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Aug 25, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – The British biotechnology firm Acambis recently announced its launching of a quest for the Holy Grail of influenza prevention: a vaccine that would protect people from the virus for many years and perhaps even stave off future pandemic strains.
With current technology, flu vaccines have to be retooled every year in a time-consuming effort to cope with minor mutations that enable the flu virus to avoid quick detection by the immune system. But a vaccine based on parts of the virus that stay the same, instead of those that often change, could eliminate the need to bring out a new model every year.
Acambis announced early this month that it was collaborating with Belgium's Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (known as VIB) to replace the annual flu vaccine with a perennial one.
"The aim of the research collaboration would be to generate a 'universal' vaccine candidate that would protect against both A and B strains of influenza and, more importantly, would not require annual changes to the formulation," the company said in its Aug 4 announcement.
The company hopes that such a vaccine could also protect people from a pandemic flu virus, which can arise from a major change, or "antigenic shift," in viral components. With disease experts warning that the H5N1 avian flu virus could turn into a pandemic strain any day, that prospect is doubly attractive. However, availability of such a vaccine is, at best, years away—too far in the future to help combat any near-term pandemic.
The frequent minor changes in flu viruses involve two of the virus's surface proteins, hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, represented by the H and N in names like "H5N1." Hemagglutinin and neuraminidase enable flu viruses to enter host cells and then exit them after replicating. Current vaccines target these highly mutable proteins, making it necessary to adjust the vaccines each year to match the circulating strains.
Acambis's vaccine effort focuses on a far less shifty viral protein, called M2. "A major component of the new [vaccine] candidates," the company said, "will be M2e, the extracellular domain of the ion channel protein M2, which is specific to influenza A. Being highly conserved, M2e is intended to elicit protective immune responses against all strains of influenza A. M2e is incorporated in a unique carrier system that forms highly immunogenic virus-like particles."
Ashley Birkett, Acambis's director of viral immunology in Cambridge, Mass., said the company is working on a separate technology for type B influenza. If the type A and B vaccines both prove effective, combining the two into one shot "would give us a truly universal vaccine," he told CIDRAP News.
The A type vaccine would potentially protect people against pandemic flu, since previous known pandemic strains were type A and future ones are expected to follow suit, Birkett said.
"The advantage of this approach is that the manufacturing relative to the vaccine would be much easier," he said. "It would be the same vaccine year after year."
Since the vaccine wouldn't have to be changed each year, manufacturing could be continuous, instead of occurring each spring and summer after health officials pick the flu strains they think will prevail the following winter. With year-round manufacturing, people could be immunized any time of year, not just in the fall or winter, and vaccine could be stockpiled, Birkett said.
Conventional production of flu vaccine involves growing whole copies of a weakened virus in chicken eggs (though several companies are working on growing flu viruses in cell culture). Acambis's experimental vaccine is manufactured with a "recombinant bacterial fermentation technology," in which bacteria are used to make selected viral proteins, rather than whole virus. "The bacteria can make single proteins for us," Birkett said.
With this technique, the production time for a batch of vaccine is "a matter of weeks," as compared with about 6 months for egg-based vaccine, he said. "But the main difference is you're going to be making the virus year-round. It really comes down to the fact that we don't have to change the product," he added.
Acambis said its initial vaccine candidate is "in pre-clinical development" and has been tested successfully in animals. Two recent journal articles describe successful tests of various versions of the vaccine in mice.
The reports, published in Virus Research and Virology, say that M2e generates only a weak immune response during flu infection and when used in a conventional vaccine. But when it is linked to an appropriate carrier, such as hepatitis B virus core (HBc) particles, it induces a strong antibody response. When various versions of the M2e-HBc combination were used with an adjuvant (a chemical that stimulates the immune system), they fully protected mice from a potentially lethal flu infection, the reports say.
Work on the vaccine has already been going on for several years. Acambis said it acquired the vaccine from Apovia, a US biotechnology firm, earlier this year. Apovia started developing the vaccine in 2000, after licensing the technology from VIB, where Walter Fiers led the research on which the vaccine is based.
Birkett said he couldn't predict when the firm might launch clinical trials or how long it might take to bring the vaccine to licensing, but indications are it will be a lengthy effort.
Theoretically, a perennial flu vaccine is a great concept, said Gregory Poland, MD, a vaccine expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
"One of the real problems we have is that each year, the vaccine is an educated guess," Poland told CIDRAP News, referring to the problem of predicting which flu strains will predominate in a given season. "The other problem is getting large numbers of people to get a vaccine every year."
A single vaccine that would reliably fend off the shifty virus for years would eliminate both of those difficulties. "A flu vaccine that could be given once, twice, or periodically would be a grand slam," said Poland, who is a professor of medicine in infectious diseases at the Mayo College of Medicine and directs the Mayo Vaccine Research Group and Program in Translational Immunovirology.
But Poland was cautious in assessing the likelihood of success.
