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The Computer Science and Information Systems Department provides a broad-based, rigorous curriculum to prepare students for a successful future in the exciting, fast-paced technology industry. Courses are taught by diverse faculty who specialize in a variety of areas to help students acquire advanced technical knowledge and skills in areas such as computer hardware, software, computation and theory; computer analysis and design of business information systems; and organizational computing infrastructure, including network and system administration.
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MSUM ACM releases their new blog at http://msumacm.org aimed at inspiring students from departments related to Computer Science. The blog will feature interviews with computer science professionals located around the area and other articles related to improving skills related to the field. Submissions from members of MSUM ACM or otherwise are welcome. This group is […]
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We're entering the Rock of Ages roll-out Lollapalooza (the big-screen debut is June 15th!), and in addition to trailers, music videos and other clips, some hair-raising, glam-rockin' promotions are coming center stage. One of the more exciting is this sweepstakes collaboration between Guitar Center and Warner Bros. Think of it as standing in front of a Marshall stack turned to 11 while Def Leppard plays power chords. Yes, it's that cool.
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The theme is "Prayer for such a time as this." The keynote speaker will be Rick Green, co-host of "WallBuilders Live!," a radio show aiming to educate Americans on the role of religion in American history.
"It's Christian in nature, but everybody's invited to it," said Joe Messina, chair of the Santa Clarita Valley Mayors Prayer Breakfast. "It's not evangelical in nature. It's truly, strictly a prayer breakfast."
Green is a conservative Republican who was narrowly defeated last month for a seat on the Texas Supreme Court.
Mayors from several Southern California cities have been invited, as well as U.S. Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, state Senators Tony Strickland, R-Simi Valley, and George Runner, R-Lancaster, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.
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A reporter from The New York Times recently bashed Gov. Rick Perry's massive prayer meeting held in Houston last weekend.
More than 30,000 people answered Texas Republican governor's call to pray for the country.
However, journalist Frank Bruni wrote in an op-ed on Saturday that turning to prayer as a solution for the nation's woes "defied reason." "Seeking relief from the country's woes through a louder, more ardent appeal to god strikes us as too much hope invested in too magical a solution," he said. "It suspends disbelief and defies rigorous reason," he concluded.
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"Christians in government, Christians in America, in society are probably the most organized grass roots force, which he admits in this article and then acts like we just sit back and pray to God for a miracle to happen and then do nothing else," Sekulow charged.
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Our work is aimed at improving our understanding of the mechanisms involved in motoneuron death, with particular reference to the loss of motoneurons that occurs in motor neuron diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in which motoneurons in the spinal cord and brain progressively die, resulting in muscle paralysis and death, usually within 2-5 years of diagnosis. There is currently no cure or treatment for this disease and so the development of an effective therapy remains an imperative. ALS is a multi-factorial disorder in which different pathological mechanisms play a role. In our group we have been investigating the contribution that some of these different mechanisms make to disease including the role of protein chaperones, axonal transport defects as well as mitochondrial deficits. We hope that a greater understanding of the causative factors involved in the death of motor neurons may help us to identify new therapeutic targets
We use a multidisciplinary approach in our experiments, examining motor neurons both in animal models of motor neuron disease as well as in primary cell cultures of motor neurons, muscles and glial cells. We also use a wide range of techniques from cellular and molecular biology to whole animal systems physiology. This combination of techniques allows us to examine the molecular and cellular changes that take place within motor neurons in culture under different conditions, to examine the effects and mechanisms of action of potential neuroprotective agents, before moving on to test the validity of our findings in vivo using animal models of motor neuron disease. The overall aim of our research program is to help in the development of effective therapeutic strategies for use in the treatment of these fatal neurodegenerative disorders.
Research projects are based upon the research interests of the laboratory and are designed in discussion with individual students. Specific projects currently underway in the laboratory include: the role of the heat shock response in motoneuron survival; the role of non-neuronal cells in ALS pathogenesis; axonal transport defects and motor neuron disease; mitochondrial dysfunction in models of motor neuron disease; the role of the muscle in ALS; pathogenesis of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) or Kennedy's Disease, an inherited lower motoneuron degenerative disorder associated with partial androgen insensitivity, caused by a CAG triplet repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (AR) gene.
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The neuroprotective effects of cannabinoids in the SOD1G93A mouse model of ALS.
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Molecular chaperones as therapeutic targets in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – Recent advances and future
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DM Kieran, M Hafezparast, S Bohnert, JRT Dick, G Schaivo, J Martin, E Fisher & L Greensmith (2005)
Mutations in Dynein delay disease progression in SOD1(G93A) transgenic mice, a model of ALS.
Journal of Cell Biology 169, 561-567
D Kieran, B Kalmar, JRT Dick, J Riddoch-Contreras, G Burnstock & L Greensmith (2004)
Treatment with arimoclomol, a coinducer of heat shock proteins, delays disease progression in ALS mice.
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IEA Publishes Report on Technological Strategies for Reducing Industrial Energy Consumption
September 2009: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a report entitled: "Energy Technology Transitions for Industry: Strategies for the Next Industrial Revolution."
The report examines current and future technological possibilities to reduce global energy consumption in the five most energy intensive sectors: iron and steel; cement; chemicals and petrochemicals; pulp and paper; and aluminum, which account for 75% of global industrial CO2 emissions. The report regionally examines future energy transition scenarios to more efficient technologies in each of these sectors, developing new indicators and methodologies in the process. The report is one of three new sectoral end-use studies, with the other two focusing on energy transitions in transport and buildings. [Publication Website][Executive Summary][Press Release]


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Job Corps was created during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 as part of Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society initiatives. A product of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Job Corps was first set up by Sargent Shriver, who ran many of President Johnson's social programs. Job Corps was initially modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s, which provided room, board and employment to thousands of unemployed people.
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MARTINSBURG - For 84-year-old retired U.S. Air Force staff sergeant James "Jim" Rehanek, language was his contribution to the Korean War effort.
Rehanek, a native of southwestern Pennsylvania who now lives in Martinsburg, enlisted in the Air Force five days before his 19th birthday, having graduated high school a year earlier in 1948.
"They had a one-year enlistment for those under 19, so I decided to join," he said. "I was working in a grocery store at the time, and I just thought it was a good opportunity."
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For 84-year-old retired U.S. Air Force staff sergeant James "Jim" Rehanek, language was his contribution to the Korean War effort.
After basic training, Rehanek re-enlisted for another five years and was sent to an Army language school in Monterey, California, where he studied for a year to learn Russian. After basic training, the military determined Rehanek had an aptitude for languages, so they assigned him to the language school.
