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The Grand Rapids experienceWritten by Michael Miller | Editor in Chief Emeritus | firstname.lastname@example.com
Grand Rapids, Mich., has built a downtown with many of the same puzzle pieces we have in Downtown Toledo. It is on a river and close to one of the Great Lakes; it has an arena for concerts and hockey and a convention center; it has a world-class museum and a thriving arts scene; it has a children's museum and a library; it has offices for a daily newspaper and city government; it has restaurants, an Irish pub and an Ottawa Tavern that calls itself the "OT."
But while Toledo continues to leave many of its puzzle pieces in the box, Grand Rapids has taken advantage of geography and cooperation to build a true destination city and has pioneered an art event that in 2011 drew 325,000 people who spent $10 million in 19 days. There are lessons to be learned from Grand Rapids, but be warned: Some of those lessons contain hard truths that reveal a limit to the Glass City's aspirations.
Apples to apples
Grand Rapids, 185 miles northwest of Toledo, is Michigan's second-largest city — 192,000 people live within its borders; 600,000 live in its Kent County area. The Experience Grand Rapids website describes the city as "a remarkable combination of urban sophistication and small town warmth, known for its philanthropic and sustainable driven community."
Sound familiar?
I have lived and worked in Toledo for 40 of my 45 years. I visited Grand Rapids from March 15-18, for about 45 hours. I recognize that the emotional thrill of infatuation with a new city and the adventure of travel demands the balance of intellectual perspective. I have no doubt that Grand Rapids has its problems and challenges, and that more time there would reveal some of those issues. But I noticed two themes that merit discussion and study for people invested in Toledo. Discussing these topics does not mean Grand Rapids is better than Toledo or that Toledo should aspire to be Grand Rapids (any more than it should aspire to be Columbus, Ann Arbor or Chicago), but when such a clear model for improvement presents itself, it is better to look it in the eye and face it than to bury one's head in the sand and ignore the potential.
The first advantage I observed in Grand Rapids can never be duplicated in Toledo. So why discuss it? Because understanding parameters and limitations is an important part of character and comprehension of reality. I opened this discussion by listing many of the things Grand Rapids and Toledo share in their downtown areas. The key difference is proximity. Every Grand Rapids attraction listed at the beginning of this commentary — the arena, convention center, museum(s), children's museum, library, scores of restaurants, even that Irish pub — are within a one-mile radius, along with a major hospital and college. Even the John Ball Zoo is less than two miles from downtown Grand Rapids. For reference, it's just under two miles from Imagination Station to the Toledo Museum of Art. It is four miles from Imagination Station to the Toledo Zoo. It is five miles from Imagination Station to the University of Toledo.
The Grand Rapids airport (Gerald R. Ford International, which is Michigan's second-busiest airport) is 14 miles from downtown. Toledo Express is 16 miles from Imagination Station, unless you flew in to Detroit, in which case you must travel 50 miles to see Downtown Toledo.
Even the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, which cannot be adequately described in this limited space, is only five miles from downtown. Elmore's Schedel Arboretum and Gardens is 18 miles from Downtown, not exactly a long drive, but in Toledo-think, that's "a hike."
Toledo's highlights can compete with any city's, but they are scattered in a sprawling manner that prevents any sense of true destination and community, in terms of tourism and marketable identity. That lack of proximity is an immutable fact; Lloyd Jacobs is not going to move University Hall to the Berdan Building and Randy Oostra is not going to relocate a ProMedica hospital to the old Owens Corning building. But proximity is not Grand Rapids' only advantage.
Attitudes and extras
My wife and I stayed at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, 24 floors above the Grand River. The service and aesthetic quality of the Amway are a reminder of one of developer Bruce Rumpf's themes: Downtown Toledo lacks a hotel that can stand with the nation's finest. The Amway valet captain asked if it was our first visit to Grand Rapids. We affirmed that it was, and he said, unabashedly, "Welcome to Grand Rapids. Make our downtown your playground." That might look corny on the printed page, but he said the words with pride and warmth.
I wonder if any of the staff at Toledo's hotels are welcoming guests with such a mixture of chamber-of-commerce gushing and true hometown pride.
That welcome set the tone for the weekend (a celebration of our 10th wedding anniversary), at restaurants, shops and with people we met on our travels. The Experience Grand Rapids Convention and Visitors Bureau arranged our hotel stay and one interview with ArtPrize organizers, but at no point in the weekend did I reveal my media identity and we paid for our own admissions and excursions; the "secret shopper" approach is the only honest way to evaluate an experience and avoid invoking Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
In addition to a walking-distance experience, Grand Rapids offers a nicety I observed in Washington, D.C., and Chicago: parks and greenspace. Our Metropark system is a marvel, but the Lorax would die if his life depended on living in the few trees our downtown harbors. Grand Rapids also makes the most of its riverfront with parks, boardwalks and building entrances up and down the downtown watersides.
Toledo is investing in Promenade Park; if it can generate a fraction of the waterfront activity Grand Rapids enjoys, it will be a worthy investment.
The other great lesson from Grand Rapids is dangling like a ripe piece of low-hanging fruit: cooperation, embodied by the city's ArtPrize event.
Far from the city, as one travels the highways leading to Grand Rapids, there are billboards that read, "Cool City, Hot Art," followed by billboards for specific galleries and exhibits. The city works on branding itself as an art destination well before its borders. It would be like seeing billboards for Toledo Museum of Art exhibits and Toledo Symphony Orchestra events while driving in from Fort Wayne or Chicago or Cleveland or Columbus.
While in Grand Rapids, I met with ArtPrize Executive Director and COO Catherine Creamer and Public Relations Director Brian Burch.
ArtPrize was founded in 2009 as an open art competition. According to an economic impact study, the 2011 event (in just its third year) hosted 1,582 artists at 164 venues, competing for nearly $500,000 in cash prizes, determined by public vote. In its 19-day span, more than 325,000 attended the event, spending $10 million during their stay. It's like the Arts Commission's Art Walk series on steroids, with a major cash prize at the end.
"We have a unique ecosystem of partners," Burch said. "The arts organizations, which traditionally competed with each other for funding, saw a need to do what was best for Grand Rapids. City leaders cooperated and ArtPrize came together in an unprecedented collaboration."
Best of all, ArtPrize's $2 million operating budget comes from sponsors, donations, event fees and sales, not from taxpayers. And of that $2 million, $1.9 million is spent in Grand Rapids on local goods and services.
Creamer said the public-voting element is also key to ArtPrize's success: "The public vote is a function of engagement that, during ArtPrize, makes art impossible to ignore."
Toledo arts organizations spend a tremendous amount of energy fighting for funds and territory, which results in the greatest of those institutions being stuck in old-model relationships, refusing to open their futures to newer ways of doing business. It's ironic, but while I always hear that Toledo artists do not like to compete with each other, that's standard operating procedure for the big-time Toledo arts institutions.
ArtPrize is not a blueprint that could be lifted whole and dropped in Toledo, but the concept is adaptable and with planning and cooperation could be a model for an event that would represent a seismic shift in Toledo's tourism efforts.
Call for action
It would be beneficial for a Toledo delegation to visit Grand Rapids for the September ArtPrize. Toledo Free Press will take responsibility for arranging a night's stay and a visit with ArtPrize officials, then for hosting a follow-up meeting to discuss the potential of emulating the event here. There should be an official from city government, someone from the Arts Commission, probably representatives from the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Tahree Lane from The Blade and a wild card or two.
