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An Important Message from NCI
We are entering one of the most difficult times in the history of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This was the sentiment of NCI's Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) at their meeting on June 28. Federal deficits resulting from the events following 9/11 have contributed to unanticipated fiscal pressures that have placed a significant stress on resources assigned to support the country's biomedical research enterprise. The single biggest challenge - and the foremost driver of uncertainty for the biomedical research community - is the annual discretionary budget appropriation supporting NIH and, specifically, NCI. It is a topic of discussion at scientific meetings, in the editorial pages of peer-reviewed journals, and among researchers and administrators at academic centers across the country.
To better inform these ongoing discussions, the entire research community must clearly understand the process NCI uses to make strategic decisions regarding optimal investments in science with a goal of maintaining the momentum brought about by the doubling of the NIH budget. It is important to describe some of the basic factors that influence the budget, as well as the processes and procedures we have instituted to manage our resources.
What Happens to NCI's Appropriation once Congress Passes the Budget?
It has been unusual in recent years for Congress to reach a vote on the discretionary budget before the September 30 fiscal year (FY) deadline. As a result, NCI often begins the year spending at a rate based on the prior year's budget during a "continuing resolution." This has an impact on grantees, as resources are held back and only a percentage of the grant is paid until more clear information is obtained about the actual appropriation. Our grants management and budget staff work diligently during this period to serve both NCI and the institute's grantees. Read more
An Important Message from NCI
We are entering one of the most difficult times in the history of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This was the sentiment of NCI's Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) at their meeting on June 28. Federal deficits resulting from the events following 9/11 have contributed to unanticipated fiscal pressures that have placed a significant stress on resources assigned to support the country's biomedical research enterprise. The single biggest challenge - and the foremost driver of uncertainty for the biomedical research community - is the annual discretionary budget appropriation supporting NIH and, specifically, NCI. It is a topic of discussion at scientific meetings, in the editorial pages of peer-reviewed journals, and among researchers and administrators at academic centers across the country.
To better inform these ongoing discussions, the entire research community must clearly understand the process NCI uses to make strategic decisions regarding optimal investments in science with a goal of maintaining the momentum brought about by the doubling of the NIH budget. It is important to describe some of the basic factors that influence the budget, as well as the processes and procedures we have instituted to manage our resources.
What Happens to NCI's Appropriation once Congress Passes the Budget?
It has been unusual in recent years for Congress to reach a vote on the discretionary budget before the September 30 fiscal year (FY) deadline. As a result, NCI often begins the year spending at a rate based on the prior year's budget during a "continuing resolution." This has an impact on grantees, as resources are held back and only a percentage of the grant is paid until more clear information is obtained about the actual appropriation. Our grants management and budget staff work diligently during this period to serve both NCI and the institute's grantees.
Let's look at the FY 2006 appropriation as an example of the process that must take place. Sometimes you need to read the fine print because, while an appropriation dollar figure is published, in FY 2006 there was an across-the-board 1 percent decrease in the discretionary budget. NCI experienced further decreases that included, among other mandatory commitments, a tap for the NIH Roadmap, rising utility costs, and also unforeseen expenses from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), such as Katrina relief and additional support to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services call center as a result of strong beneficiary interest in the new prescription benefit program.
Added to this are the large NCI programs, such as the 61 NCI-designated Cancer Centers, the Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs), and congressionally mandated programs like the Small Business Innovation Research grants. Given the very large proportion of the budget already committed, with a flat budget, the institute's flexibility becomes severely limited.
NCI's Leadership Is Working to Meet the Challenge
During the past 2 years, the leadership of NCI - that is, the Executive Committee (EC) - had to redeploy resources in order to maintain momentum toward the institute's strategic goals. The EC has engaged in a rigorous review of division programs and made tough decisions about what projects should be maintained, downsized, or even eliminated in order to find funds to redeploy.
The EC began work on the FY 2007 budget by holding a 2-day retreat this spring, during which each of the divisions and centers presented their programs tied to a priority ranking. Each EC member voted to maintain, reduce, phase out, or expand each of the programs and major initiatives. Their scores will be reviewed and discussed at future EC meetings over the summer. During these meetings, the division and center directors are working as a cohesive leadership group. I've been thoroughly impressed by their ability to work together to make tough, and often emotional, decisions.
This process provided the entire NCI leadership with an understanding of what could be done across divisions to maximize resources and gave us an opportunity to explore scientific opportunities that spanned divisions. The scientific retreat will be followed by a similar in-depth review of NCI's infrastructure support with the goal of making NCI leaner and more cost efficient in those offices providing support to the institute.
Involving the Extramural Community Is Critically Important
These decisions of resource allocations and priorities are not made in a vacuum. NCI leaders rely on guidance from our key advisory boards, which provide scientific review of research proposals and guidance on establishing priorities. This feedback - during regularly scheduled meetings, such as subcommittee deliberations and the annual advisory board retreat - figures prominently in the EC's budget deliberations.
There are also opportunities for scientific input during meetings of the Cancer Center directors and SPORE principal investigators, as well as during the AACR and ASCO annual meetings. During the year, many groups visit NCI to offer advice; in addition, there are numerous informal discussions between NCI leadership and the scientific leaders in the extramural community.
Looking Ahead - Some Personal Thoughts
There is broad agreement among NCI leaders about our path forward. First, we must continue to address NCI's strategic priorities by funding new initiatives. Second, we are committed to maintaining the number of competing awards and to funding new investigators. As a nation, we need to continue to make biomedical research an attractive career choice. It would be devastating if the best minds are kept away from a field so vital to our nation's health.
Since 1971, NCI has experienced budgets that have cycled with peaks and valleys - some periods included substantial growth, while other years were characterized by deep budget reductions. For the last 2 years, NCI's budget has essentially been flat, coming on the heels of a nearly 80 percent increase in its budget from 1998 to 2003. This trend has required NCI leadership to engage in tough budget planning sessions where priorities and strategic direction depend on limited available dollars.
Discussing priority setting and budget planning in this and other venues ensures greater transparency and openness. Hopefully, it will have another outcome: to unify the voice of advocacy for cancer research and care. Often fragmented, cancer advocacy is frequently tied to individual cancer types or specific scientific programs. To make the kind of impact that is needed today, we must speak with a unified voice to ensure adequate support of the entire cancer research agenda in the United States. We cannot afford to divide ourselves into factions that advocate only for support of liver cancer or prostate cancer or SPOREs. We must propose solutions as a community if we are to be effectively heard.
In my own research career, I have experienced similar swings in biomedical research funding. Such swings can take their toll on scientific momentum and discourage new investigators from committing to a career in research. I am urging us, as a cancer research community, to speak with one voice for a national plan that supports the biomedical research enterprise. I believe that such a plan is needed to maintain the United States' position as a worldwide scientific leader. The future of science will depend on investment in the life sciences, genetics, and biotechnology. We also need to recognize the importance of health care as a driver of the country's economic welfare.
