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American Sprint Car Series-National Tour Returns To "The Grove"
By Ben Deatherage
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Cottage Grove, Oregon- Cottage Grove Speedway on Friday July 19th and Saturday the 20th will host the American Sprint Car Series-National Tour along with the cars and stars of the ASCS-Northwest Region. It will mark the first time since 2011 that the ASCS-National Tour has visited the historic ¼-mile clay oval. As was the case last weekend up at the Grays Harbor Raceway, in Elma, Washington, the Northwest Wingless Tour will play the role of the support class for both nights of action.
Since 2009 there have been a total of six ASCS-National Tour events at Cottage Grove Speedway. In those six races Jason Johnson has captured four of them. Both Shane Stewart and Brady Bacon have won just once. In ASCS-Northwest Region action so far this year Roger Crockett has been undefeated at "The Grove" winning three series events in three starts.
The ASCS-Northwest Region as a whole has had eleven events at five different venues with five different winners. Roger Crockett leads the series with five triumphs over Travis Rilat who has three. Kyle Hirst, Cam Smith, and Jason Johnson all have managed to score one apiece in regional competition. In local competition at CGS Roger Crockett has scored seven total victories while Rob Held has just won once.
Tickets for Friday will be Adults $20.00, Juniors (13-18)/Seniors/Military $15.00, Youths (12-7) $7.00, 5 And Under are FREE, and Sky Box Seats $35.00. While on Saturday Adults are $25.00, Juniors (13-18)/Seniors/Military $17.00, Youths (12-6) $10.00, 5 And Under FREE, and Sky Box Seats $35.00. Two-Day Pass will be offered and are Adults $40.00, Juniors (13-18)/Seniors/Military $30.00, Youths (12-6) $15.00, and Sky Box Seats $60.00.
The Cottage Grove Speedway has hosted fast and exciting action as far back as 1956. Since then the ¼-mile banked oval has been regarded as a place where fast times are set and plenty of side-by-side racing occurs. Regular classes include 360 Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, NW Extreme Winged Sprint Cars, Late Models, Street Stocks, and Hornets from the months of April till October every Saturday night. For more information be sure and visit the venue's homepage www.cottagegrovespeedway.com or call the brand new Northwest Tracks Hotline at (360)-699-RACE.
The American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region is the western most arm of the American Sprint Car Series sanctioning body located in the Pacific Northwest the series hosts 360 Sprint Car racing on dirt tracks throughout Oregon and Washington from May to September. For more information on the latest news and stories about the series log onto their website at www.ascsnorthwest.com or www.ascsracing.com.
Past ASCS-Northwest Region Winners At Cottage Grove Speedway:
2013- Roger Crockett on June 1st, Roger Crockett on July 5th, Roger Crockett on July 6th
2012- Shane Stewart on July 18th
2011- Roger Crockett on May 13th, Roger Crockett on May 14th, Wayne Johnson on July 13th, Jason Johnson on July 22nd*, Jason Johnson on July 23rd*, Henry Van Dam on September 17th
2010- Roger Crockett on July 3rd, Roger Crockett on July 4th, Jason Johnson on July 23rd*, Brady Bacon July 24th*
2009- Jesse Hockett on July 14th, Shane Stewart on July 24th*, Jason Johnson on July 25th*, Roger Crockett on August 11th
2008- Roger Crockett on July 15th
*- Denotes ASCS-National Tour vs. Northwest Region events
Past ASCS-National Tour At Cottage Grove Speedway Results:
July 24th, 2009
A-Feature: 1. Shane Stewart, 2. Wayne Johnson, 3. Jason Johnson, 4. Roger Crockett, 5. Paul McMahan, 6. Austen Wheatley, 7. Seth Bergman, 8. Jack Dover, 9. Jesse Hockett, 10. Jason Solwold, 11. Tony Bruce, Jr., 12. Sean McClelland, 13. Jared Ridge, 14. Tim Crawley, 15. Travis Rilat, 16. Kenneth Walker, 17. Steven Tiner, 18. Justyn Cox, 19. Mitch Olson, 20. Dale Smith, 21. Gary Wright, 22. Danny Wood, 23. Chad Groves, 24. Gary Taylor
July 25th, 2009
A-Feature: 1. Jason Johnson, 2. Roger Crockett, 3. Shane Stewart, 4. Dale Smith, 5. Tony Bruce, Jr., 6. Wayne Johnson, 7. Jesse Hockett, 8. Jason Solwold, 9. Gary Wright, 10. Paul McMahan, 11. Jack Dover, 12. Tim Crawley, 13. Danny Wood, 14. Kyle Miller, 15. Kenneth Walker, 16. Randy Pierce, 17. Travis Rilat, 18. Mitch Olson, 19. Gavin Punch, 20. Sean McClelland, 21. Chad Corken, 22. Steven Horner, 23. Seth Bergman, 24. Gary Taylor
July 23rd, 2010
A Feature: 1. Jason Johnson, 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Seth Bergman, 4. Shane Stewart, 5. Jason Solwold, 6. Tony Bruce Jr., 7. Tim Crawley, 8. Kyle Hirst, 9. Danny Wood, 10. Jack Dover, 11. Dustin Morgan, 12. Steven Tiner, 13. Roger Crockett, 14. Matt Covington, 15. Channin Tankersley, 16. Ricky Logan, 17. Zach Chappell, 18. Jayme Barnes, 19. Logan Forler, 20. Billy Nutter, 21. T.J. Hartman, 22. Josh DeWitt, 23. Mack Brown, 24. Shane Forte
July 24th, 2010
A Feature: 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Seth Bergman, 3. Zach Chappell, 4. Henry Van Dam, 5. Kyle Hirst, 6. Billy Nutter, 7. Jack Dover, 8. Danny Wood, 9. Jason Solwold, 10. Dustin Morgan, 11. Tim Crawley, 12. Channin Tankersley, 13. Matt Covington, 14. Ricky Logan, 15. Roger Crockett, 16. Tony Bruce Jr., 17. Steve Vague, 18. Austen Wheatley, 19. Steven Tiner, 20. Justyn Cox, 21. Trey Starks, 22. Mitch Olson, 23. T.J. Hartman, 24. Jason Johnson, 25. Jayme Barnes, 26. Shane Stewart
July 22nd, 2011
A-Feature: 1. Jason Johnson, 2. Roger Crockett, 3. Wayne Johnson, 4. Johnny Herrera, 5. Shane Stewart, 6. Tim Kaeding, 7. Brady Bacon, 8. Jeff Swindell, 9. Kyle Larson, 10. Gary Wright, 11. Dale Smith, 12. Garen Linder, 13. Logan Forler, 14. Rob Held, 15. Henry Van Dam, 16. Mitch Olson, 17. Trey Starks, 18. Nate Morelock, 19. Jake Waddell, 20. Aaron Reutzel, 21. Tim Crawley, 22. Jonathan Allard, 23. Seth Bergman
July 23rd, 2011
A-Feature: 1. Jason Johnson, 2. Wayne Johnson, 3. Jeff Swindell, 4. Tim Kaeding, 5. Roger Crockett, 6. Kyle Larson, 7. Shane Stewart, 8. Johnny Herrera, 9. Seth Bergman, 10. Jonathan Allard, 11. Chadd Noland, 12. Jayme Barnes, 13. Brady Bacon, 14. Tim Crawley, 15. Logan Forler, 16. Gary Wright, 17. Henry Van Dam, 18. Nate Morelock, 19. Trey Starks, 20. Aaron Reutzel, 21. Mason Moore, 22. Travis Jacobson, 23. Tony Bruce, Jr., 24. Zach Chappell.
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Back to the BeachWritten by on October 2, 2009 While Not Actually On The Beach, This Show's Venue Is Only A Couple Hundred Yards From The Ocean
I may have only lived in this country for four years, but I've been coming here on hot rod-related vacations for over 20 years, and can remember going to Back to the Beach when it was a West Coast Kustoms event in Huntington Beach, California. Owned for the past few years by Trophy Queen Productions (yep, the kustom kulture handbag, clothing, and accessory people), and moved to Trophy Queen owner Jenny Tanner's hometown of Ventura, a little farther north on SoCal's coastline, the show attracts enough showgoers and vendors to be held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds.
With a strict entry policy of '69-and-earlier American cars and trucks, or '69-and-earlier American or British motorcycles, the old-school hot rod show ethos is maintained, and taking place the weekend following the West Coast Kustoms' Santa Maria event meant out-of-staters could bookend a 10-day vacation with two cool car shows. Whether the overcast weather or even the economy put a few spectators off, as the crowds seemed a little sparse, plenty of car owners turned out and had a ball, with live bands playing on the outdoor stage throughout the day, and a silent auction in aid of the Alzheimer's Association.
