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GENERATION ME THE MUSICAL Makes Hollywood Premiere at Fringe 2014, Now thru 6/28
Don't miss this original teen musical, performed by teen actors in a Hollywood premiere.
In "Generation ME the Musical", at age 15, Milo Reynolds had it all: a seat at the popular table, the perfect girlfriend, the "coolest" parents, and friends who worshiped him. So, when Milo kills himself on Monday morning, his friends and family are left questioning everything they thought they knew about him.
"Generation ME" explores the heartbreak, confusion, and survivor's guilt of the effects of suicide on those left behind. Told in flashbacks that open Milo's story to the audience like a mystery, "Generation ME" identifies a generation more privileged, self-interested, oblivious, and lonelier than ever.
The musical features story by Julie Soto and Ryan Warren, book and lyrics by Julie Soto and music by Will Finan. The production is directed by Ryan Warren and runs June 8 - 28, 2014.
Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 2:00pm - Press Preview
Friday, June 13th - 7:30pm
Saturday, June 14th - 7:30pm
Friday, June 20th - 7:30pm
Saturday, June 21st - 7:30pm
Friday, June 27th - 7:30pm
Saturday, June 28th - 7:30pm
All performances play the Hudson Theater - Mainstage, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90038. Tickets: June 8th Preview - $10.00 or "Pay What You Can"; June 13th - 28th - $15.00 (Regular Price); $14.00 with Fringe Button; $12.00 for Fringe Participants. Tickets go on sale May 1, 2014. Online at www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1466 or at the Fringe Central Box Office - In person during the Festival or by phone (323)455-4585, or visit www.hudsontheatres.com. NOTE: Audience Age Recommendation - 13 and older. Run Time: Estimated 2 hours 30 minutes; plus intermission. For more information visit our website at
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Jon (Bones) Jones feels Anderson Silva "abused his gift."
Long considered the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Silva suffered a stunning knockout loss to Chris Weidman this past weekend.
Perhaps more shocking than the defeat itself is the method by which the Brazilian MMA legend was finished. Silva attempted his usual clowning tactics by dropping his hands and taunting Weidman, while dodging punches with head movement alone.
Then it happened.
Part-way through the second round, Weidman cracked Silva with a left hook and followed up with ground-and-pound to claim the UFC middleweight championship.
As a result, Jones now finds himself sitting atop the UFC's official pound-for-pound rankings. The 25-year-old standout said Silva made the mistake of disrespecting Weidman.
"Anderson Silva's a magnificent fighter," Jones said during a UFC press conference in Toronto Tuesday. "He has an extraordinary gift. He's got to the point where he really believes in his gift and he's comfortable with his gift, but he abused his gift. He disrespected the gift by disrespecting his opponent. Martial arts is traditionally a sport that is based around honour, integrity and treating people with respect. He somehow lost sight of that and paid the ultimate price for it.
"I'm not over the Anderson Silva hype train. I know exactly where he is at and can tell where he's at by the way he was fighting. He was fighting at a masterful level, but I think he just got disrespectful -- and the war gods just made him pay for it. He's still that great Anderson Silva in my books."
Jones is set to defend the light-heavyweight championship against Alexander (The Mauler) Gustafsson in the main event of UFC 165 at the Air Canada Centre Sept. 21. He said watching Silva get knocked out was a humbling experience.
"It actually motivates me a lot, to watch somebody that I look up to lose," Jones said. "It's just like a reality check. I try to keep my ego in check when it comes to the fight game.
"Watching Anderson lose like that -- first of all, that is something I would never do, which is put my hands down and try to fight my opponent that way -- but watching Chris Weidman's dream come true, I have to continue to be a dream crusher. So that's what I'm going to do."
Following his loss to Weidman, Silva seemed almost relieved to see his own title run come to an end, as if a burden had been lifted from his shoulders.
"Chris is the champion now," Silva said immediately following the loss. "I finish my work. I no more fight for the belt. I fight for the belt for a long time. I'm tired."
Jones said he can't relate to Silva's sentiment, stating that as long as there are records to break in the UFC, he will be motivated to continue training hard.
"No, I don't feel a burden of being a champion," Jones said. "I don't allow myself to, knowing that I'm a guy who hasn't really done as much as a lot of great champions. There are things that Matt Hughes has done more than me. GSP has won more titles than me. Anderson Silva has won more titles than me. There are just so many records out there that I don't have.
"That's why, when people consider me the No. 1 fighter in the world and I don't own many records, it doesn't sit well with me. I feel as though I'm still a young guy. I'm 25 years old and I have no right to be the youngest guy in the division (and) be complacent."
Though Jones feels he has a lot more work to do, he's on the cusp of establishing a new benchmark for most light-heavyweight title defences. In April, he picked up a TKO victory over Chael Sonnen to tie Tito Ortiz with five successful title defences.
Jones said Gustafsson is the ideal opponent for such an historic fight.
"I think me setting the record and proving more critics wrong at the same time, is just like a fairytale way to win the record for me," Jones told QMI Agency following the press conference. "There's no one better for me to beat than someone who is young like me, tall like me and with a good reach, as well. I cancel out that record and the critics, all with one big fight. That's the way I'm looking at it. So I feel right on schedule. This is perfect."
It appears Tito (The People's Champ) Ortiz isn't prepared to stay retired.
On Wednesday, the former UFC light-heavyweight champ took to Twitter to inform fans, the UFC and Bellator owner Viacom that he's interested in returning to the cage.
"Fighting is starting to sound fun again. ??????#Peopleschamp #comeback #Positive body is almost healed. @Punishment99 @ufc @Viacom @MTV @espn," Ortiz tweeted.
"Come backs are always the best test! Live life to the fullest. #Positive."
The 38-year-old Hall of Fame inductee hasn't competed since a unanimous-decision loss to Forrest Griffin one year ago. The bout marked his third consecutive defeat.
Following the defeat, he called it quits, retiring with a 16-11-1 record. In his last 10 outings, Ortiz went 2-7-1. His sole victory in the last five years came via submission over Ryan Bader in 2011.
Ortiz holds wins over Vitor Belfort, Ken Shamrock, Griffin, Wanderlei Silva and Evan Tanner. He has also shared the cage with Chuck Liddell, Frank Shamrock, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira.
Before even making his Legacy Fighting Championship debut, Leonard (Bad Boy) Garcia has booked a second date with the Texas-based promotion.
A former WEC featherweight title challenger, Garcia is slated to battle Rey Trujillo at Legacy FC 21 in Houston July 19. Win or lose, the Jackson's MMA fighter has agreed to fight Nick Gonzalez at Legacy FC 23 in San Antonio Sept. 23.
Garcia's scrap with Trujillo will mark his first outing since being released from his UFC contract following a five-fight skid.
Though the UFC often cuts fighters due to a pair of losses, Garcia was kept around for his fan-friendly brawling style. However, the final nail in the coffin came in the form of a one-sided unanimous-decision loss to Cody McKenzie in April.
Jeremy (Lil' Heathen) Stephens can breathe a sigh of relief.
Felony assault and burglary charges against the UFC featherweight have been dropped.
Stephens was arrested on an outstanding warrant last October in Minneapolis, mere hours prior to a scheduled bout with Yves Edwards. The fight was scrapped at zero hour after UFC officials failed to bail Stephens out of custody.
The charges stemmed from a 2011 incident in Iowa.