I would love to see such a trip happen, but I am not going to hold my breath waiting. Cooperation is a far more flexible concept than proximity, but for Toledo arts organizations, it seems it is also a concept with as little hope for change.
Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at email@example.com.
Tags: Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, ArtPrize, Brian Burch, Bruce Rumpf, Catherine Creamer, Experience Grand Rapids, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Grand River, Imagination Station, Lighting The Fuse, Lloyd Jacobs, Lorax, Metroparks, Michael S. Miller, ProMedica, Randy Oostra, Schedel Arboretum and Gardens, Tahree Lane, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Zoo, University of Toledo


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Lyoto Machida Confirmed to Get Next Title Shot Following UFC 157 Win Over Dan Henderson | MMAWeekly.com
Lyoto Machida defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche on Saturday, earning a title shot against the winner of Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen.
Prior to the bout, UFC president Dana White announced that the winner would be the number one contender, but the fight wasn't exactly in the running for Fight of the Night honors. Plus, Alexander Gustafsson is matched up against former Strikeforce champion Gegard Mousasi on April 6. With a win, Gustafsson wouldn't be a hard sell as the next challenger for the light heavyweight belt.
White, however, confirmed his earlier stance during the UFC 157 post-fight press conference that Machida will indeed get the next title shot.
"He just beat the number one contender, which would make him the number one contender," said White.
"Dan Henderson is one of the toughest guys in the sport. You don't knock Dan Henderson out. Lyoto took some big shots from Dan. Dan took some big shots from Lyoto. It wasn't a barnburner. It wasn't the most exciting fight you've ever seen. You won't be writing stories about this fight until the end of time, but Lyoto won the fight. He beat the number one contender. He beat Dan Henderson."
Leading up to the bout with Henderson, Machida expressed an interest in dropping down to the middleweight division. Those plans are now put on hold.
"With this opportunity, I want to stay at 205. I want to fight for the belt," said Machida.
Dan Henderson: "(Lyoto Machida) Did a Good Job Not Fighting"
"In my mind, I thought I did enough to win the fight, but it was my fault. I don't place the blame on the judges. I should have been a little bit more aggressive. I let him fight his fight a little too much," said Henderson during the post-fight press conference.
Machida frustrated Henderson with his counter-punch style and elusive movement. The fight didn't play out as Henderson envisioned
"I apologize for that. Normally that's not my type of fight, a little bit boring. He did a good job moving around and was real hard to hit. I needed to stay in his face and cut him off a little bit better and make him fight. He did a good job not fighting, just picking and choosing when he threw some strikes," said Henderson.
"He did a good job moving and I shouldn't have let the judges decide that fight."
The frustrating loss only serves as motivation. Henderson wants to stay active throughout 2013 and believes he has more to accomplish in the sport.
"Obviously, I'm bummed out. I wasn't planning on losing, and I'm not by any means done. I still have goals that I want to reach in this sport. I want to fight as soon as I can. I'm ready to go in June or July. I didn't have the best last few months, but I feel a lot better now and I want to be real active this next year. That much time off is never good. I don't want that to happen again. I'm getting a little old," he said.

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Rain Tire Policy: For the 2013 competition season, competitors will be required to run a Spec Rain Tire, in accordance with the same brand Spec Slick Tire. For example, all 4-cycle and Clone Junior Sportsman, Junior, and Senior classes will run the Bridgestone YLP Rain Tire.
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The Gold Cup was a 4-cycle-only series for the better part of the 15 years. Three 2-cycle divisions – Komet Sportsman (age 7 to 12) and the TaG-powered X-30 Junior (age 12 to 15) and X-30 Senior (15 and up) – were added to the slate in 2012 with hopes of boosting entry counts and diversity in the series.
4-cycle racing is the heart of the Gold Cup. A full slate of Briggs & Stratton Animal and Clone Box Stock-powered divisions is offered for racers age 7 and up. A new division in 2012 is the Briggs LO206 Kid Kart, which runs as a national points class for youngsters age 5 to 7.
Click here to learn more about the Gold Cup class structure.
Weekend schedule
A Gold Cup weekend consists of four days. Thursday is parking and registration; Friday is practice; and Saturday and Sunday are devoted to one round of morning practice, qualifying, heats and features for each class.
The past several seasons have seen Gold Cup entry counts around 250 per event. WKA has worked to increase that number with the addition of the Box Stock Clone divisions as national classes in 2011 and, most recently, the insertion of the aforementioned 2-cycle and LO206 Kid Kart national classes.
Popular team locales
Gold Cup teams are located throughout the eastern half of the country. Hot spots for team bases include Maryland, western New York, Georgia and Jacksonville, Fla., mainly on account of series-following kart shops, chassis builders and popular sprint tracks located in these areas. Teams also are located throughout the Midwest and numerous different areas up and down the East Coast.
The Gold Cup Series has long allowed full plastic bodywork packages, including a taller nosecone and full sidepanels, whereas karts in WKA's Manufacturers Cup Series and other 2-cycle sprint series are required to run the smaller, CIK-style plastic bodywork. The Gold Cup-style bodywork, as it's commonly referred, make the karts appear similar to an oval-track or sprint-road-race chassis.
Another noticeable difference between Gold Cup and Manufacturers Cup is that Gold Cup rules permit the kart's seat to be mounted in a lower position, allowing the driver to lean back in the go-kart with lower center of gravity. Manufacturers Cup and most all 2-cycle sprint series follow strict seat mounting rules that mandate the driver sits at an upright position.
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Jacob McReynolds scored the last of his four touchdowns with 6:22 to play Friday as Tazewell ended an 18-game losing streak with a 27-26 Southwest District victory over visiting Carroll County.
Carroll County (1-7, 0-3 SWD) moved the ball deep in Tazewell (1-7, 1-1 SWD) territory on the ensuing possession with a chance to regain the lead. But after quarterback Connor Lundy converted a fourth down, the Bulldogs forced a fumble and recovered around the Tazewell 20.
"It was 4th and 5 and we had a spread-out pass and Connor had a run-pass option. We told him if the linebacker flew out, try to get under the linebacker route and tuck it and run it. He did everything but tuck it," Carroll County head coach Tom Hale said. "We had the first down by five or six yards and we just didn't take care of the ball. Unfortunately we fumbled and they got it back. I felt like if we had gotten that first down all the momentum was on our side and we were going to score."
The Cavaliers still nearly had one last chance after apparently stopping Tazewell for a loss on a 4th and 2 in their own territory. A facemask penalty gave the Bulldogs the first down, however, allowing them to run out the clock from there.
"We stopped them dead and would have got the ball back but the official called a facemask. It's hard to tell what he saw on film, especially from where he was standing," Hale said. "It just seems like we're snakebit and can't get over the top. It's hard to put your finger on. We seem like we just can't get a break. I think we had six holdings penalties called on us and two pass interference penalties. I'm not making excuses, but when you go on the road and you have that many major penalties called against you, it will be hard to win no matter how good you are. Again, I thought our kids played extremely hard. We just had some bad breaks and some inopportune penalties."
Carroll County led 20-6 midway through the third quarter after falling behind early. McReynolds, who led both teams with 185 yards rushing, put Tazewell in front 6-0 with a 4-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. The Cavs evened things up later in the quarter when Kody Alley scooted past the Tazewell defense on a 40-yard touchdown run.
Carroll went ahead in the second quarter on Patrick Davis' 7-yard scoring scamper. Lundy then connected with Chris Smoot on the 2-point conversion to give the Cavs a 14-6 lead at the half.
