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Inside the Black Budget
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01patc.html?ex=1364702400&en=f406ed...
Skulls. Black cats. A naked woman riding a killer whale. Snakes. Swords. Occult symbols. A wizard with a staff that shoots lightning bolts. A dragon holding the Earth in its claws. No, this is not the fantasy world of a 12-year-old boy. It is ... part of the hidden reality behind the Pentagon's classified, or "black," budget that delivers billions of dollars to stealthy armies of high-tech warriors. [A new] book offers a glimpse of this dark world through a revealing lens — patches — the kind worn on military uniforms. Trevor Paglen, an artist and photographer finishing his Ph.D. in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, has managed to document some of this hidden world. The 75 patches he has assembled reveal a bizarre mix of high and low culture. "Oderint Dum Metuant," reads a patch for an Air Force program that mines spy satellite images for battlefield intelligence, according to Mr. Paglen, who identifies the saying as from Caligula, the first-century Roman emperor famed for his depravity. It translates "Let them hate so long as they fear." Wizards appear on several patches. The one hurling lightning bolts comes from a secret Air Force base at Groom Lake, northwest of Las Vegas in a secluded valley. Mr. Paglen identifies its five clustered stars and one separate star as a veiled reference to Area 51, where the government tests advanced aircraft and, U.F.O. buffs say, captured alien spaceships. What sparked his interest, Mr. Paglen recalled, were Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks as the Pentagon and World Trade Center smoldered. "We've got to spend time in the shadows," Mr. Cheney said. "It's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective."
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Seeking UFOs, deep underground
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ufoguy28mar28,1,3633549....
[Peter] Davenport, longtime director of the National UFO Reporting Center, a nonprofit clearinghouse and 24-hour hotline for UFO sightings, [is] a full-time UFO investigator and possessor of one of the world's most comprehensive, though unofficial, UFO databases. The center, in continuous operation since 1970, is known worldwide among those interested in UFOs: scientists as well as people surfing the Web. The hotline [206-722-3000] is posted on various UFO websites, and calls -- as many as 20,000 in a year -- come from people who believe they've seen or experienced something beyond the ordinary, potentially involving extraterrestrials. If the case seems compelling and is a short flight away, Davenport will investigate in person. He takes written reports, records testimony and consults experts in specialty areas. Costs can range from $500 to $5,000 a month, depending on travel. Davenport, 60, is a passionate, cerebral man with a haughty disdain for the media. "I do not countenance fools," he [said]. "The work of studying UFOs is of immense consequence to every living thing on this planet. If I sense you are wasting my time, I will be blunt." His life revolves around a question, namely: "Are we alone in the universe or are we not?" A number of prominent scientists and much of the public -- as many as 60%, according to polls -- believe UFOs exist and should be studied. As a corollary, a large number of astronomers believe life in other parts of the universe is not only possible but likely. Among the famous, former President Carter, anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychiatrist Carl Jung and astronaut Gordon Cooper reported seeing a UFO or proclaimed a belief in UFOs as representing visitations from extraterrestrials.
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New UFO Sighting Reported In Stephenville Texas
2008-02-12, washingtonpost.com
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2008/02/new_ufo_sighting_reported_in_s...
The truth may be out there, but, when it comes to UFO stories, it is sure hard to find. Conjecture breeds conspiracy theories. Any official denial can be labeled a cover-up. In the end, it often boils down to a he-said-she-said scenario. Such is the case in Stephenville, Texas, a small, rural community thrust into the spotlight after several unexplained disturbances in January. Though that spotlight has now faded, the town remains altered. Some members of the community want to move on; others cannot let go. And some, if you believe them, say that UFOs are still there. According to Angelia Joiner, the reporter who wrote the original UFO stories, there was another UFO sighting on Saturday. "If the military is testing a secret military device, why do they keep doing it here?" she asked me. "If it's not a secret why do they keep scaring the bejesus out of people?" Adding a further wrinkle to this story, Joiner was fired from The Empire-Tribune a week ago. She claims she had been told to back off the story and thinks the town's "upper crust" was "embarrassed" by all the attention. The Empire-Tribune has avoided comment, which of course only fans the flames of the conspiracy theories. For its part, the military has done itself no favors, first denying that it had any aircraft in the area, then flip-flopping a few days later -- after more witnesses came forward. A spokesperson blamed internal miscommunication for the mix-up. Others, including CNN's Larry King, have asked whether it wasn't a cover-up. But who can we believe? The truth remains unidentified.
Note: As revealed in this commentary, the courageous reporter, Angelia Joiner, who gave the Stephenville UFO story legs and led to more sales of her newspaper than ever before, has now been fired. To read highly revealing information about this bizarre twist, click here and here.
Huge rise in British UFO sightings
2008-02-09, The Telegraph (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/07/nufo107.xml
Clusters of up to 100 mysterious objects, bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported to the Ministry of Defence last year. The ministry has opened up its own "X-Files" for 2007, revealing 135 UFO sightings from across the UK. The number of sightings has shot up since 97 were reported in 2006. In Duxford, Cambridgeshire on April 12, a witness reported seeing fifty objects, each with an orange light, assembling in the sky before ascending. Two pilots in different planes above Alderney in the Channel Islands reported the same UFOs on April 23. They saw one bright orange craft, then a gap, followed by an identical object. In the West Midlands in December, one witness got a shock when a UFO shone a light into her window. Hilary Porter, from the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) said sightings were becoming increasingly common. She said: "There has been a huge influx of UFOs. Absolutely enormous. There [have] been these huge formations that have been coming. We have had call after call after call, from business people right down to ordinary folk in their cars. There have been some very close encounters that have been quite unnerving for the people involved. We have had other people reporting orb sightings." A spokeswoman said the ministry does not investigate each and every report. "We only investigate if there have been any objects in British air space that may be military," she said. "Unless there's evidence of a potential threat we don't investigate to try to identify it."
Note: For a succinct summary of first-hand reports of UFO sightings by highly credible former government and military officials, click here.
Small Texas town abuzz over reported UFO sightings
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4133693
In this Texas farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO. Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it. "People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts." While federal officials insist there's a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object's lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object. Machinist Ricky Sorrells said ... he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home.He has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts. About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate. Fourteen percent of Americans polled last year by The Associated Press ... say they have seen a UFO.
