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After five years of studying Ukraine's history and observing its politics, I thought I could no longer be shocked by Russified Ukrainians, anti-Ukrainian Russians, and those who remain proud Communists with no shame over Communism's crimes. But yesterday I read that Communists in Ukraine are preparing to erect a monument to Josef Stalin in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. (I learned about the story on the great Ukrainiana blog, which is a must-read, along with the author's @Ukroblogger Twitter feed.)
Proud Communist, Oleksandr Zubchevskyi, explains that the monument to Stalin is a tribute to the murderous totalitarian's victory over Nazi Germany in WWII. At this point, it's almost tedious to list the reasons why that view is imbecilic: Stalin's pre-war alliance with Hitler emboldened Nazi Germany and helped the war happen; Stalin's pre-war purges of his Army's officers weakened the Soviet military and likely made the war a longer conflict than it would have been; Stalin's victory over Hitler meant that much of Europe exchanged one murderous tyrant for another.
But even if Stalin had been a masterful tactician whose leadership was the main reason for Germany's defeat, would that mitigate his crimes? Would that make it appropriate for a monument to stand in the nation where millions were intentionally starved on his orders and millions of others deported to Siberia?
The monument is an outrage, and it is more evidence that the Communist Party should have been made illegal after the fall of the Soviet Union, just as the Nazi party was banned in Germany after the war. Instead, there were no trials of Communist and KGB criminals, no acknowledgment of Soviet crimes.
The real outrage, though, is that this is another instance of anti-Ukrainian, pro-Communist bias that will likely be ignored by the same entities that were up in arms over then-President Viktor Yushchenko's honor of WWII-era Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera. The European Parliament condemned the honor, citing Bandera's alliance early in the war with Nazi Germany. Never mind that Bandera was later arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp, or that his two brothers died in Auschwitz. (As I explained in this post, Bandera's alliance with Nazi Germany, like the entire war, was a more complicated affair than most acknowledge.) Those waiting for anyone in the West to condemn the monument to Stalin will likely wait a long time.
Stalin had the advantage of being on the winning side of the war, so he seldom elicits the rage that Hitler does. The world learned about the crimes of Stalinism more gradually. But by now, we know enough that those who would deny Stalin's crimes by building a monument to him deserve the same derision as those who deny the Holocaust. Even Zubchevskyi seems to know this, as he says the monument will be guarded around the clock to prevent attacks. Here's hoping the people of Ukraine make sure the guards work hard for their pay.
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Nirvana Homecoming Message 2013
There is absolutely no excuse for this sort of behavior when we have Google. If you don't know who Nirvana is, and that is totally acceptable if you're not in a certain age bracket, use the internet to figure it out before emailing their record label.
This is my entire problem with American youth today. They are, in general, incredibly lazy and poorly informed. Pick up a book and learn something. Do some research before you just blow your load everywhere with the wrong information.
Why the rant?
Gawker.com has revealed the letter that a college student has sent to Sub Pop, the former record label of Nirvana, requesting that "She" do a quick video for Homecoming Week.
What make this a funny read and not a sad one are the responses in the peanut gallery of the story found here. Read, and enjoy.
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Vanuatu's moves to expel Australian police over spying allegations would expose the region to international drug gangs, according to Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty.
Federal officials are trying to have dropped a demand that three Australian police and two AusAid workers leave the Pacific island within 10 days.
Vanuatu's new government, headed by Prime Minister Serge Vohor, was elected on a platform that included ending foreign influence in the country.
Foreign Minister Barak Sope, who has written to his Australian counterpart, Alexander Downer, demanding the expulsions, has been a constant critic of Australian "interference".
Mr Sope, a former prime minister, was jailed for fraud in 2001, but pardoned this year. The charges related to signing government-backed letters for bank credit guarantees worth $US23 million ($A33.2 million) for an Indian businessman.
He faces a fresh charge over the issue today but is also appealing against the original conviction. Security for the guarantees was allegedly the largest ruby in the world, worth $A300 million - a claim ridiculed by gem experts.
There is concern in diplomatic circles that the expulsions could mark an isolationist move by Vanuatu, forcing Australia to withdraw vital aid support and get tough on the corruption issue.
Australian police have been based in Vanuatu for several years, assisting local police on transnational crime investigations, particularly drug trafficking, as part of Australia's aid program.
Mr Keelty yesterday said international drug syndicates could further infiltrate the Pacific if the police were forced to leave. Vanuatu's previous administration had said the police work was valuable, he said.
"The Pacific island nations are being targeted by trans-national criminals, organised crime out of South-East Asia," he said.
"I hope negotiations will mean that we can get over this little rough patch and continue the good work we are all doing."
Local press reports said the expulsions were requested because it was believed inappropriate information was being passed back to Canberra.
In a statement, Mr Sope said the Australians must leave to ensure local police and the public "are not confused over the role of the police".
A spokesman for Mr Downer confirmed a letter requesting the withdrawals had been received. "We hope it can be resolved," he said. "We are disappointed about what they have suggested."
Australia would reject any allegations of spying, the spokesman said.
Mr Sope and his supporters have previously accused Australian police of espionage and demanded they leave Vanuatu.
In 2001, he claimed an Australian drug investigation team was involved in tapping his phone. Australia had attempted to overthrow his government, Mr Sope claimed.
Vanuatu is a collection of 80 Melanesian islands, in the south-west Pacific, with a population of about 200,000. It has been independent since 1980.


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Republicans who hold a 5-4 majority on the Salt Lake County Council are willing to consider a tax increase but maybe not as much as Mayor Peter Corroon recommended to balance a "challenging" 2013 budget, Council Chairman David Wilde said Tuesday.
"We all recognize the challenging financial situation this county finds itself in," he said at the end of a budget discussion, the council's fourth since Nov. 8 when Corroon, a Democrat, recommended a 17.5 percent tax increase to balance his proposed 2013 budget of $788 million.
Corroon's proposal would cost an additional $64 annually for the owner of a $238,000 home, the county's median value.
"The Republican side of this [council], we're willing to consider some revenue enhancement, but I'm not sure we're willing to go to the level the mayor is requesting," Wilde said. "Maybe we'll find some cutbacks and limitations and meet halfway on revenue enhancement compared to continued austerity.
"But we'll have to wait and see," he added.
There's not much waiting time left, however. If the council decides a property-tax increase is necessary, it must settle on a figure by Nov. 28. That's the deadline for publishing a legal notice advertising the council's Dec. 11 public hearing on the 2013 budget and whatever tax hike is being considered.
And with the Thanksgiving holiday weekend taking a few days off the schedule, County Council financial adviser Dave Delquadro said, "We'll come back on Monday at 5 p.m. and chop a lot of wood. We don't have a lot of time."
To set the stage for that meeting, the council asked Corroon to give Delquadro a list of projects in the mayor's budget that could be delayed or cut to avoid a tax hike.
But even with a few cuts, Delquadro earlier warned the council that the county's continuing financial needs may be so great that Corroon's proposed 17.5 percent tax increase may not be enough.
"The tax increase gives you the ability to have adequate fund balances until 2016," he said. But at that point, the council would face another tax bump or deeper cuts.
Delquadro also raised the possibility of revising the formula for reimbursing county employees for wages and benefits that were cut when the Great Recession was raging in 2008 and 2009.
Corroon proposed boosting wages 1.75 percent and benefits 2 percent to finish restoring employee compensation packages to pre-recession levels.
Delquadro suggested it might be less expensive for Salt Lake County over the long run if the council gave employees a bigger chunk of cash and left it up to them to determine how to address their own benefits packages.
Besides Corroon's proposed 17.5 percent tax increase, his plan for 2013 also includes a tax hike for homeowners of about $18 a year to support the County Library System.
Increased tipping fees at the landfill are part of the proposal as well.
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P Whatever 2013 budget and tax increase the Salt Lake County Council adopts will be subject to a public hearing 6 p.m. Dec. 11 at the County Government Center, 2001 S. State St.


