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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The Crimson Tide Athletics Department's annual Alabama Student-Athlete Awards Banquet, presented by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, was held Monday evening at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Senior softball player Ryan Iamurri, the SAAC president, opened the program by welcoming the gathered student-athletes while long-time Crimson Tide broadcaster Chris Stewart served as the master of ceremony.
Senior golfers Cory Whitsettand Stephanie Meadow were named the winners of the Paul W. Bryant Award given annually to the top male and female student-athlete. The Paul W. Bryant Student-Athlete Award was created by the Tuscaloosa County Chapter of the University of Alabama Alumni Association in 1985.
A two-time NCAA Elite 89 winner and a 2013 Capital One Academic All-American, Whitsett is a three time All-American who led the Tide to the 2013 NCAA Championship and the 2012 and 2013 SEC titles. A Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar, he was also the 2013 SEC Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
"I can't think of anyone who is more deserving of the Bryant Award than Cory," UA head men's golf coach Jay Seawellsaid. "He has truly strived for excellence both on the course and in the classroom. I am very proud of Cory and this honor is well deserved. I believe the Bryant Award is the highest honor given by our athletic department. Any award with Coach Bryant's name on it is about class an excellence, and I think Cory represents both of those."
Meadow, who will receive her degree in accounting Saturday with a 4.0 grade-point average, is a three-time WGCA All-American Scholar and a 2013 Capital One Academic All-American. She was the 2013 SEC Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year. On the course, she is a three-time first team All-American who led Alabama to the 2012 NCAA Championship and the 2013 SEC title.
"Stephanie is the consummate student-athlete. It is incredibly hard to achieve the kind of success she has, both in the classroom and on the course," UA head women's golf coach Mic Pottersaid. "It is a privilege to coach a student-athlete the caliber of Stephanie, and I feel honored that she chose our program. We could not have achieved the success we have without her contributions. She is the No. 4-ranked amateur in the world and she helped us win the 2012 NCAA Championship and 2013 SEC title and was the 2013 SEC medalist and a two-time NCAA Regional champion. There is truly no one more deserving of this honor."
The other finalists for the Bryant Student-Athlete Award were also recognized during the banquet. On the women's side that included Mary Anne Daines (tennis), Andrea McQuaid (volleyball), Kim Jacob (gymnastics), Kendall Khanna (soccer), Paige McCleary (swimming and diving), Lynsey Marshall (rowing), Nikki Hegstetter (basketball), Ryan Iamurri (softball) and Palee Myrex(track and field).
On the men's side, the finalists were BJ Hornikel (swimming and diving), Retin Obasohan (basketball), Cary Baxter (baseball), Daniil Proskura (tennis), Arie Kouandjio (football) and Kamal Fuller (track and field).
The newly crowned Southeastern Conference women's tennis team and the men's tennis squad were honored as the teams with the highest grade point averages.
"I'm very proud of our team for its commitment to excellence in the classroom," women's head tennis coach Jenny Mainz said. "This award embodies the spirit of our team. I applaud our girls for exhibiting so much discipline and perseverance in the academic arena as well as on the tennis court."
Women's tennis earned the honor while posting a 3.74 team GPA, and men's team earned the distinction with a 3.34.
"What a great honor," men's head tennis coach George Husack said. "This award shows that we can be successful in the classroom, even with the many hours and sacrifices made on court. It's a testament to our players' commitment, The University of Alabama and everyone who works at the Bill Battle Center for Academic Student Services and Jon Dever and Fern Hampton in particular."
The Athletics Department's community outreach efforts were also recognized during the event. Crimson Tide student-athletes gave more than 1,600 hours toward community services this year. The basketball team was the women's squad with the most community outreach hours while baseball earned the honor for the men. Individually, swimmer Philip Dockery and track and field/cross country's Claire Turner were recognized for their outstanding service to the community.
The Newcomer of the Year, which covers the 2013 season (spring and fall), went to women's golfer Emma Talley while women's basketball player Shafontaye Myers earned the Comeback Athlete of the Year award. Gymnastics' Lindsey Fowler was the winner of the Spirit of the Game Award, which honors the individual whose dedication and love for their sport is unmatched.
Ellen Pate, an instructor within Alabama's Life Calling and Leadership Development curriculum, was honored with the Finest Faculty Award for her dedication to student-athlete academic achievement.


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Sanden, a senior at Osbourn Park High School, earned three varsity letters for head coach Rob Watters. The 5'11" goalkeeper also plays club soccer for Team America Elite and head coach Hank Leung. She led the team to a State Cup Championship in 1998 and 1999.
A fine student-athlete, Sanden is a member of the National Junior Honor Society and earned Honor Roll honors at Osbourn Park. She also earned varsity letters in basketball during her sophomore and junior year.
"We are extremely happy to have Heather (Sanden) coming to ETSU," Puckett said. "She will be a stabilizing force in the continuing improvement of our defensive presence."

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PHOENIX (AP) — The Super Bowl champion Ravens and the Falcons each received four compensatory picks in April's draft for free agents they lost in 2012.
San Francisco, which fell 34-31 to Baltimore for the NFL title, will get three picks, as will Tennessee.