"We need a proof of principle at this point," he said. "There are a number of entities trying to develop a similar vaccine. I do think it's theoretically possible. From an immunologic point of view, the key will be choosing the right antigen [viral protein] and knowing that the antigen is displayed early in the infection, so that an immune response can be generated early enough to abort the infection. My concern is if you find antigens that are displayed late in the infection, you may generate an immune response too late to do much good."
Birkett acknowledged that the experimental vaccine targets the virus later in its life cycle than conventional vaccines do. "But if you want a universal vaccine, you have to target a component that develops later in the life cycle," he said.
"It's a totally new vaccine approach," he said. "We're confident, we're hopeful, but until we do the [clinical] studies, we won't know for sure [if the vaccine will work]. If it does work, it'll be the Holy Grail. It could meet the need for influenza [protection] year after year."
Acambis is not the only organization pursuing a universal flu vaccine. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is supporting efforts by several other researchers on the same problem.
Andrew Pekosz of Washington University in St. Louis and David Milich of the Vaccine Research Institute in San Diego are working on a vaccine that, like Acambis's, targets the M2 protein of the influenza A virus, according to an article on the NIAID's influenza Web site.
Because relatively few copies of the M2 protein are present on the outer coat of the virus, an M2-based vaccine made from a normal flu strain generates only a weak immune response, the article notes. Milich is addressing this problem by developing a "bulked up" M2 vaccine that contains 240 copies of the protein, which stimulates the production of more antibodies.
Other researchers working on similar vaccines include Walter Gerhard at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and Gary Van Nest at the biotechnology company Dynavax, according to the NIAID. Gerhard's vaccine targets the M2 protein, while Van Nest is using another viral protein, called NP.
Poland predicts it will take years to bring a universal flu vaccine to market, if it can be done at all. "I wouldn't hold my breath that we're going to have a vaccine like this in the next couple of years," he said. "I think proof of principle you could get in a couple of years. For licensure of a vaccine like that, the typical cycle is going to be somewhere in the 7- to 10-year horizon." But he added that it might be possible to speed up the process, especially if the vaccine would be effective against a pandemic virus.
See also:
Aug 5 Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology release
PubMed abstracts with links to full text of reports on M2e influenza vaccine:
A 'universal' human influenza A vaccine (Virus Research 2004)
Universal influenza A vaccine: optimization of M2-based constructs (Virology 2005)


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The U16s match on Saturday against the Seattle Sounders FC was a tough, physical game. In the end, San Jose came out victorious over last year's Northwest Division champions. Seattle got on the scoreboard first with a goal from Duncan McCormick in the 27th minute, but San Jose struck back seven minutes later with a goal from Roberto Mendoza (San Jose, Calif.) in the 34th minute. A second half goal from Andy Perez (San Jose, Calif.) in the 63rd minute capped the scoring as San Jose defeated Seattle 2-1.
On Sunday, Elisama Padilla (Pittsburg, Calif.) found the back of the net twice against Crossfire Premier to lead the U16s to a 3-2 victory. Amir Bashti (San Jose, Calif.) made his first start and scored his first goal in the second minute of the game to open the scoring. Later in the first half, Padilla scored his first goal of the match with a 25th-minute strike. Padilla wasn't done and netted the game winner in the 72nd minute off a beautiful pass in by Sam Junqua.
The U18s held court against a tough Seattle squad until the final four minutes of play. Sounders FC ultimately struck twice to win 2-0. On Sunday, San Jose erased a two-goal deficit to draw even with Crossfire Premier 2-2.
Both academy teams will take next weekend off before resuming play on Nov. 19 when they host Cal Odyssey at the Mustang Soccer Complex (Cytomax Field). The U16s kick off at 2:30 p.m. PT and the U18s kick off at 12:00 p.m. PT.

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text: Serving up bouncy punk-pop that sounds a little like a cheerier take on their former band Mika Miko, Bleached features sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin. After Mika Miko disbanded in 2009, Jennifer took a break from performing music, although she and Jessica continued to write songs together. She moved to New York to pursue her education in fashion design, then spent a stint as Cold Cave's keyboardist and backing vocalist in 2010 and 2011. Meanwhile, Jessica remained in the Clavins' home turf of Los Angeles, playing with the band the Cold Showers. When Jessica returned to L.A., the sisters began to work in earnest on Bleached, playing shows with like-minded bands such as Hunx & His Punx in June 2011 and issuing their first single, Francis, on Ooga Booga Records. That July, the Carter single, which featured the blog buzz track "Think of You," arrived courtesy of Art Fag. By the time their third release, the limited-edition single Searching Through the Past on Suicide Squeeze, arrived that December, Bleached had already adopted a cleaner, more structured sound. This more polished style was evident on the band's first full-length, 2013's Ride Your Heart.


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20 July 2009
2006 Aurielle Cabernet Sauvignon
I thought a New Orleans-style brunch would be a good model for such an odd occasion. I considered making Eggs Hussarde, but I had no desire to make the Marchand de Vin sauce for just two people. (My brother can have one of my kidneys if he needs it. No Marchand de Vin in the small hours of the morning.) So this is basically Eggs Benedict with a slice of Cherokee purple tomato under the ham. Next up on the plate, baby Brussels sprouts with sautéed mushrooms, and a bacon-wrapped 4 oz. sirloin. I thought Bro John was going to break out in tears when the spread was presented to him.
