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Indium In 111 Pentetreotide in Treating Patients With Refractory Cancer
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RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays and other sources to damage tumor cells. Giving radiation therapy in different ways may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of indium In 111 pentetreotide in treating patients who have refractory cancer.
|Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors Childhood Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumor Head and Neck Cancer Intraocular Melanoma Islet Cell Tumor Kidney Cancer Lung Cancer Melanoma (Skin) Neoplastic Syndrome Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Skin Pheochromocytoma
|Radiation: indium In 111 pentetreotide
|Phase 1
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|Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of [111In-DTPA-D-Phe]-Octreotide in Patients With Refractory Malignancies Expressing Somatostatin Receptors
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|October 1996
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|August 2004
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|August 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), toxic effects, and the preliminary antitumor activity of indium In 111 pentetreotide.
OUTLINE: This is a dose escalation study. Patients receive indium In III pentetreotide (OctreoScan) IV on day 1. Imaging is conducted on days 3 and 6. Treatment continues weekly for a total of 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Cohorts of at least 3 patients receive escalating doses of OctreoScan until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 patients experience dose limiting toxicities. Patients are followed every 3 months for the first year, then every 6 months thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Up to 35 patients will be accrued for this study.
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven malignancy with no alternate treatments available Measurable or evaluable progressive disease Somatostatin receptors present on tumor and uptake demonstrated on diagnostic scan with OctreoScan
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy: At least 3 months Hematopoietic: Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm3 Hepatic: Total bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine clearance at least 40 mL/min Other: No active infections Not HIV positive No coexisting medical condition Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin) Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: At least 4 weeks since prior wide field radiation therapy Surgery: Recovery from prior surgery
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002947
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520-8028
|Study Chair:
|John R. Murren, MD
|Yale University
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|Yale University
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|Study First Received:
|November 1, 1999
|Last Updated:
|July 1, 2014
Keywords provided by Yale University:
WDHA syndrome
stage IV renal cell cancer
recurrent renal cell cancer
extensive stage small cell lung cancer
recurrent small cell lung cancer
metastatic gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor
recurrent gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor
recurrent islet cell carcinoma
thyroid gland medullary carcinoma
prolactin-producing pituitary tumor
iris melanoma
ciliary body and choroid melanoma, medium/large size
extraocular extension melanoma
recurrent intraocular melanoma
stage IV melanoma
recurrent melanoma
pancreatic polypeptide tumor
childhood Langerhans cell histiocytosis
metastatic pheochromocytoma
recurrent pheochromocytoma
pulmonary carcinoid tumor
stage IV esthesioneuroblastoma of the paranasal sinus and nasal cavity
recurrent esthesioneuroblastoma of the paranasal sinus and nasal cavity
stage III neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin
recurrent neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Kidney Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Renal Cell
Nervous System Neoplasms
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Carcinoid Tumor
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine
Malignant Carcinoid Syndrome
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Uveal Neoplasms
Skin Neoplasms
Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell
Adenoma, Islet Cell
Carcinoma, Merkel Cell
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
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The Baltimore Orioles are looking to make a big move before Wednesday's non-waiver trade deadline, and they may be willing to part with prize pitching prospect Dylan Bundy to get one done, FOXSports' Ken Rosenthal reports.
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Quote from: 9dragons on January 14, 2009, 01:13:12 AM I recently was honored by the use of my art on two separate releases of Alio Die, which is something I could not have imagined when I was sitting in distant lands, creating art to the soundtrack of his music. Belated congratulations to you, Joseph. Your artwork for Alio Die is quite intense and really outstanding. The attention to detail almost reminds me a little bit of outsider artist Adolf Wolfli (though you're probably a lot saner than he was, of course).Sounds like a fascinating life route you've taken.Forrest
I recently was honored by the use of my art on two separate releases of Alio Die, which is something I could not have imagined when I was sitting in distant lands, creating art to the soundtrack of his music.
Hello!My name is Brett Smith, I'm 42 years old and release music under the name Caul. I have been doing so since '94, I think. I've been married for 6 years now, no kids. I started out with music by playing drums, when I was 12. I started making music when I was around 18, when my brother bought a Teac 4 track. Much lower tech than I use now! Currently I use a imac, with Logic Pro, various softsynths and an Ensoniq EPS Classic for my controller. It still boots!2007 & 2008 slowed my music down quite a bit, both my parents passed away in 2007 and 2008 I was out of town quite a bit, cleaning out my mother's house so we can sell it. Finally, I'm feeling more like making some music!This message board reminds me quite a bit of another one I'm a member of- the PriusChat board. A wide variety of people, yet everyone seems to get along well. A nice change of pace from what you see on the news everyday.
So sorry about your folks, Brett. I lost my mom and dad in back-to-back years as well. Hope that the passage of time eases the pain a bit. Glad you are returning to music, too. And welcome to the Forum, of course.
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Greetings fellow ambient music lovers! A good friend of mine told me about this forum and it looks pretty cool.I am a 46 year old independent management consultant living in SW PA. I travel extensively and ambient music is the main constant in my travel kit. I must have my daily fill of Steve Roach, Liquid Mind and Ma Ja Le - and many others.I am divorced and have no children.
Edited to add: as most people are mentioning their age, I'm 42 but feel older (don't do enough exercise, and eat too much chocolate though I'm not overweight).


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I use both for work but I discovered the VPN app I require to access their Secure Site doesn't work on ios 7. I'm leaning towards downgrading the ip4 since I can jailbreak it and tether via Bluetooth using MyWi.
What do u all think???
