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The Soviet government has decided to permit foreign workers to settle in Biro-Bidjan only after being satisfied that preliminary stages in the progress of the autonomous Jewish region have been sufficiently advanced, Prof. Joseph Liberberg, chairman of the regional executive committee, declared here in a special interview.
He also disclosed that the question of participation in the work by foreign Jewish organizations is now under consideration by the authorities, and describes the procedure to be followed in the work of settlement in the next year or two.
"The question of admitting Jewish workers from abroad to Biro-Bidjan," he declared, "has been for a long time under consideration by the Soviet bodies, because the urge of Jewish workers abroad to Biro-Bidjan has been extensive during the whole of this time. The Jewish workers abroad consider it as a matter of course that the Jewish autonomous region should have room for every worker who wishes to help build the future Jewish Soviet Republic. Several attempts have been made previously, but were to a certain extent unsuccessful because the region had not yet been prepared. There could have been no question of a mass immigration simply because we are not prepared for it.
"It is only now that the building of the autonomous region as a constituent of the great building of the Far East has assumed a wide State scale when the immigration is being carried out according to previously strictly regulated plans and is being properly prepared that we feel ready to admit and settle that number of foreign Jewish immigrants which has been decided upon for the immigration period 1935-1936. That is the chief reason why the question has now been settled in the positive sense."
On the question of the participation of foreign organizations in the work of settling Jewish immigrants from abroad in Biro-Bidjan, he said:
"The question of the participation of foreign Jewish organizations is now being considered in the appropriate government bodies. But the question of settling foreign working Jews in Biro-Bidjan has been settled and will be carried into effect, independent of whether the foreign Jewish organization will take part in the work or not. Immigrants will be admitted at first mainly from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and other adjoining countries. With regard to other countries, immigration will probably be allowed from there too, only some time later. Individual exceptions will no doubt be made even now."
Prof. Liberberg gave no explanation for the decision to admit for the present immigrants from the neighboring countries and to hold back for the time being from a mass movement from the more distant European countries and from overseas countries. It appears that this decision is based, however, on the fact that the position of the working class Jews in many adjoining countries is much worse than that of the Jews in other European countries and in America.
Another reason would seem to be the fact that the Jews in the adjoining countries are more or less accustomed to the same conditions of life as in the Soviet Union, and they will therefore be able to adapt themselves more easily to the difficulties which are unavoidable in mastering a new and sparsely populated area.
"The selection of immigrants from these countries will be carried out by the Jewish Colonization Society Ozet," he declared. "The selection will be very careful and strict, so that there should be no danger of any re-emigration by unsuitable elements. The immigration movement will probably begin only at the end of this year, and the first months will be given up to preparatory work."


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Mega power star Ram Charan will be playing a lead role in the movie to be produced by Pawan Kalyan. Successful director Trivikram will be directing the movie. However, movie shooting would begin after Cherry completes Chiranjeevi?s 150th movie. So far, Pawan Kalyan heard four stories but he did not finalise it. Tollywood sources said that Ram Charan is cautious in selection of movies after Bruce Lee failure.

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One of Japan's most lauded authors explains why genre distinctions don't concern him and how the March 2011 disaster made him realize he's a "political" writer. In-person at Asia Society New York May 3.
The third issue of the acclaimed Japanese-American literary journal is the most cosmopolitan and wide-ranging yet. Panel discussion with Paul Auster and Charles Simic this Saturday, May 4, at Asia Society New York.
Japan's master translator, a one-man conduit between American and Japanese literature, shares his thoughts on both literary cultures. Shibata appears with a panel of American and Japanese writers at Asia Society New York this Sunday, May 6.
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Jules R. Benjamin: Racism in the 2012 ElectionRoundup: Historians' Take
Jules R. Benjamin is professor emeritus of history at Ithaca College. He is the author of a number of books on U.S. foreign relations, including "The United States and Cuba: Hegemony and Dependent Development, 1880-1934" and "The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation."
I have noticed the absence in the mainstream news coverage of the presidential campaign any reference to (anti-black) racism on the part of opponents of the Obama administration. Several developments, apparent to me as an everyday consumer of domestic political news, led me to be surprised that there was hardly any mention of this phenomenon.
In addition to the partisan and policy matters that fill any presidential campaign, I noticed a visceral dislike of the president.
While there was a great deal of comment in 2008 about the historic election to the presidency of a black (well, brown) person, there is little or no mention of this fact in 2012 as this first black president runs for reelection.
To be honest, I had a strong dislike for George Bush. I opposed his policies but also cringed when I heard him speak. President Bush was not able, in my opinion, to use the English language with anywhere near the skill expected of a president. To put it bluntly, I felt that he was stupid. That is not the word I used in public; though I did at times use in with my friends. (I should note that some of my best friends are stupid.) I do not make this confession to cleanse my soul but to point out that opposition to Obama, like my feelings toward Bush, seem to go well beyond matters of policy.
I did not, however, believe the Bush was a fascist, an atheist or was born in another country. I was appalled by his "war on terror" and his response to the "great recession" but I did not believe that he intended to hand over our precious liberties to the National Rifle Association.
I was very upset when in 2000 he became president, in my opinion, as a result of a Supreme Court ruling. But I did not believe that the republic was in mortal danger.
It seems to me that some portion of the opposition to Obama has taken a Manichean perspective. "If we don't defeat him, a national government under his control will destroy our freedoms."
I have heard it said that this may be the last presidential election in which the majority of the electorate will be white. This seems simplistic to me, but I wonder if some of the animus toward the president comes from people desperate to save our nation from some sort of "racial pollution."
It struck me as odd that conservative Republicans made much of the need to "reform" Washington, to protect the poor from exploitation, women from condescension and minorities from discrimination. At first I could not understand why so many nice comments were made about Martin Luther King. Much was made of the fact that a few Republican contenders for the presidential nomination were black.
This surprised me because, as a resident of a moderately conservative region, I heard many ugly descriptions of King. These statements often included ugly comments about African Americans in general.
I could refer to many other reasons to suspect that the historic prejudice against African Americans, while it may be less virulent than in the past, is still powerful among certain parts of the white community.
Amidst all of the handicapping of the coming election, which includes estimations of a great number of factors that might determine the outcome, I have not heard an estimate of the number of white voters who are likely to vote against Obama because he is black. Perhaps, as the pundits say, the unemployment rate, the disappointment among previous supporters of the president, the fear of a looming debt crisis, the murder of the unborn, among other sentiments, might provide the death blow to the president's hope for reelection. With the rise of the data mining industry, I have heard analyses of how many votes in how many communities in how many "swing" states might be "swung" a bit one way or another by "attack ads" of one kind or another to determine the outcome. It seems to me that racist anti-Obama voters, whose numbers must surely be larger than the number of "swing" voters in, say, some county in Ohio, are worthy of some attention by those who are currently attempting to find the data necessary to determine, for example, whether or not an unmarried white woman in rural Colorado will "trend toward" Romney.
