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See the Northern Lights and discover the beauty of the Yukon on this 4-day getaway in Canada's north.
Outfitted with the appropriate winter gear, you'll tour Whitehorse and spend each night Aurora Viewing from the comfort of a cozy heated cabin or wall tent.Snowmobiling, ice fishing and snowshoeing are optional.
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Day 1 Arrive Whitehorse & Evening Aurora Viewing Transfer (included) from the airport to your hotel in downtown Whitehorse. The hotel is located within walking distance of all attractions, restaurants, banks and stores. After your arrival, there is time for an information meeting, the registration for optional tours, the fitting of winter clothing, for shopping and dinner on your own. This evening depart for your first Aurora viewing. A cozy, heated cabin or wall tent with hot drinks and snacks makes your Aurora viewing even more enjoyable. Return to hotel around 2.30am.
Day 2 Morning Sightseeing Tour & Evening Aurora Viewing Sleep in this morning. At 10.00am your city tour starts. The tour includes Main Street, the Train Depot of the White Pass and the Yukon Route, the Log Skyscraper, the Log Church, the Sternwheeler SS Klondike, the fish ladder, Schwatka Lake and some residential areas. This afternoon is free to relax before departing at 10.00pm for more Aurora viewing. Again, hot drinks and snacks are provided in a warm-up cabin. You can sit around a roaring fire and share stories with fellow travellers. Return to hotel around 2.30am.
Day 3 Free Day Whitehorse & Evening Aurora Viewing After a long evening the night before you have the day to relax and enjoy Whitehorse on your own before you depart for Aurora viewing at 10.00pm in the evening. Return to hotel around 2.30am.
Day 4 Transfer To Whitehorse Airport
Transfer (included) to the airport for your flight home.
Optional Tours for Free Day
Half Day Snowmobile Driving (9.10am or 12.10pm)
We drive you to the site and introduce you to the safety of driving a snow machine. After instructions and a trial run with your instructor you'll be driving your own machine over prepared trails through the incredible winter landscape of the Yukon. Includes transfers, instruction, the use of a snow machine (2 person / sled), Snacks and hot drinks. Total duration: 4 hours (min 2 person)
Ice Fishing & Show Shoeing Tour (12.10pm)
After a short drive to a frozen lake we'll show you how to walk on snowshoes. With our fishing equipment we'll walk onto the ice of the lake where we'll fish through a hole in the ice. With some luck we catch a Lake Trout or Grayling and pull it up from the hole. Includes transfers, snow shoes, angling equipment, instruction on how to use snowshoes and how to fish, blankets, snack and hot drinks. Total duration: 4 hours
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- 3 nights accommodation
- Transfer to / from airport
- Transfers to / from viewing chalet
- Guided Aurora Viewing
- Hot drinks and snacks at viewing chalet
- Information meeting & city tour
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- Gratuities for lodge staff and instructors
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- Ski suit, thermal underwear & warm clothing, hat, mitts, winter boots
- Day pack
- Sunscreen, sunglasses
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- Includes: winter outerwear pants and fleece liner, winter outerwear jacket with fleece liner
- Winter boots (Sorel Glacier or similar), insulated mitts, insulated headgear / cap
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- Half Day Ice Fishing & Show Shoeing Tour
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(CNN) — President Barack Obama and his former rival Mitt Romney will meet Thursday for their first get-together since the November 6 election, according to a statement from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
"On Thursday, Governor Romney will have a private lunch at the White House with President Obama in the Private Dining Room," Carney wrote. "It will be the first opportunity they have had to visit since the election. There will be no press coverage of the meeting."
In his acceptance speech on election night, Obama congratulated Romney on his campaign, and said he was looking forward "to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward."
And at his first post-election press conference, held November 14, Obama said his goal was to set a meeting before the end of the year.
"There are certain aspects of Governor Romney's record and his ideas that I think could be very helpful," he said, specifically citing Romney's leadership of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
Romney has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since his Election Night remarks in Boston. He was spotted taking in the latest installment of the "Twilight" movie franchise with his family, and on Thanksgiving shared a photo with his wife Ann on his official Facebook page.
However, controversial comments he made on a post-election call with top donors were immediately criticized by both Democrats and Republicans.
"What the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney said on the call.
Romney, who lost to Obama by 126 electoral votes, said the president courted voters by offering policies – some of them this election year – that appealed to key constituencies.
"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift," Romney said.
Those remarks caused Republicans — including several who are considered likely candidates for the 2016 GOP nomination — to put distance between themselves and their party's former standard bearer.
While in Washington, Romney will also meet with his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a senior adviser to the former GOP nominee told CNN Wednesday.
In 2008, Obama met with Sen. John McCain after defeating him in the presidential election. The pair met at Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago, and issued a joint statement afterwards saying they hoped to work together on challenges such as the financial crisis, creating a new energy economy and protecting the country's security.
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In reviewing Jeffrey Stepakoff's book Billion-Dollar Kiss, I printed something that Stepakoff credited to an internal memo by Michael Eisner. That quote presented Eisner purely as a mercenary, uninterested in anything besides money.
Commenter David Lemay noted that the quote was not accurate according to Disney War by James B. Stewart and that the quote wasn't even from Eisner's time at Disney. It dates from his time at Paramount. I've since read the relevant portion of Stewart's book and what Lemay said is completely the case.
Because Stepakoff worked at Disney and credits the quote to "an internal memo," the reader is left with the impression that Eisner's memo was sent while at the Disney studio and that Stepakoff received a copy. I have no idea if Stepakoff was aware of the quote being inaccurate or if he intended that impression. However, as I related that quote with the belief that it was accurate, I have to acknowledge that wasn't the case. While I am hardly a fan of Michael Eisner, I am not a fan of distorting the truth even if it bolsters my own prejudices.
You can read the correct version of the quote in David Lemay's comment here.
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3 comments:
- Thad said...
Regardless of its context, it's still proof Eisner is a loser.
- February 16, 2008 8:30 PM
- Benjamin De Schrijver said...
Actually, I felt the corrected quote made him sound smart. It's obvious he's not an artist, but in that quote he seems more "in touch" with the right attitude for a man who later arrived where he arrived. If the quote was by Roy O. Disney, I doubt you'd call him a "loser".
- February 17, 2008 4:17 AM
- Thad said...
I would call anyone with the track record of Michael Eisner a loser, regardless of what they said.
Roy O. Disney did not have that track record. So it's a moot point.
- February 17, 2008 2:48 PM
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Foreclosure activity reaches 6-year low
- Some states see increased activity as mortgage servicers adjust to new laws
- April foreclosure auctions up 31%25 in states where courts are involved
- Low-priced foreclosed homes no longer a threat in tight housing market
Foreclosure activity in April fell to its lowest level in 74 months, but action is ramping up in some states, says a national foreclosure tracker.