By the way, this was my first time using the plastic wrap method of making poached eggs. I'm now a convert.
My initial plan had been to serve a light white wine, but there were enough strong flavors on the plate to stand up to a red, and my brother's birthday is coming up. So why not pull out something nice? There's a lot of wine out there that gathers dust and eventually spoils because people keep waiting for the perfect occasion. Well, sic transit gloria mundi, you've got to take advantage of these things during that window of opportunity. What's more special than a delicious dinner with your brother before the sun rises? I know that it's now a meal neither of us will ever forget, and with the help of wine, a cherished memory is forged.
The 2006 Aurielle Cabernet Sauvignon is the inaugural release from Aurielle Vineyards. The grapes for this wine came equally from the Howell Mountain and Mount Veeder appellations of Napa Valley. 98.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Cabernet Franc, and .5% Merlot. $90, 14.9% abv. All French oak, 300 cases made. Lovely balance all around, with an initial nose of blueberries, plum, and a touch of spice. Medium tannins and a round body, with a smooth, lingering finish. Over time, hints of nutmeg, leather, and blackberries show up on the tongue. It's got that serious structure to it that makes you pause and contemplate before taking a sip. The wine is great now, but I'd really love to try it in about five years.
This may have seemed like an unorthodox pairing, but it's quite French in its execution. A little extra Hollandaise was wonderful on the sprouts and steak. I'm curious to try this wine with something like a rack of venison or wild boar--those luscious dark fruits always make me think of game.
P.S. For my math, art, and architecture fans, the logo of this wine is a representation of the golden mean or φ. You can find these proportions in nature, in doorways, in statues, all sorts of things. This is also reflected in the name Aurielle, of Latin derivtion for golden.
11 comments:
- Allen said...
That is a breakfast/brunch/late night dinner to remember. Class act.
- 19 July, 2009 20:17
- Benito said...
I've had several memorable late-night meals with you as well. In particular, I remember eating mushrooms for the first time (on a pizza) sometime after midnight when I was around six or seven. I think we watched a Marx Brothers movie while we ate.
Those who have never had to work the odd hours can't truly appreciate how much a good hot meal means at those lonely times. It's why we'll tip 50% at Waffle House if we find ourselves at a yellow booth at 3 a.m.
- 19 July, 2009 20:27
- Allen said...
To all the late night eating places over the years.
Steak and Eggs Kitchen, The Gridiron, CK's and yes the best of all, Waffle House.
Late night movies were always fun. The smoked salmon and Cognac was pretty good Christmas eve of '88.
- 19 July, 2009 20:58
- TWC said...
I couldn't stay up til 4:00 am if Sandra Bullock or Ms September was coming over but I am enthralled with you dedication and the finesse with which you have, apparently, pulled this off.
BTW, this simply cannot be the same Waffle House that exists in some places in the southwest. Or, you were drunk.
- 19 July, 2009 23:06
This was a spectacular meal, and a far cry from my normal breakfast routine. As I have said before, I am lucky to have Ben as my brother.
Thanks again, your cooking is pure genious.
- 20 July, 2009 02:16
- fredric koeppel said...
smoked salmon and cognac on Christmas Eve, '88!? wow, wish I had been there! what a family ...
- 20 July, 2009 06:55
- Samantha Dugan said...
Okay first of all, Awe, how sweet, all of it, the breakfast, the pizza and a movie and the "best brother"...Fredric is right, what a family. Secondly that breakfast looks delicious and what is the Saran Wrap egg method? Lastly, like the new color on your header thing, looks crisper. Thanks for warming my heart this morning Carter men!
- 20 July, 2009 07:29
- Benito said...
Quality varies at Waffle Houses, but when you find a good one it's worth it's weight in gold. Not a lot of late night options around here.
I wrote about the Cognac story in a previous post--it was a lucky confluence of gifts and timing, not a regular part of our Christmas celebrations. Still incredible, though.
The linked instructions explain the plastic wrap poached egg method with pictures. Just put them in a basket or something so they don't touch the bottom of the pan. Much better results than the sad, soggy, floppy things you get from just dropping them in the water.
- 20 July, 2009 07:47
- Michelle said...
That breakfast looks fantastic and even more so knowing you stayed up to do something nice for your brother. Funny the wine label shows the "golden mean" symbol. On my marker tour, tomorrow's marker will mention the "golden section" in reference to the NBC building.
- 20 July, 2009 09:38
- Benito said...
The marker tour has been fascinating reading so far--can't wait to see this next one. And maybe drag myself downtown to check them out in person.
- 20 July, 2009 13:29
My friend you always teach and inform. I love the egg thing will try it this weekend. I also agree with all the others what a specail family the Carters are from Grand Dad to Dad to you two! I am bless to have called you all my friend for fifty years!! I promise your Dad and I have had numerous late nights together, all special. Ask him has he every seen a grown man sleeping on a 2X4???!!?!?! in the back of Rusty with dew on his glasses....and it wasn't your dad..