Prosecutors were attempting to convict Stephens on felony assault and burglary charges, which could have resulted in up to 10 years in prison if the fighter was found guilty. They initially offered Stephens a plea agreement, but the UFC veteran's attorneys opted to shoot it down.
As the trial and jury selection began, prosecutors offered Stephens a new plea agreement, offering the much lesser charge of misdemeanour disorderly conduct, which would result in time served and court costs.
Stephens agreed to the deal and will serve no additional time.
Bellator MMA has announced the full lineup for its stacked July 31 card.
Bellator 97, which goes down in Albuquerque, N.M. and will air live on Spike TV, will be headlined by two title fights.
In the main event, lightweight champion Michael Chandler takes on gritty grinder David (The Caveman) Rickels.
The bout marks Chandler's second title defence. After capturing the 155-pound title against Eddie Alvarez in the best fight in Bellator history, the former NCAA Division I wrestler submitted Rick Hawn in January to dispatch his first challenger.
Meanwhile, Rickels captured the season eight lightweight tournament, picking up victories over Lloyd Woodard, Jason Fischer and Saad Awad.
The co-main will see welterweight kingpin Ben (Funky) Askren battle unbeaten KO artist Andrey (Spartan) Koreshkov.
After capturing the 170-pound strap in 2010, Askren has staged successful title defences against Jay Hieron, Douglas Lima and Karl Amoussou. Koreshkov earned the right to challenge the 2008 wrestling Olympian by capturing the season seven tourney crown.
Bellator 97 also features a pair of Summer Series tournament finals.
In the light-heavyweight division, Muhammed (King Mo) Lawal will square off with Jacob (The Psycho) Noe. The winner will meet the victor of the upcoming 205-pound title fight between Emanuel Newton and Attila Vegh.
Heavyweights Ryan Martinez and Vitaly Minakov clash to earn the right to challenge division champ Alexander Volkov.
The main card will also feature a non-tournament featherweight bout between Patricio (Pitbull) Freire and Robert (The Saint) Emerson.
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Hi all,
When I first worked on the World Service Save Our Sounds project I was in touch with a few of you who really helped us. I wondered if I could call on that help again as our small team has been nominated for a presitigous Webby award which is voted for by the public and we could really do with the support of the sound community. If you're not already familiar with the project, it was an effort to try and create an audiomap of the world and preserve endangered sounds for future generations.
It's still live and we'd love for you to get involved - there are already hundreds of sound on our interactive map at www.worldservice.com/saveoursounds but feel free to add yours too.
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Hot topics from the 16th annual IVECC symposium (Proceedings)
The clinical utility of ultrasonography in the emergency room has been expanding in recent years. Two techniques recently presented are known as abdominal focused assessment with sonogram for trauma (AFAST) and thoracic focused assessment with sonogram for trauma (TFAST). The combined use of AFAST and TFAST provides a rapid assessment of four spaces (abdominal, retroperitoneal, pleural, pericardial). Examinations are typically performed in the absence of shaving hair.
The AFAST examination has been evaluated with patients in right lateral recumbency, with the following four sites: 1) Diaphragmatic-Hepatic (DH) view, also used to image the pleural and pericardial spaces; 2) Spleno-Renal (SR) view, also used as a window into the retroperitoneal space; 3) Cysto-Colic (CC) view; 4) Hepato-Renal view is a favorable site for abdominocentesis.An abdominal fluid scoring (AFS) system has been shown helpful in predicting severity of hemorrhage, and corresponding with the patient's need for blood transfusion.
• AFS 0 - negative at all four sites
The TFAST examination consists of five sites: 1) Chest tube site (CTS) view, performed bilaterally; 2) Pericardial site (PCS) view, performed bilaterally; 3) Diaphragmatic-Hepatic (DH) view previously highlighted as part of the AFAST exam. The CTS is best for ruling out a pneumothorax (PTX), as well as surveying for lung pathology. The PCS view is best used to evaluate for the presence of pleural or pericardial fluid. This view may also be used to assess volume status via the left ventricular short axis view, as well as "quick peaks" of the left atrial:aortic (LA:Ao) ratio to rule out left-sided heart failure.
Echocardiography and measurement of intravascular volume
As a supplement to traditional techniques used to assess intravascular volume status (heart rate, mucous membrane color and capillary refill time, blood pressure, jugular vein observation and central venous pressure, blood lactate, urine specific gravity and urine output), echocardiography may provide additional information to provide the most accurate assessment of an individual's volume status.
Dilated hepatic veins
Hepatic veins are often distended in patients with chronic fluid overload conditions. When seen in association with ascites, most cases of ascites will be due to a cardiac cause or an obstruction to venous return.
Left atrial size
In the vast majority of dogs and cats with left-sided congestive heart failure, there will be moderate to marked left atrial enlargement present on echocardiogram. Hypovolemia often results in a small left atrium and "triangulation" of the appearance of the left atrium.
Ventricular size and volume
Animals with hypovolemia often have small right and left ventricular internal dimension in diastole and systole, thickening of the walls of the left ventricle and interventricular septum (pseudohypertrophy), and a small pulmonary artery size (unless pulmonary hypertension and/or pulmonary embolism cause the left heart findings). Relatively normal cardiac size means that additional fluids can be given, but that large volume fluid administration is unlikely to help. If cardiac cavity dimensions are increased (specifically LA and LV cavity size) then fluid therapy might result in fluid overload or pulmonary edema, and other approaches to improve blood pressure (vasopressor) or cardiac performance (inotropes) should be considered. Also, cardiac performance can be assessed and reduced contractile function, if present, can provide evidence in support for need for an inotropic agent. Typically, all cardiac chambers are enlarged in cases of fluid overload. The enlargement of cardiac chambers is usually modest, although LV fractional shortening may be slightly reduced in animals with sepsis.


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the only thing keeping this from being realism is the size of the eyes. 5/5++faves
Beauuutiful! :O I love how its realistic, yet in a water color style shading and coloring! It looks fantastic, and great style! 5h n fave!
amazing work!!
Continued: The shoulder could be rounder. As for the light and shadows, the transitions could be more refined. Check out Square Enix's soft shadows for inspiration. Great drawing, Cam.
Continued: About the colors, as a whole it could do with a bit more saturation, especially the face and lips. Good job on the eyes. The hair could be clumped up a bit more and the highlights could be toned down. The jawline could be thinner.
Hi, Cam. Thanks for visiting my thread. Here's my 2 cents: The sternocleido mastoid muscle could definitely be toned down. The proportions you mentioned are relatively stable, the ear could be bigger. There's nothing wrong with the neck imho.
oh, I just saw your link... It looks really alike...I just comment due to your realism desire in the forum.
I have a little problem with the neck.. The lines looks too sharpe. Doesnt looks like a young girl neck. I trully like the hairs, even if it doesn't have this realistic feel that you want.
She is great! For a more realistic effect: Maybe you could add more color for the face. There is always some discret tones of green and blue in a person face. I llike the eyes a lot.
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Amateur Video Captures Drug Bust In La Feria
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:36:37 GMT —
It wasn TMt your typical day at the park at the Lariat R.V. Park in La Feria Wednesday afternoon.
An Action 4 News viewer caught the wild drug bust on tape.
Neighbors like Judy Sweetin said they didn TMt know what was going on, I heard the noise and then I heard the commotion and so we looked outside the window and saw the white car."
At first, residents thought it was a car crash but what really happened took everyone by surprise.
What I saw inside the car|I couldn TMt believe it," said Sylvia Valdez a neighbor at the park.
