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22. Rangers - If nothing else, the long-suffering Blueshirt faithful have to be thrilled that Glen Sather didn't spend his summer handing out goofy, unjustifiable contracts to aging, over-rated...oh, wait. Alright, the inexplicable Derek Boogaard deal aside, Slats actually won some points for nabbing intriguing free agent Mats Zuccarello-Aasen (top scorer in Sweden last season) and the low-risk contract he gave to Alex Frolov. Neither is a sure thing, but both bring hope of improvement. Adding Martin Biron to lighten Henrik Lundqvist's load was another solid move.
The Rangers are the #12 Eastern Conference team.
Last week The Hockey News ranked the Rangers #13 in the 15-team Eastern Conference.
...keep the hating coming. I love it!!!! I just can't see how this team can be ranked lower than #10. Until the season starts no way teams like Atlanta (who made some nice moves this summer), Carolina and Tampa (also a nice offseason) can be ranked above the Blueshirts.
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Here's where the Rangers finished last year: 21st if you can't remember
Then there's that the Rangers have done very little in the offseason.
And any argument that the youth should improve? That holds for every other team near the bottom of the list. Shockingly, despite being in NY, they have some elite prospects
- August 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- The Ranger Rover said...
I'd say Tampa and Atlanta are in the right direction, but still nowhere near the Rangers, especially in net. Carolina had a quietly efficient second half last year after winning only five of their first 27 games, but goaltending for all these teams will definitely be the main issue.
- August 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM
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- August 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM
I have to agree with Anon here. I don't think the negative predictions we're seeing from the press are unjustified given last year's performance and the off season moves. Granted, I hope they are wrong, but I can't say that they are the result of some unjustified anti-Ranger bias. And does the fan-base really disagree? I mean, there's a reason why Rangers fans are so disgruntled right now and are calling for Sather's head on a platter.
- August 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM
finishing 10th in east is worse than finishing 13th due to draft. rather get the better pick if we're going to miss the playoffs either way.
i think the experts are right - atl picked up several chi guys plus recent good draft picks. tb made some very good pick ups again in combo with good drafts
- August 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- William said...
I actually think the Rangers are a better team on paper this year, IF you're assuming Frolov from 2008 is on the roster. I think D pretty much remains the same, mediocre at best, but goaltending, if anything, is better with the addition of Biron. the team still lacks dynamic speed and overall puckhandling ability. Last year they couldn't break out the goddamn puck. If you routinely watched them play, this had to be one of the most glaring weaknesses. To me, it's the sign of an impatient, inexperienced, and slightly over-matched hockey team --- at any level.
- August 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Meh. These writers have as much knowledge as I do. I say this because i watch a lot of hockey. Mostly Rangers yea but still I know nothing matters more than how the team meshes, how the kids step up (Dubi and callys time to shine) and how the team stays consistent (our biggest problem IMO)
- August 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM
sorry dan but i'm not buying into the dubinsky time to shine hype. what you've seen is what you'll get a very inconsistent guy who plays ok when he wants to show up
- August 16, 2010 at 2:18 PM
I think every forward on the team not named Marian is going to be inconsistent. That's the nature of the beast when you're scoring less than 30 goals.
- August 16, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Callahan potential 30 goal 50 point man and dubi potential 50 point guy, that's all they will ever be. But that's not a bad thing, because both are solid on both end of the ice, not bad second and thid line players but there being pushed into larger roles
- August 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- The Ranger Rover said...
keep in mind the only valuable guy that atl brought in is probably andrew ladd, buff is a ghost during the regular season and ben eager is your standard fourth-liner. kane, bergfors, antropov and little need to be the leaders if that team hopes to make the playoffs. they'll be a tougher team to play against but still an inferior one. tampa still has concerns on defense; bringing back pavel kubina (career -105!!) won't do much accept fill the void left by kurtis foster. still, their top six is gunna do some serious damage this year and that is a bit disconcerting but we murdered them every game last year so we'll see what happens this season i suppose. i would pay a ton of money to timewarp to october.
- August 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM
RobY is right- there is nothing wrong with Callahan and Dubi, they are 2nd to very good 3rd liners. They are responsible in both ends and can play numerous roles - from PK to end of game situations. They contribute offensively and what is wrong with 50 point seasons on the 2nd and 3rd dlines. You should be puking and moaning about a 3rd line center in EC playing on the 1st line, to me that is part of a dumb and dumber skit.
- August 16, 2010 at 6:07 PM
How dare you say Callahan is just a 2nd to 3rd liner. The internets will crash down upon you
- August 16, 2010 at 6:14 PM
i just dont see us being behind teams like atlanta, florida, carolina and tampa. they are going to be tough competition but they arent going to be ahead of us.
- August 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM
i would think at least 2 of the 4 will finish ahead of us - likely tb and atl
- August 16, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Li Joe- agree tb and atl both added some nice aquisitions. Whether their D holds up will be the question. Atl has the goaltending, TB, not so much but Ellis might surprise(which would be everyone), though I doubt it. I say we are all even. All three have issues down the middle.
