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Chapel Hill, N.C. -- The University of North Carolina will not seek reinstatement of player P.J. Hairston from Greensboro.
Hairston was benched for 10 games this season due to eligibility issues. UNC's athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement on the school's website, "Unfortunately P.J. made a number of mistakes that placed his eligibility at risk and the University's joint review with the NCAA made it clear that seeking reinstatement for P.J. would not be possible."
Cunningham also thanked the junior guard for his contributions to Carolina Basketball. UNC's head coach Roy Williams expressed his own disappointment saying, "I'm extremely disappointed for P.J., his family and our team as he will no longer be playing basketball at North Carolina." Williams also added "P.J. made mistakes and I was very disappointed by his actions and now he is suffering the very difficult consequences. He is not a bad kid; he made some mistakes."
Williams also stated he's been outstanding with the UNC basketball program and with schoolwork. He also said he cares "deeply about Carolina and the basketball program."
USA Today reports the Hairston family released a statement through New York-based spokeswoman Crystal Howard that said the family is "displeased" at UNC's decision not to submit a request for Hairston's reinstatement.
"This process has been long, and for (it) to end without having a final decision from the governing body is a shame," the statement read. "Despite our disappointment, we wish the team continued success. PJ will be making an announcement about his future plans within the next few weeks."
Hairston scored 707 points and made 127 three-pointers in 71 games as a Tar Heel. He also led in scoring at 14.6 points per game and hit 89 threes which is the second-most in UNC's single-season history.
Cunningham also thanked Coach Williams for how he has held the team together early this season despite two veteran players being out. Cunningham also states "We are glad that Leslie McDonald was reinstated and look forward to watching his Tar Heel teammates and him compete the rest of this season."


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So whether you are a home seller or a real estate blog reader, a Punch Lists can be of great value. These lists simplify, guide and direct us as to where we should focus and invest tour time and efforts. That is why I am calling my top 5 choices the "Punch List of Real Estate Do Reads" submitted for this week's Carnival of Real Estate.
Making my top 5 list (in no special order) for this week are:
DO READ: "3 Bogus Real Estate Statistics - Know Them or Be Burned By Them" by Joe Manausa at Really Better Real Estate. I gotta admit I enjoyed Joe's discussion on why he feels the 80/20 Rule, 153 Days is the average market time, and Average Selling Price is 97.3% of List Price are all bunk.
DO READ: "Every House's Value is Dropping Except Mine!" by Amy Bohutinsky at the Zillow Blog. Amy, I can only say "from your blog to seller's ears!" Nice job.
DO READ: "When Do Schools Start In St. Louis" by Karen Goodman at St. Louis Real Estate Insights. While I don't live in St. Louis, I gotta admit I found Karen's post to be quite interesting, and would venture to bet that what Karen notes as a trend in St. Louie takes place all over the country.
DO READ: "Fannie Mae Adds New Risk-Based Pricing and 'Adverse Market' Fees for All Conforming Mortgage Applicants" by Dan Green at The Mortgage Reports. If you have read any of his past posts you know that Dan is as prolific as the title to this post of his is long. In this post he shares great insight as to why he expects that loan-level pricing adjustments will continue to increase for a 5th and 6th time before 2009.
DO READ: "How to Sell My House" by Surfer Sam at Surfer Sam Online. With each new day a new seller comes to market. Because this is so, the advice Sam offers never is old. In this post Sam does a nice job breaking get a home sold down to the basics.
I hope find my list of 5 my "to do" list of real estate blogs for this week informative. However, I gotta admit reading through all the posts submitted to the 103rd Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate left me a bit punchy. But I am glad to be a host... cause each week the Carnival points to something that expands my knowledge and understanding to the ever changing, complex and multifaceted world of real estate.
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Ilona Royce Smithkin By The Sea
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I love your blog. One day I would love to be like you. It's nice to get a perspective from down the road. Makes you appreciate life everyday. Hope you enjoyed your time out of the city.
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I agree completely! She's a lovely woman.
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What a magnificent woman! I never tire of listening to her sage words! She really is proof that we choose our own happiness! I find the sea a conduit to wonderful
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Wonderful blog, really enjoy it!
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I really liked what she said about not having tight clothes as it "handicaps her spirit, and her spirt has to be free." Beautiful.
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Blessed with wonderful lakefront views and stunning architecture, the master bedroom of this high-end Florida home had all the makings of a relaxing respite–not a high-performance media room. Still, the owners were convinced that this space could be redesigned to accommodate a big-screen TV and a surround-sound system, without interfering with the view or the clean, uncluttered aesthetic. But with curved walls covered in glass and flanked with pockets for hiding motorized drapery tracks, mounting a TV to the wall was out of the question, says Jeff Galea, CEO and president of Boca Theater & Automation, Boca Raton, Fla. The custom electronics (CE) pros at Boca also considered installing a mechanism that could slide the TV out from underneath the bed, but again, lack of space (due to electronic mattresses) prevented it.
The best solution, says Galea, was to bury the display 10 feet into the ground and assemble it on an electronic lift. Able to respond to commands from a portable AMX touchpanel–the same one the owners use to monitor and manage the lights, thermostats, and other gear throughout their 10,000-square-foot house–the lift would raise the 60-inch Sony TV into perfect viewing position.
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Although a seemingly simple solution, it was one that would involve some serious excavation and engineering. After ripping up the concrete floor and foundation, crews dug into the earth to create a cavity for a specially constructed, watertight and ventilated fiberglass housing that would hold and protect the display while it was in the down position. A motorized lift from Inca was incorporated into the design, customized to bear the weight of the TV and the front left, right and center speakers, and move the entertainment system up and down 80 inches.
