Box Office Guru: Breaking Dawn Threepeats Over Weak Frame

The annual post-turkey blues smacked the North American box office as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 topped a sluggish frame that saw no new films open in wide release. The rest of the top ten featured the same Thanksgiving leftovers although in different positions thanks to some awards contenders that expanded into more theaters. Overall, ticket sales slumped to their second lowest level of 2011 beating only the weekend after Labor Day which often is the worst session of the entire year. Hollywood is hoping this was the calm before the storm as the final wave of new movies for the holiday season begins this Friday.

Breaking Dawn became the first Twilight movie to ever rule the box office for three weeks in a row with its $16.9M frame, according to estimates. The Summit blockbuster fell 60% from its Friday-to-Sunday take over the Thanksgiving holiday which represented a better hold than 2009's New Moon which fell by 64% in the exact same situation. With $247.3M in 17 days, Dawn is running 3% behind its predecessors Eclipse and Moon which each had just over $255M in the bank in the same number of days despite being released in different seasons of the year. The Bella-and-Edward wedding flick now ranks as the fourth biggest grosser of the year trailing fellow sequels Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($381M), Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($352.4M), and The Hangover Part 2 ($254.5M). A final North American gross of roughly $290M seems likely.

The fourth Twilight installment was still a big player at the overseas box office taking in another $40.2M in its third weekend. That boosted the international total to a stellar $341M while the worldwide tally climbed up to $588.3M. The four films in the franchise have now grossed a combined $2.4 billion globally averaging an amazing $600M per film.

Staying put in the runner-up spot was Disney's The Muppets which tumbled 62% to an estimated $11.2M bumping the cume to $56.1M after 12 days. The Kermit-and-Piggy pic suffered the worst fall of any film in the top ten despite winning a solid A grade from CinemaScore last week. The well-known brand and the Black Friday school holiday contributed to a very strong showing upfront and now business is fading away. Muppets should stabilize next weekend since no new kidpics are opening and find its way to a final gross in the $80-90M range.

Martin Scorsese's big-budget 3D film Hugo rose two spots to third place thanks to a wider expansion plus strong word-of-mouth and reviews. The PG-rated film went from 1,277 locations to 1,840 and grossed an estimated $7.6M for an average of $4,144. The director's acclaimed use of the 3D format continued to find audiences as 76% of the weekend's gross came from 3D screens - the highest rate for any film in the format currently. Hugo upped its profile in the Oscar race on Thursday when it was named the best picture of 2011 by the National Board of Review with Scorsese taking the director prize too. If it earns top nominations next week from the Golden Globes, the Paramount release can continue to stay in the game at the box office at least until the next wave of family films arrives with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked on December 16 and Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin on December 21. But with $25.2M in 12 days, Hugo should be able to cross the $50M domestic mark.

Enjoying the smallest decline in the top ten for a film not expanding, Sony's holiday toon Arthur Christmas placed fourth with an estimated $7.4M in its second weekend dipping only 39%. The 3D kidpic has taken in a modest $25.3M in its first 12 days but its yuletide theme should allow it to have good legs for a few more weeks. Both of next weekend's new wide releases - New Year's Day and The Sitter - will play to adults and not hurt the family marketplace too much. A final domestic take in the neighborhood of $50M seems likely. Overseas, where Arthur Christmas has been playing longer, the weekend saw a haul of an estimated $11.4M putting the international sum at $45.3M and the worldwide figure at $70.6M.

Warner Bros. saw an estimated $6M for its expensive animated sequel Happy Feet Two which collected an estimated $6M in its third round. With $51.8M in 17 days, the 3D toon is running a disturbing 57% behind the pace of its predecessor which held the number one spot during all three of its first weekends. The domestic final should reach about $65M and the studio will hope for much better results from international markets where 3D animation can deliver much stronger results. This weekend, the penguin pic opened in Russia, the U.K., Germany, and Spain and collected an estimated $16.3M from 40 markets for an international total of $34M and a worldwide take of only $85.8M.

