Saturday, December 31, 2011

Utah Football: Utes could play Big Ten teams sooner than later

El Paso, Texas ? The agreement between the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences has a target date of 2017 for each Pac-12 team to have a Big Ten team on its non-conference schedule. However, that matchup could come much, much sooner for the Utah Utes, according to Hill.

The only non-conference teams the Utes have on their future schedules is a Sept. 15 game against BYU next year and a three-year agreement with Utah State for the 2012-through-2014 seasons, giving the Utes some wiggle room when it comes to scheduling opponents.

?We left it open by design,? Hill said. ?We were hoping and anticipating the new TV contract might bring some new opportunities that would help us grow some national exposure and this agreement could help us maybe do that sooner rather than later.?

Hill said he has heard some Big Ten teams, including Michigan, are interested in scheduling Pac-12 teams soon but stopped short of saying a deal with the Wolverines might be in the works.

The Utes opened their 2008 season with a 25-23 win over Michigan in the Big House.

?This is a good thing for all our sports,? he said. ?It makes sense to schedule a team like Michigan or a Big Ten team like that because it would be an exciting thing, but it also makes scheduling difficult in some respects, we have to make sure we schedule ourselves to a point where we help our teams too.?

To that point, Hill doesn?t want to create a schedule that would be too challenging for the Utes. That concern could mean the rivalries with Utah State and BYU are in more jeopardy than they already were.

?I haven?t had a chance to talk to [BYU athletic director] Tom Holmoe or [Utah State athletic director] Scott Barnes yet,? Hill said. ?I don?t want to give people the wrong impression but we?ve said all along we don?t know what different opportunities are going to come our way. We have to take a deep breath and look at everything.?

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No fans? No worries

Even though the Utes sold just 1,500 tickets to the Sun Bowl, the Utes still won?t lose money on their bowl appearance thanks to a generous allowance from the Pac-12.

The Utes don?t get any revenue from the league per their agreement with joining the Pac-12 in 2011, but Utah did receive an estimated $750,000 from the league for the bowl appearance.

In addition, the Pac-12 pays for airfare for 500 people traveling to the bowl game. The Utes had no such help in the MWC.

The Pac-12 will also help cover some of the cost of the unsold tickets.

?They have a very generous formula,? Hill said. ?We anticipate we won?t lose any money.?

Hill said he wasn?t concerned his school might make a poor impression with the few tickets sold to the bowl game.

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Snow church opens in Bavaria (AP)

MITTERFIRMIANSREUT, Germany ? A church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria ? a century after villagers first built a snow church in an act of protest.

The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, near the Czech border, is more than 20 meters (65 feet) in length and boasts a tower. It's made up of some 1,400 cubic meters (49,000 cubic feet) of snow.

The structure was bathed in blue light as it opened Wednesday evening with a blessing from Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser.

But when the ancestors of today's villagers built the first snow church in 1911, they weren't thinking just of architectural achievement.

Steinbeisser says: "It was meant as an act of provocation ? believers from the village got together and built a snow church because they didn't have a church here."

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Swift recovery of outbound market after Japan earthquake

Japan tourism market outlook 2012

Swift recovery of outbound market after Japan earthquake

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The tourism market in Japan has been witnessing steady recovery after the earthquake in March, and it will see further improvement in 2012, both in terms of outbound as well as inbound travel.

Swift recovery of outbound market after Japan earthquake

The number of outbound travelers from Japan has been showing swift recovery since March. The impact on the outbound market is far less than the previous crises such as 9.11, SARS or Swine flu.

According to the latest figure released from Japan National Tourism Organization last week, the outbound growth for January to November 2011 was 1.2% increase compared to the same period last year. Year to date growth rate for departures already turned to positive in July and the number of outbound travelers in August recorded an 8.8% increase. ?Although the Japanese people suffered from serious psychological shock from the devastating disaster in early spring, the travel motivation has been undoubtedly strengthened rather than weakened after the quake? said Hiroshi Kurosu, senior researcher from JTB Foundation.

The post quake outbound market has been led by the young travelers, whereas the senior market has been seeing a little delay in the recovery. ?The young market suffered from long stagnation after mid-90s, but it finally came back to positive zone after the financial crisis in 2008, presumably because of the sudden rise of Japanese yen after the decade long depreciation. It?s truly encouraging to see that positive trend in young market has been fortified after the quake. It was only females which showed growth after the financial crisis, but now young male market is also growing.? said Kurosu.

2012 Outlook for outbound travel

Considering the recent market trend and the economic outlook, JTB Foundation forecasted the outbound demand for 2012 will be 17.40 million, a steady growth of 2.7%, based on a full year 2011 estimated result of 16.95 million. (Fig.3) Although the monthly growth rate in the latter half of 2011 hovered between 4%~8%, which was much higher than the forecasted growth rate for 2012, JTB Foundation foresees a slowdown in 2012 because the number of passports issued stayed in negative territory after the quake.

?The number of passports issued is one of the important leading indicators for travel demand. When the number of passports issued continues to drop, actual departures are not likely to maintain growth.? said Kurosu.

Chinese source markets are leading recovery of inbound travel

In contrast to the sound recovery of the outbound, the inbound demand to Japan marked the worst performance among past major crises. (Fig.5) There are five major source markets for Japan, namely, South Korea, China, Taiwan, US and Hong Kong. They comprise more than 70% of the total inbound arrivals. Among them, the monthly growth rates from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan were back to positive in October 2011 already. However, other major source markets have stayed in negative until the latest monthly figure from November 2011.

