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A traditional Lake District stay with an award-winning restaurant - includes breakfast, three-course dinner and treats on arrival
Traditional, picturesque and thoroughly English, the four-star Inn on the Lake is an idyllic hotel set in the glorious surrounds of the Lake District. With the imposing Helvellyn mountain as a backdrop and the vast Lake Ullswater at the foot of the grounds, there's hardly a better spot in the country for a few days of crisp, clean air.
The Inn on the Lake boasts an enormous amount of space, not least because of its own 15 acres of beautifully tended gardens. Pink roses, neat hedgerows and chequered lawns are the setting for pitch-and-putt golf and croquet, while on the lake, you can enjoy a calm afternoon on a white sailboat - perhaps to a nearby deserted beach?
Inside the hotel, the decor is cosy and quintessential, with the mahogany Ramblers Bar serving real ales and the two AA Rosette-awarded Lake View Restaurant dishing up accomplished British cuisine. After a wholesome day of walking around, head back and relax in the hot tub and sauna, or sink into an armchair by the window with a classic read.
We're offering a choice of three room types: Standard, Fell-view and Lake-view. Standard rooms are comfortable and equipped with all the amenities you'll need for a pleasant stay. Fell-view rooms are similar in style but feature particularly good views of the surrounding scenery, whilst Lake-view rooms are larger with a traditional four-poster bed, plenty of seating and a dining table.
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On the banks of Lake Ullswater and at the foot of the Helvellyn mountain range, this is one of the most picturesque locations imaginable. Long walks will take you past waterfalls, fells, woodland, valleys and, of course, the occasional old-world pub. At reception, you can arrange to go sailing on the lake or visit nearby Lowther Castle and the local National Trust sites.
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It's a not so mini day for television miniseries news. First, we read that the History Channel will not be airing the eight-part series "The Kennedys," starring Katie Holmes as Jackie O, that I was all excited for. Why? Well, apparently, it turned out to be historically questionable. "While the film is produced and acted with the highest quality, after viewing the final product in its totality, we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand," a network spokesperson says. Does that mean we will never get a chance to see Katie in a pillbox hat?
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What change?
What change?
oh he was born in Canada.
Canada didn't have an accent then, what change ?
Father Coughlin didn't have an accent. Why didn't he have an accent ?
someone is obsessed with America...telly give it a rest. Why not post about oz? You exceed your own standards of obsession.....tiresome mate. truly.
I don't care a jot about his accent, but watching him talk was like watching a bobble-headed doll.
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^You must be mental
What are you talking about? He has an Irish accent.
The better question this video raises, WHERE did all these people come from? Surely none existed before filming was invented. Creeeepy.
The better question this video raises, WHERE did all these people come from? Surely none existed before filming was invented. Creeeepy.
You've based this on video of one man? I'm Canadian, and I can assure you that there were various Canadian dialects and accents even back in the 1800s, and there were even more in the United States. Our first prime minister had a very heavy Scottish accent. Several have had French and English accents. You should do a bit of homework before making such claims. You might actually learn something instead of making yourself out to be a fool.
Go back to interweb surfing while sitting or squatting at the toilet.
Did Aussies have pet Kangaroo's in the 1930's?
Telly...did you go out yesterday without your football helmet and make bumpsies on your head..?
I'm baffled that you watched the video and the only thing you fixed on was the accent?
My god Australian's had no accent in the late 40s!!! WHAT!
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He definitely has an accent -- sounds like an Irishman from the northern Atlantic coast of North America.
"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "
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Canadians are different all across the board…people from the Bruce Peninsula, about 100 miles from me, have a distinct dialect.
Look up patrician. The upper classes were schooled in diction to make their accents more like the acquired accent of the English.
That said, Roosevelt has a distinctively Northeastern accent with some "refinement" characteristic of those of his class at that time.
Key words: endured, revive, prosper, order, world, measures, authority, other, experience, against, emergency, clear, foreign
Once you've been to America and visited multiple regions, you will be qualified to discuss regional and national accents. For now, not so much.
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A 1930's Transatlantic accent. Katherine Hepburn's is strong.
In the case of Roosevelt and Hepburn, I think its more just a legacy of an older education system that placed importance on having Received Pronunciation which all but stopped after World War Two in the states. Even in the UK, older RP sounds very different to younger people who have been educated in the same schools because pronunciation is not really taught in the same way as both. Instead people are actually allowed to have their local accents. The video I posted above from Australia really brings that home, where most of the adults have horrible posh English accents.
^ For one thing, Cary Grant wasn't born in America -- he was English:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Grant
As for Hepburn et al., that has already been explained repeatedly in the thread.
Telstra for goodness sake read people's replies. It's already been discussed as to why the accents have an "English" gentrified slant. Both JohnnyAnger and Dejavudoo have answered you, yet your ignoring them and continuing to ask why like a toddler.
I think there is one thing you are ignoring and that is the screen directors of the time. Hollywood, not the educational system promoted these types accents for uniformity's sake. UK comparisons are irrelevant since it's a screen dictate from Fox and other studios in USA. Screen Gems also with obvious exception of the three stooges. But even there it crept in....
Mike, I believe classical stage actors like the Carradines are good evidence that the American stage expected actors to demonstrate elocution that harkened to the British speech.
Hollywood only continued what was already an accepted standard in both oratory and theater. Not sure if Edison spools bear this out or not, but it can probably be proven with a little research. To be sure, the accents were gentrified, but actors were also expected to affect the King's Speech.
I'm sure there are extant copies of diction and elocution books that would have been used back before the turn of the 19th century in America.
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^Ah great point...the influence may have been coming from what was there before Hollywood existed. Perhaps Emily Post??? This is pretty Arcane stuff though in early Hollywood there were several disparate influences and one cannot say they were all rooted in traditional elocution.
I'm not sure Post ever addressed anything other than etiquette. It included forms of address, protocols for writing, but I am unaware of any diction included.
^Dunno not too well versed in that stuff but I'm sure Belamo can give us some insight.....ROFL
It was fashionable mid century for Americans to have a Mid-Atlantic English accent.
There is yet a tilt toward the English on various NPR affiliates. When driving across the county, one will often find English announcers and news readers on programs on Public Radio in the U.S., much more often than on television. The incidence of it seems to be a holdover of this sort of Anglophile thinking that also drove the diction thing here. It's frankly a bit embarrassing to find on Public Radio.
^Actually it comes off as uppity to me and a bit smarmy as well. But it isn't an English accent at least according to me. faux-sophistry perhaps?? NPR is corrupt as hell though and truth be known is a low grade criminal organization.
If there are no radio, TV, movies, sound recordings, phones ... etc,
there would be so many different types of English and we wouldn't be able to understand each other ...
His speech sounds like Hitler to me (the way he shout and moving his head):
You pierced your nose?
You can't smell as well with a septum or wotever it is
I was born in Brooklyn New York. Although I do not have one of those strong NYC accents I assure you each part of the states has one. A linguist at college told me the place with the least accent was on the Border with Canada near Toronto. I just know in New York people still say things like Jogeat no Juu (Joe did you eat no did you) Or turdy terd and terd (33rd and 3rd). While mine is not as heavy I live in London now here 12 years and people say New York right? Grin
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Sarah Joncas' paintings invoke the cliched analogy of "playing with fire." The females depicted in her magnetic images are all either in peril, have sinister occult-like attributes, or are straight up monstrous. The viewers know that encountering one of these ladies in real life would inevitably lead to trouble, but they're drawn to them anyways because it's almost impossible to resist gazing upon such alluring artistic creations. In that sense, Joncas' paintings are all of femme fatales.