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What Kucinich Saw: Witnesses Describe His Close Encounter
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119923872081461417.html
What exactly did Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich see hovering above actress Shirley MacLaine's house 25 years ago? Now, after keeping quiet about the incident for a quarter of a century, the two people who say they were at Mr. Kucinich's side that evening have come forward to describe an event which they say left them convinced that there's intelligent life in outer space. "At no time did I feel afraid, even though I felt very small," says ... Paul Costanzo. "I sensed that I was in the presence of a greater technology and intelligence." The close encounter ... took place in September 1982 at Ms. MacLaine's former home in Graham, Wash. [Kucinich] ... lived there for the better part of a year. Also in residence was Mr. Costanzo, a Juilliard-trained trumpet player and jujitsu black belt, who worked as Ms. MacLaine's assistant, personal trainer and bodyguard. Mr. Costanzo's girlfriend at the time ... was visiting when the UFO incident took place. The day was strange from the start. For hours, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Costanzo and his companion noticed a high-pitched sound. "There was a sense that something extraordinary was happening all day," says the girlfriend. Mr. Kucinich spotted a light in the distance, to the left of Mount Rainier. What they saw in the far distance, according to both witnesses, was a hovering light, which soon divided into two, and then three. After a few minutes, the lights moved closer and it became apparent that they were actually three charcoal-gray, triangular craft, flying in a tight wedge. The craft approached to within 200 yards, suspended over the field just beyond the swimming pool. Both witnesses say it emitted a quiet, throbbing sound -- nothing like an airplane engine. The craft held steady in midair, for perhaps a minute, then sped away, Mr. Costanzo says. "Nothing had landed," he says. "No strange beings had disembarked. No obvious messages were beamed down. When they were completely out of sight, we all looked at each other disbelieving what we had seen."
Note: This article amazingly was published on the front page of the Wall Street Journal!
UFO awareness group really isn't so far out
2007-12-31, Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-ufo_31m...
Anyone who takes the topic seriously knows about what they call the "giggle factor." So when Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was asked in a recent debate about his belief in unidentified flying objects, the North Texas members of Mutual UFO Network weren't surprised when it turned into a political punch line. On the other hand, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has also addressed UFOs – seriously – on the campaign trail. And last month, a group of highly credentialed aviation experts from around the world called for more official investigations of UFOs. Getting their cause into the news – and not just as a joke – is welcome to people who have felt pushed to the fringes for a long time. "There is a growing awareness and willingness on the part of the public to take this seriously," said Ken Cherry, the Texas MUFON director. Is the secret that the ufologists of MUFON have been chasing for decades about to come out? "We don't think it's a secret. Just some people don't believe it," said Terry Groff, webmaster for the local MUFON group and a trained UFO investigator. "I really haven't made my mind up," said MUFON regional director James Shatley. "The preponderance of evidence is that either we have discovered incredible technology, or there are some other races that have conquered time and space and figured out how to get here." Mr. Kucinich said he saw a UFO 25 years ago while visiting Shirley MacLaine's home in Washington. Mr. Richardson pledged to reopen the famous case of aliens reportedly crashing at Roswell in 1947. The aviation experts calling for more investigation included a deputy chief of staff from the Belgian Air Force, the retired chief of Accidents and Investigations for the Federal Aviation Administration, a pilot with the Chilean Aviation Army, an Air France captain, a general in the Iranian Air Force and a representative from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense.
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Asteroid on track for possible Mars hit
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-sci-mars21dec21,1,394970...
Talk about your cosmic pileups. An asteroid similar to the one that flattened forests in Siberia in 1908 could plow into Mars next month, scientists said. Researchers attached to NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, who sometimes jokingly call themselves the Solar System Defense Team, have been tracking the asteroid since its discovery in late November. The scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... put the chances that it will hit the Red Planet on Jan. 30 at about 1 in 75. A 1-in-75 shot is "wildly unusual," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near-Earth Object office, which routinely tracks about 5,000 objects in Earth's neighborhood. "We're used to dealing with odds like one-in-a-million," Chesley said. "Something with a one-in-a-hundred chance makes us sit up straight in our chairs." The asteroid, designated 2007 WD5, is about 160 feet across, which puts it in the range of the space rock that exploded over [Tunguska,] Siberia. That explosion, the largest impact event in recent history, felled 80 million trees over 830 square miles. The Tunguska object broke up in midair, but the Martian atmosphere is so thin that an asteroid would probably plummet to the surface, digging a crater half a mile wide, Chesley said. The impact would probably send dust high into the atmosphere. Depending on where the asteroid hit, such a plume might be visible through telescopes on Earth. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is mapping the planet, would have a front-row seat. And NASA's two JPL-built rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, might be able to take pictures from the ground. Such a collision on Mars would produce a "scientific bonanza," Chesley said. The possibility of an impact has the Solar System Defense Team excited. "Normally, we're rooting against the asteroid," when it has Earth in its cross hairs, Chesley said. "This time we're rooting for the asteroid to hit."
I touched a UFO: ex-air force pilot
2007-11-13, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/i-touched-a-ufo-exair-force-pilot/20...
A group of former pilots who have recounted seeing strange phenomena in the sky has demanded the US government reopen an investigation into UFOs. Several pilots offered dramatic accounts of witnessing UFOs - including a transparent flying disc and a triangular craft with mysterious markings. "We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms," said Fife Symington, [a] former governor of Arizona and air force pilot who says he saw a UFO in 1997. "Our country needs to reopen its official investigation that it shut down in 1969," Symington said. "Nothing in my training prepared me for what we were witnessing," said James Penniston, a retired US Air Force pilot, as he described seeing and touching a UFO when he was stationed at a British air base in Woodbridge. He said he saw an inexplicable triangular craft in a clearing in the woods with "blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior". The UFO was "warm to the touch and felt like metal," Penniston said. One side of the craft had pictorial symbols. Then after 45 minutes, the light from the object "began to intensify" and it then "shot off at an unbelievable speed" before 80 Air Force personnel, he said. "In my logbook, I wrote 'speed: impossible'." A former official with the Federal Aviation Administration, John Callahan, said government agencies discourage inquiries into UFOs. "'Who believes in UFOs?' is the kind of attitude of the FAA all the time," he said. "However, when I asked the CIA person: 'What do you think it was,' he responded 'a UFO'." When Callahan suggested the government tell Americans about [the] UFO, the CIA official allegedly told him: "'No way, if we were to tell the American public there are UFOs they would panic."'
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Former pilots and officials call for new U.S. UFO probe
2007-11-12, ABC News/Reuters
An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings. "Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters," they said in a statement released at a news conference. The panelists from seven countries, including former senior military officers, said they had each seen a UFO or conducted an official investigation into UFO phenomena. "It's a question of who [are] you going to believe: your lying eyes or the government?" remarked John Callahan, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, who said the CIA in 1987 tried to hush up the sighting of a huge lighted ball four times the size of a jumbo jet in Alaska. The panel, organized by a group dedicated to winning credibility for the study of UFOs, urged Washington to resume UFO investigations through the U.S. Air Force or NASA. "It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997.
