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My friends are a little worried because I like to kick off restaurant chains' earnings season with a tailgate party. And why not? We're talking quarterly updates from the biggies, people. And then come the conference calls, where you can ease back with a hot dog and a beer while investors do some serious grilling of public-company execs. Who needs Six Flags or Vegas? Especially during a financial-reporting stretch like the current one, when the action's been wilder at times than a Sweeps Week on Fox. Consider, for instance, the mysterious disappearances that have recently come to light.
Where, for example, was Chipotle's copy of the memo that every other public restaurant company must've gotten? It's the one about cutting expenses because of spiking food costs.
It was certainly right there in Chuck E. Cheese's "In" box. The pizza and games chain countered high cheese and dough expenses by trimming the size of its large and medium pizzas by a half-inch.
P.F. Chang's, another apparent recipient, is focusing its efficiency efforts in part on labor. The company told investors that it's revising the responsibilities and recruitment processes for the unit-level managers at its Pei Wei Asian Diner concept in part to eliminate one supervisory position. It's also simplifying and shrinking the fast-casual chain's menu to cut prep space and kitchen labor, while also deleting some high-cost selections that don't sell well.
Somehow, the mandate to take similar action never reached Chipotle. "It would be plausible to try to squeeze costs out of the food line or labor line or to aggressively raise prices," said president Monty Moran. "We're not going to do that."
Instead, executives said, the chain is directing more units to use additive-free chicken, which costs 20 to 50 percent more than the standard version, and is buying more locally grown produce. So much for economizing on kitchen supplies.
Chipotle might also see some pressure on labor expenses because of the ongoing salmonella outbreak. Since the federal government now believes fresh jalapeno peppers could be the source of the contamination, the Mexican chain is grilling all of the peppers that it formerly served raw.
The same vanishing act must've been pulled with Chipotle's copy of the Official Restaurant-Chain Handbook, or at least the page that deals with international expansion. Charging beyond the boundaries of the United States is as important to the success of many restaurant brands these days as selling soft drinks. But not, it seems, for the 778-unit burrito specialist. Founder and CEO Steve Ells revealed that the chain's international strategy consists of opening a lone unit in Toronto. "I want to remind you that international expansion is not a key driver of our current growth strategy," he observed after noting that Chipotle has never needed a passport before. Hopefully he spoke loud enough to override the gasps of investors who've grown accustomed to hearing chains project hundreds of overseas openings.
The disappearances involving Chipotle were parlor-room stunts compared with the Houdini feat that The Cheesecake Factory pulled off. One day, as he had for the prior eight years, Michael Dixon was serving as an executive of the casual-dining company. The next, he was gone. His resignation and departure as CFO came the same day.
Cheesecake founder and CEO David Overton said it was just a coincidence that Dixon vamoosed hours before the company disclosed that its profits dropped 19 percent during the second quarter. He also declined to put forward any other explanation.
Maybe he should've just uttered, "Abracadabra," and been done with it.
Okay, time to throw another hot dog on the grill and see who else is reporting today.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Abstract: | An overview of the historical phonology of the Austronesian languages shows certain recurrent patterns of change that resemble the synchronic notion of a conspiracy. Over 90% of all lexical bases in Proto-Austronesian and other early Austronesian proto-languages are disyllabic. This dominant pattern, which was transmitted to most of the 1200-plus Austronesian languages spoken today, has tended repeatedly to reassert itself in forms that have come to have other than two syllables. As a structurally defined target that is satisfied by diverse historical changes, this preferential disyllabism can be considered an 'attractor' in the sense of Kelso (1995). Perhaps the most interesting consequence of disyllabic attractors in Austronesian historical phonology is the widespread occurrence of syncope only between identical consonants, a pattern that Odden (1988) has characterised in synchronic systems as one of 'anti-antigemination'. |
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Fish farm tours back on the 'market'
Local salmon farms are once again opening their doors to the public for the BC Salmon Farmers Association's summer tour program out of Campbell River.
"These tours are a great opportunity for people to come and see for themselves the diligence and hard work each farmer puts towards carrying for their fish, and to ask any questions they have about how farms operate each day," said David Minato, community relations co-ordinator.
The tours run each Thursday until Sept. 13, each week bringing up to 11 people to a Campbell River-area farm to learn more about finfish aquaculture: an important local business which is sometimes misunderstood.
This public program is starting a few weeks later than usual this year as a result of heightened biosecurity measures temporarily in place by local companies. Tours resume on Thursday, July 26.
"We're glad to have this program back for the sixth year running: it really is the best way for people to learn, first hand, about salmon farming. Our farmers are happy to have visitors so they can share more about the work they're so proud to do," said Mary Ellen Walling, the association's executive director.
Tours depart from Discovery Launch Water Taxis in Campbell River at 9 a.m. and last about four hours. The boat ride takes visitors through the Seymour Narrows – offering beautiful scenery and the chance to see marine wildlife such as seals, otters and whales.
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A car salesman will exploit your ignorance, says RAC spokesman Rob Maynard. "Make sure you know the value of the car you want. Parker's Car Price Guide, available at newsagents, should give you an idea. You should also persuade the seller to take a realistic view of the car's condition, making a careful visual check and picking out any flaws."
Mr Maynard says it is worth impressing the salesman with your knowledge of consumer protection regulations, even if it means faking it. Mentioning the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, which covers misleadingly described goods, or the Sale of Goods Act 1979, which offers protection for customers who have bought poor quality goods, should do the trick.
You could strengthen your bargaining arm by getting an expert to run a sceptical eye over your chosen motor and pointing out its flaws. The RAC charges pounds 115 for this service, which is also offered by the AA and other motoring organisations.
Roy Staunton, manager of technical information at the AA, recommends trawling the local dealers to get quotes. "Many people rush into the first dealership and pay over the odds. It is far better to play one dealer off against another."
He says 0 per cent finance deals usually mean you are paying too much for the vehicle in the first place. You have to do some haggling. "Nobody pays the full retail price. If you can't get a 10 per cent discount you are doing something wrong. British people are used to paying the asking price but in the car market, forget it."
The days have long gone since you applied to your bank and were grateful to get a loan. Competition has put the consumer in charge. However, the unwary can come unstuck. One of the sneaky things banks do is to charge existing mortgage customers one interest rate, then quote new borrowers a lower one.
Mark Wilson, a jeweller in Newcastle upon Tyne, switched from Northern Rock when he faced exactly this problem. After three years on a discount rate he was tied to the bank's standard variable rate for another four years - 1.75 per cent higher than the standard rate from the bank's direct arm.
Northern Rock refused to give him the lower rate so he switched to Direct Line. Despite paying a redemption penalty of pounds 600 he quickly saved money, cutting his monthly payment from pounds 260 to pounds 195.
If you are thinking of re-mortgaging, arm yourself with a competitive quote from another lender, suggest to your bank or building society that you are about to take your business elsewhere, and ask whether it can match the other deal or offer something better. At this point you may be offered an unadvertised "under the counter" deal. Banks rely on our inertia to make money, and most customers never complain.
Alternatively, there is a mortgage version of the bucket shops, the FirstMortgage Group. It offers loans from high street banks and building societies at a lower rate than if you approached the lender yourself.
Chief executive Nick Deutsch says lenders use its service to increase the overall amount of money they are lending by offering competitive rate mortgages, but without cutting their profits by making these rates available to all customers.
One other point: if your mortgage lender will only give you its lowest rate if you take out its buildings or contents insurance, tell it to get stuffed. You will get as good a rate from another mortgage lender, and can find cheaper insurance elsewhere.
The truly tough customer can apply these principles to investments. If you arrange your unit trust and other investments through a financial adviser, you may be able to persuade him to share his commission with you. If this seems unlikely, mention the words discount broker and see what happens.