Carroll increased its advantage to 20-6 in the third quarter on Lundy's 6-yard touchdown pass to Taylor Case. After a 3-yard McReynolds touchdown kept the Bulldogs within one score, the Cavs answered as Lundy connected on a flag route to Alley, who busted it for a 69-yard touchdown reception. The kick failed, leaving Carroll ahead 26-13.
McReynolds' third touchdown came late in the third quarter, this time on a 2-yard run, to pull the Bulldogs within six points at 26-20. A pass interference penalty on Carroll, followed by a Tazewell pass completion, set up McReynolds' go-ahead score from four yards out midway through the fourth quarter.
"We had some opportunities we didn't take advantage of," Hale said.
Lundy completed 10-of-14 passes for 205 yards to lead the Cavaliers, while Alley rushed for 73 yards on eight carries and caught a 68-yard touchdown reception. Case hauled in four passes for 48 yards for Carroll and Ethan Underwood also had a 51-yard reception.
Carroll6 8 12 0 - 26
Tazewell 6 0 14 7 - 27
First Quarter
T - McReynolds 4 run (kick failed)
CC - Alley 40 run (pass intercepted)
Second Quarter
CC - Davis 7 run (Smoot pass from Lundy)
Third Quarter
CC - Case 6 pass from Lundy (run failed)
T - McReynolds 3 run (McReynolds kick)
CC - Alley 69 pass from Lundy (kick failed)
T - McReynolds 2 run (McReynolds kick)
Fourth Quarter
T - McReynolds 4 run (McReynolds kick)
Individual Statistics
Carroll County
RUSHING – Alley 8-73, Davis 10-13, Au. Smith 8-19, Dillon 3-6, Lundy 2-minus 2.
PASSING – Lundy 10-14-0 205 yds.
RECEIVING – Case 4-48, Smoot 2-25, Alley 1-68, E. Underwood 1-51, Au. Smith Dillon 1-11, Au. Smith 1-2.


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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for Nov. 12. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the Crime tab.
Antonio Ladarrius Washington, 21 providing false information, simple possession of marijuana, possession of a stolen vehicle
Keith Carl Price, 56 trespassing after notice
Roger Peel Bazemore Jr., 44 criminal domestic violence
Andrea Lynn Courcy, 23 driving under the influence first offense
Bessie Lynn Moxley, 31 criminal domestic violence
James Ray Gartman, 52 sex/peeping tom, eavesdropping or peeping
Sebastian Paul Hartshaw, 18 malicious injury to animals
Recardo Lamour Newell, 41 criminal domestic violence
Rodney Lee Anstett Jr., 17 malicious injury to personal property
James Edward Waite, 52 malicious injury to animals
Latasha Lynn McClain, 30 shoplifting enhancement more than third offense or subsequent more than $1,000
Brittney Michelle Cook, 20 use of anothers drivers license two counts, giving false information to police two counts, driving under suspension not suspended for DUI first offense two counts
David Eugene Rosier Jr., 45 murder
David Andrew Thrailkill, 48 shoplifting first offense commitment warrant
Robert Lee Zellers, 65 driving under the influence - first offense
Paul Dunbar, 52 shoplifting/concealment
Gerald William Adkinson Sr., 63 trespassing/entering premises without permission
William Henry Holt, 36 failure to pay as ordered in court
David Eugene Wade, 54 gross intoxication
Joshua Allen Rosier, 21 assault/assault and battery third degree, driving under the influence first offense, driving under suspension third offense
Lori Renee Gooding, 46 shoplifting
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After his first appearance on Basketball Wives, Royce Reed's boyfriend Dezmon Briscoe shot out front and center because of how perfect he and Royce seemed together, but sadly, they're actually having some issues this week. Briscoe's ex-girlfriend (with whom he has a son) just released some "freaky" texts he allegedly sent her as recently as March, and it turns out, they were all real. Last night on Twitter, Dezmon owned up to sending the texts, though he says he never acted on any of them. He tweeted "baby mama wanna be messy so I'll clean it up. I sent the messages she posted …To be on her good side because she has my son." He also added "I could of handled the situation better. I'm still wrong and I wanna apologize to @Roycelr because she don't deserve that. Love you." Today, Royce wrote to us to reveal what really happened and how she's coping.
When I was first asked to blog about what just happened in my life, I shunned it. Now, I realize that due to my life being an open book and my "relationship" being on national TV, I should.
One thing a lot of you don't know about me is I'm a 100% committed to anything I put my name on. In a relationship comes humility. When I decided to do this show I vowed to be open, and honest about all aspects of my life that I could. I'm human! I don't portray myself to be anyone I am not. I go to the grocery store in sweats and sneakers like everyone else. Because I'm on TV doesn't mean I don't hurt or that I don't go through the same trials and tribulations as everyone else. We, Reality Stars, are put in a very vulnerable position when we sign up for these shows. No matter what we go through, the good, the bad, the ugly, when we walk outside we get recognized and judged. I'm not going to put on a front like I'm okay. My heart hurts.
Do I think Dezmon loves me? Yes! Do I think what he did was wrong? Absolutely. Are we done…forever? Honestly, I don't know. Readers can say I'm dumb if I go back, but with relationships come mistakes. I was lied to and lesson learned…I entertained it on Twitter. I let the drama get to me despite being told to ignore it. That was my immaturity in this experience coming out. I admit that. Yes, I'm embarrassed, humiliated and broken. But I'm strong. Regardless of what happens I will be okay. Do I love him? Yes. Is that enough to stay? At this point, no. I entertained the mother of his son because I trusted what I was told and I stood by him as I should have. Was I the fool? Yep! Do some find it funny that I have egg on my face? Sadly yes, but that means they are lacking happiness and love in their own lives hence them basking in another person's hurt. Ignorance is bliss but it's also dangerous.
As far as the logistics go…"At the end of the day" (Jen voice) he will not be with her. So the rant she went on and my responses change nothing for her life. Not only do I look like a fool in love, but she looks like a bitter, jealous and angry "Baby Momma." That's worse. Fact is, they were never an item. They were never a couple. But for just under a year, she has been angry that he has been with me. Her twitter name was @dezbriscoejrmom…That was her identity. If you go thru her page (she obviously wanted followers and a platform, so I'm giving it to her) you will see how angry she was that we were together. She spoke about the cruise we went on, him saying he loved me, wanted to marry me, etc. If she didn't care, why talk about it? If you didn't watch the show, why do you know every minute of our scenes as if you were commentating? I'm sure she wonders why she was never "the one" to marry but just "the one" to do before he met me. I can't imagine what Dezmon is feeling right now because, again, I was with my son's father for four years despite the drama we are going through. So I can't imagine having a child by someone who never claimed me or never had me front and center at some point. My son puts a smile on my face everyday so no matter what happens I know as long as I'm a good mother that in itself completes me when he wipes my tears, I clean his boo boos, and I get that hug and kiss.
Open letter to Christina…
Do you feel better about yourself? Denying a man his child through texts (why didn't you post those?) because he is with someone else. Stating in direct message he will never see his son, or that I will never meet him, that you're going to file for custody when you've had several court order that had to be given to you for you to "let" him see his child never looks good to a judge. Trust me! When you have proof on your side you have nothing to worry about. That's why I can be worry free. You on the other hand, shouldn't be. The position you just put yourself in, I hurt for you as a mother because you have pretty much signed away your son. I dread that court date for you. I tried to speak to you respectfully on DM and you just "didn't get it." I tried to HELP you. But your jealousy got the best of you. Now you're asking for an apology? For what? For ruining a relationship you were jealous of because he didn't want you? You still lost. I feel sorry for you.
