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Monday, January 7, 2008
Recapping Round One
The First Weekend of the Playoffs are over, and it's time to suck it up and admit that my picks were a little Bi-Polar. A little Gary Busey if you will. I mis-fired on both of the Saturday Games, but nailed both of the Sunday Contests.
Overall, it was a good weekend of football. Let's first see how the rest of the GDB staff did.
Cicero- 3 for 4
Porque- 4 for 4 (BN)
Swole- 3 for 4
Knuckleballer- 2 for 4
So apparently, my picks were more pathetic than Fred Claus. Don't worry I'll bounce back next week like Rocky. Ok so let's take a look a closer look at the four games.
Seattle 35 vs. Tampa Bay 14
GAME CHANGING PLAY...Midway through the 4th, the Redskins were up 14-13 and had the chance to extend their lead after they recovered a kickoff that went right between two Seahawks. A combination of a bumbled catch by the normally sure-handed Chris Cooley that would have set up a first and goal, and a botched Field Goal by Shaun Suisham kept it a one point game. From there the Cream rose to the Crop.
IT WAS OVER WHEN...Marcus Trufant caught the dead seagull that Todd Collins lofted up and returned it to the house. Not only was the pass miserable, but Santana Moss made no effort to position himself anywhere near the ball leading to an express lane for Trufant to complete the Pick 6 and put the Hawks up 14. Collins has to be one of the worst quarterbacks to ever start a playoff game...then again Trent Dilfer won a superbowl with the Ravens about 8 years ago.
HERO OF THE GAME...Not many great performances from this matchup...this is like going on a date with the hottest woman in the Nursing Home...I'm going to go ahead and copout and give this one to the Seahawk's defense. Not only did they come up with 2 INT House Calls, but they had 3 sacks and put great pressure on Collins all game. Credit Julian Peterson and Patrick Kerney for forcing Collins to make bad decisions all day.
GOAT OF THE GAME...It'd be easy to give this one to Collins, but everyone knew he was going to play like Britney Spears on Crack before the game started...and he did have 2 Touchdowns, so we'll shift over to what should have been Washington's bread and butter...the Run Game. Clinton Portis had been dominating defenses over the past 2 months, but he didn't show up today with only 52 yards rushing. I guess you can fault the play calling a little bit too. It's not like they were down the whole game though.
FINAL THOUGHTS...This game was sloppy and fairly boring until the fourth quarter. There was still sloppiness after that, but it became a lot more exciting. The better team won this game, and I like many others were blinded by the emotional run of the Redskins. I mistaked it for talent. The Seahawks need to play a more complete game next week, but they match up well against the Packers.
Jacksonville 31 vs. Pittsburgh 29
GAME CHANGING PLAY...Clearly it had to be David Garrard's 4th and 2 Bootleg run into the redzone. The game would have been over with the Steelers leading by one and less than 2 minutes left in the game.
IT WAS OVER WHEN...That run set up the game winning Field Goal and finished off the best contest of the weekend. Pittsburgh could have won this one if they could have kept their previous drive going long than a three and out.
HERO OF THE GAME...This is tough, but I gotta give it to Garrard, sure other players on the Jags had better games statistically...in fact this was Garrard's worst QB rating of the year, but they would have lost this game if not for his leadership. He really reminds me of a young Steve McNair. I'm not saying he's going to win an MVP, but the fact that he is a dual threat and doesn't many mistakes makes him a great Centerpiece for this Jags team. Still though, he needs to play a hell of a lot better against New England if they want to stay in the same galaxy as the Patriots.
GOAT OF THE GAME...Unfortunately, I gotta give this to Big Ben Roethlisberger. Although the run game was horrible for the Steelers, despite the 2 Touchdowns they averaged under 2 yards a carry, you can't look pas the 4 turnovers by Ben. The QB made too many key mistakes throughout the course of the game that ultimately doomed this team. If this were fantasy, Big Ben would have outscored Garrard, but that doesn't mean shit in real life and that's why Garrard and the Jags are advancing. Ben took complete blame for the loss after the game. It wasn't all his fault, so that was a classy move by the team leader, but in the end the weight has to rest on his shoulders.
FINAL THOUGHTS...The Steelers would have probably won this game if Willie Parker was still healthy. They attempted almost twice as many passes and rushes, and that is not Steeler brand football. They had to do this though, because Najeh Davenport was mostly ineffective. Overall, it was an outstanding game and I think Pittsburgh put up a better fight than most people expected. The Jaguars are the first team to win back to back games at Heinz Field.
New York 24 vs. Tampa Bay 14
GAME CHANGING PLAY...The Giants didn't have a play that really defined the game, but they did look horrible in the first quarter. So I guess we can say when Brandon Jacobs got the Giants on the Board at the beginning of the second quarter. From there, it was all G-Men all the time.
IT WAS OVER WHEN...The Giants defense limited the Tampa Bay offense all game. Wasn't the Tampa Cover Two supposed to be the better unit? Well maybe on paper, but the Boys in Blue showed up big today. The best was Corey Webster who was only playing because Sam Madison got hurt against the Pats last week. Webster had a key INT in the end zone and a fumble recovery that pretty much doused any hope of a comeback for the Bucs.
HERO OF THE GAME...Eli Manning. Wow, I never thought I would list Eli and Hero in the same sentence, but then it hit me. Is it really because Eli is a bad QB, or is it because the media has made Eli seem awful. I think it's a little of both, but the younger Manning should shake off some of the haters with his performance here. Not only did he have 2 TD's, but he also had ZERO turnovers. Everyone thought he would be the Goat here before the game started, but Manning stepped up in a big way when it mattered and with another good performance next week, maybe the media will give him a break...or not. One crazy fact that I found. Eli won his first playoff game in his third try...it took Peyton four tries to get his first win in the postseason.
GOAT OF THE GAME...Joey Galloway. He was just completely inept in this game. 1 Catch?! Are you kidding me. This is one of the premier receivers in this league and he has 1 Catch. That just can't happen. He's the best player on the team and because he was invisible, the Buccaneers had no chance to win.
FINAL THOUGHTS...This was New York's third straight year in the playoffs as a Wildcard, and it was their first victory. All of these playoff teams were helmed by Eli, and he had typically been Boo-urns. This time around, it was just a better overall team. One important note, the Giants are now 8-1 on the road this year. Their only loss was to the Dallas Cowboys in Week 1...guess where they play next week.
San Diego 17 vs. Tennessee 6
GAME CHANGING PLAY...When the Chargers decided to play like the Chargers. Philip Rivers connected with Vincent Jackson for a 25 yard TD. It was late in the third quarter and the Bolts were down 6-3 at the time. This put them up four and they never looked back.
IT WAS OVER WHEN...LT dove over the Titans Defensive line and originally ran into the brick wall known as Keith Bullock, but the play was never whistled dead and Tomlinson just reached his orangutan like arm over the white line for the Touchdown. It was reviewed, but there was no way they were going to overturn this call in San Diego. That made the score 17-6 midway through the fourth and that was all they needed.
HERO OF THE GAME...I'm going to give this to Vincent Jackson. Rivers is like a 5 year old girl and can't keep his emotions in check when it matters and that's going to eventually kill this team, so I'll let the receiver who had 114 yards and Touch have it. Jackson had been pretty weak sauce this year. He was a popular sleeper in fantasy drafts (I fell for the hype), and was a huge bust. This was a statement game for him. Chris Chambers, the former Miami Dolphin who is thanking his lucky stars he was traded off of that shitty team earlier this year, also had 121 yards receiving.
GOAT OF THE GAME...I'm trying to think of someone other than Vince Young to give this to, but there isn't anyone else on this team. Young was hurt and has had to make something out of nothing all year. I feel bad for the guy, because he really is an outstanding athlete, but the Titans have a sad collection of players around him on the offensive side and it's beyond me how they made the playoffs. So, I'm not going to stick this on Vince. I'm going to give it to Mike Reinfeldt, the GM of the Titans. The fact that they didn't select a solid WR in the past NFL draft is a joke. That needs to be their first concern in this upcoming draft.
FINAL THOUGHTS...This game was awful. I can't believe I succumbed my eyes to such torture. Speaking of torture, you gotta feel bad for Antonio Gates, who was carted off the field in the first half. It's crazy that the Chargers were able to score all of their points after Gates left. He is questionable for the game against the Colts, and without him it seems like it would be tough for San Diego to win that one. Shame on Rivers for laying Gates out to dry on this play. I can't talk about this game anymore, it makes me sick.
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Drive Fishery in Futo was recommenced
on November 11, 2004
Posted: 21 Nov. 2004
In the morning of November 11, we were informed that dolphin drive hunts started at 9:00 a.m. and that more than ten fishing boats from Futo were working to drive dolphins into Futo Fishing Port on Shizuoka Prefecture's Izu Peninsula. At 11:00 a.m. the dolphins were driven near to Futo Port, and finally, at 11:45 a.m. about 100 bottlenose dolphins were confined in the port. The drive fishery in Futo succeeded after an interval of five years. The following is a brief report from Futo.
The number of dolphins lifted out of the water by aquarium-staff and fishermen:
Lifting of dolphins out of the water started at 9:30 a.m. on November 12, and finished at around 1:00 p.m. We recorded the lifted number and the time every time a sling was put down into the water by crane.
