, Victor Ponta, prime minister of Romania, calls for greater economic integration between the United States and Europe in order to build a "transatlantic superpower" capable of reinforcing Western security.
On the Monkey Cage, Turkuler Isiksel explains why Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has a "minimalist" understanding of democracy. (In the photo above, a woman waves the flag of Turkey's ruling party during a pro-Erdogan demonstration.)
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Transformers Movie: The Voice Cast
Reported by Jay Cochran - 01:28 PM 2007.06.19
Golden-throated PETER CULLEN (Optimus Prime®) is known throughout the world not only as the voice of the wise and heroic leader of the Autobots®, Optimus Prime®, on the popular 1980s cartoon series The Transformers, but he was also the voice of various other robots including Ironhide®, Slugslinger®, Streetwise®, Wingspan® and Nightstick®. In 1986, he reprised the voices Optimus® and Ironhide® in the animated film, The Transformers: The Movie.
Cullen also lends his talents to the somber but sincere voice of Eeyore, the eternally pessimistic donkey who views the world through morose-colored glasses, in Disneys Winnie the Pooh® movies: Wonderful World Adventure, Poohs Heffalump Movie, Springtime with Roo, Piglets Big Movie and The Tigger Movie. Cullen, who ironically owns his own donkey, is heard on everything from cartoons and television commercials to theatrical promotions. He has long provided the voice of Eeyore, beginning with the popular TV series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1988 to the House of Mouse in 2002. In addition, he is featured on Disneys Duck Tales and plays Monterey Jack on Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
Earlier in the 80s, Cullen was the voice of K.A.R.R., the evil incarnation of K.I.T.T., the talking Pontiac® Trans-Am, in the David Hasselhoff series Knight Rider. He was also the voice of Mantus in The Pirates of Dark Water, Hägar in Hägar the Horrible, Cindarr in Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Venger in Dungeons and Dragons and the narrator in the Voltron series. Other television credits include Johnny Quest, Spider-Man, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, Friends, Rainbow Brite, Scooby and Scrappy-Doo and The Jetsons.
His film credits include the remake of King Kong, as the voice of the famous giant ape, and in the Predator films he provided the inhuman alien sounds for the title role. Cullens voice can also be heard in My Little Pony: The Movie, Heathcliff: The Movie and Gremlins.
The actor has guest-starred on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Bobbie Gentry Show and the Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, and was an announcer on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Cullen also made appearances on Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor specials.
Born in Montreal, Québec, Cullen is a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School of Canada and spent his early professional years as a radio announcer. His son is a stuntman in Hollywood.
Australian actor HUGO WEAVING (Megatron®) has starred in two of the biggest trilogies in film history, playing Elf leader Elrond in the Lord of the Rings films and Agent Smith in the Matrix films. He worked again with the Wachowski Brothers in V for Vendetta, opposite Natalie Portman, and most recently in Peter Himmelsteins The Key Man.
Weaving is the recipient of two AFI (Australian Film Institute) Best Actor Awards, receiving the first in 1991 for his portrayal of a blind photographer in Jocelyn Moorhouses breakthrough feature Proof. He received a nomination in the same category in 1994 for his drag queen Mitzi Del Bra in Stephan Elliotts The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Weaving won the same award for the second time in 1998 for his role in The Interview, written and directed by Craig Monahan, for which he also received the 1998 Best Actor Award at the World Film Festival in Montreal. He also worked with Monahan on the 2005 release Peaches. His most recent credit is the critically acclaimed Little Fish, opposite Sam Neill and Cate Blanchett.
Weaving also has a wealth of experience on stage. In 2006, he appeared with Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Companys production of Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
His other film credits include the Australian features Russian Doll, The Magic Pudding, Strange Planet, Babe: Pig in the City, True Love, Chaos, Babe, Exile, The Custodian, Frauds, Reckless Kelly and Almost (aka Wendy Cracked a Walnut). His most recent Australian feature, The Tenderhook, opposite Rose Byrne, is set for release in 2008. Weaving also lent his voice to The Girl Who Swallowed Bees as the films narrator and as Noah the Elder in Happy Feet.
Born in Nigeria, Weaving was raised in England and Australia. He graduated from Australias National Institute of Dramatic Art.
MARK RYAN (Bumblebee) is a multi-talented performer, combining his acting, singing, writing and action direction talents, and has enjoyed a successful and eclectic career for some 30 years, working in all aspects of film and television.