In April, one of every 905 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing, market watcher RealtyTrac says. That was the lowest level since February 2007 — near the beginning of the nation's foreclosure crisis — and down 23% from a year ago.
But foreclosure activity is increasing in some states where legal procedures and new laws to protect homeowners had slowed down foreclosures.
For example, in 26 states where foreclosures mostly go through the courts, scheduled foreclosure auctions in April were up 31% from a year ago to a 30-month high, RealtyTrac says. The auction is where the bank most often reclaims a foreclosed home.
The increase in scheduled auctions indicates that mortgage servicers are "serious about actually foreclosing," says RealtyTrac Vice President Daren Blomquist.
Two states where courts approve foreclosures are Florida and New Jersey. In Florida, one of the states hardest hit by foreclosures, scheduled foreclosure auctions were up 55% in April vs. a year ago. In New Jersey, they increased 91%.
In both states, foreclosures slowed dramatically several years ago after allegations surfaced that many cases were moving through the courts without proper documentation.
Since then, many states have imposed new rules and oversight that slowed the process.
Now, "things are moving quickly again," says Florida foreclosure defense attorney Roy Oppenheim.
He says many older cases lingering in the courts may still have documentation problems, but new cases are moving faster.
Evidence of that can be seen in California, where RealtyTrac data show foreclosure starts rose 13% in April from March.
California foreclosures don't go through the courts. But a new law this year gave homeowners more protections. Among other things, it prevents lenders from moving ahead with foreclosures while homeowners pursue loan modifications.
After the law took effect, foreclosure starts hit a 90-month low in California, RealtyTrac says. They've been trending back up as mortgage servicers adjust to the new rules, Blomquist says.
The prospect of more foreclosure inventory hitting the market is no longer the threat that it was, real estate experts say.
With tight inventory in many of the nation's housing markets, Realtors want more homes to sell.
Lenders, too, may see reduced losses, given higher home prices, which were up 10.5% year-over-year in March, CoreLogic says.
Lenders "want to get these (foreclosures) through now because the values are up," Oppenheim says.
Even if foreclosure activity speeds up in some states, it will be years before states clear their foreclosure pipelines.
In March, more than 5.6% of home loans were in foreclosure in the judicial foreclosure states, vs. 1.7% of home loans in non-judicial foreclosure states, according to mortgage tracker Lender Processing Services.
Before the foreclosure crisis, a 0.5% ratio was more the norm, LPS says.


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SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Coast Guard was searching late Sunday for two adults and two children who had been aboard a sailboat that reportedly sank about 30 miles southwest of Santa Cruz.
The boat was reported to be taking on water late Sunday afternoon, according to Petty Officer Sean McGinnis.
Details were still sketchy Sunday evening. KTVU News reported that Coast Guard officials received a distress call at about 4:20 p.m. from someone aboard a 29-foot sailboat that was 65 miles offshore. The four people aboard told the Coast Guard they had to abandon ship at around 5:30 p.m.
The Coast Guard said the passengers did not have any life rafts or survival suits, KTVU reported, and planned to tie a cooler and other materials together to create a life boat.
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They were able to chat with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield who is on the International Space Station.
Hundreds of people filled the audience for the space chat.
Former astronaut and Liberal MP Marc Garneau talked to members of the audience while they waited for Hadfield to take questions, explaining the importance of Canadian technology in space.
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Konami's tough-as-nails shoot 'em up returns to PS2, bringing with it a new character, towering bosses and a seemingly insurmountable new set of challenges. Unlike its 2D side-scrolling predecessor, Contra: Shattered Soldier, Neo Contra adds some depth to the manic proceedings onscreen with the introduction of stunningly detailed isometric 3D environments.
Guide original, grizzled Contra hero Bill Rizer or new boy Genbei Jaguer Yagyu, a mysterious samurai, through apocalyptic stages crawling with enemies, dodging attacks and letting your huge arsenal of powerful weapons do the talking. At the end of each unrelenting wave of enemies, you'll find one of Contra's huge, notoriously formidable bosses waiting for you.
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Editors' note: The review below was written before Audyssey dropped the "Lower East Side" portion of the product name.
Last year's Audyssey iPod/iPhone Audio Dock was named for the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco. This time the company has gone east, naming its new $199 Lower East Side Media Speakers for the Manhattan neighborhood. (We'll use "LES" for short.)
Why the Lower East Side?
Well, the marketers behind the speakers were inspired by the neighborhood's gritty "tenement-lined streets that have been home to immigrants from nearly every country since the neighborhood's inception" and rich musical history that included such "hallowed venues" as CBGB, ABC No Rio, and Arlene's Grocery. (Today, of course, the neighborhood isn't quite so gritty as it once was, dominated instead by young hipsters.)
Fancy name notwithstanding, what you have with the Audyssey LES Media Speakers is a pair of powered stereo speakers. Once upon a time, we'd call these "PC speakers," but these days, the audio source might be anything from an iPod, smartphone, game system, streaming media box, or a laptop--just to name a few. These speakers are small enough that they'll fit into any bedroom, dorm room, home office, or den environment. Meanwhile, Audyssey has used its expertise with sonics to tweak the sound beyond what you'd usually find in a pair of throwaway $30 PC speakers.
Design and features
From a design perspective, the Audyssey LES speakers have a simple, clean look that has a bit of throwback feel, with integrated wiry metal stands and a single red stripe that the designers say harkens back to the red brick buildings of the Lower East Side (we kid you not).
Each of the two speakers is 9.3 inches tall by 5 inches wide by 6 inches deep, and weighs about 3 pounds. They each boast a 3.5-inch driver and a 0.75-inch silk dome tweeter up front (neither the stands nor the speaker grilles are removable), and a passive bass radiator on the rear.
The left speaker houses the amplifier, and the volume/power control and headphone (output) jack are available on the front side. There's no remote control option for the Audysseys, but they do have an automatic standby mode, meaning they'll go to "sleep" after a few minutes of dead air.
Feature-wise, these guys offer one thing missing from most PC speakers: a digital optical audio input (Toslink). That means you can connect them to an Apple TV or a game system such as the PlayStation3, and still have the 3.5mm analog input available for a second device. (Both inputs and the power port are located on the rear of the left speaker.)
There is one caveat: for better or worse, you can't toggle between the two inputs--they're both active simultaneously. That means you'll hear a mix of both audio sources if they're both active at the same time.


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This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world. Taking a candid look at both sides of the footlights, this film examines the marketing machine behind a generation of pop singers. Interviews with Anka and his manager reveal their perspective on the industry.
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Quality and Value Driving Growth in the Green Building Market—According to New McGraw-Hill Construction SmartMarket Report on Green Homes and Remodeling
Energy efficiency efforts become standard in new construction and remodeling projects, while remodelers place high value on waste management and sustainable materials.
