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Late endosomes, lysosomes and other membrane-bound organelles act as mTORC1 signalling hubs to control cell signalling and growth
Drosophila male secondary cells share many similarities with human prostate epithelial cells
Drosophila secondary cell exosomes reprogramme female behaviour after mating
Drosophila secondary cells reveal new links between cell-cell signalling, membrane trafficking and secretion
Cell Biology of Signalling, Membrane Trafficking, Secretion and Growth in Normal and Cancer Cells at Super-Resolution
During normal development and in adults, cells co-ordinate basic processes such as growth, migration, metabolism, membrane trafficking and secretion by communicating with each other via cell-cell signalling. In cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and metabolic diseases such as diabetes, these communication mechanisms and/or the processes they control are mis-regulated. Our group studies the regulation of these cellular processes in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. For many years, we have had an interest in insulin-like molecules and how their signalling inside cells (here referred to as insulin signalling) regulates growth, metabolism and physiology at a cell, tissue and whole organism level. We have collaborated with other groups working on human cells to define evolutionarily conserved mechanisms in insulin signalling and function.
This work has highlighted critical links between cell signalling pathways and intracellular membrane trafficking and secretion, which despite their fundamental importance, have been challenging to study because of the limited number of in vivo models available in which membrane-bound compartments inside cells can be analysed in detail using light microscopy.
Over the last few years, we have been developing the male accessory gland in the fly as a unique new model to address this problem, and more particularly the prostate-like secondary cells in this organ, which have extremely large secretory, endosomal and lysosomal compartments. These studies have started to inform our understanding of prostate biology, and allowed us to investigate the unusual molecular mechanisms by which males signal to females during mating to change their physiology and behaviour, and how those mechanisms are modulated by mating and socio-sexual experience. They have also revealed fundamental new insights into several basic cell biological processes, such as the secretion of nanovesicles (or exosomes) as novel signalling moieties, the formation of dense-core secretory granules and the links between different intracelllular compartments and specific cell-cell signalling cascades. This work is relevant to multiple major human diseases, as well as mechanisms of viral and bacterial infection. We have a series of collaborations in place to exploit our findings as they emerge, all the way to the clinic.
Read on to find out more about our multidisciplinary studies and the translational areas in medicine, biodelivery and pest control, which they inform.
The majority of men over 50 suffer from benign prostate hyperplasia. Progression to prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in males. However, animal models for prostate cancer have lagged behind those for many other types of cancer. For example, the mouse prostate is small and differently organised to its human equivalent. In collaboration with Prof Freddie Hamdy from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences in Oxford, we initiated a detailed cell biological and genetic analysis of the Drosophila accessory gland, which like the prostate, secretes a cocktail of proteases and glycoproteins into seminal fluid that activate sperm after mating and affect fertility.
Remarkably, we have found that secondary cells grow selectively with age and after mating in flies, and that a subset of these cells delaminates apically from the epithelium, migrates along the duct of the gland and can ultimately be transferred to females upon mating. This raises the completely novel possibility that some secretory cells in glands involved in sperm activation acquire natural migratory activity to perform their functions. Some of the signals controlling these functions, such as bone morphogenetic proteins, are also required for males to fully reprogramme female behaviour after mating, so she then rejects advances from other males, an event in direct conflict with female interests. BMP signalling and other signalling involved in secondary cell biology is misregulated in prostate cancer. We are now developing models that explain the complex behaviour and functions of secondary cells in flies, and these studies are highlighting further parallels with the prostate.
We have shown that secondary cells secrete membrane-bound vesicles called exosomes, which are transferred to females and play key roles in the reproductive biology of the fly. Similar functions have been proposed for human prostate exosomes through in vitro experiments. Exosomes are formed as minute (50-100 nm) vesicles in the late endosomal multivesicular bodies (MVBs) of cells, and potentially carry signalling proteins, RNA, DNA and lipids, providing them with almost limitless cell reprogramming capability.
The diameter of MVBs and other intracellular compartments in secondary cells, and the sizes of the glandular lumen and female reproductive tract to which exosomes are transferred are all remarkably large. Using the highly versatile cell biological and genetic tools available in flies, we have for the first time in any organism been able to visualize in real-time aspects of exosome biogenesis in living tissue. Our studies have already revealed novel mechanisms by which membrane trafficking and exosomes are regulated by cell-cell signalling, as well as showing that membrane trafficking controls signalling by exosomes, and that secondary cell exosomes are required to reprogramme female behaviour after mating. These findings have far-reaching implications for reproductive biology, and may be relevant to the design of pest control strategies in the future. Furthermore, collaborating with the groups of Deborah Goberdhan (DPAG) and Adrian Harris (WIMM), we have also shown that some of these mechanisms are conserved in a broad range of cancer cell types, and are relevant to tumour progression and metastasis. We are now using the secondary cell system to work out how exosomes are packaged, how their secretion is regulated and how they then affect target cells, all fundamental questions that have been very difficult to address in vivo in other systems.