So, yes, we face significant challenges. But I continue to be optimistic because I have seen what the cancer research community is capable of accomplishing, regardless of the obstacles presented to us. Our responsibility is to continue conducting quality research, offering solutions to our challenges, and speaking with a more unified voice to usher others to action on behalf of cancer research and, ultimately, cancer patients.
Dr. John E. Niederhuber
NCI's SPECS Program Explores Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer
NCI's Strategic Partnering to Evaluate Cancer Signatures (SPECS) program is exploring the potential of these technologies for improving cancer care. The program is examining genetic molecular profiles in different types of cancer and evaluating their application to specific patient populations to improve diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. With first-year funding of $10 million, SPECS is supporting multidisciplinary research teams in community hospitals, national laboratories, and academic institutions in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
"Translational research to bring molecular profiling to the clinic is a complex undertaking," says Dr. James Jacobson, SPECS co-director and chief of the Diagnostic Biomarkers and Technology Branch in NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. "These studies involve scientists who understand the biology of molecular profiles, clinicians who treat patients, and large bioinformatics teams who analyze data from hundreds of patients.
"The use of microarray and proteomics technologies represent important advances in describing the genes that are altered in cancer," continues Dr. Jacobson. "Investigators have been able to classify tumors into subsets based on their molecular profiles, but we don't yet know if these classifications are relevant to important clinical questions. The goal of SPECS is to refine and validate these molecular signatures."
In SPECS, clinical need dictates which molecular profile will be evaluated. "NCI recently launched the TAILORx clinical trial to identify women who would and would not benefit from a particular chemotherapy regimen following breast cancer surgery," comments Dr. Jacobson. "SPECS is supporting the same type of research that led to the development of the test used to determine the appropriate therapy in TAILORx. In the next few years, we're hoping that SPECS research will lead to similar trials for other cancers."
SPECS supports six research teams, each studying a different cancer type: breast, prostate, and lung cancers; childhood sarcoma; acute leukemia; and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Researchers will evaluate, refine, and validate previously identified molecular profiles for each cancer. The molecular profiles will include diagnostic profiles that characterize specific cancers; prognostic profiles that indicate the likelihood of patient survival, regardless of treatment; and predictive profiles that indicate an individual patient's response to a specific therapy.
Molecular profiles are also useful for prognosis. "Our laboratory studied the molecular profiles of mantle cell lymphoma and found that they could help determine the most effective treatment for these patients," comments Dr. Staudt. "Patients who had survived about 7 years after diagnosis had a molecular profile that was very different from the profiles of patients who had survived less than 1 year after diagnosis. These profiles could be used to identify patients with aggressive disease who need immediate chemotherapy."
SPECS is supporting Dr. Staudt's academic collaborators who continue to evaluate molecular profiles of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. "Over the next 3 years, we'll analyze the molecular profiles in 2,400 lymphoma samples," said Dr. Staudt. "We hope to develop a device to analyze the molecular profiles present in lymphomas that can be adapted to clinical use."
"Molecular profiles provide us with information about the many genetic changes occurring in a tumor," concludes Dr. Jacobson. "If a profile is associated with an unfavorable patient outcome, we can use aggressive therapy. The profile may also predict a patient's response to therapy. These are the insights that will lead to patient-tailored therapies in the future."
By Lynette Grouse
Researchers in NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics have identified a link between inherited and environmentally induced genetic risk factors for skin melanomas in Caucasians who do not have chronic sun-induced skin damage. Study results appeared online June 29 in Science. Investigators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of Pennsylvania, and Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, Italy, also participated in the study.
The researchers hypothesized that the high frequency of BRAF mutations in these types of melanoma may be due to additional genetic factors that occur at higher frequencies in Caucasians. They selected the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene as a candidate for inducing additional genetic risk, and sequenced the genes of melanoma patients in studies conducted in Italy and at UCSF to determine if there was an association between MC1R and BRAF-mutant melanoma.
The researchers found that BRAF mutations were more frequent in nonchronic sun-induced melanoma cases with hereditary MC1R genetic allele-associated variations. They found that BRAF mutations were 6 to 13 times more frequent in those patients with at least 1 MC1R variant allele, and the risk for melanoma with BRAF mutations increased with a rising number of MC1R variant alleles. Comparing data from melanoma patients and healthy controls, the risk for melanomas with BRAF mutations increased from 7 times for individuals with 1 MC1R variant allele to 17 times for those with 2 variant alleles, when compared with individuals with no MC1R variant alleles.
New Algorithm Predicts Presence of Lynch Syndrome
Researchers estimate that 3 to 4 percent of patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer have an inherited syndrome that predisposes them to the disease, of which Lynch syndrome is the most common. Diagnosis of Lynch syndrome helps doctors make prevention and treatment decisions, and alerts family members of a possible increase in cancer risk. A new algorithm published in the June 29 New England Journal of Medicine can help physicians identify the colorectal cancer patients who are most likely to have Lynch syndrome and who would benefit from rigorous genetic testing.
To develop their algorithm, investigators enrolled 870 patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer before the age of 55 into their study. The investigators first divided patients into subgroups using a set of clinical variables - including sex, age, and development of multiple primary cancers - that predict whether a patient with colorectal cancer carries a mutation. Next, subgroups identified as more likely to include carriers underwent immunohistochemical and microsatellite instability testing on tissue samples to find predictors of a genetic mutation. Investigators then compared the combined predictions from both stages of the model with patients' actual mutation status in specific DNA repair genes known to cause Lynch syndrome.
A combination of the clinical variables with one of the laboratory analyses in the second stage had "a positive predictive value of 80 percent and a sensitivity of 62 percent for mutational carriers. This information could be used in preoperative counseling" about surgical procedures and adjuvant therapy, wrote the authors. An electronic version of the algorithm is currently available online.
Lymphatic Mapping May Improve Colorectal Cancer Staging
Use of a process known as lymphatic mapping to identify sentinel lymph nodes may help improve the accuracy of colorectal cancer staging, researchers report in the June Archives of Surgery.
Improved staging, suggests lead investigator Dr. Anton J. Bilchik, of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., and colleagues, may aid the selection of patients who are the best candidates for adjuvant chemotherapy.
The lymphatic mapping process, which Dr. Bilchik and colleagues have used extensively in patients with melanoma and breast cancer, entails injecting a blue dye at the primary tumor site just prior to surgical removal. The dye travels through the lymph system and stains the first lymph nodes downstream from the tumor, called the sentinel nodes. The sentinel nodes are then surgically removed, along with other lymph nodes in the same lymph bed and the primary tumor, and further analyzed in the laboratory to search for signs of tumor cells.
"The sentinel lymph node is the first node to receive lymphatic drainage from a primary anatomical site and is therefore the most likely node to harbor a metastasis," Dr. Bilchik said.
