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South Australia will showcase its first-class wine regions to the world after being chosen to host Savour - the first Global Australian Wine Forum.
Ahead of tonight's launch of the new brand for South Australia, Premier Jay Weatherill announced that the forum will be held in Adelaide on September 15-18.
"There is no better way to showcase our wonderful, clean-green-wine producing areas than to bring the world to us," Mr Weatherill said.
"South Australia is responsible for the production of more than half of the nation's wine with the sector generating nearly $2 billion towards the state's economy.
"Savour will showcase Australia as a whole and as hosts we have the chance to showcase influential delegates our premium food and wine against a backdrop of our unique tourism offerings."
Mr Weatherill said the forum was expected to attract up to 800 delegates with more than 80 per cent to be international sommeliers, wine makers, industry experts and journalists.
"Clare Valley, the Barossa, the Coonawarra, the McLaren Vale are recognised as producing some of the world's best wines – so we have a great story to showcase," Mr Weatherill said.
The forum will also include a dinner showcasing the very best of South Australian food and wine to influential international delegates.
Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said Savour would complement the South Australian Tourism Commission's new marketing campaign for the Barossa, to be launched this winter, as well as incorporate the State's new brand.
"This conference will give us a perfect opportunity to show these influential delegates our very best wines against the backdrop of our spectacular wine country," Mr Bignell said.
"Our wine regions are known around the world, and securing this conference gives us the chance to spread the message even further.
"This will help drive home the message to the world that Adelaide is Australia's wine capital and will also be an ideal setting to discuss the new-look Tasting Australia, which will return next year."
Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister Gail Gago said the forum is a big win for South Australia.
"Today's announcement reaffirms that South Australia has a competitive edge as a producer of premium food and wine from our clean environment," Ms Gago said.
"The international attention that this forum will provide will no doubt assist in our efforts to further grow this thriving sector."
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Vanessa Attends the BMI Pop Awards
On May 13th Vanessa attended the 62nd Annual BMI Pop Awards to support her long time friend Stevie Nicks. Photos from this event can be found below or in the Photo Gallery
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I'll Wait for You Music Video
Yesterday morning the music video for Vanessa's new single "I'll wait for You" was officially released on her new youtube page. You can watch the video below.
Welcome Back!
Hey everyone welcome back to the new and improved Vanessa Carlton Online! We apologize for the long hiatus but we are proud to say we are back online and sporting a brand new theme! Let us know what you guys think on Facebook and Twitter. We are still working on the site so bare with us.
Musician's on Call Benefit Show
Vanessa will be performing a benefit event for "Musician's on Call" on September 10th in New York City. Tickets are $50 for General Admission and $75 for VIP. VIP Tickets come with complimentary Beer & Wine as well as a Meet & Greet with Vanessa herself! The show starts at 7pm and ends at 10pm. For more information and to purchase tickets feel free to check out the website here
2013 Fall Tour
You read right Vanessa has just sent a blog out to her fans [which you can read below] that say's she will be touring this fall! With only 10 dates confirmed for October she also mentions there being more coming in November so stay tuned for more updates on the upcoming show dates. The list of current dates and tickets can be found here
I'm excited to say that I'm comin' out on tour this fall! It's been way too long:) This show will be stripped down (rather baroque actually) me, piano and my dear-friend-killer-violinist Skye Steele. We'll cook up a good setlist of old stuff, lots of stuff from the Rabbits on the Run album and a handful of new tunes from the new album (the one that I've been working on at Real World, the one that comes out next year, the one I'm VERY psyched about). I'll be doing a run in October and then another run in November (which we'll announce in a few weeks).
We will be selling some things-vinyl, tees and a lithograph (no chocolate this time….next time).
See ya soon
Out and About on April 21, 2013
On April 21, 2013 Vanessa was was shopping and walking her dog "Lord Victor" in Soho, New York City. Photos can be found in the photo gallery.
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|Afternoon Tea, Lobby Lounge, The Peninsula, Hong Kong
Afternoon Tea, The Peninsula, Hong Kong
An incredibly elegant "must" experience in Hong Kong is afternoon tea at the Peninsula. It has such a reputation throughout the city that even our driver recommends it.
Rectangular columns support towering ceilings embroidered with coppery coloured leaf patterns and angelic faces. Rich wooden and black marble topped tables are hemmed with upholstered pale golden olive chairs. Elegant silverware, cloth napkins and a single stem of yellow tropical flower adorn each place.
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We begin with a cocktail for charity. 100% of proceeds from "Trees of Hope" cocktails will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Hong Kong foundation. It's an easy choice right – drink a cocktail, help charity.
We're enchanted by the Christmas spirit and so order a Brandy Eggnog (HK$135) and Longan Toddy (HK$150). Both are dark rum based drinks so quickly grabbed our attention. Brandy and rum are blended with milk and eggs for the former, while Myer's and Zacapa rums are mixed with honey nectar, dried longan and dried wolfberries in the latter.
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The "Tea of Hope" Classic Afternoon Tea set sees 20% of proceeds going to charity. We're stuffed from a wonderful lunch however and can only afford space for something light. Homemade Raisin Scones with a choice of The Peninsula Tea Collection ($HK150) sounds like a reasonable offering, and we also request Assorted Finger Sandwiches ($HK175) to balance out the sweet dominance with some savoury.
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Scones prove light and fluffy, and sandwiches fresh. Cocktails are satisfying too, but it's the ambience and sense of history that have us hooked. The oldest hotel in the city has seen much history, scandal and glamour between its walls, and we're happy to be soaking it all up in the legendary "Grande Dame of the Far East."
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The "Tea of Hope" Classic Afternoon Tea is available from now to 20 December and 27 to 30 December 2014. The set is priced at HK$ 358* for one or HK$ 638* for two, including an ornament and 20% of each tea set sold will be donated to Make-A-Wish.
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The Elven Lands
Four of the five boys waited silently. Korman, however, waited impatiently for Avira, the dark-skinned she-elf who had "found" them.
They were lucky Darien had woken up first, he thought. Marcus would have woken up Trey first, and then he would have missed the action.
Trey would have let everyone sleep and just thought up something on his own to make it look like they were more welcome. Brendan would have woken Trey up as well, but maybe the both of them.
Trey might be the prince, but Korman was the unspoken leader of the group. They always asked him what to do.
It was irritating sometimes, but they were his best friends. He had known Trey for a long time, and he and the Cameron twins had been great friends since the day he met had them. Three days later, after traveling through animal trails and a lot of underbrush, Avira said that they would enter the elven lands tomorrow.
That night, as soon as she put two men on post, Avira went off by herself. She had Landon's letter.
Korman followed Avira silently, waiting to see what she would do. To his surprise, she opened the letter Trey had been carrying! She must have confiscated it when they were captured.
"Dehlyn annonei, hmm?" she murmmured.
She opened it and began to read the soft, elven words. Korman, who had helped Landon penn the letter, suddenly remembered seeing the names at the top of the list:
Kelta, Gorai, Avira, Lende, Fortsight, and Master
Korman struck his forehead with his hand. He was such an idiot sometimes! Avira was close to being one of the Five, the ones who decided the fate of elven nations!
"Are ye finish'd spyin' on me, young man?" Avira whispered from behind him.
"You are no elven scout!" Korman hissed. He turned to face her. "Your name is on the letter. There is a reason for that. Landon wouldn't put your name on the letter without a reason." he glared suspiciously at her. He could at least try to get something of an explanation.