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After the "dirty work" was complete, the floor and windows were replaced, the TV was wired to a rack of A/V equipment located in an equipment closet elsewhere in the house, and speakers for a 5.2-channel surround-sound system were installed. Special ordered from Bay Audio, the size of the front, left, right and center speakers frame the display perfectly, so much so that they look as if they are simply a part of the TV bezel. The rear Sonance architectural speakers were installed flush into the ceiling near the headboard of the bed. Two Sonance subwoofers complete the audio arrangement, also having been tucked into the ceiling while the room was being renovated.
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Two AMX 5200i touchpanels communicating with four AMX NI processors manage everything electronic in this master bedroom, and every other room in the house. From wireless touchpanels the owners are in complete control of the motorized TV lift, electronic window coverings, lights, heating and cooling, music and security in this 300–square-foot space. Drilling deeper into the menu, they can monitor and manage the rest of the house, right from the comfort of their bed. Additionally, backlit Lutron keypads mounted into the nightstands at each side of the bed lets the owners quickly turn on and off the lights in the bedroom and the entire house. For these homeowners, two types of control–portable touchpanels and stationary keypads–were better than one.
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The eminent Protestant theologian Langdon Gilkey died on November 19, 2004, at the age of 85, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Chicago in 1919, where his father was a liberal Baptist minister, Gilkey studied at Harvard University before traveling to China to teach English. He was captured and interned by the Japanese until the end of World War II, which he described in his memoir Shantung Compound (1966). After his release, he moved to New York and studied theology with Reinhold Niebuhr, graduating with a doctorate in religion from Columbia University.
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A recent article from the Gallup News Service reports on the pollster's latest results concerning public opinion on the evidence for evolution, creationism, and biblical literalism. Because Gallup's polls on public opinion on creationism extend back to 1982, its data are particularly useful. The results are overall consistent with previous polls conducted by Gallup.
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North Carolina's new governor plans to meet with reporters and his cabinet before heading for his first out-of-town trip since taking office.
Gov. Pat McCrory plans his first news conference Monday as well as his first cabinet meeting. McCrory took the oath of office Saturday in a private ceremony. A public gala for the Republican will be held this weekend.
McCrory took the oath early so he could be in office when the Legislature meets for the first time this session on Wednesday.
After the meeting in Raleigh. McCrory plans to head to Asheville to meet with supporters in the first leg of a quick trip around the state. McCrory will visit with people in Greensboro and New Bern on Tuesday and will be in Charlotte on Wednesday.
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Greene Central junior Robby Taylor is our newest WITN Pepsi Player Of The Week.
Taylor qualified for the state tennis tournament in boys singles this year which hasn't happened often for a Ram product.
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The Walton County Sheriff's Office is looking for the thief or thieves who broke into a home in DeFuniak Springs and stole a unique chandelier.
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The Sheriff's Office believes whoever stole the chandelier will try to sell it to antique dealers. If you see this chandelier, please contact the Walton County Sheriff's Office at 850-892-8111 or Investigator Donna Shank at 850-892-8186.
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The Lawrence Tech Center for Sustainability and the Michigan Interfaith Power & Light are co-sponsoring the showing showing of the remarkable, beautifully filmed, and internationally-produced sustainability documentary, "HOME". This outstanding movie was filmed by renowned French photographer, Yann Arthus-Bertrand and its English version is narrated by actress, Glen Close. The two hour film will be shown in high definition on the large screen in the Architecture Auditorium . See the conference schedule for show time and location.
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BARNWELL, S.C. (WRDW) -- Police say a man is recovering after a shooting at an apartment complex in Barnwell Tuesday night.
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Registration is open now for Volunteer State Community College spring semester classes at Macon County High School in Lafayette. There are several evening courses to choose from: Intermediate Algebra, English Composition II, Astronomy, Human Growth and Development, General Psychology, and Survey of American History II.
Online classes are another popular option at Vol State. The topics range from Essentials of Biology to Principles of Economics, and include many of the college general education requirement classes. Online classes allow students to work at home and on their own schedule. The complete spring schedule of classes can be found on the college web site.
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Actions the US Federal Government Can Take to Demonstrate Climate Change Leadership
The United States is one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world. What can our country do for the good of the planet with this role?
One thing the U.S. federal government does every few years is engage hundreds of experts to evaluate the impacts of climate change, now and in the future. The resulting National Climate Assessment report, which was recently released, showed that America's current efforts to reduce carbon pollution are too little to avoid dangerous climate change. Last year President Obama announced new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards for cars and light trucks such as minivans and sport utility vehicles. Let's build on this historic progress to limit carbon emissions. There are several ways that the president and federal government can make a real difference in the fight against global warming.
The Clean Air Act is a powerful tool that our nation's leaders could be leveraging more fully. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with using the Clean Air Act to issue rules to reduce greenhouse pollution. This farsighted law has reduced damaging air pollution for forty years, saving many lives. The EPA has already used it to protect public health and welfare from six extensive and harmful pollutants including: ozone, particulate matter, sulfur and nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and lead. Now is the time to lower atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by setting a national pollution cap for greenhouse gases.
Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has also proposed higher emission standards on coal-fired power plants. These standards need to be fortified, finalized and implemented posthaste. Why stop with power plants? There are other places where higher greenhouse gas emission standards can be successfully applied to help save our planet such as oil refineries, cement plants, and even the airline industry.
Another way to help the environment would be for President Obama and the State Department to decline approval on the Keystone XL pipeline, which proposes moving oil down from Canada through the western United States to refineries along the Gulf Coast. There are no guarantees that the pipeline won't spring leaks. Furthermore, there is evidence that extracting oil from the sands are increasing levels of cancer-causing compounds in surrounding lakes far beyond natural levels. Denying approval would show that America is committed to transitioning away from a dependence on fossil fuels.
Of course, it's not all up to the federal government. We can all do our parts to speed the transition to a clean energy future. First we can encourage our elected officials to take the climate change actions recommended above. Second we can reduce our own carbon footprints. Consider lowering the heat or air conditioning depending on the season, using a clothesline, rake, hand mower and other manpowered devices, composting, forgoing meat at least one day a week and riding a bicycle. Lastly, we can all find simple ways to be part of the solution such as planting trees and offsetting remaining carbon emissions.
