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I don't like the multiple GWC because they tend to negate the relevance of the first 450 miles by making the last several laps a reckfeset. It's just too tempting to try something ill advised to gain a few positions on those final restarts. How many guys have run a clean race, stayed up front all race and then in the last few minutes get caught up in a GWC mess. All the GWC does is orchestrate an exciting finish.
The GWC is just another example of the short-attention span, instant gratification culture we live in.
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That's why NASCAR was right to allow for multiple G/W/C attempts
By admin | April 25, 2010
By Richard Allen
For whatever reason, a number of the people I follow on twitter do not like the use of multiple green/white/checkered finish attempts. A number of complaints were being lodged after the first attempt on the social networking service.
I have one simple question for anyone who dislikes the practice. Why?
The finish of Sunday's Aaron's 499 was one of the closest and most exciting in NASCAR history. Kevin Harvick passed Jamie McMurray with but a few feet remaining. Had there been only one attempt, we would have seen what had become an all too common anti-climatic freezing of the field and coast around to the finish after the first late crash. Instead, fans at the track and at home were treated to an incredible thrill.
If the argument is that multiple attempts cause the result to somehow be less than legitimate, then that argument went away some time ago. Phony debris cautions, lucky dogs, yellow line no passing zones and a myriad of other rules removed the legitimacy of wins long ago.
If the argument is that wrecks destroy too many race cars, that may be a bit more plausible. However, it is still the drivers driving the cars. They have no one to blame but themselves and each other for causing wrecks. It is not the fault of multiple G/W/C attempts that they crash.
NASCAR has made a number of decisions I do not agree with, but they do not consult me. However, the use of multiple G/W/C attempts are good for competition and most importantly, good for the fans. That matters more than the complaints of some media members on twitter.
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9 Responses to "That's why NASCAR was right to allow for multiple G/W/C attempts"
Bill B Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 8:47 am
I don't like the multiple GWC because they tend to negate the relevance of the first 450 miles by making the last several laps a reckfeset. It's just too tempting to try something ill advised to gain a few positions on those final restarts. How many guys have run a clean race, stayed up front all race and then in the last few minutes get caught up in a GWC mess. All the GWC does is orchestrate an exciting finish.
Ritchie Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
the timing of the single car spin made me say "Nascar got their g/w/ch. What a joke. The racing was better, still not sure it's racing though.
And the sandbox dust up w/ gordon & johnson was very funny. LOL
Ginger Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I agree with Bill B for the very reasons he listed. In addition, at some point the owners who bear the expense of wrecked cars are going to get fed up. At a time when sponsors are few and far between, money is as tight as…I won't go there…,testing has been forbidden at all racetracks Nascar runs, and S&Ps are increasing, why would Nascar come up with 3 G-W-Gs? I love the double file restarts, but when you add the 3 GWCs the expenses are adding up. Brian and his co-horts only have a few brain cells, and some of those are in non-working condition.
JR Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I have heard the GWC called Nascar's version of overtime. Trouble is, all other sports use overtime when the score is tied at the end of regulation. In NASCAR, SOMEONE IS WINNING when they call for overtime. How is that fair or sportsman like. It is done to create excitement for the bored souls calling themselves race fans. It is for show, not for sport. We did not have exciting racing at Talladega, we had a very large, noisy performance that brought the crowd to it's feet for three encores.
Jim Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
I don't know why they don't increase the number of attempts. Say 8 or 10 . That way there would be a good chance that the final checkered flag would be for a foot race across the line, because all the cars would be wrecked.
zhills fan Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 5:25 am
One g-w-c is enough. Race cars are too expensive to just put on a show which is what nascar is attempting to do to get some fans back, which they won't with the economy the way it is.
Mike Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 10:46 am
NASCAR's GWC rule is a joke. Just think… if there had been a wreck on the 3rd GWC the great race at Talladege probably would have been lost in the shuffle of fans complaints.
Here's what you do…
1 - 1 "overtime" that lasts 3 laps.
2- Get the lapped cars off th track. Only cars racing
Steve Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:51 am
I don't like the GWC finish because they seem to be orchestrated by nascar if the racing at the end is boring. Also, what's to stop a driver who is 3rd, 4th or 5th on the ensuing restart to punt someone out of the way to create another GWC to put them in better position for the next one.
Its great for the fans but really makes the first 9/10ths of the race irrelevant.
Ruckus Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:51 am
I agree with Bill B, JR, and Jim. All make good points.
I liked the multiple GWC idea when it was announced but now that I've seen it in action I don't like it. I give credit to NASCAR for trying to be responsive to fans but I think they went too far with this.
Close finishes are great but you just can't have one EVERY race. Not every football game comes down to a final 4th quarter drive. Not every baseball game ends in a walk off grand slam. Not every basketball game is won on a buzzer beater. In fact most of these games are decided well before the final minutes or the last out of the ninth inning. Not every end of a game/race is highlight materiel and that's OK.
Save the multiple GWC finishes for the All Star race.

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Pauline Kael famously stated that she would never watch a movie twice for critical purposes, because she "got it" the first time. Either this is why she was a master of film criticism while the rest of us are just schmucks, or her staunchness of opinion was a weakness, its influence on contemporary criticism apparent in the continued presentation of movie reviews as objective, eternal reports rather than evaluations of subjective art appreciation. Probably some combination of both.
It is nevertheless my estimation that watching a movie for a second time can yield drastically different responses, and this is not an unpopular view. Criticwire recently posted of a survey of critics' experiences of the same movie viewed many years apart, and the replies are fascinating. This does not only apply to movies you love, though. I've had a number of embarrassing experiences of hating a movie the first time I watched it, only for it to become one of my all-time favorites upon a subsequent viewing. It's a weird experience, but a valuable one, as it's good to have a reminder that our initial assessment of a movie or any similar experience can be unreliable or at the very least subject to significant variance if and when we revisit it. It says something about all the factors that go into how we judge movies, but what I take from it is that any evaluation should be made with humility and an appreciation of our own fallibility.
One recent movie that went through a bit of a critical revival was The Lone Ranger, which I found moderately amusing and enjoyable, while others found it either unbearable or terrific fun. I can't bring myself to fall on either side, but both have their points. I'll need more time before giving watching that one another try.