To my readers,
Thank you for the outpouring of love. To the hecklers, what life have you lived to find this funny? It's so sad that we now live in a world where love is frowned upon and marriage is no longer taken as a life long vow. We live in a world where it's funny to see someone hurt and heartbroken. I'm a hopeless romantic and I'd rather be a fool that's happily in love than a depressed soul that has no heart. Will Dezmon and I work things out? I don't know. Up until 4 AM I've heard tears, apologies, and I've seen humility. Maybe this is a mistake that he needed to learn from. Maybe this is a mistake that caused him to really realize what he had. Yes, he sent them but no, it didn't happen. I'd be dumb to base the status of my relationship based on my followers who have never seen us outside of a camera and TV show vs. what I've heard from HIM, his MOTHER, his AUNT, his FRIENDS, his TEAMMATES, and even MY MOTHER AND FATHER. You will see some emotional moments between my dad and I but for the first time ever, he believed this man loved me. Coming from someone married 41 plus years I believe that, and like he told me last night, forgiveness comes when proof of love is given by actions not just by words. Its up to me whether it actions are enough to walk thru the storm.
There you go! Open, honest, bare and undisguised! That means REAL! I'm Outtie!
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Recurrent Childhood Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma
Recurrent Childhood Visual Pathway Glioma
Procedure: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Other: Pharmacological Study
Biological: Trebananib
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 1 Study of AMG 386, an Angiopoietin Neutralizing Peptibody, in Children With Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumors, Including CNS Tumors
- MTD based on the incidence of DLT as assessed by NCI CTCAE version 4.0 [ Time Frame: 28 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of AMG 386 [ Time Frame: At baseline, at days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of course 1 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The PK parameters will be summarized with simple summary statistics, including means, medians, ranges, and standard deviations (if numbers and distribution permit).
- Toxicity of AMG 386 as assessed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0 [ Time Frame: 28 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Changes in vascular permeability relative to baseline as evaluated by MRI [ Time Frame: From baseline to up to 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Reported descriptively.
- Disease response assessed according to RECIST version 1.1 [ Time Frame: Up to 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Reported descriptively.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Treatment (trebananib)
Patients receive trebananib IV over 30-60 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Treatment repeats every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Procedure: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesOther: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studiesBiological: Trebananib
Given IV
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
I. To estimate the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of trebananib (AMG 386) administered as a weekly intravenous infusion to children with recurrent or refractory solid tumors.
II. To determine the tolerability of the solid tumor MTD and/or RP2D of AMG 386 in children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors.
III. To define and describe the toxicities of AMG 386 administered on this schedule.
IV. To characterize the pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity of AMG 386 in children with refractory cancer.
V. To measure changes in vascular permeability relative to baseline, evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) perfusion, following AMG 386 administration in pediatric patients with CNS tumors.
I. To preliminarily define the antitumor activity of AMG 386 within the confines of a Phase 1 study.
II. To measure biologic markers of angiogenesis with potential for correlation with disease response.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study (part 1) followed by a safety and imaging study (part 2).
Patients receive trebananib intravenously (IV) over 30-60 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Treatment repeats every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients undergo blood sample collection at baseline and periodically during study for pharmacokinetic and immunogenicity studies. Blood may also be collected for correlative studies. Some patients also undergo dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI at baseline and periodically during study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 to 6 months for up to 1 year.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years to 21 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Part 1: Patients must have had histologic verification of non-central nervous system (CNS) solid tumor malignancy at original diagnosis or relapse
- Part 2: Patients must have had histologic verification of CNS malignancy at original diagnosis or relapse except in patients with intrinsic brain stem tumors, optic pathway gliomas, or patients with pineal tumors and elevations of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or serum tumor markers including alpha-fetoprotein or beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)
- Patients must have either measurable or evaluable disease
- Patient's current disease state must be one for which there is no known curative therapy or therapy proven to prolong survival with an acceptable quality of life
- Karnofsky >= 50% for patients > 16 years of age and Lansky>= 50% for patients =< 16 years of age Note: neurologic deficits in patients with CNS tumors (Part 2 of the study) must have been relatively stable for at least 7 days prior to study enrollment; patients who are unable to walk because of paralysis, but who are up in a wheelchair, will be considered ambulatory for the purpose of assessing the performance score
Patients must have fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior anti-cancer chemotherapy
- Myelosuppressive chemotherapy: At least 21 days after the last dose of myelosuppressive chemotherapy (42 days if prior nitrosourea)
- Hematopoietic growth factors: At least 14 days after the last dose of a long-acting growth factor (e.g. Neulasta) or 7 days for short-acting growth factor. For agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond 7 days after administration, this period must be extended beyond the time during which adverse events are known to occur; the duration of this interval must be discussed with the study chair
- Biologic (anti-neoplastic agent): at least 7 days after the last dose of a biologic agent; for agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond 7 days after administration, this period must be extended beyond the time during which adverse events are known to occur; the duration of this interval must be discussed with the study chair
- Immunotherapy: At least 42 days after the completion of any type of immunotherapy, e.g. tumor vaccines
- Monoclonal antibodies: At least 3 half-lives of the antibody after the last dose of a monoclonal antibody
- Radiation therapy (XRT): At least 14 days after local palliative XRT (small port); at least 150 days must have elapsed if prior total-body irradiation (TBI), craniospinal XRT or if >= 50% radiation of pelvis; at least 42 days must have elapsed if other substantial bone marrow (BM) radiation
- Stem Cell Infusion without TBI: No evidence of active graft vs host disease and at least 56 days must have elapsed after transplant or stem cell infusion
- Peripheral absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1000/mm^3
- Platelet count >= 100,000/mm^3 (transfusion independent, defined as not receiving platelet transfusions for at least 7 days prior to enrollment
- Patients with known bone marrow metastatic disease will be eligible for study provided they meet the required blood counts (may receive transfusions provided they are not known to be refractory to red cell or platelet transfusions)
Creatinine clearance or radioisotope GFR >= 70 mL/min/1.73m^2 or a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- 0.6 mg/dL (1 to < 2 years of age)
- 0.8 mg/dL (2 to < 6 years of age)
- 1.0 mg/dL (6 to < 10 years of age)
- 1.2 mg/dL (10 to < 13 years of age)
- 1.5 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
- 1.7 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (>= 16 years of age)
- Urine protein: =< 30 mg/dL in urinalysis or =< 1+ on dipstick, unless quantitative protein is < 1,000 mg in a 24-hour urine sample
- Bilirubin (sum of conjugated + unconjugated) =< 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
- Serum glutamic pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) =< 110 U/L; for the purpose of this study, the ULN for SGPT is 45 U/L
- Serum albumin >= 2 g/dL
Shortening fraction of >= 27% by echocardiogram OR ejection fraction of >= 50% by gated radionuclide study
- No known cardiac disease
- No history of myocardial infarction, severe or unstable angina, peripheral vascular disease or familial QTc prolongation
- Patients with seizure disorder may be enrolled if on anticonvulsants and well controlled
- Nervous system disorders (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] v. 4) resulting from prior therapy must be =< grade 2
- No evidence of new central nervous system (CNS) hemorrhage defined as more than punctate size and/or more than three foci of unctate hemorrhage on baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) obtained within 14 days prior to study enrollment
- No evidence of active bleeding
- Prothrombin time(PT) and partial thromboplastin time(PTT) =< 1.2 times ULN and an INR =< 1.2
