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not a one-hit wonder...Originally Posted by Emon74
meron din siyang "love, thy will be done" at "colored kisses"...
DAMN! early '90s high school-era guilty pleasures... :D
not a one-hit wonder...Originally Posted by Emon74
meron din siyang "love, thy will be done" at "colored kisses"...
DAMN! early '90s high school-era guilty pleasures... :D
Try ko lang.... ;D
Where You Goin' Now? -- Damn Yankees
How Do You Talk To An Angel? -- The Heights
Suaviter In Modo,
Fortiter In Re
Proud Packer
Originally Posted by pablohoney
Local naman.
Sino dito ang may kopya ng videoke hit na "Pasumpa-sumpa Ka Pa, T*ngna Ka" by Milyo Naryo? Hehe.
I stopped saying "LOL" ten years ago.
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5 One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve Your Respect
By Adam Tod Brown March 21, 2012 999,367 views
There is no bigger double-edged sword when it comes to a music career than being labeled a one-hit wonder. Sure, it's embarrassing to have that kind of label attached to your name, placing you squarely in the same league with such luminaries as Young MC and Vanilla Ice. But it's better than being a no-hit wonder, right? Of course, the answer to that question is a resounding ... "sometimes." See, in a lot of instances, the bands you know as one-hit wonders are actually much more than that. So much so that having that one gigantic hit probably did more harm to their reputations than good, because it completely overshadowed all of the other great things they accomplished. Like who? Glad you asked! Here are five one-hit wonders who deserve your respect ...
#5. a-ha
You Know Them As ...
... the band with that half pencil-drawn/half live-action music video that people still fawn over to this day as one of the most innovative of all time. The video in question is for the song "Take on Me," which you probably pretend to hate. You're just lying to yourself, though, because it's pretty damn wonderful. The sooner you accept that, the sooner we can be friends again. In the meantime, here's the video, in case you don't remember it:
But after that one iconic video, the band known as a-ha was basically never seen from again in the United States. They're the very definition of a one-hit wonder, right? Not really. They Are Also ... ... one of the 50 highest grossing musical acts in the world. At least they were in 2010. No, seriously, you can read all about it here, provided you don't mind running an entire article through Google Translate. Why the lack of English language sources to back up the claim? Because, to put it bluntly, the U.S. doesn't give two shits about a-ha anymore. But, much like soccer, the rest of the world thinks they're quite entertaining. Over the course of a career that started in 1982 and has been going strong ever since, a-ha has sold more than 36 million albums and 15 million singles worldwide. Love for a-ha is especially strong in their native Norway, where the band has racked up an impressive 10 Spellemannprisens. I know, you're all like, "Come on, Adam, that's a lot of Spellemannprisens for just one band, you must be lying."
Oh, what's that? Your real response was "What in the motherfuck is a Spellemannprisen?" I guess that's an understandable reaction, too. Basically, a Spellemannprisen is the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy, and a-ha has won a bunch of them. In fact, at the 2011 Spellemannprisen awards show, the band was given an honorary award with the words "Our Heroes -- Once upon a time, now -- Still and forever" inscribed on it. Heroes! Bruce Springsteen would literally have to rescue a small child from a roaring house fire before anyone started handing him "hero" awards. All in all, they've had a pretty impressive run for a band that damn near everyone in the United States lost all memory of sometime around 1986.
#4. Dexys Midnight Runners
You Know Them As ...
... three words: "Come on Eileen." It's one of those songs that people either love or hate. There's not much middle ground. I don't think it's particularly awful, but I have friends who could probably be talked into starting a bar fight with the person bold enough to play "Come on Eileen" on the jukebox. If you've never heard the song, here's hoping the cave you live in has enough Internet connectivity to watch this video:
No matter what side of the "Come on Eileen" fence you fall on, there's one thing we can all agree on. No band that dresses like their main musical influence is that banjo-playing kid from Deliverance is worthy of anything resembling respect, right? They Are Also ... ... not nearly as awful as you think. I know, that's not the greatest argument of all time, but hear me out. See, it's not like Dexys Midnight Runners always wore those ridiculous get-ups. What they did do is make the ill-fated decision to change their "look" to reflect the musical direction of each of their albums. So, they weren't really the band of British hillbillies that most people take them for; they just happened to record an album with a bunch of fiddles on it and decided that the only logical next step was to dress up like they hailed from the furthest reaches of the Appalachians. In fact, on their first album (that's right, they had more than one), they just kind of looked like every other British band of the late '70s. In other words, they looked like the Clash.
Granted, as far as music goes, they definitely were not the Clash. But give the above video a listen if you haven't already. You might be shocked to find that, in their day, Dexys Midnight Runners were a pretty good band. They just dressed like a bunch of idiots occasionally and happened to have released one of the most simultaneously loved and hated songs of all time. And guess what, they're still together! Well, by "still" I mean "reunited after 26 years." And they don't look nearly as ridiculous this time around. Slightly ridiculous, yes. But at least they aren't dressed like former WWE wrestler Hillbilly Jim anymore. That has to count for something toward your opinion of them, right?
#3. Devo
You Know Them As ...
... those weirdos in the red plastic hats who made that "Whip It" song in the '80s and then promptly vanished. I can't imagine how you would have lived your life in complete ignorance of this song, but just in case, here's the video:
Do people hate Devo? I guess I'm not 100 percent sure. I trust the comments section will let me know. For my part, I figure people look at them more as some sort of quirky oddity that made a blip on the 1980s radar (the kind with just a black and green display, no doubt) and went on to smaller and lesser things after that. They Are Also ... ... massively influential. To be completely honest, when I was researching this article and saw Devo on a list of the Top 100 One-Hit Wonders, I was kind of perplexed. Sure, they only had one big hit, but do they really deserve to be lumped in with the likes of Rockwell and Gerardo?
But, you know, they did just kind of have that one hit, so I guess the title fits. But seriously, these guys are revered among alt-rock and industrial music types. Kurt Cobain cited them as one of his favorite bands and even included a cover of a Devo song called "Turnaround" on the Incesticide album. If you're into any band that favors odd time signatures or the occasional synthesizer, they probably listened to a lot of Devo. And it's not like they just listened to "Whip It" on repeat for days on end. We're talking about a band that has nine albums to their name. That isn't a number that a band that only had one decent song going for it would put up. Hell, they were influencing big name artists before "Whip It" was even released. Take Neil Young, for example. The title of his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps came about after Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh suggested it. Young would later cast them in his film Human Highway, a movie so wonderfully terrible that the poster featured a quote that said "It's so bad, it's going to be huge." It wasn't. But still, they were in it! Neil Young even let them do the soundtrack for the film.
Which makes for a nice segue into this tidbit. Devo founder Mark Mothersbaugh is also responsible for like every movie soundtrack ever. Seriously, check out the list. But please, try to ignore the fact that his most recent work is Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. He was also involved in the good shit, like Pee-wee's Playhouse, Rushmore and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. If you've seen that last movie, then you already know that the soundtrack was literally the only thing it had going for it.
^^^ (Cont'd )
#2. Faith No More
You Know Them As ...
Alright, this band might be a little bit harder for some of you to remember. Their only "hit" was 1989's "Epic." You might remember it as one of the first times white people with electric guitars decided to rap on MTV.
Ugh. I'll be the first to admit it. I fucking hate this song. But it was gigantically popular in its day. Apparently, someone way up the chain isn't too fond of it anymore, because the closest thing I can find that resembles an official video doesn't allow embedding. So, you know, click that link if the video I embedded here gets taken down. I understand that the attention that comes with a major comedy site taking time out from making fun of everything in its path to instead lavish praise on someone might not be the attention record labels crave. Because they're stupid. Anyway, like I said, I'm not crazy about this song, but it doesn't matter. Because there's way more to the Faith No More story than this horribly cheesy tune. They Are Also ... ... one of the few bands on earth who can be credited with inventing an entire genre of music. For real, Faith No More is often credited as literally having invented alternative metal. Whether that's completely true or not is open for debate, but I promise you this, there are plenty of people out there who would likely have to be restrained from punching you if you dismissed Faith No More as a one-hit wonder. Granted, that's mostly because the kind of people who listen to "alternative metal" are also the kind of people who like to solve disputes with punches to the face, but still, it should give you some indication of the band's influence. And that claim didn't arise from the one song that briefly made them household names. They were around in one form or another as far back as 1981. Unfortunately, their influence doesn't end with "alternative metal." There's also something out there known as "nu-metal" that describes the Limp Bizkit rap/rock types of the world. Where do you think Fred Durst got the idea that subpar rapping and loud guitars were a great idea? Go watch that video posted above if you haven't already and you will find your answer.
