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More than a social morality tale, this is a character study, with the title well chosen.
"The Queen of Versailles" ought to be required viewing for anyone who blames the rich for yanking the rug out from under America's economy.
What I left with was not hatred. I disapprove of the values they represent, but I also find them fascinating and just slightly lovable.
"The Queen of Versailles" turns out to be a portrait -- appalling, absorbing and improbably affecting -- of how, even within a system seemingly designed to ensure that the rich get richer, sometimes the rich get poorer.
Through a clear lens unclouded by politics or blame, it offers insight into the hazardous American practice of living beyond our means.
There's more going on here than classist derision, and the filmmaker uses her footage to try to sort out her feelings.
It would be easy to look at this with smug satisfaction, but director Lauren Greenfield is impassive.
Surely more topical (and essential) now than when it was conceived, The Queen of Versailles plays like a Christopher Guest parody of the financial crisis.
Watching "The Queen of Versailles" you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Whatever their crimes of bad taste, they had it, flaunted it, lost it, and lived to tell the tale.
The pride, gluttony and inexplicable romance in the tale are almost Shakespearean.
By the end, the movie has pulled off a small miracle: You become absorbed in the lives of these people for who they are and not what they own.
In director Lauren Greenfield's tremendous documentary packed with terrific details, greed is not good. It is a slow, self-inflicted wound whose pain hits hard and fast.
A well-told tale about having to atone for sins of the sub-prime era.
A tragicomic indulgence of schadenfreude with the sophistication of a Kardashian reality show.
The result is a rich portrait.
A dysfunctional family documentary which invites the audience to take pleasure in the misfortunes of some decidedly-decadent 1%ers.
There are improbably involving human stories here.
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Fish with cancer discovered in Australia. Image: Newcastle University/Michael Sweet
Widespread skin cancer has been identified in coral trout species in the Great Barrier Reef.
Living in Australia, underneath the world?s largest hole in the ozone layer, we are all taught the rule ?slip, slop, slap? from a young age. Along with New Zealand, Australia has the highest incidence rate of melanoma in the world.
There is much research being conducted into human skin cancer, but studying the disease in wild animal populations has proven to be much more difficult and costly in the past.
A collaborative new study between experts from Newcastle University, UK, and the Australian Institute of Marine Science has revealed for the first time that there is a high prevalence of melanoma in at least three different species of the iconic coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus) in two locations (Heron Island and One Tree Island) on the southern Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The results of this study have been published in the journal, PLoS One.
?The strong links between our samples and those in laboratory UV induced melanomas [in fish], suggests UV-B to be the most likely cause of cancer in [wild populations] of fish,? says lead scientist Michael Sweet from Newcastle University. ?This coupled with the highest prevalence of cases reported being directly under the ozone hole in the southern hemisphere strengthens our hypothesis.? Although, Sweet explains, further work to confirm this is ongoing.
During the field research the scientists sampled 136 fish and found that 20 (15%) of them were covered in lesions on the surface of their skin indicative of melanoma.? These lesions ranged from just a few small cuts, to full skin coverage, which gave the usually vibrant coloured fish an entirely black appearance. In all the diseased fish, the cancer was restricted to the dermis and in its early stages.
The researchers tested whether other possible environmental factors could be causing the prevalent skin disease, such as microbial pathogens or marine pollution. But analysis showed the amount of microbes to be equal in the diseased and non-diseased fish. Therefore, according to the researchers, UV radiation appears to be the most likely culprit.
UNSW researcher Bart Adriaenssens, who was not involved with the study, explains that the research is very interesting and can count as a warning signal that increased UV may not only affects humans but also wild animal populations. Apart from this it also underscores the need for further research to better understand the occurrence of melanoma in nature.
?Even if ozone layer thinning is a very likely candidate, future research is needed to fully rule out alternative causes for the melanoma: do we notice it only now because research focuses more on skin cancer these days? If it is a recent syndrome, can it be caused by a recent shift in activity of coral trout that exposes them more to UV?, [for example]? coral trout may have shifted their activity towards UV-rich surface layers in response to changes in prey or predator abundance leading to similar increases in melanoma prevalence,? says?Adriaenssens. ?However, the study clearly confirms that melanoma exists in natural coral trout populations and these questions now become relevant.?
How far reaching and concerning the disease is also remains unclear and the researchers say there are many environmental and economic factors that need to be considered. ?As it?s [coral trout] a commercially valuable fish there are potential economic implications of the disease to this trade and also human health issues need to be further investigated,? says Sweet.