A few relatively recent movies stood out to me as worthy of at least considering watching a second time around. So I did. Here are those 7 movies, and a perspective on whether the time spent revisiting them was worthwhile or not.
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1) John Carter
Verdict: God, no, please no, never
In my younger years, I would never have even entertained the thought of quitting a movie in the middle, at least not deliberately—if it had to go back to the movie rental store or whatever archaic method of viewing movies I once made use of, and I hadn't finished it, it was simply out of my hands. But consciously throwing up my hands and saying "Nope, I just can't. I'm out," was anathema. As I've gotten older, time feels more valuable and the fear of wasting time is often stronger than the compulsion to finish anything I've started.
This is all to illustrate just how big a deal it was for me to walk out of a theater screening of John Carter back in 2012. To be fair, I was visiting a new city and part of my decision to up and leave about a third of the way through was the thought that exploring the streets would be less of a waste of time.
I had been meaning to watch the entire thing at some point, and when I finally did, I felt incredibly validated. Something about this movie just doesn't seem to work. The few who defend it seem to be defending its script, which is fine, but the movie itself comes off as an awkward mishmash of oddly timed humor and a general dissonance between tone and action. In other words, it wasn't a failure (just) because of its marketing. I'm happy to entertain arguments of those who dig John Carter, but there's probably nothing anyone can say to ever make me watch it again.
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2) Ocean's Twelve
Verdict: I guess, sure
Majority opinion seems to have ruled that Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven remake back in 2001 was that rare example of a cinematic reimagining that undeniably worked. It was indeed so successful that the powers that be determined it would befit a trilogy, and like other instances of cinematic lightning, it was only able to really strike the first time. Ocean's Twelve came out in 2004, and angered more than any film I had seen at the time, so much in fact that I could never bring myself to seeing Ocean's Thirteen three years later.
Watching Ocean's Twelve 8 years later was…better. The Julia Roberts as Julia Roberts thing still annoys me, as it raises way too many questions and just distracts from the rest of the movie. The other part that ticked me off, Vincent Cassel just somehow navigating an impossible laser field, was somehow forgivable this time, perhaps because I've come to appreciate Cassel in general. Mostly, the movie is a reasonably enjoyable re-encounter of these characters and Soderbergh's cool 1960s-style shooting, particularly in the first hour. And Ocean's Thirteen, which I finally saw after, is a lot of fun, and worth seeing Ocean's Twelve for.
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3) The Amazing Spider-Man
Verdict: Hell to the yes
I will continue to defend this Marc Webb-directed version of the Spider-Man origin story as a modern masterpiece, an opinion that has only been reinforced by a third viewing after watching it twice back in 2012 (the second time was to determine whether or not I was crazy for being so moved by it the first time). I will also ignore all arguments that it was unnecessary to make because such arguments are themselves useless.
Central to the joy of this movie is the performances of two of the finest young actors of this up and coming generation, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Garfield in particular captures that sense of teen angst perfectly, oscillating between being a misunderstood outcast and a smart-mouthed rebel nerd. His overpowering emotions are always just below the surface, and his body language is wonderfully idiosyncratic.
Another detail I appreciate about Webb's Spidey is how tactile he feels. What I mean is that, as much as I enjoyed Sam Raimi's (first two) Spider-Man movies, inside the suit, Peter Parker looked like a cartoon. The reboot fixes this for us by having Garfield shed the mask more often, but also by lighting and shooting the spandex suit with much greater depth and texture. It may seem like a minor detail, but it goes a long way in making what we see more believable.
Add to this the staging of the action sequences, the timing of and quality of its wide-ranging musical score, the sympathy for its villain, and the emotional reality of every single scene, and I am more convinced than ever that this is one of, if not the, finest superhero movie we've been treated to in movies to date.
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4) Funny People
Verdict: I think so
Funny People, and director Judd Apatow's followup, This is 40, both veer in a new direction for someone known for supposed gross-out comedies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up (even though those movies are incredibly earnest compared to most other comedies). They're kind of simultaneously familiar based on Apatow's previous work and also radically different, and so can be mildly to severely off-putting on first viewing. At least, they were for me. Because it was first, Funny People threw me and many others off the most, but upon revisiting the movie, I was struck by how tremendous it actually is.
The pivotal line in the movie is spoken by Adam Sandler's character, the angry and isolated big-venue comedian who is constantly either abusing or imparting wisdom to Seth Rogen's character. In a moment of ritual abuse, he belittle's Rogen's abilities as a performer, telling him "Comedy is for funny people." This of course strikes a resounding note of irony, given how little humor the Sandler character shares in his daily life, and indeed given the stereotype of many stand-up performers as sad, lonely clowns.
Apatow's new work seems to function on the basis of the comedy enhancing the dramatic and emotional weight of the narrative rather than the other way around, and a second viewing of Funny People might allow more people to tap into this new aesthetic that he's beginning to master.
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5) Green Lantern
Verdict: I'm telling you, yes!
Ok, listen. Green Lantern is really good and I don't entirely understand why no one seems to agree with me on this. That may be because I'm still figuring out what it is about it that works on me so deeply. Yes, there's the Ryan Reynolds factor, and the unshakable impression that he's toxic for big movies like those in the superhero genre. I'll even grant that the space opera element is a tad bizarre and occupies maybe a little too much of the movie's runtime.
And yet director Martin Campbell, who is arguably responsible for reviving the James Bond franchise twice, takes these potential weaknesses and bundles them into what I consider to be strengths. He goes full-on weird with the space opera stuff, bordering on experimental art film territory in some sequences. Then Reynolds' obnoxious bravado that can occasionally be too much is used here to be not only deliberately too much but a clear cover for a deep anxiety he either needs to hide or distract himself from by various adrenaline-infused activities.
The whole movie, in fact, is about anxiety. It's packaged under the more general theme of 'fear,' with the notion of 'will' being the slightly on-the-nose solution for defeating the fear monster, but understood through the prism of the characters, especially the terrific Peter Sarsgaard villain, this is rarely explored subject in movies. Describing the daily struggle for some people who must work to find the will to triumph over anxiety disorders of any kind as heroic is admirable. I still believe (at least hope) that Green Lantern will make a cultural comeback over time.