So, respect Faith No More for ushering in a new sound in heavy metal, while also damning their name for bringing the world Limp Bizkit. Either way, they're far from one-hit wonders.
#1. Chumbawamba
You Know Them As ...
... the ridiculously named U.K. band who has doomed us all to a lifetime of hearing the following lyrics every time people gather to drink alcohol in large quantities:
"He drinks a whiskey drink/He drinks a vodka drink/He drinks a lager drink/He drinks a cider drink"
The song is called "Tubthumping." If the lyrics don't jog your memory, here's the video: http://www.metrolyrics.com/passenger...umbawamba.html
If you were alive in 1997, you probably heard that song 500 times in the span of four months and, as a result, hate this band with every fiber of your being. While I accept that "Tubthumping" is an epic achievement in the field of music that makes people want to shoot their radio, please understand, there's more to Chumbawamba than just that one dreadful song. They Are Also ... ... one of the most raucously political bands of the last 30 years (they've also been releasing albums for well over 30 years). However, describing Chumbawamba as merely a "political" band would be like describing the ocean as merely "moist." No, that shit is wet, moist doesn't begin to explain it. And "political" doesn't begin to describe Chumbawamba. If you're looking for a better one-word description, you'd be a lot closer to the truth if you used the word "anarchists." Remember Live Aid? It was a massive concert that spanned several continents, all for the benefit of victims of famine in Ethiopia. Who could possibly take issue with that? Chumbawamba could, that's who. In their opinion, Live Aid was all a corporate sham designed to deflect attention from the real causes of world hunger. So, in protest, they released an album called Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records.
Pretty ballsy, right? Awesomely, their antics only got more insane after "Tubthumping" made them (in)famous. First, they saw their albums pulled from the shelves of Virgin Records stores after they appeared on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect and instructed fans who couldn't afford their new album to shoplift it from major retail chains instead. Then, while performing "Tubthumping" at a British awards show, vocalist Danbert Nobacon (I'm not making that name up, but he might be) noticed a familiar face in the audience, walked up to the man and poured a jug of water on him. That man was U.K. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. To put that in U.S.A. terms, imagine someone from Rage Against the Machine throwing a water balloon at Joe Biden during the Grammys. It's kind of a bold step. Oh, and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the band's 2000 B-side "Passenger List for Doomed Flight 1721," which is basically just them rattling off a list of people they wish would die in a plane crash, including everyone from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Bono to goddamn Ally McBeal. You can see the complete list here: http://www.metrolyrics.com/passenger...umbawamba.html
^ Tokayo, binuhay mo! Baka ma-straight jacket na ako dito for seemingly laughing out loud for no reason...
Pero nasasaktan ako kasi guilty pleasure ko si Eileen at hitik na hitik ang mp3 player ko ng a-Ha....
Mabalik sa one hit wonders:
Join the Club with their very very very mild hit Nobela. This band and its vocalist is destined for obscurity for relying heavily on vocal gimics (too much falsetto, "pa rock" sounding epek) and pa rock star look (meaning bad hair life and mukhang hindi naliligo)
... na LSS tuloy ako... when vincent dafalong you must whip it...
The Making of Band Aid: Secrets and Stories From the Star-Studded Session
Sting, Boy George, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and more take us behind "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
By Lori Majewski | November 25, 2014
It's not yet Thanksgiving, but those commercial-free holiday-music marathons are already inescapable. Listen long enough and, after repeat playings of Mariah Carey and Mannheim Steamroller, you'll eventually be treated to that darkest of year-end chestnuts: Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
"The lyrics are bleak, but essentially so, and a welcome change from the bromides of mistletoe and the saccharine Christmas fare that is usually served up," says Sting, recalling the charity single he recorded 30 years ago on November 25th as a member of the mostly-British supergroup.
Nearly 40 artists many of the biggest acts of the early Eighties, like Duran Duran, Culture Club, Wham!, even a then-bubbling-under U2 converged that day at London's Sarm Studios in response to a harrowing BBC report on the starving victims of the Ethiopian famine. And every year since, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" reminds us, as we gobble down our holiday dinners, that "there's a world outside your window/it's a world of dread and fear." Then, in its bluntest moment: "Tonight thank God it's them instead of you."
"It was a song written for a specific purpose: to touch people's heartstrings and to loosen the purse strings," says ex-Ultravox singer Midge Ure, who wrote the song with Band Aid organizer Bob Geldof, frontman for the Boomtown Rats. "[The lyrics] had to be brutal. We were looking at television pictures of children spending five minutes trying to stand up."
"Band Aid and Live Aid were a great contradiction to what people thought, another side of the decade," says Boy George. "The Eighties were about greed and excess we were called Thatcher's Children."
"We got lumped in with Thatcherism because people thought we were living the high life," adds Simon Le Bon. One reason Le Bon and his contemporaries found Band Aid so attractive, he says, was because it "was this opportunity to do something that wasn't about 'me.' It made you feel you could do something useful. We made young people believe they had some kind of power and were able to do something that did have an effect."
In stores just three days after it was recorded, "Do They Know" remained the U.K.'s biggest-selling record until Elton John's Princess Diana tribute version of "Candle in the Wind" overtook it almost 15 years later.
Earlier this month, new group of stars came together (at the U.N.'s request) to record a 30th anniversary update, but Geldof himself still has trouble hearing the original. "I associate it with the meat counter at my local supermarket," he says. "Every time I arrive to buy the fucking turkey, I hear [hums the song's intro]. The butcher looks at me with a little smile and I go, 'Yeah, yeah. Give me the fucking turkey, dude.'"
Here, he and his cast of musicians detail their world-changing session and share some of their favorite untold stories from the making of the hit.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" began life as a rejected Boomtown Rats tune.
Midge Ure: Bob turned up at my place with a guitar that looked as though he'd found it in a dump. It had hardly any strings on it. He started singing me this thing it was obvious he was making it up as he went along. He sounded like a demented Bob Dylan. There was no melody, no structure and every time he sang it, it sounded different. He presented me the idea for the lyrics, the "It's Christmastime, there's no need to be afraid." My main contribution was changing "And there won't be snow in Ethiopia this Christmas," which doesn't scan in anybody's book. We changed that to "Africa," and we wrote the middle section together: "Here's to you, raise a glass for everyone," which is the nod to the irony of [it being a] Christmas record.
Simon Le Bon thought "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was going to be a duet between him and Sting.
Simon Le Bon: I was the first one Bob called. He called out of the blue and said, "Simon, did you see the [BBC report on the Ethiopian famine] last night? We've got to do something." I didn't see the program. He told me what it was about, and he said, "I have an idea. We should make a charity record. What do you think?" I said, "Yes, mate. Absolutely." But it wasn't sold to me as, "This is going to be a whole pile of musical legends"; it was, "You and Sting do it." I thought I was going to get half the song. I was a bit pissed off, because when I walked into [Sarm Studios] they're already recording somebody else singing one of my lines! That took a while to sort of get my head around.
Sting didn't want to sing the lyric, "the bitter sting of tears."
Bob Geldof: Sting was moaning, "Do I have to sing that?" I said, "Yes, because it's just a coincidence that the word sting is in it." If you listen to the song, there's a deep bitterness in Sting's voice.
Sting: There's a touch of irony there. When we had to dole out the lines to everyone else, it wasn't an accident. I was still the King of Pain after all.
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Bono didn't want to sing his line "Tonight thank God it's them instead of you" either.
Ure: Bono had a problem with it. He said, "Why would you say that?" That can be perceived as a brutal, unfeeling line.
Geldof: He said, "Are you really sure that's what you want to say?" And I said, "I'm really sure." I went through it with him rather like a director goes through a line that the actor may not be happy with.
Ure: But we're not saying, "Rather them than us." We're saying how lucky we are that we don't have to deal with that kind of extreme poverty. [After] Bob explained, Bono got it, and turned it into this magical moment on the record.
Geldof: He just has a profound rage. If you listen to the way the emotion of the song scales up, that's the big powerful explosion. That became a phenomenon, which none of us expected.
