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3 Great Handheld Vacuums For Pet Hair Removal
Pets are great non-human companions to hold or play with and though it's fun to have them around, their hair shedding behavior is one stubborn reality we need to deal with. Since pets are not totally confined to the floor, cleaning of other higher surfaces like upholstered furniture and beds is inevitable. This makes investing in a good handheld pet hair vacuum a must. Below are 3 of the best handheld pet vacuums from bpvreviews.com that will help a great deal in cleaning up pet hair messes.
1. Bissel Pet Hair Eraser Handheld Vacuum, Corded, 33A1
Measuring 10 by5 by 8 Inches and weighing 4.2 Ponds, this vacuum cleaner comes with an easy-grip handle and a finger-tip access on/off switch for easier operation. Its 4 Amp motor together with its Cyclonic filter system that keeps dirt off the filter while cleaning brings about maximum suction power thus better cleaning performance. This great suction power makes it possible for this vacuum to suck up small to larger debris including pet hairs and also pet food particles. It features an Edge-cleaning design which makes cleaning along edges possible and easier. It also comes with an interchangeable hard nozzle for cleaning dry messes or hard surfaces and a flexible rubber contour nozzle for cleaning upholstery and stairways. This transition is made possible by simply pressing the round nozzle release button and snapping the other nozzle in place. Its 16-foot cord is not so bad for a handheld vac and its cord-wrap system makes its storage easier.
2. Eureka EasyClean Corded Hand-Held Vacuum, 71B
With a 3.5 Amp power rating, this vacuum hosts two motors; the first powers the revolving brush while the second offers suction. Its dimensions are 15 by 7 by 7 Inches and it weighs just 5 Pounds making its portability and maneuverability easier. Its 20-foot cord makes the cleaning of hard to reach areas like inside cars possible without having to worry about nearer power outlet sockets. It comes with a hose that stretches to approximately three times its length and wraps around the body of this vac hence easier storage while its power cord wraps around its back. It features a brushroll which is covered by the Riser Visor which allows the brushroll to clean horizontal surfaces when it is down and vertical surfaces when it is flipped up making it ideal for cleaning stairs, furniture and other varieties of surfaces. It comes with an onboard crevice tool that makes it possible to clean narrow spaces and crevices. Its dirt container is transparent and easy to empty and replace thus saving on the cost of dirt bags.
3. Hoover Platinum Collection Linx Cordless Pet Handheld Vacuum, BH50030
This cordless vacuum cleaner features an 18 V Lithium-Ion rechargeable and interchangeable battery that is compatible with other Hoover cordless vacuums. The battery is charged for approximately 3 hours separately from the vacuum itself and it offers fade-free power lasting between 10 to 15 minutes when cleaning. Its 25 degrees pivot nozzle together with its attachments including the Powerhead Brushroll, Pet Upholstery tool with 3-blade design for pulling out pet hairs from surfaces and The Deluxe Dusting brush with two rows of gentle bristles for cleaning delicate surfaces make this vacuum cleaner more effective for its intended purpose. Its small size; 19.2 by 6.4 by 10 Inches and its cordless design make its storage easier. It is also lightweight at 5.1 Pounds hence more portable. It has LED Battery indicators that show the power percentage of the battery. It doesn't depend much on power outlets thus can be used to clean anywhere.
Thee three pet handheld vacuums are great bargains for every pet owner who wants each and every corner of their house clean and free from pet hairs and dander as well as allergens. It is advisable to make any of them an addition to your regular vacuum cleaner especially if you plan on cleaning larger areas since these are mostly effective for smaller and quicker cleaning tasks.
The Best Portable Vacuum Cleaners Money
I've found the best handheld vacuum cleaning machines to be so convenient and I'm sure many of you would agree with me. They are portable, powerful, lightweight, easy to store and to use but with so many products which one's actually meet these criteria? These are three of the best handheld vacuum currently available.
Shark Pet Perfect SV75
I've included this machine for all you animal lovers out there that are plagued by tufts of pet hair flying around your home. The SV75 is cordless and powered by a 15.6 volt rechargeable battery. While it does an amazing job sucking up pet hair its cyclonic technology, which prevents the filter from clogging, insures that it's suction is strong even when used for dirt and debris.
The Pet Perfect package also includes:
· A motorized, detachable brush tool for carpets, stairs and upholstery.
· A separate crevice tool for hard to reach areas.
· A dust-cup which is easy to clean instead of bags.
Additionally not only does this machine run for a long time on a single charge but it does so very quietly. At only 4.8 pounds it is very lightweight and portable and at $39.99 it is also reasonably priced.
Craftsman C3 19.2V
This vacuum cleaner such as the Shark is portable and cordless, which means it can be used literally anywhere. It too has a bagless dust-cup which can be emptied with the push of a button, however, its battery at 19.2 volts is more powerful. It's functions are as follows:
· Unfortunately while it can remove dirt effectively, pet hair does pose a problem.
· It also has a long run time and at only 3 pounds it is lighter than the SV75.
While it is sold separately it was designed primarily as an accessory to a Craftsman power tool which means that the battery and charger will also need to be bought. As the C3 costs $52.72 the overall price will increase when you buy the battery and charging dock. Therefore I'd only recommend the C3 for mechanics, electricians or handy-men who own the power tool.
Electrolux Rapido
The Rapido is the final cordless, portable handvac that I will discuss. it is also the most expensive at $89.99 but not the most powerful with only a 14.4 volt battery. However, the battery is a Lithium ION battery which not only charges faster but lasts longer as well.
In terms of weight it is just under what the Shark weighs at 4.4 pounds. It's design features the following:
· Soft glide wheels on the front for easy maneuverability over carpets and other surfaces.
· 2 speed options.
· An on-board crevice tool.
· A flexible charging stand for easy storage and convenience.
· Clear dust-cup.
· Like the Shark it too uses Cyclonic technology to keep the filter unblocked.
All three of these devices are portable, lightweight and have powerful batteries that help them function smoothly. Even though the differences between them are slight each one targets a specific area. The 'Shark' is best used by pet owners, the 'Craftsman' by craftsman and the 'Electrolux' by homeowners everywhere, however, they are still among the best portable vacuum cleaners currently available.
