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(Human Rights Watch/IFEX) - New York, May 17, 2012 - President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan should not sign a bill creating a national human rights commission until it is revised to authorize investigations of the military and the intelligence agencies for human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today. The National Human Rights Commission Act was passed by the National Assembly on May 4, 2012, but requires presidential assent to go into effect.
"The National Human Rights Commission if given teeth can play a critical role in improving Pakistan's dire human rights situation," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "President Zardari should tell parliament he will only sign the bill when it gives the commission authority over abuses by the military and intelligence agencies."
The bill creating the National Human Rights Commission contains many positive elements to promote and protect human rights in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch said. The commission would be an independent body, with members appointed by a cross-party parliamentary committee. Its responsibilities would include monitoring the general human rights situation in Pakistan, investigating specific human rights violations, making recommendations to the government, and assisting individual Pakistanis whose rights have been violated. The commission would have the legal authority to summon witnesses and obtain documents, including government documents.
However, Human Rights Watch expressed strong concerns that the current bill would prevent the commission from addressing or investigating human rights violations by members of the armed forces and intelligence agencies.
In instances of allegations against the armed forces, the commission would only be mandated to seek a report from the federal government. After it received the report, it would only be able to recommend further action to the government. It would have no powers of direct investigation into these cases.
The commission also would be virtually powerless to investigate any allegation of abuse related to an intelligence agency, Human Rights Watch said. Section 15 of the proposed law states that the "functions of the commission do not include inquiring into the act or practice of intelligence agencies." Should a complaint be made to the commission alleging an agency act or practice "inconsistent with or contrary to any human right, the commission shall refer the complaint to the competent authority concerned," the bill says.
"Pakistan's military and its intelligence agencies have a long and well-documented history of serious and systematic abuses," Adams said. "A primary reason to create a national human rights commission should be to address longstanding impunity for the army and intelligence services."
The bill is contrary to the Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions, known as the Paris Principles, Human Rights Watch said. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Paris Principles in 1993 to create international standards for the operation of national human rights commissions. The Paris Principles set out that a national human rights commission must be free to consider any questions falling within its competence, whether submitted by the government or taken up by the commission without referral from a governmental authority, on the proposal of its members or of any petitioner. Further, such an institution must be empowered to hear any person and obtain any information and any documents necessary for assessing situations falling within its competence.
Human Rights Watch called on Pakistan's parliament to revise the National Human Rights Commission Act to comply with the Paris Principles to ensure that the commission emerges as a truly independent and empowered protector and promoter of human rights.
"A strong and independent National Human Rights Commission can be a key institution in aiding Pakistan's transition to a truly rights-respecting democracy," Adams said. "But a commission that cannot take on cases involving the army and intelligence agencies would perpetuate a cruel joke on Pakistanis whose rights have been violated."
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(Human Rights Watch/IFEX) - New York, May 17, 2012 - President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan should not sign a bill creating a national human rights commission until it is revised to authorize investigations of the military and the intelligence agencies for human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today. The National Human Rights Commission Act was passed by the National Assembly on May 4, 2012, but requires presidential assent to go into effect.


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Foster, who ranks second on Tennessee's all-time rushing list, said that he received money on the side his senior season while ripping the NCAA over its stance on amateurism rules.
"I don't know if this will throw us into an NCAA investigation -- my senior year (2008), I was getting money on the side,"
Foster said on September 20th. "I had to either pay the rent or buy some food. I remember the feeling of like, 'Man, be careful.' But there's nothing wrong with it. And you're not going to convince me that there is something wrong with it.
In the documentary "Schooled: The Price of College Sports," Foster described the NCAA as "big bullies" and criticized its amateurism policies as an "injustice" to student athletes.
"I'm not trying to throw anybody under the bus," Foster said. "I feel like I shouldn't have to
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Former Tennessee head coach Phillip Fulmer said Monday that he was unaware that Foster or any other player had received improper benefits during his time at Tennessee.
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Dead Horse Lateral project developer Fidelity Exploration & Development insists that its contractors are building the pipeline to meet or exceed federal and industry standards.
But a newly formed group called the Canyon Country Coalition for Pipeline Safety says it has photographic and video evidence that those standards have not been met.
Although the 24-mile project is under construction on U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered lands, that agency has no authority to regulate natural gas gathering lines, according to Lisa Bryant, assistant field manager for the BLM's Moab office.
However, Bryant said the BLM is enforcing the terms and conditions it created when it approved a right-of-way for the entire project – a statement that pipeline critics dispute.
Fidelity is building the pipeline to capture natural gas from its oil wells in the Big Flat area off state Route 313.
The gas is a byproduct of oil production, and as of right now, the company has no way to remove it from the well sites, according to Fidelity spokesman Tim Rasmussen.
As a result, Fidelity is currently flaring just over 2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, and those activities have impacts on the surrounding environment, BLM and company officials say.
For one thing, natural gas combustion affects regional air quality, and it also contributes to climate change by releasing greenhouse gases linked to climate change, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Once the pipeline and ancillary facilities are operational, the BLM anticipates that those emissions will be reduced to "nearly zero," BLM employee Aron King said earlier this month.
At that point, Fidelity will be able to capture and process the gas, turning it into methane and other components that can be marketed for beneficial use, Rasmussen said.
Fidelity plans to spend about $70 million on the project over time, but a strong return on its investment is unlikely, according to Rasmussen.
"We do not expect the pipeline project to be highly economic on its own," Rasmussen said.
While the company has repeatedly said it's committed to building a safe pipeline, critics of the project allege that Fidelity is cutting corners that could pose potential risks in the future.
According to Canyon Country Coalition for Pipeline Safety member Bill Rau, the group has photographic evidence that contractors are propping sections of pipeline against trees, or on top of them. That alleged practice raises concerns about pipeline abrasion over time, he said.
He also says the group has found that contractors have not taken adequate steps to keep the public off the pipeline right-of-way – an allegation that company and BLM officials deny.
"To those of us who have this evidence, it appears that both the BLM and the company are not fulfilling their obligations to make a safe pipeline, and they're not fulfilling their obligations to be open and honest with the public," Rau said.
The coalition has also raised questions about welding procedures.
Pipeline critic Dennis Stiles of Durango, Colo., alleges that Fidelity's subcontractors are putting stress on the uncompleted welds by releasing the lineup clamps before the "root bead" is completed.
Stiles called that practice a clear violation of welding code, and he alleges that it poses a potential safety hazard.
But Rasmussen said those welding procedures are being taken – as authorized – in order to prevent the clamps from being unintentionally welded to the pipe.
