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Wisconsin firm H&P Industries Inc., accused of making contaminated medical pads and wipes, has closed after U.S. Marshals arrived Monday with orders to seize products.
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Christy Maginn, a spokeswoman for the firm, said the closure was voluntary and that H&P officials are working closely with the U.S. Marshals Service and the federal Food and Drug Administration.
The move comes as FDA officials posted new inspection documents Monday that confirm more contaminated products were found at the Hartland, Wis., company whose recalled alcohol pads and wipes have been cited in lawsuits claiming serious infections and death.
Last week, FDA officials asked H&P officials to voluntarily stop making and distributing drug products.
Two U.S. senators, Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., last week raised questions about the agency's handling of the recall of hundreds of millions of alcohol prep wipes. They said they became concerned after msnbc.com reports that the FDA knew about problems with contamination and sterilization at the Hartland, Wis., plant nearly two years ago.
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Msnbc.com series reveals federal Food and Drug Administration officials knew about problems at Wisconsin plant for years before taking action to halt production, distribution.
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Officials with the FDA, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Attorneys office in Wisconsin would not confirm or deny the action. The FDA has the power to order seizure of potentially tainted products to protect public health.
Latest inspection reveals more problems
New FDA documents posted Monday reveal problems with additional products manufactured and distributed by H&P and the Triad Group, two firms owned by brothers David Haertle and Eric Haertle of Wisconsin and their sister, Donna Petroff of Antioch, Ill.
Contamination was detected in the firm's antiseptic towlettes and in raw materials used to make over-the-counter fiber products often used as laxatives and to lower cholesterol, inspection reports found.
Contamination of povidone iodine prep wipes with different bacteria, Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, was detected on March 11 and led to an immediate recall of all lots of the product used to prep skin after scrapes and burns and before surgery, the report said.
In addition, inspectors found serious and systemic problems with the firm's "high purity" water system.
"Equipment used in the manufacture, processing, packing or holding of drug products is not of appropriate design to facilitate operations for its intended use and cleaning and maintenance," inspectors wrote.
FDA officials found Triad BZK Towelettes, hygiene products made with the disinfectant Benzalkonium chloride, were contaminated with the bacteria Bacillus cereus, the same organism that led to a world-wide recall of the firm's alcohol prep pads and wipes in early January.
Those wipes have been blamed in at least three lawsuits for serious infections and the death of a 2-year-old boy in Houston.
In the new FDA report, inspectors identified pad material and foil packaging used in the alcohol prep wipes as the potential cause of the contamination, with implications for other products.
"The impact to other products manufactured with the same or similar pad and foil was not assessed," inspectors wrote.
In addition, investigators found that several batches of over-the-counter products failed to remain stable or failed to meet standards for active ingredients. They include hemorrhoidal suppositories and Triad PVP Swabsticks.
H&P Industries products are sold under the Triad Group label and under the private labels of many drugstores and grocery stores, including Walgreens, CVS and Walmart. They are also widely used in hospitals and clinics. For information about specific brands of recalled alcohol wipes, click here. For information about brands of recalled povidone iodine wipes, click here.
The firm also has recalled lubricating jelly and laxative suppositories.
Water supply problems
Problems with the plant's water system include failing drains that could allow sewage to back up directly into the system and a "dead leg" in the water supply loop that could cause problems with heat sanitation, according to inspectors. Before March 2009, the firm failed to keep any records of sanitization of the water supply system, they added.
Last week, Michael C. Rogers, the FDA's acting director for the Office of Regional Operations, said that the problems identified in the inspection report, the firm's third in less than a year, prompted the agency to ask H&P Industries to stop manufacture or distribution of all drug products.
H&P Industries officials did not comply until the U.S. Marshals arrived on Monday.
Bennet, the Colorado senator, renewed his call for more oversight.
"Today's events are a clear sign that the supply chain system for drugs and medical devices is broken," Bennet said in a statement. "The last thing parents should have to worry about is a repeat of this sad situation that put thousands of families at risk, including a Colorado child who developed a life-threatening infection. As FDA reauthorization approaches in Congress, I will continue to fight for stronger oversight for industry, robust quality standards for manufacturers, and greater accountability from the FDA."