"It was kind of an expedited course in the language," he said. "They had seven classes a day and each one was different."
He said there were about seven classes a day, and he completed the language school in about 48 weeks. Rehanek was then sent to Texas for a short period of time, but when the Korean War started he was sent to Japan.
After being sent to Japan, he was later stationed in Korea and served during the Korean War for about eight and a half months.
"I was a Russian translator in a radio squadron and at that time the Russians were training the North Koreans. That's how I got into that," Rehanek said. "Initially, when I went to Japan we were connected to the other radio squadron in Korea and we would get Russian manuals and things like that and even literature."
Living and working in a Quonset hut, Rehanek and other translators monitored conversations of North Korean pilots, who used Russian code words. Translators determined, based on what Russian words the pilots used, what maneuvers pilots were planning and alerted the air force. Based on the translation, those in command determined whether to scramble aircraft to engage enemy pilots or not.
When Rehanek initially arrived in Korea, he was stationed near a bombed-out university about 20 miles outside of Seoul. Coming under fire from enemy munitions wasn't uncommon, but the ordinance was ineffective.
"The bombings we had while I was there, they were nothing," Rehanek said. "They called them 'bed check Charlie.' They'd fly over and just throw some low-grade munitions out the door. It wasn't a real bomber."
Rehanek's brother, who is two years younger than him, went into the service six months after him and also was sent to an Army language school. He, too, later arrived in Japan and Korea, but the two brothers didn't serve together. After leaving Korea and returning home, Rehanek returned to Texas for about a year before being sent to Washington, D.C., where he was stationed at Arlington Hall.
Rehanek remained in the Air Force until he retired in 1954 and entered West Virginia University under the G.I. Bill. After graduating, he got a job in California in the aerospace industry. Rehanek retired in 1988 and has lived in Martinsburg for about the past 20 years. Married to his wife of 61 years, Rehanek has three sons and one daughter. His youngest two sons served in the U.S. Army. After retiring, Rehanek also became a volunteer at Martinsburg's Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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Is the Market Underreacting or Overreacting to Open Market Share Repurchases? A UK Perspective
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Using UK open market repurchases, we reject the market underreaction hypothesis and the market overreaction hypothesis proposed by (Ikenberry, Lakonishok and Vermaelen 1995) and (Peyer and Vermaelen 2009), respectively. The evidence supports that the UK market reacts slowly to actual repurchases made by value firms. UK repurchases on average do not suffer from share undervaluation prior to the announcement. Value firms perform just as well as glamour firms during the authorisation period but outperform glamour firms significantly two years following the announcement. It turns out that value firms repurchase over 6% more shares than glamour firms during the authorisation period.
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BMW's new i3 breaks cover
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BMW recently announced the launch of its new sub-brand, BMW I, for its future electric models, along with a suite of added electronic services. The latter will include features like identifying unoccupied parking spots in your area, details on the latest shows on in theatres you may pass, and a host of other features. The key element, however, will be the new cars.
First up for 2013 is the i8, an electric sports car based on the Vision concept that has been on demonstration tours globally for a year now.
The other car is the i3, a small city car that is based on the MegaCity concept. The car itself has not been shown, apart from initial photos of its subframe. However, an i3 has been caught during the the filming of a BMW-TV production in Scandinavia.
BMW plans to sell up to 30 000 i3s in its first full year of sales in 2014. The official unveiling of the i3 production version along with the i8 hybrid supercar will take place in 2013. Both models will be built at the Leipzig plant and ride on the firm's "LifeDrive architecture" which has an aluminium chassis and a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) passenger cell. The i3 is expected to produce well over 130bhp from its electric motors.


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Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam (Drs Noorda, Vrouenraets, Nieweg, and Kroon); and Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center[[minus]]Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam (Drs van Geel and Eggermont), the Netherlands.
In patients with truly unresectable melanoma of the extremities, results after isolated limb perfusion (ILP) are absent in the literature. Complete response rates are probably lower than the reported 54% for locoregional recurrent melanoma. In these patients, ILP with melphalan and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) could be superior to ILP with melphalan alone.
Retrospective analysis with a median follow-up period of 21 months (interquartile range, 9-40 months).
Two tertiary care cancer centers in the Netherlands.
We assessed all 130 consecutive patients who underwent ILP for unresectable melanoma of the extremities, performed between 1978 and 2001. Of these patients, 38% had stage IIIA melanoma and 45% had stage IIIAB melanoma according to criteria of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Lesions were considered unresectable on the basis of their size, number, or localization.
Forty ILPs were performed with melphalan, and 90 were done with TNF-α and melphalan.
Main Outcome Measures
Response rate, disease-free survival, limb salvage rate, and overall survival.
In 45% of the patients, a complete response was attained after ILP with melphalan (95% confidence interval, 29%-61%) compared with 59% after ILP with TNF-α and melphalan (95% confidence interval, 49%-69%; P = .14). The time to complete response was 3 months (interquartile range, 2-6 months) vs 2 months (interquartile range, 1-3 months; P = .01), respectively. The recurrence rate and median limb recurrence–free survival were not significantly different for both ILP types. The overall limb salvage rate was 96%. Overall 5-year survival was 29% (95% confidence interval, 20%-38%). The ILP type was not an independent prognostic factor for complete response, nor was limb recurrence–free survival, whereas stage IIIA was a favorable prognostic factor (P = .01 and P = .02, respectively). Favorable prognostic factors for improved survival were complete response (P<.001) and a tumor size of 3 cm or less (P = .01).
In more than half of the patients with truly unresectable melanoma of the extremities, a complete response was obtained after ILP with melphalan with or without TNF-α. The ILP type was not an independent prognostic factor for complete response, limb recurrence–free survival, or overall survival.
Recurrent melanoma lesions on an extremity can usually be treated by local surgery. Large numbers of small cutaneous or superficial subcutaneous lesions can be effectively treated with carbon dioxide laser ablation.1,2 If the number, size, or location of the lesions prohibits these simple treatments, ILP with high-dose chemotherapy is indicated. Other treatments, such as radiotherapy and systemic chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy, have only limited effectiveness.3- 5 Amputation remains an option for patients who are believed to have a poor prognosis.
In patients with measurable melanoma lesions, ILP with melphalan (M-ILP) leads to a 54% complete response rate.6 Since the introduction of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in 1992, response rates of up to 73% have been reported.7,8 The complete response rate after M-ILP is likely to be lower than 54% in patients with truly unresectable disease; a high tumor load is known to be a negative prognostic factor for response after ILP.9- 11 Because the results are unknown for this selected group of patients with unresectable melanoma lesions, we analyzed response rates and survival after M-ILP (with or without TNF-α) paying special attention to prognostic factors for these outcome measures.
