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Paired CT scans catch chemo-killing of liver tumors in real time

Paired CT scans catch chemo-killing of liver tumors in real time [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-Dec-2012
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dmarch1@jhmi.edu
410-955-1534
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Immediate feedback shows if chemotherapy worked, or if additional treatment is needed

Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of Johns Hopkins and Dutch radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their surrounding blood vessels. Within a minute, the images showed whether the targeted chemotherapy did or did not choke off the tumors' blood supply and saved patients a month of worry about whether the treatment, known as chemoembolization, was working or not, and whether repeat or more powerful treatments were needed.

The Johns Hopkins team's report about this novel use of dual-phase cone-bean computed tomography, or DPCBCT, an imaging technique developed at Johns Hopkins, is set to appear in the January 2013 edition of the journal Radiology. The diagnostic scans were performed on 27 men and women with inoperable liver cancer.

"This new scanning method is giving us almost instant feedback about the value of injecting antitumor drugs directly into large liver tumors and their surrounding blood vessels in an effort to quickly kill them, and to prevent the cancer from spreading," says senior study investigator and interventional radiologist Jean-Francois Geschwind, M.D.

Geschwind says if further testing proves equally successful, the paired use of cone-beam CT scans, which are already approved for single-scan use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could supplant the current practice of MRI scanning a month after chemoembolization to check its effects.

"Patients should not have to endure the uncertainty of waiting weeks or more to find out if their chemoembolization was successful in fighting their liver cancer," says Geschwind, a professor in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center.

"Dual-phase cone-beam CT avoids such delays, which also could allow the cancer to grow and spread and, ultimately, compromise chances of remission," he says.

Avoiding delays is particularly important, he says, for people with moderate to advanced stages of the disease, when liver tumors are too large or too numerous to surgically remove, and for whom chemoembolization is the main treatment option. Half of such liver cancer patients succumb within nine months, and liver transplantation is only an option for a quarter of those whose tumors have not spread outside the liver.

The newer DPCBCT scans, in which X-rays are detected by a device the size of a large laptop that can be placed directly below or above the operating room table, have the added advantage of being performed in the same room, or interventional radiology suite, as patients getting chemoembolization.

In their new study, Geschwind and his colleagues found that the initial shrinkage seen with DPCBCT scans taken before and after chemoembolization matched up almost perfectly with MRI scans taken a month later. Tumor death was 95 percent, the same as that seen by MRI. A total of 47 tumors were closely monitored in the study to assess how well DPCBCT tracked tumor death after chemoembolization.

All study participants were treated at The Johns Hopkins Hospital between March and December 2009.

In DPCBCT scanning, a chemical contrast dye is injected into the artery that supplies blood flow to the liver and tumor right before the chemotherapy drug is injected, to enhance the X-ray image. The first set of scans highlights key blood vessels feeding the tumor, as dye flows in and out of the tumor. The second set of scans is performed immediately after chemoembolization, to gauge tumor and key blood vessel death. Computer software is used to sharpen and analyze differences between the images.

The entire DPCBCT scanning time, researchers say, is between 20 seconds and 30 seconds, and the total amount of radiation exposure from the dual scanning averages 3.08 milliseiverts, which is less than half the amount of radiation involved in a modern abdominal 64-CT scan. Cone-beam CT scanners also emit an X-ray, but unlike other CT scanners, the cone-beam type of X-ray is projected onto one large, rectangular detector, roughly a foot and a half long -- and produces a telltale conical shape. The size of the cone-beam CT detector allows for single scans that can capture images the size of most people's entire liver. More powerful 64-CT and 320-CT scanners involve multiple detector rows.

Chemoembolization entails the use of tiny beads containing the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin injected directly into liver tumors.

Ultrathin catheters, about the width of a human hair, are threaded through blood vessels to deliver the drugs, which seep from the beads for several weeks.

Geschwind is leading clinical trials under way at Johns Hopkins and other centers to assess whether the combination drug treatment works for liver cancer patients. Early results have shown promise, with patients with advanced disease living 10 months to 15 months longer.

Geschwind says they plan improvements in image quality in DPCBCT scans, hoping further refinements will encourage physicians to adopt the technique. They also plan updates to the navigational software that, like GPS, can track blood vessels feeding each tumor, and provide more precise and greater numbers of targets.