Ure: I think he probably scared himself when he did it. He jumped way up an octave, and it was just astonishing the sound that this little guy could radiate! It was like standing next to an opera singer. He did it twice but I think we kept the first.
JT Taylor (Kool and the Gang): I hated that line. All these years, I thought I was the only only person who felt that. For me, it was the worst line in the whole song.
Band Aid taught Bono "how to care."
Ure: The Band Aid process changed him quite considerably. I saw a U2 concert three, four years ago, and they stopped the concert in the middle and said, "In the audience tonight " And the spotlight came on me. Bono said, "Him and Bob taught me how to care."
Geldof: I pulled him into Band Aid. [U2] were young turks on the make; they hadn't really crested yet. But I thought, "He's got such a voice." And then Live Aid they thought they blew it. It actually pushed them over the top. A few years later, he wanted to get involved in a related subject [the ONE Campaign, which fights extreme poverty and disease in Africa]. We argue all the time; it's kind of a good cop/bad cop [friendship]. He wants to give the world a big hug; I want to punch its lights out.
Boy George almost missed the recording session entirely.
Boy George: Culture Club had just done a show at Madison Square Garden, and I was in bed at the Plaza hotel. I got a call at three o'clock in the morning from Bob Geldof, whom I'd never met.
Ure: We had to have him. So Bob woke him up in New York. George said, "Who's there?" Bob said, "Every fucker but you. Get your ass on Concorde." And he did at his own expense, I might add.
George: When I arrived, around eight o'clock in the evening, there was no time to practice or maybe have a go at the song to make sure you're in the right key. It was literally: "You're on!" I was thinking, "Oh my God, what's going to come out of my mouth?"
Ure: He turned up, and he said, "Can someone get me a brandy?" I had to press the intercom button and say, "No! We don't have anyone here to go running about for you." We didn't have mountains of food, we didn't have champagne, there was no sponsorship going on. It was incredibly basic.
George: I did pretty well, though. I remember Bob saying, "Oh George, you sound like a black lady like a black mama!" I was like, "That's what I'm aiming for, so thank you!"
Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet arrived together hungover.
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet): The night before we were in Germany on the piss with Duran, having a real good drink. By the morning, we were all pretty rough. We didn't look great. I remember arriving back at Heathrow and someone said, "There's all the press, there's cameras out there, there's about 400 screaming fans." All of a sudden we're all in the bathroom trying to make ourselves look presentable you know, Nick Rhodes putting stacks of makeup on. I think we all put a bit of makeup on that day, actually.
Le Bon: I remember turning up in the car with a hangover. I did everything with a hangover in those days. I don't think John [Taylor, Duran Duran] had been to sleep at all. But that was John. He just didn't need much in those days because of chemical sleep.
The session was as Boy George puts it "a carnival of celebrities."
Sting: It was a funny day, like a school reunion for truants. All of us had a lot in common but had rarely been in the same room together. There were no fights as I remember.
Le Bon: That was the first time I met Sting. He was very friendly, apart from when I said, "God, it's really hot and sweaty in here," and he told me not to do so many drugs.
George: I had had a feud with Simon Le Bon, a bit of a confrontation in Paris, and we ended up walking into the studio arm in arm for the press.
Le Bon: Paul Weller wasn't very friendly. He was very political. . . and [Duran Duran] as a band had always stayed clear of politics. But [Band Aid] wasn't about politics, it was about saving lives. People wanted to have an effect, and that really is the line that joins me to Paul Weller. He wanted to help feed some kid in Africa, same as I did.
George: I remember hearing the voice after me and saying, "Who's that? Who's the girl?" and then being told it was George Michael. I said, "He sounds really camp." Then I said, "But he is, though, isn't he?" I was always trying to out George.
After the session, George Harrison advised on how to prevent Band Aid from turning into another financially questionable Concert for Bangladesh.
Ure: The Concert [for Bangaldesh]. . .all of the money didn't get where it was meant to go. It was spent on overhead and ad men. So [Harrison's advice to Geldof] was, "Get yourselves good accountants." We have the same accountants today who [ensure] we don't spent a penny on anything. We've had no office, no secretaries. We begged, borrowed, and stole telephone lines, space, whatever we could.
Mark Ellen Remembers The Tension At Original Band Aid Recording In 1984, And Who Finally Broke The Ice
Posted: 17/11/2014 14:24 GMT Updated: 17/11/2014 14:59 GMT
Band Aid 30 goes on sale today, with Bob Geldof telling everyone, It doesnt matter if you dont like it. Just buy it.
The weekend saw fans of One Direction, Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran, all sharing pictures on social media of the stars arriving at the famous Sarm Studios in Notting Hill, clamouring to hear who was singing what, whod turned up, more controversially, who hadnt.
Flash back 30 years, and Band Aid was an entirely more casual affair, consisting of Bob Geldof simply hitting the phone to his mates, and telling them where to be and when. No arguments.
Band Aid 1984 - 38 towering egos in a room. What could go wrong?
Bob knew Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and all the pop gang very well because of Paula Yates and The Tube, remembers Mark Ellen, rock journalist who was editor of 'Smash Hits' at the time, and one of the few reporters allowed into the studios on the day.
He was also in with the old rock and roll guard because he was a bit older than them (the popsters). His career itself was very much floundering, Boomtown Rats hadnt had a hit for four years, so he was no threat to anybody and he was immensely liked. He was very clever, very forceful in the way he got people to cooperate.
Following Bobs persuasive phone calls, a bunch of disparate artists - Sting, Bono, George Michael among them - all rolled up at the studio early on the morning of Sunday 25 November, where Bob and Ultravox frontman Midge Ure were holding court. Mark describes the Duran mob arriving in ski gear, goggles and all, strange and the Spandau boys with a bodyguard each, for a charity single.
Each person stepping up to sing was like watching a penalty shoot-out, according to journalist Mark Ellen
According to Mark, there was a strange tension in the air, not only because of so many stars in one room, but because theyd all been freely slamming each other in the press in the months before.
In 1984, pop music was a huge, high-earning, bank-rolling industry, he recalls. Records sold in gigantic quantities, there seemed to be room for everyone, and so there were millions of bands all at war with each other.
Paul Weller used to be massively acerbic about everybody else, he was very opinionated, hated all the glam pop of Spandau Ballet and Duran, and now here he was in a room surrounded by everyone hed been so horrible about in the press.
It was Jon Moss who broke the ice, running up to fellow drummer Phil Collins and shouting 'You're my hero'
Meanwhile, old guard like Status Quo were often rather rubbished by the young guard even though, at the time, they were probably only about 35, only about 10 years older, but thats a century in pop years.
Mark Ellen remembers it being one person in particular who broke the ice Jon Moss, drummer with Culture Club.
He suddenly ran up and threw his arms around Phil Collins, and shouted, youre my hero and suddenly the atmosphere in the room got much warmer.
Of course, Jons bandmate Boy George was causing ripples of his own with his absence, despite Bob Geldofs impassioned phone calls.
A true superstar knows how to make a late entrance
He was a superstar in 1984, and Bob phoned him and said, Where are you? remembers Mark. The answer was New York. And Bob ranted, Why arent you here? and so he got out of bed.
Thank goodness for supersonic travel. George eventually turned up at about 6pm, with bright crimson hair and went straight up and did his vocals. But not before hed had a huge glass of brandy.
This weekends press saw Status Quo veteran Francis Rossi revealing that hed brought his own contribution to making the party go with a swing a little offering that might have required his own ski goggles, and could explain what happened when he encountered on Mark Ellen at the end of the day.
Francis Rossi came up to me as I was leaving, remembers Mark. He told me hed just been recording the chorus.
Francis carried on, Weird really, 38 people in a room, all singing Feed the Welsh.


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Weight Loss Stories
82 Pounds Lost: With One Negative Comment, Cherie Starts Positive Changes
Name: Cherie Hart Steffen
Age: 35
Location: Mebane, North Carolina
Before: 230lbs
After: 148lbs
What was the "turning point" that prompted you to lose weight?
An embarrassingly hurtful comment from my teacher was the catalyst. He called me "Precious"— as in the fat black girl from the movie. I also promised my mother while she was on her deathbed in June 2009 that I would lose weight. But the teacher's comment sparked me into action.
When did you start trying to lose weight?
I started in January 2010. The very day my teacher called me Precious, I came home from class and walked on my treadmill. There was no looking back after that.