5 Facts You Should Consider When Cleaning Hardwood Floors
There was a time when wood flooring in a household was purely a necessity. It was something to walk on! Thankfully, our tastes have changed in the somewhat in the modern times. Folks are now aware of the inherent, aesthetic as well as functional value of wood floors. They know the value hardwood flooring can add to one's home. From American cherry to oak and red Brazilian cherry—not all wood types are the same. Each hardwood type has a unique value attached to it.
Hardwood floors are sleek, chic and easy to manage. However, a few days of foot traffic deposits leave behind unwanted dirt and grime on its gorgeous surface. If you're planning to clean wood floors, it's essential that you keep the aforementioned points in mind.
5 Little Known Facts About Cleaning Wood Floors
Hardwood flooring is of two types—Natural flooring and pre-engineered floors. While natural flooring is made of authentic planks stacked on one another, the pre-engineered wood is sealed using polysynthetic materials between individual floorboards. Experts follow different procedures for cleaning therefore make sure that you're acquainted with the correct tools and method of cleaning both the types of hardwood flooring.
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How to Install Wood Floor Around Toilet
According to Homestadna, bathrooms are not the ideal environment for wood floors. They are usually hot and humid places, and wood expands when it is exposed to moisture and heat. When done correctly, a wood floor offers a very attractive finish to a bathroom.
4 Steps to Installing Wood Floor around a Toilet
1. Ensure there is a moisture protection layer
2. Remove the toilet
3. Install the floor
4. Re-install the toilet
Ensuring there is a moisture protection layer
If dampness rises into the wood, the wood will quickly become unhygienic, smell bad and rot. It is essential to ensure that there is an adequate moisture protection layer under the floor.


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Gigante was one of the savviest mobsters the New York underworld has ever seen. The Genovese family's secretive nature has made it an enigma for law-enforcement. Suspected boss Barney Bellomo, born in Corleone, Sicily, was hand-picked to run the crime family by Gigante. He was even sent to college by the Chin to study business!
This Day in History – Mob Boss Vincent Chin Gigante dies
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Vincent Chin Gigante
On this day, December 19 in 2005, infamous mob boss Vincent Gigante died at the age of 77.
Known by the nickname "the Chin," Gigante was the boss of the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005.
Known for walking around Sullivan Street in Lower Manhattan in a bathrobe and slippers mumbling to himself, "The Chin" is one of the strangest gangsters of our time.
Also dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior, Gigante feigned mental illness for decades to camouflage his position as one of the nation's most influential and dangerous Mafia leaders.
His rise through the world of organized crime was just as bizarre.
The Frank Costello hit
In 1957, he was chosen by his Capo Tommy Eboli to murder Genovese Family boss Frank Costello, but botched the hit.
Gigante walked right up to Costello, famously said, "This is for you, Frank," and fired. Just as Gigante fired his .38-caliber handgun, Costello moved, causing the bullet to graze the right side of his head. Because Costello fell down, Gigante thought the mob boss was dead and he sped away in a black Cadillac.
Gigante was tried for attempted murder, but was acquitted when Costello, true to Mafia tradition, refused to identify him as the shooter.
Luckily for The Chin, Costello got the message from the shooting and decided to step down from his status of family boss.
In The early 1980s Gigante had moved up to consigliere status. In 1981 then Genovese Family boss Tony Salerno had a stroke and took a six month hiatus to recover, it is suspected that the Family appointed Gigante as boss. Salerno was still presented as the family boss, but it was known within the organized crime world that Gigante ran the family.
With no one to hide behind, Gigante resorted to a tactic he had used to beat earlier attempts at criminal convictions, he acted insane and often checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. The sight of Gigante wandering the streets of Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself, in what Gigante later admitted was an elaborate act to avoid prosecution, became common.
This act worked until 1997, when Salvatore Gravano testified that Gigante was sane and was the head of the Genovese Family.
Vincent chin Gigante never took a vacation in his life. Born in the Bronx in 1928, his incarceration in Southern and Midwestern prisons marked the first time he ever traveled more than 50 miles from New York City.
His only pleasure in life appeared to be the power he wielded as a Mafia boss. Asked by a prison guard if other inmates were bothering him, The Chin replied, "Nobody f***s with me in here."
Vincent Chin Gigante dies
In 2005, Gigante's health started to decline. He started suffering labored breathing, oxygen deprivation, swelling in the lower body, and bouts of unconsciousness.
"The Chin" died at the same federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri, where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer three years earlier in 2002.
Vincent Louis Gigante (March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005)
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Podcast 137 (Free Download)
First podcast of the new year and we set things off with what is bound to be one of the biggest tunes for 2010 from our good friend Stephen "Di Genius" McGregor, "Cyaa Friend Again". Brand new dubs and remixes for the new year, Juke Boxx's "Boops" riddim, "More Life" from Spragga Benz featuring Stephen Marley, Sizzla, Jah Cure & Queen Ifrika from Shotta Culture and a whole heap more. Click on the yellow PODCAST button to the right or CLICK HERE to listen through iTunes - FREE.


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A year ago we wrote about an Austin Kickstarter project named CineSkates. The product eventually grew into a company. Now the company is starting another kickstarter project for CineMoco. Their 2-minute video tells all.
CineMoco can be purchased as a complete CineMoco Slider or broken down into its individual components based on the filmmaker's needs and previously purchased products. Cinetics is also introducing SmartMount, a universal tripod mount for camera phones or tablets that works well with all of their products.
CineMoco Slider is available to preorder through Kickstarter at cinemoco.com for a limited time at the industry leading price of $795. The first 100 orders will receive early shipping with an estimated October delivery date. What's next for Cinetics? "The sky's the limit!" says Founder, Justin Jensen. "This was our number one most requested product, and we are excited to continue building what filmmakers want!" For more information about CineMoco, please visit the company website at cinetics.com.


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Shares of Integrys Energy (NYSE:TEG) opened today below their pivot of $51.84 and have already reached the first level of support at $51.31. Investors may be interested in a cross of the next downside pivot targets of $51.01 and $50.18.