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Liver cancer kills nearly 20,000 Americans each year, and is much more prevalent outside the United States, where it is among the top three causes of cancer death in the world. Experts cite the rising numbers of hepatitis C infections, which cause chronic liver inflammation and are a leading risk factor for liver cancer.

Funding support for this study was provided by the French Society of Radiology and Philips Research North America in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Philips, whose parent company is based in the Netherlands, manufactures the CBCT device used in the study. Additional funding support was provided by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, a member of the National Institutes of Health. The corresponding grant numbers are NCI R01-CA160771 and UL1 RR-025005.

The study lead investigators were Romaric Loffroy, M.D., a radiology fellow at Johns Hopkins, and MingDe Lin, Ph.D., a Philips biomedical engineer based at Johns Hopkins who has been collaborating with Geschwind for the past five years to perfect the DPCBCT technique.

In addition to Geschwind, Loffroy and Lin, other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in this research were Gayane Yenokyan, Ph.D., at the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Pramod Rao, M.D.; Nikhil Bhagat, M.D.; and Eleni Liapi, M.D., all at the School of Medicine. Philips investigators involved were Niels Noordhoek, Ph.D.; Alessandro Radaelli, Ph.D.; and Jarl Blijd, M.Sc.

The chemoembolization research study was funded by Bayer HealthCare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of sorafenib, and Biocompatibles, makers of the microbeads. Geschwind is a consultant to Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, and to Biocompatibles. The terms of these arrangements are being managed by The Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict-of-interest policies.

Photos of DPCBCT scans can be found online at:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

For additional information, go to:
http://radiology.rsna.org/content/early/2012/11/05/radiol.12112316.short?rss=1
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/vascular/staff/physicians/geschwind.html
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/vascular/procedures/chemoembolization/


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Paired CT scans catch chemo-killing of liver tumors in real time [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-Dec-2012
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Contact: David March
dmarch1@jhmi.edu
410-955-1534
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Immediate feedback shows if chemotherapy worked, or if additional treatment is needed

Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of Johns Hopkins and Dutch radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their surrounding blood vessels. Within a minute, the images showed whether the targeted chemotherapy did or did not choke off the tumors' blood supply and saved patients a month of worry about whether the treatment, known as chemoembolization, was working or not, and whether repeat or more powerful treatments were needed.

The Johns Hopkins team's report about this novel use of dual-phase cone-bean computed tomography, or DPCBCT, an imaging technique developed at Johns Hopkins, is set to appear in the January 2013 edition of the journal Radiology. The diagnostic scans were performed on 27 men and women with inoperable liver cancer.

"This new scanning method is giving us almost instant feedback about the value of injecting antitumor drugs directly into large liver tumors and their surrounding blood vessels in an effort to quickly kill them, and to prevent the cancer from spreading," says senior study investigator and interventional radiologist Jean-Francois Geschwind, M.D.

Geschwind says if further testing proves equally successful, the paired use of cone-beam CT scans, which are already approved for single-scan use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could supplant the current practice of MRI scanning a month after chemoembolization to check its effects.

"Patients should not have to endure the uncertainty of waiting weeks or more to find out if their chemoembolization was successful in fighting their liver cancer," says Geschwind, a professor in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center.

"Dual-phase cone-beam CT avoids such delays, which also could allow the cancer to grow and spread and, ultimately, compromise chances of remission," he says.

Avoiding delays is particularly important, he says, for people with moderate to advanced stages of the disease, when liver tumors are too large or too numerous to surgically remove, and for whom chemoembolization is the main treatment option. Half of such liver cancer patients succumb within nine months, and liver transplantation is only an option for a quarter of those whose tumors have not spread outside the liver.

The newer DPCBCT scans, in which X-rays are detected by a device the size of a large laptop that can be placed directly below or above the operating room table, have the added advantage of being performed in the same room, or interventional radiology suite, as patients getting chemoembolization.

In their new study, Geschwind and his colleagues found that the initial shrinkage seen with DPCBCT scans taken before and after chemoembolization matched up almost perfectly with MRI scans taken a month later. Tumor death was 95 percent, the same as that seen by MRI. A total of 47 tumors were closely monitored in the study to assess how well DPCBCT tracked tumor death after chemoembolization.

All study participants were treated at The Johns Hopkins Hospital between March and December 2009.

