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like mary said, finding a quality therapist for bpd is difficult but not impossible.
just remember there will be ups and downs throughout the healing process. and it will take time.
just keep your head up and remember that it will get better.View Thread
i know that the feelings you are both talking about are difficult to over come and i do think that you are both mentally ill. i am not a doctor and i don't have the answers but i can say that i had some of the same feelings you are experiencing when i was 13. if you are truely a child borderline then you need to get help now before you are like me. i am 27 and in the first stable home i have ever known. it takes a lot out of a person to act like nothin bothers you on the outside while on the inside you just scream and cry and wish someone understood what is going on in your head!
i hate to tell you this but i agree with mary that you are not a borderline but i do think you need some counselling at the least. there are so many things that could be the issue but like i told nicole i am not a dr so i can't diagnose you. please please seek out a therapist that will help you. the feelings that you are experiencing at the age of 26 are not normal!
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venting on here is a wonderful way of coping. i am glad this is available to ppl like us.
i am also a survivor of abuse but mine was my stepmom. if it makes you feel better, you will get thru this.
as for feeling alone, i can be in a roomful of people that i know and love and still feel that way. it is because i am different and i put on a face or front for everyone around me so that they don't get close enough to hurt me or to really know who i am. but when i cut those same ppl out of my life it hurts me more than if i had let them get to know the real me.
i don't get on here as often as mary and i am glad that she is here for you. but if you need to vent this is the best place to do it.
i will be in touch when i can get online again.
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I am a survivor of BPD and depression. i know what it is like to feel like you have no options as i imagine your husband is feeling right now. i have been on all three of the medications that you listed and wanted to remind you that different medications work for different ppl.
as for the bpd i can give you a couple of book titles that were helpful to me if you would like.
it is said that knowing your triggers is important, and i am not saying it isn't, but for a borderline sometimes the triggers are always different. i learned that a long time ago and i have been fighting bpd and depression most of my life. it wasn't until about 6 years ago that i was diagnosed and it took a therapist that knew what to look for to figure it out.
something you could try is calling a few therapists in your area and seeing if they have experience in diagnosing and dealing with borderlines.
just remember if he has bpd there is not a "cure" but there is help out there. and it will get a lot worse before it gets better if he has it. as he works thru the issues in therapy it will get better though.
i hope that this is helpful but if not i apologize. i would not mind providing you with more information as time goes on but at the moment i am being called away by children.
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i hope that this has helped and if not i am sorry.View Thread
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Very seldom do liberals and conservatives agree on much of anything these days, but there is one area where we should have some common cause. Over at the liberal website Alternet, Bill Berkowitz has written a piece called, "Cruel Country: Debtors Prisons Are Punishing the Poor Across America":
In the 1990s, Jack [Dawley's] drug and alcohol addictions led to convictions for domestic violence and driving under the influence, resulting in nearly $1,500 in fines and costs in the Norwalk Municipal Court. Jack was also behind on his child support, which led to an out-of-state jail sentence." After serving three and a half years in Wisconsin, Dawley, now sober for 14 years, is still trying to catch up with the fines he owes, and it has "continue[d] to wreak havoc on his life."
…The jailing of people unable to pay fines and court costs is no longer a relic of the 19th century American judicial system. Debtors' prisons are alive and well in one-third of the states in this country.
In 2011, Think Progress' Marie Diamond wrote: "Federal imprisonment for unpaid debt has been illegal in the U.S. since 1833. It's a practice people associate more with the age of Dickens than modern-day America. But as more Americans struggle to pay their bills in the wake of the recession, collection agencies are using harsher methods to get their money, ushering in the return of debtor's prisons."
…This year's ACLU report….points out that many poor "Ohioans … convicted of a criminal or traffic offense and sentenced to pay a fine an affluent defendant may simply pay … and go on with his or her life [find the fine] unaffordable [launching] the beginning of a protracted process that may involve contempt charges, mounting fees, arrest warrants, and even jail time. The stark reality is that, in 2013, Ohioans are being repeatedly jailed simply for being too poor to pay fines."
According to the report, Ohio courts in Huron, Cuyahoga, and Erie counties "are among the worst offenders. In the second half of 2012, over 20% of all bookings in the Huron County Jail were related to failure to pay fines.
…CBS Money Watch's Alain Sherter recently reported that "Roughly a third of U.S. states today jail people for not paying off their debts, from court-related fines and fees to credit card and car loans, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Such practices contravene a 1983 United States Supreme Court ruling that they violate the Constitutions' Equal Protection Clause."
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Jack Dawley: "You'd go do your ten days, and they'd set you up a court date and give you another 90 days to pay or go back to jail… It was hard for me to obtain work, so I fell back into the cycle of going to jail every three months."
Paying money to people you owe can't just be an "optional" thing. The government must be allowed to force people to pay their debts or our entire system of commerce would break down. That being said, it's immoral, unconstitutional and even counter-productive to put someone in jail for being truly unable to pay his debts. How are you going to earn enough to pay what you owe if you're in jail?