"I know of elves," he said to her. "and I know that most don't have dark skin and hair like you do. Who are you, really?" she smiled.
"Ye be an intelligent one, I am no elven scout. I will no' tell you my past, but I will tell you who I am. I am Avira, an elven general, though such tis rare at my age. My skin was a price my parants paid, long ago, fer my life.
"Landin and I both were raised by the Mastar, one of the few left on this place as far as we know. I am able t'command the Legion if I wish, but i will only be chosen once. Such is the rule among elves, lad, which you know well enough is you know of us. Prince Trey may speak to you of his lands when he learns of them if he wishes, but I canna tell you much else, save that you are permitted to leave tomorrow."
The she-elf smiled at him, turned and walked back to camp. If elves were stubborn, then this one was lenient, at the very least. Korman sighed. She had to be important for her name to be on the letter, but who was she! On top of that, Korman could not remember the contents of the letter. He would have been Trey's adviser on the Elven customs if the Norwans hadn't come in, so he had to know it!
She grew up with Landon! He hadn't mentioned the elves much, not even a childhood friend. Well, it was something. He turned and headed back to camp, racking his brain for some sort of memory or clue. Anything. But, as he walked, he did not notice the large root in the ground, a swordspan from the fire.
Not having gathered his wits, Korman tripped on the root.
Acting upon instinct, Korman pushed his hands out in front of him to catch himself, his left hand landing in the flames. Korman screamed from the pain as his hand was wrapped in flame. He did not even notice Trey and Darien haul him upright.
Seeing Korman's hand, Avira immediately took control. "Watar, healing herbs and fresh linen! Quickly! Stan'in there'll do nothin, would ye hav' him lose his hand? Go!" Avira shouted to three of her guards who were off duty. Brendan rushed forward to help support his friend.
Marcus immediately took stock of the situation and began trying to reassure the Elven guards who had come, thinking they had been attacked.
As soon as the guards brought what she needed, Avira seized Korman's injured hand and pushed it into the bucket of water to help maintain the pain of the burn. Trey knelt beside Korman, who was propped up against Brendan. Darien sat with Marcus and watched as Avira tended to Korman's burned hand.
"If he is lucky, we may leave his hand wi' little scarrin'." Avira whispered to Trey "He still may use a sword in due time."
Trey stared at his friend, who had nearly passed out from the pain. Not really knowing who to do, Trey placed his hand on Korman's shoulder, trying to think of conforting words. After a while, he recovered from the shock, and everybody slept.
A well-earned sleep it was.
The next morning:
Korman sighed as he looked at his injured hand. He paced for a few moments, waiting for Avira. He then stopped, tapping his foot as he waited by the door. Tempted as he was, he couldn't just barge into a meeting called by the Five. He knew better.
He wished he had been more careful walking back, but Avira had removed his focus, startled him.
The door opened suddenly, hitting his injured hand. Korman yelped and backed away from the door, holding the hand protectively to his chest.
An elderly elf stepped outside, surprised to see Korman. "Impatient t'day, are we young man?" He glanced at Korman's hand. Korman kept his eyes lowered, trying not to lash out at the elderly elf.
"Excuse me, but I on'ly just saw ye when ye yelped so. Did I hit ye?" the man had a thicker accent then most of the elves. Korman nodded, barely able to understand the Master.


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Unsupervised Machine Learning May Be The Ideal Counter To Financial Cybersecurity Threats
Earlier this year, a group of cyber criminals targeted two Canadian financial institutions with a hybrid type of malware, GozNym. The first time GozNym was ever seen, it stole millions of dollars from the unnamed Canadian financial institutions along with several U.S. banks.
GozNym is just one example in a long string of pernicious malwares that are in circulation and actively targeting the Canadian financial sector right now. Despite its comparatively strong reputation for security, the financial services industry is still one of the most frequently attacked. And when it comes to reputation, a serious cyber attack can do major damage -- as well as lead to inevitable financial losses.
While external threats, such as the GozNym malware, are what we typically think about when we consider cyber attacks, many organizations fail to pay equal attention to the most common source of cyber threats -- those from within.
A company's own employees and third-party privileged users are reported to be the most likely causes of cyber attacks. Sophisticated cyber criminals often look to benefit from unaware or busy employees who can set a breach in motion with nothing more than an inadvertent click. Further, many employees contravene policies and guidelines deliberately -- mostly without malicious intent, sometimes because they are up to no good.
The scale of an insider threat is made more significant with the rise of social media and the Internet of Things (IoT). In Canada, 76 per cent of people possess a smart phone and 60 per cent say they like to be connected to the Internet at all times -- every single connection is now a potential point of entry. Companies are now installing internet-connected vending machines, coffee machines and light bulbs -- the list goes on. In a hyper-connected world, there are endless opportunities to infiltrate networks or wrongfoot employees into providing access to systems, as well as for legitimate users to instigate vulnerabilities.
Employees are the weakest link
Financial organizations need to understand the gravity of the risk of insider threat -- even if non-malicious in intention. Organized criminals, like the ones who orchestrated the GozNym attack on Canadian financial groups, are pooling their resources and working together in order to infiltrate even more financial organizations. This increased vulnerability has created a huge demand for experienced IT professionals, leading to a lack of talent in the industry, with financial institutions scrambling to fill the gap.
Additionally, with the ever-increasing volumes of data in a digitized financial services industry, it has become humanly impossible to go through all the information to identify potentially harmful threats in a network environment, in real time. This makes it very difficult for a business to have complete visibility of every access point, even with the largest or most talented security teams.
Financial institutions need to remember that IT security is everyone's responsibility in the company. Insider threat, even when non-intentional, can be just as dangerous as targeted, external threats. In fact, it often opens the way for these sophisticated outsiders.
Fighting back with Unsupervised Machine Learning
While the list of potential threats is sobering, the financial services industry can address these risks by incorporating new and advanced strategies like machine learning. Machine learning can help to process and make sense of the never-ending amount of data gathered.
This isn't a new concept to the financial sector -- artificial intelligence (AI) is used in algorithmic trading and credit risk modeling. However, this technology relies on previous information about potential and pre-programmed outcomes. It is considered to be a form of supervised machine learning.
Like traditional security approaches, supervised machine learning suffers from the constraint of requiring past knowledge of known attacks. However, as we saw with GozNym, new forms of threats are being developed every day, and so supervised machine learning and traditional approaches struggle to keep up with this rapidly evolving landscape.
Financial organizations should instead consider incorporating unsupervised machine learning into their cyber security plans. Unsupervised machine learning programs, like Darktrace, are continuously learning and re-modeling, using evolving information instead of relying solely on current information or historical knowledge.
By using a mathematical framework and complex algorithms, the network's daily pattern of life is studied, including every connected device, how devices are communicating, network traffic and employee behaviour online. After the baseline network behaviour is established, unsupervised machine learning can process the surge of data in real time before making logical, probability-based decisions against external and insider threats on behalf of system administrators. This allows for past unidentified threats to be detected.
With so many platforms, connected devices and applications in the financial sector to be compromised, and a constant stream of network traffic, cyber criminals can easily infiltrate a network from various points -- and quickly inflict systemic damage. The threat landscape is constantly evolving. From GozNym or its latest evolution, through to insider threat, financial organizations are more vulnerable than ever.
But by keeping employees informed, and deploying unsupervised machine learning software, which detects threats early in their life cycles, progress can be made to tangibly reduce risk and stop attacks from escalating. The corporate network has become a hidden battlefield -- ignore it at your peril.