He did several major musicals in London's West End, spending 4 years in Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit Evita originating the role of Magaldi and then playing Che under the direction of Broadway legend Hal Prince. He left Evita to play Mac in the movie The Final Option for director Ian Sharp.
Ryan originated the role of Nasir for the cult British series Robin of Sherwood and has appeared in dozens of films and television series both in the U.S. and the U.K.
Throughout his career Ryan has managed to keep a good balance between theater, film and television engagements. In 1986, he won critical acclaim for his portrayal of the title role in the musical Elmer Gantry at London's Gate Theatre and followed that with a national tour of the hit show Guys and Dolls, playing Sky Masterson. He returned to the West End to play Neville Landless in the Tony Award-winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood and, the same year, recorded a duet with singing star Tom Jones on his album Matador.
Other TV appearances followed with roles in The Bill, Dempsey & Makepeace, William Tell, Peak Practice, Harry and Casualty. Other film work includes The Corsican Brothers and The Phantom of the Opera.
In 1993, he toured Europe and Britain playing Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro and Leporello in Don Giovanni, both for Music Theatre London and directed by Nick Broadhurst. He followed that successful run with a series of open air concert performances with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also an accomplished author and has written for DC Comics and HarperCollins, in addition to writing several screenplays.
In 2000, Ryan played every major theatre in the US with original Monty Python member Eric Idle, performing classic British comedy roles at New Yorks famed Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python. The team later recorded the show for The Comedy Channel.
Other appearances include work on Frazier, Conan, JAG, General Hospital, Alias, The Young and the Restless, Nuremberg, Passions, Charlies Angels, A Piece of My Heart and Convicted.
In 2003, he concluded work as a sword master and fight director on the Jerry Bruckheimer Films production of King Arthur, directed by Antoine Fuqua. He has also appeared in such productions as The Prestige and The Thirst and recently completed playing the lead in Spec Ops: Delta portraying Col. Anderson Savage.
He began working on TRANSFORMERS during filming as the on-set voice of several different robots. This work continued throughout filming and into editing, prior to the actual casting of voice-over talent when he landed the role of Bumblebee. Ryan also voices Ironhide® and Hoist® for the Activision video game based on the film.
Nominated for an Emmy Award and named by Variety as one of the top ten voice actors, JESS HARNELL (Ironhide® / Barricade®) is truly one of the best and the busiest in the business.
His voice has been heard on countless primetime TV series, and he is the announcer on several top shows such as Americas Funniest Home Videos, and has appeared on practically every cartoon on TV from The Simpsons to Fairly Oddparents to Rugrats. In addition, he has starred as Captain Hero on Comedy Centrals hit Drawn Together and as Wakko on Steven Spielbergs Animaniacs, winner of multiple Emmy Awards as well as the prestigious Peabody Award.
Harnells film credits include the recently released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Over the Hedge, Cars, Robots, Finding Nemo, The Country Bears, Lilo & Stitch, Scooby-Doo, The Emperors New Groove, Toy Story 2, Toy Story and A Bugs Life.
He has voiced thousands of promos and national commercials for clients such as Disney, McDonalds, Diet Coke, Fox, Kelloggs and a series of spots for Sea World as the voices of both Shamu and Shamu Jr. His voice is also featured in several of the worlds biggest video games.
Born on the East Coast and raised in California from the time he was ten, Harnell always knew hed end up as a performer, though not necessarily as a cartoon. He has an extensive background as a rock singer, winning numerous awards and doing literally thousands of gigs as a studio vocalist and sound-alike, impersonating many famous vocalists flawlessly. As one of the top celebrity voice matches in the business, Harnell is able to mimic over 150 celebrities, both speaking and singing, from Albert Brooks to Ozzy Osbourne, Elvis Presley, all four Beatles, Steve Perry, Willie Nelson, Pee Wee Herman and even Rodney Dangerfield.
His voice is also onscreen this summer in the animated Surfs Up, along with Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, Jeff Bridges and James Woods, as well as in Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm with Rob Paulsen, Ruth Buzzi and Dom DeLuise, set for release later this year.
In 2005-2006 ROBERT FOXWORTH (Ratchet®) co-starred in the award-winning Broadway production of Twelve Angry Men for the Roundabout Theatre. In 2003, he was Brutus in Daniel Sullivans production of Julius Caesar at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and during the 2001-2002 season he played Robert in the national Broadway tour of Proof. Foxworth made his Broadway debut in the American Shakespeare Festivals production of Henry V and won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of John Proctor in The Crucible at Lincoln Center.