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Edmund Rennels, farmer; P. O. Charleston; is the second son of James Rennels, and was born in Lawrence Co., Ind., Dec. 13, 1829. He came with his parents to Coles Co., when he was only 3 years of age, and remained with them up to his marriage with Miss Martha Waltrip, of Hutton Tp., Feb. 21, 1849, when he moved to his farm on Sec. 31, where he has resided ever since. His wife died in September, 1854. They had three children, one living Mary Ann (now Mrs. James Stephens, of Charleston Tp.), and two deceased-Sarah E. and Melvina J. He married his second wife, Miss Angeline Davis, of Hutton Tp., Sept. 9, 1858. They had ten children, nine living, three boys living – Henry L., Rama S., and Tella, and one deceased-Riley S.; and six girls, all living – Viola, Lua J., Sarah E., Lilly B., Efa and Ida P. Mrs. Rennels and her eldest daughter, Viola, are members of the Baptist Church.
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Chapman Brothers Portrait and biographical album of Coles County, Illinois Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887. AccessGenealogy.com. Web. 30 January 2015. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/illinois/biographical-sketch-of-edmund-rennels.htm - Last updated on Oct 20th, 2011Categories: Illinois, Indiana
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Last year was my first year canning. I am hooked and plan on doing a lot of tomatoes & sauce this year. I would also like to try doing some fruit butters this year. I have some approved (Ball) recipes for apples, apricots, peach, pear & tomato. But I would like to do other fruits. I was thinking specifically of strawberries, nectarines & plums. Anyone have recipes for these? NCHFP has instructions for fruit purees but only apple butter. Can I just puree the fruits, cook them down & turn it into a fruit butter? |
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Keep in mind that some fruits lend themselves to long-term cooking and thus the "butter" format much better than others - strawberries are not one of them IMO. Although Martha Stewart has a good one for the freezer. But since a fruit butter is basically just a fruit cooked down to a paste consistency or pureed and somewhat sweetened, technically you can use any fruit you wish (as long as it isn't one of the low-acid ones for canning). The only difference is the spices/flavorings used and the resulting consistency and color. Some fruits, nectarine butter comes to mind, tend to turn an ugly brown. If you search each here (ie: plum butter) you'll find discussions and recipes for most of them. Dave |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 18:49
I agree with Dave. If you're going to try peaches, nectarines or strawberries, I'd recommend quite small batches. They will cook down more quickly and allow you to do a test run to determine how you like the final result - flavor and color retention may be iffy. Consider also adding ascorbic acid for color and using essential spice oils (i.e. cinnamon and clove oil) to avoid further discoloring the butter. Carol |
- Posted by PlantsAndYarn 5 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 19:38
Thanks for your replies. I just picked up a Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving and it has recipes for apricot, peach, pear and tomato butters. I did find a recipe here for plum butter. While searching the web, I found something were someone mentioned a Ball recipe for strawberry butter. It was a very old thread & they didn't go into detail, just mentioned it. Of course, I did find a lot of recipes that was about turning regular butter into strawberry butter, lol. So is it safe to assume that I can turn these fruits into a butter and can them, but they may not look very good or the flavor may be off? I think if I do try it, I will be sure to do a test run first. If the test run fails, I can put up the rest of the fruit in another manner. |
Yeah just as with jellies and jams, there is no safety issue as long as it is acidic fruits. But as Carol said - do some of them only in a very small batch first. Because the quality will be poor with some, why waste the fruit and the time? Of course, I did find a lot of recipes that was about turning regular butter into strawberry butter There are good reasons for why that is the only method recommended. Strawberries especially. Hard to cook down even a small batch with out scorching them. Dave |
- Posted by PlantsAndYarn 5 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 24, 13 at 7:11
Thanks Dave. I grow strawberries, so I was looking for something to do with them besides freezing. I like the idea of butters, more fruit/less sugar. But I guess I will freeze them or do jam, maybe. It's a big maybe on the jam. Do you think a double boiler method would work to cook them down and perhaps reduce the scorching? |
I make strawberry sauce - like apple sauce, but out of strawberries. DD eats it plain. DH and I think it makes a killer version of applesauce muffins. I've also heated it, added more sugar, to make a fruit sauce for pound cake or rice pudding. |
I grow strawberries, so I was looking for something to do with them besides freezing. We have to work with the limitations of the fruit. There is no way around that. Unfortunately strawberries, due to their fragile nature and high ratio of juice to solids, are primarily a fresh eating or freezer fruit. They just don't tolerate being exposed to heat. Even strawberry jams can have problems due to the heat exposure. They can be dehydrated but even then it is at a low temp. Would a double boiler help? Some but that then doubles the energy expenditure and time used so it becomes a question of is it really worth it? For many the answer would be no. Dave |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Wed, Apr 24, 13 at 13:40
If I were attempting a strawberry butter, I'd reduce it in a shallow pan in the oven. There's no risk of scorching that way. I doubt a double boiler would achieve the reduction you want. Carol |
I grow strawberries, so I was looking for something to do with them besides freezing. I like the idea of butters, more fruit/less sugar. I find that butters usually have MORE sugar. Why not make a very low sugar jam using any one of the pectin options specifically designed to do so? The Ball one works beautifully and I think it maintains the fruit flavor very well. With Pomono pectin, you can actually make a NO sugar version. Not as pretty as having some sugar, but I like the taste. Some people find it a bit "chalky". Just depends on what you intend to do with it later. It's perfect for filling bar cookies! Deanna |
- Posted by PlantsAndYarn 5 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 25, 13 at 9:29
Wow, you have all given me some really good ideas for using up strawberries. Thank you so much. I am really liking the idea of strawberry sauce. Pixie lou, do you can or freeze that sauce? Since you said that it is like applesauce, I am assuming you are canning it. I have thought about jams or jelly, but just not sure how quickly it would be used around here. |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Thu, Apr 25, 13 at 14:47
Depending upon your family's taste, you might find a lower-sugar preserve more versatile, using it up faster. You could use it as a filling in muffins, cakes and cookies or just stir it into yogurt or rice pudding. Carol |
Agree with Carol. Jams are far more versatile than fruit butters are, not to mention much easier to make. In addition to all she listed they can be also be used as meat glazes for grilled or baked meats, And Ball's Lo/No Sugar Pectin makes wonderful jams with little to no sugar added. Dave |
I can it like applesauce. Strawberries in the pot. Sugar to taste - not much. Summer until the berries are soft. Then purée with my immersion blender. |
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I swear…they are making Catherine the biggest bitch and character that you love to hate that ever walked. I couldn't believe that she tried to kill herself and that it was the second time, albeit that the first time was just for show. Of course she conned her way into Juliet's good graces who in turn talks that stupid Andrew into letting her stay and their house. So Bridget actually deserved what Catherine did to her by drugging her and making sure that Bridget didn't get the phone. I loved it when the prints on the photo in the house where victor went ended up to be her's. I thought that was going to be the end of it but I sure was wrong. And what a hoot for them to find the guy the bridget killed in the beginning of the season. I tell you they have more twists and turns. I have no sympathy for Henry. Everyone knows he killed Tyler, he's a shitty father and his father-in-law is the bomb by saying he's going to take him down. I wonder however, how he's going to take care of Martin-Charles as he told Andrew he would. For once we got to see those beastly twins that have never been seen on the show LOL And wouldn't you know Henry would walk in right in the knick of time so the Bridget and Shiv don't meet. Very slow moving episode again this week but it was good. Ratings are still hovering around 1 million
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I would love to choose from the list above but I don't see a list. But it has been a long day for me. Maybe my eyes aren't working right!
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Ok, pick from the above list of options. I'm sorry if your choice isn't up here but I was running out of time with October fast approaching so I promise to receive ideas for next month.
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I would love to choose from the list above but I don't see a list. But it has been a long day for me. Maybe my eyes aren't working right!
