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UPPER FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP (AP) — A man has died in a house fire in Upper Freehold Township.
Firefighters responded to the blaze on Imlaystown-Hightstown Road at 9:20 p.m. Thursday.
The man's name has not been released.
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Midwest agricultural retailers are beginning to more widely use the "Flag the Technology" method to reduce errors in herbicide applications and warn of needing to limit chemical drift. This is a simple, inexpensive way to reduce errors in herbicide applications to crops not resistant to certain herbicides.
Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri Extension weed management specialist, supports the "Flag the Technology" program that had its beginning in Arkansas by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
The idea is simple: Color-coded bicycle flags or similar markers placed at field entrances or other conspicuous locations to indicate the use of different herbicide technologies on herbicide-resistant crops.
The system can make the difference between a healthy crop and a damaged or dead one, Bradley said. It is especially useful for farmers to request a specific herbicide be used in each of their fields by placing a flag or to recognize what the custom applicator applied in a field. Everyone can see the different herbicides used or to be used in all the fields in a neighborhood.
The program can be quite helpful for custom applicators. "When they pull into a field to make a herbicide application, the flags help to assure them that they have the right chemical in their tank to match the traits in that field," Bradley said. "Also, they might be able to look at fields across the road, and if there are different colored flags in nearby fields, then applicators may think twice before spraying in windy conditions."
For consistency across the Midwest, the same color flags are being suggested to signify specific herbicides or modes of action. Red flags signify conventional crop varieties with no herbicide technology traits while white represents Roundup Ready technology crops that are tolerant to glyphosate. Bright green indicates LibertyLink technology with crops tolerant to glufosinate. Bright yellow is the color for Clearfield technology, which indicates crops tolerant to imazethapyr (Newpath) and imazamox (Beyond). Multiple flags and colors represent stacked technology crops.
Preferred flags are 12 inch-by-18 inch triangles (a little larger than the typical bicycle or ATV safety flag) mounted on 6-foot fiberglass poles.
Bradley said the flag method will likely gain more significance in two to three years, when crops with new herbicide-resistance traits enter the marketplace. Farmers and agricultural retailers who make herbicide applications to large acreages, deal with multiple employees and apply multiple products will find the program of great value, he said.
A brochure about the Flag the Technology program is available at www.aragriculture.org/pesticides. A two-minute video overview from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture is available at youtu.be/ChNGbU5TyOY.

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Training Model to Advance Support of the Family as a Caregiving System in the Inpatient Oncology Setting
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: February 28, 2013
Last updated: March 1, 2017
Last verified: March 2017
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The purpose of this study is to provide a communication training program to inpatient nurses and social workers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in order to help them assist caregiving families. The importance of this training program is that it aims to teach nurses and social workers how and when to respond more effectively and compassionately to challenges faced by caregiving families. One of the goals of this program is to address family support needs during a patient's hospitalization.
|Support of the Family as a Caregiving System
|Behavioral: Working with the Caregiving Family (WCF) training Behavioral: questionnaires
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Training Model to Advance Support of the Family as a Caregiving System in the Inpatient Oncology Setting
Further study details as provided by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Provider outcomes [ Time Frame: 2 years ]which include observed changes in skills (Family Skills Adherence Scale) and subjective confidence level (Confidence in Family Skills Questionnaire) in conducting a family-centered psychosocial consultation with a caregiving family
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- patient and/or family members'outcomes [ Time Frame: 2 years ]which include caregivers' satisfaction with aspects of psychosocial care (Satisfaction with Emotional Support Scale measure), perceived quality of communication about illness (Family Session Communication Measure) and perceived alliance with the participating nurse or social worker (Family Alliance Scale)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Actual Study Start Date:
|February 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|February 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|February 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Working with the Caregiving Family (WCF) training
This is a new training curriculum for inpatient oncology providers called Working with the Caregiving Family (WCF) training, a program designed to teach MSKCC inpatient staff to address family-level concerns during acute hospitalization. The WCF training will teach staff to recognize and inquire about areas of family distress that are likely to impact the caregiving process; to provide brief, supportive interventions, and/or to transition families to specialized support services when needed. We will provide staff with skills to address especially challenging family situations (e.g., noncompliance with medical care, conflict, poor communication) in collaborative and compassionate ways. We will teach clinicians to intervene and respond more effectively when problematic relationships develop within families or between families and larger systems (e.g., medical team, institutional programs).
Behavioral: Working with the Caregiving Family (WCF) training
Training curriculum will be comprised of 2 phases to be attended sequentially: (l) The Didactic Phase will consist of 6 twice a month seminars, administered over a 3 month period. Each seminar includes a 1 hour lecture & discussion followed by 1 hour of role-play exercises; Lecture segments may include short training videos which Dr. Zaider uses in the nurses' training module she teaches through the Communication Skills Laboratory. The teaching portion of the didactic sessions of the training may also be videotaped as a reference point for curriculum review. Will explain to the providers that videotapes will only be available to study staff & that the role play portion will not be recorded; (2) Consolidation Phase will consist of 6 twice a month peer-group supervision meetings for ongoing consultation on family cases, also held across a 3 month period. Length of these consolidations sessions will be up to 2 hours.
Other Names:Behavioral: questionnaires
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Participating Providers:
- Provider is an MSKCC acute care advanced practice nurse and/or inpatient social worker as per self-report.
- Plans to attend at least 4/6 the didactic training sessions, and 3/6 consolidation sessions as per self-report.
A patient will be approached if:
- Patient has been admitted to an inpatient service at MSKCC.
- Patient is able to designate at least one close person who is involved in the patient's care and is willing to participate. In the case that the patient is a minor (age 7-17 yrs), s/he will need to designate at least one close, adult person who is involved in the patient's care and is willing to participate.
Family members will be approached if:
- They were identified as a close other (including a family friend) involved in the care of an admitted patient on a participating provider's floor
Exclusion Criteria:
- Evidence of cognitive impairment severe enough to preclude completing survey instruments as per clinical or research staff judgment or EMR.
- Determined to not be appropriate for this study as per clinical judgment. Anyone, patient or family member, who is younger than 12 years old.
- Anyone, patient or family member, who does not speak English.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01805609
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01805609
|United States, New York
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
Sponsors and Collaborators
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy
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|Talia Zaider, PhD
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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|February 28, 2013
|Last Updated:
|March 1, 2017
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I've never made a blog entry.
It has past a year since I joined. I started taking classes more or less at the same time. Took also two workshops (2 days each, though), with Baba Touré and Fode Bangoura.
I directed a play this November where I played djembe with 2 colleages of mine (on the dunduns that I managed to buy). Starting on the 2nd phase of that project this January, premiere the 23th February, on a major theatre here in Lisbon. Shakespeare and west african percussion...