The only reason I'm considering doing the phone is because my work's Outlook requires a device to be on 6.1.3/4+. Therefore, I use the ip4 as an iPod so I can receive/send emails, calendar events, etc. Since I'm tethering from my jailbroken ip4S, its better on my ip4S battery to use bluetooth instead of WiFi hotspot. On the ip4, I can setup MyWi On-Demand using bluetooth plus get all the other benefits of it being jailbroken.
The only reason I'm thinking of using the iPad is because its easier to type on but its not something I carry w/ me all the time. I'm considering getting an iPad mini that I'll have to buy but use that for work instead
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Im thinking trying the beta 2 IOS 7 on my Iphone 4s. Is there a Jailbrake yet for IOS 7?
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He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
iOS7 on the GSM iPhonr 4 has a different baseband from iOS6.13
Normally restoring a lower version of iOS does not downgrade the BB - I don't know if it does with beta FW. If it does, no problem. If it doesn't I do not know if the device would still be jail breakable. Do you?
He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
None of that has any bearing on jailbreaking it though. Baseband has nothing to do with jailbreaking.
The iPhone 4 will always be able to be jailbroken because it has an exploit in the HARDWARE of the phone; its not a SOFTWARE dependent exploit. The jailbreak will be tethered, though. It could even be jailbroken on iOS 7 BUT the Devs have not updated redsn0w to allow this.
I tried jailbreaking my ip4 on iOS 7 a little bit ago but it eventually pauses and won't complete the process. It goes through the process we were used to seeing w/ limera1n (scrolling text on black screen) and then stops at a certain point. I used firmware 6.0 since that's what's used for jailbreaking 6.1.3 on an ip4 but redsnow doesn't contain the pieces for Cydia to install on iOS 7.
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In sports, as in the world beyond arenas, 1969 was a year when everything seemed possible. Men hopped on the moon in July. Half a million people descended on Max Yasgur's farm for the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York, in August. In October, the Mets, once the doormats of the National League, beat the favored Baltimore Orioles in five games. But let the record show that the year of infinite possibility began on January 12, 1969, when the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts.
It was a time when sports could still surprise us in a good way. The Jets' embodiment of possibility was Joe Namath, a man who irked staid observers from the get-go. Four years before, his salary of $427,000—and a Lincoln Continental—was unprecedented. He was a renegade, a shaggy-haired roué who treated bachelorhood as a badge of honor and enjoyed living up to the name "Broadway Joe." "He was just a magnet," says teammate John Dockery. "It was like traveling with a rock star."
So much has been made of Namath's singular style, but substance served him better. His abiding virtue was courage, a deep courage built on creaky knees that wouldn't do his bidding in later years. He played football B. C.—Before Chivalry—before refinements to the roughing-the-passer rule could save your ass against the likes of Buck Buchanan and Deacon Jones.
But the name Namath will forever be associated with Super Bowl III, a game that is different from all the rest. The NFL and the AFL were leagues apart. Since that day 40 years ago, the name Joe Namath has been synonymous with the word "upset." The Colts were favored by 18 points, the largest of all Super Bowl spreads. Sorry kids, learn your history. Don't listen to the media: the Patriots beating the 14-point favorite Rams in 2002 doesn't even begin to measure up to what the Lilliputian Jets were facing two generations ago. Consider: the Colts were 13-1, outscoring opponents 402 to 144, meaning they dusted their opposition on average by 29 to 10. By comparison, the 11-3 Jets were thought by many to be just the third best outfit in the AFL, behind the Chiefs and Raiders, who both finished 12-2. In Earl Morrall the Colts had the leading passer and MVP. His backup was Johnny Unitas, a three-time MVP, who missed much of the regular season with an elbow injury. To make matters worse, the Green Bay Packers had destroyed upstart AFL teams by a combined score of 68-24 in the first two Super Bowls.
No wonder one columnist predicted a 55-0 Colts victory. Oddsmakers couldn't decide whether the spread should be set at 18 or 20 points. At a Miami Touchdown Club dinner three days before the game, Joe Namath fired back at a heckler in the audience, "We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee you."
From Baltimore's vantage point, Namath's words carried over eerily. From the outset, the Jets looked crisp and confident. Just a 49 percent passer for the season, Namath mixed his aerial and running attacks seamlessly. Eight tosses to end George Sauer gained 133 yards. Matt Snell, the 220-pound fullback, plucked 40 more yards from Namath's spirals and bulled for 120 yards on the grass, including the only Jets touchdown, a four-yard plunge that provided a 7-0 halftime lead. Three Jim Turner field goals stretched the lead, unbelievably, to 16-zip. A remarkable but undersold fact is that the Colts didn't score until 56 minutes and 41 seconds had elapsed.
By delivering on his prediction, Namath infused the AFL with respect and notoriety.
After the epoch-making 16-7 victory, the AFC set out on a decade-plus of dominance as the Chiefs, Colts, Dolphins, Steelers and Raiders won 10 of the next 12 Super Bowls, many of them blow outs. The lone NFC team to win was Dallas.
To observers who denounced Namath as some one-hit wonder, there was a game for the ages three years later. Baltimore, who had won perhaps the most important game in league history—the overtime victory over the Giants in the NFL championship at Yankee Stadium in 1958—could not shake the embarrassment of the loss in Super Bowl III. A spirit of vendetta filled the air when the two teams played, and Baltimore had won the four regular season tilts since the epic loss. But the September 24, 1972 game was epic in its own fashion.