- A blood pressure (BP) =< the 95th percentile for age, height, and gender, and not receiving medication for treatment of hypertension
- All patients and/or their parents or legally authorized representatives must sign a written informed consent; assent, when appropriate, will be obtained according to institutional guidelines
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or breast-feeding women will not be entered on this study due to risks of fetal and teratogenic adverse events as seen in animal/human studies; pregnancy tests must be obtained in girls who are post-menarchal; males or females of reproductive potential may not participate unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of study participation, and for 6 months after completion of AMG 386 administration
- Patients receiving corticosteroids who have not been on a stable or decreasing dose of corticosteroid for at least 7 days prior to enrollment are not eligible
- Patients who are currently receiving another investigational drug are not eligible
- Patients who are currently receiving other anticancer agents are not eligible
- Patients who are receiving cyclosporine, tacrolimus, or other agents to prevent graft-versus-host disease post bone marrow transplant are not eligible for this trial
- Patients who are currently receiving therapeutic anticoagulation with heparin, low-molecular weight heparin, or coumadin are not eligible for this trial
- Patients who are currently receiving aspirin, ibuprofen, or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or anti-platelet agents are not eligible
- Patients who are receiving anti-hypertensive medications for control of blood pressure at the time of enrollment are not eligible for this trial
- Patients who have an uncontrolled infection are not eligible
- Patients who have received a prior solid organ transplantation are not eligible
Patients who have had or are planning to have the following invasive procedures are not eligible:
- Major surgical procedure, laparoscopic procedure, open biopsy, or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to enrollment
- Central line placement or subcutaneous port placement is not considered major surgery but must be placed at least 3 days prior to enrollment for external lines (e.g., Hickman or Broviac) and at least 7 days prior to enrollment for subcutaneous port
- Core biopsy within 7 days prior to enrollment
- Fine-needle aspirate within 7 days prior to enrollment
- Patients with evidence of active bleeding: intratumoral hemorrhage by current imaging, or bleeding diathesis are not eligible
- Patients with a history (within 365 days prior to study enrollment) of arterial/venous thromboembolic events including transient ischemic attack (TIA) or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) are not eligible
- Patients with a history of hemoptysis within 42 days prior to study enrollment are not eligible
- For Part 2: Patients with CNS tumors and evidence of new CNS hemorrhage of more than punctate size and/or more than three foci of punctate hemorrhage on baseline MRI obtained within 14 days prior to study enrollment are not eligible; Note: ECHO Gradient MRI sequences per institutional guidelines are required for patients with CNS tumors
- Patients who have a history of serious or non-healing wound, abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal ulcer or perforation, bone fracture, or intra-abdominal abscess within 28 days of study enrollment are not eligible
- Patients with known cardiac or peripheral vascular disease are not eligible
- Patients who, in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study are not eligible
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01538095
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|Principal Investigator:
|Sarah Leary
|COG Phase I Consortium
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01538095 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 19, 2012
|Last Updated:
|June 3, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Optic Nerve Glioma
Cranial Nerve Diseases
Cranial Nerve Neoplasms
Eye Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Neoplasms
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Optic Nerve Diseases
Optic Nerve Neoplasms
Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
Contrast Media
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Antineoplastic Agents
Diagnostic Uses of Chemicals
Growth Inhibitors
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How the f**k is this man runner up "person of the year"??? Come on earth, we're better than this, surely! There are millions of people who have done better things for this planet than this guy. He has done f**k all really in the scheme of things!
Tim Cook runner-up in Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2012
Tim Cook has finished in the second runners-up spot for this years' Time Magazine Person of the Year award. Time Magazine has announced that this year's outright winner would be US President Barack Obama. Time then revealed its four runners-up and in order they were Malala Yousafzai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, respectively. Cook was handpicked by the late Steve Jobs to take over his position at Apple back in 2011. Time Magazine says:
And like an Apple product, Cook runs smooth and fast. When Jobs died on Oct. 5, 2011, of pancreatic cancer, there were questions about whether Cook could lead Apple. Some, myself included, wondered whether Apple was even a viable company without Jobs. Since then Cook has gone about his business apparently unintimidated by his role as successor to one of the greatest innovators in history. Cook's record hasn't been flawless, but he has presided in a masterly way over both a thorough, systematic upgrading of each of the company's major product lines and a run-up in the company's financial fortunes that can only be described as historic.
The award is given every year by Time Magazine to recognise the people who have done the most to influence the events of that particular year. As a result of finishing as a runner-up, Tim Cook will appear on one of the covers of the Time Magazine "Person of the Year issue. Writer Lev Grossman has already written a detailed profile charting Tim Cook's first full year as Apple's CEO. The profile is well worth reading and includes some interesting insight into Cook's daily working routines.
Cook does have a few things in common with Jobs. He's a workaholic, and not of the recovering kind. He wakes up at 3:45 every morning ("Yes, every morning"), does e-mail for an hour, stealing a march on those lazy East Coasters three time zones ahead of him, then goes to the gym, then Starbucks (for more e-mail), then work. "The thing about it is, when you love what you do, you don't really think of it as work. It's what you do. And that's the good fortune of where I find myself."
Source: Time Magazine
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Tim Cook runner-up in Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2012
If I had to do some painting I wouldn't even use a Time magazine as a drop cloth. If I were any of the people NOT winning person of the year I would be thankful as it is obvious the people picking the winners have personal issues and memory losses to over come.
Is time magazine published by a non-US company. It seems those are the only people that like Obama.
Apart from the majority of the country that voted for him, right?
Time's person of the year is about global influence; it doesn't matter whether that influence is good or bad. Hitler was named it. Stalin was named it twice. So was George W. Bush (twice). Apple has undeniably had a major influence on a great number of people recently. Not just their products and the way they have, almost single-handedly, fundamentally changed people lives; but also their economic influence on financial markets and global manufacturing and commerce policies.
I should point out I'm just guess why they picked Tim Cook as a finalist this year ... I haven't actually read the article.
The devil is in the details.
Obama did win win 51% of the vote however he won with less votes and support than he did in 2008. Unlike in 2008, a vast majority of Independents/swing voters voted for Romney. The difference? Romney's base didn't show up to vote.
This was no Roosevelt/Reagan type win. Barry's win came from his base and probably a few thousand felons, dead people, etc.
Actually we are the majority. It's just that the majority didn't show up to vote, which is a shame, as now those that didn't show up can not blame anyone but themselves. Within the next four years, your "majority" will regret the day that they re-elected that clown. But this is not a political forum, so I will get off my horse now.
@lungho--- I hope that you mean the village that Obama came from.
Wow. So, 49% of the country doesn't matter anymore? That will work so well in about 4 years when this disgrace to the office rides out of town, and we elect a real president. And, since I "no longer matter", let us see you and good 'ol Barry get along without my tax dollars. Oh but wait. When you want more money to spend, I bet we will matter a great deal then. Since about 48% of the 51% pays NO taxes......


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CHARLESTON, S.C. --- Despite being outshot 36-15, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer team came away with a 3-2 win over The Citadel Sunday afternoon in Charleston, S.C. for its first win in Southern Conference action this season. The Mocs move to 3-10-1 overall and 1-7-0 in league play. The Bulldogs drop to 4-10-1 overall and 2-5-1 against the SoCon.
The Citadel got on the board early scoring in the 17th minute. Chattanooga keeper freshman Lauren Thomas (Germantown, Tenn.) made a save on a shot from Vanessa Aponte but was unable to pull the ball in and Mariana Garcia, second in the league in scoring, had the put back to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead on her 11th goal.
