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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Russia criticizes groups setting conditions for Syria talks
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is committed to arranging a peace conference on the Syria conflict but other countries and groups are complicating matters by trying to set preconditions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
Lavrov, who will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry next week to discuss the planned conference, also said shipments of weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "contradict the concept of the conference".
Russia, which has backed Assad by sending Damascus arms and protecting him from U.N. Security Council resolutions, agreed with Washington in May to help try to bring the warring sides to a peace conference. But preparatory talks this week in Geneva between Russian, U.S. and U.N. officials made no headway.
"The opposition, which is supported by the West, and other countries in the region announced they are not going to the conference as long as the regime doesn't agree to capitulate," Lavrov said after talks with Morocco's foreign minister.
He underlined that when the joint Russian-American initiative was rolled out, it was agreed that the participants would not be allowed to set any preconditions.
No date has been set for the conference. Russia, which opposes external intervention in the crisis, says it is not defending Assad but says his removal from power cannot be a condition for the talks to take place.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-criticizes-groups-setting-conditions-syria-talks-092802203.html
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Nets-Celtics trade? Rumors swirl of a Pierce-Garnett deal.
Nets-Celtics trade: The Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics might be closing in on a trade that would bring All-Stars?Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to Brooklyn.
Boston Celtics center Kevin Garnett (5) congratulates forward Paul Pierce (34) during a playoffs game against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden last month. The two Celtics All-Stars could soon be traded to the Brooklyn Nets, a person with knowledge of the talks said Thursday.
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On the day they hosted the NBA draft, the Nets were making much bigger noise with a potential transaction that would send the two perennial All-Stars to a new Atlantic Division home.
Yahoo Sports, which first reported the talks, said the Nets would also get veteran Jason Terry from the?Celtics, while sending Gerald Wallace, Tornike Shengelia, the expiring contract of Kris Humphries, and three future first-round picks to Boston.
The person confirmed the talks to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the details were to remain private.
The deal would complete the breakup of the core that led Boston to an NBA championship and within a victory of another. The?Celtics?already let Doc Rivers leave after acquiring a draft pick from the Los Angeles Clippers.
Garnett would have to waive a no-trade clause, which he has been reluctant to do previously. But the Nets hope he would consider this time with Pierce joining him and the?Celtics' best days seemingly behind them.
The?Celtics?tumbled down the Eastern Conference standings this season, falling all the way to the No. 7 seed and getting eliminated by the New York Knicks in the first round. They have been considering moving one or both of the veterans, and this would trigger the start of a true rebuilding process.
And it would provide a huge boost to the Nets at two of their weakest positions. They struggled to settle on a starting power forward all last season, and Pierce would be immune to the lengthy offensive slumps that plagued Wallace, the starting small forward.
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Fed's Williams: 'still too early' to reduce QE3
By Ann Saphir
ROHNERT PARK, California (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should not yet cut back on its massive bond-buying stimulus program, a top Fed official said on Friday, despite a stronger-than expected U.S. recovery and indications that the job market will continue to improve.
"Is it time to act? My answer is that it's still too early," San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Sonoma County Economic Development Board.
The remarks were a turnaround for the centrist policymaker, who in May said that if the recovery continued to improve as expected, the Fed could start trimming its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program by summer, and end it before the year is out. The purchases are designed to drive down long-term borrowing costs and encourage growth and hiring.
"For one thing, we need to be sure that the economy can maintain its momentum in the face of ongoing fiscal contraction," Williams said, citing the drag from Europe as a second risk to the U.S. recovery. "And it is also prudent to wait a bit and make sure that inflation doesn't keep coming in below expectations, possibly signaling a more persistent decline in inflation."
On Friday, Williams largely reiterated his forecast from May, saying he expects unemployment to fall to about 7.25 percent by the end of this year and to 6.75 percent by the end of next year, helped by inflation-adjusted growth in GDP of 2.25 percent this year and 3.25 percent next year.
Inflation, he predicted, will gradually rise from well below the Fed's 2-percent target now to about 1.75 percent in 2015.
"Looking ahead, if this forecast holds true, then at some point it will be appropriate to scale back our purchase program and eventually end it," Williams said.
By omitting a time frame for a dial-down of the Fed's asset purchases, Williams is no longer publicly at odds with the view set out last week by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said the U.S. central bank could start reducing the bond buys later this year and end them by mid-2014.
That relatively near-term timeline for the end of the Fed's third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, sent bond yields rising as investors began pricing in an earlier end to low interest rates.
Williams used his speech to fend off that notion, saying that any end to bond-buying stimulus would not change the Fed's promise to keep rates low until unemployment falls to at least 6.5 percent, as long as inflation stays contained.
He also reiterated the Fed's view that reducing bond purchases does not mean the Fed is tightening policy, and its vow to change its plans to reduce the program if economic data falls short of expectations.
"The good news is that the economy is on the mend," he said. When the time comes for the Fed to stop adding stimulus by buying long-term bonds, "I am confident that we can make this change without jeopardizing the recovery, while working toward our goals of maximum employment and price stability."
(Reporting by Ann Saphir; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/feds-williams-still-too-early-reduce-qe3-193144980.html
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Friday, June 28, 2013
New Cambodian tailorbird is an unlikely bird, in an unlikely place
Scientists have discovered a new bird unique to Cambodia in the unlikeliest of places: the teeming capital.
The Cambodian tailorbird was identified in Phnom Penh's urban capital.
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Scientists have discovered a new bird hiding in Cambodia?s booming, urban capital.
Called the Cambodian tailorbird (Orthotomus chaktomuk), the previously undocumented bird was found in Phnom Penh, as well as at several locations, including a construction site, outside the teeming city. The name "chaktomuk" translates from Khmer to ?four-faces,? in reference to the three rivers ? Tonle Sap, Mekong, and Bassac Rivers ? that converge to divide Phnom Penh into four zones.
?The modern discovery of an un-described bird species within the limits of a large populous city ? not to mention 30 minutes from my home ? is extraordinary,? said Simon Mahood, of the Wildlife Conservation Society. ?The discovery indicates that new species of birds may still be found in familiar and unexpected locations.?
