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Former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman, who may have been the first known American to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, believes he deserves to be seriously considered for the Nobel Prize and something would be "seriously wrong" with the selection process if he is not in the top three.
"My mission is to break the ice between hostile countries," Rodman told Sports Illustrated. "Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong."
On his trip, Rodman reportedly serenaded Kim with Frank Sinatra's "My Way."
"Before I landed in Pyongyang, I didn't know Kim Jong-un from Lil' Kim," Rodman said. "I didn't know what country he ruled or what went on in the country he ruled."
Rodman then continued to defend the dictator and urged Obama to reach out to Kim.
Rodman said he will return to North Korean in August and ask Jong-un to "do me a solid by releasing Kenneth Bae," the Korean-American missionary who was recently sentenced to 15 years of hard labor "on charges that he tried to topple the North Korean regime."
He also said he would also just "chill, play some basketball and maybe go on vacation with Kim and his family."


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Here's the thing about me - I really don't like having my photo taken. Like, a lot. I understand the pressure that comes from being in front of the camera, and it's my job to make you feel as comfortable as humanly possible on your big day. I'm not into getting you to pose or doing anything that is out of your normal interaction as a couple - I'm there to just capture the natural magic that exists between you.
Why Fennel & Fox? Well I'm a total nature nerd and my surname means 'Fox' in German. Trust me though, the German spelling isn't that flattering (Google it, I dare you) so I went with the cuter English version and threw some fennel in there to spice things up.
I'm all about travel, amazing light, good coffee, my fur babies and connecting with like minded people. When I'm not shooting weddings you'll most likely to find me on rollerskates. I always have confetti in my car's glove compartment.
Your wedding day is an incredibly intimate event and it's a big deal to invite a stranger to share it with you, so it's really important that we feel comfortable with each other. I'll always suggest that we catch up to find out more about each other before we lock anything in, so if you'd like to get in touch to book a time to meet feel free to fill in my Contact form and we can take it from there.
P.S. I am Melbourne based but LOVE to travel, so talk to me if you're planning a destination wedding or elopement,
I am more than happy to fly anywhere in Australia and beyond to capture your special day. Let's have an adventure!
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Fennel & Fox were a dream to work with. We only met with one photographer and knew straight away that 'she was the one'. She listened to what we wanted and used her own creativity to get some fabulous shots. We call her our Ninja because she seemed to be invisible most of the day, I never felt like I had a camera pointed in my face or that I needed to be 'posing' all of the time. As a result our shots were candid and natural and really told the story of our day.
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HE IS the man at the forefront of unearthing Europe's Roman ports.
Professor Simon Keay, of the University of Southampton, was awarded €2.49 million of European Research Council funding to study a large network of Roman ports in the Mediterranean – stretching from Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west.
Now Prof Keay has has been elected a fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his groundbreaking research.
In total, the Roman Mediterranean Ports project is examining 31 ports in nine different countries including Ephesus, Pitane and Kane in Turkey, Gades and Tarraco in Spain and Portus and Putroli in Italy.
The project will use satellite imagery and archaeological data to study the remaining 23 ports in France, Egypt, Tunisia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Libya, Israel and Greece.
Prof Keay is leading the project in very close collaboration with ancient historian professor Pascal Arnaud from the Université de Lyon La Lumière, France, and will analyse key Greek and Latin texts to find out more about the ports. His 15 years of re-search into Roman ports has culminated in this project.
Research will last until 2018 and will concentrate on the first two centuries AD, considering the layout, activities, hierarchies and commercial and social connections made between Roman ports.
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Ancient Roman ports project
CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR KEAY: Honour for expert on Roman ports (Southern Daily Echo).


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You all know me and my love of flowers, plants, growing and nature; I like things to be as seasonal as possible, filling the house with berries and greenery in the winter, and colourful freshly cut flowers from the garden in the summer. That said, that odd period after Christmas is tricky if you're fed up with foliage, but don't want to head to the florist (or supermarket!) - so when the folks at Homesense got in touch and challenged me to style up some of their faux flowers, I decided to give it a go.
It has to be said, fake flowers and greenery is something I've always avoided; we've got two faux plants from IKEA, but they're not all that convincing (especially when covered in dust!), and I've yet to find anything widely available that doesn't look plastic-ky and rubbish. At our wedding, we had silk flowers from a local mill - they were beautiful, and looked the business, but unfortunately they've sinced closed, and until now I've not found anything nearly as good.
I went with some branches laded with blossom, seed heads, a few different stems of leaves, and a large blowsy hydrangea. Aside from the huge choice, I was really impressed with the details on the flowers and stems; the petals themselves were soft and fabric-like, the stems had all the lumps and bumps of the real thing, and there were even small faux buds on some of them. You can't really ask for much more in a fake flower!
Styling them was way easier than I was expecting as well - I thought I'd end up surrounded by loads of shards of plastic, flaking glue and visible wire, but there was none of that. I did need a really strong pair of pliers to trim the stems, but they're widely available and not all that expensive. I do love real flowers, and the fake variety will never replace them in my eyes - but I have to admit, it was ever so nice not to be dripping water or dropping petals everywhere all the time! I also love the environmental factor - I'm not sure how energy efficient the manufacturing process is, but the fact that these will literally last FOREVER is a winner for me, and there's also the point that you're not flower shopping 'out of season', which is a whole other issue. It's safe to say Homesense have definitely changed my opinion of faux flowers - give them a go!
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William Skinner, 39, managing director of bespoke tailors Dege & Skinner,of Savile Row, believes the flat cap is ripe for a renaissance.
He said: "It is still quite popular amongst the older generation and historically has been immensely popular, as well as being synonymous with whippets in northern England.
"We stock flat caps (or tweeds caps) and make them up to our own specification which is cut quite deep at the back so it
stays on the the head in windy conditions.
"Over the course of time the flat cap moulds itself to your head - it is like a good bottle of wine in that it improves with age.
"I think it could do with a revival, a lot of younger people now wear baseball caps which has made flat caps look a little old-fashioned.
"If the style was modernised to a certain extent and a celebrity such as David Beckham was to wear one then we might see its resurgence amongst the younger generation.
"It is a very practical form of headwear for country pursuits and one which I favour when taking the dogs (a Labrador and Border Terrier) for a walk on a wet and windy day.
"I find flat hats attractive when worn on the right occasions, but as far as I'm concerned you take your hat off as a matter of course when you go indoors."


