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2.13: "Baby Cakes"
Posted 14 January 2012 - 12:50 AM
*ominous music*
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 12:54 AM
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 02:11 AM
I figures she ends up trading them to the nice colt in the unmarked white stagecoach for all his candy; because no one offering candy can be evil.
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 03:07 AM
Some people call me Baby Cakes
Now I, I call me Baby Cakes
I'm not ashamed to get excited
I get friends who get excited
I am Baby Cakes
I am Baby Cakes
I am the woooooorld
Posted 14 January 2012 - 03:10 AM
Posted 14 January 2012 - 04:24 AM
This episode should be good, though. However, I am surprised the Cakes would have Pinkie as a babysitter... I mean I'm sure they love her (who couldn't?), but Pinkie? Surely she's lived at Sugarcube Corner for long enough now that they're aware exactly how special she is. She's mostly just a big kid herself... but one who can bend reality on a whim and is more like a force of nature than a mere pony. On one hand I think Pinkie would make an awesome (or at least extremely fun) older-sibling-esque figure, but on the other... this is Pinkie we're talking about. It's a recipe for disaster, which of course should make for hilarity on TV.
Edited by TM2-Megatron, 14 January 2012 - 04:29 AM.
Posted 14 January 2012 - 08:11 AM
Posted 14 January 2012 - 09:12 AM
Also, on right now is a babysitting-focused episode of Phineas and Ferb. Funny how that works.
Edited by pao, 14 January 2012 - 09:14 AM.
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 09:45 AM
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 10:44 AM
Indeed. Dinky and Derpy fans will be pleased to see confirmation that one type of pony can produce another type of offspring. Well, unless Mrs Cake has been sleeping around but that's very unlikely.
Pound and Pumpkin Cake sure are powerful for one month old fillies. And how creepy was the part where Pinkie was looking for Pound Cake?! The lighting, the music, everything just made it seem very creepy. I was convinced Pinkie was dreaming or something.
A good episode I thought. Pinkie got a few little musical numbers (and a stand up comedy routine) but I was expecting her Smile song to make an appearance.
Posted 14 January 2012 - 11:02 AM
[Dvandom] 7:55 am: Also, unless that's a regional hospital, Ponyville has an insane birth rate.
[Dvandom] 7:56 am: "That makes sense, right?" (Nervous twitch)
[scavgraphics] 7:56 am: sigh..Derpy/Dinkers just got proof
[pao] 7:56 am: evidence, not proof
[Dvandom] 7:57 am: [Mythbuckers] PLAUSIBLE
[scavgraphics] 7:57 am: thank you..I've been awake for 4 minutes...synapses not all online yet
[pao] 7:57 am: ^that
[Rezo] 7:57 am: Earth pony family. Getting only pegasi & unicorns.
[pao] 7:57 am: that was funnier than what I said
[The Well]: Caboose has entered at 7:57 am
[scavgraphics] 7:57 am: pao, well, he's a scientist
[pao] 7:57 am: explains the importance of flight schools
[Caboose] 7:58 am: Ba-dop doop
[pao] 7:58 am: is an engineer
[Rezo] 7:58 am: senses parenting difficulties in the future.
[sobana] 7:58 am: I see you like filling in plot holes now, mr. Nayuki
[sobana] 7:58 am: Good show
[scavgraphics] 7:58 am: there was a plot hole?
[sobana] 7:59 am: I thought they wouldn't explain that they had kids all this time
[Dvandom] 7:59 am: No one in my immediate family has blue eyes, but I do. Genetic recessives do pop up. OTOH, being around Pinkie so much has probably irradiated the Cakes or something.
[Nayuki] 7:59 am: plot isn't really my job
[Caboose] 8:00 am: Now, who said Pinkie wouldn't be good with kids?
[Rezo] 8:00 am: I was entertained by Mr. Cake's 'I can't sleep, can't shave, TOO NERVOUS' look
[pao] 8:00 am: well, good at entertaining kids
[Caboose] 8:00 am: PARTY WATCH
[Dvandom] 8:00 am: Clearly, this ep will be all about how it's not just the playing, there's all sorts of responsibility.
[pao] 8:01 am: so did I catch that Pinkie Pie has a Pinkie Pie watch?
[Dvandom] 8:01 am: Someone will no doubt point out that horses don't burp.
[Dvandom] 8:02 am: The multiple stomach arrangement doesn't really allow for it, IIRC.
[Dvandom] 8:02 am: Angel is a demanding boyfriend.
[Dvandom] 8:02 am: (And the Cakes clearly know not to ask Pinkie....)
[pao] 8:03 am: yep, last pony standing
[Dvandom] 8:03 am: Of course, they work with her, so they know better than anyone.
[Dvandom] 8:04 am: (BOOM!)
[pao] 8:05 am: well, she's straight into "what was I thinking?" territory
[Dvandom] 8:05 am: Pretty sure a stack of cookies on the floor in front of the milk cooler breaks some health reg. (TrueMoo ad)
[sobana] 8:06 am: Rarity didn't give a reason why she wouldn't babysit, only my fanfic can explain that now!
[Rezo] 8:06 am: in b4 pinkie causes the entire mane cast to be involved, anyway.
[Rezo] 8:06 am: Btw, while I wouldn't exactly make pinkie my first pick, picking rainbow dash over her as a sitter was a low blow
[Dvandom] 8:06 am: In b4 Pinkie makes the parasprites look constructive.
[Rezo] 8:07 am: parasptrites are a vital part of the everfree ecosystem
[pao] 8:07 am: once you've unified the hoodie with the sweatpants, why not just include the feet, instead of making them a separate piece? (Forever Lazy ad)
[Dvandom] 8:07 am: Presumably they figured at least Dashie would know from Pegafillies.
[Dvandom] 8:08 am: RTFM
[Caboose] 8:09 am: There's your song, folks!
[Guardian Prime] 8:09 am: OINK OINK OINK!!
[scavgraphics] 8:09 am: as pigs are sentient...isn't this kind of racist?
[Rezo] 8:09 am: SURPRISE
[Caboose] 8:09 am: Pigs are sentient?
[Dvandom] 8:10 am: Pound Cake will definitely end up in Dashie's orbit at some point.
[pao] 8:11 am: youngest member of Scootaloo's Dash Fan Club?
[Caboose] 8:11 am: Uh.
[Dvandom] 8:11 am: Pound Cake is strong.
[pao] 8:12 am: d'ough!
[Caboose] 8:12 am: Did that baby just break a metal faucet?
[pao] 8:12 am: hits own rimshot like Pinkie
[Dvandom] 8:12 am: Pinkie in diaper
[Dvandom] 8:13 am: Ayuh
[Dvandom] 8:13 am: Twi has read a book.
[pao] 8:13 am: oh boy
[pao] 8:14 am: Pinkie feeling threatened much?
[Dvandom] 8:15 am: Been practicing the Flutterstare?
[Rezo] 8:15 am: srspinkie is efficient
[Rezo] 8:15 am: But prone of losing ponies
[sobana] 8:16 am: lol, I thought he was strong too when I saw him brake that metal faucet too.
[sobana] 8:17 am: Pinkie is out to prove something
[Dvandom] 8:17 am: Pound Cake will pound you.
[sobana] 8:17 am: I wonder if he only does that because they call him that.
[Dvandom] 8:18 am: Well, if he was kicking much in utero, they might have had an inkling.