That would be all the scoring from The Citadel for quite a while as Chattanooga stepped up its offense to tie it up before halftime then come on in the second half to take the lead for good.
In the 43rd minute sophomore Crystal Mackezyk (Columbia, Tenn.) had a shot blocked but it was picked up by freshman Loryn Queen (Lanesville, Ind.) who crossed a pass to senior Kelsey Swann (Hixson, Tenn.) who drilled her first goal of the year past The Citadel's keeper to knot it up 1-1. The score would stand into the intermission.
In the second half, Swann and Queen paired up again to give the Mocs the lead for good. Queen's pass was right to Swann and the senior knocked the shot into the top left corner of the net from15 yards out to UTC up 2-1 at the 64:18 mark of the game.
"Kelsey is a pretty fast outside-mid," UTC head coach J.D. Kyzer said. "We were able to switch the field and get the ball to her. We came out ready to play today."
What would prove to be the game winner game just seconds later when senior Becca Smith (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) connected on a penalty kick at the 64:39 mark of the game to give Chattanooga a 3-1 lead.
"They took down our player in the box. She was closing in on the keeper and their defense really had no choice," Kyzer said.
In the 84th minute, the Bulldogs cut the Mocs lead to 3-2. Aponte sent a direct kick toward the goal. It was picked up on the head of Garcia who knocked home her 12th goal of the season. The Bulldogs took four more shots in the remaining minutes with two saves by Thomas and the other two shots blocked.
"This is good for our confidence, but it's hard when we get ahead to hold on," Kyzer said. "We haven't been on this side very often this year so hopefully we are getting more comfortable with being ahead and winning."
Chattanooga will return home to close out the season with a three-game home stand beginning with Elon Friday night at 7 p.m. at Finley Stadium. The Mocs will honor their five seniors on Sunday prior to the 1 p.m. game against UNCG at Finley. Chattanooga will close out the season at home on Wednesday, October 24 in the Southern Rail Rivalry game against Samford.
1 CIT 16:04 Mariana Garcia (11) Vanessa Aponte
2 UTC 42:18 Kelsey Swann (1) Loryn Queen
3 UTC 64:18 Kelsey Swann (2) Loryn Queen
4 UTC 64:39 Becca Smith (5) penalty kick
5 CIT 83:17 Mariana Garcia (12) Vanessa Aponte


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Originally posted by lizardbones
its not nickpicking. Would you let someone build you a house with such an obviously wrong answer to a question? No.
They are either A) flat out liying or B) not experience enough to know any better.
Both are not something to casually ignore.
Correlation does not imply causation
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Originally posted by dontadow
I am less concerned is player housing should or shouldnt be in an MMO. I am concerned about the statement.
'player housing is not possible as players want it' demonstrates a HUGE lack of experience and knowedge. If it was an a job interview the interview would have been over.
Correlation does not imply causation
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
If you read the description of the game mechanics, and ignore the marketing buzz words, then you should be able to get an idea of how the game will play. SWToR was very similar to WoW in game play. This was fairly obvious from all the information they released about the game. Anyone who was shocked or surprised did not read about the game's mechanics. The same could be said for Rift. The similarities and differences between playing WoW and Rift were all presented before the game released...there were no surprises. TESO is no different. There are more differences than similarities with WoW, compared to Rift. The more I hear about TESO, the less like WoW it sounds.
TESO has enough mechanical differences to not play like a WoW clone. Again, that doesn't mean it's going to be a good game and it certainly doesn't mean it's going to feel like playing an Elder Scrolls game. Calling it a WoW clone doesn't help when the issue is how much it isn't like the Elder Scrolls series, not how much like WoW it is.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Originally posted by dontadow
So, let's make this clear.
You don't want houses in a MMO because it is annoying for YOU. Because YOU don't care about housing and all of the benefits that they create, YOU want everyone to suffer from it's exclusion. YOU also don't care if someone comes to your house.
Do you believe that everyone thinks like you? Do you really?
Here's what you are doing. Because YOU don't believe it adds anything to YOUR game experience, YOU don't care if all of the people who like it, don't have it. Nice mentality. Adding housing to a game that you play in would not affect your experience, but you are against it. You don't have to own a house, but you don't want others to because they enjoy it.
So ultimately. You are happy when other people are upset? That's what I've gathered from your post.
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They cant do player housing the way players want with-in the confines of their game design.
Zenimax cant have players dropping houses every 50 meters when they have static 3x Mob spawn points every 10.
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
Limited houses is still better than no housing. They have plenty of money behind a HUGE IP. There is no reason that they couldn't figure something out.
Originally posted by PyrateLV
1. that is not what they said, you are making excuses for them. They should pay you.
2. you dont even know what their game design is you are literally making up reasons.
3. non-instanced housing in a large open world in FPS view? Darkfall.
Correlation does not imply causation
Originally posted by PyrateLV
I'm a player. I don't want that. So apparently they aren't in tune with players who have a bit of logic and common sense?
I've already fixed this problem with my take on housing earlier in this discussion.
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
If they called it a possible feature, but they weren't doing it, they would never hear the end of the whining. Years and years of incessant whining about housing. It would never stop, because it never does.
In this particular instance, they have a better understanding of their audience than you do. It doesn't matter why they aren't doing it, they aren't doing it and the only way to get people to stop whining about it is to tell them it's impossible.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Originally posted by lizardbones
The correct answer which everyone who has played an MMO would clearly understand is this:
'we are not putting in player housing, we might address it well after the game has gone live but for now its off the table.'
does that statement have holes? yes
is it better than 'not doing player housing because its not possible like players want' TOTALLY
Correlation does not imply causation
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Originally posted by SEANMCAD
Last thing I would do is make an excuse for these guys
No I dont know exactly what their game design is. I was being facitious and poking fun at the "standard" MMO feature of 3 mobs every 10m.
I already know DF and MO can do it.
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
Originally posted by PyrateLV
dig it
Correlation does not imply causation
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
If they don't plan on doing housing and never will, then saying it's impossible is the way to go. They can't tell people to just shut up about it already, so they just say it can't happen. This thread is the reason why. People are still whining about it in WoW. The theme parkiest theme park that ever theme parked and people are still whining about housing.
It also might be impossible for non-technical reasons. The investor's said, "No, because games with housing don't sell well." That would make it impossible. If the investors pull funding, the game disappears. So it's impossible.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Originally posted by lizardbones
not even close.
option 1: lie in a way that makes them sound like they dont have a clue what they are doing
option 2: say 'we do not have player housing' peroid no extra information.
its not like they are not getting backlash now for making a moronic statement that anyone who has played an MMO longer than 6 months would see right thru.
understand what they said is similar to a plummer saying 'we are not using copper pipes because water can not flow thru them'. there are TONS of better asnwers, even better lies. randing from 'we are not using copper pipes' to 'we are not using copper pipes and we cant get into the specifics of why' to 'other materials are better'
Correlation does not imply causation
They are lying to us. End of convo.
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I would say because housing doesn't add anything to the gameplay or the game world including RP side. It is a waste of time and rescources.
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
Have analogies ever helped on these forums? It never helps. It just turns into a discussion about the analogy and what would be a better analogy. Saying the same thing in a different way doesn't add any additional information.
Look, we know it's not technically impossible to add housing to any MMORPG, even after it's been in development for 5 years. There is a scenario where it is impossible to do well or as the players want it. It's not an open world game, so adding open world housing is not technically possible. The engine won't support it. Rewriting the engine is not possible if the game is actually supposed to release and not go bankrupt. They could add instanced housing, but would players actually want it? Enough players to make it worth doing? If the answer is no, then it's not possible to add housing in a way that players want.