May 1, 2012 - New York, NY
McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), today released its latest SmartMarket Report: New and Remodeled Green Homes: Transforming the Residential Market at the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) National Green Building Conference and Expo. The report includes McGraw-Hill Construction's estimate that the green homes share of the construction market was 17% in 2011, equating to $17 billion, and expected to rise 29%-38% by 2016, potentially a $87–114 billion opportunity, based on the five-year forecast for overall residential construction.
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"In the current residential market, there is an enormous need to differentiate your homes for consumers," says Harvey Bernstein, Vice President of Industry Insights and Alliances at McGraw-Hill Construction. "When builders are able to offer homes that not only are green, but also offer the combination of higher quality and better value, they have a major competitive edge over those building traditional homes."
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"NAHB builder and remodeler members were surveyed on their green building practices, which allowed us to shine a light on the state of the green market in this new report," said NAHB Chairman Barry Rutenberg, a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. "The results highlight the tremendous growth in green building, and the potential market opportunities that lie ahead. As more projects seek green certification, NAHB and the NAHB Research Center stand ready to meet the demands of this exciting and ever-changing market."
Factors driving the growth in the green home building and remodeling market include:
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"These findings confirm the shift we've seen in the market," says Jim Halter, Vice President, Construction Solutions for Waste Management. "Builders and remodelers are placing more emphasis on energy efficiency, increases in sustainability focused waste management practices and more products made from post-consumer materials. These important factors are pushing our industry forward."
The key findings from the study were presented by McGraw-Hill Construction on May 1 at a plenary session at NAHB's National Green Building Conference and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee, followed by a panel of industry experts discussing its impact on the market. For a copy of the report, visit http://analyticsstore.construction.com/index.php/new-and-remodeled-green-homes-transforming-the-residential-marketplace-2012.html .
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Calgary artist Bryan Versteeg behind Mars One images
Conceptual designs illustrated news articles about one-way mission to Mars
Bryan Versteeg hasn't stopped drawing ever since he got his first crayons and left marks all over the walls as a child — all the while dreaming of someday living in space.
He still remembers that sketch books and drawing pencils were the predominant gifts on his fifth and sixth birthdays.
So began the career of the 38-year-old Calgary space artist who's becoming known for his futuristic out-of-this-world illustrations.
"I've always been seeking out the future of engineering," Versteeg said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Over the years, he has been inspired by magazines like Popular Science, which he collected during the 1980s and 90s. The monthly magazine has been well known for its concept drawings of flying cars and interplanetary spaceships.
"It's a great way to look into the future," he added.
Warp forward to Versteeg's recent illustrations of what a human habitat on Mars would eventually look like. His Mars One conceptual designs have appeared in thousands of articles on the internet.
Versteeg started working on the Martian space habitat after he was approached by the founders of the Mars One Foundation, which is planning a one-way mission to the red planet.
In December, the non-profit organization selected 75 Canadians to enter the second round of the mission's selection process. The 43 Canadian women and 32 men were among 1,058 candidates selected.
Agrees with Mars One approach
Versteeg said he agreed with the Mars One approach, which involved sending up to six landers to the Martian surface before shipping up any humans.
They would include two living units, two life-support systems and two supply units.
"If you're going to be putting a permanent base there, you want to make sure everything is working before people get there," Versteeg said.
"I really believe in Mars settlement and colonization as a foothold for human beings on another planet."
Versteeg has worked in the graphics industry for more than 20 years, as a conceptual artist in the architectural and engineering fields.
In 2011, he founded Spacehabs.com in order to focus on the conceptual visualization for space exploration.
Versteeg is also a member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
Space station with golf course
One of the other projects he has been working on for about two years is his "Kalpana One" Space Station.
It's named after Kalpana Chawla, one of seven astronauts killed when U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart while returning to Earth in February 2003.
"Kalpana One" is Versteeg's idea of what living in outer space could actually look like.
"The interior of the space station is basically a space for about 10,000 people," he said.
"I designed the golf courses and the football fields, the farms, the recreation spaces and ponds and landscaping — it was probably 50 projects within one project."
Versteeg's illustrations can aptly be compared to the artwork for the iconic rotating space station in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"They did a lot of research and they made something that was as close to realistic as possible," he noted.
Versteeg referred to his greenery-filled "Kalpana One" space station as "2101" — 100 years after the setting of Stanley Kubrick's science-fiction masterpiece.
"I know I've always wanted to live in space and so it doesn't need to be all that incredible for me to want to live there," Versteeg said.
"I try to create places that my wife could see herself live in."
Art, design and interior design training
The futurist artist, who has been married for 10 years, began studying art and design in school at the age of 14.
He originally considered a career in architecture and learned interior design along the way.
Versteeg said a lot of research goes into his artwork and he's always reading up on the latest cutting-edge technology.
"You try to limit yourself within the laws of physics and within existing concepts that we already understand because I really want to make sure it's realistic," Versteeg said.
"If a person looks at it and says: 'That's impossible' right off the bat, then we've kind of already lost a bit of the audience."
Catherine Hazin, director of arts and culture for the Canadian Space Society, has called Versteeg "an incredibly important Canadian artist."
"He is really making the idea of living and inhabiting space accessible to the public," she said in an interview. "It's an incredibly important job that nobody has been able to do as effectively as he has until now."
Founder of asteroid mining firm
Versteeg is also one of the founders of Deep Space Industries (DSI), a company that plans to mine and utilize space resources like asteroids.
NASA is currently studying a plan to send astronauts to study an asteroid and Versteeg said DSI has been co-operating with the U.S. space agency.
"Some of the DSI guys have been consulted for NASA's designs, but exactly how NASA is planning on doing it is up in the air," he said.
"We have our own ideas of how we can go out and prospect and analyze and target asteroids and then return them, process them and use the resources for manufacturing."
Versteeg has even created stunning concept illustrations of what mining in space would look like.
"I have wonderful discussions with the guys I work with at Deep Space Industries who offer incredible insight," he said. "They kind of vet my designs and tell me what could or could not happen."
His illustrations of space mining may not be that far from reality. DSI is facing competition from another company, Planetary Resources Inc., which also has plans to mine asteroids.
Versteeg predicted that, like Ford when the company started mass producing cars, space utilization will take off "in leaps and bounds."


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These are selected Buddhist Psychology books for your consideration:
Caroline Brazier – The Buddhist Psychology: Liberate Your Mind, Embrace Life
Western therapeutic approaches have often put considerable emphasis on building self-esteem and enhancing a positive sense of self. This book challenges the assumption behind this approach. Most of us protect ourselves against being fully alive. Because we fear loss and pain, we escape by withdrawing from experiences and distracting ourselves with amusements. We fall into habitual ways of acting and limit our experience to the familiar. We create an identity which we think of as a 'self', and in so doing imprison our life-energy. For 2500 years Buddhism has developed an understanding of the way that we can easily fall into a deluded view. It has shown how the mind clings to false perceptions and tries to create permanence out of an ever changing world. Written by a practising therapist and committed Buddhist, this book explores the practical relevance of Buddhist teachings on psychology to our everyday experience. By letting go of our attachment to self, we open ourselves to full engagement with life and with others. We step out of our self-made prison.
