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Stevens Seniors Develop Mobile App for Hardcore New York Mets Fans
Hardcore baseball fans want exclusive information about the teams they root for – as much as they can get, any time they want.
Five Stevens seniors – Nick Walsh, Josh Crouch, Tyler Courter, Mesfin Isaac and Matt Rodgers – have designed a mobile app to provide exactly that.
Starting with a prototype specifically for the most faithful New York Mets fans, the app consolidates ticket information, up-to-date statistics and standings, game recaps, breaking team news, trade rumors, promotions, and merchandise for sale, all on one single platform.
"We wanted to put all of the information a Mets fan would search for in one place," said Walsh, who will study Sports Management at the University of San Francisco after he graduates in May. "Basically, we see it as an improvement on the Major League Baseball app, which is just a collection of links that takes you to a web browser, and mainly shares league news, not team news."
The Business & Technology majors, who developed the app over the course of a year for their senior design project, are the perfect test customers for their own product. Walsh, Courter, Isaac and Rodgers are all die-hard Mets fans who regularly seek the information the app provides. While Crouch roots for the New York Yankees, they all encounter the same problem – they need to visit a number of sources to find all of the team information they are interested in.
Besides relying on their own experience, the students conducted a series of customer research surveys to understand what other potential users would want the app to do. Then they built the interface with POP, iPhone prototyping software which doesn't require coding or programming.
Ultimately, they developed a business plan for the app which involves selling it directly to Major League Baseball or individual teams.
"The idea is to partner with a professional team so the app can share information from the primary source and give users an 'exclusive' feel," said Courter, a member of the Stevens baseball team who has accepted a job at JPMorgan.
Learn about other innovative technologies, products, services and businesses designed by Stevens seniors in a wide range of disciplines to meet an industry need at www.stevens.edu/expo.

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receive with information from 3rd party sources.
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- Price$374,691
- Beds3
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- SQ. Feet1,692
- Built2019
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Perfect 3 bed, 2 bath + study. Vast, open living/dining/kitchen, with upgraded 42" white cabinets, against 3"x6" subway tile backsplash with natural granite countertops. Home includes a 3 car garage, an Oversized Luxury shower in the master with a mud set tile and elegant frameless glass. Located just a walk away from our community's beautiful greenbelt trail. Milestone Community Builders.
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In a bit of spooky synergy, the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival (Nov. 1-11) has seized opening day of the Mile High Horror Film Festival (now through Oct. 7) to unveil its lineup for the November fest's popular genre-embracing, late-night loving Watching Hour program.
Sticking with the Starz Denver Film Fest's "Vote Film" election-season theme, the Watching Hour (also a year-round genre program curated by Denver Film Society Program Manager Keith Garcia) will hold a Zombie Town Hall Meeting (Nov. 7). Legendary zombie flick maestro George Romero ("Night of the Living Dead") will be joined by writers Max Brooks and Steven Schlozman for what the Denver Film Society characterizes as a "trans-generational salon talk on the rise of zombie fandom, the role and impact of the modern zombie on popular culture, and practical matters like: how to zombie-proof your car." Or as Garcia put it, "We're honored to be hosting such esteemed and delicious brains on the subject of the inevitable zombie apocalypse."
In addition to a sneak peek at what's in store at the Starz Denver Festival, attendees of the Mile High Horror Film Festival will have the opportunity to buy a limited number of pre-sale tickets for the Watching Hour offerings. The Mile High Horror Film Festival runs now through Sunday at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax, 2510 East Colfax. More information milehighhorrorfestival.com, denverfilm.org, or 303-820-FILM


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One hot minute before the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is expected to debut, one of our sharpshooters in the field caught a pair of the sport trucks in a moment of repose. Tired from all the sub-five-second 60mph pulls?
Our guy did note a couple of details, though we'll have to wait until next week for the rest of the vitals.
Camo on the front and rear bumpers; exhaust note was very deep and the tips were 3" at least.
Expect some major upgrades for the SRT8, which is of course based on the recently redone Grand Cherokee, now with four-wheel independent suspension. Not the least of the upgrades will be that warmed-over Hemi beneath the camo'd hood. (Thanks to Danny for the tip!)


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Young voters in play as age group cools on Obama
August 1, 2012
Andrew Morgan will start school later this month at Benedictine College in Atchison, making decisions as a newly independent young man, such as what courses to take, where to live and what clothes to buy.
Morgan, who graduated with honors from Baldwin High School in May, and his peers will have another adult decision to make as first-time voters: who to vote for in the presidential race.
He plans to vote but is still undecided in the presidential price. Morgan will study sports training at Benedictine and later pursue a post-graduate degree in physical therapy. Issues that matter to him are national debt, the future of the student loan program and the Affordable Care Act.
The race and merit of the candidates Obama and GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney were debated in high school government classes, Morgan said. He expects the debate to be more intense when he gets to the Benedictine campus.
Mike Fonkert was a student at Kansas University in 2008 when enthusiasm for the presidential candidacy of Obama swept the campus.
It was an enthusiasm that began for Fonkert during his days at Tonganoxie High School.
