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Metformin Hydrochloride in Preventing Esophageal Cancer in Patients With Barrett Esophagus
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Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Barrett Esophagus Esophageal Cancer |
Drug: metformin hydrochloride Other: placebo |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Prevention |
Official Title: | Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of Barrett's Esophagus Chemoprevention With Metformin |
- Percent Change in Median pS6K1 Immunostaining Among Participants With Barrett Esophagus [ Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months ]The percent change in pS6K1 was calculated as month 3 pS6k1 values minus baseline pS6k1 values, then divide by baseline pS6k1 values and multiply by 100.
- Overall Adverse Event Rates [ Time Frame: Up to 30 days ]
Number of patients that experienced adverse events (grade 1 or above) as measured by NCI CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) v. 4.0.
The data reported in the table include only the commonly occurring adverse events (3 or more events).
Enrollment: | 93 |
Study Start Date: | June 2012 |
Study Completion Date: | September 2013 |
Primary Completion Date: | May 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive extended-release metformin hydrochloride PO QD on week 1, and BID on weeks 2-12 (QAM QPM on week 3) in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or disease progression.
Drug: metformin hydrochloride
Given PO QD and BID
Other Name: Glucophage
Placebo Comparator: Arm II
Patients receive extended-release placebo PO QD on week 1and BID on weeks 2-12 (QAM and QPM on week 3) in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or disease progression.
Other: placebo
Given PO QD and BID
Other Name: PLCB
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed diagnosis of Barrett esophagus, with no dysplasia, indeterminate for dysplasia, or low-grade dysplasia as defined by the presence of specialized columnar epithelium on histology and >= 2 cm of involvement on endoscopy
- Adequate Barrett mucosa, which is defined as >= 1 out of 4 research samples (i.e., >= 25%) with >= 50% intestinal metaplasia in biopsies required to satisfy the endpoints of the study
- No history of esophageal carcinoma or other cancer(s) (except for non-melanoma skin cancers)
- No erosive esophagitis or ulcerative esophagitis, unless treatment with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) results in healed erosions or ulcers prior to entry endoscopy
No history of high-grade dysplasia or cancer (confirmed locally by esophagogastroduodenoscopy [EGD] and Pathology reports)
- No ulcer, plaque, nodule, stricture, or other luminal irregularity within the Barrett segment, unless clinical biopsy produces no evidence of high-grade dysplasia or cancer
- ECOG performance status =< 1
- Hemoglobin >= 10 g/dL
- Leukocytes >= 3,000/mL (>= 2,500/mL for African-American participants)
- Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mL (>= 1,000/mL for African-American participants)
- Platelets >= 100,000/mL
- Total bilirubin =< institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) =< 1.5 times institutional ULN
- Creatinine =< institutional ULN
- Willingness to provide tissue samples for research purposes
- No contraindication to esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
- Willingness, for both men and women, to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; surgical intervention; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation
- A negative (serum or urine) pregnancy test done =< 7 days prior to Pre-Registration, for women of childbearing potential only
- No pregnant or nursing women
- No participants with diabetes mellitus
- No history of vitamin B12 deficiency or megaloblastic anemia
- No history of lactic acidosis
- No diseases associated with weight loss: anorexia, bulimia, or nausea
- No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to metformin
No participants with HIV, cirrhosis of any cause, NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), or hepatitis (auto-immune or infectious)
- For participants diagnosed with any other hepatic impairment, consult with protocol principal investigator (PI)
- No metabolic acidosis, acute or chronic, including ketoacidosis
- No uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements; this includes significant medical conditions including renal failure, hepatic failure, sepsis, and hypoxia
- No genetics disorders such as family history of hereditary gastrointestinal polyp disorder (e.g., familial adenomatous polyposis [FAP], hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer [HNPCC], Peutz-Jegher disease)
- No chronic alcohol use or a history of alcohol abuse (defined as ingestion of >= 3 drinks per day)
- No kidney disease or renal insufficiency (defined as serum creatinine outside the normal institutional limits)
- Currently on a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) >= 4 weeks (any PPI taken at least once daily is acceptable)
- No medication(s) for weight loss ≤ 2 months prior to Pre-Registration
- No treatment with medications that may increase metformin hydrochloride levels: cationic drugs, e.g., digoxin, amiloride, procainamide, ranitidine, trimethoprim, quinidine, quinine, vancomycin, triamterene, and morphine
- No treatment with other oral hypoglycemic agents
- No participant use of metformin, cimetidine (Tagamet), furosemide (Lasix), or nifedipine (Cardizem), or any other drug contraindicated for use with metformin
- No receipt of any other investigational agents =< 3 months prior to Pre-Registration, except innocuous agents with no known interaction with the study agent (e.g., standard dose multivitamins or topical agents for limited skin conditions), at the discretion of the Protocol Lead Investigator at each Participating Site
No participants who have undergone ablation or other local therapies (e.g., percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy [PDT], cryotherapy, radiofrequency, argon plasma coagulation [APC], or multipolar electrocoagulation [MPEC])
- Patients treated with endoscopic mucosal resection [EMR] allowed
- No participants anticipating elective surgery during the study period
- No participants planning to undergo elective radiologic studies involving intravascular administration of iodinated contrast materials
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01447927
United States, Illinois | |
Hines Veterans Administration Hospital | |
Hines, Illinois, United States, 60141 | |
United States, Minnesota | |
Mayo Clinic | |
Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905 | |
United States, Ohio | |
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106-5065 | |
Case Medical Center, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106 | |
United States, Pennsylvania | |
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Shadyside Hospital | |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232 | |
Canada, Ontario | |
University of Toronto | |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A1 | |
Puerto Rico | |
University of Puerto Rico | |
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00936 |
Principal Investigator: | Amitabh Chak | Case Medical Center, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01447927 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | October 5, 2011 |
Results First Received: | April 2, 2014 |
Last Updated: | June 19, 2014 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Esophageal Neoplasms Barrett Esophagus Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Digestive System Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Head and Neck Neoplasms |
Digestive System Diseases Esophageal Diseases Gastrointestinal Diseases Digestive System Abnormalities Metformin Hypoglycemic Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 28, 2017


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FINDLAY — A search continued Thursday for a Hancock County woman who was not found when her car was pulled from a water-filled ditch the day before, authorities said.
Missing was Kristie Brown, according to the Hancock County Sheriff's Office. Her age was not released.
Sheriff deputies responding to a call on a vehicle submerged in the water arrived about 7:30 a.m. and found a car submerged in a ditch off County Road 139 near State Rt. 613 in Hancock County's Portage Township. Authorities believe she was driving the car when it went off the road and into the ditch, sheriff deputies said.
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Sticky This mother****er. Time to talk about the draft. This should be open all season. You guys go become scouts and find players to talk about throughout the season. At least this is one positive thread.
Sticky This mother****er. Time to talk about the draft. This should be open all season. You guys go become scouts and find players to talk about throughout the season. At least this is one positive thread.
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1st round trade down get a 2nd and whatever else use the first on the best defense prospect available
2nd-david amerson
3rd-stephen taylor or bacarri rambo
i wish 3-13 can get us a 2nd overall pick. that way we might be able to get 2 firsts and a second and still stay in the top ten.
Gonna need a DT to replace Seymour and Kelly. Jonathan Jenkins comes to mind.
Can play in a 3-4 as NT or in 4-3. Has lined up everywhere across the line.
Either way I think Reggie's gotta go defense.
^ i think we can all agree on that. i want a DE or MLB first. Move houston inside with bryant. get rid of the lazy dudes kelly and seymour(mr. i never practice)
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God I hope we don't draft a damn CB.
It's time to draft line line line line line until both are fixed. Our RB's would look alot better if our DL got to the QB. Same with the offense.
I would have no problem drafting all OL and DL.
I say we draft the best defensive or offensive lineman available.
I would like to go 3-4, dump Kelly and Seymour. Draft a NT with a 1st.
Then draft a LB, corner, OL. Some other things, maybe a RB, WR, S. Pretty much every position needs something.
I like that dude from Utah too... DT Star Lotulelei.
This is a learning process for the coaches and by now they have to know the positions I just stated are all weak spots with this team. I don't care if they come in the draft or free agency but they need fixed. I hope like HEII we replace Knapp once and for all, I never want to see that man in silver and black again!
Weak spots? Lol...what are our strong spots?
There isn't anything we don't need. This team is in an awful spot.
1 De, 1 DT, 2 Cbs, 2 Safeties, 1 OLB, 1 MLB, RT, OG, WR, RB.
12 new starters needed next year.
Bye Huff, DMC, Kelly, Seymour, Heyward Bey, Mcclain. See what we can get for branch(huge disappointment)
with these guys gone, some for picks, we will have a lot of money to bring in 3-4 GOOD Fa's with depth after that. Draft smart. Defense, a RT, and a RB.
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We like trying to make "street foods" at home, perfecting recipes for dishes like gyros and these spiced burgers, known as kofta. — Anne Henry, Toronto, Ontario
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh mint
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 3/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 3/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef (90% lean)
- Refrigerated tzatziki sauce, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the first nine ingredients. Add beef; mix lightly but thoroughly. Shape into six 4x2-in. oblong patties.
- Grill patties, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from heat 4-6 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 160°. If desired, serve with sauce. Yield: 6 servings.
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"These were good but I was expecting a distinct flavor from the spices and I didn't really get it. I served the burgers on pitas with the tzatziki sauce, which definitely added that taste of Greece but I'm not sure it would have otherwise had it. Tasty though and a fun change from a regular burger."


