Vets upset with 'Hawaii Five-O' crew at cemetery (omg!)

HONOLULU (AP) ? A group of Pearl Harbor survivors say they were disrespected by the crew of the CBS drama "Hawaii Five-O" during a visit to Honolulu's National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

The Denver-based Greatest Generations Foundation took 23 veterans to the Punchbowl cemetery last week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The veterans found it offensive that the crew members didn't stop production while the national anthem and taps were played and that they were walking on graves, said Steffan Tubbs, a foundation board member and co-host of KOA-AM's morning news show in Denver. Tubbs visited the cemetery with the group, which conducted a small ceremony there.

The crew was filming a scene involving a lead character visiting his father's grave, "which in reality was surrounded by the real graves of WWII heroes," Tubbs said Tuesday. "It didn't seem right."

Cemetery Director Gene Castagnetti said the filming was approved beforehand. He added walking on graves is unavoidable and not considered disrespectful if done carefully.

It came as a surprise that the veterans would be laying roses during their ceremony, taking them to locations in the cemetery where the crew was filming, Castagnetti told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

While payment is not required for filming at the cemetery, "Hawaii Five-O" donated $1,000, KHON-TV reported. The show has filmed there several times previously.

"We were surprised to hear this report and are looking into the matter," CBS said in a statement. "Our veterans deserve the highest level of respect and reverence for their service, particularly during a ceremony honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice."

"Hawaii Five-O" stars Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan. It regularly airs on Mondays.

The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific is the resting place for some 34,000 veterans of World War I, World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Located in Punchbowl Crater just north of downtown Honolulu, it is a top tourist destination in Hawaii.

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$50,000 not quite enough for N.Y. widow

We are the median: The high cost of rent and utilities forced this New York woman, 55, to move out of the apartment, put her things in storage and stay with a friend until she can find a more affordable place to live.

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Researchers to publish paper in Molecular Cancer journal - NDSU ...

Researchers to publish paper in Molecular Cancer journal

Published: 06 December 2011 03:51 PM

Erxi Wu, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and Fengfei Wang, research associate in pharmaceutical sciences, co-wrote the article, "?2-adrenoceptor blockage induces G1/S phase arrest and apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells via Ras/Akt/NFkB pathway,? which will be published by Molecular Cancer.

According to the authors, pancreatic cancer risk factors, smoking and stress, stimulate nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and catecholamines production respectively. Nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and catecholamine bind the ?-adrenoceptors and induce pancreatic cancer cell proliferation; and they have previously indicated that ?-adrenergic antagonists may suppress proliferation and invasion and stimulate apoptosis in pancreatic cancer. To clarify the mechanism of apoptosis induced by ?2-adrenergic antagonist, they hypothesize that blockage of the ?2-adrenoceptor could induce G1/S phase arrest and apoptosis and Ras may be a key player in pancreatic cancer cells.

Their results showed that the ?1 and ?2-adrenoceptor proteins were detected on the cell surface of pancreatic cancer cells from pancreatic carcinoma specimen samples by Immunohistochemistry. The ?2-adrenergic antagonist ICI118,551 significantly induced G1/S phase arrest and apoptosis compared with the ?1-adrenergic antagonist metoprolol, which was determined by the flow cytometry assay. ?2-adrenergic antagonist therapy significantly suppressed the expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase, Akt, Bcl-2, cyclin D1 and cyclin E and induced the activation of caspase-3, caspase-9 and Bax by Western blotting. Additionally, the ?2-adrenergic antagonist reduced the activation of NFkB in vitro cultured pancreatic cancer cells.

?The blockage of ?2-adrenoceptor markedly induced pancreatic cancer cells to arrest at G1/S phase and consequently resulted in cell death, which is possibly due to that the blockage of ?2-adrenoceptor inhibited NFkB, extracellular signal-regulated kinase and Akt pathways. Therefore, their upstream molecule Ras may be a key factor in the ?2-adrenoceptor antagonist induced G1/S phase arrest and apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. The new pathway discovered in this study may provide an effective therapeutic strategy for pancreatic cancer,? Wu said. Collaborator for this paper is Ma lab at Xi?an Jiaotong University, China. ?We have established a productive collaboration with the Ma lab in finding cancer therapeutics and elucidating the mechanisms of the targeted therapy for pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal malignancies,? Wu said.

Molecular Cancer is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal interested in attracting high-quality original research and reviews that present or highlight significant advances in all areas of cancer and related biomedical science. For more information on the journal, visit www.molecular-cancer.com.

For more information on Wu and his research, visit www.ndsu.edu/pharmsci/faculty_staff/erxi_wu.

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NYC ban on after-school worship services stands (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court has rejected an evangelical church's plea to overturn New York City's ban on after-hours religious worship services at public schools.