From 1978 to 2001, 130 therapeutic ILPs were performed in our institutions in 108 patients with unresectable melanoma lesions. There were 24 men (22%) and 84 women (78%) with a mean age of 67 years (range, 34-90 years). Eight (7%) of these patients underwent 2 ILPs, and 7 (6%) underwent perfusion 3 times because of recurrent lesions. Forty M-ILPs were performed, and in 90 ILPs we added TNF-α (TM-ILP), combined with interferon gamma in 11 cases. The mean number of lesions was 19 (range, 1 to >100 lesions) with a median size of 3 cm (interquartile range, 1-5 cm). Fifty-eight ILPs were performed for lesions located on the lower leg, 35 for lesions distributed over the whole lower extremity, 20 for lesions on the thigh and knee, 15 for lesions on the foot (extending up to the knee in 6 patients), and 2 for lesions on the arm. We performed 105 ILPs (81%) for patients with more than 10 lesions or lesions 5 cm or larger, which are the criteria for high tumor load according to Fraker et al.9 Ten ILPs were performed for lesions that were considered unresectable because of their localization: on the foot (n = 3), near a joint (n = 2), and multiple lesions (but <10) spread out over a large area (n = 5). Fifteen ILPs were performed for relatively large lesions between 3 and 5 cm, 1 of the 2 criteria for high tumor load according to Rossi et al.8 None of the patients were considered suitable candidates for laser ablation according to the criteria of Hill and Thomas1 (cutaneous or superficial subcutaneous metastases <2 cm in diameter). The stage of disease at the time of ILP according to criteria of the MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Tex) is displayed in Table 1.
Our ILP technique has previously been described in detail.12 During ILP, the major artery and vein are clamped at the desired level, collateral vessels are ligated, and a tourniquet is applied around the limb, proximal to the region of ILP. After insertion of the catheters, the isolated limb is perfused with extracorporeal circulation, oxygenated, and propelled by a heart-lung machine. A melphalan dose of 13 mg/L for the upper limb and 10 mg/L for the lower limb is added to the perfusate. For TNF-α this is 3 mg and 4 mg, respectively, irrespective of limb volume. In 11 patients who received TM-ILP, 0.2 mg of interferon gamma was added and was injected subcutaneously for 2 days before surgery. The same dose was given intraoperatively and injected into the perfusate. During ILP, adequate tissue temperatures are achieved and maintained by heating the heparinized perfusate and applying a warm-water blanket around the limb. Limb temperatures are kept between 37°C and 38°C (normothermia) for M-ILP or 38°C and 40°C (mild hyperthermia) for TM-ILP; M-ILP lasts 1 hour, and TM-ILP lasts 90 minutes. At the termination of ILP, the perfusate is drained out and the limb is rinsed with an electrolyte solution. The tourniquet is then released, and the catheters are removed. In 71 patients (55%), a regional lymph node dissection had already been done before ILP or was performed during ILP.
Regional toxicity after ILP was graded according to the method of Wieberdink et al.13 Tumor response was measured by World Health Organization criteria.14 Postoperatively, patients stayed in bed with the leg elevated until acute toxic reactions of the limb subsided. Patients were gradually mobilized with the help of a physiotherapist and discharged when fully ambulatory. Long-term morbidity was routinely scored by identifying the following signs and symptoms: edema, venous thrombosis, arterial thrombosis, nerve injury, muscle atrophy or fibrosis, recurrent erysipelas, and subjective complaints of pain and malfunction of the perfused limb. All items were scored until 2 years after ILP. The median duration of follow-up was 21 months (range, 2 days to 17 years).
Statistical analysis was performed with the t test when comparing groups with a normal distribution or with the χ2 test when proportions were concerned. Nonparametric tests, mostly the Mann-Whitney test, were used if the distribution of data was not normal. For limb recurrence–free survival, Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed and a log-rank test was used for the comparison of differences between independent groups. Significance was set at P≤.05.
Tumor response after ILP is displayed in Table 2. A complete response was attained following 72 (55%) of 130 ILPs at a median of 2 months after the procedure. The median duration of a complete response was 10 months (interquartile range, 5-25 months). A partial response was obtained after 28 ILPs (22%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 15%-30%), and 6 of these patients were rendered locoregionally disease-free after additional resection of the lesions. Of the patients with a complete response, 36 (50%; 95% CI, 39%-63%) had a recurrence at a median of 6 months after ILP (interquartile range, 3-13 months). The median duration of follow-up in those without recurrence was 21 months (interquartile range, 6-50 months). Median limb recurrence–free survival was 18 months. As indicated in Table 2, there were no significant differences regarding complete response rate, limb recurrence rate, and limb recurrence–free survival between the 2 ILP types. The median time to complete response was significantly different between M-ILP and TM-ILP: 3 months and 2 months, respectively (P = .01).
The results for patients with a high tumor load according to the criteria of Fraker et al9 (n = 105) were not significantly different from the results of the whole patient population. In these patients, ILP resulted in a complete response in 54 cases (52%; 95% CI, 42%-61%), attained after a median of 2 months (interquartile range, 1-4 months). The complete response rate after M-ILP was 41% (95% CI, 24%-59%), which was not significantly lower than the 58% (95% CI, 45%-68%) attained after TM-ILP (P = .11). The time to complete response was significantly shorter after TM-ILP compared with M-ILP: 2 months (interquartile range, 1-4 months) and 3 months (interquartile range, 2-7 months), respectively (P = .03). Median limb recurrence–free survival after M-ILP was 30 months (95% CI, 3-58 months), which was not significantly different from the 16 months (95% CI, 9-23 months) after TM-ILP (P = .64).
A significantly better effect of TM-ILP on bulky lesions as opposed to multiple small lesions could not be demonstrated. The complete response rate after both TM-ILP and M-ILP in patients with a few lesions larger than 5 cm (n = 18) was 50%. In those with more than 15 lesions of 5 cm or less (n = 65), the complete response rate was 59% (95% CI, 44%-73%) after TM-ILP compared with 37% after M-ILP (95% CI, 13%-61%; P = .11).
We performed regression analyses for predictors of complete response and limb recurrence–free survival, for which the following parameters were tested: sex, Breslow thickness and ulceration of the primary tumor, number of previous episodes of excisional surgery on the same limb, site of indicator lesions (eg, arm, thigh, or lower leg), tumor load (high or low according to the criteria of Fraker et al9), stage of disease according to the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and ILP type (M-ILP vs TM-ILP). Multivariable logistic regression analysis indicated that the absence of lymph node metastases (stage IIIA disease) appeared to be the single independent prognostic factor for complete response, with an odds ratio of 3.5 (95% CI, 1.34-9.43; P = .01). In a Cox regression analysis, MD Anderson stage IIIA melanoma also proved to be the strongest predictive factor for limb recurrence–free survival, with an odds ratio of 0.3 (95% CI, 0.12-0.83; P = .02).