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BROAD CREEK � As Newton-Conover�s wrestling team stormed the mat after a stunning 31-30 win over Croatan on a forfeit in the final match of the NCHSAA 2-A dual team championship Saturday, coach David Perry and his Cougars watched with blank stares.
BROAD CREEK � As Newton-Conover�s wrestling team stormed the mat after a stunning 31-30 win over Croatan on a forfeit in the final match of the NCHSAA 2-A dual team championship Saturday, coach David Perry and his Cougars watched with blank stares.
This wasn�t how it was supposed to end.
The Cougars, looking for their third state title in four years against a team that had lost three straight years in the finals from 2007 to 2009, weren�t supposed to lose at home.
But they did.
And it was a loss that left the players fighting back tears. Near the bench, senior heavyweight Johnathon Rigsby embraced 170-pound sophomore Andrew Colborn. Later, Rigsby, who won his match 5-2, struggled to describe his feelings.
�Words can�t describe what I�m feeling right now,� Rigsby said. �I can�t describe the feeling that�s going on. I mean it�s bad obviously.�
For the Cougar fans, the feeling was not only bad, but stunning and confusing as Newton-Conover sent out Collin Minor for the final match of the night at 182 pounds with Croatan leading 30-25.
The Cougars countered with � no one.
Instead, they forfeited the weight class and the match in a bizarre ending to a hard-fought match in which the Cougars actually won eight of the 13 matches that were actually contested on the mat.
�They gambled,� Newton-Conover coach Eddie Clark said. �They had two (170s) and kept one of them out so they could pin us with Colborn. They didn�t do it.�
Indeed, the Red Devils won the state title on a forfeit after a strategic decision didn�t turn out as Croatan coach David Perry hoped.
Going into the match, Perry had Anthony Scott (19-26) at 160 � he weighed in at 154.5 � and Andrew Colborn at 170, with an either-or at 182 and 195 with Kyle Colborn and Isaac Edgren. Kyle Colborn won with a pin at 195 in the opening match of the night while Edgren lost on a pin at 220.
Perry opted to go with Andrew Colborn, who is ranked No. 1 in the state at 170 by retrorankings.com. That meant he couldn�t use Scott at 182 because under the rules a wrestler cannot wrestle up more than one weight class.
Perry was hoping Colborn could come up with a major four-point decision, a five-point tech fall or a six-point pin to clinch the match either outright or assure the Cougars of at least a tie, which would allow them to claim the title because they had more individual wins.
�We could have put Anthony out, but the kid they had was a senior at 70 and Anthony is giving up 17 pounds,� Perry said. �If we had done that, Andrew would have had to bump up, given up weight, and wrestled their 182, state-ranked. So we thought let�s go get done with our No. 1-ranked guy.
�Andrew gave it everything he had. He just came up a point short. I�d do it again. I�d feel good with Andrew again.�
Indeed, Colborn won 9-2 over Austin Minor, who was called for stalling twice while basically playing defense the whole match to make sure he didn�t lose big, a strategy by the Red Devils that paid off in the end.
�That guy stalled his butt off,� Perry said. �That�s what they told him (to do).�
The win gave Croatan a 30-25 lead, which wasn�t quite enough. And while the match was the decisive one because it was the final one, there were plenty of other key ones where the Cougars won but didn�t win with pins or pick up any bonus points.
There were three matches pitting two wrestlers ranked in the top 10 � 113, 120 and 138. Croatan (31-5), the No. 1 seed out of the East Central Conference, won each of those matches, but all on decisions. Greyson Millis won 10-5 at 113, Alex Bray 8-6 at 120 and Brody McGrath 3-0 at 138.
But the Red Devils (43-5), the top seed out of the Catawba Valley Conference, finished with three pins (126, 132 and 220) along with a forfeit and a major decision (152), which gave them 28 points in five matches. Croatan had two pins and no major decisions, tech falls or forfeits.