We confirmed that 19 dolphins were selected and lifted in all. However, we surmised that quite a few dolphins were drowned and sank to the bottom of the port or died of shock.
The following is the number of the dolphins captured or died/killed in this drive fishery in Futo reported by Shizuoka Prefecture and the Japan Fisheries Agency.
Fourteen dolphins were taken by 6 aquariums,
One was attached a transmitter (too big!) on its dosal fin and released,
Five were slaughtered for research and human consumption,
Four were died of shock or drowned & sank to the bottom of the port.
Aquariums which bought dolphins from Futo drive fishery:
1)Shin-Enoshima Suizokukan
2)Awashima Marine Park
3)Marine Road/Dolphin Fantasy
4)Hosaka Marine Project
5)Shimoda-Kaichu Suizokukan
6)Shinagawa Suizokukan
There remains some doubt about the number of released dolphins:
Lifting live dolhins started at 9:30 a.m. on November 12 and the color of the sea turned reddish around 10:30 a.m. Many dolphins were panicked, injured, bled, and struggled being caught in the circulating fishing nets. It seemed that more than several dolphins died of shock or drowned in panic and sank to the bottom of the sea.
At 1:20 p.m. fishermen removed the nets and began to drive the remained dolphins away out of the port, threatening them by banging metal poles hung down into the water. (When they removed the nets, we witnessed that several dolphins had been caught in them. They nearly drowned and were injured. They looked too weak to survive.)
The Fishing Cooperative and newspapers reported that fishermen released 80 dolphins to the ocean, but it seemed to me that they were far less than 80. Furthermore, many of them were so injured and weak that their ability to survive in the wild was endangered.
Keep-Out Signboards and Strict Guard to hide cruel capture and slaughter:
Fishermen, local police and the staff of Japan Fisheries Agency/the National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries kept strict watch and tried to stop our videotaping and photographing. While dolphins were slaughtered and cut apart into meat in a tent on the shore, no one could take photos of the scene. Fishermen even prevented tourists from taking photos of the sea from the street. All the paths down to the port were blocked with signboards of "Keep-Out," and police and fishermen were on guard.
However, we could witness that backets of meat were carried away from the slaughter tent, and that blood streamed down to the sea from the tent. It clearly revealed what was going on in the tent.
Dead dolphins were collected??
In the night on Nov. 12, I noticed that a couple of fishing boats were moving
around in the port, illuminating with spotlights on the water. It continued for a few hours till 11:30 p.m. It seemed that fishermen were searching for dead dolphins that had sank in the port. However, it was too dark and I could not confirm it from the place I was.
In the next morning on November 13, the Keep-Out signboards were removed. I went down to the port, and found that the wide entrance of the slaughterhouse was covered with blue sheet so that no one could see inside.
The slaughter of dolphins was done in the tent far from the slaughterhouse the day before, and it had already finished. Though I couldn't confirm it, I surmise that fishermen might be able to retrieve dead dolphins which had sank in the port and cut them apart into meat in the slaughterhouse.
Later, I heard that one adult dolphin and one baby were found to be floating in the port early in the morning before I visited there. They must also have been cut apart into meat there.
The price of a dolphin sold to aquariums:
This time the price of a dolphin for aquariums was \380,000 ~\400,000, which is said to be much less expensive than in Taiji.
Dolphin Fantasy:
On my way back, I visited a sea-pen of Marine Road/Dolphin Fantasy in the busy port in Ito City, and found three new dolphins from Futo drive fishery swimming with Nami-chan, only one survivor of this facility. As usual, the sea was noisy with many fishing boats coming in and out of the port, the water was filthy, and the sea-pen was too small. Now the Dolphin Fantasy keeps four dolphins in its small pen. The three newcomers seemed to be still in panic and restlessly swam around in the pen, while Nami-chan was much less energetic.
Newspaper Reports:
In Futo we collected newspapers which reported the drive fishery. All reports/articles are on the local edition. One of them reported that many baby dolphins were included in the driven pod. Generally, newspaper reports insisted that the Fishing Cooperative killed very small number of dolphins for scientific RESEARCH, captured dolphins ALIVE for aquariums, and RELEASED as many as 80 dolphins. To our regret, many people who read these articles seem to admit this drive fishery and some people praise the drive fishery this time, because the number of dolphins captured and killed was small and that one dolphin was released with a transmitter for scentific research.
Future Drive hunts in Futo:
The chief of the Ito City Fishing Cooperative declared closure/completion of the drive hunt in this hunting season, fullfilling the demand of aquariums. Mr. Suzuki, the chief of the Ito City Fishing Cooperative Futo Branch said that he was very happy to have carried out the drive hunt successfully after five-year-interruption, and that young fishermen could have a good opportunity to learn the skill of drive hunts. The Fishing Cooperative is planning to have a meeting to consider how to do the dolphin drives better next time, which means that there is a high possibility that Futo will be a spot to capture live dolphins and continue to supply dolphins to the captive industry.
The Reality of Aquariums, and the Connection with Drive Fishery:
Futo has not hunted dolphins for five years, and, instead, Dolphin/Whale & Nature Watching business started by a local fisherman and it has been going well. If the captive industry had not demanded dolphins, Futo would not have carried out the drive fishery. The drive fishery is not only unsastainable but also terribly cruel, and it has deep connection with aquariums which are considered as educational facilities.
This time Futo drive fishery clearly illustrated the close relationship between aquariums and drive fisheries. While aquariums claim to be educational facilities, they capture dolphins in ways that totally run counter to those animals' ecology, thereby helping to destroy pods of dolphins. It also showed that although aquariums sing the praises of dolphin protection, in order to select and obtain dolphins that satisfy their shopping lists, they chase them around ruthlessly, thereby sacrificing the lives of many other dolphins and increasing the dolphis' suffering.( See the photos of dolphins suffering and drowning in bloody sea.)
In fact aquariums motivate Fishing Cooperative to carry out the drive hunts. The true protection of wild anumals requires that as many people as possible be informed of what aquariums are really up to.
What we can do to Stop future cruel Drive Hunts of dolphins:
Please send your petition/protest letter to:
Sangyoubu Suisangyoukyoku Suisanshigenshitu
(Fisheries Resources Online Room, Division of Fisheries of Shizuoka prefecture)
Fax: +81-54-221-3288
E-mail: email@example.com
Mr. Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Governor of Shizuoka prefecture:
E-mail: https://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/a_content/common/language/index.html
Ito Fishing Cooperative:
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ito Fishing Cooperative Futo Branch:
Also, Izu Tourist Facilities Council is one of the local tourism bodies.
Their E-mail address is: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please let them know (politely!) that they are losing tourists because of this dolphin drive.
Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, Tokyo
E-mail: http://www.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
Visit above website, click the button of "Your Comments" on the right side, and find "links."
You can also send your comments by clicking "Other Comments (http://www.iijnet.or.jp/cao/kanbou/opinion-kokusai-e.html)," which is below the links. In this case your e-mail will be forwarded to the appropriate section.
Fisheries Agency of Japan
Mr. Shuji Yamada, Director-General of Japan Fisheries Agency:
Fax: +81-3-3502-1682
Head of Whaling Section of Japan at Far Seas Fisheries Division in Japan Fisheries Agency
Fax: +81-3-3591-5824
E-mail: email@example.com
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
Mr. Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Visit above website and click the button of "Contact MAFF" on the right side.
Fax: +81-3-3580-5556
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Mr. Masahiko Komura, Foreign Minister
E-mail: email@example.com
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Mr. Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
E-mail: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
Visit above website, and click the button of "Contact us."
The Ministry of the Environment
Ms. Ichiro Kamoshita, Minister of the Environment
Fax: +81-3-3581-3003
E-mail: http://www.env.go.jp/en/
Visit above website, click the button of "MOE-mail" at the bottom.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Mr. Kisaburo Tokai, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
E-mail: http://www.mext.go.jp/mail/index.htm
Visit above website, and click the button of "voice_atmark_mext.go.jp."
The Prime Minister of Japan
Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan:
Fax: +81-3-3581-3883
E-mail: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment.html
The Asahi : email@example.com
The Yomiuri : email@example.com
The Mainichi: simen@mbx..mainichi.co.jp and firstname.lastname@example.com
The Sankei: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Tokyo : email@example.com
Thank you for your help. We really appreciate it.
Many of the above addresses have been changed since then.
Many petition/protest letters were sent to the above addresses after the drive hunt in 2004, and Futo has suspended the drive hunt of dolphins since 2005. However, catch-quotas are allotted to Futo every year.
Futo's catch- quotas for the hunting season of 2011~2012 are as follows.
Pacific white-sided dolphins…………… 36
striped dolphins………………………… 35
bottlenose dolphins……………………… 55
spotted dolphins………………………… 227
false killer whales………………………… 10
Total 363