One fundamental conclusion we have made from our previous studies and recent work in secondary cells is that not only do several signalling pathways play fundamental roles in controlling the trafficking of membranes within the cell, but trafficking also controls key intracellular signalling hubs like mTORC1 and regulates the type of secreted signals released to reprogramme other cells. Our ability to visualise the substructure of intracellular compartments in living secondary cells using confocal microscopy and more recently super-resolution 3D-SIM has shed new light on the biology that underpins this, in a field that has previously remained inaccessible to detailed cell biological analysis. For example, we have recently demonstrated that the BMP ligand Dpp is packaged into dense-core granules in secondary cells and its mating-dependent secretion drives new dense-core granule formation to replenish the pool of secretory compartments. Using different endogenous and fluorescent markers, we have also found that single cells make different types of exosome in different intracellular compartments. There is evidence that both of these mechanisms are evolutionarily conserved, and given the importance of exosomes and dense-core granules in disorders such as cancer and diabetes, as well as cellular processes like neurotransmission, these data have significant implications for our understanding of basic cell biology in health and disease.
HOW DO AMINO ACID TRANSPORTERS AND CELLULAR NUTRIENT SENSORS INTERACT WITH INSULIN AND mTORC1 SIGNALLING CASCADES?
Insulin and insulin-like growth factors have fundamental roles in nutrient-regulated metabolism and growth. Indeed, defective signalling by these molecules is known to be a critical factor in both diabetes and many forms of human cancer. More recently the rate of ageing and degenerative events in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease have also been associated with levels of insulin signalling and the activity of its downstream signalling target, the TORC1 kinase complex.
The powerful genetic approaches in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have been instrumental in allowing our group and others over the last fifteen years to make major contributions to our understanding of insulin signalling and its link to a downstream nutrient-sensing signalling complex called mTORC1. These Drosophila-driven discoveries have led to the use of mTORC1 inhibitors in the clinic for some solid tumours, such as renal cancers. Our group has made a number of breakthroughs in the genetic dissection of the insulin signalling cascade and growth regulation over the years, typically initiating our studies with in vivo genetic approaches and then using state-of-the-art cell biological and physiological techniques to more closely analyse function. For example, we identified and characterised the fly homologue of the major tumour suppressor PTEN.
A collaboration between Deborah Goberdhan, Richard Boyd, David Meredith (who was previously in this department) and our group identified a specific class of amino acid transporters – the proton-assisted amino acid transporters (or PATs) – as unique regulators of mTORC1, growth, insulin signalling and insulin resistance in flies. Later work confirmed that mammalian PATs can also have the same effects and suggests that these molecules act as amino acid sensors that respond to amino acids in the luminal compartments of the late endosomes and lysosomes (LELs) and other compartments like the Golgi to activate mTOR at the membranes of these organelles. This work now dovetails with our studies of exosome biogenesis, which takes place in the same late endosomal compartments, and we are examining how these processes are co-ordinated. We are also studying the functions of several other amino acid transporters that appear to be involved in the mTORC1-regulated growth regulatory process. All of these transporters are good candidates as potential new drug targets in diseases such as cancer.
Our ability to visualise and genetically modulate the large late endosomal and lysosomal compartments in secondary cells has allowed us to investigate the roles of these and other compartments in mTORC1 signalling. Furthermore, since some genetic manipulations alter the maturation of these compartments, we are starting to use the secondary cell as a model for lysosomal disorders and to gauge the effects of changes in endolysosomal flux on subcellular processes associated with neurodegenerative disorders. This work is again highly complementary to our studies of exosome biology.
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Nature Review Genetics - Signalling
"Male exosomes affect female behaviour"
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Trinity 2014
- September: WELL DONE to Dr Laura Corrigan for successfully defending her thesis!
- September: GOOD LUCK to DPhil student Laura Corrigan for her viva on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014!
- September: Warm welcome to Biochemistry student Thomas Hilton who has joined the lab for his 4th year project!
- August: Well done to DPhil student Laura Corrigan for her first author publication in JCB at the end of her 4-year Wellcome Trust DPhil studentship!
COMING SOON...Michaelmas 2014
October 2014
- After successfully completing his final first-year rotation in our lab, DPhil Student Ben Kroeger will join the Wilson Group for his full Wellcome Trust studentship!
- Josephine Hellberg will join the group on a 4-year MRC DPhil Programme!
Join the Group
We have a dynamic group of researchers in the group, but are always looking for motivated and talented individuals, who would like to join the lab as postdoctoral scientists or graduate students. Some potential funding possibilities are listed here: please get in touch if you would like to discuss further.
DPhil students: You can apply directly to the Department for a place to study for a DPhil in the lab. The Division offers a number of scholarships to individuals who are offered places, but these are highly competitive, so you are strongly advised to discuss any potential application to the lab with Clive Wilson. There are other four-year DPhil programmes to which students can apply, which would give them the opportunity to undertake a rotation and subsequent DPhil in the lab. Furthermore, qualified clinicians can apply for Fellowship funding to undertake translational DPhil research involving our lab and at least one of our clinical collaborators. Some students also come to the laboratory with their own competitively awarded funding. If you are interested in applying to study in the group, please contact us to discuss possible opportunities.
Postdoctoral scientists: Funded positions for postdoctoral scientists periodically become available through new grant awards, and are advertised on local webpages and on an international academic vacancies page, such as Naturejobs. Our lab has been at the forefront of developing the fly accessory gland system as a new model for prostate biology, exosome analysis and high resolution in vivo cell biology: we encourage talented and experienced postdoctoral scientists with new ideas about how to use this system to get in contact and apply for independent fellowship funding to work with us to develop these ideas in our lab.


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If you ask me, Nick Clegg's claim he knew nothing about the sexual harassment allegations against Lord Rennard, followed by an admission that he actually did proves, beyond any doubt, he is the absolute master of the of the U-turn. This is maddening for anyone who voted for him in the hope, for example, that he would stick to his word with regard to tuition fees, or would prove the sort of mensch who would one day take accusations of molestation seriously, but, please, spare a thought for his wife, Miriam, who has to live with it day in, day out, which is quite a thing.
