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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01246102
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 23, 2010
Last Update Posted : July 5, 2018
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- The experimental drug AT13387 has been shown to have some anticancer effects against tumor cells by blocking a protein that affects other proteins inside certain cancer cells, and helps to prevent the cancer cells from reproducing and spreading. AT13387 has not been tested in humans, and researchers are interested in investigating whether it can be used to treat solid tumors that have not responded to standard treatments.
- To investigate the safety and effectiveness of AT13387 in individuals with solid tumors.
- Individuals at least 18 years of age who have solid tumors that have not responded to standard treatments.
- Participants will be screened with a physical examination and medical history, as well as blood tests and tumor imaging studies.
- AT13387 will be given in 28-day cycles of treatment. Participants will receive AT13387 twice a week (2 days in a row) for the first 3 weeks of the cycle, followed by a fourth week without the drug.
- Participants will have regular blood and urine samples, imaging studies, eye examinations, and tumor biopsies to monitor the effects of the treatment.
- Participants will continue treatment with AT13387 unless serious side effects develop or the tumor stops responding to treatment.
|Condition or disease
|Solid Tumors Breast Cancer
|Drug: AT13387
|Phase 1
- AT13387 is a synthetic Hsp90 inhibitor that has demonstrated improved characteristics over other Hsp90 inhibitors. AT13387 has a long tumor retention half-life and prolonged inhibitory effect on its known oncogenic client proteins.
- AT13387 has demonstrated activity against multiple cancer cell lines and tumor xenografts in pre-clinical models.
Primary Objectives:
- Define the safety and tolerability of AT13387 administered on a QDx2 every week, 3 weeks out of 4 scheduled, in adults with refractory solid tumors.
- Establish the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of AT13387 administered on a QDx2 every week, 3 weeks out of 4 schedule, in adults with refractory solid tumors.
Secondary Objectives:
- Determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) of AT13387 administered on a QDx2 every week, 3 weeks out of 4 schedule, in adults with refractory solid tumors.
- Assess pharmacodynamic (PD) markers of Hsp90 inhibition and modulation of Hsp90 client proteins by AT13387 in tumor tissue, serum, and PBMCs.
-Study participants must have histologically confirmed solid tumor malignancy that has progressed or recurred after at least one line of chemotherapy, or for which no standard treatment option exists. Participants enrolling in the expansion phase must have disease amenable to biopsy with willingness to undergo pre- and post-treatment biopsies (Remove the HER 2 archival tissue).
Study Design:
- This study will follow an accelerated titration design 2B with initial dose levels increased in 100% increments.
- The accelerated phase ends when one patient experiences a dose-limiting toxicity or two patients experience Grade 2 drug-related toxicity during the first cycle; when dose level 3 is reached; or at first instance of Grade 2 ocular toxicity in any cycle.
- AT13387 will be administered intravenously, over 1 hour, on 2 consecutive days, 3 out of 4 weeks, every 28 days (i.e., on days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16 of each 28-day cycle).
- PK and PD studies will be conducted in cycle 1 only. Once the MTD is established, 10 additional patients, will be entered at the MTD to further define toxicity and perform PD studies at this dose; pre- and post-treatment tumor biopsies will be mandatory for these patients.
- CT scans will be performed at baseline and every 2 cycles for restaging.
- Up to 37 patients may be treated.
- Study participants will be offered optional participation in an ongoing NCI imaging study at baseline with a repeat scan following the last dose of AT13387 in cycle 1.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|31 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase I Study of the HSP-90 Inhibitor, AT13387, in Adults With Refractory Solid Tumors
|Study Start Date :
|November 19, 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 30, 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 27, 2017
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starting at 20 mg/m2
Drug: AT13387
Treatment will be administered as a 1-hour IV infusion on 2 consecutive days of every week for 3 weeks, followed by a 1-week period without drug administration.
- Define the safety and tolerability of AT13387; establishing the MTD of At13387 [ Time Frame: 3 weeks ]
- Determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) of AT13387; Assess pharmacodynamic (PD) markers of Hsp90 inhibition and modulation of Hsp90 client proteins by AT13387 [ Time Frame: After 1 cycle ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Patients must have histologically documented (confirmed at the Laboratory of Pathology, NCI) solid tumor malignancy that is metastatic or unresectable, for which standard curative measures do not exist, or have failed at least one line of standard therapy.
- Patients must have measurable or evaluable disease.
- Patients must have completed any chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or biologic therapy greater than or equal to 4 weeks prior to entering the study (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C).
Patients must be greater than or equal to 2 weeks since any prior administration of a study drug in an exploratory IND/Phase 0 study. Patients must have recovered to eligibility levels from prior toxicity or adverse events. Patients receiving bisphosphonates for any cancer are eligible to participate.
- Age greater than or equal to 18 years. Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of AT13387 in patients < 18 years of age, children are excluded from this study.
- The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status less than or equal to 2.
- Life expectancy > 3 months.
Patients must have normal or adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
- Absolute neutrophil count greater than or equal to 1,500/microL
- Platelets greater than or equal to 100,000/microL
- Total bilirubin less than or equal to 1.5 times institutional ULN
- AST (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) less than or equal to 2.5 times institutional ULN
- Creatinine <1.5 times ULN; OR
- Measured creatinine greater than or equal to 60 mL/minute for patients with clearance creatinine levels greater than or equal to 1.5 times ULN
- The effects of AT13387 on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control or abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 2 months after completion of study. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 72 hours of enrollment in order to be eligible. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately. Because there is an unknown but potential risk to nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with AT13387, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with AT13387.
During the expansion phase of the protocol, patients must have:
- Disease amenable to biopsy
- Willingness to undergo pre- and post-treatment biopsies
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
- Currently enrolling in the expansion phase. Patients must have:
- Disease amenable to biopsy
- Willingness to undergo pre- and post-treatment biopsies
- Patients with known brain metastases or carcinomatous meningitis are excluded from this clinical trial, with the exception of patients whose brain metastatic disease status has remained stable for greater than or equal to 2 months after treatment of the brain metastases, without steroids or anti-seizure medications. These patients may be enrolled at the discretion of the principal investigator.