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The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
Thus Brandon Cronenberg, whose debut feature "Antiviral" premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, shares plenty of horror DNA with his father David, who admitted during a father-son interview with Toronto Film Festival's Cameron Bailey at Cannes (video below) that he and his son share an interest in the sciences, animals and the natural world. "I had no dynastic ambitions for Bran particularly," he told the audience. "Whatever he wanted to do was going to happen naturally." Croneberg pere said he was less a creative mentor to his son than the film's producer, Niv Fichman.
While the 69-year-old father easily charmed the room, Brandon, 32, was far more circumspect, at least in public. He started out making shorts and finished his first feature just before Cannes. This is the first time father-and-son features have played the festival in the same year. While Entertainment One acquired ahead of the fest Rob Pattinson-starrer "Cosmopolis," which was in competiton at Cannes but came away with no awards, IFC Midnight just acquired U.S. rights to "Antiviral."
Based on Brandon's screenplay, the film stars Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith and Malcolm McDowell.
"The film manages to skewer our culture's obsession with celebrity," said Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, "while also delivering more than a fair share of chills and gruesome body horror. We look forward to working with Brandon and his team."
Produced by Rhombus Media with the participation of Telefilm Canada and the OMDC, "Antiviral" will be released in Canada by Alliance Films and in the UK by its subsidiary Momentum Pictures. IFC Midnight is a sister label of IFC Films and Sundance Selects, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc.
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ANTIVIRAL follows the story of Syd March, an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to rabid fans who wish to partake in the ultimate form of communion. Syd supplements his income by selling illegal samples of these viruses on the black market,smuggling them out of the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills superstar Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and obsessed fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding the starlet's death before he too meets a morbid end.


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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- The execution of a death-row inmate in Missouri was still on hold Wednesday night pending a court fight, with the deadline for the state to complete the lethal injection fast approaching.
Missouri's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday to clear an appeals court stay that was delaying the execution of Herbert Smulls at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Smulls, 56, was sentenced to death for killing a suburban St. Louis jeweler and badly injuring his wife during a 1991 robbery.
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay late Tuesday, shortly before the scheduled 12:01 a.m. Wednesday execution, after Smulls' attorneys filed an appeal challenging the state's refusal to disclose where it obtained its execution drug. The high court lifted that stay without explanation around 5 p.m., but another appeal is still pending.
The state has until 11:59 p.m. Wednesday to execute Smulls. If it doesn't happen, the Missouri Supreme Court will set a new execution date.
Among the final appeals made by Smulls' lawyer, Cheryl Pilate, was one focusing on the state's refusal to disclose the name of the compounding pharmacy that produces the pentobarbital used during executions. Pilate contends that the state's secrecy makes it impossible to know whether the drug could cause pain and suffering during the execution process.
State prison officials maintained that the compounding pharmacy is part of the execution team and therefore its name cannot be released to the public.
St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch has said talk about the drug was a smoke screen aimed at sparing the life of a cold-blooded killer. He noted that several courts had already ruled against Smulls, including the U.S. District Court in Kansas City and the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gov. Jay Nixon denied clemency Tuesday evening.
"It was a horrific crime," McCulloch said on Tuesday. "With all the other arguments that the opponents of the death penalty are making, it's simply to try to divert the attention from what this guy did, and why he deserves to be executed."
Smulls had already served prison time for robbery when, on July 27, 1991, he went to F&M Crown Jewels in Chesterfield and told the owners, Stephen and Florence Honickman, that he wanted to buy a diamond for his fiancee. He took 15-year-old Norman Brown with him.
Once in the shop, Smulls began shooting. The robbers took rings and watches, including those that Florence Honickman was wearing.
She was shot in the side and the arm, and feigned death while lying in a pool of her own blood but survived. Her 51-year-old husband died.
Police stopped Smulls 15 minutes later, and they found stolen jewelry and weapons in his car. Florence Honickman identified the assailants.
Brown was convicted in 1993 of first-degree murder and other charges, and sentenced to life without parole. Smulls got the death penalty.
Missouri had used a three-drug execution process since 1989, until the drug makers stopped selling those drugs for executions. Missouri eventually switched to pentobarbital, which was used to execute two Missouri inmates late last year. Neither inmate showed visible signs of distress.
Compounding pharmacies custom-mix drugs for clients and are not subject to oversight by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, though they are regulated by states.
Associated Press writers Justin Juozapavicius in Tulsa, Okla., and Chris Blank in Jefferson City, Mo., contributed to this report.


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Hey, were ready when were ready. Our players are just as important as yours.
Hey, were ready when were ready. Our players are just as important as yours.
I'm in EST.
It is 1:12 EST right now.
If you don't have twelve people in 18 minutes for 1:30 EST/GMT-5, you will not have a match.
That is all, get your timezones right.
Actually he is right, he said 1:30 -5.
You have until 1:30 -5 to post an answer.
I hunger for the results.
Read the post. 15 minutes.
Can't we delay for 2 hours? At least until our team leaders come online.
How many people do you have right now?
What server ?
I dont recall this being figured out.
Yeah they told us absolutely nothing and are now just expecting us to be totally ready when they are.
Or how about you play at the time that we both agreed on originally or we'll take it as you surrendered.
apparently you're now HellSoldier
Hey, we want to play just as bad as you do. We screwed up but that doesnt mean we're off.
We told you 1:30 EST. Not our fault you somehow managed to warp that into 3:30.
It's gonna be awful boring with 4 vs 12. So how about we a few hours so we can have an actual game.
He was talking about the server info
Look, we understand we fucked up. Can you guys be a bit more flexible? 2/3 of our guys are offline/sleeping.
Arma truly is the ultimate military simulator when all your careful planning totally goes to shit at the last minute.
jeez just chill out guys
All that's going to happen is the onus is on you for a game. If you can find at least twelve people soon, game on. Otherwise, it will be a fault on your end that the game will not occur. Nothing much apart from that.
I fucked it up because I adjusted it to my timezone, -7, making it 3:30 for me and then me telling everyone else specifically 3:30 -5.
We might not have enough people by then, since most of us planned their shit according to the old time.
It's 2 or so hours. Odds are, they won't have new plans by then, because if they had to go 2 hours from now, they wouldn't be there the whole original game anyhow.
Ok well we planned for 3:30
Okay we'll wait until enough of your dudes come on, then if we'll have enough people still on on our side, we'll play, if not we'll do it next week.
Are you their leader?
viewer list is astonishing.
i only know one of you.
I'm the public relations officer since I played with you guys like once
We won't have enough people to play a match of this length in two hours. The match will most likely be postponed a week, there's nothing we can do apart from that. If you can't make it to that then there won't be another game for two weeks after that.
yeah but for some reason some of your guys don't like domi.
What is wrong with them.
What a cruddy birthday present this is.
Down scale it
Like We'll have some of our guys sit out
oakman that's a bad idea.
Waiting a week sounds awesome, gives us a lot of time to get our formations sharpened to a razor edge
Hmm, seems good too
Atleast we can still play my Freight mission to have something to do today.
Or how about we have a big joint non-PvP game when your guys get on with whoever's still there on our side
That'd be pretty neat, we could also just jump into a Warfare or big AAS mission, nothing serious. Mixed teams probably.
A joint game would be pretty cool, but it'd probably require a bit of planning, wouldn't it?
Isnt Europe's latest time only like 10:30 right now? Im sure you guys can like stay up.
Its a weekend
Its 6:30pm in the UK.
Haha, I knew this was going to be a failure, called it last night in the training.
I don't see why you guys need an excuse to play with us, you're free to play with us whenever....
More practice is what I call for!