These handy little organisations can save you hundreds of pounds by rebating the commission paid when buying a product, so it goes into your pocket rather than your adviser's. Look out for their adverts in the press: they include PEP Direct, Chelsea Financial Services, The Discount Shop and the PEP Shop.
Paul Penny, managing director of Financial Discounts Direct, says he is currently rebating the full 5.5 per cent commission on the Perpetual PEP, a discount worth pounds 300 if you invest the maximum pounds 6,000 allowed.
Discount houses rebate commission on PEPs, unit trusts, with-profits bonds, life insurance policies and pensions from most of the major providers. They are what are known as execution-only services, so you need to decide which product you want to buy. However, all discounters offer excellent information packs and performance statistics to help you make a choice. (See "Hi-tech investor" on page 19 for information about finding discount brokers on the internet.) These firms make their money on the much lower renewal commission paid for every year you keep your investments.
If you are paying an adviser an hourly fee you should expect all commission to be paid to you, otherwise your adviser is being paid twice.
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It can also pay to take a hard line with the company that issues your credit card. Competition means many companies allow you to transfer your outstanding balance at a low rate of interest, for either a limited period(typically six months) or until the transferred balance is cleared.
So, for example, if you have a pounds 5,000 balance and are paying 21.9 per cent with Barclaycard, you could take your debt to Alliance & Leicester and pay a guaranteed 9.9 per cent on its MoneyBack card until your debt is cleared. You will also earn cash back every time you use the card.
Just the threat of switching usually persuades your current card issuer to scrap your annual fee, which may be all you want.
If more customers learned to be a bit bolshie we would all be rewarded with more open and honest financial services. So go on, don't be shy ...
Contacts: A&L MoneyBack card, 0500 838383; Chelsea Financial Services, 0171-351 6022; Financial Discounts Direct, 0500 498477; FirstMortgage Group, 0800 0800 88; The Discount Shop (Garrison), 0171-681 1654; PEP Direct, 0800 413186; The PEP Shop, 0115 9825105.
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Wedding of Jeanne d'Albret & Antoine de Bourbon
French Royal Anniversary -October 20th
Wedding of Jeanne d'Albret & Antoine de Bourbon 20 October 1548 at Moulins in the Bourbonnaise .Jeanne was the heiress to the kingdom of Navarre and Antoine was first Prince of the blood,he was next in line to the French Throne after the Valois Princes.This was possibly the last great feudal marriage in French history and their territorial lands united covered much of south Western France.The couple had two children a son who became Henri IV of France and a daughter,Catherine Duchess of Lorraine. Jeanne d'Albret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Antoine of Navarre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...512%29.svg.png |
From birth Jeanne was styled Madame la Princesse de Navarre.
From her marriage to Antoine de Bourbon she became Duchess of Vendôme,Duchess of Beaumont ,Countess of Marle,La Fère and Soissons . In 1555,following the death of her father Henri II of Navarre,Jeanne d'Albret was Queen of Navarre,Duchess of Albret,Countess of Limoges,Foix,Armagnac,Bigorre,Périgord,Viscountess of Bearn,Princess of Andora. |
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Jeanne d'Albret /Jeanne III,Queen of Navarre
Jeanne was born on November 16th,1528 the only surviving child of Henri II of Navarre and Marguerite of Angoulême (sister of Francois I of France).In 1555,Jeanne became Monarch of the French portion of Navarre,but she also held vast domains within the Kingdom of France. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...et-navarre.jpg |
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The Year in Memes
— Select All goes deep with the internet's own calendar
Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft
— stunning feat of engineering, albeit at one frame every three minutes
— artists reimagine the covers of their top 10 albums of the year
— like the power of Heroku with IFTTT's remixing
Hacker News bans political stories for a week
— "the epitome of privilege"
The Outline
— Joshua Topolsky's new site makes some pretty bold design choices
B.S. Detector
— browser add-on to denote unreliable news sources on Facebook
Late Night Work Club's STRANGERS
— lovely compilation of indie animators; don't miss Lovestreams at 21:08
Internet Archive to mirror Wayback archives in Canada
— "The history of libraries is one of loss."
Bird Sounds
— using machine learning to cluster and visualize audio
Reddit is tearing itself apart
— the Trump subreddit is slowly dominating the site through manipulation and inaction
Lois Lane on Facebook
— face recognition is Superman's other kryptonite
Slack client for the Commodore 64
— finally
— OpenType font that mingles charts with text
Seagulls! (Stop It Now)
— the sequel to Bushes of Love, both masterpieces
— your eyes are your wallet
Auralnauts' Attack of the Phantom Past
— fifth episode of their brilliant Star Wars remixes; worth it for the opening alone
OK Go's new music video was filmed in 4.2 seconds
— as usual, the behind-the-scenes is as interesting as the final product
Holiday Hole
— this feels like a metaphor for something, but I don't know what
A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide
— Vi Hart argues that age was the critical factor for the election
Owlchemy's Mixed Reality update is unreal
— dynamic lighting and transparency with proper depth
A Good Bundle
— absurdly great bundle of 151 indie games, 100% of proceeds to ACLU and Planned Parenthood
in/ex troversion
— short student animation visualizes the feeling of social exhaustion
Looking back at Homestuck, the "internet's first masterpiece"
— I first wrote about it five years ago this month
Bandcamp traces the subgenres of vaporwave
— the Bandcamp blog is killing it; see also: Orange Milk Records, Japanese chiptune, Sammus
Who Will Command The Robot Armies?
— yet another amazing talk/essay from Maciej Ceglowski
Everything Is Fucked (Keep On Going)
— a 60-second song from MetaFilter's Josh Millard
Full-color video player built in Factorio
— this is just astounding; how it works
Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar
— or just the HUD
Winter in America
— a road trip through Donald Trump's America in the days before the election
Quick, Draw!
— train Google's neural net with your crappy drawings
Washington Post interviews a fake news profiteer
— "satire," my ass
Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future
— Christina Xu on fake viral news in China
Jason Scott on porting VLC to the browser
— like the Emularity, a project with huge potential to make archived works more accessible
— adorably strange browser game about online profiling
— an interactive love story set in the multiverse, directed by Swiss Army Man's DANIELS
Death and MetaFilter
— Josh Millard on coping with death and loss in long-running, close-knit online communities
The Caretaker's "Everywhere at the end of time"
— the first in a six-album series about dementia and memory loss
Bandcamp interviews Vektroid
— absurdly talented musician, impossible to easily categorize, and always evolving
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey secretly funding Trump memes
— everything about this is gross; devs are cancelling their Oculus support
The Festival Floppies
— incredible treasure trove of odd and beautiful DOS shareware, emulated in the browser
Yahoo confirms pretty much every Yahoo Mail account ever exposed, two years ago
— at least 500 million accounts, the largest data breach ever
Sunlight Foundation winding down Sunlight Labs
— sad to see, they did so much great work
— Tilt Brush clone in the browser, with simple sharing and saving of drawings
— dudes arguing with a Twitter bot
The Last Epiphany
— Greg Knauss looks back on five years of XOXO
Reigns' creator on making the indie hit
— "the result of contingent decisions mixed with an indecent amount of luck"


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This is a treat best enjoyed from July to October, when one's pail of freshly picked wild blueberries runneth over. The wild blues that stud this fluffy cake greet the eye like so many sparkling jewels plucked from a maharajah's box. It's a lovely cake to bake in the glowing embers. Set it to cook as the main course is served and, as if by magic, it will be ready by meal's conclusion.