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My graduate and postdoctoral training were in the areas of psychological services, developmental psychology, poverty, and public policy with mentors whose backgrounds were in psychology, sociology, and economics. Thus, I have been trained across several social science disciplines, and consequently, I do not identify with one particular discipline. The majority of my interdisciplinary research program is centered around family-related factors, such as poverty and family structure, and their influence on food insecurity/food assistance program participation (i.e. indicators of poverty) and obesity; however, I also realize that nutrition and health do not occur in isolation. For that reason, I have also focused on stress, social support, depression, and cardiovascular health.
My target populations are socio-economically disadvantaged and vulnerable groups with a specific emphasis on racial and ethnic minorities, women, and children. To conduct my research I have primarily used longitudinal secondary data, but I have recently begun a complementary focus on community-engaged research. My interdisciplinary focus has provided me the opportunity to make significant contributions to various disciplines, including child development, family, and public health.
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Scholar, "Demographic and Socio-economic Determinants of Food Insecurity and Food Assistance Program Participation and Their Relation to Women's Body Mass Index (BMI)." NIH/ORWH K12 Program in Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH). 2010-2012 ($200,000)
Principal Investigator, "Trends in Food Assistance Program Participation on Childhood Weight Trajectories." United States Department of Agriculture Research Innovation and Development Grant in Economics (RIDGE) Grant, 2008-2009 ($35,000) with L. Francis.
Co-Investigator, "The Effect of Food Insecurity on the Physical, Cognitive, and Socio-emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers." United States Department of Agriculture Research, Innovation, and Development Grant in Economics (RIDGE) Grant, 2007-2008 ($40,000) with A. Jacknowitz.
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Hernandez, D. C. & Pressler, E. (in press). Gender disparities in the association between cumulative stress and adolescent weight status. Preventive Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.01.013
*Soltero, E.G., Hernandez, D. C., O'Connor, D. P., Lee, R. E. (2015). Does Social Support Mediate the Relationship Among Neighborhood Disadvantage, Incivilities, Crime and Physical Activity? Preventive Medicine, 72, 44-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.12.030
*Okamoto, H., *Fisher, F. D., Hernandez, D. C., Reitzel, L. R., Kendzor, D. E., Kish, D., Businelle, M. S. (2015). Trait mindfulness and stress among homeless adults. Health Behavior and Policy Review, 2, 122 – 129. DOI: 10.14485/HBPR.2.2.4.
Hernandez, D. C. (2015). The impact of cumulative family risks on various levels of food insecurity. Social Science Research, 50, 292-302. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.12.007
Hernandez, D. C., Reitzel, L., Wetter, D. W., & McNeill, L. (2014). Social support and cardiovascular risk factors among Black adults. Ethnicity and Disease, 24, 444-450.
Hernandez, D. C. & *Pressler, E. (2014). Accumulation of childhood poverty on young adult overweight or obese status: Race/ethnicity and gender disparities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68, 478-484. DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203062.
Hernandez, D. C., *Pressler, E., Dorius, C., Mitchell, K. S. (2014). Does Family Instability Make Girls Fat? Gender Differences Between Instability and Weight. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76, 199-214. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12080.
Hernandez, D. C., Marshall, A., *Mineo, C. (2014). Maternal Depression Mediates the Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Food Insecurity. Journal of Women's Health, 23(1): 29-37. DOI:10.1089/jwh.2012.4224.
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"Today, in our field, there is so much talent and recognition that we are reaching a saturation point. An artist should no longer strive only for breathtaking craftsmanship; he should, instead, try to help us live better, either by dressing the wounds that are constantly being opened by society, or by offering solutions to get us out of the mess we're in…But it's going to be difficult and we have a lot of work to do." - Jean 'Moebius' Giraud
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Today is the last day of my convention-ing. My compatriots and I head back home from the Boston Comic Con (BTW, the convention itself is a quaint show, but its size, venue, expected attendance are a great way for me to wind down from 4 weeks worth of hand shaking and commission drawing...whew!) and I swear it couldn't come any sooner. I'm tired, I've got a slight case of bronchitis, I'm on a steady diet of NyQuil, DayQuil, and Mucinex and I haven't run consistently for weeks now. I feel gross.
That's not me complaining, that's just how things turned out.
On the upside? Well, there isn't enough time in my early morning to tell you ALL of the cool things I've done this month. Also because forming a list of cohesive thoughts isn't difficult - it's an impossibility. Thank you, Robitussin DM! But I have been absolutely blessed with so many things this past month! I've met creators, I've read new books I never would've been exposed to, and MOST IMPORTANTLY - I met a a million and a dozen fans. And I don't care if I am sick - if it means I get to shake the hands and thank each and everyone who has shown me their support over this giant accident tha I call a career, it's well worth it. Thank you SO much to all of you who dropped by, said 'Hello!', 'I loved your work since the Verotik days, man!' I'll take all of that because it means the world to me.
We even got invited to go to an early Halloween party last night! What fun! And just as a pre-emptive strike/note; if there are those of you who happen to see some crazy person dressed in a full-on Scooby Doo costume who seems to resemble me, that's not me. I swear. You don't have proof. And even if you did, I'll deny it outright. Hehe.