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UFOS: Are They for Real?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/09/lkl.01.html
LARRY KING, HOST: Our panel here in Los Angeles, Fife Symington, the former governor of Arizona, who in 1997 ridiculed an infamous UFO sighting by thousands of people in the state and later admitted that he himself saw a craft. James Fox, the filmmaker who is the executive producer of the award-winning feature length documentary "Out of the Blue" -- the definitive investigation of the UFO phenomenon. Colonel Chuck Halt [USAF] the deputy base commander of Bentwaters Woodbridge, a U.S. military base in Suffolk, England. Sergeant Jim Penniston ... a security supervisor at that base in 1980. He says he sat with a UFO on the ground for 45 minutes before it hovered above him and shot into the air at an unearthly speed. SYMINGTON: I was a skeptic [until] I saw a wedge-shaped craft of enormous proportions fly over ... Phoenix. KING: Colonel Halt [what] did you see? HALT: We noticed three objects. They were illuminated with multiple lights and were moving at high speed in sharp, angular patterns. One of them approached us at very high speed and sent down a beam ... at our feet. SGT. JIM PENNISTON: I was there. We discovered a craft of unknown origin ... on the ground. We touched it, walked around it, photographed it. KING: Added to [our panel] is John Callahan, the former division chief of accidents and investigations branch of the FAA. In 1986 a Japanese pilot said he saw twin cylinders flying in formation within 500 feet of his air cargo jet. He claimed the object was the size of two aircraft carriers and it followed him for over 30 minutes. KING: After this incident, you said [the] FAA administrator held a briefing. CALLAHAN: When we got all done with our briefing ... the CIA man stood up and said, this event never happened, we were never here, you're all sworn to secrecy and we are confiscating all of this data.
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Symington: I saw a UFO in the Arizona sky
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/09/simington.ufocommentary/
In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality. I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I'd ever seen. The incident was witnessed by hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people in Arizona, and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians. The growing hysteria intensified when the story broke nationally. I decided to lighten the mood of the state by calling a press conference where my chief of staff arrived in an alien costume. We managed to lessen the sense of panic but, at the same time, upset many of my constituents. I would now like to set the record straight. I never meant to ridicule anyone. My office did make inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day they remain unanswered. Eventually the Air Force claimed responsibility stating that they dropped flares. This is indicative of the attitude from official channels. We get explanations that fly in the face of the facts. Explanations like weather balloons, swamp gas and military flares. I was never happy with the Air Force's silly explanation. I now know that I am not alone. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns. While on active duty, they have either witnessed a UFO incident or have conducted an official investigation into UFO cases relevant to aviation safety and national security. By speaking out with me, these people are putting their reputations on the line. Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned.
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Plan 9 from outer space
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/plan-9-from-outer-space/2007/11/02/119361914...
In January 1979, The New York Times reported that despite repeated, feverish denials, the CIA had indeed investigated the UFO phenomenon. The report is said to have so upset the then CIA director, Stansfield Turner, that he reportedly asked his staff: "Are we in UFOs?" The answer was yes. This year a raft of newly unclassified CIA documents revealed that the remote possibility of alien invasion elicited greater fear than the threat of a Soviet nuclear attack. The subject of UFOs ... not only focused the attention of the US government elite for 50 years, but of some of the greatest scientific and military minds of the era. The CIA documents show that despite decades of repeated public denials, behind the scenes there raged a series of inter-agency feuds that involved the highest levels of the US government. UFO files cover everything from "flying saucers over Belgian Congo uranium mines" to Nazi "flying saucers". A 1953 memo shows that the physicist John Wheeler, while critically involved with Edward Teller in the creation of the hydrogen bomb, was available to the "CIA attack on the flying saucer" problem. A secret 1995 report was titled: CIA's role in the study of UFOs 1947-90: a diehard issue. Written by Gerald Haines, the CIA's National Reconnaissance Office historian, its detailed summary of CIA involvement inadvertently undermined its "UFOs-don't-exist" conclusion. Although the air force was the agency given the task of investigating UFOs from 1948 onwards, the CIA remained deeply involved. Some of their highlights, quoting directly from the documents, include: "[Since] 1947 there have been about 1500 official reports of sightings and [of these] the air force carries 20 per cent as unexplained."
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich Acknowledges UFO Sighting
The truth is out there, and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich had no trouble offering his version of it when asked ... about his UFO sighting. "It was an unidentified flying object, OK? It's, like, it's unidentified," Kucinich said during one of the few highlights at the Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia. "I saw something." Kucinich, whose UFO run-in came to light last week in a passage from Shirley MacLaine's new book [Sage-ing While Age-ing], went on to joke that he planned to move his campaign office to Roswell, N.M. Roswell is the place where legend holds a spacecraft crash-landed in 1947 and was recovered and moved for investigation to nearby Area 51, a secretive U.S. government airbase in Nevada. Kucinich went on to [say] many Americans have shared his experience. "You have to keep in mind that more — that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO and also that more people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency," Kucinich said. According to MacLaine, Kucinich saw the UFO in the 1980s while visiting the actress at her home in Washington state. "He saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent and observing him," MacLaine wrote. "It hovered for about 10 minutes or so and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind."
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Ex-defence minister joins search for aliens
2007-10-27, Toronto Star (Toronto's leading newspaper)
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/270984
Victor Viggiani has one of the toughest jobs in the universe. The retired elementary school principal spends his time lobbying reporters to blow a massive government cover-up wide open and reveal that extra-terrestrials have been visiting our planet for years. "I have no intention of convincing anybody of anything," said Viggiani, 59, director of media relations for Exopolitics Toronto, a non-profit educational group pushing for full disclosure of the truth about off-world beings. "What I do is point them to the evidence." Exopolitics is a field of study that has moved far beyond the question of whether we are alone in the universe. Its supporters believe there is enough evidence out there that they can state as fact that a) intelligent, sentient, ethical extra-terrestrials exist; b) they have made contact; and c) they probably have [many] lessons to teach us about sustainable energy sources and countless other matters of global importance. Viggiani [has] found [a] champion in Paul Hellyer, who was federal defence minister in Lester B. Pearson's cabinet. "I think the significance – and they are probably exaggerating it – but the significance is that I'm the first person of cabinet rank in the G8 to have come out openly and unequivocally and said the extra-terrestrial presence is real," said Hellyer. Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group in Washington, D.C., said the dearth of serious coverage has [him] suspecting whether publishers and national security forces are working together to keep things quiet. "The failure of the major media in the United States to cover the ET issue is one of the great failures of all journalism," he said.
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NASA to Search Files on UFO Incident
2007-10-27, Associated Press
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hY-pEhBhV6UBddtjWRMkax_ecxFAD8SH5MS80
NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what ... moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers. The Air Force's explanation for the unidentified flying object: A meteor or meteors. "They could not find anything," one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene. Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department. UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information. The agency has turned over several stacks of documents which Kean says are not responsive to the request, an argument that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with. In March, Sullivan rejected NASA's request to throw the case out of court, resulting in negotiations that led to the agency promising last week that it will conduct a more comprehensive search. Kean said Friday that she sued NASA rather than the Army because the space agency a decade ago released some relevant documents on the case.
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In the Orbit of UFO Enthusiasts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR20071018020...
