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10 Leftists Who Need Condolences on the Death of Their Hero Osama bin Laden
Megan Fox|FrontPageMag
Inevitably, following the general pleasure at the news the Osama bin Laden is finally residing in Hell, it will come to light that certain members of the Left are quietly miserable over his passing. They are the ones for whom evil is not really definable, terror is in the eye of the beholder and America is always wrong. In other words, most of the hard Left and virtually the entire media elite. That's a pretty big list, so I thought I should narrow it down to the ones who will be the most despondent over this delightful news for America.
In accordance with the new tone of civility, NRB suggests you send a personal sympathy card to each grieving individual on the list. You can click here and email this highly appropriate condolence with just the right touch of maudlin snark. (Contact information will be provided.)
Dubbed the "dumbest woman in congress" (although I think Cynthia McKinney is suing for the rights to that title), Patty Murray once lauded bin Laden's kindness and generosity in comparison to the callous and brutal America. No, really.
Trying to explain why Osama bin Laden might be popular in the Arab world while Americans were not, she said he was "building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We have not done that."
Nah, America hasn't built any schools or roads or infrastructure, unless you count the 133 health clinics built by Americans at a cost of $345 million or the water treatment plants now serving almost 2 million people that cost the American taxpayers $1.6 billion or the new sewer system benefiting over 5 million people to the tune of $254 million. Nope, according to Murray we just bomb stuff and bin Laden is the real hero.
To send Senator Murray a condolence card, post on her Twitter page (@PattyMurray) or her Facebook page and show her you care. After all, one man's brutal dictator is another man's fuzzy-wuzzy love-muffin who builds schools.
9. Medea Benjamin and the staff of Code Pink
Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink and famed champion of the Muslim Brotherhood and bloody die-ins, is searching for meaning in the death of Bin Laden.
Let us give meaning to the death of Osama Bin Laden by putting an end to the violence. Sign the petition to President Obama: Enough — Let the Peace Begin.
Yes, let's search deep within ourselves to find meaning in the death of a madman who seriously had it coming. That sounds like a ginormous waste of time. While the Left is doing that, I'm going to clip more coupons to help offset the skyrocketing inflation. I can feel the peace already.
What confounds me about Benjamin is for all we know she might have been working for bin Laden! But since the word "traitor" has absolutely no meaning anymore she's free to traipse about the globe stabbing her country in the back. She has hand delivered a letter from Hamas to Obama. She has hand delivered $600,000 to militant Muslim insurgents responsible for killing American soldiers. She's a courier for terror! Despite her machinations to appear glad that bin Laden is dead, I would bet it's just the opposite.
You can send your deepest sympathies to Benjamin on her Twitter account (@medeabenjamin) or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, most famous for socking a Capitol Hill police officer in the face for asking her for ID, has a long history of embarrassing herself and her nation. But while her "Jerry Springer Show" antics were kind of funny at home, it got ugly when she took the show on the road.
While trying for the second time to get through an Israeli blockade to deliver "humanitarian" supplies to Hamas (which usually amounts to large amounts of cash that gets used to buy more rockets to shoot at Israeli children) McKinney was arrested. From an Israeli prison, she penned this laugh-riot.
Zionism has surely run out of its last legitimacy if this is what it does to people who believe so deeply in human rights for all that they put their own lives on the line for someone else's children. Israel is the fullest expression of Zionism, but if Israel fears for its security because Gaza's children have crayons then not only has Israel lost its last shred of legitimacy, but Israel must be declared a failed state.
I agree that Israel is a failed state; they failed to rid us of McKinney. I was hoping for a life sentence. Considering McKinney's hatred of Israel, she has lost a kindred spirit in bin Laden in the fight against the evil Zionists.
Send your e-greeting of sympathy to McKinney via Twitter or Facebook.
Michael Moore famously stated emphatically after the towers fell that there is no terrorist threat. And since Moore doesn't believe in terrorists, it's not surprising he finds himself very concerned over Bin Laden's burial at sea. He tweeted his disapproval.
OBL buried at sea according 2 Muslim tradition. Yes most Muslim funerals I've attended, we got in a chopper & tossed the deceased in L. Erie
Send him your warmest wishes and salutations at email@example.com.
I think rockets are being fired by your own sources, since less than ten israelis have been killed by them. You are bullshitting the world as you pocket money made from arms sales, along with bibi and your agents in Hamas. step down all men in power!
These kind of theories could have been written by Bin Laden himself. For all we know, that's where she got them! Maybe she was a big YouTube fan of his. I guess we'll never know. Her recent tweets suggests she's glad he's dead, but I don't think she really understood him. If she had, she would realize he supported all the same things she does like the destruction of Israel, lying about Israel and ginning up hate stories about Israel. And I heard he liked to dress up like Hitler and bake little replicas of Jews in his oven too.