[The Well]: WorkbenchManiac has entered at 8:19 am
[Rezo] 8:19 am: >spider toy hanging at the ceiling
[Rezo] 8:19 am: the cakes are awesome parents
[Dvandom] 8:19 am: And suddenly the mood shifts to horror story.
[Dvandom] 8:20 am: Pinkie Pie in The Shining....
[pao] 8:20 am: among all the modernish childrearing technology, we don't have baby monitors
[Dvandom] 8:20 am: Spidercolt, Spidercolt, does whatever a....I got nothin.
[Dvandom] 8:20 am: Scootaloo will be hellajelly.
[pao] 8:20 am: this is pretty much Poof from Fairly Oddparents right now
[Caboose] 8:21 am: Scootaloo confirmed for disabled pegasus?
[Dvandom] 8:21 am: At least Pinkie didn't land in the diaper bin. Yet.
[Dvandom] 8:22 am: At least Pumpkin was explained by Rarity's line about strange magic bursts.
[pao] 8:22 am: inverted playpen less effective than butterfly net
[Dvandom] 8:22 am: "Awww, we broke another sitter."
[Dvandom] 8:23 am: "Dear Princess Celestia: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
[pao] 8:23 am: to Pinkie's credit...saved it!
[Dvandom] 8:24 am: Now, will Pinkie tell them about the fact they missed baby's first flight?
[Rezo] 8:25 am: So... the baby unicorn is already showing raw talent at least on twilight's level, if not higher
[WorkbenchManiac] 8:25 am: alright, praise be to the hubs policy of showing the same episode twice
[sobana] 8:26 am: We learn a vaulable lesson on friendship this episode for sure.
[sobana] 8:28 am: I like how they decided to stick with this big headed baby model from the Rainbow Dash super hero episode
[Dvandom] 8:28 am: Epilogue: Pinkie Pie at the hospital, demanding The Pill, NOW.
[Dvandom] 8:28 am: "No, I'm not seeing anyone, but I'm not taking any chances!"
[sobana] 8:29 am: My dad called me back into the living room, he thought the next episode was a different one lol
[scavgraphics] 8:29 am: sobana..well they do have creepy baby toys
[scavgraphics] 8:29 am: was wokverine in that commerical?
[scavgraphics] 8:30 am: Hub has SHS?
[Dvandom] 8:30 am: Yes.
[scavgraphics] 8:30 am: since when?
[scavgraphics] 8:30 am: and interesting..
[Dvandom] 8:30 am: Actually, Hub has ads for the SHS MMO.
[scavgraphics] 8:31 am: but those are ads...this was wolverine and hulk in the hub toons commerical
[Caboose] 8:31 am: D'aaaaw, pony babies are so adowable
[Dvandom] 8:31 am: Pinkie's watch reads out "Me Time".
[Dvandom] 8:32 am: Pound Cake already knows kung fu,.
[sobana] 8:33 am: You'd think Pinkie would have a better grasp of the situation after spending the day with the Cakes taking care of their kids and all.
[scavgraphics] 8:34 am: I like Rarity's refusual
[Dvandom] 8:34 am: You went astray at "Pinkie would have a better grasp of the situation" for any value of situation or grasp.
[Rezo] 8:35 am: All things considered, I do like that they show Pinkie's more serious side without going overboard like in Party of One.
[sobana] 8:35 am: Would this explain why we haven't seen Ms. Cake in the last few episodes because she was with fowl?
[Rezo] 8:35 am: She HAS feelings that can be hurt or frustrated
[Dvandom] 8:35 am: With foal. Scootaloo's mom was with fowl.
[The Well]: Caboose has left at 8:35 am
[Dvandom] 8:36 am: Question answered, Scav.
[WorkbenchManiac] 8:36 am: that pun drove him away...
[scavgraphics] 8:36 am: yup
[sobana] 8:36 am: o.o
[sobana] 8:37 am: He is going to delete you from his heartdrive now
[Dvandom] 8:37 am: Oh, and Forever Lazy doesn't have footies built in because they WANT you to wear it with shoes out in public.
[Dvandom] 8:39 am: Even the baby Cakes find pig ethnic humor dubious.
[Rezo] 8:40 am: Surprise again~
[sobana] 8:40 am: any way, I'm off to play tor, you cats have a wonderful day, laters! =D
[The Well]: sobana has left at 8:42 am
[Rezo] 8:45 am: >twi's nose getting quished in a little bit as the door's thrown shut
[Rezo] 8:45 am: adorable~
[Dvandom] 8:46 am: Pound and Pumpkin are to pegasus and unicorn like Gohan is to Saiyans. Homeopathic ponies...the less genetics you have, the more potent the results.
[pao] 8:48 am: there are genetic situations kind of like that though; only one I can think of off the top of my head is sickle-cell carriers, but I believe there are other examples
[Rezo] 8:48 am: hee
[Dvandom] 8:50 am: They're the Richards kids, Franklin and Valeria.
[The Well]: WorkbenchManiac has left at 8:51 am
[Dvandom] 8:51 am: Pinkie just happens to have chains available, too.
[Dvandom] 8:52 am: And duct tape.
[Dvandom] 8:52 am: Her off-screen parties must get...interesting.
[scavgraphics] 8:53 am: oh, who doesn't have duct tape availble at any moment?
[Rezo] 8:55 am: A good question.
[Rezo] 8:55 am: I do.
[Rezo] 8:55 am: Chains are a different matter, though
[The Well]: Rezo has left at 8:59 am
[The Well]: Nayuki has left at 9:00 am
[pao] 9:00 am: yep, 'bout that time, eh?
[The Well]: Guardian Prime has left at 9:01 am
[scavgraphics] 9:01 am: yep breakfasty time
Confound these ponies, they drive me to photoshop!
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 11:12 AM
Things I liked: Pony genetics
The Cakes asking everypony else BEFORE Pinkie. And asking Fluttershy FIRST.
Pinkie using toon gags to help her: Plunger walking, pulling things out of hammerspace, offscreen teleportation...
Refusing Twilight's help out of pride. Something I would do by accident myself.
Frazzled Pinkie: Something adorable about that.
Pinkie toning down her energy and WORKING during the letter. Sure, things can be fun and games, but sometimes it's WORK.
As for why Pound Cake can fly, perhaps weight ratios? He doesn't weigh enough to keep him grounded? Perhaps Scoots hasn't grown into her wings yet.
Pumpkins casting must be instinctual. She probably can't do it on command once she gets older, and she probably has the power from the mentioned spell surges.
Hold up, did Pinkie ever put the diapers back ON? Oh, THAT can't end well....
Posted 14 January 2012 - 11:58 AM
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General Information About Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Childhood craniopharyngiomas are benign brain tumors found near the pituitary gland.
Childhood craniopharyngiomas are rare tumors usually found near the pituitary gland (a pea-sized organ at the bottom of the brain that controls other glands) and the hypothalamus (a small cone-shaped organ connected to the pituitary gland by nerves).
Craniopharyngiomas are usually part solid mass and part fluid-filled cyst. They are benign (not cancer) and do not spread to distant parts of the brain or to other parts of the body. However, they may grow and press on parts of the brain or other nearby areas, including the pituitary gland, the optic chiasm, optic nerves, and fluid-filled spaces in the brain. Many functions including hormone making, growth, vision, and normal working of the brain may be affected. Benign brain tumors need treatment.