It was a heavyweight bout, with Unitas and Namath firing at each other in "take that" fashion and connecting. Namath rent the air for 496 yards and six touchdowns on just 15 completions. Unitas connected on 26 passes for 376 yards and two touchdowns. The two combined for 872 yards passing, an NFL record. But no individual distinction could replace the game of games, the colossal upset that showed the limits of long odds and how perfect a quarterback can be in a given game. Those who saw it expect nothing like it again. That's how good it was.
It was more than half a century ago that Leo Durocher spoke with reverence of a "five-tool" ballplayer. Those five tools—running, throwing, fielding, hitting for average, and hitting for power—were the precious metals that composed Durocher's statue to the baseball gods. Durocher, who played with Babe Ruth in the 1920s and managed for 27 years, most of them with the Dodgers and Giants when New York was the capital of baseball, made it clear that Willie Mays was his idea of a five-tool star. Mays tracked fly balls as though he had radar, ran as few sluggers could, and smacked more than 50 home runs in a season, as he first did in 1955. And he did all of this with irrepressible exuberance. After games at the Polo Grounds he would play stickball with kids on 155th Street, then treat them at the soda shop.
Willie Mays is baseball's greatest living player, and a monument to the vulnerable way that athletes once competed. In decades past, great athletes faced two opponents—their competitors and the ominous footsteps of father time. So there was Mays on my baseball card in the spring of 1968, with 564 home runs, all alone in second place, only Ruth looming on the horizon, 150 ahead of him. Mays had a chance, if only his reflexes and strength held up. But Mays did not catch Ruth, for he turned 37 that May and over his last six seasons his body would no longer do his bidding. The physical specimen who once hit homers in clumps of 40 and 50 now hit only 16 per year over his last six seasons in the sun. He finished with 660, hanging on with the Mets until he was 42.
To understand Mays, you must understand the way he attained his achievements. Mays sped past Mantle (who, in typical self-effacing fashion, said, "You have to look at the bottom line, and Willie's bottom line was way better than mine"), passed 500, sailed by Ott at 511, Williams at 521, and Fox at 534 to arrive in second place all alone. Players such as Mays who retired in the 1960s, '70s and '80s faced their mid-30s without the elixir of performance enhancing drugs to rescue their declining abilities. Now we hear sportscasters telling us, without a word of context, of Gary Sheffield reaching 500, of Alex Rodriguez passing Reggie Jackson's 563, and Manny Ramirez catching Mickey Mantle at 536. But their achievements are tainted and utterly meaningless. All told, seven of the last 11 players to reach the once-exclusive 500-homer club have been cited for using performance enhancers.
Baseball is still great, but the current stewards of the game—players, union officials and the commissioner himself—are poor, poor curators of it. No wonder then that a Harris Interactive poll showed that 42 percent of Americans declare football to be their favorite game, compared with only 15 percent for baseball. In addition, the television rating for the 2008 World Series was the lowest since ratings were first kept in 1969. It was quite different in Mays's time. Now 78, Mays deserves the appellation "greatest living player." His five-tool kit puts him ahead of Hank Aaron and Stan Musial, two other living greats who honored the game with their work ethic. I've heard Joe Torre claim that Aaron was as good as Mays, only Aaron wasn't as flashy. This cannot be right. Torre played with Aaron for eight years on the Braves, and players often defend their longtime mates in these kinds of comparisons.
The difference between the two, however, is surely not a matter of Willie's cap (which he wore a size too small on purpose) falling off while careening around the bases, nor his signature basket catch in center field. We're not counting style points here but genuine distinctions. Once you see that their offensive achievements are a virtual dead heat—with Mays ahead of Aaron by a mere .002 in slugging average and .10 in on-base percentage—then the debate is over before it starts. It must be, since Mays was by all accounts a superior fielder as well as base runner. The fielding superiority is evidenced by such metrics as range, fielding percentage, and put outs. Base running also favors Mays, the first power hitter to lead the league in steals, something he did four consecutive years in the 1950s. Some believe that Aaron's edge of 755 home runs to Mays' 660 is significant. It isn't. Consider: Mays played in just 34 games in 1952 and 1953, losing 270 games to his Army commitment. To best him by 95 more home runs, Aaron would require nearly 1,500 more at bats.
Being the greatest living player doesn't mean that Mays is without blemishes. In four World Series, Mays hit just .239 without a home run. He didn't pitch like Ruth and his .557 slugging average is miles behind Ruth's .690. But Mays is still the living standard for baseball excellence. He played with an élan and aggression seen in few, if ever.
The achievements of immortals such as Mays and Mantle, Aaron and Musial, Frank Robinson and Pete Rose, Tom Seaver and Bob Gibson now look better than ever because of baseball's immoral excesses since they retired. In a game where numbers equal merit, they attained their merits the hard way. Mays is our exemplar of a national pastime that was.
There is not now, never was and never will be another basketball player like Michael Jordan. Just as the term IQ stands for "intelligence quotient," we can coin a term "AQ" and let it stand for athletic quotient. The way I see it, AQ would stand for the sum of the attributes that make up athletic talent—speed and quickness, agility and jumping, size and strength, and even mental attributes such as sequential thinking and poise. If that be allowed, then it can be said that no hardwood savant has ever possessed a higher AQ than Michael Jordan.
The early medieval philosopher St. Anselm defined God as the "greatest conceivable being." Jordan is not the greatest conceivable player, but he is the greatest actual player. He is basketball's preeminent player since the merger of the BAA and NBL formed the NBA in 1948, the most outsized talent since the game's invention in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.