"We contacted the manufacturer of the clamps and he concurred that they were being used as designed and that they must be released prior to a 100 percent circumferential weld," Rasmussen said.
The welds are visually inspected and x-rayed to ensure that they meet code requirements, he said.
However, pipeline critics aren't taking his word for that.
Rau said he wants the company to provide the Canyon Country Coalition for Pipeline Safety with the inspector's reports, along with x-rays of the welds.
Above ground or underground?
About 18 miles of the steel gathering line will be built above ground, while the remainder will go underground.
Federal law does not actually require developers to build natural gas gathering lines above ground, according to Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Public Affairs Specialist Damon Hill. But Rau said the company vowed to build a pipeline that meets or exceeds transmission line standards, and he maintains that the project is not in line with them.
"We can't have it both ways, but that's how it's written in the Environmental Assessment," Rau said.
Rasmussen said he believes that pipeline critics are misreading the PHMSA's standard regarding ground cover for buried transmission lines.
"It does not require that a line be buried," he said. "(It) simply provides guidance for the amount of cover for 'each buried transmission line.'"
Pipeline integrity
Turning to other issues, Stiles claims that contractors are damaging the pipeline by dragging sections of it across open ground.
"They're just scraping the heck out of the pipe," Stiles said. "It's going to have long-term impacts on the integrity of the steel," Rau added.
According to Rasmussen, contractors are dragging the pipe in certain sections to minimize the loss of native vegetation along the right-of-way.
Fidelity has directed the inspectors to look for signs of gouging that cause metal loss, and if such instances occur, those sections of the pipeline will be replaced, Rasmussen said.
Ultimately, he said, the project is being over-designed to ensure that pipeline operations are safe.
According to Rasmussen, the pipeline material has a specified minimum yield strength of 52,000 pounds per square inch.
Average operating pressures will range between 65 to 70 pounds per square inch, with a maximum pressure of 200 pounds per square inch, according to Rasmussen.
To put those numbers in perspective, Rasmussen noted that the typical pressure inside car tires is 40 pounds per square inch.
In comparison, large-volume transmission lines that the federal government does regulate typically operate at pressures of up to 1,500 pounds per square inch, or greater.
In this case, the pipeline material can handle over 3,000 pounds per square inch before the steel begins to yield, he said.
To be on the safe side, Rasmussen said that before the pipeline is placed into service, it will be pressure tested for eight hours at more than 1.5 times the maximum allowable operating pressure.
The pipeline will be equipped with emergency shutdown and pressure relief devices, and the project will be electronically monitored, he said; current plans call for a remote monitor at a control room in Moab.
Rau said the coalition ultimately wants further assurances that the project will be built according to federal and industry standards.
"We really need an independent third-party evaluation of the design and the construction of the pipeline for the people of this community to feel secure," Rau said.
According to Rasmussen, the company has already taken those steps. Fidelity has hired a third-party inspection firm to monitor various construction activities, from ditching to welding work, he said.
A BLM inspector is also on site to ensure that the developer and its contractors are following the previously stipulated terms and conditions, Rasmussen and Bryant said in separate statements to The Times-Independent.
Construction of the pipeline should ultimately be finished by mid-May, according to Rasmussen. Work on a new booster station and processing plant is expected to take a little longer, but Rasmussen expects that all facilities will be in service by the end of June.


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As the chair of a Hillel sponsored initiative, Read By the River, and an active contributor to Hillel, I have recently been invited to several Repair the World dinners and events. The one that impacted me the most was our dinner on tzedakah with Don Abramson. Don is a former chair of the American Jewish World Service. He engaged us in conversation about tzedakah and philanthropy.
Don gave us different scenarios to discuss to see what type of decision we would make in that situation. The scenario that stood out to me the most was a true story that happened at Don's summer camp as a counselor. One of his campers (Joey) had a difficult summer. It was the last few days of camp and the campers were playing a big softball game, the most important game of the summer. The score was tied, it was full count, and the bases were loaded. Joey was at the plate, and in this situation he could either be the hero, or the goat. The pitch comes in, and the ball looks 51% like a strike, and 49% a ball. If you are the counselor umpiring, do you call this pitch a strike or a ball?
At first I quickly answered the question and said of course you call the pitch a ball, you want Joey to go home happy for the summer and that remaining image could bring him back the next summer. However, as I thought about the situation more, I started to lean towards calling the pitch a strike. The discussion became a conversation about where you draw the line. The pitch most likely was a strike, so do you challenge the integrity of the game, by calling it a ball just for Joey, or do you call it a strike to have continued trust in the rest of the campers. You also need to think about how the 17 other campers will feel after the call. However, in the situation, you don't have this amount of time to weigh the pros and cons of the outcome. It is an instinct call, and this type of scenario can change the complete outlook of a camper on their time at camp for that summer.
This idea of one event changing the outlook of a child, is exactly what we are trying to create with Read by the River. At this 1,000 person annual event, myself, Hillel, and other Tufts students promote reading to Medford and Somerville elementary school students. With our literacy based booths and carnival themed event we try to show these children that reading is fun. When they think of reading, we want them to envision all of the possibilities and how they can use their imagination. With events and programs like Read By the River, and Repair the World dinners we are increasing awareness about social justice on step at a time.


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TV shows, especially comedies, sometimes have a signature phrase that may be slightly amusing until it's repeated so often it's annoying.
Rarely, though, do dramas come out with a line that's memorable. ABC's "Body of Proof," premiering Tuesday, March 29, has one that reverberates, even months after the initial viewing. The pilot was originally shown to critics last summer, then the network held the series in reserve.
Still that line haunts.
It happens when Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) talks about one of the two seismic events in her life -- losing custody of her daughter.
Hunt explains to her work partner, Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop), that her ex-husband was awarded full custody "because a man who works for 18 hours a day is a good provider, and a woman who does the same is an absentee mother."
"A lot of women are reacting to it," Delany says of that line. "We all know someone (in this scenario). Men say why does she have to be a know-it-all? No, she's smart; I don't feel she's a b... ."
Hunt's other seismic event was, literally, a train wreck of an accident. The pilot does a great job of showing how she came to be where she is.
Highly educated, successful and doing the intricate work of a neurosurgeon, Hunt was arguing with her ex-husband on the phone while driving. It was a typical argument of dividing responsibilities between parents.
After the accident, Hunt thought she was recovered. Yet when she returned to the operating room, her hands went numb. Hunt killed a patient on the operating table. Her career as a neurosurgeon was over.
Still, she could apply her experience and education, so she became a medical examiner."I lost my child to my career, then I lost my career to that damned accident," Hunt says.
To help inform the character, Delany met with two female physicians at the top of their fields, a neurosurgeon and a medical examiner. She even attended an autopsy.