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DescriptionSevero Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like Garcia Marquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Rene Prieto, Gustavo Guerrero, and other reputable scholars. Missing, however, from what is otherwise an impressive body of critical commentary, is a study of the importance of painting and architecture, firstly, to his theory, and secondly, to his creative work. In order to fill this lacuna in Sarduy studies, Rolando Perez's book undertakes a critical approach to Sarduy's essays-Barroco, Escrito sobre un cuerpo, "Barroco y neobarroco," and La simulacion-from the stand point of art history. Often overlooked in Sarduy studies is the fact that the twenty-three-year-old Sarduy left Cuba for Paris in 1961 to study not literature but art history, earning the equivalent of a Master's Degree from the Ecole du Louvre with a thesis on Roman art. And yet it was the art of the Italian Renaissance (e.g., the paintings as well as the brilliant and numerous treatises on linear perspective produced from the 15th to the 16th century) and what Sarduy called the Italian, Spanish, and colonial Baroque or "neo-baroque" visually based aesthetic that interested him and to which he dedicated so many pages. In short, no book on Sarduy until now has traced the multifaceted art historical background that informed the work of this challenging and exciting writer. And though Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts is far from being an introduction, it will be a book that many a critic of Sarduy and the Latin American "baroque" will consult in years to come.
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UK Uncut is one of the most imaginative protest groups to appear in the UK, rightly drawing attention to the fact that if you are very rich or a very big company, how much tax you pay and whether you pay tax at all is largely a voluntary decision. Her Majesty's Government and even more so Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have decided that, really, for big people tax is something between them and their conscience. Compulsory tax - PAYE and such like - is for the small people.
Thus Sir Philip Green, Topshop boss, has satisfied his conscience by registering his company (Arcadia Group) in his wife Tina's name and settling her in Monaco.
Sit down protests in Sir Philip's shops are a bit like sending him a white feather. That is what women did in the First World War to men not in uniform who they felt should be in uniform. The idea came from a man (Admiral Charles Fitzgerald)who realised it would be a powerful inducement if it was women who picked out the cowards and sent them their feathers.
The merits of such vigilante action cannot easily be separated from its consequences. There was no merit in bullying men to take part in an utterly pointless slaughter, so enormous that after World War One many of those women who so gaily sent their feathers found that there were no men left alive to marry. (On which subject, try Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men after the First World War).
It is the same with UK Uncut. Maybe they will shame Sir Philip into paying more tax. But to what end? Not everything in the public sector garden is lovely. Our political class and their self-satisfied and self-serving bureaucrats are perfectly capable of squandering every penny of extra tax UK Uncut sends their way.


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Today we got up early and headed to Hillman Marsh to see shore birds with our new spotting scope. We saw three types of plovers: semipalmated, American golden and black-bellied as well as the odd kildeer. There were barn swallows, tree swallows; Caspian, Forster's and common terns; lesser yellowlegs, sanderlings, dunlins, blue- and green-winged teal and Northern shovelers.
We then headed to Point Pelee National Park to have lunch and get ready for our escorted walking tour with Peter Read. There were about 16 in our group. Peter was very skilled at identifying bird calls and then spotting the bird after. We saw a Mississippi kite who is WAY off his usual flight path, a blue-headed vireo, warbling vireo, house wren, blue-gray gnatcatcher, Baltimore oriole, yellow warbler, black-throated, green warbler, Blackburnian warbler, black-and-white warbler, common yellowthroat, blue jay, red-bellied and downy woodpeckers. I think I missed a couple in there but that covers most of them. The park at Point Pelee was packed. I can't even imagine what it will be like there on the weekend.
We then headed back to Hillman Marsh to use the scope again with the light coming from the west. We saw many of the same birds from the morning and another blue-gray gnatcatcher but this time prompted by a group of enthusiastic birders, spotted a sora. According to them, it was the bird of the day.
After that we drove into Leamington and had dinner at another Mennonite Mexican food restaurant, 'Family Kitchen'. I had perogies filled with dry cottage cheese and covered with cream sauce. They were served with sausage, corn and a side of canned peaches. Skip had ham and noodles covered with a cream sauce and a side of corn and a dry bun. Unusual, starchy, rich but tasty.
Tomorrow we're headed to the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada outside of Guelph. I became enthralled with the place last year so we thought we'd make a return visit. The website now has a bio and photographic portrait for each donkey. Too cute!


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For as long as we have been together (18yrs), DH and I have talked about moving bush. We both grew up on acreage in semi-rural areas of Sydney. Unfortunately, life got in the way and we have never made the move due to work, medical issues with the kids, and family obligation/guilt.
We purchased in a crap area 8yrs ago that has gone (price wise) through the roof in the last 2 years. We are now very seriously considering going bush. Every time we go bush for a holiday (3 times a year) we dread coming back to Sydney.
Factors we have considered so far -
* Jobs - we both have jobs that can be transferred. although he is 2yrs shy of his Long Service. He also has his licence to drive trucks and buses.
* Kids medical issues - now on a observation level, no more ops.
* Schooling - our eldest starts high school next year, the youngest starts Kindy in 2018
* Mortgage - we could sell, pay out our current mortgage, purchase a new place and be mortgage free with a bit of money left over.
