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In the upcoming movie: El Bulli. I'm picturing a Tony Shaloub type, but Hollywood being Hollywood they'll probably cast someone totally inappropriate but with big box office, like Ryan Gosling or Seth Rogan.
Here's the press release:
Vendome Pictures Cooks Up Dramatic Film Based on Revolutionary Chef Ferran Adrià and His World-Famous elBulli Restaurant
Los Angeles, CA February 13, 2013 – Vendome Pictures announced today that it has come on board to produce and finance EL BULLI, a fictionalized dramatic feature film based on world-famous Spanish chef Ferran Adrià and the restaurant he built into the world's foremost gastronomic mecca, elBulli. David Wilson wrote the screenplay which is inspired by Lisa Abend's book The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli.
Vendome Pictures' CEO Philippe Rousselet will produce the project along with Jeff Kleeman and John Lesher. Vendome is currently seeking a director with plans to commence production this year.
Rousselet stated, "We are excited to be a part of this film and to work with an innovator like Ferran who has revolutionized cuisine by creating his own genre of food. We look forward to attaching a director to this film that will be able to capture the adventure of training in this iconic restaurant."
"Honesty, passion, creativity, freedom, risk, and sharing. This is the spirit of elBulli and this film is a tribute to the 2,000 individuals who passed through the restaurant during its 25 years who participated in creating this spirit," said Adrià.
Set in the final year of the iconic restaurant located 100 miles north of Barcelona, the film will mix fact with fiction and offer an inside-the-kitchen look at the intense passion, creativity and tedious work unfolding nightly. Adrià abruptly closed this mecca in 2011 at the height of its popularity, triggering global mourning in the gastronomic community. At that time, elBulli was fielding 2 million reservation requests a year, but could only serve about 8,000 guests.
In 2014, elBulli will re-open as the elBullifoundation, a center dedicated to culinary creativity and innovation. Located on the site of the restaurant, the foundation will be housed in a new campus that is both architecturally striking, and energy sustainable. While it will preserve elBulli's historic archive, the foundation will also focus on experimentation, treating cooking as a language through which new ideas can be expressed. One of its first projects is Bullipedia, an encyclopedia of cuisine in which Adrià and his collaborators will trace the DNA of cooking and organize collective knowledge about products, techniques, preparations, and concepts.
In her book The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli, Abend spent the 2009 six-month season at elBulli showcasing the interpersonal drama behind elBulli's notoriously rigorous kitchen training program. Each year, 32 accomplished young chefs – culled from 3,000 hopefuls from around the world – would pay their own way to get to elBulli's remote Costa Brava location just to work as stagiares (translation: "kitchen apprentices"). In Adrià's kitchen, they were pushed to their competitive limits in a 14-hour-a-day Darwinian process designed to sift out the chefs capable of working in a restaurant voted the world's best five times, spearheaded by a celebrity chef who has three Michelin stars and who has appeared in almost every major publication on the planet.
Wilson's most recently adapted THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. for Warner Bros
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Over the past year, MPI has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine how diasporas contribute to – or detract from - development efforts in their countries of origin. MPI and USAID have published an edited volume of the research. Please join us for the release of the book where speakers will discuss new thinking on the role of diaspora engagement in U.S. foreign and development policy.
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It has been awhile since I have reviewed a movie. In fact, it has been awhile, for me, since I have seen a new movie on the weekend it has come out. Chalk it up to increased responsibilities, lack of good movies and laziness. Not in that particular order but you understand where I am coming from.
Forgive me for my negligence in my movie reviewing. What I am going to try and do to make up for my grievances is to review at least one movie a week. Whether it is old or new, it does not matter. For this week's review, I went to see We're the Millers.
This comedy, which opened on the weekend of August 9, features a couple of my favorite comedy actors in Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. Aniston, known for her role as Rachael Green on the television series Friends, and Sudeikis, of SNL fame, play a stripper and low-level drug dealer. Respectively. Or not respectively. Either way.
David Clark (Sudeikis) is enlisted by Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms) to head down to Mexico to grab a "smidge" of pot. Clark, realizing that going alone would draw too much attention, decides to enlist Rose O'Reilly (Aniston) as his made up wife.
Rounding out the make shift family are his next door neighbor Kenny (Will Poulter) and runaway and homeless Casey (Emma Roberts). When they family arrives in Mexico, they realize that a smidge of marijuana is more like two metric tons and hilarity ensues.
I planned on going to this movie with my girlfriend and cousin. My dad, who was a missionary, was in town and took my girlfriend and me out to supper before the movie. When my girlfriend invited him to join us, he wanted to know what the movie was about. I said the words "drug dealer" and "stripper" and instantly he was busy.
Now, my dad isn't a snob by any means but don't go into this movie expecting a family friendly type of film. Expect the type of movie that Sudeikis has been delivering on for the last couple years. From Horrible Bosses to Hall Pass, Sudeikis has been the funniest man on the big screen.
He delivers yet again in this movie and his pairing with Aniston went much better than I expected. Aniston has really shed the Friends persona the last couple years by playing some really edgy characters in a couple movies, including the overly touchy dentist in Horrible Bosses.