No doubt racism is, as they say, a matter of the heart rather than of political preference. Hence it must be difficult to predict its influence in the voting booth. But sentiments as deeply held as feelings about illegal immigrants, college professors, truck drivers, sinful women and the like are being teased out of the mountains of data. With the ability to note our every digital move, some enterprising pollster, think-tanker, statistician, or scientist would make an effort to determine whether a 600-pound gorilla is really in the room and, if so, mention it.
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Colts visit last year's team leader
The Colts (7-3) wrap up their tour of the NFC West Sunday in Arizona with a visit to play Bruce Arians' Cardinals (6-4) at 4:05 p.m. at University of Phoenix Stadium. For the first time, the reigning NFL coach of the year faces his former team the next season.
"I was hoping it would never be on the schedule," said Arians, "because there are too many emotional ties to what happened last year to have to play them. I'm just glad we are playing here and not there. That would really be tough to walk into that stadium. But it will be fun to see those guys, especially those young kids on offense that we had a chance to work with last year. It's going to be a challenge defensively to stop them."
Arians won AP NFL coach of the year honors last season when he took over for an ailing Chuck Pagano and led the Colts to a 9-3 record while interim head coach. The nine victories matched the record for wins by an interim coach.
"Nothing seems too daunting for him," said Colts quarterback Andrew Luck when asked about his rookie season with Arians. "His personality, everything seems to come easy to him. I think he's a natural coach. He builds great relationships with the players. I'm sure it was harder than it looked to step in and do what he did, but he made it look easy."
"You can't put a price tag on it," said Pagano of his gratitude to Arians. "What he did for not only myself, but more importantly this organization - our players, our coaches, everything – and everybody had a hand in it, the players and the coaches and him leading the charge. Again, (I'm) very, very grateful obviously."
Arians' inspiring success with the Colts allowed the 61-year-old to land his first NFL head coaching job with the Cardinals in the twilight of his coaching career. Arians thought he might be retired in 2012 after he was fired by the Steelers. Instead, Pagano hired Arians as offensive coordinator. When Pagano left the team mid-season to battle leukemia, he asked Arians to take over.
The Colts also reunite with the longtime mastermind of their offense, Tom Moore, now the Cardinals Assistant Head Coach/Offense. Moore spent 13 of his 35 NFL seasons in Indianapolis, overseeing the dynamic offense led by Peyton Manning. In addition, four former Colts now play for the Cardinals (QB Drew Stanton, OT Bradley Sowell, CB Jerraud Powers and WR Teddy Williams).
Colts cornerback Greg Toler was drafted by the Cardinals in 2009 and played four seasons in Arizona. Toler will not face his former team Sunday. He sits out his 4th straight game with a groin injury.
The Colts-Cardinals connections also reach into the front offices. Colts general manager Ryan Grigson's younger brother Dru is the Cardinals director of college scouting.
The Colts have already defeated the 49ers and Seahawks in the NFC West, but lost to the Rams. The Cardinals have won their last three games, picking up wins over the AFC South's Texans and Jaguars the past two Sundays. The Colts want to protect their three game lead in the AFC South. The Cardinals want to keep pace for an NFC playoff spot.
"We are in the playoffs right now," said Arians. "Every game is win or be done. We have to stay pace with everybody that we are tied with. We now got some help, so that we kind of control our own destiny in a way, but we have to win every week."
The matchup features a pair of quarterbacks taken number one overall in the NFL draft (Andrew Luck -2012, Carson Palmer- 2003). The Cards are trying to follow the Colts example a year ago, rebuild and still win. The team has added 20 veteran players, five draft picks and two rookie free agents – a total of 27 players who were not on the 53 man roster in 2012. The Colts would love to pressure Palmer. Colts rush linebacker Robert Mathis needs 3 sacks to pass Dwight Freeney for the Colts record of most sacks in a season (16) and career (107.5).
"I remember when he had (Dwight) Freeney over on the other side of him and Freeney was in his prime and Mathis was just kind of a young guy coming up," said Palmer. "He has been a phenomenal player for a long, long time and been kind of overlooked because of the guy on the other side of the ball from him. Now it's really his defense and his show and he's shining."
The Colts have won their last four games against the Cardinals, including their only other visit to University of Phoenix Stadium in 2009, also the last time these teams met. The Colts won that game, 31-10, in a game where Peyton Manning threw four touchdown passes.
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The Cardinals are favored by two points. But the Colts are great at winning the close ones. Under Chuck Pagano, the Colts are 14-2 in one possession games, best record in the NFL over the past two seasons in that category.
The Colts have run the ball with more success this season than in recent years. Donald Brown is coming off a season-high 80 yards and career-best two touchdowns rushing last game against the Titans. But the Cardinals defense ranks 2nd in the league stopping the run, allowing opponents just 81 yards a game and 3.39 yards per carry.
"Very salty defense," said Luck. "They play hard. They do a good of stuffing the run. They got a good front seven and a really talented secondary. They play hard too. You turn on the film, you see guys flying to the football, getting hands on the football. You see number 32 (Tyrann) Mathieu running down and causing a fumble at the one-yard line on a big play. We know it's going to be tough, tough sledding, but we're looking forward to it. It will be a great challenge."


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What To Do Between Coachella Festival Weekends
What would make heading to Coachella Music and Arts Festival an even better music experience? Seeing more artists and shows between the two festival weekends, of course! Whether you're lucky enough to attend both weekends and thus need to kill some time for the week between, have a few days to spare before or after the one weekend you are attending, or just reside in the general Los Angeles area - these events are for you.
We've compiled some great shows going on during the two week span of Coachella, mainly in Los Angeles. Most feature artists that can also be found at the festival - Nero at Club Nokia, We Were Promised Jetpacks at The Echo, and Jeff Mangum at the Orpheum Theatre, for example. Thus they're great for Coachella attendees and non-festivalgoers alike. These shows provide the perfect opportunity for those not attending the festival to get a taste of the lineup and for Coachella festivalgoers to relive a fantastic set or catch an artist they missed due to a schedule clash.
Check out our Coachella Events Listings Page for the complete list of shows. We've excluded those that are already sold out, but if you want to try your luck finding tickets for some on sites such as Craigslist, you can check out a more comprehensive event calendar for the Coachella two week span here, courtesy of Goldenvoice Presents April 2012.