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For the Tennessee History Teacher of the Year award, a panel of teachers, administrators and academics from across the state selected Marks based on her use of primary documents in the classroom and the level of inspiration that she provides to her students and her career achievements in education.
In addition, WHS was named a Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School, which allows the school to receive invitations to regional forums with noted historians and access to an exclusive section of the Gilder Lehrman website. The WHS library will receive an archive of books and historical resources.


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wikiHow to Find Reliable Sellers on eBay
Finding a good seller can make, or break, your experience with eBay. If you decide to 'test the water' and then get ripped off, your chances are less that you will come back. eBay has come up with a few ways to help ensure that you have some say about your experience there.
1Look at the price. Is it too good to be true? Chances are, it is too good to be true. It could have been stolen, maybe it isn't working, etc. Try to find if there is a reason for the low price.
- Sometimes, a seller will start a 'minimum' bid, but he won't take anything less than a certain amount. Just because the price is 0.99 cents, doesn't mean that it would be sold for that. Take that into consideration.
2Check the seller's feedback profile. That is the number by the star. This will lead you to a screen where you can check the numbers and what was said. By recent, the numbers go back 1 month, 6 months, and 12 months.
3Ask a question. Don't be afraid of opening a dialog with the seller. A good seller will encourage communication in order to get your business.
4Look around. Don't stop at the first seller that looks ok. You might think that everything is fine, until you look at others and get the opportunity to compare. He may be the best...but then again, maybe not.
5Look at the item. What condition is it in? What condition do you expect it to be in?
6Read the description of the item thoroughly. Has this item been in use for the last decade...in storage for a while, or only driven by his grandma on Sunday.
7Look at the type of image being displayed. Is it a photo of the actual object, or is it a stock photo of the item. (e.g. a stock image of a Canon camera lens, or the actual picture of the lens you are trying to buy).
8Look closely at the actual feedback. It's your money. Be sure you are getting what you want.
9Save the seller. Once you have found a good seller, 'save' him. That makes it easier for you to look him up and find out if he has anything you might be interested in buying.
10Use the Buyer Protection Program.
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Wednesday, April 20:
Art and an anchor: I don't usually blog this late, but I have two very important things to share:
1. Tonight I saw CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer in the snack aisle at my local CVS; and
2. I won't be around the next couple days because I'm spending the weekend in New York for my birthday. I will, of course, have plenty of tales to tell when I return — among other activities, I plan on seeing the new Diane Arbus and Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibits. And tomorrow I attend my first Nationals game, so maybe I'll finally be able to buy one of those little hats with a "W" on it.
As for Wolf, I realize it's kind of a lame celebrity sighting, but that's as exciting as it gets in D.C. I didn't see him buy anything, but he appeared to be eyeing the beverages. Posted 10:52 a.m.
She's crafty: I'm eagerly awaiting my friend Camille's television debut. HGTV visited her pottery studio not long ago to film a segment for Crafters Coast to Coast, a feel-good, do-it-yourself program that shows viewers just how easy it is to make jewelry and rugs and tissue covers and what have you. (Go here to see how Camille makes a porcelain tray.) The most embarrassing part of filming, Camille told me, was when the producer told her to hoist her tray, look into the camera and exclaim, "I made this!" If that moment makes it into the show, she'll never live it down. Posted 4:33 p.m.
"Road Warrior was so over the top": Eleven Mad Max fans. Fake machine guns. One tanker truck. What could possibly go wrong? (Thanks to Gene S. for the link.) Posted 4:19 p.m.
Candy, unwrapped: How is it possible a new animated feature features the voice of John Candy, who died 11 years ago? He recorded his part in the early '90s, along with Madeline Kahn, who died in 1999. The Magic 7 also includes voice work from Kevin Bacon, Ted Danson, Michael J. Fox and Demi Moore. Posted 3:40 p.m.
I like your sleeves: I keep forgetting to mention that I'm featured in a magazine this month. The kind folks at Instinct asked me about everything from Napoleon Dynamite to Jeff Goldblum to my lovely gay friends. (Yep, it's a gay men's mag. But the rest of us read it for the articles!) I managed to squeeze in references to Maude, Harold and Maude and Cloris Leachman. If you want to check it out, you can't miss it: I'm featured in the swimsuit issue. Posted 2:38 p.m.
Cojo canned: I'm not a huge fan of fashion enthusiast Steven Cojocaru, but I was mildly interested in this story. He says the Today show fired him after he agreed to talk about his recent kidney transplant on Oprah. The appearance airs tomorrow. Posted 2:33 p.m.
Epic domain: I can only hope Disney's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe movie will be as eye-popping as its Chronicles of Narnia Web site, which just launched. Thanks to Tony P. for the link, which will have to amuse us until the flick comes out in December. Posted 11:03 a.m.
Good influence: Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels attended last night's party for Time's "100 Most Influential People" issue in New York. As you can see, Etheridge's hair has grown a bit more since her memorable Grammy performance.
One more reason to hate Paris Hilton: TVGuide.com is reporting that Fox has cancelled Tru Calling— again. There are only two episodes left in the series, which was originally shelved last year. Now Fox is depriving fans of seeing next week's final episode by airing The Simple Life instead. Posted 10:55 a.m.
Shields' Journey: I just came across a blurb about Brooke Shields' new memoir, which I assumed was going to be a happy, tell-all, Jane Fonda sort of thing, but it turns out to be about the postpartum depression she suffered after the birth of her daughter. Here's a small excerpt: "At first I thought what I was feeling was just exhaustion, but with it came an overriding sense of panic that I had never felt before with fatigue," she writes. "This was sadness of a shockingly different magnitude. It felt as if it would never go away." Posted 10:48 a.m.
Pulling a Sinead: Now, was it really necessary to have an Amazing Race contestant shave her head last night? I've seen countless bug-eating stunts, but few things horrified me more than watching poor Joyce say goodbye to her hair. Posted 10:31 a.m.
Penn station: Last night's Interpreter premiere in New York attracted loads of stars, including Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn. Also there: Nicole Kidman, Sheryl Crow, Naomi Watts, Tim Robbins and Kelly Lynch.
Birthday present: Has Ben Affleck proposed to Jennifer Garner? That's what Star magazine is saying, anyway. The mag claims Affleck popped the question at her 33rd birthday party Saturday and gave her a $500,000 engagement ring. Posted 10:25 a.m.
The other Corey: Keeping with this morning's "Where are they now?" theme, a reader just sent me a link to The Goonies' 20th anniversary celebration in June. The Astoria, Ore., gathering will feature screenings of a new Goonies documentary, an appearance by Jeff "Chunk" Cohen and three-hour bus tours of movie sites. Posted 10:17 a.m.
Another actor update: "That bowl cut really drove me insane," 16-year-old Jake Lloyd now says of his role as Anakin Skywalker in 1999's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Here's the first interview Lloyd has done in six years. As you can see in the video, his voice has changed and he looks like a typical teen. "I've aged," he says, "but grown up? No." Posted 10:03 a.m.
Bigger than ever: I kind of wish I hadn't seen this interview with Corey Haim — although he says he's clean and sober, he's gained a lot of weight lately, and he'd be virtually unrecognizable if it weren't for the voice. He chatted with a Toronto TV station to promote the DVD release of License to Drive. Posted 9:50 a.m.
Tuesday, April 19:
Flee to me, remote elf: On Friday I attended a sold-out screening Palindromes, Todd Solondz's new movie. Afterward, the director chatted with the audience, though several hands lingered in the air when he left — I guess when your film includes pedophilia, abortion, religion and eight actors playing the role of a 13-year-old girl, you have to leave at some point, because the questions could go on all night.
Anyway, here are a few nuggets you might not already know:
So many dynamos: Here's Todd Solondz (center) with Palindromes stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, left, and Ellen Barkin at the April 5 premiere. How did he snag such big names? "I offered them the script," he says simply.