- Patients with clinically significant intercurrent illnesses, including but not limited to, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- QTc > 450 msec for men and > 470 msec for women.
- HIV-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible because of the potential for PK interactions with AT13387.
- Pregnant women are ineligible because the effects of AT13387 on the developing human fetus are unknown.
- Exclude patients with active gastrointestinal bleeding or an event of gastrointestinal bleeding within a week of starting treatment.
Both men and women, and members of all races and ethnic groups, are eligible for this trial.
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): NCT01246102
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Alice P Chen, M.D.
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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|First Posted:
|November 23, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 5, 2018
|Last Verified:
|October 27, 2017
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It was only a couple of weeks ago, February 13 to be exact, that the dankprofessor blogged on the escalating rhetoric at Yale regarding male fraternity members holding up a "Yale sluts" placard in the front of the Women's Center; the Women's Center Board characterized the placard incident and photos of the incident being circulated on email "as fraternity- sponsored or enabled sexual harassment, assault and rape". Certainly, the fraternity members use of this placard was untoward, but the statement that the placard in essence sponsored rape seemed to the dankprofessor as inflammatory, and ultimately functions to "trivialize" rape. Name-calling should not be conflated with rape; words should not be conflated with actions. Social scientist know based on decades of research that words are not predictive of deeds.
Presently Yale is having its annual "Sex Week at Yale". The dankprofessor was not surprised to learn that a component of sex week was on pornography. As reported by L. Brent Bozell on on the Media Research Center blog, the sex week organizers invited Paul Thomas of Vivid Entertainment to show films and have a question and answer period. The Vivid films were shown without any pre-screening by the sex week organizers. "Some of the footage shown by Thomas included graphic rape fantasies and the labeling of a woman as a "slut" who "deserved" violent sexual degradation."
Before the films excerpts were completed, feminists from the Yale Women's Center entered and "Presca Ahn, who is the "fellowship coordinator" there, declared: "In porn, sex is not a normal, healthy part of normal, healthy lives; it's fetishized, exaggerated or embellished. Porn isn't honest. We need to talk honestly about it: it hurts women." Then the session went right into Q and A.
The Yale Daily News reported that Colin Adamo, Sex Week event coordinator, called the screening a grave mistake. "We really dropped the ball on this one," he said. "No one watched the movie before Paul showed it to the audience." But the Vivid representative "insinuated that he (Adamo) was a prude and just needed to watch more porn."
The dankprofessor has no comment on the prudishness characterization of Adamo; certainly Adamo can be characterized as naïve. To assume that Vivid porn DVDs would not cause offense to some of those in attendance is naïve. I would also consider it to be naïve that holding a sex week which would not be offensive to some of the Yale students some of the time is extremely naïve. To have a completely inoffensive sex week one would have to go back to the American tradition of sex censorship. To really deal with the offensiveness issue, Yale would have to prohibit sex week.
As for the Yale Women's Center rep indicating that porn "hurts women", such is a problematic characterization. What we do know about porn is that porn leads most of the time to viewer masturbation. Just about everyone knows this, the producers, the actors, the observers, the condemners, the viewers. So if one holds that male masturbation hurts women then the Yale Women's Center rep has a point.
However, solitary "consensual" masturbation, or mutual consensual masturbation is now ofen viewed as safe sex. But obviously some hold that so-called safe sex is actually hurtful sex. And when it comes to masturbation from an historical perspective, those believing in the hurtful scenario carry the day.
So I do not think I am going out on a limb when I state that too many campus feminists, too many Yale campus feminists, too often engage in traditional anti-sexual Puritanism, an anti-sexual Puritanism that has not been unknown in Yale's home state, Connecticut.
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Statement from House Democratic Leader Sam Singh (D-East Lansing) on the sham plan to fix Michigan's roads with $175 million:
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
LANSING — Today, Gov. Snyder signed House Bill 4321 to use additional funds to cover up the failed 2015 roads plan without addressing the long-term needs. In response, House Democratic Leader Sam Singh (D-East Lansing) issued the following statement:
"The only thing more surprising than the inability of Legislative Republicans to offer a real solution to fix our roads over the last seven years, is the governor trotting out their empty bill for a public signing. Michiganders won't be fooled by this budget swap. They deserve real solutions and the best roads, not political showboating."


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The average wait time for wounded veterans to see their disability-compensation claims completed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has now grown to 262 days — or nearly nine months — according to a federal website and three watchdog groups.
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki earlier this year vowed to shrink the so-called "VA backlog" to 125 days by 2015 as the agency finishes transitioning to a digital processing system.
Despite that promise, the claims-completion gap has expanded steadily during the past year. The VA's benefits-aspiration web page shows the average claims-processing time was 223 days in October 2011, 246 days in April 2012, 257 days in July and 260 days in August. In fact, the backlog has doubled in size since 2008, congressional members report.
The agency called its widening claims backlog "unacceptable" but said it is taking steps to try to fix that problem.
"VA has completed a record-breaking 1 million claims per year the last three fiscal years. Yet too many Veterans have to wait too long to get the benefits they have earned and deserve," the VA said in a statement emailed to NBC News on Tuesday. "That's unacceptable, and VA is building a strong foundation for a paperless, digital disability claims system — a lasting solution that will transform how we operate and eliminate the claims backlog. This paperless technology is being deployed to 18 regional offices in 2012, and it will reach all 56 VA Regional Offices by the end of 2013 to help deliver faster, better decisions for Veterans."
The move to paperless processing "will ensure we achieve" Shinseki's 2015 goal, the VA said, adding: "Fixing this decades-old problem isn't easy, but we have an aggressive plan that is on track to succeed." In 2011, VA paid nearly $5 billion in compensation to wounded veterans, it reported.
