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Last reply 7/3/2012 - 9:39am
Combination Small Molecule MEK and PI3K Inhibition Enhances Uveal Melanoma Cell Death in a Mutant GNAQ and GNA11 Dependent Manner
- Jahan S. Khalili1,
- Xiaoxing Yu1,
- Ji Wang2,
- Brendan C. Hayes1,
- Michael A. Davies3,
- Gregory Lizee4,
- Bita Esmaeli5, and
- Scott E. Woodman6,*
+ Author Affiliations
1Melanoma Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, MD Anderson cancer Center
3Melanoma Medical Oncology and Systems Biology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
4Melanoma Medical Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
5Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Ophthalmology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
6Melanoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Scott E. Woodman, Melanoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, South Campus Research Building, SCR 2.3022, 7455 Fannin St., Houston, TX, 77054, United States firstname.lastname@example.com
Purpose: Activating-Q209L/P mutations in GNAQ or GNA11 (GNAQ/11) are present in ∼80% of uveal melanomas (UM). Mutant GNAQ/11 are not currently therapeutically targetable. Inhibiting key downstream effectors of GNAQ/11 represents a rational therapeutic approach for UMs that harbor these mutations. The MEK/MAPK and PI3K/AKT pathways are activated in UM. In this study, we test the effect of the clinically relevant small molecule inhibitors GSK1120212 (MEK inhibitor) and GSK2126458 (pan class I PI3K inhibitor) on UM cells with different GNAQ/11 mutations. Experimental Design: We use the largest set of genetically annotated uveal melanoma cell lines to-date to perform in vitro cellular signaling, cell cycle regulation, growth and apoptosis analyses. RNA interference and small molecule MEK and/or PI3K inhibitor treatment were employed to determine the dependency of cells with different GNAQ/11 mutation backgrounds on MEK/MAPK and/or PI3K/AKT signaling. Proteomic network analysis was performed to unveil signaling alterations in response to MEK and/or PI3K inhibition. Results: GNAQ/11 mutation status was not a determinant of whether cells would undergo cell cycle arrest or growth inhibition to MEK and/or PI3K inhibition. A reverse correlation was observed between MAPK and AKT phosphorylation after MEK or PI3K inhibition, respectively. Neither MEK nor PI3K inhibition alone was sufficient to induce apoptosis in the majority of cell lines; however, the combination of MEK + PI3K inhibitor treatment caused marked apoptosis in a GNAQ/11 mutant-dependent manner. Conclusions: MEK + PI3K inhibition may be an effective combination therapy in uveal melanoma given the inherent reciprocal activation of these pathways in UM.
- Received December 14, 2011.
- Revision received May 30, 2012.
- Accepted June 1, 2012.
- Copyright © 2012, American Association for Cancer Research.
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Last reply 6/23/2012 - 11:26am
When you have been recently diagnosed with ocular melanoma, I believe there is nothing more inspirational to help one deal with it than Steve Job's (Apple's new deceased CEO) 2005 Stanford commencement speech, just after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
The video is heer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
The text is here http://facingcancertogether.witf.org/end-of-life/steve-jobs-inspirationa...
And if you want more inspiring details on Steve Jobs, I recommend the approved biography by Walter Isaacson.
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diagnosed jan 2012, biopsied class 1b cells feb 2012, proton beamed feb 2012, currently no mets, central vision on tumor eye virtually gone, vision in other (lazy) eye also part compromised
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Looking for trials of anti-pd-1. Does anyone know of any that accept ocular primary and previous yervoy? Tried Moffitt, but looking for something closer to TN. All help is welcome. Thanks, Margaret
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Looking for trials of anti-pd-1. Does anyone know of any that accept ocular primary and previous yervoy? Tried Moffitt, but looking for something closer to TN. All help is welcome. Thanks, Margaret
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I'm not talking about studies -- that's another topic and then some. I mean articles, online or print, that should be in the Welcome Basket for any new OM patient. What must-reads have you found? I'll start us off:
CURE Today article on super survivors, that is, "terminal" patients who are re-writing the odds. Does not discuss OM, but useful anyway:
The Median Isn't the Message, the smartest, most thoughtful essay ever on statistics. A must for anyone Googling their disease. Should be a laminated handout in every oncologist's office:
Postcards From Beyond the Zero, another great one from CancerGuide.org's Statistics section. Actually, the whole Statistics section is a must-read:
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What a great conference in Philly. Now I'm all revved up! Anyway...