Data regarding follow-up after ILP are displayed in Table 3, in which the treatment of limb recurrence and persistent lesions is specified. In 4 patients, the limb was amputated during follow-up. After a complete response, 1 patient had a persistent wound infection with extensive infected necrotic soft tissues; 3 months after ILP, exarticulation at the hip joint was inevitable. Another patient underwent an above-knee amputation because of intractable recurrence 18 months after a complete response. Two other patients had persistent lesions after ILP; in one, an amputation of the lower leg was performed 3 months after ILP, and the other underwent an above-knee amputation 14 months later. The last patient was initially treated with radiation therapy for these lesions but developed radiation-induced necrosis. After a median follow-up period of 21 months, the limb salvage rate for all 108 patients was 96%.
Table 4 depicts the development of regional node and distant metastases in relation to response after ILP. Distant metastases developed in 72% of the patients who relapsed locoregionally after a complete response, significantly more than the 47% in those without relapse. Median survival was not significantly different between these groups.
The overall 5-year survival of all patients was 29% (95% CI, 20%-38%). Median survival was 25 months. In a Cox regression analysis, the following variables for survival were tested for their independent prognostic value: sex, age, MD Anderson stage of disease, Breslow thickness and ulceration of the primary tumor, tumor size of 3 cm or less or larger than 3 cm, high or low tumor load (according to the criteria of Fraker et al9), ILP type, and response (complete or not complete) to ILP. A stepwise backward analysis identified complete response and tumor size of 3 cm or less as independent prognostic factors for a better survival rate, with odds ratios of 0.3 (95% CI, 0.18-0.55; P<.001) and 2.0 (95% CI, 1.16-3.53; P = .01), respectively. In the Figure, survival curves are displayed separately for patients who attained a complete response with ILP compared with those without a complete response. Survival was significantly different between these groups, with a median survival of 44 months (95% CI, 30-57 months) and 15 months (95% CI, 11-19 months), respectively (P<.001). The median survival of 43 months in patients who relapsed after a complete response was also significantly longer compared with the rate of 15 months in those without a complete response (P<.001).
Overall survival related to response after isolated limb perfusion (ILP). Numbers of patients at risk are provided at each time point for both groups.
Table 5 lists the results regarding acute regional toxicity, long-term morbidity, and length of hospital stay. There was no significant difference in any of these outcomes for the 2 ILP types.
Locally unresectable melanoma of the extremities is a major therapeutic problem; few treatment options remain, and the prognosis is unclear and probably limited. Radiation therapy with or without hyperthermia results in an overall response rate of 80%, with the best response in tumors smaller than 4 cm. The disadvantages are that it cannot be applied to large areas of disease and that it has no effect on micrometastatic disease in the rest of the extremity.3
Traditionally, ILP has been considered the treatment of choice for patients with truly unresectable melanoma lesions limited to the extremity. However, the results of ILP in this particular patient group are lacking, with most series presenting data in mixed groups of patients with varying numbers of tumor nodules. The definition of unresectability is not generally agreed on and seems to be subject to the personal assessment of the surgeon. In this series, most of the lesions (81%) were judged to represent high tumor burden according to the criteria of Fraker et al.9 In a few patients (10%), lesions were unresectable based on other criteria such as localization, lesions with unclear margins and/or an inflammatory component, widespread lesions not permitting multiple excisions, or previous carbon dioxide laser ablation.
Our analysis is retrospective with its known pitfalls. Nevertheless, it is a large series based on a well-maintained database, which is to our knowledge the best currently available data set to study the results of ILP in this patient population. To date, there have been no prospective studies on the use of ILP in patients with locally unresectable limb melanoma.
Overall, 55% of our patients attained a complete response after ILP, with 36 patients (28%) cured locoregionally by a single ILP procedure for the rest of the follow-up period of 21 months. The 45% complete response rate after M-ILP in our patients with unresectable melanoma is somewhat lower than the mean 54% complete response rate seen after M-ILP in patients with lesions varying in resectability.15 This can be explained by the difference in tumor load; it has been shown that tumor load, in terms of the number of lesions, total tumor surface area, and nodal status, is an important prognostic factor for tumor response after ILP.10,11,16 However, our complete response rate of 45% after M-ILP is remarkably higher than the 19% complete response rate after M-ILP that was previously reported by Fraker et al7 in a similar subgroup of patients with a high tumor burden. The reason for this difference is unknown, with our 59% complete response rate after TM-ILP being similar to their rate of 58%. Complete response rates after TM-ILP in populations with varying disease burden varied from 64% to 90%,7,9,17- 21 probably due to a generally lower tumor load in these studies.
In this analysis, the difference in complete response rates after M-ILP compared with TM-ILP was not statistically significant, although a tendency for a higher response rate after TM-ILP was apparent. This tendency was also shown in the multicenter European phase 2 trial that randomized patients with measurable disease to either TM-ILP or TM-ILP with interferon gamma and compared them with a historical control group treated with M-ILP.19 In that study, a 52% complete response rate after M-ILP and a 73% complete response rate after TM-ILP with interferon gamma were observed. The time to complete response in our series was significantly shorter after TM-ILP compared with M-ILP. Although it was only a 1-month difference, this confirms what was observed in the European trial, in which the difference was 61 vs 225 days.19 In that study, limb recurrence–free survival for patients with a complete response was 15 months after TM-ILP with interferon gamma compared with 19 months after M-ILP, which in our series was 16 and 30 months, respectively. These results suggest that TM-ILP leads to a faster achievement of complete response than M-ILP but that TM-ILP has no additional positive effect on long-term locoregional control in those who attain a complete response. Lejeune22 suggested that large and well-vascularized tumors are particularly sensitive to TNF-α because it acts on their newly formed vessels, with the melphalan treating micrometastatic disease present in the limb. However, the complete response rates for both large and small lesions were similar after M-ILP and TM-ILP in this series.
The single prognostic factor for attaining a complete response was stage IIIA melanoma. That the chance of a complete response is higher in the absence of nodal involvement confirms what has been found in previous studies.10,11,16 Subsequent limb recurrence–free survival was significantly influenced by the presence of nodal metastases. In our high–tumor burden group, the number of lesions did not have prognostic value for attaining a complete response,10,11,16 in contrast to other studies with more mixed stages of disease.
