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The preliminary stage took place from the beginning of February to mid-March, and required participants to submit a Team and Challenge Statement that outlined their team members, their chosen development challenge, and their selection process for both. Each team was required to have at least one UBC graduate student, and was encouraged to strive for team members from diverse backgrounds and specializations in order to effectively and creatively find a solution to their challenge.
Judges reviewed these statements and granted $200 operating budgets to teams progressing to the next stage of competition. Teams then had until May 15 to submit their Development Action Proposal; a detailed document that outlined plans and suggestions for solving their selected development issue. The competition concluded at a final event on May 22 at which teams presented their proposals to a panel of judges, and three finalists were selected to receive the prize money.
1st Place Integrated Solution: Solid Waste Management, GHG Reduction and Energy Production in Bangladesh
Of the many innovative and resourceful plans, the judges selected the proposal submitted by Abdul Baset (Sami) Muqeet & Nuheen Khan as the winner. Their project was based on the idea of improving waste collection and management through developing a system that uses human waste as the primary biomass input to generate electricity. This system would better protect water resources, reduce GHG emissions, and address the problem of energy production in the country.
Although human waste is not the most effective raw material for producing biogas, the fact that the majority of Bangladeshis use a manual emptier to dispose of faeces and that many sewage systems discharge into open water demonstrates how faecel matter is a prime source for addressing both energy and sanitation issues. The electricity produced by the methane-rich biogas would be in high demand given the supply shortage in the region, and the nutrient rich digestate produced from the remaining solid material could be sold to local farmers as fertilizer.
Muqeet and Khans familiarity with Bangladesh was one of their primary motivations in selecting the country to establish their Landfill Gas (LFG) Utilization facility. They proposed a 5 year pilot project to test feasibility, estimating that with their system, a landfill serving 150,000 people could reduce GHG emissions by 82,343 tonnes, and that a facility constructed in 2012 could produce enough gas to power a 540kW reciprocating engine by the year 2016.
Aiming for a social business project, they plan to create an economically and financially self-sufficient model, which after repaying initial investments would use profits to expand and improve its services. The social benefits are extensive, including better waste treatment and sanitation, increasing crop yield, and developing a sustainable energy source. When combined with carbon credit sale revenues estimated at $2.75 million over 30 years, as well as the income from electricity and fertilizer sales, the pair is well on their way toward meeting their goal.
Muqeet and Khan are currently collaborating with Grameen Shakti, the leading renewable energy institution in Bangladesh, on the pilot phase of their project. They have also applied for funding of $100,000 through Grand Challenges Canadas Stars in Global Health program, which aims to support bold ideas with big impact in addressing the UNs Millennium Development Goals. Public votes decide the winner of the funding, so if you are interested in finding out more about this program, their project, and to vote for Muqeet and Khans project, please visit: http://applications.grandchallenges.ca/en/viewVideo/28735E6AA7E936B0AF731DCD
2nd Place Improving livelihoods of smallholder coffee growers in Rwanda through farmer exchanges
The runner-up proposal by Sara Elder and Tanya Smith aims to create a farmer exchange program - promoting cooperation and communication between individuals, coffee cooperatives and enterprises, leading to improved efficiency in rural coffee production and distribution in Rwanda, and increased incomes for smallholder farmers.
The coffee sector accounted for a third of Rwandan export revenues in 2009 and has potential for development through establishing specialty coffee markets linked with strong and cohesive farmer groups. Previous ventures into the global market were successful, and with increasing international demand and improving quality of coffee in Rwanda, there is room for the sector to expand.
Elder and Smith hope to cooperate with various existing development projects in the region, emphasizing the importance of their proposed farmer exchange program. The program would not only seek to strengthen existing cooperatives, but also encourage female labor market participation - promoting gender equality and allowing for an expanded market through Fair Trade certification. By fostering trust and cooperation, the program also has the potential to reduce inter-group conflict in the region.
3rd Place Skills Bank for Development: Be Inspired, Be Inspiring
Third place winners Isabelle Almeida, Natalia Carrillo Botero & Regiane Alves Garcia outlined an approach to address Brazils challenges of unequal access to less formal comprehensive education (life/soft skills) and the brain-drain suffered by the nation as the educated young move abroad.
The proposed e-Mentoring program utilizes the skills of Brazilians in Vancouver to mentor young underprivileged Brazilians to develop interpersonal, emotional and communication skills so that they may have success in the labor force and support their own local communities. They propose the creation of a Skills Bank, made up of senior students and professionals who donate a few hours each week for virtual mentoring sessions with a youth leader in Brazil.
The group aims to develop a virtual platform with integrated video, chat, email, and file sharing capabilities, as well as the ability to assess the needs of the mentees in Brazil, and to help the mentors in Vancouver to address those needs. With an initial 6 month pilot program that hosts two mentorships, they will track and monitor its progress to determine its limitations and enhance its utility.
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Abdul Baset (Sami) Muqeet completed a Bachelor of Applied Science in Geological Engineering at UBC in 2010.
Nuheen Khan completed a BA in Economics (Honours) at UBC in 2010, and completed his masters in the same department in August 2012.
Sara Elder completed a BA in International Relations at UBC in 2004, a MA in Resource Management & Environmental Studies at UBC in 2010, and is currently a PhD student at the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability at UBC.
Tanya Smith completed a BAH in International Political Economy and Administrative Change at University of Guelph in 2008, and a MSc in Development Studies at the London School of Economics in 2011.
Isabelle Almeida began her studies at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil, and is currently studying Business at Langara College (Vancouver).
Natalia Carrillo Botero completed a BA in Anthropology and History at Los Andres University (Bogota) and a MA in Latin American studies at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Regiane Alves Garcia holds an LL.M. from University of Torontos Faculty of Law, and is currently a PhD student at UBCs Faculty of Law.
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Demonica Book 1
Grand Central Publishing
July 2008
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In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life…
She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure—but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life.
Two lovers will dare to risk all.
Eidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Torn between his need for the truth and his desire to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable—and let Tayla possess him, body and soul…
*** NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN ROMANCES OF 2008 by THE AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE READER!