For UFO buffs, 2007 is a multiple anniversary year. It was 60 years ago that whatever happened in Roswell, N.M., happened. It was 60 years ago that the term "flying saucer" entered the lexicon. And it was 55 years ago that reports of UFOs flooded the Washington region. This very newspaper ran stories with such headlines as" 'Saucer' Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals" and "D.C. Girl Sees Saucer Float Under Clouds."
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The truth is out there: Roswell incident recalled
2007-09-29, North County Times (Newspaper from San Diego, CA)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/30/lifeandtimes/20_37_059_29_07.txt
On July 9, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record, a newspaper, printed a story with the alarming headline: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region." There appear to be few things people agree on regarding what has become known as "the Roswell incident." Six decades later, competing UFO enthusiasts promote their own theories, skeptics dismiss the spaceship claims as outrageous, and the military, which originally claimed all the fuss was over a weather balloon, now sticks to its story that it was an experimental spy craft. Escondido resident Milton Sprouse, 85, said he knows what happened in Roswell ---- not because he favors one theory over another, but because he was there. As for the outrageous stories of mysterious metal, alien corpses and a military coverup? It's all true, he said. "I was there the day they announced a UFO had crashed," he said. "The next day, it was published in the Roswell Daily Record, and that night, all the generals said the story was untrue." Sprouse said all copies of the Roswell newspaper were collected by officers. Sprouse ... said he recalls people speaking about "alien bodies" immediately after the debris discovery. "They took the bodies to a hangar, and there were two guards at each door with machine guns," he said. Sprouse said one witness, a barracksmate, was an emergency-room medic who reported seeing what he called "humanoid" bodies in the hospital. "They went to the ER room and two doctors and two nurses were called in, and they dissected two of those humanoid bodies. Then the doctors and nurses were transferred. My friend said he saw the bodies, and I believed him," Sprouse said. "He said, 'We don't think the humanoid ate food.' I don't know why he said that. The digestive system wasn't designed for food or something."
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The physicist and the flying saucers
2007-09-01, Telegraph-Journal (New Brunswick, Can.'s leading newspaper)
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/63487
"If you told me in the early 1960s that I'd turn into a full-time ufologist, I would have laughed my head off," Stanton T. Friedman, a former nuclear physicist who was honoured with a proclamation this week by the City of Fredericton, says. "I preferred science and people, not science fiction. But how can you not believe?" If not New Brunswick's favourite son, Stan Friedman is certainly among its most famous. For 40 years, Carl Sagan's former classmate at the University of Chicago has lived in Fredericton while trying to convince the world of the existence of invaders from outer space. "I have never seen a flying saucer and I have never seen an alien, but I have talked to people who have," Friedman says. He is 73, has white hair and a white beard and chatters at warp speed. "I am still an optimist." An expert in nuclear aircraft fission, fusion rockets and power plants for space travel, Friedman worked 14 years on advanced and highly classified projects for General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, TRW and McDonnell Douglas, among others. He has given lectures on flying saucers at 600 universities over the last four decades, has testified for Congress and spoken at the United Nations twice and has appeared on television shows around the world. Friedman's scientific background, years of navigating through thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews with witnesses led him to the conclusion that aliens are more than a myth. "After a while, you get used to the nasty, noisy negativists and the ancient academics,'' he says. "And years ago, I got angry at the government officials who were lying through their teeth. It got me started on a crusade, in a way. I'm a good detective when I set out to be."
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Author investigates Roswell
2007-08-05, Philadephia Enquirer (Philadelphia's leading newspaper)
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Tom Carey has dedicated the last 16 years of his life to uncovering what exactly happened on July 4, 1947, outside Roswell, N.M. Now, along with coauthor Don Schmitt, [he] has published Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-year Cover-Up, documenting his findings concerning the alleged extraterrestrial event. "The goal was to write a book for those not already initiated in the Roswell case," said Carey, 66. "We wanted to do something that would interest the general public." Though originally rejected by 11 of 12 publishers contacted, the book is in its fourth printing of 10,000 copies. And curiosity continues to grow. After a recent interview on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM show, Carey said Amazon.com logged 2,000 sales the next day. What has made the book so explosive, Carey said, are two previously unreleased "smoking-gun documents." The new testimony includes the heretofore sealed affidavit of recently deceased First Lieutenant Walter G. Haut attesting to the bizarre debris and bodies recovered from the crash site. The second, a note scribbled by former Roswell Army Air Field base adjutant Patrick Saunders ... appears to confirm the Air Force's coverup of the incident. Carey acknowledges that there are some "kooks" involved in the field of UFOlogy, but his mission has been to use science to take the fiction out of science fiction. "This is a historical mystery that just happens to involve UFOs," he said. A former anthropology student at the University of Toronto, Carey said he has always been more interested in the empirical evidence as opposed to intangibles such as alien abductions and crop circles.
Note: For a succinct summary of powerful testimony on UFOs by military personnel and pilots, click here.
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J.J. Abrams & Overlord Director Reunite For Superhero Movie
by Sandy Schaefer
J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot are reuniting with director Julius Avery for a superhero movie titled The Heavy. Abrams and Avery made headlines last month at CinemaCon when they debuted footage from the intriguing (and bizarre-looking) supernatural WWII thriller Overlord, which Avery helmed and Abrams produced. Abrams further made waves by declaring that despite what previous reports would have everyone believe, Overlord is not a secret Cloverfield movie and exists separate from that franchise.
While Abrams and Bad Robot have worked more on franchise titles than original ventures in recent years, they do have some non-IP projects in the pipeline. In addition to Overlord and The Heavy, Abrams and Bad Robot are developing the sci-fi fantasy series Demimonde for HBO and have Daisy Ridley set to star in the sci-fi/fantasy drama Kolma. Abrams is also producing the fast-approaching Castle Rock, a Hulu series inspired by the collective works of Stephen King.
Related: J.J. Abrams Confirms 'True' Cloverfield 2 in the Works
It remains to be seen if Overlord and Kolma really are original films and not Cloverfield movies as rumored, but The Heavy genuinely sounds like its own thing so far. According to THR, the film is a "subversive" take on the superhero genre, with additional details being kept under wraps for the time being. Daniel Casey (Kin) wrote the script for The Heavy, which is gearing up to start production later this year with Avery calling the shots.
Ewan McGregor and Julius Avery on the Son of a Gun set
Bad Robot recruited Avery for Overlord after the filmmaker made waves in 2015 on his feature debut Son of a Gun. The crime drama/thriller stars Ewan McGregor as a notorious criminal and mentor to a younger lawbreaker played by Brenton Thwaites. Should Avery continue his climb up the ladder with Overlord, then The Heavy could be a much more anticipated and buzzed about project by the time that it hits the scene (possibly within the next 1-2 years).