For another way to spend your week between Coachellas, consider playing a round of golf - Coachella Valley is famous for it! Head over to our Pro's Guide to Golfing Coachella Valley for some course suggestions.


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Thinking about this a little bit more, I suspect the 6n138 is having problems (among other things). Again, it doesn't make sense to me that midi out doesn't work either, but maybe there's more than one issue at play.
If I understand correctly, I should NOT be able to program the arduino when it's in any mode other than programmer (with all leds on). However, I am able to program it regardless of which mode I'm in. If I understand the code and schematic correctly, the 6n138 vcc is tied to arduino I/O pin 4 so we can control the power on the fly. I suspect that the opto is not getting power correctly. I will attempt to connect 6n138's vcc directly to the arduino's vcc and see if I get any better results from that.
Other than that, I am at a bit of a loss here. Help me Jazzmarazz, you're my only hope!
Hmm. Which arduino are you using? It might help to recompile the code for your particular board and reprogram it.
I'm using an Arduino Pro Micro. I did have to modify the code a bit because the pro micro doesn't have I/O's 11, 12, and 13 but instead it has 16, 14, 15 where they should be (compared to a pro mini). I'm sure that those led's are working though, because the startup sequence works correctly and I can cycle through the led's with no problem.
Did the opto circuit look okay to you?
Thanks a ton for your help btw. I really appreciate it!
Is the pro micro the 5v version or the 3.3v version?
Also, what is the purpose of Pin 7 of the 6n138? Half time I see it floating.
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The pro micro is the 5v version.
Pin 7 is the base of the second transistor in the opto. I don't understand fully, but it makes the rise/fall time of the opto smaller. Adding the resistor there is suggested by Nitro2k01. http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2009/07/26 -glitches/
So I built another one using a breadboard and an Arduino Max 2560 and I get the same results - nothing. I'm wondering if My midi gear isn't cut out for an arduinoboy? Has anyone successfully used a rockband keytar with an arduinoboy?
At this point I'd even be willing to ship it to someone who has known good midi gear to test for me.
Hey catskill did you work this out mate? I am also struggling to get midi in working when everything does. Cheers!
Hey catskill did you work this out mate? I am also struggling to get midi in working when everything does. Cheers!
I did. Basically go over the midi in circuit a million times to make sure it's wired correctly. Your opto may also be dead, so grabbing an extra may not be a bad idea. Also make dang sure your gb link cable is connected correctly!
I eventually made a diy kit out of these frustrations: http://catskull.net/shop/arduinoboy At $16, it might be worth saving you hours of frustration.


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The St. Louis firm takes ideas from indexers and value investors to craft its solid large-cap growth strategy.
Wedgewood Partners is defined by its contradictions. Its founder, Anthony Guerrerio, is a New York native who moved to the Midwest to be a financial entrepreneur. Chief investment officer David Rolfe is an avowed growth investor whose idols include value-investing icons Mason Hawkins and Warren Buffett. Rolfe and his colleagues are active managers who not only agree with the arguments for passive index investing but also use them to justify their philosophy and strategy. And in volatile times that have driven many professional and amateur investors to do something, anything, to improve returns, Wedgewood has succeeded by keeping things simple and trading infrequently.
"We haven't tried to reinvent the wheel here," Rolfe says.
Indeed, Wedgewood hasn't invented anything. Plenty of stock-pickers profess to abide by the tenets of the firm's large-cap growth strategy. Morningstar fund analysts' files are stuffed with presentations touting the virtues of searching for reasonably priced shares of firms with strong competitive advantages, growth, profitability, balance sheets, and management. The pitch is, frankly, a little hackneyed.
Self-awareness, humility, and patience set Wedgewood apart. Working from a modest colonial-style office building at the bottom of an I-64 exit ramp in St. Louis, the firm, which has $1.2 billion in assets, knows that it faces stiff competition from thousands of smart investors. "We compete in a very, very efficient space," Rolfe says. "We know we don't have an information advantage, and we are humble enough to know that we don't have an IQ advantage," Rolfe says. But the firm does have a structural advantage, he believes. Rolfe and his team--Michael Quigley and Dana Webb--limit their circle of competence, get to know a handful of stocks very well, home in on those they think can grow faster and longer than other investors expect, bide their time for the right moment to buy, and then let the market do the math. "If we can build portfolios that are this growthy and not have to pay up for it, then we have a horse race," Rolfe says.
Wedgewood has run its race well, so far. Since its Sept. 30, 1992, inception through Sept. 30, 2011, the Wedgewood Concentrated Large-Cap Growth separate account has gained a cumulative 725.5% versus 554.8% for the typical large-growth separate account, 263.5% for the Russell 1000 Growth Index, and 331.6% for the S&P 500 Index. The account has achieved those results without much more volatility, as measured by standard deviation, than the Russell 1000 Growth Index, even though it's focused and benchmark-agnostic. The firm's only and still-young and small mutual fund, RiverPark/Wedgewood Fund RWGFX, has gained 3% annualized in the year ended Sept. 30, beating the average large-growth fund and the S&P 500 but lagging the Russell 1000 Growth by about 30 basis points.
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That record is the product of the pairing of a West Point graduate who grew up in the Bronx and a Midwestern frat boy. In the early 1980s, Rolfe went to the University of Missouri to study engineering. He joined a fraternity and fell in love with his future wife--"Two of the best things in my life," Rolfe says--but engineering didn't pan out. So, Rolfe returned to his native St. Louis to study finance and economics at the University of Missouri- St. Louis, where he got hooked on the Financial News Network, a precursor to CNBC, and the approaches of legendary investors like Buffett, Hawkins, Sir John Templeton, and T. Rowe Price. Rolfe started a student investment club and began plotting his career. "That's what I wanted to do," Rolfe says. "I wanted to invest." The easiest way for a kid from UMSL, as locals refer to Rolfe's alma mater, to get into investing was as a stock broker. After a few "incredibly unproductive" years at Westport Financial Group and PaineWebber, Rolfe became a portfolio manager at Boatmen's Bank, which had St. Louis' largest trust department. There he honed what would become his and Wedgewood's competitive edge.
Rolfe knew from his education and reading that the stock market was pretty efficient and hard for active managers to beat. Yet he also knew from studying great stock-pickers that the market was not perfectly efficient. "There were enough investors who were outperforming the market on a consistent-enough basis to refute key elements of the efficient-market hypothesis," he says. "There is a big gulf between relatively efficient and perfectly efficient."
That investors often mispriced securities as they swung from fear to greed wasn't an original insight. Few managers seemed to take full advantage of the inefficiencies, though. Those who did seemed to have one thing in common. "Whether they were growth or value," Rolfe says, "They viewed investing more like a successful business owner than a green eyeshade investment analyst."