�We wanted wins,� Perry said. �We would have loved to go pins, but we thought wins were good. We thought we were good all the way up until the last match. We thought everything had worked as planned.
�Tough way to lose; you win eight out of 13 matches that are wrestled and you lose. They got the pins and we didn�t.�
And while Perry understood the Red Devils post-match glee, he felt they �overdid it a little bit.�
�We never would have done that,� he said. �We would not have been happy with our kids (doing that). But, hey, they lost three times (in the finals) in the 2000s, and they finally got the monkey off their back. So I understand the excitement.�
As Perry did the disappointment of his players, who walked around with the blank stares and tear-filled eyes as they tried to take in what had just happened.
�Coach made his decision, and we�re a team. We do everything as a team,� Rigsby said. �It wasn�t Andrew�s fault. It wasn�t coach�s fault. It�s our fault, you know. We could have done better as a team.�
Newton-Conover 31, Croatan 30
106 pounds:Skiba (C) p. Xiong 3:20.1; 113: Millis (C) d. Klutz 10-5; 120: Bray (C) d. Carter 8-6; 126: Parker (NC) p. McCaw 4:51; 132: Wepner (NC) p. Meaney 1:13.3; 138: McGrath (C) d. Toomey 3-0; 145: Fallon (C) d. Avis 9-5; 152: Reitzel (NC) won by major decision over Blivin 13-0; 160: Benson (NC) d. Slater 8-3; 170: A. Colborn (C) d. A. Minor (NC) 9-2; 182: C. Minor (NC) won by forfeit; 195: K. Colborn (C) p. Gaither 0:53; 220: Pitts (NC) p. Edgren 0:24; HWT: Rigsby (C) d. Hope 5-2.

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King was also one of the first bluesmen who crossed over into the world of soul music, signing with Stax Records and recording such classic songs as "Born Under a Bad Sign" and "Crosscut Saw."
Albert King was born Albert Nelson on April 25, 1923, in Indianola, Mississippi, the same town where B.B. King grew up. As a child, he sang with his family's gospel group at a church where his father played the guitar. When King was eight, his family moved to Forrest City, Arkansas, and he would pick cotton on plantations in the area. Around that same time, King bought his first guitar for $1.25. His first inspiration was T-Bone Walker.
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In the early 1950s, BBC television writer Nigel Kneale wrote a six-part, three-hour serial called "The Quatermass Experiment" -- which became the most popular show aired on British TV until that time. Hammer Films bought the rights, and turned it into a movie, THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (yes, spelled that way), which was released in the U.S. as THE CREEPING UNKNOWN, directed by Val Guest. Tough-guy American actor Brian Donlevy played rocketry expert Bernard Quatermass, who has to deal, firmly, with an alien presence in London. Are you getting bored with this history lesson yet?
Kneale wrote a sequel for the BBC, QUATERMASS 2, and Hammer bought that as well, though this time they hired Kneale to write the screenplay. Donlevy returned as Quatermass, and the movie became ENEMY FROM SPACE in the United States. Those who had loved THE CREEPING UNKNOWN were startled to discover that ENEMY FROM SPACE was a sequel to that well-made thriller. Kneale wrote a third, and a fourth Quatermass serial as well.
QUATERMASS 2 has been restored to its original title for its video release by the blessed Anchor Bay, but under any title, it's one of the best science fiction movies of the 1950s. Crisp, authoritative, fast-paced, well-structured and intelligent, it's almost as good as the later, similar INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, and definitely deserves to be better known.
Puzzled by his encounter with an apparently disturbed man with a strange scar, Quatermass doesn't consider it as important as the launch of his new rocket, which he hopes to use to establish a base on the Moon. But strange radar tracks lead him and his assistant Marsh (Bryan Forbes, later a major director) to investigate the area where the man, his girlfriend said, got the odd scar. To their utter surprise, they find an installation very much like Quatermass' proposed Moon base -- a vast array of pipes, tanks, and huge domes. (The domes were added to a Shell refinery by special effects.) Marsh finds a rock-like object that pops open -- and now he has one of those scars, too. He's quickly rounded up by men in military garb, and whisked away, leaving a stunned and angered Quatermass behind.