Why is September being skipped? And the poll closes on September 9th according to the date on the poll, not October like you wrote.
No doubt in my mind, has to be Halloween!
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Halloween for me!
He won't win the MVP or be voted into the Hall of Fame........then again, some heroes don't play games.
Halloween..... A nice Michael Myers wearing Mickey ears would be cool....
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Halloween! But i do have a question....
Where do you get the i-then a disney character here?
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This is because of the murder game.Originally Posted by Stitch
The thing is, some people want their avatars to reflect their characters they play in the murder game. So I might as well give a month's leeway until the next one.
I guess it also gives people time to look for more avatars.
But don't worry, there won't be any more month skipping starting October.
Halloween seems the sensible answer!!
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ATLANTA — Following another hideous performance from Clay Buchholz on Monday, pitching coach Juan Nieves said what fans watching Buchholz all year have openly thought.
"I wonder how healthy he is."
Nieves' postgame statement runs counter to what Buchholz has insisted, to the media and to the front office, about how he feels physically. Before Monday's start, general manager Ben Cherington said that Buchholz is "adamant that he feels good physically."
"I'm healthy," Buchholz said after Monday's 8-6 win over the Braves. "I'm going to take the ball whenever they give it to me. I'm never beaten before I step on the field. It seems to snowball on me right now as far as getting out there and giving up a couple hits in a row."
Buchholz has said repeatedly that the issues he's currently enduring don't stem from a current physical problem, but rather from mechanical ones brought on by compensating for his injury last season.
"Whenever you are hurt, you try to find a way to throw so it doesn't hurt," Buchholz said. "And that might not be the exact same way you pitched prior to that. There's a little rust in-between last year's and this year's mechanics."
"The movement is back; the controlling of the movement isn't," Nieves said. "It happens to guys that get injured. They forget. They've been nursing an injury, so they forget actually how they throw. They might have the same delivery, but the arm angle or the little things that have to be there don't play."
Buchholz's spiral has been hard to break because the consistently poor results — even his best starts have looked shaky at times, and the contact against him has been hard throughout the season — have eroded his confidence. Buchholz's start in last year's World Series suggested to the pitcher that he could get by without his best stuff; this season has cross-examined that idea with impunity.
"When you're out there thinking about getting big-league hitters out and thinking about three different types of mechanics you were doing in the bullpens, it makes it that much harder," Buchholz said. "I felt really good in the bullpen, commanding everything. It's tough to do in-game; it has to be second-nature at that point. I have to get to the point where I'm not thinking about anything — just throwing the baseball like I have been my whole life."
"Of course there's an issue of confidence," said Nieves. "Sometimes you see [positive results] in the bullpen, and you're hoping for it during the game. It was a challenge for him. Of course we saw it, almost to the point of evading contact."
Indeed, Buchholz smashed his prior career-high for walks on Monday, issuing eight in three-plus innings. He'd never handed out more than five before. Those free passes almost seemed strategically delivered to the Braves hitters that could do the most damage, as he walked both Jason Heyward and Freddie Freeman three times apiece. Of course, it's not really managing a lineup when you're putting that many runners on in such a short span.
"To me, it's as much mental and fundamental — which would mean his confidence and his delivery and not physical where he might have some restrictions in the shoulder," manager John Farrell said. "He doesn't talk of anything. We don't see the need for added rest. He makes his bullpens consistently in between starts. But it's clear that he's not as confident as what we've seen in the past."
Buchholz threw fewer than half of his 88 pitches for strikes, even against a team as free-swinging as Atlanta. After allowing six runs while recording only nine outs, his ERA is up to 7.02.
Two seasons ago, Buchholz carried a 7.19 ERA into June. That time, though, he had at least made some encouraging strides of late. This time, there were no positives.
"We won. That's about it," Buchholz said when asked what positives he could take away from Monday's start. "Nothing for myself."
Farrell said there had not been a determination about whether Buchholz would make his next start Saturday against the Rays. That's in contrast to Buchholz's last start, when Farrell declared afterward that Buchholz would make this start in Atlanta.
"We've got to look at this a little bit closer," Farrell said. "We've got to continue to talk about what he's currently going through and what's best for him and what's best for us."
"If I wasn't healthy, [skipping a start] might be an option in my mind," Buchholz said. "I'm not really helping the team right now either; that comes from higher up. I'm sure I'll hear from them shortly."
With Boston running through all but one of its relievers Monday, the team could use another arm in the bullpen Tuesday. Placing Buchholz on the disabled list — with whatever — would be the simplest means of accomplishing that end.
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Here is Your Justice Department
Ah, the first weekend in May. Mint Juleps. An exciting Kentucky Derby. Playoff hockey. And news of another high-ranking Justice Department official reportedly hiring federal lawyers based upon their political affiliation-- a violation of federal law. This isn't a repeat of last week's news that Monica Goodling may have hired lawyers for the Justice Department because they were Republicans. This is "new" news that a fellow named Bradley Schlozman, a former "senior civil rights attorney" at Justice, may have told Republican lawyers to delete resume references to their party affiliation and then re-submit their resumes so that they could get their jobs.
That was when Schlozman was in Washington, D.C. In today's Boston Globe, Charlie Savage has another brilliant piece on what Schlozman did after he was promoted to the position of U.S. Attorney for western Missouri following his loyal (and some say heavy-handed) service to the party. "Bradley Schlozman moved aggressively where [Todd] Graves [his predecessor] had not, announcing felony indictments of four workers for a liberal activist group on voter registration fraud charges less than a week before the 2006 election. Republicans, who had been pushing for restrictive new voting laws, applauded. But critics said Schlozman violated a department policy to wait until after an election to bring voter fraud indictments if the case could affect the outcome, either by becoming a campaign issue or by scaring legitimate voters into staying home."
That's how Schlozman handled things in Missouri. Here is what Savage wrote about Schlozman during his time in the nation's capital: "No stranger to election law controversy, Schlozman previously spent three years as a political appointee in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, where he supervised the voting rights section. There, he came into conflict with veteran staff over his decisions to approve a Texas redistricting plan and a Georgia photo-ID voting law, both of which benefited Republicans. He also hired many new career lawyers with strong conservative credentials, in what critics say was an attempt to reduce enforcement of laws designed to eliminate obstacles to voting by minorities. 'Schlozman was reshaping the Civil Rights Division,' said Joe Rich , who was chief of the voting rights section until taking a buyout in 2005, in an interview. 'Schlozman didn't know anything about voting law. . . . All he knew is he wanted to be sure that the Republicans were going to win.'"
No wonder, then, that Congress wants to haul Schlozman back to the Capitol to question him under oath about his hiring practices. Will he pull a "Goodling" and exercise his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent? It would not surprise me if he did. Will the Congress grant him immunity the way it did with Goodling? Too early to tell. At some point, the incentive for the legislators to trade immunity for information at the expense of the possibility of prosecution (which was the calculus for the Goodling deal) will diminish. And when it does, the person without the immunity -- maybe it's Schlozman, maybe it's the next official -- actually may face criminal charges if the evidence against him or her is strong enough.
One thing seems clear, however. With each development like this, with each new accusation of inappropriate conduct, It is becoming increasingly obvious that there are patterns of conduct at play at the Justice Department and among current U.S. Attorneys that beggar not just a fuller explanation from the Attorney General and others but also more investigative work by journalists and legislators. This is rotten business and it was sanctioned, condoned, or even perhaps encouraged by rotten leaders.