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Campbell County High School's boys qualified for their first regional tournament in three years by advancing to the semifinals of last week's District 3-AAA Basketball Tournament at Oak Ridge.
After beating Clinton on opening night, the Cougars (18-12 overall) punched their ticket to the regionals with a 64-55 victory Thursday night over Knox Halls.
The win avenged a pair of regular season losses by Campbell County to the Red Devils.
After blowing a 17-point lead nearly three months ago during a loss to Coalfield, the Jellico Blue Devils avenged that defeat Thursday night with a 70-59 opening-round victory in the District 4-A Basketball Tournament.
MTSU signee Cody Malicoat dropped in 41 points to pace Jellico (14-16), which led by as many as 22 in the fourth quarter.
Malicoat's 41 points overshadowed a great scoring night by Coalfield senior Dillon Wilson, who poured in a career-high 32 points.
It's a make or break week for county basketball teams.
District tournaments tipped off earlier this week with opening round elimination games. Only the top four teams from each district advance to regionals.
District 3-AAA
Campbell County High School's girls (15-1 district, 22-6 overall) had the week off after winning the regular season title and top billing in the league tournament.
They will face the Hardin Valley vs. Oak Ridge winner on Saturday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in a semifinal game at Oak Ridge.
Courtney Morris helped the Campbell County High School girls' basketball team stamp an exclamation point on a spectacular regular season.
The senior point guard shot 50 percent from the field (7 of 14) and 75 percent from the charity stripe (3 of 4) Friday night while scoring a game-high 20 points to lead a 69-53 victory over visiting Cumberland Gap in a non-district game.
Senior forward Nick Litton scored 17 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked a pair of shots Friday night to help the Campbell County High varsity boys' basketball team avenge an earlier loss to Cumberland Gap.
Playing at home, the Cougars (7-9 district, 16-11 overall) defeated the Panthers 61-53 in overtime to end the regular season on a high note. The victory helped take some of the sting out of district losses to Knoxville Central and Karns last week, both of which were on the road.
"Central was a tough game," Housley said.
Jellico High School's boys can erase a season's worth of frustration with a good showing this week in the District 4-A Basketball Tournament.
The defending district and regional tournament champion Blue Devils (6-6 district, 13-16 overall) have been anything but consistent this season. Jellico posted an impressive win over state-ranked Grace Christian Academy in late January, but also suffered disappointing district losses to Wartburg, Coalfield, Oneida and most recently Friday to Sunbright on Senior Night.
Campbell County High School football player Logan Hunter didn't waste any time on National Signing Day.
Before going to his first class last Wednesday, the 6-foot-4, 303 lb., senior left tackle signed a national letter-of-intent and faxed it, pronto, to the athletic department at NCAA Division II Tusculum College in Greeneville.
Five hours later, at Hunter's signing ceremony in the CCHS library, the strapping lineman was still grinning from ear to ear.
Campbell County High School's varsity boys survived early foul trouble Friday night at Anderson County to complete a regular season sweep of their archrival.
Junior guard Corey Poteet led all scorers with 18 points, including a trio of first half 3-pointers, to carry the Cougars to a convincing 62-48 victory.
Leave it to Anderson County to find a chink in Campbell County's armor.
The host Lady Mavericks spoiled a perfect league record for the Lady Cougars' district championship basketball team with a 57-47 upset victory Friday night.
Anderson County's Cayla Oglesby led all scorers with 20 points, including nine of 11 free throw shooting in the fourth quarter. Kaitlyn Cupples and Maggie Smith chipped in 15 and 12 points, respectively, for the Lady Mavericks.
On Monday night, Feb. 6, the Campbell County High School freshman girls and boys visited Anderson County for a basketball rematch. The Lady Cougars wasted no time taking care of AC, 61-45. In the nightcap, the freshman boys followed suit.


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The Slice: How else are we expected to come up with an alias?
How do strangers get your name wrong?
"The most common one is Marsha," wrote Monica Peters. "But I have also been called Mona, Veronica, Mariah and even Helga, to name but a few."
Penny Simonson wrote, "When pronouncing our last name, people get as far as the SIM, and then seem to panic/give up and decide it is Simpson. Or they get that far and then eek out some version of Simmmmsonin or the like."
Gaye Dionne gets called Gail or Kaye. And people often think her last name is her first name.
Mike Storms said strangers routinely drop the final letter of his last name.
Florence Young sometimes has to respond to "Phyllis" or "Frances" and she has been known to get messages left for "Lawrence."
Carrie Webbenhurst has discovered that there are 27 different ways to spell her first name. "I tell people it's spelled 'like the movie' — if they spell it correctly, I can gauge how old they are."
Mae Lapham once looked at her patient wristband in a hospital and saw that her name had been spelled "LaPham."
Mark Godbey said more than a few people think his name is "Goodbey."
People have been calling Priscilla Bennin "Patricia" or "Phyllis" all her life.
Vincent Elbert is forever dealing with poor listeners writing "Albert."
Then there was this from Genny McKinley. "My name is Genevieve, but I'm also called Genny and Gen. Here are some of the ways my name has been misspelled and mispronounced: Gwendolyn, Gueniviere, Virginia, Jennifer, Gwen, Guinn, Ginny, Jenny, Jean, Jeannie, Jennavee, Jennabee, and Jan. Some people have even pronounced Genny with a hard G instead of a soft G."
You don't have to be a human to hear your name botched, though.
Barbara Arenal said a fair number of people are initially confused about her dog's moniker. That pet's name is Cheetos. But the pooch has been called Chito, Chico, Cherrios and Cheetah. "I even had a lady once ask me how my dog 'Doritos' was doing."
Today's Slice question: Is Spokane resident Chris Lang the only one who believes that if he finds a product he really likes it soon will disappear from store shelves and never be available again?