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6) Southland Tales
Verdict: I mean, probably
Richard Kelly made a name for himself with Donnie Darko, and his name was subsequently dragged through the mud after he decided to get even more audacious with Southland Tales. It was a bizarre end-of-the-world movie whose box office turnout was as disastrous as the events depicted. I wish I could say I made more sense of it after watching a second time, but I can't. It's weird and baffling, compelling at times and alienating at others, meandering from one narrative tone to another in a way that's intriguing but unable for me to really get into yet. Still, it has some cool interpretive defenders that I will gladly defer to, because even if I find it utterly confusing, it's without a doubt a movie made with passion and vision, hard as that may be to clearly decipher.Previous Next
7) The Village
Verdict: Ughhhhhh
With every new M. Night Shyamalan movie released—the most recent example being After Earth—I somehow always forget just how much I don't care for how he makes films. I rarely remember specifically what is so awkward and off-putting about each of his post-Unbreakable efforts, but every new one is a rather effective reminder (even though I didn't mind After Earth that much).
I've wondered for years whether I was unfair to The Village (the first Shyamalan movie I openly hated). Whether it was due to youth or to a blind adherence to the tastes of Roger Ebert, I never cared much for it. So, I was actually a little surprised when I didn't completely hate the movie the second time around.
I have to admit that I was unfamiliar with the unconventional acting styles of William Hurt and Joaquin Phoenix and had jumped to the conclusion that they were terrible. However, the movie relies so heavily on the twist, for which Shyamalan has come to be known and criticized, that it feels entirely deflated on a repeat viewing. So whatever points it gained in my mind for misevaluating the quality of the performances it subsequently lost by the premise being absurd when you're aware of the secret from the start. That made it a slog from beginning to end this time rather than feeling like I had been cheated. Not exactly an improvement. Plus, the trademark awkward Shyamalan dialogue didn't help things either.
In many cases, as I've heard several critics assert, seeing a movie for the first time is mostly an act of removing all preconceived notions of what it might turn out to be and allowing yourself to see it for what it is. You don't know what a movie is until you've seen it, and I find it difficult, perhaps impossible, to appreciate a movie on its own terms on first viewing. Trying to guess what happens, or anticipating the moments you saw in the ads, can be really distracting. That's all removed the second time, or the third. You can stop asking yourself "Is this good?" or "Do I like this?" and just submit yourself. Even if your mind isn't completely changed, you can develop a perspective with a deeper understanding of the material, or the accomplishment of being able to say I survived watching the entirety of John Carter and all I have to show for it is this lousy listicle.Previous


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On the joint production of research and training
AbstractUniversities and research institutions have the responsibility to produce science and to provide training to new generations of researchers. In this paper, we propose a model to analyze the determinants of a senior scientist's decisions about allocating time between these tasks. The results of this decision depend upon the characteristics of the research project, the senior scientist's concern for training and the expected innate ability of the junior scientist involved. We analyze the role that a regulator can play in defining both the value of scientific projects and the future population of independent scientists.
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Last summer a friend and I scheduled a painting day in Portland's park blocks. We chose a great location with red bistro umbrellas in the middle-ground and plenty of diners and strollers. The park was in deep shade, light was somewhat greenish as it filtered through thick leaves, and the red umbrellas were mostly in shade. Heavily tinted bistro windows appeared stark black. I painted what I saw and was predictably disappointed in the dark result. This is the problem I have with plein air painting: Local color does not always match mood, and mood is the driving force in my paintings.
When Portland Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery invited a baker's dozen of its artists to a paint-out in the same park, I approached it in a wholly different way. I preselected a site, photographed it, did multiple pencil sketches, and studied the values. The monument of Teddy Roosevelt, which I wanted to feature, was lost in background foliage of the same value. Altering the surrounding foliage to a cheerful light value created the center of interest I wanted. The artist in my painting was actually facing me, but turning her toward the monument created a link between her and the monument. Had I painted her the way I saw her, she would have been the subject of the painting, and Roosevelt, superfluous competition.
I wanted to portray a cheerful, busy day in the park. And while that was exactly what the day provided, it was not what local color and real values provided.
Such high-key oil sketches as these are abnormal for me: I am a landscape painter enamored with shadows and low-contrast. Entirely out of my comfort zone with urban/people painting, I find it necessary to dig deep into the principals that govern my meditative landscape paintings: Composition, color, value—and most of all, mood—pushing one reality to create another.Comment on or Share this Article →
Oil Painting Demo--my approach to painting
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Click on the DEMO tab to learn how I paint in this step-by-step illustrated demo of Spring Storm. In this start-to-finish demo I will tell you what materials I am using and what I am thinking about at each stage of the painting. Brushwork, color theory, botany--it's all covered.Comment on or Share this Article →
The Compact Art Studio, Part 2
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In my last blog I wrote about the choice of easel and furniture in a small art studio. Today is about "the drying rack", which serves several purposes. In many ways it is the nerve center of my studio, and it really helps me stay organized. In this studio the shelves are on the wall behind the door. In a prior studio (when I was young and willing to climb ladders) I had one long shelf near the ceiling. Behind the door is much more accessible.
What the shelves do:
- They keep the oil paintings fully visible/accessible, making it easier to determine needed adjustments
- They offer a clean and safe place for paintings to dry
- They provide a sorting area for paintings that need to be photographed, varnished, or selected for exhibit.
- It is handy storage space for unframed paintings.
Behind the door on that otherwise wasted expanse of wall with 4" of available depth.
- 4" brackets (not available in any of the big-box hardware stores. I found these online at www.cabinetparts.com 4" brackets are a little pricey, but they allow the shelves to be adjustable.
- Two 6' standards from Lowes or Home Depot. Brackets and standards are usually interchangeable between brands, so buying standards from Lowes or Home Depot saved a lot of money.
- A doorstop in the door hinge guarantees the door cannot bash the shelves and paintings.
- 1x4"x5' oak was used for the shelves. Oak is expensive, but it does not warp like pine does.