In DPCBCT scanning, a chemical contrast dye is injected into the artery that supplies blood flow to the liver and tumor right before the chemotherapy drug is injected, to enhance the X-ray image. The first set of scans highlights key blood vessels feeding the tumor, as dye flows in and out of the tumor. The second set of scans is performed immediately after chemoembolization, to gauge tumor and key blood vessel death. Computer software is used to sharpen and analyze differences between the images.

The entire DPCBCT scanning time, researchers say, is between 20 seconds and 30 seconds, and the total amount of radiation exposure from the dual scanning averages 3.08 milliseiverts, which is less than half the amount of radiation involved in a modern abdominal 64-CT scan. Cone-beam CT scanners also emit an X-ray, but unlike other CT scanners, the cone-beam type of X-ray is projected onto one large, rectangular detector, roughly a foot and a half long -- and produces a telltale conical shape. The size of the cone-beam CT detector allows for single scans that can capture images the size of most people's entire liver. More powerful 64-CT and 320-CT scanners involve multiple detector rows.

Chemoembolization entails the use of tiny beads containing the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin injected directly into liver tumors.

Ultrathin catheters, about the width of a human hair, are threaded through blood vessels to deliver the drugs, which seep from the beads for several weeks.

Geschwind is leading clinical trials under way at Johns Hopkins and other centers to assess whether the combination drug treatment works for liver cancer patients. Early results have shown promise, with patients with advanced disease living 10 months to 15 months longer.

Geschwind says they plan improvements in image quality in DPCBCT scans, hoping further refinements will encourage physicians to adopt the technique. They also plan updates to the navigational software that, like GPS, can track blood vessels feeding each tumor, and provide more precise and greater numbers of targets.

###

Liver cancer kills nearly 20,000 Americans each year, and is much more prevalent outside the United States, where it is among the top three causes of cancer death in the world. Experts cite the rising numbers of hepatitis C infections, which cause chronic liver inflammation and are a leading risk factor for liver cancer.

Funding support for this study was provided by the French Society of Radiology and Philips Research North America in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Philips, whose parent company is based in the Netherlands, manufactures the CBCT device used in the study. Additional funding support was provided by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, a member of the National Institutes of Health. The corresponding grant numbers are NCI R01-CA160771 and UL1 RR-025005.

The study lead investigators were Romaric Loffroy, M.D., a radiology fellow at Johns Hopkins, and MingDe Lin, Ph.D., a Philips biomedical engineer based at Johns Hopkins who has been collaborating with Geschwind for the past five years to perfect the DPCBCT technique.

In addition to Geschwind, Loffroy and Lin, other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in this research were Gayane Yenokyan, Ph.D., at the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Pramod Rao, M.D.; Nikhil Bhagat, M.D.; and Eleni Liapi, M.D., all at the School of Medicine. Philips investigators involved were Niels Noordhoek, Ph.D.; Alessandro Radaelli, Ph.D.; and Jarl Blijd, M.Sc.

The chemoembolization research study was funded by Bayer HealthCare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of sorafenib, and Biocompatibles, makers of the microbeads. Geschwind is a consultant to Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, and to Biocompatibles. The terms of these arrangements are being managed by The Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict-of-interest policies.

Photos of DPCBCT scans can be found online at:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

For additional information, go to:
http://radiology.rsna.org/content/early/2012/11/05/radiol.12112316.short?rss=1
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/vascular/staff/physicians/geschwind.html
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/vascular/procedures/chemoembolization/


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Nobel-Winning Italian Biologist, Levi-Montalcini, Dies in Rome at 103

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Jordan says can handle any Syrian chemical threat

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? Jordan says it is prepared to deal with any potential chemical weapon threat posed by the ongoing violence in neighboring Syria, but adds it will not enter "any alliance" to protect itself.

Jordan, the U.S. and others have expressed concern that Syrian President Bashar Assad could use chemical weapons in a last-ditch effort to save his regime.

Information Minister Sameeh Maaytah did not provide details on Jordan's capabilities to thwart a chemical attack in remarks carried by the official Petra news agency Sunday.

But other Jordanian officials have said U.S. and British military experts have provided training in protecting civilians in case of a chemical attack on Jordanian territory.