"Actually in 2006 when I was a junior in high school, I went to cafepress.com and bought an 'Obama for 2008' T-shirt," he said. "I didn't necessarily think it would be 2008, but did think at some point in this country's history, this guy is going to be president."
Polls show young voters not that into candidates, voting
Four years ago, Barack Obama won big among young voters in his contest against Sen. John McCain. Obama won 64 percent of the vote of the 18 to 24 and 18 to 29 age groups. Those voters 18 to 29 years of age accounted for one in six of Obama's votes.
Polls show young voter enthusiasm for Obama and the political process is much cooler this year.
A somewhat dated poll tracking the race between President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney found neither candidate with overwhelming support among young voters. The Harvard University Institute of Politics Internet survey of 3,096 18- to 29- year-olds was conducted with research partner Knowledge Networks between March 23 and April 9, 2012
The poll found Obama leading Romney 46 percent to 23 percent among those 18 to 29 years of age and 41 percent to 29 percent among likely voters 18 to 24 years of age.
The poll shows just 50 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds approved of Obama's overall job performance, while 55 percent of those 18 to 29 did so.
Expressed voter intent also appears to be down among all voters and young voters in particular. Gallup daily tracking interviews conducted from May 1 through July 10 of more than 2,800 registered voters 18 to 29 years old and more than 30,000 registered voters found that 58 percent of the 18 to 28 age group said they would "definitely vote." That was 20 percentage points less than the national average for all age groups.
That is a significantly larger gap than Gallup found late in the 2004 and 2008 elections, when the gap was 6 and 7 percent, respectively.
Young voters helped put Obama in office in 2008, both by their numbers and margin of support. The U.S. Census Bureau found voters from 18 to 24 years old were the only age group to show a significant increase in turnout for the 2008 election, with 49 percent going to the polls compared to 47 percent in 2006. And 64 percent of those voters supported Obama.
It was a continuation of a trend of increased young voter turnout in presidential election since 1996.
Fonkert, who now works on a Democratic campaign in North Dakota, said he responded to Obama's charisma, his relative youth, especially in comparison to his opponent Sen. James John McCain, and his promise to end the war in Iraq.
In Douglas County, home of Kansas and Baker universities, the young voter turnout in 2008 re-plotted the usual graph. County Clerk Jamie Shew said graphs of voting percentage by age usually looks like the left side of the bell curve with the greater percentage voting as age increases. But in the 2008 election, the graph had a foot at the bottom as voters from 18 to 24 years of age had a 61 percent turnout rate compared to the 50 percent participation rate of those 25 to 40 years of age, he said.
There may have been a less idealistic factor in the young voter turnout and Obama's success with young voters, said Kansas University political science professor Paul Johnson. The Obama campaign rejected federal funding and spending restrictions that came with it, allowing it to spend $740 million in the campaign or more than George W. Bush and John Kerry spent in 2004.
That, Johnson said, allowed the campaign to convince a lot more young people to vote.
Flash forward four years and that campaign spending advantage is gone. Romney is more than matching the Obama campaign's fundraising efforts.
It is also questionable whether the president retains his popularity with young voters or whether they will turnout at anything like 2008 numbers. Polls show young voters have lost enthusiasm for Obama and the political process.
Owen Lewis, a 2011 graduate of Basehor-Linwood High School who will be the student body vice president of the Baker University this year, doesn't think excitement among young voters, or candidate interest in them, matches that of 2008.
"I haven't seen as much young involvement as there was in the last election," he said. "There doesn't seem to be as much marketed toward young voters."
First-time and college-age voters could be important to candidates who reach out to them because there is a desire to be part of a bandwagon and make a big impact, Lewis said.
That's a key to politicizing young voters of any voting block, Johnson said. Issues don't get people to the polls because they know one vote is insignificant and realize there are millions of voters who will support their preferences if they stay home. What gets people to vote is that it is fun or socially rewarding, he said.
"The more people feel others want them to vote, the more likely they are to vote," he said. "The more people are in a network that sends that message, the more likely they will go vote."
The Obama campaign invested in personal and network contacts in 2008, Johnson said. It will have to make the same investment to duplicate that year's turnout in this election cycle, he said.
Fonkert has confidence in the skill and knowledge of the Obama team to once again mobilize young voters in the about 100 days before the election concedes, but concedes it will have to do so in a far different political atmosphere.
"I think the enthusiasm he had then is not matched today in terms of young voters," he said. "While enthusiasm is great, people seem to be somewhat fickle and the economy is a big part of that."
Nonetheless, Fonkert said Obama's campaign has advantages. The president is on the right side of issues important to young people, such as the student loan program and Affordable Health Care Act, which allows young adults to remain on their parents' health insurance until the age of 26, he said.
And he also retains his charisma, Fonkert said.
Josh Duden, a recent graduate of Mill Valley High School in Shawnee and a self-described moderate Republican who supports U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder's re-election campaign, experienced Obama's charisma first-hand when he meet the president as a delegate in March to the U.S. Youth Senate Program.