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No automaker has more to gain –and lose– in the early-adopter EV game than Renault-Nissan, and CEO Carlos Ghosn knows how the game is played. Nissan is investing $4b to rollout electric cars in the US, Japan and select Western European markets at the end of this year, but despite being committed, Ghosn insists that EVs aren't ready to stand on their own yet.He tells Automotive News [sub] that
These are mature markets where governments give incentives to consumers. Two years of government support are needed to jump-start these markets and then the products will grow on their own and take off
Nissan has already received $1.4b in retooling loans from the US government, and its Leaf EV will be eligible for $7,500 consumer tax credits for its first 200k sales, for another $1.5b in government support. Nissan also supports the so-called "Roadmap to Electrification" which could end up costing taxpayers as much as $124b more. Carlos is smart: asking for government assistance should always be phrased in terms of years, not dollar amounts… and at least he's willing to accept that EVs will eventually stand on their own. After all, GM is already pushing for extensions to consumer tax credits, arguing that its second generation of vehicles (which are at least three years out) will need continued support. If the government makes an open-ended commitment to supporting EVs at all costs, how will they ever mature into commercially viable products?


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Texas Traveler: Antiquing and Christmas Lights in Galveston
By the time you read this, Texas Traveler will be well on our way to deep West Texas for the first time, on a road trip that will culminate in Big Bend on New Year's Eve. We've been planning this trip for a while now, and because of that we've tended to stick close to home for the last few Texas Traveler trips.
Which is why we decided a day on the island would make the perfect getaway from the stress of the holidays here in the big city. The plan was this: hit up a couple of junk stores, eat some raw oysters, then head over to Moody Gardens to see the Festival of Lights and a few other exhibits currently hosted by the behemoth entertainment facility.
Can you believe Texas Traveler has never been to Moody Gardens?
Cold weather and a light sprinkle weren't enough to stop us from heading south (though we did make a pit stop at Baybrook Mall to try on some hiking boots). We got to Galveston just around 2 p.m. and headed to one of the few junk stores on the central part of the island that don't trade exclusively in faux Victorian shabby chic.
Texas Traveler loves our nice, quiet beach community -- we just don't get down there enough lately. Sadly, business on the island, at least businesses away from the Strand, are still struggling from the effects of Ike coupled with the lagging economy. Half the junk shops on our Google map were no longer open, though we did find a few gems. Collector's Gallery is a co-op with a lot of cool stuff, including hard-to-find vintage Christmas decorations, but prices that were kind of high. Nautical Antiques & Decor, though very specialized, also has a lot of cool stuff (enough oars to man a Viking ship, fish floats, tiki carvings, figureheads). Their new location just off the Strand, a much larger and less-cluttered warehouse than their old building near Broadway, still doesn't have electricity, but they're open anyway.
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We were also kicked out of two places that decided to close early, including the huge Salvation Army thrift shop on Broadway. Fine. You decide to close early, we'll decide to take our money elsewhere. But the owner of a nice little shop called Island Relics, around the corner from the Salvation Army, offered us maple candy and played Andrews Sisters records while we shopped.
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At Collector's Gallery we got a few recommendations for places to get raw oysters, and ended up at Fisherman's Wharf, probably not the best food (and certainly overpriced at $1 an oyster) but it allowed us to sit in the bar and sip St. Arnold's Elissas in the shadow of the beer's namesake tall ship. Texas Traveler often has an argument with our traveling companion about whether to eat at the bar in restaurants. We like to sit there for a few reasons -- if you're traveling, it's a good way to socialize with locals, and in general, service is better at the bar since your server is a captive audience.
That's how we found out about the Festival of Lights in Dickinson. Our bartender told us her sister, also an islander, had been to Dickinson and came back reporting the small town's Christmas lights festival was much better than Moody Gardens'.
"They even give you glasses that, when you look at the lights, make the lights look like the shapes of snowmen. And it's free!"
The f-word was all Texas Traveler needed to hear. Entrance to Moody Gardens is, after all, a whopping $35.95. Plus, Dickinson was on the way home, so why not give the underdog a shot?
We [paid our tab, our server conferred with her boss to get us directions, and soon we were shooting back up 45 on our way to FM 517. And then the rain started. And it was raining hard. The Dickinson Festival of Lights is a walking tour, but we were resigned to checking it out anyway. What's a little rain.
Turns out the City of Dickinson doesn't feel the same. We found the park easily, right around the corner from the 517 exit, but were shooed away by cops who told us the exhibit was closing early. Three hours early.
One can't argue with getting kicked out of three different places in one day because the workers want to go home early. So Texas Traveler went home early too. Luckily, it's still possible to extend that holiday feeling, all the way through next weekend, because both Moody Gardens' and Dickenson's festivals of lights are open through Saturday. Moody Gardens is open until 10 p.m. Dickinson's festival is open until 9:30 p.m., pending weather, apparently.
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SUMMARY: This lab is designed to provide students with a laboratory experience with sea urchins in which they will fertilize gametes and observe early developmental stages. In this investigation we will: 1. Induce spawning of gametes by injecting potassium chloride solution. |
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Studies of sea urchins provide information on fertilization and development that apply to all organisms from jellies to humans. These eggs, then, provide a model embryo for understanding development in all forms. It is important to observe early embryonic development because it is during this time that the patterns of development of the organism originate.
Sea urchin gametes are the same size as human gametes and development is very similar through the gastrula stage. Both sea urchins and humans are deuterostomes, meaning that patterns of cleavage are radial and the mouth arises at a site distant from the site of gastrulation. The name deuterostomes means second mouth. In contrast protostomes follow a spiral cleavage pattern and the mouth forms near the blastopore, the origin of gastrulation. See Classification tree. Notice the relationship between humans and sea urchins.
For a visual overview of events in this lab see PATH OF DEVELOPMENT
IMPORTANT - to maximize observations the first day, cultures of embryos should be started 1 1/2 and 3 hours before the class period. This will allow viewing of early cleavage stages. If you are teaching multiple periods remember to start cultures each period for subsequent periods to observe. See DETAILED timing and check-off list
To insure that there is at least one male and one female sea urchin it is best to have approximately 10 sea urchins on hand. (If sea urchins are being shared with multiple classes then save eggs and sperm and inject only one sea urchin for demonstration purposes.)
Inject 0.5 M potassium chloride into the sea urchin.
WARNING - ONLY TEACHERS should handle the syringe with the potassium chloride. Potassium chloride itself is not particularly hazardous, being the main ingredient in substitute salt formulations, but injection into a vein or artery can cause an electrical imbalance in the heart or in the brain resulting in death. |
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Note how the needle goes over the top of the teeth to inject KCl into the body cavity and not into the mouth.. Side View /\ and Top View \/ |
Males: see animation. sperm are a milky white color
Females: see animation eggs are pale yellow to orange to dark maroon, depending on species.
Appropriate sperm dilution is essential for successful fertilization. Too low a sperm concentration results in fewer eggs being fertilized (safer than too high). Too high a sperm concentration will result in polyspermy (more than one sperm per egg) and abnormal development of the embryo. There are a number of built in mechanisms to help prevent polyspermy, but they are not full proof and at very high sperm concentrations they can be overwhelmed.
see animations Just right sperm, Too many sperm, Too few sperm
Sperm Dilution:
A sperm dilution series is a useful way of showing just how few sperm are needed to fertilize eggs. For comparison purposes, it is important to use the same sperm concentration for each fertilization. Use a pasteur pipet to make the initial dilution . Mark a line part way up the narrow end of the pipet. see illustration below
Always use this quantity of sperm as the starting point for dilutions. Add "one notch" of sperm (2mm?) to 100ml of sea water (adjust this volume up or down if necessary to get proper fertilization levels without polyspermy). This is referred to as the STOCK SPERM SUSPENSION. A single drop of this suspension will be enough to fertilize 5 ml of a dilute egg suspension (1-2%). A single drop can be used to demo fertilization under a microscope. Although this is too many sperm for proper development, the embryos are unlikely to develop under a microscope for a variety of reasons (heat from lamp will make them too warm, the slide will dry out, etc.). This does, however, allow the student to witness, first hand, the raising of the fertilization membrane.