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Beth Ehlers and JR Martinez to Appear on The ViewMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Here's a quick, important programming note for fans of All My Children:
Beth Ehlers (pictured, Taylor Thompson) and JR Martinez (Brot Monroe) will appear on The View this Friday.
Now you have another reason to tune in to the talk show, aside from seeing everyone gang up on Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest states in India. Accounting for 7.3 percent of the country's area, it is home to 16.5 percent of Indians. The state contributes 12.6 percent to India's GDP.
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- 57 percent of eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and 7 percent of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor will pass through the state
- Focus on improving connectivity further through mega road projects, in PPP, such as Yamuna Expressway, connecting Noida with Agra
- Abundant agro resource base. Leading producer of wheat, sugarcane and potato, ranks second in vegetable production and third in fruit production, amongst all Indian states
- Longest network of rivers and canals measuring 31,200 km
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Oklahoma sweeps No. 2 Baylor
Sooners hand Bears their first Big 12 losses of the season
NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma completed a doubleheader sweep on Saturday with a 2-1 victory against No. 2 Baylor at home. The Sooners won in the 10th inning earlier in the day by a 1-0 score.
Both victories came behind solid starting pitching as Jordan John lasted 8 2/3 in the opener and Jonathan Gray followed with 7 1/3 innings with nine strikeouts and one unearned run allowed. Baylor entered the weekend as the league's top hitting team.
"I think our pitching is right there with the best league and hopefully, it will keep showing up," OU coach Sunny Golloway said. "We haven't thrown Dillon Overton or Damien Magnifico yet. We still have one game to go."
Gray did not allow a hit until the fifth inning and he kept Baylor scoreless with his seventh strikeout of the game to end the frame. He has lasted at least seven innings, including a career-high 7 1/3 innings Saturday, in each of his past two starts and combined for 16 strikeouts and two earned runs allowed.
The Sooners gave Gray an early lead and struck first with a RBI single by Max White that plated Cody Reine, who tripled earlier in the first inning. Reine had two of the Sooners' six hits in game two and has five triples this season. All five have come in Big 12 play, a league best.
While White got the offense going early, OU took a 2-0 lead in the second as Caleb Bushyhead's groundout to second base plated Jack Mayfield. The run was unearned as Mayfield moved to second on a failed pickoff by Baylor starter Trent Blank.
"We knew what he to do this weekend if we are going to have any kind of shot," said White on the team's postseason hopes. "Baylor has a great RPI, so these wins were big. Man, the pitchers were awesome."
Baylor broke up the shutout and scored its first run of the series in the eighth inning off Gray. The run was unearned but knocked Gray out of the game in favor of Steven Okert.
Okert made his second relief appearance of the day after improving to 6-6 earlier with 1 1/3 scoreless innings. He came right back in game two to record his third save of the year 1 2/3 perfect innings. Okert did not allow a hit in the second game of the doubleheader and posted three strikeouts. He threw 32 pitches in the doubleheader and 26 were strikes.
"I had a lot adrenaline rushing. I just felt that no matter what the team would have my back," Okert said. "There was nothing to lose. We were .500 in the Big 12 [before Saturday]. They were undefeated. We just played are heart out and it ended well for us."


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Samuel Howell - first person in Cumberland County, NJ, to be carried in a hearse for interment
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 03:25AM
Bridgeton Evening News (May 1, 1879)
Hon. Lewis Howell informs us that the first person carried in a hearse for interment in this county was Samuel Howell, son of Ebenezer Howell, and brother to Gov. Howell. This was about the year 1776, previous to which the custom prevailed in this part of the country of moving deceased persons for burial in wagons or carts.
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Mar 14, 2014
I've seen a fair share of games that start from the end, but it's the first one that actually plays from the end to the beginning – literally. The hero runs backwards, jumps on spawning enemies, and makes coins appear behind him. It's a very unusual concept, although the rest of the game might just be a standard platformer otherwise. The game will be soon available on Google Play, and in the meantime – here's video and screens..


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Beyonce Flaunts Adorable PDA With Jay Z In 'All Night' Video — Watch
Beyonce dropped her new music video for her hit song 'All Night,' and in it she and husband Jay Z show off how much in love they are with some sweet PDA! We have the video, and all the details, here.
Beyonce, 35, has graced us with another AMAZING music video, and this time it's for her catchy song "All Night" off her critically-acclaimed album Lemonade. In the six-minute clip, which is actually produced by Diplo, Queen Bey looks absolutely gorgeous in a Victorian-inspired dress as she wanders through what looks like an enchanted forest. But the best of the video by far is that it features her husband, Jay Z, and her showing off why they're one of our favorite celebrity couples! Footage of the sexy duo shows them exchanging kisses when Bey was pregnant with Blue Ivy, as well as clips from numerous moments in their marriage. SO sweet!
The incredible music video comes a day after a new report claiming that Bey will headline Coachella Music and Arts Festival in 2017! Even though she's previously attended the epic music fest, she hasn't actually performed, but this will change next year, according to Hits Daily Double. Seriously, this would be incredible, as she really is the best performer alive!
Bey has had an absolutely incredible 2016, as she dropped Lemonade, SLAYED her Super Bowl halftime show performance and recently wrapped up her astounding Formation tour. Oh, and how can we forget that she took home the Video of the Year award at the 2016 Video Music Awards AND performed an epic 16-minute medley of all her hits from the album? The "All Night" music video just rounds out what's already been an amazing year for the Beyhive, and we are all so blessed.
HollywoodLifers, what do you think of Bey's new video for "All Night?" Do you love it? Let us know below.


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Author Affiliations
- Xiao-Qian Xu,
- Jian-Min Wang⇓,
- Shu-Qing Lü,
- Li Chen,
- Jian-Min Yang,
- Wei-Ping Zhang,
- Xian-Min Song,
- Jun Hou,
- Xiong Ni and
- Hui-Ying Qiu
- Correspondence: Jian-Min Wang, Department of Hematology, Changhai Hospital, Secondary Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China. E-mail: jmwang{at}medmail.com.cn
Background Biphenotypic acute leukemia is a rare disorder that is difficult to diagnose. It displays features of both myeloid and lymphoid lineage. There is still a lack of studies in biphenotypic acute leukemia in a Chinese population. We present here a comprehensive investigation of the clinical and biological characteristics, and outcome of biphenotypic acute leukemia in our hospital in over a seven year period.