"Very dark, very sexy, and very creative. Ione's Demonica series will have the most jaded paranormal fans perking up!"
—Emma Holly, USA Today bestselling author of DEMON'S FIRE
"What a ride! Dark, sexy and very intriguing, this book gripped me from start to finish. I can't wait to read the next in the series!"
—Nalini Singh, author of MINE TO POSSESS
"A heroine with attitude and a hot-blooded demon make for a dangerously erotic, wonderfully satisfying read. Ione knows how to make your blood boil and your heart race as you devour each and every page."
—Cheyenne McCray, New York Times bestselling author of DARK MAGIC
"Who knew demons could be so hot? Ione takes you on an adventure that's dark, dynamic and dangerously seductive!"
—Jaci Burton, author of HUNTING THE DEMON
"Sexy, dark and suspenseful, Pleasure Unbound will leave you breathless! Larissa Ione brings to life a riveting new world filled with sizzling sensuality, dark wit and wicked hot demons. Larissa Ione is an exciting new voice in paranormal romance!"
—Lara Adrian, bestselling author of MIDNIGHT AWAKENING
"There is nothing easy about Ione's sizzling new world in this first Demonica novel, where no one is innocent and everyone is fighting their natures. The author's hard-edged style infuses the story with darkness while taking it to sizzling heights."
—Romantic Times, 4 STARS!
"I am absolutely blown away by PLEASURE UNBOUND: DEMONICA, BOOK 1! With a blend of sarcastic humor, dark plots, sensual love story and a multitude of paranormal creatures both good and evil, Ms. Ione delivers everything that a fan of erotic paranormal romances could want. I predict that 'Buffy' fans will find this new book series highly addictive!"
"This is book one in Ione's Demonica series and I will definitely be coming back for more. There are new paranormal series popping up all over the place, so it's really important to stand out. Pleasure Unbound does stand out. Ione has created a fascinating world…"
"Pleasure Unbound…happens to have the only "heroine has never had an orgasm until she met hero" plotline that's believable. Larissa's taken one of the most awful genre clichés and made it work. Honestly, it's worth it to buy this book just to find out how she does it, if not for the fact that is has excellent worldbuilding, lots of hot sex and is just generally fun to read."
"Ms. Ione writes a passionate tale…is able to blend two different worlds together seamlessly."
—Night Owl Romance Reviews, TOP PICK
"Pleasure Unbound is a pleasant change from the current crop of dark urban fantasies that are becoming far too similar in plot, character and tone…Ione has in fact, created a very imaginative demonic tapestry as well as rich, multi-layered characterizations in both the leads and secondaries…A heady blend that I look forward to re-visiting in her next instalment."
"Never has the paranormal world been more intriguing…PLEASURE UNBOUND will leave a lasting impact on the reader, as this unforgettable story will evoke emotions long after the last page is read."
"Ms. Ione has created a dark fantasy world that's filled with intriguing characters, entrancing suspense and fast-moving action. I enjoyed the uniqueness of each demon dependant on their parentage, loved the chemistry that sizzles between hero and heroine and was captivated by the black market mystery unfolding. Pleasure Unbound has found its spot on my keeper shelf."
"PLEASURE UNBOUND is one of those books that hooks you from the very first page and won't let go till the last page is turned. I have read some phenomenal books this year, but without a doubt this one easily makes my top ten. Larissa Ione has created a world and characters that makes me want more NOW. Highly recommended!"
—Debbie, CK2SKWIPSandKRITIQUES, 5 Klovers, July Recommended Read!
"Wow, Wow, Wow! This is one hot demon love story! The pages are riddled with action, sex, and danger. The intensity is palpable and you are quickly transformed into the heart of the story. I was moved by this love story and will think about it for some time. Ms. Ione was a new to me author, but let me assure you she is now on my auto buy list! I want MORE!!!!"
—Thia, The Romance Reader's Connection!
"Pleasure Unbound took me on a rip-roaring ride through every emotion I have."
—Joyfully Reviews, a Joyfully Recommended title!
"Intense, engrossing, and titillating, PLEASURE UNBOUND is a story not to be missed."
Had Eidolon been anywhere but the hospital, he would have killed the guy pleading for his life before him.
As it was, he'd have to save the bastard.
"Sometimes, being a doctor blows," he muttered, and jabbed the demon in a human suit with a syringe full of hemoxacin.
The patient screamed as the needle passed through mangled thigh tissue, releasing blood sterilization medication into the wound.
"You didn't numb him first?"
Eidolon snorted at his younger brother's words. "The Haven spell keeps me from killing him. It doesn't prevent me from dispensing a little justice during treatment."
"Can't escape your old job, huh?" Shade pushed aside the curtain separating two of the three ER cubicles, and stepped fully inside. "The son of a bitch eats babies. Let me wheel him outside and waste his sorry ass."
"Wraith already offered."
"Wraith offers to waste all the patients."
Eidolon grunted. "Probably a good thing our little brother didn't go the doctor route."
"Neither did I."
"You had different reasons."
Shade hadn't wanted to spend that much time in school, especially since his healing gift was better suited to his chosen field, paramedicine. He was all about scraping patients off the street and keeping them alive long enough for the Underworld General staff to fix them.
Blood dripped to the obsidian floor as Eidolon probed the patient's most serious wound. A female Umber demon, the same species as Shade's mother, had caught the patient sneaking into her nursery, and had somehow impaled him — several times — with a toilet brush.
Then again, Umber demons were remarkably strong for their petite size. The females were especially so. Eidolon had, on several occasions, enjoyed the application of that strength in bed. In fact, when he could no longer resist the final maturation cycle his body had entered, he planned to make an Umber female his first infadre. Umbers made good mothers, and only rarely did they kill the unwanted offspring of a Seminus demon.
Putting aside the thoughts that plagued him more frequently as The Change progressed, Eidolon glanced at the patient's face. The skin that should have been a deep reddish-brown was now pale with pain and blood loss. "What's your name?"