There was no significant difference in acute regional toxicity, long-term morbidity, or length of hospital stay between the 2 ILP types. It has previously been shown that neither TNF-α nor mild hyperthermia (as applied in TM-ILP) increases acute regional toxicity or morbidity compared with M-ILP in normothermic conditions.23- 25
Recurrence after ILP was treated with simple local modalities in 70% of the patients. Unfortunately, 4 patients needed an amputation of the limb. Considering that all patients had truly unresectable tumors from the start, the limb salvage rate of 96% is impressive.
The overall 5-year survival in this series was 29%, which is in the lower part of the 26% to 46% range, typical for patients with in-transit metastases with or without lymph node involvement.26 This is assumed to be due to the selection of patients with more extensive disease in this series. Complete response, with or without relapse, and relatively small tumors were favorable prognostic factors for survival. Tumor size proved to be of independent prognostic value in other studies as well, with larger tumors having a worse prognosis.27,28 The significant difference in the occurrence of distant metastatic disease between patients with a complete response who did not relapse locoregionally compared with those with relapse is probably a reflection of the more aggressive nature of disease in the latter group.
As in many other studies of ILP for melanoma, most patients with locoregionally recurrent limb melanoma are women.17,19,25,29,30 This probably results from different biological characteristics of tumors in women as compared with men, although no evidence is available to support this hypothesis.
In conclusion, after a single ILP procedure for locoregionally unresectable melanoma, 55% of patients attain a complete response. Half of these patients are rendered disease-free for a long time. Patients with a complete response have a 3- to 4-fold increase in overall survival compared with those without a complete response. Maximum efforts should be made to obtain a complete response, although the response to ILP is probably partly dictated by the biological features of the disease in the individual patient. This and other studies have found a tendency for a better tumor response after TM-ILP (as compared with M-ILP) in patients with a high tumor burden, which has yet to be proved by ongoing randomized studies.
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"We are now very confident they had no idea that was Judge Overstreet," Strength said.
William Omar Jacobs, 22, surrendered to police Saturday morning after a team of investigators questioned Jacobs' friends, family and associates on his whereabouts.
"We were picking up his associates, identifying who he ran with, picking up his girlfriend and, of course, through the leads we had developed, hitting all the places," Strength said. "There was just too much pressure on him out there."
Jacobs was booked into the Richmond County jail and charged with one count of burglary. Deputies recovered Overstreet's stolen laptop computer in a garbage can on Starnes Street.
Jacobs fled Overstreet's home early Friday morning after the judge shot and killed John E. Howard Jr., 20, during the burglary.
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Kinase domain activation of FGFR2 yields high-grade lung adenocarcinoma sensitive to a pan-FGFR inhibitor in a mouse model of NSCLC.
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|Somatic mutations in Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 (FGFR2) are present in 4-5% of patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Amplification and mutations in FGFR genes have been identified in patients with NSCLC and clinical trials are testing the efficacy of anti-FGFR therapies. FGFR2 and other FGFR kinase family gene alterations have been found in both lung squamous cell carcinoma and lung adenocarcinoma though mouse models of FGFR driven lung cancers have not been reported. Here, we generated a genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM) of NSCLC driven by a kinase domain mutation in FGFR2. Combined with p53 ablation, primary grade III/IV adenocarcinoma was induced in the lung epithelial compartment exhibiting locally invasive and pleiotropic tendencies largely made up of multinucleated cells. Tumors were acutely sensitive to pan-FGFR inhibition. This is the first FGFR2-driven lung cancer GEMM, which can be applied across different cancer indications in a preclinical setting.
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NEW MANCHESTER - The Oak Glen boys' soccer team scored two unanswered goals in the second half to beat local-rival East Liverpool, 3-1, Wednesday night at home at the Bears Den.
Klayton Kosek scored the lone goal for the Potters (1-1-1). Kosek, who has scored two goals on the season, is the only East Liverpool player to score a goal so far this season.
Kevin Bankes made 13 saves in goal for the Potters, and C.J. Harris made four saves.
"Oak Glen is a really good team," first-year East Liverpool head coach Zack Kinsey said. "They are probably one of the best teams we will play all season.
"We played on their brand new turf field, and it was a faster game. They came out fired up. It was the first game ever played on the field, and they came out fired up."
The Golden Bears scored the first goal of the game before Kosek tied the score.
Oak Glen is now 3-0 on the season.
"We battled injuries during the game tonight," Kinsey said. "We battled injuries, and it kind of shook up the team. C.J. got hurt in goal, and he had to come out. That kind of threw off our offense.
"You have to give credit to Oak Glen. They are well coached. They came ready to play. They are a good team."
Oak Glen's next game is at 10 a.m. Saturday against Jefferson County Christian at Wayne Elementary in Bloomingdale.
East Liverpool's next game is at 1 p.m. Saturday against Crestview at Mangano Field as part of a girls' and boys' doubleheader.
"I think this is the toughest part of our schedule," Kinsey said. "We play Crestview Saturday, and then we play Beaver Local on Monday. I think this is the toughest part of our schedule. It is good test for the kids."
Beaver Local 3, Crestview 1
CALCUTTA - Chase Hilliard delivered two goals leading the Beaver Local boys' soccer team to a 3-1 season-opening victory over Crestview Wednesday at home.
Brian Jackson also netted a goal for the Beavers (1-0).
DeShawn Parker, Austin Taylor and Garrett Speelman all tallied assists for Beaver Local.
Logan Andrews came up big goal for the Beavers with 11 saves, including four big ones.
Greg Bable scored the lone goal of the game for the Rebels (0-1), and Derek Bable made seven saves in goal.
Beaver Local's next game is at 7:30 p.m. Monday night at East Liverpool.
Edison 2, Indian Creek 1
RICHMOND - Alec Jones scored two goals leading the Edison boys' soccer team to a 2-1 victory over local-rival Indian Creek Tuesday at home.
Zac Sansone and Tyler Kirk each contributed an assist for the Wildcats (1-0).
Travis Bell made 14 saves for Edison.
Rusell Ratcliffe tallied the lone goal of the game for the Redskins (0-2).
Ian Gambill collected the assist.
Matthew Barker recorded four saves in goal.
Indian Creek lost its season opener, 1-0, to East Liverpool this past?Saturday at Mangano Field.
Edison's next game is at 11 a.m. Saturday at home against John Marshall.


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Illinois conservatives defeated a campaign by gay activists to push through a same-sex marriage bill last week.
The Illinois Senate approved the measure in February, but the state House adjourned its session Friday without voting on it despite months of fierce campaigning on the issue.