Eggs can be re-concentrated to allow for easier viewing by letting them settle in a beaker or test tube and pouring off the excess seawater.
To fertilize:
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Keep dilute cultures of embryos, at less than 1% concentration, in sea water no more than 1 cm deep or in slowly stirring cultures.
This is different for each species and is HIGHLY temperature dependent (at warmer temperatures under a microscope, division is faster). examples:
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2 nd division |
blastula |
gastrula |
pluteus |
L. pictus |
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2 days |
5 days |
S. purp |
120' |
3 hrs |
24 hrs |
2 days |
5 days |
What you usually have to do is set cultures up at different times.
See STORAGE for suggestions on how to store gametes for long periods of time.
See DETAILS for timing suggestions on how to set up cultures.
This lesson is often done when mitosis and meiosis are discussed. Students will definitely be able to observe the first division, if they are present when it occurs, but may not see "centering", "streak" and "metaphase".
Students should keep careful records of when each of the recognizable development steps occurs. Detailed drawings are very helpful. If you are lucky enough to have two species or two different temperature environments, students can compare stages and rates of development.
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I saw that you just posted a murphy-type bed, and I've been considering one, as I forsee a much smaller apartment in my near future. Could you do a rundown on how people with small places might do beds?
I'm very intrigued by the Inova WallBed that I saw at www.spacesandiego.com Its freestanding and doesn't need to be installed, so it looks like it could work for Renters (like me). Do you have any experience with it? Could it possibly be comfy?
Thanks for your help! Victor
While it is not our style to use a folding bed and we would rather turn a bed into a living area when necessary (by building the bed platform right out to the walls - see below), rather than put a large object up the wall, some apartments have high ceilings and are good for this, and some people just like the floor space.
We have a client who installed a Murphy Bed last week and it works great for her. She bought only the mechanism for $700 (installed) and they simply screwed it into the floor of her room.
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No heart-shredding Bollywood melodrama ever had a final reel as operatically satisfying as Sunday night's 2 1/2 hour Lost finale. The storyline wove the show's two parallel realities together and reconciled them, so that all the major characters, even the ones we'd watched die, swam past their amnesia to end up with the lives and partners they were always supposed to have. It was a full course banquet of laughing-through-tears reunions, with amber-hued flashbacks representing the rush of recovered memories.
The A.R. Rahman of this magnificent wallow was Oscar-winning Pixar-favorite Michael Giacchino, the adaptable crowd pleaser who scored Ratatouille, Up and The Incredibles. He supplied motifs that helped stitch the tightly-knit script together and, even more importantly, he seems finally to have unleashed his inner opera composer. (He conducted an orchestral suite based on the Lost score last week at Royce Hall. And, via Tulk, here's The New Yorker's Alex Ross.)
The episode was probably the most overt and detailed Catholic allegory ever on American network television. (After some Latin is mumbled over a cup: "Drink this. Now you are like me." Of a church: "This is the place you built so that you could find each other.") But it was the arias in Michael Giacchino's music drama that people choked-up over and will remember.
My favorite among the reunions marked the re-birth, both literally and figuratively, of the character who in Season 3 volunteered for the show's single most devestating self-sacrificing death scene -- which is saying a lot when you're talking about Lost. Dominic Monaghan's Charlie Pace was the washed up pop star and recovering heroin addict who wrote his will as a set of song lyrics...
CARLTON CUSE: ...people talk a lot about the mythology of "Lost," but we probably spent 85 percent of our time in the writers' room talking about the characters. I think that's why the show was a broad audience show as opposed to a genre show. While the mythology was important, first and foremost the show was about the characters. I think that a lot of people care much more about what's going to happen to Kate. Is she going to end up with Jack, is she going to end up with Sawyer? That's why we feel like a lot of shows that have tried to imitate "Lost" make the fundamental mistake of having the characters just focus on the mythology. If you watch certain shows like that, you'll see all the characters are talking about is, "What's that dinosaur doing in my bathtub?"
KEN TUCKER: If there was any big surprise last night, it was how overtly Christian in its imagery and message the series proved to be. Its heavily underscored lesson was that everyone was forgiven — that word was used over and over. And the water at the Magic Glowing Source was used for the purposes of transubstantiation: "Drink this," Jack was told upon being handed water, a phrase later repeated when Jack gave water to Hugo. Given the liquid's effect particularly on Jack, the dialogue might just as well have quoted directly from a Communion service: "Drink this, for this is my blood which is given unto you. Do this, in remembrance of me."
For if there was one thing we can probably all agree upon, in the end, Jack Shephard was a Christ figure whose sacrifice saved many other people. The imagery could not have been more specific: Jack's questioning and obeying of his father; his leadership of a small group of disciples; his final ascension (in TV terms, in a glowing white light). Even the piercing of his side by Locke/Man In Black was in the part of his body where Christ was speared while in agony on the crucifying cross.
But for most of its long but rarely boring length, the final Lost did not huff and puff and labor toward a heavy metaphorical conclusion. Instead, it was, well, pretty delightful, full of reunions that were both emotional and funny (how about that re-meet-cute between Sawyer and Juliet at the vending machine?). There were sweet little jokes, such as when, 90 minutes into a two-and-a-half-hour show, someone said, "It sure don't feel like it's over." I don't know how it'll play with hardcore Losties, but I was glad to see a fan favorite such as Hurley not only avoid great suffering, but become the most important assistant in Jack's glorification. Hurley was always the most lovable character in Lost, and it turned out that if he represented anything, it was Love itself.
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- Tulkinghorn said...
This clip is also interesting:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/alexross/2010/05/the-music-of-lost.html - May 25, 2010 at 7:13 AM
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Very cool. Added to the post.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The Ivey - Selkirk Modernism Auction Preview Part 2 - Previewier! Status: Gettin' The Itch To Go Yet?
I was just perusing the auction catalog and realized, what a coincidence...I'm breaking my blog post into three parts and the sale is broken into three parts! Most of what I'm interested in seeing sell is in the first session on Saturday starting at 11am. A lot of the art is going on the second session starting on Sunday at 11am. with the rest of the art selling on Monday at 11am. By the way, are these bad boys sexy as all h*ll or what?
Don't they kinda remind you of a pair of Hans Wegner folding rope chairs but all tarted up in
a black cocktail dress and ridiculously high heels? It'd be sweet to load these up and bring
them back here to the joint next Saturday but I'm certainly not going to hold my breath.
I'm also kinda smitten with this Brown Saltman coffee table. I think it would look great joining
the two sections of the blue sofa sectional I just got last week! The Raymond Loewy china set
looks pretty sweet too even though it's kinda plain. Lots of people prefer the subtleties of
undecorated china like this. I myself like my china kinda loud and out there!
I'd certainly prefer the "chicklet" Herman Miller chairs in a solid color but surely these will
make some lucky buyer super happy. Of course I'd love to snatch up the silver art deco
lucite base globe...but again, I'm not going to be surprised or upset if I come home empty
The yellow lounge chair and ottoman are dead ringers for George Mulhauser bits except for
those big armrests. I haven't ever seen one like it. I - S just have it list as a Plycraft Style
lounge chair and ottoman. I'd wager it is in fact a Plycraft as the legs look very similar to my
Plycraft lounge chair and ottoman. Need a coffee table that can double as a place for your
significant other to sit and explain why you cannot bring any more furniture home? How about
a nice slat danish style slat bench!