As always enjoy reading your stuff
Big Mike
- 21 July, 2009 14:18


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Soon however, the fighting of the American Revolution came to Mary Willing Byrd. In January 1781, British troops under Benedict Arnold, whose wife was Byrd's first cousin, took over and occupied Westover. After the British left Westover, taking with them slaves, horses, and two ferryboats, Byrd attempted to regain some of her property under an American flag of truce. This action embroiled her in a controversy, as some Americans believed her to be trading with the enemy. On February 21, 1781, a company of American infantry raided Westover, seizing her papers.
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How mission critical can it be running on NT? RBG ----- Original Message -----
From: <rsands_at_lendleaserei.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Synopsis of a database crash and recovery (or time to bash
> I inherited a production, 'mission critical' (according to
> damagement) database 'running' on an NT server connected to
> an EMC box. We kept experiencing corrupt blocks, and after
> many q&a sessions with the sys admin, I discovered that his
> predecessor had set up the box so that the database, the Oracle
> software and the NT operating system were all actually running
> off the EMC box. (Have no idea what the drives actually on the
> server were doing.) The EMC box also happened to be located two
> floors away, and was connected to the server by a cable that
> wasn't real consistent. I ran nightly hot backups and exports,
> both of which were used frequently until the sys admin could
> reconfigure the box. (but still not unix)
> NT databases can be dangerous. Not only is the os less reliable,
> (IMHO) the ease of setup can create a false sense of security/
> competence and the defaults are set to keep things simple, not
> always the best approach. I agree with all the 'lessons' that
> have been posted: stay on unix when possible, configure carefully,
> run frequent backups, monitor them closely and test frequently.
> Also, be certain that you and the sys admin really understand
> each other when discussing what's actually behind a mount point!!
> Robyn Sands
> Lend Lease REI
> (a former Californian, working for an Australian company, located in
> "Rachel Carmichael" <carmichr_at_hotmail.com> on 06/11/2000 11:03:58 PM
> Please respond to ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> cc: (bcc: Robyn Sands/US1/Lend Lease)
> 5).
> Paul,
> having gone through a somewhat similar experience, my heart goes out to
> I do have one question though:
> how come NO ONE noticed that the exports weren't being done, that the
> backups were being done with an open database and that the tape drive was
> gone and no backups were being done?
> You said that the server crashed in January and that exports and shutdown
> database before backup had therefore not been done since then. HOW COME NO
> ONE NOTICED???????????????????????????????? We are talking over 5 months
> here.
> Rachel
> >From: Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: Synopsis of a database crash and recovery (or time to bash RAID
> >5).
> >Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:54:06 -0800
> >
> >This past week, an Oracle Database (v7.3.4 Workgroup) on WinNT Server
> >4.0 crashed at a remote Client Site. Database running NOARCHIVELOG.
> >Single RAID 5 volume (4 drives), single hardware RAID controller.
> >It was determined that the root cause of the crash was a faulty RAID
> >controller - and that the volume was unavailable for read/write.
> >That's where the problem seemingly started.
> >Okay, not a huge deal yet, as we have 2 options for recovery - last cold
> >backup, or import last full export (executed fresh daily).
> >It turned out that the tape drive had failed weeks earlier - and no
> >backups had been taken in quite some time.
> >Uh oh. Okay, well - we still have the dump file, right?
> >Wrong.
> >In January this server had a catastrophic failure during a move - and
> >had to be restored from tape.
> >Backup was made with NTBackup - without backing up the registry. Had to
> >re-install oracle binaries.
> >Database was restored and online in 4.5 hours after the call was
> >reported - not great, not bad.
> >What did not take place was the re-scheduling of jobs run by the
> >operating system.
> >Without the scheduled jobs running - the database had not been shut down
> >before *cold* backups.
> >So those backups were worthless *hot* backups run without taking
> >tablespaces offline.
> >Without the scheduled jobs running - the daily export job had not
> >executed.
> >So the recovery options are from an export from January, before the
> >crash then.
> >Okay, we'll try to recover the database.
> >Startup mount - no problem. Can view all of the datafiles, status is
> >Can view the online redo logs - all seem to be fine.
> >Alter database open - ORA-03113 - end of file on communication channel.
> >Core dump.
> >Attempted to mount and recover database - received mesage that no
> >recovery was needed.
> >Called oracle support.
> >
> >Opened a severity 1 TAR.
> >
> >Support stepped me through attempts to re-open and recover the database.
> >Still ORA-03113.
> >Got a full backup of all the existing files before they broke out the
> >jackhammer.
> >After exhausting all options, had to force open the database - which was
> >them corrupted.
> >I purposely forgot that init parameter used to force it open - I never
> >want to see it again.
> >Got most of the data out - still some was inaccessible - so recovery was
> >incomplete.
> >This event cost me more than 2 days of time that I didn't have.