President Obama even jumped in at the last minute, urging Illinois lawmakers to approve gay marriage.
Gay activists thought momentum was in their favor after several other states recently approved it.
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Notes on Jim Ross, Rob Conway, Shimmer, and more
– Rob Conway retained the NWA World title in Millersville, TN against Chase Stevens last night. Conway's next destination is Osaka, Japan, where he defends the strap against against Nakanishi on 6/22.
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– An interesting story on Len Rossi, pro wrestler and Health food entrepreneur
– From Shimmer: SHIMMER 58-61 will take place at the Berwyn Eagles Club (6309 26th Street) in Berwyn, IL on Saturday & Sunday, October 19 & 20, 2013. Bell time on Saturday, October 19th is 2pm. Bell time on Sunday, October 20th is 1pm. The events are suitable for all ages.
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Bully Asks More Questions Than It AnswersBuzz Bishop
I went to see Bully hoping for an answer. I was hoping for a happy ending where bullying was solved, kids were happy, and there were consequences. I was looking for the way to raise my boys so that bullying wouldn't exist in their lives.
That didn't happen. It left me hanging.
An Iowa Assistant Principal, Kim Lockwood, seems exasperated by the problem. "Tell me how to fix this. I don't have any magic," she says after trying to resolve one conflict. Later in the film we find it is people like Lockwood who are part of the problem.
The movie follow different types of bullying victims. From parents whose kids committed suicide, to a girl who fought back and pulled a gun on her school bus, to kids going through it right now.
The one angle the movie misses is life through the eyes of a bully. You leave the movie and you're still left asking, "why?" More often than not, the answer is "because they let them."
See the video after the jump.
During a town hall scene, one parent is frustrated that angle will never be expressed. The parents of bullies were never be held accountable. The kids who bully, the ones who are part of the problem, go home to morally bankrupt homes where the parents don't participate – at least that's the assumption, we never see it.
Perhaps the saddest part of Bully, is the way the adults continue to let it happen by actually bullying the victims themselves.
Alex's parents look at him and ask why he doesn't fight back when he's kicked, choked, and teased on the bus. They blame him for not backing down saying it will eventually lead to bullying of his younger sister.
And Lockwood, the Assistant Principal, is an active player in the mess. She looks at Alex's parents and denies there are problems on his bus when she says those kids are "good as gold."
Moments earlier, when trying to solve a schoolyard incident, Lockwood again berates a victim while allowing the bully to walk free. She brings the two boys together and asks them to shake hands. The bully puts his out immediately, the victim doesn't want him to get off with a simple "sorry."
Lockwood berates the boy for not wanting to make ammends and even says "I think you two might be friends one day," before the boy shrugs and says "We were, until he started bullying me." It breaks your heart.
The adults in Bully try to shrug things off with "kids will be kids". That's true, to a point. When you have those kinds of raging hormones stewing in a school environment, there is going to be some conflict. But where is the line? When does random horseplay cross over to harmful bullying? How often does a kid have to be warned before there are actual consequences?
You don't want your kids to grow up in a plastic bubble, you want them to gain conflict resolution skills and how to look after themselves. So when do you step in?
I went to Bully hoping for some answers, but it's just left me more confused.
Have you seen the movie yet? Do you have bullying in your school? How are administrators, parents, and kids handling it? Are there answers to these questions?
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People find elusive dates more attractive
Many people find members of the opposite sex who are somewhat elusive in their behaviour to be more attractive than those who are not, new research has suggested. Published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the study showed a similar finding with shop products - namely that they believe items on the back of a shelf are more desirable than more easily attainable ones.
Investigators from the University of Chicago, which held its first-ever classes in 1892, demonstrated individuals often forge a relationship between effort and value - so they think better outcomes will come when they try harder to attain something, including sexual partners.
Sarah Kim and Aparna Labroo from the institute found heterosexual males who are deemed 'smooth talkers' find a person more attractive when the outcome of a meeting with them is blurry rather than clear.
However, the authors noted: "The next time you find yourself chasing that hottie ... pause for a moment and consider whether the outcome is really worth your effort."
Dr Simon Moore commented: "Humans are by their very nature curious. They love exploring the world and are partial to things mysterious.
"Research in environmental psychology has shown that people rate photos of the natural world around them as more attractive and appealing the more elements of mystery it contains. So scenes which depict woods, mountains, roads etc implore the viewer to want to know what's in them, behind them, where do they lead etc.
"This effect transfers over to our social world too. Individuals that offer elusive information arouse our curious nature - it offers us a challenge, we want to know more about them.
"Things that we have to work harder to obtain are perceived to be more desirable/attractive as it justifies the extra effort/energy we invest in gaining them."


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Your planner
Upcoming events in the world of business include:
Tuesday -- Scott Whalen, chief executive of Saint Vincent Health System, will be the guest speaker at the monthly Eggs 'n' Issues forum, sponsored by the Manufacturer & Business Association.
The breakfast meeting will begin at 7:45 a.m. in the association's conference center at 2171 W. 38th St.
Whalen will provide an overview of changes in the health care system.
Cost is $30 for members and $60 for nonmembers. To register, call 833-3200 or visit www.mbausa.org.
Tuesday -- Terry Cascioli, chief revenue officer of the Erie Times-News and GoErie.com, will speak at a free sales workshop hosted by the Erie Sales Club from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Knowledge Center in Knowledge Park.
Attendees will break into small groups to discuss sales challenges and will have an opportunity to take the stage for a 30-second commercial about their company.
Wednesday -- The Census Bureau reports on retail sales for January.
Thursday -- The Labor Department reports on first-time unemployment claims for the previous week.
Saturday -- Jim Roddy, author of "Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer, " will participate in the sixth annual Pink Zone fundraise at Gannon University's Hammermill Center.
Roddy, a four-year basketball player at Gannon from 1988-92, will offer signed copies of his book at a discounted price during the afternoon hours and will donate $5 from the sale of each book to the Pink Zone fundraiser.


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The destruction of life as we know it
Opinion Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and prime ultra-reactionary advisor to the Bush administration, is also a head hatchet man. He believes that President Theodore Roosevelt ushered in an era of socialist government that has existed to this day.
Celebrating our history
Opinion I learned to fly as an RAF cadet in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] during the war and vividly remember the way in which Britain obliterated the history of the people of the country that it then occupied and controlled.
A world of light and darkness
Opinion Recently, news of a blackout hit the world press: the giant blackout that affected more than 50 million people in the northeastern USA and Canada.
A new beginning for WTO after Cancun
Opinion Forget the spin you have been reading in the papers about the "failure" of the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun. It was one of the most successful international meetings in years because it redefined how trade can benefit the poor and how the developing world can be real players in these negotiations.