The less reasonable explanation, but the one that gets my vote, is that players are irrational, and if you tell them something reasonable, they just ignore it and continue to whine on internet forums forever. Being reasonable has never worked in any game, ever, so go the extreme, irrational route. "Housing in this game is impossible the way players want it". Don't give any additional information for them to nitpick, don't give them any points to argue about, just tell them it's impossible and then ignore every other attempt to bring it up.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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Originally posted by iceman00
Correction: It does nothing for the actual gameplay of the game, which is important. And, it's something that can devalue the game for many others. I don't even care about the godl sink part, I hate the idea of having to go somewhere, go into something and look into someting else to get my stuff. Their are smarter ways to display things like trophies or keep momentos. Especially if player housing is primarily a personal thing. Thats not to say that having a place to keep your stuff isn't a good thing, but I'd rather this be done in traditonal RPG ways (non-elder scroll) and just give me inventory and let me allow people to click on things. If i'm growing plants or raising cattle, let me do it anywhere. Houses tend to be more convinent than convinent. I remember in FFXI i all together stopped going to my house cause i hated traveling to cities to do so. In SWTOR it was SUCH a chore. 20 minutes to get to your house.
How come no one ever suggests "new" things. People keep wanting things from the last game. Why not a new way to keep inventory as opposed to stale houses?
It's why i'm glad that Guild wars havn't said anything about player ousing. They are thinking of someting original to do with it. That's important.
Originally posted by lizardbones
1. analogies are used when people fail to understand the main point. Its a way of helping.
2. It is technically reasonable possible with what you and I both know about the game engine and you know that.
3. what they should have said is 'we will not have player housing' adding 'like players want it' does nothing but make them look like they havent a clue what they are doing.
Correlation does not imply causation
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Because the creative director is the former lead of tabula rasa - a game that got better AFTER he left - and wouldn't have the first clue how to make an MMO people wanted, especially one based on an already familiar massively single player game. I'm getting the feeling he's using WoW as his template, much like most MMO developers these days. Nothing I've read so far tells me what they're working on is an Elder Scrolls game, aside from it being in the title. This will be a fail on the level of SWTOR, I'm sure of it.
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It can be hard to get along with step-parents but one should not lunge at each other nor break household items. However, a young teenage girl got into an argument with her step-mother and did just that, breaking a glass lamp, yelling and screaming about the house. The girls father jumped in between his daughter and wife and the two never made physical contact. But police were called.
The step-mother said she did not want to press any charges and the girl got a ride to a friends house for the night.
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MMA Mania received an official statement from Henderson regarding the injury on Friday evening (Sept. 6, 2013).
My elbow isn't going to be an issue. Dr. Shafer said I can resume training immediately, but to take it slow and steady for a couple of weeks and do my rehab work. Of course I am anxious to get going full speed again but I will be smart and patient about it as well.
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NORTH EAST, PA – La Roche College and Penn State Behrend played to a 311 stroke-tie in the Behrend Invitational September 20 at the Lake View Country Club. The Redhawks from Pittsburgh captured the first place trophy when La Roche's Kevin Loutsenhizer carded a 71 to win the individual medalist honors which determined the tiebreaker. Behrend finished in second followed by Penn State Altoona (317), Mount Aloysius (323), Westminster (324), Pitt-Bradford (328), Medaille (334), D'Youville (352) and Hilbert (386).
Loutsenhizer, the individual medalist, finished one stroke below course average. Matt Gurska (Behrend) played even par at 72, Pitt-Bradford's Christian Holzwarth completed the course with a 74 and Altoona's Wes Elder fired a 75.
Hilbert's fleet of five was led by John Nowak {in photo to right} who finished in 40th place (91). Other scoring Hawks were Mitch Rojeck (T43 – 94), Patrick Brooks (#45 – 100), and Jim Pernick (#46 – 101). The last non-counting scorer for the Hawks was Gary Gawera who shot a 115 for the afternoon.
Hilbert stays in Western New York for their next match when they travel to Glen Oak Country Club to compete at the Medaille Invitational September 24. Their next match is September 27 at Wildwood Golf Club before they head to Middlesex, OH for the AMCC Championships to be played at Oaktree Country Club (October 9 and 10).
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Ryan Lawler of TechCrunch just wrote a snarky article about the doldrums of August and the "non-story" that "Yes, Apple is in discussions with cable operators, and has been for months."
Lawler's "news" peg is an article in today's Wall Street Journal, which reports that "Apple Inc. is in talks with some of the biggest U.S. cable operators about letting consumers use an Apple device as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to people familiar with the matter."
Apparently, Apple has been considering the idea of a set-top box for two years, but Steve Jobs dismissed the idea because the cable companies do not have a national reach. The bigger issue may be the the cable companies fear Apple because they have a national (and international) reach.
But in the same way that Apple may have seemed to have "eaten" the music industry with the iTunes store, in reality they disrupted the market and ended up being the biggest player among several. The same thing could happen with TV.
The cable companies may ultimately not have a choice. Apple has been selling millions of $99 Apple TV boxes and the next generation of the product, rumored to include an app store for TV apps, will do even better. The more consumers get comfortable with bypassing the cornucopia of the cable bundle with their own (and Apple's) choice of TV content apps, the weaker the cable companies' prospects are for holding onto their business model.
Just like the record companies, big cable may finally be realizing that their market is in the process of disruption and that they will be better off (somewhat diminished) within the Apple ecosystem than risk being left out in the cold.
Now the Apple ecosystem is not a guaranteed win for consumers. Many TV industry insiders will tell you that many of the cable channels that viewers like, will not survive in an "unbundled" world. As I wrote last week, once TV becomes "app-ified" there will be a profusion of new business models—and the death of some old ones. Again, the old Yiddish proverb, "be careful of what you ask for, because you will get it."
So, on this level, confirmation or strong suggestion that Apple is actually negotiating with Time Warner and other big cable operators about taking over the hardware and software for the set-top box is indeed a big story. For a piece of technology that people spend so much time with, cable boxes remain obdurate and inscrutable "black boxes" of functionality. For viewers to feel intuitively comfortable navigating the navigation of their TV experiences would be a quality of life improvement for many.
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Both paintings are fantastic! The setting chosen for the cars made it a good composition.
I liked the red one alittle bit better because of the detail and design of the bumper and tire. This had nothing to do with the fact that it is a german car.
What i also liked about the red one was how you handled the difficult perspective.
Your friend must be very happy with the green car. I'm sure he will treasure this.
Glad you liked the selected photos and I hope we see more of your works this month.I remember your two encaustics, Encaustic is a great medium for abstacts!
Charlie and Kim thank you for your kind comments on my painting, always apprechiated
C&C always welcome
Claudia, what a fantastic character. I agree with Catherine and find all the checks a little intimidating. You did them very well and I can't imagine sewing them but they do create a great costume. These costumes have such bright vivid colours very eye catching. Wonderful encaustic, will be looking forward to seeing more of these. Hope your enjoying the festivities this weekend.
Charlie, great "37 La Salle" and "Bus". I really like the colours and chrome in the watercolour, it has a nice smoothness to the vehicle. The "Bus" is much bolder in colour but I like how you can see the suspension under the fender, lots of chrome. Nicely done.
Bonnie C & C most welcome / appreciated
Kim, Claudia and Bonnie, thank you. Yes I think I over did the colors in the pavement. Much difference between the look of watercolor and acrylic in theses two works.
