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Research Article
Lunasin induces apoptosis and modifies the expression of genes associated with extracellular matrix and cell adhesion in human metastatic colon cancer cells
Version of Record online: 5 JAN 2011
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201000419
Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
Volume 55, Issue 4, pages 623–634, April 2011
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How to Cite
Dia, V. P. and de Mejia, E. G. (2011), Lunasin induces apoptosis and modifies the expression of genes associated with extracellular matrix and cell adhesion in human metastatic colon cancer cells. Mol. Nutr. Food Res., 55: 623–634. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201000419
Publication History
- Issue online: 4 APR 2011
- Version of Record online: 5 JAN 2011
- Manuscript Accepted: 28 OCT 2010
- Manuscript Revised: 19 OCT 2010
- Manuscript Received: 1 SEP 2010
Funded by
- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Huston, TX
- CSREES, AG 2007-34505-15767 Future Foods IL; and Illinois Soybean Association
- Abstract
- Article
- References
- Cited By
- α5β1 Integrin;
- Apoptosis;
- Colon cancer;
- Lunasin;
- Metastatic
Scope: Lunasin is an arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) cancer preventive peptide. The objective was to evaluate the potential of lunasin to induce apoptosis in human colon cancer cells and their oxaliplatin-resistant (OxR) variants, and its effect on the expression of human extracellular matrix and adhesion genes.
Methods and results: Various human colon cancer cell lines which underwent metastasis were evaluated in vitro using cell flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. Lunasin cytotoxicity to different colon cancer cells correlated with the expression of α5b1 integrin, being most potent to KM12L4 cells (IC50 = 13 μM). Lunasin arrested cell cycle at G2/M phase with concomitant increase in the expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p21 and p27. Lunasin (5–25 μM) activated the apoptotic mitochondrial pathway as evidenced by changes in the expressions of Bcl-2, Bax, nuclear clusterin, cytochrome c and caspase-3 in KM12L4 and KM12L4-OxR. Lunasin increased the activity of initiator caspase-9 leading to the activation of caspase-3 and also modified the expression of human extracellular matrix and adhesion genes, downregulating integrin α5, SELE, MMP10, integrin β2 and COL6A1 by 5.01-, 6.53-, 7.71-, 8.19- and 10.10-fold, respectively, while upregulating COL12A1 by 11.61-fold.
Conclusion: Lunasin can be used in cases where resistance to chemotherapy developed.


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European Union leaders tried Thursday to find a balance between austerity and growth policies amid rising fears of social unrest as unemployment soars and Europe's economy remains in the doldrums.
Germany, the bloc's strongest economy and paymaster, is holding to a hardline on austerity, insisting that only discipline ensures real growth while France and several others want some leeway so as to ease the immediate pain.
The debate is more than academic. A brash anti-austerity party won a stunning 25 percent of the vote in last month's Italian elections, a warning for German Chancellor Angela Merkel who faces polls later in the year.
Unions have already set up camp across from the summit venue at EU headquarters in Brussels, aiming to make their point amid a heavy police presence with huge banners proclaiming "Austerity Pact, No! Solidarity Pact, Yes!"
"We do not need another summit where EU (leaders) ... try to sugar-coat and deny the harsh reality," said Hannes Swoboda, head of the Social Democrat group in the European Parliament as leaders arrived for a 1600 GMT start.
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EU President Herman Van Rompuy said that if the worst of the debt crisis appeared over, leaders were still meeting against a backdrop of "social distress."
It is not a choice between austerity and growth, Van Rompuy said -- the EU has to make the grade on all fronts.
"In the short-term, we cannot turn a blind eye to the social emergency in some of our countries," he said, highlighting the danger of soaring youth unemployment, which now runs at more than 50 percent in Greece and Spain.
One EU official said the vote outcome in "Italy has made a lot of people think."
The problem, he added, was that governments still need to balance public finances after years of overspending, but austerity and belt-tightening cannot be the only response.
"You need to implement these plans carefully and with flexibility, otherwise there is no growth," the official said. "If there is no growth for 10 years then you can't pay back your debt ... there is not much room for manoeuvre."
A draft of the summit conclusions obtained by AFP says that given the currently "unacceptably high levels of unemployment" -- expected to hit an unprecedented high of around 12 percent this year -- it is critical to support growth "as a matter of priority."
The key to stabilising public finances must be "growth-friendly fiscal consolidation", it adds.
Another EU official said this language offers the possibility that targets can be eased or adjusted, with leaders trying to nail down "what growth-friendly fiscal consolidation really means" in practice.
The issue is crucial for France after President Francois Hollande recognised he could not cut its public deficit to the EU limit of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product this year, coming in instead at 3.7 percent as a weak economy exacts its toll.
