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Joffrey's death last week on Game of Thrones stood out from the show's many past fatalities in that it marked the first time a major character's demise prompted celebration rather than simply shock. So rapturously received was Joffrey's demise that some even took to finger-wagging over the glee, casting aspersions on those who would revel in the death of a minor, even a fictional one who made a number of Russian tsars look well-balanced in comparison. But as "Breaker of Chains" demonstrates within its first 10 minutes, even Joffrey's own family cannot muster much bereavement for the departed king. Standing over the boy's posed corpse in a private chamber, Tywin (Charles Dance) tells the next in line for the throne, Joffrey's younger brother, Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman), that Joffrey was not a wise or good king, and that his unfitness for rule contributed to his present state. For his part, Tommen appears far more nervous at being quizzed by his grandfather than he does standing over his brother's prepared body.
Near the end of Orphan Black's season-two premiere, "Nature Under Constraint and Vexed," resourceful hustler and human clone Sarah Manning confronts her icy doppelganger, Rachel Duncan, in the offices of the Dyad Institute. As the ethically challenged scientific research center holds a lavish corporate gala, Sarah levies a gunpoint demand that she be reunited with her daughter, who disappeared in last season's cliffhanger finale. "There are other forces vying for our fate, Sarah," Rachel replies. "We'll get Kira back, together."
Nathan Silver is predominantly preoccupied with chaos. In the middle of shooting his third feature, Soft in the Head, he decided to steer the improvised film's narrative arc in a new direction, retreating to the roof of the apartment building where he was shooting to scrawl out story beats on a napkin alongside his producer and Cody Stokes, his director of photography and frequent collaborator. The film, which opens this weekend at Cinema Village in New York, is inspired by Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and features an eclectic cast of trained actors working alongside non-professionals.
To most, this grab-bag scenario would sound daunting, but Silver revels in it. He explains that the actors and non-actors push each other, as the non-actors have a self-consciously fastidious attention to detail, and the actors are all worried that they haven't been given enough context (Silver doesn't show them his story treatments) and don't know where their characters are going. "They might completely disagree with [my method], which is funny," he admits. Whatever his approach to handling the madness, it's certainly successful. Our own Ela Bittencourt has praised this brashly funny entertainment for "Silver's psychological depth, where realism nearly implodes the more immediate exigencies of plot."
Among the newcomers in the cast is Sheila Etxeberría, who stars as Natalia, a reckless New Yorker and perennial outsider who's continually banished from the lives of those close to her until she ends up in a makeshift homeless shelter run by a naïve, daffy, and confrontationally friendly man named Maury (Ed Kane), who shepherds his ungodly flock as if they were his children.
The premise of an ostracized woman finding refuge in an unlikely new family will sound familiar to anyone who saw Silver's Exit Elena, about a live-in nurse whose charge is hospitalized, leaving her stranded and ineffectual in the home of a tumultuous suburban family. The setup also extends to his two upcoming films, the recently completed Uncertain Terms, about a home for pregnant teenagers, and Stinking Heaven, about a commune of recovering drug addicts in the early '90s. The latter features more familiar names than Soft in the Head, including Somebody Up There Likes Me's Keith Poulson and I Used to Be Darker's Deragh Campbell and Hannah Gross, but promises the same amount of madcap anarchy as his previous work.
I emerged out of the train station and onto the roiling snake pit of Hollywood Boulevard this past Thursday afternoon with a singularity of purpose that has served well those who have learned to safely navigate this peril-ridden stretch of tourism and other desperate forms of humanity. Among the mass of logy sidewalk gawkers, shaggily costumed superheroes, and barkers hawking coupons for bus tours and free drinks at comedy clubs, the guy in the Creamsicle-colored tuxedo and matching top hat didn't even cause me to balk as he moved toward me on the sidewalk. He certainly didn't seem out of place, even as his lanky, six-and-a-half-foot frame towered above the stumpier heights of most everyone else bobbling down the Walk of Fame. But as we passed each other, this orangey giant suddenly offered up a loud, impassioned plea to the crowd, for no readily apparent reason, which put me at attention: "Remember Bob Hope!" Wondering if a declaration of fond tribute for, say, Mickey Rooney would have been timelier, I moved right along. No matter. There could be no doubt, if there ever was any, that the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival, headquartered as always in the very heart of the mythological realm of Hollywood, was now officially under way, a gathering of film buffs vacationing from the real world among the icons and memories of movie-studio glory, where there would be no lack of warm remembrance for Hope or Rooney or any of a hundred other stars whose images and talents would be ceaselessly evoked and reminisced upon over the next four days.
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film seems to channel the sheer variety of the Internet, where it seems all movies from all eras are available. During 10 days, all sorts of films are made available at several venues within the Argentine capital, from horror flicks to forgotten commercial failures, classic studio productions, modern art-house fare, and experimental cinema. BAFICI seems to pride itself on its eclectic selection, and its broad pickings allow audience members to trace surprising connections between movies that might appear to have nothing else in common outside their shared inclusion in a festival. A sort of creative viewership is encouraged, as one comes to realize that an American rock fable, a miserablist Taiwanese drama, a visual poem with vampires, and an epic about social and political traumas in the Philippines have plenty in common.
Walter Hill's unsung Streets of Fire and Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs have probably never been mentioned in the same sentence. Seen back to back, they reveal strikingly similar qualities, as both might or might not be science-fiction films. Streets of Fire is set in a fantasy land, which mixes costumes and vehicles from the 1950s with the urban squalor of the 1980s. When a motorcycle gang, led by fresh-faced Willem Dafoe, kidnaps a local pop singer (Diane Lane), it's up to the gruff masculine hero played by Michael Paré to save the day. There are references to an unnamed war and the city appears to be in a state of crisis (its police force is sorely understaffed and justice is meted out by civilians). The characters are so conventional that they recede into the background as they follow archetypal signposts, and because their exploits are so predictable, the environment absorbs our attention instead. Diners and theaters from the American Graffiti years have decayed underneath rubble and trash. In an abandoned factory, the motorcycle gang has established a decadent bar where naked dancers strike aggressive poses, using their sexuality as a weapon. Having been recently and luminously restored, Streets of Fire plays differently today than it did back in 1984. What was originally a blend between the present and the past is now the combination of two different pasts, which together suggest a kind of future.
1. "Gabriel García Márquez R.I.P." The conjurer of literary magic, and Nobel laureate, dies at 87.
"Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose One Hundred Years of Solitude established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. Cristóbal Pera, his former editor at Random House, confirmed the death. Mr. García Márquez learned he had lymphatic cancer in 1999, and a brother said in 2012 that he had developed senile dementia. Mr. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers—Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them—who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience."
1. "Cannes Film Festival Unveils Star-Studded Lineup for 67th Edition." Films from Tommy Lee Jones, Bennett Miller, David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Hazanavicius, Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will all compete for the Palme d'Or.
"Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman, Moneyball director Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius' Chechnya war film The Search, Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall and David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars will all be part of the competition lineup of the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in May. The lineup is heavy on films featuring Hollywood and international stars, but somewhat light on U.S. directors. Overall, 18 films, down from 20 last year, will compete for the festival's main award, the Palme d'Or. One film could be added, organizers said. The opening film, Olivier Dahan's Grace of Monaco, will screen out of competition. Other competition titles include Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner about the classic painter, Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Two Days, One Night from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who are competing for Dardenne's third Palme d'Or win, Canadian director Atom Egoyan's The Captive, Japanese director Naomi Kawase's Still the Water and Timbuktu from Abderrahmane Sissako. Plus, the living legend of French cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, will be back in competition and on the Croisette with his latest work, Goodbye to Language."