By Andrew Cohen |
May 7, 2007; 6:51 AM ET
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The Schlozman story demonstrates what the US attorney controversy is about: using the immense power of the US attorneys' office to affect elections. Those who have been dismissing the scandal as a mere personnel matter, or a simple matter of conflicting prosecutorial priorities between indidvidual US attorneys and the Administration, or of improving "management" in individual districts are blowing smoke. Gonzales of course is the Smoke-Blower-in-Chief. The White House wants to do all in its power to secure a Republican successor to George W. Bush for obvious reasons, not the least of which is avoiding backward looking whistleblowing by a successor Democratic administration. Smoke blowing, good; whistle blowing, bad. These folks also want to do all they can to recapture the House and the Senate in the next election, again for obvious reasons. It's all about securing, retaining, or regaining political power through the use of grand juries, the FBI, and other tools available to the federal criminal prosecution apparatus. Those who deny this are like children who put their hands over their own eyes and say "You can't see me." Well, as the evidence mounts week by week, more and more people can see more and more clearly exactly what this scandal is really about. It reeks of corruption of the worst - and most dangerous - sort.
Posted by: P. Bosley Slogthrop | May 7, 2007 08:49 AM
No immunity grant for Schlozman. He was in Missouri when much of the "to hire" and "to fire" matter was taking place, so the type of information that he might have on deliberations in the firing of the "8" I see as more limited (although he could probably comment on the circumstances surrounding the firing of his successor Todd Graves).
The fact that the White House brought this guy back to D.C. to work in the EOUSA office recently is a pretty sad, but rather consistent statement from this administration. Apparently it has a boundless tolerance for behavior that pushes the lines of legality and ethics. Actually in this case, it doesn't even appear that the lines were "pushed". It looks like they may have been "crossed" many times over.
Posted by: JP2 | May 7, 2007 09:44 AM
The only good news in this mess is that Bush's stubbornness is pushing his approval ratings down to the point where survival will trump loyalty in the alleged minds of Republican congressmen soon. Can this really be America? This banana-republic treatment of the law?
Posted by: Chris Fox | May 7, 2007 11:19 AM
I think that a huge part of this whole controversy and the part that seems under-reported is not who was being fired and why , but who were the replacements going to be and what would they "owe" the White House/ Justice dept for their appointments.
It is one thing to fire those who you think aren't doing what you want, but look closely at who the replacments would be for what kind of impact they could/would have in the remainder of the administration's term. The opportunity became even greater when the Patriot Act revision/reauthorization changed the confirmation process. It made it much easier to install people true to the real "Constitution be damned" agenda of Bush, Cheney, Fredo, et al.
Posted by: jmsbh | May 7, 2007 12:38 PM
The Bush administration politicos should be hauled before committee under oath and then led away in handcuffs. I cannot believe Clinton was impeached for lying. This administration and it's political hacks have subjugated our laws and ethics to the point we are losing the very freedoms our founding fathers principled. God help us all!
Posted by: Mark | May 7, 2007 01:20 PM
All of this is so depressing. I worried about this kind of think when Lapdog Gonzales was appointed.
Posted by: Frank | May 7, 2007 01:22 PM
This scandal illustrates why the administration lost Iraq. In a part of the world where people default to the cynical to explain events, to succeed and be greeted with flowers the US had to be visibly and absolutely clean and mostly selfless. But instead any lonely voice that argued that the US had democracy at heart gets answered with the 2000 Florida vote and later patterns of vote suppression, that argued for "US-style" rule-law with is answered with USAgate habeus corpus and signing statements, that argued for interest in Iraqis is answered by a glance at the US contractors cashing in everywhere and, perhaps most fatal of all, with a link to the New American Century manifesto. There perhaps has been no act as idiotic as the publication of the latter: thinking that you can convince people that you are here to bring freedom when you've published plans for oppression takes a very weird hubris. A campaign to nation build and bring freedom, democracy and rule of law conducted by people who mock nation building, freedom, democracy, and rule-of-law was bound to be received with contempt, and fail
Posted by: wrb | May 7, 2007 01:29 PM
Tim Duncan had 33 points and 16 rebounds -- eight offensive -- and Tony Parker
added 32 points to lead the Spurs to a rugged 111-106 victory Sunday over Nash's Phoenix Suns.
Posted by: acigrabearp | May 7, 2007 01:37 PM
I interviewed with the Civil Rights Division a few years ago. It's tough to move beyond the resume stage and get the interview, so I felt pretty good about my chances. I didn't get the job though. Now I can only wonder if politics was one of the factors in the decision not to hire me. I am personally disheartened.
Posted by: Ian | May 7, 2007 01:44 PM
We're becoming just another banana republic where the ruling party throws political dissidents in the gulag.
Posted by: depressed | May 7, 2007 02:04 PM
wrb: Sorry, I think YOUR position is what should be received with contempt. You say this scandal shows why Iraq was lost, and then support this by listing instances of "cynical" criticisms of U.S. policies. So what you mean is that the criticisms, and in this case, the CRITICAL RESPONSE to the Gonzalez situation (which the facts don't enable you to deny) is the problem, and why Iraq was lost, as if the real fault is the losing of the war (supposed to be won at all costs and any means, huh?); you can't say that the criticisms are baseless, but what you take issue with is with being outraged with Gonzalez, not with what the facts don't allow you to deny that he and the administration have done. Recognizing the action for what it is, not the action, is the real problem, right?
Those positive/non-cynical "lonely" (is that right!) voices of the US only "having democracy in its hearts" to bring " 'US-style' rule-law" with " a campaign to nation-build" and bring " freedom and democracy", forgive my ignorance, how did the Iraqis ask them for these treats, or was it to be forced on them without their asking whether they wanted it or not?What happened to Bush's saying in 2000 that he didn't support the US engaging in the "campaign to nation-build" that you yourself say was the objective?
Posted by: jack gilliam | May 7, 2007 02:13 PM
There is no credible "Department of Justice" now that the Bush administration has subverted it. What we have is a political operation to screw the opposition. Today it is Republicans screwing Democrats. Given the precedent, tomorrow may see only a change in who gets screwed, not in whether Do"J" continues to operate as a political instrument.
Posted by: | May 7, 2007 02:19 PM
Jack G
You misread me.
It isn't the criticism that I see as being at fault, but the fact of Bush Administration actions. They mouth phrases, but then act in ways that reveal hypocrisy and thus undercut any chance of success.
I regal debating Kosovo with a Russian friend. He felt that since the US was ONLY there for imperialistic motives (building bases and stealing coal), there was no point in the Serbs doing anything about rapes etc. I argued that if he looked at the internal US debate, he would see that he was being too cynical: human rights concerns were essential for building the critical mass toward action.
In this case I have no replies for such cynics. The cynical view of the US is accurate, as uncomfortable and unfamiliar as it might be for Americans: you cannot convince cynical people to risk for rule of law when you don't practice it. You cannot build excitement about replacing Saddam the Unitary Executive with another Unitary Executive.
Posted by: wrb | May 7, 2007 02:32 PM
Chris: Unfortunately I don't even see that good news you mention. Bush's low ratings have been mentioned before, even when Democrats oppose him, it all blows over--look at Specter's secretive blandishing of his professed outrage from a week ago. Bush has ideological cronies in at least much of the Supreme Court. Even when the facts are irrefutable, the administration just holds its position as if it is a required absolute, unless forced to otherwise, which the other side doesn't seem to have the courage of its principles to do, even week to week; the administration supporters just blindly repeat and act the party line however divorced from the facts, and then claim the real problem isn't what they undeniably have done (when they can't smokescreen it or out-and-out lie to cover it up)but that the fact of their actions is even mentioned, showing "negativity" and " lack of unity for its own sake.The checks aren't working, not to mention the ones the administration already can disguise or deceive to cover.
Posted by: fred sanger | May 7, 2007 02:39 PM
wrb, thanks for your clarification,and my apologies if misunderstood. Other than your clarified point, I don't believe a mission SHOULD be successful nor have internal support for action if the recipients of it didn't ask for it directly, which I am not aware occurred.