Compensatory selections have been awarded since 1994 to teams losing more or better free agents than they acquire in the previous year. Baltimore lost Ben Grubbs, Jarret Johnson, Brandon McKinney, Haruki Nakamura, Cory Redding and Tom Zbikowski, and signed Sean Considine and Corey Graham.
Atlanta lost Kelvin Hayden, Curtis Lofton, James Sanders and Eric Weems while it didn't sign anyone in 2012.
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13th of June: Protecting women's health and future generations from harmful environmental impacts - Women's Major Group Rio+20 Side Event
13 Jun 2012 - 13 Jun 2012Since the Rio 1992 Earth Summit, we are confronted with increasing amounts of toxic chemicals and other hazardous substances in our bodies leading to fast growing instances of infertility, reproductive and breast cancers, early puberty, transgenerational defects and other negative health impacts. Panellists will address the origin and impact of this toxic burden and our rights to a healthy environment.
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During the 2002 general election, the Alexandria Board of Elections tested the Hart Intercivic eSlate voting system as a first step in determining how well an electronic voting system would work in the City of Alexandria. There are three key findings from the evaluation of this system.
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Seawatch residents await Brunswick community's fate
Published: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 8:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 3:52 a.m.
It's been quiet at Seawatch at Sunset Harbor in the nearly four months since Bank of America acquired about 860 parcels of land in Brunswick County held by The Coastal Companies and Mark Saunders.
Who is Mark Saunders?
Mark Saunders was at one time the largest developer in Brunswick County, holding almost 1,200 lots. In the wake of the 2008 real estate bust, his work was brought to a halt.
But he hasn't filed bankruptcy, like other developers, he says. However, many of his developments await unfinished infrastructure work, much to the ire of property owners who are unable to build on or sell their lots.
In January, Saunders won a battle with the county over the tax valuation of his land, which he said severely hindered him during the last five years. After the win, Saunders said he would again start building what he once promised.
A little too quiet, residents and property owners say.
"I am worried," said resident Marilyn Holcomb. "We have heard nothing official from either Bank of America or Coastal."
Rumors swirl amongst residents at The Coastal Companies developments about what could happen at their developments in the wake of an out-of-court settlement with the bank.
Elaine Jordan, attorney for The Coastal Companies, could not be reached for comment. And Bank of American representatives said no decisions have been made at this time regarding the marketing of the properties.
But Coastal Companies representatives and Saunders have said they will finish the obligations they started – and the company has made progress elsewhere.
Nonetheless, owners worry because it's information they said they have heard for years from the company.
"We are in limbo," said resident Denise Hartung.
To get work finished on infrastructure developments, the county filed suit filed seeking the money to complete improvements to the three developments – Ocean Isle Palms, Seawatch at Sunset Harbor and Ocean Ridge Plantation.
Saunders has said Brunswick County is tying his hands.
But County Attorney Huey Marshall said the suit will remain active as long as there is no work done at the developments.
"We could care less who finishes it as long as those lots go up for sale," he said.
Hartung said she has started not to care about what she called the "excuses." She added there is no telling who to turn to now.
"I'm trying to sell my place," Hartung said. "We have heard the game has changed, but there is no road work nor any amenities. They called the bonds is Saunders excuse now."
For other residents, the addition of Bank of America is the biggest source of anxiety.
Holcomb said she has every intention in living at Seawatch and added Saunders had crafted beautiful homes before work stopped.
"But it all worries us," she said. "Not knowing what kind of guidelines in terms of building, how much the lots will be sold for, what type of homes will be built and will there be any type of architectural review by the bank."
If it's any indication of Saunders' plans, work has begun at other developments to finish infrastructure.
The Coastal Companies have worked with the towns of Sunset Beach and Shallotte to get work done at River's Edge Golf Club and Plantation and Jaguar's Lair.
Sunset Beach Councilwoman Karen Joseph said Saunders has met all deadlines the town has set for him.
"So far Coastal has been working well with the town," she said.
Shallotte Town Manager Albert Hughes also said Saunders is on deadline.
"They're living up to their end of the bargain so far," he said.
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On Twitter: @StarNews_Jason
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Ketchup on cheesesteak request causes ruckus in Orlando
Published: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 9:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:31 p.m.
ORLANDO — A customer's request to put ketchup on a Philly cheesesteak caused a ruckus in an Orlando Subway shop.
Sandwich maker Lawrence Ordone told customer Luis Martinez that Subway doesn't have ketchup when the order was placed on New Year's night. There are differing accounts on what happened next, but Orlando television station WFTV reports Ordone lost his job.
Ordone says he told the customer he's "never put ketchup on anybody's sandwich." He says Martinez got "mouthy." Martinez denies that, but Ordone admits he flew off the handle at that point.
WFTV reports Ordone shoved a chair to the side and told Martinez "fight me like a man."
Martinez called 911. Ordone left the building. No one was arrested. But now Ordone is looking for a new job.
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There's a moment in the new PBS documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide that won't easily be forgotten. During a visit to Somaliland, in eastern Africa, Diane Lane is sitting on a floral sofa watching a video of a young girl undergoing the ritual procedure of female genital mutilation (FGM). The camera stays on Lane's face, sparing viewers details of the surgery, which is often performed without anesthesia, but the actress's horrified reaction tells us enough.