Inside a white Grand Marquis, there was close to a thousand pounds of marijuana.
Mercedes Police told Action 4 an off-duty border patrol agent spotted the car on FM 491 and tried to pull it over, but when the driver refused to stop, the chase was on.
He ultimately ended up at the Lariat R.V. Park in La Feria where on lookers said the man partially crashed into the office, jumped out and ran away.
Police were able to arrest the man a short time later.
For residents in the R.V. Park they told Action 4 they were just thankful that no one was injured.
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'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Review
Whereas Tom Hanks' Captain Phillips talked, finessed, sweated and went into shock to rescue his crew, Chris Evans' Captain America jumps onto a hijacked boat from a helicopter without a parachute. His liberation of a S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel captured by international terrorists involves flinging himself across the deck; a human pinball with terrorists as his easily neutralized bumpers. Make that a super-human pinball, because as much as Steve Rogers maintains his golly shucks good nature, he is, after all, a Marvel superhero and he's here to save the day in the most preposterous and camera-ready fashion that's possible. Welcome to 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.


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The Real Secret
The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop and reviewing my exegetical notes on Matthew 8 and reading Gibbs's commentary. Honest, I was. But I couldn't help overhearing the conversation going on at another table, a man who looked ex-military rattling on and on about martial arts.
Well, not really. Martial arts, as taught in America, doesn't use the real secret. This guy had studied under someone (in Tennessee, which, last I checked, seemed to be in America, but never mind that) who had revealed the secret to him.
Mind you, I was doing my own reading and I was some distance away, so I'm sure I missed a lot. But I gleaned that true power is not a matter of learning martial arts. It's a matter of flipping the switch in our brains. We're all animals and so this used to come naturally to us but now we have to learn how. But it's not a matter of trying; it's just natural … if we only can get our bodies to remember how. "It's called 'Mind over Matter,'" the man said.
It's not punching; all you need is a touch. When you punch, you're still trying. In fact, it's not that your arm sends out your fist; rather, your fist pulls your arm. Everything is waves, and in fact if you do this right, you're not breaking the board; the board is virtually tearing itself apart.
The whole thing is about speed: if you move at 60 miles an hour, then you have force. You've got to reach out and touch the wall and get your hand back before you've even touched it. That way, the guy said, and I quote, "I can hit you again before I hit you again before I hit you again." And if a baseball, thrown at 100 miles an hour, were to hit the bat, the bat would shatter. That's why the bat has to hit the ball instead.
There was a gnostic element to the whole thing, a secret knowledge that turned into seven secrets, of which the first were "Dilate your eyes" and "Empty your body of all air" (because that makes you move fast) and "Point your toes in the direction you want the energy to go" and "Yell" (this is a secret?) and, I think, "Practice one thing for a minute a day" …
And then I finished my work — really, I was working — and headed home, never to know the last secrets that, if I could but master them, would make me a martial arts expert — no! martial arts is about trying! — um … a dangerous animal, capable of having my fist pull my arm out at 60 miles an hour to touch someone and have him virtually tear himself apart because of my energy waves, as I hit him again before I hit him the first time.
It was tempting to stay, to finish the lesson — or was it a sales pitch? — but no. I remain a 98 pound (give or take a hundred or so) weakling, with a pretty good grasp on Matthew 8.
[Update: When I thought about it some more, this talk reminded me of the way some Christians talk about sanctification and our growth in godliness — as if you're not suppose to be "trying," as if it's never right to tell anyone to "try harder," as if it should all just flow naturally from grace without any effort on our part, as if our efforts are somehow in conflict with grace. Same sort of bushwa, different barrel.]
No Truer Heaven?
In his survey of Augustine's City of God, Edward R. Hardy, Jr. talks about the way things were in America at the time he was writing (c. 1955):
Perhaps our national temptation … is a new form of the imperial ideal in which the civic idealism of the "American dream" replaces the religious vision of brotherhood in God. If St. Augustine heard a modern American school or congregation singing with devout fervour:
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
he would assume that these words referred to our true fatherland, the heavenly city which can be reached only after the sin and sorrow of this earthly pilgrimage are ended. And we should have to tell him that for many of those present there was no truer heaven than the future United States of America. Some would suggest that our national church is the public-school system, as in St. Augustine's time schoolmasters rather than priests passed on from generation to generation a more than secular loyalty to the great traditions of Rome ("The City of God," in Roy W. Battenhouse, ed., A Companion to the Study of St. Augustine, pp. 258-259).
Keeping Ranks
F. W. Boreham, commenting on 1 Chron 12:38 ("All these men of war, who could keep ranks, came to Hebron with a loyal heart to make David king over all Israel"), tells the story of the Scottish lad who joined the army. On parade day, his mother and sister were proud to see him marching but were surprised by something: "Look, mother!" his sister says. " They're all out of step but our Jock!" Boreham comments:
It is not for me to decide whether Jock is right or whether the others are. But since the others are all in step with each other, I am afraid the presumptive evidence is rather heavily against Jock. And Jock is well known to all of us. Nobody likes him, and nobody knows why they don't like him. In many respects he is a paragon of goodness. He loves his church, or he would not have stuck to it year in and year out as he has done. He is not self-assertive; he is quite willing to efface his own personality and be invisible. He is generous to a fault. Nobody is more eager to do anything for the general good. And yet nobody likes him. The only thing against him is that he has never disciplined himself to get on with other people. He has never tried to accommodate himself to their stride. He can't keep rank….
Why should Jock destroy his own personality in order to render himself an exact replica of every other man in the regiment? Is individuality an evil thing that must be wiped out and obliterated? The answer to this objection is that Jock is not asked to sacrifice his personality; he is asked to sacrifice his angularity. The ideal of British discipline is, not to turn men into machines, but to preserve individuality and initiative; and yet, at the same time, to make each man of as great value to his comrades as is by any means possible ("Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" in Mushrooms on the Moor, 182-183).
Boreham elaborates:
Jock … may be firmly convinced that the stride of the regiment is too short or too long. But if, on that ground, he adopts a different one, nobody but his gentle and admiring little sister will believe that he is right and they are wrong. Jock's isolated attitude invariably reflects upon himself. "The whole regiment is out of step!" he declares, drawing attention to his different stride.
That is too often the trouble with Jock. "The members of our Church do not read the Bible!" he says. It may be sadly true; but it sounds, put in that way, like a claim that he is the one conscientious and regular Bible-reader among them. "The members of our Church do not pray!" he exclaims sadly. It may be that a call to prayer is urgently needed; but poor Jock puts the thing in such a light that it appears to be a claim on his part that he alone knows the way to the Throne of Grace. "Among the faithless faithful only he!" "The members of our Church are not spiritually-minded!" he bemoans; but somehow, said as he says it, it sounds suspiciously like an echo of little Jack Horner's "What a good boy am I!" (185).
Intimations and Coincidences
In a recent blog entry, Doug Wilson pondered the potential significance of some coincidences that cropped up recently in his reading. I've had the same experience more than once, though, like Doug, I don't know what weight or significance to attach to these experiences. They're certainly not all profound or obviously meaningful.
The other day, just for the fun of it, I was reading a book about the old pulp magazines, which generated a blog entry on westerns and another on the amount of writing some pulp writers did and how much they were paid for it.
In a chapter on the pulp hero named Operator # 5, there was a discussion of the novels in this series about the invasion of the United States by the Purple Empire, headed up (of course) by the Purple Emperor. There's a picture of the first of those pulp novels to the right.