His stage work was interrupted for a period of time as he starred in several television series, including Storefront Lawyers, Falcon Crest and Late Line, with Al Franken. He has appeared as a recurring series character on Six Feet Under, Law & Order, Law & Order: SUV, Enterprise and Justice League. Foxworth has also guest-starred on countless series and movies-of-the-week over the years, most recently Brothers & Sisters, Boston Legal, Bones, The West Wing and Gilmore Girls, and in the motion picture Syriana.
Additional work in the theatre includes Cyrano at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Iago and Macbeth at the Guthrie, George in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Hartford Stage, Brechts Galileo at Center Stage in Baltimore, Uncle Vanya at the Geffen and Private Lives and Below the Belt at the Old Globe.
On Broadway he was Count Shebyelski in Ivanov at Lincoln Center, starred with Jane Alexander in Honour at the Belasco and played the prosecuting attorney Colonel Parker in Judgment at Nurmenberg at the Longacre.
Foxworth is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a founding member of The Matrix Theatre Company.
JIMMIE WOOD (Bonecrusher®) is a musician, singer and actor best known as the front man and harmonica player for his band the Imperial Crowns. Jimmie has recorded with artists from across the musical spectrum, from Bruce Springsteen to Johnny Rotten (with PIL), from Gladys Knight to Megadeth, international superstar Ofra Haza, Etta James, Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Trick and Chuck E. Weiss, among others. Hes sung and played harmonica on dozens of movie scores and TV commercials. As an actor, Wood has appeared in the movies Suckers and Girl in 3D as well as on the television series Rugrats, Real Monsters and The Wild Thornberrys.
DARIUS McCRARY (Autobot Jazz®) will soon be seen in the musical comedy Steppin: The Movie, costarring Anthony Anderson, MoNique and James Avery, on which he also serves as co-producer, and in A Good Man is Hard to Find with Lance E. Nichols. Both films are currently in post-production.
McCrary is best known for his role as Eddie Winslow on the long-running television series Family Matters. He began his career in Hollywood at the age of ten.
McCrary has also starred as a series regular on NBCs Committed as Bowie James and later as Jamal in UPNs Eve. He also appeared on the small screen in the NBC/Paramount miniseries Kingpin, on HBOs multi-award-winning Don King: Only in America, starring Ving Rhames, and in the popular Neal Israel-directed Kidz in the Woods.
On film, McCrary portrayed Malcolm Tremell in The Maintenance Man, based on the novel by author Michael Baisden; he was Ray Collins in Vampires: Los Muertos, the sequel to John Carpenters original Vampires; Detective Tommy Cullen in 15 Minutes; and Aaron Williams in Mississippi Burning. Other film credits include Hostage, Something to Sing About, Kingdom Come, The Breaks, Park Day and Big Shots.
McCrary, who is also a songwriter and music producer, is the son of Grammy-nominated gospel/jazz musician Howard McCrary and older brother of actor Donovan McCrary.
Emmy Award-winning director and two-time Annie Award nominee CHARLIE ADLER (Starscream®) is one of the industrys most sought after directors and voice-over artists. He is currently lending his voice direction talents to the series All Grown Up for Nickelodeon, and Stripperella and The Immigrants for Spike TV. Adler has also voice directed for the Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power cartoon franchises.
As a voice-over artist Adler has appeared as series regular in over 90 animated series. Currently playing Mr. Whiskers in Disneys Brandy & Mr. Whiskers and co-starring in Pet Aliens and Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks for PBS, Adlers metamorphic voice is heard an average of 20 times a day all over the world. Starring in the prime time Emmy-nominated series and international hit Cow & Chicken, he played the parts of Cow, Chicken and The Red Guy.
Adlers most notable characters are Buster Bunny from Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures, Ickis in AAAHH!!! Real Monsters and Ed and Bev Bighead in Rockos Modern Life. He has also been a Smurf, a G.I. Joe, a Transformer and a Glow Friend and starred as the Baboon in I.M. Weasel, opposite Michael Dorn. In the cult feature Cool World he played opposite Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt as Nails, the neurotic sidekick. Adler has also turned out three direct-to-video McDonalds Adventures and numerous CD-Rom games, and created the voice of the Internets Mr. Smarmy in the series Mr. Baby.