"I was more nervous going in because of what people said to me," Delany says. "The guy was naked. I looked at him sideways. He had these bright blue eyes. And I thought, 'Did I date him?' Then I realized, no. He was a transient. It says something about your taste."
She didn't flinch as she watched the incision into the cranium.
"Once they pull the face down, he stops being a person," Delany says.
This sort of research helps Delany as Dr. Hunt look believable while examining corpses. She picks up many clues, though, from the living.
Of course she figures out who did it long before the cops. Yes, we have seen smart female medical examiners miles ahead of everyone else. It wasn't all that long ago that Jill Hennessy starred in "Crossing Jordan."
Megan, though, is a different character, more elegant, better educated, richer and more seasoned. With that maturation comes a fraying of the reserves of patience. Just how much nonsense does she need to hear from people who think they have a clue when she's already solved the murder?
Impressed by her abilities, her partner, former cop Dunlop, also deals with those she's infuriating."I'm kind of like her conscience," Bishop says of his character. "I'm the only person besides her daughter who can look her in the eye and say, 'You are out of line.' "
Bishop, whose work has mostly been in Australia, says he's learning a lot from Delany, who shone on "Desperate Housewives" and "China Beach."
"She has been at it a long time and is so fantastic at what she does," Bishop says.
Bishop says people will invariably compare Megan to a female Dr. House "because she has such a bold personality and is such a strong figure and so smart. She is not afraid to annoy people."
Among those she annoys is her boss, Dr. Kate Murphey (Jeri Ryan, "Boston Public"). But Murphey is hardly the type to be cowed.
"I consciously make the decision" to play smart women," Ryan says. "I was a National Merit Scholar. Playing dumb blondes is not interesting to me."
And playing some of the other smart woman roles doesn't attract Delany.
"I don't like lawyer roles," Delany says. "I like medical roles. I like the guts -- literally and figuratively. The body is miraculous. The fact that it works is a miracle."
The characters feel real to both women.
"Working around death, she very much lives her life to the fullest," Ryan says of Dr. Murphey. "She is obviously very intelligent. She is the first woman chief of medical examiners in Philadelphia. She didn't get to where she is without ruffling some feathers."
And the same would have to be said for Dr. Hunt. "Every bit of research I have done has reinforced my belief in the show," Delany says.


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Ray Noorda, the son of Dutch immigrants who drove Novell Netware to become the dominant local area network operating system in the 1980s, died Monday at the age of 82 after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease. Noorda was the first to clearly articulate that the many interoperating parts of the computer industry meant that one company needed to cooperate with another to ensure their products worked together. In some realms, they might be both partners and competitors, he noted, in a relationship he summed up as 'co-opetition'.


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How did Irish men ever get the reputation for being quiet? Anyone with actual on the ground experience of the nation knows that, like the Rolling Stones song, once you start them up they never stop.
Talking, that is, and usually about themselves, with great sympathy.
But Hollywood loves a good myth, and in The Quiet Man, that remarkable 1952 romance directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara at the peak of their careers, they found a doozy.
Set in an Ireland so irresistibly saccharine that you can literally feel the cavities forming in your mouth as the opening music plays, The Quiet Man is an easy film to mock the overly syrupy presentation of the Emerald Isle and its charming and whimsical inhabitants.
Directing a musical, on the other hand, is among the most challenging things you will ever do. But don't doubt the Irish Repertory Theatre's ability to spin fine gold from the most hokey of premises, however.
Donnybrook! is the rather ironic name of the short-lived 1961 musical based on The Quiet Man (it opened on May 18, 1961 and closed on July 15 of that year) that will begin performances at the Irish Rep on February 7.
A big boisterous musical of the golden era, it's an interesting pick for the Rep's artistic director Charlotte Moore, who'll be tasked with making songs with titles like "The Loveable Irish" and "Wisha Wurra" sound like they have a basis in reality and not just the sentimental dreams of Americans pining for the old country.
As we know, the musical tells the story of the returned emigrant John Enright, an Irish American prizefighter who has vowed never to raise a hand again to anyone after accidentally killing a man in the ring.
But before you can say faith and begorrah, Enright has met and fallen hard for the wonderfully spirited Irish village maid Ellen Roe Danaher, who wants a man who's her equal and will settle for nothing less.
With a score that includes the ballads, "He Makes Me Feel I'm Lovely" and "I Have My Own Way," expect to be instantly transported by the irresistible mixture of sweetness and hard won experience that characterizes the Irish Rep's best musical works.
Meanwhile, over at the Irish Arts Center from Friday the 15th, the legendary, lofty Malachy McCourt will preside over a welcome revival of A Couple of Blaguards, the unmissable autobiographical show that he wrote with his brother Frank (before he won worldwide fame with his 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes) and that he will perform this month with Mickey Kelly.
You won't find any quiet men or lovable rogues populating this uniquely searing (and often unspeakably funny) tale of poverty, hunger and despair on the streets of Limerick, but you won't forget a line of it either, so well has it been crafted and performed to date.
America is always the pole star for and the guide post for the two McCourt's, the longed for terminus for their long planned escape, but first we must take a trip through the Irish times and places that have haunted both men for the entirety of their adult lives.
It being an Irish play, it happens to music, and you can certainly think of A Couple Of Blaguards as an overture for the books that turned the literary world on their head in the 1990s.
But in a way, both men had been preparing to play their respective roles all of their lives. For years Malachy had held forth behind his bar and brother Frank behind his teacher's desk, all the while in preparation for a swansong unlike anything seen before in Irish literature.
There's a particularly poignant and appropriate reason for this four performances only revival of the play now, with all proceeds from the shows to benefit the Breezy Point Hurricane Sandy victims through the Emerald Isle Immigration Center.
The center's funds are currently helping Breezy Point victims with making rent, finding alternative accommodations and purchasing building supplies. Any additional donations will aid the entire Rockaway community by restoring the basketball courts in partnership with GAA.
Even now the McCourts' unforgettable stories have lost none of their power to help and heal.


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Say what you will about Google's pricey Chromebook Pixel, but you can't deny it has the highest pixel density of any laptop on the market right now – beating even Apple's Retina displays on its latest MacBook Pros.
And that's why Apple has quietly changed its marketing lingo for its MacBook Pros with Retina displays on its website, as reported by Hot Hardware. To stay on the good side of the Federal Trade Commission's strict laws against false advertising, Apple can no longer claim that its MacBook Pros are, "The highest-resolution notebook ever. And the second-highest," as its website used to say.