The Price Tag for Climate Change Continues to Climb
Global warming currently cuts into the planet's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 1.6 percent annually. This translates into $1.2 trillion, and the number is expected to double to 3.2 percent by the year 2030 if carbon dioxide emissions aren't curbed.
According to the "Climate Vulnerability Monitor: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet" report, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of taking on climate change. The report estimates reducing emissions at a cost of 0.5 percent GDP over the next 10 years.
And if money isn't motivation enough, take a look at the almost 5 million deaths annually due to climate change. The report estimates it causes an average of 400,000 deaths each year, mainly from hunger and contagious diseases, plus an additional 4.5 million deaths annually from related global warming causes such as air pollution, dangerous occupations in the fossil fuel industry, and cancer.
The average of 3.2 percent losses to global GDP disguises the plight of poorer, developing nations who are disproportionately affected. The estimate for these countries, such as Bangladesh, for example, is an average of 11 percent of GDP by 2030. This is not to say that major economies avoid the effects either. China alone is estimated to lose more than $1.2 trillion in less than 20 years. By 2030, the total economic losses for the United States, India, and China will reach $2.5 trillion. According to the report, these three nations also will suffer over 3 million deaths annually, or half of all deaths.
A report released in July by the European Commission Joint Research Centre and PBL, the Netherlands' environmental assessment agency calculated that last year global carbon dioxide emissions reached their highest point ever at 34 billion metric tons.
It's time to tackle climate change now to reverse this scary trend and save lives. The price tag for doing nothing is too high.
Groundbreaking Fuel Economy Standards – Historic Progress to Limit Carbon Emissions and Tackle Climate Change
In what is easily the best environmental action in a generation, this week, the Obama Administration announced new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards for cars and light trucks (think minivans and sport utility vehicles). By 2025, these vehicles will be required to average 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulates CAFE standards and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency measures vehicle fuel efficiency. An agreement in support of acceptable standards was made between the government, automakers and their unions, and environmental organizations.
The stage for these historic fuel economy standards was set by an energy law enacted in 2007 under President George W. Bush. Additionally, the 2009 federal bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler were tied to better fuel efficiency.
Fuel-efficient cars and trucks were the U.S. auto industry's saving grace. It makes good sense on multiple levels to continue these efforts. For one, 570,000 new jobs can be created by 2030. Not to mention saving consumers more than $1.7 trillion at the gas pump and reducing U.S. oil consumption by 12 billion barrels. This also translates to strengthening national security by lessening the country's dependence on foreign oil.
What about fighting man-made global warming? The new standards will cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks in half by 2025. This reduces emissions by 6 billion metric tons, which is more than the total amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the United States in 2010. We thank President Obama for his leadership on combating climate change, pollution prevention and national security.
Starting in 2017, the standards will be phased in over the course of eight years. New fuel-saving technology is projected to increase the cost of new car or light truck by $3,000 on average. This means consumers will pay a little more when they buy the vehicle, about $50 more a month over a five-year loan, but they'll more than make up for it at the pump with expected gas savings per vehicle between $7,000 - $8,000. And that is good for the environment and our wallets.
Undeniably, the vehicle fuel-efficiency standards represent an unbeatable combination of protecting the environment and strengthening the economy. They're also the nation's single largest effort to combat climate-altering greenhouse gases, but we can't stop building our carbon-reduction portfolios now. Wonderful news like this should push us to continuing to find more ways to reduce our carbon footprint, as individuals and a nation. Now let's go invest in some renewable energy projects!


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December 20, 2007
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The grades are in and Georgia coach Mark Richt said his Bulldogs passed with flying colors.No player will have to miss the Sugar Bowl for academic reasons."Everybody's going, everybody's in, it's awesome," Richt said Thursday. "It fired me up. I got the word today right before we started."Richt said he and his coaches had a very good idea even before scores were released that there would be no issues with players failing to make their grades."We went into this exam time where we expected that everybody was going to be OK," Richt said. "The only reason I couldn't say for sure is that we just had to wait and see the grades come in. You can always get a surprise, but I just didn't think that we would."Players wrapping up pre-Christmas workouts
Georgia will conclude its on-campus practice for the Sugar Bowl Friday morning before breaking for Christmas. "Less than 24 hours, everybody's going to be on the road and I think that's probably what everybody's thinking about right now," Richt said. "Considering that, I thought we did a nice job."There was a lot of jabbing at each other. You've got Kelin Johnson on one side, Thomas Brown on the other side and they were constantly chirping at each other, talking about one side of the ball doing better than the other."When something good would happen, that side would rub it into the other. It was good, playful stuff."The Bulldogs will leave for New Orleans on the 26th.Richt confident Lumpkin's career will continue
Kregg Lumpkin will play his final game as a Bulldog in the Sugar Bowl, but Richt doesn't think that will be the senior's last game."I think he's going to do very good in the NFL," Richt said. "When (DJ) Shockley left, you didn't know if he was going to make it in the NFL. You never know if a guy's going to make it, but I think Kregg's got a tremendous chance to make it based on the type of ball player he's been for us."I think he's going to do great. He's ready. Kregg was brought up right. His experience at Georgia was great and is just a fine example of what you want to have."Richt added that he's still unsure how Lumpkin will figure into the rotation at running back behind Knowshon Moreno and Brown."I don't sit in every offensive meeting, they might have already discussed it," Richt said. "When you practice in pads, things can change in a heartbeat. I'm sure Coach (Tony) Ball and Coach (Mike) Bobo are formulating decisions, but I don't believe any decision has formerly been made." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Templates are just a series of xml, php, html and image files that are stored in the templates directory of your site. You can edit these files or you can use the editing interface available in the Template Manager.