Indeed, as she has said, she must now do all their motorway driving "as Nick can make his U-turns without any warning, and at speed, which is completely terrifying". In fact, there is very little she can now trust him with. Just the other day, she asked him to pick up some aspirin on his way home, as she had a headache, but did he? He did not. And as he told her: "True, I used to feel your pain, but as of yesterday afternoon, when I performed one of my U-turns, it is simply no longer my policy."
The U-turn is, of course, an essential skill for politicians generally – according to the British School of Votering, you cannot get your politician's licence and be let loose on voters without it – but no one has perfected these turns quite as expertly as Mr Clegg who, it is now more than clear, said one thing to get the gig, then quite another once he got into office. To perform such turns, the BSV offers the following instructions:
- Before you make your U-turn, check both ways to see that the evidence is mounting against you, that it's a cul-de-sac, that there is no other way out, and that you are a weak-minded disappointment without a single shred of integrity left to your name.
- If you see there is a sign cautioning against U-turns, and you ignore it, you must be prepared to later offer a televised apology, as if this makes it any better, or even makes amends.
- To make the actual turn, signal right, check over your shoulder for David Cameron urging you on, think of your office and that nice mahogany desk, then pull to the right as strongly as you can. (Although you never thought you could pull to the right with such strength, there is every chance you will surprise even yourself by just how right you can go.)
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The tiny woman in her pajamas would have been no match for the three armed men who broke into her home in the middle of the night, but she had a gun, and she used it.
She also had a home surveillance system that captured the whole incident on video.
Police are now searching for the two armed suspects who got away. The third didn't make it far – he was killed when the woman fired her gun into the darkness, defending her home.
Gwinnett County Police say the three men kicked in the door of the woman's Georgia home in the pre-dawn hours of September 16, and were going room to room searching for cash. But the 36-year-old woman, still dressed in her pajamas, went after them with her gun and sent them scattering.
The short man in the video, who wore dark clothing and a shoulder-length wig, was fatally shot. He has been identified as Antoino Leaks, 28, from Atlanta.
After the men fled, the woman's roommate emerged in the video and is seen taking the gun from her and consoling her. The woman then dialed 911 to report the invasion. "Someone (came) in my house," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I don't know how they (came) in … They've got a gun."
According to Gwinnett Daily Post, the woman is a local Asian restaurant owner. The video shows the home was filled with boxes of restaurant supplies.
Police don't know the identities of the other two men who escaped, and have released the surveillance video in hopes someone will recognize them and turn them in.
"It's clear they are armed and dangerous and they will likely do this again if they're not arrested. We're certain with video this clear, someone will recognize these guys and help us get them in custody," said Cpl. Deon Washington.
"She did not know the men and it's clear that they weren't invited into her home. She simply exercised her right to defend her property," said Cpl. Deon Washington
One of the remaining suspects have been described as an approximately 6-foot-tall black male with a thin build and facial hair, who was wearing a WHI baseball cap, dark-colored pants and athletic shoes with an unknown reflective symbol when the crime occurred.
The other suspect has also been described as an approximately 6-foot-tall black male with a thin build and facial hair, but he was also described as having short black hair and wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark-colored pants and black athletic shoes during the crime.
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Home Invasion suspects caught on video clip #1 Contact Crime Stoppers with tips. 4045778477 https://t.co/NhHBds5U4b pic.twitter.com/cCRqOswDDU
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Home Invasion suspects caught on video clip #2 Contact Crime Stoppers with tips. 4045778477 pic.twitter.com/vBlCsyCWzm
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Anyone who has information about the suspects is asked to call Gwinnett County Police at 770-513-5300, or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477. They can also provide information to Crime Stoppers at www.crimestoppersatlanta.org, or by texting information to 274637. Tipsters can receive a reward of up to $2,000 if their information leads to an arrest and indictment in the case.
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The Class of 2016 guard has been a part of back-to-back state title winners with the Rebels, capping off the second 'ship a few weeks ago with a performance worthy of Most Outstanding Player honors. Crowfield lit up second-seeded Lakeview for 35 points and 12 rebounds, securing the hardware for Riverside, the top seed in Class 2A.
In the short time between tearing down nets in Lake Charles and the beginning of the Nike Circuit, where Crowfield will ply his trade over the coming months with the Red Storm (Nike Team Louisiana), the player took time to reflect on what he's accomplished and how he far he's come in the past few years.
"It's been good," said Crowfield of his progression. "I've been getting a lot better since my eighth grade season, when I was still a little shy, but I've been coming on every year and trying to improve my game."
These days Crowfield (6-4, 190) also isn't bashful when it comes to discussing his game. When asked to describe what he brings to the floor, Crowfield responded, "The best shooter in the state, maybe in the country. I'm a lock-down defender, too, and I can get rebounds for you."
Of course where confidence comes in one hand for Crowfield, a desire to prove himself on the national stage and polish the rest of his game rests in the other. "I have to be able to go strong to the hole," Crowfield said of his goals this summer, "get my own shots and attack the rim."
On the recruiting front Crowfield is hearing from a number of schools across the country, but to date only two have extended offers.
"This year I picked up an offer from UTEP. My eighth-grade year I had picked up Baylor," Crowfield recalled. "I've gotten a few interest letters from LSU, Tulsa, Dayton and Arizona."