The video, which was filmed in 1976 to document the barbarism of the procedure, was shot without sound. Nonetheless, Lane says now, "I can still hear [that girl] screaming. The video was taken around the time I was nine years old, the age of the child on the table. I thought, Wow, that could be me. The chance of where you're born, who you're born to, your gender and color—it's so bizarre to think your fate is determined by such things."
In the documentary, Lane, 47, and five other actresses—Eva Mendes, America Ferrera, Meg Ryan, Olivia Wilde and Gabrielle Union—each travel to a different country in Asia or Africa to draw attention to cultures in which egregious mistreatment of women and girls is endemic. The film, which airs in two parts, on October 1 and 2, is based on the best seller by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, a former journalist at the paper who now works in finance. "My role at the minimum was to be a witness and an ambassador," says Lane. "I'm guilty of the sheltered, privileged life of an American woman. I was grateful to have the scales cleansed from my eyes about the plight of women in the majority of the world."
She read Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (the title alludes to a Mao Zedong maxim, "Women hold up half the sky") at the suggestion of her friend Maria Bello and leapt at the chance to join the project. "I felt dared, and I loved the book," Lane says. "I'm out of my twenties, I've been around a little, I thought, What am I going to care about when I'm 80? If I can contribute to something that stirs my heart, then it's all for something..."
Appearing in a documentary is a departure for the actress, who has some 50 TV and feature movies to her credit, but she has long experience serving as the viewer's chaperone into the knotty terrain of others' lives. From her first film, opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in 1979's A Little Romance, through a series of roles in her teens, including a trio directed by Francis Ford Coppola (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club), and into the more adult subject matter of A Walk on the Moon and Unfaithful, Lane has portrayed an assortment of complicated girls, wives and mothers grappling with the tangled messiness of life.
In Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon, she showed us why a woman who loves her husband (Liev Schrei-ber) would nonetheless risk a sexual adventure with an itinerant salesman (Viggo Mortensen). "If someone else had played that part, it would have been just a sappy movie," says Mortensen. "Diane was really the engine of that story—and it was a difficult part to play, to make sympathetic. She may be the least vain actress I've ever seen."
When director Adrian Lyne watched her performance, he was "just blown away," he says, and subsequently cast her in Unfaithful. This time she was stepping out on Richard Gere for carnal afternoons with a rare-book dealer played by Olivier Martinez. Lane earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her riveting portrayal of a woman at once ashamed and enraptured—and finally devastated—by her unlikely liaison. "She's a very courageous actor, kind of fearless," says Lyne. "She's prepared to examine what she's doing and doesn't have any ego about it."
Robert Duvall considers Lonesome Dove, the acclaimed 1989 Western miniseries he made with Lane, one of his favorite projects. Duvall played Gus McCrae, a cattleman who takes Lane's prostitute under his wing. "I'll always think of her as 'Lorie darlin',' " he admits. -Although Gus repeatedly asked Lorie for "a poke," Duvall didn't do the same. "Diane was with her French Tarzan husband [Christopher Lambert] at the time," he says, laughing. "So it was platonic, with good, warm feelings."
Despite decades of stardom, Lane seems devoted to keeping her own light at a more manageable level. She arrives at Red O, a snazzy Mexican restaurant in West Hollywood, dressed in white jeans, a rumpled man's-style linen shirt, flat sandals and no perceptible makeup; her only jewelry is a thick, etched wedding band. Jet-lagged after a vacation in Scotland with her husband, actor Josh Brolin, she is still thinking about Somaliland. "I'm daunted and humbled," she says, "by the amount of work there is to do."
Lane's segment in Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide centers on 74-year-old Edna Adan Ismail and the hospital she founded in Har-geisa, the capital of Somaliland (originally northwestern Somalia). At an age when most people retire, Ismail, a former first lady of -Somalia and an outspoken critic of FGM, sold her Mercedes and her jewelry and raised money around the world to provide a hospital and a midwife education program to support the women of her homeland. Somali women and their babies have among the highest mortality rates in the world. Delivering, not to mention conceiving, a child when the tissue surrounding the vagina has been radically excised and sewn shut is fraught with complication. "How would you have a baby around a chastity belt?" asks Lane. It was Ismail, Somalia's first British-trained nurse and midwife, who recorded the FGM video and, decades later, showed it to Lane.
"When we knew that a Hollywood star would be coming for the documentary, many of us, including me, were expecting the stereotype: an artificial, self-centered and fragile person," Ismail says. "Instead, I found a warm, intelligent and naturally beautiful woman who was genuinely concerned about the poverty and ill health of the people she met."
At the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, Lane donned hand-me-down scrubs (most of the equipment and uniforms are donated) and attended the birth of a baby girl. She cut the cord and delivered the bundled new-born to her father, an experience she recalls as "the biggest goose bump I'll ever have. You feel like you're part of the blessing of life." Dressed in caftans and headscarves, she rode with Ismail and Kristof over miles of tracks (so bumpy, "they rattle the fillings right out of your teeth," she says) to remote villages to visit Ismail's midwives and check in on pregnant women who needed attention. "Edna was training me, because she can't help herself," Lane says with a smile. "She took me by the hand, and a woman let me feel her belly. Now I can tell some things about how the baby is positioned and where the head is. It is something to see these women. Some are on their 12th child. They've lost several others, either in childbirth or later." She and Kristof also interviewed "cutters," the women who make a living performing FGM in the villages. "We were talking about some delicate issues," says Kristof. "Diane was fine crouching in somebody's hut and making her feel at ease."
