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In the fall of 2008, the Sequim Wolves beat highly-ranked Cascade Christian 17-14, handing the Cougars what would be their only loss of the season until the 1A state championship game.
On Saturday night, it was payback time.
Behind junior quarterback Kyle Stennes, the predominantly run-heavy Cougars passed for 211 yards and three touchdowns, then confounded the explosive Sequim offense to the tune of just one score in a 21-7 decision at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner.
"They were on fire tonight," Sequim coach Erik Wiker said of Cascade. "They were on their A-game."
For an early season, nonleague contest, Saturday night's battle between Sequim and Cascade Christian sure had all the feel of a playoff game.
In a painful reminder of playoffs past, however, it was Sequim on the losing end, helped greatly by the first-half injuries to starting tight end/linebacker Clancy Catelli and center/linebacker Preston McFarlen.
Taking advantage of the injuries, a key first-half Sequim fumble and a blown coverage in the secondary, Stennes threw for three touchdowns.
The Cougar defense found a way to slow the spread Sequim offense, taking away both the run and the short passing game.
And then there were the penalties. Sequim racked up eight calls for 64 yards, including back-to-back illegal blocks in the first half and an illegal forward pass that negated a Drew Rickerson touchdown toss in the third quarter.
Ranked No. 6 in last week's Associated Press poll 1A rankings, Cascade looked every bit as tough as they did last season.
"We made mistakes, they didn't," Wiker said. "They're a solid team. I thought we could run better on them."
Rickerson finished 21-of-48 with 229 passing yards and a touchdown, a 20-yard strike to Joel Anastasi in the second quarter. Travis Decker, Sequim's premier running back, was held to just 59 yards on 15 carries.
John Textor had six catches for 128 yards and nabbed two Stennes passes for interceptions.
No rhythm, no chance
After trading possessions to open the game, Cascade finally broke through with 14 seconds left in the first quarter on a 21-yard pass play from Stennes to Spencer Ramos.
Sequim looked to answer right back after Textor picked Stennes in the second quarter and drove to the Cougar 12-yard-line. But a toss from Rickerson to Textor on fourth down was ruled out of bounds, the first of Sequim's three critical fourth down failures.
One possession later,
Sequim did break through, as Rickerson found Anastasi from 20 yards out to tie the game at 7-7 with 3:33 to play in the half.
The Wolves looked to nab momentum by halftime after forcing a Cougar punt but with less than a minute to go, the handoff between Rickerson and Sequim's backup center was fumbled, then recovered by Cascade's Jacob Roth.
Three plays later, Stennes found a diving Jake Archer for a 14-7 Cascade lead.
Sequim came out firing in the third quarter, as Rickerson found Textor for a 65-yard pass play to the Cascade 15-yard-line, But the drive stalled, and when Rickerson stepped past the down marker before his shuffle pass to Joey Hall for a touchdown on fourth down, Sequim lost the ball.
Penalties, sharp punting and good Cougar defense kept the Wolves from threatening late in the game. Forcing a Sequim punt late in the third quarter, Cascade capped the scoring when Stennes found Axel Johnson in the end zone.
Abandoning any kind of running attack, the Wolves tried - but failed - to find any kind of offensive rhythm in the final quarter. Catelli, a key to their offensive and defensive success, tried to play on the ankle he injured on the fourth play of the game while McFarlen could only watch from the bench with his knee iced and wrapped.
Sequim finished 4-of-11 on third down.
Despite the loss, the Wolves' run defense held Cascade to just 70 yards rushing and one third down conversion.
Revenge factor
The Wolves get another road game this week when they travel to Steilacoom.
The Sentinels (0-3) are coming off a 28-0 loss at Seattle Prep.
Last season, the defending Olympic League 2A champion Sentinels gave the Wolves their only regular-season loss (35-21), snapping Sequim's 26-game league winning streak. Steilacoom went on to go 10-0 in the regular season before falling to Burlington-Edison in the state playoffs.
But Sentinel quarterback Greg Herd, so crucial to the Sentinels in 2008, graduated last June, along with fullback Jordan Flynn and a number of other key seniors.
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How Do We Know When Students Are Engaged?
March 1, 2012 | Ben Johnson(Updated 11/2013)
Educational author and former teacher, Dr. Michael Schmoker shares in his book, Results Now, a study that found of 1,500 classrooms visited, 85 percent of them had engaged less than 50 percent of the students. In other words, only 15 percent of the classrooms had more than half of the class at least paying attention to the lesson.
So, how do they know if a student is engaged? What do "engaged" students look like? In my many observations, here's some evidence to look for:
Teacher-Directed Learning
You will see students...
- Paying attention (alert, tracking with their eyes)
- Taking notes (particularly Cornell)
- Listening (as opposed to chatting, or sleeping)
- Asking questions (content related, or in a game, like 21 questions or I-Spy)
- Responding to questions (whole group, small group, four corners, Socratic Seminar)
- Following requests (participating, Total Physical Response (TPR), storytelling, Simon Says)
- Reacting (laughing, crying, shouting, etc.)
Student-Directed Learning
You see students individually or in small groups...
- Reading critically (with pen in hand)
- Writing to learn, creating, planning, problem solving, discussing, debating, and asking questions)
- Performing/presenting, inquiring, exploring, explaining, evaluating, and experimenting)
- Interacting with other students, gesturing and moving
To boil the descriptions above down and get at the essence of student engagement, whether for teacher-directed learning or student-directed learning, engaged means students are active. Is that surprising? I shouldn't think so. If true learning is to occur, then students have to be at the very least participants in the process, and not merely products.