"He's an invigorating speaker, and he makes you want to believe everything he says," Duden said. "Everyone in my family and who I've met thinks he's a tremendous speaker, and it absolutely helps him every time he takes the stage."
A political junkie from a family of staunch Republicans, Duden said he supports Obama's re-election after researching his first term.
"I don't think he's done a bad job," he said. "He's just had a pivotal term with a lot of difficult decisions to be made."
Listening and watching Obama in 2008 made her a supporter, and she plans to vote for his re-election less than a month after her 18th birthday in October, said Courtney Wheeler.
"Watching the debates and listening to him speak, I really agreed with everything he said," Wheeler said, who will be a senior at Bonner Springs High School. "When he spoke about supporting the middle class or social issues, he did it not in an extremist way but in a way that addressed them more effectively.
"I still think that. I think he's done a great job."
It's not so much what Obama has said but what he and Romney will say in the coming months that is of interest of Lewis, who said he was still undecided in the presidential contest.
"As a business major, I'm always interested in ideas for the economy and to stir up business," he said. "It's kind of intertwined with health insurance. I like tying things together.
"The next president will be in charge of the economy for the next four years. I'm graduating and entering the job market in 3 ½ years. It's a big thing for me."
But Lewis said another factor would be the candidates' messages and how they were framed.
"I believe voting is very important, but I also don't like campaigns run on saying what we want," he said. "Everything is promised to us. It all sounds good, but it never happens.
"I'll be watching to see what they are really willing to do to get the vote. What they tell people and don't tell people, makes a big difference in my mind set."
He will be watchful of negative campaigning, as well. Lewis said he found it unfair when candidates were attacked for a vote they may have made in the past that could have been a small part of some larger bill or a mistakes for which they have atoned.
Negative campaigning could be factor in the race and youthful perceptions, Johnson said. It is expected Romney-friendly super PACs will spend an enormous amount of money as the campaign heats up it key swing states with much of that being for negative ads against Obama.
That might not drive voters to Romney but could sour some on the political process. Should young voters, who tend to be more liberal, sit out the election, that would be an advantage for Republican and one Democrats probably would not be able to match, Johnson said.
"Seniors are the most conservative voting group," he said. "Democrats haven't found the recipe to keep seniors from voting yet."
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Johnson City, Tenn. - Tennessee's John Massey went 3-4 with three runs scored and two RBIs to lead the Volunteers in an 8-3 win over East Tennessee State before 513 fans at ETSU's Cardinal Park.
The Bucs (6-17) lost despite outhitting the Vols 10-6. ETSU left 10 runners on base to Tennessee's six. The Bucs were led by Jeremy Terry (2-3, two runs scored) and Chad Boruff (2-4). Buccaneer Jackson Simerly pitched well, going 6.2 innings in relief, allowing four runs on four hits.
Tennessee (25-8) starter Kurt Scott pitched one inning before being relieved by Marlyn Tisdale (6.0 innings, three runs, nine hits) who improved to 1-0 on the season. ETSU starter Josh Warner fell to 0-2 after pitching 0.1 innings and allowing four runs on one hit and yielding four walks.
The Vols opened the game with four runs in the top of the first. Warner walked the first three Tennessee batters before Massey hit a run-scoring single. After another walk, Warner was relieved by left-hander Simerly. Tennessee scored its last two runs of the frame on ground balls
The visitors increased their lead to 6-0 with a two-run homer by Justin Parker in the third. The Bucs got on the board in the home half of the third. Jeremy Terry began the frame with a single and later scored on a Volunteer error. After Shannon Carter reached on a walk he later crossed the plate on a fielder's choice by Ed Sparks.
ETSU closed the gap to 6-3 in the bottom of the fourth when Chuck Dewald's double plated Terry. Tennessee scored two in the seventh on doubles by Jeff Christensen and Massey.
ETSU will return to action on Wednesday, March 29 at 3 p.m. when it hosts UNC Asheville.


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While the standard chess set is of course a visual icon unto itself, we like seeing designers re-imagine the traditional board and pieces. Designer, architect and competitive chess player himself, Brent Blake's electrified set is more interesting than most.
Brent's set replaces the game's pieces with varying light bulbs - each colour representing a different piece (with nondescript white bulbs as pawns, of course). The bulb pieces plug directly into the board, which supplies them with power - though not too much, so as to prevent burnt fingers.
When a piece is captured, it's placed in a non-powered socket at the side, symbolising its extinguished mortal flicker.
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Now that Republicans have a majority in Congress, they are pretending to be constitutionalists. In order to demonstrate this, they will theatrically read aloud the Constitution from the floor of the House next week. "And then they will require that every new bill contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to enact the proposed legislation," the Washington Post reports.
Establishment Republicans, of course, have the same amount of contempt for the Constitution as establishment Democrats. As dedicated worshippers of state power over the individual, Republicans and their ideological twins the Democrats hate the founding principles of this country.
"Conservatives regard civil liberties as coddling devices for criminals and terrorists. They see the First Amendment as a foolish protection for sedition," writes Paul Craig Roberts. "The conservative assault on the US Constitution is deeply entrenched… Today's conservatives are so poorly informed that they cannot understand that to lose the Constitution is to lose the country."