The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the city's policy.

The Bronx Household of Faith is an evangelical Christian church that has held Sunday services at P.S. 15 in the Bronx since 2002. The church services have been allowed to continue pending the outcome of the school's lawsuit against the city.

The church says the city allows many groups to use school buildings after hours. But the city says that it risks blurring church-state separation if it allows worship services in public schools.

The city says that roughly five dozen congregations used public schools for their religious services in 2009.

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Scanomat TopBrewer brings iPhone control, elegant design to single-cup coffee makers (video)

There's no question that we love our coffee, but we're often far less intrigued by the brewing process than we are the result. With its incredibly sleek design and simple iPhone or iPad control, Scanomat's faucet-like TopBrewer could easily become one of the few exceptions, however. This fully automatic coffee machine grinds your beans, measures out ingredients and foams milk, before dishing out the perfect cup. But iOS control is the keystone of this elegant solution, letting you make your beverage selection from a wireless device, leaving nothing but the stainless steel tap exposed. Craving a cappuccino? Simply toss your cup under the spigot and tap an icon. You can also dispense cold milk or water, hot chocolate and even carbonated water -- all from the same head. Scanomat has yet to hint at a release date or price, but if you have to ask... Jump past the break for a quick taste, courtesy of some lucky folks at a hospitality industry expo in Milan.

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Cancer cells poisoned with sugar

IT'S a heavy price to pay for a sweet tooth. Researchers have tricked glucose-eating cancer cells into consuming a sugar that essentially poisons them - it leaves a "suicide" switch within the cells open to attack.

"Most cancer cells rely almost exclusively on glucose to fuel their growth," says Guy Perkins of the University of California at San Diego. With Rudy Yamaguchi of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, Perkins found the cells would take up a similar sugar called 2-deoxyglucose. But this sugar physically dislodges a protein within the cell that guards a suicide switch. Once exposed, the switch can be activated by a drug called ABT-263. This kills the cell by liberating proteins that order it to commit suicide (Cancer Research, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-11-3091).

The approach could ultimately spell doom for several types of cancer, including liver, lung, breast and blood. In mice, the treatment made aggressive human prostate cancer tumours virtually disappear within days.

Yamaguchi and Perkins are now hoping to mount a clinical trial at UC San Diego.

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Markets soar, but has anything changed?

The Dow sees its biggest gain since October 2009. But debt problems in Europe still loom large, and the central bankers' promises to print more money aren't anything new.

Whoa! The Dow rose almost 500 points yesterday. Whoopee! Hallelujah!

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It was like the Second Coming on Wall Street. As if He walked across the East River?and announced it Himself:

?The fix is in.?

But it was not the sacred that spoke yesterday. It was the profane. The world?s central banks, to be precise. They got together. More like a meeting of mobsters than a gathering of the gods. They made it clear.

You want money? You want cash? You want something you can take to the bank? Well, you?ve got it!

?A move by the world?s central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday,? the Associated Press reports, ?sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.?

It was the Dow?s biggest gain since March 2009.

Large US banks were among the top performers, jumping as much as 7 percent. Markets in Europe surged, too, with Germany?s DAX index climbing 5 percent.

Wednesday?s action by the banks of Europe, the US, Britain, Canada, Japan and Switzerland represented an extraordinary coordinated effort.

But amid the market?s excitement, many doubts loomed. Some analysts cautioned that the banks? move did nothing to provide a permanent fix to the problems facing heavily indebted European nations such as Italy and Greece. It only buys time for political leaders.

?It is a short-term solution,? said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank. ?The bottom line on any central bank action is that it papers over the problems, buys time and in some respects takes pressure from politicians? If nothing?s done in a week, this market gain will disappear.?

Banks stocks soared as fears about an imminent disaster in the European financial system ebbed.

But wait.

What has really happened? The central bankers have given out the word that they?ll print up as much money as necessary. So what?s new? Haven?t they been doing that all along? What is lending at zero interest rate? What is buying the government?s debt? What is taking the toxic bonds off the banks and brokerage houses?

What is really new? Not much.

You remember our advice, dear reader? Sell stocks on rallies. Well?what are you waiting for?

And if we were speculators we?d be selling stocks?even stocks we didn?t own. Because we have here an opportunity. The market is rising on hope, not on reality. And today, it might rise a bit more?

?until it finally realizes that there is no really good reason to be so bullish.

Stocks are bits of businesses. And businesses do not make more money just because the central banks print money. If this were not so, a few years ago, Zimbabwe?s companies would have been the most profitable on earth. Under the leadership of Gideon Gono, the central bank of Zimbabwe was printing up trillion-dollar notes and handing them out all over town. Trouble was, you couldn?t even buy a cup of coffee with them. In fact, you couldn?t buy a cup of coffee anyway?the whole economy was in such disarray nobody could get any coffee. Or anything else.

