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Carboplatin and Paclitaxel With or Without Bevacizumab in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Ovarian Epithelial, Primary Peritoneal Cancer, or Fallopian Tube Cancer
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This randomized phase III trial is studying carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab to see how well they work compared to carboplatin, paclitaxel, and placebo in treating patients with stage III or stage IV ovarian epithelial, primary peritoneal cancer, or fallopian tube cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin and paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Bevacizumab may also stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet known whether carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab are more effective than carboplatin, paclitaxel, and placebo in treating ovarian epithelial or primary peritoneal cancer , or fallopian tube cancer.
Brenner Tumor
Fallopian Tube Cancer
Ovarian Clear Cell Cystadenocarcinoma
Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma
Ovarian Mixed Epithelial Carcinoma
Ovarian Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma
Ovarian Serous Cystadenocarcinoma
Ovarian Undifferentiated Adenocarcinoma
Primary Peritoneal Cavity Cancer
Stage III Ovarian Epithelial Cancer
Stage IV Ovarian Epithelial Cancer
Other: hydrocortisone/placebo
Drug: paclitaxel
Drug: carboplatin
Biological: bevacizumab
Phase 3
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase III Trial of Carboplatin and Paclitaxel Plus Placebo Versus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel Plus Concurrent Bevacizumab (NSC # 704865) Followed by Placebo, Versus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel Plus Concurrent and Extended Bevacizumab, in Women With Newly Diagnosed, Previously Untreated, Suboptimal Advanced Stage Epithelial Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal Cancer, or Fallopian Tube Cancer
- Progression-free Survival [ Time Frame: From study entry until first disease progression, death or date of last contact, up to 6 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Median progression-free survival (PFS). Onset of progression could be based on radiographic (RECIST) criteria or rising CA-125 (GCIG criteria).
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: From study entry to death or last contact, up to 6 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Median overall survival (OS)
- Frequency and Severity of Adverse Events Assessed by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 3.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Impact on Quality of Life Measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Ovary Trial Outcome Index (FACT-O TOI) [ Time Frame: At baseline, 9, 18, 36, 60, and 84 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Estimated least squares means from a mixed module of Quality of Life (QOL) scores at each assessment point, adjusted for baseline score and patient's age. Note: The range of possible scores of the FACT-O TOI is 0 - 104 for all treatment groups and at all visits. A higher score indicates better QOL. Baseline mean scores are raw means.
|Study Start Date:
|September 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Arm I (placebo, paclitaxel, carboplatin)
Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 3 hours and carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Beginning in course 2, patients also receive placebo IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 6 courses. Beginning in course 7, patients receive placebo alone IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment with placebo repeats every 21 days for up to 22 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: hydrocortisone/placebo
Given IVDrug: paclitaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: carboplatin
Given IV
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Experimental: Arm II (placebo, paclitaxel, carboplatin, bevacizumab)
Patients receive paclitaxel and carboplatin as in arm I. Beginning in course 2, patients also receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 6 courses. Beginning in course 7, patients receive placebo alone IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment with placebo repeats every 21 days for up to 22 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: hydrocortisone/placebo
Given IVDrug: paclitaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Biological: bevacizumab
Given IV
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Experimental: Arm III (paclitaxel, carboplatin, bevacizumab)
Patients receive paclitaxel and carboplatin as in arm I. Beginning in course 2, patients also receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 6 courses. Beginning in course 7, patients receive bevacizumab alone IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment with bevacizumab repeats every 21 days for up to 22 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: paclitaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Biological: bevacizumab
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Histologically confirmed ovarian epithelial, primary peritoneal*, or fallopian tube cancer
- Stage III with any gross (macroscopic or palpable) residual disease OR stage IV disease
The following histologic epithelial cell types are allowed provided the histologic features of the tumor are compatible with a primary müllerian epithelial adenocarcinoma:
- Serous adenocarcinoma
- Endometrioid adenocarcinoma
- Mucinous adenocarcinoma
- Undifferentiated carcinoma
- Clear cell adenocarcinoma
- Mixed epithelial carcinoma
- Transitional cell carcinoma
- Malignant Brenner tumor
- Adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified
No borderline ovarian epithelial tumor (formerly "tumors of low malignant potential")
- Prior diagnosis of a borderline tumor that was surgically resected and an unrelated, new, invasive ovarian epithelial or primary peritoneal cancer that subsequently develops is allowed provided there was no prior chemotherapy for any ovarian tumor
- No recurrent invasive ovarian epithelial cancer treated with surgery only (e.g., stage IA or IB low-grade epithelial ovarian or fallopian tube cancer)
No synchronous primary endometrial cancer or prior primary endometrial cancer unless all of the following criteria are met:
- Stage ≤ IB
- Superficial myometrial invasion without vascular or lymphatic invasion
- No poorly differentiated subtypes (i.e., papillary serous, clear cell, or other FIGO grade 3 lesions)
Must have undergone surgery for ovarian epithelial, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer in the past 1-12 weeks AND have tissue available for histologic evaluation
- Patients with stage III disease in which the largest maximal diameter of any residual tumor implant a the completion of initial surgery is ≤ 1 cm will be defined as "optimal" (all others will be defined as "suboptimal")
- Measurable or nonmeasurable disease
- No tumor involving active major vessels
- No prior or concurrent CNS disease, including primary brain tumor or brain metastases
- Performance status - GOG 0-2