As written on Amazon by user Anagarika: This book explores not only a very deep (linguistic and interpolation) meaning behind Four Noble Truth, The Six Senses, Five Skandhas, etc, other than the usual (common) explanation/translation but also provides different insights that helps building systematic understanding of the mind as described in Buddhist teachings.
By reading this, i have better intellectual understanding and can use some mental model to contemplate during meditation. It really helps to be really mindful, although i fail all the times to be mindful always, but the mental model helps tremendously!
At this point of view, i have not finished the book, but i read slowly and bring it to meditation, and i have no rush to complete it, just letting it grows on me at its own pace.(…)
Upon further reading and utilizing the mind models into daily practice, it is tremendously helpful to find tips on how to change the habitual pattern built since birth till the present. To recognize how a self conscious delusion arises, thus it is much easier to check and catch.
A highly recommended book for you if you really want to train your mind but you find traditional method of mind training too difficult and too abstract to apply, because it explains in very clear way what is the purpose of certain training (i.e. the bodhisattva vow).
Jack Kornfield – The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
From Publishers Weekly: Author, psychologist and pioneering Buddhist teacher Kornfield writes his best book yet (and his previous ones were pretty good). His newest uses the same sweet narrative voice, provides convincing and illustrative anecdotes and stories, and reaches into world traditions and literature as well as contemporary scientific research. This book offers a systematic and well-organized view of Buddhist psychology, complete with occasional diagrams. Concepts and practices are placed in a framework that explains and connects them. It's all done with an eye toward application; most chapters end with exercises. Kornfield has been practicing Buddhism for close to 40 years, a lasting discipline that has produced this masterful book and a seasoned view of life that acknowledges a lot of oopses. As a mediator and psychologist, he has also witnessed some serious angst, including his own, and draws on it for illustrative power. Not everything here is new, least of all the title, but then the Buddha isn't either. The best is left for last: joy you can seek for yourself and others. Just keep your meditative seat, and this book by your bed. Kornfield comes across as the therapist you wish you'd had.
Jeremy D. Safran – Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism pairs Buddhist psychotherapists together with leading figures in psychoanalysis who have a general interest in the role of spirituality in psychology. The resulting essays present an illuminating discourse on these two disciplines and how they intersect. This landmark book challenges traditional thoughts on psychoanalysis and Buddhism and propels them to a higher level of understanding.


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Ring of Honor sent this in.
We have been teasing you for awhile now that Ring of Honor had something big in the works for our return to Toronto on May 4th for the "Border Wars 2013" iPPV & May 5th for the first ever international "Ring of Honor Wrestling" TV tapings.
The speculation has indeed run rampant, and now that all of the paperwork has been finalized, Ring of Honor, in conjunction with Pro Wrestling NOAH, is extremely excited to announce that both multi-time GHC champion Naomichi Marufuji and current GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori will be in action on BOTH May 4th and 5th at The Ted Reeve Arena!
One of the most decorated athletes in Puroresu, Naomichi Marufuji is one of only two individuals to have lay claim to being a grand slam champion in Pro Wrestling NOAH. A former GHC Heavyweight Champion, former Jr. Heavyweight Champion, 2-Time former Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, former Openweight Hardcore Champion, and former 3-Time GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champion having recently been dethroned on March 10th, Marufuji also holds the unique distinction of being the only man to hold the Jr. Heavyweight Title in all three major Japanese promotions (NOAH, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and All Japan Pro Wrestling). It has been over four years since the last time Marufuji graced the ROH ring with his presence, "Final Battle 2008" when he challenged Nigel McGuinness for the World Title in an epic contest to be exact, and now he finally returns in Toronto!
The current reigning GHC Jr. Heavyweight champion, Taiji Ishimori began his wrestling career in 2002 and in 2006 became a part of the NOAH roster, frequently teaming with current GHC Heavyweight Champion and ROH alum KENTA. The duo would claim the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles in March of 2008 and reign for four months, including successfully defending their belts against the duo of Eddie Edwards & Bryan Danielson. Ishimori would repeat that championship success, this time with Ricky Marvin as his partner, in 2010 when they won a tournament to fill the vacant championship. As a matter of fact, Ishimori & Marvin defeated Eddie Edwards & Bobby Fish en route to their victory. Then on January 27th of this year, Ishimori achieved the greatest individual success of his NOAH career when he dethroned Shuji Kondo and became the 26th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion. May 4th & 5th in Toronto will mark Ishimori's first ROH bouts since he battled El Generico at "The Tokyo Summit" event in September 2008 that took place in Japan.
ROH is honored to host Naomichi Marufuji and Taiji Ishimori when we make our return to Toronto on May 4th & 5th for the "Border Wars 2013" iPPV event and "Ring of Honor Wrestling" TV tapings. Tickets for both shows are available right here in the ROH Store. Don't miss what could be your ONLY chance this year to see these two amazing athletes from Pro Wrestling NOAH compete in Ring of Honor!


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Amanda Seyfried as a child
Posted by Alisa on Saturday, August 17, 2013 / Labels: Celebrities as kids / Comments: (0)
Amanda was so adorable!
Actress Amanda Seyfried posted this cute snap of herself on on Friday August 16 with the caption "prepubescent.".
Melanie Griffith and Stella Banderas shop at the Grove
Actress Melanie Griffith and her beautiful 16-year-old daughter Stella Banderas were seen shopping at the Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles, CA on Friday (August 16).
Scott Disick is Mason's biological father
Kourtney Kardashian confirmed on Thursday August 15 that her long-term boyfriend Scott Disick is in fact the biological father of her 3-year-old son Mason. The news was confirmed by a paternity test which proved with 99.9 percent accuracy, that Scott Disick is in fact the father- despite allegations from a model Michael Girgenti that suggest otherwise. Pictures from Thursday have emerged of Kourtney and Scott leaving a Los Angeles hospital with their son Mason.
Meet Rio Hudson!
She's so beautiful!
Proud papa Oliver Hudson introduced his newborn daughter via Twitter. The caption for the photo read, "My baby girl … Rio Laura Hudson" . Oliver Hudson and his wife Erinn Bartlett welcomed Rio on Thursday July 18. Oliver and Erin are also parents to sons Bodhi Hawn, 3, and Wilder Brooks, 5½.


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In a blunt and detailed analysis of Nokia, the company's new chief executive told employees that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones have left his company in the dust. Nokia, still the world's largest phone manufacturer by volume, has seen its smartphone market share eroded over the past few years by rising stars such as the iPhone and the Android army.
Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop wrote in a memo leaked by Engadget that "the first iPhone [was] shipping in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to that experience. Android came on the scene just over two years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable."
