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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Corporate India has made a mockery of an order to appoint women directors by recruiting wives, daughters and even stepmothers, analysts said on Wednesday as the deadline set by regulators for boosting gender diversity in the boardroom passed.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) last year imposed a quota of at least one female director on the board of every listed firm, and last month SEBI head U.K. Sinha warned of "very serious" consequences if companies did not comply.

Despite a last-minute rush of appointments to meet the April 1 deadline, more than 100 firms have not complied, and many of those which have, have responded by installing company bosses' female relatives with no professional experience, analysts said.

"It's a mockery of the law. The compliance has substantially been done in letter and not in spirit," Pranav Haldea, Managing Director of PRIME Database, a market research group, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"More than half the companies have appointed their relatives onto the board, who will speak in the same voice as their promoters and so the diversity being sought by SEBI has been defeated."

Figures from the PRIME database showed 189 out of 1,457 relevant firms listed on the National Stock Exchange of India had not appointed any women directors by 4.30 p.m. on April 1, indicating that 58 firms had named a woman director in the past 24 hours.

Reliance Industries, India's largest conglomerate by market value, has installed the wife of Chairman Mukesh Ambani, while the stepmother of tycoon Vijay Mallya now sits on the board of Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Other companies which have appointed female relatives of key executives as directors include Raymond Ltd, Asian Paints, Godhra Phillips, Videocon Industries and JK Cement.   Continued...


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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Entertainment, vacations and eating out in restaurants have taken a hit as Americans look for ways to save money and cut costs.

With unemployment figures rising and tumbling stocks about 70 percent of Americans questioned in a Zogby International interactive poll said they have cut back on their entertainment budgets.

Forty percent also said they are spending less on food and groceries, and 16 percent have gone without medical or prescription drugs in the past year.

"This is a very depressing poll," CEO John Zogby said in an interview. "I think we have a ways to go in terms of hitting the bottom," he added.

Discretionary spending and entertainment have suffered the most, according to the survey. Forty percent of people said they have also limited or canceled their normal vacation plans because of concerns about the costs.

Another 40 percent have decided the time is not right to buy major items such as automobiles, homes entertainment electronics, or a computer.

Nearly 80 percent of younger adults, aged 18-29, said they have scaled back on going out, compared to 55 percent of people 65 years and older.

Zogby said younger people are learning to economize. With less experience in the job market and lower salaries they may not have a choice.   Continued...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Swine flu has hit an isolated tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the last two weeks, Survival International said on Wednesday.

A further 1,000 members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela are believed to have caught the flu, the indigenous peoples rights group said.

It is feared the flu could sweep through the area and kill many more Yanomami as the Indians have little resistance to introduced diseases.

About 32,000 Yanomami live in the Venezuela-Brazil border region and form the largest relatively isolated tribe in the Amazon.

Survival director Stephen Corry said the situation was critical and the Venezuelan and Brazilian governments must act immediately to halt the epidemic and improve health care for the Yanomami.

"If they do not, we could once more see hundreds of Yanomami dying of treatable diseases. This would be utterly devastating for this isolated tribe, whose population has only just recovered from the epidemics which decimated their population 20 years ago," he said in a statement.

About 20 per cent of the Yanomami tribe died from flu, malaria and other diseases in the 1980 and 1990s when goldminers invaded their land, Survival said.

The Venezuelan government has closed the border and sent medical teams.

The H1N1 virus -- the correct medical term for swine flu -- has spread globally and killed nearly 5,000 people since appearing early this year, according to the World Health Organization.


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Chael Sonnen and Late Replacement Chris Weidman are Heavy Favorites at UFC on FOX 2

Chris Weidman continues to make headlines, this time it’s due to his status as a favorite against UFC veteran Demian Maia. Bodog rated Weidman(-200) as a favorite over Maia (+160), which is surprising given that he accepted the fight on very short notice and this is the highest pressure he has ever faced, being showcased as the opening bout on Fox. However he has been very impressive in his three UFC wins and having an undefeated record at 7-0 also bodes well for the fighter. But do you think Maia isn’t getting enough respect given his long standing success in the UFC and amazing ground game?

In the second fight of the night, Chael Sonnen (-450) is a very high favorite compared to his opponent Michael Bisping (+325) in their clash to see who will fight for the UFC middleweight title next. It’s not a big surprise that Sonnen is the favorite but those odds make Bisping look like he shouldn’t even share the same cage with Sonnen.

Well Bisping says the naysayers are in for a shock because if Sonnen takes him down like he has other fighters, he’ll get submitted.

“I’m going to get the best Chael Sonnen possible I know that. But his jiu-jitsu won’t be too slick. Chael Sonnen can take me down if he likes, because I know I can submit him off my back. I know I can. That’s his big weakness. I may not have a black belt, but I consider myself a black belt. I’ve been rolling with Jake Shields, Dean Lister and a wash of other world champions. Believe me, if Chael Sonnen takes me down, he better be prepared to get submitted. Working with these guys recently, these top level jiu-jitsu guys, has really brought on my game and I am so comfortable on my back right now. In the past I have stood fights up a lot but the way I am training right now, I will be delighted if Chael takes me down. If he does, then it will be a short night for him.”

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Windows httpd: A Handy Tool to Publish on the Web

Shixing Wen

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

I. Brief Introduction

Many of us have played on the Web for quite a while by now and may want to venture a step further from merely browsing to publishing on the Web. For those who work or study at an institution of higher learning in North America, it is not difficult to apply for an account on their institution's WWW server and set up their own home pages. But for those who are not affiliated with higher education, it might not be as easy to do so. To try one's hand with HTML on one's own computer is one thing. But to really publish on the Web is quite another.

One way out is to set up an account with a commercial Internet services provider. With payment, you are entitled to rent some disk space on that provider's WWW server. But not everyone of us are willing to pay to publish, especially so when we do not have a big publishing project to warrant the expenses. Windows httpd is thus coming handy for us to try publishing on the Web and moreover, to run a WWW server and be a real Webmaster!

II. System and Equipment Requirement

Windows httpd runs on Windows 3.1 and 3.11. It is free of charge for personal and non-commercial use. It supports up to 16 simultaneous users. And it is ready to use, without requiring your own configuration.

As far as equipment is concerned, you need at least a 386+ with 8+ megabyte memory. The later models (e.g., 486 or Pentium), the better. And the more memory (e.g., 16 mb), the better.

Besides, your computer must be on the Internet. In other words, you should not set up a WWW server with a dial-up module, for you will be assigned only a temporary IP address for each dial-up session. Without a permanent IP address, nobody can find or log onto your WWW server. So virtually, you probably have to use your computer at work that has a direct Internet connection.