Design and Methods We retrospectively analyzed 452 adult acute leukemia patients diagnosed according to French-American-British (FAB) classification and biphenotypic acute leukemia diagnosed according to European Group for the Immunological Characterization of Leukemias (EGIL) classification, respectively. Biological characteristics, response to treatment, and outcome were examined in biphenotypic acute leukemia patients and compared with that in acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients with complete follow-up profiles diagnosed in the same period.
Results Of 452 acute leukemia patients, 21 cases (4.6%) were diagnosed as biphenotypic acute leukemia. Among them, 14 (66.7%) were B lymphoid and myeloid, 5 (23.8%) were T lymphoid and myeloid, one (4.8%) was T/B lymphoid and one (4.8%) was trilineage differentiation. When compared with acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, patients with biphenotypic acute leukemia showed significantly higher incidence of CD34 antigen expression, unfavorable karyotypes, and extramedullary infiltration (p<0.05). In this cohort of patients with biphenotypic acute leukemia, t(9;22) was the most common abnormality in chromosome structure. The median disease-free survival and overall survival in biphenotypic acute leukemia patients was five months and ten months, respectively, significantly shorter than those in acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients (p<0.05).
Conclusions The prognosis of biphenotypic acute leukemia patients is poor when compared with de novo acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Biphenotypic acute leukemia patients showed a much higher incidence of CD34 antigen expression, complex abnormal karyotype, extramedullary infiltration, relapse, and resistance to therapy after relapse.
Most cases of acute leukemia (AL) can be classified as myeloid (AML) or lymphoid (ALL) using the FAB classification1 and a panel of immunological markers. However, even with morphology, cytochemistry, and immunological phenotyping it is still difficult to differentiate in some patients whether or not the leukemia cells are derived from myeloid or lymphoid lineage. These cases were classified as acute leukemias of ambiguous lineage according to World Health Organization (WHO) classification of hemopoietic malignancies,2 including acute undifferentiated leukemia, bilineal acute leukemia, and biphenotypic acute leukemia, which account for 5% of total AL. Biphenotypic and bilineal acute leukemia are also known as mixed acute leukemia, in which both myeloid and lymphoid cells are involved. By definition, biphenotypic acute leukemia means one leukemia cell lineage but expresses both lymphoid and myeloid markers. On the other hand, bilineal acute leukemia means that there are two or more subtypes of cells expressing lymphoid or myeloid markers. Dual markers are necessary to distinguish between biphenotypic and bilineal acute leukemia, while in clinical practice, some physicians3,4 didn't differentiate between biphenotypic and bilineal acute leukemia. They can be classified together as biphenotypic acute leukemia (BAL). There are several classification4,5,6 criteria for BAL diagnoses. The most commonly used is the European Group for the Immunological Characterization of Leukemias (EGIL, 1995)4. In the present study, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical manifestations, treatment, prognosis, and biological features of 21 patients with BAL diagnosed in our hospital during the last seven years.
Design and Methods
Four hundred and fifty-two patients diagnosed with acute leukemia in our hospital between January 2001 and June 2007 were retrospectively analyzed. This study was approved by the institutional ethics committee of the Second Military Medical University and the procedures followed were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. All patients (or legal guardians) enrolled in this study signed informed consent according to approved protocols. Diagnoses of AML or ALL were performed according to FAB classification and BAL according to EGIL classification.
Flow cytometry immunophenotyping was performed on fresh bone marrow or blood specimens. Single-cell suspensions were incubated with combinations of monoclonal antibodies in two or four-color immunofluorescence using concentrations titrated for optimal staining. Antibodies used in the analysis recognized stem cell and panleukocyte antigens including CD45, CD34, CD38, TdT, and HLA-DR; myeloid-associated antigens including myeloperoxidase (MPO), CD117, CD33, CD13, CD14, CD15, and CD64; and lymphoid-associated antigens, including surface and cytoplasmic CD3, CD5, CD7, CD2, CD4, CD8, CD10, CD19, CD20, CD22, CD9, CD79a, and CD56. The myeloid or B/T lymphoid makers were considered to be positive if they were expressed in >20% of blasts.
Morphology and cytochemical analysis
Bone marrow aspiration occurred under Wright Geimsa staining, and 200 cells were analyzed, along with myeloperoxidase, non-specific esterase stain, sodium fluoride inhibition tests, and periodic acid Schiff reactions for cytochemical assay. One hundred Giemsa-stained peripheral blood cells were analyzed.
Cytogenetic analysis
Direct and short-term culture methods were applied in preparation of bone marrow specimens. Chromosome banding was carried out by heating using the Giemsa (RHG) method, with an average of 20 metaphase cells analyzed in each case. Karyotype was determined according to the International System for Human Cytogenic Nomenclature (ISCN, 1995). Unfavorable karyotypes were defined as t(9,22) or abnormalities of chromosomes 5 or 7, abnormalities of chromosome 11q23, and complex abnormalities (≥3 types).
Induction therapy included the DA (daunomycin 45 mg/m2 d 1–3, cytarabine 150 mg/m2 d 1–7) protocol for most AML patients and VDCPL (vincristine 1.5 mg/m2d,1,8,15,22 daunorubicin 45 mg/m2 d,1-3,15–17 cyclophosphamide 0.8 g/m2 d,1,15 prednisolone 40 mg/m2 d,1–28 and asparaginase 6000 units/m2 d 19–28) protocol for most ALL patients. The induction protocol for patients with BAL is listed in Table 1. Three different regimens were adopted in our study. Five cases received DA protocol for myeloid lineage. Six patients received VDCPL protocol. The other 10 patients received VPDA protocol for both myeloid and lymphoid lineages.