Posted by: jack g | May 7, 2007 02:48 PM
> Can this really be America? This banana-republic treatment of the law?
Res ipsa loquitur, muchachos.
Posted by: TexLex | May 7, 2007 03:06 PM
rex est constituo
Posted by: wrb | May 7, 2007 03:44 PM
It's strange that no one has mentioned that the person who replaced Bud Cummins in Arkansas was not just an aide to Karl Rove, he was an opposition researcher for the RNC. Now why do you suppose Rove wants an oppo researcher with all the power of a US Attorney to be in Arkansas? More Clinton investigations?
Posted by: cgb | May 7, 2007 03:55 PM
CGB: I noticed the same thing. in fact, look at these other "coincidences" involving the fired US Attorneys:
San Francisco (Kevin Ryan) -- Nancy Pelosi's district
Nevada (Dan Bogden) -- Harry Reid's state
New Mexico (David Iglesias) -- Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson's state
Arkansas (Bud Cummings) -- Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton's state
Illinois (Gonzo's chief of staff admitted it was briefly on the firing list before being removed) -- Presidential Candidate Barack Obama's state
In other words, DOJ fired or wanted to fire the US Attorneys in the districts where the top three Democratic presidential candidates, and the top two Democrats in Congress, are located. The other four (Washington, Los Angeles, San Diego, Michigan) were all districts which were actively investgiating local Republicans for corruption.
Is all of this merely a coincidence? Or is it possible that this was all part of a plan to influence the 2008 elections?
Posted by: suspicious | May 7, 2007 04:16 PM
Stick a fork in me, I'm done. To even think that Janet Reno would turn out to be a stronger AG than Gonzales was far-fetched. IT turns out that Janet ran a lot cleaner house than Gonzo.....go figure.
Posted by: | May 7, 2007 04:21 PM
cbg: I've seen Griffin's RNC work mentioned in many articles on the Little Rock job. It's not being hidden.
Posted by: Nor'Easter | May 7, 2007 04:24 PM
Rome lasted as a republic for almost a thousand years before becoming a corruption-ridden dictatorship ensnared in budget-busting foreign wars. The USA only made it to 200 years....RIP USA. We hardly knew ya.
Posted by: | May 7, 2007 05:05 PM
RIP; the corruption became decisive once whims,license,identity became sanctioned as " rights" (and the silent, but primary, agenda for equality of result, rather than of opportunity through real education) and with the institutions of academia (with their ethnic identity ideology departments and the concomitant abolition of general education requirements which might question their ideology), sociology and psychology(behaviorism with continual influence after college however much disproved), along with anthropological cultural relativism, and their techniques (visual association, primacy of the personal/subjective, and 80's "application" of theory/reaction/copying the motions as a legacy from the Civil Rights movement all that are needed, logic/knowledge/objective critical thinking not required or tested) assumed as facts and permeating community colleges, even to grade school for the masses, the ideologues/those blindly trained with these assumptions in control of media, movies (majority of them written as formulas to mimic popular habits so as to sell, as those choosing the scripts can tell you) all ensure bypassing any check, lest there were any chance, on expression of personal license whenever one "chooses".
This is our world OUTSIDE of the political realm, that was enabled when conservatives and "liberal" subversives-turned prominent leaders of all the social areas, got in bed with each other. The administration only uses loopholes that have been concocted as social norms by all the (overpowering when combined) forces not directly regulated, and passively, even self congratulatorily by a large part of the public. This is why much of it has been gone along with. Hate to say it, but I sense the strong influence of widely held women's affiliations (along with the other combined influences) here (and it is a fact that they are a large influence, perhaps THE major one, on much of this administration's thinking and acting).
Posted by: | May 7, 2007 06:50 PM
Exam Question:
How do you prosecute a criminal conspiracy in which the AG appears to be involved?
The Federal Bench?
The President?
Members of the Supreme Court?
Seriously: if the enterprise was the mob we would be asking these questions. We aren't out of a hesitation to face the true ugliness before us. Courage and honesty are needed, in this time, for all time.
Posted by: bill | May 7, 2007 07:09 PM
This latest installment regarding the firing of the 8 Federal Attorneys and the hiring of political hacks to replace them should prompt a serious discussion by the people of this Country who believe in the US Constitution and the rule of law.
The conduct of this administration goes way beyond " a banana republic." This is beginning to emit an aroma reminiscent of National Socialism in Germany in the early 1930's. With malicious precision and an absence of ethics and a total disdain for the rule of law and the US Constitution, the administration of Bush the Younger has taken a series of calculated steps to control the electoral process of the United States, and staff it with the political hacks, other miscreants and what was historically referred to as The Luddites. One can only hope that Senators Pat Leahy, Joe Biden and Carl Levin will collectively pull back the dark curtain that Karl Rove has woven from whole cloth to reveal a most unusual sight--- instruction in the fine art of "goosestepping." You might get the feeling that you've stumbled upon a road company of The Producers.
Posted by: CEO in SF | May 7, 2007 07:18 PM
Exactly, cgb and suspicious. Griffin may have been mentioned, but ALL the other cases? How could this be any coincidence at all? No, this should not be ignored or distracted from.
Posted by: jim | May 7, 2007 07:46 PM
very smart =)
Posted by: dertyhiyu | May 7, 2007 08:41 PM
Bill, the short answer is the appointment of a well-respected, politically independent special prosecutor.
Posted by: JP2 | May 7, 2007 09:33 PM
Thank you for this article. I haven't read about Scholzman anywhere else - I guess I should be reading the Boston Globe. Seems that the rest of the media doesn't think corruption at the top of our justive department is very newsworthy.
Posted by: | May 7, 2007 09:50 PM
I have not followed the US Attorney issue religiously but it seems most articles focus on removal of certain USAs. Other than the Arkansas replacement, there has been no discussion of the judicial and political motives.
A large number of federal judges come from the ranks of US Attorneys and their assistants. With the Patriot Act change in the appointment process, the White House can hand-pick part of the pool of potential federal judges.
Traditionally, the ranking Congressional member of the President's party or if none then the ranking state official submits names for USAs and judges. By using the Patriot Act provision, the Bush White House can more effectively foreclose input from states with strong Democratic Congressional delegations and individual GOP Senators/Representatives/Governors that they would just as soon ignore.
For example, the Bush White House could hit the trifecta in Arkansas. First remove a USA they didn't particularly like. Second, install Karl Rove's friend. And third appoint him to the District Court or 8th Circuit if there is an opening before the election.
Posted by: S. Wise | May 8, 2007 01:31 AM
Television is the opiate of the masses. Between the daily grind and must-see TV, there's little time or inclination to become a political activist. People hear a few alarming political trends only to duck their collective heads in the metaphorical sand of evening programming. Our grandparents were much more productive--they even conversed with their neighbors.
Posted by: Dave | May 8, 2007 10:22 AM
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I saw you! You posted on another link ON YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!!
And nobody even noticed. So sad. Semper! Where are you when I need you to keep an eye on the birthdays! Well, I just got back from a quick visit to the grandbabes, and checked my little green book, and there it was. Andrea, 9/30.