In addition, you need to have Trumpet WinSock on your computer to run the server. If you have Netscape installed on your computer, then you are okay, for Netscape needs Trumpet WinSock to run, too. If not, you are not yet ready to run a WWW server on your computer.

If you have met all the above-mentioned requirements, you may proceed with following detailed instruction on installation.

A word of note. The following instruction is prepared for non-tech people or "dummies". For those advanced or well versed people, you may just follow the instruction provided by the author of the Windows httpd.

III. Installation Steps

The installation is not too difficult. Just follow the following steps:

1. Create a directory on your computer called httpd. For example:

2. Download a copy of Windows httpd (the file name is: to the directory you have just created. The URL address of the Windows httpd downloading site is:

3. Exit from Windows to DOS. In other words, simply Exit Windows from the Program Manager.

4. Execute the pkunzip command to uncompress or decompress the zip file you have downloaded to the directory called HTTPD. Be sure to use the -d option to preserve the pre-set directory structure within the file. For example:

C:\HTTPD&gtpkunzip -d
(and press [enter])

Just sit there until the computer has done the uncompressing or decompressing.

Then type EXIT at the C prompt, and you will return to the Windows environment.

5. Go to the File Manager and click on the directory called HTTPD. You will find a bunch of subdirectories and files.

6. Find the file called httpd.exe and drag it with your mouse to the work group on your desktop or Program Manager where you'd like it to reside. For example, the work group called TCP/IP or Main. And it will automatically create an icon for your WWW server.

7. Open your Notepad. It is usually in the work group called "Applications". Click and hold on File and move your cursor to Open. In the pop-up window, type

\autoexec.bat (and press [enter])

and add the following line to anywhere above the line called win. For example:

set tz=cst5cdt

Note: "set tz" means to set the time zone;

"cst" means Central Standard Time;
"cdt" means Central Date Time;
"5" means 5 hours east of the Greenwich Mean Time.

So if you are in New York, you need to modify the line accordingly:

set tz=est4edt

After you have added the time zone line to the autoexec.bat, you need to save it.

8. Still in the Notepad. Open once again. And in the pop-up window, type

system.ini (and then press [enter])

and you need to go down the list to find the section called NonWindowsApp. And in that section, add a line as follows:

Then save it and exit the Notepad.

9. Now you need to exit Windows and then reset or restart your computer to let the changes your have made take effect.

10. When you are back in Windows, go to the work group where you have kept the HTTPD icon and double click on the icon. It will first pop up and then minimize into a small icon at the bottom of your screen. Now your WWW server is up and running!

IV. Final Words

From then on, you can follow the instruction given on the screen and design your own home page. There is also a list of HTML guide and primer on the screen for your reference.

The URL address of your home page or WWW server is the IP address of your computer. To find out what your IP address is, you may either open your Trumpet WinSock where you will find the numerical address (e.g., or you can access the CND Home Page ( where you will be greeted with your alphanumeric address (e.g., at the top of the screen.

When you are comfortable with running the server, you can announce your OWN home page and WWW server to the world with pride.

It is my sincere hope that we Chinese librarians will actively participate in electronic publishing on the Web. May the Web be the window of our talent and creativity. And may the Web be a significant tool to advance librarianship and information science.

When your WWW server is set up and running, please let me know. I will add your URL address to a special place on our CALA web pages. One by one, we will build a web of our own servers.

Copyright © 1996 Shixing Wen.

Submitted to CALA E-J on May 1, 1996.


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Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Dead Freight’ (Season 5, Episode 5)

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As we approach the halfway point of the show’s final season, Breaking Bad simultaneously ramps up the action and gets pointedly philosophical, showcasing the grace and finesse that typify its storytelling. “Dead Freight” meditates ominously on the fragility and negligibility of human life in the world its characters have created for themselves, organizing its musings around a classical train heist narrative.

The episode opens with an obscure but evocative teaser whose significance will only become apparent much later. A little boy blazes through the desert on a dirt bike, ripping through underbrush and taking flying leaps in and out of ditches. Stopping, he stoops down clinically and scoops up a giant, furry tarantula, which he drops into a glass jar and studies with satisfaction. It’s a strong image for obvious reasons, but especially because of the show’s established precedents – the last kid we saw on a bike was that kid who shot Combo in season three. In the distance, a train whistle blows.

Post-credits, Walt appears at Hank’s fancy new ASAC office unannounced to falteringly discuss his marriage. Breaking down into tears, he tells Hank that Skyler doesn’t love him anymore, and thinks he’s a bad influence on the kids. He also claims she’s been seeing a therapist. Hank, predictably, is overwhelmingly uncomfortable with Walt’s blustering display of emotion, and shuffles frantically around the room, closing all the blinds so the officers in the fish tank will not notice them. Following a few sloppy words of encouragement, Hank offers to bring Walt some coffee and darts out of the room.

Once his brother-in-law is out of the room, Walt switches off the crocodile tears and begins methodically bugging the office, attaching a device to Hank’s computer modem and hiding a small microphone inside a framed picture of Hank and Marie that’s sitting on the desk. Hank returns just as Walt is snapping the frame back together, nearly catching him in the act, but Walt plays it off expertly, cradling the picture and sniffling. “You two are really great together,” he intones mistily, manufacturing a tortured half-smile. Hank pats him on the back awkwardly and assures him it’s always darkest before the dawn.

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Later, following up on the shenanigans with the barrel tracker, Walt, Jesse and Mike drag Lydia down into a dank, creepy cement room somewhere and handcuff her to a metal grill table. Mike drops a legal pad onto the table in front of her with a script written on it in ballpoint, and explains that she will now call Hank Shrader at the DEA and read what is on the legal pad, or Mike will pull out his pistol and shoot her in the head. Tremulously, Lydia calls Hank’s office and explains, via the legal pad, about the tracking device she found attached to the bottom of the methylamine barrel, to which Hank pleads ignorance. Things look grim for Lydia for about three minutes, but the live feed from the microphones in Hank’s office quickly reveal that another law enforcement office has been tracking the barrels without his knowledge, so Lydia is momentarily off the hook.

Mike wants to kill Lydia anyway because of how generally hair-trigger and irritating she is, Walt characteristically agrees, and Jesse is characteristically reticent. Angrily, Mike informs Walt and Jesse that Lydia tried to hire a hit man to bump him off a few episodes ago. Frantically, Lydia interjects, tantalizingly offering, if Mike will stop threatening her, to supply them with “an ocean” of methylamine. Mike, Walt and Jesse stare at her, perplexed but intrigued.

