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GAO-11-250: Published: Mar 23, 2011. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2011.
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In 2007, following reports of poor case management for outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) jointly developed the Federal Recovery Coordination Program (FRCP) to coordinate the clinical and nonclinical services needed by severely wounded, ill, and injured servicemembers and veterans. The FRCP, which continues to expand, is administered by VA, and the care coordinators, called Federal Recovery Coordinators (FRC), are VA employees. This report examines (1) whether servicemembers and veterans who need FRCP services are being identified and enrolled in the program, (2) staffing challenges confronting the FRCP, and (3) challenges facing the FRCP in its efforts to coordinate care for enrollees. GAO reviewed FRCP policies and procedures and conducted over 170 interviews of FRCP officials, FRCs, headquarters officials and staff of DOD and VA case management programs, and staff at medical facilities where FRCs are located.
It is unclear whether all individuals who could benefit from the FRCP's care coordination services are being identified and enrolled in the program. Because neither DOD nor VA medical and benefits information systems classify servicemembers and veterans as "severely wounded, ill, and injured," FRCs cannot readily identify potential enrollees using existing data sources. Instead, the program must rely on referrals to identify eligible individuals. Once these individuals are identified, FRCs must evaluate them and make their enrollment determinations--a process that involves considerable judgment by FRCs because of broad criteria. However, FRCP leadership does not systematically review FRCs' enrollment decisions, and as a result, program officials cannot ensure that referred individuals who could benefit from the program are enrolled and, conversely, that the individuals who are not enrolled are referred to other programs. The FRCP faces challenges in determining staffing needs, including managing FRCs' caseloads and deciding when VA should hire additional FRCs and where to place them. According to the FRCP Executive Director, appropriately balanced caseloads (size and mix) are difficult to determine because there are no comparable criteria against which to base caseloads for this program because of its unique care coordination activities. The program has taken other steps to manage FRCs' caseloads, including the use of an informal FRC-to-enrollee ratio. Because these methods have some limitations, the FRCP is developing a customized workload assessment tool to help balance the size and mix of FRCs' caseloads but has not determined when this tool will be completed. In addition, the FRCP has not clearly defined or documented the processes for making staffing decisions in FRCP policies or procedures. As a result, it is difficult to determine how staffing decisions are made, or how this process could be sustained during a change in leadership. Finally, the FRCP's basis for placing FRCs at DOD and VA facilities has changed over time, and the program lacks a clear and consistent rationale for making these decisions, which would help ensure that FRCs are located where they could provide maximum benefit to current and potential enrollees. A key challenge facing the FRCP concerns limitations on sharing information needed to coordinate services for enrollees, who may be enrolled in multiple DOD and VA case management programs. These limitations are often blamed for duplication of services and enrollee confusion, prompting two military wounded warrior programs to cease making referrals to the FRCP. One such limitation existed because VA had not completed public disclosure actions necessary to enable the sharing of information from the FRCP's information system. In January 2011, VA completed the process needed to resolve this issue. In addition, incompatibility among information systems used by different case management programs limits data sharing. Although the ultimate solution to information system incompatibility is beyond the capacity of the FRCP to resolve, the program has initiated an effort to improve information exchange. GAO recommends that VA direct the FRCP Executive Director to establish systematic oversight of enrollment decisions, complete development of a workload assessment tool, document staffing decisions, and develop and document a rationale for FRC placement. GAO received comments from DOD and VA; VA concurred with GAO's recommendations.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Executive Director of the FRCP to clearly define and document the FRCP's decision-making process for determining when and how many FRCs VA should hire to ensure that subsequent FRCP leadership can understand the methods currently used to make staffing decisions.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Open
Comments: As of July 2011, VA had not provided an update for this recommendation. In responding to our report, however, this process is to be revised when the service measurement intensity tool has been implemented. VA plans to test this tool in the fall 2011, but an implementation date has not been provided.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Executive Director of the FRCP to complete development of the FRCP's workload assessment tool that will enable the program to assess the complexity of services needed by enrollees and the amount of time required to provide services to improve the management of FRCs' caseloads.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Open