That was at the end. At the beginning money-printing works miracles.

But businesses do not operate in the realm of the mysterious or the sacred. They are remarkably down-to-earth undertakings. They?re real enterprises with real revenues and real expenses. They make money by selling goods and services. And, taken all together, they only make as much money as the economy itself allows. In other words, it?s not possible for all the businesses to do better than the economy that supports them.

So, now we can ask you a question: will the economies of the world?s countries do better, now that the central banks have announced they will print more money?

Or will they do worse?

It?s hard to say. But by our reckoning, the world is in the grip of a major correction. Among the things the correction is likely to correct is the money system?in which central banks have the power to create ?money? out of thin air.

Would the correction correct something that didn?t need correction? If central bankers refused to print money there would be no need to correct them, would there? So this latest announcement just confirms what we thought all along.

Printing money is easier than raising taxes. It is also easier than borrowing?especially when lenders get wary. All that stands in the way is the integrity of the central bankers themselves.

Looks like that just gave way?

Bill Bonner
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Somber Boeheim apologizes after Orange edge Gators

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim yells instructions to James Southerland during the first half against Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim yells instructions to James Southerland during the first half against Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Syracuse students hold a sign during introductions before tan NCAA college basketball game against Florida in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

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Syracuse's James Southerland grabs a loose ball from Florida's Bradley Beal, left, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

(AP) ? Jim Boeheim maintained his usual stoic facade Friday night while his unbeaten Syracuse basketball team notched another victory. Behind the postgame microphone, it was a different story.

The coach returned to the subject of his fired former assistant coach, Bernie Fine, and apologized for his initial remarks involving the men who accused Fine of molestating them as minors. Two of the three men were former Syracuse ballboys. Fine has maintained his innocence.

"I believe I misspoke very badly in my response to the allegations that have been made. I shouldn't have questioned what the accusers expressed or their motives. I am really sorry that I did that, and I regret any harm that I caused," he said at the press conference after No. 4 Syracuse beat No. 10 Florida 72-68.

"It was insensitive for the individuals involved and especially to the overall issue of child abuse," he said, speaking slowly and pausing several times.

Boeheim said it was important that he get involved in terms of raising awareness and promised he would.

"I'm going to do everything I can to do that, whether I'm coaching or not coaching," he said.

Some sex abuse victims' advocates said Boeheim should resign or be fired for his initial disparaging comments about the accusers. Boeheim said he was acting "out of loyalty."

"I acted without thinking. I couldn't believe what I was hearing," he said.

As he did at Tuesday's home win over Eastern Michigan, Boeheim received a warm ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 24,459. It was the largest on-campus attendance in the nation so far this season, and it included former Syracuse star Carmelo Anthony and former Orange assistant Rob Murphy, in his first year at EMU, in front-row seats.

Syracuse (8-0) breezed to its first seven wins with an average margin of victory of 26 points, but the Gators (5-2), whose only previous loss was by seven at No. 2 Ohio State, figured to provide a stiff challenge and they did in a game that seemed like a midseason encounter in the Big East.

One again, the game was secondary.

"It's been crazy," said Matt Roe, a Syracuse star from the late 1980s who does color on radio broadcasts. "Nonstop for 14 days. What am I going to say? I don't know anything. (Boeheim) is a good man."

He certainly seemed to have the support of the crowd, especially fans in the jammed student section, where one sign said, "In Boeheim We Trust" and another, "In Jim We Trust."

As for the game, Brandon Triche had 20 points and Scoop Jardine finished with 16 and seven assists for the Orange. Kenny Boynton led Florida with 22 points and Erving Walker had 17.

Neither team led by more than six points in a first half that was tied six times.

Florida, which entered the game shooting 42.9 percent from beyond the arc and was averaging 12 3-pointers a game, went 3 of 14 from long range in the period ? all by Erving Walker ? while the Orange struggled even more, hitting just 1 of 10.

Syracuse still managed to forge ahead at the break, 31-27, behind seven points each from Kris Joseph, Fab Melo and Triche.

After the Orange built a 39-30 lead early in the second, Boynton led the Gators back with three 3s, the last putting Florida back on top 49-46 with 9:19 to go. Triche tied it for the fourth time in the period 11 seconds later with his first 3 of the game.

Jardine fed Joseph for a one-handed slam to break the tie and Jardine's steal and layup had the Orange up 54-49 with 6:20 to go and the crowd shaking the Carrier Dome.

The roar reached another crescendo when Jardine hit a runner in the lane as the shot clock neared zero, Joseph fed C.J. Fair for a baseline jumper, and Jardine hit a 3 from the left wing in a span of 2:19.

That gave Syracuse a 61-53 lead with 3:52 left and the Gators couldn't rally back.

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