Maaytah also said the 21-month Syrian crisis has put enormous pressure on Jordan's infrastructure as it now hosts 275,000 refugees.

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Melvin Guillard survives Jamie Varner slam but loses UFC 155 bout

Melvin Guillard and Jamie Varner staked a late claim to the UFC 155 Fight of the Night bonus with a bout that ended in a split decision. Varner won it on the judges' cards, 30-27, 27-30, 29-28.

Varner gained an edge early in the bout by tagging Guillard in the first round. Guillard showed good kicks, but couldn't escape Varner's takedowns for much of the bout. But the most frightening moment of the bout came late in the third round.

[Complete UFC 155 recap: Cain Velasquez mauls Junior dos Santos]

The two were scrambling on the ground for position when Guillard took Varner's back. Varner stood up, and with Guillard's head pointed to the ground, Varner slammed his opponent to the ground. Amazingly, Guillard was not knocked out or injured from the move. The fight ended seconds after, and the two embraced.

?This was a very emotional fight for both of us," Varner said after the bout. "After what happened a few weeks ago at the "TUF Finale" event, we were both ready to compete. I knew we would eventually get in the Octagon and squash our beef and I definitely feel that we did. I?m happy about my performance, I feel that I was able to dominate the fight wherever we ended up and I?m glad I got the win.?

Varner and Guillard were originally scheduled to fight during "The Ultimate Fighter" finale on Dec. 15, but illness kept Varner from the cage. Guillard was understandably upset about the delay, leading to trash talk.

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18. Firms offering 6,000 jobs at four-day 'Love Selangor Carnival'

SHAH ALAM: A total of 6,000 job vacancies are up for grabs at the four-day ?Love Selangor Carnival? in i-City in Section 7 here.

Selangor Youth Council (MBS) president Datuk Imorhizam Ibrahim said the vacancies were offered through the Jobs Malaysia counters mounted by MBS with cooperation from 30 private and government-linked companies (GLC).

He said jobseekers, especially certificate and diploma holders, could take the opportunity to secure suitable jobs through the walk-in interviews held at the carnival.

?Those who are interested to fill the vacancies can come to the counters at i-City Digital Square, fill in the job application forms and be interviewed by the companies' representatives immediately,? he said yesterday.

Imorhizam said the results of the interviews would be made known to the applicants on the same day.

He said the response had been encouraging so far as 2,000 jobseekers had registered at the counters within the first two hours of the carnival.

Afiqah Yaacob, 25, from Shah Alam, said the Jobs Malaysia counters were very helpful in assisting certificate and diploma holders to find suitable jobs.

?I welcome the efforts and I hope more companies will take part in the future and offer jobs to graduates too because there are many degree holders here,? said Afiqah, who holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Mara.

M. Tamilmoha, 27, who applied for a job with four companies, said he was confident of being hired.

On another development, Imorhizam said over 2,000 youths participated in the ?Peace Run for Gaza?, aimed at raising funds to help the Palestinians in Gaza, in conjunction with the opening of the carnival.

He said a donation box had also been placed at the Aman Palestin counter to enable visitors to play their part in helping the Palestinians. - Bernama

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2012 most expensive year for motorists: AAA

OK, so we all know that Windows 8 is a flawed operating system. In particular, the OS has rather awkward and counterintuitive controls for switching between its tiles and its standard desktop interface, and finding key features such as the control panel can be difficult at first. At the same time Microsoft?s (MSFT) newest operating system, for all its warts, does a lot of things right and is a bold and innovative attempt to remake personal computers for the post-PC era. The key thing you have to understand about Windows 8 is that it will not work well for you unless you buy a PC with touchscreen capabilities. In other words, if you have a classic PC that only has

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ammonium obsessive: Organizing Craft Supplies

Every year as soon as Christmas is over I get anxious to start simplifying our home. Organizing craft supplies in my craft hutch was at the top of my list. This month with gift wrapping, handmade gift making, and lack of time its become total chaos in my craft space. We dedicated a corner in our master bedroom for my craft supplies so that I didn?t have to use the kitchen counter anymore. I thought it would be easier to keep track of everything but that?s not always the case. I?d show you the entire craft space but I?m not done organizing and decorating it yet, so that will have to wait for another post. But I will show you my craft hutch beautifully organized just the way I imagined it would be when I bought it last summer.