- ½ x1" cheap trim was glued and tacked to the front of each shelf to keep things from sliding off.
Prior to installing these shelves, I stored my small paintings in little plastic letter organizers from Office Depot. It worked well as an extremely compact drying/storage device, but I could never see the paintings.
I cannot concentrate in a cluttered environment. However, I know many artists who would go nuts unless they could have all their artsy stuff scattered about, exuding creative energy. How you design your compact studio has to be determined by how you work best. Google "art studio design" and you will find sites that offer many more ideas.
Next week: Frame storage in the closet.Comment on or Share this Article →
The Compact Efficient Art Studio
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We live in an era of downsizing and doubling-up. For many, studio space is getting squeezed. My next three blog entries will show you how I've dealt with creating an efficient painting studio out of a fraction of the space I used to enjoy.
I am fortunate. I have a whole room (a smallish second bedroom sans bed) for office, sewing, and art. Multi-purposing an art studio provides many distractions from creativity. The trick is to make it efficient enough to move from one activity to another with little hassle.
One side of the room contains a high-boy dresser, a large L-shaped secretary's desk and the fold-out sewing machine cabinet. You don't need to see photos of those. It is the studio side you want to see.
Cornerstone of the studio wall is the Maybef Lyre easel, a sturdy beechwood tripod that has a small footprint. I wrote an article in my enewsletter, The Palette Keeper, about the easels in my life—you might enjoy it. The easel is flanked by three microwave stands on wheels, which can easily be reconfigured for framing projects. These "taborets" hold a tremendous amount of painting paraphernalia plus a paper cutter and a box of mini-frames. They roll easiest on hard floors or low-pile carpeting with no padding. The Persian rug is very thick wool and provides cushion while standing at the easel.
Beautiful oak bookcases had to be replaced with something more space efficient. We had two vintage 1970's olive green steel bookcases in a storage room that fit the bill. You can't get more compact and sturdy—or ugly. We shortened one of them. Together, they contain my much reduced library, as well as framing materials and a compact HEPA filter.
The ceilings are 9' high. A tall person could make good use of high wall space with cabinets and shelves, but I am short and have retired from climbing ladders and step-stools.
A four-tube flourescent fixture in the center of the ceiling lights the entire room. No auxiliary lamps are needed, saving lots of surface space.
This is not the perfect art studio. Working in a compact setting requires a certain amount of self-discipline: You must keep art supplies limited to those you actually use. I finally had to admit to a downside: By defining myself exclusively as a painter of small works my brushwork and compositions become continually tighter. I need the expressive space of larger panels, once in a while, to maintain looser brushwork in the small paintings. I'll find a way to accomodate the occassional larger paintings and frames, but it does introduce a complication into my tidy studio plan. In designing your studio space, allow yourself to change and improve it as you discover ways in which it constricts you.
Next week: The coup de grace: A drying, sorting and storage rack for oil paintings!Comment on or Share this Article →
Marketing and Imagination
"Golden Meadow" 8x10" oil on panel
There is a little magazine called Entrepreneur that I enjoy digging into every few issues. Entrepreneur is not about art, but it is very much about creativity needed to make a business thrive. Artists are by nature entrepreneurs, so why not just read an art magazine or book in which art marketing stuff has already been digested and regurgitated for you? Because you just might miss a creative opportunity.
When I read Entrepreneur's articles I don't think like an oil painter trying to sell some paintings online. I am open to random ideas, and while those ideas usually relate to art, it is less likely they would occur to me had I been reading an art marketing resource. For example, because donuts were so successful, someone developed a franchise around cupcakes. Surely one could do the same around a new type of art business. That kept my imagination busy until my husband quashed it with, "Sounds like a non-profit organization." Ah well, only an hour had been spent on development, and none on research. I'll leave it to a young entrepreneur to develop Art IzUs.
Ann Handley's article, "The Customer Capture Contraption" (Entrepreneur, September 2011) didn't really offer new ideas about blogging, but it put a different spin on old ones. Handley is CCO of www.marketingprofs.com where you can find an abundance of free articles about marketing in general.
Few successful business people are insular. They seek ideas from a wide base and can afford ongoing professional advice . In contrast, artists tend to be insular and few of us can afford a staff of professionals. There are many good art marketing books and articles available, and you should read them. You should also reach beyond them to the broader world of marketing ideas for inspiration outside the art box.
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Encouragement for World-Weary Artists
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"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "
~ Mary Pickford
When I write for my blog and newsletter, I begin with a rough draft, or sometimes an outline, and gradually polish it up. Often, what I publish bears little resemblance to the original draft. So it is with this would-be tome on encouragement. I wrote one good line in the original: There is nothing more encouraging than seeing growth in your work.
With that brilliant, if narcissistic, observation out of the way, I really want to write about the encouragement you give to others, and others give to you. I've never seen it more needed or so badly neglected. Whatever your work is or isn't, an encouraging environment fosters faith, ideas and fortitude to deal with this unrelentingly awful economic condition that is not going to improve any time soon.
Encouragement must be, above all, honestly and thoughtfully given to yourself and to others. To send a loved one out the door encouraging them to land that great job today sets them up for a very hard fall. Better to embrace a larger goal of placing and renewing applications day after day as part of a long-term plan. It's no different with selling paintings: Encourage your artist self (and other artists) to make contacts, develop a currently affordable line, perhaps even functional art, and most of all, to keep growing your skills and ability to interpret life. The other end of encouragement is praise: Praise those things done well.
Be open to alternatives. Paths to goals (or survival) are never straight or predictable. For me, small goals are important in and of themselves because big goals change, and I'm very glad of it. The journey is most important because I often land somewhere other than where I planned. My favorite question is, "If I can have it any way I want, how would it be?" This question allows me to think without restrictions. Apply the question to non-material concepts such as reducing financial stress or generating more excitement in art-making. Make it a game, getting everyone involved. Don't hurry the answers. It takes time to get to your deeper values.