All that I can and want to say is that this site, and mainly this forum, has made me grow a lot. Getting to know artists that I didn't, new rhythms, staying in touch with the feeling and the passion when classes stopped. The cultural and knowledge exchange, the shared passion and ingenuity.
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3 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Rafters at Red: Open Mic and live music.
7 p.m.: The Nelson and District Credit Union Variety Show.
8 p.m.: Bobsled bets at the Garage Restaurant.
9 p.m.: Rafters at Red: Chatham Country Line. North Carolina Bluegrass.
9 p.m.: Blizzardfest at the Flying Steamshovel, BlackBerry Wood.
All day: Performances by the Boomtown Garter Girls.
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.: Learn to Luge at Red Resort.
1 p.m.: King of the Mountain ski, telemark and snowboard race at Red Resort.
6 to 11 p.m.: Live music at Olaus Ice Palace.
6:30 p.m.: Rossland's 117th Carnival Parade downtown.
7 p.m.: Post parade hot dogs, hot chocolate and a bonfire in Harry Lefevre Square.
7 to 9 p.m.: Beer Tasting; Rafters at Red.
9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.: Open Jam at the Legion.
9 p.m.: Blizzardfest at the Flying Steamshovel.
7:30 to 10 a.m.: Firefighters Pancake Breakfast.
9:30 a.m.: Sonny Samuelson Bobsled Race down Spokane Street.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: "The Game" Rail Jam.
1 to 3 p.m.: Learn to Luge at Red Mountain.
Noon: GT Racing on Spokane Street and snow volleyball.
Noon to 6 p.m.: Food fair at Olaus Ice Palace.
1 p.m.: World Championship Bigolfathon at Red Mountain.
6 to 9 p.m.: Red Mountain Resort Family Fun Night Free night skiing and boarding, skating rink and firepit, tobogganing, indoor crafts.
9 p.m.: Blizzardfest at the Flying Steamshovel.
9 a.m.: The Olaus Invitational BC Cup Luge Race at Red Moutain.
1 p.m.: Kids Carnival and John Heintz Relay Race from top of Red Mountain to the Lions campground.
Source: Rossland Winter Festival
The handmade bobsled barreled down the icy city street, zooming past an ambulance and police car sitting at an intersection. Residents rushed out into the street to see if the brave young men crashed on the busy boulevard below.
Welcome to the Sammy Samuelson Bobsled Race, one of the most popular events at the Rossland Winter Carnival in British Columbia. The quaint old mining town bills itself as Canada's oldest winter carnival. This year the big event runs from Thursday to next Sunday.. We stopped by the grand winter carnival during a ski trip to Red Mountain last year. Rossland rolls out the white carpet for thousands of visitors.
They say a Norwegian miner by the name of Olaus Jeldness started it all back in 1897. They insist Jeldness invited friends to the top of nearby Red Mountain for an infamous "tea party." Afterward, the pioneer strapped long wooden sticks to their feet and sent them barreling down the hill. He called them "skis," and that's how the sport got its start in Canada.
Well, Jeldness would be proud to know that neighbors are still barreling down the streets of Rossland — albeit in handmade bobsleds that are long on imagination and short on engineering.
These people will race anything from a old snowmobile shell to a big pink canoe. The only rule is they must carry a four-person team and must have working brakes and steering.
Though from personal observation, I would have to say their ability to stop or turn varied by a wide margin. And the crowds roared whenever the rickety craft veered off course and crashed into the snow banks lining Spokane Street.
Another concession to safety were the helmets every rider had to wear. And drivers are no longer allowed to drink before the competition.
Speeds reach up to 85 kilometers per hour and are tracked with a speed gun — explaining both the ambulance and police car.
This Friday, visitors will flock to the King of the Mountain at Red Mountain ski resort at noon. Racers must make three separate runs on three separate sets of ski gear: snowboard, tele and alpine. The clock keeps running while contestants change as well as when they ride the chairlift.
The carnival parade complete with costumes and floats will start at 6:30 p.m. in downtown Rossland, followed by a party with hot chocolate and a blazing bonfire in Lefevre Square.
At last year's event, we strolled down the main street and stopped by the roaring fire pit to talk to families warming up on the freezing northern night. They had come to Rossland to enjoy this very special winter weekend.
The children told us about the Kids Carnival, which offers snowmobile rides, maple taffy on snow and many games at the Lions campground.
The action will continue Saturday with family night at Red Mountain Resort. Families can get a free night of skiing and boarding, as well as the use of toboggans, ice-skating rink and firepit.
The bravest souls can sign up for the Olaus Invitational BC Cup Luge Race on Sunday morning on Red. Helmets and snow boats are required and the cost is only $15.
Visitors who don't have time to build a bobsled can participate in GT racing on Spokane Street. There's no entry fee, but helmets and waivers are required.
There also are cross-country team sprints on Upper Spokane Street by the ice arena. In this contest, teams of two skiers play tag on multiple laps of a fast-circuit course.
Several teams race head-to-head in elimination heats. Winners need the speed to sprint around the course, as well as the endurance to race several times through the heats.
Spirits soared as snowboarders ripped up the rail jam on the street next to the post office. Others enjoyed snow volleyball.
Of course, you could just do what we did: Watch the action from the sidelines while enjoying a pint of Canada's best beer or a glass of wine.
Food is abundant, from the firefighters pancake breakfast to the food fair at the Olaus Ice Palace or the borscht at the Legion on Washington Avenue.
The world famous Slocan Ice Sculptures are really amazing pieces of art.
And then there's the Blizzard Mountain Music Festival, or Blizzardfest. A dozen of Canada's best live acts perform on two stages at Rossland's Winter Carnival.
For more information about the Rossland Winter Carnival, see www.rosslandwintercarnival.com.


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This may be a little late to share, but I always enjoying looking back at our egg coloring pictures.
If you'd like, see what we did last year and the year before.
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So pretty! I miss doing this with my kids, they are to old they say! But I will have a grandchild soon so that'll work!ReplyDelete
Love the photos, your work has improved over the last three years. I love dying eggs but now that i'm old i will have to wait until i have children of my own.ReplyDelete
I found these show-stopping little miracles at WalMart...they look like q-tips filled with colour, and you snap one end and all the colour rushes to one end and the kiddos decorated with them! All for 94 cents per package!
It was fantastic and easy and enjoyable :)
I love your colours!


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Penned by comic book luminaries Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, Peter J. Tomasi, Eddie Berganza, Alan Burnett, Todd Casey and Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights will be distributed June 7 by Warner Home Video as part of the build up to the release of the live action film, Green Lantern, in theatres June 17.