The movie has been one of the funnier movies I have seen this summer and I would recommend you go see it in theaters. It is also one of those movies you should have in your DVD collection for a rainy day or if you need a movie to watch for a couch date.
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Pro football in 1969 was not the spectacle it is today. No NFL Network. No 24-7 internet and blogosphere dissecting every minute detail of every game. Players had off-season jobs. They smoked and drank and partied hard...well some things never change. You didnt have to be a chiseled physical specimen to play the game. And the conventional wisdom was a good running game and stout defense wins championships. Yeah there was Namath & Unitas and the "Mad Bomber" Darlye Lamonica...but it was the "Packer Sweep" and guys like Csonka carrying on the tradition of Jim Brown, Gale Sayers and all of the great rushers that came before them. That's why it might have surprised people last night after Peyton Manning threw his 7th TD pass when they let us know the last QB to do it....Joe Kapp!!??...in 1969???!!!.
Kapp was a hard-nosed player out of Cal who never was the prettiest passer around. Sometimes his passes were end-over-end...alot of times he would run out of the pocket...but on September 28, 1969...Joe Kapp threw for seven touchdown passes and 538 yardsagainst the Baltimore Colts...the defending NFL champs. Kapp led the Vikings to their first Super Bowl that season where they lost to KC.
But it's hard to believe that with all the great QBS that have come along since...nobody had matched that level of performance. Not Fouts or Marino...not Montana or Young or Bradshaw or Staubach. Not Elway or Simms or Favre...the line of NFL history now stretches from Sid Luckman to Adrian Burk to George Blanda to YA Tittle to Joe Kapp...to Peyton Manning. Good stuff.
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Overall Product Rating
52% of reviewers recommend this product
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June 17, 2014 by Gary | Washington Crossing, PA 18977, USA
Yes, I recommend this product.
"I'm "bigger," meaning I'm down to 220 from 290. I also don't like the fancy fluorescent sneakers. I've been buying this series of shoes almost 10 years I think. Great stability and support, and longevity. Love these sneakers!"
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June 5, 2014 by Charlie | GA
"First bought this shoe in 2013. Comfort and fit were good. Shoe performed well. I got 6 months out of this pair of shoes. Since the shoes had eliminated my foot and ankle pain I bought a another pair. Well the new pair of shoes only lasted two months before the sole on the left shoe started cracking and falling apart and my foot and ankle pain returned. For a shoe to start falling apart after 2 months is unacceptable. I will not be buying this shoe again and cannot recommend it to anyone based on the life of the shoe."
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May 29, 2014 by JPritch | VA
Yes, I recommend this product.
"I personally love this shoe. As a bigger guy, this line has been a saving grace for me. I used to run in pain and get bad shin splints before I found out about these. The stability and cushioning is top notch. No issues here with tongue length, lacing, odors, or anything for that matter. They still look almost as good as the day I bought them. I purchased the Navy color and they look sharp."
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May 29, 2014 by TygerThom | Raleigh, NC, USA
Yes, I recommend this product.
"Bought the 990s 7 months ago. Very comfortable and holding up well. No smell issues!"
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May 19, 2014 by bullitt1573 | Macon, GA, USA
"I have worn only the 991 and the 993 for years with no issues. When the current 990v3 was released I reluctantly purchased them since the 993 was no longer available except in custom and military versions. After a total of 4 pairs (2 purchased and 2 exchanges) I have found that there is a major problem with the shoe tongue design. On each pair, the tongue slips to the outside of the shoe. Nothing will keep the tongue in place. I have tried all combinations of lacing through the shoe tongue, but nothing works. New Balance, please revise the shoe tongue and fix this very annoying problem!! Fortunately, I was able to purchase FOUR pairs of 993's from Joe's New Balance Outlet."
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Leavitt Confirmed as HHS Secretary
On January 26, Michael O. Leavitt was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As HHS Secretary, he will command an annual budget in excess of $548 billion and will oversee more than 66,600 federal employees, including those of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Prior to his current service, Secretary Leavitt served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and as Governor of Utah. He is widely recognized as a health care innovator and welfare reformer. In 1994, the Utah legislature passed then-Governor Leavitt's "HealthPrint," a comprehensive, incremental approach to health care improvement in the state. A decade later, Utah has more than 400,000 additional people with health insurance, marked increases in the number of children with health care coverage, and per capita cost of healthcare 25 percent below the national average.
Secretary Leavitt also has an accomplished record on cancer control and outreach. During his service as Governor of Utah, he joined with the Huntsman Cancer Institute to draw attention to the high incidence of skin cancer among Utahns through Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month. Also under his leadership, the state launched the Utah Cancer Action Network, a consortium of 70 agencies and individuals that were "champions" of cancer issues. Secretary Leavitt is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Legacy Foundation, an organization established in the 1998 settlement agreement between 46 state attorneys general and the tobacco industry to reduce tobacco usage in the United States. Read more
Pursuing the Promise of Biomarkers
In recent presentations about the great potential of cancer biomarkers and diagnostics, Nobel laureate Dr. Leland Hartwell has delivered a critical message. "I am optimistic that we have the knowledge, science, and technology to greatly improve outcomes for cancer in a relatively short timeframe," he said at last year's American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting. "But I am cautious because I don't know whether we have the ability to organize the effort."
