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Topic: my journey on caringbridge
Hi all:
Here is my blog about my journey so far. I update it as things progress. If you are interested goto
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
Any opinions I give are based on personal experiences, and are not based on medical knowledge. I strongly suggest receiving medical care and opinions.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Ashley Elicerio shined in her first career victory in the Islanders' circle today with a 7-3 victory over Southern University at Chapman Field. The freshman recorded a career-high six strikeouts in seven innings and allowed just two hits. The Islanders' bats ignited for eight hits, led by Cassie Carroll who went 2-for-3 on the final day of the Best Western Marina Grand Islanders Classic.
The Islanders (5-10) finished the weekend with a 2-2 record with Constance Brandenburg and Elicerio each picking up a win in the circle. Valerie Perez, Meagan McKinney and Michelle Sorenson all delivered doubles to power the Islanders' past the Jaguars.
Elicerio (1-5) was stellar as she only gave up one run in the first inning on a wild pitch and faced just nine batters the next three innings. The Pflugerville, Texas native didn't allow a Jaguar hit until the bottom of the fifth when Southern's Danielle Jackson singled to shortstop. Southern tallied their second hit of the day in the sixth when they tacked on two runs on a couple Islanders mishaps.
The Islanders jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first on three hits. Mickayla Cochran led the inning with a single to shortstop before recording her first stolen base of the season. McKinney advanced Cochran to third with a ground out before Perez cranked a double to left field to plate Cochran. J.J. Jackson followed with a single to second base before Perez tacked on the second run after scoring on an error on an Elicerio slap to second.
The Jaguars answered in the bottom of the first with a run on a wild pitch before the Islanders' bats rolled on through the third frame with two hits and five runs to pad the lead to 7-1. Perez jumpstarted the inning with a walk and Jackson reached on a fielder's choice while a sliding Perez advanced to second. With one out, Carroll singled through the left side to load the bases. Sorenson came through next when she drilled a line-drive double to left field to tally two more runs.
After a Jaguar pitching change, Carroll cashed in on a wild pitch while Sorenson advanced to third. The Islanders added two more runs after Dani Tefft reached on an error sending Sorenson home to score. Cochran followed with a ground out before Tefft capped the scoring with the seventh run on a wild pitch.
The Islanders held the Jaguars to just one run until the bottom of the sixth when a couple errors cost the Islanders two runs as rain showers started to come down on Chapman Field. Southern tallied just one hit in the sixth with a single to left field but the Islanders escaped and Elicerio retired the side in the final frame to seal her first victory of the season.
Southern's Delphia Holmes took the loss in 2.1 innings. She allowed six hits, six runs while striking out two and walking one.
The Islanders will head to San Marcos, Texas on March 1-3, to compete in the CentralLink Classic, hosted by former Southland Conference opponent Texas State. The Islanders will face the likes of North Texas, Purdue and Texas State over the three-day event.
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We've had nothing but praise for independent horror author Brandon Ford (Pay Phone, Decayed Etchings), as you can see from our inclusion on the cover of his latest offering, Merciless, and I have to say the praise will keep coming.
Merciless is a devastating novella based on true events that will get right under your skin, nearly from the start. It's extremely intense and all the more horrific considering the factual events it is based on.
I hesitate to go too much into detail as far as plot goes. I will say that you get brutal murders, kidnappings, lots of blood, well, all you want from a dark and creepy story.
I watch a lot of horror films and read a lot of horror books so it's not often that I have a "holy shit!" moment. I'm happy to say I had a few reading this, and not just from Merciless either. The book also includes 3 other stories including, "The Neighbor," "All I Ever Wanted," and "Last Call," each of which showcase the ever growing talent that Brandon Ford has at his fingertips.
With each book of Ford's that I read I am only more impressed. He just gets better and better and his grasp on short fiction is just as strong as it is on long form. You never grow tired of his words or his characters and he does a great job of sending the chills right down your spine.
Merciless is a prime example of the versatility Ford has. While the majority of the book is terrifying and disturbing he does sneak up and gives a little tug on the heartstrings (and not with a serrated blade).
I can't recommend Brandon Ford enough and Merciless is an excellent place to start if you wish to dive into his work.
If you subscribe to the idea of a new class in independent horror then Brandon Ford is valedictorian.
Mercliess is available now on your favorite eBook reader (Kindle or Nook)or physical copy!


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If you're a fan of sesame chicken, you're going to love this recipe. I kept the heat down by only adding two tsps of hot sauce, but if you are blessed enough to possess an iron tongue and stomach you can up the amount to your individual taste.
Sesame Peanut Chicken Appetizer Pizza
2 packages refrigerated crescent rolls
salt, pepper, garlic powder, sesame seeds
Two cups of cooked boneless, skinless chicken breast (about 12 ounces)
3 green onions, green part only
2 (8 ounce) packages of reduced-fat cream cheese, room temperature
2 TBSP reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 1/2 TBSP sesame oil
3/4 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp hot sauce (I used sriracha )
2 cups baby spinach, chopped
1 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup red bell pepper, diced
1/2 cup peanuts, coarsely chopped
1 TBSP sesame seeds
sweet and sour duck sauce, optional but delicious
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Unroll crescent rolls and piece together on a 9X13 baking sheet. Pinch seams together and season with salt, pepper, garlic powder and sesame seeds.
In food processor fitted with blade, process green onions until finely minced. Add chicken and pulse until chicken is finely diced. Add cream cheese, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic powder and hot sauce. Process until mixture is smooth and creamy.
Spread cream cheese mixture on prepared crust. Top with spinach, carrots, red pepper, peanuts and sesame seeds. Drizzle with sweet and sour sauce. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours. Cut into squares to serve.


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At least 1 injured in Warren Co. crash involving mail truck
Medical helicopter sent to crash scene near Lebanon
At least one person was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon in a Warren County crash.
A U.S. Mail truck was involved in the crash, which happened before 2:30 p.m. at state routes 42 and 122 northeast of Lebanon.
Images: Mail truck involved in crash
Police said the postal truck was delivering mail on the right side of the road when a driver lost control of a car heading the opposite direction. The car struck the mail truck head on.
The car's driver and a child were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, and the mail carrier was taken by medical helicopter to Miami Valley Hospital with serious injuries.
State Route 42 was closed in both directions, and officials said it would reopen about 4 p.m.
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BERKELEY -- A proposal to move the 2014 Big Game from Berkeley to the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara that could have "potentially" earned each school an additional $1 million in revenue was declined Thursday by Cal, which said it didn't have the chance to properly explain the opportunity to its fan base.
Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour said she wasn't so much caught off guard by the negative reaction of fans to the proposal, as she was by the awkward timing of information that leaked to the public.
"Because of that, we'll never really know if we had been able to properly (frame) the message, what the response would have been," she said during a media teleconference. "Our community got caught flat-footed without any explanation of a why or a what. Of course the reaction was pretty strong."
Barbour said the 49ers floated the idea to both schools last April or May but that she didn't receive a formal proposal from the club until this Monday.
By then, talk of moving the game on a one-year basis to the 49ers' new facility had become public, and fans from both Cal and Stanford reacted sharply.
Jeffrey Warren, who last Friday broke news of the proposal on his blog, "A Cal Fan's View," said he was pleased.
"I'm excited. I'm happy for the kids," said Warren, suggesting most of them wouldn't have made the trip from Berkeley to Santa Clara. "The students would be playing beer pong in the fraternities and watching the game on TV."
Fan response was at the heart of the decision to keep the Big Game at Memorial Stadium. Even while she was traveling in China with the women's basketball team, Barbour said she was able to gauge reaction through emails and Twitter.
"The feedback and the input was useful," she said.
The rivalry game, first played in 1892, is scheduled to be held in Berkeley in 2014. Had the two schools accepted the proposal, Cal would have hosted the 2015 Big Game.
Barbour said ticket prices for the game at Santa Clara would have been higher than usual and that the 49ers were offering a "guarantee" to both schools at a level where "potentially we were looking at approximately a seven-figure incremental" increase in income.
The Cal athletic department is seeking creative ways to help pay down the $474 million debt incurred by the renovation of Memorial Stadium and construction of a student-athlete high-performance training center.
Asked if she would entertain moving the Big Game to another site in the future, Barbour said, "I'll look at any opportunity somebody puts in front of me."
Cal's campus upper administration was involved in the decision, Barbour said, as was first-year coach Sonny Dykes, whose Bears open the season Saturday against No. 22 Northwestern.
"He saw advantages for recruiting, advantages to playing in a brand new state- of-the-art NFL stadium, playing in a facility that's going to host the (2016) Super Bowl," Barbour said. "He already understands the enormity of the Big Game.
"He asked, 'What are our fans going to think about this?' "
Ultimately, Cal's fans delivered an answer that was loud and clear.
For more on Cal sports, see the Bear Talk blog at ibabuzz.com/beartalk. Follow Jeff Faraudo on Twitter at Twitter.com/JeffFaraudo.


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For the past 16 years, Teton Gravity Research has made the pilgrimage to America's last frontier, Alaska. In its latest release, "The Dream Factory," the TGR crew ventures from Alaska training grounds - Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Pemberton, B.C. - to delve deep into the Alaskan way of life during a record snowfall year.
"The Dream Factory" premieres at the Dillon Dam Brewery tonight at 8:30. It's "Girls' Night Out" so there'll be free half-pints for women (and $2.50 pints for everyone else) from 9-11, plus a raffle for winter gear and SWAG, including Line Sir Francis Bacon Skis, at 9:30.


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The NFL's Mindless Misogyny: Why Was Ray Rice Given A Slap on the Wrist For Beating His Fiancée?
This is a thing that happened. A man in peak physical condition, possessing strength that would put the average person to shame, was caught on video dragging his unconscious, much smaller fiancée (now wife) by the hair out of an elevator at a casino in Atlantic City.
You can watch it here.
What occurred prior has not been made public, but according to witnesses thatspoke to Deadspin, the alleged assailant threw an "uppercut,†while another said he struck her "like he [would punch] a guy.â€
The gentleman in question is Ray Rice, star running back for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. Today, it was announced that as "punishment,†he will be suspended for the first two games of the regular season, and levied an additional fine of $58,000 in addition to a prorated loss of salary.
If you think two Sundays of sitting at home seems like a fairly light slap on the wrist for what by all accounts was a brutal assault, you'd be absolutely right, especially in light of the punishments that the NFL has meted out for other transgressions—namely those that concern performance enhancing drugs and/or controlled substances.
Josh Gordon of the Cleveland Browns is looking at a year on the sidelines for marijuana and alcohol use. Granted, he's a repeat offender with what appears to be an actual substance abuse issue, but Ace Sanders, the Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver, just got four games for a second violation.
Daryl Washington got sent home for a season, but not because he got busted for two counts of aggravated assault of his girlfriend, for which he received a year's probation.
And the list goes on and on. Via Aaron Gordon of Sports on Earth, here's a list of the 27 players that have been suspended since 2006. According to the NFL's math, a helmet-to-helmet hit that occurred during a game is the equivalent of Rice's vicious attack.
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Five Oak Ridge High School students have been recognized as 2013 National Merit Commended Scholars by the National Merit Scholarship Corp., according to information from the school. The Commended Scholars are:
• Kyoung-A Cho, daughter of Seunghee Lee and Jae-Hie Cho.
• Amelia DiAngelo, daughter of Rebecca Halperin and Al DiAngelo.
• Kate Hoffman, daughter of Deidre Ford and Lawrence Hoffman.
• Megan Kelly, daughter of Claire Kelly and Neal Kelly; and
• Hannah Morris, daughter of Jane and Jamie Morris.
The ORHS students are among an estimated 34,000 of the approximately 50,000 high scorers on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test who received Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise.
Commended Students are named on the basis of a nationally applied Selection Index score that may vary from year to year and is typically below the level required for participants to be named Semifinalists in their respective states.
Although commended students do not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some of these students do become candidates for special scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.
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I am trying to play back a blu ray .m2ts file and the software reports a corrupt files.The container is:
Container: .m2ts
Video: Untouched (no encoding)
Aspect ratio: 1920-1080
Audio Codecs: AC3@640kbs/DTS@1536kbs/DTS-MA
Subtitles: Dutch (Seperate *.srt file)
File size: 35.6GB
Source: Blu Ray
I have not been able to play back any ripped m2ts Blu Ray files. Your help is always appreciated.
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STOCKTON - No one was injured after a fleeing stolen vehicle was intentionally rammed into a police cruiser Sunday night, Stockton police reported.
While patrolling the area near East Rose and North Center streets about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, officers discovered an occupied stolen vehicle and attempted to pull it over. Instead, the vehicle failed to yield and led officers on a three-minute, two-mile pursuit on city streets at speeds up to 50 mph.
After the stolen vehicle incapacitated the police car, it continued to East Magnolia and North San Joaquin streets, where the two occupants left the vehicle and fled on foot, police reported.
A short time later, police apprehended and arrested Anthony Soares on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, possessing a stolen vehicle, failure to yield, hit-and-run, conspiracy and resisting arrest.