Send cards to Roseanne on Twitter (@TheRealRoseanne).
Jobless and now losing a fellow anti-Semite, Helen Thomas must be in the depths of despair. Thomas has never made any secret of her hatred for Israel and support of Hamas and can always be counted on to give the Hezbollah point of view, as the late, great Tony Snow so wonderfully pointed out. The final straw that sent Thomas to the unemployment line was her caught-on-video statement regarding the Jews and her view they should return to Germany and Poland.
Unfortunately for us, Thomas couldn't be persuaded to return to Lebanon from where her parents immigrated. With the depth of feeling Thomas has in her shriveled little heart for members of terrorist organizations, bin Laden's death is sure to hit her hard.
Send your sympathy greetings to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Considering how much Jane Fonda hates America and Americans at war, as evidenced by her traitorous activity in Vietnam including but not limited to posing with anti-aircraft guns that killed Americans and lying about the conditions in which our prisoners of war were kept, we're fairly certain Fonda is a sad sack upon hearing a fellow America-hater is dead. People who hate America tend to stick together.
Not only does Fonda love the commies, but she's BFFs with Code Pink's Jodie Evans who personally traveled to Afghanistan and met with leaders of the Taliban! Good gracious! It makes one dizzy just thinking about the audacity of these dopes.
Fonda is also a Palestinian sympathizer who once scheduled a meeting with Yassir Arafat. And even worse:
[J]ust days after terrorists had killed some 3,000 people on 9/11, Fonda said that instead of retaliation, the U.S. should try to understand the "underlying reasons" behind the murderous attacks.
The retaliation must be tearing her up inside.
To comfort Fonda in her time of sorrow, send your e-sympathy greeting to her on Twitter (@JaneFonda).
3. Noam Chomsky
It's time to play "Guess Who Said It!" Your choices are Noam Chomsky or Osama bin Laden.
We should not forget that the U.S. itself is a leading terrorist state.
If you guessed bin Laden, you would be wrong. Chomsky, a self-described anarchist and general America-hater is probably working furiously on a manifesto indicting the United States for breaking international law by killing bin Laden right now. Chomsky has been highly critical of the American response to Islamic terrorism and frequently downplays the 9/11 attacks:
Chomsky dismisses the atrocity of 9/11 as one that was dwarfed in magnitude by Bill Clinton's 1998 missile attack on a factory in the Sudan following the bombings of two U.S. embassies by al Qaeda, in which no one was injured.
Telling an MIT audience of 2,000 that the U.S. military response against the terrorists in Afghanistan was a calculated "genocide" that would cause the deaths of 3 to 4 million Afghanis, Chomsky denounced America as "the world's greatest terrorist state." He also traveled to the Muslim world to repeat the charges of U.S. genocide and terror to millions in Islamabad and New Delhi.
Not surprising. It's likely that Chomsky has a pretty big soft spot for bin Laden after the murderous terrorist praised him as "one of the most capable" citizens of the United States. He could definitely use an e-card and probably some tissues.
Send sympathetic musings to firstname.lastname@example.com.
2. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
Pentagon bomber and attempted cop-killer Bill Ayers joined Code Pink in their protest in Gaza against the Israeli blockade when Hamas was lobbing mortars into Israel. It's pretty interesting how connected everyone on this list is. I bet they've all been to the same cocktail party a time or two where they tell Bush jokes and plot to subvert the Constitution. Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernardine Dohrn must be singing the bin Laden blues. He did what they had plotted unsuccessfully to do. You can't tell me they weren't pleased as pie to watch the Pentagon go up in smoke. These are the same people who thought Charles Manson, who randomly and brutally killed a pregnant Sharon Tate, her husband and their friends for no reason other than he is a complete psycho, was a freedom fighter.
"First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!" In greeting each other, delegates to the war council often spread their fingers to signify the fork.
Ayers is famous for equally alarming statements.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.
Osama bin Laden is clearly a kindred spirit with these two American terrorists and I assume, much like their unwavering love for communist dictators, bin Laden won't be left out of their list of "greats."
To send your regards, contact Ayers and Dohrn at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Pearce had promised himself a year off after a hectic 2002, in which he starred in four films. He and his wife, Kate Mestitz, took a six-month vacation in Cambodia only to discover that their 15-year-old cat, Dudley, had died while they were away.
On his return, he found a script in the mail about two tiger cubs, to be filmed in Cambodia.
"How could I not take it?" he says. "The story felt very close to my own experience, and I loved the message about respecting these amazing animals and the world where they live."