Based on the sentinel node analyses, nearly 24 percent of the 132 patients in the prospective trial had their cancer classified as more severe than was initially diagnosed, and the mapping system proved to be highly sensitive (88.2 percent) with a low false-negative rate (7.4 percent).
The results "suggest that lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node techniques are feasible and accurate in colon cancer," the authors wrote. "The improved risk stratification afforded by standardization of both surgical and pathological techniques may improve the selection of patients for chemotherapy, thereby avoiding the unnecessary toxic effects and expense for those cured by surgery alone."
Melanoma Diagnosed in Hispanics and Blacks Is Often Advanced
Hispanics and blacks are more likely to be in the advanced stages of melanoma when they are diagnosed with the often fatal skin cancer than are whites, according to a study of patients in Miami-Dade County, Fla. In the study, 26 percent of Hispanics and 52 percent of blacks were diagnosed with late-stage melanoma compared with 16 percent of whites. Dr. Robert Kirsner of the University of Miami's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center led the research.
Melanoma is more common among whites, and public health efforts to improve prevention and early detection have largely targeted this group, particularly individuals with blue eyes and blond or red hair. "Understandably, darker-skinned individuals perceive themselves at either low or no risk for melanoma because much of the public education efforts have targeted the white populations," the researchers write in the June Archives of Dermatology.
They go on to suggest that educating Hispanics and blacks about the risk of melanoma and providing screening are critical to achieve earlier diagnoses, when the disease is more likely to respond to treatment. But until now data on melanoma stage at diagnosis for Hispanics have been sparse. The researchers selected Miami-Dade County for the study because it has the second largest Hispanic population in the United States. They analyzed 1,690 cases diagnosed between 1997 and 2002.
Overall, 16 percent of Hispanics and 31 percent of blacks had melanoma that had metastasized at the time of diagnosis, compared with only 9 percents of whites. The disparity in stage at diagnosis reported in this study is comparable to previous reports, the researchers say, noting that later diagnosis is associated with poorer outcomes in Hispanics and possibly in blacks.
Additional Test Finds Hidden Disease in Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer can be lethal, though many newly diagnosed patients will live for decades and die of other causes, especially after surgery to remove the prostate gland and the pelvic lymph nodes. Researchers from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine have shown that immunohistochemistry testing can be used to identify patients who - even though their lymph nodes test negative with standard histology - still have occult lymph node metastases and thus should be considered at high risk for recurrence.
Dissected lymph nodes from 285 patients with the same stage of prostate cancer were examined by routine histology: 180 showed no evidence of cancer, while 94 were positive for cancer. However, immunohistochemical tests for cytokeratin revealed that 24 (13.3 percent) of those originally identified as node negative actually had metastasized disease. Patients in the misclassified group were found to have just under half the overall survival of the truly node-negative patients and were 2.27 times more likely to have a recurrence.
Lead author Dr. Vincenzo Pagliarulo and colleagues wrote in the June 20 Journal of Clinical Oncology that these findings echo other studies exploring the value of immunohistochemistry, noting that "a significant correlation between occult lymph node metastases and clinical outcome has been shown in many types of cancers." Such previously unrecognized subpopulations "may benefit from immediate adjuvant systemic treatment" after their prostatectomy, they wrote, such as early androgen deprivation.
Alliance of Glycobiologists for Detection of Cancer and Cancer Risk
This funding opportunity will use the U01 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3496. Inquiries: Dr. Karl E. Krueger - email@example.com; Dr. Sudhir Srivastava - email@example.com
Note: A pre-application meeting for investigators planning to submit applications in response to this RFA will be held on Friday, July 14, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., at the Natcher Conference Center, Balcony B, on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. For more information, see http://www.grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-CA-06-030.html.
Community Clinical Oncology Program
This is a renewal of RFA-CA-05-014. This funding opportunity will use the U10 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3498. Inquiries: Dr. Lori Minasian - firstname.lastname@example.com
The overall objective of this program is to develop and conduct state-of-the-art cancer prevention clinical trials and control and treatment clinical trials with a prominent involvement of the community oncologists and populations that they serve.
Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program
This is a renewal of RFA-CA-05-015. This funding opportunity will use the U10 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3499. Inquiries: Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens - firstname.lastname@example.com
The purpose of this program is to support, as a national resource, clinical trial research activities of physicians involved in the care of minority cancer patients who are eligible for participation in clinical trials pertinent to cancer prevention/control/treatment.
Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control
This is a renewal of PAR-06-073 and will use the R03 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3487. Inquiries: Veronica Chollette - firstname.lastname@example.com
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants
This is a renewal of PA-02-109 and will use the T32 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3494. Inquiries: Dr. David J. Eckstein - email@example.com; Dr. Lester S. Gorelic - firstname.lastname@example.com; Dr. Nancy C. Lohrey - firstname.lastname@example.com
Using Metabolomics to Investigate Biological Pathways and Networks
This funding opportunity will use the R01 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3497. Inquiries: Dr. Young S. Kim - email@example.com; Dr. Padma Maruvada - firstname.lastname@example.com
The NCI Transition Career Development Award
This is a renewal of PAR-04-040 and will use the K22 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3486. Inquiries: Dr. David J. Eckstein - email@example.com
The Role of Nuclear Receptors in Tissue and Organismal Aging
This funding opportunity will use the R01 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3495. Inquiries: Dr. Neeraja Sathyamoorthy - email@example.com
Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology
This is a renewal of PAR-04-096 and will use the K12 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3484. Inquiries: Dr. Dorkina Myrick - firstname.lastname@example.com
Treatment for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
Name of the Trial
Principal Investigator
Why This Trial Is Important
This trial will enroll patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx, oropharynx, or hypopharynx. "Locally advanced" means that the cancer has spread to nearby tissues or lymph nodes but not elsewhere. All patients will be treated with radiotherapy and the chemotherapy drug cisplatin. In addition, half of the patients will be treated with a monoclonal antibody called cetuximab.
Cetuximab targets a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which is found in excess amounts on the surface of many cancer cells. Blocking the activity of EGFR may inhibit a tumor's ability to grow. In a previous trial, adding cetuximab to radiotherapy significantly improved the survival of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer (see related article). Researchers want to know if adding cetuximab to radiotherapy and cisplatin treatment will help patients live longer without their cancer recurring.
"Earlier trials have proven that combining radiation with either cisplatin or cetuximab decreases the likelihood of recurrence," said Dr. Ang. "With this trial, we hope to see if combining radiation with both agents further improves disease-free survival."
Who Can Join This Trial
Study Site and Contact Information
An archive of "Featured Clinical Trial" columns is available at http://cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/ft-all-featured-trials.
The International Union Against Cancer (UICC) Conference will take place July 8-12 in Washington, D.C. By combining its quadrennial International Cancer Congress with its triennial Conference for Global Cancer Control Organizations - in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2006 Cancer Partners Summit - UICC brings together cancer scientists and researchers, governmental agencies, the medical community, and public health organizations in an effort to enhance the global fight against cancer. Additional information on the UICC is available at http://www.2006conferences.org/u-index.php.