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3 without induction or support by granulocyte colony stimulating factors
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3
- No active bleeding
- No known bleeding disorder or coagulopathy
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- SGOT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- INR ≤ 1.5 (2-3 with stable-dose therapeutic warfarin for management of venous thrombosis including pulmonary thromboembolus)
- PTT < 1.2 times ULN
- No acute hepatitis
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- Urine protein:creatinine ratio < 1.0
- Urine protein < 1 g/24-hr urine collection
- No New York Heart Association class II-IV congestive heart failure
- No myocardial infarction or unstable angina within the past 6 months
- No uncontrolled hypertension (i.e., blood pressure > 150/90 mm Hg)
- No serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication except for patients with asymptomatic atrial fibrillation with a controlled ventricular rate
- No other clinically significant cardiovascular disease
- No clinically significant peripheral vascular disease ≥ grade 2
- No history of cerebral vascular accident, transient ischemic attack, or subarachnoid hemorrhage within the past 6 months
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 6 months after completion of study treatment
- No neuropathy (sensory and motor) > grade 1
- No known hypersensitivity to Chinese hamster ovary cell products or recombinant human or humanized antibodies
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except nonmelanoma skin cancer
- No active infection that requires parenteral antibiotics
- No serious nonhealing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
No history of abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within the past 28 days
- Granulating incisions healing by secondary intention with no evidence of fascial dehiscence or infection are allowed
- No other pathological condition that would confer a high risk of bleeding
- No uncontrolled seizures
- No significant traumatic injury within the past 4 weeks
- No clinical symptoms or signs of gastrointestinal obstruction that require parenteral hydration and/or nutrition
- No other medical history or condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude study participation
No prior targeted therapy for ovarian epithelial or peritoneal primary cancer, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Vaccines
- Antibodies
- Tyrosine kinase inhibitors
- No prior bevacizumab
- No other prior antivascular endothelial growth factors (VEGF)
- No other concurrent biologic therapy
- No other concurrent cytotoxic or anticancer therapy
- No prior chemotherapy for abdominal or pelvic tumor including neoadjuvant chemotherapy for their ovarian or primary peritoneal cancer
- More than 3 years since prior adjuvant chemotherapy for localized breast cancer AND patient remains free of recurrent or metastatic disease
- No other concurrent chemotherapy
Ovarian estrogen with or without progestin replacement therapy as indicated at the lowest effective dose(s) for control of menopausal symptoms at any time allowed
- No progestins for management of anorexia while on study-directed therapy or prior to disease progression
- No prior hormonal therapy for ovarian, peritoneal primary, or fallopian tube cancer
- No concurrent hormonal therapy
- More than 3 years since prior radiotherapy for localized cancer of the breast, head and neck, or skin AND patient remains free of recurrent or metastatic disease
- No prior radiotherapy to the abdominal cavity or pelvis
- No concurrent radiotherapy
- No concurrent amifostine or other protective reagents
- At least 4 weeks since prior major surgical procedure or open biopsy
- At least 1 week since prior core biopsy
- No concurrent major surgery including abdominal surgery (laparotomy or laparoscopy) prior to disease progression (e.g., colostomy or enterostomy reversal, interval or secondary cytoreductive surgery, or second look surgery
- No prior cancer therapy that would preclude study treatment
- No concurrent consolidation or maintenance therapy
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00262847
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|Principal Investigator:
|Robert Burger
|Gynecologic Oncology Group
No publications provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00262847 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 6, 2005
|Results First Received:
|July 9, 2013
|Last Updated:
|June 18, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brenner Tumor
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Ovarian Neoplasms
Peritoneal Neoplasms
Abdominal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous
Neoplasms, Fibroepithelial
Neoplasms, Fibrous Tissue
Urogenital Neoplasms
Uterine Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Endometrioid
Cystadenocarcinoma, Mucinous
Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous
Adnexal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Fallopian Tube Diseases
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This thread is for discussing Small Gods in some depth. If you haven't read the book then read on at your own risk – or, better still, go and read the book and join in the fun.
For those of us that are going to join in the discussion, here are a few guidelines:
Please feel free to make comparisons to other Discworld books, making sure you identify the book and the passage you are referring to. Others may not be as familiar with the book you are referencing, so think before you post.
Sometimes we'll need to agree to disagree – only Terry knows for sure what he was thinking when he wrote the books and individuals members may have widely different interpretations – so try to keep the discussion friendly.
We may be discussing a book that you don't much care for – don't be put off joining in the discussion. If you didn't care for the book, then that in itself is a good topic for discussion.
Please note: there is no time limit to this discussion. Please feel free to add to it at any time - especially if you've just read the book.
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Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Originally published 1992
When the Great God Om decided to appear to his followers as a raging bull, it came as a total shock to him that all he managed was a lowly tortoise. For three years he wandered around until a passing eagle in search of a feast (there's good eating in one of those) brought him to Brutha the Novice who had enough belief to allow Om to command him. In the beginning was the word and the word was "Psst!"
This is probably my favourite Discworld book ever. Oddly enough, I really didn't care for it much the first time I read it. It's a book that demands more than one reading - and I find that every time I read it, I find more to it.
It's Pratchett's take on the nature of belief and Man's relationship to gods. It's about how Humans take simple belief and subvert it into something much more sinister. In many ways I think this is Terry's first Masterpiece. It appeals to believers and non-believers and philosophers!
But what did you think?