Regarding the outlook for 2012, China will be a leading market in the recovery. The Japanese government has gradually been easing its visa policy for China to boost the number of visitors to Japan. Although Japan lost approximately 1/4 of the Chinese arrivals in 2011, the relaxation of visa policy together with significant growth potential of the Chinese outbound market will lead to a strong recovery in 2012, surpassing the number of arrivals in 2010. Taiwan is another market which is expected to see more arrivals in 2012 than 2010. But arrivals for other major source markets will not reach the pre-quake level in 2012, although they will all show double digit growth due to the bounce back effect.

2012 Outlook for inbound travel

Based on analysis of the major source market performances, JTB Foundation is forecasting inbound arrivals in 2012 will be 7.90 million, a 26.5% increase. It will not reach the 8.61 million arrivals achieved in 2010, which was the highest ever figure. Japan will need a little more time to surpass the pre-quake arrivals.

2012 domestic travel market outlook

JTB Foundation announced the forecast for domestic travel demand in combination with the outlook for international travel. As mentioned in the outbound market forecast, the Japanese travel market has been showing good recovery. In fact, some figures both from market and industry are suggesting that for the full 2011 year, domestic travel demand may become almost flat, or possibly show a little growth, but probably not a significant decrease. This is partly due to the rise of reconstruction demand and the increase of non-holiday family travel, such as visiting parents and/or relatives living in remote areas. The disaster motivated people to strengthen the family bondage by visiting each other. In addition, holiday demand has not exhibited poor performance excluding the period immediately after the earthquake. ?People have been encouraged to go traveling after the quake. Many people have recognized again that travel is something very essential in life when they come to think about what is fundamentally important for oneself" said Kurosu.

Based on the observations of the latest performance, JTB Foundation is forecasting a 2~3% increase for domestic travel demand in 2012.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

MMA Marketplace: Overeem and Lesnar?s similar UFC 141 shirts

Profile shirts of stylized animals are the hottest rage for heavyweights this season. Don't believe me? Check out Alistair Overeem and Brock Lesnar's walkout shirts for UFC 141.

MMA Marketplace: Overeem and Lesnar?s similar UFC 141 shirts

It will be tough to distinguish between cornermen at their fights this weekend. Based on shirts alone, I'm picking Overeem. His shirt is cleaner and comes in black and white. Plus, if Lesnar wants to channel a wolf via his shirt, he should really go with this one.

Buy Lesnar's shirt for $49.99 (!) and Overeem's for $34.99.

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Legal Online Gambling May Be On The Way, Courtesy Of Justice ...

Online poker and other forms of non-sports internet gambling could become legal, thanks in part to a recently released U.S. Department of Justice opinion on a 50-year-old law.

Reuters reports that online gambling's greatest enemy, the Wire Act of 1961, which the DOJ has previously contended forbids online gambling, may lose its teeth. The opinion changed the game by stating that the law applies to sporting events, not lottery ticket sales. The loophole could potentially open things up for poker and casino sites to become legitimate.

In theory, states could legalize forms of online gambling, potentially preventing federal laws from prevailing. Any changes could be too late to the previous online poker giants, whom the DOJ nailed earlier this year.

Web gambling gets boost from Obama administration [Reuters via Yahoo]

Previously: Congress To Legalize Online Gambling?

Source: http://consumerist.com/2011/12/legal-online-gambling-may-be-on-the-way-courtesy-of-justice-department.html

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Non-military rabbi gives Torah lesson to reluctant soldiers

Low-level commanders authorize rabbi to meet with Golani Brigade soldiers at Galilee base; troops not certain if meeting optional or mandatory. Relative: They felt uncomfortable

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Some 20 Golani Brigade soldiers were asked by a non-military rabbi over the weekend to wear their berets and attend a Torah lesson, Ynet has learned.

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The soldiers, who belong to a reconnaissance unit, were not certain whether the lesson was optional or mandatory. The rabbi, Benny Nahum, also asked the soldiers to recite a prayer while they were eating the traditional Hanukkah sufganiyot.

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'They didn't want to make a fuss.' Soldiers with Rabbi Nahum

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"These are excellent soldiers who did not how to act in this situation. The rabbi took advantage of this," a relative of one of the soldiers told Ynet on Sunday.

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"Not all of them (soldiers) are religious. They felt uncomfortable because they were being forced to listen to a religious lecture. How can a rabbi, who is not even in the army, be allowed to enter military base and order soldiers around? It was important for them ? because of their desire to succeed in an elite unit ? not to make a fuss," the relative said.

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Speaking to Ynet, Rabbi Nahum said "I suggested that the soldiers wear their berets like people (wear yarmulkes) in synagogue. Some put the berets on immediately without making a big deal out of it ? other didn't. I was invited by a commander at the base to meet the soldiers. A number of officers were present during the lesson.

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"I've accompanied soldiers during all the wars, be it by comforting them or handing them tefillin. I do it out of sheer love for them, and I apologize if it made anyone feel uncomfortable," he said.

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"I came to the base to give a lesson on the differences between holidays that were forced upon us by the torah and holidays such as Hanukkah and Yom Kippur, which weren't."

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Oncologists present results from studies on relapse of breast cancer

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center breast oncologist Dr. Suleiman Massarweh and his research team presented findings from their studies on relapse of breast cancer at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this month.

The two studies aimed to characterize further risk factors for presentation with metastatic disease or risk of early metastatic relapse after initial therapy. Data for each study was collected from 1,089 patients at the UK Markey Cancer Center between January 2007 and May 2011.