We do, in fact, have the knowledge to make significant advances across the cancer care spectrum over the next decade, especially in the area of cancer biomarkers. If we can strategically and systematically apply that knowledge, we can dramatically alter the cancer process, paving the way for early detection and the ability to predict a cancer's biologic virulence - both of which could significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer.
Leavitt Confirmed as HHS Secretary
On January 26, Michael O. Leavitt was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As HHS Secretary, he will command an annual budget in excess of $548 billion and will oversee more than 66,600 federal employees, including those of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Prior to his current service, Secretary Leavitt served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and as Governor of Utah. He is widely recognized as a health care innovator and welfare reformer. In 1994, the Utah legislature passed then-Governor Leavitt's "HealthPrint," a comprehensive, incremental approach to health care improvement in the state. A decade later, Utah has more than 400,000 additional people with health insurance, marked increases in the number of children with health care coverage, and per capita cost of healthcare 25 percent below the national average.
Secretary Leavitt also has an accomplished record on cancer control and outreach. During his service as Governor of Utah, he joined with the Huntsman Cancer Institute to draw attention to the high incidence of skin cancer among Utahns through Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month. Also under his leadership, the state launched the Utah Cancer Action Network, a consortium of 70 agencies and individuals that were "champions" of cancer issues. Secretary Leavitt is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Legacy Foundation, an organization established in the 1998 settlement agreement between 46 state attorneys general and the tobacco industry to reduce tobacco usage in the United States.
Said President Bush upon nominating Leavitt to this post, "He is an ideal choice to lead one of the largest departments of the United States government. [HHS] touches the life of every person in this country. To meet [its] responsibilities, the Department needs…a leader who is able to act on many fronts all at once."
NCI director Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach stated, "I look forward to working with Secretary Leavitt to reduce the burden of cancer on our society. Given his passion and record of leadership in the area of cancer control in Utah, as well as his leadership and interest in the area of health care technology, I believe there is a lot we in the cancer community can learn at this critical time in the fight."
Secretary Leavitt's commitment to using technology to improve the quality of care, reduce mistakes, and manage costs was evident in one of his first public appearances after his appointment as HHS Secretary. Just one day removed from his Senate confirmation, he joined President Bush in Cleveland to talk about the importance of adapting emerging technologies for computerizing medical recordkeeping and electronic prescriptions.
Secretary Leavitt has a bachelor's degree in economics and business from Southern Utah University. He succeeds former Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, who in a letter to HHS staff earlier this week praised HHS for its accomplishments during his tenure, stating that, "We've lived up to our reputation as the Department of Compassion by helping to spread hope and opportunity to those who need it most in America and around the world. This work truly is a noble calling, and I urge you to continue to pursue it with seriousness and great humility."
By Jo-Ann Kriebel
Pursuing the Promise of Biomarkers
In recent presentations about the great potential of cancer biomarkers and diagnostics, Nobel laureate Dr. Leland Hartwell has delivered a critical message. "I am optimistic that we have the knowledge, science, and technology to greatly improve outcomes for cancer in a relatively short timeframe," he said at last year's American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting. "But I am cautious because I don't know whether we have the ability to organize the effort."
We do, in fact, have the knowledge to make significant advances across the cancer care spectrum over the next decade, especially in the area of cancer biomarkers. If we can strategically and systematically apply that knowledge, we can dramatically alter the cancer process, paving the way for early detection and the ability to predict a cancer's biologic virulence - both of which could significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer.
This will be the central issue at a 3-day meeting that begins today in Houston convened by NCI and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Leaders in clinical oncology, proteomics, genomics, nanotechnology, imaging, bioinformatics, and other supporting areas will use this meeting to discuss and develop strategies for integrating biomarkers into cancer clinical trials. Incorporating these critically important signals - found in serum, urine, or tissue - into clinical trials will help investigators more quickly determine which patients are likely to respond best to a given treatment and whether the treatments are working, as well as achieve the biologically relevant dose of new therapeutic agents.
The Houston meeting is part of the ongoing development of a multi-pronged effort at NCI to leverage the cancer biomarkers' promise, including a strong basic science portfolio, the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN), and a new program to harmonize and support rational biomarker discovery. This meeting will add the dimension of sound strategies to accelerate biomarkers' integration into cancer clinical trials.
Progress in this area has been swift. Several biomarker tests under investigation for a variety of cancers have shown promise for early detection, and researchers across all sectors are extending these findings, using these biomarkers to identify new therapeutic targets.
EDRN has had remarkable success in its 4-year existence, including the launch last October of a 3-year study to validate an EDRN-created test that looks for biomarkers in urine that indicate bladder cancer recurrence. Biomarker validation and discovery continues to evolve through EDRN-funded laboratories, including approximately $10 million in funding announced late last year for 17 biomarker developmental laboratories. In addition to EDRN, NCI also is funding the development of tools and infrastructure to support biomarker discovery, validation, and development.
Finally, through the Interagency Oncology Task Force (IOTF), NCI is working to streamline regulatory processes that could affect biomarkers' use in clinical trials. An IOTF subgroup, for example, is developing plans for the development of biomarkers in coordination with the FDA's Critical Path Initiative. A special focus of biomarker development for IOTF is the development and integration of imaging as biomarkers, and potentially surrogate endpoints - one of the most promising areas of biomarker research for cancer. And IOTF has formed a new subcommittee to examine the use of biomarkers to determine efficacy and long-term toxicity of agents in prevention trials.
