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Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Rights group: Syria rebels accused of looting churches, destroying mosque
Yazan Homsy / Reuters file
A church in Homs was heavily damaged in fighting, as seen here in December. It is unclear whether the damage was caused by Syrian government or opposition forces.
Armed opposition groups in Syria appear to have looted Christian churches and destroyed a Shiite Muslim mosquee in recent months, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
The rights group said it had previously documented the destruction of a Sunni mosque in Taftanaz by government troops fighting for President Bashar Assad.
The war has already killed more than 60,000 Syrians, according to U.N. estimates.
Human Rights Watch warned an increase in sectarian violence can only make things worse.
"The destruction of religious sites is furthering sectarian fears and compounding the tragedies of the country," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
"Leaders on both sides should send a message that those who attack these sites will be held accountable," she added.
Sunni Muslims make up about three-quarters of the population, and most of the rebel fighters are Sunnis, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
Assad, however, is a member of the Alawite sect, which is more closely linked to Shiite Islam. Many of his appointees in high government and the military are also Alawites.
Human Rights Watch noted that international humanitarian law requires warring parties to avoid deliberate targeting or seizure of religious buildings that aren't being used for military purposes.
The group said it found evidence in three villages of attacks against religious sites after opposition groups had taken over and driven out government forces. In each area, religious minorities had fled in large numbers, if not entirely.
Villagers flee
The Sunni villagers told Human Rights Watch that the Shiites had given "preferential treatment" to government forces when they were in Zarzour.
The rights group said its observations and witness accounts indicated that opposition fighters deliberately started a fire in a Shiite mosque when it took over the village.
In Jdeideh, local residents told observers that gunmen "operating in the name of the opposition" had broken into and stolen from a Christian church after the area came under rebel control.
Observers from the group said it appeared that gunmen had broken in, stolen from the church and fired numerous shots inside, shattering windows and causing structural damage.
A villager told observers that the fighters had used the adjacent priest's quarters to fire at government forces and had stolen medicine from a clinic owned by the church, looted homes and kidnapped civilians.
The rights group said it could not determine whether there was a religious motive for any looting or kidnapping.
In a third village, Ghasaniyeh, the group found that a local church had been broken into and gasoline and diesel fuel had been stolen. An observer found that the church doors had been forced open and that a cross had been left on the floor, but the group said the building otherwise was undamaged.
"The opposition of Syria should back up its claims that it will uphold minority rights by protecting places of worship," Whitson said in her statement.
Calls and emails to the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces and a representative of the Syrian National Council were not immediately returned.
A look at the violence that has overtaken the country.
Posted on 01/23/2013 2:26 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
24 Jan 2013
The Kingdom Of Heaven's Speech
Or: Of Saladin Days, When A Green Flag Was In Judgment
The first photo above contrasts with the following repellant propaganda in Kingdom of Heaven:
Also see from Fitzgerald's 95 things that fuel Muslim extremism:
"94. Everything
95. Nothing"
Stripped of all pretense and going outside the lines of a Zen diagram of "Oneness," and as has already been noted on this site (probably more than once by HF alone), the importance to Muslims of Jerusalem, aka "The Third Most Holy City In Islam," aka "Al-Qud" or Al-SCUDS or what-the-hell, is next to "nothing," while it is "everything" to rule Jerusalem as part of Allah's plan to humiliate and eventually exterminate the Jews and Christians (many of whom, do, of course, regard it as holy).
Btw., in Kingdom of Heaven one of Balian's (Orlando Bloom) Christian enemies, Reynald de Chatillon is grotesquely portrayed by Brendan Gleeson. Orlando had earlier squared off against Brendan in the Paris-Menelaus face-off in Wolgang Petersen's Troy. Gleeson (not to be confused with Jackie Gleason, who, as noted earlier, did not say, "If I could put Alice on the moon, surely the US could...blah, blah, blah") is more likable as Ken in In Bruges. - when a vast image out of Spiritus Envy troubles my dreams - before seeing part of the move on cable, I'd never even heard of Bruges, but thar I is, overhearing Mr. Fitzgerald stooping beneath his station to expound as an impromptu tour guide at interminable length about the city. Whereupon I'm arrested for something worse than the assault on a Canadian couple depicted in the movie and send a telegram from the "Venice of the North": CANAL FULL OF FITZGERALD. ADVISE.
Tags: A Fish Called The King's Speech, It's K-K-Ken c-c-come to k-k-kill me, Wanda gag order, millions of Cat Stevens reverts, 95 Theses and Lex Luther (ht to The National Lampoon), Ich kann nicht Anders (ht Mary Jackson & Mr. Breivik, the soul of wit), Helen sez, "The hell with Troy; we'll always have Paris," Bruges, Holland, Hollande's Paris in the Arab Spring is Springtime For Hitler


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Six men, including five Tongan police officers, have been
freed on bail after being charged with the manslaughter of
New Zealand police officer Kali Fungavaka.
The six accused, one of whom was a detainee when Mr Fungavaka
suffered fatal injuries while in custody, were expected to be
released on bail yesterday afternoon, Matangi Tonga Online
Solicitor General Aminiasi Kefu did not object to the bail in
what he said was a very serious case.
"But we hope to have the trial as soon as possible due to the
seriousness of what happened and there is great concern from
all aspects of society for the case to be solved and we do
not want to prolong the true justice of this trial," he said.
The bail followed the arrest of three more officers charged
with Mr Fungavaka's death in a police cell after he was
arrested in Tonga on August 17.
One of the charged officers is a senior inspector and the
others are constables.
The six accused men were bailed at 2000 pa'anga ($1400) each
and with a 1000 pa'anga ($700) surety.
They were ordered by Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court to
surrender their passports and are prohibited from travelling
outside Tongatapu.
All six are charged with manslaughter and an alternative
charge of causing grievous bodily harm.
The three officers arrested yesterday were Inspector Kelepi
Hala'ufia and constables Manu Tu'ivai and Tevita Vakalahi.
The three people initially charged were Semisi Kalisitiane
Manu and constables Salesi Maile and Fatai Faletau.
The six accused will be back before court on October 1.
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By way of Sean Alexanders' blogroll pointer to Thomas Hawks' reference to Chris Anderson (*really* loving this whole blog thing -- it's replacing my newspaper more and more -- paradigm shift anyone?):
Check out the Long Tail TV: Wishlist where Chris states "what I'd like is a dedicated browser plug-in that would make this much easier for recommendations found online. When I see mention of a TV show that I want to record, I'd like to highlight it and right-click (Mac users insert your own favorite shortcut here). A new option on the pop-up menu that appears would be "Record to DVR". If I select that, the app would do a quick search on the phrase, returning with enough information to let me choose the particulars of what I want."