Now caught up, he learns that the stone is one of thousands that have been raining down for the last two years. A small scientific installation suddenly got vast government funding, leading to the construction of the "Moon project." Locals work at the plant, said to be for the development of artificial food, and angrily refuse to cooperate with Quatermass. He first turns to zealous Member of Parliament Vincent Broadhead (Tom Chatto), who's on his way with a team to inspect the puzzling "artificial food" project. But when things go very wrong there, only Quatermass escapes; he turns to Inspector Lomax (John Longden), helpful in his first adventure, and they slowly learn the awful truth.
Aliens have taken over human bodies by the hundreds, and have infiltrated the British government from the lowest to the highest levels. The "Moon project" is to allow the methane/ammonia-breathing aliens, really small individual cells of a group creature, to adjust to the Earth's atmosphere -- with the intent of conquering the world. Can Quatermass stop them? Can there be any doubt?
The movie is presented in a matter-of-fact, gray, documentary-like style which makes the fantastic events grippingly credible. It's also fast-paced and intelligently written, one of the most hypnotically involving movies of its period. It's surprising that none of the Quatermass films have been remade, but THE ARRIVAL did borrow a few ideas from QUATERMASS 2.
The separately-conducted interviews with director Val Guest and writer Nigel Kneale have been skillfully edited together, providing an ongoing commentary not just on the film, but on each other. It's clear that Kneale respects Guest very much, but also that he had some strong disagreements about what should have been left in, and what should have been left out. The climax of the TV serial took Quatermass and a friend (omitted altogether form the movie) into outer space, to deal with the aliens in their home asteroid on a more direct level. The movie's budget precluded that, and the somewhat unsatisfactory climax features three huge, blob-like creature, each composed of thousands of individual aliens (and a lot of rubber), lurching around the burning remains of their base.
Kneale is still bitter about not having been consulted on the first film, and complains at some length about Brian Donlevy, whom he considered altogether wrong for the role of Quatermass. It's true that Donlevy would have been wrong to play Quatermass as Kneale originally conceived of him -- a thoughtful scientist, a bit of a loner, quiet and bookish -- but Donlevy is ideal for the movie Quatermass. He's more bullheaded, more inclined to take charge, and though he's not tall, Donlevy looks determined enough to walk through the nearest wall.
While the commentary by both writer and director is consistently interesting, although we do hear a bit more about Donlevy's toupée than was really necessary, it's too bad that there's not more about the individual actors, the locations and the production of the film. Occasionally, the insights are excellent: Guest points out that no film can predict the future. All it can do is present today's ideas about the future; we're always limited by being in the here and now. When one of the alien's stone containers falls inside a dance hall, a local dismisses it -- "it's just an overshot." Kneale points out that giving the unknown a name (overshot) reduces it to the known, and therefore it doesn't have to be considered. The locals have fooled themselves into believing that stones falling from the sky are a part of a benign government project.
The movie is a classic expression of 1950s paranoia; Kneale says that Britain was much more secrecy-prone in that period than was the United States, and yet communist spies got much higher into the British government echelons than they ever did in America. But the movie is not about the Red Menace; it's about trusting too much in any kind of authority.