Described in the Oriental Bird Club?s journal Forktail, the small gray bird has an orange-topped head ? like a baseball cap painted on and pulled low over its eyes ? and a white and black throat. It was identified after?Mahood began investigating an unidentified bird pictured in his co-author Ashish John's photographs taken at a construction site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.?
While it?s rare for a bird to be discovered in a major city, as opposed to in Cambodia?s jungles in its far-flung provinces, Phnom Penh is not an entirely unlikely home for the bird, which lives in the humid scrub in the river-girdled capital?s floodplain. The bird's territory is also not exactly in the capital itself, but more in the outskirts, where the urban landscape transitions into a hodgepodge of farmlands, factories, and construction zones.
Still, as development booms and Phnom Penh widens, the bird?s habitat is in decline. The paper?s authors recommend that it be classified as "Near Threatened" under the International Union for Conservation of Nature?s Red List. The newly discovered bird?s homeland is already part of the Baray Bengal Florican Conservation Area, where the World Conservation Society is at work with local communities and the nation?s Forestry Administration to protect the Bengal florican and other threatened birds.
The tailorbird is one of only two bird species found only in Cambodia. The other, the Cambodian laughingthrush, is seen just in the Cardamom Mountains, in Cambodia?s southwestern corner.
Bird discoveries have boomed in Southeast Asia in recent years, though most of those findings are coming as scientists plunge into the region's unexplored, remote jungles and less so from those countries' dense capitals. Among the newly documented species are various babbler birds from Vietnam?s mountains, the bare-faced bulbul from Laos, and the Mekong river?s wagtail.
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We're live at Microsoft Build 2013 with Windows Phone Central!
Seems like of late not a week passes without some form of event, and this week it's back over to Microsoft with their annual Build developer conference. Microsoft does make some stuff for the Mac and iOS devices, and likewise a lot of iOS users are also Windows users, so there's plenty of interest to look out for. Though, some of us are just hoping for a typically energetic performance from Steve Ballmer.
Our buddies Daniel Rubino and Sam Sabri from Windows Phone Central are on the ground in San Francisco all week covering the event, starting with their liveblog of today's keynote at 9AM PT/12PM ET. You'll find the links you'll want to follow down below.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
How Rising Mortgage Rates Might Cool a Hot ... - AOL Real Estate
Mortgage rates have been extremely low for some time now. However, with rates on the rise once again, some worry that the declining affordability could be harmful to the recovery of the market as a whole.The number of homes currently on the market remains relatively constrained and that in turn is leading to higher prices every month, as it has for more than a year, according to a report from the Times of Trenton. However, with rising rates, consumers may be less interested in buying, which in turn could likely reduce values and cause growth in that area to decline.
It's important to note that the issue isn't necessarily that rates have gone up, but the rate at which they have done so. At the start of May, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages carried rates of 3.35 percent, which was near an all-time low, but by the time mid-June rolled around, these FRMs averaged 3.98 percent. Those for 15-year loans, which are preferred by consumers seeking to refinance their current home loans, rose as well, though slightly less appreciably, to 3.1 percent from 2.56 percent.
Those rates are still extremely affordable, especially when compared to those many current homeowners may now be paying on their mortgages, the report said. However, the added cost of these higher rates is nonetheless appreciable. For instance, on a $200,000 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, an increase of just 1 percentage point can add nearly $1,400 in annual costs through payments into principal balances and interest.
"Even if mortgage rates continue to increase from here, the median home will still be affordable to the median borrower, based on the conventional 25 percent debt-to-income threshold," said Hui Shan and Marty Young of Goldman Sachs, according to the newspaper. "As a result, rising interest rates will likely slow the strong house price appreciation observed over the past year, but the impact will likely be modest given the cushion provided by the high level of housing affordability at present."
Home value growth has been expected to level off at least somewhat for a while now, as the improvements seen in the previous 12 months or more were largely considered to be unsustainable, or worse, a sign of another growing bubble. As time goes on and rates grow at more reasonable levels, though, fears of another bubble will likely diminish appreciably.
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Tax havens thriving as efforts to stop flow of money ... - Financial Post
GENEVA ? Efforts to stop companies syphoning money through tax havens are failing and offshore centres increased their share of foreign direct investment (FDI) again last year, according to a UN report.
Canada slammed for trailing peers in fight against tax havens as funds stashed offshore hit record $170B
Canada?s efforts to combat international tax evasion will be in the spotlight when Prime Minister Stephen Harper joins other world leaders next week at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, with tax watchdogs worried Canada is already balking at some major reforms.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, the summit host, has made tax compliance and combating tax evasion one of the three main themes of the G8 talks on June 17-18, as critics argue Canada lags behind its counterparts in fighting a mounting global problem.
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?Tackling offshore financial centres alone is clearly not enough, and is not addressing the main problem,? said the annual World Investment Report, published on Wednesday by economic thinktank UNCTAD.
While investment sinks in many economies, one country is enjoying above all is enjoying a boom: the British Virgin Islands, with a population of 30,000, is now the fifth biggest recipient of FDI in the world, the report said.
The Caribbean archipelago welcomed almost US$65-billion of inward investment flows in 2012, just less than fourth-ranked Brazil, and 10 times the amount of FDI it received in 2006.
FDI flows to such offshore tax havens have soared in the past five years, rising from an average of US$15-billion in 2000-2006 to US$75-billion per year in 2007-2012, the report said.
?Tax haven economies now account for a non-negligible and increasing share of global FDI flows, at about 6%,? the United Nations thinktank said.
Meanwhile, traditional FDI ? cross-border corporate acquisitions and overseas expansions ? has slumped.
Among the worst hit are rich eurozone countries such as Belgium, which attracted US$103-billion in 2011 but lost money in 2012 as existing investors sold up. The Netherlands saw a similar but smaller reversal, while Germany?s US$49-billion haul of FDI in 2011 shrivelled to less than US$7-billion in 2012.