They also arrested Raul Avalos on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, possessing a stolen vehicle and conspiracy
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Lake Tahoe Christian Fellowship will host its Christmas program Friday.
This year's program is titled "Christmas Around the World" and will feature international songs and specials in Spanish, German, Hebrew, English and Vietnamese.
Desserts and refreshments will be served from 6:30-7 p.m. The program will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. Gifts will also be given to children.
The program is free. Lake Tahoe Christian Fellowship is located at 3580 Blackwood Road in South Lake Tahoe.


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Simply understanding Type 2 diabetes
Blood sugars can be tracked fairly closely with a number of devices as well as blood markers. Unfortunately there are currently no non-invasive devices that can accurately measure blood sugar readings. We are able to determine a patient's average blood sugar level by following Hemaglobin A1C test results over 3-4 months or by following Fructosamine test results over 2 weeks. These averages can be confirmed with real time checks or with monitors that record blood sugar levels over long periods of time.
The following factors can further contribute to the complications of type 2 diabetes and therefore need to be taken into consideration when developing a treatment plan:
(a) weight with underlying genetic background;
(b) insensitivity to insulin, as well as, a deficiency of insulin;
(c) actions of various 'gut' hormones (the incretins); and
(d) liver function
Current treatments for type 2 diabetics include pills, insulin injections and modification of lifestyle. The delivery of insulin has been simplified from using 'needles' to using 'pens' with ultrafine tips which are already drawn up for the patient, and by using insulin pumps for individuals who are having trouble controlling their diabetes. One challenge discovered with the use of insulin 'pens' is that long and short acting insulins cannot be mixed into one pen; therefore, requiring the patient to make multiple injections.
I have participated in more than 100 sponsor developed diabetic trials over the past 12 years. These trials have led to a number of new therapeutic treatments that improve the quality of life for diabetics. We should continue to see new developments in the near future which address some of the challenges that diabetic patients encounter. Studies are now being conducted to solve the issue of not being able to mix long and short acting insulins into one pen. Along the same lines, with the discovery of another physiologic mechanism of glucose control via the 'gut' hormones (the incretins), some by injection, studies are now underway to mix these two solutions into one injection. At the same time there are numerous studies attempting to prolong the effectiveness of these incretins so that injections rather than being done once or twice daily, will be simply be done once a week. As more studies are performed at investigative sites like ours, advances in the treatment of type 2 diabetes are becoming a reality.
Dr. Joseph Soufer has served Greater Waterbury as an endocrinologist/internist for more than 30 years. He is conducting clinical research in diabetes/metabolism and other medical therapeutic areas at Chase Medical Research at 500 Chase Parkway in Waterbury.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Cornerback Chris Culliver will work with The Trevor Project in the weeks after the Super Bowl to learn more about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, according to his personal publicist.
Culliver made homophobic comments during Tuesday's media day in a podcast interview with comedian Artie Lange. In Culliver's subsequent apology, he said he would accept a gay teammate and pledged to learn from the biggest controversy during the 49ers' Super Bowl week.
Lange said he knew the magnitude of Culliver's words when he made them during the interview.
"When I asked the question I was just joking around, and then he wouldn't stop talking," Lange told USA Today Sports on Saturday. "I said to myself, 'I gotta play this tape, but he's a young kid and doesn't know any better.'
"Yeah, in today's world I knew it would get a big reaction. It seemed to get a little crazier than I thought.
"It ruined (Culliver's) week, and I don't feel good about that. But if that's how he really felt and this helped it get out there, maybe he'll change it."
Culliver said Wednesday that among those he conferred with after his anti-gay comments was a gay relative, who's been identified as his cousin Andrew Brown, a director of the documentary "Word Is Out" about gay and lesbian directors.
Rogers couldn't crack the left-cornerback role in his previous six seasons with the Washington Redskins, who instead used Shawn Springs or DeAngelo Hall there.
Although he recalled Donatell calling him a natural left cornerback, Rogers said: "A lot of guys are one side. I don't see what the difference is. Once you backpedal and get your reads, it feels the same to me."
It doesn't feel the same to Brown, who had five career starts in his previous four seasons before the 49ers overhauled their coaching staff -- and secondary -- two years ago.
"It's just something I had to adjust to," Brown said. "The feet are different, you're seeing the ball different, and it's definitely an adjustment to make."
Rathman had two touchdown runs when the 49ers crushed the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV at the Superdome 23 years ago.
His first touchdown, a 1-yard run, helped stake the 49ers to a 27-3 halftime lead.
"We were at ease in the locker room. All we had to do was finish," Rathman recalled. "It was easier than you would have thought for a Super Bowl. At the same time, we were a dynamic team with great players and a great quarterback."
"It's been 18 years since the 49ers have been back here, and the great thing is, it's a completely new set of guys with a different type of identity," Rice said. "Hopefully, they seize this moment. I'm excited for them."
Rice predicted that the 49ers will beat the Ravens 24-17. He believes quarterback Colin Kaepernick was the key to unlocking so many offensive threats.
"He brings so many formations you have to account for," Rice said. "I was watching Jon Gruden on the telestrator this morning, and what the 49ers do is crazy. You adjust to one thing and then there's something else. So if you're going to try to stop him with a defensive end, Frank Gore is going to hurt you, or LaMichael James. Then there's (Michael) Crabtree on the outside, and Vernon Davis. They have so many weapons."
"It's a city of champions aura," said Baer. "But it's a lot easier being on this end of it where you don't have to sweat it out. I was just talking to somebody about a possibly 49ers parade. We had a top secret code of silence -- and I think the 49ers do, too -- that you could never talk about it. But we stand ready to provide drivers for the parade."
Staff writer Carl Steward contributed to this report.


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- Mar 16:
- Contra Costa County call center deal ignores taxpayer risk, rewards political backer
Contra Costa Times editorial
- Mar 15:
- Contra Costa County supervisors choose Concord over Richmond for call center
- Mar 14:
- Contra Costa calls emergency meeting to select call center site
- Mar 13:
- Contra Costa call center jobs are back on the table
- Mar 12:
- Contra Costa County loses state call center in labor dispute
- Mar 11:
- Richmond sweetens deal with $1 million loan in hopes of securing health care call center
- California should directly run health care exchange call center: Contra Costa Times editorial
- Mar 9:
- Inside Politics: Battle royale over call center jobs comes to light
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- Richmond partners with business owner in attempt to win site for Affordable Care Act call center
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- Richmond to make pitch to state for health exchange call center
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- Inside Politics: Contra Costa County says labor is putting new call center jobs at risk
- County supervisors plan decision on whether to put Affordable Care Act call center in Richmond or Concord
MARTINEZ -- Unable to reach a deal with its labor unions, Contra Costa County has abandoned plans to operate a new state health insurance exchange call center, a move that will cost 214 new county jobs.