The VA cited four reasons for what it calls "claims growth":
- Increased demand — "the result of 10 years of war" and due to many veterans returning "with severe, complex injuries";
- in 2010, Shinseki decided the VA claims system should include the recognition of medical conditions related to Agent Orange exposure (240,000 claims were processed in 2011 for such exposure) as well as "Gulf War Illness";
- approximately 45 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are currently seeking compensation for injuries related to their service — and that marks a "historical high" for the VA following wars. Those claims include an average of eight to 10 medical issues per claim, more than double the Vietnam era;
- the VA says it is doing "better outreach" to veterans "to educate them about the benefits they've earned."
Still, the thickening backlog drew fire from veterans advocates and from Capitol Hill.
"These delays are indicative of a out-dated system," said Tom Tarantino, chief policy officer of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group representing more than 200,000 veterans.
"The Department of Veterans Affairs promises year after year that they'll reduce the backlog. Instead, it's gotten worse. While the reasons for this are complicated, the fact remains that these continuous delays greatly impact the daily lives of veterans who are waiting for care and benefits," Tarantino said. "Veterans deserve better."
Last Wednesday, during a contentious hearing examining the VA's spending and larger accountability, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, told VA Deputy Secretary Scott Gould "the truce is over" between Congress and Gould's agency. Miller became visibly frustrated during the hearing after Gould repeatedly said he could not or would not answer specific questions from committee members on spending and the agency's internal discipline over admitted ethical missteps.
Told Tuesday that the claims backlog has nearly reached nine-months long on average, Miller said the wait time is another example of VA's failure to keep its promises to veterans.
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"VA continues to tout its disability claims transformation plan to clean up the backlog by 2015. Without any details of the plan ... which continues to increase on a daily basis — and which has doubled in the past four years — I remain highly suspicious of any plan that claims to be able to reverse the problems in this process overnight," Miller said in an email to NBC News.
"As Congress has said for many years now, VA needs to look at the root of the problem of the backlog — training, management, oversight, and technology — and work forward from those four points to address this problem," Miller added. "Quick fixes will no longer work, and will continue to make veterans wait months, sometimes years, on end for an answer."
While the VA said its pilot paperless program has cut average processing times from 250 days to 119 days at those test offices, veterans in seven other cities were still waiting — as of October — longer than one year, on average, for their disability claims to complete their trek through the VA pipeline, according to the VA's online chart.
Those cities — and the average claims-processing times in their VA regional offices are: Waco, Texas (418 days), Los Angeles (394 days), New York City (380 days), Chicago (378 days), Oakland (377 days), Indianapolis (373 days), and Phoenix (365 days), according to the VA site.
In October 2011, no veterans were waiting more than a year, on average, for their disability claims to be processed, the VA site shows. In Waco, the average wait during October 2011 was 309 days. That means the backlog has increased in that city by 35 percent during the past year.
"Despite promises of an improvement, veterans wait about three months longer than they did in May 2011. In fact, the VA's own numbers show the average wait time veterans face has gotten longer every single month over the last year and a half," said Aaron Glantz, a reporter with the Berkeley, Calif.-based Center for Investigative Reporting.
The group keeps its own map, titled "Waiting For Help," which shows the backlog's highs and lows in individual cities. According to CIR's tally, 821,804 veterans now are waiting for their claims to be processed by the VA. That's actually a scrap of good news: it marks a slight decrease from in the number in that queue as compared to Aug. 25, when 899,000 veterans had compensation and pension claims pending.
CIR describes itself as "the nation's oldest nonprofit investigative reporting organization." Glantz acknowledges a personal interest in the backlog that stems from his years (2003 to 2005) working as a journalist in Iraq.
"Ever since I returned home, I've been deluged with phone calls and emails from veterans who say they returned home from the war to face a battle with the government for the benefits they earned," Glantz said. "I've seen veterans fall into suicide and homelessness while they wait.
"Today, I received a call from a female Iraq war veteran who is living on the street with her 20-month daughter," he added. "She has been waiting for two years for the VA to rule on her disability claim for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder."
In a related development, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs held an oversight hearing Tuesday to examine what it dubbed the tasks of "wading through warehouses of paper" and "the challenges of transitioning veterans records to paperless technology."
During the hearing, Rep. Jon Runyan, R-N.J., chairman of the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, called for tighter collaboration between the VA and the U.S. Department of Defense. Runyan said improving those communications would smooth the transition for veterans now exiting the armed services.
"VA has a statutory duty to assist a claimant in obtaining certain records. Accordingly, it is important that we work together to ensure that VA is able to communicate both effectively and efficiently with both the National Archives and DoD to comply with this duty," Runyan said.
The subcommittee added in a news release after the hearing: "It was recently brought to light that DoD's poor record-keeping habits have in turn had a negative impact on VA's ability to fully carry out its responsibility to assist veterans in obtaining records from their time in service."
Said Runyan: "Issues pertaining to the thoroughness of DoD's record keeping have recently received media attention in light of evidence that some units were not properly documenting in-service events, such as combat-related incidents. This has been a source of significant frustration for many veterans who file claims with VA and are dependent on such documentation to substantiate their claims."
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A new poll of Wisconsin voters by Marquette Law School (when it comes to polling, it seems that everyone's getting into the act) provides good news for both Mitt Romney and Tommy Thompson. The poll has Romney in a virtual tie with President Obama (Obama 49, Romney 48). It also has Thompson virtually deadlocked with his opponent Tammy Baldwin (Thompson 46, Baldwin 45).
The poll demonstrates the significance of the first presidential debate. Before the debate, Obama held an 11 point lead. And he still holds an 8 point lead among those who didn't see the debate. Unfortunately for the president, 73 percent of those surveyed said they watched the first debate.
The vice presidential debate didn't help Obama in Wisconsin. Before the debate, 49 percent of those surveyed somehow held a positive view of Joe Biden, while only 41 percent viewed him unfavorably. Afterwards, Talkin' Joe found himself underwater, 43-47. Apparently, rudeness and histrionics don't play well in the upper Midwest.