I set that book down and picked up Kenneth Grahame's Pagan Papers (a dud, by the way; stick to his The Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon) and what should I find at the end of an essay on getting a bookbinder to put expensive bindings on your books? These words: "For these purple emperors are not to be read in bed, nor during meals, nor on the grass with a pipe on Sundays; and these brief periods are all the whirling times allow you for solid serious reading. Still, after all, you have them; you can at least pulverise your friends with the sight; and what have they to show against them?"
Two occurrences of the phrase "purple emperor" in the space of a few minutes. I'd understand that if either of these books was about butterflies (and I suppose Grahame may be making a metaphorical allusion to the purple emperor butterflies, though the allusion is not entirely clear to me). But what are the chances of finding that precise and unusual combination of words twice in two very different books, neither of them about butterflies, in the space of fifteen minutes? A big coincidence, certainly, but intimating … what, exactly? Probably nothing. Certainly nothing clearly. But then, why the noticeable coincidence?
Ephemeral Inheritance
A book is a gift that keeps on giving. If you write a book and have it published, it has a certain weightiness to it; it ends up (you hope) in someone's library; it gets passed on to someone's children. Maybe — just maybe — it becomes a classic. But even if it doesn't, it may still influence generations to come. I hope that happens, for instance, to Jim Jordan's Through New Eyes. How awful if that were forgotten by the next generation.
Blogging, however, isn't nearly as weighty or as lasting. When I am dead, will someone collect all of my blog entries and pass them on to my children and they to theirs? Never mind me. My thoughts may not be worth collecting. What about Peter Leithart? There's gold in his blog entries, of which he sometimes turns out two or three a day. Some of them will show up in books, and for that I'm thankful because that form of publication will give them longer life. But will the individual blog entries last into coming generations? I doubt it.
Facebook and Twitter? They're useful tools. You can draft a sentence or two and send it out and find out immediately that a bunch of your friends have read it and liked it, and God may use that to influence a lot of people in good ways. But they're ephemeral in the extreme. Ever remembered something one of your friends said and then tried to track it down? Even if you remember who said it, good luck finding it on his Facebook page. It's not that sort of medium. Nothing in it lasts into the future. Except those embarrassing photos someone tagged you in.
By all means post helpful comments in your Facebook status or Tweet a sentence you've just read. But if you want your thoughts to last a bit longer and for people to be able to find them again, don't shut down your blog (as some people seem to have). And if you want your thoughts to be preserved for future generations, there's still no substitute for a book.
Too Much Lawyer
The whole point is … not that our Judges have a personal power, but that the whole world around them, the newspapers, the tone of opinion, encourage them to use it in a very personal way. In our legal method there is too much lawyer and too little law. For we must never forget one fact, which we tend to forget nevertheless: that a fixed rule is the only protection of ordinary humanity against clever men — who are the natural enemies of humanity. A dogma is the only safeguard of democracy. The law is our only barrier against lawyers. — G. K. Chesterton, Collected Works 27: The Illustrated London News 1905-1907, p. 290.
The Power of Optimism
At first sight it would seem that the pessimist encourages improvement. But in reality it is a singular truth that the era in which pessimism has been cried from the house-tops is also that in which almost all reform has stagnated and fallen into decay. The reason of this is not difficult to discover. No man ever did, and no man ever can, create or desire to make a bad thing good or an ugly thing beautiful. There must be some germ of good to be loved, some fragment of beauty to be admired. The mother washes and decks out the dirty or careless child, but no one can ask her to wash and deck out a goblin with a heart like hell. No one can kill the fatted calf for Mephistopheles. The cause which is block all progress to-day is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. . . . Things must be loved first and improved afterwards. — G. K. Chesterton, "In Defense of a New Edition," The Defendant, pp. 7-8.
Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society is, in many ways, a disappointing book. The problem is not just that it's outdated. The problem is that the flashes of insight that impressed me at the beginning of the book were reduced to a trickle midway through and that, while I appreciated a lot of Illich's critique of compulsory government schooling, his own suggestions for a "deschooled" society struck me as quixotic and utopian, bordering on ludicrous.
That said, there was stuff I appreciated, stuff that (even if you don't agree with it) makes you say "Huh! I need to think about that some more," beginning with the opening paragraph:
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question (1).
Serves Him Right
C. H. Spurgeon offers some strong words to the sort of people who kick you when you're down:
How aggravating it is when those who knocked you down, kick you for not standing up! It is not very pleasant to hear that you have been a great fool, and that there were fifty ways at least of keeping out of your difficulty, only you had not the sense to see them. You ought not to have lost the game; even Tom Fool can see where you made a bad move. "He ought to have locked the stable door"; everybody can see that, but nobody offers to buy the loser a new nag. "What a pity he went so far on the ice!" That's very true, but that won't save the poor fellow from drowning. When a man's coat is threadbare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. Good advice is poor food for a hungry family….
Lend me a bit of string to tie up the traces, and find fault with my old harness when I get home. Help my old horse to a few oats, and then tell him to mend his pace. Feel for me, and I shall be much obliged to you, but mind you feel in your pocket or else a fig for your feelings. — C. H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk, pp. 85-86.
Sports Stars and Sports Writing
In his essay "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," David Foster Wallace talks about his (and, by extension, our) obsession with sports autobiographies. We read the things, he says, because
we want to know them, these gifted, driven physical achievers. We too, as audience, are driven: watching the performance is not enough. We want to get intimate with all that profundity. We want inside them; we want the Story. We want to hear about humble roots, privation, precocity, grim resolve, discouragement, persistence, team spirit, sacrifice, killer instinct, liniment and pain. We want to know how they did it…. and of course, we want to know how it feels, inside, to be both beautiful and best ("How did it feel to win the big one?") (143).
And yet, when sports stars tell their own stories, they are almost always disappointing. In fact, they are often banal, whether they appear in books or in interviews:
Turn on any post-contest TV interview: "Kenny, how did it feel to make that sensational game-winning shoestring catch in the end zone with absolutely no I mean zero time remaining on the clock?" "Well, Frank, I was just real pleased. I was real happy and also pleased. We've all worked hard and come a long way as a team, and it's always a good feeling to be able to contribute." "Mark, you've now homered in your last eight straight at-bats and lead both leagues in RBIs — any comment?" "Well, Bob, I'm just trying to take it one pitch at a time. I've been focusing on the fundamentals, you know, and trying to make a contribution, and all of us know we've got to take it one game at a time and hang in there and not look ahead and just basically do the best we can at all times" (152).
So these stars are stunningly inarticulate, especially right after a demanding game (which is something Wallace doesn't factor in: ask me a detailed, heavy, challenging question right after a sermon or a lecture and I may not be as articulate as I'd like either; ask me how it felt to give that lecture and I'd probably say something banal: "Um … fine"). But the inability to articulate and the tendency to the banal pervades the autobiographies, too, which are not composed on the spur of the moment after the game was won.
Are these athletes dim? Hardly. Their sports require "extraordinary mental powers":
Anyone who buys the idea that great athletes are dim should have a close look at an NFL playbook, or at a basketball coach's diagram of a 3-2 zone trap … or at an archival film of Ms. Tracy Austin repeatedly putting a ball in a court's corner at high speed from seventy-eight feet away, with huge sums of money at stake and enormous crowds of people watching her do it (153).