Jordan's high AQ reminds us of what Bob Cousy once said about him. Other great players had weaknesses, Boston's cagey guard explained, but Jordan had "no weakness." Consider: It's been more than a decade since Jordan secured a sixth title for Chicago in 1998, and since that time people rarely bother to make an argument for Jordan's supremacy. In 1999, a panel of sports journalists (appointed by ESPN) voted him the athlete of the century. So his No. 1 stature is considered obvious. But shouldn't we make a case for Jordan? Among sophisticated observers Ruth is considered the greatest baseball player, but we still gather evidence for him: namely, his 94-46 record as a pitcher, followed by a record-setting offensive career and the amazing degree to which he dominated the statistical legacy of the game. So shouldn't we do the same for Jordan, especially since some commentators have been pretty chirpy about recent challengers for the No. 1 ranking?
Kobe Bryant and Lebron James are the two most mentioned as Jordan's rivals. But Bryant and James own pieces of Jordan's game without possessing the whole. Like Jordan, they can both create around the hoop and Bryant is a frightening streak shooter. But the record shows that neither possesses the defensive skills or the perimeter game of Jordan. Jordan owns the highest ever points per game average (30.1), compared with Bryant's (25) and James's (27). Both trail Jordan's 50 percent career field-goal percentage, which was even higher when he was younger. He also led the Bulls to six titles, and copped nine All-Defensive first-team defensive awards.
In addition, when a Jordan-led squad made the finals, they won—six of six. Byrant saw his Lakers knocked off by the Pistons in five games in 2004 and by the Celtics in six in 2008. Jordan took his game higher in the postseason, bagging MVPs in six finals, shooting 49 percent, while tallying an all-time best 33.4 points per game, Bryant has won but one finals MVP, and his 46 percent accuracy and 25.5 points per game are well off Jordan's markers. In his six seasons, James' postseason average is 29 points, but his accuracy goes down to 45 percent.
As great as James is, at times he seems to be three-quarters greatness and the remaining quarter finely orchestrated marketing. The 23 on his uniform number is his homage to Jordan, as is his pregame ritual of making a fog of talc— something that Jordan did to toy with the late Red Kerr in Chicago nearly two decades ago. So what has he done that Jordan hasn't? He has been hyped to Saturn and back. Yet in six seasons—and in Bryant's 13—both have done what Jordan never did: played poorly in postseason exits.
Jordan was glorious, even in defeat, but in the 2007 finals versus San Antonio James shot a miserable 36 percent (32-90) as his team was swept. Bryant shot only 53 for 131 (40 percent) against Boston in the 2008 finals. Try finding a similar poor performance in Jordan's body of work. Even while the Chicago Bulls were losing to the Pistons, Chuck Daley proclaimed, "Jordan is embarrassing the league." To curtail the embarrassment, Daley devised the "Jordan Rules," a set of roughhousing tactics to bang Jordan around. It never stopped him.
That appellation "The Next Michael Jordan" is a badge of honor, yet even great ones such as Bryant and James have not deserved it. Jordan remains the gold standard—better even than Oscar and Wilt and Kareem. Pat Riley once claimed that teams that lost to the Bulls in the '90s could look back with "an excuse" as to why they had lost. That excuse was Jordan. At his best, Jordan looked as if he were playing in a different gear than the other nine players on the floor.
The name Edison Arantes do Nascimento makes most of us shrug. We do know the nickname, Pelé, and more often than not associate it with the received opinion that he was the greatest soccer player of all time. He was already 35 when he came to the United States, joining the New York Cosmos. We have come to view these soccer transplants as serial attempts, mostly failed, to establish soccer as a spectator sport in America. That said, Pelé's three-year sojourn to America provided a window into what he once was.
We witnessed the insanely adept dribbling that left two and three defenders appearing ungainly and drunk. We saw him firing upside-down scissor kicks or rising above the scrum to head corner kicks into the net. Pelé was alien because his game and acrobatic skills were alien. We knew we had never seen anything like it.
His athletic repertoire was honed in Brazil, where he grew up in poverty. A world audience first got a glimpse of him in 1958, with the first international broadcast of the World Cup. Just 17, Pelé ran around seasoned veterans. He scored two goals in the final, as Brazil slammed Sweden 5-2. Scoring six goals in the final three games, he gave Brazil its first cup since the tournament began in 1930.
Brazil won again in 1962, when Pelé was injured for all but the first two games. With Brazil in pursuit of a third straight cup in 1966, Pelé was again hurt and Brazil was eliminated in the first round. In 1970, Pelé, then 29, had something to prove. "I wanted to put to rest once and for all, the idea that I couldn't enter a World Cup series without getting hurt." He netted four goals and added six assists, including the opener in the finals as Brazil topped Italy 4-1. On a crossing shot 30 minutes into the game, Pelé and Italy's defender Tarcisio Burgnich jumped for the ball. "We jumped together, then I came down, but he stayed up there," said Burgnich. Pelé headed in the ball to give Brazil a two-goal lead. "I thought Pelé was made of flesh and blood like me," Burgnich said. "I was wrong."
By 1974, the man known as the "Black Pearl" played his last game for Brazil's Santos, a mid-level club team when he joined them in 1957. He wished to retire, but with financial concerns he inked a three-year deal with the Cosmos for $2.8 million. His presence alone boosted league attendance by 80 percent, from 7,597 per game in 1975 to 13,584 in 1977.
His statistical legacy supports his fame. At the age of 29 he scored his 1,000th goal, an unprecedented achievement in his native land. In all, he scored 1,281 goals, a total recognized by FIFA (the Fédération Internationale de Football Association) as the highest achieved by a pro footballer. It's up to some other player to bump him off the throne.
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May 29, 2013 2:06 pm
It may sound crazy, but let's entertain the idea that he knows what he's talking about.