This summary discusses the treatment of primary brain tumors (tumors that begin in the brain). Treatment for metastatic brain tumors, which are tumors formed by cancer cells that begin in other parts of the body and spread to the brain, is not discussed in this summary. See the PDQ treatment summary on Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Treatment Overview for information about the different types of childhood brain and spinal cord tumors.
Brain tumors can occur in both children and adults; however, treatment for children may be different than treatment for adults. (See the PDQ summary on Adult Brain Tumors for more information.)
There are no known risk factors for childhood craniopharyngioma.
Craniopharyngiomas are rare in children younger than 2 years of age and are most often diagnosed in children aged 5 to 14 years. It is not known what causes these tumors to form.
Signs of childhood craniopharyngioma include vision changes and slow growth.
These and other signs and symptoms may be caused by craniopharyngiomas or by other conditions. Check with your child's doctor if your child has any of the following:
- Headaches including morning headache or headache that goes away after vomiting.
- Vision changes.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Loss of balance or trouble walking.
- Increase in thirst or urination.
- Increase in head size (in infants).
- Unusual sleepiness or change in energy level.
- Unusual changes in personality or behavior.
- Short stature, slow growth, or delayed puberty.
- Hearing loss.
Tests that examine the brain, vision, and hormone levels are used to detect (find) childhood craniopharyngiomas.
The following tests and procedures may be used:
- Physical exam and history: An exam of the body to check general signs of health, including checking for signs of disease, such as lumps or anything else that seems unusual. A history of the patient's health habits and past illnesses and treatments will also be taken.
- Neurological exam: A series of questions and tests to check the brain, spinal cord, and nerve function. The exam checks a person's mental status, coordination, and ability to walk normally, and how well the muscles, senses, and reflexes work. This may also be called a neuro exam or a neurologic exam.
- Visual field exam: An exam to check a person's field of vision (the total area in which objects can be seen). This test measures both central vision (how much a person can see when looking straight ahead) and peripheral vision (how much a person can see in all other directions while staring straight ahead). Any loss of vision may be a sign of a tumor that has damaged or pressed on the parts of the brain that affect eyesight.
- MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of the brain and spinal cord with gadolinium: A procedure that uses a magnet, radio waves, and a computer to make a series of detailed pictures of areas inside the brain. A substance called gadolinium is injected into a vein. The gadolinium collects around the tumor cells so they show up brighter in the picture. This procedure is also called nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI).
- Blood chemistry studies: A procedure in which a blood sample is checked to measure the amounts of certain substances released into the blood by organs and tissues in the body. An unusual (higher or lower than normal) amount of a substance can be a sign of disease in the organ or tissue that makes it.
- Blood hormone studies: A procedure in which a blood sample is checked to measure the amounts of certain hormones released into the blood by organs and tissues in the body. An unusual (higher or lower than normal) amount of a substance can be a sign of disease in the organ or tissue that makes it. For example, the blood may be checked for unusual levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) or adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). TSH and ACTH are made by the pituitary gland in the brain.
Childhood craniopharyngiomas are diagnosed and may be removed in the same surgery.
Doctors may diagnose a craniopharyngioma based on where the tumor is in the brain and how it looks on a CT scan or MRI. Sometimes a biopsy is required to find out the type of tumor. The biopsy is done during surgery, and a tissue sample is removed, using one of the following procedures:
- An open biopsy (a hollow needle is inserted through a hole in the skull into the brain).
- A computer-guided needle biopsy (guided by a computer, a hollow needle is inserted through a small hole in the skull into the brain).
- A transsphenoidal biopsy (instruments are inserted into part of the brain by going through the nose and the sphenoid bone, a butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull).
A pathologist views the tissue under a microscope to look for tumor cells. If tumor cells are found, the doctor may remove as much tumor as safely possible during the same surgery.
Certain factors affect prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options.
The prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options depend on the following:
- The size of the tumor.
- Where the tumor is in the brain.
- Whether the tumor is solid or a fluid-filled cyst.
- Whether there are tumor cells left after surgery.
- The child's age.
- Whether the tumor has just been diagnosed or has recurred (come back).
Stages of Childhood Craniopharyngioma
The process used to find out if cancer has spread within the brain or to other parts of the body is called staging. There is no standard system for staging childhood craniopharyngioma. Craniopharyngioma is described as newly diagnosed disease or recurrent disease.
The results of the tests and procedures done to diagnose craniopharyngioma are used to help make decisions about treatment.
Recurrent Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Recurrent craniopharyngioma is a tumor that has recurred (come back) after it has been treated. The tumor may come back in the same area of the brain where it was first found.
Treatment Option Overview
There are different types of treatment for children with craniopharyngioma.
Different types of treatments are available for children with craniopharyngioma. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with tumors. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment.
Because tumors in children are rare, taking part in a clinical trial should be considered. Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site. Choosing the most appropriate treatment is a decision that ideally involves the patient, family, and health care team.
Children with craniopharyngioma should have their treatment planned by a team of health care providers who are experts in treating brain tumors in children.
Treatment will be overseen by a pediatric oncologist, a doctor who specializes in treating children with tumors. The pediatric oncologist works with other pediatric healthcare providers who are experts in treating children with brain tumors and who specialize in certain areas of medicine. These may include the following specialists:
Childhood brain tumors may cause signs or symptoms that begin before diagnosis and continue for months or years.
Signs or symptoms caused by the tumor may begin before diagnosis and continue for months or years. It is important to talk with your child's doctors about signs or symptoms caused by the tumor that may continue after treatment.
Some treatments for tumors cause side effects months or years after treatment has ended.
Side effects from tumor treatment that begin during or after treatment and continue for months or years are called late effects. Late effects of tumor treatment may include the following:
- Physical problems such as vision problems and obesity.
- Changes in mood, feelings, thinking, learning, or memory.
- Second cancers (new types of cancer).
For example, serious late effects of radiation therapy for craniopharyngioma may include the following:
- Pituitary gland stops making hormones.
- Stroke or blood vessel problems.
- Blindness.
- Second cancer in the area that received radiation.
Some late effects may be treated or controlled. It is important to talk with your child's doctors about the effects tumor treatment can have on your child. (See the PDQ summary on Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer for more information).
Five types of treatment are used:
The way the surgery is done depends on the size of the tumor and where it is in the brain. It also depends on whether the tumor has grown into nearby tissue in a finger-like way. The types of surgery include the following:
- Transsphenoidal surgery: A type of surgery in which the instruments are inserted into part of the brain by going through an incision (cut) made under the upper lip or at the bottom of the nose between the nostrils and then through the sphenoid bone (a butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull).
- Craniotomy: Surgery to remove the tumor through an opening made in the skull.
Sometimes all of the tumor that can be seen is removed in surgery and no further treatment is needed. At other times, it is more difficult to remove the tumor because it is growing into or pressing on nearby organs. Serious problems may occur if the pituitary gland, hypothalamus, optic nerves, or carotid artery are affected during surgery.
If there is tumor remaining after the surgery, radiation therapy is usually given to kill any tumor cells that are left. Treatment given after the surgery, to lower the risk that the cancer will come back, is called adjuvant therapy.
After surgery, follow-up testing with MRI will be done for several years to check if the tumor has come back. Also, if part of the pituitary gland is removed in surgery, several types of pituitary hormone replacement pills will be given for life.