* Ideal place to move is the Mid North Coast. My folks have retired up there a couple of years ago, his will still be in Sydney
* Age - hubby and I are 35
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Different situation to you, no mortgage, kids still small etc but we did it. We lived in various areas of Sydney and then moved 10 hours west. It is been by far the best decision of our lives. I was miserable in the city. I was such a recluse in the city, I'm sure people were starting to think I suffered agoraphobia. I didn't start "living" til we moved. There are concessions we have to make, such as travelling 350km each way, fortnightly, for one of my sons specialists (autism) but the lifestyle we have here is worth it. 100%
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Given the scenario you paint - why would you not do it?! Are there any particular concerns you have about making the move? did you mean your jobs can or can't be transferred? This would be the biggest factor for me.
We are hoping to buy a small property in the next few years to have more space and no neighbours so can't talk from experience as we haven't done it yet but it seems as though there is lots in your favour of moving.
We just looked at a place in our price range with a beautiful view but missed out as they had just accepted an offer. We also missed out on a big property a couple of years ago. Am just thinking when the time is right we'll get exactly what we need.
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The decision to move wasn't taken lightly either. We had been looking for a place for over a year, then sold out place. Two weeks before settlement was to occur, DD (then still 3, she's now 4) was diagnosed with cancer, a tumour in her sinus cavity in her head. We stalled our decision and thankfully the purchasers were investors so we rented it back off them while we decided what to do.
After much thought we decided to go ahead and buy a farm as planned. Getting here has been HUGELY challenging. Imagine intensive chemo + arranging finance + packing house up + moving + vacate clean + unpacking new house!! I don't recommend doing all that in the span of 6 months!
Despite all that....we still have no regrets and it has been the best thing for us, and so good for DD's health to be out here in the fresh air.
I say go ahead and live your dream!
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04-05-2016 10:30 #7
We escaped Sydney and did the tree change/sea change 6 years ago. Absolutely no regrets!
It took a few moves to settle where we felt was the right area for us. We prefer to live near facilities and not too remote.
I think jobs are a huge factor, but you seem to have that covered.
I think you should go for it - sounds like your hearts are leading you away from the big smoke. We had that feeling too and just decided our time had come to make the big change.
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Gingermillie - I think for me, this is the scariest step we have ever taken. We never travelled before marriage, as we got married very young (20 and 21) and did our job training instead. In saying that, we both feel peace and "at home" in the bush compared to being in the city, where we are stressed and anxious (me)
We both work for national and international companies, so can get a transfer to another site, or DH can pick up work as he works in an industry that is always needed, and he has 17yrs experience in his.
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We have lived remote, rural, metro and semi-rural. We now have 100 acres 20km from a major regional centre, which suits us well. I hope to never live metro again! I love having access to things like a gym, large supermarket & hospital, while still enjoying a "slower" lifestyle.
Some things to consider:
Is there a high school in the area? My sister faces the prospect of sending her 11 year old to boarding school or home schooling. No other options for high school.
Is there a GP in town? Is there a hospital? Having lived in a town with no GP for 100km I can tell you it's not ideal!
How far to specialist services? Many regional centres at least have visiting specialists on a regular basis.
Is there a supermarket, chemist, butcher, bakery, pub in town? You don't want to have to travel more than 30 min to get bread/milk if you can help it!
I say definitely do it!
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Given your jobs can move and financially it seems a good move and it seems to fit with your children's schooling transitions and being out of the city has such a positive effect then it seems like it would be a great move for your family. It will still be a big change and I'm sure you'll have pangs of are we doing the right thing but you won't know til you try.
I guess if you are really worried could you try renting where you think you might move and keep your house in the city for a while as a safety net?
Or If you do sell up and move and don't like it then the worst case scenario you can pack up and move back it certainly wouldn't be easy but worse things have happened.
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We lived in Atsugi, which is also under the warning. I'm sure that Zama and Yokota are also under warnings.
The area is still being hit with huge aftershocks. A 6.0 hit an hour ago. The family members are getting extremely nervous, with the continued aftershocks and the radiation warning. I'll tell you also, that the members that are married to the Japanese are stating that the Japanese think another big one is coming.
I hope this map helps you understand where the troops are stationed in Japan.
I have a friend whose a missionary, that's trying to get her and her kids out of Japan. They are collecting donations to do so. If you are interested in helping that way, please let me know and I'll send you the link
I also wanted to say thank you for all your prayers when the tsunami was bearing down on us. Thankfully, even though I'm on an islans, we're well enough inland in the Puget Sound and on the east side, so we didn't have any affect here.
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I am so heartbroken as I watch things unfold on the news. I am torn between not being able to bear watching one more minute of it to feeling bad that I am going on with my regular charmed life while all of that is going on. I imagine it all feels so much closer to home for you. Praying for all of those in Japan and for those who have lost so much.ReplyDelete
I am anxious about such petty things. Then I come here and am reminded that I am so blessed and snap back to reality. I'm ashamed of myself.ReplyDelete
I will speak with my dh about your missionary friend. Not sure we have any extra in the budget right now. It is all so sad.
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Philippines Bomb Blast Kills at Least 13
A bomb exploded Saturday at a crowded market in a southern Philippine city, killing at least 13 people, officials said.
About two dozen others were injured seriously and brought to a hospital in Koronadal city, police Superintendent Danilo Posadas said.
Two hours later, another bomb was found near the market but taken away by a police bomb squad to be defused.