Comments: In April 2011, the Federal Recovery Coordination Program (FRCP) conducted a two-day offsite with management and 8 Federal Recovery Coordinators (FRCs) to develop and test a trial service intensity measurement tool. Further development and testing is scheduled for the next few months, and the program anticipates field testing the service intensity measurement tool in the fall 2011. Additionally, the FRCP has implemented a workload tracking application within their data management system. The accumulated data will be used to assist with the service intensity measurement tool as well as assist FRCP leadership in balancing FRC workload and resources.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Executive Director of the FRCP to ensure that referred servicemembers and veterans who need FRC services are enrolled in the program by establishing adequate internal controls regarding the FRCs' enrollment decisions. To accomplish this, the FRCP leadership should (1) require FRCs to record in the Veterans Tracking Application the factors they consider in making an enrollment decision, (2) develop and implement a methodology and protocol for assessing the appropriateness of enrollment decisions, and (3) refine the methodology as needed.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Open
Comments: In May 2011, VA reported that they have implemented an interim solution of having Federal Recovery Coordinators (FRCs) present each enrollment decision to management for review and approval. The discussions with management and final decisions are documented in the Veterans Tracking Application. With respect to a longer term solution, program officials have designed a preliminary service measurement intensity tool establishing an objective methodology and protocol for enrollment decisions. Further development and testing is scheduled for the next few months, and the program anticipates field testing this tool in the fall 2011.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Executive Director of the FRCP to develop and document a clear rationale for the placement of FRCs, which should include a systematic analysis of data, such as referral locations, to ensure that future FRC placement decisions are strategic in providing maximum benefit for the program's population.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Open
Comments: As of July 2011, VA had not provided an update to this recommendation. However, in responding to our report, VA officials stated that a placement strategy would be based on a systematic analysis of data over the next six months (ending fall 2011) and would be documented and updated annually in the FRCP business operation planning document.
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VA Dialysis Pilot:Documentation of Plans for Concluding the Pilot Needed to Improve Transparency and AccountabilityGAO-14-646: Published: Sep 2, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 2, 2014.
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VA Health Care:Further Action Needed to Address Weaknesses in Management and Oversight of Non-VA Medical CareGAO-14-696T: Published: Jun 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 18, 2014.
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VA Health Care:Ongoing and Past Work Identified Access, Oversight, and Data Problems That Hinder Veterans' Ability to Obtain Timely Outpatient Medical CareGAO-14-679T: Published: Jun 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2014.
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Updated 3:40pm Friday 21st February 2014 in News
THE families of soldiers murdered in Iraq are demanding a fresh inquest is held into their deaths because new evidence has emerged.
The relatives of Corporals Simon Miller and Russell Aston and Lance Corporals Benjamin Hyde and Thomas Keys have written to the Attorney General, seeking a new investigation into their deaths.
The four Red Caps, who were based at Colchester Garrison, were killed alongside two other Royal Military Policemen near Basra in June 2003 when they were set upon by Iraqis outside a police station.
The families are also calling for the initial inquest verdict of unlawful killing to be quashed.
During that inquest, it was ruled that the troops were killed between 10.30am and 11am on June 24, 2003.
But John Hyde, father of LCpl Hyde, said new evidence from Iraqis at the scene proves the men were alive past 11am and could even have survived until 12pm, which means something could have been done to save them.
He added: "Standing orders state soldiers should carry a mobile phone and 150 rounds of ammunition.
"These boys had no phone and 50 rounds of ammunition.
"Our hope is by having a fresh inquest, a lot of information which was not considered admissible in the first inquest will be heard, that includes information the Army doesn't want brough into the public domain."
A Ministry of Defence statement said: 'Our thoughts are with the families of those killed in this tragic incident.
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Boris says...
Jack222 wrote:The answer is: many thousands. Google "afghanistan civilian deaths", read the Wikipedia article, and use your arithmetical skills. For Iraq, google "iraq civilian deaths", and the estimate is about 115,000, up to December 2011.