Two Brothers, which opens today, might be the nature-friendly film of the year. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud, who made his name with the 1988 hit The Bear, built a zoo for Two Brothers— for the humans. He built cages for the actors, camera crews and himself. They locked themselves in the chicken-wire cells and filmed the tigers, which ran relatively free.
"It put the cats in a more natural, comfortable setting," Pearce says. "But more important, you spend nine months on a movie like this and you begin to understand what it must be like to live in a cage. It's pretty horrifying."
That theme plays throughout Two Brothers, in which Pearce plays Aidan McRory, a big-game hunter who learns to appreciate the animals after killing their father. (Related story: Dual personalities in Two Brothers)
Annaud says he nearly made a tiger film 16 years ago, when he was trying to choose a creature to star in his story about an animal surviving in the wild without a mother. He chose a bear but knew one day he would return to an animal film that would star tigers.
The tiger characters, Kumal and Sangha — which were played by about 30 trained cats — take top billing in the film's opening credits.
"Every morning, I'd think to myself, 'How are we going to get these animals to do this?' " Annaud says. "And every night, I'd think they'd performed a miracle."
Annaud's crews penned off stretches of jungle, sometimes in excess of a square mile, to allow the tigers to grow comfortable in the setting. The scope of the set occasionally caused delays — handlers could not find the stars.
No animals were hurt during filming, Annaud says. But humans had a couple of frightening close calls. Pearce and Annaud walked on set to meet the animals and entered a cage with several crew members. One of the more boisterous cats leaped onto the cage.
"He was just playing, like any big cat," Annaud says. "But when he was putting his paws in the cage, he started shredding it like paper. You suddenly realized what these animals could do if they wanted to. So we kept them well fed."
Two Brothers, which partnered with the World Wildlife Fund, ends with the caution that the tiger population has plummeted from 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century to about 5,000 today.
"I hope people ... walk away with the kind of appreciation I gained for them," Pearce says.

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The phoney war is back. With the Ashes decided, the series a no-contest and with extra blank days intervening between Tests, we resume the war of words that preceded the series. This time the central figure is Kevin Pietersen.
Why him? Not being a man tormented by self-doubt, he might take this as a compliment. He is the solitary England player to cause the Australians a headache in this series.
Pietersen, more than anyone else, is likely to deprive Australia of their 5-0 victory in Sydney. So when John Buchanan, prompted by a question from The Times, said: 'Pietersen certainly talks about himself as a team player. Personally, I don't see any evidence of that,' we have a little storm on our hands.
Pietersen was invited to comment. 'It's ridiculous,' he said. 'I'm a massive team player. I was distraught after Adelaide and Perth, but I've never been as down as after the Melbourne Test. If I wasn't a team player, I would be a happy man with 420 runs at 60 in the series. I feel part of it. In fact, it matters more to me now that I'm a senior player. It hurts me when people say things like that.'
Pietersen added that he did not want to get into a slanging match with Buchanan, but being Pietersen it took no more than five minutes for the following to slip out: 'Of course he [Buchanan] is not that well respected in his own camp. He's going [to leave] after the World Cup and that will be good for the Australians.'
Let's not examine these exchanges too closely, except to note that Buchanan has been around the Australia camp for 89 Tests, of which they have won 78. He does not seem to do the team much harm.
The notion of Pietersen as a selfish player has surfaced with surprising force. Actually, just about every international batsman of note has a selfish streak. Usually this is a virtue. His position in the batting order - number five until midway through the Melbourne Test - has stoked the fire as well.
Pietersen followed the party line when explaining that he had told the management that he felt more comfortable at number five before the start of the series, even though they were keen for him to bat at four. 'I've thought about it. I'm now mentally prepared to give it a go at number four. I've taken into consideration Colly [Paul Collingwood] and the team and we've talked it through.
'I realise it was an odd time to do this [in the middle of a Test]. I now feel I've done my apprenticeship down the order.' Pietersen will bat at four in Sydney.
There has also been criticism of Pietersen's way of batting with the tail. In Perth in the second innings he took the singles on offer at the start of the over when batting with players of the calibre of Steve Harmison, which enraged one or two onlookers. Since England were more than 200 runs adrift at the time, his tactics did not get me too excited either way. The match had long since been lost.
England have plenty of problems at the moment, but Pietersen's batting is not one of them.
Makhaya Ntini inspired South Africa to a 174-run win in the second Test against India in Durban, ripping through the tourists' top order by taking the first five wickets of their second innings. Andre Nel and Andrew Hall took care of the tailenders to wrap up victory after tea on the final day to level the three-match series at 1...#8209;1.
The win was sealed when Sree Sreesanth was ruled to have edged the ball to wicketkeeper Mark Boucher off the bowling of Hall, although the batsman looked disgruntled with the decision.