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Thanks Alex, that helped a lot. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Alexander Shraer <firstname.lastname@example.com>wrote: > Hi Kishore, > > Here's more or less what happens. > > Basically, if an operation is uncommitted but reached a quorum, it is > guaranteed to survive. If it reached less than a quorum it may survive > but may get lost depending on whether the server that has it > participates in a timely manner in leader election phases. > > First, FastLeaderElection tries to optimistically choose a leader > candidate that has the most up to date log - a quorum must say that it > does. This phase is an optimization to avoid having the leader fetch > the latest state (this way the leader already has it). > > Then, servers connect to the candidate leader (LearnerHandler). If > during this phase the leader discovers someone that is more up-to-date > than itself, it gives up and we go back to the preliminary phase > above. Otherwise, once it has a quorum of followers connected to it, > it basically tries to commit its own log (NEWLEADER is like a propose > and UPTODATE is like a commit of the log). > The NEWLEADER message has a zxid which is higher than any zxid existed > before. > > It is possible that a minority of the servers didn't participate in > this process, but once NEWLEADER reaches a quorum, servers in this > quorum will be "more up-to-date" than anyone that didn't participate. > So any servers that were lagging behind do not stand a chance becoming > leader unless they get updated from a server that did participate. Any > uncommitted op known to these slow servers will be lost forever. > Later, if such a server connects to the new leader, the uncommitted > ops will be truncated from the log. > > Hope this helps. > > Alex > > > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM, kishore g <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I read the docs and presentations online > > https://cwiki.apache.org/ZOOKEEPER/zookeeperpresentations.html about the > > internals of zab. I am confused about what happens to uncommitted > proposals > > when new leader is elected after current leader fails. To be precise, > these > > are the scenarios i am thinking > > > > a) new leader has got a proposal that no other follower has seen, will it > > commit this proposal or let it go > > b) new leader has got a proposal that majority of nodes have it, will it > > commit this or let it go. What happens to other followers, will new > leader > > ask followers to commit or rollback based on what it does. > > c)new leader does not have proposal but one of the followers has it, is > > this possible? > > > > From what i understood the new leader simply commits all proposals that > he > > has seen irrespective of what other followers have seen. > > > > Can some one explain what exactly happens, i am more interested in what > > happens in the code > > > > thanks, > > Kishore G >
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Archive for January, 2012
Visit the Sick—For Your Own Good: Visiting the Sick/Bikkur Cholim
As we continue on our path along Eilu D'varim – the obligations without measure, we find these responsibilities becoming increasingly more challenging. This month we explore Visiting the Sick/Bikkur Cholim which can be a difficult mitzvah to perform. Certainly bringing a pot of soup, a few magazines or a potted plant to someone who has a cold or who may have a broken arm is simple enough. However, what happens when someone is seriously ill and needs much more time and attention? What happens when an illness strikes that requires weeks of dinners, assistance with doctor visits and perhaps some in-home care as well?
Such was the case a few years ago when I was diagnosed with a meningioma (a tumor located on the brain) and required immediate surgery. Needless to say, neither I nor my family was expecting such a sudden medical crisis. Fortunately, I had a large community of family, friends and colleagues- even people I did not know-willing to help us out with everything from cooking meals to sitting with me in the hospital to sending cards, books and letters of encouragement. My Temple's Caring Community brought a hand-knit "Healing Shawl" which I still put on occasionally when I feel the need. As my family and I focused on getting me well, our everyday worries, like getting dinner ready, were taken care of by people we knew and trusted. While I did my best to say thanks to everyone who helped us during those stressful days, there will never be enough words. My family and I try our best to "pay it forward" by helping out whenever we hear of someone in need. The soup pot starts boiling, the cookies begin baking, and we sign up for a dinner.
The following books can be helpful as you and your family explores the mitzvah of Visiting the Sick/Bikkur Cholim:
A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Written by Philip C. Stead. Illustrated by Erin E. Stead, ©2010. Roaring Brook Press. Ages 3-6. In this exquisite, Caldecott Award winning book, Amos McGee, a fabulous zookeeper, arrives on time every day to take care of all the wonderful animals. He makes sure to drop by his particular friends to make sure they receive some special attention. However, one morning he wakes up sick and does not come to work. That day, Amos receives some special attention of his own.
The Sniffles for Bear. Written By Bonny Becker. Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton, © 2011. Candlewick Press. Ages 3-6. Certain that "no one had ever been as sick as he," Bear awaits his end. Even a visit from his overly cheerful friend mouse cannot sem to turn the tide, until while writing his will…
Say Hello, Lily. Written by Deborah Lakritz. Illustrated By Martha Avilés, ©2010. Kar-Ben Publishing. Ages 5-8. Lily wants to go with her mom to visit her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Rosenbaum, who has just moved into Shalom House, the local nursing home. However, when Lily walks into the lobby, she is overwhelmed by the number of new faces who all want to get to know her at the same time. She suddenly turns very shy. It does not take too many visits before she learns everyone's names and stories. Soon she has a surprise for all her new friends.