The Arab Spring has many faces. Malika (a charismatic Chaimae Ben Acha), the lead singer of the eponymous all-girl punk rock band at the center of writer-director Sean Gullette's debut feature, Traitors, is a representative of the restless generation in the Moroccan port city of Tangiers. Inspired by the Clash hit, the Traitors practice a song with the refrain, "I'm so bored with Morocco, but what can I do?" To Malika's father, his daughter is a misfit because she's 25 years old and unmarried. She also doesn't seem very interested in holding on to her job at an international call center. Her only interest, it seems, is to perform with her band, and her only goal is to raise enough money so the group can rent a recording studio to cut a demo.
The Boston-born Gullette, best known for co-writing and starring in Darren Aronofsky's Pi, is currently based in Tangiers, his wife's hometown, and he clearly has empathy for his adopted city. In the first half of the film he reveals a skillful eye (and ear) for the quotidian in a portrait of middle-class life in urban Morocco and how an energetic young generation is effected by their familial relations. Take Malika, whose mother makes sure her two daughters get their breakfast before she heads out to clean apartments. Her father owns a garage, but seems to spend most of his time in coffee shops. So when the girl learns that her father's business is failing, and that he's neglected his family's finances as well, she feels she must help keep the roof above her family's heads in addition to trying to raise cash for her band.
1. "The 100 Best Animated Movies." World-famous animators pick the best animated movies ever, including Disney and Pixar movies, cult movies, kids movies, stop-motion, anime and more.
"Chances are the first movie you ever saw was animation. Exuberant, colorful and full of wonder, animation is the stuff of childhood. It introduces us to the magic of cinema, and there's no doubt that, as we researched the 100 best animated movies of all time, the nostalgia factor was overwhelming. Then again, as we polled over 100 experts in the field—from directors like Fantastic Mr. Fox's Wes Anderson, Ice Age and Rio's Carlos Saldanha, Wallace & Gromit's Nick Park, to critics and hardcore fans alike—it became clear that animation doesn't just mean kids and family movies. Worldwide innovators have adapted the form to include action, politics, race and sex. Animation has grown up, sometimes uneasily, right before our eyes. We know you'll find something to love in our authoritative ranking of the best animated movies ever made. The timeless Disney classics. The best Pixar films. Brilliantly sophisticated modern works from Japan's cottage industry, anime, and especially from its Studio Ghibli. Films that make you weep, laugh, sing along and wish upon stars. Take some time to check out our contributors' personal lists, each one an invitation to further explore avenues of stop-motion, computer-generated imagery or good old pen-and-ink fantasy. Let us know what you think, in the comments below or on Facebook or Twitter. Did we get it wrong or leave out an essential title? One thing is certain: Animation is an endless well of fun. We're sure it goes deeper."
Audiences are likely to be drawn to Ice Poison because it's the rare feature film from Myanmar, the South East Asian nation formerly known as Burma that has only recently reemerged on the world stage after decades of isolation. But you won't see the beauty or richness of the Burmese culture that visitors to the popular tourist cities of Yangon or Mandalay get to experience. In fact, director Midi Z—Burmese-born and based in Taiwan—has stated his intentions are deliberately the opposite. He wants to show the grim reality faced by the majority of the population who live in dire poverty in the rural areas, left underdeveloped for over a half century since Burma gained independence from the British.
A farmer and his son face destitution in Lashio, the principal town in the country's northern, China-bordering Shan State. "Everything is more expensive except the vegetables we grow," says the farmer, who cultivates an arid patch of land in the mountains. He treks down to the town below in order to tap various relatives for a loan, but as everyone he approaches has their own tale of woe, they refuse him. And though a factory owner offers the son a job, the farmer believes he can make more money by getting his son to operate a motor-scooter taxi service. And so he offers to exchange his cow for an old scooter belonging to the factory owner.


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Council Tax is set by Birmingham City Council and helps to pay for local services such as schools, roads, libraries, police, fire and rubbish collection.
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Council Tax payers are advised not to disclose bank details or personal information to anyone contacting them advising of an entitlement to a refund.
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I have been asked what it would cost to port a .NET application to Mac.
I don't have enough knowledge to even give a rough estimate. I have not done anything on a Macintosh above surfing the web, and that was 10 years ago. My guess is that we probably have to write it from scratch in java or objective-c.
We are a Windows/Linux shop, and besides forking out for one or two snazzy new iMacs, what else do we need that costs money?
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text: Thanksgiving Hostess Gift Ideas 10 Hostess Gifts to Bring on Thanksgiving by Katie Sweeney 11/23/13 34 Reactions 201 Shares Print 115 63 22 1 0 When someone invites you into her home to celebrate a special holiday like Thanksgiving, show your appreciation by bringing a hostess gift. Start by thinking about your hostess and her entertaining style, then select an item that she will truly enjoy. Need some suggestions? Here are 10 hostess gifts we think she's bound to love. — Additional reporting by Anna Monette Roberts Flowers What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 A fresh bouquet of flowers is always a lovely gift and doubles as a great Thanksgiving centerpiece. Cut and arrange some Fall flowers in a vase, tie with a pretty bow, and give the whole thing to the hostess. This way she won't have to find a vase, fill it with water, and cut the flowers in the middle of her party. Photo by Clayton Austin via Style Me Pretty 1 / 10 Box of Macarons What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 There are many mail-order macaron bakeries, so rather than traveling with your gift, arrange for it to arrive at the hostess's address. We're partial to the Payard 24-Piece Parisian Macarons ($55) due to their delicate packaging, delightful texture, and assortment of delicious flavors. Source: Anna Monette Roberts 2 / 10 Serving Tray What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 A hostess can never have too many serving trays for appetizers, and this small cast iron tray ($39, originally $49) is a great base to start a collection. It can be used over and over again for holidays year round. 3 / 10 Wine What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Perhaps the easiest and most standard hostess gift is a bottle of wine. Pick up a moderately priced varietal from a local wine shop. For a red, select something versatile and crowd-pleasing like 2012 Folie à Deux Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($20). If you want a white, you can't go wrong with the 2011 Butternut Chardonnay ($18). As for a sparkler, Mumm Napa Brut Prestige ($22) is delightful, light, and perfect for toasting. Source: Anna Monette Roberts 4 / 10 Herb Growing Kit What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 For the hostess with a green thumb, gift her this egg carton herb growing kit ($13). It includes soil, little shovels, and the following seeds: basil Genovese, chives, flat-leaf parsley, oregano, thyme, and sweet marjoram. Once the seeds have sprouted, the egg carton cups can be easily divided and transported to larger, more permanent pots. 6 / 10 Spirits What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 After wine, another common hostess gift is a bottle of alcohol. 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"The two combined together can create critical fire weather conditions," said meteorologist Dawn Fishler.
To make matters worse, Fishler predicts steady winds of between 15 and 30 mph with gusts of 60 mph, coupled with low humidity. A cold front brushing along northern California and Nevada will bring the gusty winds into the region this afternoon and early evening,
"This will combine with low afternoon humidity to create critical fire weather conditions," she said.
Though it feels early this year to be issuing red-flag alerts, Fishler said, the issue mainly was with the low precipitation the area received this winter compared to the high precipitation the region got the year before.
Sandy Munns, a battalion chief with Reno Fire Department who is a "dangerous combination."
"It's the wind that really makes our situation much more dangerous," Munns said. "We can't get out ahead of the fire when it's being pushed by 60 mph winds. Until the weather patterns change and we can see a little bit of rain, this will be the norm for us."
Munns suggest that homeowners be aware of their behaviors during this time. For instance, a simple barbecue can ignite a neighborhood simply by tipping over in the wind.
"Barbecues are just like fireplaces. The ashes stay hot for a very long time," Munns said. "They need to be cooled before you dispose of them. Things can topple over."
Munns recommends discarding ashes into a metal bucket and placed in an area where wind is not going to tip it over.