The final Test, in Cape Town, gets under way on Tuesday.


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Nanoparticle drug delivery (NDDS) is a novel system in which the drugs are delivered to the site of action by small particles in the nanometer range. Natural or synthetic polymers are used as vectors in NDDS, as they provide targeted, sustained release and biodegradability. Here, we used the chitosan and hepatoma cell-specific binding molecule, glycyrrhetinic acid (GA), to synthesize glycyrrhetinic acid-modified chitosan (GA-CTS). The synthetic product was confirmed by Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR). By combining GA-CTS and 5-FU (5-fluorouracil), we obtained a GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticle, with a particle size of 217.2 nm, a drug loading of 1.56% and a polydispersity index of 0.003. The GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticle provided a sustained release system comprising three distinct phases of quick, steady and slow release. We demonstrated that the nanoparticle accumulated in the liver.
5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is a first-line anticancer drug that inhibits tumor cell proliferation by interfering with the synthesis of nucleic acid. However, its efficacy is affected by low lipophilicity and low bioavailability [
Drug delivery systems carry drugs to the targeted cells by exploiting the different physiological and biochemical characteristics of tumor and normal cells [
In this study, we prepared glycyrrhetinic acid-modified chitosan (GA-CTS), which was used to synthetize a GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticle. The results showed that the sustained release system (GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticle) efficiently targeted the drug to liver and significantly inhibited tumor growth in an orthotropic liver cancer mouse model, resulting in increased survival time.
Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectra and 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) of glycyrrhetinic acid-modified chitosan (GA-CTS). (
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of GA-CTS/5-FU showed the presence of spherical nanoparticles (sized 217.2 nm) with smooth surfaces (
To study the release of GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles, an
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) chart and characteristics of GA-CTS/5-fluorouracil (5-FU) nanoparticle. (
As shown in
Inhibition rates of GA-CTS/5-FU and 5-FU in SW480 and SMMC-7721 cells detected by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assays. Data are the mean ± SD (
A moderately drug-resistant hepatoma cell line (resistance index (RI): 8.6) was established to study the inhibitory activity of GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles in drug-resistant cells. 50% inhibiting concentration (IC50) values for the inhibitory activity of 5-FU on parent and drug-resistant SMMC-7721 cells was 6.76 mg/L and 32.34 mg/L, respectively, while the IC50 of GA-CTS/5-FU on parent and drug-resistant SMMC-7721 cells was 2.05 mg/L and 8.33 mg/L; its RI was 4.06 (
Inhibitory effects of 5-FU and GA-CTS/5-FU on proliferation of the SMMC-7721 parental cell line and the SMMC-7721 5-FU resistance cell line (mean ± SD,
|Parental cell line of SMMC-7721
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|0.51 ± 0.07
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Inhibition of GA-CTS/5-FU and 5-FU drug-resistant SMMC-7721 cells detected by MTT assay. Data are the mean ± SD (
We used an orthotropic liver cancer mouse model to determine the
Endocytosis of GA-CTS nanoparticles by normal liver LO2 cells and by hepatic cancer SMMC-7721 cells was analyzed under confocal microscopy. As shown in
GA-CTS/5-FU liver targeting
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Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the median survival was 16 days in the control group, with all the mice dying between day 11 and 20 (
The effect of GA-CTS/5-FU on an orthotopic cancer liver model in mice. (
Targeted drug therapy can specifically deliver drugs to tumor tissues, resulting in increased local concentrations and reduced toxicity. Glycyrrhetinic acid, an aglycone of glycyrrhizin, acts as an antioxidant and detoxifying agent. It has been shown to increase apoptosis in hepatoma cells [
In the present study, GA-CTS identified by IR and 1H-NMR was used to investigate the feasibility of using GA-CTS as a drug carrier to the liver. 5-FU is a widely used anti-cancer drug, which is toxic to normal cells and has a short plasma half-life of 15 to 20 min. Improving the bioavailability and site-specific delivery of 5-FU and reducing its side effects may provide obvious therapeutic advantages. In this study, we prepared GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles with an average diameter of 217.2 nm. SEM imaging showed that GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles were spherical, smooth surface structures that adhered to one another and were not fully dispersed after centrifugation. The polydispersity index (PI) is an important indicator of the physical stability of nanoparticles. PI values between 0.1 and 0.25 indicate good uniformity, while values >0.5 are indicative of poor uniformity [
The anti-tumor mechanism of 5-FU is associated with the metabolite, 5-F-deoxy-uridine monophosphate (dUMP), which inhibits thymidylate synthase (TS) activity and blocks the methylation of dUMP to deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) which, in turn, affects DNA synthesis [
To investigate the effect of GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles on drug-resistant cells, we established a SMMC-7721 cell line that was moderately resistant to 5-FU (RI: 8.6) [
To explore the liver targeting efficiency of GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles,
Our results also demonstrated that tumor weight in a mouse orthotopic liver transplantation model was significantly lower in animals who had received GA-CTS/5-FU than in other groups. No antitumor effect was observed in the GA-CTS group. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed longer median survival in the GA-CTS/5-FU than in 5-FU group, further indicating better anti-tumor efficacy. This suggests that GA binding might result in a higher concentration of 5-FU in the hepatoma cells [
The human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (SMMC-7721) and normal liver cells (LO2) were obtained from the Committee on Type Culture Collection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). The human colon cancer cell line (SW480) was purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA), and the mouse hepatoma cell line, H22, was purchased from the China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC, Wuhan, China).