Like Dr. Hartwell and many others, I believe in the promise of biomarker research. It is an important component of an integrated, multifaceted strategy NCI embarked upon 2 years ago to develop new interventions that disrupt or arrest the mechanisms responsible for cancer initiation and progression. We have made important progress in a short time, and I fully expect it to continue.
Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach
New Study Brings Mouse Cancer Models Closer to Humans
Before a new drug, device, or surgical procedure can be tested in humans, each must first be tested in animals, the usual preclinical biosystem being mice. Genetic engineering has produced hundreds of strains of mice for this purpose, with cancers that look the same and develop in the same organs or tissues as tumors seen in people. But the question remains: How similar are these tumors in terms of their signaling pathways and gene transcription? How well do they mimic the human cancer biosystem?
"Before now, the criteria that have been used to select mouse models for cancer research were most often based on a single gene, one that is mutated or lost in a particular human cancer," explained Dr. Snorri Thorgeirsson of NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR). "But extrapolating findings from mouse models to the human situation is complicated because of the molecular heterogeneity seen in humans."
To better match mouse cancer models to human cancers and take this heterogeneity into account, NCI scientists including Dr. Thorgeirsson and researchers from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago focused on a subset of genes in human hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) that are associated with survival, and compared their expression patterns with those seen in mouse hepatocellular carcinoma - a process they aptly named "comparative functional genomics."
Dr. Thorgeirsson and colleagues worked with seven different mouse models induced to develop liver cancer: two through the chemicals ciprofibrate and diethylnitrosamine; four through transgenic overexpression of the genes Myc, E2fl, and Tgfa; and one strain, a knockout, missing the Acoxl-|- gene. After collecting tissue samples from 68 mouse tumors, the researchers used microarray analysis and grouped the samples according to gene expression prevalence.
Gene expression profiles from these 68 tumor samples fell into three clusters: One included samples from mice that were exposed to diethylnitrosamine, a carcinogen, and those that overexpressed Myc and Tgfa; the second included mice that overexpressed Myc and E2fl; and the third included those exposed to ciprofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator, as well as those that overexpressed Acoxl-|-.
The researchers then matched these clusters with the gene expression profiles from 91 human hepatocellular carcinoma samples that had been preclassified according to survival-correlated gene expression patterns. They found that cluster 1 mouse tumors matched profiles from humans who had poor survival rates (categorized earlier, in the September 2004 issue of Hepatology, as subclass A), the cluster 2 tumors matched up with those from humans who had better survival rates (categorized as subclass B), and cluster 3 had low correlation with human liver cancers. Other aspects that were similar between the mouse and human tumors in each cluster included proliferation and apoptosis rates, as well as the degree of ubiquitination - a process of marking proteins for degradation - seen between the two.
In their article based on this research, published in the December 2004 issue of Nature Genetics, Dr. Thorgeirsson and colleagues wrote, "Taken together, these results support the notion that better- or best-fit mouse models for human studies can be identified by applying genome-scale comparison of gene expression patterns." They also pointed out that the lack of correlation between human tumors and mouse tumors induced by ciprofibrate support previous studies that showed the human liver may be insensitive to peroxisome proliferators.
While the tissue in this study came from hepatocellular carcinomas, Dr. Thorgeirsson said that the findings hold promise for preclinical research on a wide range of human cancers.
In an editorial related to this research, published in the January 2005 issue of Nature Genetics, Drs. Thomas Graeber and Charles Sawyers of the UCLA School of Medicine commend the study's findings, but note that this type of research could miss crucial events in cancer development that might not be reflected in gene expression. "Although we expect gene expression-guided mouse modeling to advance cancer biology," they wrote, "we wonder whether the mouse modeling and computational biology communities should consider a more comprehensive approach." Dr. Thorgeirsson agrees with their assessment and, to that end, says that his future research plans include complementing comparative functional genomics with both computational and proteomic approaches.
By Brittany Moya del Pino
for Prostate Cancer
Obese and overweight men have lower levels of the blood protein prostate-specific antigen (PSA) that "could mask biologically consequential prostate carcinoma" when those men are given PSA tests for prostate cancer, according to a population study that will be published in the March issue of Cancer, and appearing now in the "early view" section of the journal's Web site (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/28741).
The study was conducted by Dr. Jacques Baillargeon and colleagues at the San Antonio Center of Biomarkers of Risk for Prostate Cancer, one of the NCI EDRN clinical and epidemiological centers.
Between 2001 and 2004, 2,779 men without prostate cancer were evaluated, comparing their blood serum PSA level with their body mass index (BMI), a standard measure for weight and obesity. PSA levels are already known to vary with an individual's race/ethnicity and age, but once these factors were controlled for, researchers also found a strict inverse relationship between weight and PSA levels. Thinner and fitter men had higher PSA levels than individuals with higher BMI scores.