Where most of us, under such circumstances, would freeze up, overcome perhaps by our own internal voices, great athletes aren't. Wallace suggests that these great athletes aren't analyzing what they're doing or what they're supposed to do; they're bypassing the mind and acting:
The real secret behind top athelete's genius, then, may be as esoteric and obvious and dull and profound as silence itself. The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands as the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all (154).
He adds:
It may well be that spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it — and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence (155).
The same, it occurs to me, may be true not just of sports, but of a lot of work. I spent a week out in the wilds of British Columbia planting trees when I was in college and I wasn't good at it at all. Part of the problem, it seemed to me, was that I was bored; I couldn't turn off my mind and I couldn't entertain my mind. Where others simply got out there and planted, climbing every mountain and fording every stream in their way, I thought about it all and couldn't get the job done.
One thing that's going on here is what is sometimes called "poetic knowledge": the knowledge that comes from experience, not from analysis. What Tracy Austin could do with a tennis ball wasn't the result of analyzing the game of tennis, let alone analyzing what she herself was doing, but was simply something she did. So, too, with an experienced carpenter: Where I have to think about where every nail goes and how exactly I ought to hold it and what force I ought to swing the hammer with, a carpenter simply bangs in the nails — and he may not be able to explain all the questions I'm thinking about. He just does it.
Another thing to consider in this connection is that, as Wallace illustrates throughout his essay, a high degree of poetic knowledge does not necessarily correspond to a high degree of analytical knowledge. Put another way, just because you can't talk about your touchdown — let alone about how you felt about it, when feelings are notoriously hard to put into words and harder still to put into words that are not banal or cliche — doesn't necessarily mean that you're stupid.
What's particularly impressive, though, are those people who manage to achieve both great technical prowess and a great ability to think things through and communicate. I've met several in churches, men who can work hard in construction without having to analyze everything they do (as I would) and who can then come to a Bible study and grapple with the text of Scripture or go home and read a book and follow a complex argument. They're the really impressive ones. But apparently, if Wallace is correct, they aren't writing sports autobiographies.
Humility & Education
In September, I lectured for the Bucer Institute on "Genesis and the Future," focusing on what Genesis teaches us about eschatology and our hope for the future. But I also got to speak at the Institute's convocation banquet, and there I talked about humility and education.
Much of what I said was probably obvious. Humility includes recognizing that we all have a lot to learn and that God puts us in certain environments — such as the Bucer Institute — to learn from others. That learning may start with being silent. As Anselm says in his "Duties of Clergy," "Now what ought we to learn before everything else, but to be silent, that we may be able to speak?" And so we must humble ourselves to learn from our teachers and to recognize that they are, in some way, superior to us. Likewise, we must also humble ourselves to learn from our fellow students, not just to learn but to learn together.
In fact, sometimes shyness can be a form of thinking too much of ourselves (though I am not saying that this shyness is necessarily the sin of pride): "I don't want to ask a question and have people think I'm stupid." Or: "I don't want to raise my hand and interact with the prof as if I think my opinions are worth his time." On the contrary, I said: Humble yourself and ask in order to learn.
But I also wanted to speak about something perhaps less obvious, namely, humility before the subject, putting the subject ahead of yourself. If your goal at a particular school is simply to use it as a stepping-stone to advance yourself, if your focus is on your marks or on impressing teachers or on impressing future employers or whatever, you will not learn the way you could if you were really interested in the subject. I've often said that I would rather teach someone who is interested than someone who is simply intelligent.
And what's the mark of that sort of humility, that sort of fascination with the subject that puts it ahead of yourself? Perhaps one mark is that you sometimes bore people by talking about the subject. Which brings me to G. K. Chesterton and to the following quotation, which was, in fact, a major impetus behind my entire talk:
Neither in public nor in private life … is it all true that the man who talks a great deal is necessarily an offensive person. It is an entire mistake, for instance, to imagine that the man who monopolises conversation is a conceited fellow. The man who monopolises conversation is almost always modest. The man who talks too much generally has a great deal of humility. Nay, even the man who talks other people down, who argues them down, who shouts them down, does not in the least necessarily think himself better than they are.
It may seem a contradiction, yet the truth and reason of it are really very obvious. The man who talks too much, talks too much because he is interested in his subject. He is not interested in himself: if he were he would behave better. If he were really an egoist he would think of what effect his ego was producing: and a very mild degree of mental perception would enable him to realise that the chief effect his ego was producing was a unanimous human aspiration to hurl him out of the window.
A man who fills a drawing-room for two or three hours (say) with a monologue on bulbs, is the very reverse of a selfish man. He is an unselfish hero, courting the scorn and contumely of men in the great cause of bulbs, objects which are hardly likely to offer him in return any active assistance or even any animated friendship. He is a Martyr, like Stephen or Joan of Arc: and we know that the blood of the martyrs is the seed (or bulb) of the Church.
No; the really selfish men are the silent men, those wicked and sinister fellows. They care more for their own manners (a base individualistic asset) than for conversation, which is social, which is impersonal, which is divine. The loud talker is humble. The very phrase you use about him proves this. If a man is rude, and bawls and blunders, the snub given to him would be "You forget yourself." It is the very ecstasy of altruism — an impersonal apotheosis. You say to the cad, "You forget yourself." What better, what higher, could you say to the saint than that "You forget yourself"? — Collected Works 27: The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907, 132-133.
If you never bore someone with any subject, then you have a problem: either nothing in the world fascinates you (how sad!) or the thing that matters most to you is how you appear to others. But if things do grip you, you're going to end up boring your wife or a friend or someone at church by talking too much about them from time to time.
On the other hand, as I went on to add, if you don't forget yourself and the subject you love in order to love others — which in this case means to shut up about your subject and talk about what interests them — you also will not excel in your learning, because truly learning anything means learning how to use it to serve others. The goal is not just to be so full of your subject that you forget yourself and spill out onto others from time to time, important as that is. The goal is, with your love of the subject subordinate to the love of others, to be the servant of all.
Sea Serpents
The other day, I read M. T. Anderson's The Serpent Came to Gloucester to my daughter, Aletheia. The book is a lot of fun, but even more fun (for me) was the historical note at the back about the many sea serpent sightings along the New England coast throughout the nineteenth century and particularly between 1817 and 1818. I appreciated Anderson's comment on the back flap of the book:
For generations, fishermen took for granted the existence of long, snakelike animals in the North Atlantic. It takes a peculiar kind of snobbery to believe that men who worked on the sea all their lives — though illiterate — were by nature superstitious, confused, and gullible.
And what were these sea serpents doing? According to the story, exactly what Psalm 104 says they do: they were playing (Ps. 104:24-26).


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The change reflects the company's expansion from a network services company to a global IT services company serving over 5,000 enterprise customers. The SAVVIS corporate brand supports the company's new messaging strategy, "Transforming Information Technology," its focus on the enterprise marketplace, and its extensive portfolio of IT solutions.
Early in its corporate life, SAVVIS developed a reputation as a high-performance, secure, and cost effective networking provider. Today, SAVVIS delivers a broad set of hosting, network, and application services that improve IT operations and eliminate capital expense. The SAVVIS product portfolio features its virtualized utility services, an industry leading set of services that give businesses secured access to massively scalable server, storage, and network resources worldwide. These innovative services enable businesses to become more agile by easily and quickly scaling their IT infrastructure up or down as business needs change.
