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BRIDGEPORT -- In the photo, taken sometime in 1949 inside the old State Armory on Main Street, Mickey Homa is on one knee in the front row, alongside friend and teammate Tommy Tolan and other members of the Bridgeport Aerosols.
There is a large white bandage over his left eye, a sign of just how tough a player Homa was back in the day. The gash could have come in a game. Heck, it could have come in practice. Basketball just after World War II was always tough, always physical, especially in Bridgeport.
The National Basketball Association was just beginning and the old American Basketball League, in which the Newfields and Aerosols played, was winding down, but the memories of those days will live forever.
Especially those of "Hooks" Homa, who was born in Fairfield.
You can probably guess how he got the nickname "Hooks," but if not, here's a comment in a 1947 Newfields program that states: "Mickey Homa, six-foot forward, was able to hit the double figures consistently and failed to miss a game after joining the Newfields. Mickey is a crowd pleaser with his fancy hook shots."
For six seasons, from 1947 to 1952, Homa hooked his way to Bridgeport immortality. If it wasn't basketball, it was golf, where he started as a caddymaster at Brooklawn Country Club in 1948 and eventually became the club pro at Rolling Hills Country Club in Wilton in 1961 and later at Smith Richardson from 1972 to 1995.
On Wednesday, at age 90, "Hooks" Homa passed away at his home.
Oh, the stories he could have told.
"He was such a humble man ... he was a legend. There's no other way to describe him," said Ralph Butera, 73, who first met Homa when Butera became tournament director at Smith Richardson in 1976. "Let me just say this, he was the all-time pro. He was always service-oriented to the public. There wasn't a bad bone in his body and he was always there for the kids and the members at Smith Richardson."
A story that Butera tells is one day when he went into the pro shop, there were no putters on display. None. When Butera asked Homa where all the putters had gone, Homa replied, "I gave them all out for people to use."
"He always went out of his way to help people," Butera said of Homa, who also served in the U.S. Marine Corps. "He'd do anything you wanted him to do."
The Newfields and Aerosols would annually compete in -- and usually win -- such tournaments as the City Open championship, the Semi-Pro Gold Medal tournament and the National Invitation Professional Tournament. They played against such teams as the New York Renaissance, the Harlem Yankees, the Syracuse Nationals, the Toledo Jeeps, the Rochester Royals, the Original Celtics and the New York Knickerbockers.
In all, Homa played six seasons of professional basketball in Bridgeport, starting in 1946 with the Springwoods of the old Eastern League before joining the Newfield Steelers in the American League the following season. That year, the Bridgeport boys went 37-13 and played in Chicago Stadium against the New York Rens in the National Professional Tournament. The Newfields lost 67-51.
In 1948-49, Homa averaged 17.6 points a game as the Newfields went 24-17. The next season, 1949-50, he averaged 12.5 points for the newly named Aerosols (22-13).
There was also a very brief college career at Kentucky in 1947 as Homa received a scholarship from the legendary Adolph Rupp but played just two games for the Wildcats, scoring three points.
After basketball, Homa turned to golf, working at the Rockledge Country Club for PGA Tour pro Tommy Armour. He spent a dozen years as the playing professional at the Westchester Country Club before getting the club pro job at the newly opened Rolling Hills Country Club in Wilton in 1961 -- where legend has it that Homa would drive to the train station and pick up members from work and take them to the driving range.
Homa won three straight Westchester Opens, from 1955 to 1957. According to PGATour.com, he played in three PGA Championships (1954, 1959, 1963), tying for 60th in 1959, making $200. He played in eight U.S. Opens (1951, '52, '53, '56, '57, '59, '60 and '64), making the cut in 1953 and 1956.
In that '56 Open at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y., according to Butera, Homa made seven birdies -- and still shot 76, 6-over-par, a stat that drew the vocal surprise of the man in the locker next to him, Ben Hogan.
"There are so many good stories," Butera said. "But Mickey never talked too much about his exploits on the Tour. Unless you brought it up, he'd never come out and say anything. He was one of a kind."
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Weightlifter Gives Birth to Surprise Baby During Practice
You know that feeling when you're straining so hard, you're afraid a fart might slip out? That happened to Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete at practice today. But with a baby!
The boy was three months premature and was taken to hospital with his mother, where he remains in intensive care.
The head trainer at the gym, Horacio Reis, said the birth had been "a surprise".
"A week ago I acted as a judge in a competition in Chile and this girl was competing. All went well and she won the competition," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.
"I could see she was a big girl, round and strong. That's all I noticed."
The local press reported that Poblete was ultimately kicked out of the hospital because she couldn't pay the medical bills—suggesting that poverty and/or lack of health care may have been factors in Poblete's womb's sneak attack—though her hospital disputes the claim. [BBC]

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Let's Get Drunk Watching: The Season Finale of Mad Men
Television's much more fun if you make every show into a drinking game.
I want to get this out in the open off the bat: I am not a Mad Men fan. I figured this is important because a Drinking Game Writer/Drinking Game Player relationship is one that needs to be built on a solid foundation of trust. And alcohol. But mostly trust.
And while we're being honest, Jon Hamm and Co. hardly need my approval with their fifteen Emmys to my paltry three.* And though widely regarded as one of the best shows on television by just about everybody that owns a television, Mad Men never really hit the mark for me.
If you couldn't tell from my Twitter handle, I am a fan of anti-heroic archetype. I'm drawn to characters like Walter White and Jax Teller, but for one reason or another I never connected with Don Draper. My theory is that I never saw any redeeming quality in Draper, and nothing about the show (not even Christina Hendricks) held my attention long enough to become invested in him or any of the other characters. If a character is going to eschew the straight-and-narrow I need to be able to empathize with their reasoning. Draper comes out of the gate with a nice suit, better scotch, a well-paying job, a good-looking wife and a better-looking girlfriend. So yeah, screw that guy.
*My "Emmys" consist of 3 girls I know named Emily. None of whom actually enjoy being called "Emmy."
The Necessary Details
But enough talk about me disguised as talk about Don Draper. Let's get into the details, shall we? Because personal sentiment aside, I know plenty of you are planning to get drunk and watch the Season 6 finale this Sunday regardless. Here's where things stand with some the main players:
Don Draper: Played by the iron-jawed Jon Hamm of Hamm & Buble fame. Draper's a partner at the newly-merged Sterling Cooper & Partners advertising firm and has been silently waging a war of the wills against rival-turned-coworker Ted Chaough, not to mention not-so-silenty carrying on an affair with his downstairs neighbor Syliva (played by a not-so-freaky-geeky-anymore Linda Cardellini).
Peggy Olson: That girl from your office that tries too hard to be nice to everyone and you just hope you're sick the day that vein in her forehead ruptures and she loses it. Peggy has really come in to her own recently, leaving Sterling, Cooper, Draper and Pryce to work for competing agency Cutler, Gleason and Chauogh, though the aforementioned merger put her right back where she started. Peggy serves as the on-again/off-again foil to Draper, though this season she broke up with her scraggly live-in boyfriend after an out-of-left-field kiss with her boss Ted.
Pete Campbell: Played by a guy with a great first name, Pete Campbell is that guy from your office with the goatee that wears too much cologne and flirts with the receptionist (who makes puke faces behind his back). Smarmy, but slick and ambitious, and has spent most of this season in a downward spiral after splitting with his wife in the 'burbs and exploiting his mother's Altzheimer's.
Megan Draper: Don's sharp-cookie secretary-turned-second-wife, who left the advertising world behind to launch her acting career. She's had a quieter season this year after last year's infamous Zou Bisou Bisou incident, though her unhappiness with Distant Don is growing more pronounced. She is obviously unaware of Don's extracurricular activities with her friend and neighbor Sylvia.