With prize giving wrapping up the show, we joined a bunch of hot rodders who moved on to Kiwi Kev's backyard for a barbecue and BS session, before hitting the town and even stumbling across a burlesque show at one bar before making our way back to our hotel, followed by a leisurely Sunday morning cruise home down Pacific Coast Highway in preference to taking the freeway.
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Jack Carroll's Flattie-motored '32 five window now has a fully chromed rearend to match the front. The channeled brown beauty placed in the prizewinners, taking Runner-up Best Hot Rod.Manuel Valenzuela travelled all the way from neighboring Oxnard with his kustom First Series Chevy pickup, one of the last of the series as denoted by that one-piece windshield.We're guessing this '51 Merc is bagged to get it that low, but we do know it has the earlier, rounder backlight and later-Mercury taillights. Nice chop, and retaining the side trim works for us, breaking up that battleship paint scheme.Blame it on Two Lane Blacktop all you want, but black '55 Chevy street racers will always look tough. Rob Marlatt's 210 post rocks with its cowl gauges, fenderwell headers, and missing gravel pan and bumper. The tube between the framehorns is a nice touch.There seemed to be an inordinate number of cars from Lancaster at Back to the Beach, with Bonnie and Jerry's '51 Buick just one of them. That evil chop sure lent some presence to this matte black cruiser.Whether you class it as a mild custom or a lowered stocker, Fabian's '56 Fairlane pressed the right buttons for us. The cool color combo continued into the interior too.The small white scallops on the fenders and visor of Cisco Farias' '55 Chevy pickup set it apart, and complemented the wide whites tucked way up in the fenders.Frank Barone's '29 Model A appears to be the back half of a roadster and the cowl from a coupe or sedan, coupled together with homemade doorskins welded in place. Channeled over an A chassis, and with a truck grille, the Flathead-powered roadster looks like low-budget fun!
Hey look, an unchopped Merc! When was the last time you saw one of these, especially as it has mild custom touches such as rounded hood corners, frenched headlights and antenna, a DeSoto grille, spots, skirts, and lakes pipes. Brian Omatsu owns the nosed, decked, and shaved '51 coupe.This show always includes a healthy showing of bikes, Brit iron included, as evidenced by this hard-tailed Trumpet.John Gilbert, editor of our sister magazine Custom Classic Trucks, is keen on these "rig rods," which use the wheels, brakes, and usually the axles from full-size trucks, but we're not so sure. What's your take on 'em? We do have to say this is one of the nicer examples we've seen.It may not have been sunny, but you could feel the heat coming off Brenda Jarrett's '51 Ford! The Riverside-based shoebox sported a healthy chop and a neat grille swap using part Ford and part '55 Plymouth pieces.We finally got to meet Kiwi Kev at his barbecue after the show, and thought you might like to see a couple of projects he has stashed away in the lean-to. Damn, that's bigger than my garage, and with infinitely cooler contents.

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5 Famous Space Missions That Almost Ended In Disaster
#2. NASA Shrugs Off a Severely Damaged Classified Spacecraft
In 1988, a spacecraft code named STS-27 was launched. Virtually nothing is known about its objectives, as it was an extremely classified Department of Defense mission. What we do know, however, is the way it almost became the biggest rain of top secret shrapnel in the history of space travel -- and how NASA couldn't have cared less.
After that whole "moon" thing, they sorta got sloppy.
During launch, a piece of foam came off one of the solid rocket boosters of STS-27 and went right into the heat shield tiles that coated the bottom of the shuttle. And when we say "heat shield," we mean the tiles that keep the shuttle from turning into a hunk of molten metal upon reentry.
As similar accidents had happened before, the crew knew to suspect a problem and, once in space, took a camera-equipped robotic arm to check out the damage. What they saw was the worst tile damage any space shuttle had ever experienced: 700 tiles were damaged, to the point where one tile was actually completely gone. Here, let's just tell you what Commander Robert Gibson said upon seeing the damage: "We are going to die."
That is not the mustache of a man prone to melodrama.
He gravely informed NASA of the situation -- only to get a skeptical "No, man, that's just a trick of the light" back. The images of the damage NASA got were too grainy to see what was really going on, so they thought the tear in the side of the ship was just the play of shadows and told the crew that the landing wouldn't be a problem. Needless to say, the freshly doomed astronauts were less than happy about this.
The rest of the mission was actually pretty relaxed -- the attitude the crew decided to adopt was less moping and waiting for the fiery death that everyone assumed was coming and more sardonic "Why die all tensed up?" Black humor ran rampant; Gibson even prepared a little speech to give to NASA as the shuttle would inevitably fall apart.
Against all odds, the shuttle held together during reentry and the landing wound up going as smoothly as anything. The moment they landed, NASA took a look at the damage and shat a brick, openly admitting that this was easily the worst damage they had ever seen on a surviving shuttle.
Sadly, history doesn't tell us what Gibson replied.
#1. The Space Station Maintenance Crew from a Disaster Movie
In 1986, the Soviet Union began constructing their mighty space station Mir. It grew to become the largest man-made object orbiting Earth, all the way up until its deorbit in 2001. Such a huge station needed constant human attendance, and thus a chain of six-month Mir missions was set up: EO-1 was the first one, followed by EO-2, and so on.
The Jacuzzi went up on EO-5.
By 1997, amid huge budget cuts and with public interest in Mir on the wane, EO-23 started their mission on the now old and creaky station.
It did not go well.
Above: 40 percent duct tape, 60 percent prayers.
On February 12, 1997, control was handed over to EO-23. Less than two weeks later, a chemical fire broke out on board the station. Three-foot flames shot out of Mir's Kvant module, wreaking happy havoc for 14 long minutes. After getting the fire out, the crew had to wear oxygen masks for two and a half hours, because it turns out you can't just open the window when you're in space.
"Yuri! Did you fall asleep while smoking again?"
March and April saw continuous combat with mildly important machinery such as thermal controls, oxygen production and CO2 removal systems. As often as not, the crew was only one hasty repair mission away from certain death.
And those were the good times.
Strapped for cash, the Russian higher-ups wanted to see if long-range docking on the station was possible to do manually, so they could remove the expensive automatic equipment. The crew was tasked with the experiment in June, and quickly found the answer to be a decisive "Hell no." They managed to fumble two separate tests on remotely controlled crafts. The first one sailed past the station into the black abyss. The next attempt was much worse.
That craft crashed right into the station's solar array ... and then smacked right into Mir's Spektr module. Spektr began to depressurize extremely rapidly, so the cosmonauts rushed to shut down and seal off the section completely. It would never be reopened, lest they all die a horrible death in the vacuum of space ... but hey -- disaster averted!
"You have exactly four seconds to take this picture before the cabin depressurizes."
Or, as it turned out, not. The Spektr module happened to be the very unit that was keeping the station alive. Thus, when they shut it down, the entire station lost power. This caused it to turn from a functional space station into a drifting coffin for the crew inside, and it took weeks of frantic repairs to get the station back to an approximate working order.
As their six months finally came to a halt, the EO-23 crew was all too eager to change guard and returned to Earth. As a final "F you" from their doomed mission, the landing rockets of their Soyuz failed to fire on touchdown, treating them to one of the roughest landings ever experienced by a returning crew. Still, that had to have been the sweetest goddamned rough landing of their lives.
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5 Reasons Conspiracy Theories Are Destroying the World
We all know a conspiracy theorist. Maybe it's that kid from high school who keeps putting photos of "chemtrails" on his Facebook wall, or an uncle who listens to alternative radio and thinks Obama is a reptilian creature in a human skin suit. It's easy to laugh at them and congratulate ourselves for being smarter than they are, but in doing so you'd be missing something important:
They're winning.
Yeah, it's time to take conspiracy theorists seriously, but not for the reasons they want us to.
#5. The More Information People Have Access to, the Worse It Gets
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Right after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, about 52 percent of people thought there was some kind of conspiracy at play, according to polls at the time. Of course, this was the dark ages of the 1960s, before you could just tap your iPhone and instantly find thorough debunkings of the conspiracy theories and dead simple explanations of things like the "magic bullet." In the 50 years since, we've massively increased the number of college graduates in the population and, you know, magically made all human knowledge instantly accessible to nearly everyone at any time. As a result, that 52 percent of conspiracy believers ... has gone up to fucking 61 percent.
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Sorry, the world getting dumber is the only conspiracy that isn't just in your head.
Holy shit! That means some of you reading this almost certainly believe in the JFK conspiracy. But we're not here to insult you -- that just means that at some point you learned about the conspiracy theories but didn't also learn that experts disproved them long ago. That's the point -- all of the information is out there, but for many of you the only bits that stuck to your brain were the ones that aren't supported by any evidence at all.