According to the researchers, PSA levels appear to be suppressed by about one-third in men whose BMI scores are greater than 40. This tendency could lessen the value of the PSA screening test for overweight and obese men, producing false-negative results and delaying diagnosis of prostate cancer, the study concludes.
The PSA test is currently an FDA-approved, Medicare-reimbursed method of screening for prostate cancer among men over 50. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, after skin cancer. Approximately 232,090 men in the United States will be diagnosed with the disease in 2005, and about 30,350 men will die from it.
Dramatic Rise in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Appears
Between 1975 and 2001, the number of cases of esophageal adenocarcinoma rose faster than for any other major cancer type in the United States, increasing more than six-fold from 3.8 to 23.3 cases per million people in that time period. Researchers from the VA Outcomes Group and the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School set out to determine whether the cause could be traced to overdiagnosis or reclassification. Their results are published in the January 19 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The research team looked at data from the SEER 9 program, which collects information on newly diagnosed cancer in Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, and Utah, as well as the cities of Atlanta, Detroit, San Francisco, and Seattle - in all, representing about 10 percent of the U.S. population. They found that the anatomic distribution of esophageal cancers has shifted over time toward the lower third of the esophagus, near the site of adenocarcinomas, while the incidence of adenocarcinoma in the upper portion of the stomach, near the opening of the esophagus, remained steady, thus refuting the possibility that disease reclassification is causing the trend.
They also identified a steep rise in the mortality from esophageal adenocarcinoma, while the proportion of disease diagnosed at early stage versus late stage has remained steady, thereby clearing overdiagnosis as a cause of the trend. "Our results strongly indicate…a true increase in disease burden," the authors write. "To explain a rise of this magnitude, however, the prevalence of a strong risk factor must also rise dramatically…Such a risk factor has not yet been identified and defining it should be a priority."
Online Gene Viewing Tool Available
Scientists at NCI's Core Genotyping Facility (CGF) are making available a Web-based tool, Genewindow, to facilitate some of the primary genetic research tasks facing scientists. Genewindow is an interactive genome browser designed to view and catalog the millions of known single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found in all known human genes. The tool integrates schematic maps of genes with publicly available annotations from researchers.
The browser (http://genewindow.nci.nih.gov) is available at no charge and may be useful to universities, cancer centers, biotechnology companies, and laboratories worldwide.
Genewindow was developed to help automate and manage CGF's complicated work flow, which in 2004 delivered over 4 million genotypes in response to requests by NCI researchers. Typically, a researcher requires a local "map" when looking for a gene that might be associated with a particular trait, condition, or disorder. Analyzing the regions on a gene entails finding and mapping a particular region on a chromosome, then looking for SNPs that might vary from one individual to another.
CGF scientists designed Genewindow to be an intuitive, user-friendly reference tool that even non-geneticists can use to conduct gene studies. Genewindow has become "the primary tool for pre- and post-genetic bioinformatics and analytical work at the CGF," say the authors of an article published in the February issue of Nature Genetics. CGF plans other enhancements, and will release the source code so that other labs may use and adapt it to analyze their own data, even for species other than humans.
Localized Radiation Boosts Survival in Breast Cancer Patients
Patients with high-risk breast cancer who underwent a radical mastectomy and received adjuvant chemotherapy were more likely to survive if they also had localized radiation treatment, according to results of a 20-year follow-up study reported in the January 19 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The original trial in British Columbia, Canada included 318 premenopausal women with lymph node-positive breast cancer who had mastectomies and chemotherapy during the period of 1979-1986. They were randomly assigned to receive either no radiation treatment - the general standard of care - or locoregional radiation therapy (radiation to the lymph nodes and chest wall).
Dr. Joseph Ragaz and his colleagues from the McGill University Health Center first analyzed the patients' data at the 15-year mark and found that radiation therapy was associated with improved breast cancer survival but not with overall survival improvement. However, at the second follow-up 5 years later, the researchers discovered a 32-percent reduction in breast cancer mortality and a 27-percent reduction in overall mortality compared with chemotherapy alone.
The researchers believe the radiation therapy improves survival because it destroys microscopic cancer cells that chemotherapy cannot eradicate. "Our results, and those from other groups, confirm that in situations where residual disease remains, adjuvant chemotherapy alone in high-risk breast cancer patients is suboptimal and that the addition of locoregional radiation therapy is important to achieve the highest cure rate," they concluded.
Large International Study Confirms Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
A new study involving nonsmokers and former smokers in 10 European countries is the latest to warn that exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke is a risk factor for lung cancer and other respiratory diseases, particularly among ex-smokers.
At the start of the prospective study, which appeared February 1st on the British Medical Journal Web site, the researchers interviewed more than 120,000 nonsmokers and former smokers - men and women aged 35-74 - about their lifetime exposures to cigarette smoke. Seven years later, 97 people had developed lung cancer, 20 had developed upper respiratory cancers, and 14 had died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or emphysema.
The researchers found an association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and risk of lung cancer. The risk was higher among former smokers (who had stopped for at least 10 years) than among people who never smoked. The researchers suggest that former smokers may be more susceptible due to previously acquired genetic mutations.
The study also found that children who were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke at infancy were up to three times more likely to develop lung cancer as adults, compared with children who were not.