"The majority of Edna's countrymen and -women are nomads with camels out looking for water so they can grow something to feed their goats and have milk," Lane says. "The women weave their houses out of fibers. They roll them up and put them on their camels, and they go."
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide executive producer Jamie Gordon initially approached Lane partly because she knew of her involvement with Heifer International, a charity that donates livestock to the desperately poor. "Four years ago," Lane says, "I went online and signed up with my [teenage] daughter to go on one of their trips, to Rwanda. No camera crews, no celebrity do-gooder thing. We just wanted to witness their work."
The experience primed her for the Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide project, for which Lane spent 10 days in Somaliland, in bare-bones conditions. "Diane's not a diva," reports director and executive producer Maro Chermayeff, who accompanied her. "She's thoughtful, an observer, but she didn't want boundaries. She was physically warm with people and didn't care about the camera or worry about how she looked."
There's a resilience about Lane that's palpable, a sense that her beauty is something of a feint, an exquisite shield concealing a determined soul. As she talks, she tosses her hair back like a teenager, but her low-register voice is commanding. "She chooses her words with great care," says Laura Dern, a friend since the two starred as punk rockers in 1981's Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. "Diane considers what she's expressing and takes incredible personal responsibility."
Onscreen she dares us to accept her characters at face value: In Unfaithful and A Walk on the Moon, she's the picture of propriety while secretly immersed in torrid affairs. As Pat Loud in Cinema Verite—the HBO movie based on the 1973 PBS series An American Family—she's an affluent Santa Barbara mom with enigmatic motives. "Diane's elegant," says James Gandolfini, who costarred. "She's beautiful and refined and a smart, smart lady." But check her out hammering on the storm shutters at the beach house in Nights in Rodanthe. The woman is profoundly capable.
"I have learned a lot from my characters," says Lane. "They've made me more accepting of my own . . . the dreaded word: vulnerabilities. You must be vulnerable emotionally for the audience to care and feel for you. I'm much more the tough cookie. When I was younger, I didn't want to explore that. I was more interested in protecting myself. I'm grateful that with time I'm accepting my own true heart and the tenderness more. Things don't last forever, so you take care of them. I learn from working."
She's been at it for a long time. Her father, Burt Lane, was an acting coach and sometime cabdriver for whom the craft of acting was, she says, a religion. At age six, she performed with New York's experimental theater company La MaMa, playing a role in Euripides's Medea (she learned her Greek lines phonetically); later on, she toured in other ancient tragedies. "I got killed in every play," she wryly notes. But she saw the world, performing in the ruins of Athens, Persepolis and Baalbek, and traveling to Italy, Germany, France, Scotland and Finland.
When A Little Romance began filming in Paris, Lane was 13 and had already been to the city five times: "I'd performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. I knew La Rochelle and areas of France. People thought that was precocious. I realized I shouldn't talk about it."
At school in the U.S., her acting was "very much a stigma," she says. "Isn't that weird? But kids can be mean with whatever you offer them." Her parents had split when she was a newborn, and when Lane wasn't living with her father in a series of Manhattan residential hotels, she was in the South with her mother, Colleen Farrington, a former nightclub singer and Playboy centerfold from Georgia.
Lane's ambivalence about her career fueled a rocky relationship with her dad. "You'd have made me an actress if I had two heads!" she recalls shouting when she was 12, before throwing a chair to drive the point home.
Because of rehearsals and performances, "I was missing out on a lot, sports and friend stuff," she says. "Normal childhood looked like a candy store and Christmas to me." It got further out of reach when, at 14, Lane landed on the cover of Time for a story about child stars that included Tatum O'Neal and Brooke Shields. "I was so happy to see other specimens," Lane says. "It was such a rarity. I don't think young people today remember there was a time when 14-year-olds didn't control the entertainment industry."
Burt Lane, who died in 2002, was determined that his daughter be able to take care of herself. "He would say, 'I did not raise you for bondage,' " she remembers. "He would elucidate this whole scenario: A guy is going to chain you to a chair, have his way with you until you're pregnant with his child and you have to have it, and that will be your life. It was a really toxic cartoon." In hindsight, though, she says she understands her father's concern about the potential traps of being female. "That is women's plight historically and today in many parts of the world, because women don't have any say over their bodies. [My dad] couldn't believe that would be the fate of his only flesh and blood daughter, his only child." (Actually, Burt had another daughter, from a prior marriage, whom Diane first met in her twenties. "We didn't have that much in common to continue forward," she says. "But we did strip away the mystery.")
By necessity, Lane was a self-reliant child. Dern remembers going to stay with her friend at the Hilton in Los Angeles when she was making 1984's Streets of Fire, "just to make it feel a little homier." One of the foundations of their friendship, Dern says, was that both young women were intrigued by the idea of "being seekers. We didn't necessarily know what we were longing for, but we were interested in the idea of an internal search, a sense of self or connection to something larger. Trying to become a grownup in a healthy way was, oddly, a deep interest for both of us, even at 12 and 15." By 19, when Lane was starring in The Cotton Club, her first of three movies with Gere and the third of four she made with Coppola, she had a moment of realization. "I said, 'OK, I am now wiser than my father in every aspect of filmmaking.' I outgrew his ability to give me advice. He agreed." Coppola says he remembers Lane at that time as a "sweet and very hardworking young lady. From the moment I worked with her, I had a crush on her—as did many who saw those pictures."