Finishing in sixth place was Adam Sandler's latest Razzie hopeful Jack and Jill which made an estimated $5.5M, down 45%, for a cume to date of $64.3M. The Sony release looks to end with $75-80M making it one of the actor's worst-performing broad comedies.

George Clooney's dysfunctional family saga The Descendants continued to score big points with ticket buyers in moderate release rising two spots to number seven with an estimated $5.2M. For the third weekend in a row, the Fox Searchlight release posted the best per-theater average in the top ten with a sturdy $9,059 from 574 locations, up 141 from last weekend. All other films in the top ten averaged between $1,100 and $4,200. The Hawaii-set film earned a handful of nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards this past week including best picture and director and will continue to add new theaters throughout December. Descendants saw its gross dip by only 29% and its average fall by 47% thanks to the expansion. The current cume of $18.1M is sure to double by the end of the month.

Dropping 51% in its fourth attack was the 3D actioner Immortals which collected an estimated $4.4M pushing the Relativity Media film's domestic gross past its $75M budget to $75.6M. Overseas, the Greek mythology adventure has taken in north of $100M. Look for the North American figure to end up at around the $85M mark.

The Ben Stiller-Eddie Murphy action-comedy Tower Heist held up surprisingly well sliding only 42% to an estimated $4.1M. Universal has banked $70.8M so far and could be headed for a $80M finish. Rounding out the top ten was the 3D animated pic Puss in Boots which tumbled 59% to an estimated $3.1M and $139.5M total. The second highest grossing film since Labor Day after Twilight, the Paramount release will end up in the $145-150M range putting it in the same company as last year's November offering from DreamWorks, Megamind, which grossed $148.4M. Puss grabbed an estimated $23M overseas this weekend to raise the international sum to $89.2M and the global tally to $228.7M.

Platforming in just 10 theaters in six top markets and generating plenty of heat was Fox Searchlight's Shame which debuted to an estimated $361,000 for a potent $36,100 average. The NC-17 film starring Michael Fassbender as a New York bachelor addicted to sex has won positive reviews as well as universal praise for its leading man who is currently one of the favorites in the competitive Best Actor Oscar race. Shame will take a slow and steady approach to its roll-out expanding to nine more theaters on Friday in such markets as Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, and Philadelphia.

Awards hopefuls in limited release continued to reach out to arthouse crowds with mixed results. Fassbender saw encouraging results from his other indie release, David Cronenberg's Sigmund Freud pic A Dangerous Method co-starring Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley, which collected an estimated $123,000 from four sites for a solid $30,750 average for Sony Classics. The Weinstein Company's silent film The Artist, which last week won best picture and director honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, widened slightly in its second weekend from four to six houses and grossed an estimated $206,000 for a strong $34,333 average. Cumes are $416,000 and $496,000, respectively.

The biopic My Week with Marilyn saw a more subdued response from audiences grossing an estimated $1.2M from 244 theaters for a mild $4,836 average. The Weinstein Co. has taken in $3.9M to date for the Michelle Williams film which should earn the actress plenty of nominations in the coming months from various awards givers.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $71.4M which was down 5% from last year when Tangled rose to the top spot with $21.6M; and down 17% from 2009 when The Blind Side climbed into number one with $20M.

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After uproar, Ky. church revisits interracial ban

FILE - In this November 2010 file photo provided by Stella Harville, Stella Harville and her fianc?, Ticha Chikuni, pose for a picture in Richmond, Ky. Stella?s childhood church in Pike County, Kentucky, the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, voted to ban interracial couples from becoming members at the church after the pair sang a song during a visit to the church over the summer. The pastor at the church now says that the decision is unlikely to stand. (AP Photo/Stella Harville, File)

FILE - In this November 2010 file photo provided by Stella Harville, Stella Harville and her fianc?, Ticha Chikuni, pose for a picture in Richmond, Ky. Stella?s childhood church in Pike County, Kentucky, the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, voted to ban interracial couples from becoming members at the church after the pair sang a song during a visit to the church over the summer. The pastor at the church now says that the decision is unlikely to stand. (AP Photo/Stella Harville, File)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ? When Stella Harville brought her black boyfriend to her family's all-white church in rural Kentucky, she thought nothing of it. She and Ticha Chikuni worshipped there whenever they were in town, and he even sang before the congregation during one service.