Although elevated risks for lung cancer among people exposed to secondhand smoke have been found before, this study's strengths include its large size and the ability to rule out other risk factors.
Dr. Paolo Vineis, of Imperial College London, is first author of the study, which was directed by Dr. Elio Riboli, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The study was part of the large, multicenter cohort European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study.
The following are newly-released NCI research funding opportunities:
Molecular Approaches to Diet and Pancreatic Cancer Prevention
This funding opportunity will use the NIH investigator-initiated research project grants (R01) award mechanism.
For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=2520 or contact Dr. Sharon Ross at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) to Improve the Chemistry and Targeted Delivery of RNAi Molecules
This funding opportunity will use the STTR (R41/R42) and SBIR (R43/R44) grant mechanism(s).
For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=2521 or contact Dr. Suresh K. Arya at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For comprehensive information about NCI funding priorities and opportunities, go to http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding.
The NIH Roadmap provides a framework of the priorities NIH must address to optimize its research portfolio. It identifies the most compelling opportunities in three main areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and re-engineering the clinical research enterprise. For information on Roadmap funding opportunities, go to http://nihroadmap.nih.gov.
Chemoprevention Trial for Head and Neck Cancer
Name of the Trial
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Why Is This Trial Important?
Leukoplakia, an abnormal patch of white tissue that forms on mucous membranes inside the mouth and elsewhere in the body, may be a precursor to head and neck cancer.
In this study, researchers are investigating the ability of pioglitazone, a drug used to treat type II diabetes, to reverse leukoplakia and prevent it from developing into head and neck cancer. Pioglitazone belongs to a new class of oral antidiabetic drugs called thiazolidinediones that have been shown to inhibit growth of some epithelial cancer cells.
"There is no current standard for screening or treatment of leukoplakia like there is for precancerous lesions of the colon, for example," said Dr. Ondrey. "We know that over the course of 5 years about 5 percent of patients with oral leukoplakia will develop invasive cancer, so it is important that we develop an effective means of treating the condition and preventing it from progressing to cancer."
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Where Is This Trial Taking Place?
Contact Information
An archive of "Featured Clinical Trial" columns is available at http://cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/ft-all-featured-trials.
Dr. Mary-Claire King Lectures on Breast Cancer Genetics
Dr. Mary-Claire King, credited with the first discovery of a hereditary breast cancer link, BRCA1, in 1990, spoke at the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture series on January 26. Her seminar covered the nuances in BRCA1 and 2 gene sequence that lend themselves to the disease, the New York Breast Cancer Study, and an approach her lab is using to identify new breast cancer genes. Dr. King's lecture focused, in part, on recent controversial data from her work showing that among the relatives of women who developed breast cancer due to BRCA1 mutations, those who also carry the mutation have as much as an 80 percent risk of developing the disease by the age of 80. Now she is looking for possible risk modifiers by working with families devoid of breast cancer, despite carrying the associated mutations. Her lecture is available on the NIH VideoCasting Web site at http://videocast.nih.gov.
Chang Discusses Tumor-Targeting Nanodelivery Systems
Dr. Chang, who also serves on NCI's Board of Scientific Advisors, highlighted 10 years of preclinical work in which her laboratory successfully demonstrated that cationic liposomes smaller than 100 nanometers in diameter could safely and selectively deliver therapeutic genes, such as tumor suppressor genes, to tumor cells. One such preparation, which uses transferrin to target tumor cells and the p53 gene, is slated to begin phase I clinical trials in head and neck cancer this spring.
Other work in Dr. Chang's laboratory is focusing on using cationic liposomes to deliver siRNA constructs capable of down-regulating various oncogenes that are overexpressed in prostate and pancreatic cancers.
Future presentations in the series are scheduled for February 24 and March 8. Visit http://nano.cancer.gov/events_nanotech_seminar_series.asp for more information.
"NCI Listens and Learns" on the Web
Through DCLG, NCI will pose monthly questions to the advocacy community and the public. Groups and individuals can post their comments on the Web site. Following the comment period, NCI will summarize comments made by the advocacy community and provide an official response. For more information on "NCI Listens and Learns," call 301-594-3194.
President's Cancer Panel Meets in New York
To help narrow the gap between discovery and delivery, it was recommended that geographic areas of excess mortality be targeted. "There are hundreds of 'silent tsunamis' across the United States at any given time, where people are dying at high rates," remarked one speaker. While funding for scientific discovery remains strong, additional financial support is needed to "commercialize" and move discoveries from the laboratories to physicians and patients. "Discoveries are rendered useless if they do not reach the people who need them," reflected panel member Dr. Margaret Kripke.
Strategies for improving our current system of translational research were discussed at length. Participants touched on many issues similar to those discussed at prior meetings, but with different emphases. The need for "team science," review of unintended consequences of current regulations (e.g., the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), examination of intellectual property and patent barriers, and better integration of communities into research and dissemination efforts are some of the major themes that surfaced throughout this series of meetings and will be addressed by the panel in its final report to the President.
Distress Treatment Guidelines Address Void in Cancer Care
To address this void in cancer care, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced the release of Distress Treatment Guidelines for Patients. The 32-page booklet was developed by an NCCN panel of 23 cancer experts to enhance patients' lives, support patient-doctor communications, and increase the success of cancer therapies by increasing patient compliance with treatment plans.