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Libertarian curmudgeon and author P.J. O'Rourke muses about fatherhood at 50, the politics of cigar smoking, and why economics is funny.
The tent cabin next to his pond has a chic boys camp decor--more Ralph Lauren than Ralph Kramden. It serves as the tranquil setting for a Dewar's-and-water, a good smoke and a long, complex conversation at the end of a day spent mucking out the pond and making the final revisions on his latest book, Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics.
Looking every bit the preppy ruffian in his trademark khakis, button-down oxford cloth shirt and Bass Weejuns, the cigar in one hand and the Scotch perched precariously on the armrest of his chair, O'Rourke explains his take on cigars and the editorial process. "I think everybody loves to alter their brain chemistry--even if it's only by being full after a meal or that great feeling you have after sex or feeling tired after a day of exercise. All those things alter your brain chemistry and so, of course, do all drugs. But you can't work. I don't think anybody writes better being stoned. Fitzgerald may have thought he did or John O'Hara--but they were kidding themselves. Nobody gets drunk and writes better. Faulkner would get so Faulknerian you don't have any idea what he is saying, which is not much. And the old hippie drugs were even worse. The only two drugs that seem to lend a certain amount of mental organization are caffeine and nicotine. Of course, you can't drink too much caffeine or you get to be Mr. Jumpy Pants."
Taking a puff on his Monte, he thinks for a moment while the stillness of New Hampshire reverberates from his raucous laughter--which is somewhat south of a giggle, and every bit as infectious. With his trademark earnestness splashed with bits of irony and a voice that has been informing, engaging and needling us for more than 20 years, he continues. "There is a lot of thinking that goes into writing, at least there should be. And I find that smoking is the only thing helpful. It gives me something to do when I'm staring out the window trying to sort pieces together. It's sorta like doing a jigsaw puzzle. And I find that cigars are very good for sort of contemplating the jigsaw puzzle and sorting through and finding the pieces with straight edges that go around the sides."
The only son of a car salesman and a grade-school clerk in Toledo, Ohio (he has two younger sisters, Delphine and Cathleen), O'Rourke attended Miami (Ohio) University. It was the mid-1960s when he stumbled into his profession. "I decided to be a writer when I was in college," O'Rourke recalls. "It was a completely arbitrary decision. I was between my sophomore and junior year and I wanted to be something else besides a college student, because I thought that being a college student was so dull, so bourgeois, so predictable. I wanted to be a race car driver, a soldier of fortune or a rock and roll star. But I didn't have a race car. Soldier of fortune, I guess I could have done, but they wanted me to serve a stint in Vietnam first. I must not have been that enthusiastic about being shot at or I would have volunteered for Vietnam. Anyway, I thought, well I don't have the equipment or nerve or skill for all these various other things, so I'll be a writer. It was the '60s--there was no quality control on anything. If I wrote, who's to say that I wasn't a writer?"
Ever practical, O'Rourke devised a seemingly foolproof method for crafting his first novel. "I looked at a bunch of novels and I figured out how short something could be; about 50,000 words is the minimum. Of course, I would have been better off if I'd have read those novels instead of just counting the words. And then I took my summer break, the summer of 1967, and I divided 50,000 words by the number of days and wrote exactly [that number of] words a day in this formless, nonsensical piece of self-referential, indecipherable fiction, and at the end of the summer, by golly, I had a novel. It really stank."
Writing truly forgettable fiction has never prevented anyone from having a career as a writer. O'Rourke won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, enabling him to attend graduate school. Once again, his choice had a logical, if slightly off-kilter, rationale. "I decided to take writing seminars at Johns Hopkins, because basically that was the best-sounding school that I could get into, and the seminars were so desperate for money they'd take anybody, no matter how little talent they had. By the time I got done with graduate school, I realized that I was 23 and had no job skills whatsoever. I guess I was a writer--that's all I'd done--so I started to write for a little underground newspaper in Baltimore called Harry. They had all these underground newspapers--anti-Vietnam War, anti-capitalist, pro-drug stuff--and they were all very solemn.
"The thing that's forgotten about the '60s, because it's so clownish-looking in pictures, was that in the late '60s, very serious, solemn, save-the-world 18 year olds high on dope were going to reform the entire world and tell all the people who lived for the past 5,000 years what they were doing wrong. A very silly period. We were having a lot of fun and we thought that these underground newspapers didn't quite adequately reflect all the fun that we were having growing our hair long, making our parents mad, getting laid constantly and smoking a bunch of dope. This was great! We were having a ball! We knew that the bill would come due someday probably, but for the time being we were having a lot of fun. So we started to do this hippie-dippy sort of newspaper, but it was funnier than most of them. We looked sort of askance and we made fun of ourselves, the way we and our friends were behaving."
Eventually, the siren song of the New York literary world beckoned O'Rourke. Well, sort of. "I decided that if I was really going to be a writer, I'd better move to New York," he says, pausing to take a puff of his cigar. "Actually, I finally 'decided' to go to New York when my girlfriend kicked me out of her Saab in New York on the way back to Baltimore. I had a friend that knew some people at National Lampoon and I went up and pitched some story ideas. That's how I began writing there, but I'd admired them from afar."
He joined the staff of National Lampoon in 1973, ascending to editor in 1978. Who could forget the infamous parody of a 1964 high school yearbook, which he edited with the late Doug Kenney. Or the "Dacron, Ohio, Sunday Republican-Democrat" newspaper spoof created with John Hughes, who would, in a later incarnation as a filmmaker, give us Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
O'Rourke stresses the importance of the techniques he learned at Lampoon. "Parody comes from knowing how to write well. You learn that in order to make fun of something, you have to be able to take it apart. I always thought that if I ever wound up teaching a creative writing class, that's what I would have the kids do. I would have them do nothing but parodies for a semester, because in order to do a parody you have to understand how the writing is done."
Satire, on the other hand, O'Rourke sees as a dying art. "Satire is technically comic writing with a moral point of view, and I think that it is hard to do because not many people have the confidence in their moral point of view anymore. We're in this sort of period where people say: 'Not that there's anything wrong with that!'. I don't think people are afraid to have opinions. People have endless opinions. But I think they're afraid to have a logical and consistent morality which they believe should be applied to others as well as themselves. It's like, 'Well we don't believe in that, but not that there's anything wrong with other people who do. No, we don't eat babies at our house. But I'm not saying anything against people who eat babies.' It's a bad symptom of a good thing."
Returning to his house to help with dinner, O'Rourke is greeted by Elizabeth, his adorable eight-month-old daughter, who is sitting in her high chair as the high priestess of the kitchen. The Barney tape is cued up in a vain attempt to distract her long enough for her mother, Tina, 36, to feed her strained peas and carrots. Much to Elizabeth's continued delight, and O'Rourke's mock horror, the large purple dinosaur launches into yet another annoying chorus.