Failing to meet the target leaves France needing another year of grace from Brussels, an extension it seems likely to get.
But German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble made the case again Wednesday for sticking to austerity first.
"Growth and (budgetary) consolidation are not mutually exclusive but rather they reinforce each other," Schaeuble said. "The confidence that solid state finances brings is the pre-condition for sustainable growth."
Highlighting the point and the sharp difference with France, the German government approved a 2014 budget based on the lowest headline deficit for some 40 years.
During their two-day talks, the 27 EU leaders will also discuss financially beleaguered Cyprus, taking the opportunity to meet its newly elected president, but are not expected to make any decisions on a planned debt bailout.
That issue will be covered by a separate eurozone finance ministers meeting late Friday after the summit closes.
The second day of the summit Friday will review relations with the EU's strategic partners, notably Russia, where ties have been strained by Russian President Vladimir Putin's clampdown on the opposition.


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Several times I've biked the southern stretch of Rainier on my way around the south end of Lake WA, and it's not that bad, at least not during off traffic hours. After that, I head over to Seward Park and take Lake WA Blvd, which is pretty nice.
Bike lanes or no, you'll never catch me biking the north stretch of Rainier. It's sure death, just like Aurora and 23rd on Cap Hill. The master plan should really create a new bike route through the valley on smaller side streets.
How about this:
Buy a freaking car like the rest of the freaking world. A toy is not a form of transportation.
But that would be too practical and cost-effective, and wouldn't serve the political purpose of punishing those evil evil people who still need to drive to get from point A to point B (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future).
Voluntary compliance works fine.
Why just look at how the auto industry has increased gas mileage under voluntary compliance.
Oh ... wait ... gas mileage went DOWN.
Erica, can you please explain how mini-marts are a bigger issue than bars? People don't generally show up sober and get drunk at mini-marts. They buy their booze and then leave. And I don't think they then drive up and down Rainier terrorizing cyclists while they are drinking. And if they are driving up or down Rainier to get TO a mini-mart to purchase booze, well then their destination doesn't have anything to do with the fact that they may or may not be drunk driving.
I'll start caring about bikers being in danger once they start following the laws of the road themselves. Daily I see them weaving in and out of traffic, running stop signs and stop lights and riding up onto the sidewalks then back into the street when it is convenient for them. If you would like to be considered a legitimate form of transportation then follow the same laws as the rest of us when on the road.
Hey Erica:
You're real big on "forcing people to change their behavior" when it suits you, I see.
Make you a deal. How about a $100 moving violation for every bicyclist who fails to stop at a stoplight or red signal, just like cars get? Is that the kind of coercion you favor? 'Cause I'm sure down with it.
"slowing traffic by adding or de-sychronizing signals, and changing land-use patterns to eliminate large car-oriented uses (like street-facing parking and multiple gas stations) on Rainier go unexplored."
Is your brain made of Cheez Whiz? With the S/T plan for the waterfront you support fewer stop lights (WashDot unfairly put in all those lights to make S/T not work, remember?) and in general you have supported light sychronizing and now you want people to drive further to find gas stopping at every light? That brain, maybe Swiss cheese - I can't wait for your reaction to the the first light rail bicycle accident - perhaps you'll advocate for 10 mph top speed except, of course, when you're on board.
@6 - don't even bother starting with that. The members of the Church of Critical Mass will now bombard you with their standard rationalizations as to why they are magically exempt from obeying clearly written laws about traffic lights and such (and yes, those laws DO apply to you as well, cyclists.)
#2 -
Who says that Saint Erica doesn't drive when she isn't spouting off against the evils of cars? Check out the public record of her parking (and bicycling) tickets:
Ivan you idiot. Bicycles and Erica's cars and scooters are allowed to break all laws and rules because in the case of bikes they never hurt anyone and in case of ECB well she can do what she wants because she can do what she wants because...
Of course there are bicyclists that break traffic laws. There are also drivers and pedestrians that break them. Blaming the few bicyclists who are assholes for all bicycle injuries and fatalities is the mark of a fuckhead.
I own a car and a bicycle, both of which I love. I have been bike commuting in Seattle for 17 years, year round, rain or shine. However, as I get older, I take fewer chances and am less included to ride outside of my jaunt to and from work. I have stopped riding at night (drunks) or on certain arterials, such as Rainier.
Lucky for me, my commutes have been shorter each time I've switched jobs. And even luckier, I live north of the Ship Canal. For those of us in the North End, who are already taking bike-friendly routes like Dexter or the Burke-Gilman to get to work, the Bike Master Plan will make our happy-go-lucky bike lives even tonier, while those trying to get to and from the South End will have no relief, continuing to risk life and limb getting around by bicycle.