Talk about the value of encouragement with your family and your art associates. Think about people in your deep past who encouraged you, and what that meant to you. Ask for encouragement if it is not forthcoming when you need it. Give it voluntarily as honestly and frequently as you can.Comment on or Share this Article →
Debating with Obstacles
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Artists have faced their share of obstacles since the latter half of 2007. At this point the details of those obstacles don't matter. What does is how your work is developing as a result of the challenge.
In 2008 I ceased painting anything larger than 8x10". It was a relief. That relief made me realize I should allow myself to be, formally and without guilt, a painter of small works. Exclusively. Permission to do what one does best and loves most is a gift.
Galleries and collectors like the flat, glarey plein air frames, so that was how I framed. I never liked them. They looked harsh. A couple months ago I revolted, buying French Baroque frames for the 5x7" paintings. The result is a luxurious pairing of my soft traditional style with an ornate frame.
Moving from an expansive home and studio on a sprawling half acre to a compact apartment with no garage meant I could no longer cut and prepare my own panels. I am now experimenting with different commercially made surfaces that require changing the way I paint. I needed that change more than I realized.
I am reintroducing an old favorite color, Naples Yellow, that I abandoned twenty years ago because I could mix variations of it from other colors. With early-stage cataracts disrupting my color perception, I've just returned Naples to my palette. Reducing the use of Cadmium Yellow by reintroducing Naples should help keep my colors in the desired muted range.
Three years ago I considered never painting again. I'm really glad I plodded on. From every compromise I rediscovered value and quality. From every self-help book and class I actually did gain some insight into why I should continue as an artist. It takes time, sometimes lots of it, for those benefits to be realized.
Obstacles have to be dealt with realistically: If you need income and art is not providing it, get a paying job. But find a way to keep your hand and mind in art, even if it only means teaching art to your children who are probably not getting it in school. The point is, whether your art world is contracting or expanding, your creative brain is learning from the experience.Comment on or Share this Article →


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Criminal mastermind; suffered serious injuries while trying to flee the police; healed by Dr. Farcett; served time for robbery; recently released from prison; uses the sewer system to burglarize apartments; by day he is Mr. Montmorency who lives in an upscale hotel and who frequents the opera; at night he is his alter-ego Scarper who keeps a room in a dirty boarding house.
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The following is an overview of the prehistoric and historic resources of the Lower Pecos River region. You will find detailed information in appendixes. Determinations of scientific significance are based upon significance criteria of the National Register of Historic Places; and NPS-28, the National Park Service guideline for cultural resources management.
Another important aspect of resource significance is the meaning these resources may have to contemporary American Indian groups. Consultation with Indian tribes who may have traditional associations with the resources of the Lower Pecos remains to be done. The National Pork Service will begin an ethnographic study of West Texas, including the Lower Pecos, in 1995.
Lower Pecos River region rock art is considered by experts to be world class, and comparable in significance to sites in Europe, Australia, and America's Baja California. Additionally, the region contains some of the oldest dated, and best preserved archeological deposits in North America:
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2. The area's dry rockshelters harbor an unparalleled record of human prehistory that spons nearly 12,000 years.
3. Lower Pecos River region pictographs (paintings on rock faces) are among the largest polychromatic (multicolored) images in North America: some reach more than 13 feet (4m) tall; some are clustered in panels extending over 100 feet (20m) along the rear walls of rockshelters.
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6. Four major prehistoric styles and one historic pictograph style are represented in the Lower Pecos River region, with the oldest style tentatively dated as far back as 3,500-4,500 years before the present.
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8. The long, continuous occupation of the Lower Pecos River region may well have begun before 10,000 B.C., and continued in vary ing forms until the end of the 19th century.
9. At Bonfire Shelter, the remains of 100-plus bison antiquus or occidentalis date back to nearly 9000 B.C., and represent one of North America's oldest known bison jump sites (sites where herds of bison were stampeded off cliffs as a killing method).
10. The preservation of archeological remains in the region's many dry rockshelters is astonishing. Preserved fiber materials allow researchers to study aspects of prehistoric material culture unavailable to most scientists in the United States.
11. Amistad National Recreation Area has a museum collection of artifacts from more than 200 sites and 22 major excavations that is estimated to contain more than 1 million objects.
12. The park's Federally-owned museum collection has one of the largest Archaic sandal assemblages in the National Park Service.
13. Evidence of the oldest known dated use of peyote in the New World (5000 B.C.) was found in a dry rockshelter in the Lower Pecos River region.
For convenience and presentation, Lower Pecos River region prehistory has been divided into four broad time periods, each characterized by a variety of traits ranging from economics, to projectile point styles (often considered time markers, because the age of common Lower Pecos River region point styles has been determined by radiocarbon dating), to pictograph styles. The exact beginning and ending dates assigned to these time periods are arbitrary, because the transition from one stage to the next was often slow and gradual: The Paleolndian occupation (before 7000 B.C.) occurred at the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age), when large game animals, now extinct, still roamed the Lower Pecos region. As the climate became more arid, the human populations adapted to a semi-desert environment, developing the cultural traits characteristic of the Archaic Period (7000 B.C. to A.D. 600). Sometime around A.D. 600 to A.D. 1000, changes such as the adoption of the bow and arrow signaled the advent of the Late Prehistoric Period (A.D. 600 to 1600). The coming of the first Europeans at the close of the 16th century marks the end of prehistory and the beginning of the Historic Period.
Archealogy provides us with ways of understanding aspects of the lifeways of these prehistoric hunters and gatherers. For example, rockshelter refuse tells us much about their activities, technology, and diet. Mapping the distribution of known sites across the landscape tells us about preferences in choosing sites for open-air camps, and for one rockshelter over another. And from archeological evidence, we know that these prehistoric peoples were hunters and gatherers who appear to have had very little trade or contact with other contemporaneous groups in the U.S. or Mexico. Hunting and foraging were always the mainstays of the Lower Pecos economy, ranging in scale from mass kills of herd animals to trapping of small rodents, mammals, and lizards, and roasting of desert plants such as yucca and agave. All current information indicates that, throughout prehistory, the Lower Pecos people remained nomadicmoving from place to place according to the seasonal availability of food, water, and other resources.