Burt Lane moved on to the role of cheerleader, but his fears may have colored Lane's idea of having children. "I thought, If I have a child, I'll be focused on the one and won't be able to do great things," she says. "In fact, it's the opposite: Because of having had a child, I have gone past my comfort zone and been willing to put myself out there."
When Lane married Brolin in 2004, they united their children—her daughter and his son and daughter—in a blended family. Barbra Streisand, who is married to Josh's father, actor James Brolin, is an active grandmother. "What I enjoy most about Barbra is how participatory she is in the family," Lane says. "She's a mensch. She comes to the kids' plays and graduations. It was never an issue or question. She wants that involvement."
Last year Lane and Brolin faced an instant empty-nest scenario: Within two weeks, all three kids moved out, two of them to New York and one to Asia. "I can still hear the sound of Velcro ripping, the tearing-away feeling," Lane says. "Wait! Where are you going? Was it something I said?" Being without them "is kind of chilling," she adds, "but I like straightforward showdowns with fate. I'm feeling good about it."
Until now, much of Lane's charity work has been done quietly, but this fall, with the airing of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, she seems poised to ramp up the public aspect. In September she'll host an L.A. fund raiser for Heifer International. "It's the most rewarding thing to do with my time now," she says. A few days later she opens in a production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and next year will appear as Superman's mother in the movie Man of Steel. She's also contemplating a theater project in New York. "Hey! Some people I love are in New York!" she says brightly, imagining a reunion with the departed children. "I can be, like, nearby . . . I'd be out of their hair, but available!"
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Research Interests: Vaccines; Immunotherapy; Breast cancer
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One of Leisha Emens' patients has dubbed her a rock star of the oncology world. It's not a far-fetched analogy. Like a rock star, Emens has a group of loyal devotees; hers just happen to be women with breast cancer. By being a part of experimental clinical trials to test the therapeutic breast cancer vaccine that Emens first created almost fifteen years ago during her fellowship at Johns Hopkins, these patients have come to appreciate her risk-taking nature, intense drive and singular ambition to bring the vaccine and other new, cutting edge immune-based therapies from bench to bedside.
"I've dedicated my career to finding ways to harness the immune system to fight cancer," Emens says. She believes immunotherapy one day will revolutionize cancer care and, ultimately, prevention. But she also acknowledges the enormous challenges to making this happen.
The job that Emens is trying to get her breast cancer vaccine to do is inherently different, and more difficult, than the way a preventive vaccine works. Vaccines that prevent infectious diseases target foreign bodies. But because cancer arises from one's own body, the immune system doesn't recognize it as an invader; therefore, it doesn't become activated to destroy the cancer as easily. What's more, as the cancer spreads, the immune system learns to tolerate it.
"What we're trying to do with therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immune-based cancer treatments is to develop ways to eliminate those pathways of tolerance and peel back those layers of regulation that keep the immune response to tumors shut off," Emens explains.
Emens predicts that, in five years, the dramatic revolution in cancer immunotherapy will enter the clinic in force. She doesn't attribute this pending success to her own incredible drive, but rather that which pervades Johns Hopkins. "It's a great place to translate the science. Here, it's a priority to get things from the lab to the clinic," she says.
- Member, Tumor Immunology Research Program
- Member, Breast Cancer Research Program
- Associate Professor of Oncology
Departments / Divisions
- Oncology - Immunology and Hematopoiesis
Centers & Institutes
- MD, Baylor College of Medicine (1995)
- University of Texas / Internal Medicine (1998)
- National Cancer Institute (1993)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Oncology (2001)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine / Internal Medicine (1998, 2008)
- American Board of Internal Medicine / Medical Oncology (2001, 2011)
Research & Publications
Clinical Trial KeywordsBreast cancer, Vaccine
Selected PublicationsResearch Summary
Dr. Emens tests active vaccination strategies for breast cancer treatment that are optimally integrated with traditional anticancer therapies and newer biologically targeted therapies in additive or synergistic ways. She developed a genetically-modified, cell-based vaccine for breast cancer that secretes the immune-stimulating hormone granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and expresses HER-2. She first tested the vaccine in combination with low doses of Cyclophosphamide (CY) and Doxorubicin (DOX) in patients with Stage 4 breast cancer. In a mouse model of spontaneous breast cancer where the vaccine does not work, adding CY and DOX cures about 30% of tumor-bearing mice. This chemotherapy effect is largely due to the ability of CY to turn off a special type of immune cell (regulatory T cell) that keeps immune responses shut down. Analysis of patient samples on this trial demonstrated that the vaccine alone is active in inducing HER-2-specific T cell responses, but HER-2-specific antibody levels remain low. CY 200 mg/m2 and DOX 35 mg/m2 augmented HER-2-specific antibody responses compared to vaccine alone, but doses of CY higher than 200 mg/m2 inhibited the vaccine. Dr. Emens and her team are now actively analyzing the sera of HER-2 responders to identify novel targets of the vaccine-induced immune response for further study. She has also investigated the addition of monoclonal antibodies that target either the tumor itself (HER-2), or the tumor microenvironment (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) to chemotherapy-modulated vaccination. Both add further to the antitumor effect of the vaccine. In particular, HER-2-specific monoclonal antibodies augment antigen processing and presentation, results in higher numbers of CD8+ T cells after chemotherapy-modulated vaccination in the presence of the antibody. Accordingly, Dr. Emens has launched three clinical trials testing the HER-2-specific monoclonal antibody Trastuzumab in combination with CY-modulated vaccination, two in patients with HER-2-overexpressing breast cancer, and one in patients with breast cancer that does not over-express HER-2. Finally, Dr. Emens is exploring modulating distinct aspects of the tumor microenvironment with novel tyrosine kinase inhibitors and novel molecular therapeutics. The overall goal of Dr. Emens research is to elucidate mechanisms of immunoregulation in patients with breast cancer using the vaccine in combination with standard breast cancer drugs and novel therapeutics. These studies should identify novel drug targets and new therapies to improve breast cancer outcomes.