Activity and Ownership
I believe that the majority of teachers pick up on the audience cues as they direct-teach and can tell if a student is not interested or not engaged. Most teachers act on what they see and adjust their instruction to try to engage all of their students. However, no matter how hard teachers work at making it interesting, a lecture is still a lecture, and having students simply listen is still a passive action. The solution is simple: If a teacher wants to increase student engagement, then the teacher needs to increase student activity -- ask the students to do something with the knowledge and skills they have learned. Break up the lecture with learning activities. Let them practice. Get them moving. Get them talking. Make it so engaging that it will be difficult for students not to participate.
The ultimate engagement is to put the learner in charge of learning. Create a rich learning environment and a motivation to learn, and the students do all the hard work of learning, while the teacher merely facilitates. It sounds so easy.
I do not minimize the hard work involved in creating those rich learning scenarios, custom-made motivators and engaging learning content. And it is a bit risky. Sometimes it works like a charm, and other times it would have been better to assign seat work. But we keep trying, improving, and enhancing until we get it right.
How have you found success in engaging your students?
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When students forget there is a clock in the room and are actively working there is an electricity in the air. It is exuberating. You mentioned they were writing-- what was the project/topic that made them so interested?
Ben Johnson
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How do I know if my students are engaged?
For me, after a few years of teaching, the clues were pretty obvious. When my students lost track of time, or didn't care about time as in how much time it was taking to do whatever project they we working. This is especially true of writing. One of the great feelings I got as a teacher was when the class ended and the kids moaned that they."weren't finished writing yet and could they stay awhile longer so they don't lose their grove."
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Engagement, flow, kids talking to each other about science because they want to. Best part of my job when it sometimes happens. Some things that seem to help:
- Listen/watch first. No taking notes or filling in a worksheet. Just enjoy it. Then tell your neighbor one thing you got from it. Then write a few notes.
- Stuff that's funny and links their lives to the concepts to be learned.
- Being intrigued, interested and well-informed on what I'm teaching, including the history and personalities involved: Better stories that way.
- Instead of doing it all myself, having students take on as many tasks and demos as possible.
- Co-constructing concepts with magnetic cards - Concept ConstruXions rocks (at teachersforlearners.com).
- Responding via whiteboards shared between two. (Ridiculous how much they love this AND a great way to get a beat on where they are. See post on kids concepts of atoms at http://takeactionscience.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/kids-concepts-of-atoms...)
- Changing the class arrangement frequently, and during lessons too, so they get up and move a bit.
- Individual relationships.
What is engaged learning
I think that there has to also be a noise factor. I have so many 'outsiders' come into my classroom and say what an unruly bunch, they are so noisy and I keep telling them to listen to the noise. If I can hear words about the topic that we are covering that isn't noise that is learning.
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If what I am doing is relevant to their curiosity, creativity, intelligence, emotional spirit and to their psychology... They talk, share and engage themselves in the conversation/activity.*
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No, you are saying that. He targets any fools, and this explains all the holes around your foxhole... |
Nah, he's trying to recruit... Like when he bangs the drum for the Taliban... |
No he targets only those that are for same sex marriage, and defends anyone opposed. Which is fine, except he claims to be for Same sex marriage so he can try and dupe new folks into stupid comparisons. We have seen it over and over and over . so I just de-rail it before it starts and let them know he is trying to dupe them |
Taliban isnt for me, forced religion, adhere to social customs or be stoned to death, sounds too much like the Tea Party to me. There are some here that might like it |
Judged: 2 2 2 ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! pot calling the kettle black, or are you claiming to never have ever used personal attacks? Poor baby, cant take what he wants to dish |
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Judged: 2 2 2 Actually Frankie, Big D, sits on a mountain top dispensing advice to the masses. |
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Judged: 2 2 2 Ya know I Rock, I also thought, "what is the point of this coming out media dog and pony show"? Is there really this great compelling need to stand in front of a microphone and shout it to the roof tops? Why? |
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Judged: 2 2 2 Was it difficult to find this wikipedia article on incest? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest You claim marriage has nothing to do with having children, but here you seem to be justifying your belief in the incest taboo on the effects of inbreeding on children, what's up with that? Either marriage has nothing to do with posterity or it does; which is it? . So, there is no objection if a brother/sister couple use contraceptives? . Didn't you read the whole wikipedia article you quoted above? You are listing stories told early in the Bible, later two books, Leviticus and Deuteronomy both explicitly condemn closely related incest. Are you trying to tell a half-truth about the Bible to support your political goals? Do you think the history told in the first part of the Bible shape the Biblical laws listed in later books? |
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Judged: 2 2 2 So, you believe marriage has something to do with procreation, that's why incest marriage is banned? |