It was from the helm of the National Lampoon during the 1970s, a decade when you could still get away with being politically incorrect, that O'Rourke established his unique take on the world. But he sensed the need to explore other kinds of writing. And it was time to grow up.
"Basically, a thing like National Lampoon was all about making fun of institutions and fads and so on. I thought to myself that it was basically a job for adolescents and people in their 20s, people who aren't part of any kind of establishment. The grown-ups are sitting around having dinner in the dining room and the kids are out in the flower garden making faces. So at age 33, you start to think: 'I'm taller than the rest of these people and maybe I should be inside having something to eat. Maybe I should be doing something that somebody else can mock, rather than mocking everything.' "
So the "something" he chose was a move to Hollywood and a brief stint as a screenwriter. O'Rourke found the Left Coast experience both baffling and unpleasant. "I did some movie writing off and on between 1981 and the mid-'80s, and I didn't like it at all. Besides [the 1983 film] Easy Money, I worked on four scripts, one of which got made, and it was so bad I took my name off of it. It's not a good job for writers--hardly anybody in the business can even read. All writers do is dig a foundation for a movie--usually they dig a bunch of foundations, all over the yard, while the director, producer, actors and so forth decide where they want the house. I'd write a script, take it to the producer, and he'd say, 'I love it. It's great. But it needs an Eskimo.' And I'd say, 'An Eskimo? The movie is set in the jungles of Belize.' The producer would say, 'I know. But I just have this It-needs-an-Eskimo gut feeling.' 'OK,' I'd say, 'it's your money.' And I'd rewrite the script, bring it back to the producer and he'd say, 'I love it. It's great. But what the hell's the Eskimo doing in there?' "
It was during this time that O'Rourke's first two books of social satire were born: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People in 1983, and The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig in 1987. But it was a 1982 magazine assignment that ultimately set O'Rourke on a different course.
That year, Michael Kinsley, then editor of Harpers, sent O'Rourke to Russia to write about a group of old American left-wingers who were taking a Volga River cruise. The resulting article, titled "Ship of Fools," was the hilarious marriage of the comedic techniques he honed at Lampoon and his journalistic skills. The next phase of O'Rourke's evolution as a writer had begun. And he was enjoying himself.
"The minute I did that Russia thing, I realized that here was something that I could do that would be a lot of fun to do and that the readers would get something out of. I would tell the readers a lot of the stuff that other reporters were telling me around the bar at night. Just let me do funny stuff and give the readers a little bit broader picture of the situation than they'd be getting from the very serious, worthy stuff. I can use all the stuff that I've been using as a humorist for the past decade to report real things. It's most interesting to cover stuff that a) other people aren't being funny about, and b) that really have some meaning, things that are a big deal. Wars, revolutions, political crises--stuff like that."
O'Rourke's pieces, culled from such eclectic publications as Harpers, House & Garden, Car and Driver and The Wall Street Journal, formed his 1987 book, Republican Party Reptile, proving that the phrase "Funny Republican" was not an oxymoron. His reputation as a "trouble tourist" or, as his Rolling Stone editor Bob Love so aptly put it, "shithole specialist," was solidified by his 1988 book, Holidays in Hell, in which readers joined him on such unlikely adventures as a ramble through war-torn Lebanon and Christmas in El Salvador.
His focus shifted to the target-rich environment of national politics in his 1991 best-seller Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government. "When you get into something like politics, it's not really that hard to tell right from wrong," he says. "I mean things that are greedy and hurt other people or are wasteful and stupid are greedy, wasteful and stupid. You don't have to get in the middle of the abortion debate or into the middle of prayer in schools to analyze right and wrong in government. You don't have to grasp the thorniest plant in the garden, you can just pull on the ordinary weeds."
O'Rourke followed Parliament up with two more best-sellers: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer and All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty. These books not only made sense of the nonsensical issues playing themselves out on the world stage, they made those events, well, funny. And accessible. Like in his assessment of those fearing overpopulation, O'Rourke blithely points out what it really means is, "Just enough of me, way too much of you."
Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut, a 1995 collection of O'Rourke's work from his days as an underground journalist to his current post as an international correspondent at Rolling Stone, is a primer for the uninitiated, the Un-O'Rourked, if you will. That is, of course, if you can find one. Everyone from the most liberal Gen-Xers to right-wing neo-cons devour him. Sometimes he's so far to the right you'd swear he was left.
W ith Elizabeth tucked in and Barney thankfully replaced by The Platters, O'Rourke and Tina finish preparing dinner. Peeling potatoes and freshening everybody's drinks, O'Rourke explains the joys that come with marriage and most importantly, fatherhood, occurring later in life. "My marriage to Tina is much different than my first practice, starter marriage, the Ikea marriage: you have to put it together and then it comes apart on its own. Falling in love at 45, as I did, has one great advantage. You know what to do about it: get married and have a family. Younger guys are under the impression that there might be other options. As for fatherhood at 50, there are two advantages: one, you can (almost) afford it. And two, when the kid gets up in the middle of the night, you're up anyway, taking a leak.
"When Tina and I got married, we definitely wanted to have a real marriage, real family, the whole thing. I think that when kids come to young parents, it's very disruptive. Young parents are often broke and sort of harried in their existence, and this isgetting in the way of their social life. Yes, it's probably not so easy to be older parents in the sleep deprivation department. If we were in our 20s, it would be a little easier to get by on four hours of sleep a night. But other than that, everything is so much better. Elizabeth's totally an addition to our existence, rather than getting in the way of anything that we were previously doing. It's just a ball."
O'Rourke sets the dining-room table and gushes further about his daughter: "She's always been full of pep. She smiled right away; they said it was gas, but I don't believe it. She got a joke within the first three weeks of life. She understood she was being mocked and she laughed."
Discussing a recent trip to India, O'Rourke talks about how being away from his wife and new daughter for a month made him so homesick that he cut his trip short. He describes a call home: "I was flying from Calcutta to Hong Kong and had to change planes in Singapore, and naturally it screwed up. It never does that unless you're really tired and really want to get someplace. So I'm in the Cathay Pacific lounge and Tina was putting Elizabeth on the phone. It was a bad connection, a lot of cracking. So I'm going at the top of my lungs, 'Woogy-woogy-woogy-woo! Woogy-woogy-woogy-woo!' and finally I put the phone down after about 10 minutes of that and I realized that everybody in the lounge had moved away from me. Not only did I have to spend the night there, I didn't have anybody to drink with. They all thought I was crazy."