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Despite a technology industry downturn, SAVVIS experienced remarkable growth and success since its initial public offering in February, 2000. During this time, the company has grown organically and made several strategic acquisitions: in November 2002, SAVVIS was selected to assume management of Intel Online Services (Intel's hosting services business); in August 2003, SAVVIS acquired the commercial business of WAM!NET, Inc. a leading global provider of content management and delivery services; and most recently, in March 2004, SAVVIS acquired the assets of Cable & Wireless America which added a Tier 1 IP network encompassing nearly 30% of the world's Internet routes, comprehensive hosting services, a large base of enterprise customers, 15 world-class data centers, an industry leading content delivery network, and a significant professional services organization.
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I hate to brag, but there's just something about me that drives single, upwardly mobile, college-educated women between the ages of 25 and 34 wild.
All my friends want to know my secret. In all honesty, though, I don't even know what it is. Everyone has their "type," and I guess mine just happens to be unmarried, childless women in white-collar professions requiring two to six years of post-high-school education, usually with an emphasis on health services or administrative support.
I can't say exactly what it is about me that attracts these women, but I do have a lot going for me. As a demographer for a major marketing firm, I earn a salary in the $75,000 to $99,000 range. I spend 20 to 25 percent of my disposable income on entertainment. And at the end of each month, I still have eight percent of my total income remaining to put into savings.
And, unlike some men I could cite, I know how to treat a lady. When I'm on a date, I like to take a woman to dinner at a restaurant costing $20 to $39 per entree. Nothing extravagant, but a nice place, most likely run by a 35- to 60-year-old male who is a member of the city's 22 percent minority population. Often, this owner is Chinese-American, though occasionally he is of Indian or Thai descent.
Then, after dinner, it's back to my place for a drink, typically a bottle of white wine from the Clare Valley region costing $30. I put some nice jazz on the stereo, usually something romantic by a Marsalis brother, 61 percent of the time Wynton and 39 percent Branford.
Once the two (2) date participants settle in on the couch, a little conversation begins. The subject tends to gravitate toward items of interest to 25- to 34-year-olds, but at times I like to shift to topics of primary interest to 18- to 24-year-olds, just to keep things light. Often, we'll discuss our favorite books, movies, and TV shows, particularly Survivor, a very popular program among childless, college-aged young adults, as well as members of three- to six-person suburban families.
I haven't always had such luck with women. For years, I tried dating blue-collar/service-industry employees making between $15,000 and $20,000 per year, only 19 percent of whom had completed education beyond high school–the segment of the population most likely to visit Sea World, shop at Wal-Mart, read True Story, and watch QVC. Big mistake. These dates tended to be significantly less enjoyable than those with women who own a $1,000-plus computer, drink diet soda, watch Nightline or ER, and possess at least two credit cards.
Ever since entering the 30 to 35 age group, I've sworn off dating women in the under-25 demographic. I remember fondly the days when a Saturday night meant spending $100 on an under-25 female, but I'm through with that. Back then, I'd patronize local restaurants or bars three to four nights a week in search of females, but I'm through with that set of preferences, too.
These days, I'm just as likely to enjoy spending a relaxing evening at home, drinking a $2 to $3 premium imported beer and watching a rented movie–usually an action-adventure or drama. Sometimes, it's nice to just curl up on the couch with Freddie, my four-year-old long-haired sporting-breed dog, at my feet.
Yes, after years of dating four to six times a month, I think I'm finally at the point where, should I meet the right 25- to 34-year-old, I'm ready to settle down. I could see us buying a home together in a cute little seaside town with a violent crime rate of under 300 crimes per 100,000 population and a cost-of-living index hovering right around 100. Then, after a few years of married bliss, we'd start thinking about having a few dependents. That would be so wonderful: me, my spouse, and our 1 to 3 children living happily ever after.


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Sept. 6, 2007 – The grand finale of the School of Information and Library Science's (SILS) 75th anniversary is set to take place on Sept. 17, 2007, which coincides with the date the school first began teaching classes in 1931. The finale will begin at 3 p.m. in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall.
Our distinguished keynote presenter will be Dr. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He will present, "In Praise of Reading." Dr. Gregorian is the 12th president of the corporation, a post he assumed in 1997. Prior to this position, he was president of Brown University for nine years. For eight years prior to his work at Brown University, he was president of the New York Public Library. Dr. Gregorian is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
The Carnegie Corporation provided SILS with its first grant of $100,000 to enable the school to operate for three years and to make permanent its conditional accreditation from the American Library Association.
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The excitement is building after the festival's 14th birthday party brought the main square of Novi Sad to stand still as CeeLo Green performed to 30,000 people. With only a week to go, festival goers will have 5 days of music, fun and sun to look forward to from 10th – 14th July 2013. Taking place in the magical Petrovaradin Fortress overlooking the river Danube, EXIT continues to deliver the most adventurous and value for money festival experience, with a diverse and cutting edge line up, cheap food and drink onsite and over 600 artists, performing on 20 stages connected by cobbled streets, ramparts and tunnels.
EXIT's first night features a stint in the city of Novi Sad followed by a performance at the fortress by legendary hitmaker Nile Rogers, the man behind the chart topping Daft Punk hit 'Get Lucky' kicking things off in disco dancing style with his original band CHIC on Wednesday 10th July. CHIC, is one of the most notable pop and disco sensations of all time with their their hits, "Good Times", "Dance, Dance, Dance", "Everybody Dance", "I Want Your Love" and "Le Freak" being recognisable all around the world. Not only that but there's performances from Arcadia, AREA51 and AlterNacija.
EXIT Dance Arena reveals the final names for the Sunday closing party extravaganza with legendary Kerri Chandler, Guti live and George Fitzgerald who now joins Scuba b2b as Scuba is sadly now unable to perform his live show. Smashing the walls of the fortress, Sunday is always the loosest of nights, with local hero Marko Nastic closing the arena with his crazy antics.
The HappyNoviSad Stage features the most progressive styles of alternative electronic music, testing the boundaries of creativity and without compromise. Kicking off the proceedings with one of the leading world's underground labels, the legendary Dutch label Clone, with DJ Serge being the mastermind behind it all. Founded all the way back in 1993, this label drew public attention in a short period of time thanks to the fresh approach to classic sounds and beats of Chicago house, Detroit techno, electro, disco and italo-disco. Clone's flag at the festival will be flown by Gerd, Alden Tyrell and Dexter. Saturday features Leisure System with Dopplereffekt, Ikonika and Visionist. Leisure System has been claiming the famous Berghain in Berlin its home for years now, safe to say we can't wait for some of their tunes to echo through the fortress walls. Om Unit, Dawn Day Night and dBridge, who at the same time celebrates the 10th birthday of his famous label Exit Records, which was created as Darren White's (dBridge) token of love for music. Since its launch in 2003, Exit Records became the leading name in the progressive electronic music and raised the production, as well as material presenting standards.
For those of you who still want to party each morning after the Dance Arena and Main Stage close, we are putting on special afterhours on the boat Club Cristal featuring club partners FACT, JUNK, BlahBlahBlah, Musika, Colours in Music, Shapes, Spacestation, Idiosynphonic and Sublow plus surprise guest DJs from the festivaL…kicking off from 7am-2pm.
Artists include; Atoms for Peace, Bloc Party, Chic feat. Nile Rogers, David Guetta, Fatboy Slim, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Snoop Dogg aka Snook Lion, The Prodigy, Chase & Status DJ Set, Eric Prydz, Jeff Mills, Steve Angello, Diplo, DJ Fresh live, Dubfire, Pan-Pot, Mark Knight, Rudimental Live, SBTRKT Dj Set, Seth Troxler and many more! View full line up here.