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In 2011, photos of a woman resembling Blake Lively surfaced online. The batch of self-taken photos show multiple shots of the woman's cleavage, a close-up of her nipple and some full-body nudes as well. There were also some non-nude photos that feature the woman with the same fake tattoos Lively wore for her role in "The Town" and a photo that shows the actress's face. Lively's reps, however maintain that the photos are fake,.
In 2011, an ex-girlfriend of Chris Brown turned on him and leaked full body nude photos online. The photos showed Brown posed in a bathroom with his new blond-dyed hair. Brown later addressed the photos on radio show "Big Boy's Neighborhood" and brushed off the photo leak, claiming he wasn't ashamed of his body and has no regrets. (Getty)
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In 2007, then-Disney darling and "High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens had nude photos leaked online. The actress, who was 18 at the time, released an apology to fans, saying " want to apologize to my fans, whose support and trust means the world to me. I am embarrassed over this situation and regret having ever taken these photos." Disney issued a statement about the scandal, explaining: "Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment." (Getty)
Scarlett Johansson's nude photos leaked in 2011 after they were hacked from her personal email account. The photos were meant for then-husband Ryan Reynolds, but ended up online for all to see. When asked about the photos in an interview with Vogue magazine, the actress said: "I don't want to be a victim and say, 'Oh, well' and just hide my head in shame. Somebody stole something from me....It's sick."
In 2009, nude photos of the Rihanna surfaced online and were rumored to have been leaked by the singer's ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. Though RIRi isn't shy about her body, she wasn't happy when the photos leaked. She told radio station Hot 97 that it was "the worst thing that could possibly ever happen to" her. "I just felt like my whole privacy was taken before that [by the injury photo] and then, when that came out, I thought, 'Oh great, so now there's nothing they don't know about me and my private life.' It was humiliating and it was embarrassing," she said in December 2009.
In 2010, semi-nude photos of singer Christina Aguilera leaked online. The photos showed the singer nearly naked, wearing pasties to cover her nipples, and another photo leaked that clearly showed a scar on her underarm from breast implant surgery. Reps for the singer claimed the photos were taken from her stylist's computer and leaked by a hacker. In a statement to the press, her reps said: "The photos of Christina Aguilera being leaked to the press were illegally obtained by a hacker who tapped into Christina's personal stylist's account. 'We find the actions of the hackers and the press who purchased and/or obtained these photos to be irresponsible and actionable' the statement continued. 'We are attempting to determine the identity of the hackers and will pursue them aggressively. Their conduct is reprehensible.'
Night vision sex tape, Sidekick hacked. You know the story. In 2005, Hilton's phone was hacked and dozens of nude photos of the reality star hit the web. Some of the photos featured Paris and a female friend kissing and getting cozy. Hilton's contact list was also leaked along with the photos. Hackers posted more than 100 email addresses and phone numbers believed to belong to celebrities, including Ashlee Simpson, Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst, Eminem, Anna Kournikova, Lindsay Lohan, Fergie, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams and Lil Jon.
In March 2012, photos of what appeared to be a topless Christina Hendricks leaked online. A rep for the actress denied that the breast-baring photos were stolen from her phone, claiming that the breasts belonged to another woman.
Alleged nude photos of Olivia Munn hit the Internet in March 2012, but the actress immediately denied their veracity. Munn herself took to Twitter to laugh off the scandal by posting photos of a baby and a cat and writing, "If you ever hacked my phone, these are the pictures you'd find." Later Munn wrote a hilarious letter to fans, in which she adorably bragged about all the good deeds she was doing while not sending lewd texts, ending with a note about the pictures' obvious fake nature because of certain absent physical traits.
Snooki's nude photos first hit the web in April 2010, when a photo was anonymously posted at the website nakedSnooki.com. The photo showed the reality star naked and posed on all fours, with a thought bubble floating over her head, reading: "There are no nude photos nor will there ever be. The tabloids just love snook gossip ;]" The star had another nude photo leak in June 2012, which featured Snooki wearing a white robe left open to reveal her body. A rep for the star told reporters, "Clearly these are old and personal photos that were not meant for the public. It's a shame someone decided to leak them for obvious personal gain."
In 2006, photos of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's penis rocked the Internet. The photos were orginally posted on the Live Journal gossip site Oh No They Didn't and the incident became known as "Peengate '06" by members. The original poster reported that she received the photos third-hand, and that Wentz originally sent the pictures to a girlfriend. Wentz later admitted that he handled the leaked photos "pretty terribly for the first 48 hours," and went so far as to quit his band temporarily. "But then then what I realized is that it's not the worst thing on the planet that's ever gonna happen," he told Celebuzz. The entire incident was later parodied in Fall Out Boy's video for "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race".
In November 2011, Tori Spelling's husband Dean McDermott, accidentally tweeted a photo of his son with his wife topless in the background. McDermott shared the photo with his 74,000 Twitter followers and although he deleted the tweet, the actual photo remained viewable on his Lockerz account for some time. Initially, Spelling, who is nursing her newborn baby girl, Hattie, says she was "shocked" and "devastated" by the blooper. But she took it all in stride. "But it's like, what am I going to do? I am a mom, I was nursing my baby... [Dean] was so devastated about it that I couldn't be mad. I mean it was genuinely an accident," Spelling told CNN. "I would rather it happen now than any other time because when you are nursing, your boobs look better than ever, bold [and] beautiful."
While on vacation in St. Barts with then-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow in 1995, Brad Pitt was photographed sunbathing nude, and the illegally procured photos were sold and published by Playgirl. Pitt sued the magazine and a judge ordered Playgirl not to deliver any more copies of its 1997 August edition, which contained the photos, according to the New York Times.
Paramore lead singer Haley Williams had a topless photo posted to Twitter and claimed her account had been hacked. "Well...my night just changed drastically. Got hacked," the singer explained to fans on Twitter.
After celebrity skin website Celeb Jihad posted photos of an allegedly topless Swift with the headline "Taylor Swift Topless Private Pic Leaked?" the poised and pretty country crooner is in full attack mode, assuring her fans that she is not the girl in the photo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The photo in question shows a young blonde, who bares a striking resemblance to Swift, sprawled across a bed wearing only a pair of blue underwear. Swift's lawyers acted quickly, demanding that the fake photo be removed from websites.
Explicit photos of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" actress Renee Olstead hit the Internet in March 2011. The then-21-year-old star never commented on the nude photos, but the photos, posted along with several other celebrity nudes, got the FBI involved. (Getty)
A nude photo leak seems like nothing next to Kim Kardashian's sex tape with ex-boyfriend Ray J, but luckily all of her nude photo scandals since the video have turned out to be fake. In April 2012, a photo of a woman frying eggs in a kitchen in the buff surfaced online. While the woman did bare a striking resemblance to Kim, reps for the reality star denied it was her. And most recently it was believed that Kim's boyfriend, rapper Kanye West, tweeted a naked photo of his love, but it turned out to be a hoax. The photo in question was actually of porn star Amia Miley, who had tweeted the photo to her own account. Amia told TMZ that she's never hooked up with Kanye, and it turned out the photo was never even posted on Kanye's account. According to TMZ, it's all part of #WanksterWednesday -- a prank day where people try to get bogus rumors started. (Getty)
In 2009, topless photos of "Twilight" star Ashley Greene hit the Internet and the actress was not happy. Ashley immediately contacted her attorney, who then threatened to sue anyone who unlawfully posts the pictures. "The photos in question, which appear to be of our client, are illegal and are being unlawfully displayed. Our client intends to take legal action," her lawyer told reporters.