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Possible rematch with Nick Diaz? Ex-UFC champ Carlos Condit weighs in | News
The former UFC interim welterweight champion told MMAjunkie.com Radio (MMA Radio, UFC Radio - MMAjunkie Radio) that he first plans to shore up weaknesses in his wrestling game over the summer. After that, he'd like a fight in Las Vegas.
"I want to be in good fights with a lot of hype and a lot of buzz, and a rematch with Diaz and myself would interest a lot of folks," Condit said.
Condit (28-7 MMA, 5-3 UFC) and Diaz (26-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC) fought to a highly controversial decision at UFC 143, with Condit emerging with a unanimous decision to claim the interim title put up for grabs when undisputed champ Georges St-Pierre was benched with a torn ACL.
Eight months later, Condit met St-Pierre in a title-unification match at UFC 154 and lost via decision. A return fight saw him lose another judges' call when Johny Hendricks outpointed him at UFC 158 earlier this year.
Against St-Pierre, he gave up takedown after takedown. Hendricks' early-fight surge lost steam in later rounds as Condit pressed the pace, but again, wrestling ultimately swayed the scorecards as his back repeatedly hit the canvas.
Given the shape of his past two fights, Condit is targeting some time off to improve.
"I had a couple of fights, back to back," he said. "So honestly, I'm probably just taking the summer doing some traveling and some training obviously, a big aspect of my game I need to work on. My last two fights were basically lost due to the wrestling. So I'm really focusing on that before I get out there again."
With that said, he welcomes the opportunity to again fight Diaz, who briefly retired after his loss to Condit. Fans criticized his gameplan, saying he spent more time running than engaging with Diaz. Plus, Diaz is a major star despite coming up short in two UFC title opportunities.
Of course, Diaz's career plans remain a question mark after he retired (again) following a loss to St-Pierre in the headliner of UFC 158.
Could Condit convince him to get back in the cage?
"The fight was a close fight," Condit said. "It was a decision. So I think we could put on a good show. It goes without saying that there was a lot of controversy after the fight. Just putting that to rest would be another reason I would like to fight."
Condit clarified that he doesn't have a scheduled opponent despite his desire to return in late summer or early fall. His goal, however, remains to capture St-Pierre's title.
"I guess we're just going to have to see how the welterweight picture shakes up here in the next couple of events, and maybe then we'll have a better idea," he said. "I definitely think I have another title run in me. I'm looking at making the next year or two some of my best fights. I'm trying to cement my legacy, and we'll see where I am after that."


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Communicate with the NXT over a network using the standard BT protocol
I have just completed a program that makes it possible to communicate with the NXT over a network using the LEGO Bluetooth protocol. The idea is simply to have a server between a number of network clients and the NXT. This makes it possible to forward messages from TCP/IP to Bluetooth and vice versa. I have also updated my C++ communication library so that it supports network communication. This makes it easy to send commands to the server. But wait there is more... if you don't want to write your own program to communicate with the NXT over the internet you can download a network client that will allow you to set and read all four sensors as well as control the motors.
Please place a comment - maybe tell what kind of cool projects you want to build with these tools. Happy Easter
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- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
Interesting. :)
So it's php in the end, isn't it?
A similar idea with a JEE application has been on my stack for long now...
What could you do with this ability to control NXT clients over a distributed network? One thing that comes instantly into mind is collaborating robots that are distributed beyond bluetooth range of each other but in range of a central "hub" where a central server is coordinating their work.
A security network with mobile guard robots, for instance.
- Apr 7, 2009, 5:04:00 PM
- Anders Søborg said...
Hi Matthias
No the program doesn't use php. The server simply communicates with network clients using TCP/IP - the program is written in C++.
In order to realize your idea you would need to write a client program that can make a NXT connect to the server. The server only allows 100 clients to connect and communicate over TCP/IP with a single NXT. This makes it possible for multiple users to control the NXT from a remote computer. But hey you just gave me a new idea for a project. Thanks
- Apr 7, 2009, 9:02:00 PM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
Something that came to my mind this very minute when I have been doing some Google Earth stuff: you could use a GPS sensor on a NXT and it could send its current position to the server (maybe via an on-board internet laptop). The server could create a related Google earth map and distribute the KML data to clients - they could visualize the position of the NXT then.
Well, this opens up a lot of possibilities...
- Apr 8, 2009, 12:06:00 AM
- Anders Søborg said...
I was thinking that you could use the server to remotely start and stop a data logging program and then download the log file over the internet.
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Doris Ulmann's Portraits: "The Marks of Living Intensely"
Written by sue on February 5, 2014 — 2 Comments
In honor of the death of Pete Seeger last week, this week's blog will highlight the work of another champion of American folk music and crafts: the photographer Doris Ulmann (1882-1934). Like Seeger, Ulmann was born in Manhattan, and seemed an unlikely candidate to work in the rural South. The eldest daughter of a prosperous […]
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On Gaming And Media NarrativesNovember 29th, 2014
On December 13, 2013, I sent the following email to several of my friends who play videogames:
Hey, if you're receiving this it's because you're on my Steam friends list. I don't send spam out often but right now I am frustrated with the collective hatred of the internet and this is the only way I can think of fighting back.
Earlier this year, I played a web-based game called Depression Quest. It's not particularly "fun", because it's about depression, but it is very good at building awareness about, and empathy for, a serious mental condition.
The creator happens to be a woman and has been harassed by the internet. The game, while free, is trying to get on Steam and a bunch of internet assholes are down-voting the game because misogyny.