Also in Washington, D.C., the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH) will be held July 12-15. The conference will feature the latest research on the science of tobacco and its effects, and presenters will share new data on addiction, cessation, public policy, secondhand smoke, and smokeless tobacco. WCTOH will also give delegates an opportunity to examine the impact of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and discuss ways developing countries can use it to promote their tobacco control efforts and how it can reinforce tobacco control in developed countries. More information can be found online at http://www.2006conferences.org/t-index.php.
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In 1981, several weeks after the Centers for Disease Control reported five cases of the disease that would become known as AIDS, the first patient with HIV checked into the NCI Metabolism Branch ward at the NIH Clinical Center, beginning NCI's 25-year involvement in the fight against AIDS. Dr. Robert Yarchoan, Chief of NCI's HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, discusses NCI's contributions to AIDS research.
What role did NCI play at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic?
NCI researchers were positioned to make substantial contributions, and a number of intramural investigators stepped up to the plate. AIDS was in part an epidemic of unusual tumors. Key expertise to study the disease also existed within NCI's intramural program. Dr. Robert Gallo's group had recently developed the technology to grow T cells and had just discovered the first human retrovirus, HTLV-1. Their codiscovery of HIV and development of the first blood test helped catalyze HIV research on campus.
The NCI intramural program had significant expertise in immunology, retrovirology, epidemiology, and nucleoside chemistry. We also had a substantial drug development effort and clinical trials methodology. Dr. Gene Shearer and others did excellent work unraveling the immune defects in AIDS patients, and NCI epidemiologists did important early work. Drs. Hiroaki Mitsuya, Sam Broder, and I, along with a number of other NCI scientists, codeveloped AZT (zidovudine) with Burroughs Wellcome Co., and then went on to develop ddI (didanosine) and ddC (zalcitabine) as the first AIDS drugs. Other NCI scientists made key discoveries of the molecular biology of HIV, its structural biology, and disease pathogenesis, and provided the extramural community with a wealth of reagents over 2 decades of research.
How has NCI's HIV/AIDS research evolved in recent years?
AIDS research at NCI has evolved as the field has matured. Effort has been concentrated in selected areas of expertise and NCI research is now focused in three broad areas: developing new antivirals to treat infected patients, trying to develop vaccines to prevent new infections, and developing better diagnosis and treatments for AIDS-related malignancies. This has been reflected in programmatic developments such as the creation of the Drug Resistance and AIDS Vaccine Programs, and the Vaccine and HIV and AIDS Malignancy branches. There is now increasing focus on AIDS-related malignancies and substantial cross-fertilization between AIDS and cancer research.
The development of effective antiretroviral therapy in the United States has made an incredible impact on AIDS and AIDS-related malignancies. Survival of AIDS patients has increased dramatically, and the year-by-year rate of AIDS malignancies has decreased here. However, this is not the case in the developing world. While our country has been successful at developing treatments to keep AIDS from being a lethal disease, the decade's increased population of AIDS survivors face a new challenge: As they age, their cumulative risk of developing AIDS-related malignancies also increases. There is evidence that cancer is now the most common cause of death in HIV-infected patients in countries where antiretroviral therapy is available. There is still much work to be done.
How has NCI's HIV/AIDS research better prepared the institute for other health challenges?
Accomplishments during the early days of the AIDS epidemic demonstrate that the intramural program - because of the excellence of our scientists, the critical mass, and our greater freedom to shift gears - has a relatively unique ability to "self deploy" and effectively address urgent public health needs. The development of faculties and working groups has helped create a means of networking and communication that didn't exist before and that, I believe, will facilitate future collaborative research if a similar crisis occurs.


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The picture used in this blog: NFL Super Bowl Champions Green Bay Packers' Randall Cobb practices as the Packers take the field for the first training camp practice of the year at the Ray Nitschke field in Green Bay, Wisconsin July 30, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Hauck
One million dollars is a lot of money. 500,000 dollars is a lot of money. 250,000 dollars is a lot of money when you come from nothing and that is the issue some NFL players, former and current deal with on a daily/yearly basis. Not all but some as I mentioned deal with the lifestyle we all dream of. Best Car, best clothes, big house, and being able to take care of those closest to us, those who you trust. But unless they are family how can you trust them and even family can be sketchy. You get this money and now you see the light, but there are a few people who close that light faster than your journey to the Bigs. You got your agent, who gets a percent, then a lawyer who helps with legal stuff if something should arise gets a percent, money manager gets a percent and then a family member/friend asks for a loan because he or she has a great idea and you believe in them so you agree. Before you know it, before you get done with your first season the money is gone and you hope you don't lose your house, car, wife and kids.
Can you imagine that scenario? Can you imagine believing that your world is going to be on easy street and now you just hope the credit card doesn't dry up, that the bank will give you some money cause of your contract or that you get that one more paycheck this month so you can pay on something to stay afloat? Can you imagine what it must be like to be drafted in the first or second rounds and then all of a sudden you plan to do all these great things with that money and then you are thinking how did this happen?
Lots of serious questions but only players you gambled in this game, can really give us the true answer of, how do you stay afloat when there are more hands reaching for your wallet then you ever had in your life. Check out ESPN's 30 for 30 Broke I think you will be shocked.
Why bring this up? Rookie camps here in Green Bay, WI over the weekend and these guys are just getting taste of what it's like to be in the NFL. They are getting a taste of what it's like to be taken care of for a few days like the team will be in a few months. Have they been taught on how to handle the money, the pressure, and the fame that is coming their way because they worked hard to get here and now the hands are reaching for that wallet? Will they have the strength to deal with that and if they don't make it but still got a signing bonus and they have a few bucks in their pocket, will they have the strength to say no to others and keep themselves above water? Will these guys, who were drafted this year, who were drafted in the second round be the next Randall Cobb, the last pick in the 2nd round by the Green Bay Packers or will they be the next Titus Young, the 12th pick in the 2nd round of the 2011 NFL Draft?
It's their choice to make it or to be the next, broke, former athlete on 30 for 30.


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Stories From Goddard feat. Corey White
Stories From Goddard feat. Corey White
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An interview with Goddard student Corey White can be seen in its entirety along with Coreys fire dancing performance at the Fall 2008 IBA2/BFA Cabaret.
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This film, made in 1970, was a collaboration between the Goddard College Admissions department and the film students.
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The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix has released 10,000 pages of documents on an internal probe into sex-crime cases.
There was just one copy of the report, and Monday afternoon, MCSO gave the media just one hour to go through it.
The documents released Monday afternoon explain why hundreds of sex-crime cases were either inadequately investigated or not looked into at all during a 3-year period ending in 2007.