As enjoyable as mainstream Marvel and DC superhero movies can be, some of the most creative and innovative work in the genre is being done on original fare similar to The Heavy. Low budget films like Chronicle and Sleight have put fresh spins on the concept of super-powered people in years past. By comparison, upcoming filmmaker-driven efforts such as M. Night Shyamalan's Glass and Rick Famuyiwa's Past Midnight (starring Keanu Reeves) aim to further mix things up by incorporating different genre elements into the (superhero) mix. The Heavy is another developing film that may find an unusual angle to take on the idea of superheroes, by the sound of it.
... Even if it does turn out to be another Cloverfield movie in disguise.
MORE: Glass CinemaCon Footage Description
We will bring you more details on The Heavy as they become available.
Source: THR
Overlord (2018) release date: Nov 09, 2018
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Groundbreaking FOCUS4 clinical trials report their findings at ASCO
June 8, 2021 /in Front page /by Oxford Centre
As FOCUS4 prepares to report findings at the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting on 4-8 June 2021, the NIHR have taken a historical look at how this groundbreaking trial has helped shape the future of clinical trial delivery in the UK. Professor Tim Maughan of the Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford and co-Principal Investigator of the FOCUS4 studies, explores how experience gained from delivering FOCUS4 has helped the UK to rapidly answer questions of global importance about the treatment of COVID-19.
FOCUS4, one of the UK's flagship precision medicine cancer trials, opened back in 2014. It is a randomised trial investigating treatments for colorectal cancer using a complex adaptive methodology which is known as Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage (MAMS) design. Such trials, also called umbrella or platform trials, allow for multiple treatments to be tested simultaneously against the standard of care (the control). However, FOCUS4 has the added complexity of stratified medicine, which requires that all eligible patients undergo genome sequencing to identify genetic biomarkers relating to their cancer. Patients are then matched to the trial arm/treatment to which they are most likely to respond.
This new way of working emerged following a rapid increase in the number of new cancer treatments being developed by life science companies which needed a systematic approach to quickly understand which treatments worked against which cancers. Professor Maughan explains:
"The adaptive, multi-arm, multi-stage approach was pioneered by the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL and it provides a more efficient way of working compared to traditional back-to-back randomised clinical trials which only test one treatment at a time. Not only does it avoid the delays and costs of setting up a new trial for each new drug candidate, it also makes the screening process more efficient. Patients are screened for a match to all the drugs being trialled and have a higher probability of being able to join the trial and access a cutting-edge treatment. But more importantly – and this is where the adaptive bit comes in – new arms can be added to the trial platform as new drugs become available. Equally, where drugs are showing no benefit, that arm of the trial can be closed and another trial can be opened in the part of the trial."
The FOCUS4 trial design was considered groundbreaking when it opened in 2014 as it was one of the first large-scale, molecularly stratified, MAMS cancer trials in the UK. It successfully enrolled 1,434 patients from 88 hospitals. Prior to this the FOCUS3 study, opening in February 2010, sought to establish the feasibility of this approach, recruiting 240 patients at 24 centres.
However, the UK's experience of MAMS trials can be tracked back further to the STAMPEDE (Systemic Therapy in Advancing or Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Evaluation of Drug Efficacy) Trial which opened in the UK in 2005. This trial is ongoing, has recruited almost 12,000 participants, and has produced practice-changing results in the treatment of prostate cancer. Although STAMPEDE commenced much earlier than FOCUS3 or FOCUS4, Professor Maughan says it is important to note:
"Although very challenging in other ways, STAMPEDE does not currently involve molecular stratification and this is a significant difference in the complexity of the trial delivery and why trials like FOCUS4 and the National Lung Matrix are world-renowned, despite opening a number of years after STAMPEDE."
Fast forward to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency situation necessitated a systematic approach to quickly understand which treatments worked against the novel coronavirus. Sound familiar?
Collaborative research culture
Speed and agility are imperative in a pandemic situation. This caused a seismic shift in attitudes towards developing new ways of working in areas such as streamlining the trial approval process.
Rapid trial set-up and delivery are also crucial. Thankfully, as we've established, the UK already had experience and understanding of implementing large scale, adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage clinical trials. This existing knowledge and ability to collaborate on a national scale certainly seems to have underpinned our rapid COVID-19 research response seen in trials like RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy). Professor Maughan said:
"FOCUS4 lies in this historic development of complex innovative designs. It builds first of all on the establishment of the research infrastructure through the Clinical Research Network, which is integral to the support of all these major UK national trials. Secondly, it builds on the adaptive statistical methodology, which was first developed in STAMPEDE – the multi-arm, multi-stage design approach.
"The RECOVERY trial is built on the same adaptive statistical model and also the fact that there was this fantastic research delivery infrastructure in the UK, which enabled it to move very fast and recruit these huge numbers of patients in a very short period of time. The success of RECOVERY and other MAMS trials in recent years is testament to the 20 years of investment in clinical research delivery culture in the NHS and the collaborative working across the industry in the UK."
The world-leading RECOVERY trial does, indeed, use the MAMS trial design to test emerging treatments for the novel coronavirus and was established during the early stage of the pandemic when there were no proven treatments available. Within three months, it generated clinical evidence resulting in dexamethasone becoming the world's first proven drug to reduce mortality for the most seriously ill patients. It also showed that hydroxychloroquine, once considered a promising therapeutic candidate for COVID-19, has no clinical benefit for hospitalised patients and this arm of the trial ceased immediately.
The PRINCIPLE (Platform Randomised trial of INterventions against Covid-19 In older peoPLE) and REMAP-CAP (A Randomised, Embedded, Multi-factorial, Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia) trials also utilise an adaptive platform approach. These flagship trials, building on the foundations of STAMPEDE, FOCUS4 and Lung Matrix, are likely to accelerate uptake and acceptance of the adaptive platform approach in clinical trial delivery in future years as the global drive for faster and more efficient clinical trials intensifies.
Forthcoming findings
It seems quite pertinent then for FOCUS4 to be on the cusp of publishing new findings in the wake of the pandemic. Professor Maughan looks back at some of the previously published results of the trial:
"Our first molecular cohort showed comprehensive negative results, and we were able to close it after only 32 patients had been accrued to FOCUS4-D – one arm of the FOCUS4 trial. That was published back in 2017 and you'll see in many platform designs that a number of negative results come out. That's important because we're showing that things don't work as well as the things that do work.
"The trial has now closed to recruitment in October 2020, after conducting three molecularly targeted sub-trials and one non-molecularly stratified trial in six years, and has generated some interesting results. Prof Richard Adams will be presenting some of these at the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting on 4-8 June 2021 and we are in conversation with journals about publications.
"When we embarked on FOCUS4 we knew it would be a challenge, and we have learnt a huge amount along the way. It's really important now that we share this learning and continue to improve the way we do clinical trials in the future."