Last, I want to give Jason Schachter my thanks. I've never seen a guy bust his hump in setting up my and Stephane Roux table, pimp our work, coordinate hotel rooms, play part-time manager, promoter, taxi service and personal assistant and not ONCE complain about it. Well...okay. Once. But everyone's allowed a moment to gripe, yeah? So this one's to Jay. Stop your griping.
Okay, that's all for now. I'm coughing up phlegm and I'm sure you wanted to read about that. Enjoy your Sunday everyone. I can't wait to get back home.
But for now, enjoy The Avengers.
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You rocked that Avengers commission, Eric. Craig is a lucky man.
Glad you had a great time in Boston and it was great seeing you, Scooby Do.
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This rocks! I'm looking forward to seeing/hearing more about your upcoming projects.
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Shoot! Speaking of Verotik days, that's where I first saw your work, (I did some anthology stories and Sunglasses After Dark) However I did pick up the way old Eon Flux book from forever ago. I really love your work and have always found it very inspiring and humbling. Your stuff is like a nice bit of sweet hot candy in the vanilla comic book art world.
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This article covers how to troubleshoot issues when adding a Hyper-V host in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Common errors that are logged in the VMM Console when an "Add virtual machine host" job fails:
Error (421) Agent installation failed on servername.domain.com because of a WS-Management configuration error.
Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the servername.domain.com server.
Error (2916) VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent servername.domain.com was lost.
Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server servername.domain.com.
Perform the steps documented in the More Information section to identify the cause of the issue.
On the Hyper-V host, review the "vmmAgent.msi_date_time.log" file that's located in the %systemdrive%\ProgramData\VMMLogs directory.
Note: This log file may not exist if the failure occurs early in the installation process.
VMMCA is a diagnostic tool you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that are either running VMM server roles or are acting as virtual machine hosts. The VMMCA scans the hardware and software configurations of the computers you specify, evaluates them against a set of predefined rules, and then provides you with error messages and warnings for any configurations that are not optimal.
To download the Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer, visit the following Microsoft website:
Verify the ports used by VMM to communicate with the Hyper-V host are not blocked by a firewall. By default, VMM uses the following ports to communicate with the Hyper-V host:
TCP port 443 TCP port 5985 TCP port 5986
For more information on the ports used by VMM, please reference the following TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/gg710871.aspx
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Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf Event ID: 3012 Description: The performance strings in the Performance registry value is corrupted when process Performance extension counter provider. The BaseIndex value from the Performance registry is the first DWORD in the Data section, LastCounter value is the second DWORD in the Data section, and LastHelp value is the third DWORD in the Data section.
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I love the movie, "The Notebook." I'm a hopeless romantic. I cry at weddings. I cry when my friends get hurt by life's daily tumbles. I also cry when I watch Marley & Me and the Lion King — every single time.
I'm completely okay with all of this.
It's what makes me, me. It's something I'm never going to try and change. I"m comfortable with who I am, my faults included, and maybe it's my willingness to wear my heart on my sleeve that is my biggest weakness.
Beyond being a caring person, I am also a storyteller. A quirky writer. A creative soul.
I view my world through a lens where I see situations for how they will later play out at the mercy of my pen, or through the unforgiving eye of my video camera, or through code into my Web site. This serves me well as a writer, but not as a sensitive girl.
This is because I view my relationships, regardless of type, through the same lens. But what kills me about this is I am only one character in these stories, just a single character. I can only move myself through them. The others' future moves are just as mysterious to me as mine are to them. I don't know the outcome. And in the end, the outcome is left in the other person's hands – meaning I may never know exactly what will happen until it has already played out. You'll never know exactly what people will say, do or feel. Even if you think you know all there is to know about someone, they're still bound to surprise you. Especially when the plot thickens.
I guess to put it bluntly, everyone that we come across is a contributing author to our life story. We can only react to how they act towards us. I guess that's where the phrase, "life is about the give and take," came from.
At one point or another, we all wish that we could cheat at our own stories. Maybe flip to the last page to ensure that it will all turn out okay, or skim the words through a difficult time so that we didn't have to feel and act out every aching, brutal moment of it.
But we can't. These moments are what make us grown and learn as individuals.
I'm living my own story, but I'm not writing it.
The minor control-freak in me is positively terrified by that statement. I just need to trust that the authors of my story have my best interest in mind for me, also known as a happy ending. Because what I do have control of is what authors I surround myself with. I need to seek out and trust in the goodness of people. And I always need to live out my story, trying to make the right move at all times, regardless of what is thrown at me by others.
Deep breaths. It's time to trust that it will all end up okay. Believe in all things good in this world. Because if it's not okay, it's not the end. And those are absolutely beautiful words to live by.
For more on Lisa, including fabulous DIY how-to's, funny confessions and embarrassing realizations, you can check out her personal blog.
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Belly buttons are weird. Why are they sometimes innie and sometimes outie? Is the mid-point an inbetweenie? So many mysteries to consider.