In the Back-end, select Site>>Extensions>>Templates. Select the template you wish to modify. Click the edit icon.
both You are given the choice of editing "html" and "css."
CSS stands for cascading style sheets. This controls many elements of the look and feel of your site. HTML is the file that controls where positions are defined and positioned. Other than that, it should be noted that, with a few exceptions, what is in the .css and what is in the HTML files largely depends on the approach of the tempate designer.
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Our new poll question is up at our regional Placer Sports Web site. We want to know which of four highly-ranked basketball teams you think is most likely to end up winning a section title when it is all said and done.
The brackets don't come out for another week, but why wait to speculate. Log on to www.placersports.com and register your opinion by voting in our poll. Don't forget to hit the comments section and tell us why, or use the comments section to tell us what team will come from a likely lower seed and surprise for a section crown.
The four choices on our list are the girls' teams at Oak Ridge (Division I) and Del Oro (D-III), and the boys teams at Vista del Lago (D-III) and Woodcreek (D-II).


text: This classic oval au gratin dish is designed especially for oven-baked gratins with crisp, golden-brown crusts. Use it for foods as diverse as macaroni-and-cheese and an apple crisp. The dish travels beautifully to the table, and because porcelain retains heat well, foods stay warm longer. Made by Apilco, France's leading producer of restaurant-quality porcelain products. Microwavable; oven and dishwasher safe. No. 9: 12.85-oz. cap.; 10" x 5 1/2" x 1 1/3" high. No. 12: 1-qt. cap.; 13 3/4" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/4" high. No. 14: 1 1/2-qt. cap.; 15-3/4" x 9" x 1-1/2" high.


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Whoa! This is one of my favorite movies of 2010! I was very excited to see this movie.
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This has been nominated for the People's Choice Awards for "Horror Movie".I'm glad this category has some well-reviewed movies.
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The reviews were 30% + or - 3, weren't they? I wouldn't be surprised if this got nominated for Worst Screenplay or another major RAZZIE award.
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It should instead be nominated for "Most Useless Excuse To Use 3-D" or "Worst Wannabe Matrix Clone".
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
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Time for the penultimate review of the Resident Evil franchise. After Extinction sucked to high heaven, Worthless Sh*t Anderson decided to get back into the director's chair. With this one, I noticed a pattern with the Resident Evil franchise. Remember how in the original Star Trek movies, the even numbered ones were good and the odd ones sucked? With Resident Evil, the odd numbered ones are horrible, while the even numbered ones plainly suck.
There's one actor in this that I like and that's Kim Coates. He plays a sleazy producer named Bennett. I'm not sure how much of my enjoyment of his performance is due to actual quality or me being a Sons Of Anarchy fanboy, but still. I, also, enjoyed the opening scene where Alice's clones wiped out a bunch of Wesker's troops. It was, surprisingly, well directed. But, without a doubt, my favorite thing about this movie was that Worthless Sh*t finally started listening to his critics. He had more homages to the games in this and, best of all, Alice get her God mode Sue status taken away. All her clones are blown up, her psychic powers are taken away, and her fights are more balanced.
Now to point out the film's many flaws. Wentworth Miller is crappy as Chris Redfield. His interactions with his sister Claire come off as being more like lovers than siblings. Shawn Roberts is crappy as Albert Wesker. In his first scene he underplays him and for the rest he goes way over-the-top. Part of this could be Worthless Sh*t making Wesker a cannibal. Since the scenes where he "ingests fresh DNA" are so hilariously dumb, maybe Roberts went with the crazy flow.
Despite her character being reigned in, Jovovich's performance got worse. Maybe it's because she knows that if the director asks her to try better, he'll have to sleep on the couch tonight. But, as bad as she is, she's nowhere near as bad as Ali Larter. With this film, Larter establishes herself as one of the worst actresses of our time. Her character gets amnesia and forgets who she is and Worthless Sh*t probably forgot why he cast her in the first place. He claims that it was her role in Heroes, but since any episode of Heroes was less watchable than all the Resident Evil movies combined, I find this claim hard to believe. And the special effects are still crappy as Hell.
Now for the part where I rip into Worthless Sh*t. Aside from the opening scene, the action is terrible and boring. The end fight with Alice, Wesker, Chris, and Claire is one of most poorly shot action finales in memory. There's a terribly shot action scene in the shower room that shows how little Worthless Sh*t cared. A zombie pops out from a place where we (and Alice) should have seen it before. But, pay attention to the showers in the background. In one shot they're off, but in another they're on, then off again, and so on and so on. Another sign of how little Worthless Sh*t cared is the prescence of the ocean. See, in the last one, we're told that the T-virus somehow caused all the water in the world to dry up. That doesn't make any damn sense and only seemed to be there so Worthless Sh*t could rip-off Mad Max, but okay. So, why in the Hell is there an ocean if all the water's dried up? But, the worst thing about the film is how Worthless Sh*t shot the 3-D. You now how in Avatar, Hugo, and Hell even Trannies Three, the 3-D seemed seemless? Here, it's incredibly obvious.
I can't wait until I'm finally done with this series. Grade: C-
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The Power of Independent Thinking
John C. Goodman: What's the Alternative to Obamacare?
Recorded: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis" describes how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, with its 27,000 pages of rules and regulations, has omitted some basic market-based concepts that would benefit all consumers. Goodman outlines the changes that would make such a healthcare system function, utilizing his extensive knowledge of the subject. Goodman is known as the "Father of Health Savings Accounts" whose suggestions for healthcare reform have been heard around the country. In this video, he highlights what is wrong with Obamacare, and offers his bold ideas on sensible healthcare reform.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: Independent Institute TVIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, Politics, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman Testifies in Congressional Hearing
Recorded: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding risk corridorsthe Obamacare program that provides a bailout for insurance companies when premiums dont cover costs. Goodman says insurers will run away from the sick and insure the healthy, in what he calls "A race to the bottom."