Also, Munns suggested to be careful not t discard smoking materials from a car by discarding them from an open window or flicking ashes into the air with abandon.
Another dangerous activity during this time is outdoor shooting.
"People who want to go shooting should remember that brush fires are started when people go shooting, sparks can fly off rocks and fire can spread very ,very fast," he said.
Humans have always played one of the biggest roles in starting fires. Washoe County has asked residents to help this year in the fight against fire ignitions by becoming vigilant, watching for dangerous situations and becoming fire-aware.
As far as the fire crews, they are briefed every morning of the conditions.
"We're perhaps a little more vigilant. Lightening and wind are the two things we watch out for," he said. "We're already in a high fire season. We're going to move into the extreme range in the very near future."
To check the current weather status visit www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/.


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May 2013
Two Tracks | One Night
Join us for the 2nd annual Horsepower Heaven event featuring racing on the NHRA Drag Strip and America First Credit Union Super Oval. There will be something for everybody- including the first Trailer Race of the 2013 Season!
America First Credit Union Super Oval:
ASA Pro Trucks, Maverik Modifieds, Hornets, Figure-8 Cars, Figure-8 Trailer Race
NHRA Drag Strip:
- Power Adders: Top Alcohol Dragster, Pro Mods, Blown Altereds, and Injected Nitro Dragsters all in the same class!
- Extreme Series: featuring the 16 fastest Performance Place Extreme Dragsters and Fastlane Machine Extreme Outlaw cars on the property
- Special 12.0 Class: featuring all vehicles running quicker than 12.0 seconds through the quarter-mile
- Nitro Dragster vs Nitro Funny Car
- Jet Cars
Spectators: Adults $20, Youth (5-12) $10
Spectator Gates open at: 1pm
Racers: ASA Oval $40 l NHRA Drag Strip ET $50, Extreme Series $100
Crew Price: $25 for both Oval and Drag
Purchase your tickets online and receive a FREE POPCORN with every ticket!
Times to be announced soon!
All information subject to change without notice.
The first ever Mini MX Youth League in Utah, Sponsored by The Edge Powersports.
The kids get a training day, six races, a free mechanic to each race and buddy passes for him/her to bring their fan club with them on the first event.
$189 for the first class, $80 for each additional.
A Completed RMR Minor Packet is required before they can participate.
Adults $10/ Youth (5-12) $5
All information is subject to change without notice.
Come check out the final RMR Points Event of the 2013 Motocross Season! We will have Trick or Treating in the Pits! Please bring treats to share. Wear a costume to Friday's race and receive half-off Saturday's Halloween Ultimate Moto Challenge.
Practice begins at 6 pm, Racing begins approximately at 7:15 pm.
Spectator Information
- Adults $10, Youth (5-12) $5.
- There will be no admittance after 10 pm
Rider Information
- $35 First Class/ $25 each additional
- Event Registration is open from 4-6pm.
- Must be a RMR or USRA Member- RMR memberships can be purchased at the track
- Mechanics are $12 – must be 18 years of age
NOTE: All riders under 18 years of age must have a Completed RMR Minor Packet on file. Please contact Danica Stewart at (801) 252-9557 ext. 102 or firstname.lastname@example.com with Minor Packet Questions questions.
All information is subject to change without notice
ASA Weekly Racing Featuring: Rocky Mountain Challenge Series, Super Sixes, Midgets, Comcast Super Stocks and the DOUBLE DECKER DEBUT!
Adults $15, Youth (5-12) $5
Reserved Seating $20
Purchase your tickets online and receive a FREE POPCORN with every ticket!
Gates open at 4 pm, green Flag at 6:15 pm
All information is subject to change without notice
Gates open at 5 pm. Practice Starts after registration confirmation.
Driver $15, Crew $10, Spectator $5


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Lace to the Finish: 7 Fabulously Feminine and Festive Frocks
Romantic lace cocktail dresses, a fall and winter favorite, are everywhere right now. That means there are tons of fabulous styles to choose from for every body type and in every price range. From sexy, body-con minis and '60s-inspired shifty swing dresses to sweet feminine styles and cinched lady-like waists with full skirts, get ready for this season's soirees in a pretty lace cocktail dress. I've rounded up 7 of my favorite lacy looks in fall's hottest colors, including plus sizes and pretty lace maternity frocks to help you shop. They're simply party perfect!
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Madison Bach Musicians
April 18 & 19
Mass in B minor -- by J. S. Bach
Marc Vallon, conductor
Madison Bach Musicians collaboration with Madison Choral Project
Friday, April 18
6:45 pm lecture, 7:30 pm concert
First Congregational Church
1609 University Ave., Madison WI 53726
Saturday, April 19
6:45 pm lecture, 7:30 concert
First Unitarian Society, Atrium Auditorium
900 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705
discount tickets go on sale Sept. 1 at:
A Room of One's Own, Farley's House of Pianos,
Willy St. Co-op (east & west), Orange Tree Imports & Ward Brodt.
Tickets also available at the door.
Class Enrollment Now Open
Schubert and Chopin at the 19th-century
Trevor Stephenson, instructor
May 6, 13, 20, 27
A four-part course on the piano music of Schubert and Chopin.
Classes will be held on Tuesday evenings from 7-8:30 pm at Trevor Stephenson's home studio in Madison (5729 Forsythia Place): May 6, 13, 20, 27
We'll compare specific works (see repertoire below) by the two masters, and discuss their overall stylistic similarities and differences. We'll look at different ways to approach performance of their music: fingering, articulation, touch, tempo, pedaling, and rubato. I'll also talk about the pianos of their time and how the tonal aesthetics encapsulated by these instruments is integrated with both Chopin and Schubert's approach to composition. I'll demonstrate on the late 18th-century fortepiano, the mid 19th-century upright piano, and the mid 19th-century parlor grand piano.
Schubert – Impromptus op. 90, Three Piano Pieces, "Wanderer" Fantasy, Sonata in B-flat major D. 960
Chopin – Nocturnes op. 9 nos. 1 & 2, Etudes op. 10 no. 1 and op. 25 no. 1, Waltz in A minor op. 34 no. 2
Mazurkas op. 24 nos. 1 & 2, Ballade in F minor op 52
Enrollment fee: $160
Enrollment deadline May 1.
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House Concert
Schubert & Chopin
May 31, 7:30 pm
On Saturday evening, May 31 at 7:30 pm, I'll play
a house concert of music by these two masters.
Included on the program are Chopin's F minor Ballade op. 52, and Schubert's last Piano Sonata, B-flat major D. 960.
Concert will be at my home studio: 5729 Forsythia Place, Madison WI 53705. Admission $40 Light refreshments served
Reservations required: firstname.lastname@example.com
New CD Releases
Listen to samples and order online at our Recordings page
Songs and Arias
Bach, Handel, Purcell, Monteverdi, Caccini, other baroque masters
Amy Haworth, soprano
Trevor Stephenson, harpsichord
Anna Steinhoff, viola da gamba
Franz Schubert - Songs
Amy Haworth, soprano
Trevor Stephenson, fortepiano
is now in the process of publishing a series of performance and educational
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Have a listen at Trevor's Channel on YouTube
Classical Musician of the Year for 2009 is keyboardist, educator and
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Can Publicly Financed Elections Survive Without Punishing Free Speech?
Professor Rick Hasen has started an interesting debate on this subject with a recent blog post on Summary Judgments, the Los Angeles Faculty Blog of the
. He believes that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear IJ's and the Goldwater Institute's challenges to the matching funds provisions of Arizona's "Clean Elections" law will result in, as the title of his post says, "An Effective End to Public Financing." Professor Hasen graciously linked to IJ's response to his post over at Election Law Blog. Check it out.
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Holy Name Catholic School is conveniently located near I-65 and I-465, minutes from downtown Indianapolis in the heart of Beech Grove. Come experience "The Pride of the Southside"!