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- Posted by chickadeedeedee z 6-7 ish Ohio (My Page) on Wed, Oct 3, 07 at 8:06
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Ack!!!! I can't believe I missed your birthday, girlfriend!!! *ashamed, too...big sad face here* I hope you had a WONDERFUL day, Andrea!!!! You deserve all the best!! *HUG* Mary, you're awesome, too. :D I put this one on my list, I promise! LOL Brenda |
- Posted by catherinet z5 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 3, 07 at 19:57
Same from me Andrea! I hope it was the best birthday ever! |
DANG! I swear just this afternoon at work I was thinking to myself: "hmmmmm.... wasn't it somebody's birthday on GW that I SHOULD have remembered????" Mea culpa. Hope you had a great day. Hope a heiress donates the $$$$$$$$ you need for your foundation. Hope you tell that sorry ba$tard to not forget about the rest of us little people! :-) Kindest regards, |
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Oh boy, oh boy I want some of that cake. Mary, that is just plain mean to those of us who go through life calorie concious. Oh, Happy birthday Andrea. :) Sandy |
I agree about the cake! I was so upset with myself...that I didn't even...notice...*pressing my face into the center of that lusciousness* Brenda |
We may have to all individually email the birthday girl. So, lemme see who's next... hmmm... Pondman in Fl? :) Mary |
Happy Belated Birthday Wishes Andrea! |
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California Air Resources Board voted in favor of a new diesel emissions rule that will protect jobs and safeguard air quality.
The National Contractors Group that negotiated the rules said the final version will give struggling construction firms more time to comply than the original version, while delivering lower emissions.
The revised rule approved by CARB delays its emissions standards for off-road diesel equipment until 2014. The revised rule also gives contractors credit for the efforts they already made to reduce emissions. However, the final rule still lowers emissions below the levels the Board originally sought to achieve when it first proposed its off-road diesel emissions rule in 2007.
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Intracrine refers to a hormone that acts inside a cell, regulating intracellular events. Steroid hormones act through intracellular (mostly nuclear) receptors and, thus, may be considered to be intracrines. In contrast, peptide or protein hormones, in general, act as endocrines, autocrines, or paracrines by binding to their receptors present on the cell surface. Several peptide/protein hormones or their isoforms also act inside the cell through different mechanisms. These peptide/protein hormones, which have intracellular functions, are also called intracrines. The term 'intracrine' is thought to have been coined to represent peptide/protein hormones that also have intracellular actions.
The biological effects produced by intracellular actions are referred as intracrine effects, whereas those produced by binding to cell surface receptors are called endocrine, autocrine, or paracrine effects, depending on the origin of the hormone. The intracrine effect of some of the peptide/protein hormones are similar to their endocrine, autocrine, or paracrine effects; however, these effects are different for some other hormones.
Intracrine can also refer to a hormone acting within the cell that synthesizes it.[1]
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- ^ "intracrine - definition of intracrine in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia". Medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Re RN. The intracrine hypothesis and intracellular peptide hormone action. Bioessays. 2003 Apr;25(4):401-9. PMID 12655647.
- Re RN. The origins of intracrine hormone action. Am J Med Sci. 2002 Jan;323(1):43-8. PMID 11814142
- Kumar R, Singh VP, Baker KM. The intracellular renin-angiotensin system: a new paradigm. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2007 May 15. doi:10.1016/j.tem.2007.05.001 PMID 17509892.
- Fiaschi-Taesch NM, Stewart AF. Minireview: parathyroid hormone-related protein as an intracrine factor--trafficking mechanisms and functional consequences. Endocrinology. 2003 Feb;144(2):407-11. doi:10.1210/en.2002-220818 PMID 12538599.
- Sorensen V, Nilsen T, Wiedlocha A. Functional diversity of FGF-2 isoforms by intracellular sorting. Bioessays. 2006 May;28(5):504-14. PMID 16615083.
- Singh VP, Baker KM, Kumar R. Activation of the intracellular renin-angiotensin system in cardiac fibroblasts by high glucose: role in extracellular matrix production. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Apr;294(4):H1675-84. PMID 18296558
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Clinical Trials (PDQ®)
Alternate Title
Basic Trial Information
Entry Criteria
Expected Enrollment
Published Results
Related Publications
Trial Contact Information
Related Information
Registry Information
Genetic Study of Cancer Risk and Gene Identification in Patients With Inherited Bone Marrow Disorders and Their Families
Phase | Type | Status | Age | Sponsor | Protocol IDs |
No phase specified | Genetics, Natural history/Epidemiology | Active | Any age | NCI | NCI-02-C-0052 NCT00056121 |
Special Category: NCI Web site featured trial, NIH Clinical Center trial, NCI Web site featured trial
- Establish a cohort of North American families with Fanconi's anemia (FA) or other inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) to determine the incident and prevalent rates of cancer (for all cancer and each type of cancer) in patients with these disorders.
- Determine the specific types of cancer associated with each type of IBMFS.
- Compare the biology of incident and prevalent tumors in IBMFS patients vs their sporadic counterparts in the general population.
- Determine whether FA or other IBMFS gene products are involved in the cancer pathways of the sporadic cancers seen in the general population that are common in patients with IBMFS.
- Determine differences, including genotype, phenotype, cancer susceptibility differences, modifier genes (gene-gene interactions), and environmental risk factors (gene-environment interactions), between those patients with FA or IBMFS who develop cancer and those with the same IBMFS who do not develop cancer.
- Determine the risk of cancer in individuals who are carriers of FA or other IBMFS gene mutations.
- Compare cellular and molecular characteristics of tumor biopsies and specimens from IBMFS patients vs cancers in the same tissues from the general population.
- Compare myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in these patients vs primary and secondary MDS in the general adult and pediatric population.
- Examine germline and tumor specimen DNA for IBMFS mutations from individuals not previously diagnosed with an IBMFS if they have tumors typical of IBMFS and do not have the risk factors seen in the general population.
- Search for genes that might modify cancer susceptibility in these patients using single nucleotide polymorphisms for candidate regions.
- Determine, using molecular methods, whether viral agents, such as human papilloma virus, are in the causal pathway of IBMFS-associated cancers.
Entry Criteria
Disease Characteristics:
- Suspected (at the investigator's discretion) or proven diagnosis of 1 of the following inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS):
- Fanconi's anemia
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
- Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
- Thrombocytopenia absent radii
- Severe congenital neutropenia
- Pearson's syndrome
- Other IBMFS (including Revesz, WT limb-blood syndrome, IVIC syndrome, radio-ulnar synostosis, and ataxia-pancytopenia)
- First-degree relatives (i.e., full or half siblings, biologic parents, and children) and grandparents of IBMFS patients
- Patients in the general population diagnosed with a sporadic tumor of the type seen in IBMFS (head and neck, gastrointestinal, or anogenital cancer) with none of the usual risk factors for that tumor (e.g., smoking, drinking, or human papilloma viral infection)
- No evidence that the hematologic disorder is acquired (e.g., temporal relation of aplastic anemia to known marrow suppressant drugs, chemicals, toxins, or viruses) in the absence of evidence indicative of an inherited marrow failure disorder
- No known causes of cytopenias, including any of the following:
- Autoantibodies to red blood cells, platelets, or neutrophils
- Viruses (especially hepatitis)
- Micronutrient deficiencies
- Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood
- Cyclic neutropenia
- No physical findings indicative of other syndromes or causes that are not part of the IBMFS disease spectrum
Prior/Concurrent Therapy:
Biologic therapy
- Not specified
- Not specified
Endocrine therapy
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Not specified
Patient Characteristics:
- Any age
Performance status
- Not specified
Life expectancy
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
- See Disease Characteristics
- Not specified
- Able and willing to complete questionnaires and permit access to medical records and pathology specimens
Expected Enrollment
4000A total of 4,000 patients and family members will be accrued for this study.
Primary Outcome(s)Cancer, leukemia, or aplastic anemia as measured by blood counts, bone marrow, and other exams annually
Evolution from current status as determined by blood counts, bone marrow, and other exams annually
Patients and family members complete questionnaires and undergo clinical examinations and laboratory tests, which may include blood, bone marrow, urine, stool, buccal scraping, oral cavity brushing, oropharynx brushing, skin biopsy, hair, deciduous teeth, or tissue biopsies or pathology samples from tumors. Information is gathered retrospectively through questionnaires, review of medical records, and examination of archived materials and prospectively through additional questionnaires, clinical examinations, and laboratory tests.