To Rolfe that meant buying and holding as well as being willing to look different from the benchmark and the typical large-growth portfolio. "We choose not to manage money like others," he says.
After four years of putting theory into practice at Boatmen's, Rolfe's eye began wandering for more entrepreneurial opportunities. When he heard of the impending retirement of the chief investment officer of Wedgewood, which Guerrerio founded in 1988 after running Mark Twain Bancshares' brokerage for nearly a decade, Rolfe applied. His passion and voracious reading appetite sorted him from the pack of candidates. "He lives, eats, breaths, thinks, and sleeps stocks," Guerrerio says. "In this game you have to have a passion for it." Guerrerio hired Rolfe in 1992 and gave him carte blanche to remake the firm's investment process. Giving a blank slate to a young manager was risky, but Guerrerio had learned to value native intelligence, drive, and work ethic more than credential, tenure, or rank. The former Army nuclear missile battery commander put himself through Harvard Business School while starting a family and worked at Salomon Brothers before an MBA buddy lured him to Mark Twain Bancshares in 1979. At the old Salomon Brothers "if they spotted talent, they would give them a shot," Guerrerio says. "That was in my blood."
Indeed, Guerrerio continued giving underdogs their shots. Webb, who was one of Guerrerio's brokers at Mark Twain, was Wedgewood's first employee. After she took a break to raise her children in the 1990s, he not only welcomed her back in 1997 but also made her a portfolio manager in 2002 after she earned her MBA and CFA. "I watched her grow," Guerrerio says.
Fellow investment team member Quigley joined Wedgewood as an intern after graduating from high school in 2000, in part because his parents were Guerrerio's friends and neighbors. He worked at the firm while studying finance at St. Louis University and joined Rolfe and Webb after his 2004 graduation. "[Guerrerio] gives you as much rope as you want," Quigley says. "I tried to take advantage of that."
Preferring home-grown talent has helped keep the boutique unique. "They don't come in with a biased approach," says Steve Snyder, director of equity investments for Fortigent, an investment consultant. "In St. Louis, they're definitely removed from the Manhattan mind-set and focused on the long term."
The tall, garrulous Rolfe, whose office is a thicket of teetering stacks of books, annual reports, and journals, clearly drives the process, though, which creates a bit of key-man risk. "If Dave was ever to decide to leave Wedgewood, we would part ways," Snyder says.
Not that Rolfe, who owns about 45% of Wedgewood, is likely to leave. Snyder isn't worried. Wedgewood remains on Fortigent's recommended list for advisors, regional banks, and trust departments looking for concentrated managers to complement passive large-cap holdings, and Snyder says it can also serve as a portfolio linchpin for the right investor. "[Wedgewood's] focus on valuation and their market cap would make them acceptable to be held as core holding," he says. "But the big caveat is that, given their concentration, investors have to know that there could be some substantial deviation from the Russell 1000 Growth from time to time."
The portfolio may not look or act like its index, but it has been reliably growth-oriented and -focused. Since its September 1992 inception, the Wedgewood separate account has rarely strayed outside of the large-cap growth area of the Morningstar Style Box, and it has held from 17 to 22 stocks. Its cash stake approached 10% of the portfolio in March 2007, but the managers don't usually make asset-allocation calls and have kept the account close to fully invested most of the time.
As of Sept. 30, the account invested about half of its money in financial and health-care stocks, with another 30% in technology companies. It held nothing in materials, consumer, real estate, utilities, or communications stocks. These sector biases, as well as the manager's tendency to load roughly 60% of its assets in its top 10 holdings, court risk, yet Rolfe contends that it's controlled by careful security selection, valuation sensitivity, and an absolute rather than a relative return mind-set. "People talk about risk. You want to know what risk is?" Rolfe asks. "Risk is sitting in front of the Widow Jones in late 2008 and telling her why her portfolio is down 50%."
The portfolio's holdings tend to be the kind of high-quality fare that holds up well in downturns. Every one of them has some sort of moat, or competitive advantage, according to Morningstar's equity analysts. Indeed, the weighted average moat rating of the RiverPark/ Wedgewood Fund, which is a clone of the Wedgewood separate account, is higher than 90% of other large-cap funds. The Wedgewood portfolio also has higher average cash flow and earnings yields and a lighter average debt load than the typical Russell 1000 Growth constituent. Focusing on larger, more-profitable companies has helped Wedgewood do better than its large-growth peers in past bear markets, such as those in 2002 and 2008.
Like other growth managers, Rolfe, Webb, and Quigley perk up when they see fast revenue and sales growth and high returns on equity, capital, and cash flow, but they are not wedded to such screens. They want market leaders who can grow faster than expected and will look inside and outside growth managers' typical hunting grounds for them.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a large-cap growth manager who doesn't own Apple AAPL, for example, but Rolfe contends that it's still underappreciated. Cofounder and prime mover Steve Jobs, who died in October, is irreplaceable, Rolfe says. But the company has solid senior leadership, expanding beachheads in phones and tablets, fanatically loyal customers, and exciting designs for cloud computing and other products. Rolfe thinks Apple can earn about $10 more per share in 2012 than the current consensus forecast of about $33 per share. "These guys are in a whole different lane going faster than anyone else and not even breaking a sweat," Rolfe says.
Rolfe considers Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A a growth stock primarily because the businesses that Buffett has assembled have the potential to fuel book value growth for years to come. He thinks the conglomerate can exceed the growth of the S&P 500 by several hundred basis points. "How many CEOs can you say have built a business that is a permanent cash-generating compounding machine?" Rolfe asks.
Wedgewood's investment team reviews ideas weekly but rarely makes precipitous changes because any fresh idea has to be better than the portfolio's worst idea. "This is where new and exciting ideas go to die," Rolfe says. "New ideas have to be better than marginally better. Otherwise you're just adding turnover."
The firm's track record is gaining attention. Guerrerio and Rolfe have listened to buyout offers but do not intend to sell. They would rather grow at their own pace and even close the strategy if asset growth ever threatened to become an impediment. "You can't build a big firm doing this," Rolfe says.
With no outside owners, Wedgewood has only one constituency to please: its clients. "I know if I take care of them, everything will work out in the long run," Guerrerio says.
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It is hoped that this provider eliminates underlying causes that reduce the likelihood of recurrence and which optimizes the likelihood of success. This may require a duplex venous ultrasound scan in some cases.
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i charge per session $300 for the first two sessions and $150 dollars for each additional session. Prices can vary per region. This is my price in the washington, dc area.