In 2010, "2 Broke Girls" star Kat Dennings had topless photos hit the web. The photos showed the actress in her bedroom, lifting up her top to expose her breasts to her webcam. Dennings' photos were leaked along with topless photos of actress Jessica Alba. (Getty)
In March 2012, "Glee" actress Heather Morris was another star to have nude photos leaked online in a string of photo leaks. The photos show a serious of cellphone self-portraits and a variety of poses. Some photos show the star in skimpy athletic gear, and others show her modeling her sexy Britney Spears-inspired costume for the "I'm a Slave 4 U" number she performed on "Glee."
In 2010, Jessica Alba fell victim to a hacker who leaked topless photos of the star, while she was pregnant with daughter Honor Marie.
In 2010, a topless photo of the singer, who describes herself as a "hot hobo," hit the Internet. The photo showed the singer topless with an arrow pointing at her chest along with a sexually-explicit description. Later, two more photos allegedly of the singer leaked that showed the Kesha purportedly engaging in sexual acts.
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Anna and Elizabeth, co-owners of PYMWYMI, became friends in Seattle when they learned of their mutual love for travel and Italian culture. Elizabeth graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Design in Architecture, and a Minor in Spanish Studies. After college she set off for more adventures, this time farther, to work as an Au Pair in Bari, Italy and La Roquette-sur-Siagne, France. She now lives in Palo Alto where she is continuing studies in Social Psychology at Stanford University and skypes Anna frequently to share ambitious aspirations about how to make the PYMWYMI tour the best it can be for guests and hosts alike.
Anna graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental studies, a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology, and a Minor in Dance. Like many of her Generation Y peers Anna did not go to work following graduation, but instead pursued passions completely irrelevant to her degrees. She moved to Rome, Italy where she studies Italian, plays her trumpet, and skypes Elizabeth frequently with questions and concerns about how to make her aspirations become a financially attainable reality.
Anna and Elizabeth united on this project with a mutual love of the richness of Southern Italian culture, as well as a concern for the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the local place and people. They recognize that Southern Italy has much to offer and is at a crucial juncture in the development of local tourism operations. With this in mind, the business was started with the conviction that as young people, what we do today shapes our tomorrow. Today, we work towards enhancing the relationship between tourist operations and responsible businesses in order to guide socially and environmentally sustainable development of this wonderful region.
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Our mission is to cultivate culturally enriching experiences through environmentally, socially, and economically responsible tours. Our tour focuses on food and activity-based experiences, as opposed to consuming-based. We work in person with local and responsible business owners in our chosen destinations to find experiences to provide to our guests. Such experiences include cultivation and preparation of local foods, cultural and historical learning, local festivals, outdoor adventure activities, and engaging with artisans and musicians.
Our tour falls outside of typical tourism season in an effort to sustain tourism capital during the tougher economic periods in Southern Italy. Not only do we support responsible businesses, but we act responsibly ourselves by leaving as small a footprint as possible. This is why we limit the tour to 3 groups of 5 people (occasionally all joining together). These are people who travel with the intention of learning about local culture and meeting the creators of it, and who want to have a fun and rustic experience with the convenience of having a pre-planned tour with their desires in mind.
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is works to share the beautiful and unique intricacies of Southern Italy with our guests by investing positively into the host place and people.
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To elaborate on the importance of these face-to-face interactions, the benefits have already become clear with preliminary research Anna conducted in Maratea, connecting with local small businesses. Giuseppe Maimone, president of the recently established tourist association in Maratea, is responsible for building a network between locales and national and international clients. Giuseppe works to establish these networks, promoting local businesses and planning attractions and events, often receiving little to no pay. Giuseppe does not have access to consistent international communication, particularly outside of the tourist season. Work is abundant and intense during the summer months and extremely difficult to find in the winter months. This up-and-down lifestyle is very restrictive to the economic success of the younger generation, Giuseppe included.
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Morning in the Carvil Valley had dawned foggy and cold, and foggy and cold it had remained. On the frontward bench of the antique wooden carriage, the driver sat like a large grey grub, bundled in too many layers to maintain his humanity. Ahead, the two-horse team jostled within their restraints, their ragged breathing producing great bursts of steam and their iron shoes striking sparks upon the ancient paving stones that marked the Old Valley Road. The trees on either side of them were already leafless and skeletal, poised over the road like withered, twisted hands, ready to snatch away any unwary traveler who had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No birds sang in the branches, and no quick-hearted woodland creatures stirred in the undergrowth. All was still.
"It looks like death here," said Fiona MacInnes to her mother, Sorcha. "Has the forest always been so unpleasant? It didn't seem so last time."
"Closer to your uncle's property the sights are kinder. Here, in the deep of the wood, it has always been gloomy," the older woman replied. "Although, with every passing year, it seems to grow darker."
Fiona polished the glass of the window with her sleeve to refresh her view of the outside world. "But it is not upon Uncle Alasdair's land that I am to live out my days, mam."
Sorcha gave her daughter a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "Edmund Manor is not so far away from it, dearie. I am sure it will be just as lovely as Carviliet."
Fiona wasn't particularly convinced of that point. Despite never having had seen the place, she suspected that Edmund Manor would much resemble its proprietor, Lord Henry of Carvil: certainly not ugly, but not exactly handsome, either. The uninspired product of a faltering aristocracy.
"How long has it been, mam?" she asked.
"Since we last came to visit Uncle Alasdair? How many years?"
Her mother looked thoughtfully to the ceiling. "Five, at the least. Duncan was just a wee thing," she said, stroking the head of her youngest son, who lay asleep on the bench beside her. "And we still had our poor Seoc with us, too."
Fiona swallowed at the mention of her middle brother's name. "It seems like only yesterday, and an entire lifetime ago."
"So it does."
She turned back to the window to watch the grim scenery pass by, and saw Seoc's face reflected back in her own. They always had looked very similar. Same long, narrow nose and high cheekbones. Same loosely curled hair—although hers was her father's red, where as Seoc's had been nearly black, like their mother's. Same creaseless eyelids, inherited from their maternal grandmother. Same brown, almond-shaped eyes. Had his been darker than hers? She thought they might have been. With every passing month, though, her memory of him grew less and less distinct. He had gone from a person to an image; then from an image to a concept.
The sun rose over the mountains and the forest began to thin. At a fork in the road, they followed the directional sign that pointed them left "to Carviliet" rather than taking the right "to Edmund Manor", and descended a steep hill into a section of open woodland populated with dry, golden grass and young oaks, many still clinging to their red and brown leaves.
"Are we nearly there?" asked Duncan, who had awoken during the downhill stretch and now sat upright, rubbing his eyes and peering through the window.
"Nearly," said Sorcha. "You'll be able to see it in a few minutes."
The boy pressed his pudgy face up against the glass in anticipation of the view as the landscape continued to crawl by. The trees were now short and sparse enough that the mountains could be seen through them, distant and towering, with deteriorating shrouds of mist clinging to their rocky sides. Their peaks sparkled with a dusting of snow.
Fiona couldn't see it at first—Duncan's head was in the way—but then the road curved, and the magnificent Castle Carviliet rose up into her field of vision, its many towers and turrets standing tall and proud in the morning light. This, at least, was as beautiful as she remembered it.


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Seems like I start all of my posts this way –
"It's been awhile since my last post". Sorry about that, I haven't had much going on in the way of photography lately.