Chasing The Wrong Strategy
Elop, who was named Nokia's president and CEO in September, identified in a 1,300-word memo the main problems the company is facing, "while competitors poured flames on our market share." "We fell behind, we missed big trends, and we lost time. At that time, we thought we were making the right decisions; but, with the benefit of hindsight, we now find ourselves years behind," Elop wrote.
The Nokia CEO recognized Apple's iPhone was a game changer: "Apple demonstrated that if designed well, consumers would buy a high-priced phone with a great experience and developers would build applications. They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range."
At the same time, Google is cutting deep into Nokia's former strengths, Elop notes: "Android came in at the high-end, they are now winning the mid-range, and quickly they are going downstream to phones under $135. Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry's innovation to its core."
The Wake-Up Call
The problem with Nokia is that it doesn't bring enough innovation to the market, according to Elop: "We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market." Symbian, the mid-range platform, "has proven to be noncompetitive in leading markets like North America" too.
In a stark warning, or just clear vision of the future, Elop wrote of Nokia that "if we continue like before, we will get further and further behind, while our competitors advance further and further ahead. [...] And the truly perplexing aspect is that we're not even fighting with the right weapons. [...] Nokia, our platform is burning," Elop warned.
Where Do We Go From Here
Elop is expected to announce a new strategy on Feb. 11, in a "huge effort to transform our company." While no official details have been yet made available, it is rumored that Elop, a former Microsoft executive, would put the new Windows Phone 7 operating system on a new breed of Nokia devices.
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As with the Opening Ceremony two weeks ago, details of Sunday's Closing Ceremony of the London Olympics have been kept tightly under wraps, but one thing is certain — British talent will be front and center.
In addition to the Spice Girls, who reunited especially for the event, the celebration, titled "A Symphony of British Music," will also feature performances from One Direction and the also-reunited Wham!.
London 2012 Olympics: The Most Memorable Moments
Acts that are rumored, but not confirmed, to be participating include Coldplay, Muse, The Who, Queen and Annie Lennox, according to London's Daily Telegraph.
With more than 4,000 performers scheduled to take part, the Closing Ceremony will also likely feature appearances by British celebrities such as Russell Brand, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, the Telegraph reports.
Bob Costas, Al Michaels and Ryan Seacrest will be hosting the event for NBC, as London hands over the Olympic flag to Rio, the host of the 2016 games. Rio is also scheduled to make a "samba- and Carnival-flavored cultural presentation" during the ceremony, according to a press release from the network.
NBC's coverage of the Closing Ceremony festivities begins Sunday at 7 p.m. ET. A sneak preview of the new comedy series Animal Practice will follow.


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Given a symplectic manifold $X$ with nice $G$ action, equivariant momentmap $\mu$ and invariant $\chi \in \mathfrak{g}^*$ which is a regular value of $\mu$. There are two ways to form the Hamiltonian reduction. What one usually does is take the levelset $X_\chi=\mu^{-1}(\chi)$ and quotient out the group $X_\chi/G$. However one could also quotient out $G$ first and then define $(X/G)_\chi$ to be the set of all points represented by elements of $\mu^{-1}(\chi)$.
I have sometimes heard that these two procedures are equal. Is this true, or more precisely in what situations is it true? Is this written down somewhere? Are there counterexamples one should have in mind?
I am also interested in settings where one replaces spaces by possibly noncommutative Poisson algebras.


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National Outlook
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Faceoff of Manning vs. Brady may decide who's best
DENVER — Only one of them can be the greatest.
Peyton Manning could be the one — owner of a record four, working on five, Most Valuable Player awards, current holder of NFL single-season records for passing yardage and touchdowns and architect of a career-reviving second act, the likes of which has rarely been seen in any sport.
Tom Brady could also be that man — leader of five Super Bowl teams and winner of three titles, one-time holder of some of the records Manning holds now and author of an undefeated regular season. He also has that 10-4 record against Manning despite constant turnover on his roster and a lack of a star-studded receiving corps.
Manning and Brady will meet Sunday for the 15th time, and the fourth time in the postseason, when the Broncos (14-3) face the Patriots (13-4) in the AFC title game.
The winner between the top two quarterbacks over an era in which quarterbacks have never been so good will get what could be the last say in the debate over who goes down as the greatest — not so much because of what the win-loss numbers will say but because this could be the last time they meet with the stakes so high.
"I don't know that there will ever be another rivalry like it, or has been a rivalry like it," said John Elway, whose own rivalry with Dan Marino was held to only three meetings because of scheduling quirks over their decade-plus careers.
The game will either give Brady a chance to match Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw for a fourth title or afford Manning the opportunity to win a second ring, which would put him one behind Brady, and in the same company with his brother, Eli, Roger Staubach and Elway, among others. It would also make Manning the first QB to win conference championships with two different teams.
While paying ultimate respect to each other — "I feel like he's been a better player each year than he was the year before," Manning said — neither quarterback professes to care much about how their own head-to-head showdowns will define their legacy.
Don't believe it, says Phil Simms, who admits in retirement that the smile was a little wider after he walked off the field with a win over Staubach or Joe Theismann.
"It's always personal, no matter what," Simms said. "It's part of being a competitor and doing what you do."
One reason Brady has a .714 win percentage in the head-to-head meetings and holds a 2-1 advantage in the playoffs is because, more often than not, he's been surrounded by the more complete team.
He has been anything but a one-man show in New England this season, illustrated best by the fact that the Patriots are in the AFC title game even though Brady threw for 25 touchdowns — less than half of Manning's record-setting 55.
Without Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez or Wes Welker to throw to, Brady made it work, with a big assist from coach Bill Belichick and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who used to coach the Broncos.
New England's running game, led by LeGarrette Blount and Shane Vereen, has averaged 214 yards the last three games. Brady's 75 passes over the last three games are the fewest of any three-game stretch in his career.
Welker, who played with Brady for six years before coming to Denver this season, says it's not so much stats or physical attributes that defines these two Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks.
"They do a great job of keeping guys accountable, and their leadership skills and everything else," he said. "They are two guys you want quarterbacking your team. It's a toss-up between those two."
Manning has thrown for 92 touchdowns since arriving in Denver at the start of the 2012 season, his neck rebuilt from multiple surgeries, his future uncertain because of his weakened throwing arm.
He'd be the first to admit he's not the same as he once was, physically. But nobody prepares better.
His record-setting 5,477 yards and all those touchdown throws came with a gifted group of offensive stars surrounding him — Welker, Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas and this season's difference maker, 6-foot-5 tight end Julius Thomas. But Manning had great players around him in Indianapolis and never put up these sort of numbers.
"Honestly, no one will probably ever break that, not in this day and age," former Broncos receiver Rod Smith said.
On Sunday, Brady, who missed parts of practice early in the week with the flu, will be going against a depleted secondary that just lost cornerback Chris Harris Jr., which will make Champ Bailey — injured most of the season — a bigger cog for the Denver 'D.'