The studies showed that patients who present with metastatic disease in an initial diagnosis tend to be older, have lower grade tumors, a high frequency of estrogen receptor positive disease, and a predilection for bone metastasis. In contrast, patients who present with metastasis and early relapse after treatment tend to be younger and have more aggressive "triple negative" higher grade cancer that recurs despite appropriate therapy.

The findings suggest that initial presentation with metastatic disease is reflective of neglected breast cancer that is otherwise indolent, but patients chose to ignore it until they have no choice but to seek help. As a result, treatment then becomes more complex, more expensive and lifelong, with a major impact on quality of life and societal function.

Massarweh describes the neglect of metastatic disease as a social problem, an education issue and a matter of perception. Most women know they should get regular mammograms, he says, but widespread information on other facets of breast care ? like self-exams, symptoms, and second opinions ? are needed.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Cannabis found at stabbing scene ? police - Cowra Community News

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POLICE have seized 14 cannabis plants at a house in which a man was allegedly stabbed in the head with a large knife. About 1pm yesterday (Saturday), two men aged 24 and 42 were in a home on Gresford Rd, Vacy, north of Maitland, when the older man ...
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Unborn son's struggle inspires Christian singer (AP)

PERRYSBURG, Ohio ? Told that his unborn son had only half a heart and little chance to survive, the lead singer of the Christian rock band Sanctus Real began pouring his fears and doubts into music.

The songs were meant to comfort his family while they searched for answers and sought to understand God's role during the months before and after the baby's birth that were filled with surgeries and life-threatening complications.

It didn't take long for him to realize that his words needed to be shared so that others struggling with life would know they're not alone.

What came out of the heartache was "Every Falling Tear," a solo album that's meant to touch and console during the hardest of times.

"People want to know that their pain has a purpose," said Matt Hammitt, one of the founding members of Sanctus Real, a band with two Grammy-nominated albums since 2008.

"That's the biggest part of sharing our story," he said. "That there is a purpose."

Hammitt and his wife, Sarah, knew something was wrong minutes after finding out during an ultrasound in April 2010 that their third child would be a boy, following two girls. They saw the sorrow on their doctor's face even before she spoke.

Doctors later confirmed the baby had a rare congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which causes the left side of the heart to be severely underdeveloped. For five months, the couple contemplated all of the possible procedures and treatments while weighing the odds of what could go wrong.

Their baby would face multiple surgeries and an uncertain future at best.

They also didn't know how to deal with a flood of emotions ? the anger, the doubt, the feeling of being alone. Hammitt, 32, decided he needed to tell God how he was feeling, so he started writing songs about their journey.

"I began writing about all that I was learning about struggle and faith," he said.

Each song tells of a moment or a series of events leading to the baby's birth ? there's a father's fear of holding back his love for a son he may never know and a mother's hope of finding peace in the midst of despair.

"I wanted to write songs that would speak him someday about how much his father loved him no matter how long or short his life would be," Hammitt said, his voice trailing off.

The album released in September was his first solo work. On tour during the fall with the band, he included the song "All of Me" in their sets. It starts: "Afraid to love, something that could break. Could I move on if you were torn away?"

Hammitt was a high school sophomore when he and guitarist Chris Rohman and drummer Mark Graalman started the band 15 years ago. They've stayed together, playing in coffee shops, churches and now arenas.

Sanctus Real will be one of nearly a dozen Christian artists taking part in the Winter Jam tour that starts in January, with stops in 47 cities.

The song from "Every Falling Tear" that means the most to Hammitt is "Trust," a worship song that reminds people not to lose faith "even in the darkness, even in the questions, even when the hardest times of life are at hand."

The lyrics were born out of a time when Hammitt was feeling isolated and alone.

"Sometimes we need to be reminded of the truth," he said. "And for me, the truth is that I trust God."

Bowen Matthew Hammitt was born on Sept. 9, 2010. His first open heart surgery came four days later and the next night he went into cardiac arrest. A team of doctors and nurses spent an hour performing CPR until they were able to revive him and get him on life support.

Complications and a stroke kept him in the hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., for just over two months.

While there, the couple played demos of the songs Hammitt had written "so Bowen could hear his dad's voice," his wife said. Night-shift nurses often turned up the music when most families would leave for the evening.

"They felt it was good for all the babies to be soothed," Sarah said. "We'd come back in the morning and it'd be really loud."

Hammitt recorded the songs for the album soon after the family brought Bowen home to suburban Toledo. His only unease was that they might be critiqued like any other work.

"Originally I just wanted them recorded for us at the hospital," he said. "I realized they're meant to comfort other people too."

So far, the response has been what he hoped for. They've even received notes from parents who've played the songs at their children's funerals.

Now, the Hammitts want to take their work a step further by starting the Whole Hearts Foundation, a source of financial, emotional and spiritual help for families with children suffering from congenital heart defects. They see the foundation becoming their life's work.

"It's amazing to see even beyond the album what's come out of this," Hammitt said. "We had a vision in the hospital, how can we help other families, let them know they're not alone."

Bowen, who turned 1 in September, faces one more surgery now slated for 2013 to repair his heart. Eventually, he'll likely need a new heart before he reaches middle age.

He's growing, but not as fast as doctors would like. Sarah watches him closely for any signs of heart failure. He only has a single ventricle pumping oxygen to his body and lungs so she looks to see if he sweats when he eats or if his skin turns blue or red.

When Matt brought him downstairs after a nap, a look of worry crossed her face when she saw that his hair was matted with sweat. But it turned out there was no cause for concern.