Professor Maughan also recognises that complex trials like FOCUS4 require the right ingredients to enable successful delivery. He emphasises the importance of the UK's unique clinical research landscape:
"The whole complex research ecosystem of the UK presents an unparalleled opportunity for complex and innovative trials. We have the NHS as a single health care provider, the NIHR Clinical Research Network as a coordinated research delivery organisation, collaborative laboratory scientists delivering the sequencing, the collective work of the funders, forward-thinking regulators, and the National Cancer Research Institute. All this facilitates a really collaborative clinical research culture within the UK where organisations don't have to compete with each other for patients, for example. Not a lot of countries in the world that can replicate that same environment.
"We have also shown that our research infrastructure can be adapted to an emergency situation and this is thanks to the NIHR Clinical Research Network and the trained research workforce who are based in every hospital and primary care setting in the UK. I think the real challenge now is ensuring that we learn from the COVID-19 crisis to improve the way we do things normally, in the clinical research setting, outside of the pandemic."
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Oxford spin out influencing patient care world wide
March 27, 2021 /in Front page /by Oxford Centre
Optellum, a lung health company aiming to redefine early diagnosis and treatment of lung disease, today announced it received FDA clearance for its "Virtual Nodule Clinic".
Optellum was co-founded by Oxford cancer researcher Prof. Sir Michael Brady with the mission of seeing every lung disease patient diagnosed and treated at the earliest possible stage, and cured.
Optellum's initial product is the Virtual Nodule Clinic, the first AI-powered Clinical Decision Support software for lung cancer management. Their platform helps clinicians identify and track at-risk patients and speed up decisions for those with cancer while reducing unnecessary procedures.
Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer. The current five-year survival rate is an abysmal 20%, primarily due to the majority of patients being diagnosed after symptoms have appeared and the disease has progressed to an advanced stage. This much-needed platform is the first such application of AI decision support for early lung cancer diagnosis cleared by the FDA.
Physician use of Virtual Nodule Clinic is shown to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making. A clinical study, which underpinned the FDA clearance for the Virtual Nodule Clinic, engaged pulmonologists and radiologists to assess the accuracy for diagnosing lung nodules when using the Optellum software.
Dr Václav Potěšil, co-founder and CEO of Optellum says:
"This clearance will ensure clinicians have the clinical decision support they need to diagnose and treat lung cancer at the earliest possible stage, harnessing the power of physicians and AI working together – to the benefit of patients.
Our goal at Optellum is to redefine early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, and this FDA clearance is the first step on that journey. We look forward to empowering clinicians in every hospital, from our current customers at academic medical centers to local community hospitals, to offer patients with lung cancer and other deadly lung diseases the most optimal diagnosis and treatment."
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New partnership enables access to state-of-the-art radiotherapy machine
The first NHS patient has received treatment on the cutting-edge ViewRay MRIdian technology, thanks to a new partnership between the University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust and GenesisCare.
The partners, with the support of the John Black Charitable Foundation, have collaborated to establish a ten-year programme of clinical treatment for NHS patients, with further research into improving cancer treatment using the Viewray MRIdian.
Due to the natural, unavoidable movement of soft tissue inside the body, normal tissue around the cancer can be exposed to radiotherapy treatment, particularly when targeting soft-tissue tumours deep within the body. It can be challenging to visualise these organs during radiotherapy with routine radiotherapy delivery.
The ViewRay MRIdian machine is the only one of its kind in the UK, with only 41 machines worldwide. It allows doctors to see the normal soft tissue and the tumour in real time by combining MRI scanning with targeted radiotherapy. Incorporating MRI scans will allow doctors to then tailor doses in real time to the specific internal anatomy of the patient on the day of treatment.
MRIdian technology also minimises the damage to surrounding healthy tissues by switching off when tumour tissue moves outside of the targeted beam. This could mean less side effects for patients and increased dosage of treatment delivered directly to the tumour.
GenesisCare, the University of Oxford and OUH will also partner in research collaborations to develop real-world evidence which will inform future utilisation of the MRIdian technology in hard-to-reach tumours, such as pancreatic cancers. The research partnership will assess the benefits of the MRIdian technology in terms of improved cancer outcomes and reduced toxicity.
Elizabeth Rapple, from South Oxfordshire, is the first patient to use the machine to treat her renal cancer, as part of the new partnership. She says:
"I feel very fortunate to be able to access this machine as part of a new Oxford-wide partnership. Any operation to remove my tumour would have been highly invasive, so it's lucky that my cancer was suitable for MRIdian radiotherapy. I am so grateful that this unique machine has been made accessible through the NHS, and that I can be the first of many to benefit from this partnership going forward."
Project leader Professor Tim Maughan, from the University of Oxford, said:
"Treating patients on the MRIdian is like a surgeon putting on their spectacles for an operation – for the first time we can see exactly what the cancer is doing during treatment and adapt to change accordingly. This accuracy allows us to reduce side effects and we hope to improve cancer outcomes in hard-to-treat cancers."
Dr James Good, Clinical Oncologist at GenesisCare, said:
"The MRIdian machine is at the cutting-edge of what is possible in radiotherapy technology. The ability to visualise the tumour more accurately, to follow it while it's being treated and to adapt the plan every day means we can deliver the best possible outcomes.
"This collaboration with the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals will be truly beneficial for cancer patients in the UK. Not only will it provide patients who otherwise would have limited, or sadly, no options with a really viable treatment option, but we can also help demonstrate the effectiveness of this treatment, with the ambition to make it available for all NHS patients in the future."
Carol Scott, Lead Therapeutic Radiographer & Deputy Clinical Director at Oxford University Hospitals , said:
"OUH are excited to be part of this collaboration offering NHS patients the opportunity to take part in these clinical trials. The use of daily advanced imaging that clearly shows us the tumour and normal soft tissue around it will enable us to take the next step in making our treatments even more personalised and effective"
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Prof Andi Roy receives new award for immune-cell research
Co-funded by Cancer Research UK and Children with Cancer UK, Andi is one of 5 to receive £1 million each to investigate children's and young people's cancers.
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Oxford Cancer Centre appoints Prof. Tim Elliott as new co-director
January 28, 2021 /in Front page /by Oxford Centre
The CRUK Oxford Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tim Elliott as its new co-Director. Tim will work alongside Professor Mark Middleton who has filled the role since 2017, to develop and deliver the research strategy for the Oxford Centre.
Professor Tim Elliott is taking over from Professor Xin Lu, who is stepping down after over 3 successful years in the post. During her tenure, Xin has led a step change in the coordination and integration of research efforts across the city. Under Xin's leadership, a collaborative network of early cancer detection researchers across Oxford has been established and supported through the formation of the Oxford Centre for Early Cancer Detection (OxCODE). As well as providing a forum to stimulate and catalyse research in this critically important research field, significant programmatic funding has been obtained, including for liver (DeLIVER – Prof. Ellie Barnes) and lung (DART – Prof. Fergus Gleeson) cancers, along with numerous seed and project external funding awards in early detection. Xin will continue to play a major role in directing and supporting the CRUK Oxford Centre strategy in her continuing positions as OxCODE Director, NIHR Oxford BRC Cancer Theme Co-Lead and Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford Branch.