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text: Anita grew up on a small family, grain-producing farm (6th generation on the land) in central, eastern Indiana, the fourth of five children and the first to be born in a hospital. She grew up in an enriching rural environment with endless opportunities to explore Nature, farmland and miles of back country roads on bicycle or horseback, with pets, connected to a community of deep roots and receiving a creative, unique education. Anita attended college in Florida and Ohio, pursuing a doctorate track in Psychology. During her college years, she had work experiences in western Africa with Operation Crossroads Africa and in Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee. Highlights of Anita's career include: Special Ed Teacher/Director of Special Ed program with a public school system in Ohio, Administrator with the Community Mental Health system in Cincinnati, Administrator of a 65-bed residential treatment facility for abused children in southwestern Ohio, Consultant with Arizona Department of Developmental Disabilities, Founding team of the Gerson Healing Center in Arizona. Anita has been Executive Director of the Gerson Institute since May, 2003.


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Gold, silver, and bronze will be the most-sought after materials in London from July 27 through August 12, but to bring home those precious metals/medals many of the estimated 10,500 athletes who converge on the Britain's capital will rely on plastics.
From playing surfaces and equipment to uniforms, architecture, and more, plastics will be prominent throughout the upcoming Games of the XXX Olympiad and PlasticsToday will spotlight the synthetic material's role in the various competition's and elsewhere. That inclues whether it's some of the innovative, vinyl-clad temporary venues or in the packaging and service ware used to feed the estimated 11 million visitors at an event, which is aiming for Zero-Waste....


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The Cutting Edge challenge is:
I chose to use the colors....yellow, orange and pink. I cut out the rectangles and circles with my Lil inker stitched dies. I also used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling cards and Party Banners. The tiny flower was cut out with my cricut, The sentiment was borrowed from a friend.
Have a great day everybody!


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|My patron
Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind. That's the secret of artistic unity. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, The Independent, 1977
"Nothing happened, he just goes to the Aquarium."
I said, "Did he at least see a shark?"
"Yes," she said, "but there should be a problem for it to be a story."
She's already nailed the most basic element of storytelling. So, dragons from space with a problem, check. I'm on a tight deadline, her birthday is March 17, so I'm using this story to practice writing my first drafts more quickly. I'm finding that drafting by hand might be my best method. I type faster but have a harder time turning off my inner-editor when I'm composing on screen. So, this story is getting put down on a yellow legal pad first.
I decided to use the Hero's Journey as a framework for my outline (I am SO an outliner, but let's talk about that in another post). I haven't explicitly done a Hero's Journey type story, and this one seemed like a good opportunity. That said, there's a lot of truth in FILM CRIT HULK'S great response to the Hero's Journey model. It's worth reading for some balance and because HULK WRITE MANY GOOD ESSAYS! Who knew?
I've been wrestling with theme and character, dragons and princesses for a week now and there's still much to do. Writing is hard work. It's serious fun. I'm beginning to believe that no story worth its salt gets to the page without a fight, but it's worth it. I'm learning a lot, not the least of which is that every story is a gift.
|I found this awesome picture here.


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Nantucket….so beautiful. Enough said….
Having a Nantucket wedding means using lots of the natural decorations such as shells and sea grasses. And it would be mandatory {in my mind anyways} to have a lobster/clam bake to entertain your guests. Great example of working with your environment!
Image sources: {Row 1: Refinery29, Christian Oth via Style Me Pretty} {Row 2: Plumo, Whitney Darling Photography, Kaylee Eylander via One Lovely Day} {Row 3: Jennifer Lindberg Weddings via Style Me Pretty, Millie Holloman, Buzz Media via Style Me Pretty}


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『Cosplay﹣Wonder Woman』
Diana Prince: Kilory
Photographer: NatsuKagura
Assistants: Zihan & etc.
This location shooting with Kilory was a very pleasant experience. And it was the first time I shoot for a DC Comics character. After viewing the movie, I can say Kilory is very suitable for Diana. The traits for Diana appeal me and the love story of her is touching.
Under the bright light in the middle of the day, it was quite difficult for the crew as there was high temperature and too much direct sunlight came from the top of us. We are glad that this location was a good fit to the scene of Paradise Island. It took us about 6 hours to finish this shooting.