His title at Rolling Stone is international affairs desk chief. "I asked them, back in '85, to give me a big, long impressive title because I was headed to Asia, where everyone hands out business cards all the time." Of course, having a press credential from Rolling Stone frequently poses interesting and oftentimes humorous hurdles for O'Rourke. "Plenty of people can call up a world leader and say they're from The New York Times or one of the networks or Time magazine. Try calling up and saying: 'I'm P. J. O'Rourke from a large rock that moves around.' It definitely keeps you humble when you have to present credentials from Rolling Stone. Yeah, I'd be a power to be reckoned with at an Aerosmith concert, but not during an international crisis. The Saudis are not going to give me a visa: 'A large-rock-that-moves-around magazine that features pictures of Madonna with cookie tins over her tits? Forget it! You're not getting in here!' "
Not content to rely on press conferences to get his information, O'Rourke delves into his subjects by focusing on the man on the street--or, more accurately, the man in the local bar.
"As a journalist, I've never found it very useful to interview people at the top of the political food chain. Those people did not get into control by being dumb enough to spill their guts to a reporter. It takes a certain kind of egotism that goes into a reporter saying to himself, 'I'll go over here and meet Boris Yeltsin and he's going to tell me stuff he's never told anybody else.' Even if you are Bob Woodward, Yeltsin is not going to say, 'Look, just between you and me, Monday we are going to invade Finland.' "
It is O'Rourke's ability to connect with the average man in the middle of extraordinary circumstances that engages him in a special relationship with his readers. Bob Love, managing editor at Rolling Stone (who began working with O'Rourke 16 years ago when Love was a fact-checker at the magazine) gives his take on O'Rourke's role: "The things that he does are based on his interest and engagement in the world. He's a true journalist before he's ever humorous--the facts are very, very important to him. He's such a brilliant phrase master, but he's also deeper than that; that's why he's such a prize for us to have." And the fact that they share a passion for cigars hasn't hurt the editorial process.
O'Rourke clearly loves working for the magazine. "I like it that I'm not preaching to the choir," he says of Rolling Stone's liberal readership. "I think it's much more fun to get a little tension going between the readers and the writers.
"My point of view is not very fluid," he adds. "There are certain real bedrocks that I always come back to: respect for the individual, sanctity for the individual, the importance of individual liberty and individual responsibility. A suspicion of big systems and a suspicion of idealism. I don't mean idealism in a sense that we should all be better people. I mean idealism in a sense of creating systems that are going to fix the world, whether it's Hillary's health care or Karl Marx's socialism. I don't believe that there are any easy answers to things, and I'm suspicious of people who have easy answers. Life's too complicated for that."
Sitting in the screened-in porch, listening to the crickets, watching flashes of distant lightning illuminate the horizon, O'Rourke pours two glasses of Port, lights a Padrón Anniversary, and puts some perspective on the territory he has covered as a journalist and how that work has set the stage for his latest book, Eat the Rich. "At first I just wanted to cover wars and disorders and violence and stuff because I thought that was more interesting. Then I began to realize that underlying the wars and the riots and so on was politics, so I became very interested in politics and that's what got me down to Washington to write about government.
"I began to get interested in economics because I realized how important economics was to the political process, especially in the wake of Bush getting unaccountably defeated by this unknown governor of Arkansas two years after he'd been the most popular human being on the entire planet. Obviously it had to do with that economic downturn that we suffered in the early '90s."
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James M. Fischer
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J.D., magna cum laude, 1973, Loyola Law School; Member, California State Bar and Bars of the United States Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Central District of California
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With the perspective gained from experience in private practice, public service and academia, James Fischer's goal as a law professor is "to enable students to better understand their responsibilities as lawyers, and to be prepared for the tremendous demands that the competent and conscientious practice of law imposes on an individual."
"[I want] to enable students to better understand their responsibilities as lawyers, and to be prepared for the tremendous demands that the competent and conscientious practice of law imposes on an individual."
Professor Fischer began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Clarke E. Stephens of the California Court of Appeal. He went on to join the firm then known as Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble. Appointed to Southwestern's faculty in 1976, Professor Fischer was recognized for his outstanding teaching and contributions to Southwestern and the legal community as the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law in 1993, and as the Irving D. and Florence Rosenberg Professor of Law in 2005.
Active in community and professional organizations, Professor Fischer has served as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, and as a member of the hearing board for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. For the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), he chaired the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Ethics and led a team of volunteer students in compiling a reference guide on current case law regarding HIV and insurance law for the LACBA Barristers' HIV Law Project. Professor Fischer has held leadership posts in the Property Insurance Committee of the ABA Torts and Insurance Practice Section. He also served on the California State Bar Committees on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, Legal Malpractice Insurance and the Administration of Justice. He is a former member and past president of the board of the North Los Angeles County Regional Center, which serves the developmentally disabled community.