"We know at any moment things could change even though he's stable now," Sarah said. "It's ultimately God's will."

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Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111224/ap_en_mu/us_songwriter_son_s_heart

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Pregame technical, half court shot helps College of Charleston top CCU

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? Andrew Lawrence had 18 points and the College of Charleston held off a second half rally by Coastal Carolina to hang on for a 77-70 win on Thursday night in Conway.? Coach Bobby Cremins saw his Cougars get an early Christmas present when the Chanticleers picked up a pair of technical fouls before the start of the game for dunking two times during pregame warmups.? Lawrence made all four free throws to put C of C in front 4-0 before the opening tip.? Matt Sundberg hit a half court shot to beat the first half buzzer to put the Cougars in front 41-27 at the break.? Coastal trailed by as many as 17 in the second half before mounting a rally.? CCU got as close as 61-58 on a Chris Gradnigo three point play, but never got closer than that. Antwaine Wiggins hit a key three pointer and followed with a scoop shot to put the game out of reach.

? "We stole seven points," Cougars head coach Bobby Cremins said.? "That's a once in a lifetime shot (Sundberg's half court shot).? It was an incredible shot and then the four points."? Cliff Ellis said the two technicals before the game started was something he had never seen before, but took responsibility for his team making a key mental mistake even though he was in the locker room when the infractions happened.

? Anthony Raffa led?Coastal with 17 points and Sam McLaurin added 14 points and 11 rebounds.? The Chants outrebounded?the College 31-26, but the Cougars had 11 three pointers highlighted by Sundberg going 5 of 7.? Coastal is on a two game losing streak and stands at 9-3 on the season while C of C is now 10-2.? ?Coastal is off until New Year's?Eve, when they return to Big South play at High Point.?

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Source: http://www.carolinalive.com/sports/story.aspx?id=700351

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Friday, December 23, 2011

US gray wolves rebound but face uncertain future

In this February 2008 photo gray wolves howl at an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

In this February 2008 photo gray wolves howl at an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

In this February 2008 a gray wolf in an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

ATLANTA, Mich. (AP) ? After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual states ? and the wolves themselves ? to determine the future of the legendary predator.

The Obama administration Wednesday declared more than 4,000 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin have recovered from widespread extermination and will be removed from the endangered species list.

Coupled with an earlier move that lifted protections in five western states, the decision puts the gray wolf at a historical crossroads ? one that could test both its reputation for resilience and the tolerance of ranchers and hunters who bemoan its attacks on livestock and big game.

Wednesday's announcement could open the door to hunting for wolves in the Great Lakes. However, no seasons have been set and federal officials say they will continue monitoring the population for five years. Similar actions are planned for most remaining Western states and the Great Plains.

The legal shield that made it a federal crime to gun down the wolves is being lifted in many areas even though wolves have returned only to isolated pockets of the territory they once occupied, and increasing numbers are dying at the hands of hunters, wildlife agents and ranchers protecting livestock.

Since being added to the federal endangered species list in 1974, the American wolf population has grown fivefold ? to about 6,200 animals wandering parts of 10 states outside Alaska.

Wolves "are in the best position they've been in for the past 100 years," said David Mech, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Paul, Minn., and a leading wolf expert. The animals' long-term survival will "depend on how much wild land remains available, because wolves are not compatible with areas that are agricultural and have a lot of humans. There's just too much conflict."

Also Wednesday, the Obama administration put off a decision on protections in 29 Eastern states that presently have no wolves. The Interior Department said it still was reconsidering its prior claim that wolves in those states historically were a separate species, which effectively would cancel out protections now in place.

Since 1991, the federal government has spent $92.6 million on gray wolf recovery programs, and state agencies have chipped in $13.9 million, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

"We are ready to declare success in those areas where wolves are now secure, turn over management responsibility to the states and begin to focus our limited resources on other species that are in trouble," said Gary Frazer, assistant director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered species program.

The government still plans to nurture a fledgling Mexican gray wolf population in the desert Southwest. It's also weighing whether to expand protections for small numbers of the animals that have slipped into the Pacific Northwest from Canada.

However, there are no plans to promote their return elsewhere. Federal officials say it's not the government's job to return wolves to their previous range as long as the population is stable.

In Montana and Idaho, where wolves can now be legally hunted and trapped, officials are seeking to sharply drive down wolf numbers this winter to curb attacks on farm animals and elk herds.

Some scientists and advocates say the hunts offer a preview of what will happen when the federal safeguards are lifted elsewhere. The government, they say, is giving up the recovery effort too soon, before packs can take hold in new areas. Vast, wild territories in the southern Rockies and Northeast are ripe for wolves but unoccupied.

"The habitat is there. The prey is there. Why not give them the chance?" said Chris Amato, New York's assistant commissioner for natural resources.

But federal officials are grappling with tight budgets and political pressure to expand hunting and prevent wolves from invading new turf. They insist the animals best known for their eerie howl, graceful lope and ruthless efficiency in slaughtering prey will get by on their own with help from state agencies.

North America was once home to as many as a couple of million gray wolves, which are prolific breeders. But by the 1930s, fur traders, bounty hunters and government agents had poisoned, trapped and shot almost all wolves outside Canada and Alaska.

The surviving 1,200 were clustered in northern Minnesota in the 1970s. After the species was added to the endangered list, their numbers rocketed to nearly 3,000 in the state ? and they gradually spread elsewhere.

Today, Wisconsin has about 782 wolves, Michigan 687 ? far above what biologists said were sustainable populations.