How did you get started?
I started by making small changes. I'm a creature of habit and don't respond well to big, immediate changes! I started walking on my treadmill about four times a week. Also, I made changes in my diet. I began eating grilled foods instead of fried, drinking water instead of soda, measuring foods/paying attention to portions instead of eating with wild abandon.
What was your biggest challenge?
My biggest challenge was making myself go from a cardio queen to an iron maiden. My workouts were cardio-centered throughout most of my transformation journey. I knew I needed to incorporate strength training but couldn't get myself to stick with it. Finally, almost three years into my journey, in December 2012, I joined a gym and began lifting weights. So happy I overcame that challenge! It's been very worth it.
Were there any times when you wanted to quit or give up? How did you stay motivated?
I never wanted to give up. I stayed motivated by remembering the embarrassment I felt at that exact moment in the hallway when my teacher called me Precious. I NEVER wanted to feel like that again. That, my mother's promise, and my "before" picture have been my constant motivation.
If you reached a weight loss plateau, how did you break out of the rut?
I usually tweak my meals or workouts. That gets me back on the ball!
What's your current exercise routine?
I go to the gym after work Monday through Thursday to lift weights. I rotate body parts worked, i.e., chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, legs, glutes, etc. I also do cardio on the Arc Trainer after my lifting sessions. Saturday and Sunday I mix up a lot — either both weights and cardio, or just cardio. Friday is my day off.
What's your daily diet look like?
Breakfast may be eggs, protein waffle or oatmeal with added protein powder with a whey protein shake. Fruit, maybe an apple, and almonds (I count out 20 and put them in a little baggie) is a mid-morning snack. Lunch is grilled chicken (or fish or lean beef), broccoli (or some green vegetable) and brown rice or quinoa. As a mid-afternoon snack I have plain Greek yogurt with wild blueberries I add to it. Usually I'll have a whey protein shake before and after my gym workout. Dinner is more chicken, fish or lean beef and vegetables and one more protein shake (casein protein) before bed.
What's your favorite healthy snack/meal?
I love seared scallops and steamed spinach — that is a definite favorite!
Do you have specific suggestions for avoiding temptations?
Find healthier versions of the non-healthy foods. Keep healthy snacks on hand and in your fridge and cupboards. If you don't buy the non-healthy foods, you won't have them in your house to tempt you!
What's your life like after weight loss?
I'm much more self-confident. I have a can-do attitude. I believe I can do what I set my mind to now. Also, clothes shopping is finally a complete joy now!
If you have any suggestions to others what would they be?
YOU have to make the decision that getting healthy, losing the weight and making this a life change is MORE IMPORTANT to you than being unhealthy, continuing to be overweight and staying the same.
I wish I could do it for you, but I can't. No one could do it for me either. Until there was something that sparked within me that said, "Okay, I'm ready now let's do this. I'm all in," nothing was going to change. You'll know when you're ready because nothing will get in your way. Not chocolate cake, a buffet, laziness, sleepiness, a holiday, chores — nothing.
If it helps you to make a vision board of quotes, mantras, pictures of clothes you want to wear, the body you want to have, go for it. Do it. I personally had to keep staring at the "Before" picture of myself and look at it often — it helped! But along with this vision board, set clear, specific goals on there and work toward them. Don't just say, I want to wear a size 10 again someday. Make it attainable, but set a time/date to work toward.##
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You look awesome.congrats
She looks beautiful! And she was beautiful before. It's awesome that she made the choice to get healthy, but that teacher's comment was ridiculous to begin with
That's awesome and inspiring
Congrats to her. Better health, better you!
She looks beautiful in both photos. People can change their looks like she did but others (like the teacher that made the comment) has an ugly heart.
Wow! Looks great
you were even beautiful before but I bet it feels amazing now! I can't wait till I'm there!
The teacher should have been reprimanded!
I had that happen once, I went to a pool party/luau and some guy said you can go ahead of me, since you are eating for two. I wasn't pregnant and decided that was my turning point.
Pretty both before and after but I bet you feel better now. Congrats on all your hard work.
You look fantastic!
Congratulations! You look amazing!
you look amazing,just stunning!
Great job but shame on the teacher.
People can be horrible. Congrates on your success.
Great job!!!! Great transformation!!!!!
Your beautiful in both pictures..but looks healthier in the new and improved you!!! WTG!!
Good for her. I'm so motivated and inspired. I also want to add that skinny people may face the same/similar challenges. It took me 5 years to go from 127 to 180 lbs. Then in order to be happy with myself, I went down to and try to stay at 152-160. Real Talk.. Not bragging, just inspired and excited about people working hard to change their life and attitude. God bless her!
Beautiful! Before and after! Great job Cherie!
Wow this is an amazing transformation!
Amen! !
Good for you. So happy for you. Thank you for the motivation.
You look awesome, congrats to you…you are an inspiration!!!
awesome job
Great job
Fantastic , good job
She said she got into strength training 3 years into her journey so I would imagine at least 3 years so far.
Wonderful story and you look great !
Does anyone know how long it took to get there to her goal ? I didn't see that in her article.
AND PLEASE TELL MEshe went back to that teacher who called her Precious –
You look fantastic
Such an awesome story…and to know she lives close by! So proud of you! I'm the "cardio queen" right now trying to transition into an "iron maiden"…not easy! Thanks for sharing your journey.
Fantastic! Great job. You know, it boggles my mind on how cruel people can be. That cruelty might have been the reason behind your success but, it is disgusting just the same. It, will come back to them…… You deserve a great big High Five girlfriend!!!
I have found it if she ever wants it back!


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Heat ghee. Add sooji and salt. Once the sooji is cooked, add sugar. Once the sooji looks mildly roasted, add milk (cold milk is ok). Add cardamom powder. Keep stirring till the halwa leaves the side of the container.
Spread it out flatly on a thin plate. Let it cool for 10-15 mins and then cut them into diamond shapes.
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Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry Receive Awards
We were delighted to receive the Art is a Hammer Award from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics on October 20, 2013. The ceremony took place at an event called Celebrating the Art of Resistance at the Professional Musicians Union, Local 47 in Hollywood, California. The award's name was inspired by this quote: "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it," by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Curiously, the same quote has also been attributed to Bertolt Brecht. Writer Terry Wolverton presented us with the award. The event was a wonderful gathering of activists and artists and it included a silent auction of a vast array of political posters. We purchased two: Sheila de Bretteville's Pink poster and one with the Art is a Hammer quote (attributed to Brecht) by design firm Helvetica Jones. At the end of this blog post you can read the biographical notes that were in the program as well as our acceptance speech. We were thrilled to have so many dear friends and collaborators in the audience and grateful to our employers, Harvard-Westlake School and Otis College of Art and Design, for their support of the event. The CSPG is a wonderful organization doing fantastic work by preserving and archiving political posters in which artists contribute so greatly to social movements.
On September 7, 2013, we attended the awards ceremony at the Women and Media Conference put on by the Veteran Feminists of America, We were there to celebrate Joannie Parker, long-time feminist activist and former head of Women's Studies at Westlake School for Girls, now Harvard-Westlake School. The event was organized by another former colleague Martha Wheelock. We were surprised when we were given medals for our work in the arts and at the Woman's Building. Our daughter Xochi was thrilled to meet famous civil rights attorney Gloria Allred.
Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry Biographical Notes from the CSPG Program
Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry met at the Woman's Building, a feminist art center, in 1977 and have been a couple since 1979. They have worked individually and collaboratively as artists, activists and educators. At the Woman's Building they often collaborated on programming and graphic design projects. They conceived the media event to hoist Kate Millet's gigantic Naked Lady sculpture to the roof, which made the front page of the Los Angeles Times. In 1981, they cofounded Sisters Of Survival, an anti-nuclear performance group who wore nun's habits in the spectrum of the rainbow, and used public performance and graphic design to network with artists and activists in North America and Western Europe. Gaulke and Maberry have also collaborated with their daughters, Marka and Xochi, on artworks about lesbian family.