For those of us who chatted afterward, and for anyone else who'd like the info, here some links I mentioned regarding talking to kids about cancer:
YouTube BBC animated series on the body -- Search for "Once upon a time in the body" or go to the member page of the one user who seems to have uploaded nearly the whole series -- www.youtube.com/user/isgota
It is, as they say, absolutely brilliant. Also free.
Brainpop.com -- Search on "cancer" and you'll get two or three good animated vids for kids. You may have to sign up for the free trial to access it. I'd post the vids, but they are embedded Flash.
I thought there might be one link for Gilda's Club, but each chapter seems to have its own site, so you'll have to Google based on your location. The Wellness Community, which at least in NJ has merged with Gilda's, does have a single national site, from which you can find local chapters: www.cancersupportcommunity.org
We go to the parent / kids group Wellness runs in NJ, and it's super.
The other resource to ask for at your local cancer center or hospital is a Child Life Specialist. If she's a Certified Play Therapist, all the better. If not, try anyway. If your hospital doesn't have one, look elsewhere.
Seriously, do it.
Monday would be good.
I'm still poking around for more. Will post under this topic as acquired.
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Hi Everyone
From what I have read my melanoma is fairly rare. Acral Lentiginous Melanoma. Is there anyone out there who has the same disease and can offer me any info? I am stage 4. The primary liesion was on the middle toe which was amputated. A year later another liesion appeared on the ankle which was surgically excluded. I would like to know if ALM is any more dangerous or aggressive than other types of melanoma or are all melanoma basically the same?
Thanks for any help.
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Hi Friends,
I am just posting this here because I am tryign to do whatever I can to spread the work. Amanda was a CrossFit competitor who lost her life in 2010 to Melanoma. CrossFit honored her by naming a workout after her, a workout that is actually quite difficult.
I have started a memorial fundraiser in her name called The Amanda Miller Memorial Wod, www.amandawod.com, and I am simply trying to raise awareness.
there is also a facebook page, www.facebook.com/amandawod, so if you know ANYONE who does crossfit, please pass this information along to them, encourage them to register, and participate. We are trying to raise $20,000 (I know, not a lot but every bit helps) to donate to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Amanda's name, specifically for melanoma research.
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Hello, my name is Heather and I was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in 1995 at the age of 22. I have been very fortunate and have had no metastasis thus far. On my last CT of the chest two 3mm pulmonary nodules were found. Upon re-evaluation of my scans the one was present on the previous years scan and showed no change....a good thing. I go next month for a follow up CT . I am hopeful that this will turn out to be nothing, but as you all know it is scary. Until recently, I thought I was safe from metastasis since it had been so long(naive I guess). After this most recent CT's results, I began to research and came across some people with very long gaps between initial diagnosis and metastasis. Just wondering if this is common? Thanks! Heather
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Good Evening - new poster (unfortunately) wanting to get some hopefully 1st or 2nd hand experience with desmoplastic melanoma.
My father was diagnosed last Friday, had the WLE and SLNB on Wednesday and everything is going along smoothly -- including the lymph nodes visibly not looking any different. We will get the official path report back next week so needless to say, we are praying it's not a combined form of DM, instead of pure.
The tumor was 2.7mm thickness, 2cm WLE was done, and SLNB with visibly clear sentinal node removed.
My question is for anyone who has had experience with this sub-type. I already know quite a bit about it by hours of research and findings but I just haven't found any credible personal info on any forums -- both here and melanomaintl.org -- it's really frustrating. My father has really good docs treating him, including one of the best oncologists around but I get a feeling that this type is not something they have dealt with before which is unsettling; not to mention my father trusts them completely. We have resources in the Houston area, meaning MD Anderson is somewhere we could go but he is so worried about the convenience factor (family is in Northeast Texas) of traveling, etc -- it's very frustrating.