It's unclear if the state will open the center on its own in Contra Costa or look outside the county for another government operator.
The supervisors were scheduled to select a site in either Concord or Richmond on Tuesday and both communities were heavily lobbying for the nod.
But county Administrator David Twa told the board of supervisors that operating costs would exceed what the state would reimburse. Supervisors are unwilling to subsidize the operation out of the county's general purpose funds.
The higher costs were driven by demands from , two of the four unions that would represent the new workers. The labor groupswanted more lucrative health insurance benefits and more liberal work rules in exchange for their signoff on the deal.
"We could still save the jobs if the unions come to us and say they will accept the new employees under their current contract provisions," said Supervisor John Gioia of Richmond. "But we are running out of time."
The state wants the new center staffed, tested and operational by July 1, a timetable county staff considered ambitious even if supervisors had chosen a location Tuesday.
The Service Employees International Union Local 1021, which would have represented 180 of the 214 employees, demanded the county split health insurance premiums with the new workers on a percentage basis -- 80 percent paid by the county, 20 percent paid by the employee. SEIU also wanted its members to set their own work hours.
As a cost-cutting measure during the recession, the county two years ago capped contribution toward worker health premiums for most of its employees at 2011 dollar levels. The dollar cap also helped the county lower its unfunded liability for retiree health care costs as pensioners receive the same benefits as active workers.
Contra Costa Supervisor Karen Mitchoff has described the union move as an attempt to influence upcoming negotiations. SEIU's contract expires in June.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 512 requested a 12.75 percent shift differential and work rules that allowed employees to stay one hour after the center closed in order to qualify for the additional money.
Contact Lisa Vorderbrueggen at 925-945-4773, email@example.com, politicswithlisav.blogspot.com or Twitter.com/lvorderbrueggen.


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SAN JOSE -- The San Jose City Council unanimously approved a $7 million incentive package Tuesday for Samsung Semiconductor to expand its research and development headquarters in the city.
The approval completes a deal that was announced in August with a signing ceremony at the City Hall Rotunda that included Mayor Chuck Reed, Jong-Joon Kim, president of device solutions for Samsung Electronics, and Gov. Jerry Brown, making his first trip to City Hall, whose administration teamed with the city to offer state research and development tax credits and cash reimbursement for employee training.
"This is a big deal, there's no doubt about it," Reed said. "It's not very often we get this opportunity. Our highest priority is to capture the growth companies that want to stay here and grow here."
The council also unanimously approved Reed's "March budget message," which provides policy guidance to the city manager in developing a budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1.
Samsung Semiconductor, based in San Jose since 1986, now has 370 employees in 200,000 square feet of office space. The company is a subsidiary of South Korea-based Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest semiconductor maker, which in December announced a $4 billion expansion of its semiconductor fabrication plant in Austin, Texas, where it has been a major presence since 1996 and employs about 2,500.
City officials said they faced tough competition to keep Samsung from expanding in Texas. They argued that over 10 years, the Samsung expansion will deliver $23 million in revenues in property, business, utility and other taxes, more than three times the value of the incentives, which they noted are not direct payments but rather discounts on company growth.
"We share in the upside," Councilwoman Rose Herrera said. "We'll return many times to the budget before we're done."
Samsung's San Jose expansion would replace existing offices with a modern, environmentally friendly research and development campus totaling 680,000 square feet, with a 10-story office tower, nine-story parking garage and a restaurant that will employ at least 2,000.
The city's $7 million in Samsung incentives include a more than 50 percent reduction in traffic impact fees valued at $3.9 million; a 50 percent rebate on the city's 5 percent utility tax on gas and electricity for power usage over 10 years valued at $2.6 million; plus up to $500,000 worth of reimbursements for production and assembly equipment purchases. The city also expedited permit processing, with design permits signed off Monday on an application submitted 76 days earlier.
On the budget, Reed said that San Jose is looking at a second consecutive year without severe deficits and cutbacks in staffing and services, thanks to difficult decisions by the City Council and city employees in making across-the-board 10 percent pay and benefit cuts.
Reed proposed limited raises targeted to veteran workers, especially police officers and firefighters, rather than across-the-board raises, arguing the city can't yet afford to restore all of the 10 percent pay cuts, and that many employees new to their positions are already entitled to annual "step" raises until they reach the top of the pay scale for their job.
"We are grateful to our employees who stepped up and helped us in our moment of crisis," Reed said. "As a result, we can begin to restore some of the pay."
The city has been grappling with an uptick in crime and an unusual number of retirements and resignations in the police department.
Reed's budget calls for opening a newly built but mothballed police substation in the south end of the city next year. Councilman Ash Kalra, who represents that area, said he looks forward to the opening but that the city should evaluate whether the cost of opening it is more beneficial than diverting more funding toward patrol staffing.
Councilman Don Rocha told Reed: "I know this is just the beginning, but as a start, I think you did a pretty good job."
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.


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2 children hospitalized after car crashes into church
UPDATED 2:39 PM EST Mar 03, 2013
Two children were hospitalized after a car crash sent one of the vehicles into the front of a church in Cincinnati early Sunday.
Police said a driver ran a stop sign at Clarion and Trimble avenues and crashed into another vehicle, sending one of the vehicles crashing into the wall of United House of Prayer about 11:20 a.m. Sunday.
A boy and girl who were inside of one of the vehicles were taken to Children's Hospital as a precaution, firefighters said. No other injuries were reported.
The driver of the vehicle that ran the stop sign was cited for failure to stop at a stop sign, police said.
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Google unveils augmented reality eyewear concept in Project Glass
Will enhance vision with data on the fly
INTERNET SERVICES OUTFIT Google has announced its augmented reality eyewear concept named Project Glass.
Bringing science fiction into the real world, the technology has been created by a small team of Google engineers and intends to enhance visual reality with data on the fly. Developed over the past two years, the project was unveiled today on a Google Plus web page together with a Project Glass Youtube video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.
Google said in the post, "A group of us from Google started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment."
The glasses - which allow texts, emails, music, and more beamed directly to your field of vision - won't be to everyone's tastes, either aesthetically or conceptually.
The video features a first-person view of a male protagonist who awakes and puts on the glasses. He proceeds to use them to his advantage throughout the day, including setting a reminder to buy tickets for a show, receiving updates on local travel information, and not forgetting a corny concluding scene where he serenades his girlfriend via video chat over a romantic sunset with a ukulele.