Late on Monday, Greg Johns, the Mariners beat writer for MLB.com, posted a story that quoted skipper Eric Wedge on Dustin Ackley's demotion to triple-A. We don't have the full context of the discussion from which the quote came, but here's what we do have:
May 28, 2013 9:26 am
Over 19 games, the well-traveled 37-year-old second baseman hit better than .480. Four-eighty!
Marco Scutaro rode a lot of buses before he ever sniffed the big leagues. After being signed by the Indians in 1994, he played six full seasons in the minors. Then there were cups of coffee with the Mets in 2002 and 2003, but Scutaro didn't get a shot to play every day until Oakland picked him up prior to the 2004 season, when he was already 28. In four seasons with Oakland, he showed glimpses of the player he might become, including a .269 True Average in 2006. He was never flashy, but he was an integral part of the A's playoff run that year, a super-utilityman who played significant time at all non-first-base infield positions.
Now, at age 37, when most players are well into decline or out of the game altogether, Marco Scutaro is arguably in the prime of his career. After a terrible first month, during which Scutaro now admits he was suffering from a bad back, he caught fire. He put together a 19-game hitting streak, during which he hit .481. He's worked just 12 walks this year, but he's also struck out just 13 times. Scutaro's current TAv is .294, and he's already accrued 1.0 WARP in just 46 games.
May 21, 2013 5:00 am
A non-scout goes undercover at Evans Diamond to evaluate the potential 1-1 draft pick.
I saw Mark Appel pitch once before. It was early last season, down on The Farm, AKA Sunken Diamond, when it looked for all the world like he would be selected first overall in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
His stuff was electric. Fastball sat in the mid-90s and his slider absolutely unfair. It was there, and then it wasn't. To his opponents—mostly good-enough college hitters whose careers would end when they received their diplomas—it must have seemed like the ball was teleporting, Nightcrawler-style. Here it comes, the BAMF! It's in the dirt, six inches off the plate.
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May 14, 2013 5:00 am
Ian teaches an old lefty new tricks
This might come as a shock to you, but there are some players who don't value advanced statistics.
I guess I always figured that major-league baseball players would try and take advantage of every possible strategic advantage, and a knowledge of statistics – his own, or a competitor's – can give a player an edge. So I was surprised to have my attempts to talk stats rebuffed by a couple of different Giants players before their game against the Braves last Friday night.
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May 7, 2013 5:00 am
The Astros are bad, but they're not the worst ever, and they won't break the Mets' record for futility.
I'm legitimately excited to be going to Houston this weekend to attend the Baseball Prospectus event at Minute Maid Park. It won't be my first BP event, but it'll be my first event as a BP staff member. I hope no one asks me any tough questions about baseball, because I don't really know anything about the game. Luckily Jason Collette and Jason Cole and lots of other smart people will be there to field the tough questions. What should I wear? I don't have any golf shirts or polos, so I hope the attendees don't mind hoodies and cutoff jean shorts.
I also hope the Astros have a better week this week than last. I mean, I don't wanna necessarily hang around with a bunch of bummed-out front-office types and personnel. Let's be frank here: Saying the Astros had a bad week is an understatement of the highest order. It started out with them beating Andy Pettitte, and went completely off the rails after that. They ended up losing six straight and suffered a four-game sweep, at home, at the hands of the Tigers.
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April 16, 2013 5:00 am
Ian plays the East Coast; the East Coast plays for Ian.
I have two amazing jobs, one of which is writing here, but neither of those pays my mortgage. For that I have a day job that is so arcane and boring that it does not even warrant description.
My other side job that doesn't pay the mortgage: I play bass in Kowloon Walled City, a San Francisco-based band that's been around since 2007. We've put out a few records and played a few shows. The pay is terrible, but the fringe benefits are great: Playing music not only keeps me from going insane, but it also gives me an opportunity to travel and see things I wouldn't ordinarily get to see.
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April 2, 2013 9:45 am
What the pundits mocking the Astros miss.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but the 2013 Major League Baseball season is underway. It actually began on Sunday night in a contest that pitted the Texas Rangers against their newly minted division rivals, the Houston Astros. The game was broadcast on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and logged a 1.5 Nielsen rating. That's down pretty substantially from Opening Night 2012, when the Cardinals and the Marlins pulled a 1.8 rating. You can thank the Best Fans in Baseball for those extra .3 percent.
I saw quite a few people on Twitter and elsewhere complaining about Opening Night and claiming that only Opening Day is real. I call shenanigans on that. Highlighting one game on the night before Opening Day focuses national attention on a single matchup, making it feel special, like the single present your parents let you open on Christmas Eve.
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March 29, 2013 5:00 am
The final installment of a five-part series on the pressing questions confronting each team in 2013.
In the week leading up to Opening Day, we're asking and answering three questions about each team in a five-part series ordered by descending Playoff Pct from the Playoff Odds Report. Today, we continue with a look at the group of six teams with the worst odds of winning at least a Wild Card. As a reminder, you can find links to our preview podcasts for each team here.
March 19, 2013 5:00 am
On the ground at the WBC.
I've become slightly obsessed with the World Baseball Classic. When I learned the semifinals and finals of the 2013 Classic would be played at AT&T Park in San Francisco, I made sure to purchase our regular-season seats for all three games. I'm regretting that decision a little now that they're flogging $5 bleacher seats for the second semifinal game, but the buyer's remorse is minimal; after all, it's not every day that an international baseball event is held in one's own backyard.
