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Injured Deer in Yard - need advice
As many of you know I live in a very urbanized suburb. Even tho I'm a wildlife Backyard Habitat, I'm stymied about what to do in this case. There's a young injured deer in my yard. The police and the Trailside Museum in the Forest Preserves 5 blocks away will not help. Please read the web page I put up & give me some advice. It CANNOT go out front because of the school & school traffic. I don't mind if it stays until it feels better, despite it eating my roses and hosta all gone (which it already has), but I don't know what to do about its injury.
That's why I posted this here & not in gallery. Thanks!!!!
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Call your department of natural resources. If there are rehabbers anywhere around, they'll know who they are and keep lists. Deer "belong" to the state and it has responsibility for their management. Deer will eat cracked or whole corn, but the caveat there is that if you put it our for them, you may be accused of harbouring or keeping them without a permit. It would, however, keep them from browsing your plants until you find a resolution.
Chances are very good, they'll put the animal down, especially in an urban area. How badly is the animal injured? Our deer population is astronomical because of our rural setting and I have a doe who comes regularly who is missing the lower half of her front leg.She does fine and even has brought her fawns to our pond to drink. They can heal and survive.
Thanks, Calliope. The Trailside Museum is a Cook County Forest Preserve "thing." I'll call the State office in downtown Chicago, but don't expect much help there.
The injury is shown in picture 3 + 4. I just think it should be taken care of (the injury, that is).
The police told me to call a private Animal service to dispose of the deer. I don't think it needs disposing of, just fixing of its injury & relocation to a safe place while healing. Gee, I don't know what to think, but seeing this animal being injured (& arriving in my yard -- maybe it saw it as a safe haven?) has thrown me for a loop.
Looks like someone might already have taken a shot at the deer. Ellen,another thing to try,which I did when a fawn was left on our property was to call my local vet for some aid in directing me to the right resource. You might try calling a veterinarian and also your local humane society. They keep numbers for all kinds of emergency situations. I know what you mean about this situation making you feel uncentered. You just can't concentrate on anything except trying to help the poor critter. This one looks fairly young to me.
Unfortunately, in cook county, deer are so overpopulated for the available habitat, that you may have a hard time finding someone who will treat it. Disposal may be the best option... but I am surprised that no one from the Forest Preserve District or the Police would help dispose of it for you.
Perhaps call a large animal vet, they may be able to sedate it and take it someplace else...
Ellen, I believe you need to get public attention to the plight of this deer in order to get action. Call your local tv station news dept. and tell them. Call the paper.
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She has clearly been shot but if you could get her back to the forest she'd most likely recover in time. What was the reason for someone saying don't give water?
I hope this helps.
She may not have been shot. She may have a warble infestation. They are common in cattle, having been the result of the bites and egg laying of certain flies and it's not at all uncommon to find warbles in the wild population of deer and other game. Young deer can especially be vulnerable and they cause "holes" in the hide with a significant amount of irritation and sometimes hair loss around it. It can lead to general debilitation and weakening of a young animal. Can also lead to secondary infections and also fly bites can be vectors of other diseases.
I certainly feel for you...trying to do something helpful for an injured creature and getting no help from those we feel should be helpful.
In my area, the SPCA would be helpful.
Also, our public school system has an Environmental Center where we are encouraged to take or they will pick up injured wildlife.
If it can be rehabilitated, they do so.
If not, they keep it at the Environmental Center for educational purposes for the public schools.
They get different corporations to sponsor the wildlife that can't be returned to the wild.
It is a wonderful program.
I enjoy the field trips there as much as the kids do.
Good luck in your effort.
One other thing, Ellen.
Do you think if you shooed her out of the front gate in the dead of night she'd find her way home to the Forest? No one would be out shooting dear in the middle of the night, surely.
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Well, I've just spent the last 5 hrs. on the phone calling everyone who referred me to someone else. The State Dept. of Environmental Resources said, "Let Nature Take Care of Nature." IF you can believe that! Then, I found a really nice old guy 60 miles away who is a licensed white tail deer rehabber BUT he doesn't drive! He told me to grab a blanket, grab the deer & throw it in a truck. Well, I might try that if I had a truck. So, I'm stuck. Everyone wants to kill it, or will kill it if it goes out front; nobody wants to help it, so I guess (in total disregard of Ill. State law & the laws of my village) I will keep it until it feels well enough to "go home."
I CANNOT believe this! I even contacted the Chicago Tribune! Nobody cares!
Rhetorical question: How can we say we're concerned about wildlife and conservation and the environment and our children's heritage, and here's a poor, injured animal that a bit of antibiotics (probably, I have no idea really) might fix up AND there's NO ONE willing to help it??? I am stunned. I am sad. I am mad. Perhaps more FURIOUS than anything.
Keep alerting the media. I'd go for the TV stations - whichever one has the regular consumer help feature. They love embarrassing officials in business, so why not in government. The poor deer look so sweet, but the last thing you need is to shoo it out into the front where it will be hit by a car or a truck.
esteinburg, I am so so sorry, being a gut wound the chances for this sweet deer is questionable and probably the reason no one will touch it. please don't try to load it in a truck as this is dangerous and you could be seriously hurt. The only way to move it is by sedating it. You would think some agency would be willing to take a chance on it. It does'nt look in bad shape.
I wish you and the deer the best.
Good morning, all! Deer took off at dawn, walking a bit better than yesterday. It headed into neighbor's yard, then north (the Forest Preserve is west ;( - stupid deer, but at least it took off before school traffic started arriving)
Last nite the newspaper woman finally contacted me via e-mail, but I was too emotionally wiped out to call her back. Will do so today.
Learned a lot thru my talks with bureaucrats: 1)lawmakers in IL are many times Downstate people who consider deer "pests" in terms of the farmers; 2) these are the folks who make the laws in IL that are NOT wild-life friendly; 3) there is almost nothing you can do to help an injured year old or adult deer because they panic when humans come near to use tranquilizers (this one didn't panic when I came near it, tho)& their hearts start racing & they typically die (?!); 4) there are no procedures in place in River Forest for situations like I had yesterday to help either the deer OR the homeowner EXCEPT people who are willing to kill the animal; 5) we've set up preserves for wildlife, but heaven help them if they wander out of the confines of those areas; and 6)THIS IS MY OPINION ONLY: we give lip service to conservation, ecology, environmental concerns BUT the minute some "animal" like the coyote we had in the yard, for example, and this deer, appear, we scream to have it "removed" because it's infringing on us and our space.