Part of my downtime can be attributed to my switching from M43 (Olympus and Panasonic) to FujiFilm. I sold off just about all of my M43 gear, except my Olympus E-P3. Unfortunately, this camera was just too old and not worth much, and I didn't want to just give it away to the camera store, so I kept it.
What I ended up with is a pair of very nice Fuji's, the X100T and the XT-1 with 18-135mm lens. This post will mostly be about the XT-1.
Why did I do this? First off, there was nothing wrong with my M43 gear. It all performed quite well. I was just looking for something, different. It's hard to quantify. The Fuji's have some advantages over the M43 gear. One of the main things is the sensor, it's an
APS-C sensor, making it larger than the M43's sensor. The Fuji's are also much better at low light using high ISO's.
One of the other reasons was that I needed to trim down the amount of equipment that I had. There were times when we packed up our motorhome for a trip, and I loaded up 5 camera bags. If I had it, it went in a bag and cluttered things up. So, this was a good time to make a move. I did a lot of research and the Fuji's seem to rate quite well. Following will be my impressions of the XT-1. Please note – these are just my opinions based on my experience and usage. Nothing scientific here. I'm sure you can do a Google search and come up with plenty of that!
On Saturday (Feb. 4th), there was a Ham Radio event at the Palm Springs Air Museum. I have a Ham Radio license, and have recently gotten more active. The venue for this event happens to be a wonderful air museum. The Palm Springs Air Museum is right next to the airport and has a beautiful back drop of San Jacinto Peak and the San Jacinto Mountain Range. The weather was great, mostly clear blue skies and about 70 degrees. There was some wind, but that's to be expected with a storm heading into the area over the next couple of days.
I packed my XT-1 with 18-135mm lens in a small messenger bag and headed out. There are several planes out in front of the museum, so I started off with an F-18. The XT-1 feels very solid in my hands, like a precision instrument. It's just big enough to feel like I can get a good grip on it, but not so big that it's a pain to carry around. One of the things that I really liked about the Fuji's is all of the external controls. There are quite a few dials on the body, and it saves you from having to constantly having to dive into the menus to make a change.
After I pulled the XT-1 out of the bag, I grabbed a couple of quick shots of the F-18. Since I wasn't used to the camera, I took a look at the results on the screen. Oops! I should have paid more attention to all of my settings. I thought I was in Aperture Priority mode, but was actually in Manual mode. I made the appropriate adjustments and fired off a couple more frames. The results this time were better. I needed to slow down and be much more methodical and deliberate than I was accustomed to when using my M43 gear. I realized that I was still in the "getting to know you" phase with my new Fuji.
The 18-135mm Fuji lens seems like a good choice for an all around, general purpose lens. While it is a little larger than most of the M43 lens (physically, not in focal length), it wasn't a burden to use in this setting. One of the nice about this lens is that it's stabilized. I like the range of this zoom, it seems to cover most of what I need for most of what I do (landscapes, family gatherings, etc…). If I need to go longer, I did keep my Panasonic FZ1000!
My time with the XT-1 was somewhat short, just a couple of hours, and some of that time was shared by wandering around the Ham Radio event. Overall, I am more than pleased with the XT-1. I'm looking forward to getting out and using it more. I also have the Fuji X100T that needs some quality time. I'll write about that in another post.
Once I got home and downloaded the photos, I was happy with the results. I found the images clean, with very little noise. I shoot in both RAW + Jpeg, but have found that both file types require very little in the way of post processing. I still enjoy giving my photos that personal touch, but they do quite well all by themselves.
Here are some of the photos from the Palm Spring Air Museum. If you are in the area, check it out!
That's it for this post. Until next time – Happy Shooting!


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best fudge on the island in my opinion..its less sweet...they have a good selection of flavors and it is always fresh..
May's Candy has been in business continously for about 137 years and it has the best fudge on the island. They still use all the best quality ingredients they always have and their fudge tastes like it. Full range of flavors but they added caramel this year and it is my new favorite. You can't imagine how good this tastes...
Twice a yr we travel to South Padre Island Texas. That is way down south on the bottom tip of Texas this side of Mexico. This time we decided to do something different and go north. WOW! Mackinac Island is amazing! We stop at several fudge places and fell in love with
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We asked around to a few locals who had the best fudge on Mackinac Island and their overwhelming response was Murdick's! We couldn't agree more! We bought fudge from 2 other places before we asked around and was incredibly impressed by their prices and selection. Their fudge was by far the creamiest and smoothest!!
May's Candy shop has an excellent choice of fudge. A great spot to watch the preparation and making of the stuff. Good value packages offered.
We stopped here for a fudge sample and ended up buying a combo box of fudge and also some of their wonderful candies. The service was great and so was the price and I hear they are the best on the island. The vanilla fudge is to die for!!
There are two stores and we always buy fudge there . Bought one pound and got 1/2 free .service is always great . We were on the Island 5 times over the years . The only place we bye vanilla .
we tried almost every place of this kind ad i have nothing bad to say, they were friendly and reasonable
I think this is the best fudge on the island - seemed creamier. There are lots of other options here and the cheapest bottle water.
We bought fudge from Mays and it is the best fudge I've ever had in my life. It was so smooth and creamy, kept you wanting to one more piece. They were very nice in the shop and they gave a free little bag of peanut brittle with each purchase. That's the only place I'd go back to.
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Last week, a small leather armchair was sold for £19m. Shattering world records, it was the most expensive piece of 20th century design ever to be auctioned.
The sinister-looking "dragon's armchair", so called because of the ornate sculptures on its sweeping armrests, sold for a whopping six times the estimate. Why did it go for so much? Designed by Scottish-Irish Art Deco designer Eileen Gray, the 24-inch tall wooden and leather chair was formerly owned by the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé. But still, £19million? Even without the world sinking into recession, it seems utter madness.
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Whatever it's acclaimed design history and fashion credentials, many of us think Gray's chair is utterly hideous to look at. Embellished with snakes and featuring an uncomfortable-looking low backrest, the chair is not for everyday use - or to everybody's taste. At that price, will anyone dare ever sit on it? Does that matter? Art as furniture and vice versa has been bubbling under the surface and is now coming to boiling point. The rise of hip furniture manufacturer Established & Sons and design art "galleries" like Rabih Hage's space in Chelsea heralds a new way of looking at furniture.
Am I missing the point wanting to sit down on Gray's design classic? Collectors' item or not, isn't that what chairs are for? Personally, I'd rather curl up on the Eames leather lounge chair designed by equally hip design legends, Charles and Ray Eames, in 1956. Coveted by design aficionados, the chair achieves that rare combination of high design and comfort. As was Charles Eames' vision, it has the "warm, receptive look of a well-used baseman's mitt'". For a few thousand pounds, it's cheap compared to Gray's chair. And ultimately, it looks cosy to curl up in - unlike Gray's "Dragon's chair".
Not just garish-looking, the dragon's chair, created between 1917 and 1919, is tatty for want of a better word. It used to be that tired-looking furniture and jeans with holes would be chucked out and replaced with sparkling new purchases. But the tide has turned. Today, "ready-distressed" jeans and well-worn leather armchairs are highly covetable, valuable items. They achieve "trendy" art status. At auction, wear and tear can actually add to a lot's worth because of the assumed historical charm.
"It's a fabulous price," Philippe Garner, Christie's international head of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design said of the £19million chair. "The sale was a homage to the great personalities, designers, collectors and patrons who so marked their era in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and to the pioneering vision of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge as collectors."