Anyways, back on point...I'm reaching out to this larger forum to see if anybody has had experience with this. The only things I've read on here are other questions from folks wondering the same thing as me.
Thank You All in advance.
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Hi Everyone,
I had scans yesterday--mixed results. From the neck down my numerous, multiple, and widespread lesions are stable or shrinking by tiny amounts (there is one new one in the neck). Overall, Dr. Weber feels this is an indication that ipi is working, and wants to do nothing unless there is progression, in which case he thinks another ipi induction would be in order. I agree, except that I would love to have a re-induction of ipi right now and not wait for progression. But it's not my call.
The bad news is that the 4mm lesion in my brain, noted 3 months ago is now 6mm. Also there is a 1mm spot in the brain which is non-enhancing (therefore not clear whether it is melanoma or not); this is new. Tomorrow I will have a fancy MRI, a Novalis, which makes 1mm cuts of images rather then the usual 5mm. So, stereotactic radiation is in order, at least for the 6mm one, and maybe both. I have no symptoms whatsoever from any of the lesions, brain or otherwise.
I will follow up on stereotactic radiation at Moffitt asap.
Bad news, but no complaints. It has been 9 1/2 years since my first liver lesions. Life has been good to me during that time. Life is still good, though I must say that these ups and downs are wearing...
I wish the best for all of you,
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My brother had a melanoma removed from his thigh 9 years ago and had a recurance a couple months ago. He saw a surgeon who removed the tumor and three lymph nodes in the groin, two of which tested positive and one neg. The oncologist said next would be interferon and then radiation. I was concerned that the oncologist wasn't a melanoma specialist and did some research online. I suggested my brother get a second opinion at Moffitt in Tampa because they had melanoma specialists. He saw them Monday and they diagnosed staged it 3c and disagreed with the previously suggested treatment. They want to remove all the lymph nodes from the right groin. I'm not that up on where the best melanoma centers are and think the folks at Moffitt sound pretty sharp. Anybody here know much about them?
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My husband has had om mets to liver since dec., 2010. He's had resection, ablation, yervoy and gm-csf trial, y-90. Last scan after y-90 showed bone mets and increased size of liver mets and new liver mets. How long does yervoy have effect on tumors? How long does it take for y-90 to show results? is 2 1/2 months too soon? Worried what to do next.. Husband still feels good. We have appt. at vanderbilt next week to discuss temozolomide vs. AZD-6244 and @ the end of month @ moffitt to talk about anti-pd-1. Anyone with experience in these drugs that could give us some pointers would be appreciated. Really feeling a little lost at present. Margaret
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WowMatrix has risen again... just updated a Curse-based Addon with it :)
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Until there is a cross platform and cross site updater, you're going to just have another WoWMatrix come along.
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This year's IFCA Slalom Youth & Master European Championships at Schoenberger Strand finished as a very successful event for all competitors and partners of the event.
Perfect wind conditions with wind forces of up to 7 beaufort allowed slalom eliminations on all six event days. The very challenging conditions required a lot from the 63 starters who completed 12 slalom eliminations in the masters fleet and 11 slalom eliminations in the youth fleet. In the masters fleet the Slalom European Master Champion Title 2009 went to the German sailor Bernd Flessner (GER-16, F2, Neil Pryde).
He has now scored three titles this year: the 14th German Master Title, the Slalom World Champion Title and now the European Master Champion Title. In the youth fleet (U-20) Maciek Rutkowski (POL-23, Starboard, Maui Sails) from Poland won the Slalom European Youth Champion Title 2009.
The final day of the IFCA Slalom Youth & Master European Championships 2009 presented itself as great as all event days before. Excellent conditions with wind peaks of up to 25 knots allowed one more slalom elimination in both categories, youth and master.
On top of the masters fleet there were no surprises anymore. The title candidate Bernd Flessner (GER-16, F2, Neil Pryde) won the last elimination of the event and clearly secured the Slalom European Master Champion Title 2009 with 6.3 points.
His strongest rival Helge Wilkens (GER-63, Starboard, Gun) from Germany was always on his heels and became Vice-Slalom European Master Champion 2009 (20.4 points). An exciting fight started about the third place in the masters fleet.