The first semifinal game took place on Sunday night and pitted Japan, the two-time defending WBC champ, against a plucky Puerto Rico team that really had no business making it out of pool play. They faced elimination twice and beat Italy and the United States to guarantee a semifinal berth, ultimately losing to the Dominican Republic in what amounted to a seeding game. Had they won, they would have had an additional day off in which to travel to San Francisco from Miami, and they'd face the Netherlands. But they lost to the D.R., meaning they had to fly west immediately after their Saturday game in order to face Japan on Sunday on a short turnaround and as a heavy underdog.
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March 5, 2013 5:00 am
Is it possible that honkbal is even better than baseball?
The third World Baseball Classic kicked off pool play this week, with six games taking place in Taichung, Taiwan and Fukuoka, Japan. I watched most of the games this weekend (all games are being aired on the MLB Network), and seeing the Netherlands blank Korea, then lose a tough one to Taiwan cemented the Dutch as my team in the WBC. Here are just a few reasons why.
1. They call it "honkbal." That should be enough right there, frankly, but I doubt my editors would be happy if I submitted a 75-word article. They typically like to have some content after the green "paywall" box.
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February 27, 2013 5:00 am
Food and Loafing at spring training.
If you set out to design a place that I would hate, it would look a lot like Arizona.
It's got natural beauty, sure, but it's usually way too hot, or too cold, to enjoy. Everything is spread out, Houston- or Los Angeles-style; you have to drive everywhere to get anywhere. And once you get there, odds are "there" is a prefab thing conceived by a team of hospitality management experts.
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February 20, 2013 5:00 am
Or maybe for our own good.
I was never what you'd call good at baseball. My career peaked not at 27, when many pros come into their own, but when I was 12. I was one of the bigger kids in my league, and even though I hadn't entered puberty, I already had the full complement of old player skills: good eye at the plate, low batting average, above-average power. On those occasions I did make contact with a ball, it stayed hit.
I was also a capable first baseman; the coach told me being left-handed gave me a reach advantage, but we both knew I was there because I lacked any semblance of speed or range. But when my fellow fielders threw a ball my way, more often than not, I caught it.
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Would you believe that you can clean your hull effectively and safely with baking soda?
By Elizabeth Ginns Britten — April 2004
For some of you, thinking of Texas might conjure images of oil wells and refineries, a place laden with environmental no-no's. But that's unfair, since the Lone Star State has more nature tourism acres than the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park combined. Even so, when I first learned about a green-thumb, Houston-based company called MMLJ that's created a machine that uses nonpolluting baking soda to remove bottom paint, I was caught off guard. But upon hearing that this technique is also supposedly more cost-effective in the long run, is less time-consuming than traditional stripping methods, and eases waste-disposal problems, I had to know more.
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MMLJ uses a granulated baking soda formula (yes, the same kind used around your house and in your food) to remove antifouling paint. The process involves putting the soda (a.k.a. sodium bicarbonate), a clean, pure substance that's FDA- and USDA-approved, into a container called a SodaBlaster, where it's pressurized and then shot at the hull under high pressure. The result is a nontoxic, environmentally friendly way to clean your boat's hull bottom that won't damage gelcoat and represents a marked departure from conventional methods like chemical strippers and sanding.
"So let me get this straight," I said, dumbfounded, after listening to Benny LeCompte, vice president of operations and general manager of MMLJ. "You're telling me I can clean and remove paint from my boat's hull with the same stuff I clean my teeth with? The same stuff I keep in the 'fridge?"
"I know," he replied, "it almost sounds too good to be true, but it's not."
Until recently, sodium bicarbonate was used on rare occasions—if at all—to remove antifouling paint. LeCompte says that for many years MMLJ was so focused on sodablasting in other industries that the marine businesses weren't "there for them." And, funny enough, Bill Connelly of StripCo, a Dallas-based company that uses the process and distributes SodaBlasters, adds, "blasting boat bottoms may be sodablast's best and highest use. The next-best alternative [of chemical strippers and sanding] is so inferior in comparison, it doesn't even come close."
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) among male patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) symptoms. Ethiology of AAA is known to be common with atherosclerotic arterial diseases (coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease and carotid artery disease), so the hypothesis is that AAA should be more common among these TIA patients, thus making screening of these patients (for AAA) more cost-efficient.
Study will be carried out as a prospective screening study. Data will be collected in North Karelia Central Hospital within one year. All male patients with TIA symptoms will be recruited for the study and screened for AAA with ultrasound.
|Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
|Other: Ultrasound of aorta
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|Screening of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Among Male Patients With TIA Symptoms
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- Maximum diameter (mm) of abdominal aorta (outer-to-outer wall) in ultrasound [ Time Frame: upon screening (collection of data will take one year) ]
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|May 2013
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- male patient who has had symptoms of transient ischemic attack (TIA)
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- Female gender
- Already diagnosed or treated abdominal aortic aneurysm
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If you find yourself standing in front of the mirror for hours on end, wrapping your pin-straight hair around a sizzling curling iron to create that perfect beachy wave, then it might be time to step away from the heat.
Using a curling iron too often can result in fried and damaged hair that, no matter how hard your wrap, twist and clamp, will eventually fall flat and limp. Try some new, heat-free beauty tips and hair products to produce the waves you want and before you know it you'll stash away that burning iron for good.
Beach-going braids
Loose and carefree beachy waves can be achieved without even taking a trip to the shore. Portion your hair into at least five different sections, holding each segment back with a clip. Beginning an inch below your roots, braid the sections of hair - depending on how you loose you want the waves, the braids can be kept slack, or tight for a more prominent curl. Once your whole head is braided, lightly mist the braids with hairspray, such as the Steiner Stay Put Extra Firm Finishing Spray.
After leaving the braids in for about half an hour, unravel them and carefully break up the waves with your fingertips. For an extra surf-happy vibe, spray the top of the waves with the finishing spray and gently scrunch.