- Solondz said he consults parents of his child actors at length, and they're "always around" during the filmmaking process. He added, "If I did have a child, I certainly would feel good about a child acting in one of my movies. Commercials for Wendy's or The Gap ... to me, that's an obscenity." (Cue applause from the mostly 30-something crowd.)
- Heather Matarazzo was approached to reprise her role of Dawn Wiener from Welcome to the Dollhouse, but she declined. "It was very painful for me," Solondz said. "I begged her, 'Please, you represent this character. I want to bring you back.' And she refused me. She made it clear it was over."
- Despite its controversial subject matter, Solondz calls Palindromes "as un-dogmatic a movie as you can get" and doesn't expect it to alter anyone's political convictions: "When Michael Moore made Fahrenheit 9/11, did it, in fact, change anyone's mind?"
- Before the film started, the fast-talking, head-scratching director assured us it was OK to laugh ... and added it was fine if we didn't. Several people in the audience, including the couple behind me, alternated between loud chuckles and gasps from from start to finish. Posted 12:50 p.m.
Well, I declare: "I don't know if you knew about this already, but this just made a bad morning so much better," Hip Clicks reader Bob R. writes. You can now pre-order the DVDs on Amazon.com for $34.99. Posted 11:16 a.m.
Q*bert needs a wheelchair: I wish I were traveling to Los Angeles soon, so I could see this art exhibit that pays tribute to '70s and '80s video games. One painting, Pac-Man in Hospice, imagines how the icon would've aged. In another, a portrait of Hunter S. Thompson accompanies an image from Nintendo's Duck Hunt. Posted 11:12 a.m.
Charmed no more?: The season finale of Charmed could also serve as a series finale, should the show be cancelled, according to executive producer Brad Kern. For those of us who don't watch the show, Kern's revelation that "the girls have to figure out how to get the book back before Zankou can use it to be able to tap into the power of the spiritual nexus and then become unstoppable" will mean, well, absolutely nothing. Posted 11:06 a.m.
Rimes' reason: Leann Rimes has stepped down as the host of Nashville Star because of a broken blood vessel in her vocal cord. On tonight's show, Bret Michaels tries to cheer up fans by performing Poison's Ain't Nothin' But A Good Time, and "his new country single." Seriously. In case you hadn't heard, he's a "new breed of American cowboy" now. Posted 10:44 a.m.
Today in South Africa: Will Smith met with Nelson Mandela before peforming at a concert celebrating the launch of MTV's first pan-African music channel and 100th channel worldwide.
Bitter Pill: What could be weirder than Alanis Morissette's acoustic re-release of Jagged Little Pill? The fact that, for the first six weeks, it will only be sold at Starbucks. Posted 10:35 a.m.
Lend her your ears: Last night I caught a few minutes of Sarah Vowell's appearance on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, which airs on our local public radio station. In her new book, Assassination Vacation, Vowell travels to sites related to presidential assassinations, and manages to make it equally informative and funny. The whole interview is online here, if you'd like to listen. Posted 10:31 a.m.
I'm highly qualified: Wanna watch TV all day and get paid for it? Then Jimmy Kimmel wants you. Posted 10:17 a.m.
Britney link of the day: Last week the pregnant pop star ate ice cream and saw The Ring 2. Fascinating. Posted 10:11 a.m.
Reality wedding: Survivor and Amazing Race couple Rob and Amber reportedly got married over the weekend. Not surprisingly, the nuptials will air on CBS during May sweeps. Posted 10:04 a.m.
Your vote counts: Among the Discovery Channel's weirdest nominees for the title of "greatest American": Dr. Phil, Tom Cruise, Michael Moore, Tom Hanks and Michael Jackson. (They're up against the likes of Albert Einstein and Thomas Jefferson.) The results will be revealed on a June 5 TV special. Posted 9:56 a.m.
One fine mess: It doesn't sound like Natasha Lyonne has a lot of friends in New York right now. Yesterday she missed a court appearance for allegedly threatening to harm her neighbor's dog. In an upcoming issue of Jane magazine, actor Michael Rapaport, who's also Lyonne's former landlord, says she left her apartment a mess, with "garbage everywhere, scripts, contracts, pages from Hustler magazine ... and things I can't even mention." She's still acting, though. Here's the trailer for her next flick, Max and Grace, in which she plays, er, a mental patient with a death wish. Posted 9:45 a.m.
Happy and rested: Now that I've sifted through my mail and e-mail (you'd think I'd been gone a month instead of a day), I can finally get back to blogging. And no, Jen S., I didn't take the day off because I needed to "recuperate from that disturbing opening scene in The L Word," though I will never look a toilet seat the same way again. I was merely using my Chas 'n' Camilla free day — I drew the short straw and had to work during their wedding a couple weeks ago.
Most of my time off was spent in bookstores and coffee shops, catching up on my reading and lit-searching. My best purchase: the brand new R. Crumb Handbook, an autobiography of the cartoonist. I eventually had to force myself to put the book down, or else I would've read the $25 tome in a day. Not only is it chock full of Robert Crumb's art and life story, it comes with a CD of his favorite tunes. I'm counting the hours until I can pick it up again. Posted 9:30 a.m.
Monday, April 18:
Taking a break: I actually have the day off, so I won't be blogging much more. Feel free to send me any juicy stories you come across, though, and I'll catch up tomorrow morning. Have a lovely day! Posted 10:02 a.m.
Major spoilers: How could the novelization of Revenge of the Sith already be on sale? In this story, the publicist for the book says "she has never received an angry phone call ... complaining that the novelization had spoiled the movie," even though the author admits that, yes, his book gives away the entire story. Posted 9:56 a.m.
Best of the best: I'm sick to death of Rolling Stone's lists, and, overall, I wasn't too impressed with its latest roundup of the "100 greatest artists of all time." The only good thing about it is each entry is written by a fellow artist; for instance, Liz Phair writes about Elvis Costello and Keith Richards writes about Gram Parsons. You can read some of the tributes here. Posted 9:52 a.m.
Spring Rainn: We've seen him on Six Feet Under and Almost Famous. He now has a regular role on The Office. But, really, who is Rainn Wilson? "The weirdest thing about all-'round weirdo-portrayer Rainn Wilson is that his name is 'Rainn,'" says this Fametracker profile. "This is the sort of handle that belongs on members of the Phoenix family, or cashiers at Whole Foods, not a tall, doughy white guy with suspicious, beady eyes and a squirrelly demeanor." Posted 9:45 a.m.
Rocky couple: Ex-Libertine Pete Doherty is now saying he's going to marryKate Moss this summer. The whole thing could go off without a hitch, provided he can stay out of jail. Posted 9:45 a.m.
Calling Orson: I hate to say it, but I watched the unauthorized Mork & Mindy movie a couple weeks ago. (It was awesome — the guy playing Garry Marshall had fake teeth and a fake nose.) Robin Williams didn't see it, though: "I knew something was up when I asked (NBC) for a script," he says in this interview. "They said, 'No, we don't have that.'" Posted 9:39 a.m.
American wedding: Ira Glass, host of NPR's This American Life, is getting married this summer. He's also a fan of The O.C. and Howard Stern. Learn more fun facts about the public radio icon from this Q&A, then go here to listen to some archived shows. (The theme for next week's program: sissies!) Posted 9:33 a.m.
Playing with Nails: Want to mess around with the new Nine Inch Nails single? It's OK, Trent Reznor wants you to— that's why he posted the song on his Web site. "Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you'd like," he says. Just head to nin.com to start the process. Posted 9:24 a.m.
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Moreover, liberation has come to the Libyans by courtesy of international law, and they have a reciprocal duty to abide by it.
Many will refuse to abide by the government edict and will choose to remain home, often isolated.
As long as they abide by their own internal rules of governance, the secular society imposes no meddling restrictions.
"I never could abide the looks of him," said Samantha, peering over Miss Vilda's shoulder.
Why—if some of Caterina's house must escort her and abide with her—why not her brother Zorzi?
It is simply to proceed as we have begun, and to abide by our declared principles.