And you see this everywhere -- 37 percent of Americans think global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a conspiracy of at least 30,000 climate scientists cooperating behind the scenes as part of a secret agenda. And then there is a hardcore 20 percent or so who believe in pretty much any goddamned thing -- from the U.S. government having staged the 9/11 attacks, to a conspiracy to hide evidence of alien visitors. And then there's the 28 percent who believe in one, overarching conspiracy involving a class of elites secretly controlling, just, all of the world events behind the scenes. From the wars in the Middle East to the writing of this article, all of us are just puppets -- here's a video explaining how Beyonce is at the center of it all:
The ironic part is that the above video exposes a truth way more horrifying than some dark conspiracy spanning Zionist bankers and Jay-Z's record label: the fact that access to information doesn't actually make us smarter.
See, conspiracy buffs have a very specific method -- they'll pore through the available data until they find something that confirms their belief, like an odd shadow in a single moon landing photo that somehow proves the whole thing was the most expensive and pointless hoax of all time (seriously, if they were going to fake it, couldn't they have thrown in some aliens or something to make it interesting?). They ignore all of the other evidence, so the sheer volume of available data actually makes their job easier.
Or just claim that it was technologically impossible while proposing a theory that actually was technologically impossible.
During the 9/11 attacks, for instance, the BBC reported on rumors that Building 7 of the World Trade Center had collapsed, while the building was clearly visible in the background (it would collapse a half hour later). It was a simple misreading of a report, but to the conspiracy buffs, it was proof that the BBC was in on staging the attacks (along with all other news agencies, all government agencies, all scientists, and pretty much everyone you know). The even stupider theory that the Sandy Hook shooting never actually happened made it all the way to mainstream media attention due to conspiracy theorists poring over photographs and news reports -- any misplaced pixel on a photo is proof of Photoshop, any misspoken word in a news report is evidence of a cover-up.
Then, the conspiracy believers can set up a message board to share their theories and ban/delete any dissenting views -- creating a little island where it's ridiculous not to believe that the murder victims we see on the news aren't robots and/or holograms. Scroll down to the comments here and prepare to have your mind blown -- one guy posts that the Sandy Hook massacre was done by the same squad that "began their evil twisted careers with the faked death and witness protection escape for Elvis," and no one disagrees with him.
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Whoa, there's a death squad where you get to meet Elvis? Where do we sign?
So what does it matter if people believe crazy things now and then? Well, there's the fact that ...
#4. People Are Dying
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So, already we can see that there is a particularly nefarious glitch in the human brain that causes us to hear minority opinions a lot louder than the majority. After all, what they're saying is more interesting by sheer virtue of it being different, kind of like how you notice a single red rose growing in the middle of a grass field or, more fittingly, a single dog turd on a white tile floor. So when 99 percent of scientists agree that, for example, the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks, it becomes boring background noise. But when, in 1998, medical journal The Lancet published a single solitary study that showed a possible link between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism, it created a worldwide panic that's still raging 16 years later.
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Pfft, what would a doctor know about medicine? Let's listen to what the Playboy model has to say.
The article was almost immediately discredited as fraud, retracted with an apology, and the author banned from practicing medicine, which is about as hard as you can possibly tell a scientist to go fuck himself while jumping down a well. But the conspiracy genie was already out of the bullshit bottle, and no amount of fancy "proper science" could stuff it back in -- the retraction of the article was seen as a cover-up, leading to a full-blown conspiracy theory about "Big Pharma" trying to kill us with vaccines. This is a perfect example of the breakdown in human psychology that makes this possible -- the sheer fact that the assertion is outrageous and dismissed by experts makes people believe it more.
So, as a result of parents not vaccinating children against diseases, we're seeing increased numbers of diseases such as whooping cough and measles. In 2012, the U.S. suffered its worst outbreak of whooping cough in 70 years; in Washington state, there were over 2,520 cases of the disease, a 1,300 percent increase over the previous year, all because the state has the highest rates of parents refusing vaccination. And that's not even getting into the awful message it sends to kids with autism ("We literally thought it would be better if you died of measles, fucker!"). This site is keeping a running body count, if you're interested.
And here's where the "conspiracy theory" aspect makes it so much more lethal. Due to the fear that scientists and pharmaceutical companies are all in on the scam, people tend to only trust the words of outsiders who have no idea what the hell they're talking about -- i.e., celebrities like Jenny McCarthy. Sure enough, whenever famous people discuss the "dangers" of vaccination, they cause a drop in vaccination rates from which it takes three years to recover.
And it isn't just vaccines -- the same year as the MMR study, The Lancet also published an equally sketchy study linking genetically modified potatoes to intestinal damage. In this case, the journal knew it was probably bullshit, but published anyway in order to "avoid suspicions of a conspiracy" against the authors.
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Oh, honey.
Why? Because there is a backlash against GMO food based on panicky minority opinion that is proving just as damaging as the anti-vaccine movement. In the early 2000s, Zambia was hit by a devastating famine, so the U.S. sent humanitarian aid in the form of genetically modified grain. The country's president refused to accept the aid, calling it "poison," and had all 500 tons of it locked away, solely on the advice of organizations like Greenpeace who'd briefed the government on the "dangers" posed by eating the grain. Never mind that there's never been a single documented case of harm from genetically modified food, which puts it up there with the level of risk posed by werewolves, or that the medical risks of eating nothing are fairly well known.
#3. It's a For-Profit Industry
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Of course, much of the hysteria above is driven by a distrust of corporations, which by itself is a healthy thing. Corporations absolutely don't give a shit about you -- General Motors apparently allowed a fatal safety defect to go on for a decade before bothering with a recall. But what conspiracy lovers don't understand is that they also are the victims of a massive, for-profit industry. Just switch on the History Channel -- after shifting from history-based programming to "reality" shows (those are sarcasm quotes!), their ratings exploded thanks to a hit line-up that included shows such as Conspiracy, Ancient Aliens, and UFO Hunters. Back when it was dedicated to factual documentaries, History was the 20th most popular cable network, but since switching Hitler out for little green men, it's shot up to the Top 5. Bullshit sells.
However, none can hold a candle to the money generated by professional talk radio hucksters like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. Through their individual media empires (which cover the media of print, radio, TV, the Internet, and penis-powering vitality serum), Jones and Beck alone rake in up to $10 million and $45 million a year, respectively. Hell, they should be thanking the Illuminati for that kind of revenue stream.
How do you get rich doing this sort of thing? Well, if you listen to Beck's show, you'll first hear about how unseen forces are ready to cause the utter collapse of society, and then at the commercial break you'll be informed that he's selling emergency food kits for when the nukes inevitably start landing on American soil (just $9,500 and you can keep your family alive on freeze-dried rations all through the coming war! You love your family, right?). The other big advertiser is gold sellers, because that's what you're going to be using for currency once the government collapses (just don't ask why the sellers want to unload their gold in exchange for your soon-to-be useless American dollars).
On the even more batshit end of the spectrum, Jones is hocking his own brand of health supplements to reverse the damage that's being done to your body by the fluoride that the government is pumping into your water supply to murder you, and by the chemicals being sprayed on you by aircraft, which the government has the audacity to call vapor trails.
Yep, the same government that couldn't even set up a website right on the first try is pulling this off without a hitch.
Of course, these two are just a couple of the most successful examples -- it's a booming market with plenty of competition. Just take David Icke, the local British curiosity famous for claiming that the moon isn't real and that the world is run by shape-shifting alien reptiles. Laugh all you want -- that dude has a net worth of 10 million pounds, accumulated through book sales and expensive, sold-out live talks. Whether people are generally interested in the reptilian moon people or they're just paying absurd cash to watch a crazy guy humiliate himself for a few hours, that money adds up.
The point being, there is an entire industry that lives off of conspiracies, and thus needs to manufacture conspiracies in order to survive. So when the Navy Yard shootings happened in September 2013, Jones immediately declared it a "false flag" attack designed to build support for gun control legislation. That missing Malaysia Airlines flight, which clearly just crashed into the ocean? Just moments after the news broke, Jones had the scoop that the plane may have been converted into a flying "nuclear weapon." Here he is warning that Obamacare is just a prelude to genocide:
And, of course, McCarthy rode her anti-vaccination fad all the way to the bestseller list and a sweet TV hosting gig. What we're trying to say is that a lot of this is driven by the fact that these people don't want to have to get real jobs.


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Another six-run rally with two outs put the Nishnabotna in control on the way to a 12-1 victory in the District 14 semifinal against Stanton at Sidney on Thursday night.