To learn more about our school or to schedule your own private tour, please contact the school office at 317-784-9078 or email Mrs. Christine Williams, Principal. We hope to hear from you soon!


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Style icons continue to inform the Badgley Mischka aesthetic. For Resort 2009, Mark Badgley and James Mischka were inspired by Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief and Ava Gardner in Mogambo. One would image the screen sirens of yesteryear lounging in St. Tropez and modern starlets strolling through Cannes clad in this collection. With soft dresses and bright multicolored separates, looks capture a luxurious aesthetic. Stunning bathing suits and floral caftans paraded down the runway alongside piscine blue pieces, sunshine skirts and a red-hot gown. Embellishment and ornate details added richness to the collection in that ever-refined Badgley Mischka way.


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Bows, lace, and layers of tulle? Yes, this strapless dress has all of our fave things. Additionally, this flirty formal will flatter your figure because the bodice is structured with corset-style boning and the waist is enhanced with a detachable satin sash. Finished with a matching sheer shawl and a zipper closure at the center back. As seen on
Length of Small formal dress from underarm: 25 inches.
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None N asked:
hi im 5'1 and 270 would any dresses on here be able to fit me?
Rachael J:
Yes. Dresses on gojane go up to a 3X. You just have to keep checking because they restock everyday.
Toni S:
Not in this style. There is no give. The xxxl is about a 22.
Lolemei S:
Yes! Most definitely. I would say start with a size small before getting an xsmall.
Aurora T asked:
Okay im 5'5 and 130 pounds, should i get small or medium I have a wider back, so i have that, but its not huge. Also, is the turquoise true to color in this picture because im between turquoise and white. Thank you SO much!!!! youre going to make my prom night PERFECT
Kelsey G:
You should probably get the medium, thats about my ratio too and the medium fit me perfectly. Unless its a black and white prom, definitely go turquoise, i turned heads in it! ;
Rachael J:
I would go with a small; but if you want to be on the safe side go with the medium and get it altered if necessary. As far as the color is concerned I was stuck between the pink and turquoise... I chose pink. Mine was true to color so I'm sure the turquoise will be as well it is a beautiful color. I wish you the best on your prom night!!! Please be safe :
Pamela G:
I also wore this dress for prom and it was perfect! Get ready for a fun night! As for color I bought the light purple so I can't comment on those two colors but the purple was true to the picture and very pretty! As for size I am 5' 2" and 105 lbs and have a small chest so I bought the XS to ensure it would fit there. It flairs out after the rib cage so I would buy it to fit your top! Hope this is helpful!
Pamela G:
Sorry the first part didn't get through! I bought this for my prom and it was perfect so I hope you have as much fun with it as I did! I bought the purple dress so I can't comment on your colors, but the purple was true to color and very pretty! As for size I am 5' 2" and 105 lbs and have a small chest so I bought a XS to ensure it would fit there. It is only fitted from about the ribcage up so I would buy it to fit that! I hope this is helpful and you find the right dress!
Pamela G:
Also, it comes with attachable straps if that is a factor at all!
Margaret M:
i didn't order the turquoise one but i've ordered other articles that were this color and the color is pretty true to what it looks like in the photo. in fact i ordered the pink one not the fushia and it was really pretty, as long as your breasts aren't huge i would go with the small. and personally i don't know what you look like but i think the white is super pretty and more rock-pop-princess while the turquoise is more unique and in-your-face kind of punk princess :P
Nemesia S:
Well, when I got my dress, I got a large instead of the extra large size that I usually fit in since I'm pretty big and have a wide back and, surprisingly, the smaller size fit me perfectly fine. So, take the risk and get the small. If you're not sure and want to play it safe, go with the medium. And, YES, the colors are true to the picture.
Lolemei S:
Medium will be good.
Morgan W asked:
Hii, i was wondering about sizing. I'm 5'4 and 150 pounds. What size would fit me best Thanks.
Melissa T:
theres a sizing chart down below to show you the size across the waist, and the height from the armpit to your thigh. i did all the measurements and mine fit me perfectly! go with the size closest to your measurements for the best fit
Jamie B:
um, I had to measure my daughter who is the one that got the dress. So when in doubt, measure. I will also say be weary of the color you buy. We bought the teal colored one, and the color gets on her skin and anything else she touches. I dont know if its only with that color and how to prevent it.
Jaymilyn L:
Unfortantly I can't see what you look like, but I'm thinking a large, depending on what you usually wear, I'd go with whatever is most common in your closet
Annie L:
I would say a small! I have the xs and im 5'2 90 pounds
Julie N:
hey there! i just bought this dress back in may, im 5'1 and about 150. i bought the XL. Found it to be a bit roomy on top but not noticably so. it also came with detachable spaghetti straps of the same color. i bought the lilac one and i love it!
Toni S:
I would say Large it does not have any give and is true to size. If you ate pear shaped and smaller on tip then a medium will do fair for you.
Jessica T:
I would think that a size M would fit you just fine.
This one tends to run along the larger size, so i went down down a size from my usual M to S.
None N asked:
I was wondering where i can get the shoes the model in the pink dress is wearing?
GoJane S:
The requested shoes can be found here:
Brenna N asked:
Does this product come in a green color, or maybe a greenish blue?
GoJane S:
We do not know if a size or color will be restocked but we do receive restocks and new styles daily so keep checking back! Also, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
None N asked:
i would like to order medium in fuchsia. event is aug 11. would it be available before that date thanks
GoJane S:
We do not know if a size or color will be restocked but we do receive restocks and new styles daily so keep checking back! Also, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
None N asked:
Hi, was wondering, do you perhaps carry this dress in Taupe in size Medium?
GoJane S:
If a size, or color is not available on our site it is currently sold out. We do receive restocks, so keep checking back!
None N asked:
Hi!! i really loveed this dress...but i have no idea about what size to buy!
Can anyone help me\
Im 5'9 and my weight is 135 pounds
Rachael J:
The sizes are pretty accurate. If you wear a medium in shirts for example, then you would need a medium in the dress.
GoJane S:
Generally our products run true to size; you may want to reference our size chart here:
ally m asked:
does this dress run small?
No just buy the right size you normally buy for dresses .
Toni S:
No true to size.
Stephanie C:
No... the opposite. It runs big. We had to return.
None N asked:
i noticed you're out of light pink, xs. I would like to order one, when in will be back in stock. do you know approximately when it will be back on stock?
GoJane S:
We cannot guarantee when an item will be restocked. We do restock and receive hundreds of new items every week, so we may get something similar soon. Keep checking back!
None N asked:
sizing small?
Richard L:
The sizing isnt small at all. well at least the size my daughter got isnt small. It fits her perfectly. Look under the measurements to find the right size
Preeya C:
I would have to say the sizing is perfect if you're using a tape measure for your body measurements then applying it to their sizing chart displayed on the web site which I found very helpful. Hope this info was helpful to you.
No it is not !
None N asked:
Where was it "as seen in"?
GoJane S:
This dress was seen on MSN!
Dawn M asked:
I am 5'4 and 115 pounds and dont know what size that would be in this dress, i cant seem to find the size chart?
GoJane S:
Generally our products run true to size; you may want to reference our size chart here:
Margaret M:
Hey! I'm about the exact same size and weight. you should go for a medium. if you want it super small, slutty and tight go for a small. medium is perfect size for you though if you're looking for a more "classy" formal dress.
Katie D:
Hi Dawn,
My daughter is about 5'3" and 125 pounds - she bought a medium and it fits great!
mei y asked:
I really like the one in pink, the light pink one. But it only as XS and XXXL are you gonna get it in other sizes I really really like it
GoJane S:
We do not know if a size or color will be restocked but we do receive restocks and new styles daily so keep checking back! Also, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
nakeia b asked:
if i wear a size 14, what size dress should i get?