Global foreign direct investment shrank by 18% to US$1.35-trillion in 2012 and is likely to remain at a similar level this year, the report said. UNCTAD forecasts global flows of US$1.6-trillion next year and US$1.8-trillion in 2015.
In tax havens, the vast majority of FDI flows do not go into projects based in the country. Instead they are redirected back to the source country, a process known as ?round tripping.?
?For example, the top three destinations of FDI flows from the Russian Federation ? Cyprus, the Netherlands and the British Virgin Islands ? coincide with the top three investors in the Russian Federation,? the report said.
That could mean that global FDI is actually even weaker than it appears, since a growing proportion is simply round-tripping.
Even more money is channelled through ?special purpose entities? (SPEs). Firms set up these foreign affiliates for specific purposes such as managing foreign exchange risk or facilitating the financing of an investment.
Money flowing to SPEs in just three countries ? Hungary, Luxembourg and the Netherlands ? amounted to US$600-billion in 2011, dwarfing the US$90-billion of flows to tax havens.
Those countries? SPE flows were not counted as FDI in the report.
However, the report said SPEs were gaining importance relative to FDI flows and anecdotal evidence showed that most of the money sent to SPEs was invested in third countries.
Still more tax is avoided through cross-border transfer pricing schemes, which companies can use to shift profits into low-tax jurisdictions and show apparent losses in high-tax markets, the report said.
Despite the OECD trying to stem the flow of FDI to tax havens, the overall flows to tax havens overall ?do not appear to be decreasing,? the report said, partly because big companies still needed somewhere to park their cash mountains.
?Efforts since 2008 to reduce flows to OFCs (offshore financial centres) have coincided with record increases in retained earnings and cash holdings,? the report said.
Also, although big investors such as Japan and the United States had succeeded in cutting the amount of flows to tax havens, many non-OECD members had now taken their place, ensuring the flows to tax havens continued and grew.
The report called for a discussion of corporate tax rate differentials between countries, extraterritorial tax regimes and tax levied on repatriated earnings.
?Without parallel action on these fronts, efforts to reduce tax avoidance through OFCs and SPEs remain akin to swimming against the tide,? the report said.
? Thomson Reuters 2013
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Pakistani Folk Art and US Drones Collide in These Ornate Paintings
Pakistani-American artist Mahwish Chishty was originally trained in painting miniatures in her native Lahore. But these days, Chishty is also emerging as a notable conceptual artist abroad, treading the potent line between Pakistani and American culture. Yesterday, in an interview with Mother Jones, Chishty discussed her paintings of American drones?which she covers in traditional Pakistani ornamentation.
More than 2,000 people have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan since the early 2000s, mostly in the rugged northwest. The proxy war, Chishty says, ?triggered her imagination,? and she began a series of paintings that feature the familiar shapes of the MQ-9 Reaper and other UAVs covered in ornate decoration. The patterns are borrowed from a tradition amongst truck drivers in Pakistan, who cover their vehicles in rich ornamentation and color as a means of pure self-expression. Chishty explained the practice to Mother Jones? Josh Harkinson:
It's kind of a folk art. It's a tradition, a culture. People who drive these trucks basically live on those trucks, sleep on those trucks. They kind of make that into their mobile home and they decorate it into something that's eye pleasing. They're extremely beautiful paintings... I wanted people to think maybe what would happen if these drones were friendlier looking, instead of such hard-edged, metallic war machines.
The resulting paintings are beautiful, disturbing, and deeply ironic?it?s great work, in other words. Check out the full interview on Mother Jones.
Images courtesy of the artist.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/pakistani-folk-art-and-american-drones-collide-in-these-574439696
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Past brain activation revealed in scans: Brain activity patterns preserve traces of previous cognitive activity
June 25, 2013 ? What if experts could dig into the brain, like archaeologists, and uncover the history of past experiences? This ability might reveal what makes each of us a unique individual, and it could enable the objective diagnosis of a wide range of neuropsychological diseases. New research at the Weizmann Institute hints that such a scenario is within the realm of possibility: It shows that spontaneous waves of neuronal activity in the brain bear the imprints of earlier events for at least 24 hours after the experience has taken place.
The new research stems from earlier findings in the lab of Prof. Rafi Malach of the Institute's Neurobiology Department and others that the brain never rests, even when its owner is resting. When a person is resting with closed eyes -- that is, no visual stimulus is entering the brain -- the normal bursts of nerve cell activity associated with incoming information are replaced by ultra-slow patterns of neuronal activity. Such spontaneous or "resting" waves travel in a highly organized and reproducible manner through the brain's outer layer -- the cortex -- and the patterns they create are complex, yet periodic and symmetrical.
Like hieroglyphics, it seemed that these patterns might have some meaning, and research student Tal Harmelech, under the guidance of Malach and Dr. Son Preminger, set out to uncover their significance. Their idea was that the patterns of resting brain waves may constitute "archives" for earlier experiences. As we add new experiences, the activation of our brain's networks lead to long-term changes in the links between brain cells, a facility referred to as plasticity. As our experiences become embedded in these connections, they create "expectations" that come into play before we perform any type of mental task, enabling us to anticipate the result. The researchers hypothesized that information about earlier experiences would thus be incorporated into the links between networks of nerve cells in the cortex, and these would show up in the brain's spontaneously emerging wave patterns.
In the experiment, the researchers had volunteers undertake a training exercise that would strongly activate a well-defined network of nerve cells in the frontal lobes. While undergoing scans of their brain activity in the Institute's functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, the subjects were asked to imagine a situation in which they had to make rapid decisions. The subjects received auditory feedback in real time, based on the information obtained directly from their frontal lobe, which indicated the level of neuronal activity in the trained network. This "neurofeedback" strategy proved highly successful in activating the frontal network -- a part of the brain that is notoriously difficult to activate under controlled conditions.