The patient groaned. "Derc."
"Listen, Derc. I'm going to repair this unsightly hole, but it's going to hurt. A lot. Try not to move. Or scream like a cowering little imp."
"Give me something for the pain, you fucking parasite," he snarled.
"Doctor parasite." Eidolon nodded at the equipment tray, and Paige, one of their few human nurses, handed him clamps.
"Derc, buddy, did you eat any of the Umber's young before she caught you?"
Hatred rolled off Shade's body as Derc shook his head, sharp teeth bared, eyes glowing orange.
"Today isn't your lucky day then. Didn't get a meal, and you aren't getting anything for the pain, either."
Allowing himself a grim smile, Eidolon clamped the damaged artery in two places as Derc screamed vile curses and struggled against the restraints that held him on the metal table.
Paige handed him the instrument, and he expertly sliced between the clamps. Shade crowded close, watching as he shaved away the shredded artery tissue and then held the newly clean ends together. A warm tingle wound its way down his right arm along his dermal markings to the tips of his gloved fingers, and the artery fused. The baby-eater would no longer have to worry about bleeding out. From the expression on Shade's face, however, he would have to worry about surviving more than two steps outside the hospital.
It wouldn't be the first time he'd saved a life only to have it taken once the patient had been released.
"BP's dropping." Shade's gaze focused on the bedside monitor. "Could be shock."
"There's another bleed somewhere. Bring up his blood pressure."
Reluctantly, Shade placed his large palm over the bony ridges in Derc's forehead. The numbers on the monitor dipped, raised, and then stabilized, but the change would be temporary. Shade's powers couldn't sustain life that wasn't there, and if Eidolon couldn't find the problem, nothing Shade did would make a difference.
A rapid assessment of the other wounds revealed nothing to explain the drop in vitals. Then, just below the patient's twelfth rib, a fresh scar. Beneath the razor-straight mark, something bubbled.
"Hell's fires," Shade breathed. His gaze snapped up as he raked his fingers through nearly black hair that, at shoulder-length, was longer than but identical in color to Eidolon's. "It might be nothing. It might not be Ghouls."
Ghouls. Not the cannibalistic monsters of human lore, but the term for those who carved up demons to sell their parts on the underworld black market.
Hoping his brother was right but not ripped from the womb yesterday, Eidolon pressed softly on the scar.
"Derc, what happened here?"
"Cut myself."
"This is a surgical scar."
UG was the only medical facility in the world that performed surgery on their kind, and Derc hadn't been treated here before.
Eidolon caught the pungent stink of fear. "No. It was an accident." Derc clenched his fists, his lidless eyes wild. "You must believe me."
"Derc, calm down. Derc?"
Monitor alarms beeped, and the baby-eater convulsed.
"Paige, grab the crash cart. Shade, keep his vitals up."
An eerie wail seemed to leak from every pore in Derc's skin, and a stench like rotting bacon and baby powder filled the small space. Paige lost her lunch in the garbage can.
The heart monitor flatlined. Shade removed his hand from the patient's forehead.
"I hate it when they do that." Wondering what had frightened Derc so badly he'd felt the need to stop his own bodily functions, Eidolon opened the scar with a smooth slash of a scalpel, knowing what he'd find, but needing to see for sure.
Shade dug through his uniform shirt pocket and pulled out his ever-present pack of bubble gum. "What's missing?"
"The Pan Tai sac. It processes digestive waste and returns it to the body so his species never has to urinate or defecate."
"Handy," Shade murmured. "What would someone want with it?"
Paige dabbed her mouth with a surgical sponge, her complexion still greenish, though the patient's death stench had largely dissipated. "The contents are used in some voodoo curses that affect bowel movements."
Shade shook his head and passed the nurse a stick of gum. "Is nothing sacred anymore?" He turned to Eidolon. "Why didn't they kill him? They've killed the others."
"He was worth more alive. His species can grow another organ in a matter of weeks."
"Which they could harvest." Shade let out a string of curses that included some Eidolon hadn't heard in his hundred years of life. "It's gotta be The Aegis. Sick bastards."
Whoever the bastards were, they'd been busy. Medics had brought in twelve mutilated bodies over the last two weeks, and the violence had escalated. Some of the victims showed evidence of having been carved up while still alive — and awake.
Worse, demons as a whole could care less, and those who did wouldn't cooperate with other species' Councils in order to organize an investigation. Eidolon cared, not only because someone with medical knowledge was involved, but because it was only a matter of time before the butchers nabbed someone he knew.
"Paige, have the morgue fetch the body and let them know I want a copy of the autopsy report. I'm going to find out who these assholes are."
"Doc E!" Eidolon hadn't taken more than a dozen steps when Nancy, a vampire who'd been a nurse since before she was turned thirty years ago, shouted from where she sat behind the triage desk. "Skulk called, said she's bringing in a Cruentus. ETA two minutes."
Eidolon nearly groaned. Cruenti lived to kill, their desire to slaughter so uncontrollable that even while mating they sometimes tore each other apart. Their last Cruentus patient had broken free of his bonds and destroyed half the hospital before he could be sedated.
"Prepare ER two with the gold restraints, and page Dr. Yuri. He likes Cruenti."
"She also said she's bringing a surprise patient."
This time he did groan. Skulk's last surprise turned out to be a dog struck by a car. A dog he'd had to take home with him because releasing it outside the ER would have meant a fresh meal for any number of staff members. Now the damned mutt had eaten three pairs of shoes and taken over his apartment.
Shade seemed torn between wanting to be irritable with Skulk, his Umber sister, and wanting to flirt with Nancy, whom he'd already bedded twice that Eidolon knew about.
"I'm going to kill her." Clearly, irritability won out.
"Not if I get to her first."
"She's off limits to you."
"You never said I can't kill her," Eidolon pointed out. "Just that I can't sleep with her."
"True." Shade shrugged. "You kill her, then. My mom would never forgive me."
Shade had that right. Though Eidolon, Wraith, and Shade were purebred Seminus demons with the same long-dead sire, their mothers were all of different species, and of them, Shade's was the most maternal and protective.