Thade Behrends (GER-94, Exocet) from Germany led just two points ahead of Alexander Lehmann (GER-373, Fanatic, North) before the last race. Behrends kept his nerve and secured the third place (31.0 points) in the overall ranking with just one point ahead of Lehmann, who scored the fourth place (30.0 points). The Italian sailor Luis Marchegger (ITA-6, JP, Gaastra) followed in fifth place (47.0 points).
In the youth fleet Maciek Rutkowski (POL-23, Starboard, Maui Sails) from Poland made his way through the starter field of 38 youth starters and won the Slalom European Youth Champion Title 2009 with 14.1 points.
The vice-title went to Teade de Jong (NED-777, Mistral, North Sails) from the Natherlands (25.0 points) in front of the French sailor William Alikiagalelei (FRA-540, AHD, Loft) with 34.4 points. Place four in the youth fleet went to Thomas Gaudiot (FRA-909, Starboard, Gun Sails) from France.
The only German competitor in the top 5 was the current Slalom Vice-Youth Champion Sebastian Koerdel (GER-220, Lorch, Neil Pryde). Best in the category junior (U-17) was Jacek Piasecki (POL-013, Starboard, Neil Pryde) from Poland in sixth place. The best girl, with a 27th place, was Marion Mortefon (FRA-118, Starboard, Neil Pryde) from France.
- 17 August 2009 | Windsurfing
In the weekend of 22 & 23 August 2009 Project44 organises the 6th edition of The Mission, one of the biggest amateur windsurf events in the world, held at the Kabbelaarsbank, at Sail and Surf Centre Brouwersdam, the Netherlands.
The event is open for all ages and will be held with the Olympic spirit in mind: participating is more important than winning.
The course sailed is a downwind slalom format, the rules are easy: just go for it, jibe and get your way to the finish line! For non-participants the event will certainly also be interesting: during the whole weekend the brand new 2010 windsurf equipment of Fanatic, F2 , MauiSails, Choco Fins and ION will be available for testing and teamriders will be on site to answer all questions about the new gear.
The event will be attended by many professional windsurfers amongst whom Laure Treboux, Tonky Frans, European Champions Steven van Broeckhoven and Andre Paskowski, Peter Volwater, F2 Shaper Dani Aeberli, and others). Of course national top riders from Holland and Belgium will attend to.
In the Battle of Giants the pro's will show all the latest moves. For this edition of The Mission the jump competition is there again, where the riders will use The Red Bull ramp to make huge jumps. Who jumps the highest, who makes the best move, who crashes his entire windsurf kit?
The first day of the event will be finished off in style with a BBQ and a big party. The next day it is back to business with another series of racing, battles and ramp action.
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A special doodle for a t-shirt design concept.
UPDATE: This artwork is now for sale as art prints on my shop!
UPDATE: This artwork is now for sale as art prints on my shop!
truth: i draw and it relax me
It's amazing!
☕I think I shall do just that!
this drawing deserves a waffle hoof :3
anthro shark approves
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He'll yeah!!
how do you start a doodle like that?
I agree with this completely
Can we just take a moment and appreciate the number of cute little characters in this one? I mean, they're just adorable!
love that one, just amazing
Love the clean text!
Ok! *keeps calm & "draws" pistoles* bang bang!!! *litterally, Im drawing pistoles on my notebook, lol I just though tht Id be violent 4 a min* AWESOME JOB! I love it!!! XD
that's very good and cuuuteee ! *o*
So true
I want it on my shirt *-*
Wao, I really love your artworks. This one has a really strong meaning, so, I have to comment on this one even if I find the whole gallery amazing. I featured it on my page with the thumb code. I hope you don't mind!
Your 'doodle art' is surely original and nice! good work! :]
Your 'doodle art' is surely original and nice! good work! :]
I just have no words to say how much amazing this is...
The chaos of the figures adds an intriguing appeal!
i will stop drawing cuz of you ....its really great artwork <3 <3
*reads it* *gets inspired* *starts drawing* *fails completely*
Hah! This is so AWESOME!