Integrys Energy has overhead space with shares priced $51.38, or 8.2% below the average consensus analyst price target of $56.00. The stock should find initial resistance at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $53.26 and further resistance at its 200-day MA of $54.72.
In the past 52 weeks, shares of Integrys Energy have traded between a low of $50.80 and a high of $61.92 and are now at $51.38, which is 1% above that low price. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has fallen 0.4% while the 200-day MA has remained constant.
Integrys Energy Group, Inc. distributes electricity and natural gas to customers in the upper midwestern United States.


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What is CVS?
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Deanna Marie Wells Pleads Guilty in U.S. Federal Court
The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on December 12, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, DEANNA MARIE WELLS, a 29-year-old resident of Browning, pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine. Sentencing has been set for March 25, 2013. She is currently detained.
In an Offer of Proof filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica A. Betley, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From November 2010 until May 2011, WELLS was involved in a conspiracy with Louis Romero, Henry Lopez, and other individuals in distributing methamphetamine in the Browning area.
WELLS distributed 50 or more grams of a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.
Romero and Lopez pled guilty to federal charges.
WELLS faces possible penalties of a mandatory minimum of 5 years and could be sentenced to 40 years, a $5,000,000 fine, and 4 years supervised release.
The investigation was conducted by the Montana Regional Violent Crimes Task Force.


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I have long heard about Villa Fayrouz but have never had the opportunity to check it out. So I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that it had opened its door at The Avenues. Having achieved phenomenal success with its flagship restaurant at Al' Shaab, the Avenues branch was unveiled in July 2010, presenting the same great Lebanese food in a cozy, convivial atmosphere. Like the other outlet, the Villa Fayrouz Avenues is another temple dedicated to the memory of the legendary Lebanese singer, Fayrouz. Not surprisingly, you can find walls covered with photos of the diva in her various getups within its spacious interior.
Washed in beautiful natural woods and flooded with natural light, the main hall is decked out in all Middle Eastern splendor, with intricately carved wooden beams and Moorish-style motifs adorning its ceilings. Serious thought has also been expended to create the perfect dining experience, with its spacious interior, high ceilings and glass doors separating the smoking section from the non-smoking area. Well-groomed wait staff zips around, taking orders and making small talk, a congenial setting indeed.
Attracted here by the rave reviews of my friends, I have to admit that their advice was certainly not misguided. With the quality of the food here, it's hard not to be floored by its numerous signatures. The dinner began on a promising note with their mezzas; a friendly diaspora of one-upmanship over the other. The Fattoush, a delectable mix of fresh greens tossed with fried pita bread and lightly dressed with olive oil, lemon juice and Sumac, was alluring. The Eggplant Musakaa which followed was another keeper. The dish hit all the right notes in terms of flavors; slightly sour, a little bit sweet, and accompanied by the smooth creamy texture of the eggplant. Perfectly balanced in seasoning, the Vine Leaves in Olive Oil, was another big hit at our table. The citrus hint of lemon and the subtle notes of mint, olive oil and tomatoes was a harmonious balance of flavors. However the highlight for me and perhaps for all of us was the Hummus with Sausages. Exceeding fine and not overly heavy, the Hummus was lusciously topped with finely diced sausages giving the dish a slight salty touch.
Spoilt by the sinful array of mezzas, we were wondering if the mains could keep up with our sky-high expectations. We were not to be disappointed. The Mix Grill arrived, apparently straight out of the grill, smoke aspewing. The platter was a feast of grilled delights with kebbeh kebab, shish taouk, lamb cubes and beef slabs, covered in fries and accompanied by two slices of bread. The meat was all cooked to perfection with every morsel juicily tender.
We rounded up our dinner with Osmalliyeh as dessert. I have always had a soft spot for the Lebanese sweets but the ones at Villa Fayrouz are phenomenal. The shredded pasty on top was exquisitely crunchy and the sweetened clotted cream within was smooth, creamy and beautifully tasty. The syrup sauce added an additional sugared kick and in all, the dessert was pretty spot-on in terms of presentation and taste.
As we leaned back in our seats, waiting for our food to settle, we noticed other patrons displaying that look of pure content. Perhaps it was their ability to transform everyday dishes into outstanding works of culinary art, or perhaps the way everything here seems to exude finesse; Villa Fayrouz has earned itself a place in my heart and will certainly be a dining spot which I will go back to again and again.
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
Fairy Lights & Silver Linings
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
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I have this book ready and waiting on my kindle! Got to get through 700+ pages of The Passage first though :( xReplyDelete
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Happy new year Charlotte!ReplyDelete
Happy new year! I love the film Silver Linings Playbook and I'm all set to get the book for my tablet :D xReplyDelete
i need to read this book so bad - i just saw the film and it was incredible!! :)ReplyDelete
happy new year!
I keep telling myself I must read this... you've convinced me xxxReplyDelete
that line really got me.
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Lovely quote :) Happy New Year!xxReplyDelete
Oh dear, that's not a happy saying. I've heard a lot about the film but I always have to read the books first... I may have to get round to that this year ! Happy new year xReplyDelete
I am going to see this movie then I am going to get the book... ;). It really sounds like a book I would love to read.ReplyDelete
Completely mezmeried by the picture. So pretty!ReplyDelete
Happy new year :-) xx
I loved that movie! Happy new year!ReplyDelete
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That book is definitely next on my download list for kindle!
Those are some pretty lights, and a deep lesson there. Life does have some really good feel good moments though, let's not forget that :)ReplyDelete
Happy New Year! I haven't been online for a little while and have only just seen your new blog make over, looking good!xReplyDelete
I devoured this book in a few hours. It was too good to put down! I loved it.ReplyDelete
Definitely a recommended book :)
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I've got these knotted red suede sandals (now $225, were $450) en route as I type and can't wait for them to arrive on my doorstep. I live in flat sandals in the summer, and the bright lollipop color of this particular pair was too hard to resist (I'm picturing them with white jeans and basically every sundress in my closet).