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Zakharov, Y and Albu, F (2005) Coordinate descent iterations in fast affine projection algorithm. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. pp. 353-356. ISSN 1070-9908
We propose a new approach for real-time implementation of the fast affine projection (FAP) algorithm. This is based on exploiting the recently introduced dichotomous coordinate descent (DCD) algorithm, which is especially efficient for solving systems of linear equations on real-time hardware and software platforms since it is free of multiplication and division. The numerical stability of the DCD algorithm allows the new combined DCD-FAP algorithm also to be stable. The convergence and complexity of the DCD-FAP algorithm is compared with that of the FAP, Gauss-Seidel FAP (GS-FAP), and modified GS-FAP algorithms in the application to acoustic echo cancellation. The DCD-FAP algorithm demonstrates a performance close to that of the FAP algorithm with ideal matrix inversion and the complexity smaller than that of the Gauss-Seidel FAP algorithms.
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Keywords: | coordinate descent,echo cancellation,fast affine projection,Gauss-Seidel algorithm |
Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Electronics (York) |
Depositing User: | Sherpa Assistant |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2005 |
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Serves 4
These fresh, crunchy, colorful tostadas are the perfect showcase for shredded leftover white meat from Citrus-Marinated Roasted Chicken, which is gently and briefly reheated with a bit of the pan juice from the recipe. Didn't make the roast chicken this past weekend? No problem. A store-bought rotisserie chicken will do; just sub in a lower-salt chicken broth for the pan juice.
Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 400°F.
Lightly brush both sides of the tortillas with oil and arrange them in a single layer on two large heavy-duty baking sheets. Lightly season the tortillas with salt and bake, swapping and rotating the pans halfway through, until golden-brown and crisp, about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir the sour cream, cilantro, lime juice, and 1/4 tsp. salt. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
Heat the olive oil in a 3-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and cumin seeds and cook, stirring, until the onion is tender and golden-brown, about 8 minutes. Add the beans and chile and stir until heated through. Stir in 2 Tbs. of the reserved pan juice and 1/4 cup water; bring to a simmer. Using a potato masher, coarsely mash the bean mixture and then season to taste with salt.
Combine the chicken and the remaining 2 Tbs. pan juice in another 3-quart saucepan over low heat. Cover and cook, stirring often, until the chicken is hot, about 2 minutes.
Arrange 2 tortillas on each of 4 large plates. Spread the bean mixture over the tortillas. Top with the chicken, and then the radishes and lettuce. Spoon some of the cream over the tostadas, sprinkle each with cheese, and serve.
Serve with your favorite salsa.
nutrition information (per serving): Calories (kcal): 710, Fat (kcal): 34, Fat Calories (g): 300, Saturated Fat (g): 9, Protein (g): 49, Monounsaturated Fat (g): 15, Carbohydrates (mg): 50, Polyunsaturated Fat (mg): 6, Sodium (g): 570, Cholesterol (g): 140, Fiber (g): 8,
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Hey guys, Rockstar announced the details of the special and collector's editions of GTA V today.
Special Edition: ($79.99)
The Grand Theft Auto V Special Edition includes:
- Full retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V
- Collectible SteelBook with Exclusive Artwork This special SteelBook features double-sided, never-before-seen artwork of Michael, Trevor and Franklin. Custom color and metallic treatments bring out the detail of the artwork created exclusively for this SteelBook.
- Blueprint Map This exclusive, additional 21.5" x 26.75" map displays a blueprint view of Los Santos and Blaine County. Cryptic markings indicate locations for fast cash and other points of interest for the up-and-coming entrepreneur.
- Special Ability Boost Michael, Franklin and Trevor each have a unique special ability. With this boost, the special ability bar will generate 25% faster.
- Stunt Plane Trials
Single player Stunt Plane Trials let you take on additional aerial challenges spread throughout Los Santos and Blaine County.
- Bonus Outfits, Tattoos and More
Michael, Franklin and Trevor get bonus outfits in their wardrobes, character specific tattoos at tattoo parlors, and special deals from shopkeepers across Los Santos and Blaine County.
- Additional Weapons When visiting Ammunation stores in single player, merchants will have special weapons in their inventory available for free: the Pistol .50, Bullpup Shotgun and melee Hammer.
Collector's Edition: ($149.99)
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Inspired by the heists in Grand Theft Auto V, this custom 10.75" x 8.5" money bag features a pop-up style lock and laser cut logo key to secure important items. The reverse side features a pressed Rockstar Games logo on the security mount with a framed ID window.
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This exclusive New Era 9FIFTY™ cap features an embroidered Los Santos logo on the front, a stitched, black Rockstar Games logo on the wearer's left side, a Grand Theft Auto 'V' logo applique on the opposite side, and snapback closure for an adjustable fit.
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Get classic Grand Theft Auto characters to use within the Grand Theft Auto Online Character Creation System. - Unique Vehicles and Garage Property Players will instantly receive a garage to store custom vehicles. In single player, the garage will be stocked with the 1930's style Hotknife hotrod and the CarbonRS sports bike. In Grand Theft Auto Online, players will get the high-end Khamelion electric car.
The original article from Rockstar can be seen here: http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/50061/announcing-the-grand-theft-auto-v-special-edition-and-collectors.html


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Here's a short cool filler post away from my scathing hot China backpack trip series. Come out come out wherever you are!
Smooth. Translucent. Almost. Wombly. Sweet. Slightly. Fragrant. Suggestively.*AHHHMMMMum mum mum mum* while it's cold.Repeat 5 spoonful times.For me it's a private number. Not to Joe. To a kind friend who travels from the island to KL in a speed machine. Pity not often enough. *sigh*. This luscious delicacy does not keep at all. Must be consumed in 4 hours max, I'm told.
Folks, if you have the chance slip it down your scratchy throat, jump at it!