You should print these on shirts or something
Love it!
drawing is HOW i keep calm! your lettering is so beautiful
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OMG !! ...I wish I had your talent !! <3
Best keep calm design ever!
really nice doodle
I really love it♥♥♥♥
I love it... it is so nice! Your works are simply beautiful!
This is amazing~!!!XD
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one more from the lovely Maria Eriksson
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hope you like it !
Could this be any more perfect? She knows how to pose. And the lighting is amazing, highlighting and shadowing all the right curves. It's great.
Very compelling and emotional shot, I love it! Can you give the details of the shot, lighting and camera? I am an amateur and this would help me a lot.
i'll be tired of commenting...huh...!
i like the line, and the body of course
Incredible work. I'd proudly hang this in a special place.
Really beautiful image.
Awesome work as always. Great contrast
I've begun to check out your gallery since looking at the piece I commented on earlier, and you've got some really great stuff going on here! I could be biased because this is my favorite artistic-nude pose and it's always nice when a model assumes it, but this is very nice. The black-and-white adds a sensual, warm feel to the photo and I think the model's face turned away adds a little secrecy... she's a beautiful woman and I think you've portrayed her very well.
This is the epitomy of sensuality and eroticism. The lighting is the key-element in this case.
stunning !! lovely shot !!
As so many have attested to, you have a wonderful collection of work here. Not only are the models very beautiful, they are also very talented. Taking pictures of people is an art form, and excelling in the world of artistic nude is at another level. Photography the female form and creating something like this photograph is an amazing talent and your have shown this in your work. If you have a beautiful model, it is easy to create a great shot with just some work. But to go beyond that and bring out the best in them, yourself, and create a work of art is truly a talent. Well done ... after reviewing your collection, I have learned much about positions, light, and how to capture a person in a photograph.
So sexy!
omg she is beautiful!~
I love the body positioning and the lighting
I love the body positioning and the lighting
very nice.
Absolutely perfect!
Love it.
Very good.
Excellent photo! Nicely done!
Perhaps her hair draped over the edge of the platform would have been an interesting touch, but still wonderful lighting and pose.
Genius work!
stunning work
love this one
Stunning .... Love the light.
Possibly my favourite of yours to date!
Perfect, a wonderful work, I love
Beautiful in it`s simplicity!
Beautiful work! lovely light & model
Excellent B&W work! great tonality
Absolutely stunning, in every way.
wow. i love this. its amaazing such a good job, model did a perfect job with her positioning.
I like the geometry here and the nice smooth light tha comes from above.. The shape of the body and the position is very sensational too
i agree with MrSchultz down there, the lighting is fantastic here.
you produce very fine nudes, of great quality, with perfect models, perfect poses, etc. but at some point, it becomes a standard and any picture is as perfect as any other.
well i think you go one step higher with this one, because the lighting AND the exposure are tuned to perfection.
the hair on one side and the foot on the other are really fabulous!
you produce very fine nudes, of great quality, with perfect models, perfect poses, etc. but at some point, it becomes a standard and any picture is as perfect as any other.
well i think you go one step higher with this one, because the lighting AND the exposure are tuned to perfection.
the hair on one side and the foot on the other are really fabulous!
linda foto e pose
simply beautiful
Yes I do lioke it. I particularly like the lighting effect, like the reflexion from underneath on her feet giving them a glow that is really nice. The shapes are very well defined and treated with grace thanks to a creaftfull lighting and a striking pose perfectly executed from the model. Bravo !
Amazing... no words for this. Everything fits here. The model's pose, the balance of dark and bright tones, the lighting. Very creative and artistic. Congrats!
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So hubby + me are members if Godivas choclit of the month club. Well the person needs to be there to get their choclit. So I went to mallyesterday alone.I really ReAlLy wanted mine (cuz of my monthly visitor). I stopped at Godiva and they people said I already used mine for the month. I was confused so I texted hubs. He texted back that he gave them both our information so he could get choclits.
He frikean ate my choclits??? I didn't talk to him the nightbthru yesterday.
This morning I found a gold box with 2 choclit truffles inside. (They were under his side of the bed in his mini refrigerator)
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Augustine K. is the leader of this group. He was born in Moyamba, in southern Sierra Leone. He is age thirty-five, is married, and has three children. His wife is a businesswoman and his children are attending schools: two in secondary school and one in primary school.