Walt interrogates Lydia one-on-one. She admits she took a hit out on Mike, explaining she’s afraid of the nine jailed Fring associates flipping and getting her arrested. She explains she tried to get Mike to have them offed for her, but Mike refused, so “there was no option except to add Mike to the list.” It’s already been pretty much established that Walt wants Mike dead himself, so even though his and Lydia’s common interests never explicitly come up, the scene has some interesting dimensions. This is the first time Walt and Lydia have met each other, and for differing reasons, both are transforming hourly into more pronouncedly unstable and reckless liabilities to their web of mutual associates.

Walt asks Lydia about the “ocean of methylamine” she claims she can procure for them, and Lydia explains they can get up to 24,000 gallons if they can figure out a way to unload it directly from a transport train. Whipping out a transparent routing map, Lydia explains exactly where and when Mike, Jesse and Walt can ambush the train in order to rob it. The only potential snags are the engineer and conductor, who would have to be either shot, or left alive as potential witnesses. Mike and Walt are quickly at each other’s throats about whether or not the two murders would be worth the payoff (Mike is anti-murder, Walt is pro), but as things start to boil to a head, Jesse jumps in – “What if we could rip off that train and no one ever knows it got robbed?”

After a quick site appraisal, the threesome snags a couple of lackeys from the pest control company to start shifting dirt and setting up. Via some abnormally forced exposition, we learn that the plan is to create a diversion, stall the train, suction a cache of methylamine out of the storage tank, and then funnel in some water to offset the weight difference. One of the dudes helping them is Todd, that guy who disabled the nanny cam in that other episode. Todd asks a lot of detailed questions about what they’re doing, and Walt and Jesse give him probably more information than he strictly needs.

Returning home, Walt discovers that Walter Jr. has returned home from his aunt and uncle’s house unbidden and locked himself in his room, sniping at Skyler through the door. Walt raps on the door and commands Walter Jr. to do as he’s told and go back to Hank and Marie’s, which he sulkily does. Skyler remains icily unimpressed. She insists the children are staying at Hank and Marie’s. “You agree to that, and I will be whatever kind of partner you want me to be.” As Walt gets up to leave, Skyler notices the dirt on his hands. “Out burying bodies?” she quips sarcastically. “Robbing a train,” Walt fires back.

Heist day! Lydia broods over her computer monitor in a darkened apartment while, at the intercept point, Mike, Walt and Jesse supervise the blockage of the railway line with an artificially stalled transport truck. The train chugs along energetically from different angles over a brisk, amplified drumbeat, threatening seductively to erupt into a montage, but failing to ultimately deliver.

The stall goes off without a hitch, and the team starts digging their equipment out of the dust and hooking it into the storage tank. Just as the heist seems well underway, Mike spots a problem through his binoculars – a huge pick-up truck coming up the dirt road from behind the stalled transport. The pick-up driver good naturedly insists on using his truck to push the transport out of the way, and within minutes, the tracks are clear.

Trying not to panic, Mike radios Walt to pack up the equipment and get out, but Walt growls that they’re not finished yet, and allows Jesse to keep draining the methylamine. Mike continues to protest, but Walt defiantly keeps the operation running until the last possible second. Todd and Jesse tumble onto the ground as the train begins moving, and Jesse falls directly onto the tracks, flattening his body in terror to avoid the wheels of the train that’s moving over him.

Jesse, Todd and Walt watch the train depart into the distance in shock, then explode into elated laughter. Before the euphoria can dissipate, Walt turns and notices something behind them – the kid on the dirt bike from the pre-credits teaser. The three men stare at the boy for a few seconds, dumbstruck and unsure of what to do.

The kid on the bike waves at them, and Todd raises a gloved hand and waves back. Then casually, Todd steps forward, reaches behind his back and pulls out a pistol. Jesse howls “No!” and Todd fires. The kid topples off his bike into the dirt while Jesse clutches his head, gasping. The tarantula scuttles complacently around the inside of the jar, filling the screen.

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Religion and Popular Culture
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
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At a time when many in the U.S. and around the world encounter religion as
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by others, this issue of Reconstruction seeks to explore questions arising
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Over the past three decades, scholarship in the Humanities evaluating the
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interactions that exist between religion and popular culture. Despite some
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often undervalued. Popular culture not only presents and portrays religious
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which religious meaning is communicated and understood. Submissions need
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"But my words will be there, something to bounce off, something to incite thought, activity" (Audre Lorde, "My words will be there")

Audre Lorde's Transatlantic Sisterhoods
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was one of the most significant and influential Black feminist scholars, writers and activists of the twentieth century. Although her involvement in the African-American Civil Rights and Black Arts Movement and her enduring relevance in feminist and lesbian/gay movements in the US have been documented, no sustained effort has been made yet to bear witness to the truly international and transatlantic dimension of her legacy. This legacy is reflected in the coalitions she founded with black diasporic women during her travels to places such as Germany and Britain as well as in her contribution to the reception of the Black Revolution of the 1960s in European contexts, a revolution, whose effects, as she suggested, "are sometimes more obvious in other countries than in America". This volume of essays seeks to introduce new perspectives on the depth and range of Lorde's literary, intellectual and activist commitments by constructing a European perspective within which to situate her life and work.

We invite proposals for essays which look at how Lorde's work inspired, enriched and was differentiated by its numerous and varied recontextualisations in different European countries including Britain, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France as well as other European places Lorde did not have a direct encounter with.

We welcome essays addressing (though not limited to) the following questions focusing on one or more European contexts and drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives:

-Which topics and motives in Lorde's work were met with the greatest interest in her reception in Europe? Did her work function as a forum for discussing civil rights, the inclusion or exclusion of marginalised groups, issues pertaining to sexuality, health care and forms of 'grassroots' organisation?
-How was her work disseminated in European countries, which translations appeared and when, what readership did this literature find at different phases, and what was the role of publishing houses?
-How was Lorde's conception of the Black Diaspora shaped by her Atlantic crossings?
-What were the various influences Lorde's encounters had on her personality, creativity and activism?  What different forms did these interactions take?
-What is the relevance of Lorde's work today when it comes to defining contemporary tasks and questions: fluid and controversial concepts such as race/ethnicity, immigration, civil rights, and integration in various European societies?

We welcome a range of submissions from critical essays, archival work, case studies, personal reflections, manifestoes, interviews and mission statements from networks/activist groups whose work owes a debt to Lorde.