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Judged: 2 2 2 I've got to say that I'm pretty stunned by your comments... Straight people "come out" at a very young age; talking about their attractions to others. As they get older, they openly talk about their sexual conquests, marriages, attempts to get pregnant, etc. There are entire television programs built on heterosexual love and sex. You see it on commercials (sex sells). You see it in print media. We, rightly or wrongly, are bombarded by it. So, if an individual "comes out" as being attracted to people of the same gender; it's a little hypocritical to call it "sexual harassment". Besides, claiming one's orientation in our society today, is more of a statement of pride and self-acceptance. In an environment of hate and fear of gays, it is a way of saying to yourself and the community at large, "I will no longer abide by your archaic and ignorant demands!" Furthermore, when a celebrity does this, it helps other young and other LGBT people to feel less isolated and more empowered. I thought you were a reasonable person. What happened? |
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Judged: 3 2 2 That's a whole bunch of stupid RNC, GOP, Republican and Tea Party members stacked like cord wood. |
Judged: 3 2 2 Well if you're talking about religion, I guess I fit in so shut your mouth Big =D |
Judged: 2 2 2 Verminion, go watch Ru Paul, enough with the rhetoric! |
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Judged: 2 2 2 I never said I think marriage has anything to do with procreation. I know plenty of married people with no children. |
Judged: 3 2 2 Yes I do. But Big D constantly harasses me with his dopey angry personal attacks. It's fun to respond. Get him going real good. But let's get back on topic! I fully support marriage equality. Do you? Big D doesn't. P.S. You never answered. Am I to assume I won't be invited to your wedding? |
Judged: 4 3 3 It isnt a belief, we KNOW for a FACT that procreation is not any kind of prerequisite for a marriage license whatsoever We give them to Vets that dont have the use of the lower half of their bodies, we give them to men and women who cannot have children. It isnt a belief, we KNOW that procreation is not any kind of a requirement for a marriage. |
Judged: 4 3 3 No thanks I will continue to make sure that tyrants are put in their place thank you very much. No one is trying to take rights away from you, it is you that so desperately want to deny rights to others, rights that will do you no harm whatsoever. |
Judged: 3 2 2 I know I'm being gauche but invite me! I love weddings and the gay weddings I've been to were the best. If I can and if you're having a reception, I'll attend! I gift very well. Make sure my gift is worth more than all the food and booze I'll soak up. Good luck to you. I spend half my time in CA and half my time in NY. So if your wedding is near there... P.S. Don't invite that angry jackass "Big D" he'll probably give a cheap gift if at all. And he'll climb up on stage and try and tell everyone how to think. And "warn" them against me! |
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Increasingly, the NFL is opting for televised impact over in-person experience. Vast TV markets and the gimmicks to ensure expanding marginal growth is a key emphasis - particularly in the highly competitive American sports markets. My suspicion is that the matrix-like visuals will become tiresome, but that remains to be proven. And ultimately there is no pure spectacle that is sport - true enough. To witness an NFL game in person, is to watch a production, a narrative. The presence of cable suspended cameras and those mounted on goalposts have already become the desperate reality of a game chasing the need for striking and novel visuals to demonstrate relavence in a culture dominated by image.
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The instant replay isn't new. In fact, it can be argued that it's the very reason why watching Football is America's favorite Sunday night living room pastime. The implementation of 12 cameras in each end zone brings something new to your big screen TV this NFL season - a 360-degree instant replay.
Starting with the September 8th Dallas Cowboys home game, fans watching the action on NBC's Sunday Night Football will see an all-around view of controversial plays in each end zone. As reported by the AP in the Washington Post, the system is produced by Replay Technologies Inc. It will not be used for official review, though fans at the stadium will also be able to watch the replays on AT&T Stadium's scoreboard.
Instant replay was invented to give television viewers reason to tune in. It gave people viewing the event at home a second, closer look at plays, a dimension that they couldn't get live at the game. Since then, they've been adopted by major American sports leagues not just for entertainment, but also for official review. In the NFL, the first instant replay for official review came in 1986. Opponents protested the time it took away from the action, and cited a loss of spontaneity in the game.
Love it or hate it, instant replay has made its way into most major sports. Tennis fans are familiar with Hawk-Eye, first used for official review in 2006. Initially, it was introduced by television networks to provide TV audiences a second look at official line rulings. According to Hawk-Eye, a number of high speed cameras positioned around the stadium track the movement of the tennis ball in play, triangulating data from individual 2D cameras into a 3D representation of the ball's movement. Since its debut as a fan instant replay tool, Hawk-Eye is now used by players to 'challenge' official line rulings.
The system installed at the Cowboys' AT&T Stadium has drawn comparisons to the technology recently unveiled by NHK, a robotic rig capable of bullet-time image capture. One camera directs the movement of eight other sub cameras, all powered individually by motors to pan, tilt and zoom in unison. To see it in action, see DigInfo TV's video below.


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Tomato-Dill Shrimp Stew Recipe
"Here in the Northwest, we have a seemingly endless supply of seafood, so we're always searching for creative new recipes," reveals Renton, Washington cook Jennie Benjaminson. "This thick hearty stew was a big hit when I served it one year on Father's Day. My dad loved it! And so did everyone else."
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 cups diced fresh tomatoes
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh dill or 2 teaspoons dill weed
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 pound cooked medium shrimp, peeled and devined
- 4 ounces crumbled feta cheese
- 1 cup minced fresh parsley
- In a large saucepan, saute onion and garlic in oil for 5 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato sauce, dill, mustard, honey and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes. Add the shrimp, cheese and parsley; simmer 5 minutes longer. Yield: 4 servings.
