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525 NW Locust Street, Issaquah, WA | Directions 9802747.540647 -122.044983
Sunday 12:00PM - 9:00PM ,Monday 4:00PM - 10:00PM ,Tuesday 10:30AM - 10:00PM ,Wednesday 10:30AM - 10:00PM ,Thursday 10:30AM - 10:00PM ,Friday 10:30AM - 11:00PM ,Saturday 11:30AM - 11:00PM
Neighborhoods: Gilman
Food is overpriced and the customer service is horrible! The wait staff was incredibly rude when they delivered a small pizza versus the medium that we ordered. We will never go back!
Epic Fail - Issaquah Amante's – I ordered food from Amante's online week before last. I needed delivery because I was sick and couldn't cook. I ordered steamed clams with spicy sausage, mixed seafood penne, and scallop fettuccine. Apparently, the cooks don't know that clams that do not open when cooked are dead, because out of my 9 clams, only 1 was open when I opened the container. I thought woooo... I should let them know that my clam appetizer had dead clams. I called and was told to speak with a manager. A young woman came to the phone and after hearing my complaint, she told me I was wrong. That clams come frozen and they are all closed and that closed clams is normal. I stated, closed clams mean you shouldn't eat them because the clam was dead. She scoffed and said she didn't know who I'd been talking to, but the clams come frozen and it's normal for them to be closed. I said, but when you cook them, they should open up! She told me, she wouldn't argue with me about it, and offered to send another order of clams to me, but that they'd probably be the same. I asked for my money back. I never received my $12.99, and my feedback that I left on their facebook page was erased. My advice to anyone reading this... don't eat at this restaurant and I hope the Department of Health, the FDA, and inspectors take note that there are serious issues at this place. NOTE: The Issaquah location is at fault. I don't know about other area Amante places of business. Sidenote: I re-read their menu and discovered the cooks don't know their own recipes. The mixed seafood penne recipe as stated on their online menu, should have asparagus. My meal had loads of imitation crab, 4 shrimp and plenty of parm cheese, but no asparagus. If I could give less than 1 star, I would.
Great place to dine in.... – Thanks again to my friend for advice on a great place to dine... I went on there new location on Friday. It was cracking' - full house. We didn't have to wait long for a table though - score! We decided to split a salad - Amante's House Salad. My friend & I agreed that it was one of the most delicious salads that we have ever had
Worst Customer Service EVER!!!!!! – My family went out to celebrate a birthday with a party of 16 people... We were really the only party left in the restaurant, we ordered our food and it took an hour and a half to get our dinner side salads. My sister and I both ordered the chicken parmesan with marinara sauce... when we finally got our food I took one bite and realized that there was red meat sauce all over my chicken parmesan, keep in mind I am pregnant, type one diabetic and have not eaten red meat in over 17 years because my sister almost died of e. coli when she was four years old. I asked our waitress, who was the only nice part about the restaurant why there was red meat on our plates... She said they must have run out of the marinara and just put what they had left on our dinners!!!! No one seemed to care that we were so unhappy so I walk over and nicely spoke to the owners of the restaurant who instead of apologizing and asking if we wanted something else told me there was not red meat on our plates!!!! I was in shock, they have no idea what customer service is!!!!! As the owner is denying there is chunks of red meat on my plate the nice waitress brought my plate to the owner and presented her the obvious meat in plain sight, the owner still denied... still with no apology. Wow! I have never been treated so poorly in any restaurant establishment, they truly have no idea how to treat people, please learn your manners!!!!! Do not eat at Amante in Issaquah!!!! Horrible!
DO NOT ORDER FOR DELIVERY – they can't hear you. THEY'LL KEEP ASKING YOU TO REPEAT WHAT YOU SAID, BUT THEY STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU. when they read your order back, you can't hear them. you'll get jalapeno poppers ($$) instead of a little cup of jalapeno peppers, and a siciliano pizza ($$) instead of an insalata caprese. don't even think about calling to ask for a credit -- they will refuse, yell, and then hang up on you! (yes, they can see from your phone number that you have been ordering from them for 2 years. they don't care.)
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Amante's LISTEN UP! – We tried this new restaurant on Friday night. It was busy and they did not appear to have enough service. I can't understand what a italian restaurant does not serve table bread. Why was this a big deal? Well we had to wait 40 minutes for our appetizer after inquiring when it was coming. It took about 20 minutes for us to even get our order taken. I noticed alot of other tables were not being served who were there before us. However, on a positive note, we very much enjoyed the food. It was not too spicy like Lombardis can be and they were very big portions. We thought overall the price was fair with the portions delivered. Ambience wise it was mixed. It was not a loud restaurant but the decor is alittle on the cheap, Can we say home depot shelves? However, we have had such lousy service at Lombardis lately that we will likely switch for awhile as to when we want to eat italian in Issaquah. I always give a restaurant 3 shakes before I refuse to go back there. Servers were ok. I just don't think there were enough of them to handle the restaurant.....and please.....if you are going to be a authentic italian restaurant and have a slower turn around for ordering and appetizers-GET some table bread!
Please People get real! – Saying that you do have restaurant experience and specially experience managing a restaurant is absolute lie, if that is true, which I do not think so, then you are going to know that in busy time and specially Friday (which is one of the busiest days for every restaurant), nobody in the world can not do everything in the same time! That's simply imposable! Yes, Amante's are late sometimes, we are ordering from them very often, but I am going to ask you a simple question: Why do you think they are so busy? and my answer: Because they are offering THE BEST ITALIAN IN TOWN!!! After so many deliveries and not having problems with them, one day they were late and they make a small mistake and you are creating a big deal from that! I am working like a server in a restaurant for 7 years now, do you know how many cases we do have with bogus calls? Do you have experience the situation having the feeling that the whole world want's to eat in the same time, have you been extrimely tired after all that? Have you ever been in Amante's restaurant in Issaquah, do you know how small is the place and how busy they are, and again like somebody with that kind of experience should know that we have to appreciate the people handling our food and specially in days when we are too lazy to stand up from the couch and cook!
Worst Customer service EVER! – I usually order from the every friday night to the tune of $50 bucks or more. I usually get great food at a resonable time frame.
This time how ever was a complete mind blowing experience. I called after 1 1/2 hrs of waiting for a delievery to see what was up and was finally told abrubtly that it was out for delievery and they were really busy and the lady hung up.