Craft Room Organization Tips

Its simple with neutral colors, definitely my ideal craft space!

Here is the before?

Organizing craft supplies

As you can see nothing matched and it was so disorganized that I had a hard time keeping track of what supplies were in which bin. These are only my most used craft supplies, half of our master bedroom closet is used for craft supplies as well-yikes! That?s a whole new project to work on in 2013, but for now I needed something to help me organize my craft space. I found a 4 pack of baskets on clearance for $13 at Lowes this week and was thrilled that they were exactly what I?ve been looking for. Organizing Craft Supplies

The tags remind me of faux chalkboard tags. To make them I used my Brother P-touch labeler, die cutting machine, Core?dinations Black Magic cardstock and sand-it set. Once my labels were cut I used the paper sander to lightly sand the edges and front of the tags. The black magic cardstock has a color on the backside that appears when you sand or cut it (for these tags I used the black and white paper). Then I created labels for each basket. The deco modes on the P-Touch Labeler are SO cute and there are a large variety of icons for any theme you?re looking for.

DIY Chalkboard Labels

Brother P-Touch Labeler

I?ve been using my Brother P-Touch labeler to organize the baskets as well as various other projects around the house. This little tool is a lifesaver! I?m a visual person, I like to see where everything is neatly put away and have some sort of organization system going on with everything in the house. We are in the process of tackling the kids rooms this weekend. Target has some pretty cute plastic bins for kids. We bought heart patterned containers for my daughters toys and we started labeling them by toy group. Santa brought her toys with way too many small pieces this year, so we need to make sure we don?t lose them!

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China firm to acquire major African iron ore mine

BEIJING (AP) ? A privately owned Chinese company is finalizing the acquisition of an Australian mining firm that controls a major iron ore mine in west Africa, a move that would give China a stronger role in setting global iron ore prices, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.

Xinhua, citing officials from Hanlong Group, said Hanlong plans to complete the acquisition of Sundance Resources Ltd. for 45 Australian cents (50 cents) per share by March 1, after submitting paperwork to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Calls to Hanlong's headquarters in southwestern China's Sichuan province went unanswered Saturday.

Sundance controls the Mbalam iron ore mine, which straddles Cameroon and the Republic of Congo.

Hanlong is seeking a partnership with Chinese state-owned companies and investing $5 billion to develop the Mbalam project and to build a 550-kilometer (340-mile) railway and a shipping port, Xinhua said. Operations are expected to begin in 2014, it said.

As the world's second-largest economy, China is eager to acquire overseas assets and resources to feed its rapid growth.

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Connecticut gives basketball coach Kevin Ollie five-year, $7 million deal

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut has given men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie a new contract that runs through the end of the 2017-18 season.

The deal, signed Saturday, is worth just under $7 million and begins Jan. 1. When Ollie was hired in September, he was signed for just one season.

"As I said in my first press conference, I want to be here a lifetime and this is a step, hopefully a great step, in the program moving forward," Ollie said.

Ollie, who turned 40 on Thursday, was hired after Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun retired. His original deal had a pro-rated value of just over $465,000, the school said.

Ollie has led UConn to a 9-2 record entering Saturday's game against Washington despite losing five underclassmen from last year's team after it was announced that the Huskies were academically ineligible for the upcoming postseason.

Ollie was greeted with a standing ovation as he walked on the court Saturday night and the student section chanted his name.

"He's shown that he can coach, that he can lead this team on the court, and academically," athletic director Warde Manuel said. "He's the epitome of an UConn Husky."

Ollie, who played point guard for Calhoun from 1991-95, was his former coach's hand-picked successor. He became an assistant at UConn in 2010, after 13 years as an NBA journeyman.

But, he had never been a head coach on any level. Manuel said that's why he waited before tendering a multi-year offer, even though he knew it could have a negative impact on recruiting.

"I'm sure it didn't help, the short-term nature of the deal," Manuel said. "But I wanted the opportunity to see Kevin and get a sense of who he was for the long term."

Ollie has quickly established himself with his upbeat and energetic style, running practices that focus on conditioning and accountability.

"Kevin moved gracefully and seamlessly into this position of immense responsibility over the course of the fall," school President Susan Herbst said. "He demonstrated to us that he is a genuine leader of extraordinary talents."