Two of my favorite pieces right here. I've always had a soft spot for the Eileen Gray side
table (c. 1927!) and wouldn't it look sweet supporting a refreshing cocktail next to your's truly
relaxing on that amazing Le Corbusier lounge chaise? Oh to dream. Sure, I could get some
reproductions and be happy as a clam. Matter of fact...I probably will some day! I ain't no
snob! Yeah, that "refreshing cocktail" will probably be a bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
This dining table with the red acrylic chairs kinda reminds me of an Isamu Nogutchi Cyclone
table but it also kinda smacks of Ikea. The tubular chrome table, labeled Lloyd's Loom
Products, is quite attractive. I've got a little thing for machine age furniture. I'd love to some
day do a whole "Kem Weber" style living room. I think a Le Corbusier lounge would look
great in a Kem Weber inspired environment!
Last but not least (at least for today...I still have one more post to publish on this!) is this well
worn Eames Storage Unit set. The smaller units are missing their doors and over all there are
plenty of condition issues to give potential buyers pause but c'mon...it's Awesome! It's the
REAL DEAL! I'd love to have a set like this. The rocker in front of the set is plastic. Again,
I don't have any issues with reproductions as long as the piece properly represents the original.
Of course I prefer an original in fiberglass! I wonder how much the Zebra rug will go for. That
would be a super score. Wish Mr. Modtomic some luck will ya?!
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I love that storage unit. Even with the condition issues it is pretty awesome. I'm not real fond of the reproduction plastic chairs though. I think they're a little cheap looking. I would love to be able to make a trip to go to this auction but I don't think that is likely. I'm too cheap to buy anything anyway so it's just as well!
ReplyDeleteDana - We did have a good time. There were a lot of absentee bids and phone buyers that won items.
Stacia - The yellow Plycraft style chair and ottoman sold for a paltry $150! If I'd wanted it for myself and not to resell I would have bid that up a bit as I think it was worth more than that.
V Hunter - I was a little surprised (and I think many of the other bidders were too) at how much the Eames storage unit went for. It was nice to see that there were buyers who recognized what it was and it's worth in attendance.
A Mod - It was an adventure getting our feet wet and I'll be less apprehensive next time...unless I include items to sell. then it'll be like watching your child walk to school by themselves for the first time!
Anonymous - It looked good but I never flipped it over to find out who actually made it. I did just recently see on AT that Vitra has acquired machinery to produce fiberglass shells so I think we will be seeing some (probably expensive) very nice serious reproductions from them soon! I'm down with that!


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10 Things About Life I'll Teach My Daughter
7. Life is cumulative.
Any and everything you do in life will always be in your file. You can't use excuses like, "I was young" or "It was college" and think that people will excuse your actions. They won't. In fact, they'll bring it up at the most inopportune times. For that very reason, I want you to always exercise good judgment in everything you do.
8. There's a big difference between independent and self-sufficient.
When you hear women talk about being "independent," ignore that crap. Men don't want independent women, women want independent women. Men want self-sufficient women. Men have to feel like their needed and wanted, when you're independent you push away others because you don't need them. Self-sufficient women need less but if they need to be relied on to do something, a man can trust that it will get done.
9. Learn to let stuff go.
I have this list of women called, "That's that ish I don't like." It's filled with women I can't stand, I may tolerate their presence a little, but I don't fancy it. The #1 leading cause of women who end up on this list is they don't know how to let things go. They carry baggage around for years, they hold grudges, they always "I'm gonna remember that", or they always bring up things from the past that really don't matter all that much anymore. Don't be one of those women, learn to let things go and move on with your life. It will make you happier and leave you holding onto a lot less stress.
10. Nobody cares about your story.
You're going to have this undying desire to always tell people reasons for your actions or why you are the way you are. No one is going to care about that. They are only focused on what you actually do, not why you do it. No one will accept an excuse for failure because of horrible circumstance. Use your circumstance as motivation, not a crutch.
Above all else, I've always told people that my plan is to be a great father. That was one of my goals in life that I had at an early age, I just wanted to be a great father. It didn't have anything to do with my father not always being around, because he was. It didn't have anything to do with wanting to represent for my race, because I don't feel any pressure or responsibility to do that. It actually came from a place of vanity. I just want creatures on this planet in the image of myself. With that said, I need to make sure that they are the coolest creatures on the planet because their dad will be the coolest dad on the planet.
Whoever you hate will end up in your family. You don't like gays? You're gonna have a gay son. You don't like Puerto Ricans? Your daughter's gonna come home with Livin' La Vida Loca!
With that said, I always hated the cool kids table at lunch.
– Dr. J
35. There's things that men can do, that you can't do because they probably shouldn't be doing it either.
4. I trust your judgment, but it is my duty as your father to not like any man you bring to this house until he's my son-in-law.
If you don't bring him to the house, I will find him. Don't make me go looking for him. I will always want to know, even if I'm not close to him, who is involved with matters of your heart.
There will be plenty of feminists who try and tell you that women and men can all do the same things, that's not true. Just because men sleep around and are rewarded does not mean you can do that too. It's not just sex, but it's any of those things on the long list of gender norms that make absolutely no sense. If a man's behavior detests you because you feel that there's a double standard at play, make sure you even agree with the actions before jumping at the opportunity to play copycat.
If it's not WorldStar, it's Youtube, or any other platform that allows you to post videos. If you make a video expect that it will find it's way to the Internet unless you are the only person who has a copy and you never ever lose your phone or allow someone use of your computer. The point is… if I find out you're on WorldStar, that's your ass.
With that said, I always hated the cool kids table at lunch.


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The first production plane was delivered in 1937 and by the outbreak of war, the Seafox was aboard a number of Her Majesty's cruisers. The Seafox participated as a gunnery observation in a number of early war sea battles. Probably the most famous was when a Seafox from the HMS Ajax spotted for British cruisers against the Graf Spee in the south Atlantic. The pilot of that plane was the first FAA officer to be decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross during that war. With the advent of more aircraft carriers, the need for the plane went away and the last Seafox left the service in 1943.
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The instructions are well done and like all Matchbox instructions of the time, have all painting instructions at the very end of the construction sequence. Decals are for two planes. One of them in overall aluminum (and that is paint as these were fabric covered aircraft) from Malta in 1939. The other is a camouflaged plane assigned to the HMS Asturais in 1942. Matchbox decals are generally good though a bit thick and matte.
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FORT STEWART, Ga. – The most important thing Lt. Col. Nathan Swartz said he learned from 15 months as a support operations officer was to never fall in love with a plan because the plan will change.
The commander of 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, shared that nugget of wisdom, July 27, at the start of a rehearsal of concept drill hosted by his battalion as the culminating event of a Support Operations Phase 2 course held at Fort Stewart, Ga.
The ROC Drill, developed by approximately 28 leaders from across the division, represented an initial concept of support plan designed for an upcoming "Vanguard" field training exercise.
Instead of conducting the ROC drill via the course's traditional route—through a computer presentation—Swartz said the students opted for constructing a massive sand table in the battalion motor pool. Each leader walked the model while they explained their area of support, whether it entailed maintenance, food or ammunition storage.
Maj. Alain Fisher, the 703rd BSB's support operations officer, said the intent of the Support Operations Phase 2 course is to professionally develop senior non-commissioned officers and junior officers in the multifunctional logistics and sustainment activities that regularly take place in battalion and higher-level units. He said the leaders met the course's objectives by developing the functional initial concept of support plan.