Mayor Fernando Miguel said the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility in a telephone call. The group is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
Miguel said in a radio interview that a man identifying himself as Abu Solaiman of the Abu Sayyaf called him shortly after the 3:30 p.m. blast and warned of "more bombings in the days to come."
The man has been calling since last year demanding $75,000 a month to spare Koronadal from bombings, the mayor said, adding that he refused.
There was no independent confirmation that the call came from Solaiman, who has been linked to bombings farther south and is one of five Abu Sayyaf leaders with a $5 million State Department bounty on his head offered by the State Department for kidnappings and killings in the southern Philippines in 2001-2002.
Posadas said an initial investigation indicated the bomb that exploded around 3:30 p.m. was fashioned from an 81 mm mortar shell. Police suspect the person who planted the bomb died at the scene.
"Terrorists did it," Posadas said, without elaborating.
The market was the scene of a similar bombing last month that killed two people. Police and the military blamed that bombing on the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Saturday's blast killed two women vendors and three passersby at the market, and seven others died in the hospital, said Col. Agustin Dema-ala, commander of the army's 301st Infantry Brigade.
Dema-ala said one of the people killed at the market was believed to have carried the bomb. He said a witness saw a man placing a bag on the sidewalk in front of a glass supply store at the market.
"It went off as he turned his back on it," Dema-ala said, quoting the witness.
He said a National Bureau of Investigation office is located in the market building, above where the blast occurred.
The area was crowded because it was market day for traders in Koronadal, capital of South Cotabato province, about 600 miles southeast of Manila.
About two hours after the bombing, residents reported to police a cylinder containing cooking gas abandoned in front of a fire station near the market. It was the second bomb and a police bomb squad found a timer attached to the cylinder and took it away to defuse it.
Provincial Gov. Daisy Avance Fuentes condemned the bombing but appealed for calm.
"This is a tragedy. This is the work of terrorists," she said in an interview by DXOM radio in Koronadal.
The military says the MILF is known to make such mortar-bombs.
The government has blamed the MILF for most of the bombings on the main southern island of Mindanao, including two blasts that killed 38 people in Davao city in March and April.
Eid Kabalu, spokesman for the MILF, said the rebels were not involved in the latest bombing.
"It is not the handiwork of the MILF because we do not attack civilians," he told DXMS radio in Cotabato city.


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Thomas Blume is a shell of a man who has had to deal with the loss of his wife and young son. He's a former NY cop now living in London where the crime took place. He is hoping someday to avenge their deaths. Some days, if he can stay away from the booze, it's all he can still think about. But, he needs money and so he has to work. So he takes various jobs, most of which deal with proving illicit affairs for their spouses. He hates it. The last man he worked for actually committed suicide after Blume provided him with pictures of his wife in bed with someone else.
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Although pain specialists have known for years that chronic pain interferes with attention, it hasn't been clear which functions are actually disrupted, according to Bruce Dick, Ph.D., and Saifudin Rashiq, M.B., M.Sc., of the University of Alberta.
It turns out that the function affected most is the so-called working memory trace -- the ability to maintain and mentally manipulate a memory trace while performing the spatial working memory task -- the researchers reported in the May issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
They enrolled 24 patients, 18 of them women, from the pain center at the University of Alberta Hospital and gave them a series of cognitive tests both before and after they had analgesic treatment for their pain.
Tests included:
- The test of everyday attention, which profiles sustained and selective attention.
- The reading span test, which reflects the efficiency of basic cognitive skills.
- And the spatial span test, which taxes the processing and storage components of spatial working memory.
Patients were eligible if they had a reduction of at least four points on a numerical pain score after treatment, which might have included epidural injection, somatic nerve blockade, pulsed radiofrequency rhizotomy of the medial branch nerves, and trigger point therapy.
Patients were excluded if they had a history of significant head injury, neurological disorder, or disease known to impair attention, the researchers said.
Using the test of everyday attention, the researchers found that a third of the patients were not clinically impaired by their pain, and divided the remaining 16 into two groups -- less and more disrupted.
All patients reported pain levels significantly reduced after their treatment (at P<0.0001).
But, the researchers reported, the pain relief had no significant effect on measures included in the test of everyday attention, including overall performance, selective attention, or sustained attention.
There was also no significant difference on the reading span test, they said.
But they did find differences on the "mirror task" of the spatial span test. In that test, patients are asked to look at a series of letters presented askew on a computer screen and to determine whether each letter is in its normal orientation or a mirror image.
Patients are also told to remember what direction the top of each letter is facing. At the end of the series, the patient must report the direction. The test relies on the working memory trace, the researchers said.
The unimpaired and less impaired groups performed equally well on the mirror task, the researchers found, but the more impaired group fared significantly worse (at P<0.05).
"Working memory trace (is) a specific cognitive process that appears to be disrupted by chronic pain," they concluded.
The study is limited by its small size, the researchers said, but the statistical findings were robust.
|The authors made no statement regarding support for the study or potential conflicts.
- Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Anesthesia & AnalgesiaSource Reference: Dick BD and Rashiq S. "Disruption of Attention and Working Memory Traces in Individuals with Chronic Pain." Anesth Analg 2007;104:1223-9.