Red halogen beacons rotated in their ceiling mountings, signaling the ambulance's approach. The light splashed crimson around the room, bringing out the writing on the gray walls. The drab shade hadn't been Eidolon's first choice, but it held spells better than any other color, and in a hospital where everyone was someone's mortal enemy, every advantage was critical. Because of that, the symbols and incantations had been modified to increase their protective powers.
Instead of paint, they'd been written in blood.
The ambulance pulled into the subterranean facility's bay, and Eidolon's adrenaline shot hotly into his veins. He loved this job. Loved managing his own little piece of hell that was as close to heaven as he'd ever get.
The hospital, located beneath New York City's bustling streets and hidden by sorcery right under the clueless humans' noses, was his baby. More than that, it was his promise to demonkind — whether they lived in the bowels of the earth or above ground with the humans — that they would be treated without discrimination, that their race was not forsaken by all.
The sliding ER doors whooshed open, and Skulk's paramedic partner, a werewolf who hated everyone and everything, wheeled in a bloodied Cruentus demon that had been securely strapped to the stretcher. Eidolon and Shade fell into step with Luc, and though they both topped six feet three, the were's extra three inches and thick build dwarfed them.
"Cruentus," Luc growled, because he never made any other noises even while in human form, like now. "Found unconscious. Open tib-fib fracture to the right leg. Crush wound to the back of the skull. Both injuries are sealing. Nonsealing deep lacerations to the abdomen and throat."
Eidolon raised an eyebrow at that last. Only gold or magically enhanced weapons could have caused nonsealing wounds. All other injuries closed up on their own as the Cruentus regenerated.
"Who summoned help?"
"Some vamp found them. The Cruentus and—" he cocked one long-nailed thumb back toward the ambulance, where Skulk had rolled out the secondary stretcher "—that."
Eidolon halted in his tracks, Shade with him. For a moment, they both stared at the unconscious humanoid female. One of the medics had cut away her red leather clothes that lay like flayed flesh beneath her. She now wore only restraints, matching black panties and bra, and a variety of weapons sheaths around her ankles and forearms.
A chill went up his double-jointed spine, and fuck no, this would not happen. "You brought an Aegis slayer into my ER? What in all that's unholy were you thinking?"
Skulk huffed, looked up at him with flashing gunmetal eyes that matched her ashen skin and hair. "What else was I supposed to do with her? Her partner is rat chow."
"The Cruentus took out an Aegi?" Shade asked, and when his sister nodded, he raked his gaze over the injured human. Average humans posed little threat to demons, but those who belonged to The Aegis, a warrior guild sworn to slay them, weren't average. "Never thought I'd thank a Cruentus. You should have turned this one into rat chow too."
"Her injuries might do the job for us." Skulk rattled off the list of wounds, all of which were serious, but the worst, the punctured lung, had the potential to kill the fastest. Skulk had performed a needle decompression, and for now, the slayer was stable, her color good. "And," she added, "her aura is weak, thin. She hasn't been well for a long time."
Paige drifted toward them, her hazel eyes gleaming with something close to awe. "Never seen a Buffy before. Not a live one, anyway."
"I have. Several." Wraith's gravelly voice came from somewhere behind Eidolon. "But they didn't stay alive for long." Wraith, nearly identical to his brothers except for his blue eyes and shoulder-length, bleached blond hair, took control of the stretcher. "I'll take her outside and dispose of her."
Dispose of her. It was the right thing to do. After all, it was what The Aegis had done to their brother, Roag, a loss Eidolon still felt like a hole in the soul. "No," he said, grinding his teeth at his own decision. "Wait."
As tempting as it was to let Wraith have his way, only three types of beings could be turned away at UG, according to the charter he himself drafted, and Aegis butchers weren't among those listed, an oversight he intended to correct. Granted, as the equivalent to a human hospital's Chief of Staff, he had the final say, could send the woman to her death, but they'd just been handed a rare opportunity. His personal feelings about slayers would have to be put aside.
"Take her to ER one."
"E," Shade said in a voice that had gone low with disapproval, "catch and release in this case is a bad idea. What if it's a trap? What if she's wearing some sort of tracking device?"
Wraith looked around as though he expected Aegis slayers — "Guardians," they called themselves — to pop in from nowhere.
"We're protected by the Haven spell."
"Only if they attack from the inside. If they find out where we are, they could go Bin Laden on the building."
"We'll fix her and worry about the rest later." Eidolon wheeled the human into the prepared room, both paranoid brothers and Paige on his heels. "We have an opportunity to learn about them. The knowledge we could gain outweighs the dangers."
He removed the restraints and lifted her left hand. The silver and black ring on her index finger looked innocent enough, but when he removed it, the Aegis shield engraved on the inside of the band confirmed her identity and sent a chill through his heart. If the rumors were true, any jewelry bearing the shield was imbued with powers that bestowed slayers with night vision, resistance to certain spells, the ability to see through invisibility mantles, and gods knew what else.
"You'd better know what you're doing, E." Wraith whipped the curtain closed to shut out the gawking staff.
Judging by the number of onlookers, they'd probably been paged. Come see the Buffy, the nightmare that lurks in our closets.
"Not so scary now, are you, little killer?" Eidolon murmured as he gloved up.
Her upper lip curled as though she'd heard him, and he suddenly knew he wouldn't lose this patient. Death despised strength and stubbornness, qualities that radiated from her in waves. Unsure if her survival would be a good thing or a bad one, he cut away her bra and inspected the chest lacerations. Shade, who had been hanging around while waiting for his medic shift to start, managed her vitals, his gifted touch easing her labored, gurgling breaths.
"Paige, type her blood and get me some human O while we're waiting."
The nurse set to work, and Eidolon widened the slayer's most serious wound with a scalpel. Blood and air bubbled through damaged lung and chest wall tissue as he inserted his fingers and held the ragged edges together for fusion.
Wraith folded his thick arms over his chest, his biceps twitching like they wanted to lead the charge to kill the slayer. "This is going to bite us in the ass, and you two are too stupid and arrogant to see it."