The contract also includes some stiff penalties should UConn in the future again fail to meet the minimum standards for the NCAA Academic Progress Rate.

Ollie would forfeit two weeks' salary and all postseason payments. Two consecutive years of substandard APR scores would be grounds for termination.

"I agreed to it because I have a belief system in my student athletes," Ollie said. "We're students first and we're going to get it done."

Those sanctions would be eliminated from the contract once UConn's four-year APR climbs above 930, Manuel said.

Ollie will receive $1.2 million in 2013. His base salary will be $400,000 and rest will be for speaking and media appearances. The payments increase annually to $1.34 million by 2017.

Calhoun, who is vacationing in Florida, issued a statement saying the hiring makes him feel "very good about the future of UConn basketball."

UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma, who is making $1.8 million this year and is in negotiations for an extension, said Ollie remains in a tough position, but will have the support of the entire athletic department.

"He's going to do the right thing. He's already proven that," Auriemma said. "And now he's going to get an opportunity to recruit and he's going to get an opportunity to coach."

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Iran to move airport after oil found under runway

AFP - Iran plans to relocate an airport in the southwest of the country after discovering oil deposits under its runway, media reported on Saturday.

The National Iranian Oil Company "intends to buy Ahvaz airport due to the existence of oil deposits under the airport's tarmac," the state broadcaster's website quoted Mohammad Rasoulinejad, managing director of the Iranian Airports Company, as saying.

"The government has approved the relocation of the airport," Rasoulinejad said, adding that the new airport will be built 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the city.

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Channing Tatum, 32, and his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum, who is expecting the couple's first child next year, were spotted strolling on the beach in St. Barts yesterday while on holiday. The couple held hands as they took in the stunning sights of the Caribbean.

Earlier in the week, Dewan-Tatum, 32, sported an orange fringed bikini and sarong, flaunting her blossoming baby bump before opting to cover up in a multi-colored dress on Dec. 28.

"We are absolutely over the moon," the pair told E! Online of their baby news. "As you can imagine, we couldn't feel more blessed!"

Check out a photo of the Tatums hitting the beach in St. Barts below:

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?The best stories reveal secret feelings,? the writing professor says. ?The most important thing is to say the truth.? Are my feelings complex enough, Christine wonders, to be interesting? The other women in the class seemed unhappy and wrote about boyfriends who didn?t love them enough. Christine, at twenty seven, has been happily married for the past three years. Do I lack dissatisfaction? she wonders. She has beauty and, thanks to Paul, money and love. It dawns on her that, although she writes well, she might lack imagination. The suspicion doesn?t affect her excitement for the class, nor her hope that it might distract her from her bad moods, which she takes out often and unfairly on Paul.

She considers writing about her new neighbors. They have just moved in to the house facing theirs and, within a week, have built a tall and mysterious wooden fence around their yard. Christine pictures the blonde woman, wearing diamond studded flip-flops and a velvet sporting outfit that says JUICY across the elbows and buttocks, and her husband?burly, loud, a golden chain shining above his V-neck. They remind her of other people she has encountered throughout her life?the adventure type, whom she has always avoided, certain that if she didn?t, they?d avoid her. She tries to imagine the neighbors talking, but, since she has only seen them fleetingly and from a distance, she finds this impossible. Not able to make up a story about them, she writes about the vacation of a married couple very much like her and Paul, except that she changes their names to Rita and Leon. She describes their most recent vacation?a room at the Royal Hawaiian, a long walk around Waikiki. She wonders if the story is too much like a poem, descriptions mostly, not focused enough on interior states and action.

Her classmates? comments surprise her.

?What appeals to me about this story,? says one of the women in the class, ?Is Rita?s quiet dislike for Leon.?

?She wants to hurt him,? says another. Some of the students nod.

?There is nothing happening in the story,? says a brisk woman with glasses, who is older than the rest and speaks with affected authority because of it. Her crude comments are followed by awkward silences.

The professor waits till the end. Without looking at Christine, she says ?Rita?s anger towards her husband could be more explicit. The writer should add an additional scene, which will speak to her true feelings.?

During dinner that evening, Christine goes over the story in her mind. She pictures Leon and Rita on the deck of a boat, where they?ve come for a dinner cruise. Leon is wearing the suit that Rita bought him for his fortieth birthday, the gray one with a pink stripe and is running circles on her back with his fingers. When he leans over the railing to look at the water, Rita feels the urge to give him a little push, to see him soak and sink.