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Daniel Inouye, Hawaii Patron in Congress, Dies at 88
Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese ancestry who lost his right arm fighting for his country in World War II and went on to represent Hawaii in Congress for its first half century as a state, has died. He was 88.
He died yesterday from respiratory complications at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, according to a statement from his office. He was taken to Walter Reed earlier this month so doctors could monitor his oxygen intake, the Associated Press reported.
A visibly distraught Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the floor of the Senate to share the news. "We will all miss him, and that is a gross understatement," said Reid, a Nevada Democrat. "He is certainly one of the giants of the Senate." The chamber's Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Inouye exemplified Americans "who lead by example and who expect nothing in return."
Only Robert Byrd of West Virginia, with 51 1/2 years, served longer in the Senate than did Inouye, who began his 50th year in January 2012. Byrd's death in June 2010 made Inouye the president pro tem of the Senate, a largely ceremonial title given to the most-senior member of the majority party.
Inouye was known mostly for delivering money to his home state and for being called upon to bring fairness and discretion to some of Congress's most sensitive endeavors.
Investigated Abuses
He served on the special Senate committee that investigated the Watergate scandal in 1973-1974. When Congress created the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1976, to look into alleged abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency, Inouye was named its first chairman.
In 1987, he was Senate chairman of the bicameral committee that investigated the Iran-Contra affair. He served as acting chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee when it admonished Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat, for accepting gifts from a constituent. The admonishment ultimately drove Torricelli from his bid for a second term.
Inouye's long tenure finally landed him one of the most important posts in the Senate, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which each year distributes more than $1 trillion in federal spending. Inouye, first appointed to the committee in 1971, was 84 when he took over the committee from Byrd, then 90, at the start of 2009.
'Dominant Figure'
He was long "the dominant figure in Hawaii politics," according to a profile in the Almanac of American Politics, as well as the only politician who "held major office in Hawaii in every year since statehood."
Even as criticism mounted of the congressional practice of earmarking -- adding an item to a spending bill for a specific recipient, without competition or congressional hearing -- Inouye remained a proud practitioner, assuring that a large slice of military funding in particular made it back to his home state.
"I'm the No. 1 earmarks guy in the U.S. Congress," he told a group of Hawaii business leaders in August 2009, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
He spoke out against a proposed earmark moratorium throughout 2010, finally relenting as a new Congress began work early in 2011.
Noting that the Republican majority in the House had vowed not to pass earmarks, and President Barack Obama had pledged to veto legislation containing them, Inouye said, "Given the reality before us, it makes no sense to accept earmark requests that have no chance of being enacted into law."
'Incredible Bravery'
Obama said of Inouye yesterday in a statement:
"In Washington, he worked to strengthen our military, forge bipartisan consensus, and hold those of us in government accountable to the people we were elected to serve. But it was his incredible bravery during World War II -- including one heroic effort that cost him his arm but earned him the Medal of Honor -- that made Danny not just a colleague and a mentor, but someone revered by all of us lucky enough to know him."
Under state law, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, like Inouye a Democrat, will appoint a senator from a list of three candidates submitted by their state party. That person will serve until 2014, when voters will choose a senator to fill the final two years of Inouye's term, which expires in January 2017.
Daniel Ken Inouye was born on Sept. 7, 1924, in Honolulu, the eldest of four children. His paternal grandparents had left Japan for Hawaii when Inouye's father was 4 to work in the sugar plantations.
Pearl Harbor
The future senator was 17 in December 1941 when Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, and he volunteered in the medical rescue effort there.
In 1942, even as some Japanese-Americans on the West Coast of mainland U.S. were being forced into internment camps, Inouye joined other second-generation Japanese-Americans, or Nisei, in volunteering to serve in the U.S. military. He was assigned to the segregated, all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which would become highly decorated for its actions in combat in Europe.
Inouye became a platoon leader, then received a battlefield commission as a second lieutenant. In April 1945, during a battle in Italy, he led his platoon against a heavily defended hill, destroying a machine-gun nest with two hand grenades even after being struck by a bullet in his abdomen. A German rifle grenade exploded near him, shattering his right arm. He kept fighting before finally being disabled by a bullet to his leg.
Long Recovery
His right arm gone, Inouye spent 20 months recovering at an Army hospital in Michigan. He was promoted to captain before his honorable discharge.
Following his military service, Inouye continued to feel the sting of racism. In an interview for the Ken Burns documentary, "The War," he recalled walking into a barbershop in Oakland, California, while in uniform and after losing his arm. "We don't cut Jap hair," he recalled being told.
Among other medals and citations, Inouye received a Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in combat. In 2000, after a military review of Distinguished Service Cross awards to Japanese-American soldiers, his was upgraded to a Medal of Honor, which President Bill Clinton presented to him at a White House ceremony.
Inouye graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1950 and, in 1952, earned a law degree at George Washington University Law School in Washington. He practiced law in Honolulu and won election to Hawaii's territorial legislature.
First Congressman
After Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state, in August 1959, Inouye won election to the U.S. House as Hawaii's first congressman. He won his Senate seat in 1962.
At the protest-ridden 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, Inouye gave what the New York Times called "an unusually candid" keynote speech that focused not on defending the party of President Lyndon Johnson but on the problems of the "immoral" Vietnam War, racial discrimination and violence in U.S. cities.
"Whether we know it or not, the marching feet of youth have led us into a new era of politics and we can never turn back," he said.
With his wife, Margaret, who died in 2006, Inouye had a son, Daniel Jr., who is a lobbyist. In 2008, Inouye married Irene Hirano, who was then president of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
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Calcific aortic stenosis is the most common aortic valve (AV) disease and is triggered by an active inflammatory process involving endothelial activation and cytokine expression. Interfacing between the leaflet and the surrounding blood flow, shear stress is presumed to play an important role in endothelial injury. This study investigated the hypothesis that pathologic alterations in shear stress magnitude contribute to valvular endothelial activation via BMP-4- and TGF-β1-dependent mechanisms. The fibrosa of porcine AV leaflets was subjected to physiologic, sub-physiologic and supra-physiologic magnitudes of native oscillatory shear stress for 48 h. Endothelial activation was assessed via immunohistochemistry in terms of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expressions. Cytokine expression was investigated in terms of BMP-4 and TGF-β1. Pro- and anti-osteogenic media were used to characterize the role of those cytokines in the shear stress-induced pathological response. Supra-physiologic shear stress increased the expression of all biomarkers in a shear stress magnitude-dependent manner. In contrast, neither physiologic nor sub-physiologic shear stress elicited a pro-inflammatory response. While BMP-4 inhibition and supplementation had limited effects on endothelial activation, TGF-β1 supplementation increased the overall leaflet pro-inflammatory state and TGF-β1 inhibition reduced endothelial activation in response to elevated shear stress. Combined TGF-β1 and BMP-4 inhibition completely suppressed shear stress-induced endothelial activation. The results demonstrate that elevated shear stress activates the valvular endothelium on the fibrosa via a BMP-4- and TGF-β1-dependent pathway. The suggested synergy between those cytokines also provides new insights into the transduction of valvular hemodynamic alterations into a pathological response.


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Letter from Jemison & Maxwell
to George Washington Bennett
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Natchez 7th. July 1837
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to the authorities in such a short period of time. The Governor, who was in Poughkeepsie had the deposition in his hand on July 11th. He responded:
"Poughkeepsie the 11th July 1778.
"Sir, I have this Moment received your Letter Dated 2 o'Clock this Morning together with one from Colo. Cantine of yesterday inclosing an Affidavit & a Letter addressed to the Inhabitants of Kingston &c. (said to be wrote by Order of the Anandago Indians) inclosed containing Accounts of the Hostile Designs of the Indians & Tories on our Western Frontiers. By a Letter I received yesterday from Colo. Gaansevoort, at Fort Schuyler, I am informed that a number of Regular Troops from Canada & Indians were assembled at Osewigatje from whence they were directly to Proceed ag't Fort Schuyler. This Account which came to Colo. Gaansevoort so as to obtain his full Credit induces me to put greater Faith in Dumond's Affidavit, for I think it more than probable if the Enemy seriously intend any Thing ag't that Post, they will keep small Parties out on our Frontiers, constantly alarming the Inhabitants to prevent the Militia from marching to the Relief of that Garrison, which is, I am sorry to say, neither sufficiently strong or well provided to resist a formidable attack.