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Ost, Suzanne (2001) Blinking Subjects; Blinking Justice? – Law, Medicine and the PVS Patient. Liverpool Law Review, 23 (1). pp. 1-32. ISSN 1572-8625
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This paper argues that in medical discourse, there is insufficient unanimity of opinion with regards to the time at which an accurate diagnosis of PVS can be made and that clearly, there is an incomplete medical knowledge of the PVS condition. The judiciary chooses neither to question medical opinion that patients can be considered to be in PVS despite a failure to satisfy the diagnostic criteria, nor medical opinion that patients in 'near PVS' will never recover. It is apparent from an examination of the judgements given in PVS cases that the law does not ascribe such individuals with full human status. Such a legal position is particularly problematic in ethical terms when applied in cases involving patients who are in a 'near PVS' position, and in the light of evidence that some PVS diagnoses are inaccurate. The application of the best interests test in PVS cases results in the adoption of a paternalistic, objective approach that fails to respect the former competent individuals whom PVS patients once were. If, alternatively, the substituted judgement test were to be adopted, the principle of individual autonomy would become central to the question of whether PVS patients' treatment should be withdrawn. Furthermore, the application of this test would also ensure that PVS patients continue to be viewed as 'persons'.
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Journal or Publication Title: | Liverpool Law Review |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | best interests test ; human status ; individual autonomy ; PVS ; substituted judgement |
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Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Law School |
ID Code: | 25993 |
Deposited By: | Dr Suzanne Ost |
Deposited On: | 02 Mar 2009 14:19 |
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- Earn a Master of Social Work degree online from the top-ranked USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
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Gender Diversity Studies - PhD of Psychology
Northcentral University , Online
- Ranked among the Best Online Bachelor's Programs in 2014 by U.S. News & World Report.
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Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership - Digital Learning Track
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Phenoxodiol Combined With Either Cisplatin or Paclitaxel in Patients With Recurrent Ovarian Epithelial, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin and paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Phenoxodiol may help cisplatin and paclitaxel kill more tumor cells by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drugs.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase I/II trial is studying the side effects of phenoxodiol when given together with either cisplatin or paclitaxel and to see how well they work in treating patients with recurrent late-stage ovarian epithelial cancer, fallopian tube cancer, or primary peritoneal cancer that has not responded to treatment with drugs such as paclitaxel, docetaxel, cisplatin, or carboplatin.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Fallopian Tube Cancer Ovarian Cancer Primary Peritoneal Cavity Cancer |
Drug: cisplatin Drug: paclitaxel Drug: phenoxodiol |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Multi-Center, Phase Ib/IIa Safety and Preliminary Efficacy Study of Phenoxodiol (Intravenous) as a Chemo-Sensitizing Agent for Cisplatin and Paclitaxel in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer or Primary Peritoneal Cancer, Platinum- and/or Taxane-Refractory or Resistant |
- Safety and tolerability [ Time Frame: Average 6 mo ]
- Efficacy [ Time Frame: Average 6 months ]
- Surrogate marker of tumor response in terms of plasma protein tNOX [ Time Frame: Average 6 months ]
Enrollment: | 65 |
Study Start Date: | August 2004 |
Study Completion Date: | March 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Arm A
Phenoxodiol IV 3 mg/kg combined with cisplatin 40 mg/m2 on Day 2 6 week cycles
Drug: cisplatin
IV 40 mg/m2 on Day 2 Number of Cycles: until progression or unacceptable toxicity or other withdrawal criteria are met.
Drug: phenoxodiol
IV 3 mg/kg
Experimental: Arm B
Phenoxodiol IV 3 mg/kg combined with paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 on Day 2 6 week cycles
Drug: paclitaxel
IV 80 mg/m2 on Day 2 Number of Cycles: until progression or unacceptable toxicity or other withdrawal criteria are met.
Drug: phenoxodiol
IV 3 mg/kg
Detailed Description:
- Compare the safety and tolerability of phenoxodiol combined with cisplatin or paclitaxel in patients with recurrent late-stage ovarian epithelial, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer that is refractory or resistant to platinum and/or taxane drugs.
- Compare, preliminarily, tumor response in patients treated with these regimens.
OUTLINE: This is an open-label, randomized, multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms according to medical history.
- Arm I: Patients receive phenoxodiol IV over 10 minutes on days 1 and 2 and cisplatin IV over 1 hour on day 2.
- Arm II: Patients receive phenoxodiol as in arm I and paclitaxel IV over 1 hour on day 2.
In both arms, treatment repeats every 6 weeks for up to 8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Quality of life is assessed at 12, 24, 36, and 48 weeks or at the end of study participation.
Patients are followed at 6 and 12 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients (20 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Histologically confirmed ovarian epithelial, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer
- Recurrent disease
Received no more than 4 prior chemotherapy regimens for this malignancy
Considered refractory or resistant to prior taxane (paclitaxel or docetaxel) and/or platinum (cisplatin or carboplatin) therapy based on 1 of the following criteria:
- Treatment-free interval < 6 months after platinum or paclitaxel
- Disease progression during platinum- or paclitaxel-based therapy
Measurable or evaluable disease
- Measurable disease is defined as at least 1 unidimensionally measurable lesion ≥ 20 mm by conventional techniques OR ≥ 10 mm by spiral CT scan
- Evaluable disease is defined as doubling of CA 125 blood levels within the past 6 months AND CA 125 level ≥ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN) within the past week
No active CNS metastases
- Patients with known CNS metastases must have received prior radiotherapy or CNS-directed chemotherapy AND have ≥ 4 weeks of stable disease
- Over 18
Performance status
- Karnofsky 60-100%
Life expectancy
- At least 3 months
- Neutrophil count > 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count > 100,000/mm^3
- WBC > 3,000/mm^3
- Hematocrit ≥ 28% (transfusion or growth factors allowed)
- Hemoglobin > 8.0 g/dL (transfusion or growth factors allowed)
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- SGOT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No active infection requiring antibiotics
- No neuropathy (sensory or motor) > grade 1
Biologic therapy
- No concurrent immunotherapy
- See Disease Characteristics
- No other concurrent chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy
- No concurrent hormonal therapy for the malignancy
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior whole abdominal radiotherapy
- Concurrent localized radiotherapy allowed for control of local complications not indicative of general disease progression
- Not specified
- Recovered from prior antineoplastic therapy
- More than 4 weeks since prior standard therapy for malignant tumor
- More than 6 months since prior investigational anticancer drugs
- No other concurrent investigational drugs
- No concurrent drugs significantly metabolized by the cytochrome P450 enzymes CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP3A4/B1C
- No concurrent amifostine or other protective agents
- No concurrent grapefruit juice
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00091377
United States, Connecticut | |
Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center at Yale University School of Medicine | |
New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520-8028 | |
Australia, Victoria | |
Royal Women's Hospital | |
Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 3053 |
Study Chair: | Warren Lancaster | Novogen Ltd |
Responsible Party: | MEI Pharma, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00091377 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | September 7, 2004 |
Last Updated: | July 13, 2016 |
Keywords provided by MEI Pharma, Inc.:
recurrent ovarian epithelial cancer fallopian tube cancer primary peritoneal cavity cancer |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms Fallopian Tube Neoplasms Peritoneal Neoplasms Endocrine Gland Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Ovarian Diseases Adnexal Diseases Genital Diseases, Female Genital Neoplasms, Female Urogenital Neoplasms Endocrine System Diseases Gonadal Disorders Fallopian Tube Diseases |
Abdominal Neoplasms Digestive System Neoplasms Digestive System Diseases Peritoneal Diseases Paclitaxel Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel Cisplatin Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic Antineoplastic Agents Tubulin Modulators Antimitotic Agents Mitosis Modulators Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 24, 2017


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Obama wrote: "cruelty must be confronted for the sake of justice and human dignity." Obama calls people who protest at abortion clinics - where 3,000 unborn babies are killed every day in the U.S. - domestic terrorists. Obama voted against providing medical care for a baby who survives the abortion procedure. He supported partial-birth abortion. He has former directors of abortion organizations all through his administration. Obama has blood on his hands.
oh geez-shut up
The President is right on Syria. The Assad government is nothing but a military dictatorship of the most violent kind. As to taking this as an opportunity to beat your anti-choice drum, you anti-choice folks have quite a bit of blood on your hands: physicians, nurses, receptionists, volunteers. Why don't you stop trying to run other people's lives, and focus on running your own? If you don't like abortion, don't have one. If you don't like contraception, don't use it. Leave the rest of us alone, hate-filled "Christian" busy bodies, self-appointed spokesmen for God. People like you are a danger to freedom everywhere.