But we have never considered whether belly buttons were desperate. That is, until now, when Tracy Anderson opus, Goop lady and controversial Most Beautiful Woman winner, Gwyneth Paltrow, was left figuratively bludgeoned and lifeless on the floor in the early hours of this morning. No, her Vanity Fair profile hadn't dropped early. It was something much worse — she had worn a crop top, "brazenly" exposing her "desperate" belly button and her unseemly 41-year-old flesh to the scathing eyeballs of Telegraph Fashion at sophisticated dinner to celebrate 'The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet'. How could she?!
Does she not know that she is over the age of 24? Is she not aware that we are under the age of 41 and therefore still have fully-functioning retinas? I mean, we can see her! Well, 85% of her anyway, but who cares — she may have the stomach of a 12-year-old with a rowing machine addiction, but we all know it's been around for over four decades. This is precisely why she is experiencing 'long butt' and 'outer thigh problems': These are the symptoms of a decaying body that must be swathed only in Walmart's contemporary stretch cotton separates rather than pretty, embellished crop tops.
"A toned stomach (and for that matter, a smooth, gently rounded one) can be an uplifting sight — on a beach," comments the Telegraph's fashion editor Lisa Armstrong. "But out and about town, it's unclear what they bring to the party, other than a dose of trashy-ness."
Other ladies unintentionally bringing the trash in include Mariah Carey, who recently dropped 30 pounds and dared to prove it by wearing a tank top with her Alexander McQueen skirt at the BET Black Girls Rock Event in New Jersey this week. Not usually Paltrow's style sister, but "that's what you get when you go down the desperate road of the bare belly button," reads the gospel according to Telegraph.
What lies at the end of this desperate road? A bargain bin of fleece onesies? A hefty fine, a rap on the knuckles and an official warning from the fashion police? Maybe a faraway land where other ballsy dames like Helen Mirren and Carine Roitfeld romp around like delusional, stripper heel and crop top-clad ewes before the slaughter?
See the offending outfit here, if you can stomach it.
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Injury just another setback for junior Toston to conquer
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STILLWATER — When Oklahoma State practices started last week, Keith Toston was poised to make everyone remember. He would make everyone remember that, in addition to Kendall Hunter and a handful of promising newcomers, the Cowboys also have a running back who was almost on par with Dantrell Savage two years ago, rushing for more than 600 yards in 2006.
While he's at it he'd also like to make them forget about the fumbling problem that got him benched for a while last year, and the knee injury that ended his season. But Toston's history lesson was put on hold last week. The junior tweaked his knee in practice on Friday. It was the same knee that was surgically repaired in the offseason. He spent part of Saturday's practice on a stationary bike, and head coach Mike Gundy said Sunday that he's expected to be out for about 10 days. For Toston it's just one more setback he'll have to overcome this season. "That's what's happened to me the whole time I've been here," Toston said. "I had a chance to start (last season when Savage was injured last season) then come right back and have a game with two fumbles (at Troy). Bam, I would go from the top all the way back to the bottom. But this year is a new slate." A new slate, that is, once he erases the old one. He said he's had plenty of time to fix the fumbling problem, and said the main thing is to focus more. Running backs coach Curtis Luper points out that when Toston worked his way back into the rotation toward the end of the season — before he was injured at Baylor — he took advantage of the limited touches he got.
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Police are still searching for information in the robbery of an area restaurant employee. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday Nov. 12, an employee at the Wendy's Restaurant on the 31-W Bypass made a deposit at a nearby bank when suddenly two black males appeared armed with a handgun. The suspects took the bank bag and fled towards Chestnut Street.
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The 2nd Annual 'Mini' Masters Golf Tournament to keep tourist information on the beach comes to Jungle Golf on Tuesday April 29th with the first tee time of 4 pm. Space is limited to only 18 teams with 8 players each so get your registration in early! More fun than a barrel of monkeys with Prizes, Raffles and yes, even mulligan's. The jungle survivors celebrate the 19th hole at Skip One Seafoods where the Champions are crowned and legends are made. Our business members can sponsor a hole or enter a team. If you're up to the Jungle Challenge, join the "Masters" on Tuesday April 29th. Cost is $240 per team. However if you want just want to watch and mingle with the players then sign up for the gallery for just $5. Call the Chamber office at 239-454-7500 for further information.
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Sunitinib for Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer With Imaging Biomarker Assessments for the Early Prediction of Tumor Response
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This exploratory clinical study is designed to obtain pre-therapeutic imaging assessments in 20 evaluable patients with metastatic renal cell cancer (RCC) and an early post therapy assessment at baseline and at various early time points (1 week in 5 patients, 2 weeks in 5 patients, 3 weeks in 5 patients and 4 weeks in 5 patients) after institution of standard approved sunitinib therapy at 37.5 mg/day. The clinical imaging biomarkers will include an assessment of tumor metabolism [Bannasch 1986, Frauwirth 2002, Garber 2006, Kelloff 2005, Pauwels 1998, Semenza 2001, Smith 1999, Smith 2000, Sokoloff 1977, Warburg 1956, Weber 1977A, Weber 1977B] (dynamic FDG-PET); tumor proliferation [Rasey 2002,Shields 2001, Shields 1998, Vesselle 2002, Schwartz 2003] (dynamic FLT-PET); tumor blood flow (H215O-PET, DCE MRI)[Lodge 2000], tumor perfusion (DCE-MRI)[Tofts 1999, Tofts 1997, Parker 1999]; and tumor blood volume (H215O-PET, DCE MRI)[Lodge 2000, Tofts 1999, Tofts 1997] in the same patient at baseline and then in the same patient at one of the post therapy time points (1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks or 4 weeks). We hypothesize that by using this set of imaging assessments it will be possible to determine an individual or more likely a set of imaging derived biomarkers that will accomplish several of the goals of the initiative which is providing funding for the study.