To test whether the connections created in the brain during this exercise would leave their traces in the patterns formed by the resting brain waves, the researchers performed fMRI scans on the resting subjects before the exercise, immediately afterward, and 24 hours later. Their findings, which appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, showed that the activation of the specific areas in the cortex did indeed remodel the resting brain wave patterns. Surprisingly, the new patterns not only remained the next day, they were significantly strengthened. These observations fit in with the classic learning principles proposed by Donald Hebb in the mid-20th century, in which the co-activation of two linked nerve cells leads to long term strengthening of their link, while activity that is not coordinated weakens this link. The fMRI images of the resting brain waves showed that brain areas that were activated together during the training sessions exhibited an increase in their functional link a day after the training, while those areas that were deactivated by the training showed a weakened functional connectivity.
This research suggests a number of future possibilities for exploring the brain. For example, spontaneously emerging brain patterns could be used as a "mapping tool" for unearthing cognitive events from an individual's recent past. Or, on a wider scale, each person's unique spontaneously emerging activity patterns might eventually reveal a sort of personal profile -- highlighting each individual's abilities, shortcomings, biases, learning skills, etc. "Today, we are discovering more and more of the common principles of brain activity, but we have not been able to account for the differences between individuals," says Malach. "In the future, spontaneous brain patterns could be the key to obtaining unbiased individual profiles." Such profiles could be especially useful in diagnosing or learning the brain pathologies associated with a wide array of cognitive disabilities.
Prof. Rafi Malach's research is supported by the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurosciences; the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases; the Carl and Micaela Einhorn-Dominic Brain Research Institute; the Norman and Helen Asher Center for Human Brain Imaging; the Murray H. and Meyer Grodetsky Center for Research of Higher Brain Functions; the Kahn Family Research Center for Systems Biology of the Human Cell; the Friends of Dr. Lou Siminovitch; the Adelis Foundation; and the Mike and Valeria Rosenbloom through the Mike Rosenbloom Foundation. Prof. Malach is the recipient of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation; and he is the incumbent of the Barbara and Morris L. Levinson Professorial Chair in Brain Research.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Chris Brown, on probation for beating his former girlfriend, was charged on Tuesday with a hit-and-run and driving without a valid license in connection with a May 21 traffic accident in Los Angeles. Brown, 24, allegedly rear-ended another car and faces up to six months in jail on each misdemeanor charge, L.A. City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said. He will be arraigned in Los Angeles Superior Court on July 15, Mateljan said. ...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Stocks bounce higher in early trade on Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) ? Encouraging reports on home prices and orders for manufactured goods are sending stock prices higher in early trading on Wall Street.
Homebuilder stocks rose sharply after home prices rose sharply in April and Lennar reported better earnings than the market was expecting.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 94 points, or 0.7 percent, to 14,753 after the first 10 minutes of trading. The Dow slumped 139 points the day before.
The Standard & Poor's 500 was up 13 points, or 0.9 percent, at 1,586. Banks rose the most of the 10 industry sectors in the index.
The Nasdaq composite was up 35 points, or 1.1 percent, at 3,356.
Orders for durable goods rose 3.6 percent last month, matching April's gain. The increase was more than economists had expected.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Rose wins US Open, more heartache for Mickelson
ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) ? A steady hand gave Justin Rose the shiny U.S. Open Trophy. A wild ride gave Phil Mickelson yet another silver medal.
Rose captured his first major championship on Sunday with remarkable calm and three pure shots on the punishing closing holes at Merion. A par on the 18th hole gave him an even-par 70, and that was good enough to become the first Englishman in 43 years to win America's national championship.
Rose hit 5-iron to the first cut of rough, pin-high on the 17th for an easy par. He smashed the most important tee shot of his career down the middle on the final hole, about 15 feet short of the famous Ben Hogan plaque. And his 4-iron rolled near the pin and settled against the collar of the green.
"When I came over the hill and saw my ball laying in the fairway, I thought, 'This is my moment.' It was me hitting from the middle of the fairway," Rose said.
As usual, someone's big moment in the U.S. Open came at Mickelson's expense.
Rose was in the scoring area a half-mile from the grandstands behind the 18th green where the fans began to chant, "Let's go Phil!" as Mickelson paced off a last-ditch effort to force a playoff. It was a long shot ? the 18th hole didn't yield a single birdie all weekend. From about 40 yards away, Mickelson's chip for birdie raced by the cup, securing Rose's victory.
Mickelson, already in the U.S. Open record book with five second-place finishes, added another that will hurt as much any of them.
Sunday was his 43rd birthday. It was the first time he was equipped with the outright lead going into the last day. His week began with a cross-country trip home to San Diego to watch his oldest daughter graduate from the eighth grade, returning just three hours before his tee time on Thursday. This was the same daughter born the day after his first runner-up finish in 1999.
All the stars were aligned. None of the putts fell in.
Mickelson surged back into the lead by holing out from 75 yards in thick rough on the 10th hole for eagle, another moment that made it seem like surely was his time. The cheer could be heard across the road, through the trees, loud enough that Rose knew exactly what had happened.
But on the easiest hole at Merion, Mickelson drilled a wedge over the green on the par-3 13th and made bogey.
What hurt Mickelson even more was a wedge from about 121 yards on the 15th hole. It should have given him a good look at birdie, but it came up so short that Mickelson's best chance was to use one of his five wedges to chip from the front of the green. He hit that one too far, 25 feet by the hole, and the bogey wound up costing him a chance at the major he covets.
Mickelson wound up with a bogey on the 18th for a 74 and tied for second with Jason Day, who closed with a 71.
"Heartbreak," Mickelson said. "This is tough to swallow after coming so close. This was my best chance of all of them. I had a golf course I really liked. I felt this was as good an opportunity as you could ask for. It really hurts."
Day appeared to salvage his round by chipping in for bogey on the 11th hole, and he was still in the picture when he made a 12-foot par putt on the 17th to stay one shot behind. But he put his approach into the bunker left of the 18th green, blasted out to about 7 feet and missed the putt.
The back nine was a four-way battle that included Hunter Mahan, who played in the last group with Mickelson. He was one shot out of the lead until he three-putted the 15th hole for a double bogey, and then closed with back-to-back bogeys when his hopes were gone. Mahan had a 75 and tied for fourth with Billy Horschel (74), Ernie Els (69) and Jason Dufner, who had a 67 despite making triple bogey on the 15th hole.