So, if you either like the premise of the game or despise misogyny (or both!), I encourage you to vote for the game on Steam Greenlight using the link below:
That is all. Thanks for reading this, and apologies if this is spam to you.
The above email was the only "mass email" I've sent in at least the past two years. I was pretty frustrated at the time.
What's odd, though, is that I didn't do a whole lot of research before writing that email: I followed Depression Quest's author, Zoe Quinn, on Twitter, and saw her complaining about being harassed over the phone, and I saw a post or two from a few game journalism sites about it, which convinced me that a mob of angry misogynists were harassing her.
The truth, as far as I can tell, is extremely murky. There's a YouTube video from Some Asian Guy (literally his username) who paints an unflattering picture of an extremely manipulative Zoe Quinn taking 2 angry posts from a website for depressed, suicidal male virgins, framing them as harassment, entirely fabricating claims of phone calls and "raids" on her, and then getting her game journalist friends to write about it as a mechanism to garner sympathy and publicity for herself and her game on Steam Greenlight. The whole story is also curiously documented in a series of very large images with colorful text on imgur.
What's interesting, though, is that this isn't an isolated incident. Others have taken place over the past year; many in the gaming community seem to constantly be accusing Quinn of using bullying tactics to sabotage competitors' projects, claiming harassment when none has occurred, and taking advantage of the media's sympathy towards women in gaming for personal gain.
Rhetorically, it's difficult to question and investigate Quinn's claims of harassment because doing so is often interpreted as victim blaming. But if this were mere sexist victim blaming, it would make sense for all women who claim harassment in the video game industry to be constantly doubted, not just Quinn. And yet this doesn't appear to be the case: for example, 2012′s #1reasonwhy hashtag, which was used to document the rampant sexism women in the game industry face, didn't receive significant push-back from the gaming community. Indeed, if what is said about Quinn is true, in some ways #1reasonwhy set the stage for Quinn to pull it off, since her claims of harassment fit perfectly with the media narrative the hashtag established.
And that's what concerns me about all this: the dominant media narrative here is that when gamers meet women, misogyny happens, and that's it. Every major gaming outlet refused to acknowledge claims against Quinn, and indeed always jumped to her defense, framing the story in the dominant narrative.
This narrative is so pervasive that even my favorite podcast that analyzes journalistic coverage, On The Media, is unable to see through it. Further evidence implicating Quinn in affairs with game journalists was released in August and ignited a movement called GamerGate, but coverage was yet again framed in the dominant narrative: righteous outrage shaming gamers for being misogynistic.
To be clear, GamerGate is about much more than Zoe Quinn; it's about the gaping chasm that has grown between the gaming community and game journalism over the past few years, which Erik Kain at Forbes does an incredible job at covering. Sadly, though, he's one of a small handful; On The Media only interviewed Chris Grant, the editor-in-chief of Polygon, who is not part of said handful. In fact, he is a member of an exclusive mailing list that many in GamerGate feel is partly responsible for the widening of the chasm.
Because the causes of the chasm are vast and varied, so too are the people and perspectives that comprise GamerGate. And yes, some of them are people who fit the media narrative perfectly: disgruntled men who dislike women in gaming, don't like games like Depression Quest and will bully people about it.
However, GamerGate is also comprised of thoughtful, compassionate people. People who are alarmed by the one-sided, uncritical nature of the dominant media narrative and want to see it changed. Parents of autistic children who feel the gaming press unfairly vilifies social awkwardness. Individuals who don't believe it's ethical for game journalists to be wined-and-dined by the people who made the games they're reviewing. People who have been harassed and doxxed by anti-GamerGaters without provocation. People who hate harassment and un-dox victims on both sides.
I have no idea what the truth is. But I'm certain it isn't as simple as a giant mob of angry misogynists harassing women in gaming, and I wish a few more media outlets than Forbes would start acknowledging that.


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Wagner took his tale from the Norse mythology told in the Völsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda.
It received its premiere at Munich's National Theatre on 26 June 1870 at the insistence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was premiered in Wagner's Bayreuther Festspiele as part of the complete cycle on 14 August 1876.
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|Premiere Cast
June 26, 1870
(Conductor: Franz Wüllner)
|Cast at premiere of complete cycle
August 14, 1876
(Conductor: Hans Richter)
|Heinrich Vogl
|Albert Niemann
|Therese Vogl
|Josephine Scheffzky
|Kaspar Bausewein
|Josef Niering
|August Kindermann
|Franz Betz
|Anna Kaufmann
|Frederike Grün-Sadler
|Sophie Stehle
|Amalia Materna
|Karoline Lenoff
|Marie Haupt
|Henriette Müller
|Marie Lehmann
|Luise Jaide
|Emma Seehofer
|Johanna Jachmann-Wagner
|Anna Possart-Deinet
|Lilli Lehmann
|Anna Eichheim
|Antonie Amann
|Wilhelmine Ritter
|Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann
|Juliane Tyroler
|Marie Lammert
This act hinges on hidden identities that are known to the audience. (Wagner uses this situation in operas that are not part of the Ring: in the operas bearing their respective names, Parsifal does not know his own name, and his son Lohengrin is forbidden to reveal his.) The program tells even the first-time viewer the names of the characters, and, from his leitmotif and his covering his missing eye with his hat, the "stranger" or "old man" (described but not seen on stage) and Wotan, Wolfe and the Wanderer who will appear in Siegfried can be recognized as one and the same individual. Siegmund (whose name means "victory protector or shield") and Sieglinde (meaning "gentle victory") each withhold their own names until the act's climax. (It would appear that, unlike Parsifal, Siegmund does know his own name, though he will not be the first to utter it.)