This years EXIT campsite will be located near the SPENS swimming pools – a five minute walk from downtown, close to the biggest city beach – Strand, and just a 15 minute walk from the place where magic begins – the Petrovaradin Fortress! The Village will be open from 8am Monday July 8 until 10am Wednesday July 17. More info here.
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Getting to EXIT is easy! The nearest airport is Belgrade, with direct flights from the UK with JAT and Wizz Air from £169 and many indirect with all European carriers. Belgrade is only one hour from Novi Sad and you easily can take a taxi or shuttle bus. EXIT Trip is the Official Travel and accommodation service for the EXIT Festival with the lowest prices guaranteed! Offering direct flights, accommodation and local transfers in one package that can be tailor made, look no further than here www.exittrip.org
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Started by 3 students in 2000 as a protest against the Milosevic regime, fighting for political change and freedom, today the festival is still an NGO (Non Governmental Organization). One that promotes change and positive education, supporting many community and humanitarian missions, while throwing a damn good party.
EXIT strives to bring the best talent possible – with the challenges that being a non-profit brings – while playing a vital role in bringing together the new nations of war-torn former Yugoslavia. It is the social importance of the Festival that makes it unique and globally recognized.
EXIT 2013 will feature another strong social campaign that will focus on human rights and global freedoms, with a series of films, art exhibitions, lectures and debates being organised with prominent names from around the world.
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Radiation Therapy Combined With Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Anaplastic Astrocytoma or Mixed Gliomas
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RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as temozolomide, carmustine, and lomustine, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying radiation therapy and temozolomide to see how well they work compared to radiation therapy and carmustine or lomustine in treating patients with anaplastic astrocytoma or mixed gliomas.
|Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors
|Drug: Nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU) Drug: temozolomide Radiation: radiation therapy
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase III Randomized Study (Phase I Closed) of Radiation Therapy and Temozolomide Versus Radiation Therapy and Nitrosourea for Anaplastic Astrocytoma And Mixed Anaplastic Oligoastrocytoma (Astrocytoma Dominant)
- Overall survival (OS) [ Time Frame: From randomization to date of death or last follow-up. Analysis occurs after 155 deaths have been reported. ]
- Time to tumor progression (TTP) [ Time Frame: From randomization to date of progression, death, or last follow-up. Analysis occurs at the same time as the primary outcome analysis. ]
- Toxicity [ Time Frame: From start of treatment to end of follow-up. Analysis occurs at the same time as the primary outcome analysis. ]
- Correlation of molecular analyses with OS and TTP [ Time Frame: Molecular markers are centrally reviewed after randomization. ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2000
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2020 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Radiation therapy (RT) + temozolomide
Radiation therapy (RT) + temozolomide
|Drug: temozolomide Radiation: radiation therapy
Experimental: RT + nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU)
RT + nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU)
|Drug: Nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU) Radiation: radiation therapy
Experimental: RT + BCNU + temozolomide
RT + BCNU + temozolomide
|Drug: Nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU) Drug: temozolomide Radiation: radiation therapy
Experimental: RT + BCNU 200mg/m2 + temozolomide
RT + BCNU 200mg/m2 + temozolomide
|Drug: Nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU) Drug: temozolomide Radiation: radiation therapy
Experimental: RT + BCNU 150mg/m2 + temozolomide
RT + BCNU 150mg/m2 + temozolomide
|Drug: Nitrosourea (BCNU or CCNU) Drug: temozolomide Radiation: radiation therapy
Detailed Description:
- Compare the overall survival and time to tumor progression in patients with anaplastic astrocytoma or mixed gliomas treated with radiotherapy combined with temozolomide vs carmustine or lomustine vs temozolomide and carmustine (arm discontinued as of 8/15/02).
- Compare the relative toxic effects of these regimens in these patients.
- Correlate molecular analyses with overall survival and time to tumor progression in patients treated with these regimens.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to age (under 50 vs 50 and over), Karnofsky performance status (60-80% vs 90-100%), and prior surgery (biopsy only vs resection).
Phase I (closed as of 8/15/02)
- Prior to initiating the randomization to 1 of 3 treatment arms in phase III, 15 patients are accrued to arm III. If 2 or more of the first 15 patients experience grade 3 or worse pulmonary toxicity OR if 5 or more of the first 15 patients experience grade 4-5 thrombocytopenia/neutropenia, then arm III treatment is discontinued.
Phase III
Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Patients receive oral temozolomide on days 1-5 of the first week of radiotherapy. Chemotherapy repeats every 4 weeks for a total of 12 courses.
- Arm II: Patients undergo radiotherapy as in arm I. Patients receive carmustine IV or lomustine IV over 1-2 hours on days 1-3 of the first week of radiotherapy and a second course on days 56-58. Chemotherapy repeats every 8 weeks for a total of 6 courses.
- Arm III (discontinued as of 8/15/02): Patients undergo radiotherapy as in arm I. Patients receive carmustine IV or lomustine IV over 3 hours on day 5 and oral temozolomide (2 hours after completion of carmustine or lomustine infusion) on days 1-5 of the first week of radiotherapy. Combination chemotherapy repeats every 8 weeks for 6 courses.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 30 patients will be accrued for phase I of the study and then a total of 454 patients (227 per treatment arm) will be accrued for phase III of the study within 4 years. (Phase I closed as of 8/15/02)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically proven unifocal anaplastic astrocytoma or mixed gliomas, including the following:
- Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma
Mixed oligodendroglial/astrocytic tumors
- Oligodendroglial component must be no greater than 25%
- No vascular proliferation and necrosis
- Increased cellularity, pleomorphism, and nuclear atypia allowed
- No tumor predominantly located in the posterior fossa (i.e., brainstem or cerebellum)
- Patients with prior biopsy proven low grade astrocytoma who now have anaplastic astrocytoma and have had no prior radiotherapy or chemotherapy also eligible
- Study therapy must begin within 6 weeks of diagnosis
No spinal cord tumors, spinal drop metastases, or metastases to noncontiguous meninges
- Pathologic evidence of local meningeal infiltration by underlying tumor allowed
- 18 and over
Performance status:
- Karnofsky 60-100%
Life expectancy:
- At least 1 year
- Hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL
- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 150,000/mm^3
- Bilirubin less than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) less than 2 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase less than 2 times ULN
- Blood urea nitrogen no greater than 25 mg/dL
- Creatinine less than 1.5 times normal
- No pre-existing lung disease that, in the investigator's opinion, would preclude administration of carmustine or lomustine or completion of therapy
- No other major medical illness or psychiatric impairment that would preclude study compliance
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except nonmelanomatous skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- No known hypersensitivity to 1 of the components of carmustine, lomustine, temozolomide, dacarbazine, or any other nitrosourea
- No active infection
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy:
- No prior biologic therapy
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior radiotherapy to brain or head and neck
- Not specified
- No other concurrent anticancer treatment for anaplastic astrocytoma until a recurrence is detected
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00004259
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|United States, Alabama
|Mobile Infirmary Medical Center
|Mobile, Alabama, United States, 36652-2144
|United States, Arizona
|Arizona Oncology Services Foundation
|Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85013
|United States, California
|Enloe Cancer Center at Enloe Medical Center
|Chico, California, United States, 95926
|North Bay Cancer Center
|Fairfield, California, United States, 94533