I'm of the belief that you can never have too many pairs of black flats, and this season there are several tempting options. My favorites: these black patent leather T-straps (now $222.50, were $445) and this low-cut style with rivets and cutouts on the toes (now $212.50, were $425).
There's a lot more to choose from--like these edgy-cool lace-up gladiator sandals made of handwoven grey leather (now $247.50, were $495)--click here to check out all the offerings.And if you can bear to wait, keep circling back to the site in the event that they end up discounting further to 70%.
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Many residents braving the storm with the help of a cocktail
UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - With a snow emergency declared in Utica and a number of towns Friday, many people decided to forego the Friday night festivities and stay in. Some people even hit the liquor stores to make the best of the storm, staying inside. "I'm making Thai food and getting plum wine, I thought that'd be a good combination," said Rosario Bellassai. "Yeah I'm stocking up for the storm," said Jackson Joseph. "You know gotta stay warm you know what I'm saying." Employees at City Liquors said they noticed a difference with the snow, making for a little busier of a night and people coming in earlier than usual. "Usually they come after work or after 5 but there was a big rush around 3 o'clock," said Kevin Cappiello. "People expect the snow to come earlier too, and when it didn't I think they saw an opportunity to go get their liquor wine and have a good night." Many people thought having a good night at home looked like a good option. "Probably just because of the way the weather is," said Delia Ponce. "And I don't want to be anywhere where theres not a lot of people so might as well just stay in with the girls." "Got me some Henny, just something to keep me warm you know," said Jackson Joseph.


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The New Dell DR4100 Data Backup Appliance Can Help Customers Reduce Storage Capacity Needed - By Up To 15 Times - With Dell's Data Reduction Technologies. (Photo: Business Wire)
To help customers better manage and reduce the cost of backing up and recovering company data, Dell today unveiled its next generation disk backup appliance built on the Fluid Data architecture.
The new Dell DR4100 data backup appliance can help customers reduce storage capacity needed - by up to 15 times - with Dell's data reduction technologies. (Photo: Business Wire)
The new high performance Dell DR4100 disk backup appliance can help customers reduce the amount of necessary backup storage capacity — by up to 15 times — with Dell's built-in data deduplication and compression technologies. Latest advancements in Dell's backup appliance offer customers expansion shelves for improved storage capacity, increased "many-to-one" replication capabilities for improved disaster recovery, and additional backup software certifications for enhanced interoperability.
"Companies of all sizes are tasked with managing the persistent growth of data, and they often struggle with cost-efficiently and effectively handling data backup and recovery," said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager, Dell Storage. "For those looking to augment or replace traditional tape environments with the speed and reliability of a disk-based solution, the Dell DR4100 simplifies backup and recovery while optimizing storage resources. The addition of expansion shelves, combined with our advanced data deduplication and compression technologies, offers customers a simple, affordable and scalable way to manage data protection."
The easy to deploy and manage Dell DR4100, based on the latest Dell PowerEdge 12 th generation servers, is a disk backup target appliance with built-in deduplication and compression technology designed to significantly reduce the amount of storage required. Benefiting from Dell's acquired Ocarina data reduction algorithms, customers can eliminate redundant copies of data and decrease disk capacity requirements by up to 93 percent. The appliance performs all data reduction operations, removing this function from the customer's application and backup servers and eliminating any impact on backup and recovery performance.The appliance can reduce or eliminate the dependence on managing tape backups while enabling customers to maintain their backup data on disk longer, enabling fast and reliable restores when needed. Additional Dell DR4100 capabilities and benefits include:
- Scalable Capacity — Offers customers the ability to add up to two expansion shelves (9,18 or 27 terabytes each), providing seamless scalability and larger capacity than competing platforms. 2 Customers can scale their solution from 2.7 terabytes to 81 terabytes of usable capacity — or up to 1.2 petabytes of logical capacity — as their business and data backup demands grow. 1
- Improved Disaster Recovery — Fast, daily, deduplicated replication of backup data can be performed using many-to-one replication that supports up to 32 nodes in different locations replicating to one central node. This can reduce the burden on IT staff backing-up many sites by providing a simple disaster recovery solution that can help reduce capital and operational costs associated with it, while minimizing backup storage needs at remote offices.
- Broader Backup Software Certifications — Designed to work with a vast array of backup software applications, the Dell DR4100 supports leading vendors including Dell (AppAssure and Quest), Symantec, CommVault, Oracle and CA among others.
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My research focuses on the thoughts, actions, and ways of organizing that bound medieval societies together. I study people when they do not work well together, in part because I think we can learn most for the present from these past moments of crisis, dissent, and experiment. My recent book is Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents (Brill, 2011). It recognizes that the convents of members of the Order of Preachers were homes, schools and workplaces, rich and complex lived communities that encouraged conflict while idealizing the quest for cooperation. The boozing and womanizing of the Order's undisciplined friars in this period is legendary, which led me to ask what explains behavior that badly fits our assumptions about those who promised themselves to a religious profession. I accept that the Order suffered from the cataclysms of the period – economic disruption, war, plague, and schism – but the older histories asserting that the friars were contaminated by factors beyond their control covers the truth in moralizing whitewash. My book carefully illustrates the complexities of the friars' communal life, which included conflicted identities, competing loyalties, and plenty of good reasons to confront the demands of an organization growing increasingly bureaucratic and legalistic. [Here is a link to the publisher's website for the book: http://www.brill.nl/taming-brood-vipers].
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The vast bulk of private, independent venture capital, growth capital, and private equity firms report fund performance to their investors using investment company accounting. Investment company accounting rules for years have required determining fair value for each investment for each reporting period, typically quarterly, and audited periodically, typically annually. Under recently-affirmed rules, the fair value of the fund as a whole generally is the sum of the individual holdings.
Effective with 2008 the financial reporting period, a more specific set of rules became effective. Originally known as FAS 157, these rules are now a part of authoritative US accounting rules Topic 820.