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Gemcitabine Plus Pemetrexed Disodium in Treating Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Biliary Tract or Gallbladder Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00059865
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 7, 2003
Last Update Posted : December 7, 2016
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|May 6, 2003
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|May 7, 2003
|Last Update Posted Date
|December 7, 2016
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|January 2004
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|February 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Survival after 6 months of treatment [ Time Frame: Up to 6 months ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00059865 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Gemcitabine Plus Pemetrexed Disodium in Treating Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Biliary Tract or Gallbladder Cancer
|Official Title ICMJE
|Phase I/II Trial Of Gemcitabine And ALIMTA In Patients With Measurable Or Evaluable, Unresectable Or Metastatic Biliary Tract Carcinoma (Intrahepatic, Extrahepatic, Ampulla Or Vater) And Gallbladder Carcinoma
|Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy such as gemcitabine work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Pemetrexed disodium may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for tumor cell growth. Combining gemcitabine with pemetrexed disodium may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of gemcitabine when given together with pemetrexed disodium to see how well it works in treating patients with unresectable or metastatic biliary tract or gallbladder cancer.
|Detailed Description
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter phase I dose-escalation study of gemcitabine followed by a phase II study.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of gemcitabine until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year and then every 6 months for 4 years.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 85 patients will be accrued for this study.
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|Study Phase
|Phase 1
Phase 2
|Study Design ICMJE
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Condition ICMJE
|Intervention ICMJE
|Study Arms
|Experimental: pemetrexed + gemcitabine
Phase II: Patients receive pemetrexed disodium as in phase I and gemcitabine at the recommended phase II dose.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year and then every 6 months for 4 years.
|Publications *
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
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|Not Provided
|Actual Study Completion Date
|February 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|February 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
CDR0000298862 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
NCI-2012-02530 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trials Reporting System) )
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|Responsible Party
|Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
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|Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
|Collaborators ICMJE
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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|December 2016
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"Pacific Rim" won't be the only robots-battling-monsters-from-the-deep feature this summer, as schlock house The Asylum preps its on more modestly-budgeted "Atlantic Rim" set off the coast of Florida.
Just in case you wondered what The Asylum was up to in the wake of their "Hobbits" defeat, they've taken aim at Guillermo del Toro's $200 million mech-vs.-monsters movie "Pacific Rim" with their own "Atlantic Rim," currently shooting now in West Florida. "Atlantic Rim," which you'll likely be seeing on SyFy and Netflix sometime around the July release of "Pacific Rim" brings together the typically odd cast of Graham Greene ("Twilight"), Naughty By Nature's Treach (aka Anthony Criss), and "Baywatch" vet David Chokachi.
News broke about the film's shoot in an appropriately modest fashion, not in the trades but via the Pensacola Digest, who spoke with the film's second unit director and University of West Florida instructor Paul Sinor about what's currently being produced under the title "From the Sea." In case there were any doubts about "From the Sea"/"Atlantic Rim's" ambitions, here's how Sinor describes the movie:
"The storyline is that these monsters come from the sea. The sea floor opens up and these things come out. They terrorize the East Coast from Miami to Washington D.C., and the good guys send them back packing."
Oh, and in case you're interested in breaking into the film industry (well, the films that rip off other films industry), The Asylum is currently seeking pitches for unproduced features.
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
At 16 I was playing piano in the restaurant of the Sheraton Carlton, right below the White House, making 100 bucks a night, six nights a week. This was more than my dad made, which was strange and difficult. The important thing was not to mistake a lobbyist's or governor's wife's favourite song for his mistress's.
My mother says that, when I was almost two, I went over to the coffee pot at my great aunt Grace's house and pulled it over on myself, so I was in a burns unit for a few days. I've never had a thing for coffee.
I remember when I was eight or nine, we dined each night for a month at the home of a different family in my father's parish. There was one lady who ate all of each component – like all the potatoes – on her plate before moving on to the next component. And I thought: "OK, I'll do that from now on." At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
In the mid-90s, doing two shows a day, I'd start the day with three dozen oysters, then maybe have a medium rare steak. That's it. No carbs, no greens. I felt powerful and lean on stage.
Since we first started dating in 1994, my husband [a sound engineer] and I have had this culinary adventure, exploring different restaurants around the world, on "non-show days". It's part of the romance and it's "our time". Although our daughter Tash often accompanies us. We brought her to Le Caprice as a baby. She was loving mussels escargot at two.
I most judged myself for enjoying a meal around 2007. I was overly stressed, the thinnest I've been, eating in an extreme way. Guilty while eating and after. But now I'm at a normal size, I feel that if you're not enjoying your food in a balanced way, then why are you living?
I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. But a few years ago, when my husband was off working, I did try getting into grilling, but I stopped after I had my feelings hurt. Someone said the salmon I grilled looked like it had acne.
I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
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Sleep -- we all do it, but talk about something personal! From side sleepers to wrapped in the covers on their tummy sleepers, we all do it differently.
We're delving into dreamland with moms' sleep secrets here on the The Stir, and today we're talking to Jessica Bern, a single mom who blogs (and vlogs) with wit and all-out wackiness at Bern This.
She's what you read when you can't sleep, so we asked her how she does it.
What are your best getting to sleep tips?
Stay up as late as you can playing Scramble. The more games you lose, the longer you should stay awake, which will in turn cause you to lose more games because by then you'll barely be able to keep your eyes open.
Eventually, a small voice in your head will tell you that perhaps you should go to bed and pick up where you left off in the morning. Then get up and as you head to bed, suddenly start cleaning the house.
When you get to the point where you find yourself sweeping up the dog hair with your tongue, it's a sign that you should go to sleep immediately.
Do you sleep alone or is there someone in bed with you?
I sleep with the dog unless he starts his farting "routine," which then leads me to banish him from what has quickly become my own personal hell to his own personal hell, which involves no access to 400-count cotton sheets.
Otherwise, I sleep alone unless my daughter has a nightmare or falls out of her bed and is "afraid" to get back in, which is really code for "I love 400-count cotton sheets and I will continue to sleep here until I get me a set."
What's the strangest thing that's ever happened while you were sleeping?
The strangest thing that has ever happened while I was sleeping is nothing because I'm the type that can be awakened by someone throwing away a cotton ball in China.
How do you wake up in the morning and how long does it take you to get out of bed? What is the first thing you do?
I wake up in the morning wanting nothing more than to sleep more. I have yet to ever, in my 44 years of life, get out of bed and be happy about it. The first thing I do when I finally do get up is seriously consider home-schooling my kid just so I can sleep in on a regular basis.
After that little psychotic break, I get up and finish making my kid's lunch and then I make breakfast, which consists of turning the oven to 350 degrees and tossing in two frozen waffles. I make my kid get the syrup and if she wants something to drink, she can either drink out of the dog's water bowl or get herself something from the fridge.
Sadly, she is so not a morning person either that often I find her debating whether or not to go with the dog bowl just so she can avoid having to get a glass AND pour the liquid inside it.
Do you dream? Care to share one?
I don't remember any of my dreams much after I wake up and usually the dreams that I recall are really nightmares that involve either my not being able to find my daughter or the fact that my ex mother-in-law is still living.