The Princess of Borscht. Written by Leda Schubert. Illustrated by Bonnie Christensen, ©2011. Roraring Brook Press. Ages5-8. Ruthie's grandma is in the hospital. When Ruthie goes to visit, Grandma tells her that the hospital food is terrible. Ruthie hears that if her grandmother does not get a bowl of borscht by 5:00 PM she is going to die of starvation. Ruthie has never made borscht, so she seeks out the neighbors' help. The result is hilarious, think Top Chef meets Nickelodeon.
Mr. Putter & Tabby Catch the Cold. Written By Cynthia Rylant. Illustrated by Arthur Howard, © 2002. Harcourt, Inc. Ages 7-10. Mr. Putter catches a cold when he goes outside on a wintery day without his hat. With the help of his friendly neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry and her wonderful dog Zeke, it turns out to be the best cold Mr. Potter ever caught.
The Lemonade Club. Written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco, © 2007. Philomel Books. Ages 8-11. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is the motto of Miss Wichelman's fifth-grade class. Make sure you have your tissue boxes on hand as you read this true-life story about friends helping friends through some difficult times.
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. Written by Jordan Sonnenblick, © 2004. Scholastic Press, Inc. Ages 10-15. Steven is a fairly normal 13-year-old boy in middle school. He is a gifted jazz drummer, dreams about the prettiest girl in school and gets decent grades. Until his 5-year-old brother is diagnosed with leukemia and his entire life is turned upside down.
Fever, 1793. Written by Laurie Halse Anderson, © 2000. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Ages 12-16. When a yellow fever epidemic hits Philadelphia, Matilda Cook finds herself alone in having to face a city in terror. Based on real events.
God is in the Pancakes. Written by Robin Epstein, © 2010. Dial Books. Ages 14 -18. Fifteen-year-old Grace Manning loves being a candy striper at her local nursing home. She especially loves assisting her patient Mr. Sands, who has Lou Gehrig's disease. They joke around as he teaches her to play and cheat at poker. Then one day he asks her to "help him die."
As you read these books, discuss them with your children using the "Speak Volumes" guide. The questions and activities will provide you with many opportunities to become comfortable with Visiting the Sick/Bikkur Cholim in a variety of settings. Whether you find you are most at ease in the home of an ailing friend, in a nursing home visiting an elderly relative or in the trauma ward of your local hospital, Visiting the Sick/Bikkur Cholim is an important mitzvah/good deed that plays a significant role in repairing the world. Find where you are most comfortable and make a visit. It will do you and those you visit a world of good.
Happy Reading,
Kathy B.
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S0931, Everolimus in Treating Patients With Kidney Cancer Who Have Undergone Surgery (S0931)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01120249
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RATIONALE: Everolimus may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth or by blocking blood flow to the tumor.
PURPOSE: This phase III trial is studying everolimus to see how well it works in treating patients with kidney cancer who have undergone surgery.
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|Drug: everolimus Other: placebo
|Phase 3
- to compare recurrence-free survival in renal carcinoma patients randomly assigned to 54 weeks of everolimus versus 54 weeks of placebo after nephrectomy or partial nephrectomy.
- To compare the overall survival of patients treated with everolimus vs placebo.
- To compare qualitative and quantitative toxicity between the two study arms.
- To bank tissue and biologic specimens for future study of molecular biomarkers relevant to the AKT/mTOR and other pathways implicated in the pathogenesis of renal carcinoma and to investigate their potential predictive and prognostic value.
- To bank blood specimens for the future study of the relationship between steady-state trough levels of everolimus and relevant side effects (lymphopenia, infection, hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia) in patients treated on this study with everolimus.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Patients are stratified according to pathologic stage (intermediate high-risk vs very high-risk), histologic subtype (clear cell vs non-clear cell), and performance status (0 vs 1). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive oral everolimus once daily on days 1-42. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
- Arm II: Patients receive oral placebo once daily on days 1-42. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Archived tumor tissue, plasma, and whole blood samples may be collected periodically for biomarker analysis and other translational studies.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months for 2 years and then annually for 8 years.