One of the animal rehabbers told me I was the first call she had received about how to best care for a deer until it was better! Usually she gets calls about removing coyotes because they are frightening a dog or to remove a deer because it's eating the flowers. I find that unbelievable.
And, so the saga of the injured deer ends - maybe...
At the risk of sounding melodramatic: I am a much sadder person today than before. Thank you for the advice & support. You all are WONDERFUL! And I'm happy to count you as "friends." Ellen
Ellen, I hope the deer makes it back to the Forest Preserves, especially crossing Thatcher Ave. (that's the right name isn't it?) I remember that as a fairly twisty road where speeders are not uncommon.
And I must say that I'm very disappointed in the Trailside Museum, the scene of many childhood trips to view the "woodland creatures," that they had such a callous attitude toward your problem.
This fawn may not be as alone as you think it is. It's not unusual for the mother to actually be nearby. One that young is usually still being attended if the mother is alive. You'd be surprised at the areas in which deer population survive. It's common here to see them right up near the shopping complex roaming backyards, and all the cemeteries have deer. They are very cautious there, but in the old, seldom used sections, we've seen fawns snuggled up, placed there by their mothers for safekeeping, next to headstones.
I feel so sorry for you to have to see it like this and worry about it and feel helpless. Unfortunately most agencies view deer as nuisances to be "managed" using that word as a euphamism.
Just a few points as a person whose ex hunted deer all his life. The deer's injuries at this point don't seem to be life-threatening, especially if he has enough appetite to eat your hosta and roses. Appetite is the first to go when an animal is critically sick. Up here in the northwoods, there are lots of deer that survive gunshots and car accidents. Even some who live years and years with only three legs. I understand how frustrated and sad you must feel. The deer may easily heal and be fine, though.
Part of the problem that you are having is thinking about the safety of this deer as a wildlife concern that needs to be preserved. Unfortunately that is not the case, especially in the area where you live.
The deer have become so over populated to the point that they are destroying areas that have been conserved for wildlife. Its not their fault, but the habitats are left with no predators and the deer have taken full advantage of it.
Over populated Deer foraging is dessimating plant communities that are home to other wildlife as well. When we think about habitat quality, we think in terms of diversity. Deer are outcompeting and reducing the diversity of the forest communities in Illinois.
So from a conservation perspective, this deer is best disposed of... so it doesn't reproduce...sorry to be so grim, but really saving the poor thing is like saving a rat or a termite. The deer population in the Cook County forest preseve is more like an infestation than wildlife in harmony in nature. :-(
I do feel bad for you, I would hate to have an injured deer hanging out in my yard with no way to dispose or move it.
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Now I feel really bad, or worse, last Thursday I hit a big buck with my so's Dodge Intripit, he just bought the car. I was driving in a hilly brushie part of the highway and the deer just appeared. I didn't even have time to hit my breaks. I pulled over and turned on the flashers, the two pick up trucks behind me pulled over too. I saw the deer rolling in the grass on the other side of the highway. One of the guys that stoppped had a cell phone and called the CHP. The sheriff came to shoot the deer and I left. The car wasn't wrecked, the licence plate holder was broken. I thought the whole front end of the car was gone, that is what happens when a deer is hit. In a low slung car like that the deer usually comes in thru the windshield. I was so lucky. I bought deer whistles for the car.
Ellen, Be glad that you met this deer and cared, that alone might have made a difference in wether he makes it or not. I don't know why i feel this way but i really beleive it counts sometimes.
Our beurocrats are the same here. except for one forest ranger and a neighbor that has a ten year old deer with 3 legs she saved and heaven knows what else she has saved over the years.
I'm so sorry you had to have this experience.
I remember several years ago, there was a large legal doe season and for several years deer were hard to find and back east everyone was complaining about the over amount of deer there were. I kept telling everyone here i wish you could ship some of the deer to us. This is the first year we've had a recovery of deer.
I understand the notions of wildlife management folk who try to balance eco-systems here in Cook County, and who, therefore do not see one injured deer as anything but something that's disposable. The annual culling goes on with no fanfare. The coyote population is growing but a survey showed these predators only took out 15% of the fawns/year, and therefore additional measures were needed to maintain balance. I may not agree with the methods chosen, but I think I understand that unless something's done, there will be additional problems.
However, what I have discovered about myself due to this episode was something I think I have always felt but have never articulated: Do No Harm.
Therefore, I could not have called the Wildlife Police to put the animal down UNLESS it was seriously ill. I was desperate to find someone who could tell me if the injury was such that the animal's life was in danger, and could find no one. If the animal were in need of vet assistance, I wanted to get that for it, but could find no one.
Failing these efforts, I felt obligated to give it shelter & an organic salad bar (you should see the damage!) until it could move on (I actually didn't have a choice, it moved in for 24 hrs.) If, after moving on, it didn't make it, then that was Nature's choice, NOT MINE.
And so, I am grateful for the opportunity to have provided a bit of succor for an injured creature, and for the opportunity to think about my philosophy in concrete terms & (re)articulate it.

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Stefania Cambanis is a junior at Fairfield University. An aspiring poet with a triple major in Creative Writing, Economics and Marketing with a minor in Accounting. She is attending The Creative Mind Gala in New York City, she participates in an on campus group called Poetry by Stealth, she conducted Oral Histories in New Orleans over the spring break of 2010 with the St. Bernard Project, the 2008 CNN Hero of Year, she has served as a judge for Poets for Peace Competition for kindergarden through high school students in Bridgeport and Connecticut for two consecutive years and she was kindly invited to the the launch of The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project in Washington DC. She has also served as the Associate editor of Dogwood, the nationally acclaimed journal of Fairfield University. Lastly, she was invited to the AWP conference in Denver for the Spring of 2010. All of this would not have been possible without the guidance and support of her Professor Dr. Kim Bridgford and she would like to thank Professor Kim for the opportunities she has been given. She is honored to be with us today to discuss the significance of the timeline in terms of global and women's issues.


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TMP boys third at Phillipsburg
By The Hays Daily News
PHILLIPSBURG -- The Thomas More Prep-Marian boys' track and field team took third at the Phillipsburg Invitational on Friday, while the TMP girls finished in sixth. The TMP boys had 92 points, behind first-place Beloit (150 points) and second-place Phillipsburg (114 points). Beloit also won the girls' side with 127.66 points, Concordia second with 92.5 points and Phillipsburg third with 76.5 points.