Genetic education, counseling, and germline testing, as well as disclosure of the results, are available to patients and family members.
A certificate of confidentiality protecting the identity of research participants in this project has been issued by the National Cancer Institute.
Published ResultsAtkinson JC, Harvey KE, Domingo DL, et al.: Oral and dental phenotype of dyskeratosis congenita. Oral Dis 14 (5): 419-27, 2008.[PUBMED Abstract]
Giri N, Batista DL, Alter BP, et al.: Endocrine abnormalities in patients with Fanconi anemia. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92 (7): 2624-31, 2007.[PUBMED Abstract]
Rosenberg PS, Socié G, Alter BP, et al.: Risk of head and neck squamous cell cancer and death in patients with Fanconi anemia who did and did not receive transplants. Blood 105 (1): 67-73, 2005.[PUBMED Abstract]
Rosenberg PS, Huang Y, Alter BP: Individualized risks of first adverse events in patients with Fanconi anemia. Blood 104 (2): 350-5, 2004.[PUBMED Abstract]
Socie G, Rosenberg P, Gluckman B, et al.: How can we quantify the risk of squamous cell cancer (SCC) and death in transplanted versus non-transplanted patients with Fanconi's anaemia. [Abstract] Bone Marrow Transplant 33 (Suppl 1): S27, 2004.
Related PublicationsAlter BP, Baerlocher GM, Savage SA, et al.: Very short telomere length by flow fluorescence in situ hybridization identifies patients with dyskeratosis congenita. Blood 110 (5): 1439-47, 2007.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP, Rosenberg PS, Brody LC: Clinical and molecular features associated with biallelic mutations in FANCD1/BRCA2. J Med Genet 44 (1): 1-9, 2007.[PUBMED Abstract]
Giri N, Pitel PA, Green D, et al.: Splenic peliosis and rupture in patients with dyskeratosis congenita on androgens and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. Br J Haematol 138 (6): 815-7, 2007.[PUBMED Abstract]
Hutson SP, Alter BP: Experiences of siblings of patients with Fanconi anemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer 48 (1): 72-9, 2007.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP: The association between FANCD1/BRCA2 mutations and leukaemia. Br J Haematol 133 (4): 446-8; author reply 448, 2006.[PUBMED Abstract]
Braun M, Giri N, Alter BP, et al.: Thrombocytopenia, multiple mucosal squamous cell carcinomas, and dyspigmentation. J Am Acad Dermatol 54 (6): 1056-9, 2006.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP: Fanconi's anemia, transplantation, and cancer. Pediatr Transplant 9 (Suppl 7): 81-6, 2005.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP, Joenje H, Oostra AB, et al.: Fanconi anemia: adult head and neck cancer and hematopoietic mosaicism. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 131 (7): 635-9, 2005.[PUBMED Abstract]
Rosenberg PS, Alter BP, Socié G, et al.: Secular trends in outcomes for Fanconi anemia patients who receive transplants: implications for future studies. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 11 (9): 672-9, 2005.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP: Growth hormone and the risk of malignancy. Pediatr Blood Cancer 43 (5): 534-5, 2004.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP, Joenje H, Oostra AB, et al.: Fanconi's anemia (FA): first diagnosis in an adult with head and neck cancer and hematopoietic somatic mosaicism. [Abstract] 2004 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, May 1-4, San Francisco, California. A-1649, 2004. Available Online. Last accessed July 15, 2005.
Tong BC, Dhir K, Ha PK, et al.: Use of single nucleotide polymorphism arrays to identify a novel region of loss on chromosome 6q in squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity. Head Neck 26 (4): 345-52, 2004.[PUBMED Abstract]
Velazquez I, Alter BP: Androgens and liver tumors: Fanconi's anemia and non-Fanconi's conditions. Am J Hematol 77 (3): 257-67, 2004.[PUBMED Abstract]
Alter BP, Greene MH, Velazquez I, et al.: Cancer in Fanconi anemia. Blood 101 (5): 2072, 2003.[PUBMED Abstract]
Rosenberg PS, Greene MH, Alter BP: Cancer incidence in persons with Fanconi anemia. Blood 101 (3): 822-6, 2003.[PUBMED Abstract]
Trial Lead Organizations
NCI - Center for Cancer Research
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Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA | |||||||
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Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center - Palo Alto | |||||||
Steven Artandi, MD, PhD |
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center | |||||||
Clinical Trials Office - UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center |
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Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office | |||||||
Clinical Trials Office - Warren Grant Magnusen Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office |
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | |||||||
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King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry | |||||||
Swee Thein, MD |
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Related Information
Web site for additional information
Featured trial article
Registry Information | ||
Official Title | Etiologic Investigation Of Cancer Susceptibility In Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes: A Natural History Study | |
Trial Start Date | 2002-11-01 | |
Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov | NCT00056121 | |
Date Submitted to PDQ | 2001-06-12 | |
Information Last Verified | 2009-06-14 |
Note: The purpose of most clinical trials listed in this database is to test new cancer treatments, or new methods of diagnosing, screening, or preventing cancer. Because all potentially harmful side effects are not known before a trial is conducted, dose and schedule modifications may be required for participants if they develop side effects from the treatment or test. The therapy or test described in this clinical trial is intended for use by clinical oncologists in carefully structured settings, and may not prove to be more effective than standard treatment. A responsible investigator associated with this clinical trial should be consulted before using this protocol.


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A new look for Crosscut
By now you've probably noticed a few changes to Crosscut.com's design. This updated look and its new features are designed to make it easier for readers to find more of Crosscut's best stories from throughout the week; to get a quicker overview of our news, analysis and commentary; and to present Crosscut's articles clearly and with more visual punch. See below for more on the specifics of our website changes.
But that's not all. The changes that you see on the website are actually just a small part of what we've been working on over the past few months. Thanks to the help and generosity of our partners and collaborators, Crosscut has also just launched a new content management system (the behind-the-scenes software coding that our editors use to publish articles).
This new system, named Armstrong, was developed by The Texas Tribune and the Bay Citizen – two of the country's leading non-profit online news publications – and made possible by a large grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Armstrong is an open-source platform, which means that not only can Crosscut customize it to fit our needs, but that we'll be able to take advantage of any added capabilities or innovations developed by others.
We got incredible help from a locally based company that did the customizing for us. Thanks to Alex Tokar, Tom Gruner, and Joe Murano at Bit Bamboo, a web development company using Django to, as they put it, solve intriguing problems for interesting people.
If all goes well, the transition to this new system should be invisible to you. To us though, it will mean that we are able to publish more multimedia articles and stay on the cutting edge of developments in web journalism technology.
We hope you like the changes we've made, but as with the introduction of any new web system, you may notice a few hiccups in the first few days of using the new system.
As you look around and spot parts that throw you, please let us know by emailing us at email@example.com. That's an address we check throughout the day, which means we'll be able to respond as quickly as possible to any problems that come up.
We look forward to hearing your feelings about Crosscut's changes. And we will update you as we adjust and fine-tune the system.
The guide to Crosscut's web changes:
- The carousel. The carousel (or slider) of pictures, headlines, and author bylines at the top of the page will rotate four recent stories. Clicking on a photo or headline will take you to the full story. You can let the carousel rotate among the stories at its own speed OR hover your mouse over an image to stop the carousel. You can also move quickly between stories by clicking on one of the dots just under the carousel on the lower right side.
- Top Stories. We will also feature three articles a day in our "Top stories" section, just below the carousel, which we've added to help you find three more of our most important stories from the past week.