So keep watching out for those cars, ECB! They're not watching out for you.
ecce homo, good to see you back! I was worried you'd choked to death on your own bile while watching Nancy Grace at the Log Cabin Republicans meeting. (Btw, I thought ecce meant 'behold', not 'self-hating'.
Bike lanes are voluntary too, ECB, as I found out the hard way in Las Vegas: it didn't stop motorists from clipping bikes and using them as a glorified turn lane.
I don't know where you and the militant cyclists get the idea that roadside bike lanes will change anything culturally.
Hey whatever: Is YOUR brain made of Swiss cheese? The Stranger is not some kind of hivemind; just because others wrote about ST disparagingly before I was here does not mean every single opinion ever expressed in the Stranger is unanimous.
Hey ECB - S/T = Surface Transit that's why there was a reference to the WashDot study involving syncing the traffic lights on the AWB (Alaskan Way Boulevard ) - nothing had to do with the Stranger's past opinions about ST (Sound Transit).
I believe that roadside bike lanes have indeed "changed things culturally" in Seattle. Like Portland, as Seattle gets more roadside bike lanes, cars notice them, and drivers change the way they drive. That's my anecdotal impression, anyway. The lanes do not help bicyclists who wear dark clothing (and black helmets! what idiocy) and are erratic in traffic.
I think the lanes on Dexter are a good example. It has been around a long time, it has very high bike ridership, and most of the bicyclists on it behave themselves. Therefore, it feels pretty safe.
Here's how to make it work with no big cultural changes. Try LAW ENFORCEMENT. Change the laws to provide stiffer penalties like these:
$2,000 fine for failing to yield, failing to stop, or other moving violation, endagering a bicycle.
Automatic loss of license if you, a car, strike a bike or a pedestrian.
that's how thy do it in Europe. They have dramatically lower car-cyle or car-ped accident rates.
Recently Virginia imposed big 1K-3K fines for speeding and similar voilations. Everyone here, the powers that be said "oh that's terrible." Yup we don't really want to make cars obey the laws.....we just want then to have little teeny weeny fines so drivers can act like the one that killed that city council aide in West Seattle who had NUMEROUS prevous moving violations including MAKING A CYCLIST FALL OVER on
Interlaken blvd. or one of those windy olmsteady roads going down to LWB or something.
Nothing happened to that driving and that aide dude is dead.
Duh, yup of course cyclists have to obey the rules, too, and Erica never suggested otherwise so just shut up about that that's a big red herring. "I will only obey the law when all cyclists obey the law" is a STUPID and CHILDISH and BULLYING attitude that is total bull shit. You who took that attitude are a real piece of shit. "I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING LOGICAL OR SENSICAL SO I WILL THROW OUT SOME RED MEAT BULL FECES TO DISTRACT FROM THE EXCELLENT POINTS MY OPPONENT MAKES" is just the lowest form of rhetoric.
"I will not obey the laws against murder till everyone else does, too. There have to be zero murders for one 12 month period first, THEN I will decide that I, too, will obey the laws against murder."
You should go to hell for being either totally stupid, or totally immoral and opportunistic.
Whoa, "ECB" - that's a lot of tickets. What's your excuse?
The problem with the Virginia laws is that they are not related to the income of the violator. Twenty over is a little over $1050 while the $3000 fine is for DUI. The $900 for driving without a license seems very harsh depending on why the driver is without. It appears that the main motivation for raising the fines is to get more money for road projects.
The City Council staffer was not on a bike but rather a pedestrian - a group that should be protected even more than bikers. The very young and the old to very old are more likely to be peds. The driver had a terrible record and it would appear should never be allowed to drive.
Drivers and bikers should obey the law. The issue for many drivers is that bikers, by not following the law, cause the drivers anxiety and frustration which leads those drivers to act badly around those and subsequent bikers. Drivers should not drive in such a way to endanger bikers needlessly. There will always be some danger of two vehicles hitting each other when on or crossing the same roadway.
BTW ECB has in the past made the argument that bikes violating the law shouldn't be subject to the same enforcement as cars because of their relatively lighter weight aren't a danger.
All making it harder to drive on Rainier will do, is make Lake Wash Blvd and Seward Park Ave/Wilson more of a freeway than they already are.
The tricky part of adding bike lanes to Rainier Avenue South is that it mostly has a four-lane profile without parallel parking. Route 7 is an electric trolleybus and attract high ridership. Implenting a three-lane profile would slow Route 7 as each bus stop would become a bus trap, as the single through lane would have a continuous lane of traffic. It may be better to provide priority for bikes on another arterial.