Chris also mentions several online programming services (including the MSN Remote Record service currently in beta) as nice, but not quite the 'shell extension' he is looking for (most of these are tied to site specific TV listings and not for any arbitrary page encountered on the web).
Here's the good part: MSN Remote Record is based *totally* on the Windows XP Media Center Edition SDK feature Click-To-Record. So, for those of you out there thinking MSN has an exclusive lock on remote recording functionality for Media Center -- they don't.
What Chris wants (and I suspect others do as well :-) is totally doable -- we've got all you need already sitting there in Media Center for you to actually schedule the recording -- just waiting for an enterprising individual company or individual to put the plumbing in place.


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40 CFR 35.939 - Protests.
(a) General. A protest based upon an alleged violation of the procurement requirements of §§ 35.936 through 35.938-9 of this subpart may be filed against a grantee's procurement action by a party with an adversely affected direct financial interest. Any such protest must be received by the grantee within the time period in paragraph (b)(1) of this section. The grantee is responsible for resolution of the protest before the taking of the protested action, in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section, except as otherwise provided by paragraph (j) or (k) or § 35.938-4(h)(5). The Regional Administrator will review grantee protest determinations in accordance with paragraph (e) of this section, if a timely request for such review is filed under paragraph (b)(2) of this section. In the case of protests which he determines are untimely, frivolous, or without merit, the Regional Administrator may take such actions as are described in paragraphs (f)(7), (i)(2), and (k) of this section.
(1) A protest under paragraph (d) of this section should be made as early as possible during the procurement process (for example, immediately after issuance of a solicitation for bids) to avoid disruption of or unnecessary delay to the procurement process. A protest authorized by paragraph (d) of this section must be received by the grantee within 1 week after the basis for the protest is known or should have been known, whichever is earlier (generally, for formally advertised procurement, after bid opening, within 1 week after the basis for the protest is, or should have been, known).
(i) However, in the case of an alleged violation of the specification requirements of § 35.936-13 (e.g., that a product fails to qualify as an "or equal") or other specification requirements of this subpart, a protest need not be filed prior to the opening of bids. But the grantee may resolve the issue before receipt of bids or proposals through a written or other formal determination, after notice and opportunity to comment is afforded to any party with a direct financial interest.
(ii) In addition, where an alleged violation of the specification requirements of § 35.936-13 or other requirements of this subpart first arises subsequent to the receipt of bids or proposals, the grantee must decide the protest if the protest was received by the grantee within 1 week of the time that the grantee's written or other formal notice is first received.
(2) A protest appeal authorized by paragraph (e) of this section must be received by the Regional Administrator within 1 week after the complainant has received the grantee's determination.
(3) If a protest is mailed, the complaining party bears the risk of nondelivery within the required time period. It is suggested that all documents transmitted in accordance with this section be mailed by certified mail (return receipt requested) or otherwise delivered in a manner which will objectively establish the date of receipt. Initiation of protest actions under paragraph (d) or (e) of this section may be made by brief telegraphic notice accompanied by prompt mailing or other delivery of a more detailed statement of the basis for the protest. Telephonic protests will not be considered.
(i) Refer to the specific section(s) of this subpart which allegedly prohibit the procurement action;
(iv) Include the name, telephone number, and address of the person representing the protesting party.
(2) The party filing the protest must concurrently transmit a copy of the initial protest document and any attached documentation to all other parties with a direct financial interest which may be adversely affected by the determination of the protest (generally, all bidders or proposers who appear to have a substantial and reasonable prospect of receiving an award if the protest is denied or sustained) and to the appropriate EPA Regional Administrator.
(1) The grantee is responsible for the initial resolution of protests based upon alleged violations of the procurement requirements of this subpart.
(2) When the grantee receives a timely written protest, he must defer the protested procurement action (see paragraph (h) of this section) and:
(i) Afford the complaining party and interested parties an opportunity to present arguments in support of their views in writing or at a conference or other suitable meeting (such as a city council meeting),
(ii) Inform the complainant and other interested parties of the procedures which the grantee will observe for resolution of the protest;
(iii) Obtain an appropriate extension of the period for acceptance of the bid and bid bond(s) of each interested party, where applicable; failure to agree to a suitable extension of such bid and bid bond(s) by the party which initiated the protest shall be cause for summary dismissal of the protest by the grantee or the Regional Administrator; and
(iv) Promptly deliver (preferably by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal delivery) its written determination of the protest to the complaining party and to each other participating party.
(3) The grantee's determination must be accompanied by a legal opinion addressing issues arising under State, territorial, or local law (if any) and, where step 3 construction is involved, by an engineering report, if appropriate.
(4) The grantee should decide the protest as promptly as possible—generally within 3 weeks after receipt of a protest, unless extenuating circumstances require a longer period of time for proper resolution of the protest.
(1) A party with a direct financial interest adversely affected by a grantee determination made under paragraph (d) with respect to a procurement requirement of this subpart may submit a written request to the Regional Administrator for his review of such determination. Any such request must be in writing, must adequately state the basis for the protest (including reference to the specific section(s) of this subpart alleged to prohibit the procurement action), and must be received by the Regional Administrator within 1 week after the complaining party has received the grantee's determination of the protest. A copy of the grantee's determination and other documentation in support of the request for review shall be transmitted with the request.
(2) The Regional Counsel or his delegee will afford both the grantee and the complaining party, as well as any other party with a financial interest which may be adversely affected by determination of the protest, an opportunity to present arguments in support of their views in writing or at a conference at a time and place convenient to the parties as determined by the Regional Counsel or his delegee, and he shall thereafter promptly submit in writing his report and recommendations (or recommended determination) concerning the protest to the Regional Administrator.
(3) Any such conference should be held within not more than 10 days after receipt of the request for review and the report should be transmitted to the Regional Administrator within 10 days after the date set for receipt of the participants' written materials or for the conference. The Regional Administrator should transmit his determination of the protest with an adequate explanation thereof to the grantee and simultaneously to each participating party within 1 week after receipt of the report and recommendations. His determination shall constitute final agency action, from which there shall be no further administrative appeal. The Regional Counsel may extend these time limitations, where appropriate.
(4) The Regional Administrator may review the record considered by the grantee, and any other documents or arguments presented by the parties, to determine whether the grantee has complied with this subpart and has a rational basis for its determination.
(5) If a determination is made by the Regional Administrator which is favorable to the complainant, the grantee's procurement action (for example, contract award) must be taken in accordance with such determination.
(1) Where resolution of an issue properly raised with respect to a procurement requirement of this subpart requires prior or collateral resolution of a legal issue arising under State or local law, and such law is not clearly established in published legal decisions of the State or other relevant jurisdiction, the grantee or Regional Administrator may rely upon:
(i) An opinion of the grantee's legal counsel adequately addressing the issue (see § 35.936-2(b));
(iii) The law of other States or local jurisdictions as established in published legal decisions; or
(iv) If none of the foregoing adequately resolve the issue, published decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States (U.S. General Accounting Office) or of the Federal courts addressing Federal requirements comparable to procurement requirements of this subpart.