> >Grabbed the compressed export files and imported them into a new
> >instance on my machine at work.
> >The crashed Server was rebuilt during this time - 2 RAID 1 volumes (new
> >RAID controller) - new OS install.
> >
> >** What I really wanted to get across is this: **
> >If you're a relatively new to managing Oracle Databases - particularly
> >on WinNT - please understand this:
> >
> >Running all files on a single RAID 5 volume is extremely bad.
> >Log files and control files most certainly should not be stored on RAID
> >5 volumes.
> >Swap space on RAID 5? Are you kidding?
> >(A well-tuned Oracle Instance won't be using the OS pagefile.sys at all
> >anyway)
> >
> >As someone else on the list once said: (to summarize)
> >
> >You're better off running JBOD (just a bunch of drives) that run only
> >Maybe just mirror your OS and oracle binaries, control files, parameter
> >files.
> >Have the other drives set up as single drive RAID 0 volumes (or no
> >Have a solid backup strategy in place, configure a disaster recovery
> >agent to avoid a bare metal recovery.
> >If the database is going to be at a remote site, use third party backup
> >utilities for hot backups.
> >Its not that hard to write the hot backup script - but it is more
> >difficult to restore from a home-grown script than to have a GUI in
> >front of the user that may be performing the recovery.
> >If you wrote the scripts to perform the hot backup - you *will* be
> >performing the recovery.
> >If its just a pre-configured restore job to run in a tool such as
> >Veritas NT Backup - even a Mac User could run it.
> >
> >If you get the chance to specify the box - use multiple RAID controllers
> >and DUPLEX across them.
> >When the machine loses a RAID controller - you can keep running until
> >the new one arrives, without even a hiccup.
> >
> >I haven't completely sworn off RAID 5 - I think that its a good option
> >compared with running RAID 0 for READ ONLY tablespaces. But for anything
> >that you have to write to - I would have to recommend against it.
> >
> >As far as recovery options running NOARCHIVELOG - there are 4:
> > recover from cold backup
> > recover from logical export
> > dice.com (dbajobs.com, etc.).
> > the 10K tool from Oracle.
> >
> >My ideal config uses 2 dual-channel RAID controllers, you have 4 I/O
> >channels - 2 internal and 2 external. The newer 5U rack mount storage
> >cabinets can contain up to 14 drives.
> >Just demand the "extra hardware".
> >Make sure that the backplanes are split - internal and external. Order
> >the extra cables needed.
> >Duplex all RAID volumes. Yes, you'll take a slight hit on throughput.
> >Big deal.
> >One more pair of drives would meet OFA standards (7 vols). Couldn't fit
> >it in this config.
> >So I put system on volume 0.
> >
> >Volume RAID Drives Size GB tablespaces Stores
> >0 1 2 8.7 System OS, Oracle Binaries, Control
> >1 1 2 8.7 4 online redo_logs, archlogs, export
> >2 1 2 8.7 RBS control file2
> >3 1 2 8.7 TEMP control file3
> >
> >This config had 6 internal drives, 8 external drives - no hot spares.
> >I like the idea of having a pair of drives that are only writing
> >actively to the redo logs. (except for nightly exports).
> >This keeps the drive heads on the current redo log track - not searching
> >all over the drive for whatever block is asked of it.
> >If the drive heads are already on the right track, 1/10,000th of a
> >second isn't long to wait for a write, compared with a 7 ms avg seek
> >time.
> >With Ultra 160/m drives these days and 64 bit, 66 MHz PCI buses, access
> >times are the rate-limiting factor - not pure I/O throughput.
> >If you have a write-back cache enabled, its not such an issue - but I'm
> >still a little sceptical to enable that, even with a battery backup on
> >the controller card and a UPS feeding the server.
> >
> >One more thing - the entire GUI concpt usually lacks the most important
> >thing - a scripted way to reproduce the configuration that you just
> >made. If you are going to re-create from bare metal, you have to be able
> >to reproduce all of your Database's settings.
> >Don't use the GUI NT Resouce Kit scheduler for adding jobs - do it with
> >a script so that these jobs can be reproduced.
> >Recovery from a tape backup won't restore the scheduled jobs.
> >
> >drakonian.
> >--
> >Author: Paul Drake
> > INET: paled_at_home.com
> >
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Last month, we received confirmation that David Cronenberg had written a sequel to his 1986 classic horror film, The Fly. At the time, Cronenberg explained "The Fly is not exactly a remake, it's sort of a sequel, kinda. Yeah, that was a thing. I've written a script of that, and I don't know if that's going to really happen, but that has to do with Fox." According to The Playlist, Fox has made their decision and that decision is to pass on the movie. This doesn't mean Fox won't remake The Fly at some point, but if they do, it probably won't be with Cronenberg. On the one hand, it frees him up to visit new territory, but it also opens the door that some hacky director could come in and deliver a pointless new version (e.g. The Thing).
However, Cronenberg isn't moving on to completely new material. Hit the jump for an update on Eastern Promises 2.