Sally Draper: Don's adolescent daughter has grown up much too fast this season, particularly in the past few episodes, when she caught daddy in bed with Sylvia, spurring a particularly heavy-handed metaphor about innocence lost. Anyhow, Sally was last seen impressing the mean girls at her new boarding school with her alcohol and boy-related acumen, and smoking a cigarette with Betty. As puberty kicks in to full gear, I can only assume that Sally's heading toward a rough final season.
Bob Benson: Probably this season's most polarizing character, genial Bob Benson (played by James Wolk) just kind of showed up at the start of this season and never went away, ingratiating everyone he crossed with his boundless enthusiasm and doofy smile. But after making an ill-timed pass at Pete, we learn that there's more to Bob than meets the eye, and the penultimate episode of this season sets the stage for some veddy interesting plot twists next year.
Supplies You'll Need
Since my knowledge of the 1960s consists mostly of Brady Bunch reruns and the early work of the Motor City 5, I asked my Mad Men-watching for food and drink ideas. She suggested deviled eggs, but I'm not entirely convinced she's not just pushing her pro-deviled eggs agenda. She also suggested Beef Wellington—which to my surprise is not a professional wrestler—and Baked Alaska, which to my surprise is not slang for a stoned Sarah Palin.
Since drinks are my purview, my recommendations are (a personal favorite) the Old Fashioned, a nice peaty scotch, or (my dad's favorite) a Manhattan.
For the full effect, you should also be chaining smoking and paying women 60 cents on the dollar.
The Mad Men Drinking Game
As always this game is for entertainment purposes only. Alcohol mixes well with television, but not with driving. It'll make you a worse driver than January Jones, I mean Betty Draper.
Take a Sip
1 Sip: For every time someone lights up a cigarette. Two sips if they light up indoors. Three sips if they're smoking on an airplane. Ahh the good old days...
2 Sips: For every time someone lights up a joint and gets all Baked Alaska.
2 Sips: For every time someone gets good-gamed.
3 Sips: For every time someone drinks in the car or office. The two times you really need a drink, but now the government won't let you have it. Thanks, Comrade Obama.
4 Sips: For any time Peggy try to stab or kill someone/something.
Take a Swig
1 Swig:: For every time Pete Campbell's mother's memory slips while she berates him.
2 Swigs: For every new piece of information we learn about Bob Benon's nefarious motives.
2 Swigs: For every mention of a major historical event. Season 6 has already tackled the 1968 DNC and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy's assassinations, for example. Who said you can't learn anything from drinking games?
3 Swigs: For any time Betty displays her supernatural parenting skills.
3 Swigs: For every client the firm picks up that still exists.
Slam It
Slam Your Drink: If anyone becomes pregnant or divorced. Slam someone else's drink if it's both.
Slam Your Drink:For every time something terrible befalls poor Ken Cosgrove.
Slam Your Drink: If Peggy and Ted consumate their forbidden love.
Drink for the Duration Of:
Any scene involving an adult lying the fetal position. Any scene in which Sally Draper smokes a cigarette.
Stop Drinking If:
Anyone enters into a healthy, loving relationship based on mutual admiration and respect.
Got any Draper-worthy ideas to add to the Mad Men drinking game? Share them in the comments section below. And a special thanks to the Serious Eats team for helping fill me in on the show. Give yourselves a pat on the backside.
About the Author: Vinny Mannering is a red-bearded raconteur with a penchant for sarcasm, ice hockey, and good beer. You can listen to him praise beer and loathe society on Twitter.
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The easiest way to be a big help is coming up Saturday. While delivering mail, letter carriers here and across the country will pick up donations of nonperishable food during the Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
They are the visible heroes of the effort, which brings in about half of all goods Snohomish County food banks receive in a year. The massive food drive, marking its 21st anniversary Saturday, also relies on volunteers from labor groups, businesses and other organizations.
"It's really a community effort," said Sara Haner, communications and events manager for United Way of Snohomish County. Organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers, the food drive here is a partnership between the Snohomish County Labor Council, Volunteers of America Western Washington and the local United Way.
Those groups enlist many other helpers. "Last year, the Boy Scouts came out, and United Way's Youth United," Haner said. "The Salvation Army has people come out, and other unions and local businesses, too."
The food drive comes at a time of real need, said Leann Geiger, director of food bank services for Volunteers of America Western Washington. "We see tons of donations over the holidays, but after that things slow down," Geiger said. She lists canned meats, peanut butter and other protein-rich foods among items food banks critically need.
Even as the economy has improved for some, hunger is a reality in Washington. In Everett alone, members of more than 3,000 households visit the VOA food bank each month.
According to data released last year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of hungry families in Washington jumped from 88,000 to 163,000 between the start of the recession in 2008 and the end of 2011.
Statistics don't tell the story of hunger as well as a commentary published April 27 on The Herald's Opinion page.
Written by Marysville Community Food Bank Director Dell Deierling, the article told of a program started at Marysville's Liberty Elementary School.
The "Food for Thought" program, now in six Marysville schools, provides packaged food for children to take home on weekends so they won't be hungry.
"The needs are great," Deierling wrote. Saturday's food drive is a way to meet those needs, filling cupboards all over the county.
Food drive help comes in large and small ways, said Ann Seabott, the local United Way's labor donor relations and community liaison manager.
Safeway is donating free doughnuts for mail carriers Saturday, Seabott said. Trade Printery, a commercial printing company in Seattle, printed bags being provided to mail customers for food donations.
And this year, Hogland Transfer Company, Inc., has a new role. The Everett trucking company won't just haul food, it will store it.
That arrangement is needed because Volunteers of America Western Washington's food bank in Everett is full, Geiger said. It's not because the food supply is greater than in years past. Geiger said VOA no longer owns a storage facility on Everett's Lombard Avenue. "We sold it," she said.
The agency runs food banks in Everett, Sultan and north Seattle, and oversees other Snohomish County food banks through a coalition.
Hogland Transfer Company will keep the food donated Saturday at its Everett warehouse, and distribute it back to VOA each week, Geiger said.
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2012: Enters her senior year as the lynchpin of the Spartan infield … has the ability to play second or short … is an intelligent player with a knack for making the right play … has a strong arm and moves well latterally … has soft hands and the ability to make the difficult plays … at the plate, is a hitter with quick hands and the ability to drive the ball … should hit for a high average while also providing run production in the middle of the line up.
2011: Played in 35 games, earning a start in 34 of those contests ... hit .280 (21-for-75) with 12 runs scored, 10 RBI, four doubles, and a home run for the Spartans ... had a .373 slugging percentage, a .375 on base percentage while she also stole three bases in four attempts for the campaign ... played all of her 35 games at short after spending most of her sophomore year at second base ... had at least one hit in 16 games including five multi-hit games ... hit her first collegiate home run in the March 5 contest against Maine Presque Isle ... drew eight walks while she was hit by four pitches during the year ... earned second-team All-CAC accolades for the Green and White.
2010: Made an immediate impact on the Spartan line up after transferring to YCP … played in and started 42 of the Spartans' 45 games … hit .342 with 15 runs scored, seven doubles, a triple, and nine RBI in 76 at-bats … had a .461 slugging percentage, stole four bases in five attempts while she had seven sacrifice hits for the Green and White … started her Spartan career off with a bang as she was 2-for-3 with three RBI, a run scored and a double in the season-opening win over Gwynedd-Mercy on February 28 … had 16 games with at least one hit while she had 10 games with multiple hits … had seven games with a double while her lone triple came in the second game against Washington on March 28 … played 41 of her 42 games at second base while her other appearance was at short.