While so-called conservatives pay lip-service to the Constitution, so-called progressives actively trash it and cosign the founding document to irrelevance, as the above video demonstrates.
In the video, a blogger and columnist for the CIA's favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, says the Constitution has "no binding power on anything" and is confusing – for liberals and other advocates of state power over the individual – because it is over a hundred years old.
Nancy Pelosi and the formerly ruling Democrats also believe the Constitution is irrelevant. "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" a reporter for CNN asked Speaker Pelosi as Democrats prepared to shove Obamacare down the throats of the American people. Pelosi responded: "Are you serious? Are you serious?"
In August, Illinois Democrat Phil Hare told his constituents that he does not give a whit about the Constitution. "I don't worry about the Constitution on this to be honest," Hare said in response to a question about the constitutionality of Obamacare.
Hare also demonstrated his contemptible ignorance by saying that the Constitution guarantees each of us "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." In fact, that line is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
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"We've now arrived at the point where a sitting Congressman can openly state that he doesn't care what the Constitution says, a sentiment obviously held by a majority of Members since Congress continues to putatively enact 'laws' in the utter absence of express constitutional text," Paul Galvin wrote after Hare made his harebrained comments for the camera.
For the establishment political class, the Constitution is completely irrelevant. Consider the following video where Republican Frank LoBiondo cannot answer a simple question about the document he has sworn to uphold from enemies foreign and domestic:
Even the soon to be leader of the House, John Boehner, is largely clueless about the Constitution. In the following video, he mistakenly attributes a line from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution:
Barry Obama did the same, but then he was reading from a teleprompter:
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," his predecessor reportedly declared. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
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Mr. Klein's dismissive remark about the Constitution is shared by a large number of politicos and other worshippers of state power in the district of criminals. If the establishment political class is going to successfully strip us of our natural and god-given rights, they have to promulgate the idea that the Constitution is irrelevant and nothing more than a quaint piece of goddamn paper.
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Autologous or Syngeneic Stem Cell Transplant Followed by Donor Stem Cell Transplant and Bortezomib in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed High-Risk, Relapsed, or Refractory Multiple Myeloma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00793572
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 19, 2008
Results First Posted : May 18, 2017
Last Update Posted : January 22, 2020
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|Refractory Plasma Cell Myeloma
|Procedure: Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Drug: Bortezomib Drug: Cyclosporine Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Drug: Melphalan Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil Procedure: Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Procedure: Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Procedure: Syngeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation Radiation: Total-Body Irradiation
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I. Progression-free survival (PFS) at 2 years after the autograft (=< 50% in historic controls).
I. Overall survival (OS) at 2 years after the autograft.
II. Non-relapse mortality (NRM) at 200 days and 1 year after allograft.
III. Incidence of grades II-IV acute graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) and chronic extensive GVHD.
IV. Safety of bortezomib maintenance therapy after stem cell transplantation.
PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL (PBSC) MOBILIZATION: Patients undergo PBSC mobilization and collection using the preferred regimens at the participating institution.
CONDITIONING CHEMOTHERAPY AND AUTOLOGOUS OR SYNGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HSCT): Patients receive high-dose melphalan intravenously (IV) on day -2 followed by an autologous or syngeneic HSCT on day 0.
NON-MYELOABLATIVE ALLOGENEIC HSCT: Beginning 40-180 days after autologous HSCT, patients receive 1 of the following regimens:
- HLA-IDENTICAL RELATED DONOR: Patients receive cyclosporine IV or orally (PO) twice daily (BID) starting on days -3 to 56, and taper until day 180. Patients then undergo total-body irradiation (TBI) and non-myeloablative allogeneic HSCT on day 0. Four to six hours after completion of allogeneic HSCT, patients receive mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) PO BID on days 0-27.
- HLA-UNRELATED DONOR: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also receive cyclosporine IV or PO BID starting on days -3 to 100 and taper until day 180. Patients then undergo TBI and non-myeloablative allogeneic HSCT on day 0. Four to six hours after completion of allogeneic HSCT, patients receive MMF PO thrice daily (TID) on days 0-27 and then BID on days 27-40 with taper of MMF on days 40-96.
MAINTENANCE THERAPY: Beginning 60-120 days after allogeneic HSCT, patients receive bortezomib subcutaneously (SC) on days 1 and 4 of 14-day cycles for 9 months or for up to 18 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 1 year and then annually for up to 5 years.
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|Tandem Autologous HCT/Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic HCT From HLA-Matched Related and Unrelated Donors Followed by Bortezomib Maintenance Therapy for Patients With High-Risk Multiple Myeloma
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|October 2008
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Experimental: Tandem Auto-/Nonmyeloablative Allo-HCT and Maintenance Therapy
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Given IV
Other Names:
Drug: Cyclosporine
Given PO
Other Names:
Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate
Given IV
Other Names:
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Melphalan
Given IV
Other Names:
Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil
Given PO
Other Names:
Procedure: Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Undergo transplantation
Other Names:
Procedure: Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
Undergo transplantation
Other Names:
Procedure: Syngeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation
Undergo transplantation
Radiation: Total-Body Irradiation
Undergo radiotherapy
Other Names:
- Number of Patients Surviving Progression-free [ Time Frame: At 2 years after the autograft ]
Number of subjects surviving without progressive disease post-transplant.