The NCCN guidelines were initially developed to help clinicians respond to their patients' distress symptoms. However, "given the busy oncology offices today, there is often not enough time for doctors to ask about distress," noted Dr. Jimmie Holland, a psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who chaired the NCCN panel. She has found that "most cancer patients are reluctant to bother the doctor and feel it would be a sign of weakness to mention their distress. These guidelines make it easy for patients to assess their level of distress and take positive steps to reduce it."
At the heart of the guidelines is a "Distress Thermometer," an easy-to-use screening tool to assess the level of patient distress (on a 0-10 scale). Patients are provided with a problem list to help pinpoint their reason(s) for distress. The list covers common problem areas such as: practical (housing or child care), family (dealing with children or partner), emotional (worry and sadness), spiritual or religious concerns (loss of faith), and physical (pain, diarrhea, or appetite).
The guidelines recommend that patients who score 5 or higher on the Distress Thermometer ask for referrals to mental health, social work, or pastoral services. The NCCN booklet also provides in-depth descriptions of psychosocial and practical problems that can occur during cancer treatment and resources that are available to help patients cope.
"We are very pleased to once again be collaborating with NCCN, this time on the Distress Treatment Guidelines for Patients," said Dr. Stephen Sener, president of ACS and vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Chicago. "By making these NCCN guidelines accessible, we are ensuring that patients and their caregivers will be on the same page when it comes to discussing the level of distress associated with cancer diagnosis and treatment."
These guidelines were developed in response to, and to attempt to help NCI meet, the recommendations in the Institute of Medicine's report on improving quality care in cancer and in the President's Cancer Panel report on cancer survivorship for improved access to psychological support for cancer patients/survivors and their families across the course of care. NCI continues to play a key role in the direction and support of research to establish the evidence base for interventions with potential to improve the emotional and social well-being of those diagnosed with and treated for cancer.


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Insects Toolbox
Dozens of mounted entomological specimens to help students understand the incredible variability and beauty of insects. Learn to classify and to identify unique adaptations.
What's in the Insects Toolbox?
Click here for the Specimen List!
Velvet ant, Morpho butterfly, Madagascar grasshopper, Walking stick, Dragonfly, Tarantula hawk wasp, Giant water bug, Lesser angle-wing katydid, Green stink bug, Tiger beetles, Ten lined June beetle, Locust borer, Earwig, Predacious diving beetle, Cicada, Ilia underwing moth, Madagascar sunset moth, Stingless bee, Bee fly, Bumble bee, Ichneumonid wasp, Flower fly, Narrow-winged damselfly, Mormon cricket, Atlas moth
Other resources:
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Printed materials:
Hands of Nature: Introducing Insects
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Introducing Insects
My First Pocket Guide: Insects
Peterson First Guide: Insects
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You might not be familiar with the term 'Z-Movie,' but if you grew up in the 90's, chances are you've seen one. They're the beyond-low-budget monstrosities that teased you from the walls of the mom-and-pop video store. Usually, the films themselves could never live up to the pictures on the videotape boxes (because this was way before your fancy 'Digital Video Discs' and 'Blu-Rays') but occasionally you'd find something truly unique. 'WEIRDO FLICKS' will clue you into some movies which 'unique' doesn't even begin to describe...
'Goremet, Zombie Chef from Hell' - 1986, Directed by Don Swan
If you like your movies to look like your friends shot them (that is, assuming your friends are 80's cokeheads in Hawaiian shirts) then you will want to check this one out.
I don't really know what to say about a film like this...it's fairly obvious that director/writer/producer/cinematographer/music supervisor/editor 'Don Swan' (if that's his real name) didn't care too much about the end product, because there's loads of plot holes, wackjob editing, and sometimes the low-rent 80's music even drowns out the dialog.
The film also seems to be marketed as 'horror,' but there's not a whole lot of...well..ANYTHING that happens. Yes, it's implied that several people are eaten by the main character, Goza, but nothing is really shown, and the focus is more on how 'hilarious' it is that he only eats people.
Goza, by the way, is a 600 year old member of 'The Brotherhood,' who I thought were monks of some sort, but seem to just be mysterious guys who live a really long time. Goza does something to upset them (it's not really clear what) and is 'cursed' to live forever and only eat people, as opposed to the other brothers, who just live forever, I guess.
He does basically what I would do with my time, opening up a beachfront restaurant that serves its guests people meat. Of course, pay no mind to the fact that HE'S the one who has to eat people, so it doesn't make sense that he would kill EXTRA people to serve at his restaurant.
So, he kills a lot of women, until he kills the wife of a cop (which also isn't clear for some reason until much later) and then people start to suspect something's up. The Brotherhood returns after 600 years of just forgetting about Goza, and I guess I won't give away anymore.
Most of the dialog is borderline demented...full of non-sequiturs and painfully unfunny jokes, but for some reason the whole thing sticks together and managed to keep me interested for its barely-an-hour runtime.
In fact, it almost seems too good to be true...more like a Tim-And-Eric-esque prank on moviegoers than an authentic relic of 80's low-budget cinema, but it's actually real, thankfully. Maybe not the kind of horror film you'd like to watch on Halloween, but it was funny at least.