When we reported on Eastern Promises 2 (unofficial title) back in March 2010, it sounded like everything was set with Viggo Mortensen reprising his role as Russian gangster Nikolai, original writer Steven Knight penning the script, and Focus Features was on board. However, it looks like the film is still churning through development hell. Cronenberg tells The Playlist:
"Eastern Promises might happen," the director said. "There is a script that we all like, including Viggo, and Focus is interested." I'm interested in anything Cronenberg does especially with Mortensen on board, but I'm fine letting the Eastern Promises sequel develop at its own pace.
Cronenberg's new film, A Dangerous Method, opens in limited release on November 23rd. His next movie, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis, will likely open next year.


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It's been 11 years since the mega-sequel "Toy Story 2" hit the screens. Eleven years since we've seen Woody, Buzz and the gang on the big screen.
As "Toy Story 3" presents that rare combination of box-office might and critical kudos, it poses the question -- what took so long?
Director Lee Unkrich blames the long 'Toy Story" layoff on corporate friction between Pixar and Disney, which was distributor of the films at the time.
"We had an idea of the third, right after we finished the second," Unkrich said at the "Toy Story 3" press day. "I remember right after we finished I was at ("Toy Story 2" director) John Lasseter's house and he put his arm around me and said, 'Let's do it right now. Let's make it three.'"
"He was ready to go and we had an idea that he thought was pretty cool."
But due to complex Disney and Pixar issues, the project was stalled until Disney bought Pixar four years ago.
"Those issues went away and we were finally able to make it."
The old idea for the story proved outdated when the Pixar crew gathered for a two-day "Toy Story" brainstorming offsite.
"Within 20 minutes we had shot it down," said Unkrich. He declined to say what the old idea was, but did make it clear that the crew started the story from "nothing."
"But we had the idea of Andy growing up," Unkrich said. "This allowed us to think long and hard about what it would be like when it comes to that day as a toy when your owner is leaving you. It seemed like the right emotional place to set the story."
The movie does feature a flashback to better times with the toys. "We call it 'the golden age,' " said Unkrich. "It's the summer following 'Toy Story 2.' It's the golden age of the life of the toys. This was the white hot center when the toys were the most important thing to Andy."
Sadly, those days end pretty quick. The toys, even Woody, start off their present life neglected in the toy box. Until the adventures really begin.


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For poet and musician Tanya Davis, being alone is a necessary part of life.
"I have this thing where I think if I spend time alone, I will spend better time with people later," said Davis, 34, on a recent phone interview from her hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia. "I think I can be more comfortable with myself when I nurture solitude, and I'm not scared of the sad stuff that arises when I'm alone."
Davis discussed the need to be alone often with her friend Andrea Dorfman, a filmmaker and artist, which sparked an idea for them to team up and create a video poem on the topic.
"There is so much video art these days, and we thought this could be a way to get more poetry out there," she said.
Using Davis' poem and music, combined with Dorfman's filmaking skills and animation, "How to Be Alone" was originally a short film that played in film festivals, but when they decided to put it on YouTube in 2010, it went viral.
"Within a week of it being on YouTube, it started snowballing out quite fast," she said. "We went into our local radio station here in Halifax when it was at 100,000 views and it reached a million views rather quickly. It just caught on. Now it's at nearly 6 million views. It's really been amazing."
The viral video led to a book deal filled with Davis' words and Dorfman's illustrations called "How to Be Alone" (Harper) as well as a dialogue with fans about the pressures to fit in and be accepted.
"Being alone feels very vulnerable, and I think if we strip everything away we all just want to connect to other people," she said. "And when we try to fit in it creates this illusion that we will be more loved, we will be more accepted, therefore we will be more connected. We need to be who we are, and not who we think people want us to be."
Here are some of Davis' tips on how to be alone.
Embrace the pain.
"I'm a pretty sensitive person and I spend a lot of time alone thinking and there can be a lot of suffering in there once we're observing what's going on inside our heads or inside our hearts or in the world," she said. "It can be sad and isolating. But there's a lot of joy and beauty too. It's important to be with both — the joy and the pain."
Get outside.
"Every city and town everywhere has a park and they are there for community to gather as well, but they're also there for people to go and sit, alone," Davis said. "It's helpful for me to be outside to get out of my head. If I sit alone somewhere and sit at the ocean it's a bit of a reality check for me that it's a big world and I'm just one tiny spot in it. I find that comforting."
Go to a café, restaurant or library by yourself.
"One of my favorite things to do is to be alone in cafes," she said. "I tour as a poet and as a musician as well and I tour alone and I get fueled by sitting alone in coffee shops or public libraries. People are fascinating and I like to watch them and I get a lot of stimulus in those kinds of places. That's one of my favorite ways to spend alone time in public. It's nice to have private time in public. I think, 'I am alone but also I am connected to all of this.'"
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Be open to a conversation if someone interrupts your solitude.