"This is the most critical & unfavorable Period to have the Peace of our Frontiers disturbed. Genl. Washington's Army not having arrived I dare not withdraw the Militia from the Posts in the Highlands. Harvest being at Hand forbids the ordering & keeping out the whole or indeed a large Proportion of the Militia for and Space of Time. I don't know that any Thing more can be done but keep out those already so stationed as to get the earliest Intelligence of the Enemy's Motions & occasionally to strengthen them, if on the Approach of the Enemy it may appear necessary. I woud apprize you that strong Detachments are out towards Minissink & Peenpack from MvCaghry's & Allison's Regts., between whom & Coll. Cantine a constant Communication shoud be maintained, for the Purposes of gaining Intelligence & Cooperating with each other. I expect Colo. Cantine to whom you will please forward this Letter will increase the Guards on the Frontiers by ordering out a greater part of the Militia if he shall Judge it necessary, without waiting for further Orders. I must submit to you & him whether Gonsalus & Oosterhoudt ought not to be immediately secured. This will depend on their Characters & other Circumstances. I am your most Obed't Serv't [G.C.]
Colo. Levy Pawling & to be forwarded to Colo. Cantine.
Harmanus names Johannis Vanwagenen as one of the Pakatakan residents who went with him down river (east branch of Delaware) to the meeting in Pepacton. Vanwagenen was one of those earliest settlers in the Margaretville/Arkville area. George Barnhart, who requested the meeting, was born in 1747 and claimed to be a large land-owner (actually he leased the land) in the Pepacton area. He had four sons and two daughters. At least two of the sons were credited with serving with the British -- Jacob, who was born in 1768, and enlisted on 2 Dec 1780; and Nicholas, born in 1771, and joined at the same time as his brother (being only 9 years old, and 4'6'' tall). (Loyalist records) George had been involved with the Tories for several months, assisting Col. John Butler, and had been imprisoned for a time. He went on to become a sergeant in the King's Royal Regiment, in which he was officially enlisted on 22 May 1780. He settled in Canada in 1784. Johannis Barnhart, born in 1746 and served with Brant on scouting expeditions, and was with him at the battle of Minisink, July 22, 1779, and in one engagement was wounded. He joined the King's Royal Regiment on 1 February 1780, serving with Munro from 1781-83. He also settled in Ontario, Canada. One of the other men who probably went to Pepacton with Dumond was "the noted villian" John Snow, who had gone with the Tories on their raid on Lackawack, was captured when someone (possibly Harmanus Dumond) alerted Lieut. Westbrook of Col. Cantine's regiment that he was at Pakatakan. He was captured there just before July, 30th, as Col. Cantine reported to Gov. Clinton. (vol. III, p. 597)
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Our neighbors to the north get their man, allegedly.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says it arrested the perp behind the recent hack of the country's tax agency. The allegedly-Heartbleed-mediated alleged hacker, one Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, is charged with "mischief in relation to data." Oh, Canada!
In other news, nasty new implications of the OpenSSL bug continue to come to light.
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He's an anonymous Aunty author and he's OK:
A 19-year-old Canadian became the first person to be arrested in relation to the Heartbleed [vulnerability]. Solis-Reyes...was accused of hacking into the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA)'s website.
…The Heartbleed bug was made public a week ago by Google and Codenomicon. ... The bug exploits a flaw in OpenSSL.
...The RCMP, which has been investigating the breach for four days, charged Mr Solis-Reyes with "unauthorized use of a computer" and "mischief in relation to data." MORE
With his best girlie by his side, Stephen Lawson will sing, sing, sing:
After discovering the attack, the agency temporarily halted online filing of tax returns.
…The RCMP arrested Solis-Reyes ...searched his residence and seized computer equipment. [He] is scheduled to appear in court in Ottawa on July 17. MORE
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The RCMP treated this breach of security as a high priority case and mobilized the necessary resources to resolve the matter as quickly as possible. Investigators from National Division, along with our counterparts in "O" Division have been working tirelessly over the last four days analyzing data, following leads, conducting interviews, obtaining and executing legal authorizations and liaising with our partners. MORE
Meanwhile, Dan Goodin has more "catastrophic" news (and has buttered scones for tea):
Private encryption keys have been successfully extracted multiple times from a virtual private network server running the widely used OpenVPN.
…[Shops using] any OpenVPN server—and likely servers using any other VPN application that may rely on OpenSSL—should follow the multistep path for recovering from Heartbleed. ... Because Heartbleed may have leaked the private key...users may still be susceptible to attacks.
...To fully recover from Heartbleed, administrators should also revoke their old key certificates, ensure all end user applications are updated with a current certificate revocation list, and reissue new keys. MORE
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Note that this statement is about OpenVPN Access Server, the commercial distribution of OpenVPN.
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Congratulations to the 700 people who attended the Wells Fargo Home Preservation Workshop and received lower interest rates as low 3.25 and as much as $400 reductions in mortgage payments! Listen below to hear Rob Wilson!
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So the best defender of the decade, in terms of overall runs saved, is Andruw Jones, with 161 runs saved. If you look at runs saved per 150 defensive games, given at least 500 defensive games, the leader is… Andruw Jones, at +20 per. If you combine runs saved with positional value, then the best is still Andruw Jones. Last year, Andruw played DH for much of the year… I don't think I've ever seen a player age so fast.
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The Coalition will announce an ambitious policy to reduce regulation of the aged-care sector next week and will consider rewriting the Aged Care Act completely, a leaked document says.
In correspondence sent to the office of the Coalition's spokesperson for mental health and ageing,
The document, which is uncosted as a whole, re-announces a 2010 promise to negotiate a four-year aged-care provider agreement with the sector, which includes retirement villages and nursing homes. The policy also has 20 measures to reduce red tape.
The agreement seeks to provide the sector with certainty over time that regulations and funding arrangements will not be renegotiated at short notice and aims to portray a Coalition government as more consultative than Labor.
The policy document says the negotiation of the agreement, which would begin from July 2014, would include public and private aged-care providers, patient advocacy bodies and the Australian Medical Association as well as religious and not-for-profit providers.
It describes the agreement as "the most comprehensive of its kind – akin in scale to the Pharmacy Agreement with the Pharmacy Guild or the memorandum of understanding the government has with Medicines Australia".
Approvals would be simplified
Key ways to reduce red tape include reducing complexity of approval rounds for new facilities, eliminating different state and federal ways of assessing new residents and merging them into one, extending accreditation periods for long-time providers with a good record, and eliminating duplication in federal, state and local government reporting requirements. The final proposal is "changing or rewriting the Aged Care Act".
"As part of our negotiations for a four-year agreement with the sector, the Coalition will give consideration as to whether the terms of the agreement will require amendment to the Aged Care Act or whether it may even be easier to start afresh with a rewrite of the act," the document states.
The draft policy would be a win for the fast-growing sector and its main players, including Bupa, Catholic Health Australia and UnitingCare Australia. It may be seen by aged-care patient advocates as a disappointment.
Although the draft policy package as a whole is uncosted, separate information on policy costings seen by the AFR Weekend show the Coalition has worked to drastically scale down the cost of its 2010 election aged-care policy from $935 million to less than $200 million for this campaign.
As of late last year, the Coalition was planning to keep proposals for a bed incentive program worth $335 million to increase the number of aged care beds and $300 million for a convalescent care program.
It also proposed that funding for a day-respite-care program be halved from $20 million to $10 million and separate dementia programs be rolled into the $268 million allocated to tackling the disease within the government's Living Longer Living Better package.
The Coalition has already committed $200 million for dementia research this campaign.