"Ironic, isn't it," Eidolon said flatly, "that you would lecture us on arrogance and stupidity."
Wraith flipped him the bird, and Shade laughed. "Someone got up on the wrong side of the crypt. You jonesing for a fix, bro? I saw a tasty-looking junkie topside. Why don't you go eat him?"
"Screw you."
"Shut up," Eidolon snapped. "Both of you. Something isn't right. Shade, look at this." He adjusted the overhead light. "I haven't been to med school in decades, but I've treated enough humans to know this isn't normal."
Shade peered at the woman's organs, at the tangled mass of veins and arteries, at the strange ropes of nerve tissue that wove in and out of muscle and spongy lung. "Looks like a bomb went off in there. What is all that?"
"No idea." He'd never seen anything like the mess that had scrambled the slayer's insides. "Check this out." He pointed to a blackened blob that resembled a blood clot. A pulsing, morphing blood clot that, as they watched, swallowed healthy tissue. "It's like it's taking over."
Eidolon peeled back the gelled mass. His breath caught, and he rocked back on his heels.
"Hell's rings," Shade breathed. "She's a fucking demon."
"We're fucking demons. She's some other species."
For the first time, Eidolon allowed himself a frank, unhurried look at the nearly naked woman, from her black-painted toes to matted hair the color of red wine. Smooth skin stretched over curves and lean muscle that even in unconsciousness conveyed coiled, deadly strength. Probably in her mid-twenties, she was in her prime, and if she weren't a murderous fiend, she'd be hot. He fingered her ruined clothing. He'd always been a sucker for women in leather. Preferably, short leather skirts, but tight pants would do.
Wraith tipped the woman's chin back and inspected her face. "I thought Aegi were human. She looks human. Smells human." His fangs flashed as his tongue swiped at the bloody punctures in her throat. "Tastes human."
Eidolon probed a peculiar valve bisecting the transverse colon. "What did I say about tasting patients?"
"What?" Wraith asked innocently. "We had to know if she's human."
"She is. Aegi are human." Shade shook his head, making his stud earring glint in the light from the overhead. "Something's wrong here. It's as if she's infected with a demon mutation. Maybe a virus."
"No, she was born this way. She's got a demon parent. Look." Eidolon showed his brother the genetic proof, the organs that had formed from a human-demon union, something that occurred more frequently than most knew, but that human doctors diagnosed as certain "syndromes." "Her physical abnormalities could be a birth defect. Or maybe these two species aren't compatible genetically. She was probably born with some unusual traits, ones she's been hiding or that haven't been blatantly noticeable. Like better than average eyesight. Or telepathy. But I'll bet my stethoscope this is causing problems now."
"Like what?"
"Could be anything. Maybe she's losing her hearing or pissing herself in public." Excited, because this kind of thing made his corner of hell interesting, he glanced up at Shade, who palmed her forehead and closed his eyes.
"I can feel it," he said, his voice rough with the effort he expended to go deep into her body at the cellular level. "Some of her DNA feels fragmented. We can fuse it. We could–"
Wraith let out a disgusted snort. "Don't even think about it. If you fix her, you could turn her into some sort of uber assassin. That's all we need hunting us."
"He's right," Shade agreed, the glossy black of his eyes going flat. "Depending on the species, it's possible that we could turn her damn near immortal."
Sedating and medicating could also prove difficult, given the unidentified demon DNA. Something as seemingly innocent as aspirin could kill her.
Eidolon studied her for a moment, thinking. "We'll take care of her immediate injuries, and deal with the rest later. She should have the choice about whether or not she wants the demon half to be integrated."
"Choice?" Wraith scoffed. " You think she gives her victims a choice? You think Roag had a choice?"
Though Eidolon often thought about their fallen brother, hearing his name out loud was a punch to the gut. "Do you give your victims a choice?" he asked softly.
"I have to feed."
"You need to drink blood. You don't need to kill."
Wraith pushed away from the wall. "You're an asshole." Lashing out with one arm, he sent a tray full of surgical instruments flying and swept out of the room.
Shade crouched to help Paige pick up the mess. "You shouldn't provoke him."
"You're the one who brought up the junkie."
"He knows I was yanking his chain. He's been clean for months."
Eidolon wished he could share Shade's certainty. Wraith liked to escape his life now and then, but since their species was immune to drug and alcohol highs unless the substances had been processed through human blood, eating a human druggie was Wraith's only path to blotto.
"I'm tired of coddling him," Eidolon said, pulling another tray of instruments to him. "Let alone constantly pulling his ass out of trouble."
"He needs time."
"Ninety-eight years isn't enough time? Shade, in two years he's going to go through his transition. He's not ready. He'll get us all killed."
Shade said nothing, probably because there was nothing to say. Their brother was out of control, and as the only Seminus demon in history to have been conceived by a vampire female, he was alone and had no idea how to handle his urges and instincts. As a male who had been tortured in the most horrific ways imaginable by the vampires who'd raised him, he had no idea how to live life at all.
Not that Eidolon had room to judge. He'd spent the last half-century concentrating on nothing but medicine, but unless he found a mate, in a few months his focus would shift and narrow until he became a mindless beast that functioned on instinct alone.
Maybe he should let the Buffy kill him now and get it over with.
He looked down at her, at the deceptively innocent face, and wondered just how easily and remorselessly she'd take him down.
Before she could do that, though, he'd have to fix her.
"Paige, scalpel."
Awareness came slowly, in a haze of black blotches punctuated by points of light. Warm, elastic darkness tugged at Tayla, luring her toward slumber, but pain prodded her into consciousness. Every inch of her body ached, and her head felt heavy, too large for her neck to support. Groaning, she opened her eyes.
Fuzzy, shadowy images swirled and pulsed in front of her. Gradually, her vision came into focus, and whoa…she must be in another realm, because the dark-haired man staring down at her was a god. His lips, glistening sensuously as if he'd just licked them, were moving, but the buzz in her ears drowned out his words.