Out of interest how many innocent Afghanistanis died in the war we helped start? The figure in Iraq is over 100, 000 innocent Iraqis died...
Obviously this is utterly shameful for Britain, the USA and all the other countries which attacked Afghanistan and Iraq.
However, the British soldiers in this story were murdered, rather than killed in action. Soldiers occupying a foreign country which they have just invaded are obviously exposed to this risk, so such deaths are to be expected.
The implications of this inquest are not clear, but it is important for the families, so we must respect that.
8:10am Fri 21 Feb 14
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12:35pm Fri 21 Feb 14
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12:38pm Fri 21 Feb 14
Boris says...
the mighty wah wrote:Yes, I noticed that too, but for the Gazette, both Iraq and Afghanistan are "faraway countries of which we know little".
Since when has Basra been in Afghanistan?? (ref top of article)
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According to a tweet by Panthers beat writer Joe Person, Ron Rivera interviewed former Bears ST Coach Dave Toub yesterday.
Toub was recently let go by the organization following the dismissal of former Head Coach Lovie Smith, so if Rivera wanted to hire him there are no promotional guarantees tied into bringing him on board. However, Person speculates that Rivera might have to offer him the title of Assistant Head Coach to convince him to come to Charlotte, as Toub has already interviewed for head coaching jobs both this year and last year, and could be on the short list for several teams now that he's available for work.
Hiring Toub would be a major coup for the Panthers, as his ST units in Chicago have often been regarded as among the best in the league (they have been in the top 3 in both PR and KR for the last eight years under his tutelage).
The Panthers might have an advantage to bringing him on board though, since Toub and Rivera have a history of coaching together both in Chicago and Philadelphia. It's possible that selling Toub on the ability to work with an old friend might be enough to seal the deal, but if it's not then Rivera should dangle that Assistant Head Coach title his way as well, because a good Special Teams coach is something the Panthers have lacked for several years now.
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Yes folks, its the dreaded end to another season of dissapointment for redskin fans. After a 3-1 start the qb carousel began when rex grossman failed to show he could correct his affinity to limit the turnover. Injuries also played a big role and suspensions of trent williams and fred davis added to that. This did allow us to see someof the younger guys to determine what we had there. These guys could be pieces that we can rely on if not starters but reliable depth.
For the rising tide who wants to mortage pick after pick for adrew luck or robert griffin, this game shall be a lesson to you all. Some of the play today could be attributed to looking past this last game just wanting the season to end. On the other hand we just don't have the talent to overcome a weak offense and good but unspectacular defense. Not to mention our special teams collapse.
We have multiple needs. Granted everything can't be solved in one offseason but you can sure take a bite out of the apple that is mediocrity. Our number one need is obvious, quarterback. Rex Grossman is terrible. The turnovers killed this team and we could not overcome. That being said i don't think we need a john elway elite type signal caller. We need a guy who can make accurate throws and not turn the ball over. Whether this is Matt flynn possibly or rg3,tannehill,foles, cousins, etc. we need desperately to find that guy.
Our offensive line is a joke. I admire willie smith for showing some flash but generally he allowed alot of pressures and hurries on the qb. He could ge better just by being moved to the right side or by working hard in the offseason. I thought Maurice hurt was serviceable. He had moments where he made some good blocks down field but has some ways to go. Jamaal brown is garbage, will montgomery is weak and undersized, and chris chester is far from elite. Trent williams is also a blunt away from sitting for a year. However this is where we can make the most improvement this offseason. Possibly signing carl nicks and drafting multiple linemen in the first 4 rounds of the draft can go along way to solidifying this line.
There are not alot of options at cornerback in free agency. Maybe we could go after a courtland finneganbut i think we going to have to stick withwhat we got for now and possibly pick a guy with a 4th or 5th round pick. We have alot of the same guys at wideout. Maybe Hankerson can breakout from this years injury and be spectacular but we might have to go after a guy like dwayne bowe. Other possibilities could be spending an early pick on a dwight jones or marvin mcnutt. Fred Davis obviously has to be resigned but we should not break the bank. I don't think we are as bad as it may seem at wideout but we lack that playmaker/td maker that a team relies on in the redzone.