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Once in a while, a movie comes along that is too entertainingly weird to let pass without comment. When that happens, The Huffington Post's Mike Ryan and I jump on GChat and then post the needlessly detailed, necessarily joke-filled results for your amusement. This time, we're discussing "Doctor Detroit," the 1983 movie starring Dan Aykroyd as an nerdy college professor turned outrageous pimp. I've become slightly obsessed with "Doctor Detroit" since stumbling across it on Netflix Instant — so I convinced Mike to watch it too, and to join me for a conversation about whether it's a cult film in waiting.
Here's our conversation (and, as always in these sorts of Crosstalks, beware of SPOILERS below).
Mike Ryan: It's funny, I could have sworn that I had seen "Doctor Detroit" before. But about 15 minutes in, it hit me: I have never seen this before in my life.
Matt Singer: I'm not surprised it sounded familiar. The nerdy, power-walking, short shorts-wearing college professor who moonlights as a deranged, metal-handed pimp is one of Hollywood's oldest and most clichéd storylines.
Mike: I remember begging my mom to rent it for me once, but she refused because it "looked dirty."
Matt: That's hilarious — if you had rented it, you would have been disappointed. I mean, you would have been disappointed for a lot of reasons, but especially for the "dirty" stuff — this is probably the most innocent movie about hooking ever made. It makes "Pretty Woman" look like "Monster."
Mike: My mom was convinced that Aykroyd was a "dirty" comedian. I almost didn't get to see "Ghostbusters" because of that.
Matt: She let you see the right movie.
Mike: I know. I should call her right now and thank her.
Matt: I never saw it as a kid either; my first introduction to it was as part of a joke on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." In the episode "Mitchell," Joel cracks "Doctor Detroit! With songs by Devo, Cutting Crew, and Haircut 100!" I had no idea what he was talking about, so I looked it up.
Mike: I actually thought it was about a doctor from Detroit.
Matt: Well, Doctor Detroit does claim to be from Detroit. And coincidentally, his last name is also Detroit. But that's only like the sixth weirdest part about the guy.
Mike: But he's not from Detroit. And the only doctor in this movie is Dr. Johnny Fever.
Matt: Correct.
Mike: No one is from Detroit. Except Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck is from Detroit.
Matt: Okay, so you thought you'd seen it before, but hadn't. So I have to know: what did you think of this movie?
Mike: I laughed once.
Matt: One genuine laugh! A new record for "Doctor Detroit!"
Mike: Is it a comedy?
Matt: I think it wants to be, but I'm not sure.
Mike: I only laughed because I laugh anytime a character yells "Gang way!" while running.
Matt: That's a hallowed comic principle. "Gang way!" = funny. "Gang way!" yelled by a character artificially sped up by editing = (funny x 1000).
Mike: Shaggy did it all of the time, to great effect.
Matt: This movie does kind of operate along the logic of a Scooby Doo cartoon. Dan Aykroyd plays Clifford Skridlow, this stuffy college professor who, through a series of baffling plot contrivances, becomes a pimp as well. And then he dresses up as "Doctor Detroit," this hard-ass crime boss with a robotic hand, a wig, pimp outfits, and curious accent. No one, of course, recognizes that Doctor Detroit is Skridlow. How would you describe Aykroyd's Doctor Detroit accent, Mike? I was trying to figure out what he sounds like.
Mike: I was thinking about this, too. It's kind of the sound the deer makes when Tommy and Richard discover that it's still alive in the backseat of their car in "Tommy Boy."
Matt: Heh.
Mike: "Maaaaaaaaaaaam!"
Matt: I would say it's like Jim Breuer's Goat Boy mixed with an evil witch and just a hint of Chief Wiggim. He's such a strange character. And, of course, everyone accepts him at face value. "Oh, sure, this guy with a metal hand, and the outrageous clothes, and the ridiculous voice must be an all-powerful crime lord."
Mike: You forgot that he also walks with a limp.
Matt: Except when he's dancing.
Mike: Speaking of dancing, how far does James Brown roll over in his grave every time this movie is mentioned? A full 360 degree rotation?
Matt: Yes, James Brown appears in the flesh, to perform a song — ABOUT DOCTOR DETROIT — at the "Players' Ball" that concludes the movie.
Mike: The Players' Ball made zero sense to me.
Matt: That's because you're not a player, Mike.
Mike: So it was a hooker convention?
Matt: I… think?
Mike: And how did Doctor Detroit become so popular?
Matt: He walked down the street in Chicago that one time? And people enjoyed his kooky, light-hearted demeanor? That's all I've got. But everyone already loves him so much they've written a song about him. And the other pimps know all the words and the choreographed dance moves that go along with it. When did everyone have time to learn this thing? The characters seem way too busy to practice a complicated dance routine.
Mike: All I know is that when the quality of a movie drastically changes for the worse once Howard Hessman leaves the scene, that's a problem.
Matt: Which he does about 25 minutes in.
Mike: "Smooth Walker."
Matt: Right. He sets up Skridlow to assume his place as the pimp of this stable of hookers. Which includes Fran Drescher, we should mention.
Mike: And Donna Dixon. Aykroyd's future wife.
Matt: Smooth owes "Mom" — another local crime lord — a ton of money, so he claims he's lost his territory to a new underworld figure named "Doctor Detroit," cons Skridlow into taking over for him, and splits town, never to be seen again for the rest of the film. Or at least that's "technically" what happens — I'm not sure he ever actually convinces Skridlow to become Doctor Detroit. One night Skridlow meets Smooth at an Indian restaurant and gets him drunk and high, and lets him sleep with all his hookers for free. And then next Smooth is gone and Skridlow is in charge, a fact he simply accepts.
Mike, are you surprised this isn't more of a cult movie? Because I am. I feel like in an age where people have become obsessed with digging up strange, inexplicable crap of the past this might be the strangest and most inexplicable thing I've ever seen.
Mike: That's a good point.
Matt: It was made the same year as "Trading Places." It's a year before "Ghostbusters." And right in that period with all his biggest hits, he made something unbelievably terrible. And so bizarre!
Mike: But, for a cult movie, nothing really happens. I think that's what's missing. It needed to be even worse than it is. Or weirder.
Matt: It's pretty weird.
Mike: It's not bad enough though.
Matt: I think you need to give it more credit for its peculiar choices. Aykroyd plays a man who finds his true calling as a cartoon pimp! It's written by Carl Gottlieb, the man who wrote "Jaws!"
Mike: I know, but nothing memorable happens. Even the big dance is boring.
Matt: Nothing memorable? What about Dan Aykroyd sword fighting a middle aged woman for the right to pimp his hookers around Chicago? What about Dan Aykroyd telling that same middle aged woman he's going to cut off her head and shit down her neck?
Mike: But nothing happens! He said that, but he didn't do anything but have her removed from the premises. If you were going to prove to someone just how crazy this movie is, what five minute segment would you show?
Matt: I would pick his introduction as Dr. Detroit. He solemnly quotes "Henry V," and suits up in his yellow jacket, green slacks, blonde fright wig, disco glasses, and robo-hand (he claims he uses it as a chiropractor!) and then confronts Mom in a junkyard. He's introduced like Superman, with this dramatic musical swell, and a quick series of shots of his robo-hand, his shoes, and then his face in this extreme low angle. But he's not a super hero. He's a pimp with a goofy accent. I'm surprised you're lukewarm on this thing. It's so amazingly odd. It's a mainstream comedy that celebrates the redemptive power of the pimp lifestyle!
Mike: Lukewarm? I disliked it. I mean, even the text that explains what happens to the characters after the movie ends was lazy. Except one, I guess.
Matt: Was it "Smooth Walker lives with four Samoans and is now known as Mr. Pago-Pago?"
Mike: No, it was "Jassmine and Diavalo saved their money and bought a professional football team." What does that mean?
Matt: It means hooking and being a chauffeur to a pimp are clearly far more lucrative professions than we'd been led to believe. When I tweeted about this movie a few weeks ago, Nathan Rabin, who wrote a really fun piece about this movie on The A.V. Club, said it's "one of many films from the 1980s where cocaine should get a producing or writing credit." Did you feel a coke-y influence?
Mike: Oh, yeah. But that's the problem. They should have used a more creative drug, I guess. Manic influence is good, I guess, for something like late-70s "SNL." But not "Doctor Detroit."
Matt: I totally disagree! I like how batshit crazy the whole thing is. And whatever caused it, Aykroyd is REALLY manic and sweaty in this movie. Like unnaturally sweaty. My favorite example is in the scene where he has this horrific nightmare. And right before he falls asleep he's laying in bed talking to himself. In frustration, he throws his hand and his pillow over his head. And his pits are just drenched in sweat. Like he just ran a marathon.
Mike: People get anxious before they sleep sometimes!
Matt: True. His double life as professor-slash-pimp was stressing him out.
Mike: Are you surprised that we never saw the Doctor Detroit Saturday morning cartoon?
Matt: If there was a Rambo cartoon — and there was! — there could have been a Doctor Detroit cartoon.
Mike: Was Aykroyd thinking franchise? Would Aykroyd be better off selling the world a "Doctor Detroit 2" instead of "Ghostbusters 3?"
Matt: The end does include a sarcastic tease for "Doctor Detroit II: The Wrath of Mom." Wikipedia claims Aykroyd was already working on the script when the film flopped.
Mike: I gotta say, that was a very forward thinking joke. Who knew, then, that "Wrath of Khan" had such legs?
Matt: Stronger ones that "Doctor Detroit," anyway. I guess I just find the movie so impossible to explain, that I kind of admire it as a result. No way this movie gets made today.
Mike: If it got made today, it would be a midnight festival movie and people would love it until it actually came out.
Matt: "Snakes on a Plane" syndrome?
Mike: "Get this motherfucking doctor out of motherfucking Detroit!" Oh, one quick thing. My favorite part was when Howard Hessman drugs Skridlow while convincing him to become Doctor Detroit. The pills are just floating on top of the drink. And Clifford gulps them down. It wasn't like the pills dissolved into the drink. Just floating capsules! I found that very brazen.
Matt: When you drug people by slipping mickeys in their drinks, you're a bit more subtle about it, eh? All right, I admit: that scene is unrealistic. BUT EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT DOCTOR DETROIT IS LIKE A DOCUMENTARY. But don't take my word for it! Just ask this robo-handed pimp, I just met!
Quick: guess Roger Ebert's star rating for "Doctor Detroit."
Mike: I'm going to guess three stars.
Matt: Correct!
Mike: Ha!
Matt: He said that "in the midst of all of this, Dan Aykroyd enjoys himself and brings along a certain mad detachment that suggests he knows it's just a humble little screenplay, but he's amused by its pretension." The New York Times' Vincent Canby: did he like or dislike "Doctor Detroit?"
Mike: I'm guessing the man who DID NOT like "The Empire Strikes Back," DID like "Doctor Detroit."
Matt: He did indeed! He said "Mr. Aykroyd has a good, low-key comic personality that serves this sort of thing very well up to a point." So, you see Mike, it's not just me telling you this movie is ready for a reappraisal. It's also the giants of American film criticism. Will you recant your testimony now?
Mike: No.
Matt: Well I tried.
Matt: You did.
Mike: Anyway, my end thoughts on "Doctor Detroit" are, even though I participated in this retrospective of sorts, it's best left forgotten. Unless you really find Dan Aykroyd funny.
Matt: I completely disagree. I think it is ripe for rediscovery. And also ripe in the sense that it stinks. How often does a major Hollywood star play a pimp? And a heroic, comic pimp at that? How often does a star talk like a stroke victim imitating Pimpbot 5000? How often are hookers treated like wacky sidekicks? Not often. "Doctor Detroit" is, if nothing else, one of a kind. It taught me that all a stuffy white guy like me needs to find happiness is his own stable of hookers. Words to live by, says I.
Watch "Doctor Detroit" on Netflix.