Books and Chapters
UNDERSTANDING REMEDIES, 3rd ed. (LexisNexis, forthcoming 2014)
UNDERSTANDING REMEDIES (Matthew Bender Publishing, 1999)
FEDERAL TRIAL PROCEDURE HANDBOOK (Wiley & Sons, 1985)
Accidental or Intentional Tort?: The California Insurance Law Conundrum, 54 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW 101 (forthcoming Spring 2014)
Litigation Financing: A Real or Phantom Menace to Lawyer Professional Responsibility, 27 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LEGAL ETHICS (forthcoming Summer 2014)
Does an Insured Have a Duty to Mitigate Damages When the Insurer Breaches?, 20 CONNECTICUT JOURNAL OF INSURANCE LAW 89 (2013)
The Crime-Fraud Exception to Privilege, 41 THE BRIEF 30 (Winter 2012)
Large Law Firm Lateral Hire Conflicts Checking: Professional Duty Meets Actual Practice, 36 JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 167 (2011)
Ethically Handling the Receipt of Possibly Privileged Information, 1 ST. MARY'S JOURNAL ON LEGAL MALPRACTICE & ETHICS 202 (Symposium Issue, 2011)
What Hath eBay v. MercExchange Wrought? 14 Lewis & Clark LAW REVIEW 555 (Symposium Issue, 2010)
"The Puzzle of the Actual Injury Requirement for Damages," 42 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 197 (Symposium Issue, 2008)
The Professional Obligations of Counsel Retained for the Policyholder But Not Subject to Insurer Control, 43 TORT TRIAL AND INSURANCE PRACTICE LAW JOURNAL 173 (Winter 2008)
Insurer-Policyholder Conflicts of Interest and Retained Defense Counsel's Professional Duties, 14 CONNECTICUT INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL 21 (2008)
The Professional Obligation of Cumis Counsel Retained for the Policyholder But Not Subject to Insurer Control, TORT TRIAL & INSURANCE PRACTICE LAW JOURNAL (2007-2008)
The 'Right' to Injunctive Relief for Patent Infringement, 24 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 1 (2007)
External Control Over the American Bar, 19 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LEGAL ETHICS 59 (Winter 2006)
Preliminarily Enjoining Elections: A Tale of Two Ninth Circuit Panels, 41 SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW 1647 (Fall 2004)
Insurer or Policyholder Control of the Defense and the Duty to Find Settlements, 2 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 1 (2002)
Discretion and Politics: Ruminations of the Recent Presidential Election, 69 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW 807 (Spring 2001)
Teaching Remedies Versus Learning Remedies, 39 BRANDEIS LAW JOURNAL 575 (Spring 2001)
Plebiscites, the Guaranty Cause, and the Role of the Judiciary, 41 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW 973 (2001)
The Doctrine of Reasonable Expectations is Indispensible, If We Only Knew What For? 4 CONNECTICUT INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL 151 (1998)
The Attorney-Client Privilege Meets the Common Interest Arrangement: Protecting Confidences While Exchanging Information for Mutual Gain, 16 THE REVIEW OF LITIGATION 631 (1997)
Insurance Coverage for Mass Exposure Tort Claims: The Debate Over the Appropriate Trigger Rule, 45 DRAKE LAW REVIEW 625 (1997)
Non-Client Standing to Move to Disqualify Counsel for Conflicts of Interest, THE PROFESSIONAL LAWYER (May 1997)
The Presence of Insurance and Legal Allocation of Risk, 2 CONNECTICUT INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL 1 (1996)
Representing Partnerships: Who Is/Are the Client(s)? 26 PACIFIC LAW JOURNAL 961 (1995)
Should Advice of Counsel Constitute a Defense for Insurer Bad Faith?, 72 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 1447 (1994)
Why Are Insurance Contracts Subject to Special Rules of Interpretation? Text Versus Context, 24 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL 995 (1992) and 42 DEFENSE LAW JOURNAL 385 (1993)
Obtaining Legally Binding and Enforceable Settlement Agreements, 7 COMMERCIAL DAMAGES REPORTER 217 (1992)
Why Can't Lawyers Split Fees? Why Ask Why, Ask When!, 6 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LEGAL ETHICS 1 (1992)
Broadening the Insurer's Duty to Defend: How Gray vs. Zurich Insurance Co. Transformed Liability Insurance into Litigation Insurance, 25 UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW 141 (1991)
Enforcement of Settlements: A Survey, 27 TORT & INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL 82 (1991)
The Exclusion from Insurance Coverage of Losses Caused by Intentional Acts of the Insured: A Policy in Search of Justification, 30 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW 95 (Winter 1990)
The Limits of Statutes of Limitation (Special Project: California Statutes of Limitation) 16 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1 (1986)
Network 'Early Calls' of Elections: An Analysis of the Legality of Proposals to Keep the Voting Process From Becoming an Academic Exercise, 14 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 427 (1984)
Ballot Propositions: The Challenge of Direct Democracy to State Constitutional Jurisprudence, 11 HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY 43 (1983)
The Availability of Private Remedies for Acid Rain Damage, 9 ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY 429 (1981)
Allocating Decision-making in the Field of Energy Resource Development: Some Questions and Suggestions, 22 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 785 (1980)
The Concept of Mandatory Jurisdiction, 41 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 861 (1980)
Confidentiality and the Press: Tales of the Confessional, 55 CALIFORNIA STATE BAR JOURNAL 26 (January 1980)
Institutional Competency: Some Reflections on Judicial Activism in the Realm of Forum Allocation Between State and Federal Courts, 34 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 175 (1980)


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The Mahavishnu Project presents THE COMPLETE "VISIONS OF THE EMERALD BEYOND"
The Mahavishnu Project is the only jazz repertory ensemble of its kind to receive the endorsement of guitarist/composer John McLaughlin and ALL of the original members of The Mahavishu Orchestra. In fact, keyboardist Jan Hammer hired MahaProj to be his band for the night at MoogFest 2006 in NYC- his only US appearance in over 15 years.
The Mahavishnu Project typically presents "complete album evenings" such as "The Complete Birds of Fire" or "The Complete Inner Mounting Flame." Of late the band is presenting a 35th anniversary concert of Mahavishnu's "Visions of the Emerald Beyond", known to fans and historians alike as the pinnacle of the 1970's jazz fusion movement - boldly combining elements of jazz, rock, classical, Indian music and free-form sonic exploration. In 2008, The Mahavishnu Project released "Return to the Emerald Beyond" on Cuneiform Records. It is a reverent re-imagining of the entire original Emerald Beyond music from start to finish and includes encores from "Birds of Fire" and "Inner Mounting Flame."
"Just a little note of appreciation for what you are bringing back to life. This musical period was the beginning of finding my own way in music, and to hear you guys playing those tunes in such an unbelievable way is quite amazing. Great job!! Keep up the good work." -John McLaughlin
JESSE GRESS with members of the Mahavishnu Project will be performing the music of Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer.
The Mahavishnu Project presents THE COMPLETE "VISIONS OF THE EMERALD BEYOND"
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Tonight's opening act, JESSE GRESS with members of the Mahavishnu Project will perform the music of Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer.
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Nov. 19, 2012, 6:54 p.m.
A while ago the community of Inkscape developers voted for new members to enter Inkscape board — a committee that makes the most important decisions in the life of the project.
As the result, Johan Engelen and Tavmjong Bah have joined Bryce Harrington, Ted Gould, mental, Jon Cruz, and Josh Andler. Aaron Spike decided to resign as a board member due to his current inactivity in the project.
Aaron is one of the earliest contributors in the project, He's also the person who personally promoted the extensions system which many users now rely on for sophisticated modification of paths, creating rich content powered presentations, personal manufacturing and so on. We thank Aaron for being an invaluable asset in the project and a great friend, and we are not saying goodbye!
Both Johan and Tavmjong are an important part of our community. Johan is the person behind live path effects, axonometric grid, and other features. Tavmjong wrote the first complete guide to Inkscape and later became developer who seriously improved the Text tool. Tavmjong is also our representative in the W3C SVG working group.
On top of that there is some progress with the trademark. We didn't talk much about it publicly, but we thought it wouldn't be fair not to share this, after all.
In 2009 we asked Software Freedom Conservancy to file a request for us to register a trademark for Inkscape. The request was granted later same year. We are now working our way towards having a clear trademark policy that will be quite liberal. It won't impose any restrictions whatsoever on fair use of the trademark. You only need not to pretend to be us.