Female BALB/c mice, 7 weeks of age, weighing about 20 g, were obtained from the Science Department of Experimental Animals of Fudan University in China and kept under standard conditions of an animal room (temperature, 25 °C; humidity, 55%~60%) in a specific pathogen-free level B animal facility. All animal care and experimental protocols complied with the Animal Management Rules of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and were approved by the ethics committee of Shanghai Zhoupu Hospital (Shanghai, China) and Fudan University.
EDC.HCl (1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethyl aminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride, Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) and NHS (N-hydroxysuccinimide, Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) were added to GA solution (1 g, Xi'an Fujie Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Yilu, China) in DMF (dimethylformamide, Amresco, Solon, OH, USA). The solution was mixed with 2% chitosan in acetic acid and stirred at room temperature. After 48 h, the mixture was precipitated with acetone, and the precipitate was washed with 60% ethanol and ether. The final product was obtained after vacuum drying.
Eighty-five percent deacetylated CTS powder (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) and GA-CTS were pressed into a potassium bromide (KBr) pellet. The composites were analyzed by FT-IR (NEXUS, Nicolet, USA) in the range 400–4000 cm−1.
To verify the structure of CTS and GA-CTS, samples were dissolved in a solution of deuterium chloride and D2O. 1H-NMR spectra were recorded using a Varian NMR System 600 machine at a resonance frequency of 600 MHz. Tetramethylsilane (TMS) was used as a reference compound.
GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles were prepared by the ionic crosslinking method. Briefly, 32 mg of GA-CTS was dissolved in 8 mL aqueous solution of acetic acid (1% by w/v), and the pH was adjusted to 4.7 with 0.1 M NaOH. Subsequently, 32 mg of 5-FU was incorporated in the above solution. Next, 12.8 mL 0.05% (w/v) sodium polyphosphate (TPP) solution was added dropwise into the above solution under magnetic stirring at a low velocity and allowed to crosslink for 50 min. The formation of nanoparticles started spontaneously via the TPP initiated ionic gelation mechanism. The suspension was subjected to repeated cycles of washing by deionized water and centrifugation (10,000 rpm for 30 min) to remove the unreacted CTS, TPP and NaOH to separate nanoparticles, then lyophilized and stored at 4 °C.
Particle size distribution and zeta potential were determined by dynamic light scattering and a laser particle size analyzer (Zetasizer-3000HS, Malvern Instruments Ltd., Worcestershire, UK) equipped with a 10 mW helium-neon laser at a wavelength of 633 nm, 90° scattering angle and temperature of 25 °C. The suspension liquid of drug-loaded nanoparticles was prepared in the cuvette. The size and distribution of nanoparticles were measured by putting the cuvette into the sample cell. The zeta potential of the nanoparticle suspension was measured in the pipeline, which was put into a 5 mL syringe. The nanoparticles were centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 30 min to remove NaOH and 5-FU and were dispersed in ddH2O; these procedures were repeated three times. The suspension liquid of nanoparticles was dispersed and dropped onto foil, after drying in an oven. The morphology of the nanoparticles was observed by a field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM, Hitachi S-4800, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan).
To prepare a standard curve, a series of working solutions of 5-FU (0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0, 10, 20 mg/L) were obtained by diluting 5-FU standard stock solution with 0.5 mL human plasma. A calibration curve was generated by linear regression of the peak area ratio of the 5-FU concentration.
GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles and 5-FU were placed into dialysis bags and immersed in 30 mL of SBF at pH 7.4. The particles were incubated at 37 °C and shaken at a constant speed of 60 rpm/min. The medium was replaced with fresh SBF at 20 and 40 min, 1 and 6 h and, then, daily for 10 days. Drug concentration in each sample was assayed in triplicate by measuring the absorbance at 265 nm. Drug release and loading capacity were calculated by the following formulas:
SW480 and SMMC-7721 cells were grown in roosevelt park memorial institute (RPMI) 1640 medium with 10% fetal calf serum at 37 °C in 5% CO2. A cell suspension containing 1 × 104 cells was plated into 96-well plates at concentrations of 190 μL/well for 24 h. Cells were exposed to 10 μL of 5-FU or GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles at different doses for 24, 48, 72 h. MTT (30 µg; Sigma Ltd., Shanghai, China) was added to each well and incubated for 4 h. The medium was then removed, 200 μL of DMSO was added and the plates were vibrated for 10 min. Absorbance was measured by a Bio-Rad automatic micro-plate reader at 490 nm. All measurements were performed in triplicate. MTT assays were performed after exposure for 4 to 10 days with 1.6 mg/L of 5-FU.
Cytotoxicity was determined as follows:
A drug-resistant SMMC-7721/5-FU cell line was established using concentration gradients and increased induction [
SMMC-7721/5-FU drug-resistant cells and SMMC-7721 cells (200 μL) were plated into 96-well plates at a concentration of 1 × 104/mL. After incubation for 24 h, the cells were centrifuged and collected. SMMC-7721/5-FU drug-resistant cells were re-inoculated with different doses of 5-FU (0, 3.2, 6.4, 12.8, 25.6, 51.2 and 102.4 mg/L,
SMMC-7721/5-FU cells (200 μL) were plated into 96-well plates at a concentration of 1 × 104/mL. After incubation for 24 h, cells were centrifuged, collected and incubated with 5-FU (3.2, 6.4, 12.8, 16, 19.2, 22.4 and 25.6 mg/L) or the same doses of GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles for 48 h. Two additional groups of cells were incubated with 6.4 mg/mL of 5-FU and GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticles and were cultured for 12, 24, 36, 48, 60 and 72 h. MTT assays were performed to determine the cytotoxicity of the hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
Mice with cancer were sacrificed, the tumors were extracted and a cell suspension containing 6 × 107 cells was prepared. Recipient mice were anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of 20% urethane. Then, 50 µL of cell suspension were subcutaneously implanted in the left lobe of the liver. The abdomen was closed after 2 min.
Following tumor implantation, the mice were randomly divided into three groups (
SMMC-7721 and LO2 cells were plated into 6-well plates and incubated for 24 h. The cells were exposed to fresh medium containing CTS or GA-CTS nanoparticles labeled with different FITC concentrations for 4 h. The cells were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde at room temperature for 20 min and stained with Hoechst 33258 nuclear dye (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA). After washing three times in 0.01 M PBS, coverslips were added, and the slides were observed under a fluorescence microscope using a 488 nm excitation filter for FITC and a 405 nm filter for Hoechst 33258. The images were analyzed using NIS-Elements software.
Five days after establishment of the orthotopic liver transplantation mouse model, tumor size reached 4–6 mm. Six days after model establishment, mice were divided into four groups: control, GA-CTS, 5-FU and GA-CTS/5-FU. Mice in the four groups were injected with saline, GA-CTS, 5-FU or GA-CTS /5-FU nanoparticles, respectively, at a volume of 200 µL (all 5-FU-containing injections contained 0.371 mg of 5-FU). Drugs were administered for 5 days, and 10 mice in each group were killed at 10 days by an overdose of anesthesia to harvest their tumor tissues. All efforts were made to ameliorate animal suffering. The tumor growth and tumor weight were measured in each group. The remaining 13 mice in each group were used for survival analysis.
All data were expressed as the means and standard deviations (±SD). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the least significance difference (LSD) test were used for intergroup comparisons. Kaplan-Meier survival plots were used to analyze survival data. In all analyses, values of
In this study, we successfully synthesized a GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticle as a sustained release system, which had a dose- and time-dependent anti-cancer effect and may compensate for the drug resistance of 5-FU. GA-CTS/5-FU nanoparticle significantly inhibited tumor growth against orthotropic liver cancer in mice, resulting in increased survival time.
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (12nm0502202 and 114119a4700); Pudong New Area Science and Technology Development Fund (PKJ2012-Y24); Minhang District Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (2010MHZ023).
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.


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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:42 PM
To: Junior Gillespie
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Subject: [m0n0wall-dev] Re: [m0n0wall] mono AP
Hi, Junior
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> Punky,
> It's great to have you on the team! I briefly looked over your patch, and
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I used Latisse for several years and in the beginning it definitely made a difference. Over time, however, I noticed that it wasn't doing very much so stopped using it. After taking a break from it, I tried it again and noticed longer lashes for a while but then it seemed to stop working. I'm going to try lash extensions now. READ MORE
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In case of Inclement Weather...