There is a large amount of bipartisan agreement on the government's $3.7 billion Living Longer Living Better aged-care policy which was passed by Parliament this year.
In the Coalition position paper leaked to AFR Weekend, MPs are advised to "criticise but support" several measures of the package, including means-testing arrangements and an increased user-pays system.
The only part of the government changes the Coalition has flagged may be under review is the workforce compact, which requires employees to sign up to enterprise bargaining agreements for their employers to receive extra government funding.
Centre for excellence in youth mental health
During the first leaders' debate at the National Press Club on August 11, Mr Abbott said: "We have no plans to make significant changes to the system that the government's put in place."
On Friday, Mr Abbott and Senator Fierravanti-Wells unveiled the Coalition's mental health policy. They pledged $18 million to establish a national centre for excellence in youth mental health and a review to assess the effectiveness of existing mental health programs.
Mr Abbott said on Friday there would be no cuts to mental health as a result of the review.
"No cuts to health. No cuts to health means no cuts to mental health. We don't rule out shifting money from bureaucracies into front-line services. We certainly don't rule out that," Mr Abbott said.
The government announced its mental health policy on Thursday night and pledged $34 million to increase the number of headspace centres around Australia to 100.
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text: Burma (also known as: Myanmar)Since 1962 the country has been ruled by extremely oppressive authoritarian military regimes. The government imposed serious restrictions and limitations on religious freedom. A 2008 nationwide referendum endorsed a new draft Constitution; however, there was no change in the government's restraints on religious freedom. The government monitors all meetings, including those of religious organizations. Permits must be obtained in order to hold public events. The government actively promotes Theravada Buddhism, while it is difficult for Christian and Islamic groups to receive government consent to repair places of worship or build new ones. Restrictions against non-Buddhist religious groups have been common. Adherence or conversion to Buddhism is an unwritten requirement for promotion to senior government and military ranks. It is reported that all senior level officers of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and the armed forces must be Buddhists. Social tensions between the Buddhist majority and the Christian and Muslim minorities are prevalent. Burmese Muslims are not considered citizens, and the government imposes restrictions on their movement, employment and marriages.The country has a population of 50 million. According to official statistics, 90 percent of the population practices Buddhism, 4 percent Christianity and 4 percent Islam. A small Jewish community resides in Rangoon but has no local rabbi. Chinese ethnic minorities practice traditional Chinese religions. Traditional indigenous beliefs are practiced in rural village areas. Citizens of Indian origin practice Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. Although the regime treats religious freedom as a possible threat to national unity, government-recognized religions are allowed some freedom of worship. However, the Constitution prohibits the "abuse of religion for political purposes." The law also criminalizes the "defamation" of religion for political reasons. It forbids members of religious orders to run for public office. A law enacted in March 2010 banned members of religious orders—including Buddhists, Christians and Hindus--from voting in upcoming elections and joining political parties.However, state-controlled media depicted government officials and family members as Buddhist monks. State-owned newspapers frequently featured front-page banner slogans quoting from Buddhist scriptures. The 1990 Sangha Organization Law banned any institution of Buddhist monks other than the nine state-recognized monastic orders. Serious consequences such as defrocking and criminal penalties occur if this law is violated. The Ministry of Religious Affairs' Department for the Perpetuation and Propagation of the Sasna supervises the government's relations with Buddhist monks and schools. The state-funded International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University in Rangoon declared its purpose "to share the country's knowledge of Buddhism with the people of the world." Buddhist values are a part of the state-mandated curriculum in all government-run elementary schools. It is optional that students attend Buddhist classes, but they are required to recite a traditional Buddhist prayer daily.Christian and Islamic texts and scripture remained censored since the 1960s. Six Muslims were arrested in December 2009 for passing out Islamic newsletters without approval. Translation of the Bible into indigenous languages is illegal. It is not required that religious organizations register with the government; however, they must get government permission in order to hold religious activities. The government discourages non-Buddhist proselytizing. It mandates that all citizens carry government-issued National Registration Cards (NRCs) that state a person's religious affiliation and ethnicity. Many ethnic and religious minorities have reported facing difficulties in getting NRCs.Government authorities often reject requests from people of Christian and Islamic faiths to hold gatherings to celebrate the traditional holidays. Muslims face restrictions on the number of people who can gather in one place. Mosques in Mandalay and Rangoon were not permitted to use loudspeakers for the Azan (call to prayer). The government claimed that it would disturb Buddhist monks. Christian and Islamic groups were discriminated against because the government restricted their educational activities, proselytizing and construction of churches and mosques. It is reported that some Christian ministers were refused residency permits. Muslims, ethnic Chinese and Indians were required to receive permission from authorities in order to leave their hometowns. Muslims are not allowed to live in Gwa or Taungup in the state. It is illegal for newcomers who are Muslim to buy property or reside in Thandwe, Rakhine State.The government arrested and imprisoned politically active Buddhist monks in an effort to control the Buddhist clergy (Sangha). It tried unapproved monks for "activities inconsistent with and detrimental to Buddhism." They were usually beaten and forced to do hard labor. They were not allowed to shave their heads and were provided food that was incompatible with the monastic code. The Thailand-based Assistance Association of Political Prisoners in Burma (AAPP) reported 252 imprisoned monks; many of them were arrested after the September 2007 peaceful pro-democracy presentations. AAPP also reported that security forces in retaliation for the monk-led demonstrations raided about 52 monasteries between September 26 and December 31, 2007. Previous reports claim that Christians had to convert to Buddhism in order to attend school; however, there have been no current reports of physically coerced religious conversion.2010 U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom on Burma


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France accepts UK beef exports
British beef has arrived in France for the first time in six years after fears over BSE prompted a ban on UK imports.
France was Britain's biggest export market until the ban was enforced in 1996.
The rest of Europe lifted the ban in 1999, but France angered UK farmers when it continued to refuse British beef imports, maintaining it was not safe to eat.
The meat, from Wales, has gone to the SIAL international food fair in Paris, where it will be displayed on the British Meat stand.
Tastings will be available at the stand and beef will be served at a British meat dinner being held for international meat importers on Monday night.
The VIP dinner will also be attended by Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett and Welsh rural affairs minister Mike German.
Remi Fourrier, manager of the Meat and Livestock Commission's (MLC) Paris office, said he was hopeful the French would soon be buying British beef.
International market boost
He said: "We were prepared for the lifting of the ban and had plans in place to help exporters regain their markets.
"We have been in contact with many of those who used to be our customers.
"There is demand for the excellent quality beef we have to offer which is very encouraging."
The Welsh beef left St Merryn Foods plant at Merthyr Tydfil earlier in the week.
Malcolm Thomas, director of the NFU in Wales, has welcomed the lifting of the ban but insisted it was long overdue.
"The restarting of exports to France is a major psychological boost to farmers but there is a lot of work to do before we recover our markets to anything near a level which could have a significant impact in market prices for individual beef farmers."
He said the European Commission's handling of the French ban on British beef was unacceptable.
He also called for heavy fines to be introduced for member states which breached EU regulations.
Fears over BSE were prompted by scientists discovering a link between BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a similar fatal, brain-wasting disease that occurs in humans.
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Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) belongs to the EGF family of growth factors. It is biologically active either as a molecule anchored to the membrane or as a soluble form released by proteolytic cleavage of the extracellular domain. HB-EGF is involved in relevant physiological and pathological processes spanning from proliferation and apoptosis to morphogenesis. We outline here the main activities of HB-EGF in connection with normal or neoplastic differentiative or proliferative events taking place primitively in the hematopoietic microenvironment.
Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF,
Basic structure, functional domains, and processing of HB-EGF.
EGF family receptors and ligands.
|ErbB/HER homo- and heterodimers activated by HB-EGF
TGF-α, transforming growth factor-α; AR, amphiregulin; BTC, betacellulin; EPR, epiregulin; NRG1/4, neuregulin-1/4.