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When building my team for VGC, I could't help but think the same thing over and over. "Be prepared for anything." So that's just what I did. The primary basis of this team was to counter anything thrown at it. This will be my first VGC attendance, so I decided to ask around these forums before anything was set in stone. I simply ask for feedback. Thanks in advance. Here they are: Alakazam @ Life Orb | Magic Guard Mild | HP 156 / Sp. Atk 212 / Spd 140 »Psychic »Psyshock »Guard Split »Signal Beam Primary Sweeper. Reliable with both Psychic & Psyshock to take care of both Physical and Special Defenses, and Magic Guard can't ever be a bad thing right? Guard Split is there to knock Tanks and walls down a peg while simultaneously bumping me up. Signal Beam is to cover Dark types. •Idea was to counteract Walls and Tanks. Cloyster @ Scope Lens | Skill Link Sassy | Atk 200 / Def 20 / Sp. Atk 40 / Sp. Def 248 »Icicle Spear »Protect »Brine »Rock Blast Skill Link is the primary idea here. With both Icicle Spear and Rock Blast to match up. I also added Scope Lens to increase Critical Hit chance, which fits great with the Skill Link as well as each of the 5 hits from Icicle Spear have separate chance for Critical Hit. Brine is a backup for type coverage with STAB as well. Protect is mainly a filler but helps with weak Sp. Def as well. •Idea was to counter Sturdy and Focus Sash users and Tanks/Walls. Shuckle @ Chesto Berry | Contrary Sassy | HP 156 / Def 172 / Sp. Def 180 »Power Split »Rest »Rock Slide/Sludge Bomb/Toxic »Helping Hand Everyone knows where this is headed. The main reason I caved to Shuckle was due to my discovery of Power Split, which my actually give me a chance to use some offense, however the main idea was to counter powerhouses. I can knock down their sole purpose of being there, their ridiculously high attack, and give me a chance to use something worth attacking with. with a backup of Rest+Chesto to annoy and defend a little longer, Helping Hand to benefit partner, plus with Cloyster's Skill Link, this could be devastating. My main problem is deciding whether to get a STAB Physical, Rock Slide, A poisoning Special, Sludge Bomb, or a draining Poison, Toxic. •Idea was to counteract Powerhouses. Porygon2 @ Eviolite | Trace Bold | Def 116 / Sp. Atk 128 / Sp. Def 168 / Spd 96 »Tri Attack »Hidden Power [Fight] »Thunderbolt »Trick Room Primarily Tank, with it's Eviolite and high Sp. Attack. Trace is there to counteract wether teams, for many of them are very Ability heavy such as Chlorophyll, Rain Dish, & Ice Body. Also, typically people don't get a negative ability without a counter (which is commonly weather). Hidden Power for unpredictability and coverage, and Thunderbolt for coverage. Trick Room is for countering predominantly fast teams (also for filler). •Idea was to counter Sweepers (not primarily though). Breloom @ Toxic Orb | Poison Heal Adament | Atk 108 / Def 116 / Sp. Def 236 / Spd 48 »Seed Bomb/Fling/Leech Seed »Spore »Facade »Drain Punch A personal favorite of mine, Breloom is there to piss off High HPs such as Blissey, Milotic, Slaking, etc. With Spore as a reliable Stall. Drain Punch for STAB and (of coarse) draining, and Toxic Orb+Poison Heal+Facade (for even more obvious reasons). My main concern is whether to use Seed Bomb as a high STAB, Fling for Poison, or Leech Seed for even more health, (I'm leaning Towards Leech Seed, but I thought I'd ask first) •Idea was to counter high HPs. Claydol @ Light Clay | Levitate Relaxed | HP 88 / Def 176 / Sp. Atk 140 / Sp. Def 104 »Earth Power »Ice Beam »Reflect »Light Screen Just a typical Support/Tank. With a Light Clay+Reflect/Light Screen combo to add even more defense to this already bulky team. and Ice beam and Earth Power for coverage. That's pretty much it. •Idea was....Support. :/ ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— I also kept a primarily slow team due to the overuse of Trick Room teams, and in such situations, I would not be hindered. Well there you have it, that's my team. So, give it to me straight.