The following radio and television stations are notified when the college is forced to close or to operate on a delayed schedule because of inclement weather.
NOTE: Separate announcements are made for day and evening classes.
If no announcement is made, the college will be open as usual.
- WDBJ Channel 7 Roanoke
- WSLS Channel 10 Roanoke
- Q99 99.1 FM Roanoke
- K92 92.3 FM Roanoke
- Star Country 94.9 FM Roanoke
- WFIR 960 AM Roanoke
- VIBE 100.1 FM Lynchburg
- WRAD 1460 AM Radford
- NASH 107.1 FM Pulaski
- WFNR 710 AM Christiansburg
- WBRW 105.3 FM Christiansburg
- Super Sports 101.7 FM Christiansburg
- WNRV 990 AM Pearisburg
- Mix 100.7 FM Christiansburg
Delayed Schedule
The following steps will be followed in the event that New River Community College elects to go on a delayed schedule:
- Area radio and television stations as listed above will be notified that New River Community College is opening at a specific time. Normally this will be 10:00 a.m.
- When the college opens at 10:00 a.m., classes scheduled to start after that time will meet for their normal duration. Classes originally scheduled before 10:00 a.m. will not meet, except for classes that would ordinarily extend past 10:00 a.m. (For example, for a 9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. class, students should report at 10:00 a.m.) Should a later time of opening be announced, the same logic will apply.
Obtaining Information
Following are some suggestions for obtaining accurate information during inclement weather:
- 1. Listen to more than one radio or television station. We strive to provide accurate up-to-date information to each station. However, mistaken information is sometimes aired. Verify the information you hear with the broadcast of another station.
- 2. Listen to the announcements more than once. Occasionally, severe weather warrants that a decision to delay opening be changed to a decision to close.
- 3. Check your e-mail. Immediately following placement of calls to radio and television stations, an e-mail message will be sent to faculty and staff.
- 4. Call NRCC (674-3600). You will reach the automated attendant. Don't dial an extension; simply hold the line to hear the recorded information.
- 5. Check the college's web site. In the event of a closing or delay, an effort will be made to post this information on the college's web site (www.nr.edu). Students and NRCC personnel are encouraged to utilize this option, but please be aware that technical/logistical difficulties sometimes prevent this information from being posted in a timely manner.
- 6. The "NRCC Alert" system will also provide notifications regarding cancellations or delays. But please do not rely solely on receiving an alert through this system; also utilize several of the resources described above in any questionable weather situations just to be sure. To sign up for "NRCC Alert," go to the college's web site (nr.edu) and enter your contact information.
Remember, we do not announce via radio and television that the college is open. Announcements will be made only if the college will be closed or operating on a delayed schedule.
Make-Up of Course Work
In the event that class time is lost due to inclement weather or other circumstances, students are expected to make up the academic work that would have been completed had the normal schedule been followed. Individual faculty members shall hold primary responsibility for assigning make-up work, or otherwise protecting the academic integrity of time spent in class and course material being covered.
In unusual circumstances, the Vice President for Instruction and Student Services may direct the faculty to hold a specified number of make-up sessions, or the academic calendar may otherwise be modified.
When the college remains open but inclement weather causes difficulty in traveling, reasonable judgment is the prevailing criterion for individual decision-making. When local road conditions are questionable, NRCC students and personnel may find it necessary to refrain from attempting to reach campus or off campus class locations.
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Sammons, Pam and Siraj-Blatchford, Iram and Sylva, Kathy and Melhuish, Edward and Taggart, Brenda and Elliot, Karen (2005) Investigating the Effects of Pre-School Provision: Using Mixed Methods in the EPPE Research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8 (3). pp. 207-224. ISSN 1364-5579. DOI UNSPECIFIEDFull text not available from this repository.
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Re: Kernel and frontend crash with ANY Graphics3D objects
I have exactly the same problem, the mathematica crash with ANY
Graphics3D objects, and Manipulate function.
which has puzzled me for month. I didn't solve it .
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the computer is run on AMD athlonx2 64 bit , operating system is
windows xp home edition 2002 sp2. the operating system is 32
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I try on some old system , old hardware,like AGP video card , an
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Great fun but a little disappointed: Royal Princess Cruise Review by Gossyboy
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Great fun but a little disappointed
Destination: Europe - British Isles & Western
Embarkation: Southampton
Two nights down to Guernsey and back but due to heavy sea's we couldn't get off at Guernsey (no ones fault)
Just gonna jot down my thoughts as they come up :)
I have sailed with Princess before on the Crown for a xmas and new years cruise and had reservations sailing with them again due to their inability to serve any hot food. Although we loved our tour of the Caribbean during that time of the year the ship was very disappointing.