I think we are pretty good on the defensive front. Carriker is a free agent so we might have to bring in a replacement if the price is too high. The lb core looks solid but we need young depth there because london fletcher isn't getting any younger. I am not opposed to maybe bolstering the nt position and sliding cofield over to end and getting a young fast lb that can cover tight ends. This is also a problem at safety. We get burned by tight ends constantly. I feel we might be forced to take a chance and resign an injury prone landry. Otogwe has also been hurt, doughty is a backup at best, and gomesis still young. We might be best served drafting a safety with a late pick or getting someone who is at least not prone to injury in free agency.
Again I stress the fact that trading multiple picks to move up in the draft is the biggest mistake this franchise could make. We have to have faith that Shanahan has been scouting guys and we could secure a qbcapable of taking this team where it needs to go. We also have to have faith that shanahan sees the obvious deficiencies and takes steps to improve those deficiencies. We can do nothing but look forward to the prospects that this could be the year we turn this once pround franchise around and obtain the glory that is rightfully ours.


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At the Caps-Pens game a couple weeks ago, the lady in front of us was only too happy to show off her "Crosby Sucks/Malkin Swallows" shirt. It reminded me of the urinal stickers with Crosby's face someone passed out at the playoffs last year or the year before.
I know ad hominem yo-mama jokes and suggestions about an opposing fan's parentage and their possible sexual relations with livestock are part of the sandlot mentality of sports and will never leave, but there's this line I've seen crossed lately that has me equal parts disgusted and confused.
Ignore the fact that her shirt (and others like it) are blatantly, offensively homophobic. Ignore for a second that she probably has children Crosby or Malkin's age and would be livid if they were treated similarly.
Focus instead on the fact that the slogan on her shirt has nothing to do with the game--is so jump-the-shark, in fact, that you can't even classify it as a good taunt.
It's such a lame, straw-man kind of character assassination that it does nothing but point out how poorly the wearer/taunter understands hockey--probably all sports--and certainly the concept of sportsmanship. If we're going to go that far in the Not Relevant Insults Sweepstakes, why don't we just break the good old racist, ethnic, and religious slurs out of the trunk? It makes about as much sense.
Lord knows I'm not a prude and I've got a potty-mouth problem at games. But, please, ignorant fans, leave your weird, off-target shirts, stickers, and jeers at home. Or, better yet, don't buy into them in the first place. If you want to rant, there's plenty of material right there on the ice.
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So many questions will get answered in the next week, but as we sit here on the eve of the 2011 NFL combine we would be remiss if we didn't discuss Cam Newton's comments yesterday to Peter King, and some other things he said per Dan Wetzel of Yahoo sports.
The report came out yesterday afternoon that Newton in a conference call with the media regarding his deal with Under Armor boldly proclaimed "I see myself as an entertainer-slash-icon [...] God has given me this platform"; a simple two part quote that sounds like the brainchild of part Deion Sanders, and part Tim Tebow. Moreover, the quote seemed like PR suicide for a guy needing desperately to sell himself to teams, especially given he then went on to tell Dan Wetzel, in response to critics who say he's a one year wonder:
"I'm aware of that statement [...] I don't want to sound arrogant but I did something in one year people couldn't do in their whole collegiate careers. We had a chance to do something great and we did it."
If proclaiming you want to be an 'icon' a day before the combine is loading the gun, that second statement is cocking it. So what is Cam Newton? Is there a category to put him into? Can we simply write him off as another in the long line of self-aggrandizing athletes? Least of all, why is it that I'm strangely endeared to him after reading these comments when all logic says I should be running away in horror? I'll look at these questions... after the jump.