Please submit proposals in abstract form (200-300 words) by the 30th of September 2011 at

Finished essays (longer essays from 6.000-8.000 and shorter up to 3000 words) to be submitted by 31st of March 2012 at

We look forward to receiving your proposals and submissions for this volume!

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Dr Stella Bolaki, University of Glasgow


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Thursday, 22 November 2012

BBC - Television BY motorists, FOR motorists

A short note on the news report on BBC Breakfast today about rural cycling. Good stuff from the Sustrans chap (decent quality segregated rural cycle routes are a good thing - but with respect guys, that one in Cambridge is rather more in the suburbs than the countryside), not such good stuff from the journalists.

Not an alltogether bad report, but as is so often the case in news from a network run BY motorists, FOR motorists, it shied away from the bleeding obvious - cyclists going about their reasonable, legal business on rural roads are being mowed down in increasing numbers by motorists who are irresponsibly and illegally going too fast.

And its that simple. The highway code is a simple enough document containing the excellent rule telling us to drive as such a speed such that we can stop in the distance we can see - you can be driving under the speed limit and STILL be going too fast to be driving legally. Thats a key requirement especially on hedge lined rural roads where there could be a stray sheep, a deer, a fallen tree etc. around every corner. Its good advice, and if you ignore it and hit something that you ought to have missed then its your own fault. If its a pedestrian or a cyclist that'll make you a killer.

And yet we've got an article on the dangers of rural cycling (which is for the most part motorists driving so fast they can't miss you, driving with an illegal lack of regard for the safety of others) which completely failed to address this key point.

So, once again the BBC pay lip-service to cycle safety without at any point addressing the key problem. Whats killing ever more cyclists in the UK is dangerous drivers. Lets not over complicate things. Lets not dodge the problem. Lets tackle it.

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Peacefully at Chateau Gardens, London, on Saturday afternoon, September 22nd, 2012, Margaret Evelyn Turner (née Mair), at the age of 86.  She was predeceased by her beloved husband Grant Turner (1982).  Cherished mother of Larry and Bonnie, of London, Nancy and Peter Desjardins, of Thorndale and daughter-in-law Katherine Turner, of Thunder Bay.  Predeceased by son Robert (Bob) in 2007.  She will be dearly missed by her granddaughters Deborah and Darlene Desjardins, of Thorndale, and Rachel Turner, of Thunder Bay, as she held a very special place in their hearts.  Evelyn will be fondly remembered by many special nieces and nephews who treated her so well over the years and made her life so enjoyable, as well as by all members of the Mair and Turner families and by her large circle of friends.  Evelyn retired from Woolworth Department store, in downtown London, where she worked for over 28 years.  The family would like to thank the wonderful staff at Chateau Gardens for the kindness and care shown to their Mom over the past six months.  Visitation will be held on Thursday from 2:00 – 4:00 and 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at WESTVIEW FUNERAL CHAPEL, 709 Wonderland Road North, London, where the funeral service will be conducted on Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.  In lieu of flowers, donations to a charity of one’s choice would be greatly accepted.  Online condolences available at

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Scientists Use Abnormal DNA Repair to Selectively Target Cancer Cells

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UNM Cancer Center researcher publishes two papers that describe the novel technique

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Developing cancer therapies that have minimal side-effects depends upon finding and killing only the cancer cells, leaving the healthy cells alone. To selectively kill cancer cells, a cross-institution team of researchers has developed a technique that targets cancer cells’ abnormal DNA repair machinery. One member of that team is Alan Tomkinson, PhD, University of New Mexico Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Director of Basic Research at the UNM Cancer Center. Dr. Tomkinson is an expert in DNA ligases, one of the proteins a cell uses to repair its DNA. He and the team recently published a pair of papers describing their work with chronic myeloid leukemia cells and with breast cancer cells.

In one of the papers, the scientists chose to work with chronic myeloid leukemia cells because, as Dr. Tomkinson explains, “Chronic myeloid leukemia is driven by an oncogene called BCR-ABL. We wanted a  form of cancer where we knew what the initiating event was.” For people with BCR-ABL-driven cancer, a chemotherapy drug called Gleevec targets the protein this oncogene produces. But the cancer can become resistant to Gleevec. The researchers were particularly interested  in Gleevec-resistant disease because people with this resistance have limited treatment options.

The researchers worked with breast cancer cells for the work described in the other paper. Many breast cancers are dependent upon the hormone estrogen and can be effectively treated with estrogen-blocking chemotherapy drugs like Tamoxifen. But breast cancer cells, too, can become resistant to these anti-estrogens. Again, women with anti-estrogen resistant breast cancers and women whose initial breast cancer tumor is hormone-insensitive have few treatment options.

To target cancer cells, the researchers took advantage of the differences in DNA repair between normal and cancer cells. While every cell has the ability to repair its own DNA—the cell must repair DNA prior to dividing or making proteins—the researchers found that certain human cancer cells have higher levels of DNA ligase III and lower levels of ligase IV than non-cancerous cells. They concluded that these cancer cells use a “DNA ligase III-dependent repair pathway” rather than a “DNA ligase IV-dependent repair pathway” to repair double-strand breaks in DNA. Double-strand DNA breaks are breaks in which both strands of the DNA molecule are broken, splitting the DNA molecule into two pieces. Says Dr. Tomkinson, “If cancer cells are more dependent upon the ligase III-dependent repair pathway for survival then you should be able to selectively target it. So that’s what we did.”

In their papers, the researchers first show that therapy-resistant breast cancer and chronic myeloid leukemia cells depend more upon the DNA ligase III-dependent repair pathway to repair double-strand breaks. This pathway uses PARP1, another DNA repair protein. They then combined a DNA ligase inhibitor developed by Dr. Tomkinson with a PARP inhibitor. The DNA ligase inhibitor acts on DNA ligases I and III, blocking their activity in DNA repair; the PARP inhibitor also shuts down the DNA ligase III-dependent repair pathway by blocking PARP1 activity. The researchers showed that the combination of DNA ligase and PARP inhibitors reduced  the cell’s ability to repair double strand breaks by the DNA ligase III-dependent repair pathway. They also showed that the combination selectively killed the therapy resistant breast cancer and leukemia cells. Finally, they used samples from patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (with the patients’ permission, of course) to test for response differences. They divided the patient samples into three groups based on the levels of DNA ligase III and PARP1  and showed that the combination of DNA ligase and PARP1 inhibitors killed the leukemia cells with higher levels of both DNA ligase III and PARP1.

