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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Cheryl Reed's morning routine starts like that of millions of other mothers around the country. She makes breakfast for her 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, piles them into a minivan and drops them off at school.

It's the next stop that sets Reed apart from other women. Three weeks a month, she heads to the infusion center at the Emory Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, for chemotherapy treatments.

Reed, 40, has breast cancer; not just any form of the disease, but a rare, aggressive and difficult to treat version called triple negative.

Of the estimated 180,000 women who learn they have invasive breast cancer this year in the United States, about 15 percent will have triple negative.

Like Reed, the majority of triple negative patients will be young African-American women.

"It never occurred to me that I'm going to die from this," Reed said. "I was like, 'I've got breast cancer, let's take care of it.' "

Reed did take care of it. For eight months during 2006, she endured chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She thought the cancer was in remission, but it returned last November. This time, it had spread to her liver, lungs and chest wall.

"Triple negative cancers do tend to be aggressive in their natural histories, so they have a very high rate of recurrence or relapsing," explained Dr. Ruth O'Regan, Reed's oncologist at the Winship Institute.

She's one of several breast cancer experts around the country who are trying to learn more about what causes triple negative and how to treat it more effectively.

Dr. Funmi Olopade, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, was at the forefront of identifying triple negative and the trend among African-American women.

She said what makes it different from other types of breast cancer is that women with the disease lack three hormone receptors known to fuel most breast cancer tumors: estrogen, progesterone and HER2.

"When you have triple negative, it means that we cannot use hormone therapy. ... The only way we can treat that type of breast cancer is to use chemotherapy," Olopade said.

Tamoxifen and Herceptin, two of the most effective medications for treating breast cancer, don't work for triple negative breast cancer patients.

But if a patient responds well to chemotherapy, Olopade said, there's a very good chance of curing the disease.

"The challenge we have is when the cancer comes back," she added. "Right now, we don't have any effective way to treat it, and that's why when it comes back, it tends to be deadly."

Reed is enrolled in a clinical trial at the Winship center where she's receiving chemotherapy along with a drug called Avastin, which cuts the blood supply to cancer cells.

Olopade is hoping better drugs will be available in the next two to five years that will help eradicate triple negative cancer cells.

In the meantime, she stressed, early detection is the key to recovery, especially for women at highest risk.

"In this country, what we have found was young African-American women have a rate that is higher than young white women, and we don't know if that is because of a gene or other risk factors," Olopade said.

"We know that women with a family history of breast cancer who have a BRCA1 mutation are most at risk," she said.

BRCA1 is a major breast cancer-causing gene that was identified 14 years ago. Olopade said women born with the defective gene have a higher chance of getting breast cancer and at a younger age.

Olopade also wants to explore further whether triple negative rates are higher among women who do not breastfeed their children. "It's that first pregnancy and first breastfeeding that really allows the breast to become fully mature," she said.

She worried that in general, "African-Americans are not likely to breastfeed, as they are getting in the work force and returning to work soon after childbirth."

Even with several clues, Olopade acknowledged that researchers still don't know a lot about triple negative breast cancer and more study is needed.

She encouraged all young women, no matter what their race, to talk to their doctor about doing a risk assessment for the BRCA1 gene. If there is a family history of the gene mutation, some physicians may tell a woman not wait until she turns 40 to get her first mammogram.

"We begin screening as early at 25," Olopade said. "Many of the women are surviving. They are beating the odds of dying because they know they can do preventive approaches to reduce their risk of dying."

Reed is trying to increase her chances of survival by getting experimental treatment in the clinical trial. She seems to be responding well, but she's realistic.

"There's always the possibility that once this is done, it could be two years and I'm back in treatment again," she said. "It really is a part of my life now. ... I'm a survivor."

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Monday, 25 May 2009

Escrow Account Raided; Refuse To Refund

Posted by: podiumman on 05/22/2009 09:14 AM

On Dec 8, 2008, Citimortgage took out $2992.44 from our escrow account to pay our taxes to Collin County. The problem was that our tax bill was only $807.61. In January, we got a delinquent tax notice from the county. We got in touch with about this and they said they would look into it. Two months went by and nothing was done. Our calls escalated, asking for supervisors to speak with. Evidently, they had paid the wrong tax bill. Finally, after getting a letter of demand from out attorney, they paid the $807.61 out of our account to the county. Meanwhile, they have said we have an escrow defiency and have upped what we pay in mortgage around $300 extra. They said they would return the $2,992.44 to our escrow account when Collin County refunded that amount to them. I don't see why this should be taken out on us; now that the taxes have been paid on our property, the amount which they overpaid for the wrong account should be between Citimortgage and Collin County; the $2992.44 should be returned to us immediately. After more calls and demanding to speak to someone higher up than just an account manager, I got hold of a man named Dustin Murphy. He assured me that he agreed that that money should be between Citimortgage and Collin County and that, in a matter of days, he would have that money refunded. He even gave me his office phone number so I could communicate with him. That was nearly three weeks ago and nothing has been refunded. I have attempted to call him back on numerous occasions and only gotten voice mail; none of my many messages have been returned.

