Voo Voo & other: 2008

Saturday 30 August 2008

Randomized Phase 2 Study Of IMC-A12 And IMC-1121B For Advanced Prostate Cancer Commences Patient Enrollment

�ImClone Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMCL), a global loss leader in the development and commercialization of novel antibodies to treat cancer, today announced that its disease-directed Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with advanced prostate cancer randomized to treatment with either IMC-A12 or IMC-1121B plus mitoxantrone and prednisone has commenced patient registration. IMC-A12 and IMC-1121B ar two therapeutic candidates in ImClone's proprietorship receptor-targeted antibody pipeline. IMC-A12 is ImClone's fully human, IgG1 anti-insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) monoclonal antibody and IMC-1121B is its fully human, IgG1 anti-vascular growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) monoclonal antibody.

This multicenter, randomized open-label Phase 2 single-arm study is enrolling patients with metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer who have developed disease progression during or within 60 days of receiving docetaxel-based chemotherapy or demonstrated intolerance to docetaxel-based therapy. A sum of 132 patients are expected to be enrolled at various centers, including those that participate in the Department of Defense's Prostate Cancer Consortium. This Phase 2 study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of both IMC-A12 and IMC-1121B combined with mitoxantrone and prednisone. IMC-A12 and IMC-1121B are administered weekly, whereas mitoxantrone is administered every three weeks with oral daily prednisone.

"We ar very pleased about beginning another disease-directed, proof-of-concept run which efficiently evaluates two of our pipeline antibodies with discrete mechanisms of action, still each with potential applicability in the treatment of prostate cancer based on preclinical investigations performed by ImClone and academic collaborators," said Eric K. Rowinsky, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of ImClone. "The results of whatsoever one of the study arms, or even both, in conjunction with those of other ongoing clinical and preclinical studies, may serve as platforms for subsequent registration directed bodily process in several early- and advanced-stage prostate gland cancer settings."

IMC-A12 is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody designed to specifically target the human IGF-1R, thereby inhibiting certain ligands known as IGFs 1 and 2 from binding to and energizing the receptor. This action blocks a signaling nerve pathway that enhances tumor cell proliferation and survival. In 2007, ImClone completed enrollment into two Phase 1 studies of IMC-A12 which demonstrated friendly safety and pharmacokinetic profiles, as comfortably as prelim evidence of antitumor bodily process as a single federal agent when administered either weekly or every two weeks. In addition to this Phase 2 study proclaimed today, Phase 2 studies of IMC-A12 in adult and adolescent patients with soft tissue sarcoma, untreated advanced prostate gland, pancreatic, colorectal, liver, and head and neck cancers, as well as a series of Phase 1/2 studies in pediatric malignancies and another evaluating the combination of IMC-A12 and temsirolimus, have begun to enroll patients.

IMC-1121B is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody designed to bind to the extracellular domain of VEGFR-2 launch on tumor vasculature, thereby inhibiting certain ligands known as vascular endothelial growth factors from binding to and activating the receptor. This natural action blocks a signaling pathway key to new blood vessel formation in growing tumors, which has been shown to starve tumors of their nutrient issue and solution in significant tumor growth inhibition in pre-clinical models. In addition to this Phase 2 study announced today, disease-directed studies of IMC-1121B in patients with advanced malignant melanoma, liver and renal cancers have begun to inscribe patients, and additional Phase 2 and 3 evaluations are in various stages of development. In April 2008, ImClone announced an agreement with the Food and Drug Administration on a Special Protocol Assessment for a Phase 3 study of IMC-1121B in women with metastatic chest cancer, which recently commenced.

About ImClone Systems

ImClone Systems Incorporated is a fully structured global biopharmaceutical company committed to forward-moving oncology care by development and commercializing a portfolio of targeted biologic treatments designed to address the medical of necessity of patients with a variety of cancers. The Company's research and development programs let in growth broker blockers and angiogenesis inhibitors. ImClone Systems' headquarters and research trading operations are located in New York City, with additional administration and manufacturing facilities in Branchburg, New Jersey. For more information about ImClone Systems, please visit the Company's web situation at hTTP://www.imclone.com.

Certain matters discussed in this news acquittance may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Federal securities laws. Although the party believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it prat give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. Forward-looking information is subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could reason actual results to take issue materially from those projecting. Many of these factors are beyond the company's ability to control or predict. Important factors that may suit actual results to disagree materially and could wallop the company and the statements contained in this news release can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, flow reports on Form 8-K and annual reports on Form 10-K. For modern statements in this intelligence release, the company claims the protection of the safe harbor for innovative statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company assumes no obligation to update or supplementation any modern statements whether as a result of new information, future events or other than.