Journal Citations
Emens, L.A. Roadmap to a better therapeutic tumor vaccine. International reviews of immunology. 2006 Sep-Dec;25(5):415-443.
Emens, L.A. Cancer vaccines: toward the next revolution in cancer therapy. International reviews of immunology. 2006 Sep-Dec;25(5):259-268.
Murata, S.; Ladle, B.H.; Kim, P.S.; Lutz, E.R.; Wolpoe, M.E.; Ivie, S.E.; Smith, H.M.; Armstrong, T.D.; Emens, L.A.; Jaffee, E.M.; Reilly, R.T. OX40 costimulation synergizes with GM-CSF whole-cell vaccination to overcome established CD8+ T cell tolerance to an endogenous tumor antigen. J Immunol. 2006 Jan 15;176(2):974-983.
Manning, E.A.; Ullman, J.G.; Leatherman, J.M.; Asquith, J.M.; Hansen, T.R.; Armstrong, T.D.; Hicklin, D.J.; Jaffee, E.M.; Emens, L.A. A vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 inhibitor enhances antitumor immunity through an immune-based mechanism. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Jul 1;13(13):3951-3959.
Emens, L.A. Chemotherapy and tumor immunity: an unexpected collaboration. Front Biosci. 2008 Jan. 1;13:249-257.
Emens, L.A. Jump-Starting Tumor Immunity with Breast Cancer Therapeutics. In: Rimas Orentas, J.W.H., Byron D. Johnson, editor, Cancer Vaccines and Tumor Immunity: Johnson, John Wiley and Sons, Inc; 2008.
Emens, L.A. Cancer vaccines: on the threshold of success. Expert opinion on emerging drugs. 2008 Jun;13(2):295-308.
Kim, P.S.; Armstrong, T.D.; Song, H.; Wolpoe, M.E.; Weiss, V.; Manning, E.A.; Huang, L.Q.; Murata, S.; Sgouros, G.; Emens, L.A.; Reilly, R.T.; Jaffee, E.M. Antibody association with HER-2/neu-targeted vaccine enhances CD8 T cell responses in mice through Fc-mediated activation of DCs. J Clin Invest. 2008 May;118(5):1700-1711.
Balmanoukian, A.; Zhang, Z.; Jeter, S.; Slater, S.; Armstrong, D.K.; Emens, L.A.; Fetting, J.H.; Wolff, A.C.; Davidson, N.E.; Jacobs, L.; Lange, J.; Tsangaris, T.N.; Zellars, R.; Gabrielson, E.; Stearns, V. African American women who receive primary anthracycline- and taxane-based chemotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer suffer worse outcomes compared with white women. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Aug 1;27(22):e35-37; author reply e38-39.
Emens, L.A. GM-CSF-secreting vaccines for solid tumors. Curr Opin Investig Drugs. 2009 Dec;10(12):1315-1324.
Emens, L.A.; Asquith, J.M.; Leatherman, J.M.; Kobrin, B.J.; Petrik, S.; Laiko, M.; Levi, J.; Daphtary, M.M.; Biedrzycki, B.; Wolff, A.C.; Stearns, V.; Disis, M.L.; Ye, X.; Piantadosi, S.; Fetting, J.H.; Davidson, N.E.; Jaffee, E.M. Timed sequential treatment with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and an allogeneic granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-secreting breast tumor vaccine: a chemotherapy dose-ranging factorial study of safety and immune activation. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Dec 10;27(35):5911-5918.
Emens, L.A.; Davidson, N.E. Postoperative endocrine therapy for invasive breast cancer. Cancer Treat Res. 2009;151:139-161.
Zellars, R.C.; Stearns, V.; Frassica, D.; Asrari, F.; Tsangaris, T.; Myers, L.; DiPasquale, S.; Lange, J.R.; Jacobs, L.K.; Emens, L.A.; Armstrong, D.K.; Fetting, J.H.; Garrett-Mayer, E.; Davidson, N.E.; Wolff, A.C. Feasibility trial of partial breast irradiation with concurrent dose-dense doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide in early-stage breast cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Jun 10;27(17):2816-2822.