According to Crowfield, Baylor, which features former Riverside forward Ricardo Gathers on its roster, continues to come on the hardest. Bears assistant coach Jerome Tang, the lead recruiter on Crowfield, has been to numerous practices this season. "He said he likes my game a lot," Crowfield explained with a laugh, "and that he wants me so bad."
Crowfield didn't rule out the possibility of LSU becoming a legitimate player in his recruitment should the Tigers offer.
"I might be (interested)," Crowfield said. "It depends on how comfortable I am and if I'm more comfortable at another college."
Still yet to enter his junior season, Crowfield is in the process of narrowing down what's important to him in making a collegiate decision. Two things he does know already – distance doesn't matter and he wants a platform.
On his criteria for choosing a college: "Probably what best fits me – close to home, all that stuff, it doesn't matter. As long as I get to show off my talent and play with great teammates, I'll be happy."
He is also content with letting the process play itself out for the near future, feeling no pressure to announce anytime soon.
"I'm going to wait a little while, open up my recruitment and make a decision my senior year," Crowfield concluded.
Crowfield will play this summer on the Red Storm's 16U Nike travel team, on the same loaded squad that features his prep teammate Herb McGee, the U-High duo of Skylar Mays and Wayde Sims as well as East St. John's Troy Green.


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My name is Ed Razanauskas. I'm a 35 year old photographer in Pittsburgh PA. Most of my photographs are taken in Western PA.
I've always loved Photography, however I didn't start to take it seriously until 2008 when I started classes at Pittsburgh Filmmakers School. I was amazed at how thinking about photography really changed my perspective on how I see and observe the world around me. I started "framing" everyday scenes in my mind while just walking around. Which is pretty much my method for taking photographs.
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Following a catastrophic tragedy caused by superhumans, the US Government passes a Super-Human Registration Act that requires all super-powered individuals in the country to reveal their identities, disclose their powers and personal details, and register as government employees or risk indefinite incarceration. This causes a deep rift in the hero community, with some backing the Act while others oppose it.
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Gordon Brown's clash with the Sun over his condolence letter to Jacqui Janes is the latest twist in a long saga. British politicians and military leaders have been acutely aware for 200 years that they are accountable to public opinion for war casualties – and misjudge their responses at their peril.
In memoirs written in retirement they all recall how distressed they feel in pursuing policies that send young men and women to their deaths. Even when Brown's handwriting and spelling were criticised by Guardsman Jamie Janes' mother, it was clear that the prime minister had been trying hard to pen a sympathetic note.
But times and acceptable behaviour change constantly. Tory MP Sir Peter Tapsell tells how the then prime minister Sir Anthony Eden lost his temper when taunted for indifference at a public meeting. Eden (awarded MC at the Somme) had lost his RAF pilot son, Simon, in 1945, but he felt ashamed for letting his feelings show.
Two world wars and mass conscription ensured that most families had experienced loss. But Britain ended the 20th century as it began it, with a small professional army: 200,000 in 1914, barely 100,000 today. Military experience belongs to a minority and few senior ministers have tasted it.
The old stiff upper lip, born of huge casualties, lingers. When 50 soldiers died on the landing ship Sir Galahad in the tightly news-managed Falklands War, on 8 June 1982, no Commons statement was made for two days. In Northern Ireland and later during the first Gulf War, John Major also stuck to reticence.
When Michael Foot wore what was wrongly dubbed a duffel coat to the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday there was mayhem, led by the Sun again.
It was Tony Blair who grasped changing attitudes to death and introduced the naming of casualties at PMQs. Brown did the same. But like Thatcher, Blair also wrote private hand-written letters to families, with a printed copy, a detail Brown might adopt.
All leaders make public and private gestures. Last month, Barack Obama flew before dawn to watch 18 American soldiers come home in coffins – a ritual the Bush administration closed to the media.
One consolation may be that such gestures are possible because casualties remain comparatively light. On the first day of the Somme there were 60,000 British casualties – 20,000 of them dead. It would have taken days to read the rollcall at PMQs.


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Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Rams claimed Arizona Cardinals' fifth round draft pick Marqui Christian off waivers.
On Sunday, Christian is active for Los Angeles, while only one of the Cardinals' six draft choices from the 2016 NFL Draft is active for Arizona.
First round draft choice Robert Nkemdiche and third round draft choice Brandon Williams are both inactive for Arizona, and both appear to be coaching decisions.
Head coach Bruce Arians indicated Nkemdiche had one of his best practices as a Cardinals this week, but that still wasn't enough for Arians to keep Nkemdiche on the team's 46-player game day roster. As for Williams, Mike Jurecki of Fox Sports 910 reported that he working with the Cardinals' practice squad this week.
The decision to leave Williams inactive comes just two weeks after the rookie cornerback out of Texas A&M made his back-to-back starts to open his NFL career. Still, Williams was starting because of a relative lack of depth in the Cardinals' defensive backfield, and with the additions of new starter Marcus Cooper and waiver-wire pickup Tharold Simon, Arizona can now focus on Williams' development.
Fourth round draft choice Evan Boehm is the only Cardinals' draft pick from this offseason who is active against Los Angeles Sunday, and barring an unforeseen injury, Boehm will likely only play on special teams. Boehm is the backup center to A.Q. Shipley, who has struggled as a starter for Arizona this season.