As for native son Paul Ryan, his favorability split improved after the debate from 46-41 to 50-40. The respondents viewed Ryan as the debate winner by a margin of 51-42. Independents saw it that way by a margin of 53-39.
In the Senate race, Thompson has moved from 4 points behind to ahead, albeit by a statistically insignificant margin. I imagine that Romney's post-debate surge may have helped Thompson. However, the director of the survey points to ads by Thompson attacking Baldwin for her ultra-liberal voting record in Congress. Thompson's favorability rating, which Baldwin had driven down with attack ads, remains at 37 percent, while Baldwin's has plummeted from 40 percent to 32 percent.
By the way, the negative attacks that drove Thompson's rating down argued that the former governor and Secretary of HHS "sold out to special interests and isn't working for you anymore." The "sell-out" consisted of work he performed at the law firm where I used to work.
Law firms are not terribly sympathetic places, but I'm surprised that a few years at my old haunt would negate (and then some) four terms as a popular governor and several years as an effective HHS Secretary.
When my day of reckoning comes, what will I have to fall back on to overcome my many years as a lawyer representing corporations? Blogging?


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Many software vendors are focusing on bringing full-service packages to the construction industry. ConEst Software Systems recently released a package that takes the contractor through the design and estimating processes, follows the project to completion and calculates ways the contractor could enhance proficiency.
To have the entire service, contractors would need to invest in two packages. The most recent is IntelliBid, which offers design assistance and estimating. With IntelliBid, contractors can calculate lighting requirements and electrical formulas before the design work begins. After the design is completed, the software assists the contractor in estimating labor, materials and cost. For $6,000, it automates estimating.
ConEst also sells separate software for bidding, job and permit tracking. The three items can be purchased together for $5,000.
ConEst2000 is a full-scale estimating software program that includes real-time networking, built-in National Electrical Code (NEC) calculations, automatic labor rate adjustments, digital photo display, change-order functionality and quotation analysis. This enables contractors to start tracking the job faster, including costs such as payroll, equipment usage and fees. ConEst 2000 eliminates the need to manually input individual job-tracking codes.
Risk management may be greatest concern for electrical contractors when it comes to documentation. Jeff Burmeister, sales and product manager for Constructware, confirmed that risk management was the concern most clients voiced to him.
"The approach we take is pretty simple," Burmeister said. "Having the appropriate tools to be successful today requires using specific software to standardize and automate the day-to-day documentation into a centralized database for generating simple business processes."
Constructware software is designed to streamline the project from design to accounting and equipment tracking. Burmeister has witnessed the transition to technology that electrical contractors have made in recent years.
"The construction industry is technologically literate," he said. "They were the spearheaders for estimation software."
Contractors continue to alert software makers of their needs.
"People out there are kind of scattered," Burmeister said. "Many are using different software for different functions."
The Constructware software is intended to eliminate the need for multiple solutions.
"What you want is everyone operating in the same environment. That's what standardization means," said Burmeister.
Constructware software offers tracking features but not estimating. Project tracking is intended to replace multiple software programs by offering project management, document filing and a tracking system from the birth of a project to its completion. Many contractors have some or many of those options on different versions of software.
"To me it doesn't matter whether it is estimating, accounting or project management, electrical contractors are always battling fires everyday. They don't have a lot of free time," Burmeister said. "Not doing something is my bigger concern. They need to have themselves covered. If the documentation is not there (and something goes wrong), your chance of recovery is almost nothing."
Standardization between accounting, estimating and project management is becoming a greater asset. A recent report by the Aberdeen Group, a market-based research company in Boston, found that the stand-alone nature of technologies used by those in construction is affecting companies' bottom line. According to the survey, streamlining is the better approach.
Pile of papers, drawings, faxes and notes can be cumbersome. Standardized software allows individuals from different departments—project managers, account representatives and employees on the field—to interact seamlessly. Job-cost analysis, for example, can be quick and up-to-date since functions such as invoicing are available electronically almost as soon as the transaction is completed.
Also, contractors can use certain software packages to better work with CAD drawings. CAD Integrator by Sage Timberline Office uses a standardized language to define CAD objects and their associated objects, thus speeding up the estimating time. Thanks to the seamless link, users no longer have to custom interface to transfer information from CAD drawings to an estimate.
With CAD Integrator, users can map items to IFC CAD objects, perform takeoff for one or many objects in the IFC file, and view all items that have not been taken off.
CAD Estimating from McCormick Systems lets the user takeoff directly from CAD drawings. It tracks everything that has taken off and highlights symbols that have not been taken off, allowing the user to check a specific item takeoff at any time. The software also alerts you to any missed items, counts home runs and creates assemblies.
McCormick provides on-site training for software customers and has training facilities in Arizona and Maryland.
Many software vendors focus on providing trends analysis within their products as well, so that contractors can evaluate excessive expenses, where money could be saved, and which jobs were not profitable and why. Good project management software can analyze and forecast a trend so that previously overlooked productivity problems can be recognized and addressed before the entire project is a loss.
No contractor can afford to be slowed down by software. Most vendors are focusing on making the software straightforward and accessible. Any good vendor will offer training when a company purchases its first package and customer support once the software really gets to work.
Vendors are finding better ways to improve their estimating systems all the time. Estimation Inc. has developed the EZ Pricer, which expedites the pricing process with suppliers, and can be added for free. EZ Pricer works with Microsoft InfoPath, a system suppliers must have, to make soliciting supplier quotes a matter of a couple of mouse clicks.
The system allows contractors to list their suppliers and create columns similar to a spreadsheet that can be automatically e-mailed to the supplier. Suppliers receive a list of materials and key in prices, but cannot modify the document otherwise.
Karl Rajotte, executive vice president of Estimation, said the system saves contractors the lengthy process of contacting suppliers individually to obtain prices that they must key into their estimate.