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The cost of sclerotherapy can vary from doctor to doctor and locale to locale. I charge 350$ for the first session which is a full treatment getting the spiders and reticulars. The follow up sessions are priced depending on how much is required to do. If it is a second full session then it is 350$. If it is less than a full session then it is prorated depending on how may syringes I use.
Sclerotherapy cost can depend on a few things
Sclerotherapy treatments depend on a few things such as the area of the country you live in and the number of spider veins to be treated. In bigger cities such as LA or NY the treatments can be pricey. I would say the national average cost is $250 to $500 per half hour session. If the veins are confined to a few areas both legs could be treated in a half hour. Remember that it takes on average 2 to 4 half hour sessions to adequately treat the vessels. So you are looking at a range of $500-$2000. As with any dermatologic condition or cosmetic procedure it is always advised to consult a dermatologist to examine the veins and discuss any risks or costs.
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If you had the Living Bullet, this would've been a perfect parody. XD
Still, this was no easy feat. Kudos on not only capturing the style, but making me spill Nostalgia all over the floor. XD
I actually debated on having both Livning Bullet and The Commander as their repective characters... but I thought Dexter and Action Hank were iconic and more fun to draw.
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Joplin woman on charges of embezzling more than $88,000 from a car dealership where she worked.
The U.S. Attorney's office said the indictment returned Wednesday charges 36-year-old Kathryn M. Stayton with 10 counts of wire fraud.
Stayton managed the accounting department at Frank Fletcher Ford in Joplin, which gave her access to blank checks.
Prosecutors allege that over a two-year period starting in September 2009, Stayton wrote 131 checks totaling nearly $47,000 to herself or her family members on the dealership's account. The indictment also alleges that Stayton took about $41,000 in cash payments that were made to Fletcher Ford.
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White House Defends Texas's GOP Remapping Plan to Justices
Thursday, February 2, 2006
The Bush administration has come to the defense of Texas in a legal battle with political overtones, telling the Supreme Court in a brief filed yesterday that the state's 2003 congressional redistricting plan, drafted by Republicans, is fully consistent with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The redistricting plan, drawn up at the request of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), who was House majority leader at the time, was designed to give Texas's House delegation a Republican majority to match the state's overall voting preference. After the 2000 census, the state's delegation grew from 30 seats to 32, and the shift to a Republican majority in Texas helped cement GOP control of the House.
But opponents have challenged the plan in court on a variety of grounds, saying that it is so partisan that it violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection, and that it violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of black and Hispanic voters in some areas. A three-judge U.S. District Court panel upheld the plan last year; the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case during a special two-hour hearing March 1.
DeLay's efforts on behalf of the plan resulted in his being admonished by the House Ethics Committee and indicted on charges of illegally diverting money to the campaigns of state legislators who drew the new map.
Justice Department lawyers initially recommended rejecting Texas's plan, saying it would harm black and Hispanic voters, but were overruled by senior Justice officials. The legal standards used in the lawyers' analysis, however, were different from those at issue in the current case, which focuses on a separate section of the Voting Rights Act.
The Bush administration's 35-page friend-of-the-court brief does not address the constitutional issues, focusing instead on the Voting Rights Act. As amended by Congress in 1982 and interpreted by the court, Section 2 of the act prohibits states from diluting the voting power of cohesive minority groups.
Opponents of the plan say it violates the law because it broke up a district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area formerly represented by Martin Frost, a Democrat whose voting population was more than 50 percent black and Hispanic. They also said the plan created only six majority-Hispanic districts in south and west Texas, though it was possible to create a seventh.
But the administration's brief argues that the Dallas-Fort Worth district is legal because blacks alone did not make up a majority of the voters in the old district, so the plan did not deprive a single minority group of control it once had. The administration also argues that the number of majority-Hispanic districts in the plan is sufficient.
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David Clinton Goodrich, 82, of the Pleasant Valley community northwest of Coyle, OK passed from this life on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, in the Golden Age Nursing Home, Guthrie, OK. The eldest of three children of Roger S. Goodrich and Elsie Mahnke Goodrich, he was born east of Guthrie on August 17, 1929.
David attended Guthrie Public Schools, graduating as a valedictorian of Guthrie High School in 1947. During the Korean War he served his country in 1950-51 as a member of the U. S. Army and was stationed for a short time in Japan. On November 14, 1950, he married Marilyn Joyce Rouse of Pleasant Valley. Following his honorable discharge from the Army, David and Marilyn moved to Stillwater, OK, where their daughter, Brenda Joyce, was born. David attended Oklahoma State University and was employed from 1952 to 1977 at the Central Rural Electric Cooperative. He worked in every department at CREC before serving as office manager for several years.
Noted for his sense of humor and the joy he took in making people smile, David is also remembered for his devotion to his family, church, and community. He served as president of the Stillwater Kiwanis Club and the Jaycees, president of the Rotary Club on two occasions, and chairman of the YMCA Board. Especially important to him was his service as Elder of Zion Lutheran Church, Stillwater. In 1977 David became a broker-realtor. He and Marilyn were owners of Red Carpet Realtors from 1983 to 1990, and in 1988 he served as president of the Stillwater Board of Realtors.
In 1991 the Goodrich family moved to Pleasant Valley to the former home place of Marilyn's parents, Maurice and Maude Rouse. David continued his career as realtor, working for Ochs Real Estate in Guthrie until health problems caused him to retire in 2007. He and his family were active in Zion Lutheran Church, Guthrie, where he served as Elder. His wife of 57 years, Marilyn, died on February 24, 2008, after a brief illness, and David moved to the Golden Age Nursing Home in March 2008.
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The cover is a lovely shade of sky blue, made of a flexible lightweight card stock with a bit of a rough texture to it. According to the product description, the cover is made of the same kind of paper used to stiffen collars, and it won't tear (I didn't try). Inside, everything is white, unlined paper. The signatures are sewn and then glued into the binding, so it opens quite flat. I love the precisely cut edges and corners.
The paper inside is quite smooth with a fairly "hard" surface. All pens performed well, without feathering out. Show-through and bleed-through are about average.
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The firm at the heart of the deadly meningitis outbreak across the US violated state regulations, according to e-mails obtained by Reuters.
The New England Compounding Center (NECC), a drug-mixing company based in Framingham, Massachusetts, reportedly sent drugs without obtaining patient names or prescriptions, and had physicians place bulk orders for the contaminated steroid responsible for the deaths of 14 people.
NECC also referred business to a sister company, Ameridose. Both firms have since suspended their operations and recalled the steroid, which has sickened an additional 184 Americans and put 14,000 people at risk, according to Reuters.
Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of Massachusetts' Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality, said that NECC should only have made up vials of the drug in response to patient prescriptions.
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Watched the Monkees when I was a kid. Fun show at the time.