Internal Affairs found that 8 officers in the sex crimes unit made so many wrong moves that it was tough to pin the blame on any one person.
IA investigators say MCSO's sex crimes unit had too few officers, too many cases, and tight budget restrictions -- and found it "unreasonable" to expect staff to succeed under these conditions. Error after error was found in the unit -- from officers using their "own individual system" to track cases, to improperly storing original pieces of evidence in their officers -- and over and over cases weren't followed up on.
One of those cases was a 13-year-old girl impregnated by a 20-year-old suspect. The officer assigned to the case couldn't explain why he never investigated it.
Lt. Suzanne Seagraves was head of the department from 2006 to 2008. The report shows she would clear cases that had little or no work done of them. She claims she repeatedly asked for additional staff and was denied, and claimed she was once told to "shut up about it."
Things got worse once the unit took on the cases of the City of El Mirage, which paid Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office for police services. Some officers pointed the finger at former Chief Deputy David Hendershott, saying he knew they couldn't handle the caseload, but took on more anyway.
On top of it all, there were problems between officers within the unit. Lt. Seagraves complained to her boss about sexually inappropriate comments made by a commander regarding her body, her clothing, and her dating life.
The investigation into the botched cases was launched in May 2008 after El Mirage discovered at least 32 reported child molestations in which the agency failed to follow through.
Arpaio's office later reopened 400 of those sex crimes cases that were reported to the agency but not resolved.
In 2011, MCSO apparently overhauled its system of managing sex crimes cases. They now require specified training and refresher courses, and also require additional staff.
In the end, no one was disciplined for the botched cases.
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Stevie Nicks says she would have no patience for Nicki Minaj opening a mouth to her in a threatening manner. Nicks commented on Minaj and Mariah Carey's well-publicized feud on the set of Fox's American Idol, telling The Daily Beast: "How dare this little girl. . . If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there. I would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it,"
Although Nicks has previously appeared on the show, serving as a coach for the talent, she added that she's "glad she's not involved this year."
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CHICAGO After taking a dip this month, wire rod prices appear poised to reverse course in December, although market sources differ on how much and for how long the recently announced increases might stick.
Tampa, Fla.-based Gerdau Long Steel North America was the latest domestic mill to throw its weight behind a recent round of price increases (amm.com, Nov. 13). The steelmaker said in a letter to customers Wednesday that it plans to boost prices on all wire rod products from its Beaumont, Texas, and Jacksonville, Fla., mills effective with Dec. 1 shipments. Most grades of wire rod will see an increase of $50 per ton ($2.50 per hundredweight), while tags for cold-heading quality rod are slated to move up $55 per ton ($2.75 per cwt).....
CHICAGO After taking a dip this month, wire rod prices appear poised to reverse course in December, although market sources differ on how much and for how long the recently announced increases might stick.
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By Lindsey DiMattina, Hollywood.com Staff
Brace yourselves, people. Kim Kardashian's rep confirms to Hollywood.com that the reality star is, in fact, pregnant with her boyfriend Kanye West's baby. It will be the first child for both.
West actually broke the news Sunday night in musical form, the Associated Press reports. During a concert at Revel Resort's Ovation Hall in Atlantic City over the weekend, West sang, ""Now you having my baby,"" regarding Kardashian to over 5,000 people who were attending the show. He also reportedly asked his fans to congratulate his ""baby mama"" for this ""most amazing thing.""
Since then, Kardashian went on to write in a blog post titled ""New Year, New Beginnings"", ""It's true!! Kanye and I are expecting a baby. We feel so blessed and lucky and wish that in addition to both of our families, his mom and my dad could be here to celebrate this special time with us. Looking forward to great new beginnings in 2013 and to starting a family. Happy New Year!!! Xo.""
As soon as the news broke, the rest of that oh-so-media-shy Kardashian clan took to Twitter to share in the hoopla. Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, tweeted, ""Oh BABY BABY BABY!!"" And Kardashian's sister, Kourtney, added: ""Been wanting to shout from the rooftops with joy and now I can! Another angel to welcome to our family. Overwhelmed with excitement!""
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Been wanting to shout from the rooftops with joy and now I can! Another angel to welcome to our family. Overwhelmed with excitement!
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Kardashian, 32, and West, 35, first went public with their relationship back in April, but she has openly talked about wanting a child for a long time now. Even as recently as September, she told Barbara Walters on The View that she was ready to be a mom. ""At the space that I am in life now, kids are definitely something I want,"" she said.
While the reality starlet is on her way to expanding that Kardashian family brand with her rapper beau, she does still have to finalize her pending divorce from her ex, Kris Humphries.
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The masters of laidback luxury, UGG present the Olsen moccasin, a slipper that's recognised for its flexible feel and stylish silhouette that can be used either indoors or outdoors.
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Myocardial biopsy is the removal of a small piece of heart muscle for examination.
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The skin is scrubbed and a local numbing medicine (anesthetic) is given.
A surgical cut will be made your arm, neck, or groin. The health care provider inserts a thin tube (catheter) through a vein or artery, depending on whether tissue will be taken from the right or left side of the heart.
If the biopsy is done without another procedure, the catheter is usually placed through a vein in the neck and then carefully threaded into the heart. The doctor uses moving x-ray
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The MOMA Suite is a beautiful, one bedroom, 2 room apartment that sleeps 4 people in the very centre of Manhattan - located in Midtown Manhattan and just a 5 minute walk from the Museum of Modern Art. The apartment is comfortable and cosy with all the amenities necessary for a great stay in New York.
The location is absolutely amazing! If you want to stay in New York and live like a New Yorker and not like a tourist, this apartment is for you. This is one of the best neighbourhoods to fully experience New York.
The apartment has a cosy, good sized bedroom with very large closet space and a queen size bed. The living room has a pull out sofa bed that can sleep up to 2 people as well as a table with chairs and cable TV with International channels. The living room also has a large closet. The apartment also comes with free Wi-Fi Internet access and free International calls to International landlines so you can keep in touch with your family and friends back home.
The kitchen is just the right size and has a stove, all the pots and pans and cutlery that you will need to cook your own meals. Considering the apartment location and the amenities, the apartment is one of the best apartments in our database in terms of value for money. We hope to see you in New York!
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- Hair Dryers
- Internet Access
- Iron and Ironing Board
- Kitchen
- Linen Included
- Microwave
- Non Smoking
- Taxes not included
- Tea/Coffee Making Facilities
- Towels Included
- Utensils
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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PLEASE NOTE: AFTER THE BOOKING IS MADE IT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE 50% PREPAYMENT OF THE BOOKING WITHIN 7 DAYS. You will be contacted by accommodation provider. Failure to prepay will lead to a cancellation.
PLEASE NOTE: that you will need to pick up the keys at our key collection point at 7th Avenue (between 135th and 136th Street).