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Woops! I'm two days late with this, but mainly because I've been so busy and tired these past days! I did do my journalling, where I did add this weeks goals, on Sunday, so I don't really think it's too late to post them here!
The upcoming goals of this week are mainly food related. The first one is NO BUYING LUNCHES! At least, no pies, Subway, BK, sweets anything of the sort. The reason behind this weeks goal is mainly because I'm BROKE.I have yet to make a meal plan for this week (if I have time after the gym I shall do that), but I have already bought 3 meats (mince, a roast lamb, and some chicken mignon) that I'll just need to add vegetables to. Both the lamb and the mince should do 4+ meals, so I already have 4 lunches. 🙂 I'm only working 4 days this week, and 3 next week (due to surgery) so lunch wise at work I think I should be OK these coming weeks!
The second goal is to track *all* my food on MFP, which is a bit hard because I'm going out twice this week. Last night we had stonegrille, so I just searched that on MFP and looked for one with high calories (although there was no seasoning or anything, but idk what else they may put with it out the back of the restaurant…) and then we had froyo for dessert, which I just found froyo, and added it three times to kind of account for the toppings I got.
I hate tracking, especially because for whatever reason, MFP on my PC and my phone are really slow, no only that, but you either have to weigh everything, have "one serving" of everything, or just guesstimate (which is what I mainly do, as you can tell by adding 3 servings of froyo lol). I've tracked everything yesterday and today, and I'm going OK so far. My main goal is to stick at or under calories, and try to get more protein in!
As for last weeks goals? They went awesomely!
I got 10k steps SIX times last week (goal was 5), so I'm pretty pleased with myself. I've been thinking I may try for a higher goal, but 4 times a week (the days I work) otherwise I'm going to be doing a lot of walking or tredmilling at the gym!
The second goal was to go for a walk 5x last week, which I did! 🙂 It kind of went hand in hand with my first goal (10k steps) but I could have just gone to the gym and been boring about it. Instead I went outside and took advantage of the good weather we've had! It was great! I even managed to get Jared to come on some walks with me.
The third goal was to set a budget and stick to it. Well, I kind of failed at that. I mean, I have a budget. I have money left over, but I'm not *sticking* to the budget. I'm thinking I'm going to try and save as much of this weeks pay as I can so I can buy some protein and PWO next fortnight, because I really hate the taste of my current protein, and I'm not getting enough!
So only two goals for this week, mainly because I can't come up with anymore (I'm not very creative…).
Do you have any goals this week? I'm really keen to know if other people set themselves goals. It doesn't have to be health / fitness related! It could be anything! 🙂 I love setting water goals, because I have a little tracker on my journal I get to tick off whenever I met that goal. Small things right? haha.


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Wow, I had an extra minute this morning and thought I would take it to check in on my blog. I had no idea it has been 2 months since I was here last. My life has been totally put on hold with my husband's health problems.
He is still in the Veteran's Community Living Center (CLC) and unfortunately it looks like that will be his permanent home. He's been in the hospital for a total of 7+ weeks since April 15, 2010 and the rest of the time at the CLC.
I spend as much time as possible with him at the CLC and miss him the rest of the time. Whenever my life settles down I will be back with new projects and to get this blog rolling.
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Being told you have a terminal illness is something that will likely hit everyone differently. We all die. That's fact. Fortunately, most people won't ever have to face that reality of being told they are going to die younger than they ever imagined. That's scary. It's a feeling one cannot explain. I never thought I would hear those words either, until this year, when it happened. There are a lot of things in my life I never thought would happen–and they did, and I survived them, and life went on. Now, this is something that is happening to me that ultimately I won't survive, life will, eventually, not go on this time. Wow. Talk about a kick in the gut.
My first instinct was to ball up and hold everything inside, but that's not who I am. I am a writer–it's not what I do; it's who I am! That has been my tagline for the past fifteen+ years, and it's so very true. Writing is my therapy, and it won't matter if it's on the blog or not, I will be writing about my experiences as I go through them. But I don't exist in a vacuum, and CTEPH and Congestive Heart Failure, the two potentially terminal conditions I've been diagnosed with, and CTEPH in specific is such a rare thing, I thought maybe sharing my experiences will help someone else too. I know it will help me.
It's also my online journal or log of my health and how it's changing over the months. I can get so bogged down with the day-to-day living stuff, that sometimes I forget to look at what's been lost and what's been gained, medications changes, diagnoses that came and went, etc. This will be a place to keep that all together for quick access for myself too.
So that's what this blog is, my journal, my life, my feelings, my place to rant, my safe place, and I'm sharing it with you. Now, don't you just feel so lucky? (ha!)


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Sunday, October 5, 2014
Review: GONE GIRL
This story has too many spoilers to go further than that. Something that isn't a spoiler is that this is a David Fincher film so there is a whole lotta filmmakin' goin' on.
At one point in this film a character comments that calling a bar The Bar is very meta. To do that in a David Fincher film is cute enough but Gone Girl is not Fight Club or Social Network so instead of folding itself into the general metafest the line scrubs up as meta as we are aware we are watching a David Fincher film. The line is played throwaway but is key to getting to know this piece about personae public and private and that most strident of personality tests: marriage.
As a probable meta comment on this Fincher has shot big and clean this time. The silver retention shadow detail and grime-on-the-Rolex-band of everything he's done with an urban setting is absent here. And apart from some fancy footwork of the flash back and forth of the present timeline and diary scenes is kept in strict reign with titling and narration. Everything plays up front and fair. So you know there's a lot hiding in the light.
At two hours and twenty minutes Gone Girl never bores but does keep to a leisurely novelistic pace that might make Fight Club fans restless. The pace can be wearyingly even. It can, at times, feel like three episodes of a tv series sewn together. Then again, the evenness is clearly deliberate. It gives us a constant examiner's eye view of the events (and some do demand close inspection).
Also, it allows us time to appreciate some of the strongest film acting we will be seeing all year with everyone on screen going beyond the call. We are led into some finely wrought duplicity and are often compelled to believe accounts that we might otherwise resist and that is good reading of good writing, pure and simple. There is one moment in particular (the only detail I'll give is creme brulee) in which two characters separated by the intimate distance of a tv screen reach a perfect allignment. We don't expect it but unlikely as it would be if played poorly, we don't doubt it for a moment.
So, while my sense memory still complains about unnecessary length the delight I take in re-examining the evidence as laid so patiently out by Fincher and co resonates. We love our fictions, even those thrust upon us, but then we are compelled to.
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He never failed to tell me that I'm the only one he's dating the past 2 years.
The only issue I have with him is his lack of time for me. So when he told me he's saving up for our marriage because that's a great gift he can give me, it gave me sleepless nights.
So on May 9, 2014, I was talking with Michael over Facebook and we agreed to make it official. I chose May 11, 2014 because that was supposedly my board exam day. Are you him Hon? Are you Michael?
As soon as I posted it on Facebook, many congratulated me and him but he untagged himself. He untagged himself and stopped talking to me for three days. I last spoke to him Saturday, May 10, 2014 when he said he can't see me because he's already in SG. He erased the tag I placed on Sunday morning on Sunday afternoon. And didn't talk to me Sunday and Monday. My heart sank. Was it a mistake to choose him? He was in SG. Was he busy?
I knew he was back by Tuesday. I tried to call him on his mobile and my heart was broken to a million bits when I read this:
I was mad. I was so mad and I was going crazy. 'What happened?' was the question I kept asking and there was no one to answer. I mustered all the courage to talk to Jocy who congratulated me and I can't hold back the tears. I sought for her help and told me to talk to Michael's confidant, Ledon. They were very helpful. Ledon, who is currently in Saudi, called Michael for me that Tuesday night. He said Michael will talk to me as soon as he gets of the meeting. He's just having problems at work.
I later found out that aside from problems at work, he's overwhelmed with the publicity that our relationship generated. He said that messages poured in on Sunday. People were calling him on Viber. Even in his meeting at work our relationship became the topic. He was even asked if can manage juggling his work and relationship. He requested for things to be kept private for now. So I did. I'm still struggling but I'm trying my best to hold on.