Ok here's my two cents: Countering everything is impossible. I do not suggest your strategy to be counter all teams. A more defined strategy is better. There is nothing wrong with being prepared for threats, but if you come across a team with no strategy what will you do then? So as with all my rates, I'm going to try to change the team as little as possible, starting with a little move I like to call Protect. Alaka: No offense, but having Psychic and Psyshock... is a terrible idea it's just wasting a move slot for two very similar STAB's. Guard Split isn't really good in general VGC because of switches eliminate the crippling you have done. I'm going to give you a more standard Alakazam to use. Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Ability: Magic Guard Nature: Timid Item: Life Orb EV: 28 HP/252 SpAtk/228 Speed Shadow Ball Psyshock HP Fire Protect Going for a more standard, less counter everything, approach is best for Alakazam. Shadow Ball to put some dents in Cress. Psyshock > Psychic due to Hitmontop being VGC's cock of the wock. HP fire for some fire type coverage since you don't have any :/. Protect is a good strategy move that can win you a game quite often. Also why 228? To out speed everything with 116 and below. I don't believe in putting it up to a 50/50 chance for this Alakazam to move before the other Alakazam's/Dugtrio's so now you know that it won't. Then I put the rest of the Ev's into HP. Cloyster: Not bad at all! :) But there are some changes I'd like to make. Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Ability: Skill Link Nature: Adamant Item: Focus Sash EV: 4 HP/252 Atk/228 Speed Rock Blast Icicle Spear Shell Smash Protect Low SpD doesn't really help matters. So I equipped a sash to survive many common Thunderbolt's. Altered the Ev spread, because I don't understand your reasoning behind it. (Or Alakazam's for that matter.) Brine is a mediocre move. Shell Smash is one of the BIG reasons to use Cloyster. Also since it's lowering it's defenses sash is even more handy. Shuckie: Perplexes me a bit. :/ But seems headed in the right direction. Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Ability: Sturdy Nature: Relaxed/Sassy Item: Mental Herb Ev: 252 HP/4 Def/252 SpD Power Split Rock Slide Helping Hand Rest Here is your utility. :3 Mental Herb because Shuckle is the biggest Taunt bait. Try to use Power Split when your opponent is down to their last two mons, or whenever you see fit. Rock Slide can feed of it's added power. HH is amazing on a defensive powerhouse like this, Meta Alakazam & Breloom will really appreciate it. And Wynaut rest? Resotring HP can always be helpful. Be careful of steel types with serious power like Scizor or Metagross. It will tear your Shuckle apart. ;_; Porygon2: Looks great! :) Just a few things. Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Ability: Trace Nature: Quiet Item: Eviolite EV: 212 HP/248 Def/48 SpA Trick Room Tri Attack Recover Thunderbolt Bold is not as good in Trick Room because it doesn't lower it's speed. The ev spread allows it to survive 252+ Fight Gem Close Combat from Hitmontop, and 252+ Dragon Gem Draco Meteor from Latios. Trick Room is useful with other slow Pokemon like Shuckle & Cloyster. Tri Attack is good STAB. Thunderbolt is much needed type coverage, and Recover is the most annoying thing to face. Breloom: Isn't very fast. So I'm suggesting a fast-frail Technician set over yours. Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Ability: Technician Nature: Adamant Item: Choice Band EV: 4 HP/252 Atk/252/Speed Bullet Seed Low Sweep Mach Punch Stone Edge Fresh off Smogon.com, this set seems to fit your team. Basically relying on Technician boosting, and Choice Band boosting Breloom becomes an offensive powerhouse! Low Sweep is great, and lowering speed makes it even more remarkable. Mach Punch is a good alternative Priority STAB, and Stone Edge is for some critical hitting, flying killing power! >:) Claydol: Is as useless as dry clay... Metagross is a much better option Metagross: Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Nature: Adamant Item: Occa Berry/Steel Gem EV: 252 HP/252 Atk/4 SpD Bullet Punch Zen Headbutt Meteor Mash Protect Basically a standard Metagross. Hit hard and fast with Bullet Punch. Zen Headbutt is a good move, for STAB, coverage, and flinching. Meteor Mash is such a powerful move, and with Steel Gem just so amazing. Your run of the mill standard Metagross. I hope this helps! :) Good luck!!


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By Greg Schulz
This is first of a two-part post (click here for second post) that is part of ongoing industry trends and perspective cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy story. For background, some previous Dell posts are found here, here, here and here. Here is a link that has video of the live Dell Storage Customer Advisory (CAP) panel that Dell asked me to moderate back in June that touches on some related themes and topics. Btw, fwiw and for disclosure Dell AppAssure is a site advertiser on storageioblog.com ;).
Depending on your view of what is or is not a cloud service, product or solution, naturally you will then have various opinions of where Dell is at with their cloud strategy and story.
If you consider object based storage to be part of or a component of private clouds or at least for medical, healthcare and related focus, then Dell is already there with their DX object storage solutions (Caringo based).
From a scale out, clustered or grid file system, Dell bought Exanet in a post holiday shopping sale a few years back and has invested in its development having renamed it Fluid File System and initially available as the FS7000 series (EqualLogic) and more recently expanded systems such as the FS8600 (Compellent based), EqualLogic and NX3500 (MD3000 based).
If you view clouds as being part of services provided including via hosting or similar, Dell is already there via their Perot systems acquisitions.
If you view cloud as being part of VDI, or VDI being part of cloud, Dell is there with their tools including various acquisitions and solution bundles.
On the other hand if you view clouds as reference architectures across VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen among others, guess what, Dell is also there with their VIS.
Or, if you view private clouds as being a bundled solution (server, storage, hardware, software) such as EMC vBlock or NetApp FlexPod, then Dell vStart (not to be confused as being a service) is on the list with other infrastructure stack solutions.
How about being a technology supplier to what you may consider as being true cloud providers or enables including those who use OpenStack or other APIs and cloud tools, guess what, Dell is also there including at Rackspace (via public web info).
So the above all comes back to that Dell like many vendors who offer services, solutions and related items for data and information infrastructures have diverse offerings including servers, storage, networking, hardware, software and support. Dell like others similar to them has to find a balance between providing services that compete with their customers, as well as supplier such as to Rackspace. In this case Dell is no different from EMC who happened to move their Mozy backup service off to their VMware subsidiary and has managed to help define where VCE (and here) and ATMOS fit as products while being services capable. IBM has figured this out having a mix of old school services such as SmartCloud Services (or here), IBM Global Services and BCRS (business continuity recovery services), not to mention newer backup and storage cloud services, products and solutions they have acquired, or OEM or have reseller agreements with.
HP has expanded their traditional focused EDS as well as other HP services along with products being joined by their Amazon like Cloud Services including compute, storage and content distribution network (CDN) capabilities. NetApp is taking the partnering route along with Cisco staying focused for at least now on being a partner supplier. Oracle, well Oracle is Oracle and they have a mix of products and services. In fact some might say Oracle is late to the cloud game however they have been in the game since the late 90s when they came out with Oracle online, granted the cloud purist will call that application service provider (e.g. ASP) vs. today's applications as a service (AaaS) models.