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Limited Warren T reports that the Indian Creek Trail is closed, and that the posted detour is usable but not ideal. The lack of connected side streets in southern Johnson County means that the busy 119th Street is the only … Continue reading
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The Riverfront Heritage Trail's bridge over I-670 is closing on Friday for construction and will remain closed until the end of September. A short on-street detour is available via the Summit Street overpass. This old bridge linking the Westside … Continue reading
Update on MetroGreen Trails
Learn about the progress of the MetroGreen regional trail network this Wednesday evening with Parks and Recreation Directors from Kansas City, MO; Platte County; and Johnson County. MetroGreen Update (Info and RSVP) Wednesday, June 1st 6:00 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. … Continue reading
Funding for Merriam Lane bike lanes and Blue River trail
A couple of additions to last week's list of bike/ped projects awarded federal funding; Merriam Lane bike lanes The Unified Government of KCK/WyCo will reconstruct Merriam Lane in part of the city's Green Corridor, including bike lanes. The segment between … Continue reading
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Trolley Track Trail Sinkhole fixed by end of January
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Journalists Killed in 1994 - Motive Confirmed: Dario D'Angelo
Publisher | Committee to Protect Journalists |
Publication Date | January 1995 |
Cite as | Committee to Protect Journalists, Journalists Killed in 1994 - Motive Confirmed: Dario D'Angelo, January 1995, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4e6494b423.html [accessed 29 March 2017] |
Disclaimer | This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States. |
January 28, 1994, in Mostar, Bosnia
Dario D'Angelo, Marco Luchetta, and Alessandra Otta, all Italian journalists working for RAI-TV, were killed by mortar fire from Bosnian Croats as they drove into Mostar. They were going to film a documentary about children orphaned by the war there.
Medium: | Television |
Job: | Broadcast Reporter |
Beats Covered: | War |
Gender: | Male |
Local or Foreign: | Foreign |
Freelance: | No |
Type of Death: | Crossfire/Combat-Related |
Suspected Source of Fire: | Paramilitary Group |
Copyright notice: © Committee to Protect Journalists. All rights reserved. Articles may be reproduced only with permission from CPJ.


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Study of Energy Expenditure in Infants With Ventricular Septal Defects
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I. Compare the total daily energy expenditure in infants with ventricular septal defects vs healthy control infants.
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Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Natural History |
Official Title: | Study of Energy Expenditure in Infants With Ventricular Septal Defects |
Estimated Enrollment: | 20 |
Study Start Date: | August 1994 |
Height, weight, and vital signs (including oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry) are measured on Day 1. Resting energy expenditure, oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and resting respiratory exchange quotient (RQ) are measured using open circuit respiratory calorimetry on Day 1. Patients undergo assessment of total daily energy expenditure using the doubly labeled water method comprised of oral deuterium and oral oxygen O 18 with the next scheduled feeding on Day 1. Urine samples are collected prior to isotope administration, then serially for approximately 12 hours after isotope administration on Day 1, and then daily on Days 2-7. These samples are analyzed by mass spectrometry. On Day 1, patients also undergo echocardiogram to confirm size of defect and measure the degree of pulmonary/systemic blood flow ratio and pulmonary artery pressures.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 3 Months to 4 Months (Child) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
--Disease Characteristics--
Infants with moderate to large ventricular septal defect (VSD) by most recent echocardiogram who meet the following conditions: no other concurrent heart or lung disease; no chromosomal defects or congenital anomalies
Healthy control infants without VSD who meet the following conditions: clinically well; no heart disease; no chromosomal defects or congenital anomalies
--Prior/Concurrent Therapy--
Surgery: VSD infants -- No prior cardiac surgery or palliative procedures; VSD and control infants -- Greater than 6 weeks since other prior surgery
Other: VSD and control infants: Greater than 6 weeks since prior hospitalization
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00006272
United States, Indiana | |
Indiana University | Recruiting |
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202-5167 | |
Contact: Catherine A. Leitch 317-274-4920 |
Study Chair: | Catherine A. Leitch | Indiana University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00006272 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | September 11, 2000 |
Last Updated: | June 23, 2005 |
Keywords provided by National Center for Research Resources (NCRR):
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases heart defects rare disease |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Septal Defects Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular Heart Defects, Congenital Cardiovascular Abnormalities |
Cardiovascular Diseases Heart Diseases Congenital Abnormalities |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017


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Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security 134
caffeinemessiah writes "In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, the local police are going to be sniffing out unsecured wi-fi access points and ordering the owners to secure them. The article notes that 'terror mails were sent through unsecured Wi-Fi connections' before bomb blasts in other Indian cities. No word on if they'll be walking around using Kismet, or if people who use pathetically weak WEP encryption will be ordered to switch to more advanced protocols. Unfortunately, a gesture like this does not take into account the insidious scenario of walking into a cafe, buying a coffee and then (legally) using the cafe's wi-fi. Or the fact that terrorists might actually be able to pay to use a cybercafe, and know what VPNs are."
On the other hand, the Mumbai police may still be keeping track of the mandatory keyloggers that went into the area's cybercafes in 2007.