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Free Market Economics, Health Care, Politics, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
John C. Goodman on Special Report with Bret Baier: Alternatives to the Affordable Care Act
Recorded: Friday, July 6, 2012
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, discusses alternatives to the Affordable Care Act on FOX News Special Report with Bret Baier.
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It's not clear to me where the word "helloworld" refers to in these examples. Can you please clarify when 'helloworld' refers to the component,controller,model,table,view or form? While following this, I've changed the name of my component, and when running this I get a 'call to member function getTable() on non-object'. It seems that I used the wrong name somewhere, but I have no idea where.
We're also introducing JForms and JFields. These are powerful and important, and warrant some richer explanation.
There is a change in /admin/views/helloworlds/tmpl/default_body.php that isnt mentioned on this page but is present in the archive file.
Model subtlety
Note that the model loaded in the getModel function by the HelloWorlds controller (admin/controllers/helloworlds.php) is NOT the HelloWorlds model; it is instead the HelloWorld model. The HelloWorlds model (HelloWorldModelHelloWorlds) extends JModelList, which has no delete function. The HelloWorld model (HelloWorldModelHelloWorld) extends JModelAdmin, which has the delete function needed to delete items.
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I agree with the first user. helloworld is an abused word in the example. We could call the table greetings, so the models (greetings and greeting) and so on. Without using different and clear name the reader cannot understand the mechanism of the MVC pattern. There is also a lack of documentation, e.g. when we create the form in admin/models/forms/helloworld.xml we should give a link or something to possible values of the fields used.
- +1 over here. Naming is too confusing: "HelloWorldControllerHelloWorlds and HelloWorldControllerHelloWorld have to be coded." oh come on, I can't believe there's no better example than "HelloWorld"
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The counting of the checkboxes are not working any more in Joomla 2.5. Does someone have a solution to this?
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Invitations – All Styles
These are just a few of the invitations we have created to give you a better idea of what has been done in the past. Please keep in mind that all invitations are handmade and put together by ourselves and that they are available in a wide range of designs, styles, papers, fonts, colours and wording. Please contact us for your unique requirements.


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182 | 183 | 184 Series Overview
The Incon Lighting 182, 183 & 184 Series decorative ceiling fixtures are a sleek & stylish design for residential and commercial applications. With a variety of available lens finishes, wattage and bulb types as well as additional options, the 182 | 183 | 184 Series are sleek and minimal products that are all American Compliant.
The 182 | 183 | 184 have a durable enamel finished steel housing.
Depending on your wattage the 182 | 183 | 184 Series can be equipped with one of three different types of ballasts or LED driver. It is ceiling mount only and is certified for damp locations. Lamps are included unless ordered with the no lamp (NL) option.
The available color temperatures range from warm (2700K & 3000K), medium (3500K) and cool (4100K) white to full spectrum (5000K) and day light (6500K) kelvin temperature. This fixture can also be equipped with:
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G.I.Joe 25th Anniversary Series 7 Line-Up
Posted 16 January 2008 - 08:37 PM
Posted 16 January 2008 - 09:41 PM
I didn't want to start a new thread about this, in case it is a redundant or obvious question, but would anyone happen to have a list of those figures which are accurate/portrayed in the old G.I. Joe cartoon show? I feel like Hasbro's made a majority of those characters, and I'm not sure who's left. Any help would be appreciated!
I sincerely doubt there's a single figure in the 25th line that's "accurate" to the old toon, except as a coincidental thing. Very nearly every toy from 1982-1986 was in the show, and many have not been made in the toyline yet. I think the closest to "cartoon accurate" you're gonna get are the comic-based Duke and Scarlett from the 2-packs.
Off the top of my head, Zap, Grunt, Clutch, Steeler, Cover Girl, Airborne, Tripwire, Mutt & Junkyard, Blowtorch, Recondo, Ripcord, Footloose, Airtight, Frostbite, Alpine, Dusty, Leatherneck, Wet-Suit, Iceberg, Sci-Fi, Lifeline, Low-Light, Dial-Tone, Lift-Ticket, Sgt. Slaughter, Law & Order, Chuckles, Falcon, Tunnel Rat, Jinx, Mercer, and the Renegades have yet to be announced.
All of them had prominent roles in one or more episodes of the cartoon.
Posted 17 January 2008 - 12:50 AM
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Posted 19 January 2008 - 10:25 PM
Two burning questions were answered for me: The HISS Driver isn't a Stinger Driver repaint like the one included with the Target HISS Tank, instead, it IS a new sculpt of the original '84 driver, complete with bug-eyed goggles and serpent's head on top of the helmet. And Snake Eyes is actually a brand-new sculpt of the RAH figure from '89 (two knives arranged in a "cross" on the chest)...
Duke comes with the same JUMP pack that the Cobra Airborne Trooper comes with, but molded in what appears to be silver plastic...and Duke himself is a repaint wearing a white shirt. He looks like a middle-management executive who travels home from the office with a jet pack instead of an airborne trooper...very strange...
This line is shaping up to be decent, in spite of all the repaints of some of the other figures...
Posted 19 January 2008 - 11:26 PM
Posted 20 January 2008 - 12:07 PM
Viper looks great, but they're missing the googles on the helmet..Spirit looks good too as does the HISS Driver
Posted 20 January 2008 - 07:47 PM
Snake Eyes is getting as bad as clone troopers and coming in tons of colors.
Definitely seconded.
At least those were troops you could army-build.
Of course, if they MUST release different versions of Snake Eyes, this is the way they should do it. V2 should never had been a reused mold, and all the V1 recolours were unnecessary, but this is pretty good!
Posted 21 January 2008 - 09:09 PM
Posted 21 January 2008 - 10:55 PM
I hope Duke's Jetpack isn't connected to the bandolier, across his chest. I would rather it have a peg like the jetpack that came with the Cobra Jetpack Trooper. That way (assuming Grand Slam has a hole in his back) I can display it on Grand Slam.