Post-remission therapy
AML patients received DA, IA (idarubicin 8 mg/m2 d 1–3 and cytarabine 150 mg/m2 d 1–7), HA (homoharringtonine 2 mg/m2 d 1–7 and cytarabine 150 mg/m2d 1–7) and MA (mitoxantrone 8 mg/m2 d 1–3 and cytarabine 150 mg/m2 d 1–7) in turn and at least 4 courses of high-dose cytarabine (1.5-2 g/m2 twice daily d 1–3). Fifty-three patients received allogeneic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) after complete remission (CR). The post-remission therapy for BAL patients is listed in Table 1. Salvage therapy after relapse: patients received original induction protocols. If resistant to the original induction protocol, AML patients received either FLAG (fludara-bin 50 mg/m2 d 1–5, cytarabine 1–2 g/m2 d 1–5, and G-CSF 5 μg/kg d 0 until the count returned to normal) or HAG (homoharringtonine 1 mg d 1–14, cytarabine 50 mg d 1–14, and G-CSF 5 μg/kg d 0 until the count returned to normal). Patients with ALL received either FLAG or Hyper-CVAD (cyclophosphamide 0.3 g/m2 twice daily d 1–3, vincristine 1.5 mg/m2 d 4, adriamycin 50 mg/m2 d 4, and dexamethasone 20 mg/m2 d)1–4,11–14 . The treatment of BAL patients is listed in Table 1.
All patients were followed-up from diagnosis of the disease until the end of May 2008. The median follow-up period was 37 months (range, 12-85), 45 months (range, 12–89), and 46.5 months (range, 15.5–89) for BAL, AML, and ALL, respectively.
Statistical methods
Mann-Whitney U tests were used for comparison of numerical values. χ2 or Fisher's exact tests were used for categorical comparison of small expected values. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to compare survival rates. Differences between the curves were examined statistically using the log rank test and derivatives. All data show as median (range) and differences were considered significant at the p<0.05 level. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 11.0.
Incidence and immunophenotyping
From a large group of 452 acute leukemia patients, 21 patients were diagnosed with BAL using EGIL (Table 2); the overall incidence was 4.6%. BAL immunophenotyping is shown in Table 3. One case was myeloid, T and B lymphoid triphenotype (4.8%), one B and T lymphoid (4.8%), 14 B lymphoid and myeloid biphenotype (66.7%) and 5 T lymphoid and myeloid (23.8%). The rate of CD34 positive was 81.0% (17/21).
General information, peripheral blood cell count, and karyotype
Patients' general information, peripheral blood cell count, and karyotype are shown in Table 4. In this study, 12 males and 9 females were diagnosed with BAL. Median age was 41 years (range, 15–73). The median counts for WBC, Hg, and Plt were 19.4 (0.7–450)×109/L, 80 (45–131) g/L, and 35 (6–207)×109/L, respectively. The median prevalence of blasts was 86% (53–98%). Among 20 patients with valid chromosome profiles, a normal karyotype was found in only 2 cases (10%), while clonal chromosome aberrations were observed in 18 patients (90%). The most common karyotype was t(9;22) (q34;q11.2) (25%, 5/20). Two patients had t(8;21) (q22;q22), both with complex chromsome abnormalities. Ten patients had complex karyotypes, in which 6 patients showed abnormalities in chromosome 7; 5 patients showed abnormalities in chromosome 5, and 3 patients had −17/17p-.
Treatment and follow-up
Induction and consolidation regimens, overall survival (OS), and disease-free survival (DFS) are shown in Table 1. The CR rate of BAL was 71.4% (15/21). Among 21 patients, 12 achieved CR after the first course of induction. Four of the 6 non-remission patients died during the first induction. The other 2 patients were given different protocols; however, no remission occurred, and they died six months later due to primary disease. Fifteen CR patients received consolidation regimens after remission except for one case (Table 1). Ten cases developed relapse during follow-up and were resistant to original induction therapy, although one case achieved hematologic remission but relapsed again one month later. All relapsed cases died of primary disease or complications. Two CR patients died of chemotherapy complications (patients 6 and 7). Three cases survived until the end of follow-up. Among them, one patient received allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation ten months after diagnosis and had a good general status without severe transplantation complications. Eight patients had extramedullary infiltration, which most commonly affected the central nervous system (excluding the liver, spleen, and lymph node).
Survival analysis
Univariate analysis of OS including clinical manifestations and laboratory tests showed that age, WBC count, extramedullary infiltration, primary induction treatment, and whether or not patients achieved CR after induction, were significantly related to patients' prognosis.
Comparison of biphenotypic acute leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia in clinical and biological features
Comparison of BAL and 191 AML patients was carried out as shown in Table 5, excluding patients lost to follow-up and M3 subtype because of its particular biological features. Significant differences were noted in CD34 positive rates, incidence of karyotype abnormalities, t(9;22), complex karyotypes, unfavorable karyotypes and extramedullary infiltration (p<0.05).
Comparison of biphenotypic acute leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia in clinical and biological features
Comparison of BAL and 101 ALL patients was carried out as shown in Table 5, excluding patients lost to follow-up. Significant differences were noted in age, CD34 positive rates, incidence of karyotype abnormalities, complex karyotypes, unfavorable karyotypes and extramedullary infiltration (p<0.05).
Comparison of the response to treatment and outcomes between acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and biphenotypic acute leukemia
Responses to treatment and outcomes in BAL patients were compared with those of AML and ALL (Table 5) diagnosed in the same period. No statistical difference was noted in CR rate after the first induction and overall CR rate (p>0.05). The incidence of relapse in BAL patients was significantly higher than that of patients with AML, while CR rates after relapse were lower in BAL patients than those with AML (p<0.05). A significant worse OS and DFS for BAL when compared with that of ALL (p=0.0003, p=0.007)and AML (p=0.0044, p=0.0119) is denoted by the Kaplan-Meier curve (Figure 1). ALL and AML patients had better outcome than BAL patients (Figure 1). The OS (p=0.000 and p=0.013, respectively) as well as DFS (p=0.002 and p=0.007, respectively) of patients with AML and ALL was significantly higher than that of BAL after relapse (Figure 2).
Unlike commonly seen acute leukemias classified as B or T lymphoid or myeloid lineage, BAL is a type of acute leukemia with uncommon biological and clinical features. We summarized several reports about the clinical and biological features of BAL in recent years (Table 6). To further understand the characteristics and prognosis of BAL in the Chinese population, we adopted EGIL classification criteria to retrospectively analyze 452 adult patients with de novo acute leukemia admitted to our hospital. Among them, 21 (4.6%) were diagnosed with BAL, which is consistent with previous reports ranging from 1.3% to 8.0% (Table 6). Katsura16 proposed the myeloid-based model of hematopoiesis, in which the stem cell initially generates common myeloerythroid progenitors and common myelolymphoid progenitors. T-cell and B-cell progenitors subsequently arise from common myelolymphoid progenitors through myeloid-T and myeloid-B stages, respectively. Most recently, Wada et al.17 and Bell et al.18 demonstrated that a substantial number of early T-cell precursors in the thymus have myeloid potential. These results provided evidence to support the supposition that BAL arises from a pluripotent progenitor cell, which then can differentiate into both myeloid and lymphoid lineages during the development of acute leukemia. In our series, CD34 positive was predominant in BAL (81%) patients compared to AML and ALL patients in the same period (p<0.05). Other researchers have found that the percentage of CD34 and TdT positive was more than 80%.8,10 These results support the supposition that BAL may originate from stem/progenitor cells.