The Monarch boys had three first-place finishers: Sophomore Andrew Hess in the 3,200-meter run (10 minutes, 52.85 seconds), senior Aaron Moore in the discus (140 feet), and junior Cameron Fouts in the javelin (166-1).
TMP senior Ryan Mayorga finished second in the high jump (6-2) and senior Skyler Urban second in the triple jump (40-8), an event won by Phillipsburg senior Grant Wickham (45-2.25).
Phillipsburg junior Stuart Lennemann had first-place finishes in the 100-meter dash (11.15 seconds) and the 200-meter dash (22.69 seconds). Panther senior Trey Ellis took first in the 400-meter dash (50.25), senior Hunter Kohler first in the 300-meter hurdles (41.11) and the Phillipsburg boys' 400-meter relay team first in 42.95 seconds.
The Panthers also took first and second in the long jump, Wickham winning with a distance of 20-11, junior Sam Sage second with 19-3.5. Norton's Austin Hager won the pole vault with a height of 13-6.
Sophomore Melissa Pfeifer led the TMP girls by finishing first in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:49.80. Pfeifer also took second in the 800-meter run in 2:34.48.
Other notable area finishers were: Russell's Lena Wedel in the 100-meter dash (13.43), Russell's Samantha Ptacek in the 200-meter dash (27.34), Russell's Alaina Gfeller in the 400-meter dash (1:02.91), Norton's Darcy Bainter in the 3,200-meter run (13:05.08), Norton's Bailey Ambrosier in the pole vault (9-6), Gfeller in the long jump (16-5), Phillipsburg's Shania Wilkison in the triple jump (33-3.25), and Smith Center's Drew Mann in the javelin (109-6).
The Russell girls also won the 1,600-meter relay in 4:18.09 and Norton won the 3,200-meter relay in 10:37.82.


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Sleepy Root Farm is a five acre produce farm located outside Amery, WI. Growing food is our way of connecting to the greater ecosystem that surrounds and supports us. We recognize that it is the soil, the water, the air and the myriad creatures both big and small that make this bountiful life possible, and so treat it as such.
We offer 3 different share sizes for different needs and deliver to multiple Twin Cities and East of Twin Cities locations on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Below are images from 2013's Medium and Full Shares.
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Simply put, is buying a share of the farm for a season. In return you receive a box full of beautiful vegetables, herbs and fruit every week for 18 weeks through the months of June to October, delivered to your neighborhood.
Community Supported Agriculture (or CSA) is one of the best ways to be grounded locally through food, aligning yourself with the seasonal pulse that shapes and supports the living world around us.
We strongly believe that the food we eat is one of the most sacred parts of our lives–and, because so, we grow our food in the healthiest ways, never using methods or chemicals that poison the beneficial organisms of the soil or linger on so much of the produce in our grocery aisles.
By subscribing to the CSA you are strengthening your local economy and the relations of the people that compose it. Also giving you a greater say in how your food is produced. Your membership helps determine the direction of our farm and allows us to invest in the summer's crop at the beginning of the season through member support.
Part of the beauty of life is the unpredictabilities–sometimes it means surplus produce, sometimes it means unanticipated hail storms and droughts that reduce the amount of vegetables in your weekly box. Instances of a rough season are the times that the "community support" portion of CSA's are needed the most for farmers. By subscribing you are also taking on the risk of the season. We promise to do everything within our abilities to ensure a fruitful season, but some things are simply out of our control. Conversly, when the going is good, you will be the first to share in the bounty!
On a deeper level, we believe this is an axiom of meaningful relationships, economic and personal. Community is taking the good and the bad together, and coming out stronger, more resilient and with a greater sense of connection because of it. And that's what its all about! To us, good food is only a portion of the mission–creating community and fostering meaningful exchanges is just as important.
By becoming a member you are joining a mindful community that supports local agriculture which in turn enriches our community. A community that believes eating should not just fill our bellies, but our soul as well.
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The future of cancer therapy lies in the ability to match patients to treatments they will respond favourably to. Celleron has developed biomarkers using epigenetic techniques that match drugs to responsive disease. Our portfolio of technologies can be used to develop a new class of mechanism-based cancer drugs. Drugs that will improve the success rates of treatment, reduce the side effects in patients and deliver more cost effective healthcare.
Advances in understanding the biology of cancer have aided the rational design and development of molecularly targeted mechanism based drugs. An equally crucial venture has been the individualization of these therapies in accordance with the unique genetic and molecular profile of the disease type. The complexity and heterogeneity of various cancer types along with their inherent inter-individual variability have necessitated the move towards personalized or precision cancer therapy. Accordingly, there has been a clinical need to stratify patients and target specific therapies to those subpopulations, which are most likely to benefit, whilst avoiding unnecessary harm and toxicity to those who are predicted non-responsive.
The realization of personalized cancer medicine requires both an in-depth molecular understanding of the cancer type, as well as validated and robust diagnostic tests to profile the disease and tease out the relevant molecular information. Biomarkers in general terms refer to those characteristics, whose objective measurement in the body, reproducibly correlates with a given physiological or pathological state. Biomarkers can serve prognostic, diagnostic or predictive purposes. Predictive biomarkers, which help predict and assess the probability of disease response to a given therapy, are particularly valuable to the application of personalized medicine. The identification and validation of a defined biomarker for a given cancer medicine, proves crucial to stratifying patients according to the presence or absence of the biomarker and hence likelihood of therapeutic response.
With the exponential rise in the number of mechanism based therapies in the clinic and in development, and with on-going issues regarding patient toxicity and lack of efficacy to therapies, identifying and employing relevant biomarkers in the coming years becomes as important as developing new cancer therapies.
Histone acetylation on lysine residues is regulated by two groups of enzymes, histone acetyl transferases (HATs), which utilize acetyl-coA to transfer acetyl group to the ε-amino site of lysine residues, and histone deacetylases (HDACs), which remove the acetyl group. From the perspective of cancer therapy, HDACs have gained recognition as an important target, which, in part, reflects the identification of proteins other than histones that are subject to acetylation control. The activity of cell cycle regulators including E2F, p53, and the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) is influenced by acetylation, and pRb controls E2F activity through the recruitment of chromatin-modifying enzymes, such as HDACs. Several oncogenic proteins have altered recruitment of HDACs, which leads to aberrant gene transcription. This is exemplified by the fusion protein PML-RARα, which occurs through a chromosomal translocation in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The PML-RARα fusion protein recruits HDAC and represses transcription, causing a block to differentiation and promoting the oncogenic phenotype in APL. Not surprisingly therefore, compounds that inhibit HDAC activity, cause potent cell cycle effects and frequently induce apoptosis.