Continue with the second post here, ok, nuff said (for now).
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Gary Giordano to be released, return to Gaithersburg
Gary Giordano has been in an Aruban jail for more than 100 days and could be back in the D.C. area as soon as Wednesday.
An Aruban judge on Friday threw out a request from the prosecution to keep Giordano detained without charges for another 30 days.
Gary Giordano is a suspect in the disappearance of Robyn Gardner, his travel companion in Aruba. The woman's body hasn't been found.
Friends of the 36-year-old Gardner work and live in downtown Frederick. Tom Snyder tends bar at Brewer's Alley and previously went on a group trip to Cancun with Garnder.
"She trusted people and this time she trusted the wrong person," he said.
Gardner and Giordano, who met on a swinger website, traveled to Aruba in August. Days before the trip, police say Giordano took out a $1.5 million life insurance policy with himself as the beneficiary. He says Gardner went missing while the two were snorkeling.
A judge ruled Aruban police never found a body, a weapon, or a solid motive. Prosecutors tried to keep him behind bars, saying they needed more time to analyze data on his computers, Blackberry and iPad.
Giordano could be back in his Gaithersburg home as soon as Wednesday.
"It does concern me because she is from here," said Frederick resident Beth Webb.
"Especially women I think our hearts go out," said Sandy Wagerman. "We're hoping they would've found enough evidence to keep him longer and convict him."
"He knows something that he is not telling anybody," thinks Gardner's friend Snyder. "I just wish there was a closure."
Two of Giordano's neighbors, both women, attempted to get protective orders against him ahead of his possible arrival home. They claimed he left trash and dead animals on their front lawn. A judge denied the petition because it was filed too late.
"Oh, I would understand why they'd be concerned. But I would think he would be on his guard after this," said Tom Kalbacher, a neighbor. Other neighbors said they are withholding judgment against Giordano.
"They haven't found a body yet so I can't say he's guilty or not guilty," said Billy Reed.
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Business leaders who listened closely to Governor Christie's State of the State address Tuesday heard a clear commitment to a new phase of business tax cuts next year.
But Democrats, who have stalled Christie's proposal for a residential tax break, said they now viewed the $541 million price tag for next fiscal year's corporate tax cuts and incentives as increasingly out of reach.
Christie staked his position Tuesday as a governor who would say no to any tax increases, while moving ahead as planned on tax relief for local companies.
"Even with growth in the national economy slowing again, we have been able to achieve balance with not only no new taxes but a second year of small business tax relief," Christie said.
Business lobbyists heard that as a firm promise that a five-year schedule of cuts benefitting businesses would not be overturned.
"He said that by name, which was a clear sign," said Philip Kirschner, executive director of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association. In 2012, the state cut $184 million in business taxes, and in the current year cut $347 million. Treasury figures indicate the next round of business tax-relief would cost $541 million - more than double the estimated cost of Christie's proposed tax cut for residents.
But Democrats pointed out that the cuts equate to more than the current state revenue shortfall, estimated by Treasury at $451 million so far this fiscal year - meaning axing the relief to businesses could arguably help solve the state's fiscal woes.
Sen. Robert Gordon, D-Fair Lawn, said he had major concerns about how to afford the next round of business cuts in light of figures released by the state's chief budget officer David Rosen last week that the true shortfall was $705 million, including a $254 million revenue shortfall from last fiscal year.
"I think we need to take another look at it," Gordon said.
Even as Christie said in his speech that 2011's private-sector job-growth was the best in 11 years and called 2012 "positive," Assemblywoman Connie Wagner, D-Paramus, said she had not seen enough evidence that tax cuts were working. "I think we have to consider other avenue to create jobs, rather than just tax cuts," she said.


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Protracted Etoposide During Induction Therapy for High Risk Neuroblastoma (PEPI)
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High-risk neuroblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer that shows up as a lump or mass in the belly or around the spinal cord in the chest, neck, or pelvis. Often the tumor has spread around the body to the bones or to the soft center of the bone, called the bone marrow. High-risk neuroblastoma often responds to treatment at first, but it frequently comes back and may be even more difficult to treat. This study is being performed to try to increase the number of children who can be cured.