During a raging storm, Siegmund seeks shelter at the house of the warrior Hunding. Hunding is not present, and Siegmund is greeted by Sieglinde, Hunding's unhappy wife. Siegmund tells her that he is fleeing from enemies. After taking a drink of mead, he moves to leave, claiming to be cursed by misfortune. However, Sieglinde bids him to stay, saying that he can bring no misfortune to the "house where ill-luck lives".
Returning, Hunding reluctantly offers Siegmund the hospitality demanded by custom. Sieglinde, increasingly fascinated by the visitor, urges him to tell his tale. Siegmund describes returning home with his father one day, to find his mother dead and his twin sister abducted. He then wandered with his father until he parted from him as well. One day he found a girl being forced into marriage and fought with the girl's relatives. However, his weapons were broken and the bride was killed, and he was forced to flee to Hunding's home. Initially Siegmund does not reveal his name, choosing to call himself 'Wehwalt', Woeful.
When Siegmund finishes, Hunding reveals that he is one of Siegmund's pursuers. He grants Siegmund a night's stay, but they are to do battle in the morning. Hunding leaves the room with Sieglinde, ignoring his wife's distress. Siegmund laments his misfortune, recalling his father's promise that he would find a sword when he most needed it. Sieglinde returns, having drugged Hunding's drink to send him into a deep sleep. She reveals that she was forced into a marriage with Hunding. During their wedding feast, an old man had appeared and plunged a sword into the trunk of the ash tree in the center of the room, which Hunding and his companions had all failed to remove. She expresses her longing for the hero who could draw the sword and save her. Siegmund expresses his love for her, which she reciprocates, and as she strives to understand her recognition of him, she realises it is in the echo of her own voice, and reflection of her image, that she already knows him. When he speaks the name of his father, Wälse, she declares that he is Siegmund, and that the Wanderer left the sword for him.
Siegmund now easily draws the sword forth, and she tells him she is Sieglinde, his twin sister. He names the blade "Nothung" (or needful, for this is the weapon that he needs for his forthcoming fight with Hunding). As the Act closes he calls her 'bride and sister', and draws her to him with passionate fervour.
Fricka leaves, leaving Brünnhilde with a despairing Wotan. Wotan explains his problems: troubled by the warning delivered by Erda (at the end of Das Rheingold), he had seduced the earth-goddess to learn more of the prophesied doom; Brünnhilde was born to him by Erda. He had raised Brünnhilde and eight other daughters as the Valkyries, warrior maidens who gather the souls of fallen heroes to form an army against Alberich. Valhalla's army will fail if Alberich should ever wield the Ring, which is in Fafner's possession. Using the Tarnhelm the giant has transformed himself into a dragon, lurking in a forest with the Nibelung treasure. Wotan cannot wrest the Ring from Fafner, who is bound to him by contract; he needs a free hero to defeat Fafner in his stead. However, as Fricka pointed out, he can only create thralls (i.e. servants) to himself. Bitterly, Wotan orders Brünnhilde to obey Fricka and ensure the death of his beloved child Siegmund.
Having fled from Hunding's hall Siegmund and Sieglinde enter the mountain pass, where Sieglinde faints in guilt and exhaustion. Brünnhilde approaches Siegmund, telling him of his impending death. Siegmund refuses to follow Brünnhilde to Valhalla when he finds out that Sieglinde cannot accompany him there. Impressed by his courage, Brünnhilde relents and agrees to protect Siegmund instead.
Hunding arrives and attacks Siegmund. Blessed by Brünnhilde, Siegmund begins to overpower Hunding, but Wotan appears and shatters Nothung (Siegmund's sword) with his spear. Disarmed, Siegmund is slain by Hunding. Brünnhilde seizes Sieglinde and the shards of Nothung, and flees on horseback. Wotan looks down on Siegmund's body, grieving. He strikes Hunding dead with a contemptuous gesture, and angrily sets out in pursuit of his lawless daughter.
The other Valkyries assemble on the summit of a mountain, each with a dead hero in her saddlebag. They are astonished when Brünnhilde arrives with a living woman. She begs them to help, but they dare not defy Wotan. Brünnhilde decides to delay Wotan as Sieglinde flees. She also reveals that Sieglinde is pregnant by Siegmund, and names the unborn son Siegfried (meaning "joyous in victory" or "peace in victory").
Wotan arrives in wrath and passes judgement on Brünnhilde: she is to be stripped of her Valkyrie status and become mortal, to be held in a magic sleep on the mountain, prey to any man who happens by. Dismayed, the other Valkyries flee. Brünnhilde begs mercy of Wotan for herself, his favorite child. She recounts the courage of Siegmund and her decision to protect him, knowing that was Wotan's true desire. With the words 'Der diese Liebe mir in's Herz gehaucht' (He who breathed this love into me), introducing the key of E major, she identifies her own actions as Wotan's true will. Wotan consents to her last request: to encircle the mountaintop with magic flame, which will deter all but the bravest of heroes (who, shown through the leitmotif, they both know will be the yet unborn Siegfried). Wotan lays Brünnhilde down on a rock and, in a long embrace, kisses her eyes closed into an enchanted sleep. He summons Loge (the Norse demigod of fire) to ignite the circle of flame that will protect her, then slowly departs in sorrow, after pronouncing: "Whosoever fears the point of my spear shall not pass through the fire." The curtain falls as the Magic Fire Music again resolves into E major.