Chumsri, S.; Jeter, S.; Jacobs, L.K.; Nassar, H.; Armstrong, D.K.; Emens, L.A.; Fetting, J.H.; Lange, J.R.; Riley, C.; Tsangaris, T.N.; Wolff, A.C.; Zellars, R.; Zhang, Z.; Stearns, V. Pathologic complete response to preoperative sequential doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide and single-agent taxane with or without trastuzumab in stage II/III HER2-positive breast cancer. Clin Breast Cancer. 2010 Feb;10(1):40-45.
Descourt, P.; Carlier, T.; Du, Y.; Song, X.; Buvat, I.; Frey, E.C.; Bardies, M.; Tsui, B.M.; Visvikis, D. Implementation of angular response function modeling in SPECT simulations with GATE. Phys Med Biol. 2010 May 7;55(9):N253-266.
Edwards, J.P.; Emens, L.A. The multikinase inhibitor Sorafenib reverses the suppression of IL-12 and enhancement of IL-10 by PGE in murine macrophages. Int Immunopharmacol. 2010 Oct;10(10):1220-1228.
Emens, L.A. Chemoimmunotherapy. Cancer J. 2010 Jul-Aug;16(4):295-303.
Gupta, R.; Emens, L.A. GM-CSF-secreting vaccines for solid tumors: moving forward. Discov Med. 2010 Jul;10(50):52-60.
Pfannenstiel, L.W.; Lam, S.S.; Emens, L.A.; Jaffee, E.M.; Armstrong, T.D. Paclitaxel enhances early dendritic cell maturation and function through TLR4 signaling in mice. Cell Immunol. 2010;263(1):79-87.
Towler, W.I.; James, M.M.; Ray, S.C.; Wang, L.; Donnell, D.; Mwatha, A.; Guay, L.; Nakabiito, C.; Musoke, P.; Jackson, J.B.; Eshleman, S.H. Analysis of HIV diversity using a high-resolution melting assay. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2010 Aug;26(8):913-918.
Activities & Honors
- Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society, 1995
- Clinician Scientist Award, 2003
- Research Scholar Award, American Cancer Society, 2006
- Presidents Award for Professional Leadership, YWCA of Greater Baltimore, 2009
- Maryland Governors Citation, 2009
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American College of Physicians
- American Society for Clinical Oncology
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
- International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer


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- 2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons water (70° to 80°), divided
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
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- 1 egg white
- 1 tablespoon cornmeal
- In bread machine pan, place 2/3 cup water, pumpkin, brown sugar, salt, spices, flour and yeast in order suggested by manufacturer. Select dough setting (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed).
- When cycle is completed, turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into nine balls. Push thumb through centers to form a 1-in. hole. Stretch and shape dough to form an even ring. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes; flatten rings slightly.
- Fill a Dutch oven two-thirds full with water; bring to a boil. Drop bagels, two at a time, into boiling water. Cook for 45 seconds; turn and cook 45 seconds longer. Remove with a slotted spoon; drain on paper towels.
- Whisk egg white and remaining water; brush over bagels. Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray and sprinkle with cornmeal. Place bagels 2 in. apart on prepared pan. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 9 servings.
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ZF-2762: When creating zend_form with config and validating a date field, it throws exception under certain circumstances.
When creating zend_form with config and validating a date field, it throws exception when the file contained something like 'asdasda' -" No date part in 'asdasda' found.", BUT when the field contained '2008-sdgsdg , i got a correct error message in form - "'2008-sdgsdg' is not of the format YYYY-MM-DD".
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Just to mention: "2008-sdgsdg" IS no correct date, so the returned message is right and expected behaviour.
maybe i wasnt clear enough on this ;-)
if you have date like "2008-sdgsdg" - it shows error - that is expected - yes it is not a correct date.
but if the date is like 'sdgsdg' ie. there is no valid part like 2008 in the other example we dont get to see the "is not of the format..." message, it throws exception " No date part in ... found." - that is defenately not expected behavior - if user types something stupid to form - he should see the the wrong format message from validator - not script exception... maybe i explained better what is the problem now :D
here is the fragment of config resposible for date field :
{quote} text0l_object_publish_start date {quote}
Poster has a point: validators shouldn't throw exceptions on invalid data, but should simply mark as invalid and set an appropriate error.
Re-marking as a Zend_Validate issue and assigning to Darby for 1.5.0RC2
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Yeah, without a card, as a stand-alone 2, 4 or 8Gb player it's pretty unbeatable for its size and features.
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My Fuze V2 is my ONLY non-Rockboxed Sansa that can play videos via the card.
ALL of my other Sansas either don't support video via card, or, "officially" support it -- but, when I try, it plays for a few seconds and then locks up tight as a drum, and stays locked up until I either do a hard reset, or (sometimes), eject the card and force a refresh. If I try again, it's the same thing. I do have one or two cards that will work (in Fuze V1 or e200 V2), but I don't know what make/model they are (if people think the display on a Fuze is small, then I challenge them to read the microscopic FAINT print on a MicroSDHC card!)
Of course I have zero expectation of them implementing firmware fixes for the other players so that they'll be as robust as the Fuze V2 when handling video files.
Thankfully Rockbox is available for the players OTHER than the Fuze V2, and, the Rockbox video player eats the Sansa player's lunch even on a good day. (The stock video player on the Fuze is the first one that's at all usable, period. Earlier models have no bookmarking, pathetic fast-forward, and in some cases, the worthless .MOV format, with a need to break each file into numerous tiny segments of a few minutes each. The Fuze works, and has enough functionality to be usable, even if not as nice as Rockbox.)