Rajotte said he sees contractors bringing their own competitors to the Estimation booth at trade shows in an effort to get them signed on to an Estimation system.
The logic is simple: when one contractor provides an accurate bid but his competitor makes a mistake and underbids a job, everybody loses. The accurate bid loses the job, the low bid loses money on the job and the end-user is unhappy when the bid proves to be low. For that reason, contractors should have some kind of estimating software in place.
"We're all good systems," Rajotte said. "I'm not going to say my competitors aren't good as well, the important point is to get something." EC
SWEDBERG is a freelance writer based in western Washington. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Leonardo DiCaprio is famously private. He does not want you in his business. He hates being on camera unless Marty Scorsese is behind it. Or Christopher Nolan. You get it. How uncharacteristic then that last night at the Laker game, Leo was front and centre with Bar Rafaeli, newly reunited. Photo Assumption says he's uncomfortable, knowing he's being shot, but still...
It's not like it's his first time. It's not like by some miracle the paps would have taken the night off.
We saw Leo on Sunday at the Globes honouring his favourite director. That was a great montage, non? Until that gratuitous promo for Shutter Island at the very end. Couldn't they have made it less obvious?
Shutter Island hits theatres February 19th, pushed back from last Fall. These two do not make sh-tty movies. Not sure yet whether or not it's another Scorsese masterpiece but it won't be a stinker. Mediocre, maybe, but definitely not a stinker. I would totally see it but I'm a weak ass when it comes to these pieces.
Also at the game – one time GOOP and Drew B boyfriend Luke Wilson who, um, isn't growing gracefully, and tennis legend Pete Sampras. Pete used to be one of my boyfriends. Like the fantasy scripted dialogue kind of boyfriend. Before he started hanging out with assholes. And then he slagged my Tina Fey. And then Andre Agassi wrote a book and said he was cheap. Like SUPER cheap. Like a dollar tip for the valet. Ideology is one thing. But cheap is another. Cheap is a major dealbreaker.
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URL (pronounced "Earl") is a peace officer for the New New York Police Department, whose main partner is Smitty. URL owns and opperates a child ponography bussiness.
Little is known of URL's past or for that matter present, but he has been seen periodically throughout the series. What is known is that he has worked with the NNYPD since at least 2999 (1ACV01).
On New Year's Eve 2999, URL went with Smitty to the Head Museum, having been called by Leela to help catch a fugitive who didn't want to be a delivery boy (1ACV01). Then they had diarrea. He was later seen with Smitty again to search for Bender's antenna after it was cut off (1ACV03). They both were later seen at the 3001 Miss Universe Pageant (2ACV06), where they arrested Flexo instead of Bender due to a case of mistaken identity. URL and Smitty also arrested the entire Planet Express crew when they couldn't pay for an expensive meal from Elzar's Fine Cuisine (2ACV13). Smitty and URL later arrested Bender again, thinking he was Robot Santa Claus (3ACV03). They were later seen on Pluto monitoring Bender's community service after he spilled dark matter in the penguin reserve (3ACV05). They arrested Bender another time with Fry and the orphans that Bender adopted (3ACV09). He and Smitty arrested Bender and Fry for the Big Apple Bank hold-up instead of Roberto (3ACV11). He later attended the Big Robot Party on the Galápagos Islands as did every robot on Earth (4ACV08). He later told Fry to not let Nibbler's dark matter on the sidewalk (4ACV10). They later went in the Rent-A-Wreck Video to find Fry who said the forbidden words (4ACV11). He arrested Kif when he stole property from the aquarium (4ACV16). They attended the Turanga-Fillmore wedding, (BBS). They arrested Professor Farnsworth and Wernstrom and imprisonned them in the Fulcrum County Prism, he was also present at the League of Robots when Bender joined the league, (TBWABB). His alter-ego in Cornwood is the man who guards with Smitty the Wipe Castle doors, (BG). They attended the Violet Dwarf Star Implosion, (ITWGY). In 3010, they arrested Bender to vandalizing New New York (6ACV04) and they arrested Leela when Fry revealed she was a mutant (6ACV12). In 3011, they arrested Roberto before Smitty took an early retirement. He was then paired with Fry who joined the police earlier. They arrested Erwin Schrödinger and they were promoted to the Future Crimes Division. He then began a robosexual love with the Chief O'Mannahan (6ACV16). In 3012, he had sex with Bev, who subsequently gave birth to their child (7ACV01).
His character voice, performed by John DiMaggio, is made to sound like a 1970s soul brother.
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URL with his partner Smitty (3ACV03).
URL in the Fulcrum County Prism (TBWABB).
Cornwood version (BG).
URL in his informal outfit (6ACV16).
Additional info
- URL is featured on one of the discs of The Complete Collection 1999-2009.
- Smitty and URL seem to ride NNYC patrol car 718, which is an anagram for 187, the LA murder code. It is also one of the area codes used in New York City.
- The police force use batons that resemble the Lightsabers from Star Wars. Unlike their Star Wars counterparts, however, they are blunt weapons, rather than superheated blades.
- URL's name is the acronym for the Internet term "uniform resource locator". It was also supposed to be the name for Bender when Futurama was in its character-development stages.
URL: Oh, yeah.
URL: He's clean. [He closes the door.] Smells nice too.
Smitty: Better than me?
URL: Oh, yeah.
URL: Smells like a juicy promotion for me!
Smitty: And a juicy rehiring back onto the force for me!
Centipede Man: [On TV.] C'mon, man, I didn't fire off no laser.
Smitty: [On TV.] Then why is there a smoking hole in your ceiling, sir?
Centipede Man: [On TV. The camera points to the ceiling.] What? Crazy upstairs lady must've been shooting down.
URL: [On TV.] Sir, you're on the top floor of this particular domicile.
URL: You see today's Marmaduke? Solid.
URL: I'm gonna get 24th century on his ass.