Abnormal karyotypes were detected in 90% of 20 BAL patients with valid analysis. This was higher than in AML and ALL patients during the same period (p<0.05). Notably, patients with normal karyotypes (patients 2 and 3) had the longest survival period in this study. Whether BAL patients with normal karyotypes would take an advantage from normal karyotype needs further observation in a larger scale clinical study. Karyotype analysis showed that chromosome abnormality was highly heterogeneous in BAL patients. In our study, t(9;22) was the most common abnormality in chromosome structure, occurring in 25% of patients (5 out of 20) without the history of chronic myeloid leukemia. These 5 patients showed B lymphoid and myeloid lineage antigen co-expression. The median survival time of these 5 patients was 6.5 months, which is shorter than that of Ph negative patients with B lymphoid and myeloid lineage antigen co-expression (6.5 months vs. 12 months, p<0.05). This suggests that the Ph chromosome might be a poor prognosis indicator for BAL patients. Structural abnormalities of chromosome 11 were observed in 4 patients (20%). Only one showed 11q23 rearrangement and corresponded to an adolescent (the youngest in this cohort of patients) with a T cell and myeloid phenotype. The incidence of 11q23 rearrangement in our group of patients was lower than that in Owaidah's7 report because of the younger patients in their study, suggesting that the frequency of an 11q23 rearrangement occurs more in infants than in adults. Similar to other reports, we found that the incidence of Ph chromosome and 11q23 rearrangement was relatively high. This supports the proposal that BAL closely relates to the Ph and MLL genes, as previously proposed by Jenning19 and Thirman.20
Additionally, we also reported 2 cases with t(8;21). AML with t(8;21) translocation is classified as a unique category (recurrent cytogenetic translocation) according to WHO classification (2001). Although the 2 patients with t(8;21) translocation in our study were diagnosed as AML-M2 based on pathological morphology, the myeloid and B-lymphoid markers were all positive in immunophenotyping. So we included these 2 patients in BAL. He et al.21 also reported 6 cases of B-lymphoid and myeloid lineages BAL with t(8;21)(q22;q22). By analyzing the characteristics of morphology, immune phenotype, chromosome karyotype and clinical manifestations of these 6 cases, they considered that BAL with t(8; 21)(q22;q22) might be a new subgroup of BAL. Miyamoto's findings suggested that the acquisition of the t(8;21) occurs at the level of stem cell, capable of differentiating into B cells as well as all myeloid lineages.22 The survival times of 2 patients with t(8;21) in our series were 1.5 and 7 months, which were shorter than those of AML patients with t(8;21) (median survival time 22 months, p<0.05). We hypothesized that: (i) the particular biological and clinical features of BAL should be taken into consideration, i.e., t(8;21) is not a favorable indication of good prognosis in BAL, and (ii) these 2 patients also had other abnormal chromosome structures, which were classified as complex abnormalities.
The univariate analysis of prognosis in our study showed that the prognosis of patients with BAL was significantly related to age, peripheral WBC count, extramedullary infiltration and whether or not patients achieved CR after induction. But due to the small numbers of cases, it's still difficult for us to draw any conclusion from our series. A multi-center and perspective clinical study will be critical to have a wider picture of this rare disease.
Treatment of BAL is complicated and problematic. In our series, the overall CR rate was 71.4%. There was no statistical difference when comparing with AML and ALL (p>0.05). However, the relapse rate in BAL patients was significantly higher than that of AML patients, while the CR rate after relapse was lower than that of AML patients. We also observed a low CR rate after relapse in BAL patients when compared with ALL patients, although no statistical difference was noted (p=0.083). Survival time and DFS after relapse in BAL patients were also shorter than those in AML or ALL patients. This may suggest that cross resistance more likely developed in BAL patients than in AML or ALL patients, causing a poor response to treatment and short survival period. Nakagawa et al.23 found that the overall expression levels of inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP)-family proteins in BAL bone marrow cells were higher than those in control, AML, and ALL cells. These results partly supported our observations.
Overall, the DFS and OS in our study were five and ten months, respectively. These were much shorter than those of AML and ALL patients in the same period (p<0.05). The OS and DFS of BAL patients were also less than eight months in other reports (Table 6). This might be due to: (i) common abnormal karyotype in BAL, high incidence of Ph chromosome, complex abnormal karyotype, and high incidence of abnormal chromosomes 5 and 7; (ii) high incidence of CD34 positive in BAL; (iii) high incidence of extramedullary infiltration; (iv) lack of optimized guidelines for induction therapy; and (v) high incidence of relapse after CR and resistance to therapy after relapse. Ottmann et al.24 reported that imatinib can improve CR rates in patients with refractory and relapse Ph positive ALL. For BAL patients with Ph chromosomes, imatinib added in treatment regimens might increase remission rates.
In summary, BAL is a particular kind of AL because of its rare incidence, difficulties in proper diagnosis and rational treatment. Thus, it is necessary to carry out multi-center co-operative studies in both clinical and basic research to further characterize the features of BAL.
Authorship and Disclosures
JMW was the principal investigator and takes primary responsibility for the paper. XQX and JMW designed the study. XQX, SQL, LC, JMY, WPZ, XMS, JH, and XN recruited the patients. HYQ performed the laboratory work for this study. XQX and JMW wrote the paper. The authors reported no potential conflicts of interest.
Funding: this work was supported by grants from Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (8JC1406500 and 5DZ19327) and from Ministry of Public Health, P.R China (KJ2007-3-001) to JMW.
- Received November 7, 2008.
- Revision received February 17, 2009.
- Accepted February 19, 2009.
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I have the first results back from my quadrennial presidential poll taken at the House of Dominoes and the Pine Knot Nursing Home.
This is the sixth Domino/Pineknot poll, going back to the election of 1992 when respondents correctly predicted that the native son would win the presidency by a narrow margin.