Then in August, a member of Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church told Harville's father that Chikuni couldn't sing there anymore. And last Sunday, in a moment that seems from another time, church members voted 9-6 to bar mixed-race couples from joining the congregation.

The policy has drawn a firestorm of criticism in just a few days and sent church leaders scrambling to overturn it, perhaps as early as Sunday. The executive secretary of the church's national organization said he has been inundated with angry phone calls, and had an inch-high stack of emails printed out on his desk.

"We are not a group of racist people," said Keith Burden of the National Association of Free Will Baptists. "We have been labeled that obviously because of the actions of nine people."

The resolution approved by the Gulnare church says it does not condone interracial marriage and "parties of such marriages will not be received as members, nor will they be used in worship services and other church functions, with the exception being funerals."

Ballots were cast after the service, attended by about 35 to 40 people, but it wasn't clear why so few people voted.

The church member and former pastor who pushed for the vote, Melvin Thompson, wouldn't tell The Associated Press why he did it.

"I am not racist. I will tell you that. I am not prejudiced against any race of people, have never in my lifetime spoke evil" about a race, Thompson said earlier this week in a brief interview. "That's what this is being portrayed as, but it is not."

Thompson stepped down as pastor earlier this year for health reasons, according to Harville's dad, Dean Harville. He said it was Thompson who told him that Chikuni couldn't sing at the church, a small, one-story red brick building with few windows and a white steeple.

After giving interviews earlier this week, the church's current pastor, Stacy Stepp, and several other church members did not return phone calls Friday. One of the members said they were shocked. Stepp said he voted against the measure and would work to overturn it.

The national group distanced itself from the resolution in a statement Thursday, saying it "neither condemns nor disallows" interracial marriage.

It said the church was working to reverse its policy and added, "We encourage the church to follow through with this action."

Harville, who is now engaged to Chikuni, said earlier this week that she felt betrayed by the church.

"Whether they keep the vote or overturn it, it's going to be hard for me go back there," she told AP.

Gulnare is a small town in Pike County, in eastern Kentucky. The county celebrates its Appalachian heritage in the spring with the Hillbilly Days Festival in downtown Pikeville, the county seat, and the Apple Blossom Festival in Elkhorn City, according to a tourism website.

Harville is working on her master's degree in optical engineering at an Indiana college. She met Chikuni, who is from Zimbabwe, at Georgetown College in central Kentucky.

"It's like we were kind of blindsided," Harville said of the church's action.

More than 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a Virginia statute barring whites from marrying nonwhites, overturning bans in 15 other states. But while interracial marriages have soared since then, many churches remain largely segregated.

Curtiss Paul DeYoung, a professor at Bethel College who has studied interracial churches, said church members opposed to a more diverse church usually just go somewhere else.

"Rarely today do you see it so blatantly come to a vote. Usually people just leave but they don't say much about it," DeYoung said. "I think this is still one of the last hurdles around race for a lot of folks in this country. It's just rarely stated this bluntly."

The Free Will Baptists trace their history to the 18th century. They emphasized the Arminian doctrine of free will, free grace, and free salvation, in contrast to most Baptists, who were Calvinists and believed Christ died only for those predestined to be saved.

There are some 4,200 churches worldwide. The National Association of Free Will Baptists organized in Nashville, Tenn., in 1935 and is now based in Antioch, Tenn.

The group said in its statement that the denomination has no official policy regarding interracial couples "because it has not been an issue."

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Test mix-up delayed her cancer diagnosis a year

Medical tests can reveal critical information, but sometimes the? test is lost and the doctor and patient never get the results, potentially delaying essential care. That was the case for one Maryland woman whose cancer went untreated for a year.