The Blue Devils posted three-run frames in the first and second innings. Stanton faced the minimum number of batters in both the third and fourth innings and had two outs against the Blue Devils in the fifth when the flood gates opened.
Riley Scroggie got the hit party going with a single. Seven other batters took their cuts at the plate and, by the end of the frame, the Blue Devils led 12-1.
That inning had played out an inning earlier on Tuesday. Nishnabotna scored six runs after two outs in the fourth inning in a 13-3 victory over Essex-South Page.
And that wasn't the only common link between the Tuesday and Thursday games.
Stanton had about as much luck getting its offense going against starting hurler Joseph Heitshusen as Essex-South Page had against Schuyler Brennan on Tuesday.
Not much at all.
Stanton got its one run in the first inning and was held quiet the rest of the ball game.
With the victory, the Blue Devils qualified for the District 14 finals, which will be played at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Glenwood.
The Blue Devils will face an Underwood team in the finals that, like the Blue Devils, owns two double-digit victories in district play. Underwood beat Griswold 11-1 and took down Fremont-Mills 13-0.
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Bus Strike Puts Parents on the Spot
On Thursday evening, Raylene Charles gave up. Her 12-year-old son Nashama indicated he wasn't going to school on Friday. Trying to force him would have meant enduring another exhausting, screaming tantrum.
So for the fourth time in the seven school days of a citywide school-bus driver strike, Nashama—who can't walk, doesn't talk and uses a feeding tube in his stomach—would stay home from school, the one place his mother tries to make him feel like any other kid.
"If you let him stay home for too long, he can become comfortable, because home is of course the sweetest place to be," said Ms. Charles, 45 years old, of the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. "It's a disruption of his education, and it's a disruption of him being normal."
As the strike enters its third week, parents like Ms. Charles whose children have special needs are continuing to struggle to get them to school. Some are spending money on taxi rides to school, while others are carving out time from busy schedules to drive children to class or spend the day at home with them.
Their regular bus drivers and matrons, many of whom have training for such students and know their passengers' particular needs, are walking the picket lines to try to save job protections in their contracts with private companies. City officials said they are legally unable to include those protections in new contracts as it rebids many of its 7,700 school-bus lines.
School attendance has slightly improved since the start of the strike on Jan. 16, but not by much. On the first day, about 56% of students in New York City's public schools for students with disabilities attended, compared with a normal attendance rate of about 83%. On Friday, that number was up to 65%—better, but still significantly below normal.
Students with severe mental and physical disabilities often can't simply hop on a subway and can't take a car service alone. "He could freak out and have a violent situation," said Eliza Factor, of Brooklyn, whose son Felix, 9, has autism and cerebral palsy. She or her husband drive him.
Kendra Oke, 43, a Parent Teacher Association president at a school where many students have autism, said she spends $40 a day on cabs to shuttle her 7-year-old son to school. The city is reimbursing parents for part of the cost of cab rides, but it still adds up, Ms. Oke said.
Parents have told her they are scared to lose their jobs but take risks for the sake of their children. "They need this consistent support base to succeed, or else they backslide," she said. "If they don't have routines their mental status is going to slide back, and we work really hard to move them forward."
Some children haven't been to school once since the strike began. Deborah Webb Henderson Cook has kept her son at home on the Lower East Side because she has few transportation options and her own health problems. Her 18-year-old son Jermarl Henderson, who has a chromosomal disorder called DiGeorge Syndrome, has had multiple open-heart surgeries and requires intensive, complex therapy, she said.
On a typical day at home, Ms. Cook said she tries to keep up a routine by asking Jermarl to practice tracing the alphabet or draw and paint. A nurse still visits daily, but he isn't receiving his regular occupational, physical and speech therapy at Public School 138 on East 23rd Street. He also can't learn sign language at home.
"Jermarl is very delicate," she said. "He might look like he's not sick. If you lift up his shirt, it looks like they ran a train on my child."
"All this is holding him back," she said. "It's a shame he has to stay home. It's not right."
Things might change this week, when a decision from the National Labor Relations Board is expected. If the board finds in favor of the bus companies, it could ask a federal court to order drivers to return to work. The bus companies are scheduled to meet Monday with the union at Gracie Mansion, though it isn't clear what might come of that meeting.
Principals said their schools for students with special needs haven't felt the same since the strike. Some classrooms are half empty, and students often arrive hours after the morning bell.
Principal Nira Schwartz-Nyitray said students in wheelchairs have had the toughest time getting to P.S. 396 in Brooklyn, where she estimated attendance has been about 50%. Teachers are worried about continuing with planned lessons, because they are concerned they will have to play catch-up when absent students return.
The school sent packets of work home for students before the strike began. The Department of Education has also posted generic lessons online, but they don't help students who can't read words, only pictures, Ms. Schwartz-Nyitray said.
At the Rebecca School, a Manhattan private school for students with autism and other special needs, attendance has been down by 10% to 25% since the strike began. Some students come in an hour or two late, while others—particularly those from Staten Island—don't arrive at all, said Tina McCourt. the school's director.
Typically, school buses would unload students by 8:30 a.m., and the day would begin with greetings from teachers and scheduled therapy sessions. Now, school therapists must rearrange their schedules to accommodate late arrivals, and teachers must forgo some group lessons planned for the mornings.
"The parents are overwhelmed. They're worried about missing work so they leave the kids at home, or they're waiting at freezing cold bus stops or subway platform," Ms. McCourt said. "It's kind of a whirlwind for them as well."
The strike is costing many parents hundreds of dollars a week that won't be reimbursed. While the city has provided MetroCards and will reimburse parents for the miles they drive their children to school, it doesn't pay for the return taxi trip.
The city won't pay for extra babysitting hours for the longer journeys or for days when parents decide it is easier to keep children like Nashama home.
"I always have to pick my battles," said Ms. Charles, who is a school secretary and whose husband is a history teacher at a public high school.
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Jermarl Henderson attends a special-needs school in Gramercy Park. The photo caption with an earlier version of this article incorrectly said the school was in Chelsea.
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The 9 Most Baffling Monuments to Great People
#4. Pope John Paul II -- Rome, Italy
Someone decided that the best way to honor Pope John Paul II, the man whose testicular fortitude helped take down communism, was to construct a statue that looks nothing like him. Or anybody else. Hell, some of you didn't even know that was a statue of a person until we told you. It looks like a chunk of fuselage fell off an airplane and landed there.
It's not just you -- the Vatican itself has said the statue is "hardly able to be recognized" and has even called it "a permanent and sacrilegious mud stain" on the memory of the late pope.
Sculptor Oliviero Rainaldi defended the design, saying it was meant to showcase the late pope's desire to welcome humanity. That's right -- with all the sex scandals that have mired the Catholic church in recent years, he thought it was a good idea to depict the pope welcoming humanity into his robe.
No way that'll get misinterpreted.
The good news is that the city of Rome is planning to refurbish the statue into something more presentable. Our advice? Don't go for abstract symbolism this time -- that always ends in disaster. Just see this next memorial to ...
#3. 9/11 Victims -- Bayonne, New Jersey
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism (also known as the Tear of Grief and the Tear Drop Memorial) was conceived by controversial artist Zurab Tsereteli as a gift from his country to the U.S. in honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was originally supposed to go to Jersey City, but the city council took one look at it and punted it across the room like that sweater your grandma gave you last Christmas. When it got regifted to nearby Bayonne, they agreed to take it and stuck it at the end of a pier. Its reception has been less than enthusiastic -- one 9/11 survivor described it as "a cross between a scar and a female sexual organ."
And did we mention it continuously drips water?
From here it looks like a certain type of, uh, piercing.
So to summarize: In order to honor the victims of 9/11, another country gave us a giant, sopping vagina. Who might have done such a thing?
9/11 Monument
"I would cry for your country, were my face capable of anything but scowls."
Oh. It was a gift from the people of Russia and Vladimir Putin himself. Well, that explains it, then -- to Vladimir Putin, everything's a pussy.
#2. Khalil Gibran -- Washington, D.C.
The vast majority of you are staring blankly at your screen right now, but the three poetry fans who read Cracked just peed a little at the mention of this guy's name. Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet who became a big deal in the '60s counterculture.
How big? Well, for starters, he was quoted by the freaking Beatles in the song "Julia" on the White Album. He also sold quite a few poems, so many that he's the third best-selling poet of all time, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. He's about as close to a badass as you can get, for a poet. So, as one of history's most influential Arab-Americans, it's no surprise that he has a memorial in Washington, D.C.
So few memorials attempt to depict their subject projectile vomiting. Probably for a reason.