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It is known that some substrates, including other tyrosine kinase inhibitors, stimulate ATPase activity of ABCB1 and ABCG2 at lower concentrations, but inhibit ATPase activity at higher concentrations. Taken together, the data in Figure 2 suggest that quizartinib may be transported by both ABCB1 and ABCG2 at lower concentrations. However, this conclusion needs to be validated by measuring the net efflux of quizartinib from polarized cells such as LLC-PK1 or MDCK expressing ABCB1 or ABCG2. This will help further in understanding the role of these transporters in altering quizartinib sensitivity or bioavailability. Quizartinib was found to exhibit collateral sensitivity in K562/ ABCB1 and K562/ABCG2 cells, in relation to parental K562 cells. Collateral sensitivity is an incompletely understood phenomenon, for which four possible mechanisms have been proposed: 1) production of reactive oxygen species via futile hydrolysis of ATP, 2) exploitation of energetic sensitivities, 3) extrusion of endogenous substrates that are essential for cell survival, or 4) perturbation of the plasma membrane. The first and third of these mechanisms require Proxyfan oxalate direct interaction with the ABC protein, as appears to be the case for quizartinib with ABCB1 and ABCG2. Chemotherapeutic agents that are used to treat AML and that are ABCG2 substrates include mitoxantrone, topotecan, flavopiridol and the nucleoside analogs cladribine, clofarabine and fludarabine. All of these drugs are currently in use or under investigation in diverse therapeutic regimens in AML. Based on our data presented here, co-administration of quizartinib has the potential to chemosensitize AML cells to any of these drugs, and thus the potential to enhance their efficacy and/ or allow their administration at lower doses, thereby decreasing toxicity. A significant correlation was recently reported between presence of FLT3-ITD and ABCG2 overexpression in pretreatment AML cells. Moreover, DFS was significantly shorter in patients with both FLT3-ITD and ABCG2 overexpression. Of note, patients in this series were treated with a fludarabine-based chemotherapy regimen, and fludarabine is an ABCG2 substrate. Co-administration of quizartnib with chemotherapy and, particularly, with ABCG2 substrate chemotherapy drugs, has the potential to overcome the negative impact of both FLT3-ITD and ABCG2 overexpression. The dose-limiting toxicity of quizartinib is QT prolongation, and it may be exacerbated by co-administration of other drugs that prolong the QT interval. These include, among others, fluoroquinolone antibiotics, phenothiazine antiemetics, methadone, and the antiarrhythmic agents quinidine, procainamide, sotalol, amiodarone and verapamil. The fluoroquinolone antibiotics, with those in current use including ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and moxifloxacin, are drugs that are commonly administered to AML patients and may therefore be commonly co-administered with quizartinib. The fluoroquinilones are ABCG2 substrates, and their intestinal absorption and pharmacokinetic profile may therefore be altered when they are co-administered with quizartinib. Indeed we demonstrated that quizartinib increased accumulation of ciprofloxacin in a concentration- dependent manner in cells overexpressing ABCG2. An additional potential consequence of ABCG2 inhibition in patients with AML is impact on the risk of hyperuricemia and gout. ABCG2 has been found to be a urate efflux transporter, with increased incidence of both hyperuricemia and gout in association with the Q141K ABCG2 single nucleoside polymorphism, which results in decreased urate transport. It is therefore logical to infer that inhibition of ABCG2 function by agents such as quizartinib has the potential to increase uric acid levels, which should be mitigated by co-administration of a urate-lowering agent. Finally, while clinically targeted plasma levels of quizartinib are below those needed for inhibition of ABCB1-mediated transport of chemotherapy drugs in AML cells, levels in the gastrointestinal tract are likely to be sufficient to inhibit ABCB1-mediated intestinal drug transport and thus increase absorption of coadministered ABCB1 substrate drugs, including those that have the potential to prolong the QT interval. We have shown that the second-generation bis-aryl urea FLT3 inhibitor quizartinib is a potent inhibitor of drug transport by ABCG2 at clinically targeted concentrations and thus may sensitize AML cells expressing ABCG2 to ABCG2 substrate chemotherapy drugs. It may have particular impact in the prognostically unfavorable subset of patients whose AML cells exhibit both FLT3-ITD and ABCG2 overexpression. Quizartinib also likely increases intestinal uptake and alters the pharmacokinetic profile of orally co-administered ABCG2 substrate drugs, including those that prolong the QT interval, such as fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Quizartinib inhibits drug transport by ABCB1 at higher concentrations, and is unlikely to chemosensitize, but likely increases intestinal uptake of orally co-administered ABCB1 substrate drugs, which include agents that prolong the QT interval. These interactions should be considered in the design of combination regimens incorporating quizartinib and chemotherapeutic agents and in choice of concomitant medications to be administered with quizartinib.
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There is a bug in the latest version of Pro-IV with the redisplay of paging screen data. Here is the problem.
Select all the records for deletion and dot out.
Pro-IV redisplays the first record on line one.
Dot out again to exit the paging screen.
Pro-IV redisplays the first page of records.
The records have been deleted, Pro-IV just redisplays the first page.
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FYI: This issue also happens in the latest Linux kernels as well.
Also, we are observing a number of display issues with the latest Linux kernel....
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Who The Hell Thought This Was a Good Idea? OR School Holds Unannounced Mass Shooting Drill with Blanks
Wow. Seriously? Who thought this would be a good idea.