The success story is hardly surprising in woodlands teeming with deer, said John Vucetich, a biologist at Michigan Tech University. But even in such an ideal setting, the wolves were able to return only when killing them became illegal.

"What do wolves need to survive?" Vucetich said. "They need forest cover, and they need prey. And they need not to be shot."

Shooting already is happening ? legally or not ? as adventurous wolves range into new regions such as Michigan's Lower Peninsula and the plains of eastern Montana.

Those sightings are unsettling to farmers because packs have killed thousands of livestock nationwide during their comeback.

If marauding wolves begin taking out livestock, people may quietly take matters into their own hands ? "shoot, shovel and shut up," said Jim Baker, who raises 60 beef cattle near the village of Atlanta, Mich.

Wolves "could wipe me out in a couple of nights if they wanted," Baker said.

Since the late 1980s, more than 5,000 wolves have been killed legally, according to an AP review of state and federal records. Hundreds more have been killed illegally over the past two decades in the Northern Rockies alone.

Ranchers in some areas are allowed under federal law to shoot wolves to defend their livestock. In the northern Rockies, government wildlife agents have routinely shot wolves from aircraft in response to such attacks. Often that involves trapping a single wolf, fitting it with a radio collar and tracking it back to its den so the entire pack can be killed.

Biologists are confident that neither legal hunts nor poaching are likely to push wolves back to the brink of extinction.

Idaho has been the most aggressive in reducing wolf numbers, offering a 10-month hunting season that sets no limits. State officials say they intend to reduce the population from 750 to as few as 150 ? the minimum the federal government says is needed in each Northern Rockies state to keep the animal off the endangered list.

Studies indicate plentiful habitat remains in other regions, including upstate New York, northern New England and the southern Rockies of Colorado and Utah. But experts say the Fish and Wildlife Service's plan would mean that any wolves wandering into those states could be shot on sight unless protected by state laws.

"Wolves, next to people, are one of the most adaptable animals in the world," said Ed Bangs, a former Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who led the effort to return wolves to the northern Rockies. "The key with wolves is, it's all about human tolerance."

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Brown reported from Billings, Mont.

Associated Press

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Mass. man guilty of conspiring to help al-Qaida

A Massachusetts man was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to help al-Qaida and plotting to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

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Tarek Mehanna, 24, of Sudbury, faced four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities. A federal jury found him guilty of all counts after deliberating for about 10 hours.

Prosecutors said Mehanna and two friends conspired to travel to Yemen so they could receive training at a terrorism camp and eventually go on to Iraq to fight and kill U.S. soldiers there.

When the men were unable to find such a training camp, Mehanna returned home and began to see himself as part of the al-Qaida "media wing," translating materials promoting violent jihad and distributing them over the Internet, prosecutors said.

Mehanna, who was born in the U.S. and raised in the Boston suburbs, will be sentenced April 12 and could be sent to prison for the rest of his life. His mother, Souad Mehanna, sobbed after the verdict was read and was consoled by her younger son, Tamer. Mehanna's lawyers also wept.

Mehanna's father, Ahmed, a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, said he was stunned by the verdict.

"I can't even think," he said. "It was political."

Mehanna attorney J.W. Carney Jr. said the defense team will appeal. He said he was upset with the verdict and what he called the extraordinary leeway prosecutors had to present evidence the defense considered prejudicial, including references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The charges scare people. The charges scared us," Carney said. "The more that we looked at the evidence, the more we got to know our client, Tarek, the more we believed in his innocence."

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz disputed that the prosecution's evidence was inflammatory.

"The heart of the case is really this: Did Mr. Mehanna conspire to support terrorists, conspire to kill in a foreign country and then did he lie to federal investigators?" she said. "Today a jury of his peers concluded that he did that."

During the trial, which started in October, Mehanna's attorneys portrayed him as an aspiring scholar of Islam who traveled to Yemen to look for religious schools, not to get terrorist training. They said his translation and distribution of controversial publications was free speech protected by the First Amendment.

Prosecutors focused on hundreds of online chats on Mehanna's computer in which they said he and his friends talked about their desire to participate in jihad, or holy war. Several of those friends were called by prosecutors to testify against Mehanna, including one man who said he, Mehanna and a third friend tried to get terrorism training in Yemen so they could fight American soldiers in Iraq.

Mehanna's lawyers told jurors that prosecutors were using scare tactics by portraying Mehanna as a would-be terrorist and were trying to punish him for his beliefs.

The defense built its case on the testimony of a half dozen terrorism experts. Mehanna did not testify.

His lawyers acknowledged that Mehanna expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden, but said he disagreed with bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders about many things, including the use of suicide bombers and the killing of civilians.

Jurors began deliberating Friday. In his instructions, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. told them that in order to find Mehanna guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida, they must find that he worked "in coordination with or at the direction of" the terrorist organization. He said independent advocacy on behalf of the organization was not a violation of the law.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

75-Year-Old Local Theater Takes One-Year Hiatus After 'Falling On Hard Times'

This is the eighth in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture, The Recessionary Arts. Read more from the series here.

By Adam W. McCoy

Despite murmurs in the community that the organization is bankrupt, one former Shorewood Players board member says the theater group is simply reorganizing after "falling on hard times" due to the recession.

The non-profit local theater organization, the longest standing organization of its kind in the greater-Milwaukee area with nearly 80 years of history, depends largely on donations and ticket and advertising sales for its revenue. But with donations dipping and shrinking attendance for the last few performances, the group was forced to take a one-year hiatus, said Richard Champion, a former board member.