The members of the EGF family include four groups of growth factors binding to specific cognate receptors (EGFR/ErbB1/HER1, ErbB2/HER2 to ErbB4/HER4). Upon ligand binding, the receptors associate to form a variety of di/oligomeric complexes acting as intrinsic tyrosine kinases [
HB-EGF induces receptor association, intrinsic tyrosine kinase-dependent autophosphorylation of specific tyrosine residues that serve as docking sites for intracellular signaling molecules, and activates a signaling cascade to nucleus followed by cell proliferation [
Ligation of G-protein (heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein)-coupled receptors (GPCRs) leads to ADAM-dependent cleavage [
By binding to its receptors, CXCL12 may transactivate EGFR. As described above, for example, the ligation of CXCR4 activates membrane ADAMs that release HB-EGF from cell membrane, resulting in its binding to EGFR [
A great variety of human hematological cell lines except for the B-derived ones, and blasts from a majority of acute myeloid leukemia cases express and release a fully functional HB-EGF molecule. These cells express HB-EGF mRNA, are sensitive to the cytolytic effect of diphtheria toxin exposure, and release soluble HB-EGF that exerts a strong proliferative effect on BALB/c-3T3 cells [
HB-EGF plays a role in regulating the differentiation of stromal stem cells [
HB-EGF network relevant to hematopoietic niche. Cell-to-cell interactions and gradients of cell-shed factors, including CXCL12 and HB-EGF, lock both hematopoietic and stromal stem cells in the hematopoietic niche where they support each other to keep surviving as undifferentiated cells. Hematopoietic differentiation implies both asymmetric hematopoietic stem cell mitosis and maturing progenitor escape from the niche microenvironment partly due to receptor modulation.
HB-EGF may be transcriptionally and/or functionally regulated by factors such as TNFα, ATRA, 1α,25-(OH)2D3, GM-CSF, and CXCL12 [
Leukemia encompasses a heterogeneous group of hematological malignancies characterized by a growth of immature (acute leukemias) or variously maturing (chronic leukemias) cells within the bone marrow. Clinical manifestations of acute leukemia include leukocytosis and deficient normal hematopoietic function due to leukemic cells infiltrating the bone marrow [
Multiple myeloma is another malignancy that grows within the bone marrow as a clonal expansion of plasma cells. Over unpredictable time periods, the disease leads to osteolytic bone lesions, hypercalcemia, insufficient haematopoietic function, and anomalous angiogenesis [
The role of HB-EGF in hematopoiesis is somehow surprising to us. HB-EGF is an ancient player on the field of evolution, where it plays a role in fundamental signaling mechanisms that are also involved in hematopoietic stem cell niches. It participates to such events in association with a variety of other factors and together they orchestrate the complex network of hematopoietic regulated differentiation. Due to the relevance of the bone marrow niches for oncogenesis, HB-EGF represents a molecule relevant to the biology of hematopoietic malignancies that develop primarily in the bone marrow microenvironment such as acute and chronic either myeloid or lymphoid leukemias, as well as multiple myeloma. It is possible that we can expect that the role of the bone marrow microenvironment is not a great deal different for malignancies arising in periphery and infiltrating the hematopoietic bone marrow secondarily. The relevance of these mechanisms is also supported by the promising results of targeted treatments in the preclinical and clinical setting. However, the very mechanisms, crosstalks and cell types fundamental for regulated differentiation in the hematopoietic system as well as their fine-tuning and global significance are far from being elucidated.
This article is dedicated to the memory of the Biochemist Professor Hisanori Suzuki who died on March 19, 2012. He was an extraordinary scientist, a wise man and a generous friend who thought that ideas matter, facts matter, and delicacy matters too.
This work was supported by grants from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC, Milan, Italy)/Cariverona Foundation (Verona, Italy).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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|Debate Over Antidepressants and Youth Suicide
A study on youth suicide published in the American Journal of Psychiatry drew widespread public and media attention in September, but in the end wasn't what it seemed.
The study showed that the suicide rate for Americans under the age of 19 increased 14% between 2003 and 2004. The authors claimed this coincided with a decrease in antidepressant prescriptions to minors.
While some of the study's authors were more cautious about claiming that suicides rose because prescription rates fell, Dr. J. John Mann of Columbia University expressed the conclusion most media coverage also presented. "The most plausible explanation is a cause and effect relationship: prescription rates change, therefore suicides change," he told the New York Times (9-14-07).
Concerns about antidepressants' side effects in young people have risen in recent years, and the Food and Drug Administration called in late 2004 for a "black box" warning on antidepressant labels. The black box warns that children on these drugs may be at higher risk for suicide. Trials by Glaxo Smith Kline and other drug makers have shown that children and teens who take antidepressants are two to three times more likely to report suicidal thoughts or attempts than those on placebos. This is especially remarkable since doctors prescribe these drugs assuming that they will have the opposite effect.
About a week after the study hit the news, outside experts administered a reality check. Antidepressant prescription rates for under-19s did not in fact fall significantly in 2004, even according to the study's own data. A change in prescription rates could not have caused the suicide increase, because prescription rates did not change between 2003 and 2004.
Until 2005, prescription rates for children and teens had been rising for years. Between 1994 and 2001, prescriptions of psychotropic drugs for American teens rose 250%. By 2001, one in every ten teenage boys who visited the doctor left with a prescription for a psychotropic drug.
Most other western countries saw the same trend; for example, in the U.K., prescriptions for mind-altering drugs more than quadrupled in a single decade. British child psychiatrist Mike Shooter expressed concern over this phenomenon. "One factor is the pharmaceutical companies marketing these drugs as happiness in the form of a pill," he told the Independent (8-14-07). "In the process they have concealed the fact that they don't actually bring happiness. There is also controversy at the moment about drug companies concealing lack of effectiveness." He also expressed frank skepticism about the long-term effects of such drugs. "Some may appear to be helpful in the short-term, but I don't know that we have long-term knowledge of what these drugs can do to the mind."
Other psychiatrists insist that antidepressants do prevent youth suicide, even though this particular study, in the American Journal of Psychiatry, could not prove a connection. Another study, from Columbia University, detected that for every 20% increase in teen antidepressant use, there were five fewer suicides a year per 100,000 people. Studies in Sweden, Japan and Finland have found similar rates among various age groups.
Child psychiatrist Sami Timimi, author of Mis-Understanding ADHD, argues strongly against using these drugs for children and teens. "Antidepressants do not work in this age group. There have been several double-blind placebo trials which uniformly show that sugar pills worked just as well as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs." SSRIs are the class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil.


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Texas/Episode 387
|Episode 387
|Season 3, Episode 29
|February 11, 1982
|Production Number
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Episode 386
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Episode 388
|Texas — Season Three
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Episode 387 is the twenty-ninth episode of the third season of Texas and the three-hundred eighty-seventh episode overall.
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Plot Overview
Kate tells Ryan that Rusty is back and then asks if everything is alright between Ginny and himself. Rikki arrives to see Brette. Adams tells Hannibal that Miles is out of jail. Miles doesn't answer a call from Brette. Grant tells Reena he is sorry if he was a bad date last night and Reena tells him she is worried that no one has heard from Striker. Ryan tells Kate that everything is fine between him and Ginny. Ryan also wonders if Miles had anything to do with the body they found. Brette asks Rikki if he can get them into the morgue to see the body. Addams assures Hannibal that they will find the Fire Compass and then Hannibal tells him that once he has the Fire Compass he can take care of Renquist. Vicky sees Grant and tells him that she hasn't heard from Striker. John tells Vivien that he smashed Mr. Wheeler's car and is worried that he will get fired. Vicky tells Reena she hasn't heard from Striker. Vicky gets upset when Reena questions her further about Striker being gone. Vicky also tells Reena that Allison stopped by and seems very lonely. Kate tells Rikki and Brette the story of the wooden puzzle and how it went from person to person and about finding the body. Allison asks Ryan for help in learning the oil business. Miles mails something to Brette. Ryan and Allison talk about the places they have been to around the world. Hannibal tells Hawker and Boots he is busy now but will back their candidate soon. Rikki tells Brette they will have to sneak into the morgue. Vivien tells John she will help make sure he doesn't get fired. Hannibal tells Hawker and Boots that he favors Marshall Oil over World Oil. Rikki tells Brette to wait at the Coop. Ryan and Grant talk about Allison and then about Hawker and Boots possibly helping World Oil. Reena tells Allison that things will be different for her now that she is working for World Oil. Rikki gets into the morgue. Rikki hides on gurney when 2 men enter.