Progressive disease criteria:
- Greater than 25% increase in serum (absolute increase must be ≥0.5 g/dL) or urine (absolute increase must be ≥200 mg/24h) M proteins compared to best response status after autologous transplant.
- Appearance of new lytic bone lesions or plasmacytomas.
- Number of Patients With Grade II-IV Acute GVHD [ Time Frame: 100 days post allo transplant ]
Number of patients who developed acute GVHD post allogeneic transplant.
aGVHD Stages
- - a maculopapular eruption involving < 25% BSA
- - a maculopapular eruption involving 25 - 50% BSA
- - generalized erythroderma
- - generalized erythroderma w/ bullous formation and often w/ desquamation
- - bilirubin 2.0 - 3.0 mg/100 mL
- - bilirubin 3 - 5.9 mg/100 mL
- - bilirubin 6 - 14.9 mg/100 mL
- - bilirubin > 15 mg/100 mL
Diarrhea is graded 1 - 4 in severity. Nausea and vomiting and/or anorexia caused by GVHD is assigned as 1 in severity. The severity of gut involvement is assigned to the most severe involvement noted. Patients with visible bloody diarrhea are at least stage 2 gut and grade 3 overall.
aGVHD Grades Grade II: Stage 1 - 2 skin w/ no gut/liver involvement Grade III: Stage 2 - 4 gut involvement and/or stage 2 - 4 liver involvement Grade IV: Pattern and severity of GVHD similar to grade 3 w/ extreme constitutional symptoms or death
- Number of Patients With Chronic GVHD [ Time Frame: 1 year post allo ]Number of subjects with classic chronic or chronic extensive GVHD post allogeneic transplant.
- Number of Patients With Toxicities Related to Bortezomib Maintenance Therapy [ Time Frame: Up to 100 days after the autograft or allograft ]Number of subjects with toxicities related to bortezomib maintenance therapy post-transplant.
- Number of Patients With Non-relapse Mortality [ Time Frame: 200 and 365 days after allo ]Number of subjects with non-relapse mortalities post allogeneic transplant.
- Number of Patients Surviving Overall [ Time Frame: At 2 years after the autograft ]Number of subjects surviving two years post autologous transplant.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Newly diagnosed patients must have received induction therapy (e.g., vincristine, doxorubicin, dexamethasone [VAD], thalidomide/dexamethasone) for a minimum of 4 cycles
- Must have the capacity to give informed consent
- Must have an human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotypically identical sibling or a phenotypically matched relative or, at a minimum, a high likelihood of identifying an HLA-matched unrelated donor; the determination of availability of a suitable unrelated donor may be based on a World-Book search
In addition, patients must meet at least one of the criteria A-I (A-G at time of diagnosis or pre-autograft):
- A) Any abnormal karyotype by metaphase analysis except for isolated t(11,14) and constitutional cytogenetic abnormality
- B) Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) translocation 4;14
- C) FISH translocation 14;16
- D) FISH deletion 17p
- E) Beta2-microglobulin > 5.5 mg/L
- F) Cytogenetic hypodiploidy
- G) Plasmablastic morphology (>= 2%)
- DONOR: HLA genotypically identical sibling or phenotypically matched relative OR
DONOR: HLA phenotypically matched unrelated donor (according to Standard Practice HLA matching criteria, Grade #2.1)
- Matched HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 alleles by high resolution typing.