A school in Oregon apparently thought that it would be a beneficial exercise to stage a mock mass shooting, complete with a mock gunman using a blank firing gun with blanks.
Students were off from school on the day the drill was ran and it was targeted (literally and metaphorically) at teachers.
According to CBS Seattle:
The Oregonian reports Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway held the drill last Friday as children were home for an in-service day. Two masked "gunmen" burst into a meeting room holding 15 teachers firing blanks. Teachers only realized it wasn't a real shooting when none of them were bleeding.
I wonder how this would have played out if one of the teachers involved had decided to take their personal safety seriously and ignore current carry laws.
One good thing that might come out of this is allowing school officials to carry concealed weapons.
From CBS:
DeCastro added that arming teachers or having armed volunteers at the school are possible outcomes for the future.
FYI, blanks are not completely harmless. Notably, Bruce Lee's son, Brandon Lee, was killed by a blank firing gun.


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This short story was originally meant to be an entry into the GayAuthors Valentine's Day contest a few months back! I worked hard to finish it before the deadline, but it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. Getting things done is fun and easy...it's getting things RIGHT that takes forever and ever! Hehehe! It's just a short, one time story. Something sugary sweet to make you guys smile. I hope you like it!
I'm used to having my breath snatched away from me whenever I see Benji walk up and fiddle with the combination on the high school locker across the hall from mine.
I'm used to the constant vibration of nervous jitters in my chest, stomach, and throat, whenever his pretty face comes into view. Even from a distance, way down at the other end of the hall.
I'm even used to the jumble of sensual thoughts that I fight so valiantly to fend off while looking him over, head to toe. Not having a clue as to what an actual sexual experience might be like,Āand yetĀhaving the subtle promise of such a thing flood my senses with brief images and fevered flashes of sexual delights that my teenaged mind had mimicked from movies, television, and a few erotic stories online that I read under my covers in the dark of night. Filling me up with a variety of ideas that I hoped to experiment with someday in the near future.
I couldn't believe how the weight of theĀair itself pushed down on my shoulders in that hallway whenever he crossed my vision. That ear length, dark blond, hair that seemed to 'flip out' at the bottom, curling slightly outward. Those bright hazel eyes, occasionally putting the fear of God into me whenever he looked up from his backpack long enough for his gaze to connect to mine. And a sweet and slender body that got better and better as my hormone driven thoughts tried to fill in all the blanks that his aggravating shield of name brand clothing hid from me on a daily basis.
I had been admiring every subtle detail of him for at least six weeks now, and I may only be 14 years old, but my affection for him was more than just a high school crush. I was convinced of that. I couldn't even hear Benji's name without feeling my heart being squeezed and bringing a tingle to both of my cheeks that would itch and bother me until I smiled as wide as humanly possible to satisfy the needed muscular strain for my face to, eventually, return to normal.ĀYes, Benji was a huge part of my life, and yet he was so blissfully unaware of it. It was an issue that I had been trying to deal with. How do I solve the problem of getting him to notice me when I'm SO terrified that he'll notice me?
Well, I decided that today would be the day I at least take my first baby step forward. And that's why I'm finding it so hard to manage my oxygen intake right now. BecauseĀthree minutes and thirty seven seconds ago...I slipped a note into Benji's locker through the slanted grate near the top.
I made sure that nobody saw me do it. I made sure to read and re-read and rewrite and re-edit and read it again...trying to get my words to say all the things my heart was feeling. Hoping I got it right. Trying to be cute, but not too cute. Trying to be forward, but not too forward. Balancing between boyish flattery and stalker level creepiness. It wasn't easy, believe me. I've never written a love letter before.
And now the wait.
And the weight. God, my heart never felt so heavy.
The scariest moment of my life was the moment I took that two page letter out of my notebook and slowly folded it over to fit it into the slot. My fingers were trembling so bad that I nearly dropped it. My heartbeat was crashing up against the insides of my chest. Every throb felt like a punch in the gut, the pulsing noise nearly deafening me. There was a last moment of doubt where I tried toĀtalk myself out of it. 'Don't do it, Martin.' I said. 'Don't do it. You need to read the note again. Just one more time. You can give it to him tomorrow. Or the next day. Don't make an idiot out of yourself now. He doesn't even know who you are.' But I knew that if IĀstarted making excuses now, I may very well be making them for the rest of the school year. Possibly for the rest of my life. I've waited this long...it's time I took a leap of faith.
Do it, Martin. It only takes one second's worth of courage. At least we'll know, right? It's better than not knowing.
I took the note and pushed it halfway through the slot. I did a quick check to make sure that it was the right locker! But I couldn't mistake it. It was the one just to the left of Brian Bowmin's locker, and he had drawn a big penis on it at the beginning of the schoolĀyear. It's kind of hard to miss.
I held on to the pages.
Half way in and I was too scared to go any further. I don't know if I'm ready for this. So many questions. So many fears. I think the only thing that helped me make up my mind was the worry that he'd come walking around that corner any second and catch me standing there.
So I closed my eyes, I held my breath...and I dropped the letter inside. More from a moment of weakness than a moment of strength, but I did it. I actually did it. I delivered my first handwritten love letter to the cutest boy in school.
And I regretted it immediately.