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In this brooding Symbolist subject titled Soul in Bondage, the American expatriate Elihu Vedder brought together his key interests in idealized human form, abstracted design, and the themes of internal spiritual conflict. Profoundly inspired by the writer Edward Fitzgerald's translation of mystical Persian verse in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Vedder illustrated a lush 1884 edition), he created numerous subjects representing the individual bound by the dilemma of choice between good and evil symbolized here by the butterfly and the serpent. Behind the figure Vedder employed his signature "double swirl," a motif he had used repeatedly in the Rubáiyát illustrations to suggest the forces that converge and then disperse around the brief point that constitutes an individual human life.
- Artist: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836-1923
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dates: 1891-1892
- Dimensions: 37 13/16 x 24 in. (96.1 x 60.9 cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed lower right: "ELIHU VEDDER/ ROMA/ 1891"; signed lower left: (inititial in monogram): "V"
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- Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Centennial Era, 5th Floor
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- Accession Number: 47.74
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Henderson
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Caption: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923). Soul in Bondage, 1891-1892. Oil on canvas, 37 13/16 x 24 in. (96.1 x 60.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Henderson, 47.74
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Jun 24, 2006
Amazon "Shipping Soon"
This would be a great time to invite all of you to submit photos of your newly arrived kits - send photos and a small description of your initial thoughts/comments. With your permission, I'll post them on the blog.
I'm glad the wait is almost over for all of you...
8 comments:
- naozo said...
At barnesandnoble.com, the status is still "expected to ship on July 25, 2006"....
- Jun 24, 2006, 9:20:00 AM
Jim -
received email TODAY:
"Greetings from Amazon.com. we shipped item from Toys"R"Us (Sold by Toysrus.com, LLC):
1 Lego Building Set - Make and Create Mindstorms NXT (8527) $249.99
Item shipped on June 23, 2006:
Delivery estimate: June 27 - 28, 2006"
- Jun 24, 2006, 1:47:00 PM
Lego Shop-at-Home continues to say pre-ordered NXT kits will ship by 01 July 2006. Order status of personal Shop-at-Home NXT order says "estimated ship date 01 July 2006".
Amazon no longer allows pre-ordering. In fact the Amazon site says "no longer available" - probably meaning that orders have exceeded guaranteed initial product allotments to Amazon/ToysRUs.
It will be interesting to see how the next two weeks plays out. I suspect that the majority of those who pre-ordered will get their kits by mid July. Those who place their orders now or later will probably have to wait until end of August, as the first manufacturing runs appear to be sold out. Let's hope most production problems were fixed before the first manufacturing run - (unlike certain laptop computer models which I will not name, but made a big splash in Februrary 2006).
- Jun 25, 2006, 12:26:00 AM
"I'm glad the wait is almost over for all of you..."
Not all of us. many of the Mindstormer's I know have their hart set on the Edu version, as do I. But now I have second thoughts thanks to the "NXT-G" tutorial that you posted. Your complecating my life:-)
- Jun 25, 2006, 1:07:00 AM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
"The wait is almost over for all of you"?
In Europe, the NXT kit will no be available before August, as far as I know. Shame on it.
World is not just the States. ;-)
- Jun 25, 2006, 8:03:00 AM
"But now I have second thoughts thanks to the "NXT-G" tutorial that you posted. Your complecating my life:-)"
Can you explain what you mean. I thought the Retail and Education use the same NXT-G software, so I dont see the problem ? Or do you mean with the Education version you have to buy the software as extra option ?
I'm from the netherlands and I can order the Education at august will the retail will not be available until 17 oktober. Why should I buy the Educational one or why should I wait for the Ratail ?
- Jun 25, 2006, 4:44:00 PM
- Cloned Milkmen said...
Wal-mart claims the ship date is 07/07/06. But the Discovery Channel store claims the item is in stock.
Last night I received my notice that my pre-order of mindstroms NXT has SHIPPED! However, there was no tracking number, so I have no way to know when it will arrive.
- Jun 26, 2006, 4:52:00 AM
Today mine arrived, after a long weekend of tracking it from PA to MA.
Unfortunately, my son had a Little League event tonight so I had to wait in order to investigate the box's contents.
It shall be a late night!
- Jun 27, 2006, 10:21:00 AM


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Woman gets probation for looking at another's medical recordsBy Patrick McArdle
STAFF WRITER | November 10,2012Patrick McArdle/Staff photo
Kathy Tatro, 54, of Bennington, was sentenced to a two-year term of probation in Bennington criminal court on Friday.BENNINGTON After an emotional hearing, a judge sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to four counts of looking at the medical records of her husbands ex-wife to probation and 160 hours of community service, which will include talking to medical employees about the importance of privacy regarding patient records.
Kathy Tatro, 54, of Bennington, was also sentenced in Bennington criminal court on Friday to a six- to 12-month suspended jail term, two years on probation and a $2,000 fine and Judge Cortland Corsones ordered Tatro to write a letter of apology to Catherine Taylor.
Tatro was arraigned in February 2011 on a felony charge of identity theft and 10 misdemeanor charges of unauthorized access to computer records. She entered a plea agreement on Sept. 26 which called for the state to dismiss the felony and six of the misdemeanor charges in return for Tatros guilty plea on the other four charges.
The case was unusual because of the connections between the two women. Tatro and her husband, Keith Tatro, have been partially responsible for raising the three sons of Keith Tatro and Catherine Taylor.