Surgery with cyst drainage
Surgery may be done to drain tumors that are mostly cyst. This lowers pressure in the brain and relieves symptoms. A catheter (thin tube) is inserted into the cyst and a small container is placed under the skin. The fluid drains into the container and is later removed. Sometimes, after the cyst is drained, a drug that causes the inside wall of the cyst to scar is put through the catheter into the cyst. This is done to stop the cyst from making fluid or to increase the amount of the time it takes for the fluid to build up again. Surgery to remove the tumor may be done after the cyst is drained.
Limited surgery and radiation therapy
Limited surgery is used to treat some craniopharyngiomas. It is used to diagnose the tumor, remove fluid from a cyst, and relieve any pressure on the optic nerves. Limited surgery is followed by radiation therapy. This treatment option may have fewer serious side effects than surgery to remove tumor from the pituitary gland or hypothalamus.
Radiation therapy is a tumor treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill tumor cells or keep them from growing. There are two types of radiation therapy. External radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to send radiation toward the tumor. Internal radiation therapy uses a radioactive substance sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters that are placed directly into or near the tumor. The way the radiation therapy is given depends on the type of tumor being treated and whether it has spread.
Because radiation therapy to the brain can affect growth and development in young children, ways of giving radiation therapy that have fewer side effects are being studied. These include:
- Stereotactic radiosurgery: For very small craniopharyngiomas at the base of the skull, stereotactic radiosurgery may be used. Stereotactic radiosurgery uses a head frame to aim radiation at the tumor only. This treatment is also called stereotaxic radiosurgery.
- Intracavitary radiation therapy: Intracavitary radiation therapy is a type of internal radiation therapy that may be used in tumors that are part solid mass and part fluid-filled cyst. Radioactive material is sent directly into the tumor, and causes less damage to the nearby hypothalamus and optic nerves.
- Intensity-modulated proton therapy: A type of radiation therapy that uses streams of protons (tiny particles with a positive charge) to kill tumor cells. A computer is used to target the exact shape and location of the tumor with proton therapy. This type of 3-dimensional radiation therapy may cause less damage to healthy tissue in the brain and other parts of the body. Proton radiation is different from x-ray radiation.
Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses anticancer drugs to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. When chemotherapy is taken by mouth or injected into a vein or muscle, the drugs enter the bloodstream and can reach tumor cells throughout the body (systemic chemotherapy). When chemotherapy is placed directly into the cerebrospinal fluid or an organ, the drugs mainly affect tumor cells in those areas (regional chemotherapy). Intracavitary chemotherapy is a type of regional chemotherapy that places drugs directly into a cavity, such as a cyst. The way the chemotherapy is given depends on the type of tumor being treated.
Biologic therapy
Biologic therapy is a treatment that uses the patient's immune system to fight cancer. Substances made by the body or made in a laboratory are used to boost, direct, or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer. This type of cancer treatment is also called biotherapy or immunotherapy. For craniopharyngioma, the biologic therapy drug is placed directly inside the tumor using a catheter.
Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial.
For some patients, taking part in a clinical trial may be the best treatment choice. Clinical trials are part of the medical research process. Clinical trials are done to find out if new treatments are safe and effective or better than the standard treatment.
Many of today's standard treatments are based on earlier clinical trials. Patients who take part in a clinical trial may receive the standard treatment or be among the first to receive a new treatment.
Patients who take part in clinical trials also help improve the way diseases will be treated in the future. Even when clinical trials do not lead to effective new treatments, they often answer important questions and help move research forward.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with childhood craniopharyngioma. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your child's doctor about clinical trials that may be right for your child. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Patients can enter clinical trials before, during, or after starting their treatment.
Some clinical trials only include patients who have not yet received treatment. Other trials test treatments for patients who have not improved. There are also clinical trials that test new ways to stop a disease from recurring (coming back) or reduce the side effects of treatment.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. See the Treatment Options section that follows for links to current treatment clinical trials. These have been retrieved from NCI's clinical trials database.
Follow-up tests may be needed.
Some of the tests that were done to diagnose the disease or decide how to treat it may be repeated. Some tests will be repeated in order to see how well the treatment is working. Decisions about whether to continue, change, or stop treatment may be based on the results of these tests.
Some of the tests will continue to be done from time to time after treatment has ended. The results of these tests can show if your condition has changed. These tests are sometimes called follow-up tests or check-ups.
Treatment Options for Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Newly Diagnosed Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Treatment of newly diagnosed childhood craniopharyngioma may include the following:
- Surgery.
- Cyst drainage followed by surgery.
- Limited surgery followed by external-beam radiation therapy.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery.
- Intensity-modulated proton therapy.
- Intracavitary radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy or biologic therapy.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with childhood craniopharyngioma. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your child's doctor about clinical trials that may be right for your child. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Recurrent Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Craniopharyngioma may recur (come back) no matter how it was treated the first time. Treatment options for recurrent childhood craniopharyngioma are based mainly on what type of treatment was given before and the needs of the individual child. Treatment options may include:
- Repeat surgery.
- External-beam radiation therapy.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery.
- Intracavitary radiation therapy.
- Intracavitary chemotherapy or biologic therapy .
- Cyst drainage with or without surgery.
- A clinical trial of biologic therapy.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with childhood craniopharyngioma. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your child's doctor about clinical trials that may be right for your child. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
To Learn More About Childhood Craniopharyngioma and Other Childhood Brain Tumors
For more information about childhood craniopharyngioma and other childhood brain tumors, see the following:
For more childhood cancer information and other general cancer resources, see the following:
- Childhood Cancers
- CureSearch for Children's Cancer
- Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer
- Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
- Young People with Cancer: A Handbook for Parents
- Cancer in Children and Adolescents
- Cancer Staging
- Coping with Cancer: Supportive and Palliative Care
- Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Cancer
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Mariusz,Mariusz wrote:This does not explain what is your position. You can take a quote and check yourself. For example, Tsongkhapa's Final Exposition of Wisdom" (By Jeffrey Hopkins; Snow Lion Publications; Ithaca, New York; 2008; p.160) quotes: I have proven in many ways that conceptuality apprehending true existence is just one class of conceptuality. So this hypothetical "real existence" is really "just one", so somehow universal no matter what phenomenon. Is it not? If so, the implication is: it has to be diffrent no matter what phenomenon, in other words totally different from the world.Tom wrote: Yes, Tsongkhapa certainly has his critics!
I was not putting forward my position. Simply giving some context to the quote supplied by Khensur Lobsang Tharchin.


text: Red Couch Industries has announced the launch of ScreenLight, a new web application that provides a fast and secure way to screen videos for clients, collect their feedback, and get projects approved. ScreenLight is a video-sharing tool specifically designed for the post-production community. Editors can create screening rooms, upload videos and notify project participants when videos are ready for review. Clients and other project stakeholders can log into the secure screening room, watch the videos, and add their comments. ScreenLight was originally conceived to address problems that Red Couch co-founder Richard Keating (a professional Editor & Post-Production Supervisor), was having screening videos for his clients. "Anybody who works in this business knows the stress of tight deadlines," Keating says. "Having to stop in the middle of a busy edit to get screeners out to clients is always a bit of a pain. Uploading to FTPs, managing and sending out url links, keeping track of all the back and forth emails. I needed a tool that would be a centralized communication system with the specific purpose of screening videos, harnessing feedback and getting projects moved towards approval faster and more efficiently." According to Keating, making things more efficient for the editor was just one part of the equation. It also needed to address the needs of the end client. "We've all had 'The video won't play on my computer' call from the client", Keating says. "Educating the client is part of the job - for some of them it's their first time with the video production process – but you don't want it to eat up too much of your time. It's for this reason that simplicity is at the center of the ScreenLight philosophy. It allows you to keep your clients happy by providing a less stressful experience." A subscription based service, all of ScreenLight's paid plans include unlimited user accounts, an unlimited number of projects, SSL encryption, and the ability to brand client Screening Rooms with your logo and corporate colors. All plans also include a 30-day free trial. You can learn more at http://www.screenlight.tv. Red Couch Industries was formed in 2007 to provide web-based post-production tools.