As in the previous polls, respondents don't so much answer questions as they use the format to pose their own, such as, "Why would you ask me something that stupid?" and "Don't you have anything better to do? Jesus said, Feed my sheep. Do you consider this feeding your sheep?"
I don't know about feeding any sheep, but I know better than to get into a pissing contest with these people, so I just let them have their say. Here's the say of one of them, for example, on the poll's question concerning the continuing Obama birther controversy.
"I think it's probably not a question of where somebody was born but where they were hatched. It's like these rattlesnake eggs we used to find in the woods. We'd bring them home and it might be two or three weeks before they hatched and started slithering off. So where would the birth certificate put their birthplace at — in the woods or in our shed out behind our house with the rusting sheets of tin and old magazines and paint cans and wasp nests and screen wire?
"They say snake eggs are a myth and I might believe them if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. They hatch out about the size of a big red wiggler fishing worm and they'll crawl off and disappear before you can say shazaam. Mother said some people are hatched like that too, and this wasn't just her way of getting around having to talk to us about sex. She said it happened with our cousin Flossie, and they kept several big pieces of Flossie's eggshell in their deep freeze for many years so they'd have some proof to show to any skeptics that came nosing around.
"Cousin Flossie and my petrified rattlesnake egg are the only direct, first-hand knowledge I have of the phenomenon, but if it could happen to them it sure could happen to Obama, and if the question became where he was hatched instead of where he was born, the whole silly controversy would just dry up and blow away, in my opinion. Especially if pieces of his shell were kept by one of those Kenya natives that played the drums for Tarzan or by a Hawaiian that the Jap Zeroes missed or by a hatching outfit somewhere in between."
Most of the responses to my poll questions have been more succinct, if less imaginative. "Would you like to see Mitt Romney's tax returns for the last ten years or not?" the poll asked.
One answer: "Yes, but I wouldn't know what to make of them, as the numbers would be a lot larger than I am accustomed to working with."
Another respondent simply inked out my question and wrote this response to one unasked: "I wouldn't vote for a Negro or a Muslim. I don't hate them or anything but I'm more comfortable with Christian white people, who provide the entertainment at our Thursday night and Sunday afternoon singalongs. But I wouldn't vote for a Mormon, either. That is the silliest bunch of fairy tales I've ever heard tell of. So I guess I'm s.o.o.l. as far as this election goes, wouldn't you say?"
Yes, I would. And I put this response in the pile of the undecideds.
Another question: "Did you watch the party conventions and did anything happen at either of them that moved you particularly?"
Answer: "No, I kept it on RFD-TV, which has all of my shows. I would turn it over to CBS every once in a while, but it looked like the same old hooey, so I'd go right back to 'Green Acres,' which holds up a lot better than political conventions do."
This being Arkansas, and the very nape of Neckery, I don't need to tell you which presidential candidate is the leading vote-getter so far. But it's closer than I would've guessed, and the people's choice with a clear plurality at this point is None of the Above. Undecided is running fourth but it's a respectable fourth, ahead of Ron Paul and somebody named Dwayne, a well-liked local physical therapist who's got six write-ins.
The Domino/Pineknot poll has a plus-or-minus accuracy rating higher than any other poll in this market, hovering around 30 per cent. It is nonetheless more reliable and less laughable than Rasmussen's. More men than women have responded so far this year, and more nursing home inmates than domino players. None of those responding was senile, as far as I could tell, but there weren't any Einsteins amongst them, either.
Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, is being credited with support whenever a respondent says he or she will likely vote for Flopsy, Goofy, Moneybags, or Dingleberry. A vote for Barack Obama, the Democratic incumbent, is tallied whenever support is indicated for a racial epithet, which alas has been most of the time.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
scc encaustic workshop session 2
a lovely piece by monica zettler-segal, 2 wonderful pieces by linda dieringer, a great landscapey painting by john skrabalak, a branded drawing and collage by elaine morris(?), michelle maroni's fabulous feathery collection, charlotte toal's lovely collages and our cozy class busily working.
my second introductory encaustic class at the society for contemporary craft was just as successful and enjoyable as the first (see this post about the first session).
i kept both workshops small in number of participants because i was concerned about ventilation and electricity issues. fortunately, none of these issues arose during either session and because of that, we will be admitting more participants into next year's workshops!
we all had a great time during this second session, everyone learned a lot and made a ton of great work as you can see from the pics above. the participants during this workshop were charlotte toal, john skrabalak, linda dieringer, monica zettler-segal, michelle maroni and elaine morris.
because both workshops were so successful, we've already set dates next year for a one day mark-making workshop with a 2 day intro encaustic class immediately following and a 3 day advanced encaustic workshop a few weeks later. please visit my web site (information menu to events page) for specific dates for these and other upcoming workshops. if you can't make any of the scheduled workshops, i'm always available to schedule a private workshop for 1-3 participants in my home studio. please see my web site for more information about private workshops (information menu to workshops page).
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
sandra sheehy
untitled, 2009, mixed media, 10.5x5.5x9.5, untitled, 2007, mixed media, fabric, 24.5x10.5x2, untitled, 2007, mixed media, fabric, 29.5x8.5x3.25, untitled, 2010, mixed media, 11x10.5x6.5
there's a meditative quality, a quietness, a comfortable, homey nature that i feel must come from the heart of the maker and i SO want to own one...see more here.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
susan chrysler white
mad about saffron, 2004, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 82x124, chimera, 2006, acrylic and enamel on canvas, family filigree, 2009, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 80x78
at first glance, these could be cheesy black-light posters one used to find at spencer gifts. upon closer inspection, i totally fell in love with the infinite detail the asymmetric symmetry and psychedelic madness...see more here.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Michael Shemchuk
fault line, 30x30, three 2 shuffle, south shore, 31x31
loving the marks...see more here.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Lawrence Cromwell
kill it nice, 2006, oil and wax on board, 24x36, huffin-puffitus, 2006, oil and wax on board, 60x48, bound for/bound to, 2006, oil and wax on board, 48x48
it's refreshing to see this awesome, bold, bright use of color as it seems overall that i've seen an almost muted palette in paintings lately...see more here.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
elias sime
mewled, 2006, what is love? 6, 2007, yarn and bottle cap on canvas 132x188cm, filega 4 (searching 4), yarn on canvas, what is love? 1, 2007, yarn and bottle cap on canvas, 132x188, fertility, 2005, yarn on canvas, 155x93cm
i just read about this artist in the latest sda journal (see this post about another african artist from this issue) and i just love the simplicity and intimacy of these embroideries. unfortunately, there isn't a large online presence of his work, but if you google his name, you can find random images.