But in order to describe it, Gordon Kray, sculptor of the memorial, is about to force us to type a sentence that we've only previously typed once, in our strangest nightmare: The poet's dismembered head is coming out of a snake made of leaves, and there are birds feeding on it. Or maybe those aren't leaves, but the ragged remains of his torso after the man was eaten by the flock of ravenous birds. Wait, is that how the poet really died? Don't tell us, we don't want to know.
#1. Mister Rogers -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Having perhaps the most unfortunate middle name that someone who dedicated his life to interacting with children could possibly have, it's no surprise that Fred McFeely Rogers was known to all of us by his more formal title: Mister Rogers.
So how do you memorialize this childhood icon in his own hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? If you're sculptor Robert Berks, the answer's easy -- you depict him as some kind of strange amalgam of the rock biter from The NeverEnding Story and a leprosy victim:
He smiles, but the eyes ... SO. EMPTY.
And since we've already done such a thorough job of destroying your mental image of this childhood hero with that one close-up, we're not even going to post this picture of the statue at night. Go there if you want, but for the sake of all the childhood memories you hold dear, we'd really prefer you didn't.
You looked, didn't you? Well, we can't just leave you with that unholy image burned into your corneas, so how about we try to make it up to you by telling you that this also exists in Pittsburgh (don't say we never gave you nothin'):
Now that's how Mister Rogers deserves to be remembered: as a puppet-wielding T. rex. Pittsburgh, you've redeemed yourselves. Almost.
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Orient School set for $5.9 million remodel
Orient School is gearing up for a $5.9 million remodel that will update the 100-year-old building by installing new heating and cooling systems, providing compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, improving fire safety in the historic building, constructing a covered play area and updating classrooms and offices. The Valley School District, contracted to undertake a portion of the Orient school's administrative work, said the improvements are necessary, despite the fact the school only has 38 traditional students who attend class every day. Another 282 students are enrolled in the Columbia Virtual Academy through the Orient School."The current building is 100-years-old and has not received any construction projects since the 1940s and 1950s," said Valley School Superintendent Mark Selle. "The students attending there need access to quality educational space."Will preserve historic appearance of building.The school hired an architect to design a modernization plan that would keep the "historic" look of the building, according to school principal, Tara Holmes."Throughout the design process, the architects have done a remarkable job in preserving the historical appearance of the building, while creating a facility that meets the educational and safety requirements of a modern school," she said in a press release. "A focus is also being placed on creating a low-maintenance facility that is energy efficient and provides improved student access to technology."However, not everyone in the Orient community supports the project. Senator Bob Morton has received complaints about the cost of the project for the small school, as well as expressing concerns about the district independently approving the project without putting it to voters."The issue here is that there has been limited opportunity for public input and after only one public meeting, it was decided to move forward with the project," said Senator Morton. "Usually, projects of this sizable amount are put out to the community through a levy or some other mechanism to assure public approval. This is not appropriate in a democratic society and in the future there will be legislation to prevent this sort of thing from happening."The district did not have to put out a levy measure to voters because the project will be paid for by the state via the Education Construction Fund and not by a local property tax levy. The education construction fund will provide a 93 percent match for the $5.9 million modernization. A local match of $591,000 will be paid for from the school's savings ($251,000) and $340,000 in borrowed funds.Superintendent Selle said the district hopes that with careful management of the state dollars that there will be leftover money with which the district can pay back the $340,000 debt the school will incur to get the project started. A dilemmaSelle said through an administrative decision that the Orient School Board decided to move ahead with the remodel in order to address a coming dilemma."While the numbers at the Orient School may be small, the fact remains that there are still school-aged children in the area who are required by state law to receive schooling," he said. "The school building is not currently meeting the needs of the students or staff and it is our duty to provide a safe place for them to learn."Although parents may home-school, as nearly 250 enrolled in the Orient School are doing through virtual schools, or attend private school, the need for an in-person, "brick and mortar" public school will still likely be present in the future."It is an unrealistic scenario that at some point there will be no students in the area who need to attend a public school building," Selle said. "We are tasked with providing schooling to students in this large geographic area, even if there are only two students, for example."If the Orient School closed due to low enrollment, students would have to be bussed to a neighboring district like Kettle Falls or Curlew and the taxable property of the area would be incorporated into that school district. Financially, this means residents of Orient, who do not currently pay a local school levy, but only the state school levy, would be asked to absorb another property tax.Superintendent Selle feels this would put an unfair burden on the community."When you compare the tax base in Orient to other parts of the state, it is almost unjust to try and raise a dollar here," he said. "The community supported a levy for some repairs two years ago, but this is an opportunity to modernize the building without burdening the local property owners."Selle said using the state education construction dollars is a good move because the fund has money for these kinds of capital education projects and "Orient might as well use the money and benefit, instead of losing out to another school in the state."The state Education Construction fund is created in part by dollars from the state lottery and revenue from timber sales on public lands.The final bids for the Orient School project are expected to be in by September 1 and work should begin this fall. While the building is being renovated, the classrooms and teacher offices will be housed in the district office buildings and a nearby duplex. (See related story).For more information on the project, contact Superintendent Mark Selle at 937-2771 or Orient School Principal Tara Holmes at 684-6873.


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Lets say there is a service that processes a credit card, service X. I want to create a new service (Y) that has a form on it mirroring the fields from service X. I use the credentials entered into service Y and POST them to service X programmatically, and there is credit card information being posted. Is this legal? Is this PCI compliant? I would not be storing any information, however there may be loops involved as in entering this one form in service Y may enter multiple forms on service X, this all would be specified on service Y's Terms and Conditions of course.
My recommendation at that point is use a better service that doesn't require you to pass the information from one form to another. If you are handling PCI at all, then you have to worry about at least some of the regulations. It is best to have your system call out to a payment provider, let the user use their site and then their site will tell you about the success or failure. Many vendors will even let you do it in such a way that it doesn't look like they are leaving your site.
So you are just going to put the merchant's credntials that authorize him to use the gateway X as hidden fields in the form so any idiot can view source on your form and get the merchant's credentials, including the ones that should be kept secret and carefully safeguarded?
The only way to overcome the problem above is to have the form submit to your own server and add the credentials before you submit to Gateway X from your own server, but then you come under PCI compliance. If you do what you propose, then you are failing to safeguard the merchant's credentials and thus come under PCI anyway and are OUT of compliance because you are failing to safeguard the merchant's processing credentials.


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Global markets and U.S. stock futures traded lower Tuesday.
Global stocks struggle for direction
Global stock markets were mixed Monday
U.S. stock futures lower, global shares mixed
U.S. stock futures and European shares were lower Friday, and Asian shares were mostly up after China reported steady economic growth in the second quarter of the year.
Futures up as Bank of England leaves interest rates unchanged
U.S. stock futures and European shares rose Thursday, as the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged.
Global stocks up as UK uncertainties ease
Global stocks were higher Wednesday, as the confirmation of Theresa May as Britain's new prime minister eased investor uncertainties.
Futures higher, Asian markets up on stimulus hope
U.S. stock futures were higher Tuesday, while Asian stocks jumped after a stronger-than-expected election victory by Japan's ruling coalition.


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Why don't we pronounce the second ש in יששכר?
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Minchas Shai (to Gen. 30:18, the first place where the name appears) cites Radak, who says that it this is an example of elision: the sound of the second letter is combined into that of the first. As another example, he gives מחצצרים (I Chron. 15:24 and in a few other places in Chronicles), where the second צ is silent.
That said, as Yahu noted, there are various customs according to which the second ש in יששכר is pronounced at least some of the time. Indeed, one such custom is based on the idea that Yissachar "donated" the second ש of his name to his son יוב (Gen. 46:13), who is later called ישוב (Num. 26:24) - and that therefore יששכר should be pronounced with both ש's up to the latter point. A summary of the whole issue is here.
Rabbi Bogomilsky compiles several opinions about how to say the name, including the ones mentioned in other answers.
In short (see there for sources):
Rabbi Menachem Kasher brings most of these opinions (and others) and discusses them in his Torah Sheleimah Parshat Vayeitzei, footnote 64.
Listen to a short lecture by Rabbi Paltiel here. He discusses Rabbi Menachem Kasher's discussion.
Yissachar in general represents the study of Torah. Many of the members of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish supreme court, were of the tribe of Yissaschar. It is said that Zebulun brought in the cash and supported Yissachar in their study. It was a partnership of sorts.
Now the Torah has two parts to it: the revealed and the hidden, or the legalistic and the Kabbalistic. The two s's in Yissachar's name correspond to these two levels in Torah, the silent "s" corresponding of course to the "silent" hidden part of Torah (Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson).