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Hey Jarred,
Just came across an old post of yours. You still doing sculpting for a fee? I have a few prop ideas to possibly work on. Give me a shout if your still offering your services. Thanks.
My offer to you is, since im starting a new business over again with few items in my product line, im offering very low cost custom work. I will make any kind of prop no matter how big or small at cost, meaning you only pay for materials, and then my time and labor is absolutely free. This is an offer unheard of... and i'll only be offering for a limited time, or until i get my schedule booked. I can make ANY kind of custom sculpted silicone mask for free, you just pay for materials. If you ever had an idea for a cool mask, an icon character or a collectors prize gem, I can bring that to life! I'll take whatever idea you have from paper to sculpture to molding to casting to painting- and then finally sent to you! This is a win win for the both of us- you get a completely custom piece made just for you at a LOW price, and i get a new item to add to my product line.
If you have any ideas please email me ASAP, the more materials i order in bulk and all together, than the more i save on shipping, which is more money you save. If you would like more than one custom mask made, i can offer a significant discount. This applies for all custom work if ordering more than one custom piece. If you would like more than one copy of your mask or prop, i can give you a GREAT discount on that as well.
Email me for more information and prices at Jarred"@"shatteredfx.com (take away quotes). The average price range on a custom sculpted mask and everything involved with it is around the price of some of the major silicone mask companies at their regular retail selling prices. ($500-$800). Most companies prices for this service run anywhere from $2,500-$5,000
Let me know as soon as you can if there is anything i can do for you. I'd love to make you a custom, one of a kind silicone mask or prop for your haunt!
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Here are a few pictures of some of my past work. Im currently working on 8 custom sculpts at the moment, so there is a wait time. I have 2 done and will upload pictures shortly. I'll keep uploading pictures and keeping this updated with new stuff for you guys to see what im capable of.
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In August 2013, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council released Highlights of new versions of the Data Security Standard (DSS) and Payment-Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). The Council is releasing Versions 3 of each of the Standards to about 700 Participating Organizations, including banks, merchants, security assessors, and hardware and software vendors in September 2013. The Standards will be discussed at a North American Community Meeting in Las Vegas on September 24-26 and then will be publicly released on November 7, 2013. The new Standards will become effective January 1, 2014. Entities subject to the Standards are encouraged to begin implementing the new Version 3 of the Standards as soon as possible, but the current Version 2 will remain effective until December 31, 2014.
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If the new Standards accomplish these goals, it should be welcomed by security assessors and merchants. Although some assessors and technology developers have recognized that the Standards have improved data security since they were introduced 10 years ago, they have also criticized the Standards for several perceived shortcomings. For example, one Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) criticized the Standards' requirement that QSAs must retain all pertinent assessment documents for at least three years, the requirement that each Report on Compliance completed by QSAs be lengthy and detailed, and the Council's and card brands public comments that most breaches are caused by merchants' and processors' failure to comply with the Standards rather than conceding that complying with the Standards is not sufficient by itself to prevent a breach. A developer faulted the Council for being "way behind the times on the technologies that drive business" and for being "notoriously behind the times when it comes to the types of attacks that merchants face." Other security engineers echo the latter criticism when they describe being at cyber war against attackers each day, facing constantly changing tactics from capable cyber criminals.
The Council states that the new Standards focus on "security, not compliance." The extent to which that proves to be true will determine whether the new Standards contribute to actual data security or encourage a "checklist" mentality. The Council should recognize what many merchants, processors, and security assessors know: complying with the Standards is only one step in trying to secure payment card data.
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CIA Chief: Public Will Ultimately See Photo Of Dead Osama Bin Laden
"The government obviously has been talking about how best to do this, but I don't think there's -- there was any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the public," Panetta said, according to a transcript of the interview. "Obviously I've seen those photographs. We've analyzed them and there's no question that it's Bin Laden."
"I think there's no question that there were concerns and there were questions that had to be debated about just exactly question kind of impact -- would these photos have," Panetta continued. "But the bottom line is that, you know, we got Bin Laden and I think we have to reveal to the rest of the world the fact that we were able to get him and kill him."
But the White House said Tuesday that they were still debating whether to release the photos.


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For many generations, angels have watched over the keepers of Earth, monitoring their progress, achievements, and failures. Chihaya, a positive-checker cursed with black wings, must report the good deeds of these Earthians to Eden, while Kagetsuya, his partner and a negative-checker must pay attention to man's ill actions. What starts as simple observatory assignment leads to the heavenly duo becoming involved in a sinister operation of biomechanical proportions, which may end up destroying the Earth and all its children for good!
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This past April, Chicago residents Tensei and MC ADaD collaborated on a fittingly blunted track, "Smoke It Out," that came with the promise of a collaborative EP. While we're still waiting on that project to surface, it's good to know they haven't stopped working together. With Tensei behind the boards, ADaD takes on a synth-heavy remix of Bilal's "Robots" off the experimental crooner's latest album, Airtight's Revenge.
A straightforward remix of the track would have been enough, especially considering the tightness of the reworked beat and Bilal's vocals. But the addition of ADaD's raspy and distorted vocals, which take over the last third of the track, turns "Robots" into a pseudo-futuristic R&B/hip-hop amalgam.
You can stream the remix here and download it at the L.A. Times.
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Located in a green area of 1500m2 in a downtown of Puerto Iguazu city (Iguazu Falls) to meters to bus terminal, bars, restaurants, crafts. Here you can wake up with the songbirds and enjoy nature without leaving the comfort. We offer: Dorms with 2, 4, 6 and 8 beds with or without private bathroom, equipped with air conditioning and fan, Linen provided, Private Lockers, Community Kitchen fully equipped, Internet WiFi, Large garden and outdoor recreation spot TV and DVD room, Attended Reception open 24h x its owners check in: anytime check out: 10:00 credit cards not accepted Minors not accepted |
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Every time you eat chocolate covered berries or drink a cup of tea, you are getting a dose of flavonoids! Flavonoids are compounds found in plant foods that are well studied for their role in preventing cancers, as well as other chronic diseases.
A new study on flavonoids is highlighted in Cancer Research Update. This study of Australian women looked at the role of flavonoids in preventing death from all causes, including cancer and heart disease specifically. Researchers found that women with the highest intake of flavonoids experienced 62% fewer deaths during the course of the 5 year study compared to those who consumed the least, with similar lower risk from cancer and hear disease.
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The celebrations have started in Europe and Oceania, anyway! Players in these regions have started to receive their Onyxian Whelps in the mail, along with a letter welcoming them to a new year in Azeroth and a feat of strength upon logging in. This probably means that those of us in the United States (and Canada and whatever other magical lands are in the region) will be getting ours tomorrow. Considering Pilgrim's Bounty also starts tomorrow, it's kind of exciting! It really is a holiday in Azeroth.
The screenshot above comes from Enduser of Ghostlands EU. Since most of us here at WoW.com are US players, we're in dire need of screenshots! If you have any, please send them our way along with your character name (if you want credit for it) so we can add them to a gallery!


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Thomas F. Torrance, Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ (Robert T. walker, ed.; Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic and Paternoster, 2008): 201-2.
"The crucial factor here is the meaning of the 'human nature' of Christ. There is no doubt at all that by 'human nature' the fathers wanted to stress the actuality of Christ's union with us in our true humanity, that Christ was human in all points exactly like us, yet without sin. And that is right as far as it goes, for Christ was fully human like ourselves, coming into and living in our mode of existence, and sharing in it to the full within a span of temporal life on earth between birth and death, and in the unity of a rational soul and body. But the Chalcedonian statement does not say that this human nature of Christ was human nature 'under the servitude of sin' as Athanasius insisted; it does not say that it was corrupt human nature taken from our fallen creation, where human nature is determined and perverted by sin, and where it is under the accusation and judgment of holy God.
"But that is all essential, for 'the unassumed is the unhealed', as Gregory Nazianzen expressed it, and it is with and within the humanity he assumed from us that the incarnate Son is one with the Father. Therefore the hypostatic union cannot be separated from the act of saving assumption of our fallen human nature, from the living sanctification of our humanity, through the condemnation of sin in the flesh, and through rendering from within it perfect obedience to the Father. In short, if we think of Christ as assuming neutral and perfect humanity, then the doctrine of the hypostatic union may well be stated statically. But if it is our fallen humanity that he sinlessly assumed, in order to heal and sanctify it, not only through the act of assumption, but through a life of perfect obedience and a death in sacrifice, then we cannot state the doctrine of the hypostatic union statically but must state it dynamically, in terms of the whole course of Christ's life and obedience, from his birth to his resurrection.
"For many people the difficulty with Chalcedonian christology is this, that when it speaks of 'the human nature' of Christ, it seems to be speaking of some neutral human nature which we know in some way from our general knowledge of humanity, even though we nowhere have any actual experience of such neutral human nature. Here then, there appears to be a twofold difficulty. It appears to define the human nature of Jesus in terms of some general conception of human nature, and then to think of Christ's human nature as perfect, or at least neutral, and to that extent unlike our actual human nature. Now if Christ's human nature is perfect, and further, if Christ is the Word become man, the new Adam, then we cannot define Christ's human nature in terms of some general idea of human nature we have already conceived, for it is the human nature of Christ alone that is the norm and criterion of all true human nature. The same mistake appears to be present in the Chalcedonian concept of the divine nature of Christ, for it too is defined in terms of some general concept of divine nature, which somehow we have already formed in our minds, whereas if Christ is the Son of God become man, then it is the divine nature of Christ which must be our only norm and criterion for the understanding of divine nature. It is not surprising therefore that the Chalcedonian christology, in spite of its intention, should always tend towards a form of dyophysitism, tempting correction in the form of being counterbalanced by a new monophysitism."
Thursday, March 04, 2010
TF Torrance on Christ's natures in Chalcedon
The following from TFT makes three important points by way of indicating how Chalcedon could and should have gone further than it did in its definition of the person of Christ: (1) that the human nature assumed by Jesus was not "neutral" but fallen – you may be interested in my previously published thoughts on this subject; (2) our understanding of Christ's human nature ought not be imported from elsewhere; and, finally, (3) our understanding of Christ's divine nature also ought not be imported from elsewhere. This latter point is, of course, central to questions about God's impassibility, etc. But, enough summary – here is TFT:
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Dear Travis:
I find this post interesting because it deals with important questions. I want to share with you my opinion.
The human nature assumed by Christ is the only human nature that exists. Is human nature fallen or unfallen? The category fallen is already a theological determination. The question is, in my view, if this "fallen" is something ontological, say natural or biological; or is something we have come to see that does not follow necessarily from human nature. I tend to think that in Christian is this last choice that prevails. We know we are fallen because we have been taugth so (by Jesus, by God).
Sergi - March 05, 2010 7:25 AM
- W. Travis McMaken said...
Hey Sergi,
Thanks for the comment. I tend to agree with you, and I think that TFT does too. :-) - March 09, 2010 4:15 PM