Preparing this selective targeting treatment for human use is the next step, but it will take time to go through the required animal studies before beginning human clinical trials. The treatment won’t work for everyone, but it may be a new option for patients with therapy-resistant forms of breast cancer and leukemia. Dr. Tomkinson explains, “We can identify patients whose cancers have this specific DNA repair abnormality based on the altered expression of DNA repair proteins. Those patients would be candidates for treatment with the DNA repair inhibitor combination.” And offering more targeted cancer treatment choices to help those with limited options is a step in the right direction.

Paper references
“Targeting abnormal DNA double-strand break repair in tyrosine kinase inhibitor-resistant chronic myeloid leukemias” was advanced-published in the May 28, 2012 online edition of Oncogene ( Authors are: L.A. Tobin (University of Maryland), C. Robert (University of Maryland), A.P. Rapoport (University of Maryland), I. Gojo (University of Maryland), M.R. Baer (University of Maryland), A.E. Tomkinson (University of New Mexico) and F.V. Rassool (University of Maryland). This paper may be found online:

“Targeting Abnormal DNA Repair in Therapy-Resistant Breast Cancers” was  first published online on November 23, 2011 and appeared in the January 2012 print edition of  Molecular Cancer Research ( Authors are: Lisa A. Tobin (University of Maryland), Carine Robert (University of Maryland), Pratik Nagaria (University of Maryland), Saranya Chumsri (University of Maryland), William Twaddell (University of Maryland), Olga B. Ioffe (University of Maryland), George E. Greco (Goucher College), Angela H. Brodie (University of Maryland), Alan E. Tomkinson (University of New Mexico), and Feyruz V. Rassool (University of Maryland). This paper may be found online:

About the UNM Cancer Center
The UNM Cancer Center is the Official Cancer Center of New Mexico and the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in the state. One of just 67 NCI-designated cancer centers nationwide, the UNM Cancer Center is recognized for its scientific excellence, contributions to cancer research and delivery of medical advances to patients and their families. Annual federal and private funding of over $65 million supports the UNM Cancer Center’s research programs. The UNM Cancer Center treats more than 65 percent of the adults and virtually all of the children in New Mexico affected by cancer, from every county in the state. It is home to New Mexico’s largest team of board-certified oncology physicians and research scientists, representing every cancer specialty and hailing from prestigious institutions such as MD Anderson, Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic. Through its partnership with Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, the UNM Cancer Center brings world-class cancer care to the southern part of the state; its collaborative clinical programs in Santa Fe and Farmington serve northern New Mexico. The UNM Cancer Center also supports several community outreach programs to make cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment available to every New Mexican. Learn more at

UNM Cancer Center contact information
Dorothy Hornbeck, JKPR, (505) 340-5929,
Michele Sequeira, UNM Cancer Center, (505) 925-0486,

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Musings of a Mum: 10 months old

April 30, 2013 Candace Morris 0 Comments

Baby Bowie,
What is happening behind those bright eyes of yours? What synapses are connecting and rearranging and organizing thoughts in your baby brain?  Though remarkable change has occurred over the last ten months, I feel that the most noticeable changes happened in the last eight weeks. I find myself stopping in the middle of a chore or book or bite of hastily eaten food just to stare at you as you take in your new world, a world that is about to explode right before you...your very own big bang!  The world of movement is at hand!

Weekend mornings are bliss. Daddy and I will each take a morning to let the other get a bit more sleep, and when the other does wake to join us, we will often sit in the sun room all together but independently playing.  Dad is staring out the window with his cup of Assam.  I am tucked up tightly in my bathrobe, sipping coffee as I leaf through a book. You will play quietly on the floor with your books or sock monkey.  This bliss may last only a few minutes, but once in awhile  the moment freezes in my mind and I will look at your Dad and then look back at you and then look back at the words on my page, suddenly unable to see them through my blinding happiness.

When I imagined myself as a mother, I never imagined this. I saw the difficulty; I saw the frustration, the confusion, the inevitable ways I would seriously mess you up and make you incapable of loving yourself and of receiving love.  I saw myself angry and manipulative and always internally struggling to love you more than I love myself. I saw myself as lonely, frustrated, and always lacking in emotional resilience.  I saw that I had a lot of things to fix about myself before I became a mother.

But now, I worry that you will know very little of true struggle.  Though I had it less than ideal, I wouldn't change it for anything. I like how being raised by a single-parent toughened me up, made me independent and hearty.  I like that the lack of fathering made me learn to see men clearly - and I could spot the good and bad ones a mile away.  I like that the emptiness I was born into forced me to find my own means of filling it, never expecting anyone else to own the responsibility of my personal happiness.

You, my first-born, you have such a lovely life.  All of our resources are bestowed upon your worthy soul. Our keen sight of you, our quiet pace, our educated awareness, our incessant quest to be more and better...all of these things I had to find on my own.  But you, you will receive them in full.

This is not to say that we won't make serious mistakes and have to apologize over and over for hurting your little spirit as it grows.  But I continually mark the stark contrast between your childhood and mine, and I wonder how to help you learn the lessons I learned - but learn them through love instead of abandonment.

I catch myself in spaces of utterly uncontainable happiness these days.  It makes me want to bury myself in a hole underground for the shame of it - for the knowing well of other humans' misery and oppression, for the arbitrary dumb-luckness of it, for the fear of judgement and invalidation, and for the loss of my hard-won identity as a sad woman, made beautiful with suffering.  But more than anything, chicken...more than any of those prideful reasons, I want to hide from my unhappiness because I don't want the universe to see me shouting it from the highest peak of my soul and decide to smite me from above because of my bragging. So for now, let it suffice to say that you - YOU - you have made Joel and I happier than we ever imagined humans could be walking the surface of this magnificent blue planet.

Yes, we are learning to co-exist quite nicely.

Dear me, dear me.  I am sensing your will coming forth, though I cannot yet tell if it is a strong will or just a normal-person will - specifically if you are more Whitney or more Morris. I am strong-willed.  So here's the thing about it...when someone comes up against my will, logical or not, I fight back.  I will have to struggle hard to maintain a perspective concerning you - if the battle houses a lesson imperative for you or if I am just battling one will against another.

You are funny with a keen understanding of comedic timing and subtle facial expressions.  You love to laugh and do it heartily and boisterously - it makes the room laugh. Nothing makes you laugh quite like your dog and cat. You love to be tickled, laughing at the anticipation. You love songs and conversation and pieces of paper.  You are making sounds that imitate natural inflection, though the words themselves are babble.  You have a lot more consonants, B, Y, M, N, W, D, P, H. You love to study objects with concentration and then love to bash them around.