Aborting rights
Opinion President Bush may soon sign legislation that bans abortions – with no exception for the mother's health – and would jail doctors for providing what is in some cases life-and-death reproductive health care to women across America.
New Yorks non-partisan election scam
Opinion New York City is now debating a proposal for "nonpartisan" elections for City Council.
Why theres no peace in Palestine
Opinion On Sept. 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat signed a Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, heralding the beginning of the Oslo peace process.
Racism and the California recall
Jeremy Ryan's article "Texas Redistricting Plan Threatens Equality" (PWW 9/20-26) is a significant contribution towards the unification of people's forces, by laying bare the racist content of the Republican leadership's offensive against our electoral democracy.
Lessons from Cockyboo the Clown
Opinion History repeats, said Marx, and the second time it's comedy. The Bush administration is trying for a repeat of 1950s McCarthyism. I'm not laughing yet – maybe later.
The big picture about local politics
Opinion Eyes glaze over. The mention of local government produces a change in subject, a sudden urge to clean out cupboards or the desire to run to the nearest dentist.


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When personal computers were new, tech-savvy early adopters faced a dizzying array of choices. Companies such as Apple, Atari, and Tandy each developed not just their own hardware but their own operating systems, and no one knew how the market would shake out. Remember a company named Microsoft? It wasn't even incorporated until 1981.
Today's tablet-computer marketplace bears some resemblance to that confusing era, as manufacturers and operating systems compete for attention. It's a realm where Apple's iPad dominates, Hewlett-Packard jumps out of the market with its TouchPad but then jumps back in - sort of - 11 days later, and BlackBerry introduces a PlayBook tablet that lacks, of all things, a built-in e-mail program.


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Pregaming: Spurs vs. Nets
AT&T CENTER — It's New Year's Eve, but that doesn't change the fact that there's a basketball game to be played. The Spurs hosted the new Brooklyn Nets for the first time in an early start on Monday night, tipping off at 6 PM central time.
- Gary Neal will not play agains the Nets. Neal will miss his third straight game with a strained right calf muscle.
- When one of the Nets beat writers told Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich that PJ Carlesimo suggested Pop rest some of his starters against Brooklyn, Pop simply responded, "It's too expensive."
- There was an interesting note in the pregame media packet, courtesy of the Spurs' PR folks. The Spurs' trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have won the fifth-most games in NBA history as a unit. Those three have won 444 games together as members of the Spurs. The Celtics' group of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish won the most games together with 540, followed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Cooper and Magic Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers, and a couple of Celtics lineups featuring Bill Russell and Sam Jones.


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A cop on a quad.
I was riding in Hillsville today and got chased by a quop
by spike07 August 18, 2008
Trending Now
Can you define these popular missing words?
Top Definition
1. Quarter-pound (of weed, etc.)
Sally's frontin me a quop for $950.
by LiciousDee November 22, 2006
The act of maintaining a fluid or residue in ones mouth before finally deciding to spit or swallow allowing the sense of taste to utilize textures and flavors.
by Shreysongz May 24, 2014
In the act of being suspiciously gay
Will the trombone player is such a QUOP!
Pronounced "Kwup"
Pronounced "Kwup"
by dill c. reilly January 14, 2010
quop stands for quality of pussy.... made in florida
i walked into this bar in debary, and the quop was horrible....
man i swear everytime we go to this bar the quop is so disappointing....
your quop is unacceptable
man i swear everytime we go to this bar the quop is so disappointing....
your quop is unacceptable
by itoldyallimadeupawordjlg March 26, 2010
An extremely firm, piece of coiled crap. Kinda like those fake dog poop things you can buy at a prank shop.
When I went to the bathroom, I regretted eating to much last noght for dinner. I had to take a huge quop.
by Brooke Downs August 09, 2008


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About Us
For over two decades, Hotz Environmental Services Inc. has been a leader in the field of collection, transportation, disposal and recycling of hazardous waste in Ontario.
With well established roots in Ontario's waste management and recycling industry, our diverse service divisions design, implement and direct full service waste management programs for the benefit of clients, communities and the environment.
The Hotz team of highly skilled professionals helps companies and municipalities alike to reduce risk and liability exposure while strengthening positions with regulators, insurers, lenders, employees and the general public.
Our waste transfer station in Hamilton, ON is fully permitted and equipped to manage most classes of hazardous waste. This flexibility assists us in providing environmentally responsible solutions at economical rates.
Hotz Environmental Services joined the Envirosystems family in 2010.
As a division of Envirosystems Incorporated, a multi-faceted industrial services company, Hotz Environmental Services brings a wide array of disciplines to the table, including household hazardous waste programs, high pressure water cleaning and de-scaling, wet and dry vacuum services, waste transportation and disposal, hot wash, paint recycling, propane cylinder recycling, hydro-excavation, ultra-high pressure and cold cutting, dredging, catalyst services, demolition and construction services, and more.


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Office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The practice offers comprehensive family-oriented medical care for all stages of life, from newborn to geriatric. Services offered include but are not limited to:
- Well and sick child and infant appointments
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- Vaccinations
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4 Important Skills That Lazy People Learn in High School
#2. Master the Complex Art of Cutting Class
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The similarities between skipping class and breaking out of a maximum security prison full of murderers and rapists are shocking. Both have roughly the same degree of planning and on-the-spot improvisation. To be executed well, both need a certain degree of knowledge on how the building and its workers function day to day. Planning routes, establishing meeting points, learning security guard schedules, obtaining documents that excuse an absence, knowing the right people who can get you into safe havens -- it's Ocean's Eleven with acne and uncontrollable boners.
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And none of the handsomeness.
I didn't cut class much in high school, and when I did, I felt like an asshole, like I had crossed a line. That being said, my friends and I were goddamn great at it. I assume that's the same internal conflict a career criminal must feel during quiet, contemplative moments while wearing a Nixon mask in a van on the way to a bank robbery.
My friends and I used to wander around campus with fake orders from a frazzled, overworked teacher. She would routinely ask us to complete errands for her around school, so if we ever wanted a period or two off, we told people we were doing something for her. The much more convenient option was to simply walk out of her classroom through a door that led directly to the outside -- a door put there by a designer who couldn't imagine a reason kids wouldn't want to be in school. It's the stupidest door I've ever seen, and I've seen so many doors, man.
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For some friends who went to another high school, the prison escape analogy I mentioned above was extremely fitting, as their school was designed more like something out of an episode of Prison Break than Degrassi Senior High. If they wanted to cut class, they had to scale a tall fence that was patrolled by school security guards. If they made it past the fence, they were greeted with a 100-yard open field that separated them from freedom. The fences might as well have had sniper towers.