For seventeen years now, Augustine has sold CDs and tapes. With the help of this loan, he will buy more CDs and tapes of popular local and international artists to add to his business.
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About Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT)Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT) is Kiva's oldest field partner in Sierra Leone. SMT began operations in 2002 as a microcredit program of the NGO Child Fund Sierra Leone under a USAID program to assist the reintegration of ex combatants back into their communities. Today, SMT offers group, agricultural, individual and salary loans to micro-entrepreneurs through six branches and one sub-branch in rural, urban, and peri-urban areas. By providing small loans and other financial services, SMT empowers poor clients to generate more income to help their families, improve their wellbeing, and create a more vibrant private small-business sector in Sierra Leone.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
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AT THE END of the 1996 session, Minnesota legislators hoping to provide some relief to the state's overcrowded prison system authorized $89 million for a new 800-bed facility in Rush City.
But lawmakers and corrections officials acknowledge that the new prison--to be completed and online by 2000--will not ease overcrowding. Without fundamental changes in corrections policies, they say, conditions will worsen as the system becomes overwhelmed by a flood of new offenders serving longer sentences. If unchecked, prison spending will claim a greater share of the state's discretionary spending, taking progressively more dollars away from health care and education. By the time the Rush City prison is completed, corrections spending will cost taxpayers as much as $234 million annually--not including construction costs for any additional facilities--and prisons will still be overcrowded.
"With our projections right now," says Minnesota Department of Corrections Assistant Deputy Commissioner Mark Thielen, "we will still be between 300 and 500 beds short after the new prison opens... even if no new laws are on the books." Currently, according to Thielen, the system operates at about 105 percent of capacity and houses nearly 4,800 inmates. Conditions at the system's close-custody facilities in Stillwater and St. Cloud, where potentially violent inmates are confined, are worse. Stillwater currently exceeds its capacity by 8 percent, and in St. Cloud, 829 men are confined in a prison built for only 698. The Rush City project will be a close-custody prison.
But Thielen's projection is generous, according to a report recently prepared by the Minnesota Department of Planning at the request of Gov. Arne Carlson. More likely, the report says, the total bed shortage will exceed 800 by 1998, climbing to nearly 1,200 by the time the Rush City prison opens. Even after the new facility opens, the planning department projects the shortfall to be around 600, reaching more than 900 by the year 2005 when more than 6,600 people will be behind bars in Minnesota prisons.
Daniel Storkamp, one of the report's authors, points to four factors behind the surge: changing social demographics, increased arrest rates, the drug war, and rigid sentencing guidelines. People under the age of 25 account for more than two-thirds of the arrests and apprehensions for violent crimes in Minnesota. Moreover, the number of people between the ages of 18 and 24 is expected to increase dramatically by the year 2005. The result, says Storkamp, will be more young people in the prison system, where they already account for more than one-third of the total population. Without some sort of preventive measures, he adds, that number will go through the roof.
But both men agree the biggest factor behind the surging inmate population has been a series of policy decisions designed to make criminal penalties more punitive. Storkamp points out that the Legislature has enacted 37 new or enhanced felony sanctions since 1989.
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"For example," the report says, "adding 13 years to the 17 years formerly served by most offenders for a life sentence will not intensify bed shortages until the year 2006, 17 years after the law went into effect."
To deal with the looming increases brought on by today's get-tough-on-crime mentality, Thielen says, Minnesotans had best be prepared to fund a lot of new prisons: "When you have continuing get-tough legislation, you're going to have to keep building prisons. I think our corrections dollars could be spent in different ways."
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He was unforgettable as the accountant Yitzhak Stern in "Schindler's List" and earlier had the title role in the TV movie "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story."
He portrayed a less inspiring Jewish figure, mobster Meyer Lansky, in "Bugsy" (1991) and will play father Otto Frank in the ABC miniseries "Anne Frank" (May 20-21).
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When the courts granted an injunction to stop newspapers publishing material from Spycatcherin 1987, a young barrister said the case showed the "inherent conservatism of the judges". Putting our civil liberties in their hands through a bill of rights would be "bizarre".