Renal Cell Cancer
Drug: Sunitinib
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Sunitinib for Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer With Imaging Biomarker Assessments for the Early Prediction of Tumor Response
- After therapy with sunitinib it will be possible to compare the pre-therapeutic assessments with an early assessment of the same parameters in the same patients after therapy at various intervals. [ Time Frame: December 2011 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: 1
Drug: Sunitinib
Imaging studies with complete analyses will be provided on all patients prior to institution of sunitinib therapy as well as after therapy at various early time points (1 week in 5 patients, 2 weeks in 5 patients, 3 weeks in 5 patients or 4 weeks in 5 patients) after institution of sunitinib therapy at 37.5 mg orally/day.
Imaging studies include:
FDG-PET scans FLT-PET scans H215O-PET scans DCE-MRI scans
Other Name: Sutent®
Detailed Description:
Our proposed clinical study will:
- Provide an exploratory yet reliable and validated cadre of imaging studies done in patients that yield a mechanistically-based understanding of: 1) predictive assays for clinical benefit from standard sunitinib therapy, 2) measurement of efficacy during standard sunitinib therapy, and 3) prognosis or other long term outcomes.
- Reveal a more detailed understanding of the in vivo mechanism of standard sunitinib therapy in patient tumors, mechanistic information on why particular functional imaging patterns are seen in treated patients, and clinical measures that are useful to physicians for decision making and for explanation of efficacy or outcomes for patients.
- Predict which patients may benefit from standard sunitinib therapy.
- Determine early in the course of treatment whether standard sunitinib therapy will be efficacious and whether this can be used in future comparable patients.
- Show the outcome of patients with standard sunitinib treatment.
- Shed further information on the biological mechanism for the rapid decrease of FDG uptake on FDG-PET imaging with standard sunitinib treatment.
It is our hypothesis that a set of biologically relevant imaging biomarkers (tumor metabolism assessed with dynamic FDG-PET; tumor proliferation assessed with dynamic FLT-PET; tumor blood flow assessed with H215O-PET and DCE MRI); tumor perfusion assessed with DCE-MRI; and tumor blood volume/volume of distribution assessed with H215O-PET and DCE MRI) in the same patient at baseline and then in the same patient at one of the post therapy time points (1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks or 4 weeks) will provide either alone or more likely in combination information that will predict which patients will most likely benefit from standard sunitinib therapy and that an early response assessment is possible that is predictive of a durable response to the therapeutic drug.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients must be 18 years or older for inclusion in this study. Since there is no experience with [F-18]FLT in children and it would be inappropriate to study individuals under the age of 18 until more safety data is available.
- After entry into the study, patients are expected to be followed for at least 2 months as part of standard of care.
- All patients, or their legal guardians, must sign a written informed consent and HIPAA authorization in accordance with institutional guidelines.
- The patient, if female, must be postmenopausal for a minimum of one year or surgically sterile, or on one of the following methods of birth control for a minimum of one month prior to entry into this study: IUD, oral contraceptives, Depo-Provera or Norplant. These criteria can be waived at the discretion of the investigator if the patient's tumor is considered life threatening and the one month wait required is not in the best interest of the patient. Negative pregnancy test is accepted.
Pre-treatment laboratory tests for patients receiving [F-18]FLT must be performed within 21 days prior to study entry. These must be less than 4 times below or above the upper or lower limit range for the respective laboratory test. These will include liver enzymes (SGOT, SGPT, ALK Phos, GGT, LDH), bilirubin (direct and total), amylase, serum electrolytes, CBC with platelets and absolute neutrophil counts, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, BUN, creatinine, and urinalysis.
- Pre-treatment radiological clinical scans/studies (Gd- enhanced MRI or CT to document metastatic renal cell carcinoma) must be performed within 30 days of study entry.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients with known allergic or hypersensitivity reactions to previously administered radiopharmaceuticals or Gd used in MRI imaging. Patients with significant drug or other allergies or autoimmune diseases may be enrolled at the Investigator's discretion.
- Patients who are pregnant or lactating or who suspect they might be pregnant.
- Adult patients who require monitored anesthesia for PET or MRI scanning.
- HIV positive patients due to the previous toxicity noted with FLT.