BTW, I don't see this mentioned very much (if at all), but the lowly Express handles the whole indexing thing in an ALMOST Rockboxish manner. The Express writes its index to each MicroSD/HC card, rather than forcing so many rebuilds.
When you move cards between and Express and any other model, you end up with "junk files" (not as bad as drives that have been crapped on by a Mac, but still a waste of space) -- and, the Express is the MOST picky model in terms of which cards it will accept. Ironically, it's about their cheapest model (when it was in production), but, with later firmware versions it did accept HC cards -- but, regardless of card capacity, it was always a crapshoot as to whether it would accept a card, and, if it would, what you'd need to do with the card to make it happy.
It's been a while since I put any cards into any of my Expresses, but I can seem to recall the official directions being pointless, with some cards being able to plug and play (as should always be the case), and others needing to be formatted by the player, and yet others needing to be formatted by the computer. If a card was NOT formatted in the way that particular brand and model card "needed" for the Express, it would go wild -- it would act like it was copying files, writing to the card, but, nothing would happen, or, files would be there, but it would't be able to see them. I think I've experienced both failure modes (as I said, it's been a while -- my Expresses are now relegated to use mainly as utility FM radios.)
That's another player that would have been great IF they'd bothered to deliver a solid firmware version for it. Instead, it's cute, but frustrating.
PS: I forgot to mention -- there WAS one guy who DID spill the beans on the Clip+ a few months before it was released. I forget if it was here or on the Sansa forum, but he did a fairly accurate "tell" on it -- and no one believed him. He took a ration of feces over it, was told that he was a dummy who must have seen a Fuze and thought it was the new Clip with card slot (which he'd described).
Eventually (it didn't take long) he basically said screw this and left. But, he did see it coming -- I would guess he had seen one of the pre-release pieces, or maybe the specs at a vendor that was under NDA, or maybe he worked for a PR firm... there are always plenty of potential leak vectors.
Other than that one guy though, in ONE thread, I didn't see anything beyond wild speculation regarding their future products. If I can find that thread I'll post a link to it, but "ol' pops" ain't doing so well in the health department at the moment, so don't hold your breath (unless you're someone who annoys me, in which case feel free to hold your breath until I get back with you. )
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sandisk should release an android tablet mp3 player as a successor to the sansa connect who's wifi internet radio feature is pretty much useless now.
The Clip+ is just about perfect as a small audio player. I'd supplement it with a larger version that's sort of a modernized version of the old E100 series. Basically a Clip+ powered by one AAA cell and with a full sized SDHC/SDXC slot. Or else bring back the M200 form factor, and make a version of the Clip with an AAA cell and no slot, but with 32gb of internal flash.
I guess a Bluetooth transmitter could be useful.
I have not the slightest interest in tiny video players that need format converters. I think the small PMP is a doomed genre, as those features merge into cellular phones. I don't see why I'd buy something like a View, when a good smartphone can do all the same stuff.
I'd like to see a Sansa version of the Ipad though, i.e. a lightweight MID with a 10 inch screen.
Hope Sansa comes out with a new 16gb player, i want more storage
iPod Touch 5G 32GB, Touch 4G 32GB, Clip Sport 8GB. Rockbox-> Clip Zip 4GB, iPod Nano 2G 4GB, iPod 5.5G 80GB
2012 Nexus 7 32GB, Asus MeMoPad 8 16+64GB, LG Optimus G Pro, Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 520
Well unless the price drops quite a bit, i do not think i will be buying one of those.
I have been debating whether to buy a 8 gb Fuze or wait awhile and see if anything new
comes out.
It will be some time before the price drops, more manufacturers need to release them and have them readily available from retailers.
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I stopped by here because of a rumor I saw saying Sandisk was getting out of the audio player business completely. That sounded surprising b/c I'd have thought the Clip+ and Fuze were doing well. And there is another thread about "Sansa Tap" which will presumably have a touch screen.
High end players are just silly in my opinion. I have ten or so Sansas (cheap ones keep appearing on Woot and I can't resist them) and a Cowon D2 16gb and I feel like a dork for buying the Cowon. If I wanted a PMP today I'd certainly get a smartphone instead of a dedicated media player. E.g. I keep seeing the Nokia E63 for around $150 and it can do most PMP functions, has a micro sdhc slot, has swappable batteries, has a 2mp camera / video camera, has internet, is a phone, etc.
I'm not saying that it has to be a 12mp camera, but 6mp cameras produce very nice pictures and actually have some worthwhile features (zoom, stitch assist, ...)
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BoulderGreensStreets ran their Ciclovia Sunday, hopefully many Boulderites learned from some of the many booths setup there just how easy it can be to get around by bike. Bikes aren't just for recreation and exercise you know.
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Pedestrians and cyclists took over Pearl Street from 15th to Folsom streets for the second annual Boulder Green Streets event. Modeled after a Colombian street fair called a ciclovia and sponsored by the city of Boulder, the event aimed to create a "car-free community play space."
The mile-long stretch was divided into zones that celebrated facets of Boulder, such as outdoor healthy living, dancing and singing and innovation. There also was live music, street food and a pavilion where natural product vendors gave out free samples. Human-powered "Pedi-Cabs" delivered people up and down the street for free.


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