The tough part of having a bike network, a freight network, and a transit network are the arterials where they overlap. SDOT will have difficulty providing "priority" to more than one mode at a time.
Route 7 is too important to slow down any further.
I agree eddiew,
If any changes should be made on Rainier, they should speed up and expand service for Route 7(and other buses). Most would be the opposite of ECB's suggestions. Remove most street parking(only Columbia and Hillman Cities really have enough space) and institute light synchronization with buses(change to green for buses). Both the lake route and MLKing Way after ST will be better for biking.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Treasury prices fell Thursday as investors, already anticipating an end to the Federal Reserve's rate-cutting campaign, found another reason to sell government bonds when a report showed a surprising drop in unemployment claims.
Investors have been concerned about the weak economy's effect on the labor market, and grew a little less worried after the Labor Department said initial claims for unemployment benefits fell by 33,000 last week to 342,000. Economists had forecast that claims last week rose by 3,000.
The four-week moving average - which helps investors look past week-to-week volatility - also fell, dropping by 7,250 to 369,500.
The government data followed a Wall Street Journal report predicting the Fed will probably lower its benchmark fed funds rate by another quarter point when it meets next week, but then take a pause.
A halt in rate cuts would indicate either that an economic recovery is in sight, or that inflation is becoming a bigger threat than slowing growth. Neither scenario makes Treasurys appear particularly attractive.
"It seems for right now the financial crisis to some extent has been taken out of the equation," said T.J. Marta, fixed-income analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "Now we're looking at growth versus inflation, and it's a highly contradictory picture ... It's probably going to be September before we know which way it's going to go."
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell 27/32 to 97 8/32 and yielded 3.84 percent, up from 3.74 percent late Wednesday, according to BGCantor Market Data. Prices and yields move in opposite directions.
The 30-year long bond fell 30/32 to 97 2/32 and yielded 4.56 percent, up from 4.51 percent late Wednesday.
The 2-year note fell 11/32 to 99 15/32 with a yield of 2.40 percent - well above the target federal funds rate of 2.25 percent, and up sharply from 2.20 percent late Wednesday.
The 5-year note fell 22/32 to 97 7/32 after the U.S. Treasury awarded $19 billion in 5-year notes at a high rate of 3.16 percent. Demand was weak, with a very low bid-to-cover ratio of 1.65.
While prices of outstanding government debt appeared little affected by the auction results, the weak demand contributed to the overall downbeat tone of trading.


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EON Brazil Utility Venture Seeks $677 Million Amid Losses
EON SE, Germany's biggest utility, is seeking to rescue its Brazilian venture with former billionaire Eike Batista by leading a second round of private investment in less than a year.
EON will contribute as much as 570 million reais ($257 million) of the 1.5 billion reais Eneva SA plans to raise in a two-stage capital increase, Rio de Janeiro-based Eneva said today in a statement. Creditors Grupo BTG Pactual, Citigroup Inc., HSBC Holdings Plc. and Itau Unibanco Holdings SA agreed to extend loan maturities for five years and transfer 600 million reais of debt to units of Eneva, the company said. EON, which became the largest shareholder a year ago, won't increase its stake beyond 49.9 percent.
Eneva, which was listed by Batista as a startup in 2007, dropped to a record low on May 2 amid project delays that increased costs and forced it to buy higher-cost energy on the spot market, deepening its losses. Management, led by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s co-head of Brazilian investment banking, Fabio Bicudo, has sought to bolster finances since his appointment in February.
The utility also said in today's statement it will sell at least 50 percent of its Pecem II project in the northeast, with EON offering to buy up to 50 percent of the power plant for as much as 400 million reais. The company also will receive a bridge loan of 100 million reais from the four banks, it said.
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The transaction "brings some substantial equity to the company, pushes our debt maturities, allows us to resume focus on what a normal company should be and allows management now to implement important cost reduction measures," Bicudo said today in an investor conference call.
The first stage of the capital increase, where each Eneva share will be subscribed at 1.27 reais for a total 316.5 million reais, will see Batista's stake diluted to as little as 17.6 percent, assuming the entrepreneur doesn't participate of the offering, according to a company presentation.
The press office for Batista declined to comment on whether he will take part in the capital increase. He currently holds 23.9 percent of Eneva and EON owns 37.9 percent.
"Over the past several months Eneva has delivered a good operational performance," EON board member Jorgen Kildahl said today in a separate statement. "We're pleased that –- together with the other main shareholders and banks providing financing - – we're able to support Eneva's management to realize the company's significant potential."