GoJane S:
You can reference our size chart here for sizing guidelines:
None N asked:
How long did it take to get the dress?
Melissa T:
i had to get international shipping it took about almost 2 weeks exactly but it could be anywhere from 2-4 weeks
Amerieka W:
I got my dress within a week. I didn't expect it at all. The only issue I had was that the delivery man didn't leave a message in my mailbox saying he came by and dropped it off, so I didn't get my dress from my apartment's office until around the 9th.
None N asked:
When will you get a medium in the off-white dress ive seen other colors restock but not this one. i need it for the 24 of may and was wondering if you are getting any more.
GoJane S:
We do not know if a size or color will be restocked but we do receive restocks and new styles daily so keep checking back! Also, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
None N asked:
Would this be a good dress to wear to a wedding?
Dominique B asked:
i am 5'2 and i was wondering if the dress is going to be too long. Also i'm confused on what size i used get becuase i know online the sizes can run to small but then again i don't want to order it too big. Lastly, is this dress a good look for prom?
Melanie T:
I wore mine for prom and it was absolutely perfect! It shouldn't be that long, it was actually a bit short for me I'm 5'4 so it should work for you. As for the sizing, it fit me perfect in the waist I got my normal shopping size but was a bit big in the bosom so I had to get it taken in. All in all, it was so worth the buy!
Pamela G:
I bought this dress to wear for prom. I'm 5' 2" and about 110 lbs, and the XS fits perfectly--the skirt hits about mid-thigh, just right so it doesn't look too long, and it looks great with heels! I know a long dress might be more common for prom, but this is such a unique and fun dress, and is a great choice for us petite girls!
None N asked:
i know that this dress comes in green but is it kelly green or blue green because i don't want to buy it and it is a really ugly green and doesn't look like the picture at all.Also about the fitting is it true to size and can you ship it back for bigger or smaller sizes?
Stephanie C:
It's a pretty blue green but runs big. We shipped it back to trade an xl for a large but they didn't have a lg
Melissa T asked:
Under the sizing chart there are two sizes given for medium, how would i order the smaller medium or does it matter?
kara b asked:
how big are the sizes i cant find a size chart. also im 5'2 and i want to know if this dress will be long on me?
Jamie B:
There is a size chart, I definetly suggest using it, its pretty on point. Its located towards the bottom of the website screen. My daughter is 4' 11" and it goes just about knee length.
Pamela G:
I'm also 5' 2" and about 110 pounds and the XS fits great! The skirt hits right about mid thigh and I think is a perfect length! It definitely doesn't look too long especially with heels! I hope this helped!
None N asked:
How do you make the bow with the black sash mine is too loose so I want to do it over
Bao D asked:
Hello, I am kind of short about 5'1 so I think it would look long on me. I want the dress be short as the model. Is there anyway I could have a special request to make it to my height Thanks
Katrina C asked:
Can I order this in an XS but in the TPE color?
Hannah I:
does it cost extra money to place a special request?
GoJane S:
We do not know if a size or color will be restocked but we do receive restocks and new styles daily so keep checking back! Also, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
B N asked:
can i use the Prom Guide card on this website
www. promguide .com
brittany f asked:
How could i get it altered\
None N asked:
where is the size chart?
GoJane S:
You can reference our size chart here for sizing guidelines:
None N asked:
Where can I find the size chart?
GoJane S:
You can reference our size chart here for sizing guidelines:
shell" r asked:
well i found size chart but why does it only go up to an XL thats sad i really liked this dress"
GoJane S:
Our formal dresses do come in plus sizes, up to 3X. If you do not see the size and color you need, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
shell r asked:
this dress only goes up to an XL would it fit someone that wears a size 18 dress?
Jamie B:
Best bet is to measure and go with the size that fits the most parts of you. Other than that i would be a guessing game, which never goes well when buying clothes.
None N asked:
Should I order the Strapless Tiered lace cocktail Formal in a size or two up\ I know with some online stores you have to do that
None N asked:
every time i go to add the dress i want to my shopping cart it never lets me. what should i do\
GoJane S:
We'd love to help you; to get assistance in this matter please email
or call 1-800-U-GO-JANE Mon-Fri, 9am -4pm PST and one of our helpful customer service representatives will assist you!
hailey h asked:
is there a store i can go to to try this on?
Marjorie H:
I live in Texas and I found this same dress in the off-white only in a store in the back with all the formals for about $77. You could probably look around in stores that you know sell formal dresses and you might get lucky,
Jody V:
We live in Oregon and saw this same dress at a Bridal shop in the mall. It was $180 there. You may try the formal/bridal shops in your area. We think the dress runs a bit big. My daughter wears a size 7 jeans but medium was too large and we exchanged for a small which fit great. Hope that helps, it is a gorgeous dress on and my daughter received lots of compliments, even from strangers.
GoJane S:
We do not have physical store locations. We are an online-only store, available at
If you see something you like, you can always order over the Internet 24/7. Our site is updating constantly, so it's a good idea to keep an eye on it.
None N asked:
How much would it cost to ship it back if we get the wrong size or it just doesnt fit right?
Stephanie C:
It cost me $11 something to return. Shipped from MO. Hope that helps
None N asked:
How much is shipping up to Canada Edmonton Alberta?
GoJane S:
We do ship to Canada! You can reference our shipping chart for here for more information:
None N asked:
hi. i was wondering if i could get this dress in a customized size please and thanks.
GoJane S:
We do not know if a size or color will be restocked but we do receive restocks and new styles daily so keep checking back! Also, you can contact our Customer Service Department to place a special request for formals only at
or 800 U-GO-JANE.
None N asked:
whats the return policy?
GoJane S:
You can always send items back within 30 days! You can reference our return and exchange policy here:
Miranda R asked:
I know for prom a long dress is more common. But i'm 5'0 and a long dress wouldn't look right on me. So would this look be good for Prom\
This is more of a Homecoming dress to me...
Rachael J asked:
Is there a sizing chart?
Jody V:
There was a sizing chart if you click on it underneath Size Color it comes up. FYI, my daughter who normally wears a size 7 jean at Hollister and PacSun ordered a medium and it was too large. We are re-ordering a small.
GoJane S:
You can reference our size chart here for sizing guidelines:
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Study of Combretastatin and Paclitaxel/Carboplatin in the Treatment of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
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The purpose of the study is to determine the safety and efficacy of combretastatin combined with paclitaxel and carboplatin in the treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC).
Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Drug: combretastatin A-4 phosphate (CA4P)
Drug: paclitaxel
Drug: carboplatin
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Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II/III Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Combretastatin A-4 Phosphate in Combination With Paclitaxel and Carboplatin in Comparison With Paclitaxel and Carboplatin Against Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: from randomization to date last known alive ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To evaluate safety based on frequency and severity of adverse events [ Time Frame: from first dose of study drug through 30 days after last dose of study drug ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- To assess number of tracheostomies [ Time Frame: from randomization through end of study visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- To assess number of PEG tube placements [ Time Frame: from randomization through end of study visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To assess weight loss [ Time Frame: from randomization through end of study visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To determine Progression Free Survival [ Time Frame: from randomization through end of study visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To determine percentage of 1 year survival [ Time Frame: from randomization through end of study visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
CA4P + carboplatin + paclitaxel
Drug: combretastatin A-4 phosphate (CA4P)
CA4P 60mg/m squared for Days 1, 8, 15 for 6 cycles
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Active Comparator: 2
Carboplatin + paclitaxel
Drug: paclitaxel
200mg/m squared on Day 1
Other Names:Drug: carboplatin
6 AUC on Day 1 following paclitaxel
Other Name: Paraplatin
Detailed Description:
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a high-grade neoplasm, characterized by an aggressive clinical course with brief survival, and refractoriness to currently available local and systemic modalities of treatment. There is no standard therapy for ATC, and no randomized comparative trials have been known to be conducted in this disease. One potential strategy is to combine the anti-tumor activity of the vascular disrupting agent combretastatin with conventional cytotoxic agents. This study will compare the overall survival of ATC patients treated with the triplet combination of combretastatin, paclitaxel, and carboplatin compared with the doublet treatment of paclitaxel and carboplatin.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have anaplastic thyroid carcinoma histologically or cytologically confirmed by a pathology review.