Tim has recently joined the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Oriel College as the Kidani Professor of Immuno-Oncology. He re-joins the Oxford community from Southampton University, having previously completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Balliol and subsequently holding a Professorial post at the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine. Tim brings with him a wealth of expertise and experience in leading international collaborative multidisciplinary research; and he helped lead the campaign for the Southampton Centre for Cancer Immunology which opened in 2018 and where he was Director until his appointment in Oxford. He is ideally placed to help lead the Oxford Centre in its efforts to ensure that cancer research across the city continues to drive improvements in cancer patient care through enhancing our fundamental understanding of the disease.
Professor Tim Elliott, Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre Co-director and Kidani Professor of Immuno-Oncology at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, said:
"This is a great time to be joining Oxford. Recent events have demonstrated how effectively Oxford researchers can come together to generate the new knowledge needed to drive life-saving treatments for a new pathogen. There is every sign that we can focus that collegiality on beating cancer too.
"I am excited by the prospect of helping multidisciplinary teams to converge on difficult problems that will ultimately lead to better clinical outcomes for people diagnosed with cancer. I am also really looking forward to working with Mark, whose clinical and translational expertise and great leadership will be key to pulling our discovery science through into the clinic."
Professor Mark Middleton, Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre Co-director and Head of Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford, said:
"I am delighted that Tim will help lead our diverse research community. His successful approach to delivering internationally recognised multi-disciplinary immunology research makes him an exciting addition to Oxford. Tim joins us a fascinating time, with more opportunities than ever for ensuring that cancer patients benefit from the world-leading research being carried out across Oxford. His track record of bringing together fundamental, translational and clinical researchers that span traditional research boundaries will be critical in building on our recent progress exploiting Oxford's cancer research ecosystem to improve patient care worldwide.
"The leadership Xin has provided to the Cancer Centre over the last 3 years has been transformative. There are many clinical trials and early detection programmes that would not have taken place without her, and this is testament to both her strategic vision and the time and effort she has put into the Centre during her tenure. I'd like to thank Xin on behalf of all the researchers across Oxford who have benefited from her leadership. I look forward to continuing to work with her on delivering the Centre's goals in her capacity as OxCODE Director, NIHR Oxford BRC Cancer Theme Co-Lead, and Director of the Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research."
A very warm welcome to Professor Tim Elliott from the CRUK Oxford Centre team and wider cancer research community here in Oxford.
Professor Tim Elliot Biography
Professor Tim Elliott left the University of Oxford with a first in Biochemistry in 1983, received a PhD from the University of Southampton in 1986 and completed his postdoctoral training at MIT. He held a lectureship and later a professorship in immunology (Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine and Balliol College, University of Oxford) between 1990-2000 before being appointed to the Chair of Experimental Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Southampton.
He was Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Medicine between 2005 and 2015. He's held appointments on Scientific Advisory boards at the Wellcome Trust, the Association of International Cancer Research, Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, Symphogen, and Avviity Therapeutics; chairs the CRUK Expert Review Group for Cancer Immunology and sits on the CRUK Discovery Science Research Committee. He has published over 130 papers in the field of molecular immunology; was visiting lecturer of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, University of Edmonton, Alberta in 1999; and recently held a visiting Professorship at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and in 2014 he was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor Elliott was amongst the key group of immunologists who developed studies of antigen presentation at the molecular level during the 1990s, undertaking a series of studies to determine and define the immunostimulatory properties of MHC Class I molecules and elucidating the molecular mechanisms of co-factor assisted peptide loading of MHC Class I in antigen presenting cells: work considered to be the foundation of much of the recent work on antigen presentation. The work underpins rational T-cell based vaccine design and continues to fuel translational research where discoveries in the areas of antigen discovery, T cell regulation and immunodominance are making a significant impact on new and ongoing cancer immunotherapy trials.
His mechanistic studies have always benefitted from an active interface with the physical sciences, mathematics and computer science, nanofabrication and engineering.
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What we can learn from cancer survivors
November 19, 2020 /in Front page /by Oxford Centre
Understanding how an individual survives cancer, and why they respond well to therapy, can be vital in identifying new therapeutic targets. A new project seeks to see why some advanced pancreatic cancer patients overcome the odds and respond positively to treatment.
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Oxford Cancer alumni's biotech success
Scenic Biotech was founded in March 2017 as a spin-out of the University of Oxford and the Netherlands Cancer Institute. The company is based on the Cell-seq technology developed by co-founders Sebastian Nijman and Thijn Brummelkamp in their academic labs.
Cell-seq is a large-scale genetic screening platform that allows the identification of genetic modifiers – or disease suppressors – that act to decrease the severity of a disease. These disease-specific genetic modifiers are difficult to identify by more traditional population genetics approaches, especially in the case of rare genetic diseases. By mapping all the genetic modifiers that can influence the severity of a particular disease, Cell-seq unveils a new class of potential drug targets that can be taken forward for drug development.
In a deal worth $375m, Scenic Biotech has recently entered into a strategic collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group. This will enable discovery, development and commercialisation of novel therapeutics that target genetic modifiers.
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Oxford lymphoid study group established
The new Oxford Lymphoid Disorder Study Group, chaired by Dr Graham Collins, will be launched this September in Blood Cancer Awareness Month
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Oxford University and Sichuan University form joint Centre for Gastrointestinal Cancer
May 15, 2020 /in Front page /by Oxford Centre
The University of Oxford-Sichuan University Huaxi Joint Centre for Gastrointestinal Cancer is a new international collaboration that seeks to develop an integrated gastrointestinal cancer plan through the exchanging of ideas and resources.
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NCITA: a new consortium on cancer imaging
Cancer imaging is an umbrella term that defines diagnostic procedures to identify cancer through imaging – such as scans via x-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds. There is no single imaging test that can accurately diagnose cancer, but a variety of imaging tests can be used in the monitoring of cancer and planning of its treatments.
What is NCITA?
NCITA – the UK National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator – is a new consortium that brings together world leading medical imaging experts to create an infrastructure for standardising the cancer imaging process, in order to improve its application in clinical cancer treatment.
Research and medical experts from the University of Oxford have come together with UCL, University of Manchester, the Institute of Cancer Research, Imperial, Cambridge University and many more to create this open access platform.
How will NCITA help cancer research?
On top of bringing together leading experts in cancer imaging to share their knowledge, the NCITA consortium will create a variety of systems, software and facilities to help localise and distribute new research and create a centralised location for cancer-image data to be analysed.
NCITA will in include a data repository for imaging, artificial intelligence (AI) tools and training opportunities – all of which will contributing to a revolution in the speed and accuracy of cancer diagnosis, tumour classification and patient response to treatment.