Prosecutor Alexander Burke, a deputy states attorney in Bennington County, and Taylor raised the accusation that Tatro had looked at the records of Taylor and her three children 200 times over a period of 12 years but Tatro and her attorney, Jake Cormier, said some of those instances involved a stepmother looking at her stepsons records.
Addressing the court, Tatro said it was morbid curiosity that caused her to look at Taylors records.
Catherine Taylor was a registered nurse working at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, when she found out Tatro, who also worked at the hospital as an ultrasound echo technician, had used her position to access Tayors medical records.
Taylor was visibly upset while giving testimony at Fridays sentencing hearing.
She looked at my X-rays, my mammograms, my radiology reports, my labs, microbiology, emergency room visits. Anything in my file. She monitored me for years without me knowing it. Ill never know what information she shared about my personal sacred records whether it be with my ex-husband or her friends, she said.
Taylor complained that the hospital was slow to act and said she had to ask for help from a variety of sources including the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, state Sen. Richard Sears, D-Bennington, the FBI and the chairman of the hospitals board of trustees.
Allen Gilbert, executive director of the ACLU of Vermont, who attended Fridays hearing, released a statement calling for stronger protection of medical records.
This case shows that the privacy of our e-medical records can be breached, even hundreds of times. This case shows that the promise that our e-medical records are secure may only be a false sense of security. This case shows that the victim of a breach may have to take Herculean efforts to have the violator identified and maybe punished, he said.
Burke asked for a 30-day jail sentence while Cormier asked Corsones to order a fine, based on Tatros lack of a criminal record. Cormier said his client had already been punished due to what he called an unprecedented backlash against Tatro after news of her crime became public.
Tatro apologized to Taylor but also said she felt harassed and wondered if I were not the ex-husbands wife, if this would have gone as far.
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During Christmas Break, Simon Recreation Center will be closed intermittently for maintenance and enhancements. The information below outlines a list of closures based on projected maintenance schedules.
The Department of Campus Recreation remains committed to providing quality recreational facilities to the Saint Louis University community. Scheduling of facility improvement projects occurs during break periods or times of low usage whenever possible.
Dec. 27-Jan. 9: Simon Rec basketball courts will be closed for resurfacing. The courts will be "roughed/screened" and a new finish (polyurethane) will be applied. They will remain closed for at least another seven days so the courts can receive the proper amount of time to cure. It is possible that they will reopen sooner.
Dec. 29-Jan. 2: All of Simon Rec will be closed due to harsh fumes associated with the painting of the indoor pool, application of polyurethane to the gym courts and in observance of the New Year holiday. The building will reopen on Jan. 3.
Dec. 21-Jan. 16: The Simon Rec indoor pool will be closed while annual maintenance is performed and upgrades are made in the area. This includes a scrub and paint of the entire pool, painting of the blue structural steel in the area and other miscellaneous updates.
There may be other projects that occur over break, but they should have minimal impact on Rec visitors workout routines. For a complete listing of winter break hours of operation and to learn more about Campus Recreation programs and services, visit the Simon Rec website.


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'Meet the Quilters'Event Details: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., December 11, The Saint Louis University Museum of Art
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A "Meet the Quilters" reception will be held from 2 - 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art. During the afternoon reception, featured quilters will offer visitors an opportunity to create festive, handcrafted ribbon ornaments from 1-4 p.m. The crafting is suitable for all members of the family.
The current exhibition at SLUMA, Threads of Tradition 2, features a colorful, creative assortment of more than 40 quilts reflecting the art and artistry of local quilters. Through both traditional and original patterns, designers have crafted complex and often intricate textile works that are as delightful and surprising as they are durable and enduring.
From the "snowball" to the "storm-at-sea," from the "rail fence," to the "log cabin," these talented quilters have embraced tradition and recast it into pure art.
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For more information, visit the SLUMA website or call 314-977-2666.
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A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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Greater and Lesser Prairie Chicken
Greater and Lesser Prairie Chicken
Kansas currently harbors two species of prairie grouse. The greater prairie chicken ( Tympanuchus cupido) is much more abundant than the lesser prairie chicken ( T. pallidicinctus). A third species of prairie grouse, the sharp-tailed grouse ( T. phasianellus) disappeared from it's historic western Kansas range during the droughts of the 1930's. Attempts to restore sharptails in the 1980's and 1990's, while initially promising, ultimately proved unsuccessful.
Prairie chickens may be best known for their unique spring breeding behavior. Early in spring, groups of males assemble on communal mating grounds known to biologists as leks. The low, booming sounds produced by greater prairie chicken cocks accounts for the common reference to their leks as "booming grounds." Similarly, the higher-pitched, bubbly sounds made by lesser prairie chicken cocks has conferred the term "gobbling grounds" to their leks. On a quiet spring morning, these sounds can carry as much as two miles across the open prairie, serving as an audible beacon to prairie chicken hens. Males of either species compete with each other through a series of spectacular displays, calls, and sparring for the coveted inner-most territories on the lek. The one or two males most successful in attaining and defending these small territories typically perform about 90% of the matings that occur on the lek. Unlike the polygamous ring-necked pheasant or the more monogamous bobwhite, prairie chickens do not form lasting behavioral bonds between cocks and hens.