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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Avril "Too Sexy" for Malaysia?

Avril Lavigne is getting under the skin of Malaysian censors.

A hard-line Islamic opposition party in the Southeast Asian country is calling on the politics to opening an upcoming concert featuring the "Sk8er Boi" isaac M. Singer, calling her stage pretend way "excessively sexy" for local tastes.

Officials with the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party's youth wing postulate Lavigne's Aug. 29 operation in Kuala Lumpur would set a bad representative for citizens, especially climax two years before the nation's Aug. 31 Independence Day holiday.

"It is considered too aphrodisiac for us...it's non good for viewers in Malaysia," party official Kamarulzaman Mohamed was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. "We don't want our people, our teenagers, influenced by their performance. We want clean artists, artists that are good role models."

Kamarulzaman subsequently sent letters of protest last week to Malaysia's Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry and Kuala Lumpur's mayor demanding the gig be canceled.

No word yet what the Ministry plans to do.

Officials on that point have yet to o.K. the covering submitted last week by the booster, Galaxy Group, seeking a permit on behalf of the Canadian pop-punkster. However, a citizens committee will purportedly take up the matter during a meeting on Tuesday.

Still, organizers claim Galaxy has standard "very positive" reaction from the Ministry so far.

A rep for the mathematical group expressed sure thing that its request would go through, noting that the 23-year-old Lavigne's act does non contain whatever "negative elements" that would offend the sensibilities of local concertgoers.

A largely buttoned-down society where Islam is the official religion, Malaysia has a strict policy when it comes to maintaining traditional values, forbiddance performers from exhibiting "lewd" behavior on stage�defined by government officials as define jumping, shouting, hugging and kissing or displaying any sexual imagery or do drugs references.

Additionally, artists are today allowed to wear anything revealing and must cover themselves from the thorax to the knees in line with conservative Muslim edicts.

There was no immediate comment from Lavinge's camp.

A number of notable Western entertainers get run into trouble playacting in Malaysia Beyonc� axed a engagement in the country and instead engaged a show in Indonesia rather than try to adhere to the country's stringent standards.

Christina Aguilera avoided the rural area altogether during a trek through the region last year, while Gwen Stefani decided to forego the belly-button ring and her usual stripped fashion statement to lenify the powers that be.

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Sunday 10 August 2008

Lonestar

Artist: Lonestar

   Genre(s):
Country

Discography:

Let's Be Us Again

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

From There to Here: Greatest Hits

Year: 2003
Tracks: 18

Coming Home

Year:
Tracks: 12

Jackman Thrills X-men Fans With Wolverine Teaser

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Los Dareyes de la Sierra

Artist: Los Dareyes de la Sierra

   Genre(s):
Latin

Discography:

En la Mira

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Corridos

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

En Vivo

Year: 2005
Tracks: 12

Bade Ghulam Ali Khan

Monday 23 June 2008

Frank Darabont’s LaBeouf-less ‘Indiana Jones 4’ Screenplay Leaks Online

Courtesy of Paramount
The script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull wasn't born terrible — during its two-decade development, it went through multiple revisions and writers before George Lucas finally deemed it bad enough to shoot. And now, Frank Darabont's 2003 draft (called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods) has hit the Internet! According to reports, Steven Spielberg loved it and Lucas hated it, which probably means it's fantastic. We haven't read it yet, but we skimmed it; Crystal Skull's killer ants are in there, and Indy, Marion, and Professor Oxley still implausibly survive a boat trip over four waterfalls (also — SPOILER ALERT! — knowledge is still their treasure). What's different? Among other things, Shia LaBeouf's character is nowhere to be found, which means nobody swings Tarzan-style through the jungle surrounded by CGI monkeys (CGI monkeys do make an appearance, but, on the page at least, they seem relatively non-annoying). Oh, what might've been!

Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods [CloneWeb]
Did Darabont's 'Indiana Jones' Script Leak Online? [Cinematical]

Monday 16 June 2008

Denise Richards - Richards Asks Sheen To Be Civil

DENISE RICHARDS has offered an olive branch to her ex-husband CHARLIE SHEEN - pleading with the star to stop publicly bashing her now he has re-married.

The former couple divorced in 2006 and has since been embroiled in a bitter dispute over custody of their two daughters, three-year-old Sam and Lola, two.

And they have taken any opportunity open to them to showcase their distaste for each other, with Sheen accusing the beauty of sending him emails begging him to donate his sperm so that she could carry another one of his children.