The vintage chair market is not exclusive to auction houses. That ready-loved look is popular on the high street; hotfoot to John Lewis for the Tetrad totness leather chair. Upholstered in 100 per cent natural hand antiqued water buffalo hide, this lovely leather number defines shabby chic. The superloop sprung back is encased in Mongolian horsehair for the ultimate in durable seating. Budge over grandpa, judging by the millions raised by Christie's auction, vintage leather chairs are a suave choice.
Next month, Marc Newson's iconic futuristic Lockheed lounge is going under the hammer at Phillips de Pury & Company's London Design Sale. Like Gray's "Dragon's chair", it is a prized lot fuelling much excitement in the industry. It's expected to change hands for £700,000 - not quite the millions of last week, but still a stupendous sum for a single chair. The colossal price tag is, in part because it appeared in Madonna's award-winning 1993 pop smash Rain, but also because it's an original Newson creation. Like Gray, Newson has achieved "surname only" status. Hand-crafted from fiberglass and riveted sheet aluminium, the Lockheed lounge is "one of the most significant contributions to the quantum leap that design vocabulary has taken in the last 20 years," according to Alexander Payne, worldwide director of Phillips de Pury.
High fashion, pop music and iconic design associations send the art collecting fraternity wild. The lure of famous names like Yves Saint Laurent, Eileen Gray, Madonna or Marc Newson creates a bidding frenzy beyond all comprehension. It seems that however uncomfortable and impractical, designer chairs defy common sense - and economic logic.
Annie Deakin is Editor of mydeco.com
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Targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor in non-small cell lung cancer cells: the effect of combining RNA interference with tyrosine kinase inhibitors or cetuximab
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a validated therapeutic target in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, current single agent receptor targeting does not achieve a maximal therapeutic effect, and some mutations confer resistance to current available agents. In the current study we have examined, in different NSCLC cell lines, the combined effect of RNA interference targeting the EGFR mRNA, and inactivation of EGFR signaling using different receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) or a monoclonal antibody cetuximab.
NSCLC cells (cell lines HCC827, H292, H358, H1650, and H1975) were transfected with EGFR siRNA and/or treated with the TKIs gefitinib, erlotinib, and afatinib, and/or with the monoclonal antibody cetuximab. The reduction of EGFR mRNA expression was measured by real-time quantitative RT-PCR. The down-regulation of EGFR protein expression was measured by western blot, and the proliferation, viability, caspase3/7 activity, and apoptotic morphology were monitored by spectrophotometry, fluorimetry, and fluorescence microscopy. The combined effect of EGFR siRNA and different drugs was evaluated using a combination index.
EGFR-specific siRNA strongly inhibited EGFR protein expression almost equally in all cell lines and inhibited cell growth and induced cell apoptosis in all NSCLC cell lines studied, albeit with a different magnitude. The effects on growth obtained with siRNA was strikingly different from the effects obtained with TKIs. The effects of siRNA probably correlate with the overall oncogenic significance of the receptor, which is only partly inhibited by the TKIs. The cells which showed weak response to TKIs, such as the H1975 cell line containing the T790M resistance mutation, were found to be responsive to siRNA knockdown of EGFR, as were cell lines with downstream TKI resistance mutations. The cell line HCC827, harboring an exon 19 deletion mutation, was more than 10-fold more sensitive to TKI proliferation inhibition and apoptosis induction than any of the other cell lines. Cetuximab alone had no relevant
EGFR knockdown by siRNA further decreases the cell growth of lung cancer cells that are treated with TKIs or cetuximab alone, confirming that single agent drug targeting does not achieve a maximal biological effect. The siRNA inhibits EGFR oncogenic activity that bypasses downstream "resistance" mutations such as KRAS and PTEN. The combined treatment of siRNA and EGFR inhibitory agents is additive. The combination of a potent, irreversible kinase inhibitor such as afatinib, with EGFR-specific siRNAs should be further investigated as a new strategy in the treatment of lung cancer and other EGFR dependent cancers, including those with downstream resistance mutations.
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) comprises 75% to 85% of newly diagnosed lung cancers. Over 70% of NSCLC patients present with advanced disease, and the 5-year survival rate for NSCLC is only 16%. For early-stage or locally-advanced lung cancer, surgery is the most effective treatment, and combined chemotherapy is the standard adjuvant approach. For stage III/IV NSCLC, platinum-based combined chemotherapy is the current standard of care, but with much room for improvement
In a minority of patients, a mutant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has become a validated therapeutic target and EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) gefitinib and erlotinib are currently the first-line treatment options for these patients
The ErbB family includes four related receptor proteins (EGFR/ErbB1/HER1, ErbB2/Neu/HER2, ErbB3/HER3, and ErbB4/HER4). The ErbB family of membrane receptors is a group of transmembrane glycoproteins that consists of an extracellular ligand-binding domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain mediating signal transduction. The complex EGFR signal transduction pathway involves the RAS/MAPK cascade, phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase (PI3K), signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT), and downstream protein kinase C (PKC). Following ligand binding, EGFR can homodimerize or heterodimerize with another member of the ErbB family, causing activation of the intracellular tyrosine kinase domain and receptor transphosphorylation. The newly formed phosphotyrosine residues act as docking sites for various adaptor molecules that consequently activate a number of intracellular signaling cascades, that, in case of constitutive activation of the pathway, leads to cell proliferation, inhibition of apoptosis, angiogenesis, and invasion/metastasis, resulting in tumor growth and progression
Currently two main anti-EGFR strategies are in clinical use: low-molecular-weight TKIs that compete with ATP for binding to the tyrosine kinase portion of the receptor, and monoclonal antibodies that are directed at the ligand-binding extracellular domain thereby preventing ligand binding, receptor dimerization, and receptor signaling. These two classes of agents have shown solid preclinical and clinical activity in a variety of tumor types
Among the receptor TKIs, single-agent erlotinib (Tarceva, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA and OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc., Melville, NY, USA) improves survival in advanced NSCLC patients who progressed after chemotherapy
Not all patients with tyrosine kinase domain mutations respond to these inhibitors and even patients that respond usually only achieve a partial remission. In addition, some base-line mutations, for example those located in exon 20 of the kinase domain, are resistant or only weakly sensitive to current anti-EGFR TKIs. The efficacy of the inhibitors is also limited in time due to, in nearly half of the cases, the appearance of cells with a second "resistance" mutation, usually T790M located in the receptor tyrosine kinase domain
The chimerical IgG1 mAb cetuximab (ERBITUX, ImClone Systems Incorporated, New York, NY, USA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, USA) is the most comprehensively studied anti-EGFR antibody. By blocking the ligand-receptor interaction, cetuximab down-regulates EGFR signaling, thereby inhibiting cell proliferation, apoptosis, and angiogenesis
The limitations of the clinical results obtained with single agent EGFR TKIs or cetuximab justify the investigation of additional therapeutic strategies, including enhanced targeting of the EGFR. RNA interference (RNAi), has been extensively explored in recent years in many targets. The ability of small interference RNA (siRNA) sequences to modulate gene expression has provided a powerful tool with which to study gene function and is being explored in clinical trials
In the current study we investigated whether the combination of EGFR inhibitory agents with EGFR-specific siRNA increases the therapeutic efficacy. To this end, we have examined the effects of either treatment alone versus the combination, in a set of lung cancer cell lines differing in their genomic status.