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• If the booking is cancelled more than 21 days before arrival date, the Hospitality Provider will charge a $50 processing fee
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The MOMA Suite is located on a great block right in the middle of midtown New York City, just 3 blocks from the world-famous Museum of Modern Art one of New Yorks most famous landmarks. The apartment is located between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue. The apartment is quiet and peaceful but there are plenty of things to do right in your neighbourhood. There are about 20 different restaurants and bars on your block Chinese, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Japanese are only several cuisines available within a 3 minute walk from the apartment. You will be amazed by how many New Yorkers love to sit at the tables outside these restaurants after a day at work. Staying in this apartment will give you a truly New York experience. You will also be close to Columbus Circle, Central Park and the famous Bloomingdales department store. Times Square is just a 15 minute walk away (or one subway stop away), the Empire State building is a 20 minute walk away (or 2 subway stops).
On the block where the apartment is situated (53rd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) you can find anything and everything, you literally dont have to leave the block if you dont want to. Not only are there numerous restaurants and bars, some names of which are Solera Restaurant and Tapas bar, Obao Noodle and BBQ, Baluchis Indian Food (one of the best Indian restaurants in the city), La Gioconda Italian restaurant, Peking Duck House, bars Black Finn and T.G. Witneys; you also have other little shops that will make your stay extremely comfortable, for example Cellular Circle where you can purchase a pay-as-you-go Sim-card if you want to use your phone during your stay in the US and not pay for the roaming. There is also safe and secure parking on the same block for $26 per day which is not expensive for New York. Another parking garage is available one block away between 3rd and Lexington Avenues, and another one on the other side of your block between 1st and 2nd Avenues.
If you are looking to try a new cuisine you might want to check out of these restaurants: Al Bustan Lebanese restaurant (53rd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues), Barros Luca Chilean cuisine (52nd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues), or Gulluoglu Turkish cafe (corner of 52nd Street and 2nd Avenue). If you are looking for the best breakfast place one of those will be the Brasserie or Europa Cafe on 53rd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues or Pret-a-Manger on the corner of 54th Street and Lexington Avenue. If you like smoothies, the best place in New York is definitely Jamba Juice situated on Lexington Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets, they make the smoothie in front of you with the freshest fruit, and you can add a boost (like immunity or energy supplement) or a wheatgrass shot to it to make it even healthier!
On the corner of 53rd Street and 2nd Avenue one can find even more restaurants and bars, there is also a Walgreens pharmacy where you can buy pretty much anything that you might need (including food). All the pharmacies in the US sell a lot of different foods, cosmetics, household supplies. Usually pharmacies are like miniature supermarkets with a prescription counter. On the other corner (53rd and 2nd) you have another pharmacy Duane Reade this is the biggest pharmacy chain in the city of New York.
You have several banks around the apartment, so you can withdraw or exchange the money in any of them: Citibank on 53rd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, TD Bank on the corner of 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue, Capital One on the corner of 52nd Street and 3rd Avenue and Chase Bank on 2nd Avenue between 53rd and 52nd Streets.
If you like to cook your food, you will love this location it has several supermarkets right in the immediate area (which is a luxury for New York): Food Emporium on 2nd Avenue between 52nd and 51st Streets, DAgostino on 1st Avenue between 53rd and 54th Avenues. You also have several amazing New York style, small, specialized stores on 1st Avenue between 52nd and 51st Streets, like Ideal Cheese Shop which has a variety of cheeses, olive oils, pastas, cured meats and breads; and a fresh seafood store right next door.
There is an inexpensive laundromat on 1st Avenue between 53rd and 53nd Streets (they only charge 80 cents per pound). And if you like to exercise during your vacation or business trip, you can use 24 Hour Fitness on 53rd Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues.
The Port Authority bus terminal is about 20 minutes by foot from the apartment you can catch a bus from the airport right there at any time. You will probably prefer to catch one of New Yorks inexpensive yellow cabs from the bus terminal to the apartment if you have a lot of bags. The ride should cost you about $5-10 depending on traffic. So basically, you do not need a metro card when staying at this location just walk, enjoy the weather, views and shopping.
The apartment is conveniently located by 3 different subway lines E, V, 6 all going to different places in the city, so you will have the easiest commute from there to anywhere! Your subway station is also like a work of art you have a waterfall at the entrance! The entrance to subway is on 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue, as well as on 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue (main entrance with waterfall).


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A Tucson woman who arranged for her ex-boyfriend to be fatally beaten has been sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after 25 years.
The Arizona Daily Star says 33-year-old Sara Golden also was sentenced Monday to a consecutive 5-year prison term for kidnapping. She was convicted last month of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of 30-year-old Jerry Lewis.
Pima County prosecutors say Lewis took a cab to Golden's house on Nov. 21, 2010. She allegedly told him she had broken up with another man and wanted to reunite.
After Lewis walked in the house, authorities say he was duct-taped and beaten into unconsciousness.
He was stuffed into the back of a car and a forensic pathologist testified at trial that Lewis died of positional asphyxiation.
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Nintendo Unveils Large Screen Nintendo DSiUpdate: Nintendo has confirmed that new model will arrive in North America, where it will be known as the Nintendo DSi XL, during the first quarter of 2010.
Confirming earlier reports, Nintendo today unveiled a heftier version of the Nintendo DSi hardware that sports a larger profile, bigger screens and a much thicker stylus.
Dubbed the Nintendo DSi LL in Japan and DSi XL for Europe, the new model sports two 4.2" screens instead of the 3.25" displays of the DSi or the 3" displays of the DS Lite. A number of assets provided by Nintendo compare it to earlier models.
The Nintendo DSi LL will hit Japan on November 21 for 20,000 yen (~$219)--a slight premium over the region's current 18,900 yen (~$207) asking price of the regular Nintendo DSi. European availability will following in early 2010, with Nintendo only noting that the price is "expected to be higher than that of the Nintendo DSi."
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A tether seems like a pretty important piece of equipment, so if you discover one just dumped near your home, shouldn't you be able to report it?
"I've had it home here with me for about two hours. Police haven't knocked on my door," said Craig Jordan.
The tether should most likely be wrapped around somebody's ankle, but Jordan discovered it in the snow near a Livonia gas station Friday afternoon.
"Somebody obviously thought it was important for them to get this off, and obviously it was important for somebody to have this on. Somebody needs to know," he said.
So Jordan jumped online and found a picture of a tether that looks a lot like the one he found on the Michigan Department of Corrections website. He started making calls trying to tell someone what he discovered.
"All the numbers I came up with I couldn't speak to anybody," he said. "One of the messages even went so far as to say to contact your agent, and I believe that was the tip line that told me that. And I'm like agent, I don't have an agent."
"I should be able to get through to somebody easily," he added.
Even I tried with no luck.
So why is this lonely tether such a big deal?
"For all you know, there might be some clues as to where he went right next to it," said Jordan.
And no one bothered to answer Jordan's calls. The question now is how many other calls have gone unanswered.