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Contributed by Sarah Wiberg, Parent-Child Class Teacher
I am currently enrolled in the Birth to Three Training at Sophia's Hearth, in Keene, NH. As I was reflecting on my week of training last month, I began to see that this training is meeting me professionally and personally in such a deep way. I have been called to grow in ways I did not expect.
Practicing Quietness
One of those opportunities for growth came in the form of practicing and embracing quietness. One of my teachers put into question my own practice of quiet. I had been so proud of all the things that I could juggle in my mind and still appear calm on the outside. I started to realize that I do not allow enough quiet moments to come into my day – moments that could really fill and restore me instead of constantly feeling frazzled.
"A quiet mind and calm environment is fertile ground for creative play and safe social experiences and interactions."
During class, I am often able to find a place of quiet. The strong rhythm of the morning offers opportunities to follow what is known so well and I enjoy a calm, quiet mind. The children can often find that peace in the day when they are surrounded by what is predictable. A quiet mind and calm environment is fertile ground for creative play and safe social experiences and interactions.
Modeling Quiet for our Children
Our children find this peace when we are able to find it for ourselves. Through our modeling, they learn to feel calm in their environment. This might be the hardest to achieve for parents. I will be the first to admit that there are many times that it is easier to be the teacher in a class than a parent at home. At home it is easy to become distracted by the demands of life; dishes, laundry, ironing, making lunches for school, cleaning the living room, vacuuming the floor…(care to add a few more?) And I did not even mention the work expectations, evening meetings, or different family commitments. How is one ever able to find a quiet moment at home with the ever-running list of responsibilities and commitments?
During the season that seems to pull us in so many directions, I challenge you as I have challenged myself, to find a quiet moment each day. This moment could be to meditate, reflect on something in nature, read a book, or just observe our children as they play. In this moment we may also make time for finding gratitude for what we have in our lives. This practice helps us to find the positive in each day when it is so easy to feel overwhelmed. Our children will feel this shift and begin to reflect it in their own lives.
Here is one of my favorite verses.
Quiet I bear within me
I bear within myself
Forces to make me strong
Now will I be imbued
With their glowing warmth
Now will I fill myself
With my own will's resolve
And I will feel the quiet
Pouring through all my being,
When by my steadfast striving
I become strong
To find myself within myself
The source of strength,
The strength of inner quiet.
-Rudolf Steiner
Many blessings during this Holiday Season.


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Was Dallas Cowboys' loss a moral victory? Jerry Jones says yes; players disagree
ARLINGTON — A mistake at the worst possible moment by a star-crossed quarterback will forever stain a remarkable offensive performance.
This is Tony Romo's lot. The highest-scoring game in the Cowboys' rich history did not end with a bang or soaring heroics, but with Romo's only interception of the afternoon and an anti-climactic field goal by Matt Prater from 28 yards as time expired.
Denver's 51-48 win at AT&T Stadium on Sunday was a wildly entertaining affair that left Jerry Jones declaring a moral victory. Those who work for the Cowboys' owner were not so positive.
Tight end Jason Witten said there are no moral victories for a team that fell to 2-3 and is now 24-29 since the start of the 2010 season. Linebacker Sean Lee used the words "unacceptable" and "terrible" to describe the team's defensive performance.
The result: What could have been a special victory for a Cowboys team desperate to forge a positive identity ended with yet another bitter defeat against what is arguably the best team in the NFL.
"Hell of a game," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said.
The 99 points tied for the fourth-most prolific game in league history. The teams combined for 1,039 yards, 58 first downs and one punt. The Broncos scored on six consecutive possessions at one point, and the Cowboys opened the second half with four consecutive touchdown drives to take a 48-41 lead.
Peyton Manning answered for Denver to tie the score with 2:39 remaining. The game was in Romo's hands.
The Cowboys quarterback had thrown for a career-high 506 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions to outduel Manning. But on second-and-16, on the final play before the two-minute warning, he forced a pass to rookie Gavin Escobar that was intercepted by linebacker Danny Trevathan on the Cowboys' 24-yard line.
Manning and Prater did what they had to do over the final 1:57 to pull out the victory.
"I didn't put it exactly where I needed to," Romo said of his interception. "It's frustrating."
Jones, the eternal optimist, didn't share that frustration.
"I'm so encouraged," Jones said. "I'm extremely encouraged over the way we competed, the way we were undaunted. I'm encouraged we played at the level we played in a lot of areas.
"This was a moral victory today for us."
The Broncos have won 16 consecutive regular-season games. The Cowboys are the first team to lose by fewer than seven points in that stretch.
But that didn't spark Jones' enthusiasm as much as Romo's performance. Yes, he understands the significance of that one interception. But the creativity Romo displayed while playing within the framework of the offensive game plan gives Jones hope that this team has found its offensive identity.
"I see the fundamentals of what our plan was when we were in the offseason," Jones said. "A quarterback who can do it all, create, come out of there and use that skill. … If he plays like that, we're going to have one heck of a year. We'll beat most teams we play.
"Knowing we've got the games that we've got left in our division, we should feel positive about what we've got in the future."
Witten was proud of Sunday's effort but said, "There are no moral victories here."
Lee wasn't nearly as diplomatic. Manning became the third quarterback to throw for more than 400 yards against this defense in five games with his 414 yards and four touchdowns. Add the 93 yards that Knowshon Moreno added on the ground, and it was hard for Lee to find any encouragement.
"Absolutely not," Lee said. "Defensively, it was a terrible performance. We have to find a way to get better. There is no way around it. The last two weeks, we have been terrible.
"The way we're playing, we're not helping our team at all. That's the standard right now in the NFL. If we want to be a championship team, we've got to be able to stop a team like that.
"We're not even close right now."
The saving grace is that the Cowboys are in the NFC East. Even with this loss, the team is tied for the division lead with Philadelphia.
Washington and the Eagles are the next two opponents on the schedule.
"I would much rather have played them and won," Jones said of Sunday's game.
"But if I can't win, I'll take what I've got."
Catch David Moore on The Ticket (KTCK-AM 1310) three days a week with The Musers (Mon-Wed-Fri) at 9:35 a.m., twice a week (Tues-Fri) with The Hardline at 4:15 p.m. and twice a week (Mon-Thurs) with BaD Radio at 2:35 p.m. during the regular season.
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Posted by Amelia Cohen in Photos, Social Media, Staff on March 25, 2013
On March 12, Tufts' own Chef Justin Lizotte competed in the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) Northeast Region Culinary Challenge. The winner of the competition would then proceed to the 2013 NACUFS National Conference in Minneapolis on July 11. The featured item at the Northeast Challenge was a whole duck, which had to be incorporated into each competitor's dish.