Greater prairie chickens currently occur in parts of 10 states, but by far the largest populations occur in Kansas and Nebraska. The traditional stronghold of greaters in Kansas is the Flint Hills, a roughly 50-mile-wide band of tallgrass prairie that extends from the Oklahoma border northward nearly to the Nebraska line in the eastern third of the state. The tallgrass prairie of the Flint Hills was saved from the conversion to cropland that consumed of most of North America's original tallgrass prairie by its shallow soils and underlying limestone that resisted the plow. Strong greater prairie chicken populations also exist in the mixed prairies of the Smoky Hills in northcentral Kansas. Significant numbers of greaters can be found as well in the grassland breaks that parallel the streams of northwest and west-central Kansas. These western Kansas populations have increased and expanded over the last two decades, particularly with the addition of mixed grasslands seeded through the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Lesser prairie chickens are indeed a bit smaller than their greater counterparts. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the lesser prairie chicken to the Threatened Species List in 2014, so prairie chicken hunting is not allowed in the Southwest Unit (see map). Kansas currently harbors the most extensive remaining range and largest population of the lesser prairie chicken among the disjunct populations found in the five states where it occurs (KS, TX, NM, OK, CO). Good numbers of lessers still occur in Kansas' mixed grass and sand sagebrush prairies but their greatest densities can now be found north of the Arkansas River in a matrix of native rangeland and CRP grasslands. Lessers were thought to have been extirpated from this portion of their historic range as recently as 15 years ago. However, the addition of CRP grasslands restored the missing habitat components and populations of both prairie chicken species responded with range expansions and large increases in numbers. This expansion of lesser and greater prairie chicken populations in west-central Kansas has brought these two historically overlapping species back together in a zone ranging from 20 to 40 miles in width. Some mixed leks with cocks of both species occur in this zone of overlap.
Two distinct forms of prairie chicken hunting occur in Kansas. In the eastern half of the state (east of U.S. Highway 281), an early season (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15) allows hunters with dogs to take advantage of the tendency for young greaters to hold well at this time of year. Later in the fall, chickens gather into larger groups, often making it more difficult for hunters with dogs to get within gun range. By fall, many prairie chickens will begin feeding in cut sorghum, corn, or soybean fields. Since these birds often fly directly to specific fields when they leave their roosts in early morning, hunters can get pass shooting opportunities by positioning themselves at the margin of the field closest to the roosting area. This pass shooting is the more common way of taking greater prairie chickens during Kansas' regular season (3rd Saturday in Nov. to Jan. 31st, Daily Limit = 2). Since 1990, estimated greater prairie chicken harvests in Kansas have varied from a high of 59,000 in 1991 to a low of only 9,000 in 2002.
Prairie chicken adults are exceptionally hardy birds and are seldom significantly threatened by severe winter weather. Should deep snows occur, their ability to dive into the snow for roosting helps shield them from cold temperatures and wind chills above the snow surface. More significant weather threats to greater prairie chickens sometimes come in the form of excessive, drenching rains during nesting or when chicks are very small and most vulnerable to chilling. Drought is probably the greatest weather threat to lesser prairie chickens. Normal conditions in the range of the lesser prairie chicken varies from arid to semi-arid, so significant droughts can severely impact their habitat and production.
Historically, conversion of native prairies to cropland has accounted for the greatest loss of prairie chicken habitat in Kansas and elsewhere. More recently, other forms of human land use and development have posed additional threats. Particularly in the Flint Hills, the thorough annual burning of vast areas of tallgrass prairie associated with intensive, early cattle grazing in May, June, and July leaves few places for ground nesting birds like prairie chickens to successfully nest. Greater prairie chicken populations in the Flint Hills have declined significantly since this grazing system became widespread. However, less frequent burning, ideally once in 3 years or twice in 5 years, is critical to the health of the prairie and for prairie chickens. Possibly a more serious threat to greater prairie chickens and other grassland birds is the spread of invasive trees like eastern red cedar, Osage orange, and others into parts of our Kansas prairies ( read more: Tree Invasion). Ironically, this has resulted from too little application of controlled burning in some regions and from failure of land managers to quickly recognize and respond to the threat tree invasion poses to prairie, livestock production, and grassland wildlife.
Recent radio-telemetry studies conducted by Kansas State University researchers in southwest Kansas has highlighted yet another threat to prairie chickens. These workers documented a distinct avoidance of man-made structures by lesser prairie chickens. Generally, most prairie chicken hens avoided nesting or rearing their broods within a quarter-mile of power lines and within a third-mile of improved roads. Buildings, including a power plant and gas booster stations, were avoided from anywhere between two-thirds of a mile to one mile, depending on their size. This information, coupled with similar avoidance behavior noted in other species, suggests there is cause for concern over negative impacts on prairie chickens of other types of structures as well, including communications towers, wind farms, and suburban homes. Fragmentation of the open grassland horizons preferred by prairie chickens appears to represent yet another man-made threat to these species habitats.
Maintaining extensive tracts of open, well-managed prairie is critical to the conservation of prairie chickens. In Kansas, where 97% of the land is privately owned, ranchers are, unquestionably, the most important stewards of the prairies. Wildlife conservationists can best help conserve prairie chickens by forming alliances with ranchers to assist them in preventing tree invasion, to help them resist economic pressures to sell their lands, and to test new, economically-viable management systems that could prove more friendly to grassland wildlife. One such system with great promise is the "Patch Burning / Patch Grazing" system developed and tested by researchers at Oklahoma State University. Traditional grazing systems remain very viable for prairie health, provided they incorporate periodic fire ( not annual burning) and light to moderate stocking rates.