Named one of the Top 13 All Time Voice-Over Artists by Animation Magazine and Voice of The Decade by Animation World News, Adler is at the undisputed top of the world of voice for animation.
He is also the director, writer and star of the award-winning independent live action movie No Prom for Cindy, appearing in over 45 festivals worldwide and winning numerous awards. The movie was recently adopted by San Francisco State Universitys Film Department as part of their curriculum.
As an actor, Adler starred on Broadway in Torch Song Trilogy as a successor to Harvey Feinstein. He also toured in the first national company, for which he earned a Helen Hayes Award best actor nomination. Off-Broadway, Adler starred in Family Business at the Astor Place Theater for a year, as well as appearing in Alan Alberts acclaimed improv company The Proposition. Adler co-starred with Imogene Coca and Rita Rudner in Once Upon A Mattress and with Professor Irwin Corey in Neil Simons Gods Favorite, and toured as Edward Albees psycho in Zoo Story. In addition, he has played Israel Horowitzs Hero in Dr. Zero, as well as the Emcee in Cabaret.
On television, Adler was a regular on The Redd Foxx Show, assumed the roles of three generations of sons for PBS in Then and Now, and was an obsessive photographer in First & Ten. Adler has also been a familiar face in over 100 television commercials for Coca-Cola, McDonalds, IBM, G.E., Big Red Gum and Safeguard Soap. As a writer, Adler has co-written several Tiny Toon episodes and his critically acclaimed one-man show, There Used to Be Fireflies, won him a Dramalogue Award for Best Actor.
A familiar face on the small screen, RENO WILSON (Decepticon Frenzy) recently appeared on NBCS cops-and-robbers drama Heist as Detective Tyrese Evans, and last year starred as Detective Tom Selway on ABCs Steven Bochco series Blind Justice.
Wilson made his television debut as Howard, Theo Huxtables best friend, on the celebrated comedy series The Cosby Show. More recently, he played Wes Freewald on the cult favorite The Chronicle for the Sci-Fi Channel and Owen Davies on the critically acclaimed Showtime series The Hoop Life.
Wilson starred in Comedy Centrals Three Strikes, as well as guest-starring on dozens of television series including Lincoln Heights, Life, Las Vegas, Wanda at Large, Touched by an Angel, The Mermaid Chronicles, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Chicago Hope, The Sentinel, Cybill, Coach and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
The actor has made over a dozen films, including Crank, Fronterz (which Wilson also executive produced), Mighty Joe Young, Rough Draft, Fallen and The Great White Hype. Next up are the independent films TV Virus and Bolden! in which he is portraying the legendary Louis Armstrong.
Wilson is a native New Yorker. His father was a jazz pianist and his mother an opera singer. He attended the famed High School for the Performing Arts in New York City.
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Plans to "upgrade" some rural Indiana railroad crossings are causing confusion and controversy.
The crossings in question now rely on stop signs to control traffic, but some feel there's a better way: It involves replacing the stop signs with yield signs.
"Initially it does sound strange as that would be a safety upgrade but several studies have backed this up that at these passive crossings, yield signs sometimes can be more effective in areas where a stop sign is not absolutely necessary," said INDOT spokesman Matt Deitchley.
In Marshall County there are 19 so-called 'passive' rail crossings. They're in low traffic, rural areas. They don't have crossing gates or warning lights, but they do have stop signs.
"The stop signs at railroad crossings we've had for 20 plus years," said Marshall County Highway Supervisor Neal Haeck. "If it ain't broke, let's not try to change it."
Imagine how Haeck felt when he got a memo from the Indiana Department of Transportation that read, "In general, these crossings should be marked with cross bucks and yield signs….We want to correct the situation by removing the stop sign and replacing it with a yield sign."
"Stop signs, obviously in my opinion are safer than yield signs," said Haeck. "People aren't going to run a stop sign, you might slow down and people do have rolling stops, but a yield is going to make people not slow down as much and maybe glance and not take a good look down the tracks."
In Marshall County, the switch in public policy seems to go against past practices and conventional wisdom, and government leaders aren't so willing to hop aboard. "I was directed by the Board of Commissioners on Monday to go through and to contact them and to basically put together a 'we approve the stop signs, we think that's the safest way to go, and they want to stay there," said Haeck.
According to INDOT, it won't be impossible for Marshall County to keep some or all of its stop signs but officials will have to submit engineering studies for each crossing to prove that stop signs are needed. "The one thing we want to make sure people understand is that there are many passive crossings that need stop signs as well and that's not something that we're taking down all stop signs and putting up yield signs," said Deitchley. "Federal highway, Norfolk Southern are basically saying you know if this is a place that needs a stop sign then let's see the engineering report that says that this is required here."