Positive comments on the video in Youtube include "This invention is really cool, I like it!" And "This is just awesome. If this is real someday, we have definitely reached the future."
However, not everyone is so taken by the concept, with other user comments reading, "Garbage" and "I don't need technology to remember things for me I have post-it-notes, a brain and a pen."
Regardless, Google said in its announcement that the stealth project is nowhere near complete but that the project team simply "want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input".
Google invited people to tell it what they would like to see from Project Glass. µ
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Limitless Computing Inc.®, a leading provider of 3D mobile Augmented Reality, today announced that it will feature its custom mobile Augmented Reality entertainment experiences for Android and Apple devices in booth 25813 in the Gaming Showcase at CES, including the launch of its new VYZAR, an advanced geo location and marker-based 3D Augmented Reality (AR) technology.
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Q: The house we bought in 2005 was built in 1900. We have done our best to update the electricity by removing knob and tube wiring in the basement and all that is accessible in the attic. Our electrician advised us not to worry about the knob and tube buried in the walls and ceiling.
I, concerned for the safety of a 5-year-old in the home, worry about it. Should we go ahead and make the necessary investment to bypass and replace the remaining knob and tube in the walls and ceiling? If so, is it feasible to do this sort of thing one room at a time? Should we upgrade to a 200-amp service at the same time, since the breaker goes off whenever we use the microwave, dishwasher and toaster at the same time?
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Studies have shown that the current-carrying capacity of K&T wiring is dependent on there being unobstructed air cooling of the wires, and fires have occurred when the wires were buried in thermal insulation.
Other studies have shown that simply coiling a wire upon itself three times and covering it with a cloth created enough heat for ignition.
The wiring you removed was neither insulated nor coiled upon itself, but there could be coils inside the walls where the wiring comes together near outlets and switches. Another reason for removing the K&T wiring is that the exterior walls cannot be safely insulated without creating a thermal blanket that could cause the wiring to overheat.
The K&T wiring can remain inside the walls, but it must be disconnected at the panel. New wiring can be added working from the basement or the attic, and in older homes such as yours.
The wiring should all be done at the same time to save on the overall costs of the installation, and I would agree that the panel should be upgraded to a minimum of 100 amps or 200 amps if the electrician determines the additional amperage is necessary.
By adding more circuits to the kitchen, even with a 100-amp panel, you can stop the bothersome tripping of the breakers. The kitchen should have at least two separate 20-amp circuits for the countertop outlets and additional separate circuits for the refrigerator, small appliances and the microwave.
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Roche's antibody therapeutic MabThera (rituximab) has been rubber-stamped by the European Commission as first-line maintenance treatment of follicular lymphoma. Approval is based on data from the Phase III Prima study, which found that MabThera maintenance therapy doubled progression-free survival compared with no maintenance therapy. The Prima study has also been used as the basis of a rituximab sBLA filing to FDA for the same follicular lymphoma indication, which Genentech submitted in March. The antibody is trademarked Rituxan in the U.S., Japan, and Canada.
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The Prima study compared the effects of MabTherapy maintenance therapy with observation alone, in patients who had already responded to initial treatment with MabTherapy plus chemotherapy. The results showed that after two years, 82% of MabThera-treated patients were still in remission, compared with 66% of patients who didn't receive maintenance therapy.
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- He Doesn't Make Much
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You see your new BF's pay stub and he makes, like, nothing. Your first reaction:
A. Who cares? Money isn't that important to me.
B. How will we ever afford nice stuff/vacations/kids on that tiny salary?
If cold, hard cash doesn't matter to you (answer A), ask yourself what does—maybe it's experiences, like concerts or beach trips. Your guy should share your values but know that they can still be directly affected by his low pay. (Love doesn't buy airfare!) Picked answer B? "It doesn't mean the relationship is doomed," says Amanda Clayman, a financial therapist in New York City. "It means you value financial security and you need to figure out how to get that with him." If he's in a career that will in time yield a bigger salary, problem solved. If not, could you be happy living on less or being the breadwinner? Be honest! It's not shallow: If he's not for you, better to know before things get serious.
You asked your guy for a loan to cover your rent. He doesn't have the cash. You're…
A. Bummed. Maybe your parents can help you out again?
B. Kinda relieved. At least you're not the only broke one around here.
Circled A? It may mean you're looking for others—your family, your BF, your friends—to take care of you so you don't have to deal with your finances. Pick B, and you're playing the ignore-it game, too. In both cases, says Farnoosh Torabi, host of the Yahoo! Web series Financially Fit, consider this a wake-up call to get a handle on your dough now—as in, before you make decisions that involve combining finances, such as shacking up. You wouldn't want his money mistakes to affect you; chances are, he'd feel the same way about yours.
You live together. After a shopping spree, he asks, "Can you afford all that?"
A. You can. But you don't want to discuss your spending with him.
B. "Yes, sweetie, it's within my budget." (Eye roll. How annoying!)
If you're avoiding his question (A), it's likely that talking about money makes you anxious, Clayman says. "Often this goes back to how you were raised: If your parents fought about money, you may be scared to go there." But not talking money leads to suspicion and fights, too, so take a deep breath and calmly discuss. Find it irritating that he's prying into your cash flow situation (B)? Being in a relationship means making concessions, like not making him worry that those new shoes leave you short on rent. Be forthcoming now, so that in the future you won't have to defend how you spend.
You and your BF are booking a vacay. How do you handle the budget?
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On the front page of the Devils Lake Journal for Monday, August 18 you will find what's "Coming in print," what's only found on our website today and a whole lot more.
Coming in print: What's the latest from the DL City Commission?
On the web: New blog posts from local bloggers
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A former Monroe City police officer, who is now a member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, has been promoted. The promotion was effective Jan. 1.
Trooper Terry "T.J." Adams, a native of Monroe City, was promoted to corporal and will remain in his present assignment as the Troop B Canine Officer. Adams was appointed to the Patrol on Oct. 20, 2002 and after graduating from the Patrol Academy was assigned to Troop B, Zone 1, Macon and Shelby counties. On April 30, 2006, he transferred to Zone 11, Monroe and Randolph counties, and on Feb. 3, 2008, he transferred to Zone 2, Macon and Shelby counties. On Sept. 1, 2011, he was designated as the Troop B Canine Officer.
Adams, a graduate of Monroe City R-1 High School, attended Moberly Area Community College in Moberly and Hannibal-LaGrange College. Before being appointed to the Patrol he served with the Monroe City Police Department and the Monroe County Sheriff's Department.