Chemotherapy (drug treatments for cancer) is usually given at high doses in short bursts (3 to 5 days) followed by a few weeks of rest and recovery. This burst and recovery is called a "cycle" and usually takes about 21 days. During the 2 weeks after the burst, the patient will usually have side effects, these are described in detail below. Some scientists and physicians have tried to give chemotherapy at lower doses for more days, called "metronomic" chemotherapy. This method of giving chemotherapy has been used to treat neuroblastoma that has failed more standard types of treatment (relapsed neuroblastoma) and has shown some promise for those patients. One of the reasons it may work is by killing the blood vessels that feed the tumor as well as killing tumor cells themselves (the way that burst chemotherapy works). We think that giving a burst of chemotherapy together with metronomic therapy may kill the tumor while decreasing the side effects that we have seen in the past . Treatment for high risk neuroblastoma usually occurs in 3 stages: induction, consolidation, and maintenance. During the induction phase, you will receive chemotherapy and possibly more surgery to get rid of most of your tumor cells. Most of the chemotherapy drugs during induction will be given in the standard burst method. One of the chemotherapy drugs, etoposide, will be given in lower, metronomic doses. The doctors will study how the tumors respond and the side effects patients have. After induction most childrens' tumors will have disappeared, also called remission. These children will receive the second stage of treatment called consolidation. During this stage, you will receive radiation treatments to your tumor and then higher doses of chemotherapy. Because of the side effects of the high doses of chemotherapy, we will collect and store some special blood cells (called hematopoietic stem cells) early in your treatment and keep them frozen. After the high doses of chemotherapy, these cells will be thawed and given to you into your vein. This will help protect you from some of the side effects. This is called hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). The final stage of treatment, called maintenance, consists of a drug that you take by mouth for 6 months. Surgery to remove large, or bulky, tumors is a standard part of treatment for high risk neuroblastoma. A few children can have their main tumor removed before chemotherapy, but most require the tumor to shrink first. Surgery has usually been scheduled for after 3 to 5 cycles of therapy, but no one really knows how quickly the tumors are ready to come out. Because chemotherapy has significant side effects that can change the risks of surgery, we will study how early surgeries to remove tumors can happen.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Neuroblastoma |
Drug: IV Cisplatin and Oral Protracted Etoposide for induction Drug: Adriamycin and Cyclophosphamide Drug: IV Cisplatin and IV Bolus Etoposide |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | PEPI: Protracted Etoposide in a Phase II Upfront Window for Induction Therapy for High Risk Neuroblastoma |
- Response Rate Associated With Two Cycles of Cisplatin With Protracted Oral Etoposide When Administered as Up-front Window Therapy to Previously Untreated Children With High Risk Neuroblastoma Tumors. [ Time Frame: 2 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Rate of Toxicities Associated With Cisplatin With Protracted Oral Etoposide When Administered as Up-front Window Therapy to Previously Untreated Children With High Risk Neuroblastoma. [ Time Frame: 2 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
If a patient experiences any one of the following toxicities, attributed to induction chemotherapy cycles 1, or 2, that patient will be counted as having a dose limiting toxicity. 184.108.40.206 Inability to achieve ANC > 750 by Day 35 from start of chemotherapy cycle 1 or 2 (unless documented tumor involvement of marrow) 22.214.171.124 Inability to achieve platelet count > 75,000 by Day 35 from start of chemotherapy cycle 1 or 2 (unless documented tumor involvement of marrow) 220.127.116.11 Any Grade 2 or greater toxicity non-hematopoietic/non-mucosal (mucositis/stomatitis) that is not reversible to Grade 1 or baseline by day 21 from start of chemotherapy cycle excluding
- Hemotopoietic toxicity
- Mucositis/stomatitis
- Anorexia, nausea, vomiting
- Febrile neutropenia
- Overall Survival in Children With High Risk Neuroblastoma Treated on This Regimen. [ Time Frame: 3 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Percentage of Patients Who Have Surgery After the Second Cycle of Induction Therapy [ Time Frame: 2 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]the measure is the number of patietns who have surgery after two cycles of induction
- Event Free Survival in Children With High Risk Neuroblastoma Treated on This Regimen. [ Time Frame: 3 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The first of the two events (relapse or death) was chosen to represent disease free survival
Enrollment: | 13 |
Study Start Date: | March 2007 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | March 2014 |
Primary Completion Date: | July 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Protracted Oral Etoposide
Protracted etoposide for cycles 1, 2 and 4 of induction. If a subject does not respond after cycle 2, cycle 4 will be bolus etoposide.
Drug: IV Cisplatin and Oral Protracted Etoposide for induction
Induction chemotherapy will consist of five cycles 21 days apart. Cycles 1, 2 and 4 will be IV cisplatin and etoposide. Patients on the phase II window will receive the first two cycles of chemo with IV cisplatin and oral protracted etoposide. If their tumor responds with a CR, VGPR or PR, it will be repeated during cycle 4. If their tumor does not respond cycle 4 will include bolus etoposide Cisplatin with Oral Protracted Etoposide for cycles 1, 2 and 4 Day 1 - 5
Day 6 - 14
Induction chemotherapy will consist of 5 cycles given 21 days apart. Cycle 3 and 5 will be adriamycin and cyclophosphamide. Day 1 and 2
Active Comparator: IV Cisplatin and IV bolus Etoposide for the entire induction |
Drug: Adriamycin and Cyclophosphamide
Induction chemotherapy will consist of 5 cycles given 21 days apart. Cycle 3 and 5 will be adriamycin and cyclophosphamide. Day 1 and 2
Induction chemotherapy will consist of five cycles of chemotherapy given 21 days apart. The 1st, 2nd and 4th cycles will the IV Cisplatin and Etoposide. Patients ineligible to participate on the phase II window will receive IV bolus etoposide during cycles 1, 2 and 4. Cisplatin with Bolus IV Etoposide Day 1 Hours 0 to 6: Cisplatin 40 mg/m2 Days 2, 3, 4: Hours 0 to 1: Etoposide 200 mg/m2 Hours 1 to 7: Cisplatin 40 mg/m2 Day 5: Hours 0 to 6: Cisplatin 40 mg/m2 |
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Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. Approximately half of the children newly diagnosed with this tumor will have metastatic disease or histologically aggressive large tumors that are at "high risk" for treatment failure. Therapy for high risk neuroblastoma consists of intensive chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, high dose therapy with autologous hematopoietic stem cell rescue (HDT/SCR), and biologic agents such as retinoids. Dose intensification has long been the focus of clinical research with development of maximum intensity induction regimens and multiple cycles of HDT/SCR. The majority of tumors will respond initially to this combination therapy, but relapse is common with a three-year event free survival of 30 to 40%. Additionally, the risk of acute and chronic toxicities from therapy is high and increases with intensification.