Some kids apply more effort into getting out of class than they ever put in when they're in class. But that's all right, because there's also an art to counterbalancing a slacker reputation ...
#1. Display Your Plumage Every Once in a While
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To their teachers, they're going nowhere, but in the slacker's mind, they're sitting in an idled car, waiting for a reason to slam on the gas and blow past everyone else in their graduating class with a middle finger held high and piles of money billowing out of the backseat. Not applying yourself in school can carry a mostly deserved stigma that only the Van Goghs and Michelangelos of slackerdom know how to counteract: They know how to occasionally blow minds with a display of fully tapped potential no one knew they had in them.
My high school years were mostly spent directionless. I wandered mindlessly from one class to another, not giving too much of a shit if I failed or passed with flying colors. It wasn't until an English class in my senior year that my life began to point in a discernible direction. My English teacher taught us about comedy and satire for nearly an entire semester. I was rolling in every lesson, every reading assignment, and every writing assignment like a pig in the highest quality shit.
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Finally, I had found my calling.
Later that year, we had to adapt a story we had all read throughout our years of schooling into a movie. My group and I adapted Beowulf. I was the writer, director, and reluctant star of the picture. The film was a huge success among my classmates. Kids would cut class just to watch a video that I now consider to be a complete piece of shit. But that class was when, for the first time in my years of schooling, I started to shine. Suddenly, people (myself included) became aware that there was something I could do. I realized it late into my educational career, but early enough in life to do something with it.
Slack on, brothers and sisters. Slack on in every aspect of your life, except one -- work your ass off trying to find that one thing that engages you, that one thing that ensnares your attention. It's out there, but you'll never find it if you apply the same apathy to its discovery as you do to literally everything else in your life.
Luis is just, like ... whatever, man. Just leave him alone, man. You can leave him alone on Twitter and Tumblr.
For more from Luis, check out 5 Pop Culture Classics That Almost Had Truly Terrible Titles and The 4 Most Baffling Driving Behaviors Everyone Encounters.


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Cedarville University
Men's Glee Club -- Crawfordsville, IN
November 11, 2012 from 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Men's Glee Club will be performing at 6pm. The event is free and open to the public.East Side Baptist Church
200 Traction Road
Crawfordsville, IN 47933 View Map
Campus Contact Information
Mrs. Pam Miller
Administrative Assistant Dept. of Music & Worship
Touring Team, Men's Glee Club, Music and Worship


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ELMONT, N.Y. — If this were the movies you'd know exactly the kind of ending they'd write. Young man with a dream leaves Winnsboro, La., the town that calls itself the Catfish Capital of the World, rodeos some on a local circuit between there and Monroe, 30 miles to the south and learns the hard way that he wants something else.
"When you're tryin' to make a livin' bustin' broncs and you realize that the ambulance is parked right alongside you, it don't take long to learn there are easier ways," Cowboy Billy Gowan said yesterday at Belmont Park.
He found one.
Yesterday morning it brought him to the biggest rodeo of his life when they drew post positions for a horse race that could attract a crowd somewhat larger than the population of Winnsboro — even if you counted all the people and the generations of catfish past, present and future. More than 100,000 are expected to drop in.
Cowboy Billy Gowan, who fell off more than a few saddle broncs along the way, is part of a moment thoroughbred horsemen will speak of for generations to come. All the glitz and glamour of a possible Triple Crown rides into this one on the back of California Chrome, the wonder colt, who hasn't even been challenged on the first two-thirds of his journey.
And Cowboy Billy Gowan stands among those who can change the course of what seems to be the inevitable drumbeat of this remarkable colt's feet.
Gowan's Ride On Curlin is the fourth choice at 12-1 on the morning line. Hanging a hope on odds like those seems much like leaning it on a slender reed for support in the teeth of a hurricane.
But Cowboy Billy has looked adversity in the eye and not backed off during much of his personal journey. His colt finished second in the Preakness but admittedly not really generating a threat,
Yet have no fear. The pride of Catfish Alley is here with a smile, a dream and a theory:
"I thought all along this might be his (Ride on Curlin's) best distance. He never really quits, so if California Chrome finds that long stretch tiring, we'll be running at him."
And as he watches through his binoculars, you can't blame him if he shouts "run, babay run." This is a man, who just a year ago was down to a two-horse stable.
"Yeah," he said yesterday in an accent smothered with Louisiana hot sauce, "it was like that. I did have two and then Majestic Light bows a tendon and Where's the Beef gets claimed on me for $5,000 so I'm left with zero."
What did he do?
"Well, she ," he said gesturing toward his wife, "went back to school and I took care of the kids and kept the fire burning in the fireplace."
What happened next was something out of that movie scenario we mentioned. He found a horse for a furniture dealer from Louisville for just $25,000. "It was," he said, "at the end of the sales and we didn't have a lot of time to debate it so we walked up there and just bought him. I was so worried, I ran and got a vet to check him from head to toe."
So like a Christmas present where the buyer says don't bother to wrap it, I'll take it with me, Ride On Curlin found a home, a trainer and a chance to write the kind of story that changes history — but only if he wins.
In his second start, he broke a track record at Ellis Park. They were offered a million dollars after that but declined. The wheels were set in motion. This horse has yet to prove he is the equal of California Chrome, but then no other horse in this race has either.
Back in Winnsboro they will tell you this is a fairy tale deal ... something that's not supposed to happen to-train-by-the-seat-of-their-pants country boys.
But it did.
Billy Gowan, his moustache and his wide-brimmed black cowboy hat are here.
So is the Louisville furniture man, who was his angel.
And so is the bargain basement colt who ran second in the Preakness.
Admittedly, this ain't the movies but like Yogi says, "It ain't over until it's over."


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Aaron Digulla wrote:
> Hello,
> On my linux system, TB 2.0 crashes very often (it crashed 2s after I
> started it the first time and now again after using it for an hour or
> so). Looking at Talkback, it seems a pretty common problem (MTBF of
> 5.87s). When it crashed the first time, I did turn off the talkback
> service. How do I enable it again? There is no option in the Add ons
> page and I also couldn't find anything in the preferences.
> Regards,
first , don't post multiple post on same topic.
goto Tools>Add-ons>Extensions, select Talkback , an 'Enable' button will
be shown up on it , click on it . restart TB.
if getting same problem or you don't find any such Enable button , close TB.
goto TB profile folder "http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile#Thunderbird".
delete these files:
start TB. now try to enable that extension.


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