He is married to Mandy (Farland), and they have two children: Tanner and Conner.
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ASHLAND -- In a few months, a dreary vacant lot on busy Mission Boulevard could be transformed into a bustling educational community garden, with high school students sharing growing tips and teaching cooking, residents tending crops and leading tours, people exercising, and maybe even young "Iron Chefs" storming through a saute.
"I've been trying to get a garden on this lot since 2009," said Shanale Allen, who has worked on several projects to bring fresh produce and health education to the neighborhood. Allen and the Alameda County Office of Education are working to transform a corner of the lot at Mission and Paradise boulevards into a community vegetable garden.
The garden will hire students from "farms" at Tennyson High School in Hayward and San Lorenzo High School through a county education office program that uses gardening to promote nutrition education and physical activity at schools.
"Initially we'll have 30 to 60 young people trained," said Christine Boynton of the Alameda County Office of Education.
Residents would help out in the afternoon and evenings, gardening, teaching classes and leading tours.
"It will be a safe place for people to come, for the community to gather. Maybe we'll have yoga classes; we have a lot of ideas," Allen said. "It's a great place with high visibility, since it's right on Mission."
Boynton plans cooking demonstrations and "Iron Chef" competitions, drawing young people from throughout the county.
She envisions the garden encouraging residents to start their own food-related businesses and a community market selling locally grown produce and products such as Ashland jam or Cherryland salsa.
Work could start in March, after the Office of Education gets the go-ahead from county planners. The county Redevelopment Agency bought the lot after Chrysler closed its Jeep dealership in 2008, and it has sat empty ever since. When Allen heard about the education office idea, she quickly let people there know that residents had been wanting to develop the site for years, and she proposed the joint venture.
Earlier, Allen and others were working with county Supervisor Nate Miley to build a grocery store on the other end of the lot, at Mattox Road and Mission. That came to a halt when Gov. Jerry Brown dissolved redevelopment agencies.
Allen became an advocate of urban farming about the same time the Jeep dealership was folding.
"I wasn't a gardener," she said. But she and another woman, Susan Beck, were named Koshland fellows in 2008, and the nonprofit foundation charged them with devising a sustainable plan to improve the standard of living in economically depressed Ashland and Cherryland.
"Susan talked about how it's an equity issue; we don't have access to healthy food in this community," she said. "There's also a lack of information about nutrition and where our food comes from. A child will say, 'I don't like chicken, but I eat McNuggets.'"
Inspired by Beck, Allen took gardening classes and started promoting urban agriculture. Working with others, she has helped start gardens in blighted areas and educated neighbors about healthy eating. Her experience as a caseworker with the Alameda County Public Health Department helped her find grant money.
She also learned an important lesson: Starting a project takes a lot of energy, but you need someone committed to keep it going. When Beck moved out of Cherryland, her neighborhood's small community garden fell into disrepair.
That's why Allen is hopeful and enthusiastic about this garden -- a lot of groups are taking part, including residents; the Alameda County Office of Education, Social Services Agency and Public Health Department; Miley's office; and Kaiser Permanente.
"It really is a joint project," Boynton said.
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Thinking back to the winter of 2010/2011 the snow pack on Mount Mansfield was steep and deep measuring a good eight and a half feet of snow. The snow pack along with a lot of rain made for record flooding on Lake Champlain in the spring. This year is looking different after a mild winter. Conservation Correspondent Bridget Butler heads to the top of Mount Mansfield to check out the snow stake and talks with Greg Hanson from the National Weather Service.
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College Basketball: Doesn't Anyone Want to Be No. 1 Anymore?
You might remember last year's college basketball season, which featured a Kentucky team so dominant that its ascent toward the championship was as risky a bet as going all-in on the Harlem Globetrotters. Thankfully for the nation's bookies, this year offers no such certainty. On Thursday, the top-ranked Indiana Hoosiers became the fifth No. 1 team in the last five weeks to lose, blowing a 10-point lead on the road against Illinois in the final four minutes to lose 74-72 on a last-second layup.
The winning score, made by wide-open Illini forward Tyler Griffey off a blown defensive assignment, was the kind that can happen at any level of play. What it portends, though, is a postseason without a clear favorite and a remaining regular season in which the top ranking is basically meaningless.
Not that any of this is explicitly the Hoosiers' fault, since they're merely the latest very strong, if not truly great, team to disappoint after claiming the throne. They're still dangerous, and could easily earn a number-one seed in the NCAA tournament regardless of their latest setback. "It's impossible, though, to know what this team truly has in its quiver because of its lack of quality road seasoning. That's where mettle shows. That's where teams find out that 36 good minutes isn't good enough," Andy Glockner writes for Sports Illustrated. "The NCAA tournament isn't played in away venues, but the pressure of decisive moments in that event is a good proxy. And when the chips were down tonight in Champaign, the Hoosiers buckled." Afterward, coach Tom Crean offered baffled platitudes about turnovers being bad and games being 40 minutes long—understandable considering his team had a 12-point lead at halftime. The Illini, on the other hand, saw a boost to their flagging tournament hopes.
All of which is to say that no one really has any idea how the year is going to go—not exactly a problem, for those who crave surprise and are eager for a tournament in which any top-level team seems beatable. "That's the new maxim we should accept for the 2012-13 season. Every team out there is flawed. There's more parity at the top than there's ever been, perhaps the most parity in the history of this game," Reid Forgrave writes for Fox Sports. "And that's not just a maxim we should accept. It's a maxim we should embrace. Because instead of only one month that's filled with upsets and court-stormings and buzzer-beating victories, we got March's madness in both January and February. Name a team that's the best in the country, and there's an easy retort to why it isn't."
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It's typically taboo to ask someone how much money they make. But it's not so easy for a team of professional athletes to avoid knowing exactly how much everyone in the locker room is making—and even less so when there's one player earning more than everyone else combined. Because of the NHL's goofy salary cap rules and the tendency of general managers to have larger appetites than stomachs, a handful of highly paid hockey players have withered in minor-league purgatory over the last few years so that their contracts might not count against the cap. Back in 2011, the Journal's Kevin Clark found players like Sheldon Souray, Mike Commodore and Wade Redden, veterans making millions playing in the American Hockey League, where the minimum salary was $37,500. "As you might expect, the disparities in income on these teams now creates some unusual situations," he wrote.