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I've created the "invinXble" theme thinkin about this is the 10 version of this distribution. I've thinked to the difficulties founded on the road, but the project doesn't quit, and, if sometime it may be falled it raised up strongest than before. Fedora had to fight to reach this point, so we can say Fedora it's Invincible, or better invinXble. I play with the name, yes. :D Let me show you some Layout of my idea.
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Tripoli Man behind Asylum-Seekers Trips to Australia on 'Death Boats'
Lebanese asylum-seekers who died when a boat sank off Indonesia were the victims of people smugglers who prey on them and Syrian refugees seeking to better their lives.
The death toll from the sinking on Friday of the Australia-bound boat off the coast of Java has risen to 28, with many more still feared missing, according to Indonesian police.
The Lebanese foreign ministry said there were 68 Lebanese, including children, on board the ill-fated vessel and that 18 survived the ordeal while at least 29 were still missing.
Most of them came from Akkar, an impoverished province of north Lebanon where thousands of Syrians have sought refuge from the 30-month that has wracked their country.
"Illegal migration has increased with the influx of Syrian refugees," a Lebanese security source told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
"Criminal networks have started to focus on Syrians but also on Lebanese who want to emigrate," he said of the people smugglers.
According to the source, around 250 people, including Syrians and Lebanese, have since March paid huge sums of money to people smugglers for trips to Australia.
Relatives of Lebanese who have emigrated through such networks in recent months told AFP that a Tripoli-based man organizes the journeys from Lebanon to Australia through Indonesia.
The smugglers' contact in Indonesia is an Iraqi man known only as Abu Saleh who monitors the arrivals, they said.
The first part of the trip consists in obtaining a visa for Jakarta, which the Indonesian embassy in Lebanon grants Lebanese passport-holders without much difficulty.
Once in Jakarta the migrants are led secretly to main Indonesian island of Java from where they take boats for the high-risk sea trip to Australia seeking asylum.
Lebanese authorities on Saturday arrested a suspect involved in the people smuggling network as part of an investigation ordered by caretaker Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi.
In the northern city of Tripoli, Khaled al-Rai is mourning the loss of his uncle Talal and of his cousins seven-year-old Karim and nine-year-old Nour, who were on the boat that sank Friday.
"They were fleeing conflict and poverty in Tripoli. It seems their fate was to die in Indonesia," Rai said. His aunt Randa and five-year-old cousin Khalil survived the tragedy.
Rai's family flew to Jakarta from the Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport in July.
The wanted to escape their home in Bab al-Tabbaneh, an impoverished neighborhood of Tripoli that has been rocked by frequent sectarian fighting linked to the conflict in Syria.
"Their situation was terrible. My uncle was a mechanic. Because of the constant fighting, he hardly ever had work and his house was shot at twice," said Rai.
Fed up and hoping for a better life, he was lured by the people smugglers into selling his garage and taking loans to pay for the family's trip to Australia.
Most of the other victims are from the village of Qabeit in Akkar province.
"In March and April, some 50 residents, among them my 16-year-old son, emigrated (illegally) to Australia through Indonesia," said village mayor Ahmed Darwish.
"I paid $8,000 for his trip. I hesitated, but I know that there isn't any work here. Most young people emigrate, and even more now with the influx of Syrian refugees," Darwish told AFP.
An estimated one million Syrians fleeing their country's brutal war have fled to Lebanon since the conflict erupted in March 2011, and many found refuge in Akkar, exacerbating fragile resources.
Nasr Khodr said his brother Hussein paid a smuggler $40,000 to get to Australia along with his pregnant wife and their eight children.
All but Hussein died in the tragedy, Nasr said.
Qabeit residents said migrants used to try to reach Australia via East Timor but when applying for visas became difficult they turned their attention to Indonesia.
Rai says he is trying to repatriate his aunt and cousin from Indonesia, but "they tore up their passports to be able to seek asylum."
The security source added that "some Lebanese migrants have bought fake Syrian passports off mafias, so that they can apply for asylum."
Refugees from Afghanistan, Iran and Sri Lanka often take routes via Indonesian waters to try to flee their countries.
Thousands of asylum-seekers have traveled by boat to Australia this year, and scores have died trying to make the journey in unseaworthy vessels over the years.
Officials in Indonesia say they fear many people are still missing after the boat carrying would-be refugees also from Jordan and Yemen broke into pieces and sank in rough waters.


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Being plus size before your pregnancy has many far reaching health risks. But with modern science and a reliable doctor, you can overcome them. However, the discomfort of being overweight during your pregnancy is a battle, that you have to fight alone. Most expectant mothers are uncomfortable with their growing size, when they are pregnant. If you are overweight, then your problem is a notch more complex.
You can try to be comfortable during your pregnancy; being plus size should not be an inhibition there. If you follow these pregnancy tips, you can make your pregnancy a happier time to remember.
Ways To Make Plus Size Pregnancy Comfortable:
1. Get The Right Clothing: Your maternity clothes play a pivotal role in your pregnancy. If you are overweight during pregnancy, then you will need plus size pregnancy clothes. There are maternity clothes for every size; you just have to find them. Do not try to fit into regular pregnancy clothes because you are embarrassed about your weight. Your comfort is a top priority when you are pregnant.
2. Customized Clothing: If you feel that you cannot fit comfortably into any of the ready made clothes, try getting some stitched. That way, you will get the freedom to customize it as per your body dimensions. Try wearing loose frocks and skirts. Avoid pants as the friction between your legs might bruise your thighs.
3. Maternity Footwear: Any kind of maternity footwear is flat and has a solid grip. But in your case, it will have to be well padded too. This is so that your feet are cushioned. As you are overweight during pregnancy, your body weight cannot be supported by normal shoes. Always prefer sports shoes; sneakers or canvas shoes to slippers or flip flops.
4. Comfortable On The Move: The obstruction of movement is the most irritating part being plus size in your pregnancy. There is not much you can do to change that. What you can do is travel in bigger vehicles and push your seat back as much as you can. Walk slowly and deliberately to balance your bulk properly.
5. Day To Day Stuff: Your day to day chores, like taking a bath or lying down becomes a challenge during pregnancy. Bending is a problem because you can hardly see your feet. Try taking your baths sitting down on a stool or in the bathtub. When you are lying down, break the movement into parts. Go to a half sitting position, sit down, raise your legs and then, slowly lower yourself into a sleeping position.
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Are the Loake Burfords worth the $200 dollar US price tag or is there another mid range priced boot of better quality and worth buying. Im was thinking of getting a pair of the Loake Burfords, which are part of the 1880 collection.
If you want to go the ebay route you could probably get some Tricker's for that, which are better.