With a 2560 x 1700 pixel resolution touch display, the Pixel manages to cram a whopping 4.3 million pixels into its 12.85-inch screen, which works out to be 239 pixels per inch (PPI) in terms of pixel density. By comparison, the 13-inch MacBook Pro's 2560 × 1600 display, with just 227 PPI, is no longer top dog .
Now, the MacBook Pro with Retina's landing page simply says, "High performance has never been so well defined," on top of a photo of the 13-inch and 15-inch laptops. However, if you scroll to the section about the "Stunning Retina display," and shown in the photo to the left, you can see that Apple is still referring to both laptops as, "The highest-resolution notebook ever." This statement is only true for the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which has the highest resolution of the three at 2880 × 1800, but not the 13-inch's display as the heading suggests.
That said, the pixel resolution of a display is not the only factor in what makes a great display. You also have to consider its screen size in relation to the number of pixels it packs. So while the 15-inch MacBook Pro's Retina display has the highest resolution, its pixels are also spread over a bigger surface than the Pixel's 12.85-inch screen. So, the 15-inch MacBook Pro's pixel density is just 220 PPI versus the Pixel's 239 PPI.
Apple's legal department should probably get on that one as the Chromebook Pixel will be hitting stores in April. Considering that the Pixel's display has touch capabilities, has the highest pixel density, and is second in resolution only to the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, it is hard to argue that it isn't the best laptop display on the market right now.
[UPDATE 10:12AM 3/26/2013: Provided more details on the resolution of the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro and additional factors in determining display quality.]
Article originally published on 3/25/2013


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This meeting, organized by Edi Weitz and Arthur Lemmens, featured talks by Dave Fox, Espen Vestre, Luke Gorrie, Jans Aasman, Robert Strandh, Christophe Rhodes, António Menezes Leitão, Bruno Haible and Peter Seibel. There were 85 participants from 19 different countries.
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As far as most of the music industry is concerned, it seems we're already living in a world where Chris Brown has earned considerable forgiveness . By being granted coveted awards show performance slots and guest features with Rihanna (of all people!), Brown has been implicitly excused for his past mistakes and violent behavior. Sure, enduring an entire society's public hatred – especially when you've done that society the inestimable service of making the song "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" – remains its own nagging form of punishment. Yet Brown's apparent determination to remain a completely insufferable personality means that, the attitudes of his 10 million #teambreezy Twitter followers notwithstanding, it is hard to root for his career.
Unfortunately, to answer the pressing question, unlikeable people are absolutely capable of making good music. Chris Brown's enormous capacity for sucking personally does not change the fact that he's made a half-dozen of the last decade's best pop songs, although it does make newer attempts at injecting personality or romance into a song feel icky. At this point, few things are more depressing than imagining Chris Brown having sex, except maybe imagining Chris Brown having sex while repeating the disturbing mantra, "You better not change your mind." This happens on his latest album, "Fortune," which, like pretty much anything Chris Brown does, is an invitation to dislike him.
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It is evident through the success of Wabash Day that the philanthropic spirit of giving back instilled in every student of the College continues to live on post-graduation. Just outside of Indianapolis in Hendricks County Wabash alums put that spirit to work. Wabash Day is an annual event which brings alumni together in volunteer opportunities within their own communities. See more photos here.
Jim Kerr of the class of '92, Dave Jackson of '87, and Bill Harrington of '85 combined to cooperate with a board in charge of the B&O trail. The B&O is an abandoned railroad line being reclaimed by the community in order to develop a publicly accessible trail. Jim Kerr said that the trail will help to further bring the community together and will create more opportunities for a pleasant, accessible outdoor experience.
The three grads, along with a few men from the board, worked hard weeding, clearing brush, and assembling a sign to identify the site of the future community trail. What is remarkable, though, is the pervasiveness of Wabash as a whole. Three alumni coming together in order to spread the altruism which they inherited from the College long after graduation puts into perspective the impact which Wabash has not just on its students, but eventually upon the environments they later find themselves living in.
"The alumni network of Wabash is incredibly strong in every sense of the word," said Dave Jackson. "This has been a labor of love. It's intimately local, and where better to show that we care than in our own hometown? This has been well worth the time we've invested into it, and I only hope that we are able to stir up more interest."
The B&O trail is in only its first stages of development, but thanks to these dedicated alums, the project is getting off the ground quite nicely. "It's been a big first step," said Jackson. "In the following years we'll be able to expand on the project with even more volunteers."
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About a dozen Wabash alumni, family and board members of the B&O Trail Association gathered at the future site of a fitness trail that will someday run from Hendricks County to downtown Indianapolis.
This group of volunteers was responsible for clearing an area just off of State Road 267, landscaping and putting up a sign that will draw attention to the future trail. Much help was needed to make this project a success.
Jim Engledow,'78, donated the labor, time and expertise to help prepare the site to be worked. Two of Engledow Landscaping's finest used a high-powered bush hog and weed wacker to mow down knee high grass and weeds on Friday afternoon while proudly wearing their Wabash Day hats.
Jim's generosity enabled Saturday's group of volunteers to begin working immediately upon arrival on a gorgeous Saturday morning. Trash collection was lead by Collette and Caroline Jackson and Courtney and Kaylee Kerr. The four girls ranging in age from 5-12 filled a large trash bag of garbage that once littered the site! Bill Harrington '85 and his gas powered post hole digger enabled the placement of a sign at the future entrance of the trail. By hand, digging the holes for the sign would have probably taken several hours; however Bill and a small group of helpers had holes dug, sign mounted and erected in less than an hour! The kind people at Frazee Gardens, a local nursery and landscaping company located across the street from the trail, donated all of the topsoil, mulch, greenery and flowers needed to beautify the area around the B&O Trail sign.
Wabash spouses were instrumental in picking out and planting the plants, flowers and mulch and also keep the group hydrated and fed.
This was an important project for the people of Hendricks County as we hope it will one day improve fitness, encourage community and provide enjoyment for many people. We were especially proud that this project brought together many people and organizations - Wabash alumni, spouses,
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Pet Peeves
Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-year-old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her Mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby. Very diligently, Kathleen did as she was asked.
Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while Connor was born. The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom. Connor began to cry.
The paramedic then thanked Kathleen for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-year old what she thought about what she had just witnessed.
Kathleen quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place......... smack his ass again!"
When I got that joke, it resonated with me. I remember once, I was staying at the friend of a friend's place. Less than two hours after arriving and meeting her for the first time, the hostess offered to show us the video of her child's birth.
I would rather scrub vomit off the toilet in a bus station.
Since then, I've ranked offers to watch women give birth on video on my top 10 list of pet peeves.