And you have been speaking to God lately? Wow you must be something really special!
OK. We understand that you hate Obama. Probably a racial thing. Now please stay on topic!!!
So let me get this right....Obama participates in the invasion of Libya (oh yeah, those were OUR ammunitition, don't kid yourself), but is really, really, really made about how those bad Syrians are treating the peasants. Puhleeeeeze. Every country knows that Obama is a spineless worm. First thing he does when he got elected is to go around and apologize FOR America. He needs to apologize TO America for his 3+ yrs in office. This is what you get when you elect a community organizer with 142 days in the Senate (yeah, that's ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO DAYS!). And here's the question of the day....have you noticed how Michelle has NEVER accompanied him on any trips to Muslim countries????? (Hint: Sharia law doesn't permit it. Look into it).
I don't care for Obama, but if he's p issing off the fundamentalist Baptist whacko contingent then he's doing the right thing.
Well said Benjamin. You won't get anything but abuse from people who have no respect for human life.
Obama stated on WORLD TV that he encouraged and praised the people of TEN Middle East countries to overthrow their leaders, simultaneously, in the so-called arab spring. How did he THINK it was going to pan out putting unarmed civilians against armed, professional armies???????? HE'S the community otganizer, he SHOULD have been able to work it out???
It is NOT racist to accuse an ignorant politiician of irresponsible and downright stupid behaviour. And BTW if you are a card carrying, responsible adult, you DON'T confuse racism with legitimate comment! You LIBERAL Obama groupies blame anything with a pulse for HIS lack of ability.
God, if He exists, doesnt care what happens here
Obama.. Simply go in and take care of business.... quickly... Its fine... Americans want a dust off with Russia and China anyway.... we Also want to nuke Iran and North Korea anyway... lets just get it over with... and if we are alive... afterwards... we will aim toward world peace.. with less dictatorships and regimes in place.. if we all die... well... then the world will see what we fought against all our lives and eventually revolt against it anyway......
So I gather you are speaking for your self from your rants.
So You fancy a "dust off" with China AND Russia, do you???? Well good luck with that!
Do you REALISE how much and how completely Russia have upgraded their weaponry over the last decade???????? No, thought not.
Are you one of the armchair warriors so prevalent in America? You fight a war during commercial breaks on TV but wet your pants when you get an 'orange alert' for a POSSIBLE terrorist attack????????
The Path for Democracy is NEVER an easy one. Try to recall any country that came from complete dictatorship to democracy. The transition takes Time and effort but it surely better then the previous status-quo.
This Rice diplomatic agent is a bit overwrought, perhaps she should have waited until the next moon phase to grant this interview. Regardless of the issue, I want out of this clique. Cut the Drama. The fact that the USA has a diplomatic representative making interviews about their personal feelings, speaks volumes, but I personally do not want to hear it. Can that.
It is unsurprising that the Soviets and the Chinese do not want to cede their strategic interests in the region... Bush supported Musharraf, it's only expected.
Really dumb post
Getting a little sick of the unusual amount of time spent on the Republican candidates. How about focusing on some important news like what's happening in Iran, and its implications for the West ??
In my opinion you right, here are great many other both domestic and foreign that to addressed
We tough the world how to take care of subversives. They are doing what we tough the dictators to do.... If we in America try anything crazy like them protesters in Syria our military and police would be having a turkey shoot!
A reason why Russia and China vetoed it is because they don't want to eat their words if/when they do their own bloody crackdown.
Another is that they want the US to continue spending money on conventional wars. Hence the US retooled military strategy of reliance on commandos and other special ops.
Bob – Russia and China have been enslaving, killing and torturing their OWN people for decades. They don't CARE what America thinks about them because you know – and I know that no – one as weak as Obama is going to get on world TV and encourage THEIR people to rise up in a Russian / Chinese Spring.
I think their veto is a flexing of ther collective muscles, and a pointer to their ascendancy into the superstate bracket. And Mr Obama is NO match for them, even if he had a backbone.
China and Russia believe that they are seeing their own futures taking place in Syria. Their vetoes were cast out of fear.
A point worth assessing
So what bout the 500,000 + Iraqi children that died as a result of our sanctions during the 90's?
How many civilians including women and children were killed or displaced during Occupation Iraq?
I think it's time we shut our mouths and stay out of people's business. Our country is falling apart and we just keep worrying about other nation's problems. If our intervention had a history of success that's one thing, but most conflicts we get involved in backfire on us and costs way too much money.
Yet the establishment pushes the propaganda and America soaks up the rhetoric.
I agree.
Well seeing as the majority were killed by Saddam anyhow, what's your point? The internet is a powerful tool. Try using it on a sight not agreeing with YOUR propoganda.
That was for the sanctions point, the majority of civilians killed in post invasion Iraq were the result of Sectarian/Religious violence. Not saying the US didn't kill civilians, they did. Just don't hurl numbers blanket...specify. Saddam killed between 100 and 200 thousand Kurds and Shiites in April 1991. Those numbers are inculded in your estimate of total deaths from 'sanctions'. Partial truths are fun.
Groan – are you really so naive that the blanket bombing we ALL witnessed on world TV sorted out civilians from terrorists and only killed the BAD guys???????? See, TV is not much use if you can't understand waht you're watching!!!!!
And BTW how many of your own and OURS [uk troops] did you kill by "friendly fire???" Just curious,
Doesn't really matter. This "Path To Persia" has been planned since Bush, there were memos about it in the W.H. Also, Obama failed to appear in court in Georgia about his birth certificate. There's about 5 other states suing him as well. Obama is very VERY close to not being allowed on the Georgia Ballot.
When a "hick judge" obviously backed and controlled by the GOP demands that Obama personally appear in his court in Georgia you have to invoke "Executive Privilege" as his predecessor George W Bush invoked so many time before to more severe charges (crimes) than this idiot is trying to accomplish.
@anon: that is totally riculous, no way should he
even acknowledge these idiotic law suits.
And what does this have to do with this article?
really,what a nutcase.
rick – "....a hick judge backed by the GOP.........." I'm English and I love America but I watched you Democrats run the nastiest, personally damaging campaign against the GOP runners and you LOVE it because, of course if YOU do it that's legitimate.
BUT if someone tries to make Obama accountable in any way, shape or form – out come the em whiners slobbering into their lattes crying "FOUL" Are you clowns for real????
If you vote in your HERO again all you need to do is move the White House to Beijing! And you'd do THAT if HE conned you into it. Streuth – are you old enough to vote?
The US has no business talking about human rights. Our court system is a sham and a scam.
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While my heart goes out to anyone afflicted with cancer, I can't help but cringe at this ad. The Pink Ribbon crap seems to have duped the public, even other segments of the cancer community, into believing those with breast cancer don't suffer or die like those with other cancers. There's also the misconception that the funds generated by the Royal Pinkness have actually made a difference in breast cancer survival rates or funding of cancer treatment, not just routine mammograms. I hate all cancers, but I so wish there was no such thing as "cancer envy." The grass is not greener on the other side. It's not even pink.