Escrow Account Raided; Refuse To Refund

Monday, 25 May 2009

Escrow Account Raided; Refuse To Refund

Posted by: podiumman on 05/22/2009 09:14 AM

Ponzi - Counterfeit Postage - Think Ink Marketing

Monday, 25 May 2009

Ponzi - Counterfeit Postage

Posted by: bizworks on 05/25/2009 07:40 PM

I am outraged at this business. I had previously invested money in Think Ink Marketing, and now the CEO Craig Dickhout is making excuses not to get my money back. Others are having the same problem. One of his employees admitted that he is involved in a Ponzi, and also involved in counterfeit postage. If anyone out there has any dealings with him, I strongly suggest that you cease doing business with him, as we are going to police this week, and things will be going downhill for him. I can't believe it, You never know who you can trust these days.

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Best & Worst of the Oscars: Hugh Jackmania!

Monday, 23 February 2009

Host Hugh JackmanE! Online

Oh, man, did you see that moment when that guy did that thing? Don't worry, we did. Read on and get the full story of Oscar's best, worst and otherest.

Best Performance: Even with the slightly forced "recession Oscars" conceit, host Hugh Jackman delivered a completely winning song and dance to open the show that totally made us forget they didn't hire a comedian. Showing off both talent and a sly sense of humor, Jackman nailed it.

Best Lyric From the Opening Song: "I would swim a sea of human excrement." -- Jackman crooning sweet(?)ly to Kate Winslet

Worst Transition: From the goofily good opener—the techno Reader representation was more entertaining than the movie—the show bogged down with that somber bunch of Best Supporting Actresses intoning like they were going to banish the winner to the Forbidden Zone with General Zod.

Best Brangelina Quip: Jackman drew our attention to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie before saying, "I don't actually have a joke for them, I'm just contractually required to mention them five times during the show." (Not bad; it's 25 times for us.)

Best Present: Copresenters Steve Martin and Tina Fey, who've been funny together on TV and film, delivered a hilarious tribute to writers that made us want to see them make another movie together. Or, you know, read something.

Best Reaction: Jolie looking totally charmed by her Kung Fu Panda costar Jack Black, who was onstage presenting with that actress from Friends.

Best Twilight Crossover: Rob Pattinson brought that undead charm of his to the Oscars, where it was familiar to Twihards and everyone who's ever had lunch with a Hollywood agent.

Best On-Air Design: Whoever thought to put Daniel Craig and Sarah Jessica Parker on stage together.

Best Reaction: Seth Rogen and James Franco's half-baked response to the comedies of 2008. Dude, cinematographer Jadocs Kaminsky was so high!

Joke Least Likely to Reach the Billion People Around the World: Ben Stiller's crazy, bearded Joaquin Phoenix impersonation was funny, but a little inside considering how few people recognize Stiller anyway.

Assault With a Medley Weapon: The top-hat-and-tails number with Beyoncé, Zac Efron and the rest totally summed up the year in movies. And that year was 1936.

Most Likely to Spawn a "Who's in Your Five?" Commercial: The Best Supporting actor nomination five-way was like a presidential debate without all the humor.

Most Heartbreaking: Heath Ledger's family accepting his award.

Biggest Showstopper: Wirewalker Philippe Petit, the absolutely entertaining subject of documentary Man on Wire, balancing an Oscar on his chin while a billion people watched and wondered if it would fall. But for a man who once spent 45 minutes walking between the Twin Towers, well, that's probably no big deal.

Best Commercial: Coming in just ahead of the one for the website that helps you earn $5K a month working at home, the Tom Cruise-Jimmy Kimmel bit was funny like a house on fire.

Best Make-Good Decision: The loud and fast medley crammed full of action and comic book movies, because let's be honest: These were the best things that Hollywood had to offer last year, and The Dark Knight (not to mention Iron Man) got robbed. Take that, Reader.

Worst Make-Good Decision: After that whole medley thing, the movie about the wrinkly old baby beat Dark Knight and Iron Man. Obviously, there is no justice…except that meted out by costumed heroes.

Lincoln ranked best president by historians

Monday, 16 February 2009

George W. Bush ranks 36th out of 42; James Buchanan at bottom of list

WASHINGTON - Just days after Americans honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the best U.S. president.

Former President George W. Bush, who left office last month, was ranked 36th out of the 42 men who had been chief executive by the end of 2008, according to a survey conducted by the cable channel C-SPAN.

Bush scored lowest in international relations, where he was ranked 41st, and in economic management, where he was ranked 40th. His highest ranking, 24th, was in the category of pursuing equal justice for all. He was ranked 25th in crisis leadership and vision and agenda setting.

In contrast, Lincoln was ranked in the top three in each of the 10 categories evaluated by participants.

Compared to C-SPAN's only other ranking of presidents, in 2000, former President Bill Clinton jumped six spots from No. 21 to 15. Other recent presidents moved positions as well: Ronald Reagan advanced from No. 11 to 10, George H.W. Bush rose from No. 20 to 18 and Jimmy Carter fell from No. 22 to 25.

This movement illustrates that presidential reputations are influenced by present-day concerns, said survey adviser and participant Edna Medford.

Last Updated ( Monday, 16 February 2009 )

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