Not that I really have a list, per se. I just know when I see something that rankles me that it's one of my pet peeves.
The other day I was driving into the city, and I remembered another pet peeves. Crosswalks.
Okay, before all the pedestrians have a coronary, I used to be a true pedestrian. I walked to and from work every single day. I would walk to the malls, although it took me an hour each direction. I was just an avid walker.
But the way that the crosswalks are set up bothers me, and so do the laws that go with them.
We have controlled and uncontrolled crosswalks here. Some, you press a button and a light goes on instantly and people just walk right out. Others, there's no light, and people walk out as well, hoping people clue in and stop.
I hate the second kind of crosswalk completely. But I have an issue with the first as well.
Why? Because there should be a warning delay. We have warning lights that alert drivers that the light at the intersection ahead is about to change to red. But when someone wants to walk out in front of moving vehicles that can splatter their bodies in bits all over the pavement, there's no warning.
Really, it isn't safe for the drivers or for the pedestrians.
What also bothers me about this is that the new generation of kids growing up has the mentality if they point and walk out, the traffic has to stop for them, and they do it without looking to see if the traffic CAN stop for them in time.
I was driving along the Trans Canada highway when I was stewing about this. One would think highways would be exempt from such ridiculous systems, but no. Not here.
And the city council is too cheap to build walk-overs or walk-unders that could save lives.
So instead, they spend money sending firefighters, police and paramedics out to scrape the latest human pancake off the road. What's another dead pedestrian?
What's another dented car with a traumatized driver?
Truth is, a lot of drivers don't pay enough attention. But neither do a lot of pedestrians.
I have my own experience on the subject, because I was hit by a car at the age of 8. Now, I was hit while riding a bike, but it still counts.
Because bicyclists on the road are another one of my pet peeves.
But I'll resume the story.
I was following my sister home. Riding right on the edge of the road like I'd been taught. There was traffic in both directions because it was shift change time at the Muskoka Center, down the road from where I lived.
A gentleman decided he would try to pass anyway. If he'd been driving a VW Rabbit it wouldn't have been a problem.
But he was elderly, and he was driving a boat.
To make matters worse, it was his eightieth birthday, and he'd just gone to town to pick up his birthday cake, which was on the front seat.
Until he rammed into the back of me and I flew through the air in perfect synchronization with his cake, which sailed off the front seat. We did our spins and turns and both landed on our heads. My neighbours went to his place for birthday dinner. They said the cake didn't look quite right...
My white t-shirt was blood-soaked by the time I wobbled to my feet. You know what I remember most about that moment?
The asshole who got out of his car and picked up my bike and threw it in the ditch and walked away. Never underestimate the lack of willingness of some people to do the right thing. I mean, so sorry I was blocking traffic for you, buddy.
The other thing I remember was my dad blaming me for the accident. I felt so vindicated when I studied for my license to learn that the law was that bicyclists are entitled to one full lane in passing.
But here's the deal, it doesn't matter what the law is. It doesn't matter what's right. What matters is that I'm pretty lucky I wasn't dead after that.
Any idiot – whether they're punk kids street racing that don't have enough time to stop or lose control and plow into people, or one that thinks that driving around with a 'baby on board' sign swinging wildly in the back window gives them a free pass on paying attention, or one that thinks they can hold their liquor - can run into you and take your life away in the blink of an eye. (I don't mean to pick on 99% of parents. Just the few that make everyone else look bad.)
Now, I've also been hit by a drunk driver. Fortunately, he was one of those that moved slooooooowwwwwwly when drunk, but that's another story.
While thinking about my annoyance about how crosswalks are set up, I started to realize what's really at the root of the problem.
Money, and indifference.
Governments are too cheap to invest upfront in building walk-overs and walk-unders, and they don't even put the lights up at all marked crosswalks, which makes some exceptionally hard to see, even in average driving conditions.
And people are too lazy to fight for change.
We often tend to wait until something affects us before we're willing to take action on it. It's human nature, I suppose.
This was on my mind yesterday, when evilkev told me the local town council wants to slash the fire department's annual budget.
Know how much it cost to have a fire department here last year? Less than $30,000 Canadian dollars. They barely pay the firefighters - likely works out to about a 50 cents per hour for all the time they put in. And the town uses the fire station, so they waste gas and electricity and supplies that come out of the fire department's budget.
But they still want the department to spend less.
So the chief said that the next time one of their houses caught fire, the department had a way to save some money...
I told evilkev that they'd better believe that if slashing the budget caused my home to burn down, I would sue the town's ass off. And you better believe that if they don't change their tune, I'll be having a few things to say to them at a town meeting.
Plus writing a letter to the editor...
Kevin always thinks I overreact about stuff like that. But I disagree. Every time he goes out the door to a call, it could be the last time I see him, and I don't need some small-town shitheads on the local council who've been there longer than I've been alive deciding that they're going to jeopardize lives because they want to save a few bucks.
Plus they increased my property taxes a lot last year. And they re-paved a bunch of streets in town and poured new sidewalks. So don't tell me they don't have the money.
I'd better stop this before it turns into a political ramble about my failure to understand why governments tend to be reactive instead of proactive.
But I did learn something from my musing on my pet peeves. What I thought was the root of my annoyance was, in fact, just the byproduct of my real issue.
Of course, I could go into great length about my feeling that all bike couriers that disregard the rules of the road should be fair game and people shouldn't care if they get creamed, except for the car damage… Man, I hated it when I worked downtown. I know everyone wants to penalize people who drive downtown, but that's where the office and supplies were, and then I had to drive out to the quadrants of the city and visit clients, and so I needed a vehicle to get there on time, and to cart the training equipment around.
And I do have a real problem with the fact that bicyclists follow both pedestrian and vehicle laws whenever one suits them better.
And since, as a pedestrian, I was run over by a bicyclist once, I feel I have a right to gripe.
You're probably seriously doubting my assertions by now. Believe me, I wish I was lying. I'm one of the most accident-prone people you'll ever encounter and the only thing that surprises me is that I wasn't run over by a runaway camel when I was in the Sahara.
But when that bicyclist hit me, my head struck pavement* and I was knocked unconscious. That hurt.
So I'm scared of walking, scared of riding a bike, and as a driver wary of both bicyclists and pedestrians.
Not to mention the other drivers. Don't even get me started on my pet peeves with them.
Truth is, we can find fault with almost everybody, can't we?
But if you've got some pet peeves, I'd love to hear them. I usually find people's pet peeves are born out of common sense, and the failure on someone's part to acquire and demonstrate any.
And in true Sandrablabber fashion, another joke. Because it's been pretty serious around here lately! And tomorrow I'll be back with the Friday Funnies.