- Patients may have been refractory to or progressed during or after therapy, or relapsed within 6 months following initial combined modality therapy (usually including systemic chemotherapy and radiation) for regionally advanced disease.
- Where patients have received combined modality therapy for metastatic disease, systemic therapy is limited to one chemotherapy regimen that is clearly administered contiguously, (i.e., in an uninterrupted primary therapeutic approach). Patients who receive chemotherapy for metastatic disease after a combined modality approach are ineligible.
- In patients having received prior radiation, 3 weeks must have elapsed since radiation and disease must be present beyond radiation ports.
- A minimum of 3 weeks must have elapsed from the time a patient last received chemotherapy prior to the first dose of study drug (6 weeks for therapy known to be associated with delayed toxicity such as nitrosureas or mitomycin-C).
- Patients with bulky thyroid/neck masses and/or suspicion of airway obstruction must undergo screening (indirect and direct laryngoscopy) to ensure patency of the trachea/airway prior to study enrollment and treatment.
- Patients must be greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
- Patients must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Score less than or equal to 2.
- Life expectancy greater than or equal to 12 weeks.
- Patients must have adequate bone marrow reserve as evidenced by:
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than 1,500/microL. Platelet count greater than 75,000/microL.
- Patients must have adequate renal function as evidenced by serum creatinine less than or equal to 2.0 mg/dL (less than 177 micromol/L).
- Patients must have adequate hepatic function as evidenced by:
Serum total bilirubin less than 2X greater than the upper limit of normal (ULN) (less than3X ULN in patients with liver metastases).
AST (aspartate aminotransferase)/ALT (alanine aminotransferase) less than or equal to 3X the ULN for the local reference lab (less than or equal to 5X the ULN for patients with liver metastases).
- Patients or their legal representatives must be able to read, understand and provide written informed consent to participate in the trial.
- Patients must have no clinically important sequelae from any prior surgery or radiotherapy.
- All women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test.
- Women of childbearing potential as well as fertile men and their partners must agree to use an effective form of contraception during the study and for 90 days following the last dose of study medication. (An effective form of contraception is an oral contraceptive or a double barrier method.)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with tumors confined to the thyroid.
- Patients with an uncontrolled active infection.
- Clinically evident brain metastasis, including symptomatic involvement, evidence of cerebral edema by CT or MRI, radiographic evidence of progression of brain metastasis since definitive therapy, or continued requirement for corticosteroids.
- Patients who receive chemotherapy for metastatic disease after completion of a combined modality approach.
- Patients with history of malignancies other than ATC except patients with curatively treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin, cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia, or localized prostate cancer with a current PSA of less than 4.0 mg/dL or microg/L. (Patients with other curatively treated malignancies who have no evidence of metastatic disease will be considered after discussion with the Medical Monitor.)
- Patients with known hypersensitivity to CA4P, paclitaxel or carboplatin, or any of their components.
- Patients who are receiving concurrent investigational therapy or who have received investigational therapy for any indication within 28 days of the first scheduled day of dosing. (Investigational therapy is defined as treatment for which there is currently no regulatory authority approved indication.)
- Patients with greater than Grade 2 peripheral neuropathy.
- Patients who are pregnant or lactating.
- Patients with a history of prior cerebrovascular event, including transient ischemic attack.
- Patients with uncontrolled hypertension defined as blood pressure greater than 150/100 mm Hg despite medication.
- Patients with symptomatic vascular disease (e.g. intermittent claudication)
- Patients with a history of unstable angina pectoris pattern, myocardial infarction (including non-Q wave MI) within the past 6 months, or NYHA Class III and IV congestive heart failure.
- Patients with a history of torsade de pointes.
- Patients with bradycardia (less than 60 b/m), heart block (excluding 1st degree block, being PR interval prolongation only), and congenital long QT syndrome.
- Patients with any ventricular arrhythmias, or new ST segment elevation or depression or Q wave on ECG.
- Patients with ejection fractions less than normal (i.e. less than 45%).
- Patients with QTc prolongation greater than 450 ms.
- Patients requiring any drugs known to prolong the QTc interval, including anti-arrhythmic medications.
- Patients with potassium concentrations below 4.0 mEq/dL and magnesium concentrations below 1.8 mg/dL despite being on an electrolyte supplement.
- Patients requiring any drugs known to prolong the QTc interval.
- Patients with any other intercurrent medical condition, including mental illness or substance abuse, deemed by the Investigator to be likely to interfere with a patient's ability to sign informed consent, cooperate and participate in the study, or interfere with the interpretation of the results.
- Patients with a history of solid organ transplant or bone marrow transplant.
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|United States, California
|USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|United States, Colorado
|University of Colorado Cancer Center
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale University, School of Medicine
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
|United States, Georgia
|Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|United States, Maryland
|Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center at John Hopkins
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231
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|University of Minnesota Otolaryngology Department
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|Ireland Cancer Center/Division od Hematology
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106
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|Oregon Health and Science University
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
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|University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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|Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26506
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|Specialized Hospital for Active Treatment of Oncology
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|Universtiy Multiprofile Hospital, ISUI, Clinic of Oncotherapy
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|New Delhi, Delhi, India, 110076
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|July 25, 2007
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|January 17, 2012
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Keywords provided by OXiGENE:
thyroid neoplasms
thyroid cancer
thyroid carcinoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Thyroid Neoplasms
Thyroid Diseases
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Combretastatin A-4
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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iPhone 2G - 3.1.2 - MMS Patch
This is a patch for CommCenter from iPhone OS 3.1.2 running on the iPhone 2G Device.
This was originally a like-for-like patch updated from geniusan's original work for 3.0, this has now been streamlined into a 1 Byte patch (+resigning).
This would not have been possible without the original work of geniusan.
1. Unzip Archive
2. Copy CommCenter to iPhone (via scp/afp)
3. Backup Original CommCenter
4. Move our patched CommCenter
5. Set Permissions
6. Convert M68AP.plist to XML
7. Insert a true value for MMS under capabilities.
8. Reboot!Code:<key>microphone</key> <true/> <key>mms</key> <true/> <key>opengles-1</key> <true/>
Cheat Sheet:
Download:Code:mv /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/CommCenter /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/CommCenter.orig chown root:wheel Commcenter chmod 755 CommCenter mv CommCenter /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/ plutil -convert xml1 /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/M68AP.plist
Patch Notes:Code:hxxp://YOU-CAN-GUESS-WHERE/files/296158280/CommCenter_312_RLS2_WR.zip
This patch has been confirmed by numerous users as working - should it not for you please double check the installation steps and make sure you have correct APN settings and that these settings are sticking. (also make sure your SIM has MMS provisioned) - You may need to edit the Carrier bundle yourself if the settings do not stick.
Should you happen to get stuck at the Apple logo, then you need to pay more attention in future!
This will most likely be because you did not chmod CommCenter after copying it.


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Colorado forward and current RFA Ryan O'Rielly has signed a two-year deal to play with Magnitogorsk in the KHL. While O'Rielly owners may run for the hills... it seems as if he has an out clause:
"It has been agreed by mutual consent that if Ryan is offered a contract on more lucrative terms in the National Hockey League, Metallurg will not interfere in that contract being concluded," the team said in a website statement.