I decided to give Princess another chance. Also I had one of my photos featured on the ship after sending in to a competition on the Princess website. 75,000 entries and I got in the top 1000. It was lovely to see my photo on deck 14 midship even though they had spelt my name wrong :( They have promised to reprint it..... I'll never know?
I was impressed with the size of the ship, the skywalk was amazing as was the sky view bar but the layout of each deck More left a lot to be desired. There didn't seem a lot to do for the size? The Lido deck felt cramped due to the fountain show area in the middle. Only one pool but plenty of Jacuzzi's (which were nice). There was a pool towards the Sanctuary but this was empty?
At various times we found ourselves wandering up and down decks to try to get from one end of the ship to the other. It just doesn't flow.
Didn't like the whole Princess Live thing. Too bright and clinical, preferred the old show lounge on the Crown. Don't know where the two glass duelling pianos had gone!? Sure I saw them in the pre cruise photo's?
Lovely that there was no smoking in the Casino, although they were still allowing people to smoke to one side (still not nice! do it or don't!)
The Atrium was large and quite stunning. The glass lifts seemed to be covered over. Didn't see them really.
The whole "Princess" décor ideas seem set back in the 70's / 80's? Wood panelling, huge plush drapes and chandeliers. For a brand new ship it already looked dated. Not my cup of tea.
Service was up and down. Waited ages at empty bars for drinks but had food cooked especially for me in the main DR.
The beds and pillows were amazing!! The best I've slept on anywhere. The balcony was tiny. Maybe if we were on a longer cruise it may have been useful but on this one all we saw was the channel and it has put me off paying the extra for the view in future.
Luckily we got to see Kory Simon again in Crooners bar. He was the amazing pianist we enjoyed on the Crown Princess two years ago. An excellent entertainer and a credit to Princess!!
The buffet was huge (maybe a bit too spread out) with an amazing choice of food. This was all served fresh and HOT for a change. Alas the MDR was a bit hit and miss. Although the menus were inviting, the food was sometimes only just warm.
On the whole we had a great trip but I think that will be my last with Princess.
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A group of three activist shareholders has stepped onto the board of Orchard Funds Management after chairman
The dramatic development at the struggling Melbourne-based company that runs $1.6 billion in property funds took place on the eve of a shareholder's meeting today to vote on removing Mr Macek.
Mr Macek has resigned along with David Spruell, Chris Thiris and Helen Argiris. The new directors are Curt Roberts, Hans Sprangers and David Minear.
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When I hear of someone talk about taking their pellet gun to the lease, I automatically assume that they plan to pop a few birds or maybe a squirrel during the downtime from the serious hunting. I mean, what else can you kill with an air rifle? Turns out you can hunt quite a variety of wildlife if the gun in question happens to be Gamo Adult Air Rifles' Hunter Extreme. The big idea: at velocities ranging from 1,250 fps (feet per second) with standard lead pellets to an amazing 1,600 fps with high end PBA this air rifle is more powerful than some firearms.
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The dirty wizard
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A battered tophat would be a nice accessory.ReplyDelete
That's a fantastic idea.ReplyDelete
Ah, the hedge wizard! The most interesting type of wizard.ReplyDelete
Go out collecting fallen feathers. Doesn't matter how tatty they are. String them on to something. if you're lucky you might find bones or even an animal skull! (or just use some chicken thigh bones that you have boiled clean).
Pouches. Have lots of pouches. This also gives you somewhere to keep all your money (or candy) in the absence of pockets.
A hip flask or two with sigils drawn on in chalk.
That guy lives in my city.ReplyDelete
Did Catweazle ever make it over your way?ReplyDelete
Or perhaps something a little more Jethro Tull?


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Murray. The Muscle.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, Murray was smart enough to realize that his strength (and van) could be an asset to Sly. Calling himself "The Murray" he now uses his considerable muscle to assist his friends and fight evil wherever it rears its ugly head. Murray never was one for weaponry and gadgets-he prefers straightforward, old fashioned fisticuffs.


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Bournemouth Daily Echo Editor Toby Granville was nominated for the ice bucket challenge by his friend Caroline Fogerty - so today we gave him a good soaking.
He's nominated council leaders John Beesley, Elaine Atkinson and Ray Nottage.
Known simply as the Ice Bucket Challenge, participants just need a bucket of icy water and a smart phone to take part in the fundraiser to promote awareness of motor neurone disease (MND), or ALS as it is known in the US.
Those nominated have to pour the bucket over the heads, or have some friends on hand to do the honour for them, before naming somebody else to take part, who then has 24-hours notice to carry out the challenge themselves.
Anyone who does not complete the task within the allotted time has to make a donation to charity, with the majority of donations going to the Motor Neurone Disease Association.