66 is way too young
A huge part of my child hood is gone.
Yeah, the Monkees came on when I was 14 & my younger sister
just ADORED DJ...She had a coupla their albums & played them
all the time on Mom's console stereo..."Bubble gum" music at best,
but I bet I STILL know all the lyrics & I can sing along when they're
played on the local Oldies Station... Rest in Peace Davy. Thanks for
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66 is too young! RIP DJ!
Took the Last Train to Clarksville . . .
Quite a few felt that the Monkees were a joke, but I thought that was a really good song.
I only live 5 miles from Clarksville and believe me NO one would want to take a train there! :lol:


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BUFFALO, N.Y. — With his mask on, and for a brief moment without it, goalie Brian Boucher provided the Flyers the steadying presence they were looking for to gain an edge in their first-round playoff series against the Sabres.
Boucher stopped 35 shots as the Flyers' new starter to lead them to a 4-2 victory and grab a 2-1 series lead Monday night.
It was Boucher's first start and second straight win of the series after he stopped 20 of 21 shots in relief of rookie Sergei Bobrovsky in a 5-4 win Saturday in Game 2.
That was enough to convince Flyers coach Peter Laviolette, who was rewarded for his decision to stick with "Booosh."
"He just settled things down," Laviolette said. "At the game's start, he had a calming presence about him. … To get a veteran presence in there made a big difference."
Boucher's calmness was particularly apparent eight minutes into the third period with the Flyers clinging to a 3-2 lead and attempting to kill off Buffalo's two-man advantage. Boucher slid left and lunged forward to stop Tyler Ennis, whose shot hit the left side of the goalie's mask and broke a strap. Without hesitation, Boucher pulled off his mask to stop the play.
Fans booed Boucher and yelled for officials to call a delay-of-game penalty.
"The mask was loose, and I felt it was kind of unsafe because the mask was kind of moving around on my face," Boucher said. "I know the rules. Otherwise, I don't know if I would've done it."
Danny Briere and Nikolay Zherdev keyed the victory by scoring second-period goals.
Jeff Carter and Kimmo Timonen also scored as the Flyers improved to 6-0-2 in their past eight visits to Buffalo.
First Period—1, Phi., Carter 1 (Carle), 4:42 (pp). 2, Buffalo, Stafford 1 (Pominville, Gragnani), 11:55 (pp). Penalties—Kaleta, Buf (roughing), 3:40; Coburn, Phi (interference), 11:17; Hartnell, Phi (interference, delay of game), 16:39.
Second Period—3, Phi, Briere 2 (Hartnell), 2:44. 4, Phi, Zherdev 1 (Richards, Versteeg), 16:44. 5, Buffalo, Gerbe 1 (Connolly, Gragnani), 18:12. Penalties—Myers, Buf (cross-checking), 13:32; Hartnell, Phi (roughing), 14:20; Weber, Buf (roughing), 14:20.
Third Period—6, Phi, Timonen 1 (Giroux, Carter), 19:42 (en). Penalties—Gaustad, Buf (interference), :41; Timonen, Phi (holding), 2:24; Zherdev, Phi (slashing), 6:14; Powe, Phi (charging), 6:59; Versteeg, Phi (cross-checking), 19:47; Ennis, Buf (cross-checking), 19:47. Shots on Goal—Phi. 6-15-5—26. Buffalo 16-10-11—37. Power-play opportunities—Phi. 1 of 3; Buffalo 1 of 6. Goalies—Phi., Boucher 2-0-0 (37 shots-35 saves). Buffalo, Miller 1-2-0 (25-22). A—18,690. T—2:36.
Bruins close gap to 2-1
MONTREAL — David Krejci and Nathan Horton scored first-period goals to lead Boston to a 4-2 win over the Canadiens as the Bruins won on the road after dropping the first two games of their first-round series at home.
"I think it was important for us to have a good start, and we did that," coach Claude Julien said. "We scored some early goals, which helped the confidence."
Tim Thomas stopped 34 shots for Boston, and Rich Peverley scored in the second. Chris Kelly scored into an empty net with 25.6 seconds remaining.
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara returned to the lineup after missing Saturday's 3-2 loss after he was hospitalized for dehydration.
Andrei Kostitsyn scored for the Canadiens with Boston holding a 3-0 lead 7:03 into the middle period. Tomas Plekanec drew Montreal within one early in the third.
Chara, who played his first game in Montreal since his devastating hit on Max Pacioretty, saw his customary boos turn to cheers when the Bruins were called for too many men 1:08 in.
The crowd of 21,273 was silenced moments later when Dennis Seidenberg drew an assist as Krejci beat Carey Price for his first goal at 3:08.
First Period—1, Boston, Krejci 1 (Bergeron, Seidenberg), 3:11. 2, Boston, Horton 1 (Chara, McQuaid), 14:38. Penalties—Boston bench, served by Lucic (too many men), 1:08; Krejci, Bos (hooking), 7:27; Gomez, Mon (interference), 11:21; Bergeron, Bos (interference), 12:12; Ference, Bos, major (fighting), 19:56; Pouliot, Mon, minor-major (charging, fighting), 19:56.
Second Period—3, Boston, Peverley 1 (Recchi), 2:02. 4, Montreal, Kostitsyn 1 (Cammalleri, Hamrlik), 7:03. Penalties—Montreal bench, served by White (too many men), 3:04; Recchi, Bos (holding), 17:55.
Third Period—5, Montreal, Plekanec 1 (Cammalleri, Subban), 4:08. 6, Boston, Kelly 1 (Recchi, Bergeron), 19:34 (en). Penalties—Kostitsyn, Mon (slashing), 4:44; Ryder, Bos (tripping), 19:54. Shots on Goal—Boston 9-10-6—25. Montreal 8-13-15—36. Power-play opportunities—Boston 0 of 4; Montreal 0 of 5. Goalies—Boston, Thomas 1-2-0 (36 shots-34 saves). Montreal, Price 2-1-0 (24-21). A—21,273 (21,273). T—2:21.
Around the league: Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook says he's okay after a hard hit from Vancouver's Raffi Torres. Seabrook, however, says the initial blow was to his head, and he believes Torres should have been suspended. "Whether or not he was targeting it or not, he made contact with the head first," Seabrook said. But NHL vice president Colin Campbell said the hit was not illegal, saying Torres did not leave his feet or use an elbow or an extended forearm and that the hit was not late. The Canucks have a 3-0 lead as the series continues tonight.


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Majid Al Futtaim Properties commenced the ground works for its first mega tourism project in Syria, "Khams Shamat" that will become the Levant's landmark mixed-use community including tourism, shopping and entertainment.