Some news and notes from Thursday night AHL action:
Drayson Bowman had a goal and three SOG for Charlotte last night, but he also ended up with a minus-2 rating.
Mike Sgarbossa had a goal for Lake Erie - the undersized forward is off to a terrific start in his first season of pro hockey. Colorado acquired him form San Jose in the McGinn-for-Galiardi/Winnik trade. He leads Lake Erie in scoring so far this season, too.
One player on Lake Erie not off to a terrific start is Stefan Elliott - through 20 games, the talented young defenseman has only one point. I haven't seen much of him this year (probably two Lake Erie games at the most), and I'm not entirely sure why he is struggling so much offensively - he was a standout in the WHL and looked primed to be Colorado's next young PP QB.
In only 30 games with Lake Erie last season, Elliott had five goals and 14 points.
Defenseman Tyson Barrie has picked up a lot of the scoring for Lake Erie - he has five goals and 18 points in 23 games. Barrie definitely has the inside edge on a roster spot over Elliott with his play through the first few months of this season.
Braden Holtby allowed only one goal on 27 shots in a 2-1 win yesterday for Hershey.
Barrie defenseman Ryan O'Connor had a hat trick and added a helper last night for the Colts. The 5-10 rearguard has 27 points in 26 games this season. He is only nine points behind his production level from all of last season (split between Saginaw and Barrie).
My latest for the CanucksArmy - an early-season look at the play of Vancouver's top five prospects, including Zack Kassian and Eddie Lack.
Niagara (OHL) put up nine goals on Ottawa last night. Ryan Strome (2+1) led the way. Strome figures to play a big part on Canada's WJC team in a few weeks. I'm not sore of any line combos, but I'd look for him to center the second line behind Nugent-Hopkins or Huberdeau (whoever they put at center).
Dallas prospect Brett Ritchie had a goal for Niagara - the big powerforward may find himself alongside Strome on the second scoring unit for Canada.
Dougie Hamilton (1+1) also had a solid game - he's a lock to make the NHL if it ever returns. If not, look for him to dominate for Canada at the WJC - he should be the odds-on favorite to win "best defenseman" at this tournament.
There is a player on Sault Ste. Marie named Michael Schumacher. Cool. He had a goal and a helper last night, as well.
Stud prospect Alex Galchenyuk had a goal and an assist for Sarnia last night. I'm a big fan of his game, and look forward to watching him in a few weeks for the US at the WJC.
Another day, another CBA meltdown. This one seemed as scripted as the last few, regardless of how flustered Gary Bettman looked at the podium. Donald Fehr is driving the NHL owners crazy.
At the risk of starting down a thousand word rant, I'll leave my lockout discussion there. More connected writers than I have shared their thoughts elsewhere – here are a few links if you enjoy self-inflicted pain:
Check out this slick goal from Caps prospect Stanislav Galiev:


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All week long visitors to the Paris Air Show have been showing off their creative skills by imagining the future on a dedicated graffiti wall near the EADS Pavilion. In order to highlight that EADS is recruiting 5,000 people this year the overall message of 'Join Us' was revealed on Friday. EADS & Airbus Chief Human Resources Officer Thierry Baril is pictured in front of the giant painting together with participants and employees
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LEANDER, Texas -- The Travis County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal stabbing at a mobile home in Leander.
Travis County Sheriff's spokesperson Roger Wade says the man who died was a part of a family violence incident. He's been identified as 41-year-old James Prestage.
The sheriff's office says Prestage was stabbed Wednesday morning by a male cousin in the 2200 block of Big Sandy Drive. That cousin has been identified as 47-year-old Reggie Horton.
Both Prestage and Horton lived at the home.
A third man who says he's the owner of the home called 911.
STARFlight transported Prestage to an area hospital with life-threatening inuries. He died shortly before noon Wednesday.
Horton was seen by a KVUE crew in handcuffs and with blood on his hands.
Detectives are still collecting evidence and talking to witnesses to determine what happened and what charges will be filed in this case.


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The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of the century's most influential technologies.
Bell Laboratories, which thrived from the 1920s to the 1980s, was the most innovative and productive institution of the twentieth century. Long before America's brightest scientific minds began migrating west to Silicon Valley, they flocked to this sylvan campus in the New Jersey suburbs built and funded by AT&T. At its peak, Bell Labs employed nearly fifteen thousand people, twelve hundred of whom had PhDs. Thirteen would go on to win Nobel prizes. It was a citadel of science and scholarship as well as a hotbed of creative thinking. It was, in effect, a factory of ideas whose workings have remained largely hidden until now.
New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner unveils the unique magic of Bell Labs through the eyes and actions of its scientists. These ingenious, often eccentric men would become revolutionaries, and sometimes legends, whether for inventing radio astronomy in their spare time (and on the company's dime), riding unicycles through the corridors, or pioneering the principles that propel today's technology. In these pages, we learn how radar came to be, and lasers, transistors, satellites, mobile phones, and much more.
Even more important, Gertner reveals the forces that set off this explosion of creativity. Bell Labs combined the best aspects of the academic and corporate worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds, creating a culture and even an architecture that forced employees in different fields to work together, in virtually complete intellectual freedom, with little pressure to create moneymaking innovations. In Gertner's portrait, we come to understand why both researchers and business leaders look to Bell Labs as a model and long to incorporate its magic into their own work.
Written with a novelist's gift for pacing and an ability to convey the thrill of innovation, The Idea Factory yields a revelatory take on the business of invention. What are the principles of innovation? How do new technology and new ideas begin? Are some environments more favorable than others? How should they be structured, and how should they be governed? Can strokes of genius be accelerated, replicated, standardized? The history of Bell Labs provides crucial answers that can and should be applied today by anyone who wants to understand where good ideas come from.
This book is about the origins of modern communications as seen through the adventures of several men who spent their careers working at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Even more, though, this book is about innovation—about how it happens, why it happens, and who makes it happen. It is likewise about why innovation matters, not just to scientists, engineers, and corporate executives but to all of us. That the story is about Bell Labs, and even more specifically about life at the Labs between the late 1930s and the mid-1970s, isn't a coincidence. In the decades before the country's best minds began migrating west to California's Silicon Valley, many of them came east to New Jersey, where they worked in capacious brick-and-glass buildings located on grassy campuses where deer would graze at twilight. At the peak of its reputation in the late 1960s, Bell Labs employed about fifteen thousand people, including some twelve hundred PhDs. Its ranks included the world's most brilliant (and eccentric) men and women. In a time before Google, the Labs sufficed as the country's intellectual utopia. It was where the future, which is what we now happen to call the present, was conceived and designed.
For a long stretch of the twentieth century, Bell Labs was the most innovative scientific organization in the world. It was arguably among the world's most important commercial organizations as well, with countless entrepreneurs building their businesses upon the Labs' foundational inventions, which were often shared for a modest fee. Strictly speaking, this wasn't Bell Labs' intended function. Rather, its role was to support the research and development efforts of the country's then-monopolistic telephone company, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T), which was seeking to create and maintain a system—the word "network" wasn't yet common—that could connect any person on the globe to any other at any time. AT&T's dream of "universal" connectivity was set down in the early 1900s. Yet it took more than three-quarters of a century for this idea to mature, thanks largely to the work done at Bell Labs, into a fantastically complex skein of copper cables and microwave links and glass fi bers that tied together not only all of the planet's voices but its images and data, too. In those evolutionary years, the world's business, as well as its technological progress, began to depend on information and the conduits through which it moved. Indeed, the phrase used to describe the era that the Bell scientists helped create, the age of information, suggested we had left the material world behind. A new commodity— weightless, invisible, fleet as light itself—defined the times.