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Eneva jumped 10 percent to 1.40 reais at the close in Sao Paulo, leading Brazil's Ibovespa small cap index. The stock slid 83 percent in the last 12 months. EON rose 1.2 percent to 13.58 euros in Frankfurt, its highest close this month.
While Eneva has become the biggest private thermoelectric generator in the country, it posted a record loss of 942.5 million reais last year and its debt-to-market value ratio is the highest after state-owned Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA among 150 major utilities in the Americas tracked by Bloomberg.
The capital injection announced today is the second for Eneva in less than a year. EON sank 367 million reais into the company in July as part of an 800 million-real capital increase, following the purchase of a 24.5 percent stake from Batista for 1.4 billion reais earlier last year.
Missed Targets
Once the world's eighth-richest man, Batista has been selling assets or stakes in his energy, mining and logistics ventures for the past year as missed targets and mounting debt forced him to cancel projects. He stepped down as chairman of Eneva July 3 and the company changed its name from MPX Energia in September as EON moved to restore credibility.
EON bought an initial 10 percent stake in 2012 for 850 million reais and laid out plans for a grand partnership with the Brazilian entrepreneur, whose mother was German and who speaks the language after spending some of his youth in Dusseldorf, the city where EON is based.
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ISDA is an acronym for the International Security Driver Association although concentrating on secure transportation ISDA membership is of value to all in the protective services profession. Here is a list of books authored by ISDA members. The Bremer Detail: Protecting the Most Threatened Man in the World By Frank Gallagher Left of Bang a book co-authored … [Read more...]
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Editor's note: On June 13, 1935, James J. Braddock completed one of the most unlikely comebacks in sports history: He defeated Max Baer for the world heavyweight title little more than a year after being an unemployable boxer, a fighter with one good hand and six cents to his name. ESPN anchor and national correspondent Jeremy Schaap's book "Cinderella Man" chronicles Braddock's life and explains how he became a folk hero for a nation in desperate need of one. ESPN.com excerpts a chapter from the book that reveals just how tough times were for Braddock and a nation in the grip of an economic depression. It also sets the scene for Braddock's eventual renaissance.
Chapter 10: On the Waterfront
Weehawken and Hoboken:
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For more than a month after the Feldman fight, Braddock sat at home [in New Jersey] with his right hand in a cast. The dirty white plaster reminded him constantly of that night in Mount Vernon [N.Y.] when his career seemed to have ended in ignominy. Mae had just given birth to their daughter, Rose Marie, but Braddock could find little joy in her arrival. Another mouth to feed, and the winter was coming soon. For the first time in his life, Jim Braddock was bad company.
"After the fight, I tried to comfort him," Mae Braddock would later say, "but it was no use. His heart was broken. Despite the fact that he knew he couldn't have done better; despite the fact that he had actually gone ahead fighting, standing the agonies of that stabbing hand, when any other man would have quit, meant nothing to him. He was morose for weeks."
Even though Braddock knew he had displayed uncommon courage by continuing to fight after breaking his hand, he was despondent. His honor meant a great deal to him, yet retaining it was no solace in the face of the harsh realities of his situation. He was perilously close to the poorhouse. When the cast came off, Braddock started looking for work.
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With no high school diploma and no skills outside the ring, he had limited options. Some friends worked down on the docks in Weehawken and Hoboken, and he thought they might help him find some paydays. They did. But the work was sporadic. And without a car or any money for public transportation, Braddock had to walk the three miles from his home in Woodcliff to the waterfront, uncertain if there would be work. Exhausted physically and emotionally, he would walk in the early morning darkness to 69th Street in Guttenberg, to the long set of stairs that led to the docks of Weehawken and Hoboken, and descend to the place where the railroad tracks nearly met the deep-water port. He would ask if there was any work. When the answer was yes, he would spend the day unloading railroad ties from the enormous ships that brought them up from the steel mills in the South. Laboring shoulder to shoulder with hardened stevedores and others who were down and nearly out, Braddock never suggested, in words or deeds, that he was too good for such work. If the other guys insisted, he would tell them about some of his fights. But he didn't like talking, and he especially didn't like talking about himself.
Braddock's status as a former contender did not shield him from the grim facts of working on the docks. Like everyone else, he was subjected to the elements and the casual cruelty of the foremen, who tended to treat the dock wallopers, as they were sometimes called, like cattle. The work was hard, and made even harder by the knowledge that the wages were miserably low because the economics of the place were skewed by kickbacks and no-show jobs. Dissent was not an option. Mobbed up and lawless, the International Longshoremen's Association, the union that controlled the docks, was notoriously corrupt. It was not uncommon for those who made waves to disappear beneath them. Braddock often worked within a few hundred yards of the Fifth Street Pier in Hoboken, where the big ships of the Holland-America line docked and where his father was a night watchman.