The claim infuriated Richards, who slammed the star, saying, "I don't want Charlie's prostitute-tranny-infested sperm", when defending herself to New York's gossip column Page Six.

Sheen also blasted their time as husband and wife after his recent marriage to Brooke Mueller, saying, "It feels like my first real marriage (to Mueller). The first one (to Donna Peele) was a show, the second (to Richards) was a con, and this one is the real deal."

But, now, Richards claims she is tired of their public feuding, and is hoping her former partner will act "civil" towards her now that he has a new wife.

She says, "He loves to trash me in the press and discredit me and has tried to sabotage my show. I can't change that, so I just keep living my life.

"I hope that now that he's married, he can move forward and be civil."

U.S. reality series Denise Richards: It's Complicated first aired on (25May08), just days before Sheen and Mueller tied the knot in a Los Angeles ceremony (30May08).

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Sunday 8 June 2008

Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as the beleaguered police chief Martin Brody in 'Jaws', has died. He was 75.
The two-time Oscar nominee died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital spokesperson Leslie Taylor said the actor had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past two years.
New Jersey-born Scheider earned his first Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Eight years later he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV adventure series 'SeaQuest DSV'.

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony are celebrating the birth of twin babies in New York.
According to People magazine, the babies, a girl weighing 5lbs 7oz and a boy weighing 6lbs, were born early this morning.
Lopez's manager Simon Fields confirmed the news to the magazine, saying: "Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon."
The twins are the first children for the couple, who married in June 2004. Anthony already has three children.

Cbs - Cbs Buys Internet Publisher Cnet For 18 Billion

In a move that lifts it into the forefront of Internet publishers, CBS has agreed
to acquire CNET Networks for about$1.8 billion in cash -- representing a 45-percent
premium over CNET's current share price. In a statement, CBS chief Les Moonves said,
"There are very few opportunities to acquire a profitable, growing well-managed Internet
company like CNET Networks. ...CNET Networks will add a tremendous platform to extend
our complementary entertainment, news, sports, music and information content to a
whole new global audience."

15/05/2008

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Britney can't make her own decisions

Melbourne (ANI): Troubled pop star Britney Spears is still incapable of making decisions for herself, the Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner reviewing her case has ruled. The 26-year-old singer's court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham, and attorneys for the pop star's father and conservator, Jamie Spears, spent 90 minutes in Commissioner Reva Goetz' chambers, reports the Daily Telegraph. Ingham told the court his client's medical condition is 'fluid' because her treatment is changing. The 'Toxic' singer's probate case is slated to go to trial July 31, but her attorney said that it could be 'harmful' for her to participate.

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Fascinating Fact 5393

Theatre impresario SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER has revealed the name of his much-anticipated PHANTOM OF THE OPERA sequel. PHANTOM: ONCE UPON A TIME will hit London's West End theatres in time for Christmas next year (09).

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EastEnders star attacked leaving nightclub

'EastEnders' star Lacey Turner returned to filming in London today after getting caught up in a fight when she left a nightclub.
The 19-year-old actress, who plays love cheat Stacey Branning in the hit BBC1 soap, was on her way home from a night out with co-star Aaron Sidwell (Steven Beale), also 19, when she was hit.
Turner did not report the incident, which took place at 2am at a supermarket car park near the Destiny club in Watford, Hertfordshire.
The actress' spokeswoman said: "She was literally walking back into a car park when a fight broke out and she got clipped.
"She was in the wrong place at the wrong time but she's fine. She and Aaron were not involved in the fight.
"She had a day off yesterday because she was off schedule and she's back filming today."
Turner joined the soap in November 2004. Her feisty character has recently been searching for her husband Bradley after he disappeared when he found out she had been cheating on him with his father.

Bailey Rae's husband is found dead

The husband of British soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae was found dead in Leeds on Saturday from a suspected drugs overdose.
West Yorkshire police said that they were called to an apartment in the Hyde Park area of the city where they found the body of a 31-year-old man, later identified as Jason Rae.
Police said that a 32-year-old man was arrested under suspicion of supplying drugs and freed on bail.
A post-mortem on the body of Jason Rae, a saxophonist with the group the Haggis Horns, proved inconclusive, and police are awaiting toxicology reports.
In a statement, Bailey Rae's record label EMI said: "EMI Records would like to offer its sincere condolences to Corinne Bailey Rae and the Rae family at this tragic time. We ask that the media respects Corinne's privacy and that of her entire family."

Ray Winstone - The Things The Say

"One day maybe, when my legs ain't working properly anymore. Trouble is, I'm impatient. If actors started f**king around I'd probably lose it, you know. British hardman RAY WINSTONE doesn't think he has the patience to be a director.

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