The Cardinals did receive some positive news Sunday as right guard Evan Mathis is not on the inactive list, which likely means he will start after missing Sunday's contest in Buffalo. Reserve offensive lineman Earl Watford filled in for Mathis last week.
With veteran punter Drew Butler inactive this week due to injury, free agent signee Ryan Quigley will handle Arizona's punting duties, and likely hold field goals for placekicker Chandler Catanzaro. Arians said earlier this week he was considering leaving Butler active simply to hold field goals, but it's likely that Quigley will assume those duties.
Sunday's matchup between Arizona and Los Angeles is intriguing in that neither team has received much from its 2016 draft class, as the Rams have come under heat for the selection of No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff, who is active as the team's backup quarterback Sunday.


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A contrite Rupert Murdoch today appeared before MPs and declared: "This is the most humble day of my life".
Sitting alongside his son, James, the 80-year-old media mogul said that he was "more than prepared" to answer the questions of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee into the phone hacking scandal.
The start of the keenly-awaited hearing in the Wilson Room of Portcullis House was briefly disrupted as some protesters were removed.
James Murdoch, News Corp's deputy chief operating officer, opened by saying how sorry he and his father were to the victims in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
"It is a matter of great regret of mine, my father's and everyone at News Corporation. These actions do not live up to the standards our company aspires to everywhere around the world," he said.
"It is our determination both to put things right, make sure these things don't happen again, and to be the company that I know that we have always aspired to be."
James Murdoch told the committee the company acted "swiftly" as soon as it became aware of fresh evidence over phone hacking following a series of civil actions in 2010, particularly the case involving actress Sienna Miller.
It became apparent that more people than originally believed were victims of the practice, he added.
Mr Murdoch Jnr said: "Subsequent to our discovery of that information in one of these civil trials at the end of 2010, which I believe was the Sienna Miller case, the company immediately went to look at additional records around the individual involved, the company alerted the police and restarted, on that basis, the investigation that is now under way."
He said the company had apologised "unreservedly, which I repeat today," to phone hacking victims.
He added: "The company acted as swiftly and transparently as possible."
Asked by Labour MP Tom Watson whether he had been "misled" by senior employees, Mr Murdoch senior replied: "Clearly."
Mr Watson pointed out that former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks admitted in 2003 that police were paid for information.
Mr Murdoch senior said: "I am now aware of that, I was not aware at the time. I'm also aware that she amended that considerably very quickly afterwards."
Mr Watson said: "I think she amended it seven or eight years afterwards but did you or anyone else in your organisation investigate it at the time?"
Mr Murdoch replied: "No. I didn't know of it.
"I'm sorry, if I can just say something and this is not as an excuse, maybe it's an explanation of my laxity.
"The News of the World is less than 1% of our company. I employ 53,000 people around the world who are proud and great and ethical and distinguished people, professionals in their work.
"I'm spread watching and appointing people whom I trust to run those divisions."
James Murdoch told the committee: "I can tell you that the critical new facts as I saw them and the company saw them really emerged in the production of documentary information or evidence in these civil trials at the end of 2010.
"And the duration from 2007 to 2010, and the length of time it took for that to come clear and for that real evidence to be there, is a matter of deep frustration - I have to tell you I sympathise with the frustration of this committee.
"It's a matter of real regret that the facts could not emerge and could not be gotten to, to my understanding, faster."
He was asked by committee chair John Whittingdale which News of the World staff, apart from Clive Goodman, were involved in phone hacking.
"There have been a number of arrests of former News of the World employees," Mr Murdoch said.
"These are matters for current criminal investigations and I think understandably it's difficult for me to comment in particular on some of those individuals."
Asked why he had not sacked News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck after the Max Mosley case, when the judge found he had blackmailed two prostitutes involved, Rupert Murdoch replied: "I have never heard of him."
He acknowledged that a review of News International emails by former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald's review found evidence of "indirect hacking, breaches of national security and evidence of serious crime".
"He did indeed," he said.
James Murdoch said his father was told of an out-of-court settlement with Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor for phone hacking only after it became public in 2009.
"Please understand that an out-of-court settlement of civil claim of that nature and of that quantum is something that normally in a company of our size the responsible executives in the country would be authorised to make," he said.
"It is below the approval thresholds that would have to go to my father as chairman and chief executive of the global companies."
Mr Watson asked Rupert Murdoch when he became aware that criminality was "endemic" at the News of the World.
"Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word," he replied. "I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.
"That that has been disclosed I became aware of as it became apparent.
"I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago."
Questioned about the 200 journalists who lost their jobs when the News of the World was closed down, Mr Murdoch senior replied: "When a company closes down it is natural for people to lose their jobs."
He said they had tried to secure employment for those people in other divisions of the company.
Explaining why the newspaper was shut down, he said: "We felt ashamed at what happened. We had broken our trust with our readers."
At one point James Murdoch stepped in to request that questions were directed to him rather than his father.
"Mr Watson and Mr Chairman, I think it would be helpful to the committee if you would like to go through any of the particular detail about why decisions were made by the management team of News International and the precise chronology it would be more helpful if I could answer those questions as the Chief Executive of the regional business across Europe.
"I have somewhat more proximity to it."
But Mr Watson replied: "Your father is responsible for corporate governance and serious wrongdoing has been brought about in the company.
"It is revealing in itself what he does not know and what executives chose not to tell him."
Rupert Murdoch denied that he was ultimately responsible for the "fiasco".
Asked by Labour's Jim Sheridan who was, Mr Murdoch replied: "The people that I trusted and then, maybe, the people they trusted."