Your favorite songs are Itsy-Bitsy Spider, Patty-Cake, and Bramberry Cross.  Your face lights up when Daddy comes home from work and whenever you see Grandpa. You like to play Peek-A-Boo.  You still love the bath and cry when I take you out.

You are rocking back and forth on all fours and can pull yourself up on things occasionally.  I've begun to remove our breakables from your precious chubby grasp. Twice now I have seen you go from all fours back to sitting, and I know the full cruising is just around the bend.  For now, you steam-roll around the room happily, but screaming in frustration if you get stuck or bored.

And such a lovely scream it is. Not so much a soft complaint of "Mummy dear, I seem to be in a jam. When you find a moment, could you please assist me?"  No, it's more of a WWF wrestler bellowing, "AHHHHHH! EFFING HELP ME NOW LADY BEFORE I DIE A SLOW DEATH OF IMMOBILITY."

I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate you on saving the apperances of all six of your first teeth for one month.  What fortitude! What pain tolerance! What drooooooool.  Now you are in the habit of grinding them together, and I never imagined anything sounding so horrible.

Which brings me to the word NO.  You are certainly getting accustomed to hearing it.  When you initially saw my serious face married to an equally serious word, you laughed at me. Which would of course made me laugh and there you have it, Mommy is a joke. Nonetheless, we will continue to work on your boundaries - though I do suspect you will benefit more from validation and redirection than from rigidity...if I've learned anything about caged birds, it's not to restrict them...or at least to make their bars invisible.

You are a good, good eater.  I've still not encountered something you won't eat. This month I added yogurt and grains and meat to your diet, which you love. For lack of time and creativity, I've given up on making a lot of the food and have been buying baby food, which I feel good about too.

I began to wean you from breastfeeding a few weeks ago, and you've take quite nicely to it.  Your last nursing was five days ago, and you don't seem to know the difference.  I made a deal with myself that I would go 6 months with breastfeeding, so these last 4 have been a bonus.  I draw the line at teeth and awareness.  But I loved it, and would do it again if I had the opportunity.

You are still sleeping really well despite those aforementioned six teeth as well as your body's desire to practice crawling at all times of day.  If you wake up, it's usually because you have turned onto your stomach and can't turn over.  I'll go in, readjust you, tuck you in tight, then you'll put yourself right back to sleep with that trusty old thumb of yours.  There have been a few harder nights now that you aren't nursing (which means I stick to the plan more of not feeding you during sleep hours, since it's SO inconvenient to make a bottle), but you still get a consistent 10-12 hours of sleep/night.  Glory, glory, glory BE.

Additionally, your naps have become more predictable  Most commonly, you will sleep for 1.5 hours twice per day.

  • Met baby Anders and saw Ruby and Courtney again.
  • Had special one-on-one play time with Aunt Jenae, Aunt Erin, and Aunt Jess.
  • Attended Mommy and Me yoga classes, and loved it!
  • Met up with Cousin Amy and Kenya for a baby sing-a-long.
  • Enjoyed a sleep-over at Gma's so Momma could get away for a weekend.
I've been trying to let us lay low on Fridays, but to get out of the house to go to a public place for 4 days of the week, including another outing of a walk around the neighborhood.  You have been doing so well in the Ergo and really do love the distraction of being out and about, despite being somewhat cautious at first.  I love this about you!

For this and many more reasons, I adore you, my babushka.

playing favorites

April 10, 2013 Candace Morris 1 Comments

Every Spring, I puzzle one of life's most pleasurable of dilemmas. With every so many beautiful blooms, how is a girl to chose her favorite?!!

Maybe, just maybe, my heart belongs most to the blooms in my own backyard from that gorgeous, old, dying pear tree that won't give up its life.

Writing about writing: Analysing the metadata

April 05, 2013 Candace Morris 1 Comments

I wiggle under the discomfort of an anxious gut.  My ass hurts in this chair (well, more precicely, the tailbone I think I broke during labor hurts in this chair).  Shit. This is really hard...this writing nonsense. It's not hard in the romantic way, the way where you see yourself holding a glass of red wine, wearing red lipstick, looking impossibly beautiful, scribbling forever-words on your expensive stationary, and being completely consumed by it all.  The lifestyle is so romantic, but the doing sucks balls.  That is to say, it's hard. Ugh.  Moving on.

It's hard in the confusing, doubting, I have nothing to say kind of way.  The essay is total shit, I am an idiot and pretender, and no one will ever want to read it. Plus, it's uninteresting, anything but poignant, and sickeningly self-important.

Writing is so solitary. "How was your day, Honey?!" is unanswerable other than to explain how I may have felt about a particular day of writing.  Oh, it was frustrating, or I am really on a roll, or I am wasting my entire life on this. Whereas Joel can tell many colorful anecdotes about his day at the office or his lunchtime outings or his bus commute home.

I want to cry. I want to do the dishes.  I want to stare out the window.  I even want to exercise! I want to do anything else but work on this essay.  It's pushing me away with locked arms like Bowie does when I try to change her beet-stained shirt.  Or maybe that's me doing the pushing.

Big. Cleansing. Sigh.

But then, a few new thoughts. New thoughts wash over me, and I try to stop thinking so much.

I saw Cheryl Strayed speak this week.  It was inspiring to say the least.  She made me tear up several times from the compassion, vulnerability  and truth of her words.  That day, I had begun to work on a few writing goals - like big time, life-reaching goals.  I therefore perked up when Strayed began to explain how she uncovered her own writing goals.

As she said, the goal cannot be to be a famous author, it cannot be to make the bestseller list, and it cannot even be to publish.  The goal, the only goal is to write.

My goal: TO WRITE.

Nothing else.  No holding back, no writing for my audience instead of for me, no judging it before it's finished.  We are the worst judges of our own work, not that we always think it's horrible, but that we are the last person on earth who should or even can critique its merit. I am trying my very best to remove my consciousness, my omnipresent self-analysis from the process, attempting to keep it hovering above me and keep me true, but to remind it that for these few moments that I actually get to write, my creative mind is in control.

In a truly creative space, I am not sure there can BE any analysis or self-editing.  That comes later.  It's like Hemingway said "Write drunk, Edit sober."  Oh, maybe I should try that.

The truth is, dear friends, that buried underneath this mountain of anxiety lies a wellspring of good-ol' pride.  I expect that my thoughts will flow out of my brain onto the paper and they will be poignant, as good or better than anything I've read, talented, and precise.  I am awfully impulsive, addicted to the blog's 'publish' button where I don't actually have to go back over and over and over again to rewrite everything.