- Only a single allele disparity will be allowed for HLA-A, B, or C as defined by high resolution typing
Exclusion Criteria:
- Recurrent or non-responsive (less than partial response [PR]) MM after at least two different lines of conventional chemotherapy
- Progressive MM after a previous autograft
- Life expectancy severely limited by disease other than malignancy
- Seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Females who are pregnant or breastfeeding
- Fertile men or women unwilling to use contraceptive techniques during and for 12 months following treatment
- Patients with active non-hematological malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers) or those with non-hematological malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers) who have been rendered with no evidence of disease, but have a greater than 20% chance of having disease recurrence within 5 years; this exclusion does not apply to patients with non-hematologic malignancies that do not require therapy
- Patients with fungal infection and radiological progression after receipt of amphotericin B or active triazole for greater than 1 month
Patients with the following organ dysfunction:
- Symptomatic coronary artery disease or ejection fraction < 40% or other cardiac failure requiring therapy; myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to enrollment or has New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV heart failure, uncontrolled angina, severe uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmias, or electrocardiographic evidence of acute ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities
- Ejection fraction is required if the patient has a history of anthracyclines or history of cardiac disease
- Diffusing lung capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) < 50%, forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV) < 50% and/or receiving supplementary continuous oxygen; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) principle investigator (PI) of the study must approve of enrollment of all patients with pulmonary nodules
- Liver function abnormalities: Patient with clinical or laboratory evidence of liver disease will be evaluated for the cause of liver disease, its clinical severity in terms of liver function, bridging fibrosis, and the degree of portal hypertension; the patient will be excluded if he/she is found to have fulminant liver failure; cirrhosis of the liver with evidence of portal hypertension; alcoholic hepatitis; esophageal varices; a history of bleeding esophageal varices; hepatic encephalopathy; uncorrectable hepatic synthetic dysfunction evinced by prolongation of the prothrombin time ascites related to portal hypertension; bacterial or fungal liver abscess; biliary obstruction; chronic viral hepatitis with total serum bilirubin > 3 mg/dL; and symptomatic biliary disease;
- Karnofsky score < 70% for adult patients
- Patient with poorly controlled hypertension and on multiple antihypertensives
- Patients with current >= grade 2 peripheral neuropathy
- Patient has an active bacterial or fungal infection unresponsive to medical therapy
- DONOR: Identical twin
- DONOR: Donors unwilling to donate PBSC
- DONOR: Pregnancy
- DONOR: Infection with HIV
- DONOR: Inability to achieve adequate venous access
- DONOR: Known allergy to G-CSF
- DONOR: Current serious systemic illness
- DONOR: Failure to meet FHCRC criteria for stem cell donation
- DONOR: Age < 12 years
- DONOR: A positive anti-donor cytotoxic crossmatch
- DONOR: Patient and donor pairs must not be homozygous at mismatched allele
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00793572
|United States, Washington
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Principal Investigator:
|Marco Mielcarek
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Marco Mielcarek, Principal Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2009-01473 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
2070.00 ( Other Identifier: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium )
P30CA015704 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|November 19, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|May 18, 2017
|Last Update Posted:
|January 22, 2020
|Last Verified:
|January 2020
Multiple Myeloma
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Mycophenolic Acid
Fludarabine phosphate
Nitrogen Mustard Compounds
Antineoplastic Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antifungal Agents


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FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
Sun, October 14 - Thu, October 18, 2012
I learned a variety of tools and techniques for malware analysis in a relatively short time, I am a better forensic analyst and I can better protect my organization.
I thought I knew reversing. This class taught me so much more and provided easy understandings of complex reversing tasks.
This popular malware analysis course has helped forensic investigators, malware specialists, incident responders, and IT administrators assess malware threats. The course teaches a practical approach to examining malicious programs-spyware, bots, trojans, etc.-that target or run on Microsoft Windows. This training also looks at reversing Web-based malware, such as JavaScript and Flash files, as well as malicious document files. By the end of the course, you'll learn how to reverse-engineer malicious software using a variety of system and network monitoring utilities, a disassembler, a debugger, and other tools for turning malware inside-out!
The malware analysis process taught in this class helps incident responders assess the severity and repercussions of a situation that involves malicious software. It also assists in determining how to contain the incident and plan recovery steps. Forensics investigators also learn how to understand key characteristics of malware present on compromised systems, including how to establish indicators of compromise (IOCs) for scoping and containing the intrusion.
A Methodical Approach to Reverse-Engineering
The course begins by covering fundamental aspects of malware analysis. You'll learn how to set up an inexpensive and flexible laboratory for understanding the inner-workings of malicious software and will understand how to use the lab for exploring characteristics of real-world malware. Then you'll learn to examine the program's behavioral patterns and code. Afterwards, you'll experiment with reverse-engineering compiled Windows executables and browser-based malware.
The course continues by discussing essential x86 assembly language concepts. You'll examine malicious code to understand the program's key components and execution flow. Additionally, you'll learn to identify common malware characteristics by looking at Windows API patterns and will examine excerpts from bots, rootkits, keyloggers, and downloaders. You'll understand how to work with PE headers and handle DLL interactions. Furthermore, you'll learn tools and techniques for bypassing anti-analysis capabilities of armored malware, experimenting with packed executables and obfuscated browser scripts.
Towards the end of the course, you'll learn to analyze malicious document files that take the form of Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents. Such documents act as a common infection vector and need to be understood by enterprises concerned about both large-scale and targeted attacks. The course also explores memory forensics approaches to examining rootkits. Memory-based analysis techniques also help understand the context of an incident involving malicious software.
Hands-On Training for Malware Analysis and Reversing
Hands-on workshop exercises are a critical aspect of this course and allow you to apply reverse-engineering techniques by examining malware in a controlled environment. When performing the exercises, you'll study the supplied specimen's behavioral patterns and examine key portions of its code. You'll examine malware on a Windows virtual machine that you'll infect during the course and will use the supplied Linux virtual machine (REMnux) that includes tools for examining and interacting with malware.
Complexity of the Course: Formalizing and Expanding Your Malware Analysis Skills
While the field of reverse-engineering malware is in itself advanced, the course begins by covering this topic from an introductory level and quickly progresses to discuss malware analysis tools and techniques of intermediate complexity.
Neither programming experience nor the knowledge of assembly is required to benefit from the course. However, you should have a general idea about core programming concepts, such as variables, loops, and functions. The course spends some time discussing essential aspects of x86 assembly to allow malware analysts navigate through malicious executables using a debugger and a disassembler.