"The Shorewood Players need to sell tickets and ad sales to raise money to do a performance," he said. "The last two shows, as good as they were, ended up losing a lot of money."

Known for tackling Broadway shows, including "Anything Goes," "The Music Man," "South Pacific," "Grease," "Chicago" and "Cabaret," the group had been staging two to four shows per year, according to its website. But the Players last hit the stage for a production of "Annie" in mid-June 2010.

The Players wouldn't elaborate on details surrounding their financial misfortune, when Patch contacted current board members for comment.

However, according to online non-profit records filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the group has lost money in recent years.

In 2007, for example, the Players took in more than $65,000 while spending about $43,000 -- and coming in nearly $22,000 in the black, records show.

However, in 2009, the latest year for which figures could be found, the Players had revenue of about $49,600 ? and reported a $4,200 deficit. The group ended 2009 with about $3,700 in the bank.

The group also has seen donations wane -- receiving $15,000 in donations in 2008, but only about $5,000 total over the next two years. Other revenue has hovered around $40,000 to $50,000, however.

Champion says the cost of producing a play is higher than most realize.

"When you do a production, for example, like the 'Music Man,' the Shorewood Players has to buy the rights ... pay a director, music director, the orchestra and the stage director," he said.

When seeking donations, the Players ask for as much as $5,000 for a producer, $2,500 to $4,990 for a director, and $1,000 to $2,499 for a lead actor or actress.

But, the group is looking ahead, and has a review scheduled for January and a production of "Footloose" scheduled for June, says the group's artistic director, Terry Grazer.

Champion said the Players have spent the past year gathering funds for its next production by doing things like holding car washes, hitting the sidewalks and caroling for dollars during Shorewood?s "Stop, Shop and Restore" event a couple weeks ago, and manning a concession stand at Miller Park.

For the January show, the Players are teaming up with Champion's new theater venture, Cream City Theater Inc., for a review called "Memories, Blast From the Past" -- a look back at the Players' productions over the last few years.

With Cream City, Champion say he hopes to work more with inner-city companies to get children involved in theater. Five members of the Shorewood Players now fill the Cream City Theater board, though Champion said those members have joined several other groups in the past.

Grazer, who also serves as the artistic director for Cream City, says the show will incorporate a piano and some former Players actors who will perform music from the Players' previous productions as well as some new material.

The show runs Jan. 13 through Jan. 15, with the first two shows at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday show at 2 p.m., in the Shorewood High School Black Box Theater. Seating will be limited to 100 and tickets run for $25, $20 for seniors and students, Grazer said.

Champion said the group hopes the review will produce enough funds to get the Players back on track and back in the limelight in Shorewood.

This article originally appeared on Patch.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Officer testifies on soldier's access to secrets

An intelligence officer who worked with the Army specialist accused of giving U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website said Sunday that the soldier was considered to have an especially high understanding of enemy threats in Iraq and had to be trusted to keep the material he saw private.

The description of Pfc. Bradley Manning from one of his officers came at the beginning of the third day of a military hearing to determine whether he should be court martialed. He is accused of giving WikiLeaks a trove of government material while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010, including Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, State Department cables and a military video of a 2007 American helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 11 men.

Capt. Casey Fulton testified for the prosecution that Manning had a "top secret" security clearance, enabling him to view a wide range of classified material. None of the material posted on WikiLeaks was classified higher than "secret."

Story: Manning's sexual orientation raised at hearing
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Fulton said Manning was regarded as having a better understanding than other analysts of enemy threats in Iraq. She said analysts such as Manning, known as all-source analysts, were trained to synthesize intelligence from a wide array of intelligence sources.

Fulton said analysts are trained not to disclose classified information and are not allowed to burn classified information onto CDs for personal use. But she said it was impossible to supervise them 100 percent of the time.

"You have to trust that they'll safeguard the material the way that they've been taught," she said.

Fulton also said that sometime before April 2010 when WikiLeaks released a video featuring an Apache helicopter attack, she saw a similar clip on a workstation computer in Baghdad. She said Manning later showed her that the WikiLeaks clip and the one Fulton had seen were the same. Manning is suspected of leaking the video.

The hearing began Friday at Fort Meade outside Washington and could run several more days. The Army says it may take several more weeks for the commander of the Military District off Washington to decide whether Manning will be court-martialed.

Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington may choose other courses, including administrative punishment or dismissal of the 22 counts against him, including aiding the enemy. He also could add more charges based on evidence produced at the hearing.

Manning, who turned 24 Saturday, could face life in prison if convicted.

The Obama administration says the released information has threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments. Manning's lawyers counter that much of the information that was classified by the Pentagon posed no risk.

Among the first issues to arise during weekend testimony was whether Manning's sexual orientation is relevant to the case against him. His attorneys maintained that his status as a homosexual in the military before the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" contributed to mental and emotional problems that should have barred him from having access to sensitive material.

The defense revealed that Manning had written to one of his supervisors in Baghdad before his arrest, saying he was suffering from gender-identity disorder. He included a picture of himself dressed as a woman and talked about how it was affecting his ability to do his job and even think clearly.

Maj. Matthew Kemkes, one of Manning's lawyers, asked Special Agent Toni Graham, an Army criminal investigator, whether she had talked to people who believed Manning was gay or found evidence among his belongings relating to gender-identity disorder. The condition often is described as a mental diagnosis in which people believe they were born the wrong sex.

Graham said such questions were irrelevant to the investigation.

"We already knew before we arrived that Pfc. Manning was a homosexual," Graham said.