But there's virtue in waiting, like a masterless ronin meditating until the day he's able to fulfill his duty. Redden, a two-time All-Star defensemen who signed a $39 million contract in 2008 with the New York Rangers, was sent to the AHL in 2010, just six games short of the vaunted 1,000 games played milestone, a feat that only a few hundred players in NHL history have achieved. Since the NHL lockout produced an amnesty clause in the renegotiated collective bargaining agreement, the Rangers were able to shed his contract, allowing Redden to sign with the St. Louis Blues. On Thursday, he took the ice for that 1,000th game, a relatively hum-drum affair in which he played 19 minutes and the Blues lost 5-1 to the Detroit Red Wings. (The Associated Press recap even downgraded the milestone to a footnote.)
Still, it's quite the achievement. "It's a meaningful milestone for most, but considering what Redden went through to get to it, it has to be even more special," writes Yahoo's Harrison Mooney. "He could have given up and let his career die in exile (like Napoleon!). Instead, he kept working."
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Navigating the changing landscape of violence in football is a difficult task, and one that critics say NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hasn't done too good a job with. If Goodell's searching for motivation to fall on the right side of history regarding concussions, he could look to an obvious source: his father. In the late '60s, senator Charles Goodell became the leading Republican opponent against the Republican president, Richard Nixon, on whether the United States should withdraw from Vietnam, providing the bipartisan credibility required for such an argument and teaming up with liberal luminaries of the era like Coretta Scott King to further the anti-war mission. At Grantland, Bryan Curtis explores how the senior Goodell's crusade led to an all-out pillorying from the President and his associates, eventually ending his political career—and how he ended up being right in the end, showing a braveness to stand up for the unpopular outcome that ended up coming to pass.
"If we peeked into Roger Goodell's mind, I bet we'd find two legacies from his dad. There'd be a measure of his dad's idealism, his contrarianism, his stubbornness," Curtis writes. "And I bet we'd also find a kind of defense mechanism that develops when you see your dad destroyed on a public stage. An instinct that makes you think, I won't let that happen to me."
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Paclitaxel, Carboplatin, and Bevacizumab With or Without Cixutumumab in Treating Patients With Stage IV or Recurrent Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
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Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma
Large Cell Lung Carcinoma
Lung Adenocarcinoma
Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Biological: Bevacizumab
Drug: Carboplatin
Biological: Cixutumumab
Drug: Paclitaxel
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Randomized Trial of Paclitaxel, Carboplatin, Bevacizumab With or Without IMC-A12 in Patients With Advanced Non-squamous, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
- Progression-free survival assessed by Response Evaluation Criteria for Solid Tumors (RECIST) [ Time Frame: From randomization to disease progression or death from any cause, up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Incidence of toxicities, graded using the revised National Cancer Institute CTCAE version 4.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared by the stratified log-rank test.
- Response rate, defined as the proportion of patients with complete response or partial response, evaluated using RECIST criteria [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Fisher's exact test will be used to compare the response rates.
|Study Start Date:
|March 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Arm I (paclitaxel, carboplatin, bevacizumab)
Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 3 hours, carboplatin IV over 30 minutes, and bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Paclitaxel
Given IV
Other Names:
Experimental: Arm II (cixutumumab, paclitaxel, carboplatin, bevacizumab)
Patients receive paclitaxel, carboplatin, and bevacizumab as in arm I. Patients also receive cixutumumab IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, and 15.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Biological: Cixutumumab
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Paclitaxel
Given IV
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Detailed Description:
I. To evaluate the progression-free survival with the combination of carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab, and +/- IMC-A12 (cixutumumab) in patients with advanced, non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer.
I. To evaluate overall survival and response rate of the above combination in patients with non-squamous, advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
II. To evaluate the toxicities of the above combination in patients with non-squamous advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I: Patients receive paclitaxel intravenously (IV) over 3 hours, carboplatin IV over 30 minutes, and bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1.
ARM II: Patients receive paclitaxel, carboplatin, and bevacizumab as in Arm I. Patients also receive cixutumumab IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, and 15.
In both arms, treatment repeats every 21 days for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Treatment with bevacizumab and cixutumumab may continue in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 3 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); the following histological subtypes will be eligible: adenocarcinoma, large cell, bronchioloalveolar, and NSCLC not otherwise specified; mixed tumors will be categorized by the predominant cell type unless small cell or squamous cell elements are present, in which case the patient is ineligible; cytologic or histologic diagnosis can be established on metastatic tumor aspirates or biopsy; squamous cell carcinomas will be excluded
Patients must have advanced NSCLC defined as either:
- Recurrent disease after prior radiation or surgery
- Stage IV (M1a or M1b) based on the TNM staging system (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] 2009)
- NOTE: In the current revision of the AJCC staging system (v7, 2009), former stage IIIB with malignant pleural effusion will now be classified as stage IV (M1a)
Patients must have measurable disease as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST); baseline measurements/evaluations of all sites of disease (of target and non-target disease sites) must be obtained within 4 weeks prior to randomization
- NOTE: Positron emission tomography (PET) and PET portion of PET/computed tomography (CT) are not acceptable methods of evaluation for response
- NOTE: For lesions located in a previously irradiated area to be considered measurable disease, criteria must be met
- NOTE: No prior radiation therapy to the only area of measurable disease unless there is documented progression of disease documented by physical examination, imaging tests, or pathology in this region
- No prior chemotherapy or biologic/molecular targeted therapy for advanced NSCLC; prior chemotherapy and/or biological/molecular targeted therapy as part of initial potentially curative therapy (one regimen of induction and/or adjuvant and/or concurrent chemoradiotherapy) is allowed provided it has been completed 1 year or more prior to randomization
- No prior treatment with IMC-A12 or another insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-IR) inhibitor
- Prior radiation therapy is allowed if it has been completed 3 weeks prior to randomization and patient has recovered from any adverse events related to radiation therapy (RT)
- A head CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is required within 4 weeks prior to randomization for evaluation
- Brain metastases are allowed, provided they have been treated with surgery and/or radiotherapy, the patient is neurologically stable, and repeat brain imaging shows no progression in the brain; at least 6 weeks should have elapsed from the time of craniotomy and at least 4 weeks from radiotherapy; NOTE: Repeat MRI or CT scan should show stability or improvement in the metastatic brain lesions; patients should be neurologically stable and, if on corticosteroids, be on stable or decreasing doses of corticosteroids
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1 only
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1500/mm³
- Platelet count >= 100,000/mm³
- Total bilirubin within institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Serum creatinine =< 1.5 x ULN
- Fasting blood glucose within normal range (fasting < 120 mg/dL or below ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) =< 3 x ULN
- Aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) =< 3 x ULN