Nothing you write is that precious.
-Natalie Goldberg

I could spend my entire writing life reading about writer's processes, taking classes, filling journals, blogging my thoughts, and dabble with a few serious pieces here and there.  I could allow the writing life culture to swallow me up.  I could stay here, no one would know the difference...only me.  But how long can one lie to oneself before she begins to unravel?

It's like I am training for a marathon, but am keeping myself in the gym on the treadmill forever, never actually entering or running the race.

It's time to stop the tredmill, gather up my dirty ol' gym bag, register for the marathon, pin my number to my shirt, and line up at the start.  I think I am there, truly...or at least no longer resisting it.  However, one question remains.

Who will fire the starting pistol?

Or, all of this is complete nonsense and my agitation comes from this huge cup of coffee I keep reheating. Well, back to it.  I have a rough draft due for a writing workshop tomorrow, and it needs so much work, I could just cry.  I feel like erasing it all and starting over, and this is just because I hate editing my own words; I'm addicted to first contact.  Must.Wean.Myself.

Easter Cute Overload

April 01, 2013 Candace Morris 2 Comments

Easter was ever so idyllic this year.  We spent the night and woke up to a gorgeous sun rising over the property.  After a quiet morning while the parents went to church, Joel's Grandpa Rosenquist arrived and we all snacked on an epic antipasti platter before taking Bowie outside for a few photos. Mom and Dad bought chicks just in time for Easter!  We took advantage of the uncharacteristically warm March day and let Bowie and the chicks meet each other out on the grass.  Please prepare yourself for too much may kill you.  After a very long nap (thanks Grandma!) we lingered over a delicious meal and relaxed as Bowie played with her plastic Easter eggs.  I hope you are still warm and fuzzy from your own celebrations.


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Russian professor predicts collapse of U.S within months

September 30, 2009 – Comments (19)

'Mr. Obama is similar to the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev was also making great promises for the Soviet Union, but the situation was only getting worse,' he said. By next summer, according to Professor Panarin, the US will disintegrate into six blocs--and everyone will get their piece. 'The probability that the United States of America fall apart in July 2010 is more than 50 percent,' said Igor Panarin, Professor at Moscow's Diplomatic Academy within the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs."Panarin came up with his grim forecast while analyzing the parallels between the Soviet Union in its final days and the current situation in the United States.’American dream ballooned seven times in 11 years. During Gorbachev era, the Soviet dream ballooned five times.' Americans hope [President] Barack Obama 'can work miracles,' he wrote. 'But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles.'Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA . . . 'The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.' "When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: 'It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world's financial regulator. "the U.S. will break up into six parts-- the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong."  Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russian relations." "Until recently, no one took him very seriously. And then came the economic calamity that has rocked Americans and the rest of the world, too. Now, Panarin's predictions of an end of the United States, due to economic and moral collapse, is being taken seriously by many."[The breakup of the U.S., December 30, 2008

A historian and linguist from South Africa recently wrote me a fascinating letter, in which he chronicled the major world empires of history, dating the time of their rise and fall. Here is what his calculations look like:

Assyria (859-612 B.C.): a 247-year reign.

Persia (538-330 B.C.): a 208-year reign.

Greece (331-100 B.C.): a 231-year reign.

The Roman Republic (260-27 B.C.): a 233-year reign.

The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-180 A.D.): a 207-year reign.

The Arab Empire (634-880 A.D.): a 246-year reign.

The Mameluke Empire (1250-1517 A.D.): a 267-year reign.

The Ottoman Empire (1320-1570 A.D.): a 250-year reign.

Spain (1500-1750 A.D.): a 250-year reign.

Romanov Russia (1682-1916 A.D.): a 234-year reign.

Great Britain (1700-1950 A.D.): a 250-year reign.

The USA (1790-2009 A.D.): 219 years and counting

My honorable historian-friend calculates America's reign using its post-Revolutionary War years. He notes that America's reign is currently at 219 years. He further notes that the average duration of every world superpower listed above is a little over 238 years.

One does not need to be a master mathematician or possess a Ph.D. to realize that America is fast approaching the mark in which every major world power in history has either collapsed or, at a minimum, lost its world leadership and power.

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#1) On September 30, 2009 at 10:58 PM, russiangambit (29.31) wrote:

I think there was a post by abitare a couple of months ago about similarities between Gorbacheve and Obama. I didn't think about the situation that way until then but when I thought about it I saw quite a few similarities as well. I agree that  before USSR collapsed the things where getting progressively worse, there was a lot of talk from Gorbacheve and token support from Western leaders, but nothing was being done to address the situation. Just like right now.

I don't see a dissolution of the USA in the future though. I see "new normal" Pimco style.

As a side note, it is my personal opnion , of course, that even though Gorbachev was considered to be softy by russian standards, he was head and sholders above Obama in terms of personal courage. Obama hasn't attempted to do anything yet that could truly qualify as a singificant change, but Gorbachev put his life on the line when he attempted to reform communist party.

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#2) On September 30, 2009 at 11:13 PM, topsecret09 (88.40) wrote:

#1) On September 30, 2009 at 10:58 PM, russiangambit (97.29) wrote:   Gorbachev put his life on the line when he attempted to reform communist party. And Obama may be doing the same.....    Secret Service Investigates Facebook Obama PollSeptember 29, 2009

Sunnyvale, CA (RPRN) 09/29/09 — On Monday, September 28 2009, Facebook announced that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service in their investigation into the online poll that asked whether President Obama deserved to be killed. The Secret Service is looking to identify the individual behind the survey.

The Facebook poll, created over the weekend using a third-party application that lets users create and conduct their own surveys, asked users “Should Obama be killed?”, with the options of Yes, No, Maybe, and “If he cuts my health care”.

More than 750 Facebook users cast votes before the company disabled the application. As an outside developer controls the software, Facebook was forced to disable the entire program, saying that it will remain so until the developer can assure Facebook that the survey has been removed and policies and procedures have been put in place to handle such situations in the future.

“Of course we are offended by the content of the poll but objectionable ideas are in the world and, unfortunately, manifest on Facebook," Barry Schnitt, Facebook spokesperson, told AFP.

The poll was created sometime over the weekend, although when has not been disclosed. Facebook disabled the application as soon as users made the company aware of the survey. Soon thereafter the Secret Service opened their investigation.

Some, in response to the poll, are yelling racism; others as an example of the heightened emotions incited by the health care debate. Whichever it may be, the incident serves to highlight the fine balance many companies are forced to strike when involved with user-generated content.