Located in Sabboura\Yafour area on the Damascus-Beirut highway, Khams Shamat will be 17 Km west of Damascus and can be easily reached from the city centre in 20 minutes. The project will occupy a total land space of 1 million square meters and will contain the biggest shopping and leisure destination in the Levant region, numerous hotels, a town square with outdoor shopping and restaurants, commercial office space and touristic accommodations.
"We have spent a lot of time and money with the world's best consultants carefully studying all aspects of this mixed use development" Said Peter Walichnowski, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Properties, who added "With the new investment offerings the Syrian economy is providing and the zest towards foreign investment, we found an outstanding opportunity to enter the Syrian market in a big way and be a major player in pushing the tourism, hospitality and retail sectors forward. We will bring to Syria international standard facilities that will be as good as anything else in the Middle East".
Waddah El Solh, Regional Head of Lebanon and Syria, said "Today is a big day for Majid Al Futtaim Properties in Syria. The start of the ground works shows our commitment towards the Khams Shamat project and our seriousness in getting things done." He added: "We take this opportunity to express our appreciation and gratitude to the Syrian Government for the support and for facilitating to accomplishment of this project. We are confident that Khams Shamat will play a major role in the overall development of the tourism sector in the country."
International hotels, business districts, touristic apartments and other civic amenities, such as schools, medical facilities, public parks, art galleries, and amphitheatres, will be part of the Khams Shamat project along with the shopping and entertainment mall. Majid Al Futtaim Properties will soon announce the names of the leading companies to operate the major hotels in Khams Shamat. The first phase of the project will be completed in 2014.
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Swift Bird ($0.99) by App Lab is a new iPhone game in which you're — well, would you look at that, you're a bird! As if there aren't enough bird games in the App Store already, this one seems to recycle Tiny Wings graphics and even samples Angry Birds.
Enter a world where you are a bird and are attacked for eating candy. These other birds are not going to give it up without a fight. See how long you can last and eat the most candies to get the highest score!
Just touch the screen to fly to a certain area (think click-to-move). Make sure to stay afloat as well, and stay far away from the other birds who want you dead. But whatever you do, do not stop eating candies as they are the only thing keeping you alive.
All the while you're trying to avoid running into the enraged fowl, you can shake your phone to attack them, but only once you've eaten some "weapon candy." These special weapon candies will look a bit different than the regular candies that you must eat to live and score points. The candy will disappear within about five to 10 seconds, so be sure to go after it as soon as you see it pop up.
The different birds do different things. For example, the big black bird will stop randomly and literally take a dump on you if you're anywhere underneath him. And beware the ground! Before I really knew what I was doing, I took a couple of face plants straight into the grass. My advice? Don't follow suit; this causes you to die. And it's pretty pitiful to watch your little birdie literally eat dirt.
This game is both Game Center and OpenFeint enabled and is one dollar in the App Store. It's pretty entertaining, but how much can we recycle the same games (even if it is mainly the graphics)? It's fun and plays very well, but still does not match up to either of the games it's trying to mimic.
But, then again, who can really touch Angry Birds or Tiny Wings, no matter how hard they try?


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Study to Evaluate the Effects of Sorafenib if Combined With Chemotherapy (FOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI) in the Second-Line Treatment of Colorectal Cancer (FOSCO)
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|Colorectal Neoplasms
|Drug: Sorafenib Drug: Placebo Drug: Oxaliplatin or Irinotecan Drug: Leucovorin Drug: 5-Fluorouracil
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Controlled Randomized Double-blind Multi-center Phase II Study of FOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI Combined With Sorafenib Versus Placebo in Second-line Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma
- To compare the PFS between patients receiving chemotherapy (FOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI) + sorafenib with chemotherapy + placebo [ Time Frame: 6 to 12 months ]
- Disease control rate [ Time Frame: 6 to 12 months ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 6 to 12 months ]
- Response rates [ Time Frame: 6 to 12 months ]
- Safety [ Time Frame: signature of informed consent until 30 days after end of treatment ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: 1
Drug: Sorafenib
2x200 mg filmcoated tablets BID on day 2-12 of a 14-days cycle, oral
Other Name: NexavarDrug: Oxaliplatin or Irinotecan
Oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2 intravenous infusion on day 1 of 14-days cycle, Irinotecan 180 mg/m2 intravenous infusion on day 1 of 14-days cycleDrug: Leucovorin
400 mg/m2 intravenous infusion on day 1 of a 14-days cycleDrug: 5-Fluorouracil
400 mg/m2 intravenous bolus infusion on day 1, 2400 mg/m2 46 hour intravenous infusion on day 1 to 2 of a 14-days cycle
|Placebo Comparator: 2
Drug: Placebo
2 filmcoated tablets BID, day 2-12 of a 14-days cycle, oralDrug: Oxaliplatin or Irinotecan
Oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2 intravenous infusion on day 1 of 14-days cycle, Irinotecan 180 mg/m2 intravenous infusion on day 1 of 14-days cycleDrug: Leucovorin
400 mg/m2 intravenous infusion on day 1 of a 14-days cycleDrug: 5-Fluorouracil
400 mg/m2 intravenous bolus infusion on day 1, 2400 mg/m2 46 hour intravenous infusion on day 1 to 2 of a 14-days cycle
Detailed Description:
Patients with metastatic CRC who received a first-line therapy with an Oxaliplatin- or Irinotecan based Fluoropyrimidine containing regimen ± bevacizumab and had a progression subsequently, are eligible for this study. Patients will be randomized to receive chemotherapy (FOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI) + sorafenib 400 mg bid or chemotherapy + placebo. Patients who have received an Oxaliplatin based Fluoropyrimidine containing regimen in first-line will obtain FOLFIRI during this study. Patients who have received an Irinotecan based Fluoropyrimidine containing regimen in first-line will obtain FOLFOX6.
Primary objective of the study is to compare the Progression-free-survival (PFS) between patients receiving chemotherapy (FOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI) + sorafenib with chemotherapy + placebo.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age > 18 years.
- ECOG Performance Status of 0 to 2
- Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks.
- Subjects with at least one uni-dimensional (RECIST) measurable lesion of metastatic colorectal carcinoma after first-line chemotherapy with an Oxaliplatin- or Irinotecan based Fluoropyrimidine containing regimen ± bevacizumab and had a progression subsequently. Lesions must be measured by CT-scan or MRI.