Personal: Is the daughter of Dave and Denise Schlorff … is a biology major … was a key member of the 2008 PIAA-AAAA State Champion Hatboro-Horsham squad … lists her parents and sister Erin as the person she most admires … names Philadelphia Phillies' second baseman Chase Utley as her favorite professional athlete … plans to go to medical school followed by becoming a medical missionary in Guatemala.


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Notre Dame Trades A Platform for Principle
Tony BeamDr. Tony Beam's Weblog
- 2009 May 12
I am beginning to wonder if principles still have a place in a post- modern world. I am also starting to feel somewhat like a dinosaur for believing that principles should always take precedent over the prestige of a national platform. That should be especially true if the platform is attached to the largest and most revered Catholic University in America.
But on May 17th, Notre Dame will join the ranks of those with stars in their eyes and a lack of starch in their spin. They will allow President Barack Obama, the most pro-abortion rights President in our nation's history, to address their graduating class. His place of honor will be a moment of dishonor for devout Catholics around the world who believe that life begins at conception and should therefore be proclaimed by the Church and protected by law.
Opinions on Obama's visit are split between those who believe he deserves to speak because he holds the office of president and those who believe he should be disqualified because he holds no respect for the sanctity of life. So far, at least 60 Catholic bishops have publicly denounced the visit and at least 354,000 people have signed various petitions expressing their outrage. Bishop John D'Arcy, the Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, issued a statement describing his thoughts about Obama's role in the sanctity of life debate. "While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life."
But not everyone agrees that President Obama should not be allowed to speak. In fact, the consensus on campus seems to be that any president should be welcomed at Notre Dame. The Observer, the Notre Dame campus newspaper reported receiving 313 letters from alumni and 299 letters from students. Seventy percent of the alumni letters strongly disagreed with Obama's visit while Seventy-three percent of students supported the scheduled appearance. Thomas Heitker, freshman biology major, expressed the personal conflict between principles and prestige saying, "We can't just forgive his viewpoints, we can't just let it go without expressing out thoughts on it. But he's only speaking at three universities this year and to be one of out so many is something we should be proud of." Clearly for Heitker, the prestige that comes with a presidential visit trumps the viewpoints that defy forgiveness.
Of course, it should be noted that President Obama has not asked for forgiveness over his views on abortion. After declaring during the Saddleback debate that the ultimate question of when life beings was "above his pay grade," President Obama must have received a substantial pay raise shortly after his inauguration. He moved swiftly and confidently to send American tax dollars around the world to pay for abortions and he seemed to be very sure that life is expendable when he sentenced countless human embryos to be sacrificed on the alter of questionable science.
Perhaps the most bizarre twist to this already twisted tail comes with the realization that Notre Dame, in inviting President Obama to speak and award him an honorary degree, is violating a 2004 directive issued by the U.S. Conference of Bishops. The directive reads: "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions." Notre Dame's action of ignoring the Bishops directive sets up a collision of ideology and theology between Catholic religious leaders and the educators who are supposed to support and teach Catholic doctrine. Trading the defense of Catholic Church teaching for a personal audience with the most powerful political leader in the world will leave the Catholic Church with little or no moral authority.
In Haggai's day, God condemned the children of Israel for "living in paneled houses while the house of God remains a ruin." How much more will God condemn those who live in the false security that comes with the prestige of this world while the truth of His Word is set aside? Perhaps those who believe Notre Dame should turn a blind eye to President Obama's views on abortion should consider the question of Amos who asked, "Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?" Or maybe they would be swayed by the words of Paul who said, "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?" Surely they would resonate with the words of Jesus in Matthew 12:30, "He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters."
First, Georgetown University agrees to cover the symbol of Jesus at the request of the Obama Administration and now Notre Dame agrees to honor Obama by giving him a platform of plausibility in the eyes of the world. It appears that at least among Catholic educators, the precepts and principles of God's Word are taking a back seat to the prestige of the office of President of the United States.
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So I got the 2000 remake of Wild Horses on my computer, problem is the audio quality is horrible, I've dealt with it ever since I got it downloaded a few years ago. But now I want to get a CD version of that song because I want the quality to be improved. That said, I was looking this morning to see if any online retailers were advertising for a copy of it for sale and one that was readily available was only available in London and ran for $7.50.
Good price, but I don't want to pay for the overseas shipping. So if any of you got a copy of that CD that is at least good, I'm not looking for mint condition or sealed, but I am at least looking for a copy that has minimal scratches, feel free to PM me and we'll go from there.
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Goodbye couch potato, hello Mission-X
Thousands of schoolchildren are tackling physical and mental activities in the Mission-X: Train Like an Astronaut challenge that began a six-week programme on Monday to encourage kids to be fit and eat well.
European astronaut André Kuipers signalled the start for participants aged 8–12 joining from over 20 countries during a live webcast from ESA's ESTEC space research and technology centre in the Netherlands.
"It is very important for children to have an energetic lifestyle. I always advise them to stay healthy and study hard to become the explorers of the future," said André, last year's Mission-X ambassador from the International Space Station.
André answered dozens of questions from students at ESTEC and via Twitter. From Colombia to Spain, from Japan to the Netherlands, students asked about space food, the calories that astronauts need per day and what it feels like to be weightless.
The Mission-X challenge features training modules and healthy activities inspired by those used by astronauts during their spaceflights.
Let's Climb a Martian Mountain, Do a Spacewalk or Get on your Space Cycle are some of the activities designed to get children moving. Kids are also experiencing hands-on science and learning about nutrition.
Do not give up
"If you do not use your bones and muscles, you will lose your strength. Keep exercising and do not stop training – astronauts never give up," said André.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, the next European to fly to the Space Station, is also part of this competition. He is encouraging children to work with each other and earn points to send Mission-X mascot Astro Charlie to the Moon.
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Witam, Mieszkam na stałe w Cork w Irlandii, czy jest tutaj jakiś mały fanclub?
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Hi guys, I'm supporting Legia in the North stand since last season, but I guess I need to inform you guys that I've been threatening via facebook. The guy telling me that if he will see me in the stand he will shot me. I know that all Legia fans don't think like this guy but should I need to worry?
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Hello guys, i'm from Serbia. Fan of Legia and Miroslav Radovic
Can anybody tell me when was match against Jagiellonia interrupted? Before half-time or when the half-time ended? Respect from Serbia
Hey. My name is Jacques and I'am a big fan of Legia Warsaw. Although I'm from France I currently live in Poland. Cheers brothers!
Hello guys!
I'm from Portugal I've been following the fantastic season of Orlando Sa and Legia are doing a fantastic season too especially in the Europa League.
Good luck for today and for your campaign in the Europa League!
Hi guys, nice to meet you!
Hi guys, my name is Kajka. Nice to meet you!
In this section are only english-language fans or polish fans, who can and want to speak in english?
I think it will be a good place to train my english
Hello all!
I'am from Greece and I support Legia Warsaw!!! TYLKO LEGIA!!!!
My name is Mario and I will come in Warsaw in January!
Ole Ole Ole Ola i Tylko Legia!!!
Hello everyone I am Batu from Denmark've always wanted to see a Legia Warsaw game against Lech Poznan. I love ULTRAS culture, and therefore I would obviously not sit among neutral audience but with Legia fans. But the problem is that I can not find find tickets to neither close to Legia section or from Legia Section. Is there someone who can help me?
And of course Forza LEGIA!
Hello I`m moving to Glasgow, is there anyone here from UK?
Hi guys, nice to meet you! I want to train my english
Hallo everybody i came here to ask you a few things about Zlatan of the poor fellow stripbar fan as it seems, aleksandar Prijovic.