"Shouldn't have to go to sleep worrying tonight who this [came] off of and where is he now," he said.
We don't know who is supposed to be wearing this tether, what they did or whether they vanished or are behind bars, but what we do know is that the Michigan Department of Corrections did not return our calls or emails for comment Friday night.
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Heh, I'd rather cook than clean! Good thing DH likes to clean and not cook (well not *likes* it, but does it, LOL)
Man, how did I end up having to do cooking AND cleaning?
Sorry, momentary lapse of feeling sorry for myself. So, Katy, I was looking at your bloggity-blog (heh) and your amazing eggs, and wondering how you do it. Don't give away any secrets or anything, but what is your medium? Or is it different depending on the egg? What do you usually do for the background dye, and how do you get such precise, vibrant lines on top of it, and do you use stickers or stencils at all? If that's too much to give away, can you tell me if the line design is paint or ink? And how do you get such a perfect little round hole for the egg blowing?
Can you tell I'm feeling a little unprofessional? Not that I want to compete with you--I wouldn't have the time or the talent, but I am interested and impressed, as usual, and more curious at this time than at others just because I've been up to my elbows in eggs.
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I confess my aunt passed away at 12:30 am arizona time..
The neurologist report came back that there was no muscle reaction, and therefore no hope, so my uncle signed the DNR, and had them remove the feeding tubes and what not. They said it could be hours, or even days. Thankfully it was not days and we can take comfort in the fact that she is now free of pain.
I am so sorry, Ash.
Ash, I'm so sorry. Will you be able to attend her funeral?
Today is Bobbie's 18th birthday. I cannot believe it's been 18 years. It doesn't feel like it at all. Maybe 10. The poor girl is so sick though that I fear I'm going to be taking her to the walk-in tonight after work.
You have an adult child! Crazy.
Kate, dbf longs for a clean, clutter free house too and I tell him, A) That only happens when you live alone and B) Then clean it!
But I do feel like I'm cleaning all the time but I just can't ever get ahead. It drives me mad.
And yeah, any guy that wants a clean house or sees room for improvement can do it themselves. Lucky for me, Rich is really proactive about housework and if he sees something that he'd like done, he'll do it.
Except actually putting the roll of tp on. He just props the new roll on top of the empty one. wth? He was vacuuming with the shop vac all along the walls and heavy furniture yesterday, getting all the tiny crevices but he can't be bothered with putting the tp on the roll? I won't complain to him about it, but it is a curiosity.
Ash I'm so sorry for your loss.
Cleaning, I don't do as much as DH does. Things tend to bother him long before they do me and he likes it clean and organized. Except the thing that drives me crazy is the frig handles....I know it's not ME touching them with food on my hands and I know Cosmo can't open the frig/freezer. That doesn't seem to bother him but yeah it does me. I spend a lot of time in there and my stainless steel frig is so pretty. So the handles get wiped down pretty much every day.
Yeah we got to see a bunch of portfolios people did in the past before they were picked. Dh and I were definitely drawn to the more simple ones. Something that was organized and easy to follow. He really disliked the ones that had a lot of doo-dads and 3D items. Some stickers or something was fine as long as it fit and didn't over power the pictures.
I think that i have 24 pages to do.....so of course you want to be you and be realistic since chances are we will have a forever relationship to the birth parents and it is better when it's all a good fit.....but of course you also want to put the best side of you forward.
I had thought I would be ready for a late May home visit and be on the books in June. Now I'm thinking I might need until late June for a home visit and be on the books in July.
My condolences to you and your family, Ash.
I wish dh minded clutter a little more. Our house is fairly tidy, but he's got these spots of clutter that are very emotional for him - he's got all this stuff on the bottom shelf of the built-in, for example, and every time I ask him about cleaning out a drawer and putting the stuff in there and making the built-in more aesthetically pleasing, he takes it as a personal affront that he doesn't have enough space in the house that is "his" to do with what he wants, and when I point out that he's got an entire two-story separate building in our back yard that he has completely clutterfu- I mean clutterfied, he says it doesn't matter because he can't go out there enough to matter. Or like he worked on our computer 3 months ago, and in the space within the pen around it are a bunch of loose cables, the side of the case because he opened up the cpu and never put it back on, and then of course all the innards are spilling out of it. There are major dust bunnies in there now, but I can't sweep in there because there is too much stuff. Or the wires and components that came with our new tv and blu-ray that we got in November are in our closet. He was supposed to sort through them and see which ones we needed to keep. I've asked him to do it, but he says he doesn't have time and it's one million down on his list of things to do, and Soren does like going in there and chewing on them. When dh sits down on the couch every night and watches 2 or 3 hours of tv, it's hard not to ask why he doesn't have time to do it.
I try really hard to put these things aside in my mind and not let them bother me, but when I see them multiple times a day, every day, it's requires very conscious effort to disregard them, and when I'm more vulnerable from other things like lack of sleep or cranky sick kids, little things tend to bug me more. Then after a day of coughing tantrumy twins and a constantly crying baby, I go in the closet and see that *&^#@! box one more time and I feel rage.
Hmm, I am better at judging that I'm in a bad mood by the tone of my posts than actually just waking up and seeing how I'm feeling. I've had a really bad headache for the past week and I'm pretty sure I had meningitis again. I wrote to my neurologist. It can make me a little irritable, aside from being in pain, and I'm just depressed that I had it twice in a quarter now, after going for five years without it.
DH is really good about putting toilet paper on the roll.
Happy birthday to Bobbie! I hope she feels better!
I'm so very sorry for your loss, Ashley.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Hugs to you and your family Ashley.
Happy Birthday to Bobbie!! I can't imagine one of my kids being 18. Life goes way too fast. Ky and I now wear the same size in shoes and I am just blown away by that. I keep thinking about him squirming to get off of my lap when he was little, he did that as a baby of 5 months, never wanted me to hold him much. Now I feel like I didn't hug him enough, luckily he still likes hugs so I am hugging him more while he is still shorter than me.
Lydia, I feel the same way about being tired, dealing with the kids and other outside forces then coming in my bedroom to relax and having to look at my DH's mountain in the corner of our bedroom. I cleaned up the bedroom this weekend but only moved his mountain into his closet. But it used to cause me tons of rage an anger and I would have to stop myself from cursing at him about the pile of clothes, tools, papers, magazines, and business cards of all things (he has dozens of them from all kinds of people in a pile next to his side of the bed).