Additional Details About the Course
Authors of the reverse-engineering malware course created the following cheat sheets to summarize some of the concepts and tools you will learn:
You can get a sense for malware analysis approaches explored in this course looking at the following resources:
The following references can help you learn about past students' perspectives on this course:
- A Review of the FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware Course by the Ethical Hacker Network
- Students' comments about the reverse-engineering malware course
- You Will Learn How to Use Malware Analysis Tools Such As
- System Monitor, Process Explorer, CaptureBAT, Regshot, VMware
- BinText, LordPE, QuickUnpack, Firebug, PELister, PEiD
- IDA Pro, OllyDbg and plug-ins such as OllyDump, HideOD
- Rhino, Malzilla, SpiderMonkey, Jsunpack-n
- Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, cscript
- Honeyd, NetCat, Wireshark, curl, wget, xorsearch
- OfficeMalScanner, OffVis, Radare, FileInsight
- Volatility Framework and plug-ins such as malfind2 and apihooks
- SWFTools, Flare, shellcode2exe, fake DNS server, and others
- Configuring the malware analysis lab
- Assembling the toolkit for malware forensics
- Performing behavioral analysis of malicious Windows executables
- Performing static and dynamic code analysis of Malicious Windows executables
- Intercepting system and network-level activities in the analysis lab
- Patching compiled malicious Windows executables
- Shortcuts for speeding up malware analysis
- Core concepts for reverse-engineering malware at the code level
- x86 Intel assembly language primer
- Identifying key x86 assembly logic structures with a disassembler
- Patterns of common malware characteristics at the Windows API level
- Working with PE headers of malicious Windows executables
- Handling DLL interactions and API hooking
- Manual unpacking of protected malicious Windows executables
- Tips and tricks for bypassing anti-analysis mechanisms built into malware
- Reverse-engineering malicious Flash programs
- Analyzing malicious Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe PDF documents
- Examining shellcode in the context of malicious files
- Analyzing memory to assess malware characteristics and reconstruct infection artifacts
- Using memory forensics to analyze rootkit infections
Course Syllabus
FOR610.1: Malware Analysis Fundamentals
Michael Murr
Sun Oct 14th, 2012
Day one lays the groundwork for malware analysis by presenting the key tools and techniques malware analysts use to examine malicious programs. You'll learn how to save time by exploring Windows malware in two phases. Behavioral analysis focuses on the program's interactions with its environment, such as the registry, the network, and the file system; code analysis focuses on the specimen's code and makes use of a disassembler and a debugger. You will learn how to build a flexible laboratory to perform such analysis in a controlled manner, and you'll set up such a lab on your laptop. You will then learn how to use the key analysis tools by examining a malware sample in the lab you just set up-with guidance and explanations from the instructor-to reinforce the concepts discussed throughout the day.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Configuring the malware analysis lab
- Assembling the toolkit for malware forensics
- Performing behavioral analysis of malicious Windows executables
- Performing static and dynamic code analysis of malicious Windows executables
- Intercepting system and network-level activities in the analysis lab
- Additional learning resources for reverse-engineering malware
FOR610.2: Additional Malware Analysis Approaches
Michael Murr
Mon Oct 15th, 2012
Day two builds upon the fundamentals introduced earlier in the course and discusses techniques for uncovering additional aspects of the malicious program's functionality. You will learn about packers and the analysis approaches that may help bypass their defenses. You will also learn how to patch malicious executables to change their functionality during the analysis without recompiling them. Additionally, you'll also understand how to redirect network traffic in the lab to better interact with malware, such as bots and worms, to understand their capabilities. You'll also experiment with the essential tools and techniques for analyzing Web-based malware, such as malicious browser scripts and Flash programs. This day's material will also discuss several shortcuts you can take to save time when analyzing malicious Windows executables and browser-based malware.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Reinforcing the dynamic analysis concepts learned in 610.1
- Patching compiled malicious Windows executables
- Shortcuts for speeding up malware analysis
- Analyzing packed executable files
- Redirecting IP address-based network connections in the malware lab
- Analyzing JavaScript (getting started) and Flash malware
FOR610.3: Malicious Code Analysis
Michael Murr
Tue Oct 16th, 2012
Day three focuses on examining malicious Windows executables at the assembly level. You will discover approaches for studying inner-workings of a specimen by looking at it through a disassembler and, at times, with the help of a debugger. The day begins with an overview of key code reversing concepts and presents a primer on essential x86 Intel assembly concepts, such as instructions, function calls, variables, and jumps. You will also learn how to examine common assembly constructs, such as functions, loops, and conditional statements. During the second half of the day we discuss how malware implements common characteristics, such as keylogging, packet spoofing, and DLL injection at the assembly level. You will learn how to recognize such characteristics in malicious Windows executables.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Core concepts for reverse-engineering malware at the code level
- x86 Intel assembly language primer
- Handling anti-disassembling techniques
- Identifying key x86 assembly logic structures with a disassembler
- Patterns of common malware characteristics at the Windows API level (DLL injection, hooking, keylogging, sniffing, etc.)