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Groom admits to setting hotel blaze during wedding party

An angry hotel guest last week pleaded guilty to starting a fire at the hotel where he was celebrating his own wedding, the UK's Telegraph reports.

The fire - started at about 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 19 - caused about $9 million of damage to the Peckforton Castle Hotel in Cheshire, U.K., the story says. The hotel is "the only intact medieval style Castle in the country," its website says.

The blaze caused nearly 200 people including 11 children to be evacuated. Nearly 100 firefighters were required to extinguish it.

The night before the fire, Max Kay, 36, and his new wife had been heard arguing with the hotel's owners about a late payment for the wedding, the Telegraph says. Later that same night, they again argued with the owner about a bar bill.

No one was hurt in the fire, but prosecutor Duncan Bould said that luck played a role in the outcome, the Telegraph reports.

"Fortunately, and it is good fortune, the premises was equipped with a very efficient fire alarm and the combination of that and the staff meant that all the guests were able to be evacuated," he told the court.

Kay's lawyer Patrick Thompson said that his client committed the crime when he was "near bankrupt" and under significant stress.

The court heard that Kay was said to have consumed large amounts of vodka that day. Also, the hotel's closed-circuit TV system caught Kay on tape going in and out of the drawing room where the blaze started. He'll be sentenced on Jan. 3.

By Barbara De Lollis, USA TODAY

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The End for Herman Cain? Announcement Soon (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Although GOP hopeful Herman Cain is still claiming that he had no sexual relationship with latest accuser Ginger White, the evidence is pointing toward at least some alleged impropriety. A report filed by CNN has indicated that Cain's wife Gloria had no knowledge of any association between Cain and Ginger White until she came out with the accusations of an affair last week.

If the five other accusations of misconduct aren't enough, the fact that Gloria Cain didn't even know of White's existence could be very telling. With donations from campaign supporters rapidly dwindling, even Cain stated in a column in Politico that dropping out was an option. He went onto state that this is something he will have to talk to his family, namely his wife about.

I'm thinking that there are quite a number of things being talked about around the Cain family dinner table right now. Whether or not he should still run for president is likely the last of them. What's probably the hottest topic in that room is why would Herman Cain be giving money to another woman and his wife not knowing about it. People could have given the benefit of the doubt to Cain if these allegations were limited to one person. With the count at somewhere around a half a dozen people, the allegations are beginning to hold more water than before.

If they didn't have at least a little bit of credibility, Herman Cain would not be floating that an announcement regarding his future in the 2012 campaign. He would deny and then ignore.

However, Cain even stated in the New York Daily News that he had given Ginger White money. Furthermore, he should have told his wife about it. In my opinion, it seems that Cain is doing everything he can to admit only what he has to while still maintaining his image as a viable candidate. With the possibility of him dropping out of the presidential hunt any day now; it seems that even he doesn't believe he can go the distance anymore.

And with the continued barrage of accusations that are showing to have the slightest shreds of truth to them, asking his wife if he should still run for president should be last on his mind. Forgiveness should be right at the top of his list.

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2011 ASH Annual Meeting to highlight latest hematology research, clinical care breakthroughs

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American Society of Hematology

WASHINGTON The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will host more than 20,000 attendees from around the globe at its 53^rd annual meeting December 10-13 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. The ASH annual meeting, the premier medical meeting for physicians and researchers in the field, will showcase the latest research and clinical advances in hematology.

"2011 has proven to be an inspiring and rewarding year for hematology, filled with new discoveries that are bringing us one step closer to conquering blood diseases," said ASH President J. Evan Sadler, MD, PhD, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "I hope that these scientific presentations, coupled with the diverse offering of educational and professional development opportunities at the Society's 53^rd Annual Meeting, will leave attendees inspired to use their new knowledge to further advance the field in 2012."