She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.
"Tayla," she croaked, and wondered why her throat hurt so much. "Tayla Mancuso. I think. Does that sound right to you?"
He smiled, and if she weren't dying on some type of table, she'd have appreciated the sexy curve of his mouth and the flash of very white teeth. The guy must have a fab dentist.
"Tayla? Can you hear me?"
She could, but the buzzing lingered. "Uh-huh."
"Good." He put a hand on her forehead, allowing her a glimpse of one muscular arm adorned by intricate, swirling tribal tattoos. "You're at a hospital. Is there anything I need to know? Allergies? Medical conditions? Parentage?"
She blinked. Had he said "parentage?" And could eyelashes hurt? Because hers did.
"This is a waste of time." The new speaker, an exotic-looking man, Middle-Eastern, maybe, glared down at her.
"Go handle your own patients, Yuri." The hot doctor with the espresso eyes shoved Yuri aside. "Can you answer my question, Tayla?"
Right. Allergies, parentage, medical conditions. "Um, no. No allergies." No parents, either. And her medical condition wasn't something she could share.
"Okay then. I'm going to give you something to help you sleep, and if it doesn't kill you, when you wake up you'll feel better."
Better would be good. Because if she felt a little less like she'd been run over by a truck, she could jump on Dr. Hottie.
The very fact that she wanted to jump Dr. Hottie told her more about the state of her head trauma than anything else, but what the hell. The pretty nurse had just injected her with something that totally rocked, and if she wanted to think about boinking a bronzed, tattooed, impossibly handsome doctor who was so far out of her league she needed a telescope to see him, then screw it.
Screw him. Over and over.
"I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys." Had she said that out loud? The cocky grin on his face told her that yes, she'd verbalized her runaway thoughts. "Drugs talking. Don't get excited."
"Paige, push another milligram," he said, in his rich, smooth doctor voice.
A warm, burning sensation washed through her veins from the IV line in the back of her hand. "Mmm, trying to get rid of me, huh?"
"That's already been discussed."
Damn, this guy was saying some weird shit. Not that it mattered. Her eyes wouldn't open anymore, and her body wouldn't work. Only her ears still seemed to function, and as she drifted off, she heard one last thing.
"Wraith, I already told you. You can't kill her."
Aww. Her hot doctor was protecting her. She'd have smiled if her face hadn't frozen. And clearly, her hearing had gone too, because he couldn't have tacked on what she thought he tacked on.


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(LOS ANGELES) — It's perhaps a surprise to no one, but sworn testimony in the Kris Humphries/Kim Kardashian divorce case from a Keeping Up with the Kardashians producer indicates several scenes of the reality show were faked.
While some producers of "unscripted" shows occasionally re-do scenes for various reasons, Life & Style magazine reports a deposition reveals major sequences — including Humphries' proposal to Kardashian, and her "crying" about a rough spot in their 72-day marriage — were as phony as Kardashian's eyelashes are.
As part of his fraud lawsuit against Kardashian, lawyers for Humphries took a deposition from Keeping Up producer Russell Jay last month, and he reportedly admitted Kardashian didn't expect the NBA star to pop the question to her, and as such, she didn't like her impromptu reaction.
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Kardashian, now pregnant with Kanye West's baby, is expected to provide sworn testimony in a deposition in the case in two weeks.
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The Israeli Government announced today that as of July 1 military administration of the three former Arab cities of Jaffa, Lydda and Ramleh will be terminated.
A government spokesman today branded as "fantastic" charges made by Maj. Gen. John Glubb Pasha, former commander of the Arab legion, that Israeli forces were planning a coup to dislodge Arab Legion garrisons in the Latrun area astride the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway.
The spokesman also said that the Israeli Government had received no reports of sniping in that area which Glubb Pasha asserted had been carried out in an attempt to provoke the Arab forces. (At Lake Success, acting U.N, Palestine mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche said he had no reports of sniping from U.N, observers and no reports of preparations by Israeli forces for a coup.)
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[DoE] A Look at the Legislative Branch
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Fellow readers and eRepublik newbs, today is the day upon which you will fully learn what Congress does, why Congressman/women are considered rogue, and how you can get involved/elected into Congress!
I hope you enjoy!
What exactly is Congress in real life? Why is it in this game?
Congress, in real life, is an institution that pretty much makes up the legislative branch of the United States of America. As decreed by the US Constitution, Congress passes laws, discusses existing policies, sets taxes at their rates, and amends the Constitution if they see fit. In addition, Congress also manages the budget, and chooses whether the President has the right to declare war while also ratifying alliances. Congress consists of two "houses", the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Senators are elected every 6 years, and Representatives every 2. An important check to Congress is the President ability to veto acts.
In eRepublik, the Admins decided to include a Congressional institution. While said institution excludes real life aspects of Congress, such as a Presidential check and two officials of it, the ingame Congress of eRepublik still has a very large influence on governmental affairs, which will be touched on later in this article.
So...what exactly does a Congressman DO?
Okay, Let's just say you got elected to Congress. What exactly would you do?
Option 1 - Gaze In Amazement At The Shiny Buttons!
Option 2 - Click A Shiny Button!
Option 3 - Approve Citizenship!
If you answered any of the above, you are WRONG.
In Congress, Congressmen/women have certain duties...none of which include being stupid!
Let's see what they do....
Stay active and post whenever possible in the forums.
- Once elected to Congress, you will be given access to a special section on the eUSA forums. Here, you will be able to discuss issues with other Congressmen/women and vote on proposals. You will be asked to sign-in weekly, and it is very important that you do.
Discuss, vote to propose a new policy/law, vote on the law.
-In the forum section described above, other Congressmen/women will propose ideas, and discussion will commence. It is your duty to get involved in this, and perhaps propose something of your own. If a discussion reaches a common ground, the idea will move to a proposal vote. If 10 people vote yes on a proposal,, it will move to an official vote. If that passes, the idea will be enacted by Congress and a decree of Congress.
Discuss and approve a American budget.