|Solano Radiation Oncology Center
|Vacaville, California, United States, 95687
|United States, Florida
|Lynn Regional Cancer Center at Boca Raton Community Hospital - Main Center
|Boca Raton, Florida, United States, 33486
|University of Florida Shands Cancer Center
|Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32610-0232
|Integrated Community Oncology Network
|Jacksonville Beach, Florida, United States, 32250
|Baptist Cancer Institute - Jacksonville
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32207
|Florida Oncology Associates at Southside Cancer Center
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32207
|Baptist Medical Center South
|Jascksonville, Florida, United States, 32258
|Florida Oncology Associates
|Orange Park, Florida, United States, 32073
|Florida Cancer Center - Palatka
|Palatka, Florida, United States, 32177
|Flagler Cancer Center
|Saint Augustine, Florida, United States, 32086
|H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at University of South Florida
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612-9497
|United States, Georgia
|John B. Amos Cancer Center
|Columbus, Georgia, United States, 31904
|United States, Illinois
|St. Joseph Medical Center
|Bloomington, Illinois, United States, 61701
|Graham Hospital
|Canton, Illinois, United States, 61520
|Memorial Hospital
|Carthage, Illinois, United States, 62321
|Eureka Community Hospital
|Eureka, Illinois, United States, 61530
|Galesburg Clinic
|Galesburg, Illinois, United States, 61401
|Galesburg Cottage Hospital
|Galesburg, Illinois, United States, 61401
|InterCommunity Cancer Center of Western Illinois
|Galesburg, Illinois, United States, 61401
|Mason District Hospital
|Havana, Illinois, United States, 62644
|Hopedale Medical Complex
|Hopedale, Illinois, United States, 61747
|Kewanee Hospital
|Kewanee, Illinois, United States, 61443
|McDonough District Hospital
|Macomb, Illinois, United States, 61455
|BroMenn Regional Medical Center
|Normal, Illinois, United States, 61761
|Community Cancer Center
|Normal, Illinois, United States, 61761
|Community Hospital of Ottawa
|Ottawa, Illinois, United States, 61350
|Oncology Hematology Associates of Central Illinois, PC - Ottawa
|Ottawa, Illinois, United States, 61350
|Cancer Treatment Center at Pekin Hospital
|Pekin, Illinois, United States, 61554
|Proctor Hospital
|Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61614
|OSF St. Francis Medical Center
|Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61615-7827
|CCOP - Illinois Oncology Research Association
|Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61615
|Oncology Hematology Associates of Central Illinois, PC - Peoria
|Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61615
|Methodist Medical Center of Illinois
|Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61636
|Illinois Valley Community Hospital
|Peru, Illinois, United States, 61354
|Perry Memorial Hospital
|Princeton, Illinois, United States, 61356
|St. Margaret's Hospital
|Spring Valley, Illinois, United States, 61362
|Valley Cancer Center
|Spring Valley, Illinois, United States, 61362
|United States, Iowa
|McFarland Clinic, PC
|Ames, Iowa, United States, 50010
|United States, Kansas
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Chanute
|Chanute, Kansas, United States, 66720
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Dodge City
|Dodge City, Kansas, United States, 67801
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - El Dorado
|El Dorado, Kansas, United States, 67042
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Kingman
|Kingman, Kansas, United States, 67068
|Southwest Medical Center
|Liberal, Kansas, United States, 67901
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Newton
|Newton, Kansas, United States, 67114
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Parsons
|Parsons, Kansas, United States, 67357
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Pratt
|Pratt, Kansas, United States, 67124
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Salina
|Salina, Kansas, United States, 67042
|Cotton-O'Neil Cancer Center
|Topeka, Kansas, United States, 66604
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Wellington
|Wellington, Kansas, United States, 67152
|Associates in Womens Health, PA - North Review
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67203
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Medical Arts Tower
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67208
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Wichita
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
|CCOP - Wichita
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
|Via Christi Cancer Center at Via Christi Regional Medical Center
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
|Wesley Medical Center
|Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
|Cancer Center of Kansas, PA - Winfield
|Winfield, Kansas, United States, 67156
|United States, Maryland
|Greenebaum Cancer Center at University of Maryland Medical Center
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|United States, Michigan
|West Michigan Cancer Center
|Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, 49007-3731
|United States, Minnesota
|CCOP - Duluth
|Duluth, Minnesota, United States, 55805
|United States, Missouri
|St. John's Regional Health Center
|Springfield, Missouri, United States, 65804
|United States, Montana
|CCOP - Montana Cancer Consortium
|Billings, Montana, United States, 59101
|Deaconess Billings Clinic - Downtown
|Billings, Montana, United States, 59107-7000
|United States, Nebraska
|Good Samaritan Cancer Center at Good Samaritan Hospital
|Kearney, Nebraska, United States, 68848-1990
|Methodist Cancer Center at Methodist Hospital - Omaha
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68114
|United States, Nevada
|University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89102
|CCOP - Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106
|United States, New Jersey
|Fox Chase Virtua Health Cancer Program at Virtua Memorial Hospital Marlton
|Marlton, New Jersey, United States, 08053
|Franklin & Edith Scarpa Regional Cancer Center at South Jersey Healthcare
|Vineland, New Jersey, United States, 08360
|Fox Chase Virtua Health Cancer Program at Virtua West Jersey
|Voorhees, New Jersey, United States, 08043
|United States, New York
|Lipson Cancer and Blood Center at Rochester General Hospital
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14621
|United States, North Carolina
|Mission Hospitals - Memorial Campus
|Asheville, North Carolina, United States, 28801
|United States, Ohio
|Akron City Hospital
|Akron, Ohio, United States, 44309-2090
|Charles M. Barrett Cancer Center at University Hospital
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45267
|Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106
|Cancer Research UK Medical Oncology Unit at Churchill Hospital & Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine - Oxford
|Salem, Ohio, United States, 44460
|Cancer Treatment Center
|Wooster, Ohio, United States, 44691
|United States, Oklahoma
|Natalie Warren Bryant Cancer Center at St. Francis Hospital
|Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, 74136
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University - Philadelphia
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107-5541
|Allegheny Cancer Center at Allegheny General Hospital
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15212
|Reading Hospital and Medical Center
|Reading, Pennsylvania, United States, 19612-6052
|Guthrie Cancer Center at Guthrie Clinic Sayre
|Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States, 18840
|United States, South Dakota
|Rapid City Regional Hospital
|Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, 57701
|United States, Utah
|Latter Day Saints Hospital
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84143
|United States, Wisconsin
|Theda Care Cancer Institute
|Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, 54911
|St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center
|Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54307-3508
|Bay Area Cancer Care Center at Bay Area Medical Center
|Marinette, Wisconsin, United States, 54143
|Community Memorial Hospital Cancer Care Center
|Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States, 53051
|University of Wisconcin Cancer Center at Aspirus Wausau Hospital
|Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, 54401
|Study Chair:
|Susan M. Chang, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
|Study Chair:
|Kurt A. Jaeckle, MD
|Mayo Clinic
|Study Chair:
|Peter Bushunow, MD
|Lipson Cancer and Blood Center at Rochester General Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00004259 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 28, 2000
|Last Updated:
|September 28, 2016
Keywords provided by Radiation Therapy Oncology Group:
adult anaplastic astrocytoma
adult mixed glioma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nervous System Neoplasms
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms by Site
Nervous System Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 20, 2017