Midway through the 2000 decade, an independent group of industry practitioners created the PEIGG guidelines for use by US private funds in their reporting under the official rules. In December 2012, a similar but global practitioner and expert group, IPEV, issued Valuation Guidelines to be consistent with US GAAP and non-US IRFS. In May 2013, the NVCA board endorsed these valuation guidelines. By endorsing these guidelines, NVCA joins the US Private Equity and Growth Capital (PEGCC) Association, and many venture capital, private equity, and limited partner associations in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Details of the announcement, basic Q&A, and links can be found here. The complete text of the IPEV guidelines can be found here.
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Based on Wednesday's trading, Yahoo had a market value of about $37 billion. That indicates News Corp. believes MySpace is now worth more than $10 billion, based on a 25 percent stake in Yahoo.
In a research note Wednesday, Standard & Poor's equity analyst Scott Kessler said News Corp.'s asking price as "excessive." He also cited control issues and potential conflicts over Yahoo's online search business as stumbling blocks.
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The USPS Package Intercept service allows customers to intercept and redirect a package before it is scheduled for delivery or delivered to its destination. At the point of interception, customers can choose to have their package returned, redirected to a different address or redirected to a Post Office to hold for pickup. Both retail and commercial customers can use this service for their letters, flats and packages, as long as the mailpiece has tracking information on it. This service is available for domestic delivery only and can be applied to shipments with Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, First Class Mail, First Class Package Service and Parcel Select.
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SMART (Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research & Treatment) started with SMART University, the core component of SHE (SMART Health Education). In 1998, a group of women met in various donated spaces throughout East Harlem, New York in order to gain knowledge about what it means to be a women living with HIV/AIDS. Our gender-specific, sequenced educational model emerged from these early classes to provide a holistic approach to treatment and health education for women. At the heart of SMART, our mission is to improve the quality of life for our participants. We believe that knowledgeable and healthy women are the foundation for a strong and health community. We have evolved our education and leadership opportunities to address the health disparities inherent in our community and the intersecting issues of HIV/AIDS and other issues that affect the health of our community.
Nutrition education and access to high quality foods is essential to our vision. We are proud of our unique hands-on approach to nutrition education through our SMART Body class, our SMART cookbook, SMART's Kitchen Table (a free copy is available for you to download – simply click on the 'Cookbook' menu item above), and our newest project, SMART's Mobile Cooking Classroom. We will bring our successful curriculum to the streets of our community. Learn more about our passion for good food in the video below.
The world has changed since 1998, and SMART has adapted as well. SMART Youth began in 2005 for young adults living with or affected by HIV/AIDS to have a safe space to learn important health information and life skills. Their goal is to share accurate and youth-specific sexual health information to all adolescents in New York City. This leadership and youth development program for adolescents ages 13-22 serves as a resource for schools, clinics and other youth organizations.
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iDealGolfer.com is a website that provides daily deals for rounds of golf. Are you familiar with Groupon or Living Social? Well, iDealGolfer is just like a Groupon for Golf Courses. I must admit, with all the hype of Groupon and the tremendous growth that the site has gone through, I had the idea of doing some kind of daily deal golf site. Well, the folks from Avid Golfer are one step ahead of me and started iDealGolfer. I think this is a great idea, the model works out well for both golfers and golf courses.
Golf Courses are always competing to fill all of their tee times, especially with the growing number of golf courses being built. iDealGolfer can provide a golf course a lot of golfers and awareness with golfers. The golf course will have to provide a pretty large discount, say 30-50% off a standard green fee, but they will be promoted in front of thousands of golfers. For each person who buys a deal, that golfer will play the golf course. The goal of the golf course is to turn that golfer into a repeat customer. In addition to people who buy the deal, iDealGolfer will be promoting each deal, so the golf course will receive quite a bit of advertising for their deal.
Each deal is different, as some of the deals have certain blackout dates and/or times. Deals also expire, so make sure when you are going to buy a deal that you can actually use the deal without it expiring.
iDealGolfer has integrated well with Facebook to help promote their deals. They have a fan page setup, with over 850+ people liking the page. It appears from the past deals that anywhere from 200 to 600+ people buy each deal. Each deal can also be liked on Facebook, emailed to a friend, or send to Google Buzz. It's interesting that they do not have some kind of Twitter integration for the ongoing deal? There are twitter buttons on the past deals, which is kind of interesting.
Currently, iDealGolfer seems to be most active in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Luckily for me, that's where I currently live. They just started doing deals in the Hill Country. For those of you not in Texas, that is the Austin, TX area. They also have listed Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and St. Louis, however, it doesn't appear to have much activity for deals. I'm sure those areas will be the next cities they are going to grow into.
How It Works
The website is pretty intuitive, and easy to figure out. When you see a deal that you like, you click on the deal to "buy" it. You'll have to create an account, so that when the deal is done you can print the coupon and be able to redeem it.
Each deal has a time limit that you can buy it. The time limit is usually several days. Once the deal time limit has expired, you will have the chance to log in and get the coupon to use.
I will be watching iDealGolfer over the next year to see how this idea progresses. I think this will be very successful because it is good for the golfer, and for the golf course. I wish I would have acted on my idea before iDealGolfer made its debut.
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In India section 377 is the most effective tool against child sex abuse. Not only that.
Huge number of poverty stricken Indian young men are being forced into homo-sexuality silently both in the name of myths and in the name of modernity. There is a belief amongst the rich that drinking sperm gives vitality and fresh blood, which is a non-sense. There are also beliefs like homo-sexuality cures STD's, which is also a non-sense. But these myths do exist but are constrained to grow because of the illegality of the whole issue (Section 377).
There is also the fashion element that is spreading now-a-days on being on the other side of society, which is being actively aided and abetted by the media. This takes the form of support of homosexuals and ending up as a homo or bi-sexual.
Section 377 is the only known tool that has been stopping the growth of these myths and modern aberrations. Once it becomes legal for people to have consensual sex between adult males, it throws open the flood-gates for these myths and aberrations to prosper. Those who were afraid of the law and carrying out their canvassing in shady places will now come out in the open and carry out their activities openly.
Universally the time now has turned towards gay and lesbian movements. It is kind of being accepted that men can live men and women with women. So it is natural for Indian media to be carried away, as it sees itself as the harbinger of 'liberty'.