-Every month, Congressmen discuss and vote on a monthly budget. Discussion is usually heated, and usually involves compromise. If enough of a quorum is reached, this budget will move to proposal. 10 votes will make it an official proposal, and another 10 and it will become the official budget for that Congressional month.
Transfer funds as allocated by the Economics Council in accordance with the Budget.
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Declare war if NECESSARY and APPROVED.
-If a county is unusually aggressive, and the President and SoD agree, a Natural Enemy proposal goes up. If this proposal is approved, vote YES.
Approve citizenship in accordance with the IES (Immigration Enforcement Services)
-If you are a Congressman, viewing the citizenship requests for the day/week, you will have a special option to APPROVE requests. DO NOT approve unless the IES list says that the person is marked for approval. If the person is on the APPROVE list, it is okay to approve their CS request. If not, DO NOT approve.
Vote on Alliances
-Every month, the current PotUS will make an "Alliance List." If you see a proposal to ally with a certain country, and the country is on the YES list of the PotUS, vote yes.
Now that you've learned how a Congressman/woman should act, let's have a look at some ROGUE Congressman.
A rogue Congressman is, in the most simple terms, a idiotic Congressman.
Let's see some examples of such:
-This Congressman clearly did not follow the proper procedure. Not only is he transfering the money to the wrong organization, but the amount is also incorrect.
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Obviously a rogue.
-This Congressman's NE proposal was not approved, and therefore reprsents the actions of a rogue Congressman, acting without discussion or vote.
Rouge Congressman #2.
-This Congressman's decision to propose an impeachment was neither discussed nor proposed, so it is clearly the actions of another rogue Congressman.
So, as you may have noticed, it is very easy to spot a rogue Congressman in action. They blatantly disregard the rest of Congress, the rest of the eUS, and the eUS's safety as a political entity, all through their actions. These Congressman are easy to spot, and their proposals must NOT pass.
As a Congressman, it will be your duty to vote NO on these proposals, and notify the citizens of their villainous acts.
Now, I know what most of you are thinking.
"I'm not even in Congress, and I probably will not even get there. EVER."
If you think this way, you surely will never get into Congress. However, an optimistic mindset and a willingness to succeed WILL.
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Congress - proudly pressing shiny buttons since Day 0 of the New World!
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Love how RGR hates on everybody for no reason and thinks that will get him CP.
Patronizing article. You assume that the average, 99% player actually cares about what happens in eRep government.
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Raleigh, N.C. — The operator of a ride that malfunctioned and injured a family at the 2013 North Carolina State Fair pleaded guilty Monday to charges of assault with a deadly weapon, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said.
Timothy Tutterrow, 48, admitted to altering the ride called The Vortex and has been cooperating with authorities since the investigation began.
"Tim has just accepted responsibility and cooperated from the get-go on this case," his lawyer, Roger Smith Jr., said.
"That will serve him well with this court," Judge Donald Stephens noted during Monday's hearing.
Tutterrow and ride owner Joshua Gene Macaroni are each charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. In pleading guilty to the charges as they stand, Tutterrow agreed to testify against Macaroni if necessary, his lawyer said.
Sentencing was expected at a later date, Freeman said.
Five people were injured on Oct. 24, 2103, when the ride started up unexpectedly as people were trying to disembark. Anthony Gorham suffered brain, skull, neck and spinal cord injuries as a result and spent nearly four months in a local hospital. His wife, Alisha Gorham, and her son and her niece were also seriously injured.
The family sued Powers Great American Midways, which ran the State Fair midway, Family Attractions Amusement LLC, the Georgia company that brought the Vortex to the fair, ride owner Macaroni and operator Tutterrow. That civil suit was settled last month, and the particulars are confidential.
The family was asking for $150 million in the suit, including $100 million in punitive damages, arguing that the defendants were more interested in making money than they were about ride-goers' safety.
The criminal investigation found that a safety mechanism designed to keep The Vortex from moving had been disabled.
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Live on Skysports 3: Sat 19.00 & 21.00: Sevilla and Real Madrid are 8/5 (Coral) to knock in 4 or more between them, 2-2 is 16/1.
Real Madrid's excellent away form sees them 4/9 favs (Betfred) to beat Sevilla at Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Sevilla a large 13/2 on their own patch (Skybet).
After a series of poor home results, Sevilla beat Getafe 3-0 but will face a whole new beast in Madrid, who will be smarting after El Clasico defeat. With Madrid scoring 3 a game on the road of late, bet365 make them 6/4 to notch up another 3+ here while Coral rate the game an 8/5 chance to produce 4 or more. The result could actually be hard to call, Sevilla could be capable of snatching a draw (10/3, Paddy Power) so stick with goals. A 2-2 thriller is 16/1 with Totesport.
Earlier in the evening, at 19.00, Bilbao are 4/9 home favs with Sportingbet to beat Zaragoza, who are 15/2 with bet365 to win their first away game of the league season.
Recently though, Bilbao have stuttered to lower league oppositon, picking up just one point against Santander and Granada combined. Another draw here is 7/2 (). Zaragoza are certainly worth considering with a one goal headtsart, 15/8 at Ladbrokes, while a 1-1 result is 8/1 with Coral.
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It's common knowledge that even die-hard meat lovers get queasy when watching sausage being made. Funny, then, that the process of making vegan sausage is so easy on the eyes:
I hear a lot of complaints about how unnatural and processed a lot of veggie meats are, so I asked Field Roast founder and Head Chef David Lee how it's made.
It turns out the process is surprisingly similar to the production of meat sausage, just without the billions of dead animals. In fact, Lee says that they see themselves as a meat company, using the same Butcher Boy Grinder and a sausage linker that are industry standards. The difference is that their meat is created from vital wheat flour. Using the flour, they mix in other natural ingredients, including fresh fruits and vegetables. After that, it's linked in casing and steamed in an oven.
The whole process is very open; they even give tours to kids and teach them how to make it! Lee believes that people are sometimes turned off fake meats because they don't understand where it comes from, so it's important to show them.