According to Rabbi Jeremy Weider (in his Introduction to Bible course, which can be found on YUTorah.org) it is a kri u'ketiv. Because this is a common kri u'ketiv it is written in the text without note (like the spelling of naarah without the final hey and other examples).
It is brought down from the Chasam Sofer (I do not remember where I saw it) that the first time יששכר occurs (when he was named) should be read pronouncing both sins. This does not really answer your question but it may provide a clue towards the answer.


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1 Sep 2010 12:03 PM #1
Ext.ux.list.ProgressColumn is a ListView column that shows a progress bar for the integer value of that column. By default a number between 0 and 100 is expected but this can be changed by setting the 'ceiling' config option. By default the bar will be colored in a red, orange, green progression. The 'invertedColor' config option can be set to true to reverse this. To use the standard Ext.ProgressBar coloring set the 'colored' config option to false. There are also config options 'topText' and 'bottomText' to add text above and below the progress bar.
This is a ListView version of my Ext 2.x grid plugin. I will be posting a refactored and updated version of the grid plugin for Ext 3.x in a couple of days.
This has been tested working in Firefox 3.x and Internet Explorer 6 & 7.
Extract the attachment into the examples/list folder for a demo. (Must be behind a webserver to load the plants.xml file)
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2 Sep 2010 9:52 PM #3
Very nice...and I can think of lots of uses for this.... great work.
24 Sep 2010 8:25 AM #4
Just a warning. This will not render correctly in IE7 unless IE7 is in quirks mode. If you use a doctype things don't scroll correctly.
I refactored to resolve the IE issue and I'll post the new code soon
12 Nov 2010 12:03 PM #5
I've been using your plugin & it works great. Thanks a lot.
How can I hide the progressbar for a certain row when no operations are in progress? Any pointers appreciated.
28 Mar 2011 1:44 PM #6
Adaptable for an GridPanel?
Very nice plugin!
I was wondering if it could be adapted for a GridPanel?
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Hi!...this is error when integrate whit grouping and summay
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display bar good in grid but not in summary row.
Any suguestions?
sorry my bad inglish.
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- If your BMI is less than 18.5, you are in the underweight category. Talk to your doctor to find out if your weight is a symptom of a medical problem. A registered dietitian can help you learn about healthy eating.
- If your BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9, you are in the recommended weight range for your height. But your health may still be at risk if you are not getting regular physical activity and practicing healthy eating.
- If your BMI is 25 to 29.9, you are in the overweight category. This may or may not be unhealthy, depending on some other things, like your waist size and other health problems you may have.
- If your BMI is 30 or higher, you're in the obese category. You may need to lose weight and change your eating and activity habits to get healthy and stay healthy. See the topic Obesity.
If you are Asian, your recommended weight range may be lower. Talk to your doctor.
It's important to remember that your BMI is only one measure of your health. A person who is not at a "normal" weight according to BMI charts may be healthy if he or she has healthy eating habits and exercises regularly. People who are thin but don't exercise or eat nutritious foods aren't necessarily healthy just because they are thin.


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Three students from Communications, Media and the Arts (CMA) Five-Star Schools in Jefferson County said hello to Hollywood during a trip Friday, July 13 through Tuesday, July 17, as part of a collaborative partnership aiming to bring filmmaking education to the forefront in Kentucky.
Lakin Pack, Andrew Creek and Cassandra Kelsey won "A Foot In the Door: The Hollywood Experience," a competition allowing them to travel to Los Angeles, Calif., for an intensive four-day, four-night program designed to provide a hands-on Hollywood film production experience. The program is sponsored by Writer/Director/Producer Matt Berman and organized by The Louisville Film Arts Institute, Inc (LFAII). The competition was open to high school students from Fern Creek Traditional, Ballard and Pleasure Ridge Park. Each student submitted a comprehensive portfolio of work and was interviewed by a panel of judges, which selected the three winners.
The intensive four-day, four-night program provided a "behind the scenes" look at the new Matt Berman feature film, "A Love/Like Ours," starring Haylie Duff, Chris Soldevilla, Angie Everhart, Leslie Easterbrook and Scott Michael Campbell. Students shadowed various production crew members responsible for all aspects of the film's development, including the producers, cinematographers and actors. As part of the program, students recorded interviews, which will be used to develop a documentary film about their experience. The documentary film will premiere at Louisville's International Festival of Film in October.


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For some reason, since multitasking has arrived, NSUserDefaults seem to not save the settings to disk anymore every time the app closes.
This happens: When a setting is changed in NSUserDefaults and home button gets pressed, home screen becomes visible. app is still running in background. Then I press twice the home button, and remove the app from the task manager. App is now really quit. Then I tap the icon of the app to launch it again. Voilla: Settings not stored! wrong, old value!
But when I do this, it works: Press home button, tap app icon again, press home button again, and NOW double tap home button and kill the app. Tap icon again. Now the app shows the correct settings.
I never explicitely saved NSUserDefaults since it always worked fine. But now, iOS seems to be not clever enough to do that automatically... is there anything I can call in any of those "app will quit now" methods in the app delegate, so that the NSUserDefaults dict really gets saved?


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"Yes, I think they deserved to die. And I hope they burn in hell."
These are the tortured words spoken in a fictional Mississippi courtroom by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1996 film, "A Time to Kill", based on John Grisham's 1989 novel.
Jackson played Carl Lee Hailey, an African-American father on trial for murdering two white men who brutally raped, beat and hung his 10 year old daughter, Tonya. The child survives the attack and the men are arrested. The story is set in the post-Jim Crow South, where the remnants of racial injustice reign supreme. The father fears the men will walk free, as he remembers a similar case in the Mississippi Delta in which four white teenagers were acquitted after raping a black girl.
Carl Lee buys an M16 rifle, goes to the county courthouse, and opens fire on the two rapists, resulting in their death. The rest of the film explores deep-seated racial hatred in the South and disparities in criminal justice. Prosecutors charge Hailey with murder in the first degree, and ask the Court for capital punishment. No consideration is ever given for the circumstances surrounding the tragic rape of his pre-pubescent daughter.
As Hailey's trial unfolds he admits under oath that he wanted the men to die - all but sealing his fate for a conviction and the death penalty. But his young lawyer, portrayed by Matthew McCounaghey, implores the White jurors to close their eyes and imagine a broken, molested, raped and beaten 10 year-old girl. And then to imagine she's White.
It is this, in true Hollywood form, that helps them to see how horrific the crime was and how human the father's response - though violent - is fully justified. Carl Lee is acquitted and his family reunited, as he stands as a symbol of a strong, protective Black father figure.
It is this lens that I'd like to explore the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent treatment his murderer, George Zimmerman, has received from both the criminal justice system, and a wildly forgiving White American populace. For you see, Hollywood fiction and Jim Crow politics have become 21st Century reality.
For the vast majority of African-Americans, it is impossible to believe that a skinny White teenager, holding Skittles and a can of iced tea, could so invoke fear in a grown man with a gun, that the man feels his only recourse is to shoot-to-kill the child. But is far more difficult to fathom that police and state attorneys would accept the man's version of events, and see the dead White child as the perpetrator. Yet this is the Twilight Zone in which Trayvon Martin's death occurred, and his murderer walks free.
Zimmerman has experienced a privilege unknown to most Americans who commit violent crime, especially if they're Black.
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Last week's new bail hearing, in which Zimmerman was released on a $1 million bond, further highlights the imbalance in the scales of justice. Zimmerman has experienced a privilege unknown to most Americans who commit violent crime, especially if they're Black.
First, after murdering Martin and claiming a self-defense immunity under Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' provision, Zimmerman was released on the same night, and allowed to carry the murder weapon with him. Only after 44 days of widespread media attention and civil rights protests was he finally formally charged with a crime. Two weeks later he and his wife lied in open court claiming they had no funds to post bail. His father, Richard Zimmerman, a retired court magistrate, corroborated these lies and Zimmerman was released again on a small bond of $150,000 (for which only $15,000 was required for release). By all standards the presiding Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester was overly generous, considering the severity of the crime. He could have denied bail altogether, as many critics wished he had.
And here it where the absurd meets the unjust.
In the weeks between Zimmerman's arrest and his release on bond, a website was established asking for donations to cover legal expenses for his defense. Thousands rallied to his cause, sending - by some estimates - upwards of $200,000 to $300,000 in two weeks alone. These donations were not given for starving children in a third world country, or a righteous cause like AIDS or cancer research - but rather, for the defense of a man who shot and murdered an innocent child.
What sick, twisted minds give money to such a cause?
Furthermore, state prosecutors monitored calls between Zimmerman and his wife Shellie, only to discover that prior to the initial bond hearing the two had conspired to conceal and transfer the hundreds of thousands of dollars received in their online fundraising effort.