All of his life George from Caribou, ME, had heard stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great- grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday. On that day, they'd walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.
So when George's 21st birthday came around, he and his pal Corky took a boat out to the middle of the lake. George stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned! Corky just managed to pull him to safety.
Furious and confused, George went to see his grandmother.
"Grandma, it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I walk across the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?"
Granny looked into George's eyes and said, "Because, you dumb ass, your father, grandfather and great grandfather were all born in January and you were born in July."
And don't forget to visit John Rickards for some Hardboiled Jesus. If you were ever wondering why he's going to hell...
23 comments:
- JamesO said...
Vent that Spleen, Sandra - it's far better out than in.
Not so much a pet peeve as an observation concerning crossings (as we call them over here, or to give them their full title Zebra Crossings and Pelican Crossings - don't ask why). Have you noticed how mothers with pushchairs test the traffic with them before crossing? That's your kid there - your future, what you've invested all your life in creating - and you just push it out into the flow of traffic?
I think it was Heathcote Williams who said something along the lines of 'Kill a man with a car fender and you'll get sent down for murder. Make sure it's still attached to the car at the time and you'll get a fine and a driving ban.' We have an odd attitude towards the car.
But it's hard to imagine living without one, unless you live in an urban environment.
- 7:35 a.m.
- Bernita said...
Can't agree with you about pedestrian over/under passes and stuff, Sandra.
More tax-payer money to protect us from our own stupidity. More nanny, hand-holding. Then there will be the inevitable cries about muggings in tunnels or screams for a barrier to prevent suicides from the over heads/ or heaving rocks over on cars below.Etc.
Stupidity is alarmingly ingenious.
Agree with you, though, about "Baby on board" - where do some parents get off tying babies to boards?
- 8:07 a.m.
- Trace said...
Yanno, I feel really inadequate about the size of my posts whenever I come here!
- 8:40 a.m.
- Christa M. Miller said...
Pet peeves... you touched on it a bit, but I'd have to say the sense of entitlement pervading most of today's youth. It allows them to bang on bathroom doors until you come out, call their teachers morons and worse, and bully/abuse/kill each other when they don't get their way.
Other pet peeves: office politics. Life is too short to get caught up in stupid petty crap. On a more local level, I hate the way people think a dirt road will somehow protect them from harm. I am thinking of reporting a daycare provider who routinely drives our dirt roads with no seats, much less carseats, in her minivan. Guess who she just lost business from? :P
Now I feel better! ;)
- 9:38 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Yeah, the stroller thing baffles me James. I've seen that.
And Bernita, you're right about underpasses. There was one near where I lived in BC, and I seldom used it.
But overpasses are easier to build from an existing road perspective and safe.
Christa, I'd report that woman in a heartbeat!!!
Trace, I'm just a big blabberhead. But size doesn't matter, so the boys keep telling me.
- 10:39 a.m.
1. Children do not need to witness child birth. Any new age Earth mama who pops in a video to show the neighbor needs a macrobiotic entree to the head.
2. Pedestrian vs. car. Car wins 10 out 10 times. Important to remember when the pedestrian is otherwise "right."
- 10:44 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
And I should add that one of the things I didn't emphasize here about crosswalks is all this talk about global warming and pollution, then we put impediments out there that slow traffic and cause congestion so more people spend more time in cars burning feul...
Why doesn't Kyoto cover costs to rectify that? Better and safer for everyone?
- 10:46 a.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Trust me, Oh Trace-alicious One, when I say you have absolutely no reason to feel inadequate about anything about you.
(I have to say that "posts" is a unusual nickname for them, though.)
More (with reference to The B-head's blog) later. Possibly.
- 11:14 a.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Is the "pavement*" footnote invisible only on my screen?
- 11:17 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Oh boy. Where is that Kim? I know I meant to reference it because it was something I expected you to twist into some smart-arsed comment...
- 11:27 a.m.
- Erik Ivan James said...
Sandra, oh Sandra, welcome back!
- 1:10 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Where did I go? I'm so confused...
- 1:21 p.m.
- M. G. Tarquini said...
Sandra? Could you give me a synopsis of today's post?
*ducks and runs*
Okay, crosswalks bad, pedestrians good, old people driving boats bad, not enough money for fire companies, don't show Sandra the birthing video...um... have I missed anything?
*ducks and runs some more*
- 1:58 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
You forgot INSANE BICYCLISTS RUNNING RAMPANT=BAD!
Geez Mindy, aren't you paying attention?
- 1:59 p.m.
- E. Ann Bardawill said...
Hey, I didn't want to watch childbirth when *I* was grown up AND *giving* birth.
Aaaah. Epidurals.
The "wake me when it's all over shot".
- 2:51 p.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Oh sandra! That Kim is right here honey.
And what? You want me to count the paragraphs? I'm not sure I can count that far - there's an awful lot of them.
Pssst... it's the 12th paragraph up from the bottom. As opposed to down from the bottom. Which is not possible. 'Cos we all know you get down from ducks. But only if the're taller than you. Obviously.
And now, sit up straight and pay attention children (especially Master James) because today's lesson is How British Road Crossings Got Their Names.
Zebra Crossing - because it's black and white and striped, presumably. DUH!
Pelican Crossing - pedestrian light-controlled. They changed the o to an a to create a "cute pseudo-acronym" (shouldn't that be a pseudonym then?) in "deference to the bird", continuing the improbable use of animal symbols which, by the way, began in 1951 with the aforementioned Zebra Crossing.
Puffin Crossing - pedestrian user-friendly intelligent. Uses infrared cameras to do all sorts of clever stuff like extend the length of time on red so oldies and disabled people don't get mown down un-necessarily. Also uses heat sensors to tell if pedestrians are waiting on the pavement to cross (as opposed to what? Groups of random women just stood there gassing?) and can *gasp* even override the red light when the slow-arses crossing have reached safety.
Toucan Crossing - "two can" cross. Such named because cyclists (ok, who booed?) are allowed to ride across.
Pegasus crossing - used primarily outside race courses and/or areas where horses are trained and makes special provision for our equine friends. What a lovely idea.
Class dismissed.
(My thanks to the sweet people at www.2pass.co.uk for most of the information above.)
- 3:24 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Darlin' I feel like my backblog should be the front blog some days!
Okay, the reference was to I KNOW I KNOW, YOU ALL FIGURE THAT ME HITTING MY HEAD AGAINST PAVEMENT EXPLAINS A FEW THINGS!
But this being Canada, you forgot to explain Moose Crossing and Bear Crossing...
- 3:50 p.m.