Rose finished at 1-over 281, eight shots higher than David Graham's winning score in 1981 when the U.S. Open was last held at Merion. The shortest course for a major championship in nearly a decade held up just fine. It was the third time in the last four years that no one broke par in the toughest test of golf.
The last Englishman to win the U.S. Open was Tony Jacklin at Hazeltine in 1970, though Rose added to recent dominance of the Union Jack at the U.S. Open as the third winner in four years. The others were Graeme McDowell (2010) and Rory McIlroy (2011) of Northern Ireland.
Walking off the 18th green, he looked through the patchy clouds and point to the sky, a nod to his late father, Ken, who died of leukemia in September 2002.
"I couldn't help but look up at the heavens and think my old man Ken had something to do with it," Rose said.
It seems like more than 15 years ago when Rose first starred on the major scene as a 17-year-old amateur who chipped in on the final hole at Royal Birkdale in the 1998 British Open and tied for fourth. He turned pro the next week, and then missed the cut in his first 21 tournaments. But he stayed the course and slowly picked off big tournaments ? including the AT&T National in 2010 just down the road at Aronimink.
The U.S. Open takes him to another level and moves him to No. 3 in the world.
"Just for the last few years has been known as one of the best ball-strikers in the game. He showed that today," said Luke Donald, who played alongside him. "To win a U.S. Open, you have to have the ultimate control of your golf ball. He did that. He hit some really clutch iron shots down the stretch."
Tiger Woods turned out to be nothing more than an afterthought. He hit out-of-bounds on his second hole and made triple bogey, and closed with a 74 to finish at 13-over 293, his worst score as a pro in the U.S. Open, and matching his worst score in any major.
The score wasn't nearly that bad considering the golf course, with its tricky contours on the greens and punishing rough.
Mickelson wore all black when he arrived for the final round, and in a brief TV interview he said, "The best for me is to play well and have fun."
Sunday at the U.S. Open is rarely fun.
Just ask Donald, who was only two shots behind starting the final round. It all crumbled when he pulled his tee shot on the par-3 third hole ? so long and hard that Donald hit a driver ? and struck a standard-bearer. She was on the ground for several minutes, and Donald appeared visibly shook. He made bogey, and then followed that with two bogeys and a double bogey. He shot 42 on the back nine.
Steve Stricker took his lumps on one hole, and it was ugly. One shot behind, he pushed his tee shot on the par-5 second hole out-of-bounds. After hitting the next tee shot into the fairway, he tried to lay up with a 4-iron and hit a shank out-of-bounds. Stricker had to make a 7-foot putt to escape with a triple-bogey 8.
Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, trying to give South Africa a major for the fourth straight year, opened with a birdie and a tie for the lead. That became a distant memory, however, when he dropped seven shots over the seven holes and closed out his front nine with a 42.
Horschel wore pants with octopus prints, and he putted like he had eight arms. Out in 39, he opened the back nine with a pair of three-putts.
For a short time, it looked as though Mickelson might join this parade of pretenders when he three-putted for double bogey twice in three holes on the front nine. And then came his shot out of the rough on the 10th, and he was on his way ? but not for long.
Rose made his share of mistakes, too, like the three-putt bogey on the 11th and a horrible shot out of the bunker on the 14th. The difference was his approach into the 12th to 3 feet, followed by a 20-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole.
With Mickelson watching so many putts graze the lip, that cushion was all that Rose needed.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rose-wins-us-open-more-heartache-mickelson-001224513.html
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Dick Cheney: 'I Don't Pay A Lot Of Attention' To Obama
Lee Atwater: Smear Pioneer
Negative campaigning has become more effective since 1828, though at times no less brutal. Many attribute this growing efficiency to the legacy of Republican strategist Lee Atwater. The former RNC chairman may have been best known as a driving force behind political ads such as the iconic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y" target="_hplink">Willie Horton commercial</a> against Michael Dukakis in 1988, but his past involvement in smear campaigns is much deeper. Slate <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2008/09/mr_wedge_issue.html" target="_hplink">reports</a> on Atwater's earlier career: <blockquote>In 1973, the 22-year-old prot?g? of South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond began his consulting career by publicizing the fact that Tom Turnipseed, a candidate for the state Senate, had undergone shock therapy as a young man: "They hooked him up to jumper cables" became the catchphrase that sunk Turnipseed's candidacy. Five years later, Atwater helped to defeat Max Heller, a Holocaust survivor running for U.S. Congress, by secretly enlisting a third candidate to enter the race and stir up anti-Semitic sentiment. Atwater finagled his way into a minor post in the Reagan administration, but it was as the director of George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign (and mastermind of the Willie Horton TV ads) that he found his true Machiavellian voice.</blockquote>
The Wrong Jim Brady
The potential perils of attack politics were on full display in 1996 when then-GOP Senate candidate Al Salvi attempted to knock down a high-profile endorsement given to his opponent, then-Rep. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), by former Ronald Reagan Press Secretary Jim Brady. Brady "used to sell" machine guns, Salvi alleged, a strong claim considering Brady's position as strong advocate for gun control and victim of a gunshot wound to the head during a failed assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981. Salvi was wrong. "Turns out that was a different Jim Brady," a blushing Salvi was later <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-11-02/news/9611020079_1_o-malley-event-gun-control-assault-weapons" target="_hplink">forced to admit</a>. "I apologize." Salvi ended up losing to Durbin.
Attacking A Triple-Amputee For Lack Of Courage
In 2002, Saxby Chambliss, then a Georgia GOP congressman mounting a bid for U.S. Senate, released a controversial ad <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58371-2004Sep28.html" target="_hplink">falsely accusing</a> then-Sen. Max Cleland (D), a triple-amputee Vietnam War veteran, of voting against the nation's national security interest. It placed Cleland next to images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and suggested that the senator lacked "courage." Chambliss, who didn't serve in Vietnam because of a bad knee, drew widespread condemnation from Republican military veterans in the Senate such as Arizona Sen. John McCain and Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel. In a 2008 interview, Chambliss, who had eventually gone on to defeat Cleland six years earlier, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/11/13/32286/chambliss-cleland-truthful/" target="_hplink">stood by his ad</a> as "truthful in every way."