The speaker was Tony Blair, and the subject one of a number on which he has since had cause to change his mind. A bill to incorporate the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) into British law is now on its way through parliament.
Blair is not alone in this change of heart, which indicates a massive shift of opinion on the left, away from the position argued in 1977 by J A Griffith in his influential book, The Politics of the Judiciary, that judges, shaped by public school, Oxbridge and the Bar, are inevitably "conservatives, not liberals".
It was the political left's failure to construct effective opposition to Thatcherism in the 1980s that started to undermine this view. Also, says Andrew Puddephatt, director of Charter 88, "political institutions and parties, which had been seen as democratic, legitimate and representative up to the end of the 1960s, were no longer regarded as such". As a result, the centre-left started to build a new platform around the issue of constitutional reform and with it, says Rabinder Singh, barrister and author of The Future of Human Rights in the United Kingdom, "the concept of human rights and the idea of enforcement of them by judges". By 1991 Liberty had published a draft bill of rights, and the following year John Smith declared his support in principle.
Residual doubts about the wisdom of raising the constitutional status of judges were dispelled in the final years of the Major government, when the judiciary clashed repeatedly with the home secretary, Michael Howard. "Judges had begun to feel in their collective minds that they should adopt a more questioning role of the executive," says Puddephatt.
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Game is unplayable my mouse cursor is frozen in the middle of the screen although the mouse is still working as I can move it around and click some of the screens although very hard.
My Native resolution is 2560 x 1600 I dropped it down a bunch but didnt help.
Just bought the game and crursor will not move on the screen. A ghost mouse is still there not visable and am still alowed to click on the start up menu options, but no mouse is visable on the screen. Re-installed twice, and am updating video card as we speak. Need advice want to get started already =)
Ok , after 3 hours of trying to play, I still cant..>=( .. Updated drives on video card , re-installled directx and game again, try- out 3 mouses. Nothing... The game works fine but its not displaying my mouse it is stuck on the right of the center always. I feel like the game cant read my mouse is this a bug in the instal I see Iam not the only one. Is it a windows setting am I missing somthing, this has not happen on any game or mmo ever. So Iam stumped. Is there a better way to get with tech support because this is BS.
Fix for the mouse thing.
After some searching around I found out the mouse problem is because of how you set your font size. Set it to normal size and it should take care of the problem enough that you can play it. Hopefully they can fix it so you can have your fonts out of the game however you want. Since most games do I would guess this is a coding problem they didnt incorporate.
Thunder - thanks for solving this for us:) We`ll include this in the knowledge base!
About in-game resolution, DoF right now supports 1920 x1080 at most, any resolution above that will create problems.
@ Zanderscotx - can you confirm if Thunder`s solution works for you? Simply adjust Windows Font size settings in the Control Panel and sounds like it should fix the mouse issue.
And sorry for the inconvenience guys - I know it sucks to change win settings just to play a game, we`ll aim to have a permanent solution with-in two weeks.
Yep Changing the font works like a charm.
Before I was using the mouse finder contol to get radar blips of my mouse on the screen to play.
Iam running into other small bugs, but thats normal for a MMO launch of this kind. Great support and community you all have, much better than Cryptic games. Good luck on this games succsess only wish u all had more poplicity.
A solution was found that might help you on another thread. Try changing the font size/resolution of your game and see if that works.
Thanks Sephriem!
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Inflation targeting during asset and commodity price booms
The recent global economic crisis originated in the midst of a commodity price boom that had triggered sharp increases in inflation in many world countries. The crisis also came in the context of a rally in asset prices and large domestic imbalances in the United States. This paper uses a small open-economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrum (DSGE) model to design the correct monetary policy response to a protracted supply shock, and examines how that response would change when many become credit constrained--like in a credit crunch--and when spending of those who can still borrow becomes very sensitive to the interest rates because of overleveraging. Using a version of the model with Kalman learning, the paper also evaluates the implications of a loss of target credibility, showing how rules must be adjusted when the authorities' commitment to the inflation target has been eroded. The appropriate response to future evolutions of the price of oil, including to large downward corrections from the current level, is also evaluated. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.
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