On June 1st, presented with this new evidence, Judge Lester revoked Zimmerman's bail and he was ordered back to prison. Lester determined that it was "apparent" that Zimmerman's wife Shellie had lied under oath and that George "does not properly respect the law or the integrity of the judicial process".
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Kesten Trebbe may be getting back into his groove.
Trebbe earned a 10th-place medal at the Wichita Collegiate boys golf invitational Friday in his most successful meet of the season. Trebbe came on strong during the middle of the season last year, and this could be the beginning of another run for him.
The rest of the Orioles performed well as the team took seventh place out of a dozen teams. Augusta had a team score of 339. Collegiate won the meet (307). Andover (332) was sixth.
Trevar Bevan shot well to finish with a score of 85 for second on Augusta. Brock Keazer shot an 87. Breck Winter was right behind him with an 88. Caleb Laubhan shot a 90 and Greg Slaton shot a 107.
Trebbe was six strokes behind Tonganoxie's Colby Yates, who won the individual title with a score of 73. Andover's Ryan Hoover took eighth place with a score of 78 to lead the Trojans.
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Cooks, Institution & Cafeteria
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- Clean, cut, and cook meat, fish, or poultry.
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I'm constantly showing Odin (1) new, amazing, things. At 4.5 years old the majority of the world is new, unexplored or at the very least unexplained.
Yet whenever I show him something new, something that I am so excited that I am getting the chance to introduce him to, his response is nearly always the same.
Yeah Dad, I know, seen that.
In the morning I wake him early to see the mob of Kangaroos eating the vegie garden (2), he just rolls over…
Yeah Dad, I know, seen that.
I take him to the zoo and show him weird and wonderful natural creatures…
Yeah Dad, I know, seen that.
I think if I took him back to Mauritius, proved the world wrong and found the last remaining Dodo of which there aren't even pictures, he would say…
Yeah Dad, I know, seen that.
How can all the wonder of the world be stolen from a 4.5 year old?
- TV and the Internet
- TV, the Internet and books
Been there, done that, saw the movie before it was released.
Ring any bells?
They all amount to one thing – guides.
Which makes me reflect on the state of WoW, more specifically the WoW player-base, or to hone right in, the guide reading WoW player-base.
We do ourselves no favors proclaiming that the magic has gone, while staring at WoWhead, MMOChampion, WoWInsider or, ummm yeah blogs like this one.
Ever hung out for a new movie, maybe right from the moment it was 1st announced, read every review and update on the movie, watched the "making of" even before the movie was released, maybe just watched the commercial showing the 3 highlights from the movie only to be completely dissatisfied as you leave the theatre?
Ring any bells?
"Vanilla was the best because it was hard back then!"
Funny, cause I have a Wrath Newborn non-guide-reading mate who finds the game really challenging and exciting and umm magical.
Why don't we all feel that magic?
Back in Vanilla things were hard. There were bugs everywhere, 1/2 implemented and badly balanced mechanics and apart from the slightly less-noobish guild mate, no way to traverse the game beyond trial and error.
Yes there were some guides… Thottbot being the best example, filled with 1/2 truths and misinformation. For all you knew the resident expert hadn't actually unpacked their game yet, but they sounded authoritative.
Otherwise it was all up to you. Easymode Hunters were Huntards, because although they were easy to play badly, they were hard to play well.
The 1st guide I ever wrote was a Hunter 101 guide for our guild forum because the up and coming hunters made my eyes bleed. I was no Hunter guru but I knew how to make their game easier.
Ohhh, see, there we go, I made their game easier.
Problem: I can't play my character well enough to enjoy it.
Solution: Read Class guide 101 through 505 until I don't have to think about it any more.
Problem: These skills and abilities and rotations are no longer magical, they are just a theorycrafted predetermined set of steps to be followed to ensure maximum efficiency. The love has gone.
If I didn't have to grind I could enjoy the game
Back then, more time was spent grinding for coppers than was spent fighting Internet dragons. You had to play, improve your technique, improve your efficiency to be able to grind to be able to raid.
AH grinding existed, Auctioneer existed, but it was still an arcane art.
Problem: I spend all my time playing and grinding to make the gold to raid.
Solution: follow a gold making guide to make kazzilions of gold so I don't have to raid.
Problem: I have no reason to quest and grind, I have no reason to play.
Instances aren't a challenge anymore
Deadmines was hard, the trash just getting to the instance entrance was hard, let's not talk about the actual instance mobs or bosses.
All the instances were hard. Through trial and lots off errors we would individually work out the best strategy for each encounter. Only to have to repeat the learning experience with the next pick up group we painstakingly formed in the Trade channel.
Problem: no one knows the most efficient way of downing bosses instances or even if they do, there is no consistency.
Solution: Read and promote popular instance guides until the time comes we are all on the same page.
Problem: Instances are too easy – why don't they give us real challenges like randomizing the encounter.
Solution: QQ moar until Blizzard introduces random mechanics.
Problem: Random mechanics are killing us unfairly, without the opportunity to form a tactic or react to the mechanic.
Solution: Nerf the already guide-nerfed instance.
I raided when raiding meant something
I saw the inside of raids prior to Karazhan, and I'm sure the memory of some of those still get people's blood pumping, but for me it was Kara and later Gruul's Lair that were wonderful full introductions to raiding.
Kara was 3 weeks of wipes to get to Attumen – to get to him, not to beat him! A couple of people had been there before, a couple had even read the guides, but for the rest of us it was a new and unnerving experience.
Yes there were wipes, lots of joyful drawn out wipes (drawn out to learn as much as possible about the encounter), but we failed and triumphed together and then we read the guide.
Problem: We can't one-shot the raid trash let alone the raid bosses.
Solution: Read the guides.
Problem: we are still wiping, you can't know and encounter until you've seen the encounter.
Solution: watch the video
Problem: We one-shot the heroic raid instance on week one after watching the PTR boss kills. Where are the new difficult raid instances and content?
Solution: Introduce new raid instances filled with random mechanics.
Problem: Random mechanics are killing us unfairly, without the opportunity to form a tactic or react to the mechanic.
Solution: Nerf the already guide-nerfed raid instance.
Now days…
Now days we read reviews of PTR content, hear about the quests and know the bosses months before the code is released to the general public.
Now days we read the instance and raid strats months before the code is released to the general public.
Now days we watch the boss kill videos months before the code is released to the general public.
Now days we know the gear tiers before we will receive it, use the theorycrafting tools to determine BiS items and gear sets months before the code is released to the general public.
Now days we know the optimum rotations, fear the imbalance and draft up our talent trees months before the code is released to the general public.
Now days we bemoan the lack of new content, of variety in quests, instances, raids, tier sets, talents, spells, fricken everything months before the code is released to the general public.
Then we get the expansion and we yell at the top of our lungs, from the tallest tower how Blizzard have got it wrong, how bad the game itself has become, how they have let us, the guide-fueled players down.
We bemoan our loss of innocence as if it is Blizzard's fault.
We have destroyed the magic, yet unable to accept our part in the "decline of WoW" have abdicated all responsibility and blamed the Magician.
You don't have to understand the secrets to appreciate the show
I say we, but that isn't true.
While I can't speak for you I can speak for me.
When I take Odin to the circus and the magician performs his semi-amateur act, I am just as fascinated as I was when I was an innocent 4 year old. I don't search for the magician's tricks, the science behind the magic. I sit back and marvel at the magic for what it is.
Sleight of hand that induces wonder.
When some relive the joy of WoW by tossing aside the guides; the heirlooms; the golden bank vaults, others still over engineer their experience and cry foul of Blizzard.
A guild with wings
I am blessed to run with a guild that begins every new boss with a ready check. Not an "are you ready to kill this boss by the guide-book" ready check but rather:
Yes: Wing it and see what happens
No: Let's stop and read the guide.
We may go several wipes, several ready checks before the No's outnumber the Yes' and we revert to the tried and true formula of the boss kill strategy.
Of course, despite the hard work of guildies in preparing and presenting excellent boss kill guides, there is always one Gnome winging it on the night. I listen to the vent instructions, I follow my orders, but I don't let guides or videos spoil those Ohhh Shit moments when the boss breaths fire across the raid (that was fun last night btw).
I revel in my ignorance, I revel in the joy of the new experience, I allow the magic to flow over me, through me. I immerse myself in the magic that the magicians at Blizzard have conjured.
Just don't tell my guild that… kk?
Problem: We know so much of the magic is stolen.
Solution: Don't read guides until you need to read guides.
It's not the guide writer's fault!
It's not the guide writer's fault that you reach for god-mode before even attempting the level.
It's not the "How to level 1-85 in 15 minutes" guide writer's fault that leveling has lost it's magic on a new character.