He said he had worked with Les Hinton, who quit his role as chief executive officer of Dow Jones and Co last week, for 52 years, adding: "I would trust him with my life."
Mr Murdoch revealed he had been invited to have a cup of tea as a thank you by the Prime Minister within days of the general election last year.
He admitted he had entered No 10 through the back door after being asked to, he believed, to avoid photographers.
"I just did what I was told," he added.
"That's the choice of the Prime Minister, or their staff, or whoever does these things.
"I was asked would I please come in through the back door.
"I was invited within days (of the election) to have a cup of tea to be thanked for the support by Mr Cameron.
"No other conversation took place."
He said he was also invited by former prime minister Gordon Brown "many times" and had also gone in through the back door.
He denied imposing any "preconditions" on party leaders before giving them support.
Mr Murdoch insisted he knew of no evidence that the phones of 9/11 victims had been hacked but "absolutely" would launch a full investigation if any revelations came to light.
Conservative MP Therese Coffey asked who decided that the News of the World should be shut down.
Mr Murdoch senior replied: "It was a result of a discussion between my son and I and senior executives and Ms Brooks one morning.
"We called the board of News Corporation, the whole board, to seek their agreement."
Pressed on whether it was a commercial decision, he replied: "Far from it."
James Murdoch was asked for more information on Mr Taylor's out-of-court settlement.
"The underlying interception was not a disputed fact," he said.
"It was the advice and the clear view of the company that, if litigated, the company was almost certain to lose that case."
The company was advised that it could lose between £500,000 and £1 million in legal expenses and damages if it went to court, he said.
"This was in the context of the first half of 2008 and this was my first real involvement with any of these issues, where there was no reason at the time to believe that the issue of these voicemail interceptions was anything but a settled matter and that it was in the past after the successful prosecution of the two individuals we discussed, as well as the resignation of the editor," he said.
Asked why he had not accepted Ms Brooks' original offer to resign, Rupert Murdoch said: "Because I believed her and I trusted her and I do trust her."
Explaining why he eventually accepted it, he said: "In the event, she just insisted. She was at a point of extreme anguish."
Mr Murdoch said Mr Hinton had "sadly" offered to resign as he was in charge of News International at the height of the hacking abuse.
He refused to give details of the pay-off each will receive but said Mr Hinton's would "certainly be considerable" as it would include pension packages.
James Murdoch said commercial confidentiality agreements were part of the exit package but there was nothing that would "stop or inhibit" them from co-operating fully with investigations.
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May 11, 2006
Company Naming: The Lucent-Alcatel Merger Challenge
The recently announced $13.45 billion Lucent-Alcatel merger offers a fascinating challenge for people in the brand naming field.
While some writers have suggested the new name for the merged company should be Lucatel, it is clear that whatever name they choose is likely to be contentious, not least because the merger come with a hefty lawsuit attached.
A few weeks ago the folks at Marketwatch posited that rebranding the company might not be worth the expense.
I do not agree. I think a new company name is beneficial, especially since the company has gone to some lengths to assure shareholders and customers that the merged company can be run smoothly between offices in the USA and France.
I think it will also remind everyone that the company is launching a fresh, exciting new enterprise.
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We don't even hear much any more of the term spin doctor, which by evoking medical expertise at least lent some quasi-respectability to the dark arts of twisting the facts to suit a political agenda. Now the truth is just there to spin, or to be spun. All branches of government have someone relentlessly spinning.
Happily, for those of us who love the great game of cricket, the verb "to spin" will always suggest Shane Warne rather than Alastair Campbell, will unfailingly summon the image of Muttiah Muralitharan in the thick of it before that of Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It. As putting is to golf, so is spinning to cricket; a game within a game.
Also on Thursday, coincidentally, a launch party was held for a book called Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers (Yellow Jersey, £14.99). The author is my colleague Amol Rajan, who as the former deputy comment editor of this newspaper knows plenty about the political phenomenon of spinning, but his splendid book makes clear where his priorities lie, spin-wise.
It is full of compelling anecdotes and perceptive analysis, and I would heartily recommend it even if it didn't also include a few excerpts from my own encounters with notable characters from the world of spin. I have conducted more than 400 sports interviews for The Independent, but I would unhesitatingly place my hour with Warne, plus a separate session in the nets with his mentor Terry Jenner, in my personal top 10.
Warne welcomed me to his room at the Grosvenor House hotel in London, one August afternoon in 2002, with almost the warmth he might have shown me had my name been Bryony, and seemed only too happy to demonstrate his extraordinary repertoire with a ball I had just bought at Selfridges for that very purpose. I can't say it improved my own occasional tweaking efforts at village cricket level, but to have a personal masterclass from the great man, albeit within the confines of a hotel suite with very little turn off the worn bedroom carpet, remains one of the privileges of my career. He signed the ball, too.
Anyway, in his book, Rajan quotes Warne on the smoke and mirrors dimension of spin bowling. "What matters is not always how many deliveries you possess, but how many the batsman thinks you have," said Ferntree Gully's finest, who was more than capable, according to Rajan, of fibbing a little to inflate his own myth, claiming during the Ashes of 2005 to have dismissed Ian Bell "with a perfect slider – in fact it was simply a leg-break that failed to grip".