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Friday, 8 April 2011
Butterfly Manicure
I painted the base colour Models Own Utopia and then painted different butterflies using Models Own Mushroom for the body of the butterfly and then lots of different colours for the wings. On top of the colours I painted China Glaze White Cap to give it some shimmer.
I like the manicure but wonder if I should have used a more contrasting background. Always another day eh
Thanks for looking
Stacie xoxox
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this is really pretty! I like how they aren't too defined.ReplyDelete
I think it's a lovely color combination :) I love it!ReplyDelete
I love the butterflies colors and I think the background fits perfectly with the whole... ;-)ReplyDelete
I like this, it's really pretty! Have a good weekencd, I'm supposed to be working, but can't resist catching up before i go away! Have a good weekend hun xxReplyDelete
Such a pretty look for summerReplyDelete
This looks like the pattern on a skirt I own! I could be matchy matchy ^^ xxxReplyDelete
Thanks guys, I was trying to make them look kind of transparent which is why I added the CG White Cap. I don't know if it translated that well though.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment I really appreciate it
Stacie xoxox
Absolutely beautiful nails. I love butterflies and free hand like this, oh my, gorgeous.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8 April 2011 at 14:41
Gorgeous mani! I love the background color you used. :-)ReplyDelete
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pretty! love this onee!!ReplyDelete


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OK, I try, I try, but pictures like the one below makes it difficult for one to remain objective, to try to find virtue in Hondura's Zelaya arguments.
This picture, probably devilishly sought by the AFP photograph, shows a Zelaya supporter IN Costa Rica. It is probably a Costa Rican kid, raised in the most democratic country of the Americas perhaps, who has for role model an assassin, to the point of trying to be a look alike. What went wrong there? Educational system failing in Costa Rica? Too much dope? What ideology and misplaced sense of fashion do to you....
On another note I was sent something that I do not know what to think about. Supposedly the interim Honduras government seized a few computers that allegedly had already the pre-ordained results of the infamous "non binding" Zelaya referendum. Since no one is making so far a big fuss about it I am not taking a position on that issue but I am duly reporting it. I have no trouble believing the computers seized by Uribe's army since he has a track record. Honduras interim folks might be understandably in a propaganda blitz, where fudging data to gain time is a valid strategy. I would feel much better if they were surrendering that evidence to neutral observers, as well as the Zelaya credit card bills.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
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• 2014-15 Sun Belt Academic Honor Roll.
• Dean's List, Fall 2014
• Athletic Director's Honor Roll, Spring 2015
AT GEORGIA STATE: Two-year letterwinner at safety ... Junior college transfer who joined the program in 2014 ... Had 59 tackles, three tackles for loss, four pass breakups and an interception in 22 games.
2015: Backup at safety who made one of the biggest defensive plays of the season with his interception at New Mexico State. Grabbed the pick at the NMSU 32-yard line and returned it 27 yards to 5, setting up a touchdown that gave GSU a 24-13 halftime lead ... Had two tackles and a pass breakup vs. Appalachian State.
2014: Started seven games at safety and was sixth on the team in tackles with 51 ... Had three tackles for loss and three pass breakups ... Missed three games due to injury ... Career-high 14 tackles, two shy of the school record, vs. Georgia Southern with one tackle for loss ... Made 10 tackles with one tackle for loss vs. Air Force ... Added four tackles and three pass breakups vs. New Mexico State.
JUNIOR COLLEGE/HIGH SCHOOL: Credited with 65 tackles, two interceptions, three pass breakups and a fumble recovery as a sophomore at Golden West College … Added 40 tackles, three pass breakups and three forced fumbles as a freshman ... Helped Golden West to a 9-2 record in 2013 and a berth in the Southern California Bowl … Played at Lakewood (Calif.) High School, where he was all-league.
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Four women and two men have been sentenced to death in northern Pakistan for singing and dancing at a wedding, police say.
Clerics issued a decree after a mobile phone video emerged of the six enjoying themselves in a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan, 176km north of the capital Islamabad.
Pakistani authorities in the area said local clerics had ordered the punishment over allegations that the men and women danced and sang together in Gada village, in defiance of strict tribal customs that separate men and women at weddings.
"The local clerics issued a decree to kill all four women and two men shown in the video," district police officer Abdul Majeed Afridi told AFP.
"It was decided that the men will be killed first, but they ran away so the women are safe for the moment. I have sent a team to capture them and am waiting to hear some news," he said, adding that the women had been confined to their homes.
Afridi said the events stemmed from a dispute between two tribes and that there was no evidence the men and women had been mingling.
"All of them were shown separately in the video. I've seen the video taken on a cell phone myself. It shows four women singing and a man dancing in separate scenes and then another man sitting in a separate shot," he said.
"This is tribal enmity. The video has been engineered to defame the tribe," he added.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said at least 943 women and girls were murdered last year for allegedly defaming their family's honour.
The statistics highlight the scale of violence suffered by many women in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where they are frequently treated as second-class citizens..
We all know that some people in this religion are die hard fanatics, but this level of fanaticism is way over board. To kill people just because they were dancing is just pure madness. One wonders why people still remain in this religion.
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Buddhist Caves are the most remarkable illustration of the early Buddhist architecture throughout China. Numerous cave shrines dot the land of China.
Chinese Buddhist caves leave China a lot of art works related to Buddhism. Inside these Buddhist caves, numerous exquisite murals, sculptures and other historic relics are very well kept. All of these caves were first built in centuries ago, after the continuous building and completing, formed today's magnificent historical interests.
Caves are the most remarkable illustration of the early Buddhist architecture throughout the world and China isn't any exception to this. Numerous cave shrines dot the land of China, specially near the capital of scotland – Datong which itself is just a few hours away from Beijing. For just about any Buddhist tourist to China, a trip to these caves is essential in order to get a comprehensive look at Buddhism in China.
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Buddhist tourist attraction in China
Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves
Bingling Grottoes is difficult to get to from Lanzhou, but it's one of China's big ancient Buddhist temple complexes together with statuary and frescoes dating from about AD 420 to the Ming Dynasty. The statues date from various dynastic eras and show the differing cultures, clothing and physical options that come with the worshipped gods. The earliest temples are in the highest elevation and have characteristic Indian-style features and artistic style.
Monks and Buddhists originating from Central Asia along the Silk Road probably stamped the idols with Central Asian and Indian Buddhist culture. To help you see typical Indian-style hand gestures and poses. The statues and art were carved in natural caves or hewn grottoes in a canyon along the Yellow River.
The Xumi Mountain Grottoes
The grotto of Xumi Mountain has 162 caverns. It's the biggest grotto group in the area. 70 grottoes have carvings, color paintings, frescoes and inscriptions carved on stone tablets from many dynasties. They've over 350 statues, 12 inscriptions carved in Chinese and Tibetan, 3 tablets, and 11 remnant tablets. The most delicate statue is in the large temple grotto carved in the North Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties. In the area are the big Buddha building, Offspring Palace, Yuanguang Temple, Xiangguo Temple, Peach Blossom Cave, Pinaster Land, Sange Yao and Blackstone Channel.
Rock Cave of Lion Pass
On Precious Stone Mountain (Shibaoshan in Chinese), there's a pass called Lion Pass high are historically important and well maintained rock carvings of the Nanzhao king with his family, an individual who is probably not a Han Chinese having a dog, and a Persian. These carvings were only recently discovered and are very well preserved, and they are considered historically important. This number of rock carvings at Lion Pass is one of the three most significant groups of carvings which have been found on Precious Stone Mountain. The Lion Pass frescoes all show Persian, Indian and Tibetan influences. The three interesting categories of images at Lion Pass allow us to to understand the history of the Nanzhao Empire and the growth and development of China's religions better.
Yungang Grottoes
Together with Longman and Magoa, the Yungang Grottoes form the three most sculptural site of China. The grottoes or the caves can be found at the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain some 16 km west of Datong City, Shanxi Province of China.
The construction of the caves was initiated under the patronage of the eminent monk Tan Yao in 453 and took Half a century to complete. Efforts of some 40,000 people, including the Buddhists from the current day Sri Lanka went into this massive project.
The Mogao Grottoes
The Mogao Grottoes, also known as "the Thousand Buddha Caves", and praised as "a glittering pearl that adorns the Silk Road", are the most well-known Buddhist grottoes in China. Located 15km (10 mi) southeast of Dunhuang (25 km (16 mi) by road), these caves are carved from the sandstone cliffs of the Singing Sand (Mingsha) Mountains.
The 1600 m (one mile) of grottoes in the south to north cliff were constructed in 10 dynasties from the 4th to the 14th century. The Mogao grottoes' 45,000 square meters (480,000 sq . ft .) of mural paintings and a lot more than 2,000 color statues are thought to be the greatest treasure-house of Buddhist art existing in the world.
Longmen Grottoes
Longmen Grottoes sit 13 km south of Luoyang in Henan Province in China. Construction of the grottoes commenced during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) and continued for the next 4 centuries by the Eastern Wei (534-550), Western Wei (535-556), Northern Qi (550-577), Sui (581-618) and Northern Song (960-1127) dynasties.
The Longmen Grottoes spread over a place of 1 km from north to south and comprises 2345 caves, 3600 inscriptions, 50 plus Buddhist Pagodas and more than 1,00,000 Buddhist statues. Infact, the entire Longmen Grottoes is really a sparkling example of the Chinese artform at its zenith.
So, in your visit to China this time around, make it a point to visit these caves. You'll forever cherish the memories of the visit later on.