There was no way to fight off the panic. What the hell did I just do??? I should have read it again. I should have written it better. I shouldn't have thought up this crazy goddamn scheme in the first place! Shit...what do I do? I can't get it back now, his locker is locked. Gah! What if he reads it? What is he going to think when he reads it? Is he going to figure out it's me? Oh god...this could be bad. This could be really bad!
I was stressing about it for a few seconds, but as the hall started to fill up with students, I decided to just hurry back across the hall and pretend to dig through my own locker while silently praying for a spontaneous fire alarm or something that would give me more time to think.
No such luck.
All I could do was wait. Second by second, minute by minute. Who knows? Maybe he's sick today. Maybe he's moving to Texas and he'll never come back for his books. I don't know, just...I needed this to be over with. I took my leap of faith by putting that note in his locker and now I'm falling, falling, falling, until he shows up to let me know if he's going to catch me...or leave me to crash land into the jagged rocks below.
Ugh! WAITING!
Where the hell IS he?
And then...the event began.
I saw Benji come walking around that corner as ifĀhe was moving in slow motion. The only thing missing from his majestic appearance in that hallway was a scattering flock of white doves andĀan orchestrated soundtrack sung by the angels themselves. Wow! I've never known a beauty so intimidating.
He had his head down while he was walking, just sort of lost in his own thoughts, not knowing that he was moments away from being shocked and humiliated by the sappiest collection of words ever scribbled on paper! I've never even spoken two words to him, and here I am...vomiting love all over his brand new shoes without warning. I swear, if he laughs at me...my life is over. It's a wrap on my emotions if he makes fun of me.
I turned to basically bury my head in my locker. Afraid of what his reaction would be. There was a compelling urge to just close my locker and walk away. Just escape this crazy situation altogether and not look back. But then I'd never know what happened. I'd be stuck right back at square one all over again. God, what is he going to think? What is he going to SAY?
Shit, he's working the combination lock at his locker now. Oh God, oh God, oh God....
I was afraid to look. Afraid not to look.
I heard the loud click as he opened his locker door and felt a giant spike of pure terror pierce my young heart. Then I felt it being twisted as the note fell out at his feet, and Benji bent over to pick it up. He sees it! Oh God, he's holding it in his hand! His really cute hands!
I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have put that in his locker! What was I thinking? Well, shit...it's too late now!
His forehead wrinkled slightly as aĀtouch of confusion washed over him. His forehead looks so CUTE when it's wrinkled up like that! His eyes get all narrow and stuff...
I like his lips. I don't know what's so sexy about his lips when compared to everybody else's but...his lips are something special. To spend just a few seconds with my lips touching his would be too much for excited heart to bear. I like his shoulders too. I don't know. He has nice shoulders, that's all.
Suddenly, his head lifted up and he began to look around the hallway! Omigod, I didn't think he was going to do THAT! For a split second he looked right AT me, and I swear, if I could have crawled into my own locker and shut the door, I would have!
Yikes! Did he see me? Is he still looking? Was he just looking at me, or was he looking around at everybody? I should have double checked before getting all hysterical and hiding my face from him. Ugh, I'm so stupid!
It took a few seconds before I worked up the nerve to look back at him again. I saw him unfolding the letter and turning it right side up so he could read it. Wow...look at his fingers. He has these long, delicate, fingers. They look really soft. I like the way he 'holds' things.
Sorry. Getting distracted.
Shit. Omigod he's reading it! He's actually reading it! I felt so embarrassed. I was fidgeting so badly that I was sure he was going to look up at my guilty behavior and know that it was me. Stay still, Martin! Jesus! You're totally giving yourself away!
I remember the letter almost by heart. I just wish I knew what he was reading at that particular moment. I just...I wish...dammit. Whatever happened to people who moved their lips when they read stuff?
I kept peeking over at him, but I didn't want to stare. Even though I had to weave my head back and forth to dodge the crowd of students passing between his locker and mine. So far, so good. At least he hadn't crumpled it up and thrown it away. Not yet, anyway.
I remember how I started the little with, "You don't know who I am, but I see you all the time. Even if you don't see me in return." Was that a decent way to start off a secret letter? Am I accusing him of being a bad person for not noticing me? Maybe I should have worded that differently. That's not what I meant at all. I remember a part of the letter where I told him that I didn't want him to feel weird about it, but I had been holding this feeling inside for a while now and I just had to let him know. I was even like, "I can't really explain why, but...I feel like I love you. I feel it in my bones. Well, like...all of them. Not just the one." I can't believe I put that in the note! Was that dirty?
"Hehehe, what?" He giggled! I mean, really quietly and just to himself, but...he GIGGLED! Wait...is that a good giggle, or a bad giggle? Did he get to that part?
Now I'mĀSURE that it sounds dirty. I might have been able to let that one comment slide, but I remember trying to correct myself IN the letter...which probably made it sound worse. Saying, "NOT that you give me boners or anything! Or...well, it's not that you don't give me boners either! I'm just saying...that's not what this is about. It's not a sex thing. However, if sex is your thing that's totally cool. If you ever wanted...well...I wouldn't say no." And then I put that stupid smiley face next to the end of that sentence! What the heck was I rambling for? I don't know how that got put into the final edit.