- Renal Insufficiency Exclusion for MRI contrast injection. All subjects will be screened as to their renal status and those patients with renal insufficiency will be excluded from undergoing a dynamic contrast enhanced MRI scan. This is in response to the recent association of MRI contrast agents with the development of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF). The patient will have a creatinine value determined within 4 weeks prior to the proposed MRI scan and have a GFR determined from the creatinine value and other data that can be used at various websites to determine the GFR. If the GFR is greater than 60 ml/min/then the patient will be deemed eligible for contrast injection. If the GFR value is between 40 ml/min and 60 ml/min the risk versus benefit of performing the contrast injection will be discussed with the referring physician and the patient. If the GFR is less than 40 ml/min the dynamic contrast study will not be performed. The non-contrast MRI scan however will be obtained for anatomic reference for the PET studies.
MRI exclusion criteria:
- Presence of any ferromagnetic metallic implants or foreign bodies, including pacemakers and certain types of stents and orthopedic hardware.
- Claustrophobia or inability to remain stationary within MRI system for ~30-45 minutes.
- Inability to breath hold for periods of at least 20 seconds.
- Known history of adverse reaction to Gd chelate contrast agents.
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
- Non-imageable tumor, including tumors with smallest dimension less than 10mm or tumors located in regions excessively affected by susceptibility artifacts at bone- and air-tissue interfaces or motion artifacts due to peristalsis or pulsatile flow.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00694096
|United States, Utah
|Huntsman Cancer Institute
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
|Principal Investigator:
|John M Hoffman, MD
|Huntsman Cancer Institute
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|University of Utah
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00694096 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 6, 2008
|Last Updated:
|November 12, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Renal Cell
Kidney Diseases
Kidney Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Urogenital Neoplasms
Urologic Diseases
Urologic Neoplasms
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Antineoplastic Agents
Growth Inhibitors
Growth Substances
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Therapeutic Uses
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Click here for an interactive map showing MMR ratings for 257 Minnesota schools.
Principal Barbara Kearn has exciting news about student achievement to deliver to Willow Lane Elementary teachers at their morning staff meeting in White Bear Lake.
The school of more than 300 students began the week on the list of Minnesota schools not making "adequate yearly progress" toward math and reading standards, putting it at risk of being labeled failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law. The law requires that all students be proficient by 2014.
Willow Lane's designation changed Tuesday, May 22, when the state Department of Education unveiled Multiple Measurement Ratings, the state's new way of grading schools. Under the new measures, Willow Lane is a school state education officials say should be emulated.
"I think their jaws will drop open," Kearn said of the reaction she anticipates from her teachers. "They'll be absolutely proud of themselves and the kids."
Willow Lane is an example of why critics said the federal law was so flawed that Minnesota and 25 other states received waivers to write their own evaluation systems.
The ratings released Tuesday are a new analysis of achievement data from the past two school years. The results are being applauded by some and criticized by others.
"They've lowered the bar," said Jim Bartholomew, education policy director for the Minnesota Business Partnership, which has been critical of the state's waiver from the rules.
He worries that under the new system, fewer schools will face consequences for poor student achievement.
"Our point is, if there are problems with the current system, then it should be fixed," Bartholomew said. "Now, a lot of those incentives and consequences are gone."
Last year, Willow Lane was among 1,056 schools -- roughly half the schools in the state -- that didn't make adequate progress toward proficiency in one or more areas. Scores of students at Willow Lane, as at many other schools, faltered only in one subgroup, something Kearn called a "blip" for the school.
Under the new system, a school can be labeled a Priority, Focus or Reward school.
Only 42 schools have been labeled Priority, for overall low performance, and 85 are labeled Focus, for having wide gaps between the achievement of white and minority students and also between poor and more affluent students.
At the other end of the spectrum is Willow Lane, now one of 127 Reward schools because it performs in the top 15 percent of Minnesota schools that receive federal aid for the number of students in poverty. Poverty is measured by the number of students who receive free or reduced-price meals.
The state will release new labels for other schools in the middle of the achievement pack in August, but under the new system, a much smaller number of schools will be identified as needing intervention.
"We just didn't have the capacity to provide meaningful support to all those schools," said Sam Kramer, federal education policy specialist for the state department of education, of the more than 1,000 schools that received past designations. "The emphasis is now going to be on the Focus and Priority schools."
The new measures continue to show the state's broad gap in achievement between white and minority students and the impact poverty has on schools.
More than two-thirds of the Priority and Focus schools have a high number of poor and minority students, the state data shows. The Reward schools are more varied, with just 10 percent having high poverty populations. Twenty-one percent of Reward schools have lower poverty levels but still qualify for federal aid.
Supporters say the new system is more nuanced, giving a clearer picture of how well a school educates all students. Proficiency, growth in student achievement and reduction of the achievement gap between white and minority students, or between poor and more affluent students, are equal factors when calculating a school's score. For high schools, graduation rates are considered too.
"This is a great first step," said Matt Mohs, acting chief accountability officer for St. Paul Public Schools.
Under the new rankings, the district has 17 Priority or Focus schools, down from about 30 labeled under the old system as failing to make adequate yearly progress.
"I think the state is trying to minimize the concept of labeling schools as failures," Mohs said. "It allows us to focus on improvement as opposed to waiting for the other shoe to drop."