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GTA Online Heists trailer and details for "early 2015"
"It's simple," says the trailer, "this will be the easiest money you ever make." Grand Theft Auto 5, aka GTA:V, works with a system called Grand Theft Auto Online, and in it, an expansion will reveal a system called "Heists". This system will be released inside of the year 2015, and it'll be released on PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4, all at once. UPDATE: Rockstar suggests this system will be released in "Early 2015" - and again, we're still assuming all systems at once.


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This is the first cycle that both finalists have never been in the bottom two. This makes Nicole only the third winner to avoid the bottom two; the other two are Jaslene from cycle 8 and McKey from cycle 11.
Even though Jay Manual says this is the first cycle where they've invited eliminated models to walk in the final runway show, that's not completely true. For most cycles, ousted contestants participate in the last show in order to keep the identity of the final two a secret until the episode airs. This is, however, the first time they've appeared on camera.
Nicole was named cycle 13's America's Next Top Model.
Laura: I can't believe that I'm from a small town, Kentucky, and no one will believe that I made it to the final two of America's Next Top Model!
Nicole: I came into this the most awkward unsure of myself girl here, and oh my God, I'm a finalist on America's Next Top Model!
Nicole: When I first came here, what was on my mind most was I have to figure out who I am because I have no idea. But I feel like I've learned so much so far and I just want to keep going.
Nicole: I remember during casting week I went home and I cried because I was like, "What have I got myself into? I can't deal with this." And I didn't think it would be ok to be that dorky girl, but I'm a dork and I'm America's Next Top Model!
Covergirl presents Top Models In Action
After winning cycle 12 of ANTM, Teyona lives in New York City and is signed with Elite Model Management. Recent work has taken Teyona overseas to South Africa where she's making her mark posing for magazines like Glamour and taking over the runway during Cape Town Fashion Week.
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Halley, a friend and their kids go cross-country skiing today:
... All white. In all directions. The golf course was a forested winter wonderland of white with iced sugar trees and woods on all sides. There was literally no one there but us. I looked down to see a black coffee colored stream, dotted with white furry rocks and ice shards, sewing up the perimeter of the property like a loosely sewn hem. The quiet, the white, the snow, delicious and awesome, was taking our breathe away ...
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by Christopher Freeburn | April 4, 2014 4:58 pm
[1]Gold surged in Friday trading after the Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy added fewer jobs than Wall Street had anticipated last month. Gold closed back above $1,300 an ounce, and posted a gain of 0.7% for the week.
The government said that non-farm payrolls rose by 192,000 in March. That fell slightly short of the 200,000 new jobs that economists had forecast.
Gold futures for June delivery climbed 1.5% to $1,303.50 per ounce on Friday, according to CME Group[2]. Gold prices were as high as $1,307.50 and as low as $1,284.40. Bullion closed in London at $1,304, according to BullionVault[3].
Silver futures for May delivery added 0.7% to settle at $19.95 per ounce. Friday's high for silver was $20.23, while the low was $19.79.
Metal funds gained on Friday.
Mining ETFs improved during the day.
Gold stocks advanced on Friday.
Silver mining shares mostly retreated during the day.
As of this writing, Christopher Freeburn did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Adrian Ash of BullionVault[23] contributed to this report.
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This article was published 18/7/2014 (1102 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
You may be contemplating filing an assignment in bankruptcy or a consumer proposal to obtain relief from your unsecured debts.
When you meet with a trustee in bankruptcy, he or she will advise you of the best approach to resolve your debt problem and will also advise you of the duties you are required to perform in a bankruptcy or consumer proposal.
In most cases, these duties will consist of:
• Attending two financial counselling sessions with the trustee;
• Prepare and submit income and expense sheets during the period of the bankruptcy;
• Provide the trustee with information to prepare your tax returns in the year of the bankruptcy;
• If required, attend a meeting of creditors; and
• If required, attend a further meeting with a representative of the superintendent of bankruptcy.
For a consumer proposal, not all of the aforementioned duties are required. Your total time commitment to fulfil these duties would be approximately 10 hours over the duration of your bankruptcy or consumer proposal.
You may be wondering why these duties are imposed on you as part of the process to obtain a release from your debt obligations.
The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) is, in part, a tool to facilitate the financial rehabilitation of an individual such that they will hopefully not have to resort to the BIA to seek debt relief in the future.
The mandatory attendance at financial counselling sessions and the preparation of monthly income and expense reports are meant to educate an individual on setting financial goals, budgeting, tracking and monitoring income and expenses, and obtaining and using credit.
What is the payoff to fulfilling your duties?
When you first make the decision to visit a trustee to discuss your financial affairs, your objective is to obtain relief from your debts and obtain a fresh start on your financial future.
Like most things in life, to get something you have to give something. In a bankruptcy and consumer proposal, you have to invest your time to obtain the relief you are looking for.
By fulfilling your duties, you are eligible for an automatic discharge in a bankruptcy or a certificate of full performance in a consumer proposal. These documents provide you with the relief that you strived for when you first visited the trustee. Regardless of your debt level, the payoff is significant for a small investment of your time.
If you do not fulfil your duties, you will not obtain the relief you were seeking and your creditors rights will be restored such that they can pursue collection of the amounts owed.
Accordingly, it is in your best interest to invest the time and fulfil your duties.
The above is not a complete treatment of the subject. Additional information on the process and your duties can be obtained from a trustee.


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Susannah York, Stefanie Powers and Miranda Richardson Embrace Zoo Award To Claudine André
By Kim Riley
Twycross, UK - Three highly prestigious and internationally renowned actresses, Susannah York, Stefanie Powers and Miranda Richardson, will attend the inaugural reception of the first ever Badham-Evans Award for Women's Commitment to Wildlife at the House of Lords on 26th November 2008.
This award was created in honor of Miss Molly Badham and Miss Nathalie Evans – the founder members of the East Midland Zoological Society (EMZS) at Twycross Zoo, who dedicated their lives to the care of animals both at Twycross and in the wild. Because of their dedication, Twycross is now the largest collection of primate species and subspecies in the western world. This award will honor women who have also committed their lives to caring for and saving wildlife worldwide. Our charity feels women's contribution in this field has been historically under recognized.
Claudine André, the founder of Lola Ya Bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will be the recipient of the award. Claudine has lived through many years of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) tirelessly raising awareness for the bonobos ensuring the protection of their future. The land that the sanctuary now stands on was purchased by Claudine and her husband in 2002. Over the last 6 years it has grown into the 75 acre sanctuary that it is today. During this time Claudine has shown true dedication and has worked unsalaried since she began.
Oscar nominee, Golden Globe award winner, BFA award winning British actress and children's author, Susannah York is a passionate supporter of wildlife and many other causes. Miss York said, "Make love, not war' is surely the Bonobos' credo! Among the most endearing and threatened of our species, the Bonobo is also our closest living relative containing 99.6% of similar DNA, but is one of the least known - Claudine's commitment to their continuance and the way she goes on fighting for them is heroic."
Five time Golden Globe nominee and passionate wildlife conservationist activist, Stefanie Powers said, "This remarkable lady, Claudine Andre, is an inspiration to us all and a monument to true dedication in the cause of saving our fellow creatures. Particularly in her outstanding career is her work with one of man's closest relatives, the Bonobo. She is a true hero of conservation".
Oscar and Laurence Olivier Award nominee, Miranda Richardson said, "Claudine's dedication to these animals is remarkable, it is now our responsibility to join her efforts".
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