A new age makes large demands. At Bell Labs, it required the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists and engineers over many decades— millions of "man-hours," in the parlance of AT&T, which made a habit of calculating its employees' toil to a degree that made its workers proud while also keeping the U.S. government (which closely monitored the company's business practices and long-distance phone monopoly) at bay. For reasons that are conceptual as well as practical, this book does not focus on those tens of thousands of Bell Laboratories workers. Instead, it looks primarily at the lives of a select and representative few: Mervin Kelly, Jim Fisk, William Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and William Baker. Some of these names are notorious—Shockley, for instance, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and in his later years steadfastly pursued a scientific link between race and intelligence. Others, such as Shannon, are familiar to those within a certain area of interest (in Shannon's case, mathematics and artificial intelligence) while remaining largely unknown to the general public. Pierce, a nearly forgotten figure, was the father of satellite communications and an instigator of more ideas than can be properly accounted for here. Kelly, Fisk, and Baker were presidents of the Labs, and served as stewards during the institution's golden age. All these men knew one another, and some were extremely close. With the exception of Mervin Kelly, the eldest of the group, they were sometimes considered members of a band of Bell Labs revolutionaries known as the Young Turks. What bound them was a shared belief in the nearly sacred mission of Bell Laboratories and the importance of technological innovation.
The men preferred to think they worked not in a laboratory but in what Kelly once called "an institute of creative technology." This description aimed to inform the world that the line between the art and science of what Bell scientists did wasn't always distinct. Moreover, while many of Kelly's colleagues might have been eccentrics, few were dreamers in the less flattering sense of the word. They were paid for their imaginative abilities. But they were also paid for working within a culture, and within an institution, where the very point of new ideas was to make them into new things.
Should we care about how new ideas begin? Practically speaking, if our cell phones ring and our computer networks function we don't need to recall how two men sat together in a suburban New Jersey laboratory during the autumn of 1947 and invented the transistor, which is the essential building block of all digital products and contemporary life. Nor should we need to know that in 1971 a team of engineers drove around Philadelphia night after night in a trailer home stocked with sensitive radio equipment, trying to set up the first working cell phone system. In other words, we don't have to understand the details of the twentieth century in order to live in the twenty-first. And there's a good reason we don't have to. The history of technology tends to remain stuffed in attic trunks and the minds of aging scientists. Those breakthrough products of past decades—the earliest silicon solar cells, for example, which were invented at Bell Labs in the 1950s and now reside in a filing cabinet in a forlorn warehouse in central New Jersey—seem barely functional by today's standards. So rapid is the evolutionary development of technological ideas that the journey from state-of-the-art to artifact can occur in a mere few years.
Still, good arguments urge us to contemplate scientific history. Bill Gates once said of the invention of the transistor, "My first stop on any time-travel expedition would be Bell Labs in December 1947." It's a perceptive wish, I think. Bell Labs was admittedly imperfect. Like any elite organization, it suffered at times from personality clashes, institutional arrogance, and—especially in its later years—strategic missteps. Yet understanding the circumstances that led up to that unusual winter of 1947 at Bell Labs, and what happened there in the years afterward, promises a number of insights into how societies progress. With this in mind, one might think of a host of reasons to look back at these old inventions, these forgotten engineers, these lost worlds.
While our engineering prowess has advanced a great deal over the past sixty years, the principles of innovation largely have not. Indeed, the techniques forged at Bell Labs—that knack for apprehending a vexing problem, gathering ideas that might lead to a solution, and then pushing toward the development of a product that could be deployed on a massive scale—are still worth considering today, where we confront a host of challenges (information overloads, infectious disease, and climate change, among others) that seem very nearly intractable. Some observers have taken to calling them "wicked problems." As it happens, the past offers the example of one seemingly wicked problem that was overcome by an innovative effort that rivals the Apollo program and Manhattan Project in size, scope, expense, and duration. That was to connect all of us, and all of our new machines, together.
"At first sight," the writer Arthur C. Clarke noted in the late 1950s, "when one comes upon it in its surprisingly rural setting, the Bell Telephone Laboratories' main New Jersey site looks like a large and up-to-date factory, which in a sense it is. But it is a factory for ideas, and so its production lines are invisible." Some contemporary thinkers would lead us to believe that twenty-first-century innovation can only be accomplished by small groups of nimble, profit-seeking entrepreneurs working amid the frenzy of market competition. Those idea factories of the past— and perhaps their most gifted employees—have no lessons for those of us enmeshed in today's complex world. This is too simplistic. To consider what occurred at Bell Labs, to glimpse the inner workings of its invisible and now vanished "production lines," is to consider the possibilities of what large human organizations might accomplish.
Introduction. WICKED PROBLEMS
One. OIL DROPS
Two. WEST TO EAST
Three. SYSTEM
Four. WAR
Five. SOLID STATE
Six. HOUSE OF MAGIC
Seven. THE INFORMATIONIST
Eight. MAN AND MACHINE
Nine. FORMULA
Ten. SILICON
Eleven. EMPIRE
Twelve. AN INSTIGATOR
Thirteen. ON CRAWFORD HILL
Fourteen. FUTURES, REAL AND IMAGINED
Fifteen. MISTAKES
Sixteen. COMPETITION
Seventeen. APART
Eighteen. AFTERLIVES
Nineteen. INHERITANCE
Twenty. ECHOES
Endnotes and Amplifications
Selected Bibliography


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hmm I might try to make one actually
Mini comics are super easy to do, and would be a lot of fun for all.
Thats why I want YOU to make one using this template.
You can draw the comic actual size on the piece of paper, or do some resizing and placing stuff in photoshop or WHATEvER
This format is cool, because we would be able to print out each other's comics easily and have a collection of MT mini comics to touch and read.
Por ejemplo, here is one I made http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4148/minicoomic.jpg
and here is a tutorial on how to fold the mini comics together.
hmm I might try to make one actually
My Story Thread
If you took the time to read this, you can just call me Al, or Stan.
What if I refuse Satan's terms?
O well I wanna play qq
yay I made one! This was quick and handmade so it wasn't accurate. It was a test :P Will try and make a real one when I'm done with my Saimoe entry, I think.
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i would print dat mini comic out but dont have a printer T_T


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2014 Remaining Auditions Dates:
3/22, 4/12
Upcoming Production:
Les Misérables
April 3-5, 7:30pm and April 6, 3pm
Location: Bardo Arts Center
Tickets: $20 Adults | $15 Faculty/Staff/Seniors | $10 students ($7 in advance)
Season Tickets available at the Box Office 828-227-2479
The WCU Theatre Mainstage Season brings you inspired entertainment throughout the academic year.
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Wondering what WCU life is really like? With WCU's open house, you and your family can get to know us better. Talk to our professors, hang out with students and get a glimpse of all we have to offer. Open houses are held each fall and spring. Students of all ages are welcome. Click here to pre-register.
Les Misérables will be running from April 3rd-5th at 7:30pm and April 6th at 3pm at the Bardo Arts Center. Tickets are: $20 Adults | $15 Faculty/Staff | $10 Students ($7 in advance at the Box Office)
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Whether your passion lies in Film and TV production, musical theatre or theatre arts and dance, at WCU we'll help you develop that passion into your life's work.
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At WCU, you'll immerse yourself in dynamic academic programs that offer a variety of undergraduate degree concentrations and minors. You'll combine your chosen discipline's concepts and theories with hands-on experience both inside and outside the classroom through faculty-student collaborations, internships, and cooperative work experiences.
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Cutting-edge technology and facilities are a hallmark of the WCU experience. Your "classrooms" will include computer labs, shops, a world-class digital TV and recording studio in WCU's Center for Applied Technology, and a 1,000-seat theatre in the $30M John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.
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You'll learn from and work with innovative faculty members who bring their unique blend of professional and academic expertise to your studies. A diverse group of creative individuals, their focus is on providing you with the finest learning experiences.
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