(2) For the determination of Federal issues presented by the protest, the Regional Administrator may rely upon:
(i) Determinations of other protests decided under this section, unless such protests have been reversed; and
(ii) Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States or of the Federal courts addressing Federal requirements comparable to procurement requirements of this subpart.
(3) The Regional Counsel may establish additional procedural requirements or deadlines for the submission of materials by parties or for the accomplishment of other procedures. Where time limitations are established by this section or by the Regional Counsel, participants must seek to accomplish the required action as promptly as possible in the interest of expediting the procurement action.
(4) A party who submits a document subsequent to initiation of a protest proceeding under paragraph (d) or (e) of this section must simultaneously furnish each other party with a copy of such document.
(5) The procedures established by this section are not intended to preclude informal resolution or voluntary withdrawal of protests. A complainant may withdraw its appeal at any time, and the protest proceeding shall thereupon be terminated.
(6) The Regional Administrator may utilize appropriate provisions of this section in the discharge of his responsibility to review grantee procurement under 40 CFR 35.935-2.
(1) In proceedings under paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section, if the grantee proposes to award a formally advertised, competitively bid, fixed price contract to a party who has submitted the apparent lowest price, the party initiating the protest will bear the burden of proof in the protest proceedings.
(i) If the grantee proposes to award a formally advertised, competitively bid, fixed-price contract to a bidder other than the bidder which submitted the apparent lowest price, the grantee will bear the burden of proving that its determination concerning responsiveness is in accordance with this subchapter; and
(ii) If the basis for the grantee's determination is a finding of nonresponsibility, the grantee must establish and substantiate the basis for its determination and must adequately establish that such determination has been made in good faith.
(h) Deferral of procurement action. Upon receipt of a protest under paragraph (d) of this section, the grantee must defer the protested procurement action (for example, defer the issuance of solicitations, contract award, or issuance of notice to proceed under a contract) until 10 days after delivery of its determination to the participating parties. (The grantee may receive or open bids at it own risk, if it considers this to be in its best interest; and see § 35.938-4(h)(5).) Where the Regional Administrator has received a written protest under paragraph (e) of this section, he must notify the grantee promptly to defer its protested procurement action until notified of the formal or informal resolution of the protest.
(1) Noncompliance with the procurement provisions of this subchapter by the grantee shall be cause for enforcement action in accordance with one or more of the provisions of § 35.965 of this subpart.
(2) If the Regional Administrator determines that a protest prosecuted pursuant to this section is frivolous, he may determine the party which prosecuted such protest to be nonresponsible and ineligible for future contract award (see also paragraph (k) of this section).
(2) Issues relating to the selection of a consulting engineer, provided that a protest may be filed only with respect to the mandatory procedural requirements of §§ 35.937 through 35.937-9;
(3) Issues primarily determined by State or local law or ordinances and as to which the Regional Administrator, upon review, determines that there is no contravening Federal requirement and that the grantee's action has a rational basis (see paragraph (e)(4) of this section).
(4) Provisions of Federal regulations applicable to direct Federal contracts, unless such provisions are explicitly referred to or incorporated in this subpart;
(5) Basic project design determinations (for example, the selection of incineration versus other methods of disposal of sludge);
(6) Award of subcontracts or issuance of purchase orders under a formally advertised, competitively bid, lump-sum construction contract. However, protest may be made with respect to alleged violation of the following:
(i) Specification requirements of § 35.936-13; or
(ii) Provisions of this subpart applicable to the procurement procedures, negotiation or award of subcontracts or issuance of purchase orders under §§ 35.937-12 (subcontracts under subagreements for architectural or engineering services) or § 35.938-9 (subcontracts under construction contracts).
(k) Summary disposition. The Regional Administrator may summarily dismiss a protest, without proceedings under paragraph (d) or (e) of this section, if he determines that the protest is untimely, frivolous or without merit—for example, that the protested action of the grantee primarily involves issues of State or local law. Any such determination shall refer briefly to the facts substantiating the basis for the determination.
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How many outfits and sleepers should I have ready?
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I don't know. I didn't buy anything in newborn. My son was 9 lbs 4 oz at 3 weeks early so he never fit in newborn. But my daughter couldn't even fill in preemie clothes. She was 5 lbs 13 oz at 6 weeks early. So I am guessing I will have any early baby that will be a turkey. But now I am worried. What if I have another really early one? I guess I didn't answer your question at all. Sorry.
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Expecting #4 March 2015
I love the sleep and plays when they're newborns, especially since it'll be in December. I think I have about 6 newborn sleep and plays and 10 or 11 in 0-3 months, but that's because my daughter only fit in newborn clothes for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure how many actual outfits I have, all the clothes are boxed up because we're about to move into our new house. I love the long sleeved white onesies though because you can layer them underneath of things when it's chilly, so I'd recommend having a few of those as well. :)
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Judge Marsha Pechman continued to interrupt and question the teams hired gun from K&L Gates, lead attorney Paul Lawrence, as he finished up his closing argument after lunch.
Her questions continued a theme shes hit before: She seems troubled by the evidence that the city was using its lawsuit as part of a bigger strategy to pressure Bennett to sell.
As Lawrence tried to knock down Team Bennetts storyline about that plotarguing that the city had no formal role in any of the Steve Ballmer groups shenanigans (and also pointed out that the plan was to move to Bellevue, which Nickels had no interest in) Pechman cut him off:
Youre leaving out one stop, she said, Mr. Gorton [K&L Gates lead counsel on the Sonics case, Slade Gorton] goes with Mr. Ceis [Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis] to the NBA in New York to lay out their arena plan and agrees not tell anyone about it. Less than 24 hours later he tells [potential new buyer] Mr. [Steve] Ballmer about the meeting.
Lawrence argued that Gorton was not acting on behalf of the city, to which Pechman pointed out Gorton signed an NBA documentthe confidentiality agreementon behalf of the city. Man.
Lawrence was flummoxed and simply said, he couldn't deny that Mr. Gorton did what he did. "I cannot explain Mr. Gortons actions."
Again: Gorton was the citys lead counsel at K&L Gates on the Sonics case. He was also working with Ballmers group, headed up by real estate civic big wig Matt Griffin, which had discussed bleeding the Sonics to force Bennett to sell in a secret memo dubbed the "Poisoned Well."
Bennetts star attorney, Brad Keller, seized on this theme in his closing argument. In fact, he had a handy slide (which was so pretty I snapped a cell phone pic of it and, sadly, security forced me to delete it) showing a color-coded left brain/right brain split labeled "City Litigation Lawyers (green)/Griffin Group Lawyers (blue)."