Although Cyril Ortigosa-Liaz of Yale University was the winner of this year's challenge, Chef Lizotte still made an amazing dish: Duck 2 Ways, poached breast and pomegranate glazed.
Cornell Dining live-tweeted the event – check out the photos below to see Chef Lizotte in action.
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College football polls: teams, trends after Saturday shakeup
The earth shook beneath college football Saturday night, leaving the polls a mess, hopes crushed and challengers for the national title hidden among all the rubble.
If perfection is the barometer, who knows if any team out here will reach it. It's a dwindling lot with No. 3 Florida State, No. 4 LSU and No. 5 Georgia all losing Saturday. There remain 12 unbeatens among the top 25. At this point, would there be any surprise if one—perhaps two—of the programs in the national championship game enter with a blemished record?
Even No. 1 ranked Alabama beat Ole Miss by only 19 points. We kid … sort of. The Crimson Tide have been dominant. And so has second-ranked Oregon, which hasn't scored fewer than 42 points in any game this season.
Beyond that, who knows?
FSU gave up a game-winning scoring drive to ACC Atlantic Division rival NC State with 16 seconds left, and lost 17-16. Georgia was throttled, 35-7, by South Carolina, falling behind 21-0 before the Bulldogs could even get comfortable. LSU's offense, the one that was supposed to be so much better under Zach Mettenberger, managed eight first downs and no touchdowns in a 14-6 loss to Florida.
That leaves the masses trying to make sense of a chaotic weekend.
Alabama and Oregon will hold steady at the top. The rest is a shakeout.
Based on Saturday alone, the nod in order could go to:
—South Carolina: Posted the most impressive win, shutting out Georgia until the two minutes of the game.
—West Virginia: Sparred with undefeated and 11th-ranked Texas and won 48-45 in front of the largest crowd (101,851) in the history of Texas football.
—Ohio State: OSU is 6-0 and there doesn't appear to be anything frightening between the Buckeyes and a perfect regular season. The latest to be steamrolled was No. 21 Nebraska.
—Notre Dame: Humiliated Miami (Fla.). Plus, the Irish have two wins over then-ranked opponents, Michigan State and Michigan.
—Florida: Snapped LSU's 18-game regular season winning streak and was dominant on defense against the Tigers. But, LSU has seemingly been hanging on by a thread in recent weeks. The Gators have knocked off two ranked teams, Tennessee and LSU.
—Kansas State: The Wildcats aren't penalized for beating the daylights of out-manned Kansas. But it didn't help K-State's case in this argument, either. Kansas State has a win over No. 17 Oklahoma, but not even the Miami victory looks all that impressive now.
Oregon State has beaten two ranked teams. Louisville, Mississippi State and Rutgers are also perfect to date. Undefeated Cincinnati should crack the top 25 for the first time this season when the new Associated Press and Coaches polls are released Sunday. So might Louisiana Tech. Texas San Antonio, though unbeaten, won't make the cut without any quality victories.
PHOTO GALLERIES: Sights and sounds from Week 6 | Best action shots of Week 6
Take away the unprecedented drama and other-worldly expectations for Penn State heading into its season opener against Ohio. Dismiss, for a moment, the complete meltdown by kicker Sam Ficken, who missed four field goals in a one-point loss to Virginia.
Now consider what Penn State has done since.
With a 39-28 comeback victory over Northwestern, the Nittany Lions have won four straight—the upset of the 24th-ranked Wildcats the biggest victory yet for first-year coach Bill O'Brien.
Penn State isn't eligible for the Big Ten championship game. Yet, it is playing the regular season with purpose. Three of the four victories were like chew toys for the Nittany Lions—defeating Navy, Temple and Illinois. But this was a statement game for quarterback Matt McGloin and his teammates.
McGloin's five-yard run with 2:43 left put Penn State ahead, 32-28, after it trailed by nine at the end of the third quarter. Northwestern turned the ball over on downs with 1:48 left and PSU capped the game with a final touchdown run from Michael Zordich.
The win snapped Northwestern's 5-0 start. McGloin's TD run gave Penn State a margin Northwestern couldn't overcome. More important, it gave Penn State one more reason to play the season out as though there were a prize at the finish. And there is—pride.
Rutgers has to be tired of it by now, all the projections about the Big East champions that do not include any mention of the Scarlet Knights.
It's Louisville this and Cincinnati that.
Well, here is Rutgers, 5-0 after a 19-3 victory Connecticut. Rutgers is 2-0 in conference play and is off to its best start since 2007.
Jawan Jamison rushed 28 times for 110 yards in the victory and Wayne Warren returned an interception for a touchdown to give No. 22 Rutgers the win.
The Huskies were without leading rusher Lyle McCombs at the start. He was benched for the first quarter after he was arrested and charged with second-degree breaching the peace on Friday. He finished with only 12 rushing yards. McCombs was arrested after a confrontation with his girlfriend.
— Sammy Watkins may have the name, but he doesn't have the stardom for Clemson receivers at the moment. De'Andre Hopkins is having an All-American caliber season for the Tigers.
In a 47-31 win over Georgia Tech, Hopkins left the game with seven catches for 173 receiving yards—a ridiculous average of 24.7 yards a catch. This season, Hopkins has 49 catches for 777 yards for the Tigers. And that doesn't happen by accident. Quarterback Tajh Boyd had a career-high 397 passing yards against the Yellow Jackets.
— LSU lost to Florida, but were it not for the play of Tigers' linebacker Kevin Minter, things could have been worse. Minter played the game of his life, overshadowing defensive linemen Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery.
Minter, the most experienced of the Tigers' linebackers, racked up a whopping 20 tackles, as well as two sacks and a forced fumble. That's a third of his total of 61 tackles a year ago.
— Oregon State survived a turnover-fest against Washington State, 19-6. But it's not Beavers' QB Sean Mannion's three picks highlighted here. Rather, it's three passes picked off by Beavers' cornerback Jordan Poyer. The senior had one interception this season entering this game, but came away with a haul, thanks to Washington State QB Jeff Tuel.
—Maligned after Stanford's loss to Washington, Cardinal quarterback Josh Nunes bounced back to throw a career-high 360 yards and two touchdowns, and rushed for three more TDs, in Stanford's 54-48 overtime win over Arizona.
— You think West Virginia is all about Geno Smith and his receivers? Then how do you explain running back Andrew Buie rushing for 224 yards and two touchdowns in the Mountaineers' victory over Texas?
Auburn coach Gene Chizik on 24-7 loss to Arkansas: "I didn't see the fans leave, but I don't blame them."
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Actress Scarlett Johansson, who is seen in porn addiction comedy "Don Jon", has admitted she is a fan of artistic adult films that don't degrade women.
"Pornography can be degrading or can be sexually liberating, if you know how to use it and it is made from an artistic point of view," femalefirst.co.uk quoted the 28-year-old as saying.
"But 'Don Jon' is not a film about pornography, it is a social criticism against consumerism," she added. She retains her modesty in the comedy as the seductive girlfriend Barbara, a character she could identify with.
"I loved the sweetness of Barbara. Like her, I grew up with young people like them, well educated, perfect. They are a very determined group of New Jerseyites. In fact, I refer to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor and director of the film, helping to shape the character," Johansson said.


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Pachinko Parlor for Facebook
Singapore, SG - February 10, 2013 - Just in time for the Chinese New Year and the Year of the Snake, GamesWarp is pleased to announce the release of Pachinko Parlor on Facebook, currently accessible via https://apps.facebook.com/gwpachinko/.