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If you saw the post earlier this week by Jaxon about gambling opportunities surrounding the combine, or listened to CSR Radio this week where we discussed it in depth the overwhelming ridiculousness about the nature of this stuff. In the 21st century football is constantly teetering somewhere between ludicrous, sublime and sublimely ludicrous. No longer is it just about "Did that kid play well in college? Well... take him" it's now about height, hand size, fluid hips, college offense, wonderlic test, 40 time... and so on. Despite every piece of minutia, every metric analyzed and all the scrutinization- teams still pick busts, and franchises are still searching for their Rosetta Stone to figure out what the key is to a good draft.
As teams keep trying to hone their evaluation techniques, players keep trying to obfuscate their weaknesses. Worried about throwing at the combine? Don't do it! Afraid you've eaten a few too many cheeseburgers since that bowl game and want to be ready for your Pro Day 40? Don't run it in Indianapolis... afraid someone might realize you're not a very nice person? Time to get a PR team and a media coach. Cam Newton has a PR team, he has a media coach, Warren Moon is charged with 'preparing him for the next level' (whatever that means) and none of that mattered when it came to Tuesday's comments- now, Moon is telling Mike Florio that:
"You try and filter that as much as you possibly can but I don't go into every interview with him [...] Again, that's just how confident the kid is. He trains with a lot of confidence, he has a lot of confidence in his ability, and he could be a little bit more careful with some of the things he says that kind of show that confidence a little bit too much. Sometimes confidence should be something that you keep inside and something that you should just show when you go out on the football field or whatever arena that you are competing in and that's something he's got to do a better job of."
Is it wrong that I kind of like Cam Newton a little more after reading that? Is it wrong that I kind of like seeing him for what he is, an arrogant, cocky, speak-before-thinking 21 year old who's showing every bit of his age?
I think I prefer it to the perfect "Yes, sir", "No, ma'am" , perfectly groomed media darling that's as much college athlete as airbrushed model on the cover of a magazine. These kids are cocky, they are brash... spend some time reading some of the Twitter feeds of some athletes who don't have a vested interest in seeming 'perfect' and you get a pretty good idea of confidence run amok, and needing to be harnessed. Most players come into the league without a good head on their shoulders, they are wild stallions needing to be broken before they truly become useful. If you believe that the other 31 guys picked in the first round will be the picture of meekness, while Newton is the proverbial 'black sheep' then you're kidding yourself.
Newton's quotes I've already talked about should throw up red flags to most everyone reading them, rest assurred I understand I'm definitely in the minority when I say I appreciate them, but here are some other quotes from Dan Wetzel's article that may make you think again and realize that if this is Cam Newton at the height of his honesty (as ill advised as it is) then maybe it can be harnessed, maybe he can be broken. Imagine for a second these quotes aren't from Cam Newton and ask yourself "does this sound like a guy I would want?"
On his days in juco, following being dismissed from Florida:
"I have no regrets [...] Yeah, I made mistakes. My maturation was a product of going to Brenham, Texas, and Blinn College. [...] (my dad) He said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare,' [...] That struck a fire under me. That was my drive."
On the scrutinization he'll face at the combine:
"I'm just going in there and being myself and hopefully they will see what I'm saying is true [...] I don't think I'm the same person."
On what it takes in the NFL:
"Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, you look at how good they are every year [...] The question is how do they do it? Nothing you can point to but hard work. In the offseason. In the regular season."
What are we to believe? That Newton remembered his media training halfway through an interview? Did he realize that he screwed up and needed to backtrack to make himself look better? Perhaps, but maybe... just maybe he's not as stupid as many of us like to think.
When asked about Cam Newton and what he thinks his wonderlic score will be Darin Gantt (whose been as harsh about Newton as any) said "He's a bright kid. Wouldn't be surprised to see high one."
Personally, I think Newton's personality is like Newton's play on the field- hard to categorize, tough to pigeon hole, near impossible to work out for sure, risky... but there's a spark there, a certain something there that makes me think there's something to build on. I believe it was Plato who said "With great power comes great responsibility" wait, that was Spider-man... regardless, I think Newton has the power and starting tomorrow he'll need to show us he can at least develop the responsibility.


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A an 11-year-boy watched in horror as a coyote snatched and killed a small dog last Tuesday behind a Winfield home around 9 p.m., according to the Daily Herald.
The home in the Churchill Woods subdivision backs up to the Illinois Prairie Path. The boy and his mother had taken their three dogs outside when a coyote appeared and took Coco, a 4-year-old Yorkshire terrier. The boy chased after the coyote with a bat, but the dog was found dead in the path about 30 minutes later, according to the Herald.
Two small dogs survived a coyote attack in the backyard of a Wheaton home Sept. 27. About a week earlier, a puppy was found dead after a coyote attack in a nearby subdivision in unincorporated Wheaton.
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The coyotes will learn to avoid places there they feel uncomfortable, according to the city's website.
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The primary function of the kidney is to filter waste from our blood. About 50 gallons of blood enter our kidneys every day. They also process approximately two quarts of extra water. The wastes that are filtered, and the extra water, turn into urine. The urine then travels down tubes, called ureters and is stored in the bladder until excretion (urination).
Causes and Risk Factors of Renal Cell CarcinomaWe have yet to identify causes of renal cell carcinoma, but researchers have identified several known risk factors for the disease. A risk factor is something that increases the likelihood that we may develop kidney cancer. Renal cell carcinoma risk factors include:
Symptoms of Renal Cell CarcinomaUnfortunately, renal cell carcinoma symptoms usually do not appear until the disease has progressed. In fact, it is usually detected "accidentally" when another symptom or condition is being investigated.
Symptoms of renal cell carcinoma include:
- blood in the urine, either seen after urination or microscopically
- abdominal mass
- pain felt on the side or or lower back
- unintentional weight loss
- fatigue
Diagnosis Renal Cell CarcinomaA palpable mass or the finding of a mass on an x-ray done for another reason are usually what leads a physician to suspect kidney cancer. The first step in diagnosing renal cell carcinoma is through various imaging tests and blood test. Ultrasound, CT scan, MRI, and intravenous pyelogram (IVP) are all imaging methods that may be used to help diagnose kidney cancer.
Ultimately, it is a kidney biopsy that will confirm the presence or absence of cancer and what type it is. A kidney biopsy can be done through a fine needle aspiration biopsy technique.
If cancer is found, more tests may need to be done to determine if the kidney cancer has spread to nearby tissues and organs. This is called staging.
Treatment of Renal Cell CarcinomaSurgery to remove all of part of the kidney is standard treatment for renal cell carcinoma. People with early stage RCC are the best candidates for for surgery, but those who have a later stages of the disease may not be healthy enough to withstand surgery.
Radiation therapy may be used to treat kidney cancer, but is often ineffective. Some tumors just don't respond well like other types of cancer. Radiation therapy is most often used palliatively, to relieve discomfort caused by the effects of the cancer spreading.
Chemotherapy is is not commonly used in treating renal cell carcinoma. It is often used along with immunotherapy or when immunotherapy is not effective.
Immunotherapy, also called biologic therapy, is a treatment option for many types of kidney caner. Immunotherapy drugs stimulate the immune system to help fight cancer. Common immunotherapy drugs used to treat kidney cancer include interferon or interleukin-2.
Several targeted therapy drugs have been approved for use in some people with kidney cancer. These kind of drugs block and prevent the growth and spreading of malignant cells. They do this by attacking the cells directly or preventing the growth of blood vessels that provide tumors nourishment to grow. Approved targeted therapy drugs include:
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With "black Friday" in the rear view mirror, one KOTA Territory organization is asking for your gift of a donation.
The United Way of the Black Hills has less than four weeks to see if it can reach its annual goal of $2,295,000.
Youth groups such as Girls Inc. and The Club For Boys are especially needy for the donations because of the variety of services that they provide.
Currently 75 percent of the annual goal has been raised but this campaign is way behind last years at this point.
"48 percent of the donations that we get are directed to kids programs. Anything to do with youth 48 percent of the United Way dollar here locally goes to kids. Compared to last year, we're about $150,000 away from where we were at this point," said Renee Parker, Executive Director of the United Way of the Black Hills.
Parker also said that the Northern Hills region consisting of Belle Fourche, Deadwood, Lead, and Spearfish is in most dire shape with $68,000 needed to be raised to meet its goal.


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Plaquemines Parish, La. - The U.S. Coast Guard says a wellhead damaged earlier this week off Plaquemines Parish has been capped.
The wellhead, owned by Swift Energy was damaged Tuesday by a crewboat belonging to the same company. Skimmer boats have collected 1200 gallons of oily water.
FOX 8 received this news release from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans Thursday afternoon:
Responders secured the CM-186 wellhead
leak in Lake Grande Ecaille Bay nine miles southwest of Port Sulphur at
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Responders with Wild Well Control were able to
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In October, American Ballet Theatre presented its fall season which included a new ballet, Clear, by acclaimed young Australian choreographer Stanton Welch. Set to a Bach concerto for violin and oboe, Clear is a 20-minute ballet for seven men and one woman. It is both athletic and haunting, with a classical dance vocabulary that incorporates modern gestures.
The men's scenes are bathed in golden yellow with faint white patterns. When the woman enters, the stage is washed in deep blue causing the patterns to show up better, giving those scenes a very romantic and pretty moonlight-and-stars feeling. (Interestingly, the French word for clear, "clair," is also one of the words for light, as in "clair de lune," or moonlight.) The piece ends with the lead man holding the woman, who is reaching up to heaven or to the stars. The light fades down to one central spot on them, then irises down to just illuminate the woman's hand.
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Shedding light on the dance is Lisa Pinkham, a Bay Area-based dance lighting designer. She originally went to college to be a writer/photographer, but caught the lighting bug when one of her roommates, a theatre design student, asked if she wanted to help backstage. "Lighting seems very natural to me," she says. "It made total sense."
She has been doing theatrical lighting for 19 years, "since 1990 almost exclusively dance." She has stayed in the performing arts and hasn't branched into architectural lighting like so many LDs these days, because "there's no music involved in architecture." For her, a project "needs to have romance and it needs to have heart, and architecture just isn't very interesting to me. I mean, I appreciate it, but...."
Pinkham got the call to design Clear because she's done other work with Welch. "He's great because he's very open," she says. "He has a lot of his own ideas, and he's fun to work with."
Since the ABT season offered very little design time--a few hours here and there during tech week--Pinkham and Welch decided to keep the lighting very simple. "We talked about the ballet in terms of who are the men and who is the woman, and what's going on? And it turned out to be a very simple idea: The men are chaos and the woman represents clarity and calmness. He had related part of his personal life to the ballet. In his own life there was a lot of chaos, but about one thing he was very clear, and that helped build the ballet.
"The biggest decision we had to make was what color did we want," she continues. "We went with Lee 104 yellow and Rosco 80 blue because together they make white. I knew he wanted to have cues like, 'Now the woman's on, now it's cool; now the men are on, now it's hot,' and I would be unhappy if we bounced back and forth, but if you work yellow and blue together you can go through white to get to either end. To your eye, watching it go from yellow to blue, it could flow better."
The dance floor is covered with templates in white; from the balcony it almost looks like a carpet of small swirls or abstract rosettes. "It's 'Tortellini,' one of the new gobos in Rosco's catalog," the designer explains. "I like to use frontlight templates because it helps with face light; it helps to bring the people out but not flatten them too much. To me it's more interesting."
Pinkham made only one equipment request. "We did ask for an AutoYoke for the last look of the ballet. It's a 50º Source Four that starts full open and we close it to just be big enough to get her hand."
Other than the time crunch, Clear was a technically straightforward design to implement. "It was questionable whether ABT was going to be able to get the AutoYoke," the designer explains. "If they had said they didn't have any place to put it--the plot's very full, there's not a lot of room up there--we would have had to do it a different way and it wouldn't have had the same feel to it."
The New York Times proclaimed Clear "a major hit," praising Welch's "explosive, fiercely danced" choreography, its "aggressive exuberance," and the "ethereal, mystical quality" of ballerina Julie Kent.
Just before Clear, Pinkham lit a new Julia Adam piece for the Joffrey Ballet, and she has another Julia Adam dance for San Francisco Ballet in February. "And Joffrey's doing Astarte again in April," she concludes. "We're going to do new lighting for it, with film and rock and roll, and all kinds of things going on with it."


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The Junior League of San Francisco (JLSF) Enabling Funds committee provides emergency and bridge funding grants to San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit organizations that face an urgent and unexpected short-term financial need. The grant recipient organizations must clearly demonstrate that their program goals and priorities align with the JLSF Mission and JLSF focus area of Empowering our Community Through Life Skills Education. The JLSF Enabling Funds grants (up to a maximum of $5,000 per organization) enable existing nonprofit organizations to continue to provide needed services and programs in the community.
Over the past four years, the JLSF has awarded more than $230,000 in Enabling Funds grants to various San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits, providing vital assistance to these organizations so that they may continue to serve the community.
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If you happened to miss it, James Kirkland was again arrested and jailed in Texas, and now more details about the alleged attack are out. Kirkland's girlfriend claims that he choked her twice, prompting her to call police for fear of further violence, leading to his arrest.
Apparently [Frances Diane] Campbell became angry with Kirkland for checking out another woman [the mother of his child] at the night club. ... During the car ride [home], they once started arguing and Campbell tells police that Kirkland allegedly grabbed her by the neck. Campbell, who was driving, pulled over in the parking lot of a local CVS Pharmacy and the alleged physical confrontation continued. She told police that Kirkland once again grabbed her by the neck. In order to calm him down, Campbell says she was forced to apologize.
Once the second argument finished and they went home, Campbell ran upstairs in fear of further violence and called the police. Upon arriving to her house, the police were told by Campbell that Kirkland caused pain and discomfort, but he did not strangle her hard enough to cut off the path of air.
Police found a 5-6 inch scratch to the front of her neck and finger nail/finger prints on the back, left and right side of her neck.
If the charges stick, Kirkland's boxing career would probably be functionally over. He's a repeat offender and has done two notable stints in jail already, and at 29, he's not old, but he's not getting younger. His career has already been on hold as he's been trying to sue his way out of promotional and managerial contracts with Golden Boy Promotions and other parties, as well as parting with trainer Ann Wolfe, who is often credited for stabilizing his life and career.


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As noted several days ago, the New England Patriots released tight end Aaron Hernandez after he was arrested on murder charges. The team also gave fans a chance to erase him from their lives as well, as they offered fans a chance to trade in their Hernandez jerseys.
Clearly, the Hernandez saga is a black eye to the team and to the league, in addition to being just a sad thing in general. I can understand why the team is allowing this, and it is a grand gesture.
The act, though, got me thinking. Thankfully, we have not had to deal with such a serious player issue as Cardinals fans. We have, though, even recently, gone through the Daryl Washington arrest. However, as fans, I am sure at some point we have felt ashamed or angry at a jersey purchase, either because of what the player was as a person or because of his play on the field.
Which leads me to ask this discussion question -- if the team granted you one jersey exchange, for whatever reason, who would it be and why?
I have only purchased two Cardinals jerseys -- one was Matt Leinart, but it was after he was cut and we got it for five bucks. It was simply to have a Cards jersey and it was cheap. No regrets there. The other is a Beanie Wells jersey. I LOVED Beanie coming out of college, and I wanted to be different than just getting a Larry Fitzgerald jersey (that's what everyone does).
I would trade in the Beanie jersey for a Fitz jersey. Beanie never lived up to anyone's expectations and had his Cardinals stint end in a fizzle -- a non-contact fumble and some questionable comments.
Do you have any buyers' remorse for some jersey? Tell us about it. What would you trade it in for?
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