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Tourists and immigrants made their way down the gangways of the Statendam, Veendam, and Volendam. He would watch them and wonder just how bad things had to be in Europe for them to want to come to America. Hoboken, though, was relatively quiet compared to Weehawken, where hundreds of men were beginning a new public works project. Eventually the Lincoln Tunnel would link Weehawken and West 39th Street in midtown Manhattan. It was in the shadow of the bulldozers and cranes that Braddock quietly labored.
With his bum right hand, he had to do all the heavy lifting with his left. Sometimes he operated a hand truck, again without benefit of his right hand. He would work until the ships were unloaded. There was no overtime, just an expectation that he would work until he was done. Then he would get four dollars and sometimes he would have to kick some of that back to the hiring boss. Even during the Depression, there was work on the docks the constant flow of commerce was never interrupted. Most of the men there were comfortable with manual labor, and Braddock fit right in. He developed a reputation as someone who was willing, indeed eager, to do his share and more. He never looked for an easy way out; he never let the guy on the other end of the load take the brunt of it. He never expected to be treated any differently from anyone else merely because he was Jim Braddock, former contender for the light heavyweight title.
When the day's work had been completed, Braddock would sometimes treat himself to a nickel beer at one of the pubs frequented by seafaring men and longshoremen for a century. He celebrated the end of Prohibition on Dec. 5, 1933, with two beers. Usually, though, he was too exhausted and depressed for camaraderie. He would simply walk home another three miles and climb into bed with Mae.
Those were the good days, when there was work in Weehawken or Hoboken. On the days when the answer was "No, champ," he would climb the stairs back up to 69th Street, then turn north for the docks of West New York, walking another two miles.
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Sometimes there would be work there. Usually there wasn't. If no work was to be found anywhere on the docks or in the railroad yards, he would trudge back to North Bergen, looking for something to do. He would offer to clean basements, sweep floors, shovel snow. He was a familiar and sad sight in his faded green sweater, threadbare pants, and battered shoes.
Once in a while he would tend bar at the North Bergen Social and Athletic Club, serving the same men who for years had crossed the river to Manhattan to watch him fight. They were the men he had grown up with, who had proudly watched his rise as a fighter; now he was pouring drafts for them. Each day it seemed he was further humbled. As the new year dawned, Gould delivered some encouraging news. He had managed to locate an opponent a good opponent, the big German Walter Neusel. On Dec. 30, 1933, Neusel defeated Ray Impellittiere at Madison Square Garden.
To secure Impellittiere as an opponent, Neusel had guaranteed him $5,000. When the gate receipts were tallied, the total purse for the main event was $5,025. After his managers' and trainers' fees were deducted, Neusel received $3.19 for his 10-round effort. Hoping to make more against Braddock, he agreed to fight him on Jan. 21. But the New York boxing commission would not sanction the fight. With the Feldman fight still fresh in their memories, the commissioners did to Braddock what they had done in 1930 when he was scheduled to fight Max Baer. They were genuinely concerned that he might get seriously hurt, though he had never been seriously hurt in the ring.
With the fight off, the Braddocks lived on bread and potatoes. Potato stew and potato hash were the staples of their table. For several months they couldn't pay the rent. Finally, they were forced to move from their cramped apartment to an even smaller basement apartment in the same building, which they could barely afford. The milk bill went unpaid; so did the gas and electric bill.
* * * * *
Braddock knew he was jinxed when the winter of his misery developed in February into the coldest winter on record in the Northeast. Lake Ontario froze for the first time since 1874. Ice a foot thick formed in Long Island Sound. John D. Rockefeller, who was ill, employed three shifts of firemen to keep his mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y., at 72 degrees Fahrenheit. After one bitingly cold day on the docks temperatures in north Jersey in February dipped to minus 10 degrees, at the time the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state Braddock walked home to his apartment, opened the door, and said, "Mae, what's going on? Why are the lights off?"
"Jim, they shut off the electricity," she said.
Braddock cursed the electric company and himself. At least the apartment still had heat, but he knew that it soon would be turned off too, and then his family might die.
He spent the night considering what his options might be. There was only one.
In the morning he walked from his apartment to the ferry in West New York. He had exactly one dime in his pocket. The fare to cross to Manhattan was four cents. With six cents left, he crossed the Hudson, walked more than a mile to Madison Square Garden, and tried to find Joe Gould. Gould's friends at the Garden were kind enough to accept his mail and take his messages. By this time, Gould was working as a door-to-door salesman, hawking gadgets and radios. Every day, though, he would check in at the Garden to see who was looking for him. Usually it was no one. His old friend Francis Albertanti, the Garden's publicist, made sure that he was kept in the loop and made to feel as if he still mattered, which in fact he didn't. When Albertanti saw Braddock walk through his office door gaunter than ever, his eyes made moist by the cold and his hat literally in his hands he told him that Joe was out but would be in soon. Albertanti had known Braddock since 1928 and had profiled him for the Ring [magazine]. He tried to make conversation but avoided asking how things were going, because he knew how things were going.