Pachinko Parlor is an action-casino game that simulates the many varied and colorful Pachinko mechanical machines found widespread in Japan. A favorite recreational gaming pastime of the Japanese, this pinball-like game reliant on gravity and a dash of luck has been successfully translated to the Facebook platform in Pachinko Parlor. There is also the anticipated addition of modern day Jackpot game elements, triggered by balls falling into the bonus traps found in each hand-crafted machine. This is a feature that will be sure to please players who love pinball and jackpot action.
The player starts off by selecting a machine to play from the Lobby and will be issued a starting bonus of GamesWarp (GW) Coins and Pachinko Balls. Once at a machine, he can start shooting balls by adjusting the power knob to control the power of each shot. Balls will keep coming out at a constant rate, and it will be up to the player to adjust the power knob to hopefully guide the Pachinko balls into the 5 bonus traps found in each machine. The Jackpot starts spinning whenever a ball enters a bonus trap, and it is this way that the player can win even more GW Coins.
Pachinko Parlor may have launched with eight fun machines, but GamesWarp will be adding many more machines over the life of the game. Already slated for release is Machine #9: Nine Candles on February 11, 2013, and Machine #10: Avian Wonder some time later this week. Subsequent updates concerning new machines and features will be put up at https://www.facebook.com/PachinkoParlorCommunity. The "press release kit" is also available as a series of screenshots for download or sharing at the Community Page on Facebook.
Pachinko Parlor is currently available on Facebook, with new features planned to be released later sometime in the 1st QTR of 2013. The game is also planned for other platforms at a later date in 2013.
For more information about Pachinko Parlor, please visit: http://pc.gameswarp.com/2013/02/10/pachinko-parlor/.
About GamesWarp
Founded in 2011, GamesWarp is a one-man indie game development endeavor. Their main website at http://pc.gameswarp.com also doubles as a game review website, reviewing close to 300 PC games over the past two years. Pachinko Parlor is the first game released by GamesWarp, but most definitely not their last.
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2006 Mobius LSV
I bought a used 06 couple of years ago,put almost 200 hours on it in 2 seasons no problems what so ever,but no such luck on the 13,but the thread is a new Moomba or used Nautique and i would rather have the peace of mind of a new boat just for the problems im having to have a warranty and know the boat inside and out and not have a penny come out of my pocket for repairs.Now if money was no issue i would have a Nautique hands down.
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When I was first looking for a boat, it came down to a brand new 2005 Moomba Outback (in orange like I love, just like my LSV) or a 2000 Supra Launch with 200 hours on it. The big points were Moomba was new and perfect color scheme, but it was carburated and small compared to the Launch. The Launch was bigger, a little more plush, fuel injected, but then again used and outdated looking compared to the Outback (and kind of blah colors and design, blue and white). I could afford both, but the Outback still would have been $10k more ($33k to $23k). I could not justify the higher expense of the new Outback because I considered it an inferior wake boat to the Launch. If price were exactly the same, that might have been tougher, but I think I would have regretted buying the Outback. BUT I didn't have a warranty and used boats come with issues every year, so I had a lot of maintenance on my boat as a new wake boat owner (and young, I was 20)...I owned a I/O before that and grew up with watercraft, but wake boats are just more expensive to maintain. Looking back, I made the right choice. The LSV was out of my price range, so I couldn't even consider it at the time (06 models were out, so I was supposedly getting a deal on a leftover 05).
So I guess comparing to your situation, if I were to get a 5 year old Nautique 210 or 230 for 2/3 the price of a brand new Moomba, then I would probably do it. However, comparing my Launch to the Outback wasn't a good comparison because I don't think the Outback would have met my needs for a wake boat. Since you're comparing a LSV to a 210, those are both very competent wake boats and that would change the game for me. Same price, go new LSV. If it's significantly cheaper (>$10k) to get the Nautique, get the Nautique. That's my opinion after my (too) thorough analysis.Boats previously owned - 2000 Supra Launch, 2003 Outback, 2006 Mobius LSV
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BTW I had one other thought, with justification lol. My 06 LSV is like a "new" boat to me, I can't really imagine needing any more of a boat. I live on the water so I use the boat very often (every minute I can!), and I've had no issues whatsoever these last few months that I've had it. My 06 LSV is one of the nicest wake boats on the lake, and there's a lot of really wealthy people that live on my lake. Theres one new decked out brand new wakesetter, but other than that there's not really another nicer boat than mine, and that gets used as much as mine lol. If price is no object, I totally support people buying new boats, because somebody has to. I'm not one of them; I'm 28 with a wife that doesn't work and two kids, so for now I'm definitely a used boat buyer because I can't afford new, and there's nothing wrong with that. Is there a reason you aren't considering a used LSV? Then you'd be getting a great wake boat for even cheaper than either option you're considering. If you're thinking a used Nautique, why not consider a used LSV...
I see new LSVs decked out for almost $70k...That's well over twice what I paid for mine. Even the base price in mid $50s is twice what I paid. Pretty sure I wouldn't get twice the enjoyment from a brand new one, nor twice the longevity, nor twice the reliability, nor twice the amount of people telling me how awesome my boat is, nor twice the money when I sell it to upgrade years down the road.
BUT if you can afford it, buy new so SC keeps pumping out boats, and so I can get it for half price from you 6 years from now! Just get an orange one please.Boats previously owned - 2000 Supra Launch, 2003 Outback, 2006 Mobius LSV
Thanks all for the advice. I've try to post some replies to some of you, but I don't know what I have done wrong, I can't see any of them.
And Nate, your French is very good…
But anyway, in fact, the answer to my problem is: go for the best deal…. And I think that will always be a Moomba. Like some of you said, for the same price, I would have to buy a Nautique that is 3-5 years older then the Mommba….. I guess I could do that only if I knew were the boat is coming from….. for example, the person who will buy my Outback will get the best boat ever…I'm kind of super maniac about my boat…my girlfriend is almost jealous of the time I spent taking car of my baby !!
And also, the Nautique I like are the 2012 and +, with the new dash board and LINC system on the side. And if a want more room, I have to go with the 230, because like someone said, the 210 is not to roomy…No way I can find a used 2012 Nautique 230 that will be close to the price of a new Moomba…unless I wait another 2-3 years….and again, in 2-3 years, there will be new Moomba's
So unless I win big at the lottery, I should start looking at the LSV or Mojo…
As for a used LSV, Iv seen the 2014 with the new Digital Pro II…very nice…….but the 2013 are very nice also with the new dashboard and Digital proI.. As you can see, I need a good looking dashboard…..
And Sandm: I would love to garage the new toy at home. Garage is long and wide enough, but I have a 7' door, wich is actually 6'10" high… I don't know if the LSV or Mojo will fit.
And if a buy new or used, it will be white and red or black and white…. Sorry, no orange !!
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From nice Québec..
It sounds like cash isn't really too much of an issue, at least at the point where you need to buy a used Moomba. Sounds like new Moomba is your ticket, you're the type of guy that wants a new boat as your new baby I think. If a new Nautique is out of question, go fit the new Moomba.
I think you'll be surprised, the boats may fit in your garage with the tower down. My Supra did not have the newer gen folding tower, it was all one solid piece. When folded down it was taller than my new LSV folded down. It still fit in my garage, cleared the door by about half an inch.