I saw Benji lean one shoulder against the lockers as he turned over the first page and kept reading. He's still paying attention. He's at least slightly interested, right? I kept watching his face to see if there were any disturbing changes to his expression. I watched to see if he got my awkward sense of humor, or if he felt paranoid about some mysterious boy stranger gawking at him when he wasn't looking. I watched to see if he was uncomfortable about receiving letter like this from another boy, and if he was at all flattered when I gushed about how beautiful he was, and how he made every single day a little bit better just by being a part of it. I wondered if he minded me telling him that I sometimes follow behind him when he walks to class, or if it's weird that I sometimes look out of my classroom window to see him on the field with his gym class...and lose all focus. I didn't tell him how sexy his legs look in gym shorts though. I made sure to leave that out of the third revision. I'm positive. They were SEXY, though! I turned in a pop quiz half blank one period because of those legs.
Just as Benji turned to the third page, his head popped up to look around the hallway again. Left, right, left again...wondering who had written him such a thing. He was already two thirds of the way through it now. What's done is done. I might as well stay for the climax.
I hope he knows that my feelings for him were sincere, despite my clumsy vocabulary and desperate need to make jokes about how uncomfortable I was. How I wasn't worth his time, but wanted to share time with him regardless. I hoped that he didn't mind me apologizing over and over again in the same letter, trying to keep him from feeling weird about it all.ĀMore than anything...I just wanted to know that he's one of the most special, most amazing human beings on this planet...and I notice. I feel like my heart is filling up to the bursting point with love and joy and naughty little thoughts that force me to walk with my backpack in front of my crotch. It's so much in excess that I HAVE to share it with somebody before I explode!
I choose him.
By the time he finished reading that three page letter, I had all but rattled myself to pieces. My ending? Well, I hope he thought it was ok.
"You don't have to like me back. You don't even have to know who I am if you don't want to. But if you ever doubt for a moment that you're anything less than fascinating...just remember that I'm close by. I'm watching. And I love you." And then I signed it, "#MyHeart4U"
My heart began to race as he folded the letter back. He's finished. Oh God, he's done reading. What now? Is he going to crumple it up and put it in the trash? Is he going to tuck it underneath his books and leave it in his locker for later? What's he doing with it?
It was then I saw him fold it in half a second time...and he put it in his pocket! Is that good? What does that mean? That's good, right?
His eyes searched the hall again, scanning his surroundings for anything out of the ordinary. I made sure to look away, but this intense tingly feeling began to crawl slowly up my backside and it made me smile. Like...like REALLY smile. I almost began to giggle out loud, but I had no idea what was funny. Nervous reaction, I suppose.
I waited a few seconds before peeking at that gorgeous face again. I only focused on those plush lips for a brief moment...and then his eyes looked directly at me again. This time I jerked my head to pull my gaze back into my locker. Ok, we did what we had to do, and he knows how I feel...now I just need to make aĀsmoothĀexit and I can call this a success.
But, when I peeked back over my shoulder at him again...he was standing there waiting for me. And entire raging river of high school studentsĀrunning between us, but our eye contact madeĀit seem like time itself was standing still. My heart stopped. That might explain why I was feeling so faint, and why my lungs felt like they were full of mud. Benji's stunning good looks mixed with the threat of being caught doing what I just did had my whole 'fight or flight' response all backwards and confused. Oh no, what do I do?
We stood there. Looking at each other. Then...for no reason at all...a tiny smile spread across those kissable lips and nearly knocked me over with its brilliance. He looked down at his shoes for a moment, his cheeks turning a deep red. But the smile got bigger. And I got...ummm, erect.
Sorry. You can't really help these things when you're fourteen.
I heard the school bell ring to end the passing period, and wanted to cry when I saw Benji grab his books and close his locker back. I didn't want him to leave, but had no idea what to do with him if he stayed. I just stood there, weak kneed and half hard, swooning as he lookedĀat me again, and gave me a little wave. Just a little one. I think maybe he was a little nervous too. Which...is...AWESOME!!! Hehehe!
He kept his eyes on me as he started down the hall, quietly mumbling, "Bye..." as let the current of students sweep him into their neverending flow.
I watched him walk away from me, giving me the opportunity to breathe again. Giving me the opportunity to give his booty a peek too. Yummy! And as soon as he walked around that corner and out of my sight...it was like every muscle in my body turned to jelly. I fell back to lean againstĀmy locker, looked up at the ceiling with a deep sigh, and grinned as though I had just found a winning lotto ticket in my shoe. I was actually panting, hugging my books to my chest as I tried to hold myself together.Ā
I can't say that I was really sure what any of that meant. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe it means everything. Who knows? Who CARES??? I feel too good to care!
That happened. That actually happened. And I'm never going to forget it. Not for the rest of my life.
Maybe next time I see him I can try something more challenging like...actually talking to him. But, you know...one step at a time.
The point is, Benji got a chance to know how I feel. I got a chance to tell him, the best way I knew how. If just that little bit can overwhelm my rapidly beating heart this way, I might have to take the next few steps very carefully. This is my first rodeo, after all. No need for me to break my neck going too fast.
Ok. Alright. That went well. Very well. I'm proud of myself. I pulled that off with maturity, and dignity, and class.
Now...if you'll excuse me...I'm going to put a book in front of my crotch and try to get to Math.
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