Data from more than 4,200 scientific abstracts representing more than 1,000 oral and 3,000 poster presentations will reveal the latest research in the field during the meeting. These include six of the top-scoring abstracts to be highlighted during the Plenary Scientific Session and six Late-Breaking Abstracts representing studies with novel data of high impact.

Exciting new offerings for the 2011 ASH Annual Meeting include a Special Symposium on quality of care, "Quality Indicators: Examples and Relevance to Hematology," which will focus on clinical areas of hematology for which quality indicators have been developed and are available. This new symposium will examine how such quality measures are derived and measured, and the importance of adhering to these standards.

The 2011 meeting also marks the debut of the ASH annual meeting mobile application for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry smartphones, as well as iPad and Android tablet devices. This exclusive app, available now in iTunes and the Android Market, and coming soon to Blackberry AppWorld, will feature full text of all annual meeting abstracts, articles from Hematology 2011 (The Education Program Book), maps, exhibitor listings, and other general meeting information.

Other 2011 ASH Annual Meeting highlights include special symposia, the Education Program, the Scientific Program, and a host of lectures and seminars. The Education Program will offer nearly 30 sessions on important areas of clinical progress, including advances in genomic studies of hematologic malignancies and new management strategies for bone failure syndromes, as well as two sessions held jointly with the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) on transfusion medicine. The Scientific Program will feature 17 sessions on the hottest areas of hematology research, including discussions of metabolic and DNA methylation changes in leukemia and innovative strategies to enhance regenerative potential of hematopoietic stem cells.

Several renowned hematologists will present this year's Special Lectures. Peter Carmeliet, MD, PhD, will examine the fundamentals and medical relevance of angiogenesis during the 2011 Ham-Wasserman Lecture, "Angiogenesis in Health and Disease," on Saturday, December 10. On Monday, December 12, George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, will present the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture, "Hematopoietic, Embryonic, and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Diseases, Myths, and Medicines," which will explore the possibilities and obstacles surrounding the use of genetically modified human embryonic stem cells and personalized induced pluripotent cells derived from patients by somatic cell reprogramming. Also on Monday, December 12, Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize recipients Janet D. Rowley, MD, and Brian J. Druker, MD, will highlight their achievements in chronic myeloid leukemia research and treatment during their lecture, "Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML): A Success Story from Chromosomes to Effective Therapy." The Presidential Symposium on Tuesday, December 13, will focus on recent advances in understanding bone marrow failure syndromes, featuring Monica Bessler, MD, PhD, Benjamin Ebert, MD, DPhil, and Alan D'Andrea, MD.

The Society will honor several hematologists with individual awards for their achievements during the 2011 meeting. On Sunday, December 11, ASH will honor David Nathan, MD, with the Society's highest award, the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology, for his important discoveries in thalassemia and other blood disorders, his tireless promotion of translational research, and his dedication to training several generations of leaders in the field. ASH will also recognize Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, and Malcolm K. Brenner, MD, PhD, with Mentor Awards on Sunday for their sustained commitment to the training and career development of junior hematologists. On Tuesday, December 13, ASH will present Christoph Klein, MD, PhD, with the Dameshek Prize for his outstanding accomplishments, which have had a large impact on the understanding of human blood and the immune system. Also on Tuesday, Ching-Hon Pui, MD, will receive the Henry M. Stratton Medal for his many significant contributions to childhood leukemia research.

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For the complete annual meeting program and abstracts, visit http://www.hematology.org/2011abstracts. Up-to-the-minute meeting information can also be found at ASH's Twitter feed, or by following the annual meeting conversation at #ASH11. The American Society of Hematology is the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders. Its mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic, and vascular systems by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. The official journal of ASH is Blood, the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field, which is available weekly in print and online.

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American Society of Hematology

WASHINGTON The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will host more than 20,000 attendees from around the globe at its 53^rd annual meeting December 10-13 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. The ASH annual meeting, the premier medical meeting for physicians and researchers in the field, will showcase the latest research and clinical advances in hematology.