What is the truth..?
All along the history of human race, trans-genders have existed and have been acknowledged. In several Indian mythologies trans-genders have been talked about with same respect that any normal gender is talked about. Shikandi and Alli in Mahabharath were eunuch kings and queens.
But this was never given the form of 'homo-sexuality' as it is being given today by media and pseudo-pandits on sexuality. Homo-sexuality would be an aspect of trans-genders, the not-so-fortunate gender of the human race. It is not the only aspect of them. In fact trans-genders have many other aspects other than homo-sexuality.
Several trans-genders have gained prominence in the later day history of India for art forms like music and dance. They have been well respected and acknowledged. The world did not look at them as 'homo-sexuals', for homo-sexuality is only one aspect of trans-genders. Trans-genders have much higher skill sets in several fields compared to normal genders, due to their unique genetic make-up.
Indian culture always treated the homo-sexuality aspect of trans-genders as their private issue. It was an issue of their bedroom privacy. What two living beings did inside their bedrooms was not an issue to be discussed in public. Instead it respected and adulated the artistic skill sets of trans-genders.
For sex between man and a woman is about communicating love, feeling the pleasure and thereby taking part in the evolution of intelligence on the planet. Hence sex was treated sacro-sanct. Higher the pleasure of sex, higher was the chance of reproduction. Thus higher the chance of evolution of intelligence.
But of-late this whole trans-gender issue has been hijacked and tweaked by the media and pseudo-sexual pandits into an issue of 'homo-sexuality'.
The reason is to take homo-sexuality beyond the issue of trans-genders and apply it to all the genders.
The reason is to make homo-sexuality a form of entertainment, a form of aberration that can be marketed, invested, traded and made money on.
The reason is the media and businesses look at homo-sexuality as 'a la vice' trade. Like cigarettes, alcohol and sex on cinema, homo-sexuality can be marketed, invested, traded and billion dollar industry created.
Think about it. If a new class of trans-genders can be bred through the marketing of homo-sexuality, it would create a zillion dollar industry. In the process several normal genders have to be migrated to become trans-genders. And the best way to begin it is to ensure that homo-sexuals and bi-sexuals are accepted and adopted in the society.
This is the process that is going on currently. And it is dangerous to the whole human race. This is what seems to be the focus of several organizations who are working in this field.
What I have written may appear to be a piece of over-imagination, but humans have always exceeded their own imaginations over a period of time.
Hence If legalizing homo-sexuality means promoting it by providing an open space for it to grow in the society, it MUST be stopped.
Homo-sexuality between trans-genders is a different issue. It is not a crime. But then there is a concentrated drive by vested interests to create, nurture and grow trans-genders as a fashion and cultural item. Many normal people are being forced into homo-sexuality as a matter of choice for them.
And such people who are being directly and indirectly forced into homo-sexuality are not trans-genders. They are being indirectly forced into homo-sexuality as a matter of fashion, myths, modernity and sexual freedom, to taste something different.
Media is purposefully blurring the difference line between natural trans-genders and the people who are being directly/in-directly forced into homo-sexuality in the name of myths, modernity and fashion.
And this MUST be stopped.
Such a homo-sexuality, which is spreading as a part of modern culture amongst straight humans (non trans-genders) is against human Culture. It is against human family values that form the bedrock of democratic societies. It is against all human values and systems. It is against human evolution.
If homo-sexuality and all associated forms of relationships are allowed to flourish, then scientifically it is end of human evolution. And remember human brain can be definitely self-destructive. It can guide the whole intelligence evolution process on wrong path and destroy the society.
So we should say YES to rights of trans-genders in which homo-sexuality is a part, but NO to homo-sexuality between normal genders, say NO to marketing and propagating homo-sexuality as a cultural, modern or fashion element.
Hence legalizing homo-sexual acts of adults, even between consensual adults is wrong. It will promote these myths and modern aberrations, which are being held back by this law and eventually have the power to destroy humanity.
There need to be more qualifications in place to scrap this law or we need to simply keep this issue as an issue under the carpet, as our ancestors did. Let trans-genders live their life peacefully, but let us not create a market for being a trans-gender.


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This has been my second year homeschooling boys and while I still feel like a newbie I have learned a few things over the last 24 months that I'd like to share with you.
10 Things I've Learned About Homeschooling Boys
1. I am not a good boy.
My boys have started telling me this on a daily basis. It's usually when they are wrapped up in some serious boy action and pretend play. Most of the time I'm not invited into their inner circle. The other day my boys were deep into military battle plans and Bubba asked me if I would come play with them. I think I lasted about 5 minutes before I was told that I wasn't doing it right and I could go back to cleaning the kitchen. I don't take it personally because they are right. I can read all the parenting books on raising boys but that won't make me a good boy. That said my little guys to tell me all the time that I'm the best mommy ever, I'd take that over being a good boy anyday!
2. It's not a good idea to let your boys watch "The Chronicles of Narnia" for breakfast.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a morning person. My boys rise before the sun usually somewhere between 5:45 and 6:30. Usually the boys play {not so} quietly in their rooms until I drag myself out of bed to fix breakfast. Last week they asked to watch Narnia while I fixed breakfast and I agreed. Once the movie and breakfast were over I tried to get our lessons started but soon gave up. My boys were too busy fighting the White Witch to pay me any attention. I highly recommended some great "boy approved" read alouds and books about adventure for them to read on their own, just be sure to read after lessons are done.
3. They really do learn better while in motion.
Bubba is constantly moving all day long and during school time it's the same. I spent much of last year trying {in vain} to get my little boy to sit still and get his work done. This year I realized that we got a lot more work done when I just left him alone. Yes it drives me crazy to watch him drum on the table, kick the seat next to him and hum a song while working on his math assignment. But I'm learning that it's not always about works for me.