The crossings that are under review all belong to Norfolk Southern. Other improvements are planned to improve visibility beyond the traffic signs.
Officials in St. Joseph County received a similar letter from INDOT this week, but there are only two passive crossings listed there, and both are near Walkerton.


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The power morcellator should no longer be used for hysterectomies or fibroid removal in the vast majority of women getting these procedures, FDA declared in a highly anticipated guidance document Nov. 24.
Using a new authority that bypasses public comment, the agency stopped short of imposing an outright ban on the device, but severely restricted its use.
Brigham & Women's Suspends Controversial Morcellation Study As Apparent "Difference of Opinion" with FDA Comes to Light
The Brigham & Women's Hospital has halted a controversial study that combined power morcellators with "containment bags" intended to capture tissue during minimally invasive gynecological surgery.
Launched earlier this summer, the study was designed to enroll 400 women to test dye leakage in several commercially available bags that have not been cleared by FDA for use with power morcellators.
Linda Weiss, director of NCI Office of Cancer Centers, to Retire in March 2015
Linda Weiss said she intends to retire from her job as director of the NCI Office of Cancer Centers.
Weiss's retirement was announced in an email from NCI Director Harold Varmus Nov. 25.
Here is what we know: A surgical device used to perform about 100,000 hysterectomies and myomectomies every year in the U.S. has been shown to spread cells from undetected or missed uterine cancers—rapidly upstaging the disease.
And here is what we don't know: What will FDA do about it?
The agency is under pressure to respond to the growing outcry from patient advocates, who want a ban on the device.
Conversation with The Cancer Letter
Demetri: Morcellation Worsens Outcomes In Patients with Undiagnosed Cancers
As an oncologist who treats sarcoma, George Demetri has seen the adverse consequences of power morcellation, the surgical technique widely used to perform laparoscopic hysterectomies and remove putative fibroids.
In a small minority of cases, these fibroids instead represent unsuspected malignancies—including rare and aggressive leiomyosarcomas—which were impossible to detect prior to the morcellation procedure.
The Cancer Letter is taking a Thanksgiving Break.
The next issue will be published on Dec. 5.
CPRIT Awards 32 Grants
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded 20 grants through its product development program, five grants through its prevention program, and seven recruitment grants through its research program, totaling more than $65 million.
ASCO Proposes Principles For Future Debate on Medicaid
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has proposed a set of principles for shaping future debate of the role of Medicaid.
Connie Curran, 67, C-Change Executive Director
Connie Curran, 67, the first executive director of C-Change, died Nov. 10.
C-Change brings together leaders in cancer from the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
Curran was born in Berlin, Wis. She held degrees from the University of Wisconsin, DePaul University, and Northern Illinois University. She also is a graduate of Harvard University Business School's Owner/President Management program.
FDA News
D. Gary Gilliland Named President and Director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mark Gilbert named chief of Neuro-Oncology Branch at NIH
Bert Vogelstein awarded Warren Triennial Prize by Massachusetts General Hospital
Susan Mayne appointed director of FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Merck KGaA and Pfizer Inc. to co-develop anti-PD-LI antibody
NYU Langone Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center to create integrated healthcare network
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Astellas Pharma Inc. announce three-year collaboration
Tapimmune Inc. and Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida form partnership
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital opens Marlo Thomas Center
Karmanos Cancer Institute honored by Michigan Cancer Consortium
CT screening of the lungs of current and former heavy smokers is about to become a Medicare benefit.
A proposed decision published Nov. 10 has inserted some unprecedented conditions into its decision to cover screening:
Beneficiaries would have to go through counseling, and health professionals would be required to provide documentation that "shared decision-making" took place. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has never mandated shared decision-making as a gateway to paying for a service.
Guest Editorial
Brawley: CMS Got it Right in Lung Cancer Screening Decision
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule stating that the scientific evidence was sufficient to support reimbursement for counseling on the risks and benefits of lung cancer screening as well as lung cancer screening with low dose computed tomography in high risk individuals and once per year. CMS will pay for such services when provided to beneficiaries at high risk for lung cancer and when provided by physicians and centers with specific qualifications.