And the Patriots likely will invite the Broncos to run— much the way they did in their 34-31 overtime loss in Week 12 — knowing the best chance of beating them is by taking the ball out of Manning's hands.
This 60 minutes (or more), their first title-game meeting since Manning's 38-34 comeback win en route to his first Super Bowl in 2007, could mark the last time the top two QBs of their — or any — era meet for these stakes.
Brady is 36 and, though relatively healthy, has taken a beating over his career.
Manning is 37, and his future largely will depend on how his neck looks when doctors examine it during the offseason. The Broncos, meanwhile, are built to win right now, and have made it this far despite a rash of injuries on both sides of the ball.


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Hacking the (genetic) code
By Anthony Zurcher
Editor, Echo Chambers
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"Technology is a part of every single element of modern life," said the Guardian's head of technology Jemima Kiss during a panel discussion of tech journalists at the South by Southwest Interactive conference on Saturday.
This truth was apparent on Sunday afternoon when Anne Wojcicki told a packed convention hall about her company's efforts to work with a piece of code many tech afficionadoes probably aren't too familiar with: the genetic one.
Ms Wojcicki is the CEO of 23andme, a company that boasts it is bringing genetic testing to the masses, offering $99 DNA analysis to anyone willing to spit in a cup and pop it in the post.
She addressed the crowd in a language they could all understand: as a technology evangelist.
"Everybody makes money off my being sick, but if I'm healthy then no one is making money off me," she said, calling it "one of the tragedies of public health".
"23andme was set out to change healthcare," she added. "The system sucks, so we have to do something to change it."
There are all sorts of valuable information that can be gleaned from bits and pieces of DNA, she said.
Are you more likely to get certain diseases, like diabetes, or succumb to an inherited condition, like cystic fibrosis? Do you have certain interesting genetic traits? And what is your ethnic ancestry?
Then came an inconvenient admission. Because of a ruling by the US Food and Drug Administration, "we are no longer providing you with your health information".
Last fall 23andme was the centre of controversy when the government agency questioned the reliability of its testing, leading customers to possibly seek out unnecessary or even harmful treatments.
The decision set off a fierce debate, covered by this blog, over the politics of genetic testing and balancing the rights to access individual medical data versus the government's obligation to protect the public from fraud.
Ms Wojcicki blazed through the roadblock, however, and continued to talk about the benefits of knowing the medical information hidden in your DNA.
She cited examples of parents who learned their children had misdiagnosed illnesses and customers who discovered life-threatening medical conditions.
She seemed to be nurturing a distrust in physicians and encouraging doubts about their competency, although she constantly emphasied that the genetic information would help you be their "partner".
She then talked about another aspect of 23andme that has generated controversy: its use of the aggregated information from thousands of genetic tests. Ms Wojcicki says that the information can improve the accuracy of genetic analysis.
Critics have worried, however, that 23andme was really just gathering data that it could later sell to interested companies. This was how it planned to profit, not through low-cost genetic reports.
Ms Wojcicki compared the process to the sales data collected by a retailer like Target, which uses it to customise its sales pitches.
When it came time for questioning, however, the audience - and interviewer Kara Swisher of technology website Re/Code - seemed suspicious.
"You should be paying us for access to our genetic information," read one person's tweet, which received applause from some in the crowd.
And what about security of the data? In a conference dominated by talk of NSA surveillance, internet security and privacy issues, questions about the security of the genetic information was inevitable.
"This is not you sharing a photo or talking about your drunken escapades at South by Southwest," Swisher said. "It's very serious information."
"I really believe there's a massive net benefit versus the risk when we're going to be combining the net data," Ms Wojcicki replied.
Technologists and tinkerers have been playing with technology for decades, tweaking code and constantly working to build the more perfect machine. Is it only a matter of time before the human body becomes just another system to hack?


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As the Formula One paddock emptied at Monza, one rumour had moved into the realm of fact -- Kimi Raikkonen is returning to Ferrari in 2014.
The news was being confidently reported by broadcasters, including Germany's RTL, the major daily Bild, and even perhaps the most respected correspondent in the paddock, Auto Motor und Sport's Michael Schmidt.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo will reportedly inform Felipe Massa that his services are no longer required in a personal meeting at Maranello on Wednesday.
It would go some way to explaining the Italian team's current 'number 1' driver Fernando Alonso's foul mood and outbursts of recent days and weeks.
Bild reported that the long delay in the actual signing of Raikkonen's deal is because part of his management team, David Robertson, is in hospital in the US with cancer.
In the meantime, Spaniard Alonso has pushed hard for the status-quo, openly arguing that Massa should stay put. He has not won the day.
Der Spiegel claims to even know who will pay Raikkonen's approximately EUR 20 million salary -- partly the Alonso-linked Spanish bank Santander, and partly team sponsor Shell.
"Let's see what happens," Massa told the Italian broadcaster Rai on Sunday.
"Yes, this race was important for my future, but it doesn't mean that my only future can be (wearing) red."
He is also quoted by O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper: "He (Montezemolo) will not announce anything without talking to me, for sure.
"I love Ferrari. But the other teams also know what I can do."
Finn Raikkonen, as per usual, was also giving little away on Sunday.
"I don't know anything yet," he told the Rai broadcaster. "Once I know, I'll tell you."
Indeed, once the news becomes official, the really explosive speculation may begin.
The German dailies Bild and Welt already report that Alonso is so unhappy with Raikkonen's arrival that he could jump ship to fill the Finn's place at Lotus.
That move actually might not be as unlikely as it sounds.
Bild newspaper said it could coincide with a ramping up of works Renault support for the Enstone based team, backed fully by the French carmaker's chairman Carlos Ghosn.
When asked about that potentially explosive news, Lotus team boss Eric Boullier said: "If Fernando knocks on my door, I will answer it.
"I just hope that I can pay for it!"
He is also quoted by f1news.ru: "We are trying to establish a relationship with Renault and Total, which is important from a technical standpoint but it also may help on the financial side."
Switzerland's Blick newspaper reported that Nico Hulkenberg will definitely not be staying at Sauber next year.
The German has been linked with Massa's Ferrari seat, but he might also be a candidate to replace Raikkonen at Lotus.
"We all have plans and backup plans," said Boullier.
When asked simply 'Kimi or Nico?' the Frenchman answered: "Good question."