Jean Schmidt Blasts 'Cowards'
Long before Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) uttered <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/jean-schmidt-reacts-health-care-ruling_n_1638335.html" target="_hplink">shrieks of joy</a> because of false reports that the Supreme Court had ruled against Obamacare, she outraged colleagues on the House floor by suggesting that Vietnam veteran Rep. John Murtha (D-Penn.), was a "coward." In 2005, Schmidt addressed her colleagues in a House speech, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2005/11/18/2603/schmidt-shame/" target="_hplink">relaying a message</a> from a Marine who she said had urged her to support an extension of the Iraq War. "He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course," she said. "He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do. Danny and the rest of America and the world want the assurance from this body -- that we will see this through." She later returned to the House floor to have her remarks stricken from the record and to apologize to Murtha.
RNC's Harold Ford Hit
In 2006, the Republican National Committee set off bickering within and between political parties when it decided to air an ad in a Senate race between then-Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) and GOP candidate Bob Corker. The ad was chock-full of stereotypes and thinly-veiled racist undertones -- Ford is black. It drew widespread condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans, including Corker himself. Amid the flareup, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15403071/ns/politics/t/tennessee-ad-ignites-internal-gop-squabbling/" target="_hplink">said he found nothing wrong</a> with the ad, but attempted to blame the content on a third party group. Corker eventually won the election.
Palin's 'Palling Around With Terrorists'
In the heat of the 2008 presidential election, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin lofted a now-infamous charge, drawing immediate criticism from opponents who saw it as an attempt to brand then-candidate Barack Obama as un-American. Some even alleged that it was a racially charged character attack seeking to subtly link the supposed terrorist ties to prevalent right-wing conspiracy theories about Obama's so-called Muslim roots. The Associated Press <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-palins-ayers-attack-ra_n_132008.html" target="_hplink">reports</a> on her comments: <blockquote>"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain's ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday. "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America," she said. "We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism."</blockquote>
'There Is No God'
In 2008, a floundering Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) released an ad attempting to accuse her opponent, Democrat Kay Hagan, of having mysterious ties to a group called Godless Americans. The entire ad struck many observers as a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/dole-ad-fabricates-audio_n_138874.html" target="_hplink">desperate attempt</a> to regain momentum, but the brunt of the controversy came in the last few seconds, when a faceless voice rings out, yelling "there is no God." Many saw it as an attempt to paint the quote as Hagan's. It wasn't. In fact, Hagan was a Sunday School teacher who served as an elder at her Presbyterian church.
Vintage Michele Bachmann
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) had a somewhat rapid ascent to her current status as darling of conservatives and the Tea Party faithful. It was accelerated in part by appearances such as this one in 2008, during which she called into question the "pro-America" views of the Obamas and various members of Congress. HuffPost's Sam Stein <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/gop-rep-channels-mccarthy_n_135735.html" target="_hplink">reported</a> at the time: <blockquote>In a television appearance that outraged Democrats are already describing as Joseph McCarthy politics, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann claimed on Friday that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle held anti-American views and couldn't be trusted in the White House. She even called for the major newspapers of the country to investigate other members of Congress to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America." Appearing on MSNBC's Hardball, Bachmann went well off the reservation when it comes to leveling political charges against the Democratic nominee. "If we look at the collection of friends that Barack Obama has had in his life," she said, "it calls into question what Barack Obama's true beliefs and values and thoughts are. His attitudes, values, and beliefs with Jeremiah Wright on his view of the United States...is negative; Bill Ayers, his negative view of the United States. We have seen one friend after another call into question his judgment -- but also, what it is that Barack Obama really believes?"</blockquote>
'You Lie'
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) embodied a newly emerging brand of hyper-partisanship in 2009 when he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/gop-rep-wilson-yells-out_n_281480.html" target="_hplink">interrupted</a> President Barack Obama's major speech on his health care reform package. "You lie!" Wilson yelled over Obama, who was explaining that the legislation would not mandate coverage for undocumented immigrants. Wilson's outburst drew disapproval from both sides of the aisle.
'Baby Killer'
During the heat of the health care debate in 2010, Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) added to the growing partisan discord when he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/randy-neugebauer-revealed_n_508525.html" target="_hplink">shouted "baby killer"</a> at Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) while he was delivering a speech on the House floor. Stupak, an anti-abortion Democrat, had been under heavy fire from Republicans after crafting a deal with the White House in return for his and other Democrats' "yes" vote on the health care reform bill. The White House held up their end of the bargain with an executive order affirming that no taxpayer money would go to fund abortions.
'No Mosque'
North Carolina GOP congressional candidate Renne Ellmers <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/23/renee-ellmers-gop-congres_n_735585.html" target="_hplink">raised some eyebrows</a> and gave her race national attention when she released an attack ad attempting to link her Democratic challenger to the controversial Park51 Islamic center. The ad was criticized for its apparent interchangeable use of the words "terrorists" and "Muslims," as well as the fact that Ellmers' opponent, incumbent Rep. Bob Etheridge (D) hadn't even weighed in on the issue yet. Ellmers didn't appear to do herself any favors in her <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/renee-ellmers-north-carol_n_740199.html" target="_hplink">attempts to explain the ad</a> during a contentious interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, but she ended up winning in November after a late surge of momentum.
Alan Grayson's 'Taliban Dan'
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) managed to give his opponent, Republican Dan Webster, a boost after he released an attack ad seeking to label Webster as "Taliban Dan." The spot featured selectively edited quotes from a 2009 Christian seminar that <a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2010/sep/28/fact-checking-alan-graysons-taliban-dan-webster-ad/" target="_hplink">misrepresented Webster's words</a> to suggest that he believed wives should submit to their husbands. Grayson had repeatedly enraged his Republican opponents with biting and at times over-the-top allegations. Comments such as his notorious charge that their health care plan was for Americans to "die quickly" had made him a top target for the GOP. He would lose his election to Webster.