CPRIT Sets Funding Priorities For Rare and Pediatric Cancers
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas is adding rare cancers and childhood cancers to its list of funding priorities, according to a draft program report.
The Texas legislature requires the oversight committee of the $300 million state-funded program to establish funding priorities on an annual basis. This is the first time these priorities are articulated and vetted in a public setting, officials say.
CDC: About 8 Million Women Skipped Cervical Cancer Screening in the Past 5 Years
About eight million women ages 21 to 65 years have not been screened for cervical cancer in the past five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than half of new cervical cancer cases occur among women who have never or rarely been screened.
2015 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced at Gala
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the recipients of its prizes in life sciences and fundamental physics, who will receive awards of $3 million.
Susan O'Brien to move to UC Irvine Health
Rosemarie Henson named senior vice president for prevention and early detection of the American Cancer Society
Michael Bishop to receive award from the Van Andel Research Institute
Antje Hoering named CEO of Cancer Research and Biostatistics
Nancy Hesse named chief nursing officer of Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Kathleen Green appointed associate director of basic sciences research at Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Nancy Weigel named editor-in-chief of the journal Hormones and Cancer
American Society of Clinical Oncology forms new clinical affairs department
Community Oncology Alliance publishes report on closings of cancer clinics
Harrington Discovery Institute and University of Oxford form affiliation
AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics Inc., and Janssen Research & Development LLC to collaborate on MEDI4736 and Imbruvica trials
Over the past two years, four separate surveys attempted to gauge the level of faculty morale and satisfaction at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
All produced similar results: faculty morale is low, and a large proportion of the faculty says the administration is tone-deaf to their needs. The executive leadership is seen as not appropriately responding to internal issues.
The latest survey—conducted by the UT System and reported on Nov. 3—allows comparison with the earlier efforts.
The Survey Results
Greenberg: More Work Needs to be Done
After three very similar surveys yielded results that pointed to disaffection and disenfranchisement on the part of the faculty at MD Anderson, the UT System officials said they expect a "renewed, constructive and collaborative effort" to address the problems.
Funding OpportunityNCI to Host SBIR Investor Forum
NCI is hosting a Small Business Innovation Research Investor Forum Nov. 13 at Agilent Technologies in Santa Clara, Calif., where 28 SBIR-funded companies will present cancer therapeutics, diagnostics, and devices.
David Nathan receives Lifetime Impact Award from Boston Children's Hospital
Steven Finklestein appointed chief science officer of 21st Century Oncology
City of Hope awarded $8 million to launch stem cell therapy clinic
American Cancer Society honors researchers at Fox Chase and Temple University
Cancer Innovation Coalition holds policy briefing on Capitol Hill
Cyramza approved in metastatic stomach cancer
Velos and MD Anderson Cancer Center launch investigational drug computer data system
The ten-year period of erosion that followed the doubling of the NIH budget has hit some research institutions harder than others.
NIH appropriations figures provide a glimpse of the state of science funding in the U.S., but they don't shed light on how individual institutions and areas of research are affected.
To conduct an exploratory analysis of levels of funding at specific institutions, The Cancer Letter compiled NIH and NCI funding figures from 2003 to 2013 for eight freestanding cancer centers and nine other research institutions that include cancer centers. A focus on freestanding cancer centers provides a snapshot of funding at institutions engaged primarily in basic and clinical cancer research.
The Impact of Triple Calamities: Flat Funding, the End of ARRA, and a Dramatic Loss of Purchasing Power
The Cancer Letter asked leaders of cancer centers, professional societies, and science advocacy organizations to comment on declining levels of NIH and NCI funding at freestanding cancer centers and selected academic institutions that include cancer centers.
Guest EditorialThe Academic Difference: George Weiner On How America's Cancer Centers Are More Valuable Than Ever
"The nation's academic cancer centers are a national resource that will increase in value as remarkable changes continue in biomedical research, cancer care, and health policy."
Bennett, Federal Prosecutors Reach $475,000 Settlement
Charles Bennett, an oncologist and cancer researcher whose work focuses on adverse events caused by pharmaceutical products, settled a federal complaint brought by a whistleblower alleging irregularities in the management of R01 research grants administered by Northwestern University.
Northwestern paid $2.93 million in 2013 to settle allegations of mismanaging five of Bennett's R01 grants.
Funding OpportunityLeukemia & Lymphoma Society Launches Myeloid Program
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society launched a program to fund research projects focused on myeloid diseases, such as myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms, both of which can progress to acute myeloid leukemia.