URL: Undercover pursuit in progress... Baby.
URL: Time to get off our fat cop asses and ride.
URL: Police! You're busted!
Smitty: And don't try anything! This glass is laser-proof!
Smitty: Ya know, that don't look half bad on your buttocks.
URL: It does sort of class up the place.
[Mushu throws up and the crowd gasps. Smitty and URL stare as Bender sneaks out behind them.]
URL: It just keeps comin' and comin'.
Kif: Wait! That chunk. It's the watch! [Kif runs down the bleachers and dives into the water. The crowd cheers. He comes up in the middle of the vomit holding the watch.] I got it, Amy! I got it! The plan went off without a--
Whale biologist: He's got aquarium property! Stop him!
URL: Better do what he says. He's a whale biologist.


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Strategies: Entrepreneurs balance leadership, management
- A leader deals with the big picture%2C providing guidance and direction
- A manager helps people successfully fulfill their responsibilities
- Businesses need both to be successful
If you own a small business, are you a leader or a manager? Can an entrepreneur be both?
In a small business, your employees can make or break your business. You've got to have smart, capable people. But because virtually all small businesses are understaffed, you need employees who are self-starters, people you can trust without being supervised constantly.
I've always had this motto: "Hire people you trust and trust them."
But what do you do on those rare occasions when an employee turns out to be untrustworthy?
I've had that experience. An employee I trusted lied to me. He's gone now, and while he hurt me and everyone in the office, fortunately, no major damage was done to my company.
However, the incident makes me evaluate my management skills and ask myself: "Am I good leader but not a good-enough manager?"
I've always prided myself on being a great employer. I pay well, provide excellent benefits, give lots of praise and give employees the chance to grow.
As an entrepreneur, it's important to understand the distinction between being a "manager" and being a "leader." They are two distinctly different roles with two distinctly different skill sets.
First, some basic definitions:
A leader is someone who provides guidance and direction, someone who illuminates and shows the way forward toward a goal.
A manager is someone who takes a more hands-on and direct approach. To manage implies more direct governance and control than leadership. Rather than focusing on high-level goals, a manager helps people successfully fulfill responsibilities.
As management guru Peter Drucker once said: "Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things."
A business needs both.
In big corporations, you often have two people handling these roles. The chief executive generally sets the direction and vision of the company, while the chief operating officer makes sure the decisions get executed.
Small businesses don't usually have that option.
Optimally, a small-business owner or entrepreneur should be able to switch back and forth between the two roles. Practically speaking, such a person is rare.
But at the very least you should be conscious of the key attributes of each and strive to incorporate them into your working style.
A leader:
- Sets high-level goals and strategy.
- Establishes clear standards and company values.
- Provides motivation and optimism.
- Creates a sense of teamwork and solicits input on strategies for various functions and business units.
- Identifies opportunities and threats companywide.
- Monitors and measures financial and organizational success.
- Empowers others to take action.
- Helps things go right.
A manager:
- Tells employees what needs to be done.
- Trains employees or arranges for training on how to do their jobs well.
- Solicits input from employees on procedures.
- Identifies opportunities and problems on a day-to-day level.
- Monitors and measures individuals' success.
- Helps prevent things from going wrong.
Since small businesses usually aren't staffed to have separate people fulfill these roles, it's typically up to you, as the boss, to wear both hats.
When you don't, your business suffers.
If you are only a manager, your focus is too short sighted. You don't provide the vision your company needs to survive and grow. You won't respond to changing conditions, develop new business, keep up with the competition.
And your employees may not feel motivated or engaged.
If you are only a leader, your vision is too grand. You don't provide the day-to-day oversight and guidance you need to make sure that things are being done on time and on budget. Your customer service slips. Your profit margins shrink.
And employees may feel you don't care about or notice their personal performance.
Realistically, entrepreneurs tend to lean one way or the other, toward leadership or management. I'm a stronger leader than a manager.
So, what have I learned from my recent experience?
I must put procedures in place to ensure that my employees are more accountable.
I certainly do not want to be the kind of employer who micromanages my employees nor do I want to have a workplace where workers feel mistrusted.
But I've decided that I need to follow a bit of Ronald Reagan's advice: "Trust but verify."
Lead and manage. It's tough, but it's my job.
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Collected and who knows?
Today in the New York Times we find a somewhat interesting article about a 1973 GOP strategy paper written by none other than a 22-year-old Karl Rove. The paper, found amongst 78,000 pages of documents recently released by the National Archives from the Nixon administration, is predictably wonkish and unsurprisingly devious for a man who created his own math while at the same time advised the president on all things political--and all things criminal.
But the past is the past, and one man's "Reefer Madness" is another man's GOP fund-raising tool, I bring the NYT article up because when interviewed about the newly unearthed position paper Mr. Rove said this:
"When you send something to a White House person," he said, "it tends to be collected and remain."
Collected and remain? Karl Rove selectively seems to forget what happens when you send something--electronically or otherwise--to a Bush White House person. Collected and destroyed, collected and deleted, collected and locked behind an executive privilege wall seems more likely today.
Who would have thought we would ever crave the good old Nixon era days?
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Eugenio (Genying/Eugene) Laborte dela Cerna
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Son of Catalino Alcordo dela Cerna and Angelina Gabuya Laborte of Aloguinsan
Volleyball coach and Cebu Sports Hall-of-Famer, player, patron.
Called Genying by the family, Eugene had always played volleyball while in school; worked with Philippine Airlines, coached University of San Carlos boys high school volleyball team; then also started its college team; some of USC players that went through him selected to Philippine national teams; named to the Cebu Sports Hall-of-Fame in 2004; USC coach from 1970-2006; everywhere called a legend in Cebu volleyball.
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Jacobitesjăk´əbīts˝ [key], adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and Scottish thrones after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. They take their name from the Latin form ( Jacobus) of the name James. Theoretical justification for the Stuart claim was found in the writings of the nonjurors, who maintained the principles of hereditary succession and the divine right of kings. But the Stuarts' continued adherence to Roman Catholicism, the rash and incompetent leadership of their military ventures, and the duplicity of foreign courts cost the Jacobite cause much support.