Maberry was a program director both at the Woman's Building and at the Armory Center for the Arts. After receiving a Masters in Library Science, Maberry became Director of the Library at Otis College of Art and Design in 1992. There she has led efforts to incorporate the use of new and developing web technologies within the college. She received a grant from the Getty in 2000 to begin digitizing the Woman's Building archive and make an image bank available online. She then created the TLC (Teaching Learning Center) to assist and train faculty in the use of technology in the curriculum. The TLC received a Center of Excellence Award from New Media Consortium in 2007 for their groundbreaking work in instructional technology. She has continued to make visible the history of the Woman's Building as co-curator of a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition at Otis College in 2011-12 that included the publication of two catalogs, video oral histories, and extensive online resources.
As an artist, Gaulke brings a feminist perspective to a variety of issues working in such media as video, performance, artists' books, and public art. She cofounded performance group Feminist Art Workers in 1976. She made a video with LGBT teens, designed the first U.S. memorial to Filipino WWII veterans, and created environmental video installations such as LA River Project with teens from East LA. She has completed ten permanent public art works including the Lincoln Heights/Cypress Park Metro Station that celebrates the role of water in Los Angeles.
Gaulke has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Community Foundation and LA's Cultural Affairs Department. In 2011-12, her work was featured in Pacific Standard Time exhibitions at LACE and Otis.
At Harvard-Westlake School, Gaulke has facilitated students to create award-winning videos as teacher, Upper School Head of Visual Arts and Director of Summer Film. As Artistic Director of The Righteous Conversations Project, she brings together Holocaust survivors and teens to produce public service announcements about social injustices. Recently, with Friendship Tours World Travel, she took students to Laos to make documentaries about the Secret War and will travel to Rwanda for the 20th anniversary of the genocide in 2014.
Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry Acceptance Speech
(Sue) Thank you to Carol Wells and the Board of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics for honoring us today. We are humbled and grateful. The work of this organization is so very important and we hope you will all continue to support it. Thank you to all of our friends who are here to celebrate with us. Thank you Terry for that wonderful introduction.
(Cheri) We asked Terry to introduce us because we share a common core. For us the stereotype of the lone artist struggling in the studio could not be further from reality. Artist and activists flourish in a community and the Woman's Building was that for us. We feel profoundly lucky to have been born at an historical moment of second wave feminism that gave birth to this place that in turn nurtured our development.
(Sue) At the Woman's Building there was always something activist to do. There were exhibitions and educational programs to organize, and art projects of all kinds to work on with other people. Making art collaboratively was in and of itself a political statement. And it was fun.
(Cheri) We particularly acknowledge our Woman's Building mentors: performance artist Suzanne Lacy, designer Sheila de Bretteville, and the late great art historian Arlene Raven. We embraced her definition of the function of feminist art, which applies to all activist art: to raise consciousness, invite dialogue and transform culture. We are grateful that so many organizations, such as CSPG, continue to exist and support activist art.
The spirit of the Woman's Building lives on in our hearts. Its roots are deep. Many of the relationships forged there continue and over the years new and equally strong relationships have grown. That includes many of you here today. A network of new connections continue to spiral out. And it's pretty great that we found each other there and began a life-long relationship and partnership in all things.
(Sue) We have been able to bring what we learned at the Woman's Building into new settings. We both found supportive organizations where we could continue to be creative, as artists, activists and educators. We are grateful for our positions at Otis College of Art and Design and Harvard-Westlake School.
(Cheri) I am also grateful for my collaborations with The Righteous Conversations Project and Friendship Tours World Travel. I would also like to acknowledge my parents who supported me to pursue my passion for art and my mother for introducing me to strong women artists such as Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Kathe Kollwitz.
(Sue) And to our beloved twin daughters Marka and Xochi who couldn't be here today because they are away at college. They have learned the value of community and have joined us in taking up the hammer.
(Cheri) A colleague recently said to me, "We need to find something fun for you to do." He was referring to my recent work with survivors of the Secret War in Laos, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and a new program about domestic violence. I said, "But Jim, this is fun for me! Raising awareness about these issues, and getting teens excited about doing the same — that's my idea of a good time."
And now to be receiving an award on top of it all! What could be better? So here's to lots more fun for all of us in the future!


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Ericsbane05 LIVES!Posted: 18 April 2011 Filed under: Hardware | Tags: Arch Linux, CompUSA, device map, ericsbane, ericslaptop, ericsshop, framerate, GRUB, hard drives, micro, motherboard, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Slackware, Tiger Direct 9 Comments
What is ericsbane? Well, that's what I name some of my computers. I also have ericslaptop01 and ericsshop01 and 02.
What a strange name this ericsbane thing. Where'd that come from? you might be wondering. The definition of bane is a person or thing that ruins or destroys or the name of a deadly poison. HA! Both are accurate sometimes when it comes to my computering hobby. Computers can be my bane, but I love 'em, anyway.
As some of you may know from reading here and here, I have been having some hardware issues with my main system. And as a sidebar to this, I've also been trying to put together a system for my shop. Well, it's finally all come together. What a nightmare it's been. Of course, if I had money to burn, this wouldn't have been an issue at all. Unfortunately, money is very tight right now. We won't even go into that.
So, what happened this weekend? I woke up Saturday morning jonesing to play one of my vid games on my system. S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Far Cry, Deus Ex, anything. I just wanted to frag stuff. Know what I mean? I haven't been able to play any games on my main system due to issues with a bad PCIe socket, which has forced me to use crappy onboard graphics. Hmm… can't play many games these days with a 2900fps framerate.
I made the mistake of going to the local CompUSA (Tiger Direct) store after seeing a really decent mobo/micro bundle advertised online. Hmm… I had spent a few bucks recently on a replacement mobo from them, but it didn't work out, so I was given a refund. I figured that money was already spent. I had it set aside for a rainy day. Well, that day was Saturday. I went to the CompUSA and got myself a mobo/micro combo.
I came home and, after much travail and gnashing of teeth, I managed to cobble together ericsbane05. Here are the specs:
Cooler Master Chassis Mid Tower Elite 334 Nvidia Edition ATX Casing
Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus – 650watt power supply
785GTM-E45 socket AM2+ motherboard
AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core Processor
AMD chipset
4Gig Centon DDR2 800 PC-6400 RAM DDR 800 (slots 1 & 2)
EVGA Nvdia GeForce 450 GTS
IDE 0 Master: Master: DVD Writer 840
IDE 0 Slave: ZIP 100
SATA 0: Western Digital 250Gig
SATA 1: Western Digital 250Gig
SATA 2: Western Digital 250Gig
Standard 3.5″ floppy
Seven (7) cooling fans
HP Deskjet 842C printer
HP Scanjet 3400 flatbed scanner
HP W1907 LCD monitor
Altec Lansing (front) + Harman Kardon (rear) speakers
Dell USB keyboard
Logitech Trackball mouse
So, there ya' have it. Here's what the framerate on this baby looks like now:
So much gooder! I can play games again! I can shoot and frag away my frustrations. It's better than religion, I'm telling you. Woo-hoo!
Oh, and as a by-product of this adventure, I also was able to salvage ericsbane04. I slapped the guts of that system into another box and changed its name to ericsshop02. It's loaded with Slackware current and is sitting on the bench outside in my shop. I put ericsshop01 on the shelf as a backup system. We are just on a roll here, huh?
I have 99.9% of the kinks worked out of the new ericsbane05. There are always issues when you install pre-existing operating systems onto new hardware. There are issues with drivers, disk nomenclature, sensor daemons, GRUB, etc. I've got them all squared away but one, I think. I'm having a minor issue with Arch's GRUB, the bootloader for my entire system (numerous operating systems installed). It has incorrectly mapped the hard drives. I'm working on it, though.
That, friends, is how I spent the last three days of my life. Bane, indeed. See what I mean?
We'll have some new lessons coming along shortly. Stay tuned…
Until next time…
~Eric, the happy 19000fps framerate, fraggin' Slacker!
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Sounds like a nice machine. Hope you get your grub issues fixed!!
Looks like a great setup, Eric! Hope all goes well with it! 😀
I think I'm most impressed with the Zip drive 🙂 I had an external SCSI Zip drive hooked up to my Amiga 4000 back in the day.
Congrats on the birth of ericsbane05. Looking at the specs, looks like 05 is going to be a keeper. Best of luck in this one being less of a bane in the arse. 😉
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Eric von Hofe, cancer researcher and president of the biotech company Antigen Express talks about his article in the October issue of Scientific American called "A New Ally against Cancer," about cancer vaccines
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Eric von Hofe, cancer researcher and president of the biotech company Antigen Express talks about his article in the October issue of Scientific American called "A New Ally against Cancer," about cancer vaccines.