Michael Atherton always recognised the way in which spinners exaggerate their own wizardry, and the way they "lay claim to more deliveries than an NHS midwife". Rajan also cites Saqlain Mushtaq as having disingenuously claimed a "teesra" to go with his famous doosra, while Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis more recently let it be known that he was working on a sixth type of delivery to go with the five already in his armoury, threatening to use it in a match situation without ever remotely explaining what it was.
None of this is exclusive to spin-bowling, of course, or even to cricket. Bill Shankly and Brian Clough knew, as Jose Mourinho does, as Muhammad Ali and Seve Ballesteros and John McEnroe did, that some opponents can be vanquished by the myth rather than the man, by the suggestion of a straight flush when you only hold a pair of jacks in your hand.
And that, I suppose, is spinning as Alastair Campbell and Malcolm Tucker might recognise it.
You'll never walk alone – but only 13 people once saw Stockport
Far be it from me to rub salt into the wounds of the Edgeley Park faithful, Stockport County's 106-year stay in the Football League having been terminated last weekend, but 90 years ago today Stockport claimed an unenviable record that will surely stand until the end of time. On 7 May 1921, a Saturday then as now, just 13 people paid to watch the club's match against Leicester City. It is the smallest crowd ever recorded in the Football League.
In fairness, there was an explanation. The previous month, after Stockport had been denied what looked like a clear penalty while losing 0-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday, the crowd had expressed its anger by breaking the windows in the referee's dressing room. The Football Association, a decisive and uncompromising lot then as not now, responded by closing Edgeley Park for the last game of the season, which instead was held at Old Trafford.
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After 12 years, the school opened up a secon-dary section and ISB now also has a branch in Kuala Belait.
This year, ISB marked another achievement after enrolling 15,000 students at both of its branches.


text: I would like to see more blitzing from our lb's,seemed the coaches were pretty vanilla last night. Every sack we got my grin got bigger,by the end of the game,I looked like the joker:smile2: Need to work on not getting sealed on those off-tackle runs. Good job guys, very nice!


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Sermon Illustrations
Sermon Illustrations > Surrender, to God; cf. Lordship, Missions, Witnessing > Shortest War
Today in the Word, July 3, 1993
Today in the Word, July 3, 1993
For those who think the coalition troops of Operation Desert Storm must have set some kind of record with their 100-hour ground assault against Iraq, the "record book" of history says otherwise. The shortest war on record was fought between Britain and Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) on August 27, 1896. The huge British fleet issued an ultimatum to the sultan of Zanzibar, then followed with 38 minutes of bombardment before the badly mismatched sultan surrendered!


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A second woman has died after being crushed in a nightclub last month.
Laurene-Danielle Jackson, a 19-year-old student from Wembley, north London, died in hospital yesterday after being caught up in a rush for the exits at the Lava Ignite club in Northampton town centre on October 19, Northamptonshire Police said.
Nabila Nanfuka, a 22-year old student from Neasden, north London, also died from injuries sustained in the crush.
Ms Jackson was taken to Leicester's Glenfield Hospital after the incident in which revellers hurried for the exits after apparently being told their coaches home were leaving.
The pair had been among party-goers at the Wickedest Wickedest event, many of whom had travelled to the venue from out of town.
Eyewitnesses described revellers rushing for the exits following an announcement that coaches were leaving to take them home.
An inquest found that Ms Nanfuka, a leisure and tourism student, died from traumatic crush asphyxia at Northampton General Hospital on the day of the crush.
A 21-year old, who was also injured, was released from Northampton General Hospital last month.
Northampton Borough Council has temporarily suspended Lava & Ignite's licence while an investigation is carried out.
Meanwhile Luminar, which runs Lava & Ignite, Liquid and Oceana clubs throughout the UK, has appointed administrators. It is understood that Ernst & Young is continuing to run the business as a going concern while it seeks a buyer.
The firm employs 3,000 full and part-time staff and operates 75 venues across the country.
The leader elect of Northampton Borough Council today paid tribute to Ms Jackson.
Councillor David Mackintosh said: "It's terrible that a young woman with her whole life ahead of her should die in this way.
"My heart goes out to her family.
"We will continue to support Northamptonshire Police as they investigate the circumstances that have led now to two tragic deaths."
A full review of the nightclub's licence will take place on November 14, the council confirmed.
A statement from Luminar read: "Everyone at Lava Ignite is devastated to hear of the second tragic loss of life following the incident that occurred during the early hours of Wednesday 19th October at the Lava Ignite nightclub in Northampton.
"The club management and staff continue to co-operate fully with the local police to find out exactly what happened.
"Our thoughts are with the family of all those involved at this time."
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DVD Backup Tips
Wanna keep DVD discs from scratching, or manage your movies in a more convenient way? This page will describe how to backup your own DVD disc video to different storage quickly and safely!
Why Backup DVD
DVDs are an amazing yet costly investment, which over time can become scratched, damaged and even completely unusable. To keep DVD discs from scratching, or manage your movies in more convenietn way, the best solution is to create DVD collection backups. Here you will all the tips on how to back up your DVDs, including backing up DVD collection to NAS, backing up DVD library to home sever, backing up DVD movie to HDD, backing up DVD content to PC, and more.


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once in a lifetime experience
Sail Date: June 14, 2009
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Traveled As: Family (young children)
Room Type: Oceanview
Pros: variety of food, lots of activities, great shore excursions, very clean ship
Cons: THE HEAT - no more summer cruises for us and more people than we've ever seen on a cruise
Recommends Carnival Conquest? Yes!