We at PAOK have a russian/ pontos president with a lot of money and hooked nose but we usually dont see it in the transfer period. we see only the nose of course.
So he decide to buy a player with 2 milion, after call an ambulance wait outside of his house in case of heart attack, cause he is tha caucasian skroutz mac duck.
Here in greece PAOK have a lot of fans, but our stadium is empty right now, people came to stadium usually when a person/footballer smack an olympiakos player in the face, cause we have rivalry, pablo garcia(price and honor) did that an we make him a god, and alot of people go to the Toympa stadium to see Che guevara Garcia, those fans we call them "Panigyrtzides" mean they are go to the matches because of the trend, not because of their loyality.
This year we have 5000 people in the stadium cause we have crisis and people prefer the chicks, betting and go for frappe, or buy clothes to go for drink or frappe to find the chicks. But we all still love PAOK from a safe distance. usually we search for streaming.
This years with Ivan Savvidis (Grand Commander of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, dont laugh this is true, they give him this honor for giving money in big church) our little father (pateroulis) help the team became more organize.
Close all the cantine outside stadium, and now you cant eat vromiko sandwich, but you can buy official PAOK PICKLE SALAD (TOURSI) and pastourma cakes.
He pay all the debt, with the help of alexis comrade Tsipras.
He put a russian fat woman to be our financial director, Gordjilova, and we cant buy players even if we have the money because the structure of the club. let me explain to you.
our scouters, lets say one specific, pantelos go to african youth cup and didnt find anything good, i know it sound strange but, he is short he may cannot see far, you must put him in a stool.
ok lets say pantelos sees a player, he show him to lubos"a dead man already" michel(sporting director), lubos show him to our manager(ivic) our manager says ok i want him, after lubos will go to our captain Klaous "heavy drinker" Athanasiadis (who scores every thuesday only), after that athanasiadis will discuse the player with journalist Kolkas "the man with the oldam owl face", if kolkas like the player, he will make articles to convice the fans of PAOK that the player is the right one for PAOK, if he dont like him, he will make another article for PAOK organization, and will write that player is out of PAOK DNA (a recent scientific discovery).
Lets say kolkas like the player, now lubos michel will go the player for aprove in the above.
He will go to George "Mickey mouse" Savvidis, the son of our president.
George will check him in instragram, he will see if he is the right one to go for a drink with him, if he is the right one, he will say ok to lubos, the lubos will make an inquiry to see our president, our president will come from russia when he will have a business here, so lets say in 5 days, he will see lubos, and his players.
if the player is the right one (the criteria is to be bellow milion) he will gave the financial director Gordjilova the financial information, and then gordjilova following the same crearly football oriented criteria (bellow a milion) will give aproove or reject the player.
So from all this you understand that we scout prijovic from the day he was born to make an offer today.
We need 5 years with this procedure to sign a player.
But every time the journalist says it is football director fault who didn find a player quick
last year we had frank arnesen of chelsea for football director, he make good transfers, but the kick him out cause he had show to president and gordjilova players above a milion, so we nearly lost our president from heart attacks.
But the journalist said to the people that arnesen was a thief trying to steal PAOK and the hay eating fans of PAOK Believe him. and this year we didnt buy a cf, cause our cf klaous "heavy drinker" is a PAOK fan.
the results is tha we had 60 shoots to make a goal in two last games.
But i will not tire you any more, please inform me about Prijovic, thank you
I'd love to help you but my English is at the level of junior high school: D
Hello, are there some Legia fans in Geneva? I`m there right now.
no pain - no gain
Hi everyone
We are thinking about going to a Legia game next spring.
When will the dates be confirmed? We are thinking about Legia-Lech Poznan 03.03 or Legia-Wisla 17.03. Are the game vs. Wisla better or will both have a good atmosphere?
Witam na forum
Guys (especially ADO supporters) - do you know is there any possibility to watch Legia's match this week in Amsterdam? Any Polish pub, bar etc?
Hello from Serbia,Red Star
Your possible opponent in Champion League qualification
I respect Legia as best Polish team .
We are also, like you ,won title last week.
Big respect and all the best in Europe.
I will write about Europe qualification if i can?
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Hello! Are you still alive?
Hallo, dear Legia Fans.
I am a Spanish Football Youtuber, and i have create a Video about Legia Warsaw,
that i will share in this Forum.
Nice Greetings from Spain for all Legia Fans allround the World.
Viva Legia
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In honor of Earth Day, the Mayor's Office has put together a series of videos titled "LA's Green Secrets". Their first video features everyone's favorite block party: CicLAvia!
Check out the above video, and stay tuned to the Mayor's Office YouTube channel for more videos showing "green" things to discover in the City of Los Angeles.


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Dennys Funny Quotes: Cookie Monster Hunted By German Police: Alleged Golden Cookie Theft: From Denny: Cookie Monster is in trouble - again! His alleged cookie addiction could cost him some time behind bars if he doesn't get a lenient judge who can sympathize with his plight. Of course, an extortion letter to a German newspaper may not prove to be helpful. German police are investigating.
You see, Cookie Monster has now made Bahlsen, a popular German cookie maker in Hanover, Germany, world famous with his alleged theft of their trademark iconic giant golden cookie sign, a gilded bronze sculpture. It's been reported in America and across The Pond in the UK and Europe.
Cookie Monster allegedly claimed responsibility for the sneaky theft. His demand letter? CM allegedly wants Bahlsen to...
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With all the controversy and protest over the disappointing ending of Mass Effect 3 mostly behind us, now that BioWare appears to have capitulated (though just how far that capitulation will extend remains to be seen) it makes us proud that pretty much all of the controversy appears to center around how things ended, and not, you know, oh, for example, Liara's lesbian sex scene in the game... Which is either proof that we have come a long way in our consideration of the right to emotional equality for video game characters, or we can only fixate on one thing at a time?While the lesbian sex scene between the alien Liara and the female captain of the Normandy, Commander Shepard, did not make the list of the Top Ten Video Game Sex Scenes, we though it warranted inclusion here since it managed to not be singled out as controversial by video game opponents...
Now we bring you the Top Ten Video Game Sex Scenes of all time, starting with the ones on the bottom (no pun intended):
10 -- The Sims 3 -- 2009 The Sims Studio / Electronic Arts
The Sims 3 is the third version of the long-running series of life simulation games that place gamers at the controls of a town full of semi-autonomous human characters (though previous games in the series include aliens as well as humans) whose in-game lives parallel the real world, with needs such as hygiene, sleep, eating, and using the toilet combined with emotional relationships and family, the need to be employed and the desire to succeed in life whether by obtaining promotions at work, having children, or by completing your Sim's rock collection and traveling to far-flung corners of the world to meet exotic people and learn about their cultures while exploring their lands.
A major focus of game play is the process of building and customizing the home of your "Sim" and earning the money (called Simoleons) to upgrade the quality and variety of furnishings and accessories that makes their lives have meaning and pleasure. Your Sims can learn how to make wine as a hobby and start their own Wine Label, or even practice the Guitar until they are good enough to make a living at being an entertainer.
In addition to traditional career paths such as law enforcement, being a scientist in a lab, being a real estate agent or doctor, and non-traditional career paths like being a magician, an inventor, or even a professional criminal, the game also allows your Sim to make use of natural talents that are part of the skills and stats inherent to their creation and development to be a writer or painter -- and if your Sim just cannot manage to thrive without structure in their work life, they can also join the Military.