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Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on September 30th, 2011. I'm Steve Mirsky. This week on the podcast:
von Hofe: Sometimes after immunotherapy tumors, would actually appear to grow. But it turns out frequently what happens, you get immune cells coming into the tumor cells, so the growth is not due to the growth of tumor cells, but to the influx of immune cells.
Steve: That's Eric von Hofe, he's a cancer researcher and president of the biotech company, Antigen Express in Worcester, Massachusetts, and he's the author of an article in the October issue of the Scientific American called "A New Ally against Cancer" about cancer vaccines. We spoke recently when he was in New York City.
Steve: We go all the way back over a hundred years. You discuss in the article the work of Coley, who had some really interesting and creative ideas back then.
von Hofe: Right, right. He had noticed that in some cancer patients that had serious infection and high fever, that in those patients the cancer sometimes would regress. So people have noticed for a while that tumors were kind of like wounds that wouldn't heal. So what he did to induce this infection, kind of a mock infection, was take bacteria, heat them gently till they were dead, inactivated, but they still induced fever in patients who you inject them into. So he did this repeatedly, induced a very high fever, and sure enough in many of those patients, he got an efficacious response in the cancers. So again, an indication that he was stimulating something—of course, they were not very clear on the workings of the immune system—but something that could have a positive effect whereby the body on its own could then fight off the cancer.
Steve: In a situation like that, there are so many variables. Once you start inducing fevers you might have been involving heat shock proteins, who knows what was going on. But it did look an avenue to be pursued.
von Hofe: Exactly. And, in fact, that was used for, really, quite a while up until people really discovered radiation and chemotherapy. So chemotherapy was something that, you know, it was much more of a rational process, where people realized that DNA replication was important for the cancer; so okay get something that would poison the DNA, or the replication machinery and thereby those cells, particularly cancer cells that are rapidly dividing, would be preferentially killed.
Steve: And you don't pursue the possibility of the vaccine aspect because the others, the radiation and the chemo seem to be working in a really promising fashion, so the other things just gets put on the back burner so to speak.
von Hofe: Right. So at the time, you're right, they just didn't know enough about the immune system. Now it was clear pretty early on that a lot of these agents, they had a lot of nonspecific toxicity. So, you know, there have clearly been advances in the use of these more toxic agents. But people always, you know, they knew that the immune system was great at killing off lots of different things, very specifically with no side effects. So this was really, kind of, what people were hoping for to get this added specificity in cancer killing without the toxicity.
Steve: And your article also talks about Paul Ehrlich, who is, you know, one of the giants in the history of medicine and medical research and his efforts in this field.
von Hofe: Right, right. Well he was one of the first people that observed that, or proposed the immune surveillance, to think that there was something in the body that was on its own combating cancer; and didn't, you know, couldn't define what it was, but it was that idea that really planted the seed for what's later come to be known as the immune surveillance mechanism for reducing the incidence of cancer in people.
Steve: The idea being that cancers are constantly cropping up and constantly being swept out by the immune system.
von Hofe: Exactly, exactly. So, if you look at, you know, it's clear enough that if immunogenic events are generally required for cancer, so you could then estimate statistically the number of mutations that occur in a human body per year, and from that, get an idea the number of cancers that one might expect. But, in fact, thankfully that incidence of cancer was much lower than one would calculate; so to explain that discrepancy, people then came back to the immune surveillance therapy. There's got to be something that always on the prowl looking for something different and fighting off those early cancers so that they don't appear.
Steve: Let me go off on a mini-tangent, because a lot of our listeners probably have never even heard of Edward G. Robinson, but they should go see, it's probably on Netflix, go get Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and watch the movie with Edward G. Robinson—and Ruth Gordon, I think, plays his wife—and it's really a pretty decent biopic about this real medical colossus.
von Hofe: Yeah, good movie definitely, definitely yeah.
Steve: So, we've been relying on chemo and radiation, for the most part, for many decades. How is the idea of a vaccine against cancer coming back into vogue, and how does a cancer vaccine differ from a conventional vaccine?
von Hofe: Right. So people first had the idea of doing this—it really goes back many decades, I think 30-odd years ago, when I was in the graduate school—people had the idea of taking cancer cells,just radiating them and trying to immunize, say, animals in this case to see if they could have an effect. They didn't, the short of it was. I mean, there was some observation in animals that were interesting but nothing that ever made it in the clinic. So, it wasn't that people, that the idea fell from favor, they just didn't know how to do it. So it really took a lot of, you know, basic research, by a lot of different people to find out the different aspects of the immune system, how it worked and how one could then manipulate that, how one could present tumor-associated proteins, so called tumor antigens, in a way that you could stimulate the immune system to actually do its job in terms of killing off the cancer.
Steve: So, what specifically has gone on lately in the pipeline that makes people excited about the prospect of having actual therapies in clinicians' hands, you know, relatively soon?
von Hofe: So, About eight years ago, some studies were done that showed, kind of, a proof of principle. They activated the T cells from patients, stimulated those outside of the patient's body, reinfused those, and they showed they could do that in a manner that gave you an anticancer effect. So, that was really, kind of, a brute force mechanism. There were lots of other trials that people conducted during the last 10 years, which did not have positive outcomes, as they were used to looking for them. So, there were a number of reasons for that. Some, they just had not figured out the right way of delivering the antigen. But other things include not being able to know exactly what to look for. So, for instance, with the cytotoxic agents that everyone's familiar with, it's a fairly simple mechanism of action. You give the person cytotoxic agent, the tumor hopefully shrinks and that's a good thing and that helps relatively rapidly, so that's in a couple of weeks, you know, very quickly. With the immune system, that takes longer to stimulate, and what makes it pretty difficult is the idea of tolerance. So this is because cancer cells arise from a patient's own tissues, the immune system doesn't really like to go after them. Of course, if it did, there'd be a lot of autoimmunity, which is problematic. So this is known as tolerance, so one needs to break tolerance. To do that, one needs to figure out a way of ramping up the immune system with various agents, presenting the antigen in various contexts, to actually get a response that is effective. So, you know, you can't look immediately; it can take up to a year sometimes to get a sufficient response of the immune system to actually do something. Other things people have noticed is that sometimes, after immunotherapy, tumors would actually appear to grow; so initially people saw that, they were like, "Oh my God, this is terrible, we're doing the exact opposite." But it turns out frequently what happens, you get immune cells coming into the tumor cells, so the growth is not due to the growth of tumor cells, but to the influx of immune cells. So, these were things that, of course, people had to learn, and clearly the FDA had to be educated. They had to be convinced that this is going on, because they are the ones ultimately that are approving things. So there was a, you know, fair bit of learning that was done this last 10 years. The upshot of it is though, and there's been enough trials done, that people are starting to see these similarities in different things. So, in different types of treatment, people are seeing that the tumor looks like it's growing a little bit, so it's like, "Okay, you know, we're not crazy." On top of that, people are seeing interesting things, increased survival, things that don't quite make sense if you look at it in the light of classical chemotherapy. So in particular, what we were just talking about, sometimes the tumor can look like it's still growing, but there's an increase of survival, So, again this is something that is very contradictory for the FDA, and we really needed to learn how to use these agents. So I think there's been a lot of learning going on in the last 10 years. That, if you look at the field as a whole, you start seeing patterns, you clearly see that we are having an effect with immunotherapies and that's given lots of encouragement to people in the field.
Steve: And it's important that you have enough of these different trials—maybe they're even phase I trials—going on, so that you can start to see these things, so that you know that, as you talk about in the article, your benchmarks for success get redefined; not that we're defining them downward, we're just saying in this course different things happen that you have to watch out for, and they may mark the fact that you're actually getting something positive here.
von Hofe: That's absolutely right. That's absolutely right. So there was just, you said it exactly correctly. There were lots of trials done, and it was really after people started comparing notes and gathering enough data that we began to see these patterns and seeing that we really had something. So lot of people persevered a long time. I mean, our company, you know, the company was around since the late '90s. We started doing clinical trials in 2003, a lot of people were like, "Gosh, guys, you know, I don't know if this is going to work, there are too many questions here." So, but we persevered and along the way we started to see that we were having immunological response that we hoped to see with our compound, and at the same time, you know, the field was emerging. So, I think, you know, we're not alone in that. There are a lot of people in that position, so seeing that you're getting smarter as you're developing. And, of course, the person who's first obviously gets some of the biggest prize. So, in this case that was probably Dendreon, that was approved about a year ago. Again, this is a somewhat more complex type of immunotherapy. So, this is with the cells from the patients again that are stimulated and modified outside the body, reinfused in, but that actually made it past the finish line. They got approved by the FDA and that coincided with lots of other earlier phase results, phase II results; and people, sort of, compared notes with what they did to get over the finish line and could start to draw a line from where they were in their earlier trials and see a, kind of, a clear path forward. So that gave a lot of impetus to the field.