Port Ratings
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|Key West, Florida
|We did the conch ride and got to see the city - very worth it. THe Pirate museum was ok and great way to get out of the heat - not sure it was totally worth the price.
|Freeport, Grand Bahama Island
|we only stayed in the area of the ship - we did not take the taxi or bus ride into town. I didn't know in advance that you had to take a shore excursion or a taxi in order to see anything.
|Nassau, Bahamas
we only shopped with the local vendors and it was your basic flea market atmosphere. It was a very hot time of year to be out walking.
Don't Miss: My son and grandson said the snorkling was great.


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Persistent - Part 1 (2 of 3) by Fred Michaux
This content is part of a series.Persistent - Part 1 (2 of 3)
Series: Chosen
Fred Michaux
All the individuals identified, chronicled, chosen in Scripture are to remind us that we too are chosen. We must not succumb to the trap born out of the inherent insecurity of our humanity that the unnamed people in the crowd are forgotten, over-looked, set aside. Every story in Scripture where one is chosen and a crowd remains, every person in the crowd is a on their own journey of being chosen, for their own providential purpose, for their own divine destiny.
-Luke 18:1-8
-Tonight we are focusing on "persistence - a prayer that won't give up"
-What are some times in your life when you have been physically exhausted?
-Psalm 13:1
-Psalm 69:3
- "ekkakeo" - means to lose heart, fainthearted (connect to hope…)
How are we going to be a church that has "a prayer that won't give up?"
Proper Perceptions…persistence, a prayer that won't give up!
-Self-Perception - comparison
> "always pray" (how incapable we really are)
*Joshua 9:14
*Judges 16:16-20
> "a widow" (cultural term to demonstrate vulnerability)
> "a judge" (given to us to contrast, accentuate "widow")
> Matthew 6:7 (speaking to self-perception, chanting and incantations do not access some nebulous power existing in the universe, there is only one Power…the one who created it!)
-God Perception - contrast
> "unjust" - righteous
> "lawless" - ordered
> "callous" - compassionate
(next week)
> Matthew 6:8 (speaking to our God-perception, we are not informing God, we are not interacting with an aloof God who needs our clamoring to get His attention!)
> Matthew 6:9 (...always has our best interest at heart, He is all powerful, all knowing, ever present…and there is none like Him!)
> Matthew 6:11-13 (…give, forgive, lead, and deliver…what He longs to do for each of us!)
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Neat ReceiptsCleaning your paperwork digitally.
Receipts are easy to come by, and sometimes we find them tossed on the ground from someone who doesn't care about tracking of his or her purchases. Most of the people I have talked with do keep there receipts, which they just toss into a shoe box or envelope. Yet we all have our digital lives, and why not keep a digital copy of your receipt, I have come across the best method of keeping track of my purchases, categorizing what I buy, and seeing where my money is going.
My handy compact tool is call NEAT Receipts.
Finally NEAT Receipts has made a move and created a version which works on the Mac, when I first heard about it is only ran for Windows OS, yet a few months later they announced version 1.0 for mac plus a FREE upgrade to 2.0 early next year. The price was even a tad bit more reasonable $179.99 for mac and $229.99 for PC. So I made my purchase online, and took about a week to show up at my door.
I already had a pile of receipts just sitting on the floor, I have never been one to keep track of what I was buying, yet with the cost of everything these days I changed my mind, yet I know how much of a hassle keeping this thin piece of paper can be, and the link fades pretty quickly and usually they are already crinkled from being in my wallet.
At first that was my main reason for the purchase, then I realized how handy and care free it is at the end of the year. Well once it goes 2.0 it will give you a chart and totals for your categories. It even does OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of your scanned receipt, but you can easy edit or add notes to each item incase you have a complex scan.
Once I installed it and set up my scanner, installed the 1.0.3 update I was ready to get started with my pile of unorganized receipts, the scanner has one button on the top that you push when you are ready to scan, right after your receipt is scanned it crops, straightens, and then performs the OCR, which is just what I need. Also say you have a PDF you downloaded from your cell phone bill, or a screen grab from an e-mail purchase, all you have to do is just drag that into NEAT Receipts and enter the same information as any other item.
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No need for external power, and it even fits only the smallest desks or on the book shelf, I sometimes just leave it on my desk, along with the USB cable which comes with it, storage is super easy for this compact scanner. Say you make three purchases a day, just wait till the end of the week, 21 receipts, spend roughly 10 minutes scanning then in and you are done. Worried you might loose all your work, back up is easy, at first launch there is automatically a "NEAT Library" created, which hold all of your information, Simple back that up how you wish.
If you are like me, tired of faded receipts, and don't want to waste the first month of a new year looking through a shoe box, and would rather live a NEAT simple, well organized life. I would highly consider looking into NEAT Receipts, it is very user friendly and simple to use.
John Haley is a freelance animator in Los Angeles, CA. He works on Adobe After Effects and CINEMA4D. He has tons of receipts to log - so he's an excellent judge of what makes NEAT Receipts good. You can find his work at JHMotion.com
You can check out more facts about the NEAT RECEIPT scanner and the NEAT BUSINESS CARD scanner at the NEAT Receipts site: http://www.neatreceipts.com
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John Haley is a freelance video effects artist, and demo artist. Recent projects have included creation of animations for many of Mattel's Sizzle Reels, designing motion slates, and animation of the Air Quality Index for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He has worked on promo, commercial and music video compositing as well. John is a graduate of Video Symphony's Motion Graphics Program in Burbank, CA. http://www.johnhaley.tv/
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