City of Hope launches Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute
Lisa Richardson named director of CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
Milan Mrksich named associate director for research technology and infrastructure at Lurie Cancer Center
Ronan Swords receives Pap Corps Endowed Professorship
Laura Brod named CEO of GeneSegues Therapeutics
Merck Serono names three grant winners
Martine Extermann receives top award from International Society of Geriatric Oncology
Aptose Biosciences Inc. joins Beat AML consortium
Meridian Health and Hackensack University Health Network to discuss merging health systems
Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University launches statewide program
American Society of Clinical Oncology endorses AUA/ASTRO Guideline
FDA extends Lymphoseek label to include mapping in solid tumors
National Comprehensive Cancer Network approves VeriStrat predictive proteomics test
Myriad Genetics establishes European laboratory
Case Medical Center and Seidman Cancer Center select GenomOncology for workflow management
Qiagen and Astellas Pharma to collaborate on companion diagnostics
On Oct. 21, 1974, John Cleland lay in a hospital bed at Indiana University Hospital.
At 23, he had just graduated from Purdue University and just married.
He was also three weeks into a fourth-line chemotherapy regimen for advanced metastatic testicular cancer. The disease had spread to his lungs.
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Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell
Apple has launched a new patent assault on its competitors, one that appears to unleash the nukes that Steve Jobs reportedly told his biographer Walter Isaacson he was going to drop on Google's Android. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product," the late Apple cofounder told the author of the überpopular …
Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
And so too are 19 American states.
Will they stop at nothing?!
El Reg you B*****ds!!!!!
Re: APRIL FOOL
still you can't be too sure when patent law is involved.
Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
This is pretty funny, but don't forget the real joke here - teasing the fanbois about an iPhone5, then releasing a mere software update in the same case and calling it a new phone, then doing exactly the same with the iPad. How long before the users are blamed for holding that wrong each time they burn themselves? Anyway, this is surely the real secret to Apples wealth - by targeting those with lower IQ's, their isheep literally will buy anything they're told to.
Hats off El Reg, nice one. Could have posted a report on the stellar WP7 figures along with Nokias employee satisfaction rating being the highest in the tech business, too. But only today, natch.
Re: APRIL FOOL
Yes, hence the joke alert icon.
This happens every year on 1/4. Do we really need some bore to announce to the world that they know what the date is every damn time?
Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
Ouch ! .. look at those down votes
the fanboi's really don't like it when a comment cuts close to the bone
Re: APRIL FOOL
Too true, best we go check that patent number, I wouldn't put anything past the US patent issuing morons!
Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
Way to totally miss the spirit of the post, by spewing retreaded, same old blather in a pompous, self-important, preachy, superior tone. Oh, at least you included some totally made-up, likely false facts; too bad they ALSO were condescending at best, the very opposite of funny.
Re: APRIL FOOL
The Onion reported some years ago, but not on 1st April, that Microsoft had patented 0s and 1s.
Re: APRIL FOOL
They had me at bisecting diagonals.
Well, April Fool joke or not is there not something familiar in the attitude here?
"It's still a rectangle," he sniffed. "And we own the rectangle."
the real April Fool...
Is telling us that we would get the Ice Cream Sandwich update in the first quarter of this year!
Re: Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
A sense of humour? Unfortunately, there is no Apple app for that.
Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
Tomorrow, I am going to get a patent on using letters and numbers on an electronic display. I am going to be rich! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
speaking of sheep, what about the herd mentality to jump on the "Apple users are stupid" bandwagon?
Re: Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.
I guess it's far too easy a stereotype to fall into.
Re: 19 American States stuffed
Nope, just Colorado and Wyoming - they're the Rectangle States
jump on the "Apple users are stupid" bandwagon?
What do you need explained about:
Reduced functionality to avoid overtaxing the user?
Had me till the description of the patient: look at the date people.
...but I'm sure I wasn't the only that had to stop and wonder for a moment.
The date is correct, and the patent is real...
If you search the USPTO, there IS a patent number US001042012, dated Oct 22, 1912. Only it's for an air valve for radiators. Ah, the good old days when patents were actually about real things,
Nice try...
Not as good as The Guardian's attempt tho... Shaun Ryder as adviser for the govt... oh how we all laughed.
Re: Nice try...
No, that one's true.
Not fair
It's still March in California, you scumbags ;-)
Re: Not fair
Makes up for Google's (rather cute) Quest Maps launching early?