Scott Brown Pictures Stripped Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) did himself no favors in the fall of 2011, when he returned a volley concerning his past nude modeling for <em>Cosmopolitan</em> magazine, a career choice that his Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren had earlier jabbed at. HuffPost's Ryan Grim <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-senate_n_998048.html" target="_hplink">reported</a>: <blockquote>"Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?" the host asked Brown Wednesday. "Thank God!" Brown said, laughing. The host got a kick out it, too. "That's what I said! I said, 'Look, can you blame a good-looking guy for wanting to, you know..."</blockquote> His opponents quickly <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/06/news/la-pn-scott-brown-thank-god-20111006" target="_hplink">hit back</a>, claiming that the comments were sexist and "the kind of thing you would expect to hear in a frat house, not a race for U.S. Senate."
'Debbie Spend It Now'
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) couldn't have picked a bigger stage to launch a now-notoriously insensitive ad against his Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Debbie Stabenow. In the middle of the Super Bowl, Hoekstra's campaign <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/pete-hoekstra-ad-china_n_1256791.html" target="_hplink">rolled out the spot</a>, which featured an Asian-American actress using stereotypically broken English to accuse Stabenow -- or "Spend-It-Now" -- of supporting U.S. government spending habits that benefitted the Chinese economy. The backlash was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/pete-hoekstra-ad-china-michigan_n_1256912.html" target="_hplink">bipartisan</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/pete-hoekstra-polls-china-ad_n_1294221.html" target="_hplink">widespread</a>.
Allen West
Though only a freshman, Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) has already staked his political fame on inflammatory and controversial statements. His most well-known claim is now perhaps his contention that as many as 80 House Democrats are members of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/allen-west-democrats-communist-party_n_1417279.html" target="_hplink">Communist Party</a>. His spokesperson later claimed that he was referring to members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Of course, that's just one of a catalogue of Allen West-isms. Click through the slideshow <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/allen-west-communists_n_1437517.html" target="_hplink">here</a> for a larger sampling.
'True Hero' Battle
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) began digging himself a hole in July when he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/joe-walsh-tammy-duckworth_n_1646793.html" target="_hplink">suggested</a> that his Democratic opponent, triple-amputee Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth, was not a "true hero" because she spoke too frequently about her military service. In the followup, Walsh kept digging deeper on the Duckworth line, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/joe-walsh-tammy-duckworth_n_1650805.html" target="_hplink">claiming</a> that "all she does" is "talk about her service," instead of focusing on other issues. He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/joe-walsh-ashleigh-banfield_n_1652236.html" target="_hplink">took a similar angle</a> in a subsequent interview, in which he managed to utter his interviewer's name more than 90 times.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/16/dick-cheney-obama_n_3450320.html
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Countdown To The Eisners ? Best Graphic Album - Reprint ...
By Cameron Hatheway
I wasn?t fortunate enough to grow up during the Golden Age of comics, much less the other elemental ages that came after. I was the kid who had to track down old single issues of legendary comic runs that hadn?t been collected at the time, and it was sometimes grueling work. When I first heard of Alan Moore?s Marvelman/Miracleman, that soon became my white whale. However, the older issues could sometimes be harder to find, and unfortunately I don?t have the time or resources like I once did to complete the run. It would be marvelous to have the Moore stuff reprinted for new fans to enjoy, but sadly the rights to who owns what will remain in the courtroom for several decades to come. In the meantime, let?s focus on some reprinted works that are readily available, and quite stellar in their own rights. Today I?ll be focusing on the Best Graphic Album-Reprint category. If you need a reminder of what?s been nominated, you can find the entire list right here, and see what I chose last time right here.
Keep in mind I cannot vote for who wins (nor can you, probably), as per the rules. However, that?s not keeping me from being vocal regardless!
Who is not eligible to vote?
- Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees)
- Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.)
- Fans
Before I get back to pitching DC to reprint All-Star Batman & Robin so I can be eligible for next year, let the games begin!
Best Graphic Album-Reprint
Cruisin? with the Hound, by Spain (Fantagraphics)
Spain Rodriguez has had quite the wild life! In this collection of reprinted tales, we follow Spain as he grew up in Buffalo, New York. He was a part of the Road Vultures motorcycle club, and several stories revolving around the gang and their activities made for great reads. Also included is an interview with Spain that was originally published in The Comics Journal back in 1998. Be sure to enjoy this graphic novel while eating a Watt?s famous Bar-B-Que pork sandwich.
Ed the Happy Clown, by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)
Review copy unavailable.
Everything Together: Collected Stories, by Sammy Harkham (PictureBox)
Review copy unavailable.
Heads or Tails, by Lilli Carr? (Fantagraphics)
A wonderful collection of Lilli Carr??s delightfully quaint stories and quirky stylings from over the years. One of the stories included is ?Rainbow Moment? which was also nominated for an Eisner this year. While the stories range from black and white to color, I found myself really enjoying the latter because Carr? definitely knows her way around a color wheel.
King City, by Brandon Graham (TokyoPop/Image)
Following Joe, aka the Cat Master, and his multi-tooled furry friend Earthling J.J. Catsworth III, the two of them take on jobs in the shady underground world that is King City. Before Prophet and Nuclear Warheads, Graham did King City and it?s a treat to see where his gargantuan imagination first sprouted. The characters, like the city itself, are quite the interesting individuals.
Sailor Twain, or The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel (First Second)
Originally a webcomic, Sailor Twain follows Captain Twain as he gets mixed-up in mermaids, lore, and mystery while sailing the Hudson River. The ship?s owner Lafayette is also involved in some way, and is on a mission to find the possible connection to his missing brother. A great read with beautiful art.