Fixing your hair into pin curls is one of the easiest ways to create glamorous all-over waves without the fuss of a curling iron. First, twist a large section of hair - the bigger the portion, the fuller the curl - all the way up to your roots. Wrap the twisted hair around itself until it's sitting coiled on your scalp. Secure the tiny bun with two crisscrossing bobby pins. Repeat until your whole head is covered with these tiny coils.
For the fullest pin-curl effect, wrap your head in a silk scarf or bandanna and sleep on it. Undo the curls in the morning and gently tousle them with your fingertips, scrunching the roots for an extra lift.
Do the twist
If you don't have time to braid or pin your hair, it's not a problem - you can twist your way to stunning waves with only your fingers. First, mist your damp or dry hair with a beach spray that will add some extra texture to your strands. Next, rub a small amount of styling cream onto the palm of your hands to give your hair a firm hold before you start twisting.
Beginning with the top layer, pick a small section of hair and start twirling it from the ends. New York City-based stylist Bronwen Melvin told Allure magazine that the more you twist, the more your strands should resemble a Twizzler. Once you've twisted the hair all you can, scrunch it into a tiny bun and hold it there for several seconds. Repeat this twisting on sections of hair around your head, alternating between large and small twists for a bed-head look. To make sure your waves last, lightly spray them with a finishing product, such as the Steiner Gloss Mist Shine Spray, which will also give them a healthy sheen.
Sock bun
The sock bun was a huge trend in 2013, but did you know that it could be used for more than just going out? Next time, don't let your perfectly created sock bun go to waste - try reusing it for soft and romantic waves.
To make a sock bun, first cut the toe off a clean sock and roll it into a donut shape. Then, gather your hair into a ponytail at the top of your head, fastening it with a hair tie. Work the end of your ponytail through the hole in the sock, wrapping sections of hair over the sock as you do so. Once you roll the sock all the way to the top of your head, make sure all the loose strands are tucked under.
Leave the bun in overnight, or for at least six to eight hours. Once you remove the sock and elastic, your hair will fall into flowing waves. Gently loosen them with your fingertips and rub a styling cream, such as Steiner Discipline Styling Taffy, to achieve a piece-y look.
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Sunday, September 24, 2017
Colon Cancer
Could it be colon cancer
I`m a 23 year old male. My family has a history of diabetes. I`m being tested for that as well. So for a while now I have had blood in my stool and it happens almost everytime I use the restroom and sometimes there is a lot. I am tired all the time, I get full even when I eat a small amount and I am always either constipated or have diarrhea. Could I have colon cancer? These symptoms have been going on for months now.
Signs or symptoms that can be concerning for colon cancer include blood in the stool, weight loss, abdominal pain, fatigue, or a change in bowel habits. However, because age is a risk factor for colon cancer, it would be less likely in someone as young as you are unless there is some other factor that raises your risk, such as a predisposition to colorectal cancer that runs in your family.
There are also syndromes including other types of cancers that run in families that increase the risk for colorectal cancer. If you are tired all the time, it may be because you are anemic (your blood count is low) from blood loss. It is certainly not normal to be losing blood in the stool. While this could potentially be due to hemorrhoids, other conditions such as celiac disease or inflammatory bowel disease are also possibilities, and your symptoms need to be investigated further. Your doctor may recommend blood tests and other specific tests such as a visual inspection of the gastrointestinal tract with a flexible tube with a camera and light on it (flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, or possibly upper endoscopy) to determine the specific cause of your symptoms so that you can be treated.
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Photo By: Ellie Van Houtte/town crier
People illegally picking apricots from city-owned trees deprive the orchard's caretaker.
The apricot orchard surrounding the Los Altos Civic Center is owned by the city, but fruit poachers have stymied the farmer who tends to it.
The city has contracted the cultivation and harvest of the California Blenheim apricot trees to San Jose farmer Don Speciale since 1970. In return, Speciale reaps the proceeds from the sale of the apricots, many of which are now ripe for the picking.
But Speciale hasn't been able to maximize his profits, according to Erica Ray, public information coordinator, because people often pick the apricots illegally.
"I, myself, have seen people in the orchard picking fruit or, in one case, an entire branch off one of Don's trees," said Ray, who added that Speciale earns a substantial portion of his income from apricot sales.
Although the city posts "Do Not Pick" signs along the perimeter of the orchard during the apricot harvest – typically between the end of May and the beginning of July – Speciale said he often notices that some of his fruit has disappeared.
Ray said city hall staffers have approached those caught in the act of petty theft, alerting them to the signs, but they can't stop everyone.
She noted that Speciale – who has spent many early-morning hours plowing and pruning the orchard – deserves the fruits of his labor.
"He's a very hard worker, even in his elder years," she said. "I think that if the public knew they weren't picking the city's apricots, they might think twice before picking (them)."
Anyone interested in purchasing the apricots can find them at the De Martini Orchard, 66 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.


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Saturday, September 23, 2017
Preventing Osteoporosis
I am a 58yr. old female who used to be very active, but am not now. I`ve had a number of fractures due to accidents and still experience very bad lower back pain. My mother is very crippled up from osteoporosis and I am concerned I will have the some problems. My question is: Are there things that I could be doing to prevent a lot of problems down the road. My stomach can take very few medicines. Thank You.
The usual recommendations include getting adequate calcium, vitamin D and exercise. Don't smoke. For a more extensive discussion of these items, visit the website of the National Osteoporosis Foundation:
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Love Cherry Ripe bars? Then you'll adore this easy slice! With a baked biscuit layer, it combines a sweet cherry filling with luscious dark chocolate top. Rich and delicious, you won't be able to stop at one piece.