He walked through the same timeline he presented earlier in the trial:
Wally Walker signed a document stating he was a consultant for the city and K&L Gates before getting involved in the Griffin group's "Poisoned Well" strategy; there was a meeting at Walker's house with K&L Gates attorney Gorton about the strategy; two days later, Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis met with K&L Gates and Walker at K&L Gates' offices; after a meeting with the city, there's an email from Walker to a potential buyer, John Stanton, saying the city is in "total agreement" with the strategy; and finally, there's Mayor Nickels's deposition, which Keller replayed on video, where Nickels answers "yes…absolutely" after being asked if he was trying "to create an environment" to make Bennett sell.
Pechman asked Keller if, in fact, it was possible there was no Machiavellian plot, but rather, the city was just doing its job: Didn't the city have a right to bring a suit, she said, asking "what about the quality and nature of this violates the spirit of litigation?"
Keller, much better at fielding Pechman's questions than Lawrence, responded, that it went "from proper to improper" when the city went beyond trying to enforce the lease to trying to make its tenant sell.
Judge Pechman says she will post her decision next Wednesday at 4pm.
Hopefully she'll ignore all this side drama and focus on the real question here: Do the Sonics have to fulfill their obligations under the lease and stay for two more seasons?
And hopefully, when she considers Bennett's argument that the lease was "economically dysfunctional," she gets that it's not the city's fault, but the NBA's fault for demanding restaurants and crazy salaries for players. There's no out clause in the lease for the NBA's bloated business model.


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Outcome after ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence in patients who receive accelerated partial breast irradiation
Version of Record online: 17 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27400
Copyright © 2012 American Cancer Society
Volume 118, Issue 17, pages 4126–4131, 1 September 2012
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How to Cite
Shah, C., Vicini, F., Keisch, M., Kuerer, H., Beitsch, P., Haffty, B. and Lyden, M. (2012), Outcome after ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence in patients who receive accelerated partial breast irradiation. Cancer, 118: 4126–4131. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27400
Publication History
- Issue online: 20 AUG 2012
- Version of Record online: 17 JAN 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 8 DEC 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 5 DEC 2011
- Manuscript Received: 9 NOV 2011
- Abstract
- Article
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- Breast conserving therapy;
- brachytherapy;
- radiation;
- partial breast irradiation;
- MammoSite
The objective of this study was to examine clinical outcomes and patterns of failure in patients with early stage breast cancer who developed an ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) using accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI).
In total, 1440 patients (1449 tumors) with early stage breast cancer who underwent BCT were treated with the MammoSite device to deliver APBI (34 Gray [Gy] in 3.4-Gy fractions). One thousand two hundred fifty-five patients (87%) had invasive breast cancer (IBC) (median tumor size, 10 mm), and 194 patients (13%) had ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (median tumor size, 8 mm). The median follow-up was 60 months.
Fifty patients (3.5%) developed an IBTR for a 5-year actuarial rate of 3.61% (3.65% for IBC and 3.36% for DCIS). It was determined that 36 recurrences (72%) represented new primary cancers, and 14 recurrences (28%) represented recurrences of the index lesion. Of the 32 recurrences with known histology, 78% were IBC, and 22% were DCIS. After IBTR, 28 of 38 patients (74%) underwent salvage mastectomy, and 9 of 38 patients (26%) had a second attempt at BCT. Adjuvant therapies included tamoxifen in 8 patients (16%) and systemic chemotherapy in 6 patients (12%). The 3-year rates of disease-free survival, cause-specific survival, and overall survival after IBTR were 58.7%, 92.1%, and 80.5%, respectively.
With 5 years of follow-up, APBI produced clinical outcomes and patterns of failure comparable to those achieved with whole breast irradiation. Patients who developed an IBTR after APBI had excellent 3-year survival outcomes after salvage treatments. Cancer 2012. © 2012 American Cancer Society.
With more than 25 years of follow-up, it has been demonstrated that breast-conserving therapy (BCT) provides long-term outcomes equivalent to the outcomes achieved with mastectomy in the management of early stage breast cancer. Although whole-breast irradiation (WBI) has been considered the standard adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) technique in these patients, 1 concern that remains is the 6 to 7 weeks required to deliver RT. Some studies indicate that up to 20% of patients do not receive adjuvant RT, and protracted treatment times and distance from an RT facility have been identified as contributing factors.1 Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is a relatively new technique that allows for the delivery of adjuvant RT while shortening the treatment course to 1 week or less. Currently, APBI can be delivered using multiple techniques, including interstitial catheters, a balloon-based catheter, or external-beam RT. With 5 to 10 years of follow-up, it has been demonstrated that APBI is associated with excellent clinical outcomes.2, 3
One concern with BCT is how to address recurrent local disease within the previously irradiated breast. One strategy to help stratify these recurrences is to define them either as a true recurrence of the treated malignancy or as a de novo primary carcinoma.4 The basis for this stratification is that new primary carcinomas within the previously treated breast are associated with a more favorable prognosis compared with neoplasms believed to represent true recurrences.5
Salvage mastectomy has been the most common treatment approach for these ipsilateral breast tumor recurrences (IBTRs) after BCT and produces local control rates that range between 50% and 90%.6-8 However, if a patient develops an IBTR after APBI that is believed to represent a new primary cancer, then some data suggest they may be candidates for a second attempt at BCT (primarily because of a smaller volume of initially irradiated breast tissue). Currently, limited data are available on repeat BCT in patients who previously underwent WBI, and the techniques used are quite hetereogenous.9-11 In a similar fashion, even more limited data exist on outcomes after IBTR in patients who received APBI. The purpose of the current analysis was to examine outcomes after IBTR in a large cohort of patients who received APBI and to evaluate patterns of failure after APBI to determine the feasibility of repeat BCT.
Between May 2002 and July 2004, 97 institutions participated in a registry trial designed to collect data on the use of the MammoSite device (Hologic Inc., Bedford, Mass) as a modality for the delivery of APBI. The trial was initiated concurrently by the manufacturer with the clearance of the device for clinical use in May 2002. The goals and objectives of the trial were to provide a method to prospectively, objectively, and systematically collect data on the clinical use of the applicator. Additional data on the technical reproducibility of the device on a large scale, acute and chronic toxicity, cosmesis, efficacy, and adherence to placement in appropriate patients also were sought. On November 17, 2003, the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS) assumed primary management of the trial. Enrollment was closed in July 2004. Patients are followed by either their radiation oncologist and/or their surgeon, and the data collected include cosmetic evaluation, receipt of adjuvant therapy, imaging assessment, recurrence and treatment of recurrence, survival status, radiation recall, and toxicities.