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» Opening Plenary Session
2:00-3:00 Main Conference Registration
3:00-3:10 Welcoming Remarks from Conference Director
Julia Boguslavsky, Executive Director, Conferences, Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Strategies to Accelerate Development and Advance Personalized Therapy (ADAPT)
3:10-3:15 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
3:15-3:45 Rules, Tools and Data Pools: The Critical Path's Recipe for Speeding Drug Development
Carolyn Compton, M.D., Ph.D., President & CEO, Critical Path Institute
Both regulatory agencies and the medical products industry recognize the need for new biomarkers and methods to speed the development and delivery of effective, safe medicines to patients. However, developing consensus on the utility of new biomarkers and establishing a process for putting them into routine practice in medical product development and regulatory decision making is a complex undertaking. In 2009 and 2010, respectively, the European Medicines Agency and the FDA released guidance that describes a voluntary pathway for "qualification" of novel drug development tools or methods. Determining the relative advantages/disadvantages and evidentiary standards required for regulatory "qualification," applying a novel biomarker on a specific drug development program, or submitting an application for a diagnostic device are challenging tasks. The Critical Path Institute (C-Path) acts as a trusted third party to lead six pre-competitive global consortia that, with the cooperation of the FDA, develop and qualify molecular and imaging biomarkers as well as patient-reported outcomes instruments for specific contexts of use in medical product development. Several C-Path consortia use Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium disease area data standards in constructing clinical trial databases from which disease progression models and virtual clinical trial simulations are developed. Specific examples from these consortia will be utilized to illustrate the power of pre-competitive collaboration in the generation and qualification of drug development tools.
3:45-4:15 Technology Transformation at FDA: Driving Efficiency and Unleashing Innovation
Eric D. Perakslis, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer and Chief Scientist, Informatics, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently taken significant steps to modernize and improve its information technology and informatics capabilities. The resulting infrastructure, architecture, innovation pathways and data sharing initiatives are intended to ease regulatory burden on innovators while maintaining the highest quality standards. In this talk, Eric Perakslis, Ph.D., the Chief Information Officer and Chief Scientist for Informatics at FDA, will discuss these initiatives in detail and will provide success examples, recent progress and future directions.
4:15-4:45 Turning an Active Compound into a Personalized Medicine: Do Biomarkers Help or Hinder?
Geert Kolvenbag, M.D., Ph.D., Global Product Vice President, AstraZeneca
The co-development of drug and biomarker has several inherent risk and challenges. In addition the expectations and demands of the oncology community have increased over the last years. These challenges will be illustrated by a case study of a very active compound destined for a fast development program as a personalized medicine, but running into scientific, diagnostic and development challenges. This experience creates questions for development of drugs and diagnostics today and in the future.
4:45-5:15 Strategies to De-Risk Drug Development Utilizing Biomarkers in Early Clinical Trials
Scott Kennedy, Ph.D., Global Head, Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
Other than recent examples in oncology, the emerging field of personalized medicine has yet to live up to its promise of enabling more rapid, efficient drug development and providing customized therapies to patients. This presentation will exemplify and discuss how leveraging biomarkers which inform a biological understanding of targeted and disease pathways can increase the success of early clinical development. These biologically relevant markers can also enable the identification and treatment of parallel disease populations and serve as stratification or response markers for later stage development. This presentation will also discuss several of the challenges that this paradigm presents.
5:15-5:45 Implementing a Personalized Medicine Strategy: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Jeremy Barton, M.D., Vice President, Head of Oncology Clinical Research, Pfizer
Personalized medicine, the practice of tailoring treatment to individual characteristics of the patient, has emerged as a major force in oncology in the last decade with the expectation of significant improvement in safety and efficacy of therapeutics. The ultimate success of this paradigm is dependent on a variety of factors. The choice of drug target, selection of patients by companion diagnostic, regulatory authority acceptance of novel trial designs which best serve this strategy, improved health care information technology, insurance coverage and reimbursement are just a few of the important variables in the equation. This presentation will provide an overview of the current situation and discuss factors which will impact future progress in the field.
5:45-6:45 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
Thursday, September 20
7:30-8:15 am Morning Coffee or Sponsored Breakfast Presentation (Opportunity Available)
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CTC Utility in Guiding Clinical Decisions
8:30-8:55 Evaluation of Predictive Biomarkers in CTCs in NSCLC Patients Undergoing Targeted Therapies
Edith Szafer-Glusman, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Development Sciences, Genentech
Some of the challenges in the management of NSCLC patients are the lack of biomarkers that indicate response to therapy, and the difficulty in obtaining biopsies to evaluate biomarkers of targeted therapies. Here we show that molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells is feasible in advance lung cancer clinical trials and provide information about patient biomarker status. In addition, changes in CTC numbers are associated with clinical response in patients treated with erlotinib and pertuzumab. Finally, I'll elaborate on the development of novel CTC biomarkers for the monitoring of patient molecular status in ongoing clinical trials.
8:55-9:20 Role of CTC-Based Pharmacodynamic Biomarkers in Drug Development and Clinical Trials of Targeted Anti-Cancer Therapeutics
Lihua Wang, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, PADIS, LHTP, Applied Developmental Directorate, SAIC-Frederick, NCI/NIH
In combination with circulating tumor cells (CTC) counts, monitoring of biomarker changes within CTCs provide evidence for pharmacodynamic effects of targeted anti-cancer agents in patients enrolled in clinic trials. This presentation describes a strategy for development and validation of assays for pharmacodynamic biomarkers such as γH2AX or p16INK4a in CTCs. These CTC-based assays are in use in ongoing clinical trials of targeted anti-cancer agents within the National Cancer Institute. We found that in comparison to CTC counts alone, assaying molecular biomarker levels in CTCs is more sensitive for assessing pharmacodynamic effects in patients.
9:20-9:45 Molecular Characterization of CTCs: Tool for Optimizing Patient Management
Ryan Dittamore, Director, Medical Innovation, Ventana Medical Systems
Molecular characterization of CTCs is becoming more relevant in personalized disease management of patients with solid malignancies. Data will presented regarding the development of an automated multiplexed immunofluorescence and in situ hybridization assay for molecular profiling of CTCs. The results from these studies further support the hypothesis that the biological characteristics of CTCs will improve predicting risk, monitoring response, and tailoring treatment strategies for patients with solid tumors.
9:45-10:45 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
10:45-11:10 Answering a Question with a Question: Circulating Tumor Cells from a Surgeon's Perspective
Daniel Boffa, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine
Circulating tumor cells have raised as many questions as they have shown the potential to answer. The surgical perspective to metastatic progression has been particularly influenced by understanding of the fluid phase of cancer progression, challenging the concept of localized disease, and radiographic staging. The presentation will focus on the surgical aspects of cancer care most likely to benefit from the use of CTC enumeration and characterization.
11:10-11:40 Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells With the CellSearch PlatformBrad Foulk, Scientist, Janssen R&D
Beginning in 2004 the CellSearch platform has been FDA approved to enumerate circulating tumor cells(CTC)in metastatic breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer patients. Since that time the platform has proven to be a valuable research tool for the characterization of CTCs as well. A review of techniques to characterize CTC by molecular and cellular methods will be presented.