In line with this, the recent development of specific inhibitors of histone modification reading modules has been an exciting achievement, particularly the small molecule inhibitors of the acetyl-lysine recognition domain, or bromodomains. Compounds have been reported to inhibit the bromo-domains with high potency and to induce strong anti-proliferative effects. These findings illustrate the possibility of exploiting specific epigenetic readers as reasonable drug targets, and lead way for many more for the coming years.
Recent advances have highlighted a new and exciting area for therapeutic intervention, namely that of epigenetic targeting of cancer cells. Chromatin is the DNA-proteinaceous material in which chromosomal DNA resides in the nucleus. The majority of chromatin is composed of histones that assemble into nucleosomes, and thereby assist in DNA packaging and transcriptional control. The basic structure of the nucleosome consists of 146bp of DNA wrapped around an octamer of four core histones. The histone tail is subject to a variety of enzymatic modifications, including phosphorylation, acetylation, and methylation. Many of these histone modifications, as part of a heritable, self-perpetuating system form the basis of the epi-(above)-genome. Epigenetic events can direct phenotypically distinct outcomes from an identical underlying genetic material (DNA), and thus can be thought of as non-genetic cellular memory.
It has emerged in recent years that cancer cells can exhibit altered epigenetic modifications, such as hypermethylation of various tumour suppressor genes, and hence exhibit aberrant gene silencing. Such 'epimutations' justify targeting the enzymes and readers of these epigenetic events as a means of selectively targeting the cancer cells.
Histone acetylation on lysine residues is regulated by two groups of enzymes, histone acetyl transferases (HATs), which utilize acetyl-coA to transfer acetyl group to the ε-amino site of lysine residues, and histone deacetylases (HDACs), which remove the acetyl group. From the perspective of cancer therapy, HDACs have gained recognition as an important target, which, in part, reflects the identification of proteins other than histones that are subject to acetylation control. The activity of cell cycle regulators including E2F, p53, and the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) is influenced by acetylation, and pRb controls E2F activity through the recruitment of chromatin-modifying enzymes, such as HDACs. Several oncogenic proteins have altered recruitment of HDACs, which leads to aberrant gene transcription. This is exemplified by the fusion protein PML-RARα, which occurs through a chromosomal translocation in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The PML-RARα fusion protein recruits HDAC and represses transcription, causing a block to differentiation and promoting the oncogenic phenotype in APL. Not surprisingly therefore, compounds that inhibit HDAC activity, cause potent cell cycle effects and frequently induce apoptosis.
In line with this, the recent development of specific inhibitors of histone modification reading modules has been an exciting achievement, particularly the small molecule inhibitors of the acetyl-lysine recognition domain, or bromodomains. Compounds have been reported to inhibit the bromo-domains with high potency and to induce strong anti-proliferative effects. These findings illustrate the possibility of exploiting specific epigenetic readers as reasonable drug targets, and lead way for many more for the coming years.
Structural biology image of an HDAC inhibitor like CXD101 in the active site of an HDAC enzyme sub-unit.
CXD101 is a novel HDACinhibitor with multiple positive differentiation properties from competing products which is supported by a predictive biomarker.
Eighteen different human HDACs have been identified and classified into four classes according to their homology with yeast proteins and functional criteria. The four classes are divided into Zn2+-dependent classes (class I, class II and class IV) and NAD-dependent (class III) enzymes. Class I consists of the members HDAC1, 2, 3, and 8; class IV has a single member, HDAC11. Class II HDACs are subdivided into class IIa consisting of the members HDAC4, 5, 7 and 9 and into class IIb with the members HDAC6 and HDAC10. Class III HDACs are also called sirtuins after their homology with Sir2 and consists of the members SIRT1 – SIRT7. Most HDAC inhibitors target the classes I, II or IV HDACs.
HDACs play both direct and indirect roles in cancer. On the one hand, there is evidence that certain oncogenic fusion proteins like CBFb/SMMHC specifically associate with HDAC8. On the other hand there are several reports that increased HDAC levels are found in certain types of cancer. Examples are increased levels of HDAC1 in gastric cancer and hormone refractory prostate cancer and higher expression of HDAC2 and HDAC3 in colon cancer. Sequencing studies identified HDAC4 mutations in breast cancer samples, and HDAC4 is highly expressed in patients with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. Conversely, homozygous deletions of HDAC4 were observed in melanoma cells. Other members HDAC5, HDAC7 and HDAC9 have been reported to be upregulated in several types of cancer, including medulloblastomas, hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) and pancreatic cancers [29, 30].
Given the many roles HDAC6 fulfils in the cell, it is not surprising that it has also been associated with certain types of cancers. Overexpression of HDAC6 correlated with tumourigenesis and in oral squamous cell carcinomas HDAC6 expression was increased in advanced stage cancers compared to early stages. One prominent mechanism through which HDAC6 may act in cell survival is its ability to deacetylate HSP90, another tumour therapy target. For example, it has been demonstrated that treatment with HDIs could lead to the disassembly of the HDAC6/Hsp90 complex and activates a p53-dependent apoptotic pathway.
Celleron's proprietary HDAC inhibitor, CXD101, has multiple superior positive differentiation properties from any of the other competing HDAC inhibitors in clinical development. Moreover, Celleron has used a predictive cancer biomarker, the H-Test, to target the drug towards responsive tumours. This approach significantly accelerates the drug's clinical development and, if successful, the time to launch, as well as offering a potential competitive edge over other rival candidates in the class. The combined benefit of a predictive biomarker applied to Celleron's drug with potentially class-leading properties means that CXD101 is more likely to demonstrate greater clinical value than other HDAC inhibitor based therapies.
There is increasing interest in arginine methylation as a new level of post-translational modification (PTM). It has been shown to play an important role in the function of a diverse number of proteins and processes, such as epigenetic control, chromatin regulation, transcriptional control, DNA repair and RNA processing. Arginine methylation is carried out by a family of enzymes, and the protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT) 5 functions in growth-promoting and pro-survival pathways.
PRMT5 is aberrantly expressed in a variety of human cancers. Our studies have suggested that PRMT5 expression in tumour biopsies found that in a sub-group of colorectal cancer patients, high levels of PRMT5 coincides with poor clinical outcome. This raises the possibility that the level of PRMT5 could be used to stratify patients into groups that respond favourably to drugs targeting PRMT5.
Most significantly, PRMT5 activity is integrated with cancer cell proliferation. A hallmark of cancer cells is apparent in the transition from G1 into S phase of the cell cycle, which is tightly regulated in normal cells, but universally under abnormal control in tumour cells. The key pathway involves the retinoblastoma tumour suppressor (pRb) protein, which acts to negatively regulate the G1 to S phase transition through its critical target, the E2F family of transcription factors. E2F transcription factors control the expression of a variety of genes that are intimately connected with cell proliferation, including many involved with DNA synthesis. In tumour cells, normal regulation of E2F is lost (due to mutation in the Rb gene or deregulation of Rb activity), liberating E2F which subsequently drives cells into S phase.
The first member of the family, E2F-1, is an important regulator of cell fate. E2F-1 is not only able to promote proliferation, but also cause the opposing outcome, namely cell death through apoptosis. Accordingly, E2F-1 has been described as both tumour suppressor and oncogene. However, the mechanisms that control the opposing outcomes of E2F-1 remain largely unknown. If the pathway which controls E2F-1 biological activity were known, we could devise approaches to develop a drug, targeted to the E2F pathway, which reinstates apoptosis in tumour cells.
Celleron has access to this important information. E2F-1 has been found to be arginine methylated, and arginine methylation controls its biological activity. A robust drug discovery tool 'T-ARG-et', focussed in identifying inhibitors of PRMTs, has been established and proven to effectively identify compounds which regulate PRMTs. Celleron is progressing the products through pre-clinical development.
Structural biology image of a bromo-domain together with its inhibitor compound.
Targeted lysine acetylation is regulated by two groups of enzymes, histone acetyl transferases (HATs), which utilize acetyl-coA to transfer acetyl group to the ε-amino site of lysine residues, and histone deacetylases (HDACs), which remove the acetyl group. In turn, the acetylated lysine residue is 'read' by an expanding class of reader domains, referred to as bromo-domains. From the perspective of cancer therapy, bromo-domains are gaining recognition as an important target, which, in part, reflects the identification of diverse proteins and pathwaysthat are subject to acetylation control and bromo-domain control.
In line with this, specific inhibitors of bromo-domains are under evaluation using Celleron's platform 'Bromo-Fix'. The compound, JQ1, which inhibits the bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) family member BRD4 with high potency has proved to be a valuable tool compound. Recurrent oncogenic translocations of BRD4 have been found in several subtypes of human squamous carcinoma, and accordingly the binding of JQ1 to BRD4 was shown to induce strong anti-proliferative effects in xenograft models. Since then JQ1 has been shown to have promising activity against NUT midline carcinoma, several hematopoietic cancers and glioblastoma tumours. These findings illustrate the potential value of exploiting specific epigenetic readers as drug targets. Celleron has developed Bromo-Fix and has deployed the platform to characterise a new class of bromo-domain inhibitors which strongly inhibit cancer cell proliferation.
The first human trial of a pioneering personalised cancer treatment will begin this week at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, with the potential to tackle a wide range of late-stage cancers.
A major challenge in drug development is that all cancer patients respond differently to treatment, making it difficult to know how best to treat each patient. For the first time, a phase 1 trial using Celleron's proprietary HDAC inhibitor CXD101, will investigate not only the new drug, but also a new test to predict which patients could be successfully treated by this class of drug.
"When patients' cancers do not respond to a treatment, this can cost tens of thousands of pounds and cause patients to suffer side effects for nothing" said lead researcher Professor Nick La Thangue of Celleron Therapeutics and Oxford University's Department of Oncology. "Personalised medicine promises to prevent this by predicting how well a patient will respond to a drug before administering it and this is exactly what this trial will do. This is really the shape of things to come and avoids the problem of testing drugs on patients who have little chance of benefiting from the treatment.
Dr John Whittaker, Celleron's Chief Operating officer commented: "I am delighted to see Celleron, Oxford ECMC, Oxford Hospitals NHS trust and Oxford Cancer Biomarkers (OCB) cooperating on this exciting project to take Celleron's proprietary targeted therapeutic, CXD101, into clinical testing on patients, identified by a companion diagnostic, as likely to be suitable for treatment."
The drug CXD101 is being developed by Celleron Therapeutics. The biomarker measures levels of a protein called HR23B that could determine the effectiveness of CXD101 and similar drugs. The trial will involve 30-40 cancer patients, the first set of whom will be given increasing doses of CXD101 to determine the most effective dose. The second cohort of patients will then be tested for HR23B and those with high levels of the protein will be treated with the best dose of CXD101.
CXD101 is a next generation histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, a class of drug that kills cancer cells by blocking the vital functions of HDAC enzymes. The HDAC enzymes are important for cell multiplication, migration and survival, so blocking them can stop tumours from growing and spreading, and even kill cancer cells entirely.
"HDAC inhibitors have had limited success in the past but CXD101 works in a completely new way and has great potential to treat many different cancers," said Professor La Thangue. "Our previous research suggests that high levels of the HR23B protein make tumours more vulnerable to HDAC inhibitors, so we will now be putting this into practice to identify the patients who are most likely to benefit from CXD101. Any cancer could be high in HR23B, from breast cancers to blood cancers, so we are screening a broad range of patients to identify anyone who might benefit.
The trial is a unique collaboration between Celleron Therapeutics, Oxford Cancer Biomarkers, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the ECMC (Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre) network. The Oxford ECMC is led by Mark Middleton, Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at Oxford University's Department of Oncology, clinical lead for the CXD101 trial.
*The trial's entry on the UK Clinical Trial's Gateway can be found at Http://www.ukctg.nihr.ac.uk/trialdetails/NCT01977638
*Celleron Therapeutics is a clinical stage cancer medicine company focussed on developing personalised therapies targeting epigenetic control. The company has built a proprietary platform around histone deacetylases and methyl-transferases. Celleron's approach seeks to align the right drug with the right patient enabling a personalised approach to cancer therapy. The company is a spin-out from Oxford University and located on the Oxford Science Park. For more information see www.cellerontherapeutics.com.
*Oxford Cancer Biomarkers translates ground-breaking scientific discovery into predictive biomarker diagnostic products that allow medicines to be personalised for the benefit of the cancer patient. Its unique platform, CancerNav ®, isolates biomarkers which allow drugs to be tailored to the disease. It is a spin-out of the University of Oxford and is located on the Oxford Science Park. For more information, please visit www.oxfordcancerbiomarkers.com.
*Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division is one of the largest biomedical research centres in Europe, with over 2,500 people involved in research and more than 2,800 students. The University is ranked the best in the world for medicine, and it is home to the UK's top-ranked medical school.
*Conducting the majority of early-phase cancer clinical trials in the UK, experimental cancer medicine centres (ECMC's) provide infrastructure funding to enhance the quantity and quality of research in developing new medicines to help beat cancer. Each ECMC brings together lab-based experts in cancer biology with cancer doctors to speed up the flow of ideas from the lab bench to the patient's bedside. Launched in 2007, the network of 18 ECMC's is jointly supported by Cancer Research UK, the National Institute for Health Research I England, and the Departments of Health of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who together, have provided £35m from 2007-2012 and a further 35m from 2012 to 2017. Find out more at www.ecmcnetwork.org.uk.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Lister Institute and Professorial Fellow at Linacre College Oxford. Nick is Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Oxford.
He has founded several companies, including Prolifix and Celleron Therapeutics, and more recently Oxford Cancer Biomarkers, and has considerable commercial experience derived from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.
David has an international reputation for the treatment of, and research into, colorectal cancer and the quality of his work has been recognised by the award of several international prizes and the first NHS Nye-Bevan award for innovation.
David has made a significant contribution to reforming the NHS as a Founding Commissioner for Health Improvement; Chair of the National Cancer Services Collaborative, instigator of the Department of Health's networked approach to clinical cancer research and developed a 20 year plan for the future of the NHS in Scotland, the "Kerr Report".
He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000, Honorary Fellow of Royal College of General Practitioners in 2007, appointed Commander of the British Empire in 2002 and was elected President of the European Society of Medical Oncology in 2010. David contributes to Oxford as Professor of Cancer Medicine, where he has worked with colleagues to build a new Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cancer Hospital.
John has over 30 years' experience in cancer research, drug development and clinical research. . He was previously UK General Manager and Country Manager, Israel at Kendle International and Director Global Clinical Development. Prior to that he was Director, Clinical Operations (Europe) for SEQUUS Pharmaceuticals and ALZA International and Director of Oncology, at ICON Clinical Research. His PhD is in genetic toxicology and he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University. He has an MBA and has held senior positions with a number of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research Organisations.
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The Sonoma Lady Dragons softball team, undaunted by three weeks of rain outs and postponements, took advantage of last week's good weather to put together a pair of impressive wins over Healdsburg and Piner to run their winning streak to four in a row.
The win over Healdsburg in the SCL opener marked the Lady Dragons first game action since March 11. Sonoma showed no rust from the lengthy lay-off, pounding out 14 hits while putting 12 runs on the board over the final two innings en route to a resounding 17-3 victory.
The Lady Dragons did not rest on their laurels, downing Piner two days later in a non-league contest that saw sophomore Zoe Gaarder go the distance to pick up her first varsity win. Gaarder evened her record on the season at 1-1, striking out four and allowing only one base on balls against the Prospectors.
The Lady Dragons (4-3) faced Petaluma Tuesday in an SCL contest, with results unavailable at press time. Sonoma will host Ursuline tomorrow at the SVHS field at 4:00 pm before getting back to their league slate with games against El Molino and Analy next week.
Sophomore Kendall Ashe led the offense in the win over the Greyhounds, going three-for-five, with a pair of RBI's. Ashley Vail also had three hits and a pair of RBI's and Gaarder helped her cause with a pair of hits.
Also picking up hits in the league opener were Lindsey Rocha, Amber Rose, Megan McNeilly, Tali Soroker, Anna Stewart and Juliana Gutierez.
The Lady Dragons showed their versatility, winning a tight defensive battle over Piner 4-3. Sonoma scored their four runs in the first three innings, and then held on for the win behind sound defense. Ashe picked up two more hits, capping a week that saw coach Dean Merrill name her the Lady Dragon of the Week.
Rose and Gutierez helped inspire the offense with a stolen base apiece in the win.
2011 SCL Softball Preview
Petaluma: The Lady Trojans sport a gaudy .387 team batting average and put the ball in play, striking out just 10 times in 159 plate appearances through their first seven games. Sara Soares, Gina Barnacle, Nicole Wieks, Chelsea Martin and Ali Corids all have batting averages in excess of .500. Petaluma doesn't waste their chances to score, plating nearly seven runs a game and through the first week of league play it doesn't look like anyone in the SCL can match the Trojans offense. Soares is equally impressive on the mound, compiling a 5-0 mark with a miniscule .67 ERA. Predicted SCL record 10-2.
Sonoma Valley: The Lady Dragons can be a contender for the top spot in the SCL if they continue to get complete game efforts similar to those put forth last week. Megan McNeilly is the workhorse on the mound, hurling 30 of the Lady Dragons 44 innings pitched to-date. The team batting average popped up to .332 after the 17-run outburst against Healdsburg last week. Kendall Ashe and Mia Stornetta, the last two players to receive Lady Dragon player of the week honors, are hitting .429 and .412, respectively. Amber Rosa and Lindsey Rocha are the top run producers, picking up the team lead in runs batted in while sporting batting averages north of .475. Predicted SCL record 9-3.
Analy: The Tigers entered SCL play with just a 2-4 record, but look to be more talented than the bottom tier of the SCL pack. Despite a team batting average of just .229, the Tigers manage to keep games close, and frustrate opponents by prolonging innings, evidenced by their 220 plate appearances in seven games. That statistic breaks down to 10 base runners per game, and the pitching staff also keeps the Tigers in games, never yielding more than six runs in a single game so far this season. Nicole Ochoa leads the way on the mound, having struck out 39 in her six starts. Predicted SCL record 7-5.
Casa Grande: The Gauchos have scored just 11 runs so far this season, but look to finish in the middle of the pack in the SCL as a result of the standout pitching duo of Ashley Ludlow and Ashley Porter. The pair of "Ashleys" have combined to throw every inning for the Gauchos in 2011 and have a combined ERA of just .47. The Gauchos will need to support the dynamic duo a little better than they have done to date, where they have managed just a .204 team batting average and defensively have committed 14 errors to produce a sub-par .867 fielding percentage. Predicted SCL record 6-6.
El Molino: Much like Casa Grande, the Lions will have to improve their anemic offense (.174 team batting average) and porous defense (14 errors) to challenge the top SCL teams, but their pitching should allow them to sweep some of the cellar dwellers. Only one player, Elizabeth Callagy, has more than one RBI as of April 1, but once on base the Lions have been aggressive, stealing seven bases on 10 attempts. Catcher Kerri Rampone has a strong arm and has gunned down three base runners attempting to steal. Predicted SCL record 6-6.
Windsor: Statistically, Windsor looks like they could just as easily be 5-1 rather than their current mark of 1-4-1. A team batting average of .337, three hitters batting over .400, and speed on the base paths would look to spell success for the Jaguars. However a pitching staff that has been lit up like a Christmas tree will likely keep Windsor in the SCL cellar. The Jaguar pitching staff has struck out only four batters through six games and the team ERA is an unattractive 6.61. The Windsor hopes will have to bank on some offensive outbursts to get their wins in the 2011 season. Predicted SCL finish 3-9.
Healdsburg: The Greyhounds biggest question is not how many games they will win in 2011, but rather it will be whether they will win a game at all in 2011. Yielding 87 runs while scoring only 31 won't strike fear into any SCL opponents, and unless a win is soon to come the campaign could spiral out of control in a hurry. Surprisingly, the Greyhounds offense is respectable, led by one of the best hitters in the Redwood Empire in Savannah Wode-Shura who is hitting .524 with 11 hits (5 RBI) and a home run. Four of the Greyhounds six losses have been by double figures. Predicted SCL finish 1-11


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Sheffield Wednesday's latest signing Seyi Olofinjana is convinced the club will soon grab their first win of the season.
Sheffield Wednesday have confirmed the signing of Nigerian international Seyi Olofinjana.
Sheffield Wednesday have signed Hull City midfielder Seyi Olofinjana on loan until the end of the season.
Hull City do not expect an imminent departure for Seyi Olofinjana while he recovers from knee surgery.
Striker Jay Bothroyd has been released by Cardiff after failing to agree new terms with the Bluebirds.
Seyi Olofinjana has revealed he is hoping to turn his loan move from Hull to Cardiff into a permanent deal.
Cardiff manager Dave Jones insists there was no intent in Seyi Olofinjana's tackle on Dexter Blackstock.
Cardiff will be boosted by the return of some big names as they look to halt a bad run against Millwall.
Hull are confident Anthony Gerrard is just the player they need after signing the Cardiff defender on loan.
Cardiff have again dipped into the loan market to sign Hull's Seyi Olofinjana on a season-long deal.
Hull City boss Phil Brown wants his players to return from the African Cup of Nations as soon as possible.
Hull City midfielder Seyi Olofinjana could return for the Tigers' Premier League clash with Blackburn.
Hull City manager Phil Brown says it would be "remiss" to make changes to his side for the vital match against West Ham
Seyi Olofinjana thinks that Hull's players, as well as manager Phil Brown, need to improve their game.
Seyi Olofinjana has revealed that he chose Hull over Monaco in order to stay in the Premier League.
Hull City have completed the £3million signing of Seyi Olofinjana and agreed a loan deal for Jozy Altidore.
Hull City are set to unveil new signings Jozy Altidore and Seyi Olofinjana.
Stoke boss Tony Pulis has confirmed Seyi Olofinjana is set to join Hull after he rejected a move to Monaco.
Seyi Olofinjana's proposed move to Monaco appears to have collapsed after Guy Lacombe revealed a late hitch.
Tony Pulis is prepared to be patient - even if it means starting the season with no more new signings.
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Miranda Lambert admits that she's jealous of smoking hot Shakira
September 24, 2012
Oh Miranda, I don't think you have anything to worry about at all.
At this weekend's iHeartRadio Music Festival, Miranda gave an interview before her performance and talked about her new NBC show she's working on that's based on her life growing up.
"It's just in the beginning stages," she said. "My family dynamic is kind of interesting. When I was first growing up, I didn't think it was, but now I look back [and realize it was]."
Then she talked about Shakira, the sexy Columbian singer who is joining 'The Voice' next season along with Usher while Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green take the season off.
Miranda hasn't met Shakira yet, but she definitely has her on her radar, telling SheKnows:
"I'm excited to meet you!" Lambert told Shakira via the SheKnows camera, since the singer had to pull out of the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival because of her recently announced pregnancy.
"I'll see when you you're sitting next to my husband [on The Voice]," she continued. "A little jealous about that because you're so sexy!"
No worries, Miranda, I'm pretty sure you could take her in a fight.


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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is the second game to have you in control of Raiden, the protagonist from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, this time without the aid of Snake. Does Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance stand at all as a spinoff or should Raiden never rise?
Recently I've been playing the Metal Gear Sold HD Collection. Yes, I'm also playing in chronological order because I'm cool that way. The Metal Gear franchise is home to some of the most wonderful and creative characters with the strongest personalities. They're all likable in their adorable evil ways and although some may be stranger than others we accepted them all. Hell we accepted an arm being alive. What we didn't accept was this guy.
Mortal Kombat Review
***Played on Xbox 360***
Mortal Kombat has never been really known for its great fighting style but really more so for its gore. It was usually slow and dull and started kind of going downhill in recent Mortal Kombat games. Does this new Mortal Kombat bring the franchise back on course or is this yet another fatality?
One of the surprising things about Mortal Kombat is the surprisingly lengthy and interesting story mode. Gone are the days of Puzzle Kombat and Chess Kombat. Now we are left with the main focus of the game. Previous Mortal Kombat story lines got tongue tied and tripped over themselves, they were usually forgettable and dragged on way longer than necessary. The only decent storyline given was from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Mortal Kombat on the other hand has a pretty good storyline due to its simple formula. Raiden sees the future and witnesses Sonya Blade and company either dead or dying; he tells his present self that "He must win". "He" can be anyone. So they must fight in Mortal Kombat to stop the future from ending in tragedy. That's it. That's the story. Along the way you'll have really good character back stories and character development; ever wonder how Jax got his metal arms? Ever wonder what the hell a Kabal is? Mortal Kombat's simple formula of storytelling and great character development gives you a reason to progress in the story mode. Story mode is also about 7- 8 hours long depending how much you get your butt kicked (which might and will happen at times). Mortal Kombat does take cues from Street Fighter IVwith the "X-Ray Attacks" (which we will get into later) replacing the Ultra attacks, and it does also take cues from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe in the way the story mode is structured, which isn't a bad thing considering that was a good story too.
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After Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 have gone and passed, I and the fans of the series got a little older and our expectations kept on rising. As we knew that there were to be another Mortal Kombat game. We knew that Mortal Kombat 3 was going to be coming out but what we didn't expect was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 which was released in 1995.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is basically Mortal Kombat 3 with an upgrade (so ill talk about this version rather than Mortal Kombat 3 because it would be redundant and require a lot of copying and pasting). Ultimate Mortal Kombat was by far the best game in the series. Like its predecessor it added more and more. You not only had characters like Sub-Zero, Smoke, Cyrax, Sonya Blade, Jax, Liu Kang, Kano and Shang Tsung but also Reptile and Scorpion and a lot more. There were also hidden characters like Noob Saibot and Rain. In this version Noob Saibot is a palette swap silhouette of Scorpion. There was also the very complicated Kode system that appears before every match and would require the players to put in codes to unlock certain characters like Classic Ninja Sub-Zero and Smoke (not the Sector palette swap but the Scorpion Palette swap). I never understood this method of putting in the codes…sorry I meant KODES, and it must be done only during the Versus screen.
The number of characters in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was 27 including the bosses and sub bosses. That's a big jump from the original count of Mortal Kombat's original 8 total characters.
Fatalities, Babalities, Friendships, stage Fatalities and even brutalities are here and better as well.
This was exactly what sequel to one of the best fighters should be.
The graphics and animation were improved along with a choice of characters, although the palette swap was again used more than ever.
Fans of the series all wondered what would happen to the series. With the arcades slowly dying and Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo being considered old thanks to the Nintendo 64 and the Sony playstation (and yes well aware this was also released on the Sega Saturn but no one other than me owned that system so talking about it would be dead space) We all wondered what was next for Mortal Kombat. Will there be a part 4 will it be in 3D? Will it still be bloody or exclusive to arcades?
Mortal Kombat 4
Well in the year 1997 Mortal Kombat 4 was released for the Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64 and the PC (and later Mortal Kombat Gold was released for the Sega Dreamcast and again no one including me owned it and for the sake of keeping things simple I will not talk about it). It was in 3D and it was still bloody. A lot of you might think this is where the series started going downhill, you're right and wrong.
Mortal Kombat 4 was actually a very good game. Damn good in fact. Unlike Sonic the Hedgehog's reason for downhill being 3D, Mortal Kombat's transition from 2D to 3D was actually smooth. Sure this time the character choices weren't as great as seen in Ultimate Mortal Kombat but the essential characters were there including, Scorpion, Sub-Zero Liu Kang, Raiden, Jax, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade and Reptile. Along with (this is also kind of what ruined the series) new characters such as Tanya, Reiko ,Fujin and Jarek more characters you just don't really care for, especially Meat! Although there were less characters to choose from they were for the first time in fabulous 3D (for the time).
The game was actually well played albeit a little awkward at times (side step is stupid). In true Mortal Kombat fashion the game was still bloody and the Fatalities were still as gruesome, If not more gruesome then past titles due to it being in 3D. For example the character Meat is stupid but looks very, very gruesome
Also the countdown when you get killed or defeated was in fact a nice touch.
Gone were the Brutalities, Friendships, Babalities, but still we (thankfully) had not only one but two Fatalities and Stage Fatalities.
Although Mortal Kombat 4 wasn't as great a successor to Ultimate Mortal Kombat as fans were expecting it was still a playable game. It kept things very simple. The humour still remained and things were simple. After this is when the series started to go downhill. The saying of K.I.S.S (keep it simple stupid) is true. The series that is Mortal Kombat took something as simple as a simple fighting game with lots of blood to a series of games with an unnecessary control scheme and different fighting styles to dear I say? Third person adventure/action games?
The characters kept on growing somewhere around 64 characters (as of 2010) there could even be more. Adding more unnecessary characters adds more unnecessary stories which adds more unnecessary game play changes and games such as Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero and….oh god….Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.
Which we'll get into in Part 3.


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Borgeaud Watches Invents A Complication & Invites You NOT To Act For 90 Minutes A Day
There is a something to be said for an entirely new watch brand making an entirely new complication. The company is called Borgeaud Watches (founded in 2007) and the complication is called a Rahu period. Borgeaud is combining Swiss watch-making with one of the world's most ancient almanacs, the Indian Panchang. The Panchang encourages each person to take 90 minutes per day to reflect and hold a rendezvous with him or herself. This is called a Rahu period. For the 90 minutes you are to make no decisions, personal or professional, and you are simply encouraged to "jump off the treadmill" of your life. Relax, reflect, re-think, but do not act.
The watches from Borgeaud are called Gravitas and the line is called Panchang. They are traditionally designed, relatively formal watches. What you will notice on them is that they clearly display two pieces of information you've likely never seen before on a wrist watch.
The Rahu period changes time each day of the week and to ensure the wearer of the Gravitas is prepared for their 90 minutes of reflection, a sub-dial has been added with each day's Rahu period. Also, on the right side of the face you will see a small aperture that fills and retreats during each Rahu, allowing you to see just how much longer no decisions are to be made.
These watches from Borgeaud are good looking and nothing if not interesting. We love to see innovative takes on traditional watch making, and it is not often a new complication is created, especially one that has roots over 3000 years old. We also love to see a burgeoning powerhouse of a nation throw their hat into the ring. Will Borgeaud be the first of many Indian-run watch companies? We would not be surprised.
Borgeaud Watches are currently available only in India but there has been much international interest from high-profile collectors. Feel free to enquire with Borgeaud about pricing and more details on the Panchang line.


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Relief pitcher Rollie Fingers became only the second reliever to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His number was retired by the Oakland Atheltics and the Milwaukee Brewers. Fingers also pitched for the San Diego Padres. Fingers was easily recognizeable by his curly mustache. Born Aug. 25, 1946.
Handyman and TV host Bob Vila, left, has a cameo on Home Improvement in 1994, pictured with Richard Karn and Tim Allen. Vila may be best known for his fix-it show This Old House, which aired from 1979-1989. Born June 20, 1946.
NFL Hall of Fame member Larry Csonka rushed for 1,117 yards during the Miami Dolphins' famously undefeated season in 1972. Born Dec. 25, 1946.