The inclusion of a mechanism for building relationships that begins with friendship, moves on to dating, and then progresses to marriage, allows your Sims to explore their sexuality and have intimate relationships with each other -- including having children through an in-game mechanism called "Woohoo" that has your Sims being intimate with each other behind a blurry and fuzzy blob that conceals their intimate actions from the player.
A series of popular game mods were quickly added by gamers (not EA or The Sims Studio mind you) to remove the blurred-out censor blob, as well as add life-like genitals and breasts to the characters, with additional mods allowing teenagers to Woohoo and become pregnant -- an action in the previous series The Sims 2 that, when it was discovered by a certain ex-attorney in Florida resulted in accusations of child pornography being made against the game.
The inclusion of the sex scene embedded above, while it only managed to score last place in our poll of the Top Ten Video Game Sex Scenes ever, shows how significant the inclusion of the action sequence is to gamers, who praise not only it being included in the game, but the simulation of pregnancy as a whole, with the nascent baby bump slowly maturing into the full-blown gravid belly and, after nine simulated months, resulting in a rush to the hospital where Little Sim Jr. is born.
This more realistic simulation replaces an animation in the earlier games that simply caused a baby crib with an infant in it to appear nearby the location where your Sims enjoyed some Woohoo, an abrupt and disturbing experience the first time that it happens.
Many fans of the series say that the more realistic handling of the issue of sex and pregnancy in the game adds to their enjoyment of game play, with many female gamers celebrating the biological process, while one outspoken gamer declared on the Sims chat board: "At least now we have the time to have a baby shower, and prepare a room for our baby!"
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By Benjamin Kellogg [1] Mar 19, 2014 0 [2]
Write Now
One defining aspect of my life is my love of writing. I enjoy finding new topics to write about, gathering and putting my thoughts about those subjects onto a page, refining these ideas as I go, and receiving feedback when my work is completed.
While doing research for this column, I found articles regarding the physical act of writing and why some people with autism struggle with it. This reminded me of my elementary school years when it seemed that every writing assignment was a battle for me to complete. Throughout those years, handwritten assignments caused me a great deal of anxiety. I did not understand why I was so anxious, but I have come to the realization that my writing problems had nothing to do with finding the right words in my mind and everything to do with my physical limitations. These included:
- The inability to hold a writing instrument correctly;
- The inability to regulate consistent writing pressure;
- The inability to maneuver a writing instrument on paper.
These issues were attributable to my weak muscle tone and fine motor deficiencies. Add to this a constant, unceasing stream of potentially distracting sensory overload which affected me daily, and one can start to understand why handwriting was such a challenge for me and can be for many others on the spectrum.
This revelation also jogged my memory regarding the many exercises and activities my therapists, teachers, and parents employed to help me develop my handwriting skills. Some of the therapies I remember include using a variety of hand/muscle strengthening tools, playing various rubber band games, and doing molding clay activities. I also used paper with raised lines [3] and an assortment of pencil grips [4]. The raised-lined paper helped me to better contain the shapes and sizes of my letters allowing my words to be formed correctly. The pencil grips came in many different sizes and shapes and helped me obtain greater control of my writing instruments.
Learning to play the piano also greatly contributed to my increased hand strength and finger dexterity. Another activity that I benefited from was learning the valuable skill of typing. I learned from an early computer game that is as old as I am called "Mario Teaches Typing [5]." This skill not only helped my hands physically, it also introduced me to another form of expressive communication.
Looking back, I can see that these therapies, tools, and activities along with many others have aided me in so many different ways and have only become noticeable now that some time has passed. For instance, the typing program was just a game based on a character I was intrigued by that I enjoyed playing, but today I see how much this learned skill has impacted my life. How could I have ever foreseen my typing this column on a laptop computer while I was playing a video game? Being able to type and use a computer has had the unexpected effect of circumventing many of the issues that plagued me as I struggled with my handwriting. By writing in this manner, I am free of the anxiety and physical challenges that presented themselves when I was younger. My wish is that those who have similar challenges will be introduced to methods that may help them with their own set of unique issues and that others will be willing to provide them with such opportunities. They may not understand what is being done for them, but in time, the events of the present may become clear and reveal their usefulness. These days, I rarely compose anything more than thank-you notes and birthday wishes by hand but am thankful that my letters, words, and sentences are legible and steady as I do so.


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The Future of Enterprise Security According to RSA 2012
2011 has been dubbed as the year of specialized attacks. This fact has been very prominent in this year's RSA Conference held this month in San Francisco, where we saw the different leading security companies shifting focus from protecting the traditional enterprise architecture to its next evolutionary stage, which is more susceptible to targeted attacks.
New advances in technology have initiated big changes on how people work in the enterprise world. These changes are also bringing in new security challenges in the workplace. What does consumerization, BYOD, and cloud computing bring to the enterprise security scene and how should we approach these new challenges?
The New Workforce Generation
Enrique Salem's (President and CEO of Symantec) keynote discussing the differences of today's workforce (which he termed "digital natives"), as opposed from earlier generations, is a good way of describing the current situation being experienced by enterprises today.
Salem describes this new workforce generation as the people born during and after the Internet boom of the 1990s. They have been raised in a world where everything is connected through the web and everything is done through the web. They are natural networking people that do everyday things in ways that were never done before, using tools such as social media and cloud computing. They are mobile, able to do anything, anywhere, any time, but exhibit continuous partial attention due the volume of information that they consume every day.
This whole new generation has just started entering the workplace in the last few years. They have brought with them demands to change the traditional enterprise architecture to fit their own working methodologies.
Blurring the Lines
As more and more people start embracing new technologies from the "digital native" mindset, they are slowly integrating these technologies into their own lifestyles. Mobile, always connected, always informed… these are all very helpful capabilities to have for our everyday tasks; more and more people are applying these same concepts in the workplace. Consumer devices–which is how most people are first introduced to mobility and connectivity–start finding their way into enterprise networks. People start bringing them in and demanding their network administrators to support them because they make their work easier and faster. More and more systems are being integrated into the cloud in order to give people access to their data wherever and whenever.
New technologies and devices are starting to blur the lines between people's personal and professional lives. RSA Chairman Art Coviello even said that we are already past the tipping point of separating the two. The end result is that IT organizations end up having to learn how to manage things that they cannot directly control; security organizations end up having to learn how to protect things that they cannot directly control.
Free it up or Lock it down
In Christopher Young's (Cisco Senior Vice President, Security and Government Group) keynote, he highlighted the same challenge that enterprise IT organizations have been trying to solve for the last few years. The new workforce attitude towards "how to do work" and the fast pace at which it is being adopted has forced companies to provide users with what they have been asking for; improved mobility and connectivity even at the cost of security.
On a positive note, this has proved to increase work productivity as people tend to work more given that they now have the capability to do it anywhere, anytime. Decisions are being made faster and with better results, due to fast information delivery systems which is a product of the hyper-connected environments. All of these are possible because of the open nature of the new enterprise infrastructure.
Unfortunately, freeing up resources and making them available outside of the usual workplace environment will open it up to a whole new set of vulnerabilities. The difference between protecting yesterday's enterprise infrastructure and today's is that before, all we need to do is lock everything down. The challenge today is that we are seeing a continuous demand to free it up in order to support the latest trends in information technology.
Stepping Up
Art Coviello's keynote on maintaining trust in today's hyper-connected world gives us some advice on how to go about securing our infrastructures in today's conflicting demand for security and openness.
He points out that risk management will play a big part in today's security. Our systems will be compromised. Accepting this inevitability will ensure that we are ready to resolve the threat in the fastest possible time. Modern day attackers take advantage of gaps in security resulting from the openness of today's infrastructures. With risk management, we will be equipped to react to be able to shrink those gaps and prevent loss from an attack.