The NCITA network is led by Prof Shonit Punwani, Prof James O'Connor, Prof Eric Aboagye, Prof Geoff Higgins, Prof Evis Sala, Prof Dow Mu Koh, Prof Tony Ng, Prof Hing Leung and Prof Ruth Plummer with up to 49 co-investigators supporting the NCITA initiative. NCITA is keen to expand and bring in new academic and industrial partnerships as it develops.
Go to the NCITA website to stay up to date of news about cancer imaging research.
For more information on this exciting new initiative, see the media release about the NCITA launch here.
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Ø 2009年3月6日, 香港理工大学助理教授 Nancy Su博士为我中心师生做题为:Non-Audit Services and Earnings Management in the Pre-SOX and Post-Sox Eras学术讲座。讲座摘要:Extant research on the association between auditor-provided non-audit services (NAS) and earnings management assumes implicitly that all NAS can be equally harmful for auditor independence. However, the SEC prohibited specific kinds of NAS, arguing explicitly that these were potentially harmful to auditor independence. We argue that the decline in observed NAS from the pre-SOX to post-SOX eras resulting from the SEC's prohibition can be used to distinguish firms that had "harmful" NAS from those that did not. We examine earnings management (using discretionary accruals measures) during the pre-SOX and post-SOX eras for firms that underwent and did not undergo a decline in NAS following the new SEC rules prohibiting certain kinds of NAS. We find that firms that eliminated (presumably harmful) NAS were associated with greater earnings management in the pre-SOX era, but this was confined to downwards earnings management. Further, the downwards earnings management for the firms that eliminated NAS was lower in the post-SOX era than in the pre-SOX era. These results obtain for firms that were more likely to have incentives to manipulate earnings downwards, firms with weaker corporate governance in the pre-SOX than in the post-SOX period, and clients of Big 5 auditors.
Ø 2009年3月27日,清华大学王赫博士为我中心师生做题为:The Value of Shareholder Activism: New Evidence from the Split-share Structure Reform in China学术讲座。讲座摘要:We examine shareholder activism in the recent split-share structure reform in China. This unique event allows us to avoid the deciencies in determining activism proxies and in measuring their e_ectiveness that plague the previous literature. We _nd that the e_ectiveness of shareholder activism is inuenced by segmented institutional ownerships. Particularly, shareholder activism could have both positive and negative impacts on managerial behaviors in the presence of institutional investors' interest conicts. We show that, even in its primitive stage, Chinese shareholder activism has demonstrated positive value in corporate governance.
Ø 2009年3月31日,香港科技大学Ge Rui博士为我中心师生做题为:Do Acquirers in Stock Swap Acquisitions Disclose Good News or Withhold Bad News? 学术讲座。讲座摘要:Companies that use their own stock to finance acquisitions have incentives to increase their market values prior to the acquisition date. This study examines whether such companies strategically disclose good news or withhold bad news in order to boost their high stock prices. I find that stock swap acquirers are not more likely to issue favorable management forecasts during the period before the acquisition compared to the period after. On the other hand, I find strong evidence that stock swap acquirers are less likely to issue unfavorable management forecasts. The results suggest that forecasting good earnings news is perceived to be more costly than is remaining silent when the company has bad news. I also examine revisions to analysts' earnings forecasts in order to capture any disclosures that companies make other than through management forecasts of earnings. I find that analysts' forecasts of stock swap acquirers are not revised up but they are revised down less during the period before the acquisition. Consistent with the evidence from management forecasts, these findings suggest that stock swap acquirers do not disclose good news but they do withhold bad news in order to maintain higher stock prices.
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How to valuate intellectual capital of firm has become a great interest topic in corporate financial management and intellectual capital management. Several approaches are proposed in the past, most of which focused on quality analysis of firm's intellectual capital in firm value. This paper tries to make a breakthrough on this topic by applying fuzzy set theory and fuzzy AHP method to construct a quantified model to measure the contribution value of intellectual asset items. Furthermore, by applying this model to study two cases. the results of two fuzzy valuation cases show that this evaluation model is applicable to assess the quality and the contribution of intellectual capital in corporations. Moreover, using this model, managers can determine the level of capital matching, identify which specific intellectual asset item needs new investment, and so on. In another word, this fuzzy valuation model provides a novel tool for measuring, managing, and understanding a firm's intellectual assets.


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Accident took place almost a year after 32 Chinese visitors were killed in a bus accident
Chad O'Carroll
A Chinese tourist died in early April after falling from a balcony at Pyongyang's Sosan Hotel, multiple sources indicated to NK News on Thursday.
The fatality comes almost a year after a tragic bus crash in North Korea which resulted in the death of 32 visiting Chinese tourists.
"I got told a Chinese tourist fell from the 20th floor of the Sosan balcony and died two weeks ago," a recent visitor to North Korea told NK News on condition of anonymity.
"Staff in the hotel heard the body hit".
A second visitor confirmed hearing about the accident.
"I was told I think on April 5 or 4," the person said, saying the incident took place "just before the marathon."
The Sosan Hotel, which opened in 1989 and is located in west Pyongyang, features low-level balconies outside each room, which may have played a role in the tourist's death.
Sosan Hotel in Pyongyang | Picture: NK News
"The Sosan hotel balcony is notorious for having very low balcony walls," one of the visitors said. "Usually staff lock the balcony doors so tourists don't go out, but if you pull the door hard enough it just pops out."
No further information about the accident is available.
Following the bus crash last year, NK News learned that DPRK authorities provided $100,000 in compensation to each of the Chinese families impacted by the 32 deaths.
The two Chinese visitors who survived the accident were given unlimited tours to the DPRK as further compensation.
The tour had been run by the Korea Kumgang Group (KKG), which maintains a large taxi fleet and runs a restaurant and bar in the city, among other businesses.
The group was entirely prohibited from further tour operations as a direct result of the accident, NK News understands.
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A Chinese tourist died in early April after falling from a balcony at Pyongyang's Sosan Hotel, multiple sources indicated to NK News on Thursday. The fatality comes almost a year after a tragic bus crash in North Korea which resulted in the death of 32 visiting Chinese tourists. "I got told a Chinese tourist fell from
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The GoChain has formed a strong bottom near 500 satoshis area, which has been rejected multiple times during the past few days. At the same time GO/BTC has rejected the 127.2% Fibonacci retracement level applied to the last corrective wave up occurred on the 18th of September.
After rejecting the 500 satoshis support, price went up and broke above the downtrend trendline and the 50 Moving Average simultaneously suggesting potential corrective move up or even the trend reversal.
Speaking about the trend reversal, at this point it is to early to state that, however the upside correction probability is very high. If daily close stays above the recent low at 470 satoshis, price should move at least towards the 560 satoshis area, where previous support and resistance has been formed previously.
Clean break above the 560 satoshis resistance should be the confirmation of the trend reversal, confirming that GoChain has already reached the bottom and potentially ready to move to the new all-time highs.
On the downside, daily break and close below 470 satoshis will invalidate bullish outlook and the downtrend is likely to continue.