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DVD List – as of Mar 16

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I'm updating my DVD list in preparation to my move.

  1. 25th Hour, The
  2. Alegria
  3. American Beauty
  4. American History X
  5. Animatrix
  6. Any Given Sunday
  7. Babylon 5 – Two volume Set – The Gathering
  8. Babylon 5 (Season 1)
  9. Babylon 5 (Season 2)
  10. Babylon 5 (Season 3)
  11. Babylon 5 (Season 4)
  12. Babylon 5 (Season 5)
  13. Babylon 5 (The Movies)
  14. Babylon 5 – Cruisades
  15. Being John Malkovich
  16. Ben Hur
  17. Big Lebowski, The
  18. Blown Away
  19. Box of Moonlight
  20. Bulletproof Monk
  21. Caligula
  22. Carlito's Way
  23. Contact
  24. Corruptor, The
  25. Corsican Twins, The
  26. Couch in New York
  27. Count of Monte Cristo, The
  28. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  29. Cyrano de Bergerac
  30. Daredevil
  31. Dark City
  32. Dark Crystal, The
  33. Dead Poets Society
  34. Enemy at the gates
  35. Fifth Element, The
  36. Fight Club
  37. Frank Herbert's Dune
  38. Freshman, The
  39. Full Metal Jacket
  40. Gladiator
  41. Godfather, The
  42. Good Morning Vietnam
  43. Good Will Huunting
  44. Great Escape, The
  45. Grosse Point Blank
  46. Hackers
  47. Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone
  48. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
  49. Heat
  50. History of the world – Part 1
  51. Hoodlums
  52. Hustler's Barely Legal
  53. Insider, The
  54. Italian Job, The
  55. Kill Bill, Volume 1
  56. Kissing Jessica Stein
  57. Last Man Standing
  58. Last Samourai, The
  59. Law & Order (Season 1 – 6 DVD Box set)
  60. Leathal weapon 1 – Director's Cut
  61. Leathal weapon 2 – Director's Cut
  62. Leathal weapon 3 – Director's Cut
  63. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
  64. Lost in translation
  65. Man in the iron mask, The
  66. Mary Poppins – Special Edition
  67. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 1
  68. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 2
  69. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 3
  70. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 4
  71. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 5
  72. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 6
  73. MASH Collector's Edition – Season 7
  74. MASH The Movie
  75. Mask, The
  76. Matrix, The
  77. MIB
  78. Minority Report
  79. Monty Python – Quest for the Holy Graal – SE
  80. Mulan
  81. Mummy, The
  82. Muppet Show – 10 DVD
  83. Muppet Christmas Carrol
  84. Muppet Treasure Island
  85. Muppets from Space
  86. My big fat greek wedding
  87. Nightmare before xmas, The
  88. Ninja Scroll
  89. Ocean's Eleven
  90. Office Space
  91. Payback
  92. Pink Floyd – The wall
  93. Pirates of the Caribbean
  94. Pulp Fiction
  95. Pump Up the Volume
  96. Pushing Tin
  97. Rachel Papers, The
  98. Ref, The
  99. Replacement Killers, The
  100. Reservoir Dogs
  101. Revenge of the ninja
  102. Ronin
  103. Rounders
  104. Scent of a Woman
  105. Score, The
  106. Seven
  107. Shawshank Redemption, The
  108. Sherlock Holmes Feature Film Collection
  109. Shrek
  110. Snatch
  111. South Park – Bigger, Longer, Uncut
  112. Spartacus
  113. Spawn – The complete animated series
  114. Spirited Away
  115. Star Wars – Extended Edition Box Set (Episodes 4-6)
  116. Suicide Kings
  117. Thomas Crown Affair, The
  118. Three to tango
  119. Transporter, The
  120. Truth about cats and dogs, The
  121. Two if by Sea
  122. Underworld
  123. Untouchables, The
  124. Who framed Roger Rabbit?
  125. X-Men

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Well I'll be…

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Anti-Cancer Compound in Green Tea Identified
Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:36 PM ET

By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) – Spanish and British scientists have discovered how green tea helps to prevent certain types of cancer.Researchers at the University of Murcia in Spain (UMU) and the John Innes Center (JIC) in Norwich, England have shown that a compound called EGCG in green tea prevents cancer cells from growing by binding to a specific enzyme.

“We have shown for the first time that EGCG, which is present in green tea at relatively high concentrations, inhibits the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), which is a recognized, established target for anti-cancer drugs, ” Professor Roger Thorneley, of JIC, told Reuters.

“This is the first time, to our knowledge, a known target for an anti-cancer drug has been identified as being inhibited by EGCG,” he added. Green tea has about five times as much EGCG as regular tea, studies have shown. It decreased rates of certain cancers but scientists were not sure what compounds were involved or how they worked. Nor had they determined how much green tea a person would have to drink to have a beneficial effect, he said.

Thorneley said EGCG is probably just one of a number of anti-cancer mechanisms in green tea. “We have identified this enzyme in tumor cells that EGCG targets and understand how it stops this enzyme from making DNA. This means we may be able to develop new anti-cancer drugs based on the structure of the EGCG molecule,” Thorneley explained.

The scientists decided to look at ECGC after they realized its structure was similar to a cancer drug called methotrexate. “We discovered that EGCG can kill cancer cells in the same way as methotrexate,” Dr Jose Neptuno Rodriguez-Lopez, of UMU, a joint author of the research published in the journal Cancer Research.

EGCG binds strongly to DHFR, which is essential in both healthy and cancerous cells. But it does not bind as tightly as methotrexate, so its side effects on healthy cells could be less severe than those of the drug.

Thorneley said EGCG could be a lead compound for new anti-cancer drugs.

The findings could also explain why women who drink large amounts of green tea around the time they conceive and early in their pregnancy may have an increased risk of having a child with spina bifida or other neural tube disorders.

Women are advised to take supplements of folic acid because it protects against spina bifida. But large amounts of green tea could decrease the effectiveness of folic acid. “This enzyme, (DHFR), is the one folic acid supplements are given for. Folic acid deficiency leads to neural tube development defects,” Thorneley added

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That friggin hurts.

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I went to have coffee with [info]kaliko_mel, who was in town for a few days. It was a nice way to spent a few hours. Talked a lot, laughed quite a bit. It's a bit of a shame that I won't have a chance to see her again for the next forseeable while. On my way back, while we were walking to the metro, I put my foot in a puddle that was deceptively deep and kinda-sorta twisted my ankle. It didn't go crack, and I can still walk on it, but it smarts like a sonuvabitch. I am not amused.

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