In this town, instead of putting in a pedestrian crossing, they put up a sign for pedestrians to read. It says:
Signs are cheap. Also, the policy seems to be to only put a pedestrian crossing in after there's been a human sacrifice.
- 3:53 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
That's nutso!
- 3:55 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Just sometimes the backblog is more interesting!
- 5:05 p.m.
- M. G. Tarquini said...
Darlin' I feel like my backblog should be the front blog some days!
Au contraire, m'ami, your front blog is plenty long.
- 5:06 p.m.
- Bonnie Calhoun said...
Pet peeves...LOL...tell me what you really think??? LOL
The jokes were great!
- 1:14 a.m.
- Dana Y. T. Lin said...
Ick. Childbirth videos. Ick. Ick. Ick.
- 1:02 p.m.


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Novel Treatments Improves Survival, Response Rates In Difficult Cancers
The use of dexamethasone early in the treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer, may help reduce the risk of relapse according to study results being presented in a press conference, during the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Francisco, CA.
Additional research will be featured at the press conference that will highlight: the potential role of a combination therapy regimen that includes rituximab as the new standard first-line therapy for the treatment of advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the examination of pralatrexate for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma in the largest prospective study of this subset of patients, and the results of the first study examining a promising new molecular target for the treatment of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
"By conducting ongoing research with new, investigational treatments as well as with different combinations of existing treatment options that have been used for years, we are working to improve the survival of our patients with leukemia and lymphoma," said Linda Burns, M.D., moderator of the press conference and Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. "The research presented today showcases the great advances we are continuously making in treating various blood cancers."
Leukemia and lymphoma are two of the most common blood cancers. Leukemias are categorized based on the speed at which the cancer grows - acute leukemias grow quickly while chronic leukemias develop at a slower rate. Leukemias also are categorized as lymphocytic or myelogenous depending on whether they affect lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) or stem cells found in the bone marrow. According to the National Cancer Institute, each year there are approximately 44,000 new cases and 22,000 deaths associated with leukemia in the United States.
Lymphoma is cancer of the lymphatic system that begins with a change in the lymphocytes, impairing the ability of the body's immune system to fight infection. Lymphomas are divided into two categories: Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Most non-Hodgkin lymphomas are B-cell lymphomas, which are further classified into 14 different sub-types based on the stage of cell development during which the B cell has been affected. The rest are T-cell lymphomas, which affect another type of white blood cell. There are approximately 66,000 new cases of lymphoma and nearly 20,000 deaths each year in the United States according to the National Cancer Institute.
Fostamatinib Disodium (FosD), an Oral Inhibitor of SYK, is Well-Tolerated and Has Significant Clinical Activity in Diffuse Large B-CellLymphoma and ChronicLymphocytic Leukemia
Jonathan W.Friedberg, M.D., James P.Wilmot Cancer Center, Rochester, NY
Results of the first clinical study examining the use of fostamatinib disodium, an investigational treatment that targets a protein called SYK (spleen tyrosine kinase), showed that the new agent represents a safe and novel therapeutic approach that should be further developed for the treatment of B-cell non- Hodgkin lymphoma. In the study, fostamatinib disodium, administered as a tablet, produced significant responses in patients who had failed previous treatments for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and small lymphocytic lymphoma, as well as prolonged stable disease in patients with follicular lymphoma.
Following a phase I dose-limiting study of 13 patients, the regimen of a 200 mg twice-daily dose of fostamatinib disodium was chosen for further evaluation in a phase II study conducted with 68 patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The patients were divided into three groups: those with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (23 patients), those with follicular lymphoma (21 patients), and those with other B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (24 patients), including chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (11 patients), mantle cell lymphoma (nine patients), MALT lymphoma (three patients), and lymphoplasmacytic non-Hodgkin lymphoma (one patient). Patients previously received an average of five therapies, and many had previously received an autologous stem cell transplant or radioimmunotherapy.
The study found that fostamatinib disodium produced complete or partial responses in 21 percent of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, 54 percent of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma, 11 percent of mantle cell lymphoma patients, and 10 percent of those with follicular lymphoma. Stable disease was also seen in an additional 23 patients, including 12 with follicular lymphoma, four with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, four with mantle cell lymphoma, two with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma, and one with MALT lymphoma. A proportion of these responses was prolonged, with some patients remaining on therapy for more than one year. Given the refractory nature of these patients' lymphoma, the toxicity profile was quite favorable. There were four cases of febrile neutropenia with eight patients requiring a dose-modification due to neutropenia, hypertension, liver function test abnormalities, fever, and mucositis.
Dexamethasone in Induction Can Eliminate One-Third of All Relapses inChildhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Results of an International Randomized Trial in 3,655 Patients (Trial AIEOP-BFM ALL 2000)
Martin Schrappe, M.D., University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
The results of this study found that the use of dexamethasone in the induction phase of combination chemotherapy led to a one-third reduction in the risk of relapse as compared with the standard corticosteroid, prednisone, translating into a significant benefit in terms of event-free survival in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dexamethasone was associated with a greater risk of severe side effects, mainly invasive infections; hence, more intensive clinical monitoring and, in particular, early antimicrobial therapy in patients should be implemented to preserve the advantage of using dexamethasone, rather than prednisone, as part of induction therapy.
Following a pre-phase treatment regimen of prednisone and intrathecal methotrexate, a total of 3,655 children (ages 1 to 17) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia were randomized to receive induction therapy consisting of either prednisone (60 mg/m^2/d) or dexamethasone (10 mg/m^2/d) in addition to vincristine, daunorubicine, and L-asparaginase combination therapy. Post-induction therapy was also given to patients.
Six-year event-free survival reached 84.1 percent in patients who received dexamethasone as compared with 79.1 percent of those who received prednisone in the induction phase. The six-year cumulative incidence of relapse was 11 percent and 18 percent for patients randomized to dexamethasone and prednisone, respectively. The difference between the two groups was observed for bone marrow relapses (8 percent versus 12 percent), central nervous system relapses (2 percent versus 4 percent), and other relapses (2 percent versus 3 percent) in dexamethasone as compared with prednisone.
Higher toxicity was seen in those treated with dexamethasone. The cumulative incidence for death in the induction phase was 2 percent for dexamethasone compared with 0.9 percent for prednisone; however, the cumulative incidence of death during remission was similar between the two treatment groups (2 percent for dexamethasone and 1.6 for prednisone).