- Adequate bone marrow, liver and renal function as assessed by the following laboratory requirements to be conducted within 7 days prior to screening:
- Hemoglobin > 9.0 g/dl
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >1,500/mm3
- Platelet count 100,000/μl Total bilirubin < 1.5 times the upper limit of normal
- ALT and AST < 2.5 x upper limit of normal (< 5 x upper limit of normal for patients with liver involvement of their cancer)
- Alkaline phosphatase < 4 x upper limit of normal
- PT-INR/PTT < 1.5 x upper limit of normal [Patients who are being therapeutically anticoagulated with an agent such as coumadin or heparin will be allowed to participate provided that no prior evidence of underlying abnormality in these parameters exists.]
- Serum creatinine < 1.5 x upper limit of normal
- Signed and dated informed consent before the start of specific protocol procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of cardiac disease: congestive heart failure >NYHA class 2; active CAD (MI more than 6 mo prior to study entry is allowed); cardiac arrythmias requiring anti-arrythmic therapy (beta blockers or digoxin are permitted) or uncontrolled hypertension
- History of HIV infection or chronic hepatitis B or C
- Active clinically serious infections (> grade 2 NCI-CTC version 3.0)
- Symptomatic metastatic brain or meningeal tumors (unless the patient is > 6 months from definitive therapy, has a negative imaging study within 4 weeks of study entry and is clinically stable with respect to the tumor at the time of study entry)
- Patients with seizure disorder requiring medication (such as steroids or anti-epileptics)
- History of organ allograft
- Patients with evidence or history of bleeding diathesis
- Patients undergoing renal dialysis
- Known deficit in Dihydropyrimidine Deshydrogenase (DPD)
- Contraindications for the use of atropine in patients receiving FOLFIRI
- Previous or concurrent cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the cancer being evaluated in this study EXCEPT cervical carcinoma in situ, treated basal cell carcinoma, superficial bladder tumors [Ta, Tis & T1] or any cancer curatively treated > 3 years prior to study entry.
- Peripheral sensory neuropathy > CTC grade 2
- Chronic inflammatory bowel disease; ileus; genetic fructose intolerance
- Pregnant or breast-feeding patients.
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test performed within 7 days before the start of treatment. Fertile women and men (<2 years after last menstruation in women) must use effective means of contraception (intrauterine contraceptive device, contraceptive implants, injectables (hormonal depot), transdermal hormonal contraception (contraceptive patch), sexual abstinence or vasectomised partner) during treatment and for at least 6 months after last administration of medication.
- Substance abuse, medical, psychological or social conditions that may interfere with the patient"s participation in the study or evaluation of the study results
- Any condition that is unstable or could jeopardize the safety of the patient and their compliance in the study 18. Patients unable to swallow oral medications.
- Any other anticancer chemotherapy or immunotherapy during the study or within 4 weeks of study entry.
- Radiotherapy during study or within 3 weeks of start of study drug. (Palliative radiotherapy will be allowed). Major surgery within 4 weeks of start of study
- Autologous bone marrow transplant or stem cell rescue within 4 months prior to study treatment
- Use of biologic response modifiers, such as G-CSF, within 3 week of study entry. [G-CSF and other hematopoietic growth factors may be used in the management of acute toxicity such as febrile neutropenia when clinically indicated or at the discretion of the investigator, however, they may not be substituted for a required dose reduction.] [Patients taking chronic erythropoietin are permitted provided no dose adjustment is undertaken within 2 months prior to the study or during the study]
- Investigational drug therapy outside of this trial during or within 4 weeks of study entry
- Prior exposure to the study drug.
- Any St. John´s wort containing remedy
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00889343
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|Principal Investigator:
|Thomas Höhler, Prof. Dr. med.
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00889343 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 17, 2009
|Last Updated:
|March 1, 2013
Keywords provided by AIO-Studien-gGmbH:
Second-line therapy of metastatic colorectal cancer
Colorectal Neoplasms
palliative therapy
after progression of firstline therapy with an Oxaliplatin- or Irinotecan based Fluoropyrimidine containing regimen ± bevacizumab
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Topoisomerase I Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Vitamin B Complex
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017


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Berlin Adlershof at BIO 2010
May 3-6, Chicago
WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, develops and operates Germany`s leading Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof, participates in BIO 2010 International Convention: The Global Event for Biotechnology at the Germany Pavilion.
Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing in an area of 4.2 km² since 1991.
At the core of the concept is a Science and Technology Park with 413 companies, twelve non-university research institutes and six scientific institutes of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Some 7,000 people work here plus another 6,600 students.
The companies and the non-university scientific institutes focus on:
• Environmental, biological and energy technology
• Photonics and optical technologies
• Material and Microsystems technology
• Information and media technology
65 environmental, bio-, and energy technology companies have settled to date. Main topics in research, development and production are:
• Analysis: Tracing substances in foodstuffs and groundwater, cosmetics, waste; Quality assurance, Identification of pollutants
• Biotechnology: Research development and marketing or manufacture of base materials for biotechnology and chemical processes, of biochips and biochip-based biomedical procedures, of technical enzyme preparations
• Environmental technology: Remediation work based on innovative microbiological processes for degradation of pollutants or production of specific microbial anacultures; Research in the field of supercritical media and high-pressure technology; High-sensitivity detection systems for biotechnology an genetic engineering; Laser technology
• Pharmacy, Medicine and Medical Technology: Equipment engineering and measurement technology; Research for medical chemistry
The firms cooperate with numerous scientific institutes: The Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing (BAM), the Institute for Analytical Sciences, and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (BTU). The Institute of Chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin is further strengthening this field of technology.
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The goal is to track the movement of shoppers in order to better understand shopping patterns, thus creating improved marketing campaigns
The tracking of user activity via smartphones is not too uncommon these days. Apple was caught
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Microsoft was sued
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Now, an Australian shopping center in Queensland will obtain fit receivers that track shopper's locations within two meters by identifying unique mobile phone radio frequency codes.
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The receivers are attached to walls inside the stores and throughout the shopping center, picking up mobile phone transmissions and feeding the data to computer servers via the Internet to help the shopping center understand customer patterns. This system is being put in place to help the Queensland center develop
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and better understand which stores customers prefer and what they look to shop for.
According to Kerry Baddeley, Path Intelligence national sales manager, the names or phone numbers of mobile users tracked will not be accessed through the Footpath system. It simply logs the movement of the phone.
While Baddeley argues that the Footpath system is less intrusive than some current methods, such as image-monitoring where a system can tell if a person is male or female and collects data such as how long they stop in front of a certain item, privacy advocates in Australia are questioning the Footpath system's intent.
Dr. Roger Clarke, an Australian Privacy Foundation chairman, is part of the category who thinks this new system and other retail tracking devices are "seriously creepy."
But Timothy Pilgrim, Federal Privacy Commissioner, said this new system shouldn't conflict with the Privacy Act as long as it doesn't collect the individual's personal information.
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