Snag a copy of Brain Breaks for only $7.99 (a great resource for helping your boys focus on schoolwork and move with a purpose. They are great for moms too)
4. Learning can still happen in the rumpus.
Boys are just loud, dirty and messy creatures! There's no way around that. That doesn't mean that they aren't learning at the same time. I have watched my boys make the biggest mess I've ever seen but still be learning some important lessons. One day I took a few minutes to take in the scenery and I noticed some sorting and classification going on with blocks, re-enactments of Bible stories and discussions about character development between two soldiers on the battlefield.
5. Put those swords and guns to use.
I'm sure that you have some weapons somewhere in your house if you have boys. Take those toys and include them in your lessons. My boys have had lots of fun shooting sight words with nerf guns, slashing numbers by 5s and 10s, and shooting arrows at their spelling words. It's a perfect way to combine #3 and #4.
My favorite place to get weapons and all things boy is JM Cremp's Adventure Store for Boys. Check them out they have lots of awesome stuff:
6. It's important to get outside.
I could stay inside for days on end, but my boys have to get out at least once a day. One thing that I've started doing is taking school outside a few times a month. Go for a nature walk. Pack up your art supplies and be inspired by nature. Take bikes, skates, or scooters and let your boys ride off some of that extra energy. Don't forget the helmets!
7. Embrace the competition.
My boys love to compete over anything: who eats the fastest, who can get the dirtiest, who has the most bug bites, etc. I've learned that this is just a part of what makes them male so I'm learning to embrace it. I don't let my boys compete against each other but I do encourage them to compete against themselves and the clock. When I see Bubba dwaddling with an assignment I'll time him and challenge him to see how quickly he can finish.
8. It's ok to get messy.
I'm a bit of a neat freak so I don't really like big messes. My boys LOVE to make a mess and I'm learning that I need to indulge them from time to time. Science experiments are a great way to have some messy fun. My boys had a lot of fun erupting our volcano in the backyard {when we had one}. Finger painting brings about an hour of fun for us as well. And when I'm feeling really crazy I let my boys play in the rain and/or mud. Sensory bins are also a great way to make a mess, have fun and work on some important motor skills.
9. It's important to let them have a say in your lessons.
Boys like to feel in charge of the world. God created them to be spiritual leaders one day and I try to find ways to let my boys take charge in our homeschool. It doesn't have to be anything big. I let Bubba decide what he wanted to study for science this year. He was so excited to learn about the universe this year and he was proud that he made the choice himself. I also let my boys decide on read alouds and field trips throughout the year.
10. Sometimes I need to just lighten up.
This is probably the best lesson I've learned over the last 2 years. I need to let go of what I think the "perfect" homeschool looks like and embrace the reality of our homeschool. My boys are my boys and I love them exactly the way they are.
For more tips on homeschooling boys check out my list of must have items for my Boyschooling Survival Kit.


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Here's a question to think over for a minute or two. Name the Australian cricketers who have scored over 50 first-class centuries.
I'll give you a clue - there are 29 of them.
How did you get on?
Assuming you have actually heard of the game of cricket, identifying number one on the list wouldn't have been challenging. The Don amassed an incredible 117 centuries in his miraculous career, 31 more than his nearest countryman.
The bulk of the list is comprised of players who enjoyed a golden era for batsmen and Australians, spanning the late-1980s through to the mid-2000s. The global trend of flatter pitches, a comparative decline in fast bowling and the increasing professionalism of the game produced optimum conditions to score runs over long and busy careers.
Many in this bracket dominated at international level, the likes of Justin Langer (86), Mark Waugh (81), Matthew Hayden (79), Steve Waugh (79), Ricky Ponting (77), Allan Border (70), David Boon (68), Mike Hussey (58) and Dean Jones (55). Such was the dominance of this group in locking down international places, the careers of other prodigious talents remained predominately at domestic level, save for fill-in jobs or as limited-overs specialists. This includes: Darren Lehmann (82), Stuart Law (79), Michael Bevan (68), Tom Moody (64), Michael di Venuto (60), Simon Katich (54), Jamie Cox (51), Brad Hodge (51) and Matthew Elliott (50).
Then there are the certified legends of Australian cricket, the giants of their time whose achievements resonate in all eras. Titans like Greg Chappell (74), Neil Harvey (67), Bob Simpson (60), Ian Chappell (59), Lindsay Hassett (59), Warren Bardsley (53), and Bill Lawry (50).
Sneaking into the list are a couple that struggle for classification. Murray Goodwin (67) has played the majority of his first class career in Australia whilst representing Zimbabwe internationally, while Kepler Wessels (66) represented Australia at the highest level whilst playing most of his first-class cricket in other countries.
How are you doing so far? Any surprises?
The close readers amongst you will have noticed there are 28 listed above, with one name still to follow.
Any guesses?
Not Adam Gilchrist. Neither is it Doug Walters, or Michael Slater, or Mark Taylor, or Damien Martyn, or Kim Hughes.
The answer, with 54 first-class centuries, and counting, is Chris Rogers.
Consider the list of names above and then appraise your perspective of the current Victorian opener. Is there a more underrated cricketer in the modern game? In Australian history?
There are other numbers to help support Rogers' claim for greatness. Of the 29 on the list, he has played the fewest number of first-class matches (211), with only Matthew Elliott (214) and Lindsay Hassett (216) anywhere near. Consequently he has one of the highest innings-to-hundreds ratios in Australian history, a fact Dylan Atkinson of Cricket Victoria was keen to highlight. Rogers averages a ton every seventh first-class innings he plays, a feat bettered only by Hayden, Harvey, Ponting, Bevan, Lehmann, Hassett and Bradman.
By rights, Rogers should be afforded headline status in Australia's cricketing history, yet, for having the misfortune to play through his country's most run-rich era he occupies barely a footnote.
Despite such a mountain of runs under his belt at a career average of over 50, the sum total of Rogers' international career was four days in Perth in 2008 when he mustered just 19 deputising for Matthew Hayden. Crucially, he underperformed in seven outings for the A side, further limiting his chances of shaking the 'One-Test Wonder' tag. Ironically, his best performance on the international stage came against Australia, when he racked up 209 for Leicestershire when they hosted the touring Australians in 2005. That made him the first Australian since Mark Waugh in 1989 to notch a ton against his national side, along the way adding the second-highest opening stand for any XI against an Australian side in England. If you were wondering, the Australian attacked contained Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie, Michael Kasprowicz and Stuart MacGill.