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Most with celiac disease unaware of it, others go gluten-free without diagnosisPublic release date: 31-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Brian Kilen newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Roughly 1.8 million Americans have celiac disease, but around 1.4 million of them are unaware that they have it, a Mayo Clinic-led analysis of the condition's prevalence has found. Meanwhile, 1.6 million people in the United States are on a gluten-free diet even though they haven't been diagnosed with celiac disease, according to the study published Tuesday in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Researchers have estimated the rate of diagnosed and undiagnosed celiac disease at similar levels prior to this study, but this is the most definitive study on the issue. "This provides proof that this disease is common in the United States," says co-author Joseph Murray, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist. "If you detect one person for every five or six (who have it), we aren't doing a very good job detecting celiac disease."
Celiac disease is a digestive disorder brought on when genetically susceptible people eat wheat, rye and barley. A gluten-free diet, which excludes the protein gluten, is used to treat celiac disease. Roughly 80 percent of the people on a gluten-free diet do so without a diagnosis of celiac disease.
"There are a lot of people on a gluten-free diet, and it's not clear what the medical need for that is," Dr. Murray says. "It is important if someone thinks they might have celiac disease that they be tested first before they go on the diet."
To determine its prevalence, researchers combined blood tests confirming celiac disease with interviews from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nationwide population sample survey called National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The survey, designed to assess the health and nutrition of U.S. adults and children, is unique in that it combines interviews and physical examinations.
Researchers found that celiac disease is much more common in Caucasians.
"In fact, virtually all the individuals we found were non-Hispanic Caucasians," says co-author Alberto Rubio-Tapia, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist. But previous research in Mexico has shown that celiac disease could be just as common as it is in the U.S.
"So that is something we don't fully understand," Dr. Rubio-Tapia says. The study found the rate of celiac disease in the U.S. is similar to that found in several European countries.
The research was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. Study authors include James Everhart, M.D., from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease; Jonas Ludvigsson, M.D., Ph.D., from Orebro University Hospital and the Karolinska Institutet; and Tricia Brantner from Mayo Clinic.
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Most with celiac disease unaware of it, others go gluten-free without diagnosisPublic release date: 31-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Brian Kilen newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Roughly 1.8 million Americans have celiac disease, but around 1.4 million of them are unaware that they have it, a Mayo Clinic-led analysis of the condition's prevalence has found. Meanwhile, 1.6 million people in the United States are on a gluten-free diet even though they haven't been diagnosed with celiac disease, according to the study published Tuesday in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Researchers have estimated the rate of diagnosed and undiagnosed celiac disease at similar levels prior to this study, but this is the most definitive study on the issue. "This provides proof that this disease is common in the United States," says co-author Joseph Murray, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist. "If you detect one person for every five or six (who have it), we aren't doing a very good job detecting celiac disease."
Celiac disease is a digestive disorder brought on when genetically susceptible people eat wheat, rye and barley. A gluten-free diet, which excludes the protein gluten, is used to treat celiac disease. Roughly 80 percent of the people on a gluten-free diet do so without a diagnosis of celiac disease.
"There are a lot of people on a gluten-free diet, and it's not clear what the medical need for that is," Dr. Murray says. "It is important if someone thinks they might have celiac disease that they be tested first before they go on the diet."
To determine its prevalence, researchers combined blood tests confirming celiac disease with interviews from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nationwide population sample survey called National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The survey, designed to assess the health and nutrition of U.S. adults and children, is unique in that it combines interviews and physical examinations.
Researchers found that celiac disease is much more common in Caucasians.
"In fact, virtually all the individuals we found were non-Hispanic Caucasians," says co-author Alberto Rubio-Tapia, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist. But previous research in Mexico has shown that celiac disease could be just as common as it is in the U.S.
"So that is something we don't fully understand," Dr. Rubio-Tapia says. The study found the rate of celiac disease in the U.S. is similar to that found in several European countries.
The research was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. Study authors include James Everhart, M.D., from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease; Jonas Ludvigsson, M.D., Ph.D., from Orebro University Hospital and the Karolinska Institutet; and Tricia Brantner from Mayo Clinic.
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We've been saying for a while now that a large deal of the success of Kickstarter blockbuster OUYA will hinge on the console's game selection. News just got a fair bit brighter on that front -- particularly for RPG fans. The company announced via its Kickstarter page (as per usual) that it has partnered with Square Enix. The first fruits of that burgeoning relationship will be Final Fantasy III, making the game a launch title for the console. The company is promising that the title will be "updated to exploit OUYA's high-definition resolution in glorious graphic detail" -- and, as is OUYA's M.O., players will be getting a free demo of the game. Oh, and for those keeping track, the product's Kickstarter page is currently at a mind-boggling $5,820,345 with eight days to go.
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