11:40 am-12:10 pm Sponsored Presentations (Opportunities Available)
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Technology Advances for CTC Capture and Analysis
1:30-1:35 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
1:35-2:00 Advances in Circulating Tumor Cell Analysis: Analytical Validation Must Precede Clinical Application
Martin Fleisher, Ph.D., Chief, Clinical Chemistry Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood of patients with cancer has become a clinically relevant and important prognostic biomarker and has been shown to be a predictive biomarker post-therapy. Currently, one analytical method, the Veridex CellTrack Analyzer, has been FDA approved for use in monitoring therapeutic response in patients with breast, prostate and colon cancer. This enrichment technique requires expression of EpCAM by CTCs. Other methods to enrich CTCs that rely on size, shape and phenotypic characteristics are: (a) flow cytometry that sorts cells by size and surface antigen expression; (b) microchips designed to capture CTCs as blood flows past EpCAM-coated mircoposts; (c) filters with pore size designed to retain CTCs but permits smaller cells to pass; (d) imaging techniques that rely on Fiber-Optic Array Scanning Technology (FAST) that identify CTCs based on fluorescent labels; and (e) negative enrichment that eliminates all cells from blood samples, except CTCs. The successful clinical application of these emerging CTC technologies depends on rigorous analytical validation. A validation protocol, consistent with CLIA regulator guidelines will be presented.
2:00-2:25 Clinical Microfluidics: Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells Using the CTC-Chip
David T. Ting, M.D., Assistant Physician and Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School
This presentation will describe the engineering design and clinical validation of a high throughput microfluidic mixing device, the "CTC-chip," that allows the isolation and characterization of CTCs from the peripheral blood of cancer patients. Multi-parameter characterization was conducted on CTCs to help better understand their origin and metastatic potential.
2:25-2:55 Molecular Analysis of Captured Circulating Melanoma Cells
John Viator, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biological Engineering, University of Missouri
Photoacoustic flowmetry is a method to test blood samples for circulating tumor cells. By irradiating the samples under flow with nanosecond duration laser light, we induced high frequency acoustic waves in melanoma cells from metastatic patients. The melanin pigment within the melanoma cells absorbed the laser light and generated the photoacoustic waves. Using a microfluidic technique known as two phase flow, we captured the melanoma cells and performed molecular assays to verify the nature of these rare tumor cells. These results suggest that photoacoustic flowmetry may be used for early detection of metastatic disease in melanoma patients.
2:55-3:20 Single-Cell Functional and Genomic Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Captured with Geometrically Enhanced Differential Immunocapture
Brian J. Kirby, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University; Associate Professor of Engineering in Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Weill-Cornell Medical College
We present recent work in which single circulating tumor cells captured with GEDI (geometrically enhanced differential immunocapture) are probed to identify genomic content and functional response to chemotherapeutics. GEDI microdevices are used to isolate circulating tumor cells from prostate and pancreatic cancer patients while rejecting contaminating leukocytes, and both genomic analysis and in situ immunostaining are used to probe mutation and functional response.
3:20-4:20 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
4:20-4:45 4-Dimensional Biopsy of Lung Cancer
Lyudmila Bazhenova, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology; Lung Cancer Team Leader, Moores UCSD Cancer Center
We have established a fluid phase biopsy approach that identifies CTCs in way that preserves cytologic features in high-definition (HD) for diagnostic pathology imaging requirements without using immune- or surface receptor-based enrichment. HD-CTCs identified with this approach can be used for enumerations and molecular characterization-based studies. We report performance of this assay in patients with NSCLC. 106 patients were recruited (I-10, II-3, III-34, IV-59); 85%, 79%, and 53% of patients with stages I+II, III, and IV had detectable HD-CTCs. 28 patients with stage IV disease were analyzed with multiple draws over time and showed differential survival based on CTC counts. Proposed clinical utility of CTC in NSCLC will also be discussed.
4:45-5:10 Nano-Velcro Embedded Devices for Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in Whole Blood: A Validation Study in Prostate Cancer Clinic
Hsian-Rong Tseng, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, UCLA
Our joint research team at UCLA has developed a new cell capture technology for detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood samples collected from metastatic cancer patients. Similar to most of the existing approaches, anti-EpCAM was grafted onto the surfaces to distinguish CTCs from the surrounding hematologic cells. The uniqueness of our technology is the use of nanostructured surfaces, which facilitates local topographical interactions between CTCs and substrates at the very first cell/substrate contacting time point. We demonstrated the ability of these nanostructured substrates to capture CTCs in whole blood samples with significantly improved efficiency and selectivity.
5:10-5:35 Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Technologies for Melanoma
Gavin P. Robertson, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology, Pathology, Dermatology and Surgery, Penn State University; Director, Penn State Melanoma Center, Penn State Melanoma Therapeutics Program, and Foreman Foundation Melanoma Research Laboratory
Melanoma is a highly metastatic cancer disseminating through CTCs in the blood and lymphatic fluids. One gram of tumor tissue in a patient is predicted to slough off one million CTCs per day. Use of these cells as a liquid biopsy of the tumor is important for diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic agent selection. Technological development for the isolation, characterization and study of melanoma CTCs for research and clinical applications are proceeding rapidly. This presentation discusses recent technological advances in the isolation, characterization and study of melanoma CTCs. Human, animal and bioengineered models will be highlighted, detailing studies on melanoma CTCs.
5:35-6:00 Identification and Separation of CTC Subsets
Patricia Burke, Ph.D., Scientist, Translational Medicine Oncology, MedImmune
This talk will address the identification and enrichment of CTCs and subsets of CTCs, and molecular characterization and utility of CTC subsets.
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Earlier today, Jenson Button tackled Australia's famed Bathurst course in a McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 car — the first time an F1 car had run the mountainous route. Button promptly shaved 18 seconds off its record time.
Part of a promotion for the Melbourne Grand Prix and part curiosity by Button, sponsor Vodafone also let Australian V8 Supercar driver Craig Lowndes drive Button's MP4-23. He was just one second slower than Button, at 1:49, although Button said with practice, an F1 could lap the narrow, hilly Bathurst in 1:40. (Hat tip to Joel!)
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Ambassador Zoran Jolevski, joined by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Zoran Stavrevski and Minister of Foreign Investments Bill Pavleski, discussed the southeastern European nation's economic possibilities.
"We are in San Diego presenting Macedonia as a good investment opportunity for businessmen who want to expand their business, or move part of their business to Macedonia," said Stavrevski following the round-table.
Noting Macedonia is stable both politically and economically and has "negotiated trade agreements with other European countries," Stavrevski said, "Our message is that it's a global world where investors need to take a look at their possibilities — and Macedonia is someplace that offers a very attractive package with our low costs."
Asked what types of businesses his country was looking to draw, Stavrevski said, "High technology and manufacturing are our preference. Business outsourcing is another possibility, as we have a lot of young people who speak English."
Macedonia is one of several nations once part of Yugoslavia that became independent a couple of years after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. It's bordered on the south by Greece, on the west by Albania, on the east by Bulgaria and on the north by Serbia and Kosovo.
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