Btw, merci beaucoup!
Sent from my fourth replacement Galaxy S2 using Tapatalk 4...Boats previously owned - 2000 Supra Launch, 2003 Outback, 2006 Mobius LSV
lsv should fit. mojo, according to most, will not, unless you are into a circus of events and have an hour to kill deflating tires, lowering hitches and the such.
lsv would be a nice upgrade from what you have and to order brand new, you will know the history.
be sure and send pics of whatever you do..'06 Supra Launch 20SSV-gone but never forgotten
Sampp1963 im not sure where your from in Quebec , but when i bought my LSV the dealers in Que where 8 to 10 thousand $$ more for an LSV then in Ontario . Its just a thought for you.2012 Mobius LSV
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Last fall I visited Zuccotti Park numerous times between its initial occupation on Sept. 17 and when it was violently emptied in the middle of the night by New York City police officers on Nov. 15. After that event I resolved to return two days later to walk with Occupy Wall Street as the movement attempted to close down, or at least delay, the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange. Outnumbered and overpowered by the police, the attempt failed, of course, and over 300 people were arrested. In the past year more than 7,600 arrests have occurred during Occupy-related events nationwide.
This past month I traveled from the Midwest for the one-year anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park and a movement that despite many premature obituaries has continued to thrive. The movement, of course, is more than the sum of its direct actions or the reactions it induces in some. Occupy activists call attention to the economic alienation and deprivation in contemporary capitalism by creating communal spaces of solace and loudly exercising their voices against an unjust state of affairs. Visual records from the movement—young men and women in assemblies, each waiting their turn to speak, marching in streets with banners, chanting, engaging in civil disobedience and then (usually) being met with police violence—have reintroduced images of mass protest and solidarity to the public eye.
Alienation Today
Many young people today face "no future," a phrase used in the late 1970s in Great Britain and in the Autonomist movement in Italy to describe a life stamped with perpetual debt to the state or to banks, with little hope of ever escaping this economic and psychological stranglehold. A scarcity of jobs, accompanied by mailboxes loaded with bills totaling the principal and interest owed on debt, results in stress, apathy, disappointment and powerlessness.
In contemporary society people have become passive subjects at the hands of finance, the media, the state, the police and by what the philosopher Michel Foucault called "biopower," meaning the entire apparatus of modernity in which our bodies are constantly scanned, surveilled and most importantly, managed for profit. The artisans of capital have created a false idol of the human person—that we are what we make, that we are our debts and that we are something to be managed. Biopower and the invisible hand of the market measure human worth solely on their own terms—whether we are in "the black" or "the red" in the game of monetary accumulation.
Throughout the anniversary weekend I noticed civilians passively observing Occupy activities. This seems consistent with the alienation alluded to above. We have, within technological modernity, become strangers to ourselves. On subways, buses and sidewalks, we push past one another, tuning out our world with smartphones, iPods, tablets, Kindles—any technological apparatus that can form a virtual barrier between us and the natural world. But this need for perceptual isolation is foreign to human nature. We are not here only to watch, as if life were simply unfolding in front of us as a spectacle, beyond our power to influence at any level other than the details of our everyday life. This phenomenon is part of what Occupy seeks to address.
Modeling Solidarity
Those who first gathered in lower Manhattan on Sept. 17, 2011, and have continued their efforts throughout the last year, want to create (the term prefiguration is used) a different model of living in which we are no longer treated as merely passive subjects to be acted upon by the nearly-invisible forces of financial capital. Those who resist this subjectification, those who insist that it is their world as much as the state's or a bank's, are met with apathy or outright opposition. Resistance may seem pointless; Margaret Thatcher often said there is no alternative.
But there is: solidarity. Within a religious or secular context, this involves formerly atomized individuals coming together to recognize each other as more than what dominant ideologies reduce us to. Occupy calls everyone to reclaim the possibility of communal experiences in which real human recognition—social relations which predate the rise of capital—becomes possible again. Religious institutions, working on behalf of those who are marginalized and often discarded entirely by capital, must summon those in politics, finance and policing to re-examine their conscience, their role in oppression, their participation in the misery biopower inflicts upon the weak and the poor, who often sit beside them in communities of faith.
Through the general assemblies, the "spokes councils," the celebration of Rosh Hashana and the implicit trust and solidarity placed in total strangers, participants in the Occupy anniversary observance were reminded to re-appropriate their lives from those institutions seeking to reduce them solely to economic subjects. To conceive of life in a different fashion—to resist this subjectification, to be free of the "self" imposed upon us—is radical in the truest sense of the word. It is a re-examination of our roots. We need to reclaim what has been ceded by our willing or unwilling consent, by zip ties or even by our own chains.
Into the Unknown
In After the Future, the Italian philosopher Franco Berardi writes that he must act "as if" better things were to come. In the face of contemporary cynicism, apathy and despair, he explains he must continue to fight, even with no alternative in immediate sight. "I must resist," he writes, "simply because I cannot know what will happen after the future, and I must preserve the consciousness and sensibility of social solidarity, of human empathy, of gratuitous activity.... Just in case, right?... I must resist because this is the only way to be in peace with myself."
If we are to love others, we must first begin to love ourselves. The recent anniversary reminded us that our isolation, anomie and atomization—all created by the power of capital with our consent—need not be the future. As the media remain obsessed only with arrest numbers, the Occupy movement demonstrated once again the solidarity and love that long predate capitalism and have resurfaced both here and abroad. As the demonstrators' placards in Madrid and Lisbon read on Sept. 29, we can say no.
The first anniversary activities of Occupy left their mark on those members who were present in New York, and emphasized a key message of the movement: Get rid of oneself. This echoes what St. Paul wrote to the Colossians: "Take off the old self…and put on the new self" (3:9-10). We should adopt the type of life that Berardi envisions—one of empathy, free activity and fraternity. Refuse to be subjectified. To resist in this way—to take to the streets with the willingness to be opposed by police, passersby and family—is to stand as a witness against what we have falsely learned to value in our consumerist society. Most important, this witness acts as a sign of what may come. This will never please skeptics, critics or supporters of our ancien régime. It should, however, say something to those familiar with visitations and incarnations, and what those events prefigure. We are called to point to something infinitely more valuable than wealth, toward a life and a time that can come. Some might ask, "Why witness, why protest?" To echo Berardi: Just in case, right?
Comparing this with Russian Orthodox mysticism is possible when the philosophical implications as expressed in this article are placed in the context of history. There is really nothing new happening here: the serfs are the contemporary poor, the wage earner barely able to get by, the members of the ever-shrinking middle class. The difference between our present dilemma and Czarist Russia is only a matter of degree and the social forces enabling oppression.
It would be inspiring to hear more voices from the Christian community in support of the issues raised by the Occupy protesters, (I know of some) as the survival of our Constitutional Republic depends on a just balance of social and material goods; the transcendent implications for the Kingdom of God from the Christian perspective include justice for the poor and freedom for the oppressed.
Many feel that a concern for social justice betrays the importance of Holy Church; it is my view that to love your neighbor you must engage the society in which he or she lives and hold it accountable for its sins of ommission and commission. This can be done in a civil way consistent with a lifestyle that might be compromised by more vocal dissent. It is only necesssary to introduce new ideas to change the discussion. One needn't join protesters in Zuccotti Park to be inspired by their example and carry the torch for enlightened social change into the religious and political arena through more conventional forums and polity.
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