DH used to complain about my lack of cleanliness. I actually think our house is pretty clean. His mom is a clean freak (even though she doesn't dust and I do so I am always miserable at her house because of dust allergies so I do point out to him that I am much cleaner than her in that regard). He is used to not seeing any type of toys or clutter or anything. But all the messes that the kids make are cleaned within 20 minutes so I don't see them as a big deal. I had to tell DH that he is not allowed to complain about cleaning when he doesn't clean anything at all. Once cleans and someone else makes a mess and they don't clean up after themselves, THEN he can complain. He agreed to this so now doesn't complain anymore. Oddly enough, I have always thought I was an enabler in him being useless so I stopped cleaning certain areas that DH primarily uses and stopped putting his clothes in his closet and drawers and he is way lazier than I ever was about those things. I don't nag him though except if something stinks. He basically trashed our master bathroom as I stopped using it since he never cleans up after himself and we have an extra bathroom that Elle and I now share. The master bath hadn't been cleaned in over a month. I usually clean bathrooms once a week,DH used to complain that once a week was not enough yet he can go over a month and having it smelling like a sewer in there so go figure.
Okay, Lydia! Just for you:
Wrote it up this morning!
As for the tiny holes, the best thing to do is get a blas-fix egg blower:
It comes with a tiny hand drill that is just a faceted semi-pointy metal end that you twist into the bottom of the egg, super-easy. Then you use the syringe end on bellows to blow out the eggy contents. If you plan on every blowing eggs ever again in your life I highly recommend one of these tools - it makes things so much easier!
Some people have success using syringes, too - same idea and it may be easier for you to get some of those. Then you would just get a push pin and punch some holes on the bottom until you have a big enough hole for the needle to go in and some room around it for the egg to come out - it will look more ragged, but it will work.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
I had to chuckle about the computer/wires mess Lydia. I'm horrible about them, but thus far have been able to keep mine relegated to various closets, drawers, and cupboards in our house. They are a nightmare, but I cannot toss any out though. You never know when you might need one...and I've had occasion to use all sorts of things.
Lydia, do you have meningitis now? Is that serious?
I can't tolerate dbf complaining about any mess when he has way more free time than I do and he will sooner go work on his four wheeler all afternoon than clean the living room.
He also gets mad that the kitchen doesn't "stay clean" but he happily eats the meals I cook that attribute to that mess.
Yeah, Lydia, I didn't know you had meningitis. Will you battle spells on and off for the rest of your life? From what you mentioned above, I imagine it must be quite difficult some days having 3 little ones to care for.
Bridget, in my case the meningitis isn't usually serious in the short-term, except for the potential to turn into something more serious or to cause longer-term brain damage. It is not the bacterial kind that is contagious and deadly. It is just really painful and unpleasant, and is still an inflammation of the membranes around the brain, so aside from the headache I can have some neurological irritability, can't bend my neck or turn my head well, and I have pain down my spine with each step.
Katy, thank you for the very detailed and amusing explanation. It was awesome. I sent the link to my mom, actually, because I knew she'd be interested in it as well. She did some really neat egg decorating when I was little, with wax and brilliant dyes and then finally pen and ink at the end. I am impressed with how much work and planning and organization it takes to create one of your eggs. Way more than I was imagining. I think your article will only add to the value.
Chrissy, I have a box in the storage shed labeled "cables and wires." It would be very easy for dh to sort out what we need and discard the rest.
Katy, this is what my mom said:I did a workshop in Pysanky eggs at one time and have mason jars of aniline dye in a cupboard in Jackson. It is fun. The aniline dye, I believe, is toxic and not recommended for eggs to be eaten or crafts with kids. The colors do turn out so nicely, though. I love the intricate designs on the Ukrainian eggs.
Thanks I eased up on the drinking last week. Usually we have a few drinks on Sat. or Sunday and I would drink Jack and diet cokes. Jack has a lot of calories, and since I don't drink to get smashed (anymore) I figured it would be better to get one of those big bottles of red wine and make that last. It might have been a combination of that and not eating much over the last couple days and being sick.
It seems like whenever I stop trying, I lose weight, but the down side to that is that I didn't keep track of what I ate very well, so I'm not sure what I did right. I tried to eat more good carbs though. Beans and sweet potatoes, and oatmeal. Maybe that helped too.
When I first got married, my MIL was newly retired and she is a neat freak, so she cleaned for us. Now that I have 2 kids and SIL has 3, she doesn't have time to clean any more. LOL. DH was used to everything being spotless since his mother is OCD about cleanliness. I, on the other hand, grew up with my mom and my sister always doing the cleaning, so I never did anything, so it's been a hard adjustment living as a married couple, cleaning! I do a little more than DH but I have to say he does do a fair share of the work.
Kate, I've found vodka has the most bang for your buck, and is very low in calories. That's not true if you put it in OJ, but if you add it to flavored water (I like the Crystal Light Raspberry myself) it's actually quite good. Each drink is less than 100 calories...I think 80 to be exact.
I go through phases with my cleanliness. I'm far from OCD. I wish I could be OCD about my house. Rich's mom is. If you're not careful, she'll take your coffee cup and wash it before you can get a 2nd cup. It's crazy.
I like rum (the clear kind) in crystal light....kiwi strawberry is my favorite. I'm sure vodka would be good in too and probably cheaper. But yeah, I have like zero self control so I'm not buying anything in the house this week. Like right now I will say that I would not have a drink tonight....but if it was in the house, I would almost certainly have one to help make me relaxed and sleepy. I would not drink if I had a baby in the house or a child though (and probably would be a lot more tired and hopefully better at falling asleep!). When I do, it's usually just me and Cosmo after DH leaves for work....or if it's a weekend, it's both of us.
Since I started counting WW points.....again.....today, no drinks for me!


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By FOX 2 News StaffSOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) -- The city of Southfield is saying no to Walmart.In a 5-1 vote, members of city council rejected rezoning plans that would have turned the old St. Bede Church and School at the intersection of Twelve Mile and Southfield roads into a 130,000 square foot Walmart super center.Countless residents lined up at a council meeting Monday trying to convince members to vote no."The traffic is already just horrendous, and I think it will only get worse," one person said.Southfield like other communities has had to slash its budget and city services. Proponents feel this would increase the tax base, adding money to the general fund. However, the concern from most came down to what this would do to local businesses and traffic that is already congested."That property is just not built for it. It's like trying to squeeze a size nine foot into a size six shoe. Plan may be good, but again it's too big and too intense for the corner," said Stephanie English."Redevelopment is essential. The master plan of the city calls for business development in this location, and the tax base of the city, which continues to dwindle, makes it imperative that the council act and say we are open for business," said Tom Bassett."The vocal opposition doesn't represent the majority of opinion in the community, and that opinion is demonstrated clearly by our customers as they shop the stores. We will have thousands of residents shopping at this location," said Erik Hingst from Walmart Public Affairs.Councilman Donald Facassi, who was the mayor of the city for more than 30 years, claims he has never experienced pressure from the public like this. He says he has received calls from people all over the country expressing their opposition. He is for redevelopment, but he is not yet sure if this is the right fit."We want our city to be safe and secure and provide the quality of services we provide. For that you need revenue," he said.The Archdiocese of Detroit owns the property and we're told it has already agreed to sell it to Walmart if the city council agrees and votes to rezone the property.
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