I would assume it's the same Jet Pack with a different color scheme.
Posted 26 January 2008 - 03:02 PM
Why am I so excited about this wave, you might ask? Version 3 Snake-Eyes, Spirit Iron-Knife, Wild Bill, and Cobra Vipers. Simply put. Spirit was a figure I've wanted ever since the anniversary line started taking off. When I was a kid, my brother came back from town one Saturday morning with my dad, and he told me about all of the new Joes he had seen at a local store. He described to me this figure that was an "Indian" that came with an eagle. I was so intrigued by that notion, and I wasn't disappointed when I actually got him. I no longer own my original Spirit, but I'd love to have another vintage one. But in the meantime I'm thrilled beyond words that I'll have a shot at an Anniversary version. And I really like how they took the time to get his skin-tone right this time. (lol) Awesome figure.
Version 3 Snake-Eyes. *sigh* Where do I begin? Let's see...of course many of you may know that Snake-Eyes is my favorite Joe of all-time, no matter how over-exposed or "overrated" (to some) he may be as a character. He was the original "silent-type", lone, lethal weapon hero, long before it was cliched. Anwyay...I had a friend in school growing up that collected Joes like I did, and he called me up one Saturday morning (What was it about Saturday mornings and Joes?!) (lol) to let me know the latest wave of Joes that included a new Snake-Eyes was out at Target. That was great and all, but going to Target wasn't the hop-skip-and-a-jump trip then that it is for me today. And it didn't matter anyway because I didn't have any money; I didn't get an allowance, and it wasn't anywhere near grade-card time, nor was it Christmas or my birthday. (lol) But my dad, bless his heart and God rest his soul, being the big kid and G.I. Joe supporter that he was, told me he'd drive me to Target to get some new Joes. I'll never forget that. It was a long trip and I didn't have any money, and he did it for me anyway. I got Rock'n Roll, Dee-Jay, Recoil, and of course, my beloved Version 3 Snake-Eyes. To this day I still have my original figure. And, as is the case in most of the anniversary improvements, this new version's goggles look more like the card-art shows, and the blades on his chest are much more defined and sharper looking, no pun intended. And I noticed they've included those cool, three-lense "Splinter Cell" nightops goggles. Neat! Can't wait...
Cobra Vipers. These were the only army-builders I actually halfway "army-built" as a kid back in the day, however I only had three. (lol) On my then-budget though, that was an army. (lol) But these new anniversary versions look great and I can't wait to get them.
Wild Bill. If ever a vehicle driver/pilot deserved a single-carded release, it would be him. I've always loved Wild Bill. A few years back I actually got the Battle Corps version, being intrigued like I was with a single-carded version of him. But I absolutely LOVE this new version. Extremely detailed with all the right colors and accessories, and I can't wait to see what his card-art might look like. That's one I'm gonna cherish.
H.I.S.S. Driver: Hmm...don't know why this figure wasn't included with a straight-up re-issue of the H.I.S.S. tank, but I still love it. Like with Wild Bill, I'll be interested in seeing this figure's card-art.
The only figure I'm not sure about in this wave is the "Cartoon-Movie" Duke. I like his colors, and I like how he comes with the J.U.M.P. pack, but...I don't know. I'm just not big on "cartoon" versions of my Joes. They always look cheap or washed-out to me. Maybe he'll grow on me though...
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Welcome to the Guild.
Nice first map. Good layout, I like the trees and mountains. You do have some river problems. Rivers don't normally fork and branch that way.
Thanks for sharing.
Hey guys!
So, I just finished my first map (CS5) and I'm pretty pleased with some things and much less pleased with others, but I've reached the end of the road with what I know about cartography and my Photoshop skills for now. Critique and feedback are very welcome and appreciated.
The link is here, it's pretty big and I don't want to spam you. XD
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Welcome to the Guild.
Nice first map. Good layout, I like the trees and mountains. You do have some river problems. Rivers don't normally fork and branch that way.
Thanks for sharing.
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
Good ideas!
As Bogie said good mountains and trees (and village icons). I miss some more detail in the sea and I don´t like at all the costline accent.
Welcome to the forum First but nice map...!!!
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."-Confucius
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That's a fine map.
But the coastline is so bulky and pitch black.
A little more contrast for the mountains and buildings would be good, too.
I agree with Freehand about the coastline and the lack of contrast. And what's that ugly giant blurry waterline? Not really good imho. The whole thing needs more work than just putting brushes sets. But pretty first map overall
I have no criticisms as I cannot see past the stunning and flawless aesthetic.
Great work!
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As already mentioned, the coastline is too black and strong. I disagree about the lack of contrast, since it goes quite well with the style... Depends on the type of map you want to do. If it is for information/travelling, then yes, a little more contrast would be welcome. If this is just an aesthetic map, then all good.
The big advice I would give is about the labels: avoid to put the names ON important features --- for example, the very city you're labeling. If it is a coastal city, put the name on the sea next to it, for example. There was a thread with a very good reference on how to place names on map, but I can't seem to find it again... Try also varying the size and body of your labels to give some more information about the type of elements: big/small town, castle, citadel, why not also naming mountain ranges, rivers, etc.?
Other than that, good work, the overall feeling is quite good!
Thanks for your feedback, folks. :3 Hopefully the next one will be a bit cleaner, overall.
Do you guys have any technical recommendations for how to make coastlines more effective?
And a big thanks to those of you who gave me rep, I appreciate it. I think I'm going to work on making some hand-drawn brushes so that it's less basic.
Good stuff! I'd recommend posting a version here, at around 1000px wide. At that scale all the details are still perfectly readable, and you'd get some more critiques
You've done a great job with Ramah's brushes - and I like the bold use of the background texture. That makes it interesting, without getting in the way of the map. The coastline is a bit of a sore-thumb - it's the only solid black area on the map, and the line weight is so much greated than the other lines on the map that it looks out of place.