Ironically, in its latest blog posting, dated September 22 2009 and titled “The Role of Technology in Promoting Tolerance”, guest blogger Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate Dean of the Los Angeles Simon Wiesenthal Center for and Museum of Tolerance, discusses the power of social networking sites and modern technology in fostering and promoting understanding and tolerance.

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#3) On September 30, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Starfirenv (< 20) wrote:

Tops-  excellent post. Certainly food for thought. True, all "Empires" rise and fall. "Moral collapse" caught my eye. Unbridled, rampant greed can only work for so long, since "pillage by conquest" has been delegitimized. On the other hand, could this have been "engineered"?  +1 rec

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#4) On September 30, 2009 at 11:26 PM, 100ozRound (29.26) wrote:

I don't think that America's "reign" started in 1790.  I would bump it up from post-Revolutionary war to post-Industrial Revolution...

Maybe WW2...Right around Hiroshima and Nagasaki is when America became an "empire"? I'm no history buff but that seems about right to me...

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#5) On September 30, 2009 at 11:27 PM, starbucks4ever (97.78) wrote:

A KGB analyst is a separate nationality! It is characterized by a walnut-sized brain and by thinking patterns reminiscent of Inspector Clouseau. We should have a continuation of the Schtirlitz series of jokes, grouped together under the title "Panarin is thinking" :)

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#6) On September 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, russiangambit (29.31) wrote:

Zloj, I don't really think KGB agents and bosses were stupid. They didn't recruit stupid. Of questionable character, no doubt. The system corrupted everybody.

I do miss Schtirlitz series, though, may be you should introduce them here.

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#7) On September 30, 2009 at 11:40 PM, chiragpatnaik (< 20) wrote:

Nope won't happen. US has a kind of homogeneity that has not been seen in any of the past empires built on conquest. The US has no significant land holdings outside continental North America. Combined with the gift of geography. America is an almost unassaiable fortress.

 It is also blessed with huge untapped natural resources, which are no way close to being exhausted.

 A collapse in the next few years and decades is well nigh impossible.

BTW, that list of empires is not complete. There have been empires which have lasted longer. Some over a 1000 year. HAve a look.

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#8) On September 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM, booyahh (< 20) wrote:

America is not Japan. And America is certainly not the Soviet Union.

Russians see collapse everywhere, because they recently lived through the collapse of their own nation.

The world abandoned Russia because nobody  economically needed Russia. But the world needs the US, especially the US consumer. However weakened we are, we are still 11% of global consumption. In addition to this, while we do not make dollar store toys and can-openers anymore, we do make the most hi-tech goods in the world, in all fields, from health care to aeronautics to agriculture.

So while the world never cared about Russia collapsing, they still need the US.

Otherwise international trade shuts down and everyone collapses with it.

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#9) On September 30, 2009 at 11:55 PM, starbucks4ever (97.78) wrote:

they were so intelligent that they couln't even save their own beloved socialist system from falling apart.

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#10) On October 01, 2009 at 12:04 AM, bigcat1969 (83.93) wrote:

I would also agree with 100ozround that the US 'reign' didn't start until after WW1 at the earliest and likely ont until WW2.  We were busy trying to spread through our own country for most of the first hundred years plus that we were around and had almost no international standing.  Even getting us into WW2 took a lot of doing, as our Prez was basically trying to tempt Germany or Japan to attack us as he didn't have the clout to just decalre war.  We were very much against overseas involvements up to that point.

Also when you look at that list most of those nations built their empires on warfare and conquest.  After claiming (possibly quite bloodily) our own nation, who have we ever conquered and occupied?  For the most modern example, the USSR, they controlled East Germany, we sort of helped West Germany and then generally let the people run the country.

America has never been a traditional empire and it might be tough to compare us to traditional empires (except for Rome of course ((see former posts for yours truly getting ripped apart for that))).

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#11) On October 01, 2009 at 12:28 AM, DarthMaul09 (29.62) wrote:

Interesting, but unlikely to be right.  There is safety in numbers and although California may be a world away from Utah, crisis and fear will bring them closer together, not farther apart.  That professor probably missed the US response to 9/11.

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#12) On October 01, 2009 at 12:43 AM, AvianFlu (< 20) wrote:

I'm going to put America's high point at around 1890. This was when free trade capitalism was at it's most unfettered. I wish I had a time machine.

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#13) On October 01, 2009 at 1:34 AM, jddubya (< 20) wrote:

"Russian professor predicts collapse of U.S within months"

OH FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!!  Alstry is a russian professor?!?!?!?

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#14) On October 01, 2009 at 4:11 PM, topsecret09 (88.40) wrote:

2009 at 1:34 AM, jddubya (94.11OH FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!!  Alstry is a russian professor?!?!?!?     LOL !!!!!!!!!

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#15) On October 02, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Schmacko (77.04) wrote:

I guess the big question for the 200-250ish year reign thing is does that take into account the period of time the nation was on the way up, or is it 200+ years at the "peak" of their power?  The US wasn't really a world super power until post WW2... I think the Suez Canal Crisis is really seen as when Britain kind of lost it's status of big bully on the block and the US took over.  However you could definitely make the argument that the US was at it's most "imperalistic" earlier in history during the 1800s and the whole manifest destiny time, mexican-american war, and spanish-american war.

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#16) On October 02, 2009 at 1:25 PM, catoismymotor (< 20) wrote:

I understand the math and have heard this position taken before. It has never impressed me. In my opinion the professor in question is suffering from a serious case of sour grapes. This is like a Boston fan claiming to see the inevitable collapse of the Yankees franchise.

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#17) On October 02, 2009 at 1:32 PM, starbucks4ever (97.78) wrote:

Most likely he is just an attention-seeking type. Get publicity, no matter what kind of publicity, and monetize it by selling interviews - that seems to be the current game plan. And this should work, somewhat, in his native country, where he will find a receptive audience among nostalgic apparatchiks who haven't forgotten anything but haven't learned anything either.

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#18) On October 02, 2009 at 1:50 PM, matthewbanis (58.38) wrote:

topsecret09 ...

are you kidding me in regards to the poll???  It was setup by a kid...and frankly, the only real racism is reverse racism.

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America . Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans.  Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream . Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education,  day care, retirement and nursing homes for  blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude???

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships  for 'deserving' white kids.? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ?  Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

We are a Christian Nation even if Mr.Obama says we are not.

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#19) On October 02, 2009 at 1:56 PM, matthewbanis (58.38) wrote:

oh yeah, that was written by Patrick Bucanon.

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