Information on patient enrollment, eligibility criteria, data collection, and management has been published.3 It is noteworthy that the ASBS has continuously collected information in addition to that originally intended at the start of the trial, recognizing the importance of these data in helping to establish the efficacy of APBI before the availability of data from prospective, randomized trials. Since June 2006, a new, independent, full-service contract research organization (BioStat International, Inc. [BSI], Tampa, Fla) assumed full responsibility of the independent management and statistical analysis of the trial data for the ASBS. Since then, an extensive review and updating of database records (for further data accuracy verification) have been performed with emphasis on obtaining accurate cosmesis, recurrence, survival, and toxicity information. Definitions of recurrence and toxicity categories and follow-up visit windows were provided by the ASBS and its independent scientific advisory committee to BSI. Management and analysis of the data at BSI occurs only through in-depth discussions between statisticians at BSI and the ASBS. Note that topics for presentation and/or publication and rules for authorship and data analysis (including the entire preparation of this article) remain under the complete control of the scientific advisory committee of the ASBS. Because data entry and processing are continuous processes for this program, a data cutoff date was chosen for this article to allow for auditing and analysis (May 15, 2009). In total, 1449 breasts treated with APBI (1440 treated patients) are the subject of this analysis (no boost patients are included). Informed consent was obtained from all patients and/or their guardians before they received treatment.
Local, Regional, and Distant Disease Recurrence
For the purposes of the current analysis, an IBTR was defined as the reappearance of cancer in the treated breast (before the development of distant metastases) and was confirmed pathologically. Investigators were asked to classify IBTRs by their clinical location in relation to the initial lumpectomy cavity according to the criteria described by Recht et al.4 A true recurrence/marginal miss (TR/MM) was defined as a recurrence of the treated cancer within or immediately adjacent to the primary tumor site. A failure elsewhere (E failure) was defined as an IBTR several centimeters from the primary site and generally was believed to be a new primary cancer. It is important to note that these designations were made based on clinical judgment after physical examination and review of appropriate imaging studies without loss-of-heterozygosity studies.
All time intervals were calculated from the date of MammoSite removal. For evaluations and summaries of disease characteristics, MammoSite treatment parameters, and local recurrences, the unit of interest was a breast. For demographic information, adjuvant therapy, distant disease, and survival, the unit of interest was a patient. Nonparametric estimates of survival, or recurrence-free distributions, or recurrence (failure) distribution were obtained using life table methods. Descriptive statistics consist of numbers and percentages of responses in each category for discrete measures and of medians, minimum values, and maximum values for continuous measures. The SAS statistical software package (version 8.0 or higher; SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC) was used to provide all statistical analyses.
In total, 50 patients (3.5%) developed an IBTR as some component of their initial failure for a 5-year actuarial rate of 3.61% (3.65% for invasive breast cancer [IBC] and 3.36% for ductal carcinoma in situ [DCIS]) (Table 1). The 5-year actuarial rate of TR/MM failure was 1.1%, and the 5-year actuarial rate of E failure was 2.6%. Similar findings were noted when examining invasive and in situ cancers, respectively (Table 1). The median time to IBTR was 42.6 months (range, 7.3-93.7 months). The median time to IBTR was 42.0 months for patients with a TR/MM and 39.1 months for patients with an E failure. The median time to contralateral failure was 44.8 months, and the 5-year actuarial rate was 1.9%.
|All Patients, N = 1449
|Patients With Invasive Disease, N = 1255
|Patients With DCIS, N = 194
|Type of Recurrence
|No. (%)
|5-Year Actuarial Rate, %
|No. (%)
|5-Year Actuarial Rate, %
|No. (%)
|5-Year Actuarial Rate, %
|All breast failures
|50 (3.5)
|42 (3.3)
|8 (4.1)
|True recurrence/marginal miss
|14 (1)
|11 (0.9)
|3 (1.5)
|Failure elsewhere
|36 (2.5)
|31 (2.5)
|5 (2.6)
Characteristics of the patients who developed an IBTR are presented in Table 2. The median age was 66.7 years old, and 86.1% of patients were diagnosed mammographically. The median size of all tumor recurrences was 1.6 cm (range, 0.3-11.0 cm). Eighty-two percent of IBTRs were estrogen receptor positive. Overall, 13.2% of IBTRs were grade 1, 21.1% were grade 2, and 31.6% were grade 3 (Table 2). Of the 50 patients who developed an IBTR, 42 presented initially with IBC, and 8 presented initially with DCIS. The histology of the IBTR was known in 32 patients (27 with IBC, 5 with DCIS). In the patients who presented initially with IBC, 24 (89%) had IBC, and 3 (11%) had DCIS. In the 5 patients who presented initially with DCIS, 1 IBTR (20%), was IBC, and 4 IBTRs (80%) were DCIS.
|No. of Patients (%)
|All IBTR, N = 50
|True Recurrence/ Marginal Miss, N = 14
|Recurrence Elsewhere, N = 36
|Age: Median [range], y
|66.7 [44.0-86.9]
|63.1 [45.7-86.3]
|67.2 [44.0-86.9]
|Method of detection
|31 (86.1)
|5 (71.4)
|26 (89.7)
|2 (5.6)
|1 (14.3)
|1 (3.4)
|2 (5.6)
|1 (14.3)
|1 (3.4)
|1 (2.8)
|0 (0)
|1 (3.4)
|0 (0)
|0 (0)
|0 (0)
|0 (0)
|0 (0)
|0 (0)
|Tumor size
|No. of patients evaluated
|Median [range], cm
|1.6 [0.3-11.0]
|1.4 [0.3-3.9]
|1.6 [0.3-11.0]
|Tumor grade
|5 (13.2)
|0 (0)
|5 (17.9)
|8 (21.1)
|0 (0)
|8 (28.6)
|12 (31.6)
|4 (40)
|8 (28.6)
|1 (2.6)
|0 (0)
|1 (3.6)
|ER status
|23 (82.1)
|5 (83.3)
|18 (81.8)
|5 (17.9)
|1 (16.7)
|4 (18.2)
|Local treatment
|28 (73.7)
|6 (75)
|22 (73.3)
|Breast conservation therapy
|9 (23.7)
|2 (25)
|7 (23.3)
|Systemic treatment
|6 (12)
|3 (21.4)
|3 (8.3)
|Hormone therapy
|8 (16)
|2 (14.3)
|6 (16.7)
|Chemotherapy or hormones only
|1 (2.6)
|0 (0)
|1 (3.3)
|7 (14)
|4 (28.6)
|3 (8.3)
Outcomes After Ipsilateral Breast Tumor Recurrence
Of the 50 patients who developed an IBTR, 38 patients had information available concerning treatment of the recurrence (Table 2). After they developed an IBTR, 28 patients (73.7%) underwent salvage mastectomy, and 9 patients (23.7%) underwent a second attempt at BCT. Adjuvant therapies included tamoxifen in 8 patients (16%) and systemic chemotherapy in 6 patients (12%). The 3-year rates of disease-free survival (DFS), cause-specific survival (CSS), and overall survival (OS) after IBTR were 58.7%, 92.1%, and 80.5%, respectively, for all IBTRs. With regard to the 9 patients who underwent repeat BCT, the 2-year DFS, CSS, and OS rates were 86.7%, 100%, and 100%, respectively. When a cutoff point of 48 months was used to evaluate survival, the patients who developed an IBTR within 48 months of treatment (n = 33) had 3-year DFS, CSS, and OS rates of 53.1%, 95%, and 80.5%, respectively, whereas patients who developed an IBTR ≥48 months after treatment had 3-year DFS, CSS, and OS rates of 80% each.