* * * * *
Still, he could see in Braddock's face a desperation that he had never seen there before. He wanted to tell Braddock not to worry, but he knew that he
had every reason to worry.
Finally Gould walked through the door.
"Jim, what are you doing here?" he said. "Is everything all right?"
"Joe, I know you're broke, but I don't know where else to go," Braddock said. "I need $35. Rose Marie needs milk and we need the heat."
"Wait right here," Gould said.
He scurried away, leaving Braddock to his thoughts. Here he was, it occurred to him, back at the Garden, where he had once fought for the championship. For years he had hoped to return to this building to fight in another main event. Now he was back, pleading for what amounted to little more than chump change.
"Here's thirty-five dollars. Pay your bills. I'll get you more when I can," Gould said.
"I'll pay you back soon."
"I know."
Gould had borrowed the money from Jimmy Johnston, who never expected to see it again. Braddock walked back to 42nd Street and west to the river, handed the ferryman four cents, and crossed back to New Jersey. On his way home he stopped to pay the milkman and the utility company. When he got back to the apartment, he paid the rent.
Within days he was broke again, and now he had nowhere to turn. In those days, Lud Shabazian would see him occasionally on the streets of Union City and North Bergen. He noticed, he later wrote, how the well-wishers of Braddock's youth now crossed to the other side of the street when they saw him coming.
As Joe E. Lewis would later say, a friend in need is a pest. The guilt and the anxiety he was feeling turned Braddock into an insomniac. Most nights, at about 2 a.m., he climbed from his sleepless bed, got dressed, went out into the cold, and walked for miles.
* * * * *
Mae feared that he might kill himself. On the rare occasions when sleep came, he tossed and turned, mumbling to Mae. He would say the same things over and over.
"Mae, please believe me," he would say, "I'm doing everything I can. I'm so sorry, darling. I'm sorry, so sorry."
Finally Braddock made the most difficult decision he had ever made. With nowhere else to turn, he decided to apply for relief from the county. Today millionaires unashamedly accept benefits from the state when they are unemployed. Millions of people of lesser means survive because of the welfare programs that were conceived during the Depression. That a man might be embarrassed to apply for money from the government is almost laughably anachronistic. But in 1933, Jim Braddock applied for relief only when all his other options had been exhausted only when he was desperate. He was too ashamed to tell his parents.
"Darling, I can't stand this any longer," he said to Mae. "It just tears my heart into little bits to see you and the babies suffering for want of food and clothing. I'm going over to the relief bureau and see if they can't make us a loan until I can get something to do."
Braddock went to see his old friend Harry Buesser, the promoter turned politician who had made the assault charge against Captain Bachman go away. As one of the commissioners of the township of North Bergen, Buesser oversaw the municipal relief office, which happened to employ the brothers Joe and Jimmy Kelly. Joe Kelly had worked for Lud Shabazian in the sports department of the Hudson Dispatch; Jimmy Kelly was in charge of case No. 2796, Braddock's case. Eventually questions would be raised about the legitimacy of Braddock's application and the decision to grant him relief. But in early 1934, when Jim Braddock was just another young man down on his luck, no one seemed to pay much attention. If people had been paying attention, they would almost certainly have come to the conclusion that despite the appearance of impropriety, Braddock was a worthy candidate for relief.
* * * * *
When Jim and Mae were on relief, receiving $24 a month for 10 months, they reached a point when they could no longer care for their children. For a brief time the children were sent to live with their grandparents, who were also barely surviving. All this time Braddock was trudging to and from the docks. Sometimes, when there were no ships to unload, he worked as a furniture mover. He also worked in a coal yard. The one constant was the manual nature of his labor, except when he was tending bar. On the docks he operated a tie hook, which he had to attach to each railroad tie with a swift punching motion. Once it was attached, he would lift the tie and haul
it to a flatbed railroad car. When Braddock first used a tie hook, he tried using his right hand, but the pain was too great. For no other reason than the fact that he had no choice, he made himself ambidextrous; for a while, actually, he was unidextrous, using only his left hand.
Finally, by April, when the weather broke, Braddock's right hand had healed. Soon he was feeling stronger than he had ever felt. But he was still on the docks, staring across the Hudson at the Manhattan skyline. The Garden, where he had once starred, could almost be discerned. Never, though, had it felt farther away.