PROPEL: A MulticenterPhase II Open-Label Study of Pralatrexate (PDX) With Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid Supplementation in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Peripheral T-CellLymphoma
Owen A. O'Connor, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia UniversityMedical Center, New York, NY
This study, the largest prospective clinical trial in patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma, found that the investigational chemotherapy agent pralatrexate produces complete responses (disappearance of all signs of cancer) in patients who had previously failed an average of three treatment regimens, including an autologous stem cell transplant for some patients. Designed to be selectively transported into tumor cells, the novel antifolate pralatrexate accumulates to high concentrations in the tumor cell, inhibiting DNA synthesis.
A total of 115 patients were enrolled into this phase II, single-arm, non-randomized, open-label study and received weekly intraveneous infusions of pralatrexate (30 mg/m^2) for seven weeks. All patients also received vitamin B12 and folic acid throughout the study in order to prevent potential side effects of the pralatrexate. The primary endpoint of the study was the objective response rate, including all patients who had some response of their disease to therapy. Secondary endpoints included duration of response, progression-free survival, and overall survival.
Interim data of the first 65 evaluable patients showed that 29 percent of patients responded to treatment, with 11 percent experiencing a complete response and 18 percent experiencing a partial response. The most common severe (grade 3 and 4) side effects associated with pralatrexate were thrombocytopenia (31 percent), mucositis (14 percent), anemia (12 percent), and neutropenia (11 percent).
Immunochemotherapy With Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, and Rituximab VersusFludarabine and Cyclophosphamide Improves Response Ratesand Progression-Free Survival of Previously Untreated Patients With Advanced Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Michael Hallek, M.D., University of Cologne,Cologne,Germany, and German CLL Study Group
Results from this multinational phase III clinical trial suggest that fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab (FCR) chemoimmunotherapy may become the new standard first-line therapy for the treatment of advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
In this study, a total of 817 patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia were randomized to receive six 28-day cycles of fludarabine (25 mg/m^2 intravenously on days 1 to 3) and cyclophosphamide (FC) (250 mg/m^2 intravenously on days 1 to 3) alone or FCR (375 mg/m^2 intravenously at start of first cycle and 500 mg/m^2 on day 1 for all subsequent cycles). The primary objective of the study was to determine response rates and progression-free survival.
After an average follow-up of 25.5 months, a total of 761 patients were evaluable for response and 787 were evaluable for progression-free survival and overall survival. The overall response rate was significantly higher in the FCR arm (95 percent) as compared with the FC arm (88 percent). The complete response rate was also significantly higher in the FCR arm (52 percent) as compared with the FC arm (27 percent).
At two years, the progression-free survival rate was 76.6 percent in the FCR arm as compared with 62.3 percent in the FC arm. While FCR was found to cause more neutropenia (33.6 percent versus 20.9 percent) and leukopenia (24 percent versus 12.1 percent), it did not increase the incidence of severe infections (18.8 percent versus 14.8 percent) as compared with FC. Taken together, fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab chemoimmunotherapy is a safe first-line treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia that improves response rates and progression-free survival.


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I'm a four-time stroke survivor and I am walking across America.
As you read this, I should be crossing over into Missouri from Oklahoma on a journey that started five months ago at the American Stroke Association's offices in Orange County, California.
Since Feb. 14, I've covered about 1,600 miles on foot in five states. So far I've made it from California to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. I have five more states to go before ending up in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10. It's a total of more than 2,600 miles.
You can follow the journey on my blog.
I'm doing this to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke, and to show firsthand how a healthy lifestyle can save your life. It worked for me.
After my strokes and other serious health challenges, the American Stroke Association gave me a new lease on life. Once I was inspired to live healthy, my life really turned around.
I wanted to do something in return – to set an example. I also wanted to help people understand that physical activity inspires a healthy lifestyle and that a positive attitude helps overcome disabilities and health challenges. And I wanted to let people know about the early warning signs for stroke and heart disease so they can get immediate help and reduce the lasting effects of these conditions.
I cover about 100 miles a week with support from family, friends and folks I am meeting along the way. It's all coordinated by my wife, Louise, and sister-in-law Marie back home in San Clemente, Calif. My family is funding my hotel stays. They're also finding folks who volunteer to drive me from my route to hotels and back, and to take me to visit hospitals and schools along the way.
Some folks I meet admit they never exercise, but soon after we talk they start planning for a healthier future. . They say, "If you can walk across the U.S. after having four strokes, the least I can do is get up off the couch and walk around the block." They are doing that and more.
I'm visiting hospitals to encourage stroke survivors. I know very well their daily struggle to just get out of bed. I tell them that with determination they can walk again. I know from personal experience. The pamphlets I bring from the American Heart Association are always prominently displayed when I leave. (The American Stroke Association is a division of the American Heart Association.)
I had a cluster stroke, a series of four small strokes in one area of the brain, following an accident at work in l988 that crushed my foot. I started losing my hearing and having severe head pain every day. I took prescribed medication for years, and that eventually contributed to liver problems.
In 2003, I decided to get off all medications and work to achieve a healthier lifestyle. I gave up smoking and was determined to be more physically active. Things took a positive turn in 2005 when I joined the American Heart Association's marathon training program Train To End Stroke. Louise and I went to an information session and I was sold on the idea within a few minutes. I needed to take control of my health, and physical activity seemed a good way to do it. I never really thought I could complete a marathon. I signed up basically to get some exercise.
The group was training for the 2005 San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and I became a Stroke Hero, a special designation for survivors in the program. Everyone looked at me as an inspiration –so I knew I had to finish.
Walking with a cane, I did it – in six hours and 49 minutes. I went on to complete nine full marathons and four half marathons over the next four years. I continued to be involved with this marathon training group as a mentor and ambassador.
I was still being treated for liver disease when I got involved in marathons. But I didn't let that stop me. I am ornery, and I plan to keep enjoying life as long as possible. And for me, marathons and walking are an important part of enjoying life. I've been involved with the Orange County Heart Walk for the past few years, but the idea to walk across America came spontaneously. Someone asked late last year what I would do after completing so many marathons. "Well, I guess I could just walk across America," I wisecracked.
Then I realized walking across America would really be a great way to create awareness of heart disease and stroke and the need to raise funds for research … something I could do to thank the American Stroke Association for changing my life.
Louise and I figured out the logistics to make it happen, the American Stroke Association's Orange County office gave me a wonderful send-off, and today here I am: more than halfway across the country.
People see me walking in remote areas or on their city streets and ask what I am doing and if I need help. I tell them about the importance of walking for a healthy lifestyle and supporting the mission of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.
I'm grateful for the kindness of strangers who take the time to offer me a cold drink, invite me to their home for dinner or want to donate to my Start! Training program.
Read an update on Mycle's journey from the Jan/Feb issue of Stroke Connection magazine.
Watch for me in coming weeks as I make my way to Washington D.C.!