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|1545 participants
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|Official Title:
|EVEREST: EVErolimus for Renal Cancer Ensuing Surgical Therapy, A Phase III Study
|Study Start Date :
|April 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|October 2021
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|October 2021
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive oral everolimus once daily on days 1-42. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: everolimus
Given orally
Placebo Comparator: Arm II
Patients receive oral placebo once daily on days 1-42. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: placebo
Given orally
- Compare Recurrence-free survival in those patients randomized to everolimus versus those randomized to placebo. [ Time Frame: up to 10 years after registration ]Measured from date of registration to date of first documentation of recurrence or death due to any cause. Patients last known to be alive and recurrence-free are censored at date of last contact.
- Compare Overall survival in those patients randomized to everolimus versus those randomized to placebo. [ Time Frame: up to 10 years after registration ]Measured from date of registration to date of death due to any cause. Patients last known to be alive are censored at date of last contact.
- Compare Toxicity between the two study arms [ Time Frame: up to 54 weeks of treatment ]Adverse Events (AEs) are reported by the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0. For each patient, worst grade of each event type is reported. Grade 3 = Severe, Grade 4 = Life-threatening, Grade 5 = Fatal.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically or cytologically confirmed renal cell carcinoma
Clear cell or non-clear cell allowed
- No disease of the collecting duct or medullary carcinoma
- Considered pathologically either intermediate high-risk or very high-risk disease
- No history of distant metastases
- Patients with microvascular invasion of the renal vein of any grade or stage (as long as M0) are eligible
Have undergone a full surgical resection (radical nephrectomy or partial nephrectomy) including removal of all clinically positive nodes
Surgical margins must be negative
- Patients with positive renal vein margins are eligible unless there is invasion of the renal vein wall at the margin (provided no other margins are positive)
- Patients must be registered within 84 days after the date of the first surgical resection of the first tumor
No evidence of residual or metastatic renal cell cancer on CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis (all with oral and IV contrast) performed after nephrectomy and within 28 days before registration
- MRI scans of the abdomen and pelvis with gadolinium and a non-contrast CT scan of the chest may be substituted if the patient is not able to have CT scans with IV contrast
- Zubrod performance status 0-1
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3
- Serum creatinine ≤ 2.0 times upper limit of normal (ULN) OR calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- SGOT and SGPT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for up to 8 weeks after completion of study treatment
- Able to take oral medications
Patients must not have any of the following:
- NYHA class III-IV cardiac disease (i.e., patients with cardiac disease resulting in marked limitation of physical activity or resulting in inability to carry on any physical activity without discomfort)
- Unstable angina pectoris
- Myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- Serious uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia
- Patients must NOT have liver disease such as cirrhosis or severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class C)
- HBV and HCV testing are required at screening for all patients with a positive medical history based on risk factors and/or confirmation of prior HBV/HCV infection
- Must be able to take oral medications
- No impairment of gastrointestinal function or gastrointestinal disease that may significantly alter the absorption of everolimus (e.g., ulcerative disease, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malabsorption syndrome, or small bowel resection)
- No known history of HIV seropositivity
- No known uncontrolled, underlying pulmonary disease (spirometry and DLCO ≤ 50% of predicted OR oxygen saturation ≤ 88% at rest on room air)
No uncontrolled hyperlipidemia (fasting serum cholesterol > 300 mg/dL AND fasting triglycerides > 2.5 times ULN) obtained within 28 days prior to registration
- Optimal lipid control must be achieved before registration and monitored during protocol treatment
No uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (defined by fasting serum glucose > 1.5 times ULN) obtained within 28 days prior to registration.