Prosecutors objected several times to the questions. Kemkes responded that if the government can argue that Manning intended to leak secrets, "what is going on in my client's mind is very important."

Manning's appearances over the last two days in the Fort Meade courtroom marked the first time he has been seen in public after 19 months in detention. The Oklahoma native comes to court in Army camouflage fatigues and wearing dark-rimmed glasses.

Manning sat calmly in the courtroom Saturday without appearing to react to the testimony, even when centered on his troubled mental state and homosexuality. Manning listened intently and regularly took notes.

The case has spawned an international support network of people who believe the U.S. government has gone too far in seeking to punish Manning.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Berenson to return to U.S. for 1st time after jail in Peru (Reuters)

LIMA (Reuters) ? Lori Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents, will visit the United States as early as this weekend for the first time since her 1995 arrest, officials and her family said on Friday.

Berenson, 42, the mother of a 2-year-old boy, was paroled last year after serving most of a 20-year sentence. At the time of her release, Peru's government resisted calls to commute the rest of her sentence so she could return permanently to the United States. Peruvian officials say she must return to Lima by January 11.

She went to Lima's airport late on Friday to catch a flight but arrived too late and will have to change her ticket, RPP radio said.

Berenson's father, Mark, said he was grateful Peruvian authorities gave her permission to travel and that she would return to Peru because she did not want to break the law.

"I'm glad she has a chance to be here for my 70th birthday," Mark Berenson told Reuters in New York. "I'm looking forward to being with my grandson and playing with him."

A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming involved in social justice issues in Latin America, Berenson was pulled off a bus in Lima 16 years ago and charged with belonging to the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, an urban guerrilla group.

The MRTA was active in the 1980s and 1990s when a larger insurgency, the Maoist Shining Path, also tried to topple the state.

While behind bars, she became known as an accomplished baker, participated in talent shows of inmates, and had a child with her lawyer, Anibal Apari, a former member of the MRTA.

She told Reuters last year that life outside prison was "much harder than I thought."

Her neighbors in Lima shouted insults at her after her release in a country where people are still traumatized by memories of a long civil war that killed 69,000 people.

Berenson was never convicted of participating in violent acts, but was found guilty of providing support to the MRTA. She says she was imprisoned for renting a house where MRTA members stayed.

"It would be nice if people didn't see me as the face of terrorism, but I can't change that. I live with it. It's not easy, especially because I don't think that I'm a terrorist," she said at the time.

A military tribunal initially sentenced her to life in prison using counterterrorism laws. She was retried later in a civilian court and her sentence was reduced after pressure from her parents, human rights groups and the U.S. government.

(Reporting By Enrique Mandujano and Terry Wade in Lima and Michelle Nichols in New York; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Beijing, Washington closely watch Taiwan polls (AP)

TAIPEI, Taiwan ? Taiwan's two leading presidential candidates have much in common: both are products of prestigious foreign universities, both come from well-established families, and neither is particularly charismatic.

But that's where the similarities end. Incumbent Ma ying-jeou wants Taiwan to move closer to China while contender Tsai Ing-wen refuses to accept China's claim over the democratic island.

As the final month of campaigning began Thursday, their neck-and-neck race will be closely watched by Beijing and Washington even though the Jan. 14 poll has so far revolved mostly around domestic economic issues.

"It's basically coming down to choosing the lesser of two evils," said Taipei teacher Stanley Ho, 47. He said he has yet to make up his mind, largely because he can't get too excited about either.

Chinese and American interest is keyed to the question of whether Ma will be able to continue his signature China policy, which in the past 3 1/2 years has lowered tensions across the 100-mile- (160-kilometer-) wide Taiwan Strait to their lowest level since the Taiwan and the mainland split amid civil war in 1949.

Ma's main emphasis has been on tying Taiwan's high-tech economy ever closer to China's lucrative markets, mostly through a series of ambitious initiatives including a far-reaching tariff slashing agreement, and the launching of hundreds of weekly cross-strait flights.

This has delighted Beijing, which sees in Ma its best hope of promoting its long held policy of bringing Taiwan under its control, not least because of his declared willingness to consider entering into political talks if he is re-elected.

It has also pleased the United States, because it regards a continuation of good cross-strait ties as a key to regional peace and economic development.

In the current race, Beijing clearly favors Ma, while the U.S. says it is neutral. However, some senior officials in the Obama administration appear to share Beijing's anti-Tsai bias, despite her repeated efforts to take a moderate stance on the China issue and distance herself from the robust support for formal Taiwanese independence that has characterized her Democratic Progressive Party in the past.

Recent opinion polls say the race is a virtual dead heat.

Ma, 61, who has a Harvard law degree, had a solid, if not altogether distinguished, record as justice minister and mayor of Taipei, and a somewhat remote personality that makes it difficult for him to connect with people outside his inner circle. His father was a mid-level official in the Nationalist Party that Ma now heads.

Tsai, 55, the scion of a wealthy family from southern Taiwan, was educated at Cornell University in New York state and the London School of Economics. She has served as the head of the government agency that oversees dealings with mainland China and as a vice-premier in the previous government. She acknowledges having some difficulty in unleashing the passion in DPP supporters that many take as their due.

"I voted for the DPP last time but this time I'm not too sure," said Jason Lin, a 36-year-old engineer from the southern city of Kaohsiung. "In the end I think it will come down to whoever I think will handle the economy better. For me, the economy is the main issue."

Early on in the campaign Ma stumbled over his assertion that he might work toward the signing of a peace treaty with Beijing if re-elected. That alarmed many Taiwanese voters, the majority of whom are enthusiastic about closer economic relations with Beijing, but want no part of a formal political relationship, because they fear it would undermine their hard-won democratic freedoms.