It's not the Greedy Goblin's of this world that are stopping you from grinding for BOTH fun and profit.
It's not Elitist Jerk's fault that you can only spec one way and follow one rotation.
It's not even that all too familiar arsehat in the pug that tells you to L2P and read a guide.
The only person stopping you from recovering that lost magic is…
You see, Blizzard have balanced the game.
They have balanced it for the 11,900,000 players that don't read guides.
Their magic is still there, but they don't have to grind for 2 years to get honored reputation, or afford their basic land mount, or struggle to clear the trash from the instance entrance, or spend months perfecting the dance on the 1st boss of an instance, or spend 20 hours per week outside of game theorycrafting their character to JUST. HAVE. FUN!
So throw the guides away, stop reading blogs… yeah even this blog if it's draining your mana.
If I'm not injecting the fading joy to play the game into your heart, restoring the magic, then truly I am failing and I might as well just write guides and declare that I have gone to the dark side – all (pointless) work – no fun.
Gnomer and Out!
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(1) Odin is my son, yes named after the Norse god and born on a Wednesday (Wodan's day).
(2) No I don't really have a mob of kangaroos in my backyard, they are about 5km away. I do however have redback spiders, tiapans, saltwater cros, great white sharks, dropbears and all sorts of dangerous animals… but then, that is the way we Australians choose to live… right?


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Correct? All in my GRUB menu. Help is greatly appreciated, I just really want to make sure nothing will be harmed. Thanks in advance.


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Linda MacDonald is a horse owner that has dealt first hand with EPM. MacDonald: "EPM is in the area. A lot of times it's there and people aren't aware because they don't know the clinical signs."
EPM is an equine neurological disease that can be difficult to diagnose.
MacDonald: "Normally you would look for your horse losing control of their hind quarters. EPM the culprit attacks the spinal column. And the hind quarters is what goes."
The horses may also stagger when they walk and have to lean against a building for support. EPM is caused by a parasite. It is in the feces of the opossum and gets into the horses system through hay. Other animals are only intermediate hosts for the parasite.
MacDonald: "People don't seem to know there are many hosts to this disease. It does not hurt the host, cats being typically one. Then it would go to possums or raccoons."
But once ingested by horses it begins to wreak havoc on the animal's central nervous system. And treatment for EPM is very costly.
MacDonald: "It runs for $1000 for a month's treatment. And sometimes they need two treatments."
If left untreated EPM can lead to serious neurological damage in horses, including paralysis or worse death.
MacDonald: "We were told that their mom had perished from EPM. Two of four or five of this person's that had been lost to EPM."
The best way to keep your horse safe is to know your hay dealer and make sure they keep their hay away from opossums.
Here are a few suggestions for keeping opossums out of your hay and keeping your horse safe:
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Cited: Charlotte N. Wysong, 19, 433 Woodland Ave., speeding; Eric L. Romanyak, 21, 116 National Road, Weirton, expired plates; and Michelle Strachan, no age or address listed by police, failure to stop in assured clear distance ahead, driving with suspended license and leaving the scene of an accident.
Arrested: Samuel B. Jones, 41, 1604 Moreland Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, Thursday.
Arrested: Timothy R. Taylor, 28, 1611 Ridge Ave., domestic violence, Thursday.
Arrested: David Dameron, 26, 20 N. Byron Drive, Wintersville, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Thursday.
Arrested: Jerry A. Crossland II, 19, 726 Brady Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court
Arrested: Jessie O. Birden, 20, 415 Union Ave., possession of heroin, Thursday.
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Theft: Home heating fuel taken from home on township Road 275, Amsterdam, Thursday.
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Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: Brian D. Peterson, 36, 205 Walter Ave., Follansbee, first-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse by a custodian, April 3.
Arrested: Joseph Taylor, 256 Gandy Lane, New Cumberland, possession of a drug instrument and possession of marijuana, April 5.
Arrested: Phillip Jeffery McAllister, 386 Angela St., Weirton, obstructing and driving with a suspended operator's license, Saturday.
Arrested: Jason D. Mullins, 715 N. Union Ave., Salem, driving under influence, second offense, and driving while his license was suspended for driving under the influence, second offense, Monday.
Arrested: Shannon Silver, 3429 Orchard St., Weirton, arrested on warrant following a disturbance on Mineral Avenue, Tuesday.
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Unanswered: Showing the busy progress bar using Ext JS
Hi All,
I want to show the busy progress bar using Ext JS. I am using "Ext.MessageBox.show()" with title as 'busy' for showing busy message box , I am closing the progress bar using "Ext.MessageBox.hide()" in my custom java script.
It is showing the progress bar, But there is a product specific (my application) script is loading in between which causes the progress bar to be closed. The product script is closing the message box using hide method. I can not able to control or edit the product specific script.
I want to close the message box only with my custom java script code.
Please suggest how to proceed with this. Is there any other way to show & hide the busy progress bar, So that i can get rid of the product specific 'Ext.MessageBox.hide()' calling?
Many thanks in anticipation..!!
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Trial for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Mature B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL), Burkitt's Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) and Other High-Grade Lymphoma in Adults
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified May 2008 by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital.
Recruitment status was Recruiting
Recruitment status was Recruiting
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First received: September 12, 2005
Last updated: May 29, 2008
Last verified: May 2008
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The study evaluates the efficacy and tolerability of alternating short cycles of high-dose and conventional chemotherapy in combination with rituximab in CD20 positive patients, followed by local radiation therapy in the case of initial mediastinal or central nervous system (CNS) involvement or a residual tumor after chemotherapy. A dose-reduced regimen is offered for patients estimated to be over 55 years, biologically.
Burkitt's Lymphoma
Burkitt's Leukemia
Mediastinal Neoplasms
Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Large Cell Anaplastic Lymphoma
Drug: Adriamycin
Drug: Cyclophosphamide
Drug: Cytarabine
Drug: Dexamethasone/Prednisolone
Drug: VP16
Drug: Ifosfamide
Drug: Methotrexate
Drug: G-CSF
Drug: Rituximab
Drug: Vincristine/Vindesine
Procedure: Irradiation (in specific conditions)
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Multicenter Study to Optimise Therapy of B-ALL, Burkitt's NHL and High-Grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Adults (Amend 7)
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Leukemia Lymphoma
Drug Information available for: Cyclophosphamide Prednisolone Methotrexate Cytarabine Ifosfamide Rituximab
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Lymphosarcoma Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Burkitt Lymphoma Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Lymphoma, Large-cell Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma B-cell LymphomaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Remission rate
- Remission duration
- Disease free survival
- Overall survival
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Dose and time compliance
- Toxicity according to National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC)
- Death under therapy and in complete remission (CR)
- Localisations of relapse
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|July 2002
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|15 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Burkitt's leukemia or Burkitt's lymphoma or primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma or B-precursor lymphoblastic lymphoma or large cell anaplastic lymphoma
- Age > 15 years
- Written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Serious secondary diseases, including psychiatric conditions, under which the required therapy compliance is not to be expected
- HIV infection
- Secondary lymphoma following prior chemotherapy/radiotherapy or active second malignancy
- Known severe allergy to foreign proteins
- Pre-treatment other than 1 cycle CHOP or similar; < 1 week of another chemotherapy.
- Pregnancy or nursing
- Participation in other studies that interfere with study therapy
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00199082
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00199082
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|Principal Investigator: Dieter Hoelzer, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Nicola Goekbuget, MD
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Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 28, 2016
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Hoelzer D, Walewski J, Döhner H, Viardot A, Hiddemann W, Spiekermann K, Serve H, Dührsen U, Hüttmann A, Thiel E, Dengler J, Kneba M, Schaich M, Schmidt-Wolf IG, Beck J, Hertenstein B, Reichle A, Domanska-Czyz K, Fietkau R, Horst HA, Rieder H, Schwartz S, Burmeister T, Gökbuget N; German Multicenter Study Group for Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Improved outcome of adult Burkitt lymphoma/leukemia with rituximab and chemotherapy: report of a large prospective multicenter trial. Blood. 2014 Dec 18;124(26):3870-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-03-563627. Epub 2014 Oct 30.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00199082 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 12, 2005
|Last Updated:
|May 29, 2008
|Health Authority:
|Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Keywords provided by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital:
High-grade NHL
De novo
Mature B-ALL
Burkitt'S NHL
Primary mediastinal diffuse large cell lymphoma
B-precursor lymphoblastic lymphoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Thoracic Diseases
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Burkitt Lymphoma
Mediastinal Neoplasms
Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Epstein-Barr Virus Infections
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Tumor Virus Infections
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Mediastinal Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Lymphoma, T-Cell
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