i just read about this artist in the latest sda journal (see this post about another african artist from this issue) and i just love the simplicity and intimacy of these embroideries. unfortunately, there isn't a large online presence of his work, but if you google his name, you can find random images.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Madeline Denaro
undine, mixed media on canvas, 48x60, breaking through, mixed media on canvas, 48x48, sunday morning, mixed media on canvas, 65x63, the day after yesterday, mixed media on canvas, 48x60
clouds, wind, summer storms, rain slick city streets, foggy sunrises, lakes, raging rivers, mountains, green valleys, the smell of the woods at night in the summer...see more here.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
toyin omolowo
visual rhythm 2, board, sawdust, oil color, tiles, straws, epoxy, resin, wax, 102x102cm, private passion 2, board, sawdust, oil color, tiles, nails, epoxy, resin, wax, 102x102cm, red aso-oke, board, newsprint, glue, hard card, acrylic color, resin, wax, 81x110cm, demystifying aso-oke 4, board, newsprint, glue, hard card, acrylic color, resin, wax, 102x142cm, private passion 1, board, sawdust, oil color, epoxy, tiles, dyed mat stick resin wax, 101x102cm
i read about this artist in the most recent sda journal which was devoted to african fiber artists. it was a great issue and i found it extremely inspiring. this artist was a standout to me with beautifully crafted work that speaks to architecture, the grid, domesticity, technology and life...see more here.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
bovey lee
Beach Ball Blast (detail), 2009, hand cut chinese rice paper, 18.5x20, Power Plant-The Butterfly Dream, 2008, hand cut chinese rice paper, 40x27, Power Plant-The Butterfly Dream (detail), little crimes III, 2008, hand cut chinese rice paper, 19x19, Tsunami-Enmeshed (detail 2), 2008, hand cut chinese rice paper, 27x36.5
i was fortunate enough to meet this artist while i was teaching a workshop in pittsburgh last month. we enjoyed a wonderful dinner at my host family's house and i knew she was an artist, but i'm embarrassed to say i had no idea what her work looked like. when i got home, i checked out her web site and needless to say, i was both blown away and quietly humbled to know that i was in the presence of such an amazing artist. i've never seen such intricate detail and precision in cut paper work and she's surprisingly prolific despite the meticulous nature of her work...see a lot more work and details here.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
ccp markmaking workshop
two awesome pieces by christine aaron, 2 of jane tracy's striking textural pieces, june berman's exciting mixed media paper collaged pieces inspired by maps, ethel renek's unique collage and soy wax discharge/stitched paper piece, a blind stitch exercise (sorry, can't remember who this belongs to!), 3 interesting glue drawings and a beautiful rust print by nancy berman, participants working on their blind stitch exercise.
i recently taught my explorations in markmaking workshop at the center for contemporary printmaking in norwalk, ct. this class was made up of all women and all were working artists, which made it a really fun group to teach. this was another small group, but small groups only mean that you have room to make a bigger mess and a ton of work! and they certainly did....
because this workshop was held in a printmaking center and because i'm all about fibers, all of the techniques i demonstrated could be done on fabric and paper (with the exception of composting, which can only be done on fabric). we started out with rust printing, composting and branding on the first day, with some fun markmaking exercises to get everyone in the spirit. the second day was response drawing day, where we covered many kinds of transfer techniques, exquisite corpse, drawing with horsehair and working with water soluble crayons. by the third day, everyone seemed really comfortable with the techniques and they were beginning to put them together in ways that reflected their personal work, which is most exciting for me to see. the techniques of the day were soy wax resist and discharge with bleach, blind contour drawings, instant indigo and texture drawings on cardboard. the fourth day was most exciting for me because it involved drawing with hand and free motion machine stitching and collage. i love introducing stitching as a drawing tool because it's the last thing that comes to mind when one thinks about drawing. we started out with a blind stitch exercise so as to demonstrate that stitching could be a mark, it doesn't have to be done exactly like the stitch manual diagrams (although it's always good to learn how to do it right first). everyone took to stitching right away and a couple of participantss are interested in buying a sewing machine!! once everyone got the stitching bug, they were combining and stitching the drawings they had started in the first days of the workshop.
the last day of the workshop is bittersweet for me, i'm sad to leave my new friends, but so excited for show and tell. everyone made some great work and some have written to tell me how they're continuing to work with and incorporate these new techniques into their current work. above you can see some of the great work produced during this workshop as well as see some other techniques i taught that i didn't mention in my brief synopsis. the participants in this workshop were jane tracy, nancy berman, ethel renek, june berman, christine aaron.
don't be sad that you missed this awesome workshop because i'll be teaching it at peters valley craft center in layton, nj in a few weeks (august 13-17) and there's still time to sign up!!!
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer
There Is No Year by Blake Butler
News from the World: Stories & Essays by Paula Fox
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Seven Years by Peter Stamm
Julian Assange, the white-haired founder of WikiLeaks, has been variously described as a Bond villain, a freedom fighter, and a ghostly info warrior sprung from the pages of a William Gibson novel. And at first blush, his tale seems to have all the elements of a gripping thriller: vast caches of classified documents, international intrigue, violent sex, operatives, and assassination threats. Indeed, according to the recent rash of books about the man and his crusade against government secrecy, Assange assiduously cultivates a sense of his own dashing presence, inventing CIA spies lurking around every corner and insisting on employing counterintelligence-style tradecraft to throw off tails during lunchtime strolls in Berlin. If you work for him, putting your real name next to the buzzer in your apartment building is an infraction.
Assange's background adds to the sense of comic-book mystery. He spent much of his childhood in Australia at a place called Magnetic Island. His mother helped run a puppet theater. He spent his early teens underground, on the run from her abusive husband, who was a member of a cult that persuaded parents to surrender their children. By age seventeen, he was hacking into Defense Department computers under the name Mendax, which he took from a line in Horace's Odes praising the "splendidly deceiving" (splendide mendax) Hypermnestra.