Cell lines and reagents
The human NSCLC cell lines H292 (CRL-1848™, mucoepidermoid pulmonary carcinoma) was kindly provided by Prof Dr Filip Lardon (Universiteit Antwerpen-CDE Geneeskunde-Oncologie). H358 (CRL-5807™, bronchoalveolar carcinoma), HCC827(CRL-2868™, adenocarcinoma), H1650(CRL-5883™, adenocarcinoma; bronchoalveolar carcinoma), and H1975(CRL-5908™, adenocarcinoma) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Netherlands). The cell line H292 was reported to be an EGFR and KRAS wild-type cell line by others
Table 1
Relevant genotypic changes in the NSCLC cell lines studied
Cell lines
EGFR status
KRAS status
Exon 19 deletion
Exon 19 deletion
Exon 21 L858R + exon 20 T790M
siRNA transfection
The EGFR specific siRNA designed by Invitrogen (5' GCAAAGUGUGUAACGGAAUAGGUAU 3') targets a sequence starting at nucleotide 1247 and lying at the junction of exon 8 and 9 (ref. SKU#12938-076, Invitrogen Merelbeke, Belgium)
RNA isolation, RNA normalization, and reverse transcription were as described previously
Western blot analysis
After being treated with siRNA for the indicated periods, the cells were washed with PBS and lysed in a buffer containing 80 mM Tris-HCl (ph 6.8), 5% SDS, 10% glycerol, 5 mM EDTA (ph 8), 5% 2-MercaptoEthanol, 0.2% Bromophenolblue, and 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. The lysates were centrifuged at 12,000 ×
Cell growth
Cell growth was assessed using a colorimetric tetrazolium (MTS) assay (CellTiter96 AQueous One Solution Cell Proliferation Assay G3580, Promega, Madison, WI, USA). The protocol was as follows: siRNAs, gefitinib, erlotinib, afatinib, or cetuximab were added to 96 well plates at increasing concentrations and incubated at 37°C for up to 72 h (96 h for siRNA) for single treatments. For the siRNA/TKI/antibody combinations, the agents were added to the cells first, and 24 h later the cells were transfected with EGFR siRNA in the same wells and incubated for another 48 h, because siRNA transfection efficiency is influenced by the agents if performed at the same time. Following addition of 20 μl of MTS reagent to each well, the plates were incubated for 2 h at 37°C in a humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere, and the absorbance at 490 nm was recorded using a 96-well microplate reader (Scientific Multiskan MK3, Thermo Finland). All assays were performed in triplicate. The results were the mean of six wells and expressed as the ratio of the absorbance of siRNA and/or agent treated wells/absorbance of mock control ×100.
Cell viability
To further confirm the data from the above MTS assay, cell viability was detected by fluorimetric detection of resorufin (CellTiter-Blue Cell Viability Assay, G8080, Promega, Madison, WI, USA). The procedure was according to the manufacturer. The treatments and controls were as mentioned above. Fluorimetry (ex: 560 nm/em: 590 nm) was using an FL600 fluorescence plate reader (Bio-Tek, Winooski, Vermont, USA). All assays were performed in triplicate and each time six individual wells were used. Fluorescence data are expressed as the fluorescence of treated sample/mock control ×100.
Caspase-3/7 activity detection
Caspase-3/7 activity was measured using a synthetic rhodamine labeled caspase-3/7 substrate (Apo-ONE® Homogeneous Caspase-3/7 Assay, G7790, Promega, Madison, WI, USA) performed immediately after the detection of cell viability (described above) on the same wells, according to the instructions of the manufacturer. After incubation at room temperature for 60 min, the fluorescence of each well was measured (ex: 499 nm/em: 512 nm), using a FL600 fluorescence plate reader (Bio-Tek, Winooski, Vermont, USA). Caspase-3/7 activity is expressed as fluorescence of treated sample/mock control×100.
Fluorescent microscopy evaluation of cell apoptosis and morphology
The effects of EGFR siRNA and different agents on apoptosis and nuclear morphology in the cells were assessed by Hoechst 33342 (Sigma-Aldrich N.V. Bornem, Belgium) and propidium iodide (PI, Sigma-Aldrich N.V. Bornem, Belgium) double fluorescent chromatin staining. In brief, after single or dual treatment of siRNA and/or agents, cells were washed with ice-cold PBS and stained 15 min with Hoechst 33342 (1 mg/ml) and PI (1 mg/ml), and observed under an advanced fluorescence microscope (ZEISS Axiovert 25, Zaventem, Belgium). Apoptosis and nuclear morphology were identified by condensation of nuclear chromatin and its fragmentation. This system determines the absolute number of viable cells (Hoechst 33342 positive/PI negative), early apoptotic cells (Hoechst 33342 positive/PI negative with blue fragmentations in the cells), late apoptotic cells (Hoechst 33342 positive/PI positive, with red fragmentations in the cells), necrotic cells (PI positive), and debris signals. Viable, apoptotic, and necrotic cells were counted in 10 different fields under the 200 × vision in each well in three independent experiments by two persons and the average result was compared to the mock control. Apoptotic cell numbers from different treatments were compared by being normalized to their viable cell numbers.
Statistical analysis
SPSS19.0 was used for statistical analysis. Results were representative of three independent experiments unless stated otherwise. Values were presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD). One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was used to analyze significance between groups. The least significant difference (LSD) method of multiple comparisons with parental and control group was applied when the probability for ANOVA was statistically significant. Statistical significance was determined at a
Effects of EGFR-specific siRNA on target expression and malignant phenotype
Among different EGFR-specific siRNAs that were assessed for their ability to reduce EGFR mRNA levels, an efficient 25 bp "validated stealth" oligonucleotide from Invitrogen was chosen for its potent EGFR mRNA knock-down efficiency
Figure 1
siRNA induced EGFR protein down-regulation
siRNA induced EGFR protein down-regulation. Down-regulation of EGFR protein was detected by western blot 72 h post transfection of 200 nM siRNAs.
A colorimetric MTS tetrazolium assay (CellTiter 96, Promega, Madison, WI, USA) revealed that there was a time-dependent reduction of 50% or more of cell growth by the EGFR siRNA in all five cell lines. This was achieved within a 72-h time frame, except for the H1975 cell line carrying the T790M mutation that needed 96 h to achieve the same degree of inhibition. The steepest time response curve was in the H1650 cell line carrying both an exon 19 activating mutation and a PTEN mutation, and to a somewhat lesser degree in the H358 cell line carrying a KRAS mutation. Within a time frame of 72 h, a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth was observed in all cell lines (Figure
Figure 2
Effect of EGFR siRNA transfection on the growth of the lung cancer cells
Effect of EGFR siRNA transfection on the growth of the lung cancer cells. Both time-dependent and dose-dependent effects were investigated. Cells were incubated in the presence of 200 nM siRNA for 0, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h (A) and also assessed with 0, 8, 40, or 200 nM siRNA for 72 h (dose-response curves, B) using the MTS cell growth assay. Cell growth is expressed relative to the mock control group as absorbance of siRNA/mock control ×100. The average ratio was calculated from six independent wells.
To verify whether the EGFR siRNA is able to induce apoptosis, the CellTiter Blue assay was multiplexed with a fluorescent caspase 3/7 assay. The results show a time-dependent and dose-dependent caspase 3/7 signal in all cell lines (Figure
Figure 3
Caspase 3/7 activity of the lung cancer cells with EGFR siRNA transfection
Caspase 3/7 activity of the lung cancer cells with EGFR siRNA transfection. Effects of siRNA treatment on caspase-3/7 activity. Cells were treated as mentioned in Figure 2, and the effect on caspase-3/7 activity was assayed and compared to the mock control in triplicate at 0, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h post transfection (A). To accommodate the different cell numbers in the different treatments, caspase-3/7 induced fluorescence was normalized to resorufin fluorescence (viability) from the same sample.