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By Josie Day, Hollywood Staff
Sex scenes these days might be easy to come by, but we've found the top 5 sexiest shows that are worth watching, and re-watching. You know, just for fun.
Mad Men
Is it possible to request a network change for a television show? Don Draper's sex may be well known, but I say let's see some more! Who can name the best, Sylvia, Midge, Bobbie, and don't forget his ex-wife, oh what was her name again? Betty.
The Tudors
We watch in anticipation as Anne Boleyn takes King Henry VIII to the woods and literally rips off his clothes. She tortures him with her stone fox bod. It's hard not cheer him on as he changes an entire nation's religion, I mean come on, he finally gets to have ANNE BOLEYN.
Gossip Girl
Season premiere circa 2007. Serena van der Woodesen pushes Nate Archibald onto a bar stool. She pulls up her short blue dress, thereby successfully seducing him while his girlfriend searches for the two. Hey, it might be bad, but full disclosure, I've been looking for that blue dress the better part of 5 years.
When Dr. Christian Troy checks his partner and best friend's wife for breast cancer the notion that sex doesn't have to be naked, hot and sweaty becomes very clear. Desire can be just as hot as any sex scene. The eye contact between the two is enough to stir the pots of passion, and him fondling her breasts doesn't hurt either.
Game of Thrones
The winner of course. Somehow, even fully clothed, the beautiful white haired Khaleeshi seducing Khal Drogo is the hottest sex scene on television. She doesn't even need to show a shoulder when she climbs onto Khal Drogo, stares him in the eyes and shows him sometimes the Dothraki way isn't always the best.
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Prayers might have been answered for a Shelby Township church after three people are arrested for stealing from the place of worship over the Easter holiday. And investigators believe the suspected bandits could be connected to at least a dozen other breaking and entering cases in southeast Michigan. Police identified the men as 17-year-old Logan Gerring of Sterling Heights, 19-year-old Eric Eby of Shelby Township and 20-year old Jesse Brusseau-Meray of Riley Township. The trio is suspected in more than a dozen burglaries in Macomb County, including the break-in at three churches. One of the crimes happened Sunday night at St. Therese of Lisieux in Shelby Township. That's where they allegedly broke into a safe and stole more than $40,000 in donations. Father Larry Zurawski said the whole thing was devastating. "I saw the broken glass and the door. And the safe door with a big hole in it and all the money gone. I really felt violated and its a terrible feeling." Police described the crew as being sophisticated and came prepared. They had special equipment to get into safes and were also carrying information about radio systems including instructions on how to disarm alarms on buildings and businesses. The men are also accused of burglaries at St. Luke Lutheran in Clinton Township and St. Lawrence in Utica.
The 17-year-old suspect even worked at St. Lawrence. Police say they recovered donation envelopes from all three churches, adding they did not try to cash them or destroy them.The young men are also accused of breaking into a dozen businesses, including a police supply store where they allegedly took badges, handcuffs, tactical lights and other police equipment. Investigators finally arrested the men because of an attempted break-in at a Speedway gas station at M53 and 23 Mile Road on Monday morning.
One man was arrested on the scene, two others were arrested later. Investigators say the young men had been living it up with all their loot.
Shelby Twp Police Lt. Thomas Kohl said, "they seem to be buying a lot of expensive toys, one suspect even said he was taking flying lessons," Kohl said. But investigators added his flying days are done for now.
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Although a lot of attention is being paid to the passage of a long term Farm Bill, Agriculture also has a few other priority issues that it is focusing in on this legislative session. In particular, Comprehensive Immigration Reform. That is why when the full Senate returns from their Memorial Day Recess agriculture will be ready to lobby for the passage of the bill that made it through committee. Although far from perfect and scrutinized and criticized by both political parties the so called gang of 8 proposals is one agriculture can work with. Like it or not Kate Boswell of the American Farm Bureau Federation says today's production agriculture is a deficit labor industry, especially in the area of fruit and vegetable production and dairy. Boswell says two different Ag coalitions were able to provide input into what the industry felt were fair and equitable plans that would ensure a strong workforce without just providing immigrant workers with amnesty. After hours of debate and amendments, the bill that now goes to the Senate floor does contain two key provisions that Agriculture strongly supports. The first is a precursor to a Green Card, called the Blue Card proposal. Boswell says the plan provides for a legal authorization for immigrants to work and travel in the U.S.while giving a commitment to continue to work in agriculture for a period of five years. At that point they would be eligible for their Green Card.
The second key provision in the bill calls for a new direction in the Guest Worker Program. According to Boswell this program would provide for more stability in the immigrant workforce, ensuring farmers with access to guest workers into the future. The plan allows for a 3 year Visa and provides employment terms in either the form of a contract or at the will of the immigrant worker so to allow them to follow seasonal work patterns if that is what they prefer. It would also give the employer the option of having the security of a contract with his labor force. The measure also calls for fair and equitable labor standards ensuring the laborer would be treated fairly.
Now even if the bill is able to make it through the senate in tact, it still has a more perilous journey through the House. So even though many feel the climate may be right for comprehensive immigration reform. the temperature may still be too hot politically to get the job done. Stay tune for a progress report.