FOR610.4: Self-Defending Malware
Michael Murr
Wed Oct 17th, 2012
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Identifying packers
- Working with PE headers of malicious Windows executables
- Manual unpacking of protected malicious Windows executables (tips and tricks)
- Tips and tricks for bypassing anti-analysis mechanisms built into malware
- Additional techniques for analyzing browser scripts (handling deobfuscation)
FOR610.5: Malicious Documents and Memory Forensics
Michael Murr
Thu Oct 18th, 2012
This section starts by exploring common patterns of assembly instructions often used to gain initial access to the victim's computer. Next, we will learn how to analyze malicious Microsoft Office documents, covering tools such as OfficeMalScanner and OffVis and explore steps for analyzing malicious Adobe PDF documents with utilities such as Origami and PDF Tools. Another major topic covered in this section is the reversing of malicious Windows executables using memory forensics techniques. We'll explore this topic with the help of tools such the Volatility Framework and associated plug-ins. The discussion of memory forensics will bring us deeper into the world of user and kernel-mode rootkits and allow us to use context of the infection to reverse-engineer malware more efficiently.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Analyzing malicious Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe PDF documents
- Examining shellcode in the context of malicious files
- Analyzing memory to assess malware characteristics and reconstruct infection artifacts
- Using memory forensics to analyze rootkit infections
Additional Information
Laptop Required
Important! Bring Your Own Pre-Installed Windows XP Virtual Machine
A properly configured laptop is required to participate in this course. Prior to the start of class, you must install the necessary software as described below. If you do not carefully read and follow these instructions, you are guaranteed to leave the course unsatisfied, since you will not be able to participate in hands on-exercises that are essential to this course.
The following are minimal hardware requirements for your laptop:
- DVD-ROM drive
- 1.5GHz CPU (a faster processor is recommended)
- 2GB RAM (more memory is recommended)
- 8GB of available disk space (more space is recommended)
Creating a Windows Virtual Machine Using VMware
You will use VMware to simultaneously run multiple virtual machines when performing hands-on exercises. You must have VMware Workstation version 6 or higher installed on your system. If you do not own and cannot purchase VMware Workstation, you can download a free trial copy from VMware. VMware will send you a 30-day serial number if you register for the trial at their Web site.
When analyzing malware, you will make use of a virtual Windows machine running within VMware. You will be asked to infect this virtual machine when examining malicious code. You must create a Windows XP virtual machine using your copy of VMware before coming to class. Note that this involves not only creating a virtual machine shell using VMware, but also installing your copy of the Windows XP operating system into the virtual machine.
Install Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) on your virtual machine. Don't install anti-virus software on the Windows virtual machine. Lastly, be sure to install Internet Explorer 8 into your Windows virtual machine.
If you don't have Windows XP installation medium, you can obtain a free virtual machine from Microsoft if you are running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate on your base system. To do this and to import the virtual machine into VMware, follow instructions here.
Shut down your Windows virtual machine and configure it to use the "Host-only" network connection. You can do this by selecting Settings of your virtual machine in VMware, clicking Network Adapter on the Hardware tab, and selecting "Host-only." Then, start the virtual machine and confirm that you received an IP address from the VMware built-in DHCP server. You can do this by typing "ipconfig" on the command prompt within your virtual machine.
Hands-on exercises will involve operating with malicious code. Although VMware will provide you with reasonable isolation, we do not recommend using a production system as your laboratory machine. We expect you to exercise due caution when handling malicious code.
Additional Tools You Will Receive
We will provide you with additional tools for completing hands-on exercises. Additionally, we will provide you with a pre-built Linux virtual machine (REMnux) so that you do not need to build your own. Hardware requirements outlined above are meant to ensure that you have sufficient memory and disk space available to simultaneously run the Windows virtual machine (that you will build yourself before class) and the Linux virtual machine (that we will provide to you during class).
Final Checklist
Review the following checklist when leaving for the training event to make sure that your laptop is prepared for the course:
- Your laptop meets hardware requirements outlined in this note.
- VMware Workstation 6 or higher is installed.
- The VMware Workstation license will not expire before the class (if using a trial copy).
- You created a VMware virtual machine running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) and Internet Explorer 8 installed.
- Your Windows virtual machine is using "Host-only" network connection and is able to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server built into VMware.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Individuals who found this course particularly useful often had responsibilities in the areas of incident response, forensic investigation, Windows security, and system administration.
- You'll benefit from this course if you deal with incidents involving malware and would like to learn how to understand key aspects of malicious programs.
- The majority of course participants have a strong understanding of core systems and networking concepts and have had a limited exposure to programming and assembly concepts.
- Some individuals who attended the course have experimented with aspects of malware analysis prior to the course and were looking to formalize and expand their malware forensics expertise.
- Students should have a computer system that matches the stated laptop requirements. Some software needs to be installed before students come to class.
- Students should be familiar with using Windows and Linux operating environments and be able to troubleshoot general connectivity and setup issues.
- Students should be familiar with VMware Workstation and be able to create and configure virtual machines.
- Students are recommended to have a high-level understanding of key programming concepts, such as variables, loops, and functions; however, no programming experience is necessary.