The fascinating rock art of the Lower Pecos River region offers us glimpses into the cognitive, esthetic, and ideological worlds of native peoples. In terms of archeology, four major prehistoric pictograph styles have been defined, and several minor styles proposed. The styles can be arranged in chronological order, beginning with the elaborate, polychrome Pecos River style, which is generally thought to be between 3,000 and 4,000 years old. The miniature Red Linear pictographs are probably more recent, but their span may overlap with the older style. The two latest prehistoric stylesthe Red Monochrome and the Bold Line Geometricsare believed to be Late Prehistoric in age, dating sometime after A.D. 600 and before A.D. 1600. Some historic pictographs, painted in a style characteristic of the Plains Indians, can be more precisely dated, but many miscellaneous panels can not be assigned to any specific group, to any defined style, or to even the broadest time range. Nor is it likely that any exact translation of rock art symbols into our frame of reference will ever be within our reachor that we will ever be able to completely understand the supernatural world of the aboriginal mind. The people and the culture that produced these pictographs are extinct; thus, the meanings, functions, and purposes of the images are lost forever.
Many other questions about Lower Pecos River region prehistory also remain unanswered. For instance, what were tribal identities, alliances, and enemies? And what did the people call themselves? No familiar American Indian names are mentioned in historic documents until the influx during historic times of Plains Indians, such as Apaches and Comanches, after the great Pueblo Revolt of 1680 in New Mexico. One name commonly used in the popular press"Pecos Man"simply refers to a geographic location. Archaic peoples in the Lower Pecos are often classified as "Coahuiltecans," based on similarities in lifeways and material culture, but this designation only implies that they probably belonged to the same language group as other hunter-gatherers encountered in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico at the time of first European contact.
One way we can make some inferences about the social structure of the Lower Pecos peoples, and the unwritten rules that made for orderly societies, is by comparing Lower Pecos hunting and gathering technology and subsistence with living or documented groups in similar arid environments. Such comparisons suggest that the populations of hunting and gathering societies in the Lower Pecoslike most hunting and gathering societies in arid environmentsmust remain sparse and thinly distributed in order to exploit seasonal or geographic resources without seriously depleting them. The basic social unit would probably have been the extended familya small, highly mobile group drawn together by ties of kinship. Familial relationships would serve to further the unity of the group, increasing cooperation through familiarity and affection. Other members might be attracted by the success of some individual or simple compatibility. Group composition would be fluid, permitting any friction to be resolved by members moving to another band. Practicing a nomadic life, these small groups could make seasonal rounds, harvesting plant foods as they ripened or moving when local supplies were diminished.
During times of relative plenty, for example, when desert fruits such as persimmons, mesquite beans, and pricklypear cactus ripened, the dispersed families could congregate for communal harvests and celebrations. The need for exogamythe rule of marrying outside the groupcould be satisfied at these meetings. A forum for the exchange of information could be provided, and political ties could be formed or cemented. It seems probable that much of the Lower Pecos River region's most elaborate pictographs were pointed as part of rituals enacted during the periods when dispersed families congregated.
Marriages (probably highly informal by modern standards) contracted between members of different groups could serve a most useful function by providing ties with a larger segment of the population. The more links an individual could forge, the more options would be available during times of economic, social, and environmental stress. Thus, marriage would be a political alliance, with implications beyond the individuals concerned.
To keep the nuclear family small, within the limits imposed by the food supply and the need for mobility, some form of population controlsexual abstinence or infanticidewould be necessary to augment the high infant mortality rate. Life expectancy would be short; children would learn to perform their mature roles at an early age, and probably make a rapid transition to adulthood. The miniature weapons and domestic utensils that have been found in Lower Pecos River region rockshelter refuse might have served the dual purpose of amusement and education. Women, in an economy that emphasizes the gathering of plant foods, would be responsible for the bulk of the foodstuffs. Girls and young women would learn to harvest and process plant material for both consumption and the manufacture of clothing and utensils.
Traditionally, men would have controlled the hunting of larger animals and the manufacture of the more complex stone tools. The production of the finest projectile points found in the Lower Pecos River region would involve labor that goes far beyond that needed to produce an efficient weapon. Such an expenditure of time and effort to produce esthetically pleasing tools must have carried psychological or social rewards beyond that of sheer utility.
In all human societies, some able members of the group fulfill the need for leadership, although the degree to which power con be exercised corresponds to the population density and the resources to be controlled. In an area such as the Lower Pecos, where both people and basic commodities were sparse and dispersed, a leader would usually rise to the top during times when organization was needed for a specific task. Examples might include the direction of a communal hunt by the most able hunter, or the leading of a raid or defending of a camp by the bravest warrior. It is interesting to note that many historic Southern Plains and Northern Mexican bands and groups had both war and peace leaders, based upon the principle that the one most qualified to fight may not have been the best advocate of reconciliation. Because the headman's power was simply a matter of acknowledged ability, high rank was not hereditary, nor was it endowed with much control over the rest of society. Often such a leader functioned only during his prime, to be later replaced by another, more competitive and able, man. The elderly were not without merit, their experience and wisdom often contributing to endurance through times of stress.
The oldest and most widespread form of religious thought in North America shamanismis found among hunter-gatherer societies throughout the world. In this tradition, the shamanor "medicine man"was charged with the general welfare of the group. The shaman was probably the most powerful single individual in a society. Shamans controlled the powers that permeated and affected every aspect of their physical and ideological worldswhich were often inseparable. As magician or conjurer, through their special relationship with the supernatural world, they were able to affect the success of a hunt or battle, cast spells to enchant people and animals, and communicate with the spirits. As the most learned person in the group, they served as a storehouse of oral tradition, stories, myths, and facts about the group's history, and about the order of the universe. Some researchers have speculated that pictographs may have functioned as mnemonic devicesimages used by shamans and storytellers to recall or remember specific events, people, or myths that were part of the oral histories. In many respects, the shaman would have been a teacher, relating his accumulated knowledge to the youth. On an even more practical level, the shaman would have been an herbalist, curing disease through a combination of real and magical treatments. The most obvious evidence for the role of shamanism in Lower Pecos ideology is Pecos River style pictographs. These complex and elaborate artworks are considered by many to be shamanic works perhaps visions achieved in trance, and then made permanent on the walls of the canyons.