Steve: And again that's still the first and only FDA approved cancer vaccine therapy.
von Hofe: That's correct, that's correct. Now there was another agent recently approved Yervoy, Bristol-Myers Squibb, which modifies the immune system. Essentially what it does is it, kind of, takes the breaks off the immune system. We talked about the idea of tolerance, whereby the immune system doesn't like to go after its own tissues, cancer arises with normal tissues; of course that's part of that problem. But what Yervoy does is that it actually takes the breaks off the system and allows the immune system on its own to fight the cancer more effectively. So, while you're not activating the immune system in a way that you are with vaccine, clearly we're using knowledge that was gained during this last decade. So a lot of people point to that as part of this larger success in the field of immunotherapy.
Steve: And would you fear an autoimmune side effect problem with that kind of therapy?
von Hofe: One does see that occasionally. That happens; it's generally not very severe, although people do need to watch that, and there are medications that are available if needed; but that's clearly a problem because it's, again, it's not as specific as a therapeutic vaccine. It's a more general type of treatment, where you're taking the breaks off the immune system, but you're taking them off everywhere. So, to be absolutely clear and precise, it's not a vaccine. So, a vaccine is something where, ultimately people will probably find ways of combining these things where you take the breaks off a little bit, and then you give some specific stimulation against certain cancer-associated proteins, which is really more how the immune system works normally. Normally you're not taking the breaks off immune system. You get infected with a bacteria or virus or something, the immune system recognizes that as foreign and kills it effectively. So that's ultimately really what we're going after.
Steve: And the cancer vaccines, we have to think of them a little bit differently from vaccines that were used to like a flu shot, because you're not going to just vaccinate a population. These are for patients, it looks like, who already have cancer, but it's in a very early stage and it can recognize the cancer, that specific cancer, and keep it from growing rather than just let's get everybody to be on this and then nobody's going to get cancer.
von Hofe: Right, right. So, very definitely, the cancer vaccines are therapeutic vaccines. So they're not prophylactic like antiviral vaccines, flu vaccines and such. I mean, clearly, you know, so one has much more latitude obviously combating cancer in terms of toxicity because what we have so far is pretty tremendous, the cytotoxic agents, and it's pretty clear that with the vaccines so far, there is much less toxicity. So, over the past 10 years, again when one started to having do trials, in late-stage cancer patients, which is typically the population one uses, but as people advanced these trials, it was very clear to the FDA that there was minimal toxicity with these agents. So, particularly what we're developing peptide vaccines, modified peptide vaccines; you know, peptides are breakdown products of proteins in the body, so, there's really nothing foreign to the body whatsoever. And so, the FDA then came to a comfort level with toxicity of these agents and allowed them to be used in earlier-stage patients, which it looks like is probably the population that'll benefit the most. Now, clearly Dendreon was approved in later-stage prostate cancer patients. So I think people are hopeful that even in later-stage patients, one can get activity, but the thinking is you'll probably see your greatest activity in the earlier-stage cancer patients.
Steve: And what specifically is your company working on with the peptide vaccines?
von Hofe: Sure. Yes, so we have a slightly modified peptide; so the company has a technology platform, which aims at specifically stimulating CD4 T helper cells. So it's clear that this cell population is critical in generating a robust immune response against some novel agent. It's also important in overcoming that tolerance that we talked about. So what we've done, we took, first of all, a target which was known to be involved in the growth of the cancer, HER2, which is also the target of a monoclonal antibody out there, Herceptin. So, we didn't really take a chance on that; we knew that if we could have a positive impact in terms of generating response against HER2, we should be able to see some activity, because it was already validated in the clinic, thanks to Herceptin. So we started that project back in '05. We started the first clinical trials, showed that our peptide was safe and generated a specific, potent immune response. Based on those results, we started the phase II, and this is in breast cancer patients. The goal is to see a reduction in relapse in this group of cancer patients, the breast cancer patients. So, we're about three-quarters of the way through the study and have seen positive results so far. So, so far, we're encouraged by what we've seen, so it looks like we're indeed, we can tell we're generating a response against the HER2, and indeed we're getting indications of efficacy. So we're very encouraged by that.
Steve: And prevention of relapse is a reasonable thing to look at, because they're being treated presumably normally with the conventional armamentarium. So you're not going to be able to see whether you're doing something to destroy the tumor.
von Hofe: That's right. That's right. Now we're in a little bit of a fortunate position, in that, Herceptin initially—so this is the antibody that goes after HER2—that was initially approved in metastatic cancer patients, which is populace that the FDA likes to see things working in initially, and then it was approved in patients with earlier stage, so prevention of relapse, so not just overall survival, but prevention of relapse. So, we're fortunate we have that precedent. So, and that was another reason we went into this population. Because, you know, the thinking was that it would work better in earlier stage patients. But in some cancers you don't have an endpoint that the FDA will approve. They want survival. But in this instance of breast cancer, we did have that. So, that was the reason we went into this population with our initial vaccine compound, therapeutic vaccine.
Steve: So, other than because you can make money, why do this in the private sector rather than in an academic research setting?
von Hofe: Well, I mean, it's a good reason for biotech in general, is that you can, in fact, raise more money—although it's difficult these days—for doing clinical trials than you can in academia. Clearly, you can do trials in academia, but you're still frequently working in a microcosm. I mean, there are compounds that generally you take them to a certain stage, but then even going through a phase II trial, that could take several million dollars; people can and do get grants for doing this, I think. And then clearly, of course, in phase III you're doing your registration trials—that's extremely difficult for academia. People don't really think about doing that in academia. The big difference is in academia, people are doing, you know, really exploratory research. They're looking to advance knowledge, find a proof of concept; they're not really geared to thinking, "Okay, what exactly is this drug going to look like once it's on the market." In biotechnology, that's what people are looking at. They're going to see, "Okay, what is going to make this a drug at the end of the day." So there are other burdens they take on. So it's really seeing, you know, how many patients one needs, what the end points are. I mean, there are lots of lots of hurdles one needs to think about that I think people in academia probably try to, they shy away from a little bit because it is, you know, it's a much larger hurdle to leap, to line some things up for approval rather than an exploratory study that builds knowledge, basically.
Steve: What has to go right? What do you need to discover, what barriers do you need to overcome in the next few years for this kind of approach to actually get some footing?
von Hofe: Well, we've cleared a number of hurdles so far. I mean, the first is showing that we have biological activity, showing that we do not have any toxicity. The biggest next goal is really showing significant efficacy. So we have in our early data, we've shown that we have fewer relapses in our peptide vaccine arm, compared to the control arm of the trial. What we need to do is basically, you know, allow those data to mature; it just takes time, the trial has to run its course. We're hopeful then about a year from now, we should have those statistically significant data, such that we can go to an, it's called an end of phase II data with the FDA and then, march onto the phase III. So that's obviously a very big hurdle to clear and, you know, we'll probably not go that alone. That's something where with good phase II data, larger companies become interested. They see that it's not just science anymore, it's not just proving a hypothesis. We're showing that you actually have the data, that you're showing efficacy. Then it'll get interesting, and clearly at the end of the day, I mean, what's it's about is saving people's lives, and that's you know, that has value right there and people recognize that.
Steve: So, at some point, things go right enough so that a company that actually would be producing the drug gets involved and a partnership or a buy-out or something happens.
von Hofe: Well, it's not necessarily the company is producing the drug. It's a company that can codevelop; so first of all there's, you know, there are tens of millions of dollars for these phase III trials. And again it's also in these larger companies that have things like a sales force, distribution network, that we as a smaller biotech company do not have. So there's, you know, it's a marriage in that sense; in that we come with we know the drug, we know the history of it, we've laid out the tracks for the train to go down, but we know that around the corner, there's going to be things like distribution, sales all these things, which larger pharma is really, you know, better equipped to deal with than we are.