- The Clicker. Crosscut retains its constantly-changing collection of out-links to some of the most important news stories in the Northwest and beyond, but it has moved down the page a little to make room for the carousel.
- The Crosscut Blog. We've eliminated the "Crosscut Blog," which usually featured shorter stories, because it had fallen into less use over the past year and we found it increasingly hard to define which stories should be blogs and which should be, well, stories. Don't worry though – you'll still be able to find all of your favorite blog posts from years past, which are stored on our new site as stories. Daily blog favorites like the Midday Scan and Crosscut Touts will now be posted as stories.
- Recent Stories. "Recent Stories" presents about a dozen of the most current Crosscut stories.
- Trending Stories. Our most popular stories from the last week will now be featured in the top left corner of our homepage in a section called "Trending Stories."
- Top commented. The Crosscut stories with the most comments are now featured in the "Top Commented" section. Incidentally, the system that measures the popularity and comments on recent stories started over with the launch of the new content management system, so it will take a few days before the counts are fully up to speed.
- Comments. Speaking of comments, readers will notice some changes in the system for posting theirs on our stories. The new system allows readers to comment directly on other people's comments. Since important points often develop into side conversations, we think readers will like being able to easily spot an ongoing discussion. It also includes a spam filter to help screen out the commercial postings that sometimes sneak into the comments. This is done through the ReCaptcha box where the user is asked to re-type two words or strings of characters and symbols.
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Posted Mon, Apr 30, 8:43 a.m.
Does Crosscut really need to emulate Publicola's shooting gallery of moving headlines/images to attract more readers (or perhaps a different set of readers)? I thought its previous format, without the bells and whistles, worked just fine.
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 8:47 a.m.
Limiting the comments section to 1000 characters serves who? This form of self censorship is a dumbing down action that reduces your audience to right wing left wing sort fo cheer squads. I like to think that the kinds of questions raised in crosscut articles require deep thinking and not simple sound bites. Todays article on mexico is a good example where flamboyant and fiery remarks are made by the writer with the advantage of a limited rebuttal by the readership. You've missed the boat on this. If limited reply is so important have an editor trim the responses, thats what good letter to the editors sections did when this was a printed paper. You're taking the easy way out.
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 9:56 a.m.
Chapala, We're working to remedy the comment character limit - an unforeseen glitch of switching to a new content moderation system that lets Crosscut editors spend more time working on bringing you thoughtful stories and less time moderating spam by hand. Under no circumstances are we trying to censor our readers. We'll let you know when we get it worked out.
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 9:10 a.m.
Fortunately, Adblock Plus lets me eliminate the odious carousel altogether. Unfortunately, we have to deal with the equally odious captcha.
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 10:34 a.m.
While the thought I may be in the minority occurs to me, I rather like the new look, and especially the new content system. And as for comments, well, if you can't say your piece in the same number of words as the article (if not less), ask David to let you submit an article. He'd probably say yes... ; )
Posted Tue, May 1, 12:51 p.m.
1000 characters is less than 200 words, which is shorter than most of the stories. In any event, it appears that this glitch has now been corrected. I hope.
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 12:27 p.m.
One note--I think your web upgrade did something to how your site is "mined" by google. NONE of your stories seem to show up in my google alerts on specific topics, even though they clearly fit the criteria. And running a search of news items using the exact terms in one of your articles and it still doesn't show up...
For example, if I search Lake Whatcom landslide in Google News (or "everything") search, I get an article from 2009 but not the one from last week. If I search Lake Whatcom Crosscut in "everything" I get it, but NOT if I search News.
Same thing w/ the Kitsap story---even searching the title directly gets nothing. It's like google doesn't know you are news anymore.
Haven't tried it w/ other topics... just an FYI!
And I LIKE the new look! Much better usability.
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 2:20 p.m.
Thanks for the tip. We're looking into that. And glad to hear you like the site!
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 2:43 p.m.
I never minded scrolling down through the list of articles. I am more inclined to do that than wait around to see the graphic shuffle at the top. Sorry about the spam.
I had no idea that was going on in the background.
Posted Tue, May 1, 2:53 p.m.
@kieth - Like you, I want to move faster through the image carousel at the top. Try clicking at your own speed on the 4 buttons at bottom left.
Posted Tue, May 1, 2:54 p.m.
...uh, I mean at bottom right. Just under the image carousel box.
Posted Thu, May 3, 9:22 a.m.
I am neutral about the re-design, and maybe positive about the ability to respond to one another in the comments. However, I like to re-read my previous comments and to see if others have responded, and yet I cannot find my comments anymore. I used to click on My Profile and there they would be with links. Now they've disappeared. Are you goind to change that, change it back? I emailed your webmaster the other day but s/he has not responded. And how will I know whether you've responded to this or not?
Posted Fri, May 4, 7:20 a.m.
They have to be careful or we will end up with a better version of the online Seattle P.I.
Posted Fri, May 4, 7:28 a.m.
One thing that is an oversight is that there is no VISUAL ARTS section to the ARTS header. Come on....there's plenty to review, Sam Shows, SAAM shows, gallery openings, studio happenings, several arts schools....etc.
Plus there are the obvious visuals to go with any story. I know we are not the recognized alternative to the NY art scene we once were but still Seattle has a vibrant art scene, an impressive number of senior talents, a nationally recognized government arts program and most importantly your readership are art buyers. Get with it!
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I'm getting a sewing machine for Christmas and have to decide which one I want.
I used to sew a million years ago, and I want to take it up again. I was never an expert, but I could make simple things. Before I plunk a lot of money down for a very good machine, I just want to get one that will get me by for a few years at least. Then if I decide I want something better, I'll consider it at that time. Can you tell me which machine you would get of these two, price not being an issue? It's basically for sewing, but I would like to be able to embroidery also from time to time possibly. I'm leaning towards the Brother se350, but what do you think? The cs6000i looks decent too. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8033273 |
Here is a link that might be useful: brother se350
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- Posted by natureperson (My Page) on Fri, Nov 28, 08 at 11:49
Here's the other machine. I didn't know how to post them both in one post. |
Here is a link that might be useful: brother cs6000i
Please visit your local sewing machine dealer and look at machines there. They are going to give you a few lessons on your machine and they are going to stand behind it. There isn't anyone at WM that will show you how to use the stiches and heaven knows they aren't going to repair it for you. Just my opinion. |
- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 29, 08 at 20:55
I totally agree with msmarion! Find a sewing machine dealer near you and let them show you what they have - including used machines that they have refurbished. Also look on Craig's list for an older Singer machine that you can get tuned up. If you only want to do a little embroidery from time to time, it will not be worth the extra $$$$ you will have to spend on a decent embroidery machine. Just my opinion. |
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Question: Referees occasionally have to manage the behavior of people on the sidelines such as coaches and reserve players. Should the referee display yellow (warning) or red (expulsion) cards when acting to control unacceptable behavior?
Ruling: The use of red and yellow cards is carefully and clearly laid out in Law 10. Cards are to be used when cautioning or sending off a player. That's it. They are not to be used as a "crowd control" tool. When a card is shown, that is a statement that a player has contravened Law 10 and that certain sanctions will be applied. Specifically, that there will be a penalty (unless a penalty try has been awarded or advantage has been played and gained) and that the sanctioned team will be a player short for either ten minutes or the remainder of the match.
Question: What is the harm in using cards outside the specifications of the Laws?
When a card is shown, there is an expectation by all, both participants and observers, that the specified sanctions will be applied. That would not be the case if cards were used for the purpose of managing non-participant behavior. The result would be a loss of confidence in the referee on that particular day, and a general degradation for all referees.
Misconduct by non-participants is addressed in the USA Guidelines and in the Disciplinary Procedures, as well as in Geographic Union and/or Conference By-Laws. Use of Red and Yellow cards are not part of that process.


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