I was okay with that being a Ex 25 year restaruant managing Vet myslef.
30 mins later the pizza and wings arrive. I watch the man pull my food from the trunk of his car not heat bag or anything just ya know in the trunk there...
both wings and pizza are luke warm. I sign the slip and he goes on his way.
Needless to say the entire top of the pizza is stuck to the top of the box literally seporating the entire topings from the crust. So I call back the first gentleman says he can give me 15% off my next order I said You dont understand sir we cant eat this even.
He puts me on hold and gets a lady who tells me she will give me a refund, I said I really just want a new Pizza She says "oh fine we want the other one back like I was trying to scam her. Fine what every your welcome to it "I hope they dont recycle Yuck"
The guy again shows up 30 mins later and pulls my pizza out of his trunk again takes a look at the first pizza and acts like he would have paid his hard earned money for that piece of poo and I highly doubt that he would have. Any way I hope my $200+ bucks a month will be missed and send the message this is unacceptable and no matter how good you think you are You want my money you got to earn it just like I do.
They just lost customer and free advertising I told every one I know how great this place was now I'll Tell every one I know not to ever ever go their and to tell their friends
The Best Pizza in Issaquah and around – This is the best pizza I have ever eaten. We had Spartacus pizza,it was very good and very tasty. For desert we had Tiramisu which was again the best Tiramisu we have eaten so far. We will definitely return to try other dishes.
Great neighborhood restaurant – The pizzas are very tasty, with a lot of good ingredients. I wish there were a few more selections for the traditional flavors, but you can customize. The chicken parmegian was wonderful, although I'm certain it was not prepared on premises. Thechicken was a tad dry, but very delicioso. The house wine is fabulous and you get a really full glass for a very decent price. Worth the trip for a glass! The basic sauce can't be beat by any restaurant in Seattle, it's that good. Love the pizza dough. Calzones are HUGE and stuffed with goodies. No skimping here! Be prepared to take home half! Get brave, try one of the specials with seafood ingredients. You won't be disapointed. Staff friendly, but overworked during rush time.
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Not so fast A1 Mortgage in Cranberry – It seems that A1 Mortgage and its owners have filed for Bankruptcy. Its amazing what you can find if you just look. Maria Makozy is spending money like crazy but she has filed for bankruptcy. I thought that bankruptcy was for people that were left with no money and lots of bills to pay. Well A1 & Maria Makozy owe the State of PA, and the federal government. Where did all that money go that they made over the last 5 years. Husband Greg has used his wife as a scape goat to commit acts of fraud and to screw people out of their hard earned money / maybe Maria Makozy is just as guilty. After all it takes two to change the names on the company letterhead and make up other companies so they can hide their money. If Greg or Maria Makozy tell you they can help you with a mortgage please dont let them you might not get what you want.
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Very pretty. This rug has a red design in the center and the zigzag border is very southwestern. It sheds HEAVILY for months, but is soft and cushy, especially with a pad.
I needed a colorful, high pile rug for my basement office. Something to brighten up the dark bamboo floors, something cozy that our daughter might play on while I am working. Overall, the quality of the natural fiber is high. Tightly woven, very soft, high pile. But the colors don't show up well on Overstock image. The rug is actually very two-toned. Both lighter and darker shade of blue are used. Not subtle undertones, either. There are lighter streaks all throughout the rug. There is also a red symbol sewn into the middle of the rug that is practically invisible in the pic, unless you are looking for it, using zoom. It kind of almost looks like the rug was drawn on or has a red stain on it. I would have preferred just the off-white symbols on the corners and really hadn't seen the off-placed red symbol that is in the middle of the rug. I wish it had been solidly deep blue, without the light streaks and without the red symbol stitched into the middle. It's a comfy, warm rug. I love the natural wool. But it doesn't match my aesthetics as much as I'd hoped.
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FARGO – Microsoft announced Friday that its Fargo campus cafeteria is the first Three Star Certified Green Restaurant in the state.
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FARGO – Microsoft announced Friday that its Fargo campus cafeteria is the first Three Star Certified Green Restaurant in the state.
Dining Services general manager Jim Normandin is already shooting for that fourth star.
Normandin said he is optimistic the cafeteria that offers culinary cuisine on a daily basis will eventually receive the four-star honor, the highest achievement given by the Green Restaurant Association. Only a handful of restaurants nationwide have received that honor.
The three-star honor requires a minimum of 175 points in seven environmental categories, including a minimum of 10 points in each of the following: energy, water, waste, chemicals, food disposables and building.
The cafeteria was not the only green recognition Microsoft announced Friday. The newest building on campus has earned a LEED-Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
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The Fargo campus has already taken several steps to be more green, said Matt Torgerson, senior real estate portfolio manager for the campus. Among them: geo-thermal cooling and heating, more recyclables, natural lighting to conserve energy, conservative landscaping and an ongoing discussion with the city of Fargo about the company's alternative groundcover plans that can save the city 7 million gallons of water each year.
Even the plates and eating utensils in the cafeteria are made with recycled product.
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Another gem in the overstocked Spanish midfield, Martinez joined Bilbao for €6 million from Osasuna in 2006 and he has emerged as a mainstay of their midfield in the years since.
Having started his career as a 10-year-old, he made his professional bow for Osasuna B back in 2005, netting twice in 32 games. Emerging as a powerful central midfielder, he moved on to Bilbao in the summer of 2006 and soon became a regular in the side - totting up an impressive 35 games for the club in the 2006-07 season.
Continuing to shine, Martinez helped Bilbao reach a Copa del Rey final and he was rewarded with the 2010 award for 'Breakthrough Player in La Liga'. A World Cup triumph followed (albeit one in which he only made one sub appearance) but he was at his devasting best as he led the U-21s to European glory the following year.
Manchester United and Liverpool have been linked with a move for Martinez, and a transfer to one of Europe's elite does not look far away.
Strengths: A tough-tackler and comfortable on the ball he can start an attack as well as break up those of the opposition. At 6' 3'' he is also an aerial threat.
Weaknesses: Can be a little hot-headed and can always work on his positioning.
Career high: Played a bit-part role in winning the 2010 World Cup but led the Spanish U-21 side to glory at the European Championships in 2011 with a series of commanding performances.
Career low: Helping Bilbao to their first Copa del Rey final in 25 years, they were battered 4-1 by Barcelona in 2008-09.