The prehistoric peoples of the Lower Pecos were "primitive" peoples only in the sense that the dictionary defines "primitive" as "relating to the earliest age or period." Their lives could never be considered "primitive" in the sense of being inefficient or impoverished. The pictographs for which the area is most noted testify to a complex ideological or mythological world far more varied than their economic and technological remains suggest. Furthermore, by adapting to their environment, learning to utilize rather than drastically alter the natural resources, the native peoples of the Lower Pecos River region were able to endure for the impressive time-span of over 10,000 years.
The close of the 16th century marked the beginning of the Historic Period in the Lower Pecos River region. During historic times, settlement was scattered in this region, and there were no major towns. Nevertheless, the region is rich in the history of major political, economic, and military events, and in the stories of the long parade of people who sometimes stopped for water and forage at designated camps as they passed through the region.
You will note that some of the following historical events (which are detailed in an appendix) have been described in greater detail than othersindicating that they offer the richest sources of primary documentation for future research. A dearth of information exists for other events or time periodssuggesting what future researchers might uncover.
1. American Indian Period, from Late Prehistoric into Spanish Colonial Period: Although the Coahuiltecan groups native to the Amistad area had been largely exterminated by European diseases, Spanish slave-raiding, and encroachment by other American Indians by 1680, several historic American Indian populations are associated with the region. Mostlike the Comanche, Kickapoo, and Kiowa Apachemerely passed through the Lower Pecos area en route to Mexico. However, the Upan Apache, and to a lesser degree the Mescalero Apache, may have occupied the area, at least sporadically, from as early as 1680 to 1880. At present, only a handful of sites in Val Verde County are definitely associated with the Apache; however, such mobile populations are often archeologically "invisible," because much of their material culture is identical to that of many prehistoric groups.
2. Spanish colonial Period, 1590-1821: In 1590-1591, en route to Pecos Pueblo, Castaño de Sosa became the first known European to travel through the Lower Pecos River region. Spanish expeditions traveled through the Amistad Reservoir basin, stopping only to make temporary camps and to forage their animals. The Spanish described the region as "despoblado," or unpopulated by indigenous pre-Spanish groups. A number of pictograph sites in the region, including the Vaquero Shelter, are attributed to Southern Plains Indian groups who traversed the region after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico. In 1821, the Treaty of Cordova granted Mexico independence from Spain; and the region became part of Mexico. Tangible remains representing this period include trails, campsites, graffiti, military artifacts, and structures. There are no Spanish Colonial Period cultural resources near the NRA's legislated boundaries, and none have been identified for possible acquisition.
3. Mexican Period, 1831-1836: The Mexican Period ended abruptly with Texas Independence following the Battle of San Jacinto (1836) near present-day Houston, Texas. Most of northeastern Mexico and southwestern Texas were at this time unsettled. There were few transportation links in the area, with ranching dominating most regional economies. Little in the region is known about or attributed to the Mexican Period. Potential tangible remains include trails, campsites, graffiti, military artifacts, structures, stock pens, and remains of small homesteads. Other than American Indian rock art, no archeological sites in or around Amistad NRA have been dated to this period.
4. Texas Republic Period, 1836-1845: On December 29, 1845, Texas joined the Union as the 28th statebringing to an end the short-lived Republic of Texas. The Lower Pecos River region remained unpopulated by Europeans; during this time, no cities or towns were established by European immigrants in the area that is now the national recreation area. Southern Plains Indian groups and Northern Mexican Indians traversed the region, with no known groups apparently residing for more than short periods of time. The border between Mexico and the Republic of Texas was the Nueces River (80 miles east of the reservoir). The present NRA was part of Mexico during this period. Potential tangible remains include trails, campsites, graffiti, structures, stock pens, remains of small homesteads, and certain military artifacts. Other than American Indian rock art, no archeological sites in or around Amistad NRA have been dated to this period.
5. Texas statehood (before the civil War), 1845-1861: Shortly after Texas's admission to the Union in 1845, the U.S. Army Bureau of Topographic Engineers began an intensive program to identify potential locations for military posts and commercial transportation links between existing cities and the gulf coast. In 1848 seven major topographic expeditions were in the state, several of them traversing and mapping today's Amistad Reservoir Basin. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (which ended the Mexican-American War) re-established the border between the two nations from the Nueces River to the Rio Grande, making today's NRA part of the U.S. for the first time. By 1854, Camp Blake was established at the confluence of the Devils River and the Rio Grande (now submerged under the waters of Lake Amistad) to protect traffic along the San Antonio-El Paso Road. By 1855, the San Antonio-El Paso Road had become a bustling commercial and military transportation route, which crossed the Amistad Basin at several locations. Camp Hudson (25 miles north of the reservoir) was established by 1856 to guard the road from roving Indian attacks. Several skirmishes occurred within today's park area. Attacks on wagon trains along the road through the basin continued unabated until the early 1870s. Tangible remains from this period include trails, temporary campsites, graffiti, military artifacts, and the remains of ranching activities such as stock pens, small homesteads, and associated rock structures. There are no cultural sites attributable to this period identified for acquisition.
6. Civil War Period, 1861-1865: On January 28, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America. All Federal military installations in Texas were abandoned, as U.S. Army troops left Texas. There were no known engagements in the vicinity of Amistad NRA. Camp Hudson was abandoned by March, with Confederate troops occupying the post by October 1861. Post duties under the Confederacy at Camp Hudson changed little; troops guarded military wagon trains and commercial shipments on the road from attacks. Confederate troops abandoned Camp Hudson before the war ended, because they were needed elsewhere. Federal troops returned to Texas by late 1865, even though Texas was not re-admitted to the Union until March 30, 1870, following the period of Reconstruction. Extant or tangible remains from this period include trails, temporary campsites, graffiti, and military artifacts. There are no Civil War Period sites identified for possible acquisition.