Big Data is also a key factor in monitoring those security gaps. It gives us the power to identify anomalies in our environment quickly and effectively and shrink the window of vulnerabilities by applying fixes before they are exploited. Big Data is able to accomplish this by having three main components; data sets, analytics, and actionable information. Having and collecting huge amounts of data is not enough for this to work. Many of the current security applications in place today implement collections of big amounts of data but not enough intelligence. The ability to recognize which data is valuable and how to correlate it with other data is a vital step to produce actionable information from which security intelligence is acquired.
Lastly, the new breed of threats attacking us today will need cyber-security analysts with a few new items in their skill set. Analytic skills, big picture thinking, and even people skills are vital for addressing today's complex attacks. Security analysts should be capable of catching faint hints of anomalies in their systems and understand what signals are important to look at, taking everything in and looking at it from a big picture perspective. They should also be capable of relaying these information to other people in a way that they could easily understand, since most attacks will target non-technical departments in an organization and it's highly likely for attacks to strike numerous parts of a company. In these instances, fast and effective communication is key to acting quickly and resolving the threat with no or minimal loss.
In today's hyper-connected world, risk is constant. After all, who wouldn't want a world without risks? As Coviello said, "We can't always get what we want. However, there are numerous ways to manage risks, shrink the window of vulnerabilities, and prevent loss… and if we try, we might find that we can actually get what we need."
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Hewlett-Packard has launched three new Officejet printers aimed at the small and medium business (SMB) market.
The company is punting its HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-One series at customers in Western Europe from today, while Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa will have to wait for the product to land on 1 June. It retails at a recommended street price of €299–€499, said HP.
The HP Officejet Pro 8000 printer series is available worldwide from today and carries a recommended price tag of €149–€199.
HP's Officejet 6500 All-in-One series will be made available to customers in the EMEA region from 1 April, also at a RRP of €149–€199.
The firm claimed that its new printer threesome produces professional quality colour documents for up to 50 per cent lower cost per page, and half the energy consumption of rival printers currently on the market.
HP also pitched its new line of products at bleary-eyed SMB execs who are feeling the pinch from the current economic downturn.
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The nation's existential crisis of civil war brought to the forefront many individuals who were mature, tested, and ready to act as leaders for both sides. After four years of trial by combat, many U.S. officers chose to remain and to make a life in the South. They brought to the former Confederacy a leavening of Union sentiment, Republican politics, and a strong desire to enforce the Reconstruction and Civil Rights Acts which followed their victory.
Edmund Cottle Weeks, a merchant seaman and officer, U.S. Navy and Army officer, and Republican politician, was among those tasked with wrestling Florida back into the Union. His life in Florida would be clouded by a charge of murder, but also by an ascent to the pinnacle of state politics during the era known as Reconstruction.
Born in Massachusetts in 1829 and educated at private schools in Connecticut, Weeks was a world traveler prior to his enrollment at Yale College, where he spent less than a year. He then studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. After three years he failed to finish the course there as well.
Three years experience before the mast earned Weeks the billet of ship's Master in the trading firm Wallace, Sherwood, and Company. In this endeavor Weeks now followed his father's trade.
When the Civil War began Weeks enlisted and was assigned as an acting officer in the U.S. Navy. His conduct under fire earned positive mention in reports. In 1863, repairs idled his ship and brought orders to lead amphibious raiding parties in Louisiana. His transfer to the Army soon followed.
In the summer of 1864, Army officials at Key West raised a regiment of U.S. volunteer cavalry for service in Florida. Weeks was placed in command of the unit, however, a delay in his commissioning allowed for a period of dissent to arise in the regiment. The resulting problems culminated in a court martial for Weeks, who was charged with murdering a soldier under his command while encamped at Cedar Key. Even though the court martial brought to light charges of drunkenness against Weeks, he was eventually exonerated. The murder charge followed him for the rest of his days in Florida.
His cavalry unit, the 2nd Florida Cavalry, was brigaded with the Second Infantry Regt USCT during the events surrounding the Battle of Natural Bridge, which occurred south of Tallahassee in March 1865. This combined force attempted to take the bridge at Newport but was repulsed, which necessitated the movement to the "natural" bridge further upstream on the St. Mark's River. The battle ended in a Confederate victory that ultimately prevented Union troops from capturing Tallahassee during the war.
After the war, Weeks returned to the vicinity of Tallahassee where his attempt to run a cotton plantation ended badly. The debt he acquired from this investment soon soured his reputation, with many locals claiming he was in default on his loans.
Weeks operated as a Republican politician and garnered the attention of powerful Republican officials in the Reconstruction government. The struggles among and between Republicans and Democrats resulted in frequent changes in government as state officials jockeyed for position. In one battle, Governor Harrison Reed lost his Lieutenant Governor and appointed Weeks to that vacant post.
This appointment created a fire storm in the Florida Senate, and Weeks left the position but continued to be politically active. Later, he served as a Leon County commissioner and sheriff, and as a Representative in the Florida House. During this period, he unsuccessfully campaigned for Governor and U.S. Senate.
After U.S. forces supporting Reconstruction withdrew from Florida, the Republican government, and its officials, fell to the Democratic Party. The Army had provided former slaves and federal officers with protection while they exercised or enforced their newly won civil rights. These people were now exposed to the backlash created by the loss of the war and the armed occupation that followed.
In 1890, the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Florida resigned in frustration, citing an inability to enforce the laws of the United States in Florida. Weeks accepted appointment to the position from President Benjamin Harrison. In that same year the widowed Weeks married a Tallahassee widow, Elisabeth Hunt Craft, and made his residence in the house now known as The Murphy House on Park Avenue in Tallahassee. This home became a refuge for freedmen and whites seeking sanctuary from gangs and mobs seeking to drive them back into subservience.
In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt appointed Weeks Surveyor General of Florida. Two years later ill health forced him to resign. He died in Tallahassee on April 12, 1907.
For an archivist, it was an engrossing opportunity to become familiar with such a character from our nation's Passion play. We are all familiar with Lincoln, Davis, Lee, and Grant as the towering figures of those years. To be responsible for the archival preservation of one man's history, slight as it may be in terms of the written record, as he enacted his part in that epoch has been rewarding.
Weeks resurfaced at the State Archives of Florida when his descendant brought to us several of Major Weeks' commissions as a Florida or United States official. These recently donated materials have joined State Archives Manuscript Collection M74-22, which contain boxes and volumes of official and family correspondence, and operations records, that provide some small insight into the life of a sea rover, naval/army officer, "radical" politician, law enforcement officer, and family man.


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Study In Women And Men With Metastatic Breast Cancer That Have Overexpression Of ErbB2
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00281658
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : January 25, 2006
Results First Posted : June 1, 2011
Last Update Posted : September 10, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Neoplasms, Breast
|Drug: lapatinib (GW572016) oral tablets Drug: paclitaxel infusion
|Phase 3
Patients must with Her2+(ErbB2+) MBC Stage IV, newly diagnosed will receive paclitaxel+lapatinib or paclitaxel plus placebo for 6 cycles minimum. After 6 cycles continue to receive blinded monotherapy until progression. Safety evaluations include evaluating adverse events, hematology/ chemistry tests, vital signs, and cardiac muga scans. Efficacy assessments include evaluation of disease per RECIST. All patients followed for overall survival (OS).