- 2 cups self raising flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa
- 1 ½ cups coconut
- 250g butter or margarine
- 1 cup sugar
- 200g good quality dark chocolate
- 25g copha
- Cherry filling200g desiccated coconut
- 400g condensed milk
- 200g glace cherries, chopped
- 3-4 drops red food colouring (optional)
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a slice tray (mine is 31 cm x 22cm).
- Combine flour, cocoa and coconut.
- Place butter or margarine in a saucepan with sugar and heat until butter has melted.
- Pour butter over dry ingredients, mix well and press into tray.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly.
- For the filling, combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Spread over warm chocolate base.
- Melt chocolate and copha in a saucepan over low heat or in the microwave.
- Stir until melted and smooth then pour over cherry filling.
- Refrigerate until set.
- Cut into small triangles, bars or slices.
- To cut neatly through the chocolate, dip a knife in hot water before cutting through the chocolate.
- My mum is a huge fan of Cherry ripe bars and I have adapted this recipe from one of hers.
- I used the base of the Chocolate coconut slice, but for a simpler method, line the tray with baking paper and place Morning Coffee biscuits over the base.
- I made this gluten-free using one cup of tapioca flour (from Asian grocers), one cup gluten-free plain flour (Orgran brand) and three teaspoons gluten-free baking powder.
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NEW ORLEANS — Family began coming into town Sunday for the Hornets' victory against the Sacramento Kings at New Orleans Arena.
And Mom certainly will be in attendance Tuesday night when the Hornets (20-37) host the Brooklyn Nets (33-24). Robin Lopez will be going against twin brother Brook in an NBA regular-season game for the sixth time.
"I've got Mom rooting for me," said Robin Lopez, who was born one minute after Brook, "because I'm better, because I'm more lovable."
Brook, who played on this year's Eastern Conference All-Star team, might say he's better, Robin said, but, "There's no debate about who's more lovable."
Usually, such as when Robin was set to go against his former team, the Phoenix Suns, he dismissed it as just another game, although he spent the first four years of his career with that team after being selected in the first round of the 2008 draft.
However, after the game against the Kings, he smiled whenever Tuesday night's game was mentioned and said it should be a lot of fun. It also should be a good styles matchup, as Robin is more defensive-minded and Brook more prolific offensively.
Robin averages 11.4 points on 55.9 percent shooting, 5.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks. Brook averages 18.9 points on 51.4 percent shooting, 7.3 rebounds and 2.14 blocks, playing in 30.3 minutes to Robin's 25 minutes, 31 seconds a game.
"Robin is probably not as polished as Brook offensively," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "More people would say Robin's more defensively inclined as far as playing the game. Robin has more of a helping defensive mentality that we like.
"But Brook's an All-Star for a reason. He can put the ball in the hole. He's one of the few bigs who has that Tim Duncan move where they draw fouls with their wrist, forearm."
Robin said they've been different as players since they were growing up.
"I was always more of the defensive player," he said. "I would guard the better centers, and he was a more offensive center. I guess you can see how that developed.
"I guess I was always going against a good offensive player, and he was always going against a good defensive player."
Such as with their one-on-one matchups in the driveway of the family's Fresno, Calif., home. Their mother, Debbie Ledford, said before an earlier matchup between them that they got along 98 percent of the time, with the 2 percent they didn't get along coming when one blocked the other's shot.
Asked who won most of the time, Robin said, "It was usually even, maybe 50 percent plus one in my favor.
"Brook always had a little more range than I did, so he would shoot 3-pointers sometimes, and sometimes that would give him the edge."
The battles were fierce, though, and stuff often would be broken, sometimes intentionally after a loss didn't sit well.
TCU coach Trent Johnson, the former LSU coach who mentored the Lopez brothers at Stanford from 2006-08, has seen those battles up close.
"Physical," Johnson said, laughing. "Very physical. You had to slow them down, which I liked."
Johnson said he doesn't think Brook is that much better offensively than Robin.
"I've had conversations with Monty about Robin," Johnson said. "He is more of a traditional center, playing around the basket. He likes to shoot the left hook and the right hook.
"Brook can shoot from out, and he can put the ball on the floor and go left and right. And he's on a team that features him. They're just different."
Off the court, Robin said, they're similar. Their uniform numbers reflect where they were drafted in the first round: Brook wears No. 11 and Robin No. 15. They both like Disney and fine art.
"We're both very creative people, very stubborn," Robin said. "I think Brook is a little more aggressive, a little more outspoken, a little more vocal."
From an appearance standpoint, Brook is slightly taller, although both are listed at 7 feet. Brook is bigger, but Robin seems to have a more athletic build.
The biggest difference is their hair. Brook's is somewhat close cut, while Robin goes with the longer, shaggier look.
"That wasn't a conscious thing," Robin said. "We didn't come together and talk about it. It's just one day he decided to get a haircut and I didn't."
That it makes it easier to tell them apart, he said, "I guess it was just a genius marketing move in retrospect, I don't know."
The two are very close, as can be imagined, and talk often, although never about basketball. However, Robin admits to being envious about Brook being selected as an All-Star.
"I'm a little jealous," he said. "What NBA player doesn't what to be an All-Star? But I'm happy for him; he deserves it."
All-Star or not, Robin's teams have gotten the better of Brook's in the NBA. Robin is 4-1 against Brook. They face off again March 12 in Brooklyn.


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Please specify: Small Breed (for dogs up to 60 lbs) or Large Breed (for dogs over 60 lbs).
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