"Not so long ago I was in another city and I was in a public square alone and there were kids playing and this kid came up and sat down near me," Davis said. "I didn't acknowledge him because I didn't feel like talking to him at first but then he said, 'What are you doing?' and I softened and we had this little chat about nothing in particular but it was so easy and so nice. So it was this little reminder of how we can look around at people and engage in them and smile because whenever someone engages me it softens me very quickly and I'm usually grateful."
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Due to an "eligibility issue," seven-foot Syracuse sophomore center Fab Melo will not play in the men's basketball championship, the team announced on their official website Tuesday.
ESPN reported that it was an repeated academic issue. Melo missed three games earlier this season with reports of another academic-related problem.
Without Melo in the lineup, Syracuse suffered their only loss in Big East play on Jan. 21.
After a rough rookie season, Melo bounced back strong as a sophomore. A key factor in Syracuse's offensive rebounding game and defense with his blocking ability, Melo was a cog in the team's 2-3 zone defense this season. His solid play in the post and in-transition gave him even more value. His size also helped his teammates get the neccesary space to shoot.
Without Melo, the team will rely on the streaky shooting of Kris Joseph and Dion Waiters and the rebounding ability of C.J. Fair.
This season Melo has averaged 7.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and led the team with 88 blocks.
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It was also reported that he did not travel with the team to Pittsburgh for their game against UNC-Ashville.


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New: Bicyclist Shot in Berkeley Identified
Police have identified a woman on a bicycle who was fatally shot in Berkeley late Tuesday night.
Pamula Mullins, 50, of Berkeley was found suffering from a gunshot wound on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of Derby Street at 11:36 p.m.
Officers responded after receiving a report of what appeared to be bicycle crash, police said.
Mullins was pronounced dead at the scene.
The death marks Berkeley's fourth homicide this year, police said.
Police are investigating the death, and are asking anyone with information on the case to call the department's homicide unit at (510) 981-5741, the non-emergency number at (510) 981-5900, or Bay Area Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477). Callers can remain anonymous, police said.


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My friend Yvonne was already at the front door when I woke, so at first I didn't realize that my mother was missing.
It was less than a week after my son Spencer died. Since that day, a constant stream of friends had been coming and going, bringing casseroles and soup, love, support and chatter. Mom hated it.
My 94-year-old mother, who has vascular dementia, has been living in my home in upstate New York for the past few years. Like many with dementia, mom is courteous but, underneath, irascible. Pride defines her, especially pride in her Phi Beta Kappa intellect. She hates to be confronted with how she has become, as she calls it, "stupid."
The parade of strangers confused her. She had to be polite, field solicitous questions, endure mundane comments. She could not remember what was going on or why people were there. It must have been stressful and annoying.
That night, like every night since the state troopers brought the news, I woke hourly, tumbling in panic. As if it were not too late to save my son. Mom knew something was wrong, but she could not remember what. As I overslept that morning, she must have decided enough was enough. She was going home.
In a cold sky, the sun blazed over tall pines. As I opened the door, the dogs raced out to greet Yvonne and her two housecleaners. Yvonne often brags about her cleaning duo. They were her gift to me. They were going to clean my house before the funeral reception, which was scheduled for later that week. This was a very big gift because, like my mother before me, I am a very bad housekeeper.
Mom's door was shut. I cautioned the housecleaners to avoid her room as I showed them around. Yvonne went to the kitchen to listen to the 37 unheard messages on my answering machine; the housecleaners went out to their van to get their instruments of dirt removal.
I ducked into Mom's room to warn her about the upcoming noise. The bed was unmade; the floor was littered with crumpled tissues; the room was empty.
Normally, I would have freaked out right then. I knew Mom was not in the house, because I had just shown the whole house to the cleaners. Although Mom doesn't wander like some dementia patients, she does on occasion run away. But I could not muster a shred of anxiety.
"Yvonne," I called, "did you see my mother outside?"
Yvonne popped her head into the living room, eyebrows raised."Outside? No!" She was alarmed. "Is she missing?"
"Yeah," I said wearily, "I'll look." I stepped out onto the front porch, tightening the belt of my bathrobe and turning up the collar. Maybe she had walked off into the woods. The dogs danced around my legs, wanting breakfast.
I had no space left in my body to care. Either we would find her, or we would not. Either she was alive, or she was not. My child was gone. How could I care about anything ever again?
Then I saw my car was missing. My mouth fell open and my eyeballs rolled up to the right, gazing blindly at the abandoned bird's nest on top of the porch light: What had I done with the keys?
Mom likes to run away in the car when she is angry. She used to do it a lot when my father was still alive — every time they fought. Since Mom took off in my car almost a year ago, after we had had a fight, I'd kept the keys hidden. Except for this week; this week, I had forgotten.
I was reverting to old habits. I had left the doors unlocked and the keys in the cupholder next to the driver's seat. Exactly like Mom used to do.
"Uh-oh," I said aloud. Mom was still capable of driving, even though she did not know where she was going. I just really, really hoped that she didn't hurt anybody on the road. I pulled out my cellphone, about to call the police.
"Celia!" Yvonne shouted from the kitchen. She hurried up behind me, excited. "They found your mother. There are two messages on your machine."