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• Anonymous said... Avoiding dyes, ESP red 40. The frustrating thing is that most kids antibiotics are pink and have red 40
• Anonymous said... omega 3 fish oil capsules/oil of evening primrose capsules/good multi vitamin and mineral supplement,
• Anonymous said... So, is it possible it's the GMOs that are in almost all wheat, soy and corn causing the problems and not the actual gluten? Why after thousands of years are people all of a sudden reacting to gluten? Organic foods are GMO free!
• Anonymous said... We removed all artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives and saw a HUGE difference in about a week. It's worth a try for a week to see if it will help your child. We saw huge improvements in stimming, focus, hyperactivity, and meltdowns decreased. It worked better than any medications we have tried.
On a side note, most of the colors/flavors/preservatives are banned in other countries as a known health hazard for human consumption. Yet our government allows it. I'll let you do the research if you choose
• Anonymous said... We've been doing the GAPS diet for 4+ months. We've seen huge gains (among the most impressive have been the initiation of pretend play -- there was zero before -- vanishing of rough play, and excellent growth in social and verbal skills). GAPS (similar to and based on SCD) removes all processed foods, grains, sugars (except in fruit and honey) and starches, and is designed to heal and seal the gut lining. It's a commitment, but it has been totally worth the effort and expense. Also, it has changed my super-picky eater into the kid who asks for vegetables for snack and plain fruit as dessert!
• Anonymous said... when we look that he GF/CF diet, there was a lot of referring to gluten and casein being changed into a type of morphine in the brain and this is why these kids crave for these foods, it's like a drug addiction. When we change our son's diet, we had it rough for about 5 weeks and it was apparently his body going thru withdraws. We have taken additives out and added omega 3,6 and 9 which contains evening primrose oil and it has worked really well, a different kid.
• Anonymous said... With my son we have to avoid dyes and colorants along with a lot of sugar. But he craves dairy and salt. Not sure why yet.
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Bruno Cohen, President of CBS 2
We are excited to announce that we will have Mr. Cohen as our keynote sharing his turnarounds expertise on TV stations and TV production companies.
Cohen has served as President and General Manager of KOVR-TV (CBS 13) and KMAX-TV (CW 31), the CBS-owned stations in Sacramento, since CBS acquired KOVR in April 2005. Prior to that, he had served as Vice President and General Manager of KMAX since 2004. Under Cohen's leadership, KOVR and KMAX have delivered ratings and revenue growth and now produce a market-leading 68 hours of award-winning local news programming on a weekly basis.
Before joining CBS, Cohen served as the Senior Vice President of Programming and Executive Vice President of Business News for CNBC from 1996-2002. During this time, he oversaw the development of CNBC's primetime and signature daytime business news coverage which resulted in ratings growth during a period of dramatic growth in the financial markets.
Prior to that, Cohen was Vice President and News Director for WNBC-TV in New York from 1992-96 and was responsible for orchestrating a sea change in the station's approach to local news coverage which propelled the station to first place in the local ratings.
Cohen's background also includes work as a syndicated programming development executive for Buena Vista Productions from 1987-92. Prior to that, he worked for KPIX-TV in San Francisco as Executive News Producer and later News Director from 1979-86. He also served as a news producer for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh from 1978-79 and got his start in television as a news producer for KEZI-TV in Eugene, Ore
Gary E. McCullough, President & Chief Executive Officer, Career Education Corporation
We are delighted to have Mr. McCullough join us as a keynote to share his expertise on turnarounds in the for-profit service sector.
Career Education Corporation is a nearly $2.0 billion, publicly traded (NASDAQ:CECO) educational services company committed to quality, career-focused learning. The company has more than 13,000 employees and operates colleges, schools and universities that offer doctoral, master's, bachelor's and associate degrees at more than 90 on-ground and three fully online institutions in the US and abroad.
Before joining CEC, Mr. McCullough served as President of Abbott Laboratories' (NYSE:ABT) Ross Products. Prior to Abbott, Mr. McCullough served for four years as Senior Vice President-Americas for the Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (NYSE:WWY) and he spent 13 years at Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) in progressively more responsible management roles. Mr. McCullough served five years in the United States Army, where he rose to the rank of Captain. His awards and decorations included the Meritorious Service Medal, the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the Ranger Tab and the Parachutist Badge.
Mr. McCullough serves on the Board of Directors of The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW), where he is a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, Mr. McCullough is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and the Board of Directors of The Executives' Club of Chicago. In 2005, and again in 2009, McCullough was named by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the "75 Most Powerful Blacks in Corporate America."
Mr. McCullough holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Wright State University.


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The child abuse scandal rocking the Vatican grew yet again Wednesday when former children in a German orphanage submitted written statements that a German bishop habitually beat them.
The Bishop of Augsburg, Walter Mixa, was a controversial conservative churchman appointed by Pope Benedict in 2005 and has been called his friend.
According to the statement, Mixa used to hit and degrade the children repeatedly during sessions of punishment at the Catholic orphanage. Among other details, Mixa is accused of using a carpet beater on the bare behinds of victims as he screamed: 'Satan is in you and I must drive him out.'
A controversial figure in the Catholic church, Mixa previously explained that the liberation movement deserved a 'significant' part of the blame for pedophilia scandals in the church.
Hildegard Sedlmair, now 48, said she was beaten by the German bishop when she was 15.
"I was really upset when the pope appointed him Bishop because he was much lower in rank then and doesn't deserve to be where he is because of what he put us through," she said. "He grabbed me by my smock, hauled me out of bed and beat me on the upper arms until they were black and blue."
She said the time spent at the orphanage 'was the worst of my life'.
A man who didn't identify himself told Germany's Sueddeutsche newspaper: 'A minimum of 50 times in one year he made me drop my trousers and beat me on my behind with a carpet beater or a stick, really, really hard.' He was allegedly at the home between 1972 to 1982.
According to the statements, it wasn't just Bishop Mixa who dished plenty of corporal punishment. The nuns also hit the children with 'wooden brooms, wooden shoes, and clothing hangers,' the statement said.
Mixa was friendly with then Cardinal Ratzinger in Germany years ago. He is now part of a conservative group that backed several of the Pope's more controversial decisions.
A spokeswoman for the Bishopric of Augsburg said the statements were "absurd."
"At no time and in none of his functions has Bishop Mixa ever maltreated children. [These allegations] are absurd, untrue, and evidently concocted with the aim of personally discrediting the bishop," said spokeswoman Kathi Marie Ulrich.


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