"2011 has proven to be an inspiring and rewarding year for hematology, filled with new discoveries that are bringing us one step closer to conquering blood diseases," said ASH President J. Evan Sadler, MD, PhD, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "I hope that these scientific presentations, coupled with the diverse offering of educational and professional development opportunities at the Society's 53^rd Annual Meeting, will leave attendees inspired to use their new knowledge to further advance the field in 2012."

Data from more than 4,200 scientific abstracts representing more than 1,000 oral and 3,000 poster presentations will reveal the latest research in the field during the meeting. These include six of the top-scoring abstracts to be highlighted during the Plenary Scientific Session and six Late-Breaking Abstracts representing studies with novel data of high impact.

Exciting new offerings for the 2011 ASH Annual Meeting include a Special Symposium on quality of care, "Quality Indicators: Examples and Relevance to Hematology," which will focus on clinical areas of hematology for which quality indicators have been developed and are available. This new symposium will examine how such quality measures are derived and measured, and the importance of adhering to these standards.

The 2011 meeting also marks the debut of the ASH annual meeting mobile application for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry smartphones, as well as iPad and Android tablet devices. This exclusive app, available now in iTunes and the Android Market, and coming soon to Blackberry AppWorld, will feature full text of all annual meeting abstracts, articles from Hematology 2011 (The Education Program Book), maps, exhibitor listings, and other general meeting information.

Other 2011 ASH Annual Meeting highlights include special symposia, the Education Program, the Scientific Program, and a host of lectures and seminars. The Education Program will offer nearly 30 sessions on important areas of clinical progress, including advances in genomic studies of hematologic malignancies and new management strategies for bone failure syndromes, as well as two sessions held jointly with the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) on transfusion medicine. The Scientific Program will feature 17 sessions on the hottest areas of hematology research, including discussions of metabolic and DNA methylation changes in leukemia and innovative strategies to enhance regenerative potential of hematopoietic stem cells.

Several renowned hematologists will present this year's Special Lectures. Peter Carmeliet, MD, PhD, will examine the fundamentals and medical relevance of angiogenesis during the 2011 Ham-Wasserman Lecture, "Angiogenesis in Health and Disease," on Saturday, December 10. On Monday, December 12, George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, will present the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture, "Hematopoietic, Embryonic, and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Diseases, Myths, and Medicines," which will explore the possibilities and obstacles surrounding the use of genetically modified human embryonic stem cells and personalized induced pluripotent cells derived from patients by somatic cell reprogramming. Also on Monday, December 12, Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize recipients Janet D. Rowley, MD, and Brian J. Druker, MD, will highlight their achievements in chronic myeloid leukemia research and treatment during their lecture, "Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML): A Success Story from Chromosomes to Effective Therapy." The Presidential Symposium on Tuesday, December 13, will focus on recent advances in understanding bone marrow failure syndromes, featuring Monica Bessler, MD, PhD, Benjamin Ebert, MD, DPhil, and Alan D'Andrea, MD.

The Society will honor several hematologists with individual awards for their achievements during the 2011 meeting. On Sunday, December 11, ASH will honor David Nathan, MD, with the Society's highest award, the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology, for his important discoveries in thalassemia and other blood disorders, his tireless promotion of translational research, and his dedication to training several generations of leaders in the field. ASH will also recognize Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, and Malcolm K. Brenner, MD, PhD, with Mentor Awards on Sunday for their sustained commitment to the training and career development of junior hematologists. On Tuesday, December 13, ASH will present Christoph Klein, MD, PhD, with the Dameshek Prize for his outstanding accomplishments, which have had a large impact on the understanding of human blood and the immune system. Also on Tuesday, Ching-Hon Pui, MD, will receive the Henry M. Stratton Medal for his many significant contributions to childhood leukemia research.

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For the complete annual meeting program and abstracts, visit http://www.hematology.org/2011abstracts. Up-to-the-minute meeting information can also be found at ASH's Twitter feed, or by following the annual meeting conversation at #ASH11. The American Society of Hematology is the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders. Its mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic, and vascular systems by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. The official journal of ASH is Blood, the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field, which is available weekly in print and online.