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INTERVIEW WITH LIZ MILANOVICH about Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Balkans
Lee Jay Walker – THE MODERN TOKYO TIMES
Liz: Lee Jay, thank you for agreeing to this interview. No doubt you have a very busy schedule, so it's doubly appreciated.
Lee Jay: Hello Liz, you are more than welcome. In truth, the honor is mine because I know you care deeply about important issues and the role of the mass media. So thank you for your invite.
Liz: I believe you're a freelance journalist based in Tokyo, and that you're a correspondent for Seoul Times. Is that correct?
Lee Jay: Yes, I am a freelance journalist and I have been based in Tokyo for several years. I was a correspondent for The Seoul Times but now I send my articles to other agencies and recently my articles have been put on www.serbianna.com, www.aina.org, www.pakistanchristianpost.com, www.faithfreedom.org, and many others. I also get quoted on important think tanks and help other journalists when possible.
Liz: Perhaps tell us a bit about your background and when you became interested in happenings in the Balkans, specifically ex-Yugoslavia?
Lee Jay: You have many factors to this question because this applies to my visits to the former Yugoslavia, the rich history of Serbia, and sadly the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia meant that this nation was often in the news.
I would like to add that my interests began prior to the convulsions that erupted throughout the former Yugoslavia. However, during the numerous conflicts that engulfed the former Yugoslavia, it was abundantly clear that the media on a whole distorted the real facts.
I also would like to add that the current situation in Kosovo is also being hidden by many news agencies and this also applies to the role of Albanian nationalism and radical Sunni Islam in Bosnia.
Liz: Seems to me that very few Westerners have cared enough to get an accurate read on events there. Obviously you're not in that category. What set off your radar in the direction of the Balkans?
Lee Jay: I remember people like Paddy Ashdown on television in the United Kingdom and he, and countless others, were clearly distorting the reality of Bosnia. Yet no lessons were learned because the same media machine manipulated the reality of Kosovo.
The New York Times, for instance, tells us all about the numbers game because the article states that The State Department also gave the highest estimate of dead Albanians. The New York Times reported, "On April 19, 1999, the State Department said that up to 500,000 Kosovar Albanians were missing and feared dead" Erlanger, Steven (November 11, 1999). "Early Count Hints at Fewer Kosovo Deaths". The New York Times, p. A6…"
Also, ex-President Bill Clinton used very emotional words and clearly he was manipulating the crisis for other reasons and he openly distorted the truth on May 13, 1999. For on this day Clinton stated that "there are 100,000 people [in Kosovo] who are still missing" — clearly implying that Serbian armed forces were slaughtering Kosovo Albanians. Clinton further used more emotional language by stating that 600,000 ethnic Albanians could be "trapped within Kosovo itself, lacking shelter, short of food, afraid to go home, or buried in mass graves dug by their executioners."
These are just some reasons because you have so many other factors, but clearly the lies that were being told were not only "big" but they were "a clear fabrication."
Again, the same lies are still going on and clearly Clinton and NATO, and many others, should be held accountable for what they did. At the same time other questions should be asked, for example why did America and others support radical Islam in Bosnia and just how did the KLA grow from zero into a trained terrorist unit?
Also, which side destroyed a possible agreement at Rambouillet? If you read the article by David N. Gibbs called Was Kosovo A Good War? Then just like past actions in Bosnia and Croatia, you get a complete different picture.
David N. Gibbs, the author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Vanderbilt University Press, June 2009), states that "The available information suggests that a full settlement of the Kosovo conflict was within reach and could have been achieved at Rambouillet. What caused the agreement to break down was a new development that occurred late in the negotiation process. Specifically, the Western mediators now proposed that a "Military Annex" be added to the final agreement. The proposed addition affirmed that NATO peacekeeping forces would be deployed, and that these forces would have "free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded access throughout the FRY [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]." This section was highly significant; it meant that not only would Kosovo be occupied by a NATO peacekeeping force, but potentially all of Serbia and all that remained of Yugoslavia would be occupied as well. After the Military Annex appeared, the Serb delegation appeared to lose all confidence in the negotiation process, and the peace talks broke down."
"The suspicious wording of the Military Annex was originally noted by British journalist John Pilger in 1999, during the course of the NATO bombing campaign. In response, U.S. officials have insisted that the Annex was a harmless detail, and deny that there was any effort to sabotage the peace talks."
"The truth telling was left to the British. In a post-war parliamentary hearing, former Defense Minister of State John Gilbert affirmed that key negotiators were in fact seeking to sabotage the conference. Gilbert was the number two figure in the British Defense Ministry, with a specific responsibility for intelligence gathering, and he supported the war. He is surely a credible source. With regard to the motives of the negotiators, he offered this observation: "I think certain people were spoiling for a fight in NATO at that time … we were at a point when some people felt that something had to be done [against Serbia], so you just provoked a fight." With regard to the peace terms themselves, he said, "I think the terms put to Milosevic at Rambouillet were absolutely intolerable: How could he possibly accept them? It was quite deliberate" (emphasis added)."
I apologize for my long reply to this question but you have so many factors that it is impossible to answer quickly. Yet these facts, and others, have led to innocents being killed and even today radical Islam is still a threat in Bosnia and in modern day Kosovo the de-Christianization of this land is ongoing. Therefore, the past is responsible for many misdeeds and sadly the consequences are still being felt by Serbians and other minorities in Kosovo.
Liz: What are your views about the close friendship USA and allies continue to pursue with the extremist Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo, while at the same time supposedly waging a war against Muslim terrorism elsewhere in the world? What is your opinion on this apparent dichotomy? What is really behind all of the political maneuvering?
Lee Jay: This is a very challenging question and it is not easy to find a start or an ending because America's foreign policy keeps on changing, however, certain linkages can be found.