Away from the public consciousness and in the boondocks of the domestic game, Rogers has received little press. Out of sight out of mind.
Now nearing 35, he is still scoring centuries. His 173 for Middlesex against Somerset in the English County Championship this week is his second of another prolific northern summer. He will doubtless return to Victoria for the 2012-13 campaign and accumulate even more.
Rogers will do so unburdened by the demands placed upon many of his colleagues. Too old for more international honours the left-hander does not hold a Big Bash League contract and played only one Ryobi Cup fixture last season. In an age where quick-fire televised fifties make the front pages, Rogers masters his craft for a much smaller, more devoted audience.
So next time you're considering going to watch the cricket, or you're thumbing through the latest Shield scores, don't forget that there's a living legend still plying his trade - probably Australia's most underrated cricketer.
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A New Class of Breast Cancer Drugs
Eliot Rosen, MD, PhD, is well on his way to creating a new class of targeted therapy for the most common kind of breast cancer — a treatment that will hopefully work for tumors that have developed resistance to tamoxifen and other conventional anti-estrogens.
Rosen, who holds the Gragnani Chair in Oncology and Radiation Biology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has discovered a class of small molecules that he says can block the growth of breast cancers that have lost their sensitivity to tamoxifen and, in some cases, can restore the sensitivity of these cancers to tamoxifen when used in combination with tamoxifen.
This would be a major advance in the medical care of about two-thirds of breast cancer — the kind that is driven by estrogen and so is known as estrogen receptor-positive — because tamoxifen, which binds on to the estrogen receptor to block the hormone, often loses its effectiveness, resulting in regrowth of the cancer. And some patients with estrogen receptor-positive cancers do not respond to tamoxifen and other conventional anti-estrogens at all.
Given the potential of this new class of agents, Rosen has been supported by the National Cancer Institute and has received other grants, such as a recent $600,000 award from Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
"This is very exciting. We are not at the stage of conducting clinical trials, but I think we are well on the road toward that goal," Rosen says.
That path became set in the 1990s when Rosen and his colleagues discovered that BRCA1 binds to and inhibits the estrogen receptor (ER), a breakthrough that was published in Science magazine.
BRCA1 is known as a powerful caretaker gene that helps repair damaged DNA or signals a cell's destruction if repair is not possible. Rosen found it also blocks the cells from responding to estrogen, which is known to fuel breast cancer. When the gene is mutated or missing, a woman's risk of developing breast cancer increases to more than 50 percent.
"Tumor suppressors often have more than one function," Rosen says. "We think that both the DNA repair function and the estrogen receptor inhibition functions of BRCA1 contribute to its ability to suppress breast cancer formation."
He and researchers in his laboratory then discovered another intriguing fact: If BRCA1 is mutated and prevented from functioning in breast cancer cells, those cells have an abnormal and completely opposite response to tamoxifen. "Tamoxifen, in those cases, actually stimulates the growth of these cells, rather than inhibiting it.
"So that tells us that BRCA1 modifies a cell's response to tamoxifen -- when BRCA1 is missing, tamoxifen acts like a cancer stimulant," Rosen says.
These findings suggested a reason why tamoxifen stops working — BRCA1 protein levels (produced by the gene) may sink too low to be effective — and it also offered a potential solution: a drug that mimics BRCA1's action on the estrogen receptor.
To find such a drug, Rosen, Yongxian Ma, PhD, and York Tomita, PhD, studied in detail how BRCA1 physically interacts with the estrogen receptor. Having identified the exact regions of BRCA1 and the estrogen receptor that interact with each other, they used this information to develop a three-dimensional (3D) computer model of the BRCA1-ER complex. This allows scientists to "see" exactly where these proteins bind to each other, and how the binding domain is structured.
What they found is that BRCA1 binds to the estrogen receptor in a different area than does tamoxifen, whose job is also to inhibit activation of the receptor by blocking the ability of estrogen to activate the estrogen receptor.
Tomita then used the models of the binding interaction to compare it to the structure of small molecule drug-like compounds, trying to find one that would bind deeply to the same ER pocket that the BRCA1 protein does. The researchers screened 40 of the most promising compounds in cultured breast cancer cells and found six that strongly inhibited the activity of the estrogen receptor at low concentrations — just as BRCA1 does.
These molecules prevented the estrogen receptor activity as well as cell growth in ER+ breast cancer cells that were resistant to tamoxifen. Two of those molecules offered lovely extra benefits, Rosen says. In the process of binding to the estrogen receptor, they actually forced it to change its structure in a way that tamoxifen could bind and inhibit the estrogen receptor's activity, even in cancer cells that were previously resistant to tamoxifen. Rosen says: "These are the first small molecule compounds that appear to overcome tamoxifen resistance and restore sensitivity."
The researchers believe that these prototype agents could be developed into drugs that could be used in two different ways. At higher doses, they could be used to block the growth of breast cancers that have developed resistance to tamoxifen. At lower doses, they could be used in combination with tamoxifen to enhance its effectiveness or to render it effective in cancers that had stopped responding to tamoxifen.
He also points out that these molecules may also help other breast cancer drugs that bind to the same cavity on ER as tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is a SERM (selective estrogen regulator modulator), as is raloxifene and several other drugs, but another class of drugs, the SERDs (selective estrogen down regulators), such as fulvestrant, also targets the same area on the receptor.
"Our compounds bind to a completely different site, so this is potentially a new fourth class of targeted anti-estrogen breast cancer drugs," Rosen says. (The 3rd class of drugs, aromatase inhibitors, works in a completely different way; they stop the production of the estrogen hormone in the tissues that make it.)
He now plans to test the safety and efficacy of the two compounds in pre-clinical studies — the types of studies needed before an agent can be approved for testing in humans.
"We are hopeful that our compounds can be developed into drugs that will be useful both for breast cancer prevention and for treatment, particularly for anti-estrogen-resistant cancers, either by themselves or in combination with conventional anti-estrogens," Rosen says.
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