Study conducted in regions were access to trastuzumab is limited.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|443 participants
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase III Study of Lapatinib (GW572016) in Combination With Paclitaxel Versus Paclitaxel Plus Placebo in Subjects With ErbB2 Amplified Metastatic Breast Cancer
|Actual Study Start Date :
|January 2, 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 18, 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 31, 2021
Experimental: Combination
Paclitaxel and Lapatinib (Blinded)
Drug: paclitaxel infusion
Paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 every 3 weeks, 4th week rest for minimum 6 months
Other Name: lapatinib (GW572016) oral tablets
Active Comparator: Paclitaxel
Paclitaxel and Placebo (Blinded)
Drug: paclitaxel infusion
Paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 every 3 weeks, 4th week rest for minimum 6 months
Other Name: lapatinib (GW572016) oral tablets
Monotherapy Extension
Open-label monotherapy lapatinib
Drug: lapatinib (GW572016) oral tablets
1500 mg oral daily continuously
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: Randomization to death (up to maximum of Month 53) ]Overall survival is defined as the time from randomization until death due to any cause.
- Progression-free Survival [ Time Frame: Randomization to disease progression or death (up to a maximum of Month 53) ]Progression-free survival is defined as the time from randomization until the earliest date of disease progression (radiological or clinical assessment of symptomatic progression) or death due to any cause, if sooner during the randomized phase. Disease progression is based on the assessments by the investigator.
- Overall Response (OR) [ Time Frame: Randomization to disease progression or death (up to a maximum of Month 53) ]OR, evaluated per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST), is defined as the number of participants achieving either a confirmed complete response (CR, disappearance of all target lesions) or partial response (PR, at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum LD) of tumor, which were based on confirmed responses from the investigator assessment of best OR during the randomized phase. Participants with unknown or missing responses were treated as non-responders.
- Clinical Benefit [ Time Frame: Randomization to disease progression or death (up to a maximum of Month 53) ]Clinical benefit is defined as the number of participants achieving either a confirmed CR or PR or stable disease (neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for progressive disease [at least a 20% increase in the sum of the LD of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum LD recorded since the treatment started or the appearance of >=1 new lesions], taking as reference the smallest sum LD since treatment start) of >=24 weeks, based on confirmed responses from the investigator assessment of best overall response during the randomized phase.
- Duration of Response [ Time Frame: Randomization to disease progression or death (up to a maximum of Month 53) ]Duration of response is defined for the subset of participants with a confirmed CR or PR as the time from first documented evidence of CR or PR until the first documented sign of disease progression (radiological or clinical assessment of symptomatic progression) or death due to any cause during the randomized phase. Only participants with a confirmed CR or PR were included in this analysis. Disease progression is based on the assessments by the investigator.
- Number of Participants With a CR or PR at Weeks 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, and 72 [ Time Frame: Weeks 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, and 72 ]The original outcome measure to be analyzed was time to response; however, data are presented as the number of participants with a response at each nominal visit. Responses are based on the investigator's assessment, and only participants with a confirmed CR or PR were included in this analysis.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria:
- Signed informed consent;
- Male or female ≥18 years;
- Histologically confirmed invasive breast cancer with stage IV disease; If the disease is restricted to a solitary lesion, its neoplastic nature should be confirmed by cytology or histology.
- Documented amplification of ErbB2 by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in primary or metastatic tumor tissue by the central laboratory for randomization into the study;
- If a taxane was administered in the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting, progression must have occurred >12 months after completion of this treatment and the patient recovered from all associated toxicities;
- Measurable lesion(s) according to RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors);
- Radiotherapy as palliative treatment for painful metastatic disease is permitted but must have been stopped within 2 weeks prior to initiation of any investigational treatment. All subjects must have recovered from all radiotherapy related toxicities prior to initiation of any investigational treatment. The site of radiotherapy must not be used as a site of measurable disease;
- Bisphosphonate therapy for bone metastases and is allowed; however, treatment must be initiated prior to the first dose of investigational treatment. Prophylactic use of bisphosphonates in subjects without bone disease is not permitted, except for the treatment of osteoporosis;
- For those patients whose disease is ER+ and/or PR+ the following criteria should be met:
Patients with visceral disease that requires chemotherapy (eg., patients with liver or lung metastases) Rapidly progressing or life threatening disease, as determined by the investigator Patients who received hormonal therapy and are no longer benefiting from this therapy and the hormonal treatment must have been stopped before the first dose of investigational treatment;
- Cardiac ejection fraction within institutional range of normal as measured by echocardiogram. MUGA scans will be accepted in cases where an echocardiogram cannot be performed or is inconclusive;
- ECOG Performance Status of 0 to 1;
- Life expectancy of ≥ 12 weeks;
- Able to swallow and retain oral medication;
- Archived tumor tissue available for testing;
- Women and men with potential to have children must be willing to practice acceptable methods of birth control during the study;
- Willing to complete all screening assessments as outlined in the protocol;
- Adequate organ function as defined in Table 1 Baseline Laboratory Values;
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or lactating females at anytime during the study
- Subjects with only non-measurable metastatic sites of disease per RECIST, (e.g. bone metastases, pleural effusion, or ascites, etc. (Refer to Section 5.3 Efficacy for list sites considered to be non-measurable disease.);
- Received prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, or anti-ErbB1/ErbB2 therapy for metastatic disease.
- Prior therapy with an ErbB1 and/or ErbB2 inhibitor, other than trastuzumab in the adjuvant setting. If trastuzumab was administered in the adjuvant setting, then > 12 months must have elapsed since completion of trastuzumab therapy;
- Planned concurrent anti-cancer therapy (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, hormonal therapy) while taking investigational treatment;
- Unresolved or unstable, serious toxicity from prior administration of another investigational drug and/or of prior cancer treatment;
- Peripheral neuropathy of Grade 2 or greater;
- Malabsorption syndrome, disease significantly affecting gastrointestinal function, or resection of the stomach or small bowel. Subjects with ulcerative colitis are also excluded;
- History of other malignancy. However, subjects who have been disease-free for 5 years, or subjects with a history of completely resected non-melanoma skin cancer or successfully treated in situ carcinoma, are eligible;
- Concurrent disease or condition that would make the subject inappropriate for study participation, or any serious medical disorder that would interfere with the subject's safety;
- Uncontrolled infection;
- Dementia, altered mental status, or any psychiatric condition that would prohibit the understanding or rendering of informed consent;
- Known history of uncontrolled or symptomatic angina, arrhythmias, or congestive heart failure;
- Known history or clinical evidence of central nervous system (CNS) metastases or leptomeningeal carcinomatosis;
- Concurrent treatment with prohibited medications, including herbal remedies and Chinese traditional medicines;
- Concurrent treatment with an investigational agent or participation in another clinical trial involving investigational agents;
- Used an investigational drug within 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, preceding the first dose of investigational treatment;
- Known immediate or delayed hypersensitivity reaction or idiosyncrasy to drugs chemically related to paclitaxel or lapatinib or their excipients.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00281658
|Study Director:
|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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|First Posted:
|January 25, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|June 1, 2011
|Last Update Posted:
|September 10, 2019
|Last Verified:
|August 2019
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|Plan Description:
Novartis is committed to sharing with qualified external researchers, access to patient-level data and supporting clinical documents from eligible studies. These requests are reviewed and approved by an independent review panel on the basis of scientific merit. All data provided is anonymized to respect the privacy of patients who have participated in the trial in line with applicable laws and regulations.
This trial data availability is according to the criteria and process described on www.clinicalstudydatarequest.com
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ErbB2 positive
metastatic breast cancer
FISH positive
Stage IV
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
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|Bluebell Flames
|Hand Movement
Wave wand[1]
Bright blue
Conjures blue fire
- "She whipped out her wand, waved it, muttered something, and sent a jet of the same bluebell flames she had used on Snape at the plant. In a matter of seconds, the two boys felt it loosening its grip as it cringed away from the light and warmth."