Who I think should win:
Sailor Twain, or The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel (First Second)
Mark Siegel may have started his story in the online format, but I?m afraid pixels and iPads don?t do it justice; collecting his beautiful charcoal illustrations in the graphic novel format was the only way to go, and the final product from First Second is absolutely amazing. The romance between a mermaid and the ship?s captain without him hearing her song was spellbinding, and the mystery surrounding her and the ship owner?s missing brother kept me guessing up until the end.
Sailor Twain was one of the most enchanting graphic novels I?ve read all year, and is definitely worthy of the Eisner win.
Who I think could win:
King City, by Brandon Graham (TokyoPop/Image)
It?s been quite the year for Brandon Graham; the raging success of Prophet, the praise for Multiple Warheads, and the Eisner nomination for the recently reprinted King City trade paperback. With King City in particular, it?s great to see an earlier look at the worlds he built from his imagination, and how every illustration and story is like nothing we?ve ever seen before.
Graham?s storytelling reminds me a lot of Moebius, and that?s the highest compliment I could ever offer.
Who I think should have been nominated:
Creepy Presents: Richard Corben, by Richard Corben (Dark Horse)
Richard Corben?s classic stories in one book should be a must-own for both Creepy fans and comic lovers in general.
Who do you think should win / been nominated?
Cameron Hatheway is the host of Cammy?s Comic Corner and Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Sonoma State STAR. You can sing him your siren song on Twitter @CamComicCorner.
Source: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/17/countdown-to-the-eisners-best-graphic-album-reprint/
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Osteoporosis drug stops growth of breast cancer cells, even in resistant tumors, study suggests
June 15, 2013 ? A drug approved in Europe to treat osteoporosis has now been shown to stop the growth of breast cancer cells, even in cancers that have become resistant to current targeted therapies, according to a Duke Cancer Institute study.
The findings, presented June 15, 2013, at the annual Endocrine Society meeting in San Francisco, indicate that the drug bazedoxifene packs a powerful one-two punch that not only prevents estrogen from fueling breast cancer cell growth, but also flags the estrogen receptor for destruction.
"We found bazedoxifene binds to the estrogen receptor and interferes with its activity, but the surprising thing we then found was that it also degrades the receptor; it gets rid of it," said senior author Donald McDonnell, PhD, chair of Duke's Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.
In animal and cell culture studies, the drug inhibited growth both in estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells and in cells that had developed resistance to the anti-estrogen tamoxifen and/or to the aromatase inhibitors, two of the most widely used types of drugs to prevent and treat estrogen-dependent breast cancer. Currently, if breast cancer cells develop resistance to these therapies, patients are usually treated with toxic chemotherapy agents that have significant side effects.
Bazedoxifene is a pill that, like tamoxifen, belongs to a class of drugs known as specific estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs). These drugs are distinguished by their ability to behave like estrogen in some tissues, while significantly blocking estrogen action in other tissues. But unlike tamoxifen, bazedoxifene has some of the properties of a newer group of drugs, known as selective estrogen receptor degraders, or SERDs, which can target the estrogen receptor for destruction.
"Because the drug is removing the estrogen receptor as a target by degradation, it is less likely the cancer cell can develop a resistance mechanism because you are removing the target," said lead author Suzanne Wardell, PhD, a research scientist working in McDonnell's lab.
Many investigators had assumed that once breast cancer cells developed resistance to tamoxifen, they would be resistant to all drugs that target the estrogen receptor, McDonnell explained.
"We discovered that the estrogen receptor is still a good target, even after it resistance to tamoxifen has developed," he said.
The investigators tested a variety of breast cancer cell types, including tamoxifen-sensitive cells that are resistant to the drug lapatinib, another targeted therapy that is used to treat patients with advanced breast cancer whose tumors contain the mutant HER2 gene. These cells had previously been shown to reactivate estrogen signaling in order to acquire drug resistance. In this cell type, bazedoxifene also potently inhibited cell growth.
Paradoxically, in bone tissue, bazedoxifene mimics the action of estrogen, helping protect it from destruction. Because bazedoxifene has already undergone safety and efficacy studies as a treatment for osteoporosis, it may be a viable near-term option for patients with advanced breast cancer whose tumors have become resistant to other treatment options, Wardell reported. In clinical trials, the most often reported side effect was hot flashes in the bazedoxifene treatment groups.
The study was funded by a research grant from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, maker of bazedoxifene.
In addition to Wardell and McDonnell, Erik Nelson and Christina Chao of the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, contributed to the research.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/~3/xbLzKGQubP8/130615152341.htm
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Johnson steps in for Mumford and Sons at Bonnaroo
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) ? It's Jack Johnson to the rescue at Bonnaroo.
Johnson has agreed to take the Saturday night headlining slot at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival after Mumford & Sons were forced to cancel due to bassist Ted Dwane's illness.
Festival officials announced the move Friday morning. The "Upside Down" singer last headlined at Bonnaroo in 2008.
"I called my band and asked if they were up for it," Johnson said in a statement. "Long story short ? they are headed this way. I've got a lot of lyrics and chords to relearn by Saturday night. I was here to play the first Bonnaroo, and it is a very special festival to my band. We are excited to hit the stage again. Get well Ted!"
Mumford & Sons' decision comes after Dwane received treatment this week for a blood clot on his brain. The band postponed three shows in Dallas and Woodlands, Texas, and New Orleans after the blood clot was discovered but hoped to play Bonnaroo on Saturday night.
Dwane has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering from the procedure but is not yet ready to play. Rather than perform with a replacement, the London-based, Grammy-award-winning folk rock band decided to pull out. The band also canceled appearances at the Telluride Festival in Colorado and a performance in Bonner, Kan., ending their summer tour early.
"The surgery went well, and the excellent medical team helping him are very pleased with his progress," a band statement said. "He has been nothing short of heroic in how he has handled the whole ordeal, and now it has been medically proved that he does indeed have a brain."
It was a case of being in the right place at the right time for Johnson.
The 38-year-old Hawaii-born folk-rock singer was in town to play with friends ALO on Thursday night. He also was already scheduled to be in Manchester this weekend to perform a small secret show for reporters and participate in a question-and-answer session to promote his new album, "From Here To Now To You," which is due out in September.
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