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August 9th, 2589 A.D. Terran Standard calendar. Fifteen thirty hours, local time.

Hungry, poor wretches of humanity starred out of dark alleyways, doors, windows and openly on the streets, at the bright lights and tall temporary buildings, which had sprung up among them. It was a strange sight, to see such wondrous things appear inside the gloomy, massive hive tower. They had set up inside of the only public square on tier two hundred eleven, which cut up into two tiers above it. For three days now, they had been setting up, shuttles arrive from the top of the hive, by way of a massive fright elevator, which was located on the edge of the public square. Everyone could remember when heavily armed troops from House Brakus, House Carmilia and House Damus had arrived, just before the strangers had, clearing the square with armored fists and then laying down a layer of clean ground slag from the factories below, covering over of slimy filth of the place.

It was the first time, since the hive had been raised, that all three of the ruling houses had worked together to get something done. Of course, it was no more then a slight effort to keep the populace from rioting. Recently, the factories had been ordered to double production, in order to complete with the other three hives on the continent. However, the increase in production was also leading towards an increase in fatalities. With workers dropping like flies, the common people were getting edgy, convinced that the high lords and ladies, just wanted to work them to death. Something needed to be done, without lowering the quotas or profits. Bring in one of the largest and well known interplanetary circuses, was an easy choice to make.

Cooper stood in front of the big top, his right leg twitching now and then, as he uneasily looked beyond the colorful energy barriers, bright with advertisements for his different performers and jarring against the dimness of the tier. Not for the tenth time today, he wondered if he had made the right choice in bringing his people to this planet. After the falling out with the royal family of Corsivin, had he been in the right frame of mind, when he went looking for their next job? Had he made a mistake because he wasn't thinking straight, bring those he held as close as blood kin, into a place he wouldn't feel comfortable in with a company of special forces troops? Such thoughts churned behind the calm pools of his liquid silver eyes.

In truth, the ringmaster was right to worry. Among the staring eyes of the volatile population, were the sharp stares of hive gangers. Tattooed and covered with piercings, men and women from the three main gangs watch the circus with hungry smiles. There was money to be made here. Things and beasts could be stolen from the outsiders. There were strong workers among them, who could be sold to the factories or shuttled off in the other main export from Roisdor, indentured persons, perfect for seeding new colonies or as cheep labor. Then there were the circus folk talented enough to be sold to the high lords, as personal entertainers or those who could be thrown into the sex trade.

The circus owner stared at the rows and rows of cages. One side on each cage was made from an energy barrier, much like what was lining the field but it was clear, allowing visitors to peer inside at the many strange and wonderful animals. It also allowed the animals to stare back at you. Many of them would make multiple attacks on the barriers in the weeks to come, as the masses shuffled past, taunting the beasts with their freedom. Then came the ranks of vender stands. Some travel with the circus, plying the crowds with exotic food or games of chance and skill.

Beyond the cages and venders, stood the main attraction. A trio of brightly stripped tents, the largest in the middle and flanked on either side by lesser tents. In there would the human and alien performers of the circus amaze the crowd or reduce them to fits of laughter. Once the night fell, the tents would be divided, as the freaks came out to play and the more exotic or erotic entertainers would take over. A wonderland for those who kept to the oldest forms of showmanship.

Behind the main attraction were tents belonging to the performers, roustabouts, lighting crews, cooks and the venders. There was also a kitchen and mess tent, ready to feed the battalion and keep them going. There were also storage units, for props and dividers. Corrals and cages for the beasts in the animal acts, which were connected to tubs leading into the main tents, stood in patient rows.

A reminder flashed across Cooper's eyes as the grinding and squealing of the fright elevator doors opening filled the air. The first wave of his performers was arriving on sight. As soon as they were settled into the tents (which were in fact small prefabbed plysteel huts, which could be set up in minutes), they would have to get ready for the opening night. He wanted the three weeks of performances to be over and done with quick.

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