- —Hermione using the spell against the Devil's Snare.[src]
Bluebell Flames, also known as Cold Fire or Blue Flames,[2] (incantation unknown) is a magical fire that is produced by a charm of unknown Incantation, flowing from the caster's wand in a stream or jet, which then condenses into a body of fire on a nearby object, similar to Incendio.
The flames produced are described as being bright blue, waterproof, and radiating heat only to objects held directly above it. The fire can also be touched, penetrated and held without it burning the holder, though it is known to burn materials such as clothing and plants. As such, it may be safely carried in small objects, e.g. a jar, without the object being damaged. These unique flames can also be directed to a desired location by its caster, and return to its original position.
Known usesEdit
- Hermione Granger, the charm's signature user, used this spell at least thrice in her 1991-1992 school year, and often kept the unique flames in a jar that she carried with her; the first occurrence was to keep her, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley comfortably warm while in the Entrance Courtyard; the second to set Severus Snape's robes aflame in order to distract him during a Quidditch game, believing that he was trying to jinx Harry (who was actually being thwarted by Quirinus Quirrell); and the third time to burn a specimen of Devil's Snare that had been constricting Ron and Harry, during their search for the Philosopher's Stone.[1]
- It was used by her again the next year, in order to produce harmlesss flames over which she could illicitly brew a Polyjuice Potion, thus allowing her and her friends to exact their plan of entering the Slytherin Dungeon.[3]
Known practitionersEdit
- Hermione Granger
- Remus Lupin (Possibly)[4]
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film, this spell was replaced by Lacarnum Inflamarae when Hermione attempted to distract Snape, and Lumos Solem to attack the sunlight-sensitive Devil's snare.
- In the seventh film, Ron tells Harry that he always liked these flames. In that film, the flames are depicted as normal, reddish-orange fire, though in the book they appear blue, as in the other books.
- The video game adaptions of Harry Potter depict this fire as similar to the Incendio. However, these appearances must not be considered valid, as Incendio produces normal fire, not the blue magical fire that this spell creates.
- Hand-held flames may be a variation of this spell, as both produce flames that can be safely carried.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Pottermore
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Nicholas Carter Brown with grandaughter Margaret Chase - circa 1915Nicholas C. Brown was my great-great-Grandmother's older brother who lived to age 94 and kept a diary of the weather and his major daily events for most of his life. He married three times. Four of his eight children survived to adulthood but he selected and placed the gravestones for all of his 3 wives. His children were successful and accomplished in medicine, law and military service. Education and religious faith were always very important for him and his family (although he wasn't particularly proficient at spelling).
What is particularly interesting about the gravestones of his wives are the carefully crafted sculpted images on the monuments. When I first looked at the stones many years ago I thought "how nice" - a carving of a mother and her children on the gravestones.
Nicholas' first wife Mina Maria Backhouse, died 30 March 1867. In his diary Nicholas gives.
March 1867 23 S[at.] Wife very ill give her clothing and keepSakes to [Trier?]The gravestone for his first wife, Mina, that Nicholas was so particular about was apparently carefully designed with specific criteria. It depicts a a Mother seated reading a book to two standing boys, one who could be 11 years old and one who appears younger, maybe about 8.
28 T[hur.] Wife Deceas at 10 oclock ev was last words to me ["] I am geting cold and if I never get warm I shall be glad and you nead not be sory for the Lord will take care of me ["]
29 F[ri.] Arange for Funeral
30 S[at.] Funeral gathering large conducted well 2 oclock ?? of j. Walker coffin and thence and Teams to carry her corps to meeting House [she was a Quaker] Miss Catherin Kusling Niece agrees to Keep house for us this season for one dollar per week.
23 November 1867, Sat.; "Go to receive Tombstone wrongly inscribed rejected."
6 December 1867, Received Wifes Tombstone a little short - $85.00.
29 April 1868, Wednesday; "Fix Tomb Stones plant Roses by graves."
Father and us miss you dear Mother - Mima Maria / Wife of / Nicholas C. Brown / Died / Mar. 28, 1867 / Æ 35 ys. 1 ms. / & 6 ds. / And so the actions of the just / When memory has sustained them / Breath upward from decay and dust / And leave sweet scent behind them / Teale & Wilkens / London.
After Mina died Nicholas married second, Margaret Williams, a sister of his cousin's wife. He had 4 more children by her but one died before wife Margaret died on 22 March 1877.At the time of her death he laments in his diary:
"S[un.] 18 March 1877 Good Sleighing Wife very ill Children betterThe inscription on her tombstone, at the Dunboyne Cemetery, a white marble rectangular stone on cement base, with sculpted mother and three children reads as follows.
M[on.] 19 Draw saw logs, Send for Dr. j Williams Wiffes Brother got here 10 oclock
T[ue.]Doctors McClay and Williams here. Wife sinking
W[ed.]Wife still sinking at Six oclock this morning she called for her Family and Friends one after another and talked with them and bid them goodby asking them to meet her in Heaven.
T[hur.] 22 Wife Margaret Died this morning at half past one oclock her end was peasce She sayed all was well
F[ri.] 23 Wifes Funeral they laid her away at half past two oclock P.M. large gathering day very warm Snow turns to slush and slop
M[erritt] & L[eopold] got home from Montryall (sic-Montreal) time for Funeral Return from Funeral with my two large and three small Motherless Children their prospects dreary no apparent way for me to keep or care for my Family my way appears entirely hedged up."
Mother's Love and Farewell / Margaret / Wife of / Nicholas C. Brown / Died / March 22, 1877 / Aged / 35 y'rs. 11 m's & 20 d's. / Pa! take good care of the children./ I want you all to be kind to your / Father / Hutchinson Aylmer.
I never really thought that there was any special significance to the sculptures on the stones until recently when I was studying the ages of the children. I then realized that when Mina died she left behind 2 boys, Merritt age 11 and Leopold age 8. Two other of her children had died before her.
When second wife, Margaret died she left 3 children, Cora, age 8, Walter age 4 and an infant baby, Franklin about 9 months old.
Lately I came to realize just how these stones were meant to comfort the mourning children. The words on the stones were meant to be the mother speaking to her family when they visited her gravesite and the children on the stone represented her children and how she was to be remembered by them. They would see themselves with their mother and be reminded of her love and affection for them. What a thoughtful and deliberate father Nicholas must have been.
Nicholas married third (another "M") Martha Ruth Birdsall in 1878. She Died in 1909 and her gravestone is inline with the first two wives. She is represented like the first two wives on her gravestone, apparently seated and possibly at some task (maybe carrying a basket). There are no children in the sculpture since no issue occurred with this marriage.
Entered Into Rest/Martha R./wife of Nicholas C. BROWN/died/March 8, 1909/Aged 80 y'rs. 6 mo's & 8 d's
Nicholas had very neatly represented his family who survived to adulthood in his purchases of the 3 gravestones for his 3 wives. When Nicholas died in 1920 his surviving four children erected a gravestone next to his three wives (their two mothers and stepmother). On his monument is an open book, inscribed "Holy Bible." For a man of strong Christian faith who attended his own nearby Methodist Church regularly and supported generously all the area churches including his father's Quaker meetings the sculpted Bible was the obvious choice.
Nicholas Carter/BROWN/Died/Feb 19, 1920/Aged 94 years/Son of/Walter & Jemima/
The transcriptions for the gravestones for Nicholas's 4 children who preceded him and who are buried at Dunboyne can be found at : http://www.elginogs.ca/cemeteries/malahide/dunboyne.htm
Bruce Johnson
Elgin OGS


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