Yet Bartholomew said the state's whole approach to emphasizing student growth is one of the new system's many flaws because it compares students' performance to the achievement growth of peers at their school rather than the grade-level standard.
"You can't be successful if you never meet the standard," Bartholomew said. "That is frankly a lie to the kid to say you are going to graduate high school never having met the standards.
Chris Magan can be reached at 651-228-5557. Follow him at twitter.com/CmaganPiPress. MaryJo Webster can be reached at 651-228-5507. Follow her at twitter.com/mndatamine.


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Sushant lists out his projects
After the success of Kai Po Che and Shudh Desi Romance, actor Sushant Singh Rajput has become one of the busiest actors of Bollywood.
However, he seems to be annoyed with reports linking him to every other to-be-announced film.
"There are many reports talking about various films that Sushant Singh Rajput is doing," said an official spokesperson on Wednesday.
"We would like you to know that Sushant is currently doing Byomkesh for YRF which he starts shooting for later this year and then Fitoor and Paani for YRF next year the dates for which are being worked out," she said.
"Please note that he has not committed to doing any other film at this stage and as and when he does we will keep you updated," the spokesperson said in a statement.
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Tara Ross
Justifying The Electoral College
July 27, 2010
Psychologists say that people genuinely do not form their opinions on issues by sorting through arguments and arriving at a conclusion. Instead, they arrive at a conclusion and then formulate reasons to justify their decision. You see this dynamic all the time, but it seems especially obvious when you examine the arguments of defenders of the electoral college. Rick Hertzberg takes apart a defense of the electoral college offered up at a Cato debate by Tara Ross: Ms. Ross argues that N.P.V. would undermine the two-party system.


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Brief Alcohol Intervention in General Hospitals
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The purpose of the study is to reveal the most promising procedure for implementing alcohol screening and intervention in general hospitals and to find out, if and to which extent non-specialist health professionals can be qualified to carry out motivational intervention on their own or if there is a need for a specialized counseling services. In a randomized controlled trial, patients recruited in general hospitals and fulfilling criteria for alcohol dependence, alcohol abuse, at-risk drinking or heavy episodic drinking will be allocated to three conditions: (1) Intervention by a liaison service (LC): Counselling based on the Transtheoretical Model of behaviour change (TTM) which will be provided by staff of the study (psychologists/ social worker) trained in Motivational Interviewing (MI), (2) Intervention by hospital physicians (PC): Counselling will be provided by hospital physicians trained in MI, and (3) Control group (CC): Treatment as usual, assessment only. Outcome assessment will be conducted after 12 months and includes abstinent point prevalence rates, drinks per day, help-seeking, stage progress and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Alcohol Dependence
Alcohol Abuse
Heavy Episodic Drinking
Behavioral: Brief intervention
Phase 2
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single Blind
Primary Purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training
|Official Title:
|Implementing Early Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorders in the General Hospital
- Reduced alcohol consumption
- Increased alcohol-specific help-seeking
- Increased readiness to change drinking behaviour
- Increased well-being
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|October 2001
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2005
Background: High prevalence rates (10 - 25 %) and a promising setting for proactive intervention strategies make the general hospital a first choice setting for secondary prevention of alcohol-related disorders. Efficient screening instruments have been developed for early detection. With regard to the severity of alcohol problem (e.g. alcohol dependence vs. heavy episodic drinking) and the motivation to change, the target group is very heterogeneous. Although there are counseling strategies that take into account this heterogeneity, there is still a lack of implementation and poor knowledge about different implementation strategies in routine care. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a proactive secondary preventive intervention based on the TTM and on MI in a representative sample of general hospital patients carried out by a liaison service versus non-specialist physicians trained in counseling techniques by staff of the study. Methods: A sample of 1,479 alcohol at-risk-drinking, alcohol abusing or alcohol dependent patients from four general hospitals detected by screening questionnaires will be assigned to (1) a group counseled by an addiction liaison service, (2) a group counseled by the physicians of the ward, and (3) to an assessment-only condition with treatment as usual. Outcome will be measured one year later and will include abstinence point prevalence rates, stage progress, help seeking, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Expected impact: The project will yield new scientific knowledge on how to implement early intervention for alcohol at-risk-drinking and alcohol use disorders in the general hospital. Results of the study shall be transferred to nationwide practice guideline proposals. The study will contribute to the improvement of the health care system as well as the education of medical students. The study is designed to reveal empirical evidence for proactive TTM-based interventions for individuals suffering from a prevalent substance use disorder.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 64 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Alcohol dependence
- Alcohol abuse
- At-risk drinking
- Heavy episodic drinking
Exclusion Criteria:
- Persons physically and mentally not capable of participating in study
- Persons with a hospital stay of less than 24 hours
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00423904
|Principal Investigator:
|Jennis Freyer-Adam, Dr
|University Medicine Greifswald
|Principal Investigator:
|Ulfert Hapke, Dr
|University of Applied Sciences Muenster
|Study Director:
|Ulrich John, Prof Dr
|University Medicine Greifswald
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00423904 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 17, 2007
|Last Updated:
|January 17, 2007
|Health Authority:
|Germany: Ethics Commission
Keywords provided by University Medicine Greifswald:
Early intervention
Brief intervention
general hospital
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alcohol-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 08, 2015


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John McEnroe, Chris Evert call Wimbledon their favorite tennis Grand Slam
"There's something magical," McEnroe said in a conference call this week. "It seems so far away when you're a kid, so beautiful when you're on TV, to see grass courts. It's certainly the one growing up that's the most talked about. I think it still continues to be."