Targeting EGFR with kinase inhibitors alone
All the cells were treated with reversible EGFR TKIs gefitinib and erlotinib, and the covalent inhibitor afatinib (targeting both EGFR and HER2), and with the monoclonal EGFR antibody cetuximab. The effects were studied in the colorimetric MTS tetrazolium proliferation assay (Figure
Figure 4
Effect of TKI treatment on cell growth inhibition and apoptosis induction
Effect of TKI treatment on cell growth inhibition and apoptosis induction. Effect of TKIs gefitinib, erlotinib, and afatinib and cetuximab on the growth (A) and caspase3/7 activity (B) of HCC827, H292, H358, H1650, and H1975 cells after 72-h incubation. Independent experiments were repeated six times and one representative result is shown. Points, mean value of six identical wells of a single representative experiments; bars, SD (n = 6).
The effect of adding an EGFR specific siRNA to either EGFR TKIs or to cetuximab
The combination of siRNA with TKIs or cetuximab on cell growth was also studied using the colorimetric MTS formazan proliferation assay. The cells were first incubated with the TKIs or cetuximab. To avoid interference of these compounds with siRNA transfection, the transfection was carried out 24 h later. There was an enhancement of cell growth inhibition in all the five cell lines treated with the siRNA - drug combinations compared to either as a single agent alone. The most potent combination was the EGFR-specific siRNA plus afatinib (Figures
Figure 5
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to gefitinib on cell growth inhibition
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to gefitinib on cell growth inhibition. Lung cancer cells were treated with gefitinib 24 h before the EGFR siRNA transfection. After transfecting the siRNA, the cells were incubated for another 48 h, after which cellular growth was assessed by the MTS assay. (A) shows the combination effect of gefitinib and siRNA. *
Figure 6
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to erlotinib on cell growth inhibition
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to erlotinib on cell growth inhibition. Lung cancer cells were treated with erlotinib as mentioned in Figure 5. *
Figure 7
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to afatinib on cell growth inhibition
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to afatinib on cell growth inhibition. Lung cancer cells were treated with afatinib as mentioned in Figure 5. *
Figure 8
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to cetuximab on cell growth inhibition
Effect of adding an EGFR siRNA to cetuximab on cell growth inhibition. Lung cancer cells were treated with cetuximab as mentioned in Figure 5. *
Figure 9
Effect of combination of EGFR siRNA and afatinib with Hoechst 33342 and PI double fluorescent staining
Effect of combination of EGFR siRNA and afatinib with Hoechst 33342 and PI double fluorescent staining. Effect of the combination of an EGFR siRNA and afatinib detected by Hoechst 33342 and PI double fluorescent staining. The concentrations were afatinib: 0.01 nM (assayed 72 h post treatment) and EGFR siRNA: 200 nM (assayed 48 h post transfection). Similar results were found with other concentrations of afatinib, and other drugs in all the five cell lines (data not shown).
Figure 10
Enhancement of apoptosis induction by the combination of EGFR siRNA plus gefitinib or erlotinib
Enhancement of apoptosis induction by the combination of EGFR siRNA plus gefitinib or erlotinib. Lung cancer cells were treated with different drugs 24 h before the EGFR siRNA transfection. Forty-eight hours post transfection, the cell cultures were assayed for caspase-3/7 activity. (A: gefitinib; B: erlotinib). *
Figure 11
Enhancement of apoptosis induction by the combination of EGFR siRNA plus afatinib or cetuximab
Enhancement of apoptosis induction by the combination of EGFR siRNA plus afatinib or cetuximab. Experiments were performed as mentioned in Figure 10. (A: afatinib; B: cetuximab). *
The use of EGFR TKIs is a clinically validated therapeutic option in NSCLC, especially for those tumors that harbor a sensitizing EGFR kinase domain mutation. However, single agent TKI treatment does not completely abrogate the oncogenic action of the receptor on cell growth and apoptosis induction. Furthermore, initial responders with mutant EGFR invariably develop secondary resistance to first generation TKIs
EGFR-specific siRNAs may be good candidates for cancer therapy because of their specificity, efficiency, and endurance in gene-specific silencing and ability to suppress EGFR expression independent of the mutation status of the gene. Currently, there are only a few reports on the biological effects of EGFR siRNAs on lung cancer cells
Although all cell lines tested in the present study were sensitive to our EGFR siRNA, some differences were noted. First of all, the differential sensitivity towards inhibition of cell growth versus apoptosis induction was not the same. The effect of an siRNA upon important aspects of the malignant phenotype, cell growth, and survival is a measure of the specific amplitude of the oncogenic potency and quality of the different mutations. The H1650 and HCC827 cell lines with an exon 19 deletion were the most sensitive, both for growth inhibition and apoptosis induction, confirming that the exon 19 mutation is the most oncogenic and addictive. H1650 cells have been described as resistant to TKIs due the loss of a functional PTEN suppressor
It is within that window of a maximal effect of EGFR inhibition that we have to analyze the results with TKI or cetuximab inhibition, which are strikingly different. The effect of TKI inhibition on the malignant phenotype is indeed the integration of several variables: the oncogenic potency of the targeted receptor, the significance of the kinase activity to this oncogenic potency, the variable sensitivity of the receptor to kinase inhibitors and the relative potency of kinase inhibitors to shut down this enzymatic activity. The action of monoclonal antibodies is even more complex and more difficult to relate to the mutational status of the receptor. By analogy to what is observed in the clinical studies, the exon 19 deletion HCC827 cell line conferred by far the highest sensitivity to TKI which is consistent with earlier reports
Although EGFR is clearly a valid target in NSCLC treatment, the efficacy demonstrated by EGFR-targeted agents is not maximal as shown in preclinical models and more recently in clinical trials
The several EGFR-targeting approaches differ in action mechanisms. TKIs compete with ATP to bind to the EGFR kinase, hence inhibiting EGFR autophosphorylation and activation of downstream signaling. Anti-EGFR antibodies prevent receptor dimerization and hence activation
We conclude that RNA interference by siRNA oligonucleotides should be further explored and developed as a therapeutic modality in the treatment of EGFR mutant lung cancer and also including KRAS mutant lung cancer, and lung cancers containing the resistance mutations T790M or downstream pathway activation such as PTEN inactivation. As already mentioned, it is not known whether the concentration of siRNAs or an equivalent of this used in the present study will be achievable
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The project was partly funded by a research grant from Boehringer Ingelheim.
Authors' contributions
GC carried out the primer and siRNA designing, transfection of the siRNA, RNA extraction, real-time PCR and protein, proliferation, viability, apoptosis and western blot experiments, and drafted the manuscript. PK conceived of the study, carried out primer and siRNA designing, supervision of all the experiments, and helped to draft the manuscript. ET participated in the design of the study and interpretation of data, and helped to revise the manuscript. IAU participated in cell culture, drugs treatment, western blot experiments and contributed to the revising of the manuscript. JDG participated in the design of the study and coordination and helped to draft and revise the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This study was supported by grants of the National Cancer Plan Belgium (Grant NKP-29-011), the Stichting Tegen Kanker, Belgium, the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC), and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) PhD scholarship. The authors thank Goele Van Hassel for technical assistance.
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