7. Texas Statehood (post-Civil War) Period, 1865-1880: As the U.S. Army returned to Texas following the war, they did not re-occupy all the pre-war forts and military posts in southwest Texas along the Rio Grande, deciding instead to construct a new line of forts north and west of the Amistad Basin, as the Texas frontier moved ever westward. From 1865-1873, Indian raids and Mexican bandits had continually disrupted commercial and military traffic along the San Antonio-El Paso Road. In April 1873, Colonel Ranald S. MacKenzie and 400 heavily armed cavalry troops drawn from the commands at Fort Clark and Fort Duncan slipped across the Rio Grande under the cover of darkness and attacked three Indian villages (80 miles, or 128km, into Mexico) at Rey Molino, burning and killing Kickapoo, Lipan, and Mescalero Apache Indians. There was on initial reduction on Indian raids, but by 1876, several more incursions into Mexico had occurred. (The last documented Indian raid into Texas and through the area now within the NRA occurred on April 14, 1881.) In late 1880, the Southern Transcontinental Rail Road became a reality, forever changing the economic base and land-use patterns for the Lower Pecos River region. Extant or tangible remains from this period include trails, temporary campsites, graffiti, military artifacts, and remains associated with early homesteads and ranching. There are no post-Civil War sites identified for possible acquisition.
8. Railroad Era (Southern Pacific RR), 1880-World War II: In 1881, the first surveys for the Southern Transcontinental Rail Road began in the Lower Pecos River region area. The Southern Pacific planned to build east from California and west from San Antonio, with the two lines destined to be joined at the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande. In 1881-1883, upwards of 6,000 people worked in the reservoir basin. The Western Division was made up of veterans from the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad, along with 6,000 Chinese workers. The Eastern Division comprised a mix of immigrant Irish, Germans, Mexicans, and Africans; it also hired numerous contractors to build grades, blast tunnels, and build trestles. The line opened in 1883, with the driving of a silver spike about 1 mile west of the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande (a site targeted for possible acquisition). The first and second railroad tunnels built in Texas are part of the system (the first is already within Amistad National Recreation Area; the second is targeted for possible acquisition). There were over 3,000 feet (914m) of wooden trestles and 14 metal spanseach between 100 and 300 feet (30 and 90m). (All that remains of these features today are cut-block footers and foundation remnants.) In 1892, the line was re-routed out of the Rio Grande canyon because of high maintenance costs and occasional flooding of the bridge, which was only about 40 feet (12m) above the river bottom. Eleven miles (17km) of track that had been blasted into the canyon walls were eliminated. (Some of the bed for the track is still visible today, with portions under water.) In 1893, the Pecos Viaduct bridge opened, at 322 feet (98m) above the Pecos Riverthe highest bridge in the United States, and the third-highest in the world. Tangible remains include tunnels, trestles, graffiti, construction camps, railroad grades, trash scatters, buildings, and other structures. Several significant railroad sites are targeted for possible acquisition.
9. Ranching Era, 1880-World War II: With the coming of the railroad, vast expanses of wilderness in west Texas and northern Mexico were opened to commercial purposes and European settlement. Sheep and goat ranching spread quickly across the region, with the railroad providing the transportation link to get the goods to market. By World War I, the Lower Pecos River region was one of the Southwest's largest wool and mohair producers. Over-grazing, deep-well drilling for water, and the suppression of natural grass fires are responsible for the drastic environmental changes that the ranching industry set into motion. By World War II, ranching had transformed much of the region into the scrub and thorn brush countryside that characterizes it today. Ranching is still the economic cornerstone for the regional economy. Tangible remains include windmills, stock tanks, structures, trash scatters, and fence lines. A historic stock tank located along the Devils River is the only Ranching Era site identified for possible acquisition.
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Based on these studies, bevacizumab can reasonably be added to either FOLFIRI or FOLFOX for patients undergoing first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. A major question was whether the use of bevacizumab after first-line therapy was warranted when bevacizumab was used as a component of first-line therapy. At the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, data was presented from a randomized, controlled trial.[62] In the trial, 820 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, after progressing on first-line chemotherapy that included bevacizumab, were randomly assigned to chemotherapy without bevacizumab or chemotherapy with bevacizumab. Patients who received bevacizumab experienced an improved OS compared with the patients who did not receive bevacizumab. Median OS was 11.2 months for patients who received bevacizumab plus chemotherapy and 9.8 months for patients who received chemotherapy without bevacizumab (HR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.69–0.94; unstratified log-rank test, P = .0062). Median PFS was 5.7 months for patients who received bevacizumab plus chemotherapy and 4.1 months for those who received chemotherapy without bevacizumab (HR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.59–0.78; unstratified log-rank test, P < .0001).[62]][Level of evidence: 1iiA]
Aflibercept is a novel anti-VEGF molecule and has been evaluated as a component of second-line therapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. In one trial, 1,226 patients were randomly assigned to receive aflibercept (4 mg/kg IV) or placebo every 2 weeks in combination with FOLFIRI.[63] Patients who received aflibercept plus FOLFIRI had a significantly improved OS relative to placebo plus FOLFIRI (HR, 0.817; 95.34% CI, 0.713–0.937; P = .0032) with median survival times of 13.50 months versus 12.06 months, respectively. Aflibercept also significantly improved PFS (HR, 0.758; 95% CI, 0.661–0.869; P < .0001), with median PFS times of 6.90 months versus 4.67 months, respectively. On the basis of these results, the use of FOLFIRI plus aflibercept is an acceptable second-line regimen for patients previously treated with FOLFOX-based chemotherapy.[63][Level of evidence: 1A] Whether to continue bevacizumab or initiate aflibercept in second-line therapy has not been addressed as yet in any clinical trial, and there are no data available.
Cetuximab is a partially humanized monoclonal antibody against the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Because cetuximab affects tyrosine kinase signaling at the surface of the cell membrane, tumors with mutations causing activation of the pathway downstream of the EGFR, such as KRAS mutations, are not sensitive to its effects. The addition of cetuximab to multiagent chemotherapy improves survival in patients with colon cancers that lack a KRAS mutation (i.e., KRAS wild type). Importantly, patients with mutant KRAS tumors may experience worse outcome when cetuximab is added to multiagent chemotherapy regimens containing bevacizumab.
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