Thoroughly duped - well played! I shall now slink off and try to double my neuron count by growing another one.
almost tricked me into installing quick time !
Happy April 1!
Har de har de har... :-)
I'm pretty sure there is prior art for this joke...
Such as in your very own comment columns every time this has come up for discussion...
the daft thing is this story is totally believable, I could see apple doing just this if they thought for a second they could get away with it.
Re: meh
The even dafter thing is, I can see the US Patent Office granting this patent!
Apple commented to...
You almost had me...until you mentioned that Apple commented to you and answered your queries.
That ain't gonna happen for a while longer, me thinks. ;)
Re: Apple commented to...
Yup. That was the only part of the whole article I couldn't believe...
Publish and be damned
I suggest we let this story go viral and see how many others pick it up and run with it.
Links on FB, Twitter, Linked In ...
Spawn of Satan because it's Apple, right?
Re: Publish and be damned
publish it on any other day and you'll surely find enough people believing it - especially with Cupertino's track record.
I call April Fools. Ingeniously worded though!
Well done El Reg!
You nearly had me until you said Sewell responded to you!
Merely a smoke screen
This jokesuit is merely a toe in the water by Apple whose real atomic patent is the one that controls the use of the letter i ("whether lowercase, capitalized, iconificated, or otherwise embellished" to quote the patent) to start the name of a product or company or "other assemblage of humans".
Intel, ICI; Ice cream, Instant whip; Ireland, Iran: just a few of the well-known brands at risk from this patent.
Worse, it makes a general claim to the whole art of beginning a word with a letter at all. Some say this will drive all latinate alphabet users to adopt Chinese, at least in commercial writing and advertising.
Ah yes...
I'd forgotten it was that day. Entirely plausible until it got to the bit about the rectangle, at which point I woke up a bit more and realised the date.
You got me.
The register posts so little at the weekends, I presumed it was a Friday entry...
Then I believed it because it sounds so typical of the apple v the world cases...
Then I read the date.
Icon, because I do.
But I miss the days when this joke would be completely obvious, rather than one you have to check out/ Let's face it, they really would do it if they could.
So Square
THe scary thing is, how close to the truth this is. Patent law was meant to protect the individual inventor and instead its used as a stick to beat him with.
Well played
9 paras in before the oddities reached a threshold and I checked the date.
All too believable, though, isn't it?
Re: Well played
Only if you don't understand patent law
Re: Well played
The evidence appears to indicate that no one, least of all the USPTO, understand patent law.
Margaret Thatcher is dead
imagine my disappointment
Spoiled a bit by the linked story at the bottom.... but as said above, the game was up when you mentioned Apple responding
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Wht shuld I do for battery....already set max charge lvl to 80% and switch turbo mode only while gaming..... infact its showing wear lvl only aftr I set it to max 80% as I hv used it for gaming few days bck too.....god knows why is it happening ryt now. Wht shuld b remedies to it. ??
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"The saddest thing is that it runs the risk of making vampires not scary. I will be glad when the glut is over. Maybe they will be scary again. I like my creatures of the night a little nocturnal … My next big novel was going to have a vampire. Now, I'm probably not. They are everywhere, they're like cockroaches."
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"The appearance of Gulnara Karimova at the Fashion Week in China took place without our awareness or consent," Silke Mockert, a spokeswoman for Daimler AG, said.
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"Daimler is not interested in providing an open platform to people who are accused of violating human rights," Mockert said.
Participation in fashion shows in Asia and the Middle East is the only opportunity available to designer Karimova.
In 2011, she was expelled from New York's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week as a representative of the Uzbek regime which is responsible for gross human rights violations: large-scale killings in Andijan in 2005, torture, forced child labour, political and economic repressions and crackdowns.
IMG, which organises fashion and sport events, including the New York Fashion Week, quit providing its catwalks to Karimov indefinitely.
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"By paying very careful attention to what people say, we're able to hear what affects not only the individual, but also the whole culture." - filmmaker André TéchinéIt's the summer of 1984 and Manu has left the quiet hum of the provinces to join his sister in Paris. These are the happy days when exploring sexual identity was still a fearless pleasure. After befriending a middle-aged gay doctor, Manu joins him and a married couple on a boat trip in the Mediterranean and, soon, their hedonistic happy days are interrupted by a disquieting wake-up call.The Witnesses explores the contrasts between sex and romance, friendship and companionship, at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Nominated for the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
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