- Optimal glucose control must be achieved before registration and monitored during protocol treatment
No prior malignancies except for any of the following:
- Adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer
- In situ cervical cancer
- Adequately treated stage I or stage II cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission
- Any other cancer from which the patient has been disease-free for 5 years
- No known hypersensitivity to everolimus or other rapamycins (sirolimus, temsirolimus) or to their excipients
- No contraindications to receiving either IV iodine-based contrast or gadolinium
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- Patients must have recovered from any surgery-related complications
- No prior anticancer therapy for renal cell carcinoma including systemic therapy in the adjuvant or neoadjuvant setting, immunotherapy, investigational therapy, surgical metastasectomy, or radiotherapy
- More than 14 days since prior and no concurrent strong CYP3A4 inhibitors (i.e., ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, posaconazole, fluvoxamine, nefazodone, nelfinavir, or ritonavir) or strong CYP3A4 inducers (i.e., phenytoin, rifampin, or rifabutin)
- More than 7 days since prior and no concurrent live vaccines
- No other concurrent anticancer agents including investigational agents
No concurrent chronic treatment with systemic steroids or another immunosuppressive agent
- Topical or inhaled corticosteroids are allowed
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): NCT01120249
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|Principal Investigator:
|Christopher W. Ryan, MD
|OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
|Responsible Party:
|Southwest Oncology Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01120249 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
S0931 ( Other Identifier: SWOG )
U10CA032102 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
NCI-2011-02028 ( Other Identifier: NCI )
|First Posted:
|May 10, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 5, 2019
|Last Verified:
|June 2019
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Lavender syrup and fresh blueberries brighten up a glass of white peony iced tea.
8 oz. strong brewed white peony tea
1/4 cup fresh blueberries
1 oz. lavender syrup (recipe below)
Tools: shaker, strainer
Glass: highball
Garnish: sprig of lavender
Brew the tea, and set aside to cool. Muddle blueberries and ice in a shaker, add tea and simple syrup, shake. Strain into an ice-filled glass and garnish.
Lavender syrup: Dissolve equal parts water and sugar over med-high heat, turn off heat and stir in dried lavender. Let sit for 15 minutes, strain syrup into a jar and discard the lavender. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.


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Unlike other screen manager tutorials, this tutorial requires XNA 3.1. XNA 3.0 is not supported in this tutorial. I will more than likely write another tutorial for those who want to use XNA 3.0 instead of XNA 3.1 at a future date.
Quite often, you will want different music in different parts of your game. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can change the music in your game when your game state changes. There will be music for the main menu and for the action screen. You are not limited to just these though. You could also change the music in the middle of the action screen if something happened to warrant that.
I will not be using XACT but you will need two WAV files for the music. You can download the two I used below. The way I am going to do this is using the SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance classes. I will also be using events. I will make an event in the GameScreen class. This event can be subscribed to in the Game1 class, or another class if you decided to have a class dedicated completely to audio. I decided to go with the Game1 class.
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I decided to load all of the songs for the project into a Dictionary<string, SoundEffectInstance>. This way if you want to change the music you just need a string to retrieve the music from the dictionary. You will see why in a moment. You will also want a field to hold the current instance being played. In the Game1 class, with the SpriteBatch field, add the following fields.
Dictionary<string, SoundEffectInstance> music; SoundEffectInstance musicInstance;
Now that you have the fields it is time to load in the music. You first will have to add in the music. Go a head and right click the Content folder, select Add Existing item, and add the iron-man.wav and midnight-ride.wav files. If you use different music, make sure to change the names when you load them in. The music is from SoundJay. They offer a variety of free sounds and music. I changed them from MP3 to WAV. Change the LoadContent method to the following. I will explain it after you have read it.
protected override void LoadContent() { spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice); music = new Dictionary<string, SoundEffectInstance>(); SoundEffect soundEffect = Content.Load<SoundEffect>("iron-man"); SoundEffectInstance instance = soundEffect.CreateInstance(); instance.IsLooped = true; music.Add("music1", instance); soundEffect = Content.Load<SoundEffect>("midnight-ride"); instance = soundEffect.CreateInstance(); instance.IsLooped = true; music.Add("music2", instance); startScreen = new StartScreen( this, spriteBatch, Content.Load<SpