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Tuesday afternoon, PFAW hosted a special member telebriefing on the continued GOP obstruction of judicial nominees. The briefing featured PFAW's Executive Vice President Marge Baker and Senior Legislative Counsel Paul Gordon. They discussed how Republicans' obstruction has reached staggering levels, despite changes in Senate filibuster rules.
Marge gave a brief background on the issue of GOP obstruction of judicial nominations, explaining how important federal judgeships are for deciding many issues that affect everyday Americans and defining why Republicans are determined to continue obstruction confirmations of judicial nominees. Their underlying goal is to keep as many seats empty as possible so a President Cruz or Rubio can fill them with right-wing ideologues.
She addressed the current narrative that President Obama has had more confirmations at this time than Bush had, and explained that these numbers need to be put in the context of the fact that Obama has had around 70 more vacancies to fill than his predecessor. That means for Obama's confirmation results to be seen as equivalent to those of President Bush, he would have had to have many more nominees confirmed at this point in his presidency.
Paul began a discussion of some of the choke methods Republicans are employing to block the confirmation of President Obama's nominees to the bench. Paul delineated how all too often, GOP senators do not cooperate with the White House to suggest candidates for nomination, delaying the process from the very beginning. Once nominees are made and are sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, we have seen GOP Senators delay the hearing by not submitting their blue slips, an unofficial tradition that gives home state Senators an opportunity to express their support for the nominee.
Marge explained ways in which Republicans are delaying the process once nominees are in committee, where the minority is allowed to request one-week delays. To express the magnitude of the obstruction, Marge explained how of the 270 nominees who have had a vote during President Obama's term, only 11 have had their votes held on time.
Once on the Senate floor, the situation doesn't get better as senators are able to filibuster nominees by refusing to give unanimous consent to the simple act of holding a yes-or-no confirmation vote. To offset these delays, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been forced to file for cloture. Since the rules change in November, there have been cloture votes on all the nominees, adding hours of senate time in post-cloture debates (30 hours per circuit court nominee).
Marge highlighted that if all 30 nominees on the floor were voted on today, which is possible, then the number of current vacancies would drop precipitously, down to the level at this point in George W. Bush's presidency. It is essential that these be voted on now, and that confirmation votes for nominations coming out of committee be voted on expeditiously.
Fielding questions from PFAW members, Marge and Paul discussed particular cases of obstruction like that of William Thomas's nomination in Florida, where Senator Marco Rubio withheld his blue slip in support of the nominee-–one that he himself had recommended in the first place. Members also made the connection between the effect of big money in politics and the motivations for GOP senators to obstruct confirmations, and attempted to find ways in which everyday Americans can make their voices heard to their senators regarding the issues of obstruction in judicial nominations. Paul used the example of the DC Circuit Court fight, where with the activism from people across the country rallying together helped get all the court's vacancies filled.
Marge and Paul, along with PFAW members, emphasized how as activists, we can intervene in the fight to take back our democracy by letting Senators know that average Americans are paying attention, watching how they respond and vote on judicial nominations, and considering who may be pulling their strings. For instance, a caller in Florida wanting to influence Marco Rubio could call his office and ask him to prevent a delay in a committee vote for nominees to fill four emergency vacancies. And everyone, regardless of whether there are vacancies in their state, can call their senators and call for the quick confirmation of the large number of nominees awaiting a floor vote. She also highlighted what is at stake in this mid-term election since the officials we elect today will help confirm the judges that will decide important cases that affect average Americans. For this reason, it is important to have demographic and experiential diversity in the courts so judges making decisions understand the impact of the law on regular Americans.
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Early this year, President Obama nominated Judge Beth Bloom, Judge Darrin P. Gayles, Judge Carlos Eduardo Mendoza, and Paul G. Byron to the Southern and Middle District Courts of Florida. Of the four vacancies in the Southern District, three have been declared judicial emergencies. The situation in Florida is so dire that even if every vacancy were to be filled tomorrow, it would not be enough to take care of the courts' growing workloads. In fact, the Judicial Conference has requested a number of new judgeships for the state, including:
• 5 new judgeships for the Middle District, plus a temporary judgeship; and
• 3 new judgeships for the Southern District, plus the conversion of a temporary judgeship to a permanent position.
It is imperative that these nominations be confirmed swiftly; the Senate's delays in confirming nominees translate to delays for Floridians waiting for their day in court.
Sen. Marco Rubio stated on NPR last month that he did "not anticipate having any objection to moving forward on any of [President Obama's] nominees" for the district courts in Florida. In fact, the nominees were recommended by Sen. Rubio, along with Sen. Bill Nelson, based upon the recommendations of a bipartisan committee the two senators put together. Yet to date Sen. Rubio –unlike Sen. Nelson—has not signed the "blue slips" the Senate Judiciary Committee customarily requires before nominees are given a committee hearing. This is cause for some concern in light of Sen. Rubio's refusal last year to sign off on other Florida nominees to seats that he himself had recommended.
Rubio's slow-walking of his "blue slips" comes in the context of the GOP obstruction that has needlessly delayed the confirmation of most Obama nominees. After committee approval, President Obama's district court nominees have been forced to wait an average of three times longer for a confirmation vote than President George W. Bush's at this point in his presidency. Obama's circuit court nominees are forced to wait nearly two months longer than Bush's. This slowing down of the process seems completely gratuitous and politically motivated since the overwhelming majority of Obama's judicial nominees have been confirmed unanimously or near-unanimously.
The current nominees are also important because they represent much-needed diversity in the federal courts. Gayles, for example, would be the first openly gay African-American man on the federal bench. However, with Rubio's history of unfavorable treatment of previous nominees he has recommended, there is little expectation that he will help move this nomination process forward any faster. Gayles is up for the same seat to which William Thomas, also an openly gay African American man, was nominated in November 2012, a nomination that Rubio sabotaged.
Some were expecting these four Florida nominees (who were nominated in early February) to have their committee hearings this week, but because Rubio has not submitted his blue slips, that will not happen.
We join advocacy groups in Florida in urging Rubio to help get the state's nominees confirmed as soon as possible.
Get ready. There's more Republican obstruction on the way.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on 11th Circuit nominee Robin S. Rosenbaum for this Thursday, which is an important step forward in the fight to address our judicial vacancy crisis. Fully a third of the 11th Circuit's twelve active judgeships are currently vacant, and all four of its empty slots have been declared judicial emergencies by the Administrative Offices of U.S. Courts.
The vacancy crisis in the 11th Circuit is so bad that the court's chief judge, Edward Carnes, issued an order in December temporarily suspending the standard rule that at least two judges on a three-judge 11th Circuit panel must be members of that court. That means that going forward, two of three judges on these panels could be visiting from someplace else, potentially outvoting the one 11th Circuit judge. It is vital that Judge Rosenbaum be confirmed in a timely manner. And that starts with a timely committee vote.
But it's unlikely that's enough reason for GOP Senators to drop their campaign of endless delays for judicial nominations.
Republicans are expected to delay that committee vote using a procedural tactic that they have deployed against all but five of President Obama's judicial nominees.
That is, unless Sen. Marco Rubio or Sen. Jeff Sessions steps in.
Rosenbaum is from Florida, which gives Rubio a special responsibility to urge Republican senators on the committee not to delay the vote. It is a chance for him to prioritize his constituents over politics. Similarly, Sessions, who represents a state (Alabama) covered by the 11th Circuit, also has a unique responsibility, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, to avoid such needless delay.
Will either Rubio or Sessions step up and help move the process in a more functional direction? We'll learn on Thursday, but if past events are a predictor of future behavior, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has for months been single-handedly holding up the nomination of William Thomas, an openly gay African American Miami judge, to a federal district court.
Rubio's indefinite hold on Thomas' nomination is one of the most egregious examples yet of Senate Republicans using the obscure "blue slip" procedure to prevent home-state judicial nominees from even having a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Under a Senate custom that has varied over time Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy will not advance a nominees' consideration -- won't even hold a hearing, let alone take a vote -- until both of that nominee's home-state senators return a "blue slip" giving their permission for a nomination to go forward. The blue slip doesn't indicate a senator's approval of the nominee – the senator is still free to vote against the nominee and to lobby their fellow senators to do the same. It just means that the nominee can be considered by the Judiciary Committee and then the full Senate. But if just one senator doesn't return a blue slip, the nomination won't see the light of day.
Republican senators have been routinely using this tactic of withholding blue slips in order to slow-walk President Obama's judicial nominees. Currently, five nominees are being held back because one or both senators have refused to return blue slips. And all are women or people of color.
Because the blue slip process is secretive and little-known, senators are often able to get away with holding nominees this way with little public pressure and no public explanation.
Rubio, however, faced pressure from the Florida legal community in recent weeks for his failure to return blue slips for Thomas and another Florida nominee, Brian Davis. The senator finally gave in under pressure and allowed Davis' nomination to go forward, but is digging in his heels on his blockade of Thomas.
Rubio's stated reasons for blocking Thomas' nomination are exceptionally flimsy. He has cited two cases where he claims Thomas gave insufficiently harsh sentences in criminal trials; in one case, even the prosecutor has defended Thomas' judgment and a local judge has written to Rubio to correct the record. In the other case the senator cites, Judge Thomas sentenced the defendant to death, which Rubio seems to think was insufficiently harsh. It is clear that there is no merit to the senator's claims. Holding hearings on this nominee would help clarify that, if they were allowed to take place.
The real reason for Rubio's blockade and his smear of Judge Thomas' character, writes Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm, is plain and simple "crass Tea Party politics."
Rubio has stated no compelling reason why Thomas should not have a hearing before the Judiciary Committee, where he can answer any of Rubio's alleged concerns in the public record.
After more than a dozen years out of office, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich jumped into the GOP presidential campaign this week, rolling out his candidacy via social media and a friendly interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity. Gingrich thinks he's just what is needed to save America from itself and its flirtation with Barack Obama and the rest of the evil of what he calls the "secular-socialist machine."
Much of the media attention of Gingrich's candidacy has centered around his role in the 1995 government shutdown, which Gingrich alone seems to think was a great success for the GOP, and his more recent urging of congressional Republicans not to fear a repeat. The implication seems to be that if you're the kind of voter who wants a more combative conservative willing to take down the federal government in order to bring down deficits, Newt may be your guy. But that kind of discussion -- and the crazily early poll-watching "which tier is he in?" stories -- miss something more important. Let's remind ourselves what kind of person Newt Gingrich is, and what kind of impact he has had on our public life.
Gingrich hasn't exactly been in hiding. In fact, he is at the center of his own machine, a 24/7 festival of self-promotion that includes an emailed "Newt and Callista Weekly Recap" courtesy of Gingrich Productions. If self-promotion were the top trait Americans were looking for in a president, Gingrich would be a shoo-in. But the job requires a bit more than that. People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch, Mother Jones and Media Matters have already posted compilations of Newtonian 'wisdom' from a long and dishonorable career. Once you start to consider characteristics like honesty and integrity, it becomes clear that Gingrich is unfit to lead our country.
The Newt McCarthyism
Gingrich is an enthusiastic participant in the right wing's divisive and destructive McCarthyism, portraying his political opponents as enemies of America's very existence. In To Save America, Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, he warns, "America as we know it is now facing a mortal threat... The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did... It's up to those of us who love our country to save America from the destructive, irreversible transformation that the Left have in store for us." In Real Change: The Fight for America's Future, he claims that the Obama administration (that would be the Faith-Based Initiative-continuing, National Prayer Day-celebrating, Easter Breakfast-sponsoring Obama administration) "has shown an unprecedented hostility to Christianity." He promotes ridiculous Religious Right claims about religious persecution in America, saying that Christians are threatened by "gay and secular fascism."
Gingrich spoke this spring at the Texas church led by John Hagee, whose support proved too controversial for John McCain in 2008. Newt combined two of his favorite threats, secularists and Islamists, into one memorable, if intellectually incoherent, sentence, declaring that he feared that his grandchildren could grow up "in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American." He told the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody, "In a sense, our Judeo-Christian civilization is under attack from two fronts. On one front, you have a secular, atheist, elitism. And on the other front, you have radical Islamists. And both groups would like to eliminate our civilization if they could. For different reasons, but with equal passion."
Newt is also placing himself at the forefront of the concerted conservative campaign to turn "American exceptionalism" into an attack on the patriotism of their political opponents. Candidates like Sen. Marco Rubio made American exceptionalism into a campaign theme in 2010, and hope to continue to smear Democrats as unbelievers in America's divinely-blessed founding and mission in the world. Gingrich has teamed up with Citizens United's David Bossie for a new "documentary" on American exceptionalism, A City Upon a Hill, The Spirit of American Exceptionalism, which features, among others, Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Allen West, Andrew Breitbart and Phyllis Schlafly.
Gingrich, an old hand at politics-by-smear, is responsible for much of the venomous state of our politics. In the mid-1990s, his GOPAC distributed to Republican lawmakers a memo titled "Language: a Key Mechanism of Control." The memo urged Republicans to use a set of denigrating words to describe their opponents and the Democratic Party: "decay, failure (fail) collapse(ing) deeper, crisis, urgent(cy), destructive, destroy, sick, pathetic, lie, liberal, they/them, unionized bureaucracy, 'compassion' is not enough, betray, consequences, limit(s), shallow, traitors, sensationalists, endanger, coercion, hypocricy, radical, threaten, devour, waste, corruption, incompetent, permissive attitude, destructive, impose, self-serving, greed, ideological, insecure, anti-(issue): flag, family, child, jobs; pessimistic, excuses, intolerant, stagnation, welfare, corrupt, selfish, insensitive, status quo, mandate(s) taxes, spend (ing) shame, disgrace, punish (poor...) bizarre, cynicism, cheat, steal, abuse of power, machine, bosses, obsolete, criminal rights, red tape, patronage."
Religious Liberty: Hypocrisy and Bad History
Gingrich, like other Religious Right political figures, postures as a defender of Americans' religious liberty against a deeply hostile elite, the "secular-socialist machine." Yet he joined with gusto the opponents of the proposed Park51 Islamic community center in Manhattan, which right-wing activists vilified as the "Ground Zero Mosque," saying, "There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia." In his book, Rediscovering God in America, Gingrich declared, "A steadfast commitment to religious freedom is the very cornerstone of American liberty." Regarding the Islamic center in New York, he said, "No mosque. No self-deception. No surrender."
Gingrich, like other Religious Right leaders, justifies his attacks on Islam by suggesting that it is not really a religion, saying radical Islam "is a comprehensive political, economic, and religious movement that seeks to impose sharia -- Islamic law -- upon all aspects of global society... Radical Islamists see politics and religion as inseparable in a way it is difficult for Americans to understand. Radical Islamists assert sharia's supremacy over the freely legislated laws and values of the countries they live in and see it as their sacred duty to achieve this totalitarian supremacy in practice." Yet while Gingrich decries radical Islamists' goal of achieving "totalitarian supremacy," one of his own organizations, Renewing American Leadership, is run by an advocate of the 7 Mountains Mandate, a dominionist theology that argues that Christians are meant to control the levers of power in every aspect of government and society.
Gingrich is ideologically joined at the hip to "Christian nation" pseudo-historian David Barton. In Barton's worldview, the First Amendment is not about protecting religious pluralism, but was only meant to keep the federal government from siding with one group of Christians over another. Barton believes the First Amendment should not apply at all to the states, but that states should be free to pose religious tests for office, and local religious majorities should be free to use public schools for proselytizing prayer. On Barton's radio show, Gingrich promised that if he ran, he would be calling on Barton for help, presumably the way Barton helped turn out evangelical voters for the Republican Party during George W. Bush's reelection campaign. It seems to be a mutual admiration society. When Barton and other right-wing activists were pushing for changes in Texas textbooks, they urged that Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall be dropped, but that Newt be added.
Gingrich shares Barton's view of the federal courts as evil usurpers of the founding fathers' religious intentions. "There is no attack on American culture more destructive and more historically dishonest than the secular Left's relentless effort to drive God out of America's public square," Gingrich wrote in Rediscovering God in America. In a recent speech to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Gingrich said the courts have been "especially powerful engines of coerced secularization," and that "From the 1962 school prayer decision on, there has been a decisive break with the essentially religious nature of historic American civilization." While in Congress, Gingrich promoted the Religious Right's false claims that courts had somehow banned students from praying, and repeatedly supported efforts to pass a constitutional amendment to return organized prayer to public schools.
Politics over Principle
In addition to intellectual arrogance, a shameless lack of principle may be Gingrich's most identifying characteristic. When the popular uprisings in the Middle East spread to Libya, Gingrich denounced President Obama for not immediately imposing a no-fly zone: "We don't need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we're intervening." Less than two weeks later, when the U.S. joined other nations in imposing a no-fly zone, Gingrich attacked Obama, saying "I would not have intervened" and declaring that "it is impossible to make sense of the standard for intervention in Libya except opportunism and news media publicity." Newt clearly knows a thing or two about opportunism and publicity-seeking; getting some coverage for an attack on Obama was clearly more important to him than questions of U.S. policy in Libya.
For all the far-right's charges that President Obama harbors anti-democratic tendencies -- Gingrich vowed to Hannity that he would abolish all the White House "czar" positions by executive order -- Gingrich's own behavior has made it clear that he sees himself as so superior to others, such an essential treasure for the nation, that the rules he would apply to others should not apply to him. When his second wife asked Newt how he could give a speech about the importance of family values just days after he admitted that he was having an affair, he reportedly told her, "It doesn't matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live." That is a breathtaking level of hubris, even by presidential candidate standards. And when the CBN's Brody lobbed him the fluffiest of softballs by asking him to talk about his affairs in the context of his experience of God's forgiveness, Newt blew it by blaming his cheating on his love of country: "There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
So Right and So Wrong
Gingrich's policy positions are pretty much standard fare in today's far-right Republican Party, including anti-worker, pro-corporate economic policies and support for criminalizing abortion. He has demonstrated his new-found commitment to the sacred nature of marriage by trying to buy the support of Religious Right activists in presidentially important Iowa, where he funneled about $200,000 into an unfortunately successful campaign to punish and purge three state Supreme Court justices who had voted to end marriage discrimination against same-sex couples in the state.
America is grappling with a set of deeply serious challenges at home and abroad. Americans would benefit from a substantive discussion of those problems and the policy choices that face them. What they're most likely to get from Newt Gingrich is toxic McCarthyism, petty and unprincipled partisanship, and preening self-promotion. Thanks but no thanks.
Cross posted on The Huffington Post
Today, People For the American Way released our latest Right Wing Watch In Focus report examining the slate of extremist GOP Senate candidates running for office this year.
Entitled "The Rogues' Gallery: Right-Wing Candidates Have A Dangerous Agenda for America and Could Turn the Senate," the report examines the radical agendas and views held by Joe Miller, Carly Fiorina, Ken Buck, Christine O'Donnell, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Roy Blunt, Sharron Angle, Kelly Ayotte, Richard Burr, Rob Portman, Pat Toomey, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and Dino Rossi, plus the role that Sen. Jim DeMint has played in dragging the GOP further and further to the right.
Here is the introduction:
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have already broken all records for unprincipled partisan obstructionism, preventing the administration from putting people into key positions in the executive branch, blocking judicial confirmations, and delaying and preventing Congress from dealing with important issues facing the nation, from financial reform to immigration. Now a bumper crop of far-right GOP candidates threatens to turn the "deliberative body"into a haven for extremists who view much of the federal government as unconstitutional and who are itching to shut it down.
Fueled by the unlimited deep pockets of billionaire anti-government ideologues, various Tea Party and corporate-interest groups have poured money into primary elections this year. They and conservative voters angry about the actions of the Obama administration have replaced even very conservative senators and candidates backed by the national Republican establishment with others who embrace a range of radically right-wing views on the Constitution, the role of government, the protection of individual freedoms, and the separation of church and state.
Recently, Religious Right leaders have been grousing that Republican candidates arent talking enough about abortion and same-sex marriage. But this report indicates that anti-gay and anti-choice activists have little to worry about, as the right-wing candidates profiled here share those anti-freedom positions even if theyre talking more about shutting down federal agencies, privatizing Social Security, and eliminating most of the taxes paid by the wealthiest Americans. A number of these candidates oppose legal abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina is helping to lead the charge with his Senate Conservatives Fund. DeMint, an absolute favorite of both the Tea Party and Religious Right political movements for his uncompromising extremism on both economic and social issues, is at the far right fringe of the Republican Party and has committed himself to helping elect more like-minded colleagues. Sarah Palin, also popular among both Tea Party and Religious Right activists, has also injected her high-profile name, busy Twitter fingers, and PAC cash into numerous Senate races.
Among the right-wing insurgents who defeated candidates backed by national party leadership are Christine ODonnell of Delaware, Joe Miller of Alaska, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, and Mike Lee of Utah. Others, like Carly Fiorina of California, came through crowded primaries where right-wing leaders split their endorsements, but have now coalesced around her candidacy.
And thanks to the conservative Supreme Courts ruling in the Citizens United case, which said corporations have the same rights as citizens to make independent expenditures in elections, right-wing candidates across the board will be benefitting from a massive infusion of corporate money designed to elect candidates who will oppose governmental efforts to hold them accountable, for example environmental protections and government regulation of the financial industry practices that led the nation into a deep recession.
This In Focus provides an introduction to a select group of right-wing candidates who hope to ride a wave of toxic Tea Party anger into the U.S. Senate. The potential impact of a Senate with even half of these DeMint-Palin acolytes would be devastating to the Senates ability to function and the federal governments ability to protect the safety and well-being of American citizens.
Thank you, Heather at Crooks and Liars:
After Dick Cheney famously told us that "deficits don't matter" and the Bush administration broke the bank with their tax cuts for the rich and military occupations, Marco Rubio in this week's Republican Weekly Address tells us that the "American dream" is threatened by deficit spending and for heaven's sake, don't get rid of those Bush tax cuts that helped break the bank in the first place.
I'd like for Marco Rubio to explain why Bush had the worst job creation record of any president if those tax cuts helped to create jobs?
But in the mean time... USA!... USA!... we're the greatest country on the face of the earth. And more tax cuts for the rich. Good grief. Their idea of the "American" dream is for all of us to be living in squalor.


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Epigenetic reprogramming of a somatic cell into pluripotent stem cells has raised enormous interest in the scientific community because of the multitude of applications in basic biology and clinical research. Particularly important are the impacts on regenerative medicine, as reprogramming would allow the generation of patient-derived (and thus individualized) stem cells that could be used to differentiate into functional donor cells for transplantation therapies. For many years epigenetic reprogramming was only achievable in animals through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) into enucleated oocytes, a technically and logistically challenging and very inefficient procedure. To this day, epigenetic reprogramming through SCNT has not been successful in human despite great efforts. In August 2006, Shinya Yamanaka has reported for the first time that retroviral overexpression of 4 transcription factors is sufficient to induce pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from mouse fibroblasts. Similarly to the mouse cells, defined factor-induced reprogramming was then shown to work also in human cells. This paved the way for potential clinical application as for the first time patient-specific stem cells were created. However, in both mouse and human systems the efficiency of reprogramming is extremely low. This indicates that scientists have to rely on uncontrolled events leading to reprogramming. Before we will be able to use these iPS cells in a clinical setting we will therefore have to have a much better knowledge of the reprogramming process to be able to improve the efficiency. Once we know exactly what is going on in these reprogramming cells, have absolute control over the process and can reach efficiencies close to 100%, the generation of human iPS cells from somatic cells will very likely be a safe procedure. This research proposal addresses some fundamental questions why the reprogramming process is so inefficient. In this study we propose to optimize the expression of the reprogramming factors, to identify the best donor cell population for reprogramming, and finally to attempt to provide a list of new factors that can improve the reprogramming efficiency.
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The benefits of this research to California are two fold: 1) it stimulates the economy by directly creating 5 jobs or salary support for California citizens and supporting California business because of regular purchase of consumables and research equipment. 2) At the same time the money is spent to support a research project that aims to improve the development of a novel type of pluripotent stem cells that could be used to treat a variety of diseases such as neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, spinal chord injury, and genetic skin and muscle diseases. The impact of such a novel stem cell therapy on the California health system would be enormous. The number of patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases alone are stunning: Currently 1-2% of the population older than 65 years is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a devastating disease affecting cognition and body movements and 20% of people older than 75 years suffer from Alzheimer's disease a progredient neurodegenerative disease leading to loss of higher cognitive functions. Any progress towards relieving the major symptoms of patients suffering from these neurodegenerative diseases will be of immense benefit to the State of California and its citizens. In addition, all the tools and reagents that we develop will be made widely available to Californian researchers and we have selected a California-based company for potential commercialization. We hope that California-based physicians will be at the forefront of developing this promising avenue of research. We expect that the money expended on this research will benefit the Californian research community and the tools and reagents we develop will help accelerate the research of our colleagues in both California and worldwide.
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82% of the Global 500 responded to this year's Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report which was launched in New York 21 September. Novo Nordisk's disclosure score was up by 17 points from 56 in 2008 to 73 in 2009.
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Will This Analyst Upgrade Help Tempur Sealy (TPX) Stock Today? (Update)
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Wedbush upgraded Tempur Sealy (TPX - Get Report) to "outperform" from "neutral" and set a $70 price target. The firm noted the company is seeing a better response to its new products.
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STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more. ---------- Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates TEMPUR SEALY INTL INC as a "hold" with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate TEMPUR SEALY INTL INC (TPX) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, growth in earnings per share and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including generally higher debt management risk, weak operating cash flow and relatively poor performance when compared with the S&P 500 during the past year." Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:- TPX's very impressive revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 26.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues leaped by 98.8%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- TEMPUR SEALY INTL INC has improved earnings per share by 15.4% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, TEMPUR SEALY INTL INC reported lower earnings of $1.27 versus $1.67 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.77 versus $1.27).
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- The debt-to-equity ratio is very high at 15.48 and currently higher than the industry average, implying increased risk associated with the management of debt levels within the company. Along with the unfavorable debt-to-equity ratio, TPX maintains a poor quick ratio of 0.97, which illustrates the inability to avoid short-term cash problems.
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Stage 10 - Teutenberg wins final stage TT San Francesco al Campo (ITT)16 km Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC Highroad) powered to her second stage win of the 2011 Giro Donne and first time trial of the season. Teutenberg netted her twelfth win of the 2011 season in a sixteen kilometer individual time trial in San Francesco al Campo, ahead of Sweden's Emma Johansson(Hitec) and the overall winner, Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit). Vos swept up the points, mountain and overall competition. Emma Pooley (Garmin Cervelo) was second overall ahead of Judith Arndt (HTC Highroad). Post Race Comments Ronny Lauke (HTC-Highroad manager) could not have been happier with final stage win, "We really were on the hunt for the stage win and Ina had already shown this week she's got great form," said Lauke, "Ina won the Giro time trial last year, too, and to get it again and win a bunch sprint earlier in the week, too [on stage four] is just amazing." "The course itself was a bit technical but not too tough, and although we didn't have any time references, we could see Ina was on a good day from the moment she started." "We were also very pleased for Judith, she rode an excellent race." "Every stage race HTC-Highroad has ridden we've either won or been on the podium. Now we've kept that track record going at the Giro Donne." Results - Top 10 - click here to see full result 1 Ina-Yoko Teutenberg HTC Highroad 2 Emma Johansson Hitec Product UCK 3 Marianne Vos Nederland Bloeit General Classification Top 10 - click here to see full GC 1 Marianne Vos Nederland Bloeit 2 Emma Pooley Garmin Cervelo 3 Judith Arndt HTC Highroad Photos Click on any image to enlarge >> [2011_ChangedCopy/Gallery2011/07_Giro/10_Stage10/PhotoIndex.html] Want to contact WomensCycling.net? The WomensCycling.net email address is NewsResults [at] Womenscycling.net To contact the webmaster, the address is : Webmaster [at] Womenscycling.net Type this address into the "To" line of a new email message in your email programme. Replace [at] with @ |
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RALEIGH (AP) -- Governor Mike Easley is asking residents to step-up water conservation efforts as the drought continues to drain water supplies across the state.
Easley addressed a meeting of North Carolina leaders Thursday who gathered to discuss possible emergency measures to help areas facing the worst drought conditions.
Easley said individuals need to make small sacrifices to conserve water, noting that water use is inching back up after a 30 percent drop in October. He said the cooperation could avert more mandatory limits.
The drought is the worst in North Carolina's recorded history.
The U.S. Drought Monitor puts about two-thirds of the state in the exceptional drought category, which is the most severe condition. The remainder of the state is classified in extreme or severe drought.
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Governor Mike Easley says local governments should charge higher prices for residents who use more water than necessary.
Easley made the recommendation during a meeting of the North Carolina Drought Advisory Council as a way of curtailing water use.
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Easley urged a cut of 50 percent in October and usage dropped about 30 percent but has begun to climb.
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Turn off and saveThe answer to soaring diesel costs could be as simple as turning off the engine rather than letting it idle, reports ALAN TITCHALL. If sustainability simply means improving your bottom line to pay the bills in the future, then take a 'green' lesson from contractor Fulton Hogan. The company's 'smart drive' initiative, trialed in the Bay of Plenty region in recent years, is aimed at changing driving habits to improve vehicle running costs by reducing fuel consumption and engine maintenance. The programme is so simple, it's almost common sense – turn your engine off, rather than let it idle and back up the habit with good servicing and smart driving practices. When it comes to wear and tear on the engine, idling time is as bad, if not worse (with built up fuel residue from low-temperature running), as traveling on the road. So, turn the engine off when not in use and save. For a large construction company, the savings can be huge. Fulton Hogan, for instance, says it uses around 1.2 million litres of fuel every month, which translates to a whopping 15 percent of the company's $1 billion annual turnover. Learning from the UKSince the on-going Smart Drive trial was launched in the Bay of Plenty in 2004, Fulton Hogan has been looking at improving the scheme and releasing it in other regions around the country. "The programme was originally developed over four years ago and our understanding of driver behaviour training has moved on," says the company's sustainability manager, Michael LeRoy-Dyson. Massive increases in the cost of diesel since then has made the behavioural changing initiative even more relevant, he adds. "We looking at reviewing the results of the Bay of Plenty trial with a UK training programme that is being studied by the Ministry of Transport, and combine the two into a new pilot scheme." The UK scheme under review by the ministry is called Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving (SAFED), a brand put together by the UK Department for Transport for the truck and van sectors, and now being implemented across other sectors. It has been successfully reworked for the aggregate industry in the UK, for instance. "SAFED has been peer reviewed and very successful. It jumped out amongst our studies of overseas fuel efficiency and safety programmes," says Rick Barber, Land Transport manager transport relations (northern). "We are still gathering data in New Zealand and reviewing the UK programme, but should have a design for the pilot stage of a new [Kiwi] scheme in the next few months." As one of the biggest users of heavy machinery and roading equipment, the local contracting industry has shown keen interest in the ministry's progress, he says. Kicking old habitsSuch initiatives around the world focus on a driving style that maximises fuel economy and safety through braking distances, manoeuvring, speed limits, gear use, tyre pressures, maintenance, route planning and loading. Fulton Hogan's Smart Care programme also set out to dispel a few myths about running diesel engines. Heavy vehicles, for instance, only need a warm-up period of three minutes, and just 30 seconds for light vehicles, before getting down to action. It is also widely believed that it is more fuel efficient to let an engine idle than turn it off. However, a warm engine only needs to run for more than 30 seconds before burning more fuel than would be used by switching it off and on again. More efficient enginesThe age of the equipment has an obvious say in the fuel bill. Engine technology improves in efficiency with every new generation of machine. In recent years, heavy machinery manufacturers have been enhancing engine performance to meet tougher emissions regulations through electronics and high pressure injection systems. Caterpillar, for instance, initially developed its 'Acert' technology for stationary diesel-fueled generators to meet US EPA Tier 2 and Tier 3 emissions standards, and serve as the foundation for meeting US EPA Tier 4/EU Stage IIIB emission levels in 2011. Caterpillar says it spent US$500 million researching this new engine technology that not only lowers emissions, but also optimises power and fuel economy. Acert technology combines electronic control with the delivery of cool air (instead of recycled heat) and multi-fuel injection into the combustion chamber. Unlike single-injection fuel delivery, this system lowers peak cylinder temperatures so the fuel burns more completely, providing better efficiencies all around. 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The well appointed en-suite bedrooms vary in size and character, from a master room with steps leading to the bathroom where the original porcelain bath circa 1835 awaits, to a typically old fashioned English country house room with original furniture and half tester bed. The Bohemia room has a large king sized bed and is beautifully decorated, this has been described as one of the most romantic bedrooms. All include Wi-Fi direct dial telephone, digital TV with freeview and tea and coffee making facilities. Guests can be assured of comfy beds, pretty fabrics, great views and tons of style.
Fresh seasonal food is locally sourced or home grown, simply cooked at this neighbourhood restaurant where locals and travellers enjoy the friendly ambience and the best value meals and wine in the area. Lovely for lunch or dinner in this romantic pillared dining room, families with young children may relax in their own space when they come for Sunday lunch. Afternoon tea and light dishes are served in the Garden Room. Please be advised to avoid disappointment booking in advance necessary.
This is the ideal venue for both corporate and wedding occasions. The Indian Room is a favourite place for groups of up to 14 seated comfortably at a table, theatre style can accommodate up to 20 delegates with room for conference equipment. The Library/Study is ideal for small private business meetings, lunches or dinners. For that special day the hotel specialise in small informal ceremonies for 80 and using a marquee linked to the house 120 guests. The function co-ordinator is on hand to make sure all requirements are exceeded and your perfect day runs smoothly.
Places of interest during your stay include Nottingham Castle, Newstead Abbey Historic House & Gardens, Wollaton Hall and Deer Park, Lakeside Arts Centre and Highfield Park. The area has two acclaimed theatre venues; Nottingham Playhouse, Theatre Royal and even the world's smallest cinema 'Screen Room' with just 21 seats! For music lovers Nottingham prides itself on the eclectic music scene from classical concerts at the Royal Concert Hall to pop/rock concerts at the Trent FM Arena and for alternative music tastes Rock City have a large variety of acts on throughout the year. This area is a shopper's paradise with over 1300 retails outlets selling top quality clothing, arts, furniture and accessories, and you can enjoy a leisurely coffee in the cosmopolitan Old Market Square.
DirectionsView directions provided by hotelLangar Hall is situated off A 52 between Nottingham and Grantham and off the A46 between Leicester and Newark. Take the sign to Cropwell Bishop, Langar is the next village on the country road. Railway:Aslockton Bingham Elton and Orston Radcliffe on Trent Airport:East Midlands Attractions:Belvoir Castle Nottingham Greyhound Stadium The City Ground Meadow Lane |


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Great Bear Lodge is a modest floating lodge in the Nekite Valley, just a short floatplane flight north of Port Hardy and offers fantastic bear viewing nearby.
All five bedrooms have an en-suite toilet, although the showers are shared. There are regular wildlife presentations, plus two bear watching sessions per day; other activities include sea-kayaking and interpretative hikes.
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Colonic substance P levels are increased in ulcerative colitis and decreased in chronic severe constipation
- Eran Goldin,
- Fanny Karmeli,
- ZVI Selinger,
- Daniel Rachmilewitz
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Substance P content was determined by radioimmunoassay in colonic mucosa from 24 patients with chronic severe constipation, 16 with active ulcerative colitis, and 28 normal controls. In patients with chronic severe constipation, the mean concentration of substance P (19.9±8.2 pg/mg) was significantly lower than in normal subjects (71±18 pg/mg). In patients with ulcerative colitis, colonic substance P concentration in inflamed mucosa (170±46 pg/mg) was significantly higher than its levels in normal subjects. Substance P may therefore have a role in the pathogenesis of clinical conditions associated with diarrhea and constipation.
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- Title
- Colonic substance P levels are increased in ulcerative colitis and decreased in chronic severe constipation
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Volume 34, Issue 5 , pp 754-757
- Cover Date
- 1989-05-01
- Print ISSN
- 0163-2116
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2568
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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- Topics
- Keywords
- substance P
- ulcerative colitis
- constipation
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Eran Goldin (1) (2)
- Fanny Karmeli (1) (2)
- ZVI Selinger (1) (2)
- Daniel Rachmilewitz (1) (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Gastroenterology, Hadassah University Hospital, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Israel
- 2. Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem


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This week we are talking about helping a child prepare financially for college. The first step is teaching them the importance of living within a budget. This may be challenging depending on what kind of parents you are. Children tend to manage money as their parents did. I heard a parent once say, 'I just can't get my children to listen to me. No matter how hard I try to teach them, they insist on doing what I do.' I won't say whether I'm actually that parent - it was probably a neighbor talking about their kids.
We must show our children how to plan ahead. Involve them in the budget process. Start by writing down the cost of college, and then help them see the other expenses they'll be responsible for. Do they have a car? Do they pay for gas and insurance? Will they want to eat? This is how people learn to manage their money. It's one step at a time, one decision at a time.
Next, I would stress the importance of maintaining good credit. Every contract has consequences if you break it. This includes cell phones, apartment leases, utilities, credit cards, or any other financial agreement. When they sign their names, they are signing a contract. Make sure they understand the responsibility. I know, that's easier said than done. Some children consistently sign their name on the dotted line, and don't fulfill their obligations. Why is that? In my experience, the blame often falls on the parent. I'll discuss that tomorrow.
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It is easier than you think to build your own bar. Anyone with a passing understanding of carpentry can probably pull the job off.
There are lots of easy design plans that you can find online which will walk you through the process step by step. Some of the designs require less than $200 worth of materials. That is a pretty good deal to have a bar in your own home.


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Thanks everyone who commented on my last journal. :)
I'm still sick though. I don't know if I can go to school because as of right now a binder hurts. (It usually doesn't, it's just wildly uncomfortable) I would be fine if the binder thing wasn't an issue... But it is. And I can't not wear a binder because even if I'm showing a tiny tiny bit, I feel like everyone sees double D's (which I don't even have), and can see them, clearly. It might be stupid but that's how it feels. So I'm not going out without a binder on because even with three shirts and a sweater it still shows a little and I can't deal with that.
So yeah. I'll probably go anyway because I'm sick of missing school. But hell. I'll be impressed if I make it through the day without passing out/having a breakdown.
This dysmorphia is going to be the death of me. XP
EDIT: So my dad is letting me stay home sick another day because we don't have a magical pill that'll make my chest vanish or anything. So yeah. I'll just go in tomorrow and get a ton of make-up work to do over the weekend. Whatever.
EDIT AGAIN: (because I feel like an ass posting a bajillion journals a day) I just sent Long-distance-boy (aka the reason that thing with Blackbelt didn't work out.) a friend request on facebook. I wanted to a while ago but I didn't because I was still GUH EMOTIONAL then. :P But now that I'm not jealous anymore I mean. He seems like a neat person from what I've heard, and I feel weird having heard so much about him but not ever having spoken to him. Haha. So I figured I might as well attempt to get in touch with him.
Plus, the more selfish side of me is deadly curious as to weather Blackbelt has ever said anything about me to Long-distance-boy. And he better have because the fact that they now both know how the other one feels was almost entirely my doing. I don't think Blackbelt was even planning on telling LDB until I was like "DUDE. YOU DID NOT REJECT ME OVER SOME GUY WHO DOES NOT EVEN KNOW YOU HAVE FEELINGS FOR HIM." Well, not exactly like that, but you get the idea.
Mine's getting painful too... usually it's not, but today my ribs decided to make it hard to breath... No fun. ><
Dysphoria(or dysmorphia.. whatever) sucks. Majorly. ><
"Assets, assets..."
"Well I've got a banana, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves..."
"Dreaming that someone unknown has died means that either you've been watching too much CSI..." - 5thstory
XP No kidding. I hate it. Hate it so much. I'll be so relieved when it's not a problem anymore. |D
I think dysphoria refers to the feeling (with euphoria being the polar opposite) and dysmorphia is more specific, referring to having the 'wrong shape' I suppose, as the word implies. But either way, yes it does. XP
Ahh, that makes sense... either way works. xD
Yeah.. I just wish I could be at that point now. Well... not before my friends who have been waiting longer, but sooner than I -will- be there, in any case. >>
"Assets, assets..."
"Well I've got a banana, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves..."
"Dreaming that someone unknown has died means that either you've been watching too much CSI..." - 5thstory


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September 28, 2012, 2:56 pm
Hi. My 1999 mondeo estate only has one key and it looks different to the keys in the manual. Mine has only two buttons on it , one with a triangle and the other with two. I've took it to pieces to fit a new battery but it had 3 in it, and the manual said it has one cr3032??. Also over the little bulb is a red piece of plastic and a 4 digit code number and sticker. Can Anyone help at all with this ?. Dont know whick batteries to fit etc.
September 29, 2012, 5:16 pm
hi there this might be of some use to you chap as theres diff setup look at bottom of this to see list of keys on link.
the 4 didgit is the code for the key regards pete
Obtain all keys fitted with remote control.
Turn ignition switch from position 0 to position II 4 times within 6 seconds.
Turn ignition switch to position 0.
The system will emit an acoustic signal to indicate start of programming mode.
Programming mode activated for 10 seconds proceed as follows:
Press and hold lock, unlock or boot release button.
Wait for acoustic signal (indicates correct programming).
Repeat above procedure within 10 seconds to program remaining keys.
To exit programming mode:
Turn ignition switch to position III or wait 10 seconds.
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October 11, 2012, 12:05 am
Hi Peter,
do you know if this process works only for new keys or will it work for reprogramming a second hand key
Thanks in advance
October 11, 2012, 12:13 am
The posted procedure will set the key up to operate central locking but [b][u]WILL NOT[/u][/b] programme the transponder on a second key for the immobiliser.
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I have tested the decpatcha service though the software and the test is successful... and I also enable the clipboard thing in Internet explorer and I have the anti virus and firewall turned off.
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Extratextuals' 2007 Awards Extraordinaire, Pt. 4??
I had intended to post another installment of the awards, this one on movie posters, but in researching, I found a wonderful site, The Internet Movie Poster Awards. Not only does this site have awards dating back ten years, but they also boast a staggering 17,000+ movie posters in their galleries. I'll wait till later to post more thoughts arrived at from browsing their galleries, and on some all-time favs, but first a taste of their 2008 award winners:
Best Poster went to Sweeney Todd, with the explanation that "A menacing looking barber, razor at the ready, sitting in his blood-red barber chair, waiting for his next victim. The poster for Sweeney Todd is dark, disturbing, and surprisingly beautiful. A very rare combination. Little details like the family portrait in the background, the red coming from the floorboards, and the splash of blood across the title makes for a very memorable design." It certainly has an alluring quality that makes me want to look at it multiple times. And though it announces itself as a Tim Burton film, it does so in a neat way.
Meanwhile, bringing up the rear is Charlie Wilson's War: "Perhaps the worst thing about this poster is simply that it is bland. Three Oscar winning actors looking very awkward, especially Hoffman, who appears to have accidentally walked into the wrong photo shoot. People are more likely to see the movie in spite of the poster than because of it." All the intrigue, excitement, comedy, and glamor of a stucco wall. If the critique errs anywhere, though, it's in being kind enough to suggest this is the product of a photo shoot: looks more like a crappy frame-grab to me.
Best Blockbuster Poster Award goes to I Am Legend: "A powerful image that conveys the plot of the film. The last man on earth set against the disturbing sight of a destroyed city in the background." I still remember seeing a scene from this movie being filmed, and it was the oddest site: I walked into Washington Square at night and there was a bright white light. Moving closer, I saw about 300 people in silver green-screen suits running around. Think Cirque du Soleil meets Mean Streets. Luckily, this poster captures the gravity of the situation a little better.
Other categories (without winners listed. I don't want to spoil them all, especially since each of the main categories has 5 nominees) include Best Teaser Poster, Worst Teaser Poster, Funniest, Bravest Poster (for posters with no faces of actors with big names), Creepiest, Best Character Set, Best Funny Tag Line, Best Serious Tag Line, and a spate of Not So Serious Awards, including Best Poster Ruined by Floating Heads, and this image from a Revenge of the Nerds remake teaser poster, winner of Best Poster for a Movie That Ceased to Exist. A poster without a movie? A true extratextual.
Neat site. Good picks. Spared me the work, too, so I'm happy.
Tags: Charlie Wilson's War, I Am Legend, poster art, posters, Revenge of the Nerds, Simpsons, Sweeney Todd