Style: Powerful, strong, commanding, a leader in the middle of midfield.
Quotes: "I feel very well here, Athletic is my club, there is a great working environment and so I'm not leaving now." Javi Martinez, November 2011.
Trivia: He was born in Pamplona - the town in Navarre famed for its bull run.


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WILLIAM SUMMER JOHNSON, ONE of the major figures in the development of the art and science of organic synthesis in the second half of the twentieth century, was born in New Rochelle, New York, on February 24, 1913, the second child of Roy Wilder Johnson and Josephine Summer. He received his early education in New Rochelle and finished high school in Massachusetts at the Governor Dummer Academy, which his father had also attended. Bill Johnson showed himself to be a young man of many talents who spent much of his spare time in serious hobbies--from constructing radios, an activity that he mastered when barely a teenager, to developing his considerable musical ability with enough enthusiasm to provide serious competition for his school work. This did not prevent him, however, from getting very interested in chemistry at Dummer and doing well enough to receive a scholarship to be admitted to Amherst.
At Amherst, Johnson's interest in chemistry became specifically focused on organic chemistry. Because this was the Depression, Johnson had to be totally self-supporting. He managed to survive by a combination of scholarships, menial jobs, and playing the saxophone in dance bands in the Catskills, even arranging to pay his way for a round trip to Europe on a transatlantic liner by playing in one of the ship orchestras. In spite of all these demands on his time, he did well enough as a chemistry major at Amherst to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and to graduate magna cum laude. The chemistry department was obviously quite impressed with Bill Johnson, and he was asked to remain at Amherst an additional year after graduation to teach organic chemistry.
Not surprisingly, Johnson was admitted to the Ph.D. program at Harvard, where he did his research in Professor Louis Fieser's group and began a lifelong fascination with steroids and related polycyclic systems. At Harvard, Johnson who was supporting himself in part by working during the summers as a chemist at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, accomplished the remarkable feat of completing his research work for the Ph.D. in January 1940, after less than two years of residence!
After a few months as a postdoctoral assistant at Harvard with Professor R. P. Linstead, Johnson was appointed instructor in the chemistry department of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, starting in September 1940. Shortly afterwards, on December 27, Johnson married Barbara Allen, whom he had met in Cambridge. This was the beginning of a remarkably successful partnership that lasted some 55 years until Johnson's death. Barbara's extraordinary ability to empathize with people, from small children to the elderly, contributed much to the Johnsons' gift for making every visitor to their home feel welcome and for building long-lasting friendships with most of those who had the good fortune to know them.
After some 20 years as one of the best known members of the chemistry department at Wisconsin, becoming Homer Adkins Professor in 1944, Johnson was known as a great organic chemist, and some of the more perceptive members of chemical academia had also become aware of his administrative skills and of his ability to recognize creative talent in chemists, whether organic chemists or not.
Johnson liked the chemistry department in Madison. When efforts were made to entice him to join Stanford University to build up its chemistry department, he was asked to make a list of requests Stanford would have to meet. I think he hoped subconsciously that Stanford would find them unacceptable. They did not, and Johnson moved to Stanford as professor and executive head of its chemistry department in 1960. As the saying goes, the rest is history. Under Johnson's leadership, helped by the decisive support of Stanford's president, Wallace Sterling, and its provost, Fred Terman, the chemistry department at Stanford succeeded in attracting within just four years individuals like (chronologically) Carl Djerassi, Paul Flory, Henry Taube, Eugene Van Tamelen, and Harden McConnell, so that, even before Johnson relinquished his executive head responsibilities in 1969, the Stanford chemistry department had become one of the top chemistry departments in the world.
Johnson made many contributions to his profession, in addition to the scientific achievements that will be addressed in the following section. Some of these contributions were made in his capacity as chemical consultant with a number of chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Two of the longer lasting of these associations were with the Winthrop Chemical Company, which later became the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, and with DuPont. Johnson also contributed much to the American Chemical Society, which he served as chairman of its Wisconsin Section in 1949; as chairman of the Organic Division in 1951; and as a member of the important Committee on Professional Training (1952-56). He also served on editorial or executive boards of numerous Journals: Journal of Organic Chemistry (1954-56); Journal of the American Chemical Society (1956-65); Tetrahedron (1957-95); Bioorganic Chemistry (1971-82); and Synthesis (1975-95). He also served on panels of the National Academy of Sciences: the Subcommittee on Synthesis of the Committee for the Survey of Chemistry (in 1964) and the U.S.-Brazil Science Cooperation Program, Office of the Foreign Secretary (1968-72). He, of course, also served both on the Chemistry Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation (1952-56) and on one of the medicinal chemistry study sections of the National Institutes of Health (1970-74).
In the fall of 1940, when Johnson started his independent career, the concept of controlling the stereochemical course of the reactions envisaged for a particular synthesis belonged to science fiction. The few syntheses of natural products that had been recorded, such as those of camphor, cocaine, glucose, and hydroquinine, were tributes to the brilliant experimental work and courage of the organic chemists who engaged in these difficult journeys, knowing that they would face complex and tedious separations of the various isomers to be expected from their efforts. The extraordinary difficulties they surmounted served to emphasize the improbability of success in attempting to put together the complex structures that were being suggested for a host of natural products. Some brilliant and original chemists of the time handled the problem by concentrating on devising methods to achieve chemical connectivity, simply ignoring stereochemistry. They seemed to consider it an unreasonable handicap to the free exercise of their imagination. While they did design important new methods, most of their efforts at total synthesis were doomed to failure. Quite aside from stereochemical control, knowledge had not yet advanced to the point that even regioselectivity could be planned.
Johnson, from the very start of his stay at Wisconsin, found himself fascinated by these problems of regio- and stereochemistry. Steroids had become the object of considerable interest by 1940 because of their involvement in many important biological processes, but one of the numerous hurdles to their attempted laboratory syntheses was the presence of methyl groups in the so-called angular positions between certain of their rings. The available methods of methylation had failed to introduce methyl groups selectively at the proper locations: They produced the wrong regiochemistry.