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Just curious.... Is there a timeframe to have an updated version that works with 3.4.1?
Just curious.... Is there a timeframe to have an updated version that works with 3.4.1?
I managed to get it to work on WP 3.4.1.
I noticed in bugzilla console that it was parseJSON() that got wrong characters and thus throwed an JS error. I had php notices in ajax response. So I did something ugly, but it works :
in simple-page-ordering.js, on line 62, I put
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in place of
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The code simply parses the response to get only what's inside curly brackets.
Of course the best solution would be to get rid of the notices and warnings, but maybe the author could put some checks before using parseJSON ?
Anyway, great plugin, I've been looking for something simple with seamless integration in WP. Thanks !
Been super busy, but hoping to make some time within the next week to look at that change and potentially update to 2.0!
I forgot about this. Actually I realized I was getting php notices in ajax response because WP was in debug mode.
So for users with standard configuration I guess the plugin should work out of the box :)
Thanks again !
hope there is a fix soon :) this is the best page/post type order plugin out there. Just doesn't work with the latest build of WP. (3.4)
I can reorder stuff but the "order" fields do not update accordingly.
Sorry, drskullster's fix does work. i tried and didn't have success and then realized i had an argument off in my query_posts in my template.
this will do for now for sure but am super excited about a 2.0 version :)
Is anyone getting this error in 1.4.2? Can you paste the error?
I can't seem to make this glitch happen on my install of 1.0.
Sorry, it's because I already fixed this issue a year ago in my fork on GitHub.
Would someone like to merge in my changes? I added some isset() checks to fix this issue for now. I also added a patch to set the menu_order value when a new Page/Post is created.
Let me know if I can help anyone further. I love this plugin. :)
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Dennis Franchione needed only one word to endear himself to Aggies.
By opening his introductory news conference with Texas A&M's traditional greeting, Franchione showed the school's faithful he already was one of them. Any chill he might've felt from supporters of predecessor R.C. Slocum, the winningest coach in school history, melted with those two syllables.
"He did his homework the night before," said Miles Marks, head of the 12th Man foundation, A&M's athletic booster club. "The guy doesn't miss anything."
Since being hired from Alabama in December to replace Slocum, the winningest coach in school history, the detail-oriented Franchione, a former coach at New Mexico, has gotten deeply involved in all things A&M.
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A Franchione tradition everywhere he's coached, this was a public viewing of the team's spring weightlifting testing. The initial A&M event drew more than 2,000 people to G. Rollie White Coliseum.
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"In keeping with the theme Vision 20-20" -- a school initiative aimed at making A&M ranked among the nation's 10 best public universities by the year 2020 -- "we want to see 20,000 people on each side of the stadium for the spring game," Franchione wrote on his Web site.
Franchione promoted the attendance everywhere he could, including an e-mail to the entire student body.
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Your journey begins at 610 on a concrete path used by humans for a leisurely stroll. Avoid the south. Begin at the nearest lampost. Enjoy a view of the sea to your left, to your right the humans make accomodations.
As you move in the favored direction, you'll pass the wind in our hair and the sea in our shoes. Sit down if you're tired. But don't linger too long, our journey continues. Stay the course, waves to your left, four winds and tradewinds to your right. Enjoy another brief sit with family, sand, wind, sun.
Continue on until you reach the last break in the sea wall. Face the ocean. There are mysterious creatures lurking out there in the sea...somewhere. But, you will not walk that direction. Forego the obvious path to the west. You are still heading in your original direction, but now your path is made of dirt (Earth if you will). Walk the path along the fenceline until you find the break in the fence which leads to a street (approximately 85 steps). You will not pass beyond this fence. Face to the west, your path has led you to a crossroads. Take the path toward the sea for approximately 55 steps. You are now at another crossroads. Turn and face 330 degrees. Walk on this path for about 23 steps. Now take the tributary path which veers toward the right (Exactly north on the compass). You will walk 18 steps to a tree.
You are very close now. But, are you in the right place? As you stand at the tree, to the east you'll notice a tan castle with a round window in the center. To the west is a low dune, over which is the beach and the sea. If you were to continue north on the path, you would walk up a slight incline. But, your journey is complete now.
Can you keep a secret?
You are now in the very spot where an alien craft crash landed in 1972. The aliens were disoriented from the impact but enjoyed their Seaside holiday.
The object you seek is hidden at the base of the short evergreen tree. The best way to fetch it is to enter from the northeast portion of the bush. You may have kneel and reach for it. It should be covered with pine needles and earth. Please return it when you are done examining it. Please be sure to disguise it again.
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