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So you are a Celtics fan and going to jail for thirty years. Why not just go to jail for 33 years and then the number of years you are in jail will be the same number that is on the jersey of a basketball player who used to play in the NBA. Brilliant!
SI: Man requests longer prison term to honor Larry Bird:
"He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey," Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. "We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.


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John Rich Becomes First Country Celebrity Apprentice
John Rich did what Trace Adkins came so close to doing. He became the first country star to win Celebrity Apprentice. Trace came second to Piers Morgan, although I still think he should have won his season too.
John went up against Marlee Matlin in the final task. They had to create a new retro 7-up campaign, that included a new can and a new TV commercial. John had the 80's and went with a zebra striped can. Love the look and can't wait to pick up one of my own cans.


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Tied Aid Revisited: A Reexamination of the Kemp-Kojima Results in the Presence of Environmental Externalities
Tied aid invites a Pareto-improving situation in the presence of environmental externalities. Under certain conditions, although the aid recipient government's marginal propensity to consume the purchased good is lower or higher than the corresponding marginal propensity of the aid recipient individuals, the welfare of both the donor and the recipient improves in the presence of production- or consumption-based pollution. This result counters the conventional wisdom of tied aid presented by Kemp and Kojima (1985).
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Alefacept in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma or Peripheral T-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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RATIONALE: Combinations of biological substances in alefacept may be able to carry cancer-killing substances directly to cancer cells.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of alefacept in treating patients with relapsed or refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma or peripheral T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
|Drug: Alefacept
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of Alefacept (AmeviveTM) in the Treatment of Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma and Peripheral T-cell NHL
- Tolerability [ Time Frame: 9/21/2006 - 7/06/2010 ]
- Immunostimulation [ Time Frame: 9/22/2006 - 6/08/2010 ]
- Clinical response [ Time Frame: 1/05/2007 - 2/25/2011 ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|March 2006
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2018
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: alefacept
Determine both the maximum tolerated dose level as well as the optimal immunologic dose and toxicity.
Drug: Alefacept
Dose escalation theme. 0.075mg/kg by IV Weekly x 8 to 0.30mg/kg IV Weekly x 8
Other Name: Amevive
Detailed Description:
- Determine the maximum tolerated dose or the optimal immunologic dose of alefacept in patients with relapsed or refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma or peripheral T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Determine if antitumor activity of this drug exists in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study.
- Induction therapy: Patients receive alefacept IV over 2-5 minutes once weekly for up to 8 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with stable disease or complete or partial response after induction therapy proceed to maintenance therapy.
Cohorts of 6 patients receive escalating doses of alefacept until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. The optimal immunologic dose is defined as the dose that does not exceed the MTD, has the highest alefacept level, and achieves saturation of CD2 receptors.
- Maintenance therapy: Patients receive alefacept IV on day 1. Treatment repeats every 4 weeks for 10-12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients who experience disease progression during maintenance therapy may receive reinduction therapy* comprising 4 weekly doses of alefacept. The patient then proceeds to a second maintenance phase in the absence of disease progression.
NOTE: *Only 1 reinduction allowed.
Patients undergo blood and tissue collection periodically for pharmacological studies. Blood serum is analyzed for alefacept concentration, cytokine concentration, CD16 polymorphisms, and CD2 saturation via flow cytometry.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 3 months for up to 3 years and then periodically thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 24 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically confirmed cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) or peripheral T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Diagnostic biopsies must have been obtained within the past 6 months
Relapsed or refractory disease
Patients with CTCL must have failed ≥ 2 skin-directed therapies
- No limit on the number of prior therapies
Measurable disease, defined as at least 1 bidimensionally measurable lesion > 2 cm by CT scan, MRI, physical exam, or photograph with appended ruler
- At least 2 bidimensionally measurable target lesions required for patients with skin lesions only
- No CNS lymphoma
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm^3
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm^3
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
- Total bilirubin ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN) OR direct bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- AST ≤ 3 times ULN (≤ 5 times ULN if liver involvement)
- Creatinine ≤ 2 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Willing to provide all research blood samples as required by the protocol
- Willing to undergo repeat biopsy of either an accessible skin lesion or lymph node, if there are no circulating sezary cells, for the purpose of research studies (patients without easily accessible lesions are not required to have a repeat biopsy solely for research purposes but must be willing to provide a portion of the on-study biopsy or a previous lymphoma biopsy, if available)
- No known congenital or acquired immunodeficiency syndromes, including HIV
- No known active viral hepatitis or tuberculosis infection
- No uncontrolled infection
- No other uncontrolled serious medical condition unrelated to lymphoma (e.g., cardiac arrhythmia or diabetes)
- No other active malignancies
- No history of serious allergic reaction to citrate or glycine
- See Disease Characteristics
- More than 3 weeks since prior cytotoxic chemotherapy
- More than 3 weeks since prior denileukin diftitox
- More than 3 weeks since prior radiotherapy (less than 3 weeks if the acute side effects of this therapy are resolved)
- More than 2 weeks since prior oral corticosteroids (unless being used to treat adrenal insufficiency)
- More than 2 weeks since prior phototherapy, including ultraviolet B and psoralen with ultraviolet A
- More than 1 week since prior biologic therapy
- No concurrent chemotherapy, other immunotherapy, or radiotherapy
- No other concurrent investigational agents
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00438802
|United States, California
|City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Duarte, California, United States, 91010-3000
|United States, Iowa
|Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa
|Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242-1002
|United States, Minnesota
|Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
|Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
|Study Chair:
|Thomas E. Witzig, MD
|Mayo Clinic
|Responsible Party:
|Mayo Clinic
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00438802 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P50CA097274 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
P30CA015083 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
LS058C ( Other Identifier: Mayo Clinic Cancer Center )
06-002246 ( Other Identifier: Mayo Clinic IRB )
|Study First Received:
|February 20, 2007
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2015
Keywords provided by Mayo Clinic:
recurrent cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
anaplastic large cell lymphoma
adult nasal type extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma
recurrent mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma, T-Cell
Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Dermatologic Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017