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'Sam I Am'
'Samantha Who?' Christina Applegate as Samantha wakes from an eight-day coma with no memory of the horrible, successful person she had been before and a disinclination to become her again. This would have been a Sandra Bullock movie a decade back; 60 years ago it might have starred Irene Dunne. Applegate's screwball skills are considerable, and Jean Smart is here for her to play against, as her self-regarding mother.
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To easily use the program, you must have clear concepts of network types that we have in vCloud Director.
We have basically three types:
External Network: a portgroup on a switch (distributed, standard or Nexus). It is the vlan and ip segment (public or private) allocated physically
Organization Network: created automatically when create the Provider VDC, it´s only for organization use and could be one of three types:
1-direct connected to an external network
2-routed connected with a vShield Edge wich have two ip´s: one on the External Network side and one on the Organization Network to share the traffic between the vApp and the External Network
3-no connected to external network
vApp network: this network is created automatically when the vApp is created. The two functions are:
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First of all we want to thank everyone who attended the fourth edition of Swingers Club. We had a really good time and the music was ace from the beginning 'till the early hours. Big respect to the Mind Warp DJs: Exalt & Lt. Ludwig and WPH headhoncho: Red D.
We don't have any more events planned for the near future, but we still can be your musical companion for the upcoming spring and summer months. We've listed up some nice mixtapes from Swingers Club residents and affiliates.
The first mixtape is from Liss., who is an allround nice guy from Sint-Truiden. He played at our very first party by the way. I had asked him to do a mixtape already a long time ago, in a time when this blog was more flourishing than now, and he finally recorded something. It was a bit unexpected, but I immediatly knew that it would be a mixtape with a good 'feel' and a great track selection. The mix is probably a bit housier and deeper than the mixes I've posted here before, but you should all know by now that we don't like to think in boxes. You can expect tracks from Chez Damier, Manuel Tur and others.
After receiving the mix from Liss., I thought it would be a good opportunity to post some other stuff as well. Leroy, one of our residents, had recently released a new mixtape too. You can find it here. A selection of Disco, House and funk just as we like it! And why don't you check out his former mix too. Same recipe, other ingredients.
Tibson, the newest Swingers resident, made a tape too. Already a couple of months ago actually, but it still sounds fresh to our ears! You can check it out at his soundcloud-page. Lovely mix that ends up pretty housy too!
Mind Warp, the radioshow from Exalt and Lt. Ludwig is now re-listenable online. It's in Dutch, but most of the time they'll let the music speak for itself. You will certainly enjoy their selection of new and old tunes, you might even spot some damn hard to find disco nuggets and old school electro classics!
And last and maybe also least, I started something new a couple of months ago: Beyond The Clouds. The first un-mix, un-mix because it isn't really mixed, is a selection of very slow balearic tracks, jazz, mood music and other more obscure pieces of music. You can listen to the tape here.
By the way, we got some DJ-gig news too: Leroy & Tibson will open up Decadance (Ghent) on the We Play House Recordings labelnight on May the 6th. We, King & Cousin, will play at Café AperO on Sunday the 15th of May for the season ending of Elaba, Raoul Lambert's own boogie nights. It will not only be the season-ending of the Elaba-concept, it will also be an ending of an era for us, as it will probably be the last gig in Leuven as students. Leuven has been our homebase for about 6 years, but it's time to move on now.
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Once more Julie reminds us that traveling is one of the best thing to do in life. It makes us grow and opens our eyes to an ever mind-expanding world. Thank you to The Penny Project World Traveler.
Date: November 27, 2013.
Location: Petronas Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
To quote the famous, French music ambassadors: "Around The World, Around The World, Around The World, Around The World, Around The World, Around The World" -Daft Punk. Thank you, Julie.
Date: December, 12, 2011
Location:Cambodge, France
Before long I will have a Penny Project picture from Julie in every country of the world. I am so grateful that every time she travels she has the thought to contribrute to my crazy project. Thank you for being so AWESOME.
Date: December, 02, 2011
Location:Thailand, Asia
Fallon and I go way back. She used to take care of a group of artists I was part of. It was such a pleasure to run into her on the streets of Venice…
Date: October, 24, 2011
Location:Venice, California.
Julie is the official Penny Project World Traveler. Once again, she brings another corner of the planet to us…
Date: October, 12, 2011
Location:Venice, California.
Julie was is Quito a city, which is at 2800 meters altitude. As Julie says: "I hope this picture will help The Penny Project spread its wings and fly." "I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky…
Date: November, 18, 2009
Location:Quito, Ecuador.
As Julie was hiking in the rice fields of Indonesia, she found this 10 000 rupiah bill and right away she thought about The Penny Project. Thank you for your kindness. The 10 000 rupiah turned into €2.
Date: June, 13, 2009
Location: Somewhere, Indonesia.
Carine was threatening to burn her donation if I didn't take a good picture. I got lucky and this really nice picture came out of my iPhone. Her donation was safe.
Thank you for your support and your $20 donation.
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The Safety and Effectiveness of MK-639 and Zidovudine, Used Alone and Together, in HIV-Infected Patients Who Have Never Taken Anti-HIV Drugs
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002443
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : June 24, 2005
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To compare the effects on CD4 counts and safety of MK-639 (indinavir, IDV) and AZT administered concomitantly to MK-639 alone and AZT alone in HIV-1 seropositive patients.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Indinavir sulfate Drug: Zidovudine
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Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 groups for 12 months of treatment. Group 1 receives MK-639 plus AZT. Group 2 receives MK-639 alone. Group 3 receives AZT alone. Safety and tolerability are assessed by the incidence of clinical and laboratory adverse experiences. Blood and urine samples are collected for safety assessment and to determine CD4 cell counts and serum viral RNA levels. If therapy with MK-639 alone or with AZT is found to be generally safe and clinically efficacious, patients who have completed the study will have the opportunity to continue in an extension study protocol on a treatment regimen including MK-639.
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|Twelve-Month Study in HIV-1 Seropositive Retroviral-Naive Patients to Compare the Safety and Efficacy of MK-639 and Zidovudine (AZT) Administered Concomitantly to MK-639 Alone and Zidovudine (AZT) Alone
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- HIV seropositivity.
- Average CD4 count between 50 and 500 cells/mm3 based on 2 separate pre-study determinations at least 1 week apart.
- Patients with known hemophilia may be enrolled at the discretion of the investigator.
Prior Medication:
- Any protease inhibitor.
- Significant prior use (greater than 2 weeks) of nucleoside analogues.
- Chronic therapy for an active opportunistic infection. (Allowed:
- Prophylaxis with aerosolized pentamidine, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, dapsone, topical antifungals, and isoniazid).
- Investigational agents or immunomodulators within 30 days prior to study entry.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms or conditions are excluded:
- Acute hepatitis.
- Lymphoma.
- Visceral Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Invasive cervical cancer.
- Active infection.
Concurrent Medication:
Anticipated immunosuppressive therapy.
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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The current decade is meant to be a 'make-or-break' decade for India. The notion that India has somehow 'arrived' or 'destined' appears to be a gross exaggeration unless some key challenges are overcome. There are challenges that retard and challenges that we need to overcome to become empowered and capable.
The ones that retard include:
- Corruption
- Political disquiet
- Bureaucratic sluggishness
- Chronic laziness
- Infrastructure development
- Energy security
- Skills development
- Entrepreneurship
A bigger structural problem is the fact that the productivity of our agriculture has become stagnant for over two decades now, and manufacturing accounts for a relatively small share of the economy. Services alone are unlikely to carry India down the growth path on a sustained basis.
While infrastructure and energy are predominantly issues of capital availability the last two - skills development and entrepreneurship - need massive collaboration of human networks to train and mentor. I look forward to participate in these as PanIIT Alumni initiatives and other collaborations.