"duped the public', well said.
Pink has fooled everyone.
Brilliant. Yes, pink washing has certainly "duped the public." So well-said. I wrote a post about this ad, too:http://bethgainer.com/my-cancer-is-worse-than-yours/
dear Eileen,
the ramifications of the PCA ad are sobering, especially concerning the backlash towards pink washing. i wonder how Komen is reacting? i wonder if it will be sobering to them. my guess is not so much – probably business as usual, just flying below the radar until all the hoopla blows over. so sad…seems like a timely opportunity to face the truth about how they portray BC, or don't, when it comes to metastatic BC.
much love and light,
Karen xoxo
I think your point about the duping is a very important one. There's a lot to cringe about in this whole mess. Like I said before, the whole thing just makes me sad.
Eileen, I think you are probably right. make me nauseous, but then again, it fit's right into their agenda.


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Ian's Pizza in Wrigleyville has added a pizza inspired by WWE superstar and Chicago-area native CM Punk to its menu for a limited time.
The G.T.S pizza — named after Punk's finishing move, which stands for "Go To Sleep" — features smoked turkey leg, sliced potatoes, swiss cheese and French fried onions on a creme fraiche base.
Why smoked turkey leg?
"The G.T.S. is his signature move," said Ian's managing partner Dimitri Syrkin-Nikolau by email, "so a meat that puts you to sleep is the perfect choice."
The pizza will be available Monday through Sunday and was created for SugarSlam 2011, the wrestling-themed baking contest hosted by bakeanddestroy.com (you can watch Ian's video on the G.T.S. pizza by clicking here). The judge panel for the contest features WWE Diva Beth Phoenix, Moto executive pastry chef Ben Roche and author Mike Edison.
Celebrity website, TMZ released a video capturing an incident over this past weekend at a WWE house show in Australia. The comments have stirred up some controversy. CM Punk took to his twitter to apologize for his comments, read below.
I'm glad TMZ posted that video because everybody needs to be held accountable for their bullshit, me included. What I said was bullshit. I'm embarrassed. I own up to being a total douche in this situation and I offer a sincere apology to anybody I hurt with careless words.
Mike Mooneyham of Post & Courier published this interview with Colt Cabana which of course mentions Punk & his reference to Cabana on Raw last week:
WWE officials may not have been all that familiar with Colt Cabana when he worked briefly for the company a couple of years ago.
It's safe to say they are now.
Cabana was mentioned at the conclusion of last week's Raw during a C.M. Punk promo that shocked the wrestling world and created a stir on Twitter.
But Cabana, longtime best friend of Punk, wasn't surprised.
"He's worn my shirt before doing commentary," says Cabana, referring to a Raw broadcast last November when Punk sported a Cabana shirt displaying the Star of David symbol, paying homage to Cabana's Jewish heritage. "He doesn't care anymore, and he's looking out for his buddies."
"Vince McMahon is going to make money despite himself. He's a millionaire who should be a billionaire," said a defiant Punk. "You know why he's not a billionaire? Because he surrounds himself with glad-handed, nonsensical yes men like (talent chief) John Laurinaitis, who's going to tell him everything he wants to hear."
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The Chicago Tribune has an interview with John Cena talking about being excited about his match with CM Punk at Money in the Bank, even though he is suspended. They mention that they originally requested Punk for an interview, but WWE decided it would be best if they spoke to another superstar, which turned out to be Cena.
Sean "X-Pac" Waltman has a new blog posted on his official site, RealXPac.com & mentioned Punk:
"While I was still living in Mexico I stopped by Palacio de los Deportes where WWE was putting on a live event. The main event was Punk(as WWE Champ) vs Undertaker. I know from experience how hard it is for a guy our size to work with Taker or Kane. Well Punk and Taker had a hell of a match & I was extremely impressed that he had the ability to pull that off. I talked to William Regal about him that night & he told me Punk actually paid for & took a seminar put on by Regal, even after Punk had already made somewhat of a name for himself. That alone speaks volumes about the guy."


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Toolstop's Highlights of 2010 - Part 3 - Metabo BS18 LTX
Posted by Mark Hunter - December 10, 2010
A more recent video highlight of 2010 this time, and one we're still buzzing in the Toolstop hub. Paul from Metabo dropped off a big bag of cordless Metabo power tools and the Metabo BS18 LTX was one we were dying to get our hands on for a while.
We've already raved about the unheard of 3 year warranty, so we'll just leave you with the thought that Metabo are nothing other than a manufacturer of professional, high-end power tools and were most certainly one of our 2010 highlights with this PowerExtreme drill/driver.


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On the Saturday following Jonathan's birthday, we went to the banks of the Ohio River and boarded this helicopter to fly over Cincinnati. It was a short ride, but the view was spectacular! We were the first passengers of the day so we watched the copter fly in and land on the helipad. I thought Jonathan might be a little nervous, but he was just excited!
We talked to each other through headphones during the ride, Jonathan thought that was cool.
We flew over Great American Ballpark, home of the Cincinnati Reds, and Paul Brown Stadium, home of the Cincinnati Bengals. What little boy wouldn't love that? We also enjoyed views of the city and the river, and also the Newport, Ky. area.
Jonathan said it was the best gift ever, and wanted to know when we could do it again. Much better than another toy! I agree. It was a wonderful experience to share with him.


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The HD war over real estate in your living room just hit a new milestone with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's recent claim of just how successful the European launch of the PS3 was. Citing a 1000% increase in Blu-ray movie sales since the European launch of the PS3 in March, the boys (and girls) in the Sony camp are certainly smiling. Sony Pictures also mentioned sales of their movies account for 50% of all Blu-ray movies sold in Europe, thanks in large part to the permeation of their strongest release to date, Casino Royale.
Other top-selling HD discs include The Departed, which previously enjoyed the top-selling Blu-ray movie slot prior to Casino Royale's runaway truck-like sales growth, and the fantastic BBC documentary Planet Earth. Both highly recommended, no matter what side of the HD fence you happen to fall on.


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Chapter XXII
Making the Movies by Ernest A. Dench New York, The Macmillan company, published 1915 (now in the Public Domain)
pp. 92-94
It is only within the last two or three years that genuine Redskins have been employed in pictures. Before then these parts were taken by white actors made up for the occasion. But this method was not realistic enough to satisfy the progressive spirit of the producer.
The Red Indians who have been fortunate enough to secure permanent engagements with the several Western film companies are paid a salary that keeps them well provided with tobacco and their worshipped "fire-water."
It might be thought that this would civilise them completely, but it has had quite a reverse effect, for the work affords them an opportunity to live their savage days over again, and they are not slow to take advantage of it.
They put their heart and soul in the work, especially in battles with the whites, and it is necessary to have armed guards watch over their movements for the least sign of treachery. They naturally object to acting in pictures where they are defeated, and it requires a good deal of coaxing to induce them to take on such objectionable parts.
Once a white player was seriously wounded when the Indians indulged in a bit too much realism with their clubs and tomahawks. After this activity they had their weapons padded in order to prevent further injurious use of them.
With all the precautions that are taken, the Redskins occasionally manage to smuggle real bullets into action; but happily, they have always been detected in the nick of time, though on one occasion some cowboys had a narrow escape during the producing of a Bison film.
Even to-day a few white players specialise in Indian parts. They are pastmasters in such roles, for they have made a complete study of Indian life, and by clever make-up they are hard to tell from real redskins. They take leading parts for which Indians are seldom adaptable.
To act as an Indian is the easiest thing possible, for the Redskin is practically motionless.
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