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"Friends Recalling" - Had done this (9x12 approx.), watercolor ptg. some time ago, but thought it fit the theme this month. Sorry this is so blurry - orig. is not, but I have a new comp. and progs. to struggle with.
You can prob. tell that the figures were cut out and applied over - they stick up with tabs of w/c paper to keep fwd.. This was not intended to be a gimmick. Had probs. getting the figures how I wanted and I didn't trust myself then to work directly on the orig. ptg. so I cut them out when done on extra paper. Tried to turn lemons into lemonade by putting it together as 3-D application, like a story illus. pg..
Kim T (Kim513)
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Kim, this is VERY nice. I like the way you did it like 3_D. Very good detail on the houses too.
Wow everyone is going gang busters!
Sarah, You got off the first one. Nice bright rose painting.
Claudia, I really like how you got the texture of this guys mask, and the suggestion of rough cloth on his clothing. really well done.
Charlie, the green car is very well done and I love the bus. it reminds me of home and the old busses.
Kim. this is a lovely painting. the houses are so well done and although the proportions on the stuck on figures are a little off the whole painting gives a lovely feeling of old fashioned home and family. love it!
Jen C & C's always welcome
Kim , I agree with Jen totally. The perspective on the houses is absolutly perfect. I love all the details on the houses, trees and people. Since the people are stuck on, can you still move them around? I remember street gatherngs from the neighborhood I grew up in. I always loved them. Yes, this fits the theme pefect.
Jen, Kim, Bonnie, thank you for your comments on my encaustic painting.
I know I had a head start, since I knew which photos were coming.
This one is still in work and I'm wondering if I should crop the top of the board.
It's encaustic on wood
Claudia, looks very good, I would crop it a little.
Kim, a lovely painting of the "Friends Recalling". The street of houses is very nice. Your people look good except that they look like they are floating. It is just their feet don't seem to be planted on the ground. But as you can tell they are applied on top it doesn't really matter. It is a lovely watercolour.
Claudia, you are coming along with your encaustic. I was wondering if you have the lemon for the beer or for something else. I think I agree with Charlie in that it could be cropped on the top. However, I think it is hard to tell until more is done.
Thanks Charlie, Jen, Claudia, and Bonnie!
Jen, I see the lady in the blue dress could use fixing with her ext. arm (mainly it looks stiff to me, and perhaps a touch long), but you can let me know what else strikes you re. proportion.
Claudia, I could move the figures.... The youthful figures are memories, but I know it's not super clear since they are painted as vivid as the old ladies. If I had to re-do, I'd do them in a paler version. I may just pull this apart and re-think it. Thanks for the input.
Bonnie, the old ladies stand out the most to me in terms of needing that grounding shadow, but it may be a mute point anyway if I pull this apart. The girls on the right are not fully shown - legs & the crate are cut off, etc., so showing a shadow for them is a lot trickier but I prob. could have done more.
Have given me things to ponder. Thanks.
Claudia, I think cropping depends on what you want to focus on and how you want things to flow with the eye. Right now I get the feeling that you want the viewer to see these items as having slid down the table, ready to grab. It's a sense of movement. By taking off a bit, it'd focus more on the subj. items; still have lots of surrounding table so there'd still be that movement. Another opt. is to crop even more and have the bowl cut off to bring focus to the front - lemons, and have the table less prominent. Never a cut-dried answer.
Claudia, this one is tricky since it's hard to get all the curves just right for this perspective. Some things appear tipped up vs. resting on the table. Even the lemon slice - chk. to have its skin show so it's not tipped up full view. I don't imagine things are easy to adjust with encaustic on wood so I hesitate to mention, but certainly it's easier to chk. now vs. later. Your colors are a nice balance and it appears there'll be some good texture here, so lots of good things going on. This is such an interesting subj. and medium to use - look fwd. to it being finished.
PS: Forgot to mention, Joyce, like your updated avatar!
Nice avatar, Joyce. Didn't notice till Kim said so.
Thank you Kim, I worked on the perspective a bit ( Pretzel, Lemon and table). It was totally off. But it is difficult for me to figure out how it is right. So it is a challenge.
Bonnie and Charlie, I will probably crop it. Alot of dead space.
Thank's for the input!!!
Kim, if you can move the figures, did you try to swap the Ladies in the middlie with the two girls on the right site. Would that make a difference?
Claudia ~ Good start on the still life but I miss the hat - my favorite part!! Hey, it's all a matter of opinion so don't go by me. Also love your encaustic of the carnival character - very cool! I love their costumes. Hope you took some good pics this year.
Charlie ~ Both of your paintings are good, but I find the bus so interesting with the perspective & the suspension showing. Good job!
Kim ~ You did a nice WC. I esp. like how your architecture was painted. Your "add-on" figures are so well painted. The picture does tell a story!
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Chattanooga Lady Mocs softball team (26-21, 10-8 SoCon) hosts Samford (13-31, 5-13 SoCon) this weekend at Frost Stadium for a three-game series to wrap up the 2013 home schedule. Saturday's double-header begins at 1 p.m. and will end the series Sunday with a 2 p.m. first pitch.
Sunday will serve as Senior Day for the Lady Mocs as the softball program recognizes seniors Sara Poteat (Thomaston, Ga.), Ninjja Suetsugu (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Kasey Tydingco (Fairfield, Calif.) prior to the 2 p.m. first pitch.
"It's an exciting weekend for us," Head Coach Frank Reed said. "It's the last homestand of the season. It is a weekend we get to honor the seniors and play for that last win at home. They have given so much to this program and I hope we have a great crowd out to show those three student-athletes how much they are appreciated."
Reed and the Lady Mocs enter Senior Weekend coming off a series win over UNCG. Tydingco continues to lead the team with a .379 average, five home runs and 31 RBI. Poteat follows up with a team-best 55 hits and 75 total bases. The second baseman has also swiped 17 stolen bases in 18 attempts.
Freshman Sam Taylor (Chickamauga, Ga.) continues to stay hot at the plate, extending her hitting streak to 13 games, and collecting two multi-hit games against UNCG last weekend. Since beginning her steak, Taylor has raised her average by .100 and recorded six multi-hit games – including two three-hit games.
Sophomore Taylor Deason (Clarksville, Tenn.) continues to pace the pitching with a 16-9 record and maintains a 3.35 ERA as the ace of the staff. The sophomore has pitched over 171 innings and has also recorded two saves out of the pen. Freshmen Rachel Albritton (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Kaisey Carson (Indianapolis, Ind.) provide support with 10 wins combined along with 45 combined appearances. Carson picked up two wins over the past weekend against Greensboro to improve to 4-8 during her first season in Chattanooga.
As for Samford, the offense is led by senior Alex Adams. The 2010 All-SoCon selection is batting .270 with a team-best 34 hits and 17 RBI. Meagan Dowdy follows closely behind with a .250 average and 32 hits. Freshman Callie Brister provides the power in the Samford lineup, crushing five home runs and collecting a team-high seven doubles, leading the Bulldogs with 12 extra-base hits.
The Bulldogs' pitching staff is led by sophomore righty Shelby Scott. The hurler was 2-1 in three starts against Elon last weekend and was named the Southern Conference's Pitcher of the Week, tossing a one-hitter and no-hitter against the Phoenix just two days apart. It is the second no-hitter of the season for Samford as ace Mollie Hanson pitched the first on March 10 against Greensboro. Hanson records a 1.76 ERA and is a team-best 7-8 on the season.
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