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This milestone marks the first time that a building product manufacturer is making publicly available a product's material make-up as well as a multi-attribute third-party certification. This level of disclosure by the company sets a new standard for environmental claims and supports the intent of USGBC's LEED® Pilot Credit 62, which requires manufacturers to disclose chemicals of concern used in building products. By allowing customers to make more informed decisions about the products they choose, C/S hopes other manufacturers will join their efforts to change the demand for products containing chemicals of concern.
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The season will see the introduction of MACE (The Mannes American Composers Ensemble) (MACE), a newly formed large ensemble that will focus on the music of living American composers, directed and conducted by newly appointed Mannes's most recent addition to its faculty member, composer Lowell Liebermann. MACE not only presents works by iconic American masters such as John Adams and Elliott Carter, but will also present cutting-edge works by up and coming composers. The ensemble aims to embrace as broad a view possible of the incredibly diverse and vital landscape of contemporary American Music. Other composers programmed include Mannes alumna Shulamit Ran, Michael Daugherty, David Del Tredici, Pierre Jalbert, Mason Bates, Andrew Norman, and Mannes 2012-2013 Composer-In-Residence Derek Bermel.
The program for this concert includes: Elliott Carters ASKO Concerto (2000); Derek Bermels Canzonas Americanas (2010); Andrew Normans Unstuck (2008); John Adamss Son of Chamber Symphony (2007).
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Gene Therapy, Chemotherapy, and Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With HIV-Related Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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RATIONALE: Inserting the gene for RevM10 into a person's peripheral stem cells may improve the body's ability to fight cancer or make the cancer more sensitive to chemotherapy.
PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of RevM10-treated stem cells plus chemotherapy and peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have HIV-related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
|Biological: RevM10 gene Biological: RevM10/polAS gene Procedure: in vitro-treated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
|Phase 1 Phase 2
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|Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Phase I/II Study of the Safety and Feasibility of REVM10 or REVM10/ANTISENSE POL 1 Transduced Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC) in HIV-1 Related Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patients Already Being Treated With High Dose Chemotherapy and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Support
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|November 1998
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the safety of infusion of RevM10 or RevM10/polAS transduced hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in addition to high dose chemotherapy and standard peripheral blood stem cell support in patients with HIV-1 related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. II. Determine gene marking of lymphocytes and myeloid cells in peripheral blood, bone marrow, and/or lymph nodes after infusion of RevM10-HSC or RevM10/polAS-HSC in these patients. III. Determine the antiretroviral effect of this treatment in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients receive mobilization therapy and undergo leukapheresis according to a standard protocol. High dose chemotherapy is administered on days -7 to -1, also according to a standard protocol. On day 0, autologous hematopoietic stem cells transduced with genes RevM10 or RevM10/polAS are infused. Unmodified autologous peripheral blood stem cells are reinfused on day 1. Patients are followed daily for 2 weeks, weekly for 2 weeks, monthly for 1 year, then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 15 patients will be accrued for this study within 14 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: HIV-1 infection documented by ELISA and Western blot Histologically proven non-Hodgkin's lymphoma showing at least partial response to standard chemotherapy regimen Poor prognosis in first chemotherapy induced remission Increased LDH AND/OR Stage III or IV AND/OR Reduced performance status (ECOG 2 or worse) OR Response but no complete remission following four courses of standard chemotherapy OR Responding relapse after primary therapy No primary CNS lymphoma No uncontrolled meningeal lymphoma at mobilization
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: See Disease Characteristics Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Absolute neutrophil count at least 1500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 CD4 count at least 100/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 2 mg/dL (unless taking indinavir) SGOT and SGPT less than 2 times normal No hepatitis Renal: Creatinine less than 2.0 mg/dL Pulmonary: DLCO greater than 60% Other: Not pregnant or nursing Fertile patients must use effective contraception No active Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection or CMV disease No cerebral toxoplasmosis or cryptococcal meningitis At least 6 months since prior alcohol or substance abuse At least 1 year since CNS disease or seizures No other medical condition that would preclude study
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: See Disease Characteristics No concurrent chemotherapy for Kaposi's sarcoma Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: Not specified Surgery: Not specified Other: At least 30 days since prior treatment for serious opportunistic infections
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00003942
|United States, Alabama
|University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|United States, California
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
|Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095-1781
|Division of Oncology
|Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304
|United States, Massachusetts
|Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
|United States, Nebraska
|University of Nebraska Medical Center
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-3330
|Study Chair:
|Tyler Martin, MD
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|NCT00003942 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 1, 1999
|Last Updated:
|December 3, 2013
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
AIDS-related peripheral/systemic lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related immunoblastic large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related small noncleaved cell lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse mixed cell lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma
AIDS-related lymphoblastic lymphoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
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As the fabled birthplace of Alexander the Great – a leader whose extraordinary military skill earned him an empire that reached from Southern Europe to the Himalayas – Macedonia will always have a special place in world history. Ancient and rugged, its landscapes evoke the mystery and drama of another age: ancient Greek ruins quietly crumble on desolate mountain-tops; Byzantine churches overlook serene highland lakes; and daunting fortifications stand guard over historic towns and cities, witnesses to centuries of warfare and imperial pomp.
Today, despite boasting over 5000 years of uninterrupted civilisation, Macedonia remains an obscure post-Soviet Republic, little over 20 years old, and a destination yet to be discovered by the crowds. Its urban spaces represent a fusion of architectural styles and influences, chronicling diverse international trade and various phases of military occupation. The Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, and Serbs have all left their mark on the country, but few were as influential as the Ottoman Empire, which ruled Macedonia for the best part of three centuries. Today, Islam continues to be practised by a third of the population with fine mosques, hamams, bazaars, and other Turkish-built structures contrasting with the country's predominantly Orthodox Christian features.Read more
The scars of the 20th century, too, are evident throughout Macedonia's towns and cities. Soviet suburbs – constructed in stark social realist style – are a striking addition to the capital, ravaged by incidents of warfare and natural disasters. Today, more than two decades have elapsed since the fall of communism and Macedonia continues to make democratic headway. Nonetheless, it is one of the most economically impoverished countries in Europe.
Geographically, land-locked Macedonia is dominated by a large plateau filled with pine-swathed hills and deep green rolling valleys. It is completely surrounded by mountains, including the harsh, misty peaks of the Dinaric Alps, which proceed through the country on its western flank and provide isolated habitats for rare flora and fauna, including lynxes and wolves. Hiking through the Macedonian countryside you'll encounter a shifting and weathered panorama of crashing waterfalls, vertiginous gorges, lively rivers, and darkened subterranean caves.