At that very moment, Mom was holed up at the College Diner in New Paltz, a 20-minute drive over the mountain, through the fields, left over the Wallkill River and away down Main Street.
Yvonne called the diner. They promised to keep the car keys until someone arrived. By that time, Yvonne had to go to work. She drove my friend Elizabeth to the diner, and Elizabeth drove Mom home in my car.
Half an hour later, they walked in the front door. Mom's cheeks were rouged by the chill air and her eyes sparkled, her white hair riffing with static electricity. "Hello, hello," she sang out. "Here we are." She was wearing the flannel nightgown and robe I had dressed her in the night before. It was covered by her oversized purple parka, and her bare feet were shoved into sneakers.
I started laughing as soon as I saw her. I couldn't help it. Elizabeth and Mom started laughing too. "You had a big adventure," I said, hugging them both. "How are you?"
"I'm just marvelous," said my mother. Mom always feels great after doing something rakish. We settled her on the sofa with her feet on the ottoman. By the time I got her blanket tucked in around her shoulders, she had fallen asleep.
Elizabeth couldn't stop laughing as she described the scene. "Your mother was holding court in this big booth. She was sitting there in her nightgown and her parka, talking to everybody, with this plate of toast and coffee and, like, three of the staff hovering around her."
The waitress said Mom seemed "a little disoriented" when she got there. Mom said she was meeting a friend for breakfast, but since she was wearing a nightgown and didn't know whom she was meeting or where she lived, the staff thought there might be a problem. They convinced Mom to let them look in the glove compartment of the car, where they found my name and number.
It was then that I realized I was laughing – something I'd thought I would never be able to do again. "Elizabeth, Elizabeth, I'm laughing," I said.
"Ha, ha, ha," laughed Elizabeth, holding her belly.
"Ha, ha, ha," I laughed, rolling on the floor.
And she who gave me life, who had suffered the death of my child and the extinction of her own intellect, snoozed on: oblivious, jubilant, still herself, still mine.


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English Speaking: Giving presentations in English (Repeat) Extra run
This course is intended for non-native speakers who wish to improve their skills in giving presentations in English.
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|Fresh tangerines and juice. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books
The name Lewis Grizzard probably doesn't mean much to readers from outside of Georgia these days, but in his lifetime he was the most popular writer in my home state and throughout the Southeast. He was only 47 when he died of complications from heart surgery in 1994, but produced 25 books of Southern humor, mostly culled from his Atlanta Journal columns.
Grizzard was a master of the one-liner, many of which became his book titles - "Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, Don't You Know Them Taters Got Eyes," "My Daddy was Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun," "Shoot Low Boys, They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies," "When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I be Too Old to Care?" and "Elvis is Dead and I Don't Feels So Good Myself."
He was of a certain breed of Southern male true to his post-war generation. He was a good ol' boy faithful to his almost-alma mater, the University of Georgia, and a bit of a misogynist. Even in his heyday in the 1980s, his opinions on women seemed crazy outdated. Maybe that's why he was married four times. Maybe what's crazy is that a lot of female readers loved him anyway. You see, Lewis Grizzard was most of all a mama's boy, disparaging his ex-wives in his columns, but always putting his mama on a pedestal. After she passed, he collected those columns in a book titled "Don't Forget to Call Your Momma - I Wish I Could Call Mine." (a line that my mama reminds me was borrowed from Bear Bryant)
Lewis' mama babied her little boy, making him breakfast with fresh-squoze orange juice every day. And that's what I think about when I see three-pound bags of tangerines on sale for 49 cents apiece - fresh-squoze orange juice for my little girls. I used my hand-juicer and squoze every last one of those luscious fruit for the sweetest juice for my babies' breakfast.
My eldest daughter, the read-a-holic, pulled Grizzard's "If Love Were Oil, I'd Be a Quart Low" off the shelf a few months ago and recounted all of Lewis' stories of love and marriage gone wrong. We laughed about the stories, and I told her it's ok to laugh, but be careful of Mama's Boys - they will break your heart.
Make your babies some fresh-squoze o.j. now that citrus is cheap and plentiful. I found the 49 cent bags of tangerines at Aldi, my favorite shop for produce deals. It's super-easy to juice fruit and you don't need expensive equipment, although electric juicers are nice to have around.
Fresh Squoze Orange Juice (or other citrus)
in memory of Lewis Grizzard
Fresh citrus such as oranges or tangerines, sliced in half
1. Using a juicer, either a hand-press or electric model, squeeze the fruit. If doing this by hand, be sure to pick out the seeds or use a sieve set over a bowl. Store in a sealed container in the fridge until ready to use. No need to add sugar or other sweetener - your kids will be amazed at how sweet fresh-squoze fruit can be.
To learn more about Lewis Grizzard, check out his official website, Lewis Grizzard.com. .
Are you a Grizzard fan? Did you ever have a chance to meet him ( I had a couple of encounters that I'll write about soon)? I often think about what he would say about politics and popular culture in the 21st century. Did your mama make fresh squoze juice for you? Let me know in the comments.