For example, in the Balkans you have had three flashpoints involving mainly Orthodox Christians and Muslims since World War Two and this applies to Bosnia, Cyprus, and Kosovo, respectively. Yet America supported the side of Islam every time and some people could argue that it was just a coincidence but for myself, and others who dig deeply, you must have a bigger issue and it can't just come down to self interests or geopolitics?
After all, India is a democratic nation but once more America was closer to Pakistan and Islamists have used Pakistan in order to destabilize both Afghanistan and Kashmir. So why did America support a military general called Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in the late 1970s and 1980s over democratic leaders in India?
If we add this question to the reality of Afghanistan and Iraq then it becomes even more confusing, after all, both Afghanistan and Iraq were ruled by secular leaders. However, the USA supported the implementation of Islamic Sharia law in both nations, and for non-Muslims in Iraq this is unbelievable because Christians, Shabaks, Mandaeans, and Yazidis, are all suffering from Islamization.
Therefore, America had been supporting radical Islam and Islamic terrorism prior to the crisis which engulfed Yugoslavia. Yet the fact that America had supported radical Islam in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and other parts of the world, meant that it was easy for Clinton's administration to do a deal with radical Islamists in Bosnia.
For the same networks which funded Osama Bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists were easy to use because it was second nature for the security forces of America and others, for example the British.
People should read the book by Richard J Aldrich called 'The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence.' This book highlights the reality of radical Islam throughout the wider world and what role America and others have played in using Islamists and allowing this ideology to expand.
Therefore, this question is very complex but it is clear that Clinton played the "Islamic terrorist card" in order to further his foreign policy objectives. However, you have divisions within the security services in America and Clinton merely overruled everybody and took an independent decision.
Also, America will claim that they supported radical Islam against Najibullah in Afghanistan because they were fighting communism. Yet events in Yugoslavia had nothing to do with the Cold War and they happened after the demise of the Soviet Union and America continued to have good relations with The Taliban well after the ending of the Cold War.
Added to this is September 11th and since this event many directions have changed in some parts of the world. For example past Islamists who were allies of America in Afghanistan then became enemies and this complicates everything because the new changes were not consistent.
After all, America is still a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia and this nation or individuals or organizations within this nation, are spreading radical Islam within many parts of the former Yugoslavia. Therefore, the situation remains cloudy to say the least and the Bosnian Islamic card is still a potent force for Saudi Arabia in order to spread radical Islam throughout Bosnia and other parts of Europe.
Liz: Former 'Clintonites' are now President Obama's key advisers. Therefore, do you foresee the Obama administration exerting its influence further in the region?
Lee Jay: I think that President Obama is in appeasement mode towards Islam and despotic nations, therefore, deals are "on the table" for all and sundry at the moment. Yet when it comes to the Balkans then I believe that he will follow a similar policy and it must be remembered that America is already overstretched in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
America will also turn "a blind eye" to the de-Christianization of Kosovo and the same applies to other nations who supported the disintegration of Yugoslavia. However, events in Bosnia and Macedonia are more complex because the so-called allies of America have internal divisions. This applies to Croat and Bosnian Muslim tensions and ongoing ethnic and religious tensions in Macedonian between Macedonians and Albanians. Added to this, it is clear that radical Islam is also growing in both Bosnia and Macedonia and the political nature of Islam means that forced alliances may collapse and new dimensions may errupt?
Given this, America will want to shore up her allies and maintain peace within the region. Yet America will also be open to Serbia if this nation bows down to more pressure but clearly it will be on the terms of America.
In saying that, the current political leaders in Serbia are very different and times have moved on. Also, if Islamists continue to destabilize the region then they may just push America into a different direction or being neutral?
I don't believe that the current leader of America is intent on being anti-Serbian but when it comes to Kosovo then America's policy will remain the same.
In that sense, Obama is tied to past administrations and the future remains bleak for Serbians and all minorities in Kosovo. Yet the clear divisions of the past are not so striking in modern times when it comes to possible courses of action? Despite this, divisions will remain between both nations over the status of Kosovo and America will continue to favor the Muslim/Croat side in Bosnia and given this reality, America is still anti-Serbian but now in a political sense and not military because it is difficult to see both nations clashing on the battlefield.
However, twenty four hours is a long time in politics and it is difficult to predict such a delicate region because many convulsions could still happen in the near future.
Liz: In your pursuit of going after the facts, you must have encountered criticisms from those to whom the truth about ex-Yugoslavia is not palatable. Can you recall vividly any negative reactions you have received to what you've written in the past?
Lee Jay: I have had many people who have thanked me for writing about the former Yugoslavia, therefore, I have been very lucky.
However, I have had some very strong emails the other way, including death threats but when this happens then it merely proves to me that I must be challenging people.
I do know that an official from the Embassy of Kosovo in London tried to put pressure on The Seoul Times and he refused to speak to me directly. However, I told him that my article, KOSOVO & Systematic Persecution by KLA, was based on my findings and my editor, Mr. Joseph Joh, supported me and my article and The Seoul Times refused to debate the issue openly.
Liz: Is there anything further you'd like to tell us?
Lee Jay: I apologize for the long wording of my replies but the questions were difficult to answer because of the complex nature of events.
I would like to add that people should do their best to tell the world about the ongoing crisis in Kosovo and support people like Ninoslav Randjelovic and check his work at http://www.daysmadeoffear.com/about.html. He and others need to be supported because the "voiceless" have been ignored and marginalized and people like Ninoslav Randjelovic are trying to inform the world about the current reality and the ongoing crisis in Kosovo.
At the same time, it is up to individuals to inform people about past events and to re-educate people about the other point of view.
Liz: Lee Jay, thanks for taking time to do this interview.
Lee Jay: You are most welcome and thank you for giving me your time.
I hope people have not switched off by my long replies and I wish everyone well and I would like to thank you once more for inviting me to share my thinking and opinions.


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