Steve: So then you're the organelle that gets absorbed into the cell.
von Hofe: Yeah, so to speak, so to speak; right exactly, exactly.
Steve: Well, obviously good luck. I'm sure everybody out there would be really delighted if we had some new weapons against cancer.
von Hofe: Absolutely. Thank you very much.
Steve: Sadly, the 1940 movie, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, with Edward G. Robinson, does not, in fact, appear to be available through Netflix. So, I guess, just be on the lookout for it. Some movie channel has to run it one of these days. You'll find it really interesting.
That's it for this episode. Check out the cancer vaccine article in the October issue. And get your science news at our Web site, www.ScientificAmerican.com where you can check out our article on what physics luminaries think of the claim for faster-than-light neutrinos. And also bid farewell to the Tevatron, where they're turning off the lights. And follow us on Twitter, where you'll get a tweet each time a new article hits the Web site—our Twitter name is @sciam. For Science Talk, I'm Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.


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It was that time of year again last weekend when Petaluma reverted back to the early 60's, at least in an automotive sense. Saturday might have been the end of the world for some; however, in Petaluma we simply stepped back in time for a day or so for the "Salute to American Graffiti."
By way of background, Petaluma was the locale for the filming of George Lucas' American Graffiti in 1972. The annual celebration of the movie by car buffs started six years ago and has turned into quite an event. For two days the streets were filled with period cars.
As one who "was of the period" covered in the movie, I was reminded of how different the cars sounded in "olden" times. Hearing several large V-8's starting up and driving away reminded me of a line from a song: "Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar." (Wabash Cannon Ball)
One other item from my memory banks–I don't recall (back in the day) the cars looking as good as they do now.
In any event, nostalgia aside,I attempted to capture some of the activities with my cameras…
The slideshow does not include any photos of the 1956 T-Bird (The Suzanne Somers car) featured in the movie. I have devoted an entire article to that vehicle! See Cars…Chrome…1956 Thunderbird
I also selected a few prized photos from the weekend for special consideration in Cars…Chrome…Redux American Graffiti
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One of my grad school classmates referred to the Anti-Federalists as "the biggest bunch of losers in American history," owing to their rout in the battle to define the political aftermath of the Revolution.
I'm not so sure he was right. The Anti-Federalists' opposition to the Constitution didn't pan out, but attempts to resist centralization of political power at the expense of the states didn't stop with ratification. If you interpret the Anti-Federalist impulse as originators of that larger political tendency, then you'd have to admit that their ideological strain has been pretty persistent over the past two hundred years. One thinks of the nullification controversy, the Confederacy, the controversy over civil rights legislation, and so on. Indeed, as J.L. Bell points out over at Boston 1775, the Anti-Federalist strain is enjoying something of a revival in some circles even as we speak.
Of course, over the long haul, federal power has expanded anyway, so maybe there's still not much of a success story there even if we define the Anti-Federalist impulse as broadly as possible. Even many proponents of a weaker federal government failed to live up to their own rhetoric once they ended up in office, as Bell quite rightly states. (Here, again, one thinks of the Confederacy, which was all about upholding states' prerogatives until it came time to actually carry on a war.)


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I've always been fascinated with places and their histories, and lately I've been on a Louisiana kick. Devouring all things Louisiana. Especially Lafayette and "Acadiana" – the heavily Catholic southern region of the state from Baton Rouge to the Texas border. Louisianans are a friendly, helpful people, and one native has provided the following tips for visitors:
For the official record, nobody who is genuinely from Louisiana puts an apostrophe between y and all. There is nobody real in Louisiana who says ya all.
We say YALL. One word, one syllable, no missing letters, no punctuation. Yall. If you stutter after Y and before A everyone will know you're a transplant.
A few tips about the crawdad state…
Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Louisiana.
There are 10,000 types of spiders, and all 10,000 live in Louisiana, plus a couple no one's seen before.
Possums will eat anything.
Armadillos love to dig holes under tomato plants.
Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
"Onced" and "twiced" are words.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
People actually grow and eat okra.
"Fixinto" is one word.
A tank is a hole in the ground to hold water for irrigation, for watterin' the cows, for swimming, or for a weekly bath.
There ain't no such thing as "lunch." There's only dinner and then there's supper.
Coffee is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're 2.
All tea is always iced. All coffee is always hot. If you serve us hot tea or iced coffee, expect to scrap.
"Backwards and forwards" means I know everything about you.
"Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
Darn near everyone knows 5 or more cloud types. (Guess they got to be look'n out for them ternayders–translation: tornadoes.)
You know you're from LOUISIANA if . . .
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
6A. You've lived in Louisiana your whole life and still didn't know Mardi Gras wasn't a national holiday.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage, but leave the place unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.
9. You know what "cow tipping" is.
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
11. The local paper covers national and international news on one page, but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
12. You think the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
13. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm."
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
15. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.
17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop . . . it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"
18. You understand these jokes and share them with your friends from Louisiana.


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Just in case you don't have Netflix, a DVD player, a VHS player or the internet... FEARnet has decided to start showing "Tales From the Crypt" starting October 5th.
I had no idea that A&E was making a "Bates Motel" TV movie but I've been huffing a lot of paint lately so I've missed some things. But this is a thing and it's happening and I guess Freddie Highmore was always cast as Norman a while back so today I'm here to tell you that Olivia Cooke and Nicola Peltz have both joined the cast. I think I missed my fantasy football draft also. I hope no one picked up The Fridge yet.
Still holding out hope for a third installment in the "28 Days Later" saga titled "28 Months Later"? Well writer/producer Alex Garland says it isn't going to happen. So piss off.
If you want to get your beady little eyes on some clips from the "Evil Dead" and "Carrie" remakes then you're going to want to get your ass on a plane and come to NY Comic Con because both will premiere footage there on October 13th. I mean I guess if you live in Jersey you don't need to take a plane. That would be silly. Would you fly from Newark to JFK? I'm not even sure that's possible. Think for once in your life you freakin jackass.


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Women's luxury fashion label Shahida Parides recently launched Heart2Heart, a new charity brand affiliate and ambassadorship program, with famed Italian author, fashion influencer, philanthropist, and journalist Simonetta Lein. Released just in time for Valentine's Day, the Heart2Heart campaign allows the chosen brand ambassador to curate a capsule collection from the Shahida Parides line, in an exclusive Heart2Heart print, and the brand will donate 30% of all sales of those select items, from the Shahida Parides website, to the affiliate's charity of choice. I have profiled both Shahida Clayton of Shahida Parides and Simonetta Lein separately on Splash, and I was so happy to see these two exceptional women come together to raise money and awareness for charity.
Simonetta has chosen The Wishwall Foundation as the beneficiary of her Heart2Heart campaign, which makes perfect sense as Simonetta is both the foundation's founder and global ambassador. The Wishwall Foundation website is a 501(C)3 charitable organization, and on-line social community of people from across the planet, who post their deepest wish or desire on the website's "Wishwall". Simonetta, along with her global network of "Wishmakers", select viable and attainable posted wishes, and work diligently to grant them whenever possible though the foundation and/or their community's "Pay it Forward" model. One story in particular, which brought me to tears when I heard it, was granted more than a year ago in Simonetta's home town of Philadelphia.
The Wishwall Foundation worked in conjunction with the city of Philadelphia to erect a physical "Wishwall" on the day of Pope Francis' visit to the city. Simonetta noticed a woman, in tears, writing on a Post-it note, sticking the note to the Wall, gently touching it, and then walking away. Simonetta immediately read the Post-it and it said "I wish for my daughter to be remembered." After contacting Anna Pozzi, Simonetta learned that her daughter had been murdered by a hit and run driver and the culprit was unfortunately never found nor brought to justice. Moved by her story, Simonetta was determined to have Anna's wish granted, and convinced the City of Philadelphia to officially name the 600 block of Kimball Street Theresa Pozzi Way in memory of Anna's daughter, Theresa. This is just one of thousands of examples I could give of the incredible work achieved by the Wishwall Foundation. And kudos to Shahida Clayton for allowing her brand to become a conduit for raising funds and awareness for such a meaningful organization!
For more information on Shahida Parides, please visit- Shahida Parides website
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Tracie May-Wagner is an LA based Fashion and Lifestyle publicist, and the Fashion Editor of Splash Magazines Worldwide