Other than that, I'd recommend a cleaner font for your labeling - the calligraphic font you've got looks pretty, but is hard to read. And someone's going to say it - your river in the NW needs some work Rivers join as they flow to the sea, they don't branch. In this case you've got a river that has two separate routes to the sea. I'd recommend splitting the section of river NE of Carlysk.
Other than those notes, this is a great piece of work. I love the colour scheme and the subtle variations you've included in the texturing. Good stuff!


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WASHINGTON – Water restrictions in place for customers in Montgomery and Prince George's counties were lifted late Saturday afternoon.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission announced the end of the restrictions just before 6 p.m. after repairs to a 60-inch water main were completed. The line is back in service and the water quality is good, said Jim Neustadt, WSSC spokesman.
The massive line burst Monday night in Chevy Chase and release 60 million gallons of waters. The water service asked customers to conserve water by limiting laundry loads and taking short showers to allow the system to recover from the loss of water and to ensure proper supply to hospitals and fire hydrants.
"We just want to say thank you to everybody for doing what they can to conserve and our regrets about all the inconveniences that we caused everybody," Neustadt said.
Crews replaced a 20-foot section of the water main. Although the repairs to the pipes are complete, WSSC said in a statement that restoring the area near the broken main will take weeks.
Additional work will be needed to restore the road, sidewalk and nearby stream bed plus remove damaged trees. The remaining work will also require that the far right northbound lane on Connecticut Avenue to remain closed.
"It's going to take a long time weeks, maybe months, to completely repair the area and the creek and the bed around the creek. Because there was a lot damage done by that water, that 60 million gallons that came out of there," Neustadt said.
Officials still don't know what caused the break.
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WASHINGTON – There may have been some warning signs before a 5-foot water main burst in Chevy Chase this week.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, or WSSC, says after receiving calls about water bubbling up in the area surrounding the break, an inspector was sent out about six hours before the main burst. That inspector, and a crew that came out an hour later, found what appeared to be a leaking valve.
That valve is connected to a 24-inch pipe attached to the larger main. The valve sits in a valve vault just a few feet from the site of the break. They decided they would come back and fix it the next day.
It is not clear whether the apparent leak is related to the eventual break.
The large main does have fiber optic cables designed to detect early signs of a break so that repairs can be made, but that system apparently did not send significant warnings ahead of time in this case.
"People have to realize that we don't have a control system where lights flash every time something happens, and we do rely on people calling from the outside," WSSC spokesman I.J. Hudson says.
A replacement section of pipe is now in place, and WSSC workers were flushing the main on Friday as part of a final step to clean it.
Hudson says water restrictions for WSSC customers will be lifted when the pipe is back up and running, which he expects to happen "sometime this weekend."
The replacement pipe includes the fiber optic system.
"A fiber optic cable running down the line with sensors, and what the sensors listen for is the snap of these pre-stressed wires that are in this style of pipe, which is called PCCP," Hudson explains.
Hudson says it will take up to two months for an investigation to determine the causes of this break.
"We're doing what we can – the monitoring system [is] important, our inspection program is important," Hudson says.
"For the last four or five years, we have stepped up the frequency of inspection of these larger pipes to about an average between 5 and 7 years for these pipes, and when we do these inspections, we find things."
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Hunter J is a ruthless and cruel Pokémon bounty hunter around Sinnoh who catches and steals Pokemons and sells it in the Black Market for money. She appeared in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, along with her army of henchmen whose primary means of transportation are advanced 6-wheeled trucks. Her technology includes her huge airship with lasers and invisibility, high-tech visor to sense Pokemon's teleportation, and a system consisting of a gun to shoot out a gold cement to turn them into a stone, and case to temporarily hold Pokémon for her clients. Hunter J never cares about welfares of people or Pokemon and her own henchmen! Which marks her the most cold-blooded villian of all. J and her goons went down with their ship after it was hit by Uxie and Mesprit's Future Sight attack while capturing them for Team Galactic. She most likely met her demise and in the huge explosion that followed presumably killing her, along with the rest of her crew into the abyss of Lake Acuity. Team Rocket claimed to their boss Giovanni they were responsible for J and Team Galactic's defeat, causing their promotion.
Unlike other villains who have appeared in the series, she is one of the few ones who has not been defeated or being arrested by police when they're on alert and on to her. Which she manages to avoid--for now. J pokémons are Salamence, Ariados, and Drapion in fact so powerful that not even Ash along with Gary could defeat her, in fact in an episode in which Ash and Gary were determined to rescue a group of Shieldon captured by her, Gary said to Ash that since they had recovered the Shieldon it was enough. Later on Ash teamed with a "High Ranked" Pokémon Ranger (in which he's called a Top Ranger) who's protecting a Riolu from J in order to bring it to her client and not even they could defeat her.
Hunter J has shown some interest in Ash's Pikachu, and it seems pretty rare in the Anime even when it used Thunderbolt and Volt Tackle. Also she likes Team Rocket's Meowth, most likely because he can speak Human Language. She managed to turn both Pikachu and Meowth into stone, but Ash and Friends along with Jessie and James managed to save all the Pokémon currently turned into stone.
|Salamence used for transport when she is on-field but also to brutally attack any interference with Hyper Beam and Flamethrower.
|Drapion is in her Poké Ball. She seems to always rely on Drapion when battling Ash 1-on-1. Drapion could easily defeat Aipom and Turtwig at the same time. Arguably her most powerful pokémon, along with Salamence.
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A better understanding of breast cancer biology over the last 40 years has led to a reduction in aggressive surgery for the disease. The standard treatment has evolved away from radical mastectomy, in which the entire breast is removed along with adjacent musculature and lymph nodes. Nevertheless, axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) – removal of the lymph nodes from the area under the arm – has remained a standard way to examine lymph nodes for metastases (the spread of cancer from the initial site to another part of the body).