?How do you like the potatoes?? Paul asks and stretches his hand towards Christine?s back. He has been cooking the whole evening without so much as turning the music on, so not to disturb her writing. He tells her of a new method of cooking the potatoes?boiling them first, then baking them. Because he is simultaneously talking and eating, something he does quite often, he chokes on a fish bone, turns red in the face and starts to cough. There is no water on the table, so Christine rushes towards the kitchen, but, after opening the refrigerator, she can?t decide if she should pick up the plain or the sparkling water. Her indecision lasts a few seconds during which, Paul walks towards the kitchen himself, pushes her aside and grabs one of the water bottles.

After he calms down, she thinks that he?ll question her delay, but he doesn?t. He walks towards the window and looks outside.

?The couple across the street are having a party,? he says. ?They invited us.?

Christine unties her hair and lets it fall on her shoulders. ?We should go,? she says. ?Please, darling, let?s.?

?***

The unique thing about the party is that all the couples are acting single. Christine and Paul sit next to each other and look at all the men and women drinking wine and laughing with each-others? spouses. In a few minutes, the neighbor comes over and sits next to Christine, while his wife sits next to Paul. They aren?t at all like she has imagined them from a distance? self-involved and nearly foreign? no, they seem obliging and a bit nervous.

?Where did you move here from?? Christine asks the neighbor.

?From Hawaii. ?I?m a diving instructor.?

?We were in Hawaii last month. We went snorkeling once.?

?Come, I?ll show you something you?ll like,? says the neighbor to Christine and grabs her hand.

?I?ll be right back,? Christine tells Paul. She and the neighbor enter a dark room, lit up by the light of two large aquariums filled with miniature caves, from where small, orange fish emerge and disappear. The walls of the room are covered with goggles, diving suits, masks and fins. The neighbor talks at length about his underwater excursions. When he asks Christine if she wouldn?t mind wearing the goggles, or if she?d allow him to put the fins on her feet, the questions sound innocent, as if he only wishes to demonstrate his point more concretely. Christine laughs and puts on the goggles, which are so scratched that keeping her eyes open is useless. She feels her neighbor?s hands push her towards chair, take off her shoes, and slip the fins on her feet, above her nylons. They hear a frantic knock at the door. Christine takes off her goggles and sees Paul entering, his face flushed. Paul grabs her by the arm and pushes her towards the door, but the neighbor says ?Lady, wait, I?d like my fins back!? ?Christine stops, starts taking them off and puts on her shoes.

Paul doesn?t slacken the grip on her arm until they reach their home. Then, he turns towards her and says ?Have you lost your mind?? His anger annoys Christine. He now reminds her of a small dog her parents gave her for her birthday when she was little. It would bark uncontrollably and, when she couldn?t stand the sound, she locked it inside a tiny room to the side of the garage, where her father kept his tools. Slamming the door, she rushes to another room and continues her story. One evening, Rita looks up a list of popular poisons on the Internet. Of course, she doesn?t intend to poison anyone. With all the advances in forensic science, poisoning doesn?t allow any anonymity. But, she finds reading about poisons interesting. For example, Bella Donna or Deadly Nightshade is a plant used as a beauty product during the Renaissance.? When applied to the eyes, it dilated the pupils, which was considered beautiful. PufferFish Venom was used as a delicacy in Japan. Rita wonders if they could try it during their upcoming trip to Asia.

When Christine finishes her research for the story, something pulls her towards the window. She sees the neighbor walking a guest towards her car. On his way back, he turns her head towards her window and waves, as if knowing she?d be there. What startles her is that, although she finds him slightly repulsive, she feels compelled to walk outside and meet him. But, she goes to bed instead, where Paul apologizes for his outburst. Christine stares at the ceiling and doesn?t pay attention to his words. She wishes he?d stop speaking.

?***

?I love that part when Rita ends up on the chair with the goggles and fins on,? someone says in class the next day.

Christine listens attentively, but takes nothing to heart. It?s the beginning of the class discussion. Everyone praises the story in the beginning; the critiques come at the very end. A few minutes later, when they start badmouthing her story, Christine tells herself not to pay attention to anyone except the professor.