Macedonia's convoluted topography has encouraged the preservation of unique cultures and customs too – throughout the highlands you'll find ancient settlements steeped in rich folkloric traditions, including vibrant forms of song and dance. Elsewhere, Macedonia's famous lakes – including Ohrid, Prespa and Doiran – are peaceful, mystical places that feature heavily in the national psyche as centres of early Christian activity and pilgrimage.
Places of interest in Macedonia
A land of rolling mists and bracing mountain air, Mavrovo national park is home to the highest peaks in Macedonia -...
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May 4 Board of Supervisors Meeting Features 8 Presentations
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, May 4, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., will make the following presentations to residents and county staff. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711. Information on the May 4 meeting, including an agenda, is available online.
Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 10-16, 2009, as Police week in Fairfax County and May 15, 2009, as Peace Officers Memorial Day in Fairfax County including special recognition of 2nd Lt. Francis "Frank" J. Stecco. Law enforcement agencies serve the residents of Fairfax County by safeguarding life and property, protecting against violence and disorder and defending the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression.
Emergency Medical Services Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 17-23, 2009, as Emergency Medical Services Week in Fairfax County. The 2009 theme for Emergency Medical Services week, "A Proud Partner in Your Community," is a reminder of the importance of all emergency medical providers to our community.
Angelman Syndrome Awareness Day
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 16, 2009, as Angelman Syndrome Awareness Day in Fairfax County. Angelman syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by an abnormal gene dysfunction that affects males, females and all ethnic groups equally. It is estimated that there are 1,000 to 5,000 cases of Angelman syndrome in the U.S. and Canada. The Angelman Syndrome Foundation will hold its annual walk-a-thon in more than 19 cities nationwide, including the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area on May 16.
Bike to Work Day
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 15, 2009, as Bike to Work Day in Fairfax County. Bicycle commuting improves air quality, reduces traffic congestion and conserves energy. Bike to Work events will be held in Fairfax County on May 15, in Reston, Vienna and Fairfax City as well as Tysons, Fairfax Corner and the Springfield Metro Park.
Building Safety Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 3-9, 2009, as Building Safety Week in Fairfax County. To mark Building Safety Week, the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services has scheduled public outreach events in several local hardware and building material supply retail stores. They also will honor an individual or corporate resident with the 2009 Building Safety Community Partnership Award. The award was first presented in 1998 to recognize individuals and corporate residents who have made significant contributions to the promotion of the goal of building safety in the community.
Nurses Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 6-12, 2009, as Nurses Week in Fairfax County. There are 6,000 registered nurses employed in Fairfax County. The need for registered nurses is greater than ever before due to the increased longevity of people and the expanding need for health care services. Residents are urged to recognize the vital role nurses play in the health care system.
Older Americans Month
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 2009 as Older Americans Month in Fairfax County and challenges residents to make healthy choices each day so that they may live to their fullest potential in the years ahead. Fairfax County is committed to the continued success of "Anticipating the Future: Fairfax 50+ Action Plan 2007" to help ensure that older adults have the services and opportunities needed for optimal health, independence and quality of life.
Employee Health and Fitness Day
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 20, 2009, as Employee Health and Fitness Day in Fairfax County. Employees are encouraged to be physically active in their daily lives, receive preventive health examinations; participate in wellness activities; and celebrate healthy behaviors that lead to optimal health. Fairfax County's Live Well Workforce Wellness Program seeks to significantly improve employees' overall health and well-being, while also serving to curb rising health care costs.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
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On Hardball: Obama's 'Gut Moment' With Daughter May Quiet Critics
Both Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd were taken aback by Barack Obama
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BARACK OBAMA: My job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands, this is what I wake up to in the morning and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about. The spill. The, and it's not just me, by the way. When I woke up this morning, and I'm shaving and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and she says, "Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?"
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Welcome back to Hardball that was President Obama near the end of his press conference, about an hour into it. And boy was that a sound, talk about a sound bite guys! Did the President deliver? I'd say personally there, in a way he rarely does. Chuck Todd is NBC News' White House correspondent and political director. And Newsweek's Howard Fineman. Well okay you two pros. Here's the question, President Obama is notoriously private, Chuck Todd. He hates the press's, well he may hate us generally, but he hates our invasive-ness, period. That's a fact.
CHUCK TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: The fact that he resorted to that personal declaration about his family and his daughter bringing her in. I thought it was fine, I thought it was good. But what brought him to that point? Chuck?
TODD: You know it's funny, it was almost as if a light bulb went off in his head as he - because the press conference was very, you know, he was having to talk about the law, that 1990 oil drilling law. And he kept having to cite it. He kept having to talk about the government's relationship to BP and not be able to just beat up on BP maybe the way you would politically wish you could do in a moment like this. And it was as if he realized he wasn't really connecting. And then all of a sudden, at the end there, with that entire, you know, "This is all I'm working on. I wake up, this is what I'm worrying about number one at this point." And then the moment with his daughter. I think it was, I don't know if that quiets James Carville or if it totally satisfies and some others who've been upset down there but I gotta think that, that moment helps at least calm down Carville and some other critics a little bit. Because it was, that was more of a gut moment. It was more of a that's, that personal connection moment that, you know, this guy has never been, it's never been how he practices politics. He's really more cerebral about these things.
-Geoffrey Dickens is the Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here


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It's Saturday at the neighborhood Goodwill, and among the shoppers is Evgenia Hutson, creator of the BeingZhenya.com style and thrift blog. Having heard that Goodwill now sorts clothing according to size, she was curious to see whether that improvement would make a big difference in her shopping experience.
"Sorting by size is a great step forward for Goodwill," says Hutson, a thrifter since high school, who shops at a variety of secondhand and vintage stores. "It tells me that they care about their customers and want to save us time."
Hudson has historically avoided the large sections featuring tops and bottoms, focusing instead on the smaller and more manageable racks featuring dresses, jackets, skirts and vests. This time, though, Hudson entered Goodwill with a more open mind, expecting to cover more ground in less time.
"I went in to search for transition pieces that would take my winter look into spring," she said. "It only took an hour to look through my size sections throughout the entire store, and the rest of my time was spent trying things on. This visit took me less than two hours, which is amazing considering how many great deals I found."
Here are some of the pieces that Hudson purchased and styled for spring. Noting that transitioning from winter to spring style can be tricky, she also offered tips for updating your closet for a new season.
1) Spring layers – Look for light-weight cardigans, sweaters and scarves when layering for spring. Choose bold prints or florals. Pastels are also big this season.
2) Prints with a color twist – Love houndstooth, stripes or polka dots? Choose a piece with the pattern you love, but in an unexpected color. Hudson found a houndstooth skirt in red and pink, instead of the usual black and white.
3) Go Moto – A leather motorcycle jacket isn't just perfect for fall; it's also a great spring piece that creates a comfortable layered look.
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