Research suggests women can now skip this aggressive surgery [ALND] without impacting their chances for survival or recurrence.
Research suggests women can now skip this aggressive surgery [ALND] without impacting their chances for survival or recurrence.
However, ALND can have debilitating side effects, including long-lasting arm swelling, stiffness and pain. As a result, sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) – removal of one or two nodes to which cancer first spreads – was developed.
The sentinel lymph nodes are the first lymph nodes that receive drainage and thus those most likely to be involved with cancer. These nodes can be identified by injecting a tracer or dye into the breast that then travels to the lymph nodes. They can then be removed and carefully examined to determine whether there is any lymph node involvement. If no cancer identified in the sentinel lymph nodes, no additional nodes need to be removed.
Approximately 24,000 of the 180,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year have limited spread to nearby nodes. However, it is not known whether removing additional nodes after breast cancer spread has been identified by SLND increases chances of survival.
The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group in 1999 began the multicenter Z0011 trial to determine the effect of ALND on overall survival of patients with cancer that has spread to the sentinel lymph nodes. Recently released results suggest that thousands of women can now skip this aggressive surgery without impacting their chances for survival or recurrence.
The trial, published in the Feb. 9, 2011, issue of JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, was conducted at 115 sites over a five-year period. Subjects were women with early-stage breast cancer (tumors measuring no greater than 5cm) that had spread to only one or two sentinel nodes, identified by SLND. All had undergone lumpectomy, followed by radiation therapy.
"The results clearly showed that ALND [axillary lymph node dissection] was not beneficial."
"The results clearly showed that ALND [axillary lymph node dissection] was not beneficial."
They were randomized into two groups of 445 each: one group having SLND only, the other having SLND followed by ALND. The ALND group underwent of 10 or more nodes. Most of the women in both groups also received chemotherapy. The results clearly showed that ALND was not beneficial. The five-year overall survival was similar in both groups – 91.8 percent in the ALND group and 92.5 percent in the SLND-only group.
The trial closed early because the survival rate was vastly better than expected and accrual to the study was slow. The rate of recurrence was also comparable: 83.9 percent in the SLND-alone group and 82.2 percent in the ALND group were disease free after five years.
In an editorial accompanying the JAMA article, Grant Walter Carlson, MD, and William C. Wood, MD, called the Z0011 trial "an important contribution to the surgical management of SLN metastasis in breast cancer." Taken along with findings from other investigations, they conclude, there is "strong evidence that patients undergoing partial mastectomy, whole-breast irradiation, and systemic therapy for early breast cancer with microscopic SLN metastasis can be treated effectively and safely without ALND."
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The first important study evaluating the importance of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) was the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) B-04 trial, begun in the 1970s. In that study, patients with breast cancer who did not have axillary lymph nodes that could be felt on physical examination were selected randomly to undergo radical mastectomy, total mastectomy plus nodal irradiation, or total mastectomy with delayed ALND if there was nodal recurrence.
"Patients who undergo a lumpectomy for a stage T1 or T2 cancer, followed by whole-breast irradiation and systemic therapy, probably do not need more than [sentinel lymph node dissection] SLND."
There was no survival difference between the groups, suggesting that removal of axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer had no effect on overall survival. That study was conducted at a time when no chemotherapy was available. So the question became, now that we do have systemic therapy, will leaving behind axillary lymph nodes involved with cancer make a difference in survival?
The American College of Oncology Surgeons study is a very important one that is going to change practice. What we can extract from the findings is that patients who undergo a lumpectomy for a stage T1 or T2 cancer, followed by whole-breast irradiation and systemic therapy, probably do not need more than SLND to evaluate the axilla. This practice would decrease morbidity. Following ALND, the risk of lymphedema is around 20 percent. It is much lower following SLND.
"Survival depends less on the size of the tumor and number of lymph nodes involved and more on the biology of the tumor and how well it responds to systemic therapy."
Breast cancer treatment is constantly evolving. In the future, there may be no need to remove lymph nodes. We have other tools now on which to base our systemic therapy recommendations.
For example, for hormone-receptor positive breast cancers, there is a test called an Oncotype DX assay, in which RNA is extracted from the tumor. The genes of the cancer are then examined and the patient's likelihood of distant recurrence at 10 years is determined. Patients who fall in the low-risk category do not benefit from chemotherapy. This does not mean they have no risk of recurrence, but rather we do not change that risk by administering chemotherapy. If the patient is high-risk, we know that there will be a benefit from chemotherapy.
There are three reasons why lymph nodes are removed from cancer patients: possible survival benefit, local control and staging to determine further recommendations regarding adjuvant therapy. The results of the Z0011l and NSABP B-04 trials suggest that removing lymph nodes likely does not improve survival. In the Z0011 trial, the rate of recurrence within the breast or axillary lymph nodes at five years was only 2.5 percent.
Whether the patient has one or more positive lymph nodes does not affect the recommendations for systemic therapy. Furthermore, with tests like the Oncotype DX assay, which focuses more on the biology of the cancer, we are relying less on the traditional TNM (tumor, node, metastasis) staging. We are finding survival depends less on the size of the tumor and number of lymph nodes involved and more on the biology of the tumor and how well it responds to systemic therapy.
Based on this new study, I would feel comfortable – in a select group of patients with tumors no more than 5 centimeters who plan to undergo lumpectomy followed by whole breast irradiation – performing only SLND and not proceeding to ALND in patients with up to two sentinel lymph nodes involved with metastatic disease. With this new evidence, similar trials will likely be performed to evaluate whether this less invasive approach can be utilized in a broader patient population.
Women with breast cancer are often among the most informed, proactive patients. They are driven by awareness of advances in research. Many are very concerned about removal of lymph nodes. There is no cure for lymphedema. Research findings have enabled us to make surgery less invasive, and it seems that surgery to evaluate the lymph nodes will be the next frontier.
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