- Urine dipstick must be =< 0-1+ within 2 weeks (14 days) of randomization; if urine dipstick result is > 1+, a calculation of urine protein creatinine (UPC) ratio is required; patients must have a UPC ratio < 1.0 to participate in the study
- Patients must not be on therapeutic anticoagulation; patients international normalized ratio (INR) must be =< 1.5 or partial thromboplastin time (PTT) =< upper limits of normal within 2 weeks prior to randomization; prophylactic anticoagulation of venous access devices is allowed provided the criteria have been met; caution should be taken when treating patients with low dose heparin or low molecular weight heparin for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis during treatment with bevacizumab, as there may be an increased risk of bleeding
- Neuropathy, if present at baseline, must be =< Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) grade 1
- No prior allergic reaction to compounds of chemical or biologic composition similar to those of IMC-A12; no known hypersensitivity to any component of bevacizumab
- Patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus are excluded; patients with a history of diabetes mellitus are allowed to participate, provided that their blood glucose is within normal range (fasting < 120 mg/dL or below ULN)
No history of other invasive malignancies unless there is no active disease and all treatment has been completed >= 3 years prior to randomization; patients with history of in-situ malignancies and curatively resected nonmelanomatous skin cancer are eligible
- NOTE: Patients with a history of breast cancer (without evidence of disease for >= 3 years) who recently completed adjuvant hormonal therapy < 3 years from the date of registration are eligible
- Patient must have no history of thrombotic or hemorrhagic disorders; patients must have no history of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy
- Patients must not have >= grade 2 bleeding or any bleeding requiring intervention within 4 weeks prior to randomization (please see the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program [CTEP] active version of the CTCAE)
- Patients with a history of hypertension must be well-controlled (=< 150/90) on a stable regimen of anti-hypertensive therapy
- Patients must have no history of gross hemoptysis (defined as >= 1/2 teaspoon of bright red blood)
Patients must not have had any of the following within 6 months prior to randomization:
- Abdominal fistula
- Gastrointestinal perforation
- Intra-abdominal abscess
- Previous myocardial infarction
- History of any central nervous system (CNS) cerebrovascular ischemia
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) > class II congestive heart failure or severe heart failure
- Unstable or symptomatic angina pectoris
- History of stroke
- Significant vascular disease
- Symptomatic peripheral vascular disease
- Patients must not have an ongoing, serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication at time of randomization
- Patients must not have ongoing, active infection or ongoing fever at the time of randomization or have any co-existing medical condition, psychiatric illness or limitations that would interfere with compliance of study requirements
- Patients must not have a history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy
Patients must not have had any of the following within 4 weeks prior to randomization: a serious non-healing wound, ulcer, bone fracture, or major surgical procedure
- NOTE: Patients must not have received minor surgery within 7 days prior to randomization
- Patient must not have any anticipated major surgical procedure(s) during the course of the study
- Patients must not be receiving daily treatment with aspirin (> 325 mg/day) or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) known to inhibit platelet function for chronic conditions; patients must not be receiving treatment with dipyridamole (Persantine), ticlopidine (Ticlid), clopidogrel (Plavix), and/or cilostazol (Pletal); if patient was receiving any of the following: aspirin (> 325 mg/day), NSAID, and/or anti-platelet drugs, patient must have discontinued its use >= 1 week prior to randomization
- Female participants must not be pregnant or breast-feeding; women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test; all females of childbearing potential must have a blood test within 1 week prior to randomization to rule out pregnancy
- Women of childbearing potential and sexually active males should use an accepted and effective method of contraception while on treatment and for 3 months thereafter
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are not eligible
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00955305
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|Principal Investigator:
|Athanassios (Ethan) Argiris
|ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00955305 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 7, 2009
|Last Updated:
|December 31, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Endothelial Growth Factors
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Immunoglobulin G
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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The first definitive biography of the ultimate American rock band
How did a pair of little Dutch boys trained in classical music grow up to become the nucleus of the most popular heavy metal band of all time? What's the secret behind Eddie Van Halen's incredible fast and furious guitar solos? What makes David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar so wacky? And, are all those stories about groupies, booze bashes, and contract riders true? The naked truth is laid bare in Everybody Wants Some - the real-life story of a rock 'n' roll fantasy come true.
©2007, 2008 Ian Christe (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
not much here most van halen fans didn't already know. could have been a lot better.
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Great... recommend for any fan of the greatest rock band ever. Long live Van Halen
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By the time you read this I'll be in San Francisco hanging out for a few days with some of my food blogging friends before the BlogHer Food Blogging Conference gets started. (I'm actually staying in California nearly a week, and although I'm working on some recipes to auto-post while I'm gone, there might be a bit less action than usual around here for a few days.) I made these muffins a few weeks ago, and now the garden is winding down, but by the time I get home I'm guessing I'll have at least a few monster zucchini begging to be made into something tasty like this.
I had quite a zucchini muffin baking spree around here, but this version of zucchini muffins is gluten-free, inspired by the Zucchini Bread recipe in Elana's Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook. I used the Honeyville Almond Flour (from Utah!) I learned about from the book, but I wanted to use Splenda, and change the proportions to use more zucchini and less oil for a muffin that was not quite so calorie dense. It took me a few tries to get it right, (and thank you to my friend Karina for the advice of adding an egg white for more rising in gluten-free baking) but I loved the way these muffins turned out.
This liquid mixture is stirred into the almond flour mixture. Stir just enough to barely combine.
Low-Sugar and Flourless Zucchini Muffins with Pecans (Gluten-Free)
(Makes 6 muffins but can easily be doubled, recipe inspired by Zucchini Bread from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elena Amsterdam.)
1 cup blanched almond flour (not the same as almond meal)
1/4 tsp. salt (I used fine grind sea salt)
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon (I used Cassia Cinnamon from The Spice House)
1 large egg
1 egg white
1/3 cup Stevia In the Raw Granulated Sweetener, Splenda (or sugar if you don't need the muffins to be low-sugar)
1 T brown sugar (or use 1 T more Splenda if you prefer)
1 T canola oil or grapeseed oil
1 T buttermilk (could probably use milk, but I haven't tried it)
3/4 cup grated raw zucchini, wring out moisture slightly and loosely pack into measuring cup
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Bake muffins about 45 minutes, or until top is browned and toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. (I was surprised they took that long to bake, but the batter is quite moist and dense and I really did bake them for 45 minutes.)
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Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Zucchini Baking to Try:
Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Zucchini Muffins from Kalyn's Kitchen
Maple-Sweetened Almond Zucchini Muffins from Gluten Free Goddess
Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Zucchini Muffins with Blueberries and Pecans from Kalyn's Kitchen
Paleo Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins from Elana's Pantry
Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Garden Harvest Cake with Zucchini, Apple, and Carrot from Kalyn's Kitchen
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