Ma has also come under attack for his economic policies, which Tsai alleges have spurred income inequality, and made it difficult for young Taiwanese to afford decent housing.

But Ma has hit back forcefully, insisting that a Tsai victory would lead to a resurgence of the cross-strait tensions that proliferated during the eight-year presidency of Ma predecessor Chen Shui-bian, the disgraced DPP politician who is currently serving a lengthy prison term after his conviction on corruption charges.

Ma's Nationalist backers also raised questions about Tsai's own probity, alleging that she profited from her interest in a biotech company that she allegedly helped establish while serving as vice-premier under Chen.

But after a DPP-initiated analysis of company documents, a senior Ma official was forced to acknowledge that that the date on a key document had been in error and Tsai's connection to the company began only after she left government service. The DPP labeled the error a deliberate forgery and called for Ma to apologize.

The case took a further turn on Wednesday after prosecutors announced they were looking into the company's formation, a move the DPP immediately slammed as a transparent attempt to enlist the machinery of government to undermine Tsai.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111215/ap_on_re_as/as_taiwan_presidential_election

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Barbara Walters Grills Kim Kardashian on Sex Tape, Airs "Numerous Angles" of Video


Steve Jobs might have been the Most Fascinating Person of 2011, according to Barbara Walters on her ABC special last night, but the Kardashians were most definitely the subject of this journalist's most fascinating interview.

At one point, Walters aired a video that gave a bit of background on Kim and her family, focusing for awhile on the 2007 sex tape she starred in with Ray J. A long while. We counted. For some reason, the network aired 24 seconds worth of footage from this tape.

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Asked if she regretted the video, Kim gave her usual, cliched, mannequin-like answer about how she's made many "mistakes" in her life, only for Kris Jenner to of course jump in and say her daughter has learned from them.

It's true. She's learned how to market her breasts even more.

To Walters' credit, though, she came right out and told the gals they didn't really have any talent, which prompted Khloe to actually admit this, and for Kim to offer up this gem:

I think it's more of a challenge for you to go on a reality show, and get people to fall in love with you for being you.

Hear that, singers, actors and athletes? It's more challenging for the Kardashians to read scripts and do a number of takes for their "reality" show than it is for you to perform a concert, star in a movie or hit a baseball 400 feet.

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Newspaper founder killed in Russia's Dagestan (Reuters)

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) ? The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption was shot dead in Russia's North Caucasus region, in what an international watchdog called "a lethal blow to press freedom."

A gunman shot Gadzhimurat Kamalov as he was leaving the offices of the newspaper Chernovik in the capital of Dagestan province shortly before midnight on Thursday, the regional Interior Ministry said.

Police said Kamalov was shot eight times and was pronounced dead on the way to hospital.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said journalists at Chernovik, known for reporting on corruption in the provincial administration, had been "routinely persecuted for their work".

"The assassination of Gadzhimurat Kamalov is a massive loss for independent journalism in the North Caucasus, Russia's most dangerous place for reporters," the advocacy group's regional coordinator Nina Ognianova said in a statement.

Russian journalists who investigate corruption face serious risks, particularly in the provinces, where authorities are less likely to face scrutiny over attacks on journalists.

Predominantly Muslim Dagestan is plagued by violence stemming from an Islamist insurgency rooted in the 1990s separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya as well as conflicts over business and political power.

There have been 19 unsolved murders of journalists in Russia since 2000, including the 2006 killing of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, according to the CPJ.

It lists Russia as eighth on its "Impunity Index", a list of states where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes.

(Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Tim Pearce)

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Friday, December 16, 2011

AACR & IASLC to host molecular origins of lung cancer conference

AACR & IASLC to host molecular origins of lung cancer conference [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 15-Dec-2011
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What:

The second AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and Personalized Medicine will bring together scientists to share the latest findings in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the nation's leading cause of cancer and cancer mortality.

The conference, scheduled for Jan. 8-11, 2012, in San Diego, is jointly sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

The conference will feature a series of groundbreaking oral presentations and hundreds of abstracts including:

  • prevention of tobacco damage using antiestrogens;
  • the role of tumor suppressor genes in small cell lung cancer;
  • a phase 2 study of sorafenib in patients with stage IV disease;
  • new tools to measure circulating tumor cells;
  • new data on microRNA and KRAS mutations

When:

Jan. 8-11, 2012

Where: San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina San Diego, Calif.

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AACR & IASLC to host molecular origins of lung cancer conference [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 15-Dec-2011
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Contact: Natalie Poole
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American Association for Cancer Research

What:

The second AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and Personalized Medicine will bring together scientists to share the latest findings in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the nation's leading cause of cancer and cancer mortality.

The conference, scheduled for Jan. 8-11, 2012, in San Diego, is jointly sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

The conference will feature a series of groundbreaking oral presentations and hundreds of abstracts including:

  • prevention of tobacco damage using antiestrogens;
  • the role of tumor suppressor genes in small cell lung cancer;
  • a phase 2 study of sorafenib in patients with stage IV disease;
  • new tools to measure circulating tumor cells;
  • new data on microRNA and KRAS mutations

When:

Jan. 8-11, 2012

Where: San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina San Diego, Calif.

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Press Registration and Hotel Accommodations:

To register, please visit http://www.aacr.org/LungCancer or contact Natalie Poole in the AACR Communications Department at Natalie.Poole@aacr.org or 215-446-7155.



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