Johnson solved the problem by devising an angular methylation sequence, in which an easily introduced temporary controlling group prevented the unwanted regiochemistry. The scheme was successful, but removing the temporary group, after its controlling function had been served, proved difficult. Johnson used his command of mechanistic concepts, some just emerging, to devise a very imaginative sequence of reactions that resolved the difficulty, thus producing the first solution of some generality to an extremely common problem in regioselective carbon-carbon bond formation. Johnson went one step further: He had given a solution to the regiochemical problem, but there remained a stereochemical one. The stereochemistry of the bicyclic system resulting from his regiochemically controlled methylation turned out to be quite cleanly cis. How could the angular methylation process be changed to give the trans system encountered in natural steroid frameworks? Johnson later concluded, again on the basis of mechanistic considerations, that the desirable trans bicyclic system should become the major product if he carried out his angular methylation scheme on a bicyclic system bearing a double bond parallel to the ring junction. This proved to be correct.
I have dwelled on this particular methodology, now mostly of historical interest, because it illustrates that, at the very beginning of his career, Johnson was acutely aware of the important problems that had to be solved to make complex synthesis into a rational endeavor. This early work also illustrates his conviction that attention to reaction mechanism principles is crucial to the design of new synthetic methodology. This work also illustrates his commitment to stay with a problem until a solution is reached.
These qualities served Johnson well in the work for which he is best known, the introduction of carbocation-based chemistry as a powerful tool for the construction of polycyclic systems. At the time Johnson began to contemplate the possibility that cationic polyene cyclization might go beyond the realm of intriguing theoretical speculation, attempts at constructing complex organic structures relied almost entirely on base-catalyzed formation of enolate ions derived from carbonyl compounds, followed by their reaction with electrophilic carbon entities. The importance of Johnson's contribution to changing this state of affairs cannot be overemphasized. When he started his work on the cationic cyclization of polyenes, the scattered efforts in this area had convinced everyone but himself that there was no serious possibility that the core of a complex structure like that of a natural steroid, with all the problems, regio- and stereochemical, implied by the existence of six, seven, or more asymmetric centers, could some day be assembled in just one or two steps. And that the process would eventually be able to create a single predictable structure, rather than the several dozen isomers that would result from a random process.
Johnson's extraordinary success in this area was not the result of lucky accidents. It followed a number of many fundamental contributions that benefited the entire field of synthesis. Central to the eventual success was Johnson's recognition that the initiation of the cyclization process was crucially related to the possibility of achieving concertedness in interaction with the multiple olefinic centers in the polyene chain. His brilliant perception was that the high-energy carbocations used to start a polycyclization process by earlier workers were too reactive and unstable to result in stereospecificity or, for that matter, even chemoselectivity, but that less energy-rich and longer-lived á-alkoxy or allylic tertiary carbonium ions might well be much more effective. And, indeed, they were.
The design of effective and useful nucleophilic terminators for the polycyclization process also proved important. There again, Johnson's solutions to the problem were firmly based on mechanistic concepts. They have had an impact well beyond the steroid targets for which they were originally devised: The propargylsilane terminator, which led as he expected to an allene, is a case in point. It was designed not only as an efficient terminator, but the resulting allene, when generated at what would become the steroid 17-position, could be easily transformed to the characteristic dihydroxyacetone side-chain of such adrenal hormones as cortisone.
Johnson's desire to induce not only stereospecificity but enantiospecificity as well led to further important contributions. One of them was the demonstration that the cyclization conditions he eventually devised were sufficiently mild that a single secondary allylic alcohol enantiomer, at the position which would eventually become the 11-oxygen center of a corticosteroid, was able to survive the cyclization process and to induce the correct enantioselectivity at all the relevant centers produced by the cyclization.
An even more general contribution to synthesis methodology followed Johnson's study of the á-alkoxy cations he sometimes used to initiate certain polyene cyclizations. This was the demonstration that the alkoxycation derived by cleavage of an acetal made from a homochiral, C2 symmetric, 1,3-glycol can lead to efficient transfer of chirality in its electrophilic attack on an olefin. This resulted in a very useful new method for the formation of enantiocontrolled centers adjacent to a carbon-oxygen bond, such as in the synthesis of optically active á-hydroxyacids.
I now refer to three more contributions that originated from problems Johnson encountered in the polyene cyclization work, but which have left their mark much beyond it.
Johnson showed that careful analysis of the E-selectivity resulting from the Julia olefin synthesis of disubstituted olefins strongly suggested that it might also lead to selectivity in the construction of trisubstituted olefins, an even more demanding problem. This proved correct, and the resulting process is now called the Julia-Johnson reaction. It was that same insistence on understanding the mechanistic basis of a synthetic operation that led Johnson to invent a process, now known as the Johnson-Claisen orthoester rearrangement, that has led to a great simplification of the venerable reaction known as the Claisen rearrangement. It has achieved great importance because of its experimental simplicity, as well as its ability to control regio- and stereochemistry. It has become a major tool in complex synthesis.
Among the many other contributions of Johnson and his research group, one that has not yet been appreciated as much as it eventually will be, is the realization that a fluorine atom, in spite of its high electronegativity, is very effective in stabilizing an adjacent carbonium ion. So far as I know, this rationalizable but somewhat counter-intuitive fact was first used to major advantage in Johnson's polyene cyclization work. Johnson took advantage of this remarkable property in his use of the vinyl fluoride terminator (which, in a steroid context, led to the desirable 20-ketosteroid system). Johnson also made highly effective use of a fluorine atom as a controlling substituent to favor a particular cationic center in a desired polycyclization intermediate.
It is not often that a field is created and developed by the work of one individual. There is little doubt, however, that the entire field of controlled synthesis based on cationic polyene cyclization would have lain fallow for a very long time without Johnson's vision, and his absolute dedication to achieving his goal.
Perhaps the most demanding test of someone's contribution to their chosen field is the question, "What can be done or understood now that was not feasible or understood previously?" In the case of William S. Johnson, the answer is, "a lot," as is illustrated, inter alia, in the striking transformation, reported in one of his last papers (1994).
It is, of course, not possible to derive Bill Johnson's human qualities from the important contributions he made to organic chemistry. I have alluded to his love of music. It would lead him to spend the large part of a trip to Paris to search for a rare and highly prized saxophone; to leave a chemical meeting surreptitiously for a visit to a session of a jazz congress where Jerry Mulligan was performing; to engage in friendly and enthusiastic cross-country telephone competition to see who could be the first to identify the artist on a particular jazz recording; or to join a few other talented musicians like Harry Wasserman and Richard Turner to produce memorable spur-of-the-moment performances. Johnson took great pride in the extremely high quality of the electronic equipment, especially the loudspeakers, that he had carefully positioned in the living room of the beautiful home he shared with Barbara in Portola Valley.