Although the analyses were limited because of the focus on clinical assessment, IBTRs were classified as representing either a recurrence of the primary cancer (TR/MM) or a new primary breast cancer unrelated to the index lesion (E failure). In 36 patients (72% of all failures), the IBTR was considered an E failure; and, in 14 patients (28% of all failures), it was considered a TR/MM. The 3-year rates of DFS, CSS, and OS were 41.7%, 87.5%, and 85.7%, respectively, for TR/MM and 65.8%, 94.4%, and 78.1%, respectively, for E failures.
To our knowledge, this is the largest database to date of patients who developed an IBTR after APBI. The results indicate that patients who received APBI had outcomes comparable to the outcomes of patients who received up-front WBI after appropriate salvage treatment.9-11 Similar rates of local control, DFS, CSS, and OS were observed compared with the rates in published historic controls (see Historic Perspective, below). However, results from large phase 3 trials with extended follow-up will be needed to help differentiate the subtle differences that may exist between IBTRs that develop after APBI versus those that develop after WBI, which potentially may have an impact on treatment decisions. Furthermore, our analysis supports the use of repeat BCT, because nearly 75% of recurrences were categorized as new primaries and, thus, amenable to repeat breast-conserving surgery with repeat APBI. Although the number of events was small, patients who had E failures had improved DFS and CSS after IBTR compared with patients who had TR/MM. Also, when evaluating treatment options, it may be important to consider the interval between initial treatment and recurrence, because our data indicated that patients who had later failures had improved DFS at 3 years, although the analysis included a limited number of patients. This is similar to data presented by Haffty et al, who observed increased 5-year survival rates in patients who developed IBTRs >4 years after initial treatment.12
Historic Perspective
Approximately 10% of patients who receive BCT will develop a subsequent IBTR. Currently, the standard treatment remains salvage mastectomy, because repeat attempts at BCT potentially may result in an unacceptable cosmetic outcome. Furthermore, normal tissue toxicity concerns regarding reirradiation exist, potentially limiting the use of a second attempt at BCT in these patients.13 Reported outcomes after salvage mastectomy for IBTRs have indicated chest wall recurrence rates from 7% to 25%, highlighting the persistent risk of local recurrence even with this approach.6-8 Data from Yale University evaluating 116 patients who underwent salvage mastectomy and had 166 months of follow-up indicated a 6.9% rate of local recurrence and a 10-year survival rate of 65.7%.6 Furthermore, an analysis by Voogd et al of 208 patients who underwent salvage mastectomy indicated a chest wall recurrence rate of approximately 25% with nearly 5 years of follow-up.8 Although our current analysis did not examine rates of local recurrence after salvage treatment, our rates of DFS and CSS were comparable to the rates reported in those series.
More recently, repeat breast conservation has been used after IBTR both with excision alone and with various techniques of reirradiation. With regard to excision alone, outcomes have varied significantly with local recurrence rates of 7% to 50%.6-8 In a series from Yale University, the local recurrence rate was 7%; whereas, in 1 of the largest series from Japan, the recurrence rate was nearly 50%. These results highlight the variability in outcomes after excision alone.6, 14 In reviewing the studies described above, survival does not appear to be adversely impacted after a second attempt at BCT (despite the highly variable rates of local recurrence). It is important to realize that patients who undergo local excision alone after IBTR have rates of local recurrence comparable to the rates reported in patients who undergo breast-conserving surgery without the use of postoperative RT de novo. Currently, information about the outcomes of patients who develop an IBTR and receive reirradiation using APBI or alternative techniques are limited; however, reirradiation potentially may reduce the local recurrence rates produced by excision alone (Table 3).9-11, 15-18 Although our analyses were limited by a small number of patients (n = 9), the patients in our series who underwent repeat BCT had excellent outcomes at 2 years.
|Institution (Reference)
|No. of Patients
|Follow-Up After Second BCT, mo
|University of Pittsburgh (Deutsch 20029)
|EBRT WBI, 50 Gy + 10 Gy
|LC rate, 80% at 5 y
|Beth Israel Medical Center (Chada 200910)
|LDR, 30-45 Gy
|LC rate, 89% at 3 y
|University of Nice (Hannoun-Levi 201015)
|LC rate, 97% at 2 y
|Drexel University (Trombetta 201111)
|21 Patients, LDR IB PBI; 11 patients, MammoSite; 4 patients, 3D-CRT PBI
|35 of 36 Patients disease free at 3 y
|Barcelona Medical Institute for Radiotherapy and Oncology (Guix 201016)
|HDR IB, 30 Gy × 10
|LC rate, 89.4% at 10 y
|University of Wisconsin (Adkison 201017)
|HDR, 3.4 Gy × 10
|100% disease free at 4 y
|University of Paris (Maulard 199518)
|LDR, 30 Gy
|79% LC at 4 y
One of the largest series reported to date on the use of repeat BCT comes from a retrospective study that was performed at the University of Pittsburgh. In that study, 39 patients who developed IBTRs after WBI received repeat full-dose, external-beam irradiation (50 Gray [Gy] in 25 fractions). With more than 4 years of follow-up, a second IBTR developed in 20.5% of patients. The 5-year OS and DFS rates were 77.9% and 68.5%, respectively. Just as critical, no radiation-induced necrosis developed, and cosmesis was reported as good/excellent in 69% of patients based on physician assessment.9
Chadha et al evaluated the role of repeat BCT with local surgery and brachytherapy for patients who presented with a local recurrence/new primary after standard WBI. Fifteen patients in that analysis received low-dose-rate brachytherapy after undergoing lumpectomy. At a median follow-of 36 months (in the group that received 30 Gy), 1 patient had a documented in-breast failure for an overall in-breast control rate of 89%. In terms of toxicities, no episodes of grade 3 or 4 fibrosis, telangiectasia, ulcers, or necrosis were reported.10
There are limitations to our current analysis. Although data were collected prospectively through the ASBS registry, this was an unplanned retrospective analysis. Furthermore, because of the small number of failures experienced, the power to detect significant differences is limited. Also, no data were available on local control after salvage therapy, and information about outcome was unavailable for 12 of the 50 patients who developed an IBTR. Although the patients were separated into a TR/MM group and an E failure group, a limitation of this analysis was the lack of truly objective criteria, because the division of IBTRs was based strongly on clinical assessment. In the future, objective standards, including loss-of-heterozygosity testing, may be used to better delineate new primaries. Finally, limited numbers of patients underwent repeat BCT; therefore, the outcomes presented require further data to validate our findings. However, despite the small numbers, to our knowledge, the current study represents the largest series in the literature to date.
Finally, only data from ongoing phase 3 trials comparing APBI with WBI can objectively differentiate potential small differences in outcome after IBTR that may exist based on the initial RT technique used, as noted previously. Nonetheless, the results from this study, along with the previous reports discussed above, suggest that clinical outcomes after IBTR with APBI are comparable to the outcomes achieved with WBI at 5 years of follow-up. The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) recently started enrolling patients on protocol RTOG 1014 to prospectively examine the feasibility and acute toxicity of repeat BCT after IBTR using an external-beam, partial breast irradiation technique. In that trial, RT is delivered in 150-centigray fractions twice daily up to a total dose of 45 Gy. It is hoped that, with the added benefits of decreased treatment time and reduced normal tissue toxicity, the use of repeat BCT will continue to increase in well selected patients with early stage breast cancer.
In conclusion, with 5 years of follow-up in a large group of selected patients, APBI produced clinical outcomes and patterns of failure comparable to those reported with WBI. Just as critical, those patients who developed an IBTR after APBI had excellent 3-year survival outcomes after salvage treatment, which, again, was similar to the outcomes of those who developed an IBTR after WBI.
The MammoSite Breast Brachytherapy Registry Trial and this analysis was supported in part by a grant from Hologic, Inc. to the American Society for Breast Surgeons and BioStat International, Inc.
Martin Keisch, M.D.: Consultant/Advisory Board, Hologic, Inc., Bedford, Massachusetts.
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A traditional focus of evolutionary paleoecology has been the reconstruction of the selective forces that have affected evolving lineages through time. If the history of those lineages is dominated by stasis and punctuation, however, this is at best an inadequate and at worst a misdirected research strategy for macroevolution, because long-term stasis implies that environmental factors may have less influence on evolving lineages than previously believed. Such reasoning has led some proponents of punctuated views to reject ecological interactions as predominant or even significant forces in evolution. This is not a necessary conclusion. It is possible to accept the empirical predominance of stasis in evolution and at the same time the importance of ecology in affecting the course of evolutionary trends within lineages. If stasis prevails, ecology matters in the evolution of lineages if either (1) stabilizing selection is an important cause of stasis or (2) ecological interactions play an important role in controlling the speciation process. Viewing allopatric speciation explicitly as a three-stage process (consisting of formation, persistence and differentiation of isolated populations) clarifies testing of the role of ecology in speciation and may redirect clade-specific evolutionary paleoecology towards more enlightening interaction with other areas of macroevolutionary study.
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So I have been diligently searching around the net and reading article after article of steps and processes on recovering your score in the quickest amount of time possible after a Chapter 7 filing. I'll highlight my main questions with numbers to make them stand out, the rest will be fulfilling details that may help with your idea directions.
Some details about my situation first:
Finally opted to file in October 2012. Took me two years of trying to salvage from job losses, business failures and personal relationship disintegration before I finally decided the time/effort required to keep up was like digging a hole in the sand. I would rather spend that time rebuilding a clean slate.
Among discharged items is a small mortgage through BofA (70k), an unsecured loan (20K, a refinance loan on the remaining balance from a sold vehicle), two Capital One CCs (<1k) and some small collection accounts from a forgotten about Qwest account and random attorney's fees (<4k).
I am currently employed with a stable job (FINALLY!) making a fraction of what I used to, but it's a job at least.
The ultimate motivating factor behind the decision to file was looking back at the fight. As I cycled through minor jobs to try and stay afloat, I found myself paying one account one month and another the next. After two years my credit report looked like a Freddy Krueger crime scene. I was keeping the accounts from defaulting, but I was also destroying my credibility in the process. In my view dragging out detriment over years vs. filing and then focusing on recovering from one hard slap.
Pre-contacting the attorney, I did (and still am doing) research on methods people have employed to rebuild their scores and financial reputation as quickly as possible. Three years ago I was on my second rotating lease for my Audi, packed around an AMEX that routinely got me into concerts that were sold out and generally lived a life of stable financial orientation. I am most concerned with responsibly getting back to that lifestyle.
Now, it is my understanding that there's not much I can do about rebuilding until everything is discharged. Is this correct? It pains me I have to wait potentially months before I can start repairing.
In the meantime, I have shut down all bank accounts in existence before the filing date. I figure rebuilding needs to start fresh, from accounts that don't have their numbers floating around other financial offices. After some research I opened new accounts at USAA (wonderful experience so far btw, the internet reputation is spot on.) and moved any cash I had from the closings into it. Essentially making it the only asset and viable account I currently have. Untied and unbenounced to any previous financial accounts.
The next move should be credit related. A month past DOF and I'm already receiving offers of credit for auto loans. For the most part I throw them away. Not because a new car is out of the question, but because I'm not interested in being forced to buy an overpriced car with an overpriced loan. (In case some don't know, these offers are from dealerships that mark-up the principle cost on the car well above KBB and then finance them with extremely high interest loans. So essentially you're getting screwed twice.) Now, I'm well aware of the fact that getting any reasonable rates and offers is going to be a fairy tale for a while, but after reading around I believe if you choose carefully and research obsessively before doing anything, you can form a plan path of greatest potential.
2. So with that, what's the very best move to begin rebuilding fast?
Here's what I've found so far: Secured cards are fine, but far from the best option in terms of rebuilding quickly. What you want is a traditional card even at the sacrifice of higher interests & fees (common sense involved, obviously). Keep this card at a revolving balance below 27% of the available credit amount. Capital One seems to come up often as being the best option here. The idea is to get ahold of one of these as quickly as you can, so you can start building a positive history again.
Having an AMEX before, I want one again. I loved that card. So after calling them and reading around on the net there's really only one path to possibly getting back into that club as quickly as possible and it's not guaranteed (Also assuming you didn't have a balance with them in the BK. If you did, they hate you and you'll be playing ball with the last picked kid at recess). They have recently released their prepaid cards and in the beginning they spoke of holding one of these card for a while with good spending habits and you'll receive an invitation to apply for a traditional credit card after a certain unannounced time. Not sure if it's true or if anyone has successfully gotten back in using this method. So if you have or heard of someone, let me know.
3. Stick with the one card for a while or systematically apply for multiples over the next couple years?
I have read a couple times about people initially getting the Capital One card referenced above. Then after 6-8 months of good rapport with it, applying for an additional card through a different company with better terms. It made sense to me as after the first 12 months the promotional incentives on some of these cards expire, so replacing it in the right time frame is smart. My understanding is it also builds your history faster as you add-on different financial companies with positive feedback over time to your report. The concept makes logical sense, but I thought I'd see what the opinions on here are.
4. Is obtaining an auto loan worth it?
My current vehicle is falling apart. I can probably get another year out of it, but I'm going to need to replace it soon. Now, these offers I'm getting in the mail are **bleep**, but I'm wondering if it would be smart to see about special financing (high interest loan) for a small auto loan (6-10K) within a year after discharge. I'm not interested in trying to buy nice the first go round, I'll just need something that is economical and the small loan can be manageable as well as contribute to my positive history. I figure the diversity in credit isn't a bad thing either. CC's can go so far, but having a vehicle loan obtained post-BK and paid off within 2 years after filing may be a great thing. If this notion is horribly wrong I can buy one cash, my thoughts where I'd be happy to pay a little extra in finance charges if it will help quicken my FICO recovery. No?
All in all, if I have to sit and wait for this thing to discharge I want to spend that time precisely planning a quick and perfect recovery. Obtaining the right CC's at the right time and making the most effective/efficient financial moves.
I'll be joining the 2013 Fitness Challenge as soon as it's posted to help record and report my progress to you all.
So, what are some of your experiences and what do you all recommend? Are my understandings accurate? What would you do (or have you done) in my position?
I'm most interested in those of you who have recently gone through this, as y'all have recent market experience. I plan to eventually write about my experiences and share my learnings with those considering this move a couple years from now.
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Contract research and manufacturing companies DSM Biologics and ScinoPharm both report new agreements today. DSM inked a contract with biotech firm NKT Therapeutics for the process development and cGMP manufacture of the latter's lead product, iNKT mAb. Taiwanese firm ScinoPharm will commercially manufacture vilazodone hydrochloride, the API in Clinical Data's Viibryd™, which was granted FDA approval on January 24 for the treatment of major depressive disorder in adults.
ScinoPharm has research and manufacturing facilities in both Taiwan and China. The firm will be the sole API supplier of vilazodone hydrocholoride for Clinical Data during the drug's launch. "Beginning from process research through timely development and optimization of a long and complicated synthetic process, we have established a win-win partnership," comments Jo Shen, Ph.D., ScinoPharm president and CEO.
DSM's new client, NKT, meanwhile, is focused on developing a pipeline of antibody therapeutics that can either activate or inactivate natural killer T (NKT) cell function for the potential treatment of cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, asthma, and dermatitis. The firm's lead program is centered on an antibody targeting the invariant T cell receptor.
NKT says moving its lead program into cGMP manufacture represents a major milestone. "Manipulation of NKT cells is an exciting new therapeutic strategy," remarks Robert Marshal, Ph.D., CEO. "Following on the heels of our successful studies in primates, we are on track to file an IND next year. DSM provides us with numerous options and flexibility in our manufacturing programs."
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Absa Group Ltd., South Africa's biggest home-loans provider, will limit its business with mortgage originators and change the way it deals with estate agents, Sake24 reported.
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Friday, October 26, was a special day in the life of Bladen Community College. The College held a ceremony dedicating the Allied Health Building to the memory of its second president Lynn Grey King, who died last December. The ceremony was held in front of the building, which was constructed and completed shortly before Mr. King retired in June 1997. The name of the building is now the Lynn Grey King Allied Health Building.
The ceremony began with BCC President Dr. William Findt welcoming the group in attendance. Among officials in attendance were Congressman Mike McIntyre, State Representative William Brisson, Chairman of the Bladen County Commissioners and BCC Trustee Charles Ray Peterson, Mayor of Dublin Horace Wyatt, Mayor of Elizabethtown Sylvia Brisson, and others. Elizabethtown Town Manager and State Board of Community Colleges member Eddie Madden, and others. All members of Mr. King's immediate family also attended the ceremony.
Mayor Horace Wyatt was the first to comment, bringing greetings from the community. Others who followed included Elizabethtown Mayor Sylvia Brisson, Commissioner Chairman Charles Ray Peterson, and BCC Board Chairman Hayes Petteway.
BCC faculty member Nash Hester, who has been an employee of the College for more than 35 years, gave a moving presentation on how Mr. King's leadership over the years had shaped the College and set the tone for others emulate.
Hester stated that the purpose of his presentation was to explain what Mr. King meant to the faculty and staff of the College. With personal accounts, he talked about his early relationships with Mr. King as a student in the seventh grade. How Mr. King had impressed on him the value of extra effort and not giving up.
"When he came to Bladen Community College, I knew he would do a great job," Hester said. Hester stated that when he recalled what Mr. King meant to the faculty and staff of the College, six words came to mind. He listed those words as fairness, consideration, diligence, conscientious, inspirational and Christian.
In talking about how Mr. King inspired others, he said, "Mr. King was an inspiring person. He inspired you to want to be and do your best, regardless of the undertaking."
Referring to the fact that Mr. King lived a Christian life, Hester said, "His actions made you believe that Mr. King wanted to treat you as he would want to be treated himself. He had an underlying faith that influenced everything he did."
He concluded by saying, "To have known and worked with Mr. King was a privilege and honor."
After these remarks, Lynn Grey King Jr., son of the former president and a current staff member at the College, expressed his appreciation to those who attended the event. He pointed out that his father, who had been a dedicated supporter of the college for much of his life, would have been proud that the college had chosen to name the Allied Health Building in his memory.
Lynn Grey King was among the leaders in the county who had led the effort to bring a technical college to Bladen County. When the college was established, he was appointed to the original Board of Trustees and served on the board for the next 18 years. When he was selected by his fellow trustees to become the College's second president, he was serving as chairman of the board.
Mr. King served as the College's president for 12 years before retiring. During his tenure as president the College prospered and several new buildings were added, including the Allied Health Building.
Shortly after the death of Mr. King last year, the College's Board of Trustees began discussing how to best recognize the former president's many contributions to the institution that he led in various roles during a crucial period. The trustees made the decision to rename the Allied Health Building in memory of Mr. King earlier this year.


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Seems others are having similar issues. Have tried 2012 theme and clearing the NextGen cache folder (Options > Images > Clear cache folder) and then clear browsers cache, but it did not resolve it.
Have not tried deactivating all other plugins yet, will do so and post back.