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makes you appreciate things you had previously taken for granted, but
it's said so often becaus eit happens to be true. Clean water.
Internet access. Roads with more flat surface than pothole. The road
to Dakar had so many potholes in that leaving it altogether and
driving cross country would probably have been a smoother.
I went to Dakar in search of solvents - another thing that I have come
to appreciate is things turning up when people say they're going to
turn up, as the six litres of hexane I had ordered a month before
coming had somehow failed to materialise at MRC Fajara. Such things
aren't available in The Gambia so I got to see two west African
countries for the price of one and head to the Senegalese capital
Dakar, where The Professor remembered a shop selling lab supplies and
reagents. I found this quite remarkably as I don't think there's
anywhere in London where you could just walk in off the street and buy
a couple of litres of analar grade solvent.
I'm still accompanied by one of the world's leading experts on
trachoma, over whom I fortunately failed to vomit on the flight. I'd
met him in the UK before and found him rather shy and awkward, but the
transformation here is amazing - he seems far more at home in The
Gambia than he did in London. Everyone here calls him Professor. At
first I assumed that they called all white people that, but I have
since realised that he does actually know every single person in The
Gambia personally. So I'm calling him The Professor in this blog too,
mostly so he never finds out that I called him shy and awkward.
Dakar appears to be one huge traffic jam with a city wrapped around
it. The locals see this as a business opportunity rather than an
inconvenience though, attempting to flog sim cards and cheap watches
to the vehicles' captive occupants. We arrived at twelve to discover
that Fermon, the lab supplies shop, didn't open until three, so went
for some lunch. We got chatting to the restaurant owner, who asked
where I was from. She was very surprised when I said I was from
Britain, and said she'd never have known I was English from my accent.
I felt very flattered that my French was so good until she added "I
thought you were German".
Dakar is a curious blend of French elegance, vibrant African
streetlife and abject squalor. We visited an air conditioned, marble
tiled patisserie that wouldn't have looked out of place in Paris and
were served by elegant women in crisp uniforms, then stepped out on to
a street lined with beggars, most of whom seemed to be missing at
least one appendage. My headscarf, which had worked like a charm in
The Gambia, suddenly meant I got the worst of it.
I've been wearing a headscarf since I got here, not only because it's
a Muslim country but because it keeps the sun off my ears and neck. I
put it on at the airport and it was like flicking a switch,
immediately stopping men from hassling me. It's also gone down very
well with the local staff, who The Professor says are very impressed -
certainly everyone's gone out of their way to help me. There are
downsides though, I'm tying my scarf the Arabic way rather than the
West African way just because that's the only way I know how to do it
but I've discovered that here wearing it this way apparently means
that I've been to Mecca. The Professor finds this hilarious and tells
anyone who asks that I have indeed been - I'm dreading the day when I
meet someone who speaks enough English to ask what it was like. There
are also certain things that the local people would forgive a "toubab"
for, but expect a "Muslim" to know better - I got a filthy look off a
woman for handing her the hat she had dropped with my left hand. And
in Dakar the beggars expected more charity from a "Muslim" than from
the others, following me down the street tugging at my headscarf and
shouting at me to remember my obligations.
We returned to Fermon at three, and over cold Fantas purchased a
bottle of solvent for the equivalent of seventy pounds, more than
twice what we would have paid in the UK. I hugged it on my lap like a
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The annual Faculty of Health Science's Faculty Research Forum takes place on 25 - 26 August 2016 in the Francois Retief Building on the Bloemfontein Campus of the UFS. The Student Forum will take place on Tuesday, 23 August 2016. All articles must be submitted by 22 April 2016 for the medals. Submission of abstracts should be done by ?15 July 2016, at the latest.
This forum held in the faculty will once again be characterised by high-quality submissions and presentations. A remarkable increase in the quality of submissions for presentations was observed in ?2015, and we aim to do the same for 2016. The Faculty Forum serves as a worthy reflection of a faculty known for its high academic standards, efficient service and quality research.
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One of the most important yardsticks used to evaluate academic institutions is the quality of the research conducted at such an institution. At the Faculty of Health Sciences we place a high premium on the quality of research, and quality research is conducted on an on-going basis. The pursuit of improvement, a scientific approach and academic enrichment remains one of the objectives of the Faculty. The aim of the Faculty Research Forum is to serve as a showcase for all the research conducted in the faculty and also as exposure for junior staff members.
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I have attended coffees, the forum, and read up on the issues. I encountered many of these issues when our three students went through LCUSD. The same bad teachers still fail to teach the same subjects, so it is not a surprise that the math and science scores have flat-lined at an unacceptably low level; it would have been a surprise if they hadn't.
At her coffees and the debate, candidate Ellen Multari says we need another parcel tax, this one as high as $1,000 per-year-per-home, and a 2.5% real estate transfer tax on the sale of homes in LCF. This is the same mistake our board always makes, thinking that you can solve every problem by throwing someone else's money at it. The monies raised will not solve the mismanagement of the district by this school board. And voting for the incumbent, who has presided over the board forever, is not an option.


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Where will you be in five years from today?
Mar 21, 2017 in Market News
Greetings from Maine real estate central!
How many times in life do we have an intention, a great idea, only to see it fizzle/fade/fall away as life inevitably gets in the way?
As our site FINALLY, 5ish years in the making, starts to take shape and provide some "REAL VALUE" rather than being "just another listings site" we hope these weekly updates will be refreshing, fun and informative! :)
My name is John and I am a realtor with Herrigel Kennedy at Portside Real Estate.
We already track monthly sold statistics thus the hope/goal now is to also track WEEKLY new and pending listings to help give a snapshot as to how our local market are fairing.
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HandcuffedJust had a nice meal in a pizzeria in the Mariahilferstrasse just around the corner of the office. When we wanted to pay, 8 (read: eight) police men stormed the restaurant, handcuffed and arrested a customer next to us. This took some time and all the attention of the waitress away from us so we had do wait before we could go away. But it was an interesting time of waiting, though.
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Was it a sneaky terrorist ? *g*
bal - 27 04 05 - 17:38
don't know. Or maybe a subway-ticket-runner
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