Review of risk factors for relapse or progressive disease suggests that response of tumors to induction chemotherapy is a predictor of poor outcomes with current treatment strategies. Novel approaches to induction therapy may be beneficial to the overall survival of children with HRNB; because the response rate to induction has historically been good, care must be taken when modifying the standard regimens. The trial that follows aims to address the initial tumor response by changing the dosing of etoposide, a known effective agent in both newly- diagnosed and salvage therapy, from bolus to protracted dosing. This dosing schedule may provide an anti- angiogenic effect as well as a cytotoxic anti-tumor effect. If this regimen proves equally effective as prior regimens it could serve as a backbone for the incorporation of other novel targeted agents. Additional research to improve understanding of neuroblastoma, the patients, and the impacts of therapy are also included for design of future clinical trials.
This study will evaluate the efficacy of protracted etoposide in combination with standard Cisplatin dosing. Although the most common schedule for children has historically been 50 mg/m2/day for 21 days, in this study the dose will be reduced to 14 days. A 14 day schedule will allow other chemotherapy to be given on a 21 day schedule while keeping the total cumulative dose of etoposide within the range of other prior effective regimens.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Pts can be enrolled but receive standard etoposide bolus dosing based on clinical conditions at diagnosis (need for emergency intervention because of renal, neurologic, or airway compromise). Pts who meet all other eligibility criteria may also choose to participate in the clinical trial w/o receiving the upfront window protracted dosing of etoposide; these children will receive standard etoposide bolus dosing.
Less than 18 yo at diagnosis
DIAGNOSIS Neuroblastoma or ganglioneuroblastoma verified by histology and/or demonstration of clumps of tumor cells in bone marrow with elevated urinary catecholamine metabolites.
Pts with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma and age 365 or more days with the following: * INSS Stage 2a/2b with MYCN amplification , AND unfavorable pathology * INSS Stage 3 with MYCN amplification AND/OR unfavorable pathology
Pts with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS Stage 4 are eligible with the following: * Age more than 18 months (greater than 547 days) regardless of biologic features * Age 12 to 18 months (365-547 days) with any unfavorable biologic feature (MYCN amplification, unfavorable pathology and/or DNA index equal to 1) or any biologic feature that is indeterminant/unsatisfactory/unknown.
Pts with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma and age less than 365 days with INSS Stage 3, 4, 4S neuroblastoma with MYCN amplification (more than 10).
Pts 365 days or more initially diagnosed with INSS stage 1, 2, 4S who develop distant metastatic disease (meet criteria for INSS stage 4).
Pts may have had no prior systemic therapy except:
- Localized emergency radiation to sites of life threatening or function-threatening disease
- No more than one cycle of chemotherapy according to the intergroup low or intermediate risk neuroblastoma studies prior to determination of MYCN amplification and histology.
TIME FROM DIAGNOSIS Pts must be entered on this study - Within 3 weeks of diagnosis - After recovery from only 1 cycle of chemo on low/intermediate risk NB therapy, - Within 3 weeks of progression with widely metastatic tumor for INSS stage 1, 2, 4S if they received no prior chemotherapy.
- ANC 750/µL or more
- Plt 75,000/µL or more
- or bone marrow involvement with tumor.
LIVER FUNCTION Pts must have adequate liver function defined as
- Direct Bilirubin 1.5 mg/dL or less
- AST and ALT 5 x ULN or less
Pts of childbearing potential must practice an effective method of birth control while on study.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who do not meet inclusion criteria.
Patients who are pregnant or lactating are not eligible.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA UPFRONT WINDOW Patients can be enrolled onto Stratum 1 but receive standard etoposide bolus dosing based on clinical conditions at diagnosis. Patients who meet all other eligibility criteria may also choose to participate in the clinical trial without receiving the upfront window protracted dosing of etoposide; these children will receive standard etoposide bolus dosing.
Patients whose tumor requires emergency intervention because of spinal cord compression, CNS compromise, or airway compromise.
Patients requiring dialysis.
If the patient and/or the patient's legally authorized guardian chose to participate in the clinical trial but chose to not participate in the phase II upfront window.
United States, Texas | |
Texas Children's Hospital | |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 |
Principal Investigator: | Peter Zage, MD | Baylor College of Medicine |
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | Peter Zage, Principal investigator, Baylor College of Medicine |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00578864 History of Changes |
Obsolete Identifiers: | NCT00600132 |
Other Study ID Numbers: | H20255, PEPI |
Study First Received: | December 19, 2007 |
Results First Received: | October 5, 2012 |
Last Updated: | October 5, 2012 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by Baylor College of Medicine:
Neuroblastoma Etoposide Cisplatin |
Adriamycin Cyclophosphamide Cytoxan |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neuroblastoma Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial Neuroectodermal Tumors Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Etoposide phosphate Cisplatin Cyclophosphamide Doxorubicin Etoposide |
Antineoplastic Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Radiation-Sensitizing Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Immunosuppressive Agents Immunologic Factors Antirheumatic Agents Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating Alkylating Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Myeloablative Agonists Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic |
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