The older woman in the back shouts ?There is nothing happening in the story. I look up poisons all the time. I haven?t poisoned anyone, have I? Not that I?d tell you anyhow.?

The class is silent, but the older woman doesn?t mind and laughs alone.

?What we have here,? the professor finally says, ?It?s a beginning writer?s typical error?avoidance of action. Rita needs to act on her fantasies to kill Leon. Agreed??

?Agreed,? says the class in unison.

?I suspect she?ll try something in Asia,? says one of the students.

?That?s a great idea. Let?s kill Leon in Asia. Now, let?s move on the next story,? says the professor and looks at Christine who jots down notes.

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Governor signs new law for abortion clinics in Michigan

(Reuters) - Michigan's Republican governor on Friday signed into law new rules for abortion providers that supporters say will protect the health of pregnant women but critics say will shutter clinics and restrict access.

The law signed by Governor Rick Snyder increases state oversight of abortion clinics and establishes a screening protocol to make sure women are not being forced to get an abortion.

The measure requires health facilities or clinics that perform more than 120 abortions a year to become licensed freestanding surgical outpatient facilities.

It also requires physicians to "properly and respectfully dispose of fetal remains."

"This bill respects a woman's right to choose while helping protect her health and safety, including making sure a pregnant person is not being coerced into a decision," Snyder said.

The Michigan law is the latest flashpoint in the battle between opponents and supporters of abortion, a procedure that is legal in the United States. In the past two years, conservative Republicans in more than a dozen U.S. states have take steps to eliminate state funding for Planned Parenthood, a family planning provider that performs abortions.

Critics of the Michigan law fear its insistence on new, standalone facilities will hurt women in rural and low-income areas as it could force some clinics to close. They say questioning women on whether an abortion is voluntary subjects them to a type of interrogation.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion rights group that opposed the measure, said it could force many existing abortion providers in the state to either tear down their offices and rebuild from the ground up -- or shutter their practices.

The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which also opposed the law, called its passage a setback for reproductive rights and the health of women.

"Safety was never the intention of this law. The only thing this law accomplishes is to make a difficult decision even more difficult," said Rana Elmir, the communications director for the Michigan ACLU.

Snyder vetoed a separate measure on Friday that would have restricted insurance providers and businesses from providing elective abortion coverage in employee health plans.

The bill also would have forced the victims of rape or incest who did not purchase separate abortion coverage to pay for the procedure out of pocket.

"I don't believe it is appropriate to tell a woman who becomes pregnant due to a rape that she needed to select elective insurance coverage," Snyder said in his veto message.

"And as a practical matter, I believe this type of policy is an overreach of government into the private market."

Elmir, at Michigan ACLU, called Snyder's veto of the second measure "encouraging."

(Reporting by James Kelleher; Editing by Greg McCcune and Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/governor-signs-law-abortion-clinics-michigan-003931122.html

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Website Makes Real Estate Investment User Friendly ... - Eyes In

The newly released direct response designs by real estate investing and web development firm,?www.RealEstateInvestorsWebsite.net, for real estate investor websites are re-defining real estate investing, both in ease of management of their websites and businesses and marketing capabilities integrated into the websites.

The direct response designs and features aim to engage every website visitor and convert them to a prospect, then follow up with them automatically leading to closed real estate transactions.

For starters, the websites can be quickly adapted to run virtually any business model in real estate investing in a matter of minutes, directly from a simple virtual back office.

This means that even real estate investors with little to no internet experience can run their business successfully from these websites.

Secondly, the in-built marketing features on these websites allow them to actively attract leads from the internet and convert them to closed deals, whether they are looking to sell their houses, buy houses, or even if they are potential private money lenders.

Every visitor that lands on these websites is instantly engaged by a real life-like speaking model that commands instant attention and delivers a down to earth message that relates to the visitor?s needs.

This increases credibility and converts more visitors to closed deals.

Each website offers helpful free e-books that require visitors to provide their contact information to receive them. The website?s inbuilt auto responder systems then take over, following up with carefully pre-timed email messages whose goal is to convert every prospect to a closed deal.

Each website is also pre-loaded with numerous design choices as well as squeeze pages (landing pages) complete with pre-loaded auto responder messages, speaking models and videos.

The goal of each website delivered is to close more deals using less time, money and effort.

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