"It's the first one we saw on TV." Evert said. "I remember watching Margaret Court, Billie Jean King play the finals. I don't know if it was black and white, but it pretty much was black and white. Like John said, I remember all the way across the ocean, the history of the event adds to it."
McEnroe, a two-time Wimbledon champion, called winning a long, fourth-set tiebreaker in the 1980 finals against Bjorn Borg his favorite Wimbledon memory. McEnroe won the tiebreaker 18-16, saving five championship points, but then lost the deciding fifth set.
"People bring that up to me a hundred times more than any other match I played," he said.
Evert, a three-time champion, said it was hard to pick a favorite Wimbledon moment.
"It's the one tournament that's bigger than the players," she said. "Wimbledon is the star more than the players. It's the showcase."
ESPN's live daily telecasts totaling 140 hours run from Monday to the women's and men's finals, July 6-7. An additional 800 hours are available on the Web on ESPN3's multi-screen presentation of all nine TV courts.
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- This hotel has 39 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 2:00 PM-9:30 PM
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There is consensus among the world's leading scientists that global climate change is among the most significant problems facing the world today. Florida is considered one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change, with Southeast Florida on the frontline to experience its impacts, especially rising sea levels.
Miami-Dade County has been in the forefront of these issues for many years. The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners and County departments, such as the Regulatory and Economic Resources Department and Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department, have been implementing policies and initiatives to address climate change, environmental protection and other important sustainability issues including energy efficiency and water conservation.
The Sea Level Rise Task Force, formed in July 2013, is charged with:
- Reviewing relevant data and prior studies and reports regarding the potential impact of sea level rise on public services and facilities, real estate, water and other ecological resources, and property and infrastructure; and
- Providing a comprehensive and realistic assessment of the likely and potential impacts of sea level rise and storm surge over time.
The Miami-Dade Climate Change Advisory Task Force, established in July 2006 through the adoption of Ordinance 06-113, served as an advisory board to the Board of County Commissioners and is charged with identifying potential future climate change impacts to the County, while providing recommendations regarding mitigation and adaptation measures to respond to climate change.
By tracking greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions early on, reviewing and analyzing climate change data and information, the County has taken steps to reduce GHG emissions and avoid or reduce the severity of anticipated climate change impacts.
Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Action Plan
The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact developed the Regional Climate Action Plan (RCAP) in August 2012, following a two year collaborative process involving nearly 100 subject matter experts representing public and private sectors, universities, and not-for-profit organizations. The RCAP offers recommendations that provide the common integrated framework for a stronger and more resilient Southeast Florida, including:
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- Providing steps to move towards resilience and reducing emissions through exploring alternatives and decreasing the use of Energy and Fuel
- Building upon strength as effective emergency responders and integrating climate change hazards in Risk Reduction and Emergency Management Planning
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In December 2009, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved a regional climate change compact to develop joint policy positions and legislative policy statements, as well as develop a Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Action Plan.
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National Case Studies
The White House Council on Environmental Quality – Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force: In October 2010, the Task Force, co-chaired by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, released its interagency report outlining recommendations to the President for how Federal Agency policies and programs can better prepare the United States to respond to the impacts of climate change. The report recommends that the Federal Government implement actions to expand and strengthen the Nation's capacity to better understand, prepare for and respond to climate change. Miami-Dade County hosted one of only five major public outreach meetings of the task force.
> Watch the June 23, 2010 meeting webcast of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force in Miami
> Watch the post-meeting press conference
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NOAA Digital Coast Case Study: In 2010, Miami-Dade was featured as a best practice case study -- Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Miami-Dade County, Florida -- as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Digital Coast initiative and Inundation Toolkit. For Miami-Dade, this partnership brings technical assistance and training to support ongoing hazards and climate adaptation planning efforts.
ICLEI Climate Adaptation Program – Climate Resilient Communities: In November 2010, ICLEI launched a new national program aimed at assisting local governments to prepare for climate change. Miami-Dade County is the first local government in the nation to use ICLEI's advanced tools and resources, including a new beta-tool, to accelerate its preparedness in the face of unavoidable, local climate change impacts.
National Case Studies
Miami-Dade County is the subject of several ongoing climate change case studies.
- The White House Council on Environmental Quality – Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force
- NOAA Digital Coast Case Study – Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Miami-Dade County, Florida
- ICLEI Climate Adaptation Program – Climate Resilient Communities
Climate Change in Miami-Dade
- Personal Action - A Resource Guide
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- Impact on South Florida
- Urban CO2 Reduction Plan
- The Greenhouse Effect
- WPBT Broadcast -- South Florida Rising Seas
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