Johnson was an outstanding teacher. Not only because of his command of the material but also because of the passionate enthusiasm he had for his subject and the deep interest he had in his students. This was especially evident in his interaction with his graduate students and postdoctoral associates who became in effect part of his family. Many, like David Gutsche, Ralph Hirschmann, Hans Wynberg, Robert Ireland, Richard Franck, James Marshall, John Keana, Kathlyn Parker, Martin Semmelhack, Paul Bartlett, Bruce Ganem, and Glenn Prestwich, became themselves leaders in their field in academia, while many others, such as Barry Bloom, Raphael Pappo, Jacob Szmuszkovicz, John Pike, and J. W. Scott, made their marks in industry.
Bill Johnson's love of chemistry, and his empathy for kindred spirits, had happy consequences, as on the occasion of the visit of Professor John D. Roberts of Caltech to Madison, as Folkers Lecturer. The interaction resulted not only in the lifelong friendship of Bill and Barbara with Jack and Edith Roberts, but also in the joint authorship of a communication on the acid-catalyzed methylation of alcohols with diazomethane (M. C. Caserio, J. D. Roberts, M. Neeman, and W. S. Johnson, "Methylation of Alcohols with Diazomethane," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 80:2584-85, 1958).
My wife, Winifred, and I enjoyed deep friendship with the Johnsons. The word friendship in fact seems inadequate. It certainly survived some unusual stress. One such instance I remember well was on the occasion of the celebration in New York of the centennial of the American Chemical Society. Johnson, the last of the distinguished speakers, was just starting to address the large crowd in the darkened hotel ballroom, when word came to the organizers that the hotel needed to have the room vacated within five minutes to prepare for a scheduled wedding. The frantic organizers, who knew of my friendship with Johnson, begged for my help, and I climbed on the darkened stage to tell the startled Johnson that his just-begun lecture was over. Our friendship survived, and by the time Bill Johnson died, it had lasted over half a century.
Many prestigious honors came to Johnson in acknowledgment of his scientific stature. Among the most notable was his election to the National Academy of Sciences as early as 1952. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; received both the Roger Adams and the Arthur C. Cope awards; the Award for Creative Research in Organic Chemistry; the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry; and the Nichols Medal. A particularly significant recognition came when he was selected by an international jury in France to be the first recipient, in 1970, of the Roussel Prize for Steroid Chemistry. Another award that he must have particularly prized was this country's highest award in science, the National Medal of Science, which he received in 1987. This list is not exhaustive, but it should include the annual, highly successful Johnson Symposium, which Johnson's colleagues at Stanford started in his honor in 1986. It was a gesture that touched him deeply.
The title Johnson chose for his autobiographical memoir was "A Fifty Year Love Affair with Chemistry." The love was obviously reciprocated.
SOME OF THE INTRODUCTORY biographical material has been gathered from W. S. Johnson's fascinating autobiographical account of his life in chemistry: A Fifty Year Love Affair with Chemistry. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1998.


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Okay. I have been using the tutorials here to learn OpenAL. Everything was going fine until I tried to implement it with my Graphics code. Now, whenever I try to change the orientation of the listener after the initial setting of the property then the sound suddenly stops playing.
Also, I think that might have to do with this somehow. My sounds aren't 3D at all. They always seem like they are relative.
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This post is in honor of fellow Riptonite Ceredwyn Alexander, an EMT First Responder who has just travelled to New Jersey to do hurricane relief. Ceredwyn was featured in the Addison Independent, you can read the article here.
Our Emergency Services are gutted and unready. The Vermont Guard was illegally deployed to Afghanistan, and our Guard's equipment shipped off to Iraq.
Then Hurricane Irene hit Vermont… our Addison elected officials were nowhere to be found. But First Responders from other States travelled to Vermont, to help. The New Jersey Guard sent us two helicopters because we were left with only one med-evac helicopter shared with N.H.
"Doctors Without Borders are operating in the United States for the first time ever.", Alexander reports.
When extreme centralization breaks down, folks find their own communities, and do for themselves. Extreme centralization is what I have been running for VT Senate against. We can't afford it.
- Relocalization: To devolve State powers back to our Towns and communities is something that I have been running for. And will continue to do so through 2014. Local's the only thing that works: we cannot continue to deny reality, in the face of an economy that will not recover (except for the 1% looters).
- Decentralization: Centrally planned and controlled schools, services & infrastructure are even now shutting down. We have to learn to do for ourselves. A centrally planned economy should have died with the Soviet Union. Let us make it die here in Vermont.
- Independence: Localities and individuals must be free to act, help each others and help themselves without fear of government interference.
Irene was Vermont's wake-up signal. Montpelier hit the snooze button and did nothing but stockpile weapons, drones & tasers against civil disobedience and unrest… as if people are the problem. Now's the time to hold those under the golden dome accountable. Show your representatives that we Vermonters have power: we are not just a tax farm and source of raw materials for out-of-State industries.
Some are beginning to call Sandy "Katrina on the Hudson" due to the tales that are circulating about the Scary stories are coming out of Sandy's aftermath: One is the restricting of information coming out of the FEMA shelters. Others are of people trapped in high rise apartments without power for days. Doctors Without Borders are operating in the United States for the first time ever.
The people who have set up the most efficient supply distribution network are the Occupy people. My theory of why this is so is that most of the Occupy volunteers are locals. They know what they and their neighbors need.
Elderly and disabled folk in their 40th story apartments have only been able to get water and other supplies because their neighbors have been helping them. The National Guard, FEMA, the Red Cross and other "authorities" have taken two weeks (or more) to get into some places… -Ceredwyn Alexander, Scaling the Peak
Real people do what we know how to do: help, even as career politicians in Montpelier dither and wait for FEMA help that never comes.
From Scaling the Peak:
It's almost 12:30 here and I'm working the 8PM to 8AM shift. We have a midnight curfew, so its pretty quiet.
Spent the evening seeing to the usual things one sees in a dorm full of people–cut fingers and hurt feelings mostly.
The shelter I'm working at is known as a "self care" shelter. That is to say all our residents are able to care for themselves and have few special needs.
Out in the lobby, we have hot and cold running law enforcement, which is a luxury when tempers are frayed.
Some of the residents are coming out of their shock into anger. Lots of bitter words about how much help they think they deserve vs how much help is actually available. There are still people trickling into the shelters because they still can't return to their homes and they either can no longer afford hotels or there's just no rooms to be had.
One of the huge problems here in New Jersey is that the central office for whatever their welfare program is (every state calls it something different and I can't remember the initials now) is without power. This means they have no computer connectivity. This means they can't make determinations of eligibility for things like food stamps etc.
Worse yet, some people have lost their jobs because they had to be transported to shelters where they couldn't get to work.
Been comparing and contrasting, the reactions of people in New Jersey to reactions of people I've known in other disasters. As always, we have a variety of reactions. Some people feel better with something to do. Others need to create little dramas.
Someone once said that adventure was long periods of boredom interspersed with terror. That's what disasters feel like to me. Strange to say, but for many of the residents, lack of activity is their worst enemy. With the disruption of their normal routines and day to day life, people are left at loose ends. They are also left without the trappings of their lives that make them feel like themselves.
Although residents here are technically homeless, very few of them are homeless. Mostly they are people experiencing the astounding bad luck of being in Sandy's path. I know many fear homelessness becoming a normal thing in their lives.
The uncertainty, the lack of sleep, unfamilar food, unfamiliar rules all conspire to make very touchy people, and yet they live their lives not much different than before.
The night shift is quiet and I have time to talk to people–to have those conversations people only have late at night. I've had three of them since I started this shift and its now almost 5:00.
Gas rationing has started in New York, where more than half the gas stations are closed at any given time. They say its only a short term thing, but people here are settling in for the long haul.


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Enroth went 4-4-and-2 with a 2.60 goals against average during the shortened 2013 season.
Here is the official release sent out by the Sabres:
The Buffalo Sabres announced today that goaltender Jhonas Enroth has signed a two year extension.
Enroth, who turns 25 on Tuesday June 25th, posted career-best marks for save percentage (.919) and goals-against average (2.60) while recording a 4-4-2 record through 12 games played in the shortened 2012/2013 season.
In his final six starts of the season, he notched a record of 4-1-1 with a 1.47 goals-against average and a .956 save percentage.
Enroth also backstopped Team Sweden to the gold medal in the 2013 IIHF World Championship and was named the tournaments best goaltender recording a .956 save percentage and a 1.15 goals-against average.
The Stockholm, Sweden native was selected by the Sabres in the second round (46th overall) of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.


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Don Stewart at Lely
* Boys basketball coach: 1983-2009
* Total wins: 456
* District titles: 8
* Southwest Florida Coach of the Year awards: 10
* Miscellaneous: Football assistant coach from 1983-90. ... Coached sons Stacey, Scott and Jared in basketball. ... Inducted into hall of fame at Ypsilanti (Mich.) Willow Run High School, where he was an all-state quarterback, in 2004. ... Sponsor for local Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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NAPLES — After affecting thousands of high school students' lives, it was an 8-year-old boy who showed Don Stewart the direction he needed to go with his.
The Lely boys basketball coach was enjoying time with his family this summer when his grandson, Isaiah, asked Stewart to play baseball with him. Grandpa found it hard to turn down his grandson dressed in his baseball cap and glove, but Stewart had to get to school for the Trojans' summer workouts.
Seeing the look of disappointment on Isaiah's face broke Stewart's heart, and convinced the coach he needed to spend more time with is family.
He'll have a lot more free time now. Stewart, 60, announced Monday that he was retiring after 26 seasons coaching the Lely boys basketball program.
"It's just time to step down," Stewart said. "The average person has no idea — I mean no idea — how much time is spent coaching away from your kids. There's only so much time here. I need to make wise use of this time I have to spend with my kids and grandkids."
Since starting at the school in 1983, Stewart won 456 games and took the Trojans to the state playoffs 11 times. This season's Class 4A-District 12 championship was the coach's eighth district title.
Lely made the Class 3A state championship game in 1994, finishing runner-up. The Trojans were ranked No. 1 in 4A in 2005, but lost in the regional semifinals and finished 25-3.
This past season Lely fell one step short of the state finals. The Trojans went 19-8, losing to Bartow in the 4A regional championship game. Stewart fell one game shy of his 11th season with 20 or more victories.
"Twenty-six years is a long time to be coaching basketball," Ruby said. "It was a surprise to us, but when you start having grandchildren and so forth, (retirement) is inevitable at some point."
For all the victories and titles, Stewart said the accomplishment he's most proud of is improving the lives of his players. Those who worked with the Lely coach would attest to the fact that he has always taught life lessons, as well as discipline on and off the court.
Travis Waters played on Stewart's first Trojans team. He was a junior in 1983 when Stewart came to Lely as a 34-year-old from Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
It was Stewart's first basketball head coaching job, but Waters said he knew his coach was going to be special.
"It's a sad day for all the kids in Collier County that ever got to play under him and for those who will never get to be on the same court with him," Waters said. "He brought the best out of me. They should put a statue of him in front of the school for what he's done for thousands and thousands of kids.
"For putting Lely and Naples on the basketball map throughout the state of Florida, I hope the school names the gym after Coach Stewart."
For all he's done for basketball in the area, Stewart started out as a football guy. He was an all-state quarterback at Willow Run and was inducted into his alma mater's athletic hall of fame in 2004.
Stewart went on to play quarterback at Eastern Michigan and was a guard on the Eagles' basketball team. He graduated in 1971.
Stewart's first coaching job was as a graduate assistant for the Eastern Michigan football team. The Michigan native was the head football coach and an assistant basketball coach at Willow Run before switching roles at Lely — he took over the Trojans basketball team in 1983 and became the football team's defensive coordinator.
After eight years as the defensive coordinator, Stewart gave up his football coaching duties to concentrate fully on basketball.
Lely athletic director Paul Ruby played football for Stewart, who served under longtime coach Merv Ward. Ruby and Stewart were with the Trojans team that went to the 3A championship game in 1987.
"He's a legend around here," said Ruby, who grew up with Stewart's son Stacey and has known the coach since he was 13 years old. "Over the years I've watched him do a lot of great things."
While he could pick a favorite team, Stewart said the 2005 Trojans were his most talented. That squad would have won the state championship, he said, if they wouldn't have had to play the regional championship game at Lely instead of on the road at Fort Lauderdale-Dillard.
Stewart coached three of his sons at Lely. Stacey graduated in 1987, followed by Scott ('89) and Jared ('08). Scott Stewart still holds school records for most points in a season and a career. He also has the most assists and steals in Lely history.
Scott Stewart played at the University of Florida, where he was a senior on the Gators' 1994 Final Four team. He spent 10 years playing professionally in Europe and now coaches First Baptist Academy's third-year boys basketball program.
"He's been talking about (retiring) the last three years," Scott Stewart said of his father. "He wants to be around his grandkids more. People wonder if he's tired, but he always seems to stir up enough passion and energy to come to practice with a lot of intensity."
Now that he's retired from coaching, Stewart said he'd like to travel with his wife, Tamie. He also plans to attend more of her events at Lake Park Elementary, where she is the principal.
In addition to his three sons, Stewart has two daughters. Stephanie, 34, lives in Fort Lauderdale, while Hannah is a sophomore at First Baptist. Stewart has six grandchildren.
Coming from the basketball-crazed Midwest, Stewart was never content letting his sport take a backseat to football, as it does in Florida. He's worked hard to build a basketball program at Lely, evidenced by the large crowds the school draws.
Stewart hopes to continue his role as a basketball ambassador in the area. He plans to continue as a physical education teacher at Lely for at least the next four years, he said, during which he'll help with the team however he is needed.
"Donny has been a mover and shaker for basketball in this county," said Golden Gate coach Joe Consolino, who began going head-to-head with Stewart in 1987 when Consolino coached Barron Collier. "He's been one of the guys to push basketball to the top of the public eye. He's a real strong supporter of the game. We lost somebody really good."
After arriving in Naples nearly three decades ago, Stewart said he never imagined he'd be at Lely this long. Now that the years have come and gone and Stewart could be considered one of the best to have ever coached in Southwest Florida, he wouldn't have it any other way.
"It seems like yesterday, all that took place," Stewart said. "There have been a lot of great kids, a lot of great moments. I consider it a blessing to be able to stay in the same place for 26 years."


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It is time for these chiefs to man up. They seem to be great leaders when times are good and money is flowing.
As many of you know I finally pulled the full time pin just before Christmas. After two months of flurry I am settling down somewhat into a life without going to work every day. Life is boring now. You start looking back and remember the good times and the bad.
I had a great career of thirty seven years and most were rewarding. I have had the honor of being led by some great folks. Sheriff Earl D. Lee I have to say was the greatest. The Sheriff (I still can't call him Earl) was a legend in his own time. You will find few folks that worked with him that will not go along with that statement. Even those he had to tell to leave.
We used to kid him that he could walk on water; he would laugh with us on that one but he knew the real man who did walk on water not him. He believed in the higher power that had been instilled into his Bible belt education.
The Sheriff had the charisma to do the job a being a lawman and an administrator. He had to because he had no one else to answer to but the voters. He kept them happy with a safe community. If we had a serious crime, in particular a murder, he would work until he couldn't walk and then take two steps more.
He was one of the finest investigators that I ever met. He would run 72 hours and look behind him to see who was hanging in there. He would fall on the couch in his office take a few and off we went again. The man loved the chase and when it was over he would find a new one. Several times there were strings of crimes in neighboring counties and we knew he prayed for one to step over the line. "Stay out of Douglas County" meant something then.
When it came to dealing with his officers it was plain – you do what I told you to or someone will be leaving, temporarily or permanently. It wasn't going to be him. Those were the days when there was no merit system or much case law for employees.
The thing about the Sheriff was that he was fair. He never took a step without thinking it out completely. He worried about the families and what effect a hard sanction would be on them. He knew it was up to him in those matters. When it came down to it, he handled it; never laid blame on anyone but him. We went through a hard recession (more like a depression) in those days. The county could not pay its employees. The sheriff took it upon himself to come up with funding to take care of everyone.
I took my fair amount of scoldings from him. I wish he were back to take a few pounds off my rear today. When it was all over he would pat me on the back and tell me, "Do better next time son."
Today there are Chiefs and Sheriffs all the way to the lowest ranked supervisor FTO who will not man up to their responsibilities. When it comes to un-popular decision the FTO blames the sergeant and lieutenant, they blame the command staff, and the command staff blames city hall.
These are usually situations in bad economic times. Staff positions are not filled, benefits reduced, days off, and furlough days. At no time will they take the bull by the horns and admit they were involved in the decision. They won't admit that they agreed to the change and implemented it. Common sense would be to admit their participation and explain why. These are business matters. We had to live with them.
The chief wants to be the good guy. No one wants to be the bad guy. We do have some chiefs out there that take this approach. The same could be said of unfair discipline or disparate treatment. In these cases the chief will surround himself with his Deputy Chief and command staff. Then instead of taking a hit on the decision they will tell the officer that City Hall told him to layoff, discipline, or fire the officer. He never takes responsibility although he was involved in the decision.
It is time for these chiefs to man up. They seem to be great leaders when times are good and money is flowing. Face it folks: a boss should not blame unpopular decisions on someone else. It is bad for morale and causes dissention. Sooner or later it goes viral and the whole city knows there is a problem in the police department. They don't like problems there as we are protecting them the best we can.
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Study of Bendamustine Hydrochloride and Rituximab (BR) Compared With R-CVP or R-CHOP in the First-Line Treatment of Patients With Advanced Indolent Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) or Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) - Referred to as the BRIGHT Study
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The primary objective of the study is to compare the complete response (CR) rate of bendamustine and rituximab (BR) with that of standard treatment regimens of either rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CVP) or rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) in patients with advanced, indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) or mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Drug: bendamustine
Drug: rituximab
Drug: Vincristine
Drug: prednisone
Drug: cyclophosphamide
Drug: Doxorubicin
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Open-Label, Randomized, Parallel-Group Study of Bendamustine Hydrochloride and Rituximab (BR) Compared With Rituximab, Cyclophosphamide, Vincristine, and Prednisone (R-CVP) or Rituximab, Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Vincristine, and Prednisone (R-CHOP) in the First-Line Treatment of Patients With Advanced Indolent Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) or Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
- Compare the complete response (CR) rate at end of treatment of bendamustine and rituximab (BR) with either R-CVP or R-CHOP in the treatment of patients with advanced indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or mantle cell lymphoma. [ Time Frame: 6-8 cycles, or 18-32 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Compare the Safety and Tolerability of BR and R-CVP, or R-CHOP [ Time Frame: Periodically over a 32 week period ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Overall Response Rate (ORR) = Complete Remission (CR) + Partial Remission (PR) [ Time Frame: 32 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Progression-Free Survival [ Time Frame: 286 weeks (5.5 years) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Quality of Life, as determined by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) 30-item core Quality of Life questionnaire (QLQ-C30) [ Time Frame: Periodically over a 32 week period ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Median Durations of Responses [ Time Frame: 32 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|April 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: bendamustine
Investigational Treatment Group (BR)
Drug: bendamustine
bendamustine at 90 mg/m2 iv on days 1 and 2
Active Comparator: R-CHOP
R-CHOP, consisting of rituximab at 375 mg/m2 iv on day 1, vincristine at 1.4 mg /m2 (up to a maximum dose of 2 mg iv) by iv on day 1, prednisone at 100 mg orally on days 1 to 5 of a 21-day cycle, doxorubicin at 50 mg/m2 by iv over 3-5 minutes on day 1, cyclophosphamide iv at 750 mg/m2 on day 1,
Drug: rituximab
rituximab at 375 mg/m2 iv on day 1 of each 28-day cycle for 6 cyclesDrug: Vincristine
vincristine 1.4 mg (up to maximum dose of 2 mg iv)Drug: prednisone
prednisone 100mgDrug: cyclophosphamide
cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m2 iv or 1000 mg/m2 ivDrug: Doxorubicin
Doxorubicin 50 mg/m2 by iv
Active Comparator: R-CVP
R-CVP consisting of rituximab at 375 mg/m2 iv on day 1, vincristine at 1.4 mg /m2 (up to a maximum dose of 2 mg iv) by iv on day 1, prednisone at 100 mg orally on days 1 to 5 of a 21-day cycle, only 1 of the following doses of cyclophosphamide throughout the study:
Drug: rituximab
rituximab at 375 mg/m2 iv on day 1 of each 28-day cycle for 6 cyclesDrug: Vincristine
vincristine 1.4 mg (up to maximum dose of 2 mg iv)Drug: prednisone
prednisone 100mgDrug: cyclophosphamide
cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m2 iv or 1000 mg/m2 iv
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Key Inclusion Criteria:
Histopathologic confirmation of one of the following cluster of differentiation antigen 20 (CD20)+ B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Tissue diagnostic procedures must be performed within 6 months of study entry and with biopsy material available for review:
- follicular lymphoma (grade 1 or 2)
- immunoplasmacytoma/immunocytoma (Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia)
- splenic marginal zone B-cell lymphoma
- extra-nodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa associated lymphoid tumor (MALT) type
- nodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma
- mantle cell lymphoma
Meets one of the following need-for-treatment criteria (with the exception of mantle cell lymphoma for which treatment is indicated):
presence of at least one of the following B-symptoms:
- fever (>38ºC) of unclear etiology
- night sweats
- weight loss of greater than 10% within the prior 6 months
- large tumor mass (bulky disease)
- presence of lymphoma-related complications, including narrowing of ureters or bile ducts, tumor-related compression of a vital organ, lymphoma induced pain, cytopenias related to lymphoma/leukemia, splenomegaly, pleural effusions, or ascites
- hyperviscosity syndrome due to monoclonal gammopathy
- CD20 positive B cells in lymph node biopsy or other lymphoma pathology specimen.
- No prior treatment. Patients on "watch and wait" may enter the study if a recent biopsy (obtained within the last 6 months) is available.
Adequate hematologic function (unless abnormalities related to lymphoma infiltration of the bone marrow or hypersplenism due to lymphoma) as follows:
- hemoglobin of >= 10.0 g/dl
- absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1.5 x 10 9th power/L
- platelet count >= 100 x 10 9th power/L
- Bidimensionally measurable disease (field not previously radiated).
- Able to provide written informed consent.
- electrocorticogram (ECOG) performance status <= 2.
- Estimated life expectancy >= 6 months.
- Serum creatinine of <= 2.0 mg/dL or creatinine clearance >= 50 mL/min.
- alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and Aspartate transaminase (AST) ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN,) and alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin within normal limits.
- Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) >= 50% by multiple gated acquisition scan (MUGA) or cardiac echocardiogram (ECHO), prior for any patient to be treated with R-CHOP.
- A medically accepted method of contraception to be used by women of childbearing potential (not surgically sterile or at least 12 months naturally postmenopausal).
- Men capable of producing offspring and not surgically sterile must practice abstinence or use a barrier method of birth control.
Key Exclusion Criteria:
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), or grade 3 follicular lymphoma.
- Transformed disease. Bone marrow blasts are permitted, however, transformed disease indicating leukemic involvement is not permitted.
- Central nervous system (CNS) lymphomatous involvement or leptomeningeal lymphoma.
- Prior radiation for NHL, except for a single course of locally delimited radiation therapy with a radiation field not exceeding 2 adjacent lymph node regions.
- Active malignancy, other than NHL, within the past 3 years except for localized prostate cancer treated with hormone therapy, cervical carcinoma in situ, breast cancer in situ, or non-melanoma skin cancer following definitive treatment.
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV heart failure, arrhythmias or unstable angina, electrocardiographic evidence of active ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities, or myocardial infarction within the last 6 months. (Prior to study entry, ECG abnormalities at screening must be documented by the investigator as not medically relevant).
- Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positivity.
- Active hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection (Hepatitis B surface antigen testing required).
- Women who are pregnant or lactating.
- Corticosteroids for treatment of lymphoma within 28 days of study entry. Chronically administered low-dose corticosteroids (e.g., prednisone ≤20 mg/day) for indications other than lymphoma or lymphoma-related complications are permitted.
- Any serious uncontrolled, medical or psychological disorder that would impair the ability of the patient to receive therapy.
- Any condition which places the patient at unacceptable risk or confounds the ability of the investigators to interpret study data.
- Any other investigational agent within 28 days of study entry.
- Known hypersensitivity to bendamustine, mannitol, or other study-related drugs.
- The patient has Ann Arbor stage I disease.
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|Sponsor's Medical Expert
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|Responsible Party:
|Teva Pharmaceutical Industries ( Cephalon )
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00877006 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 3, 2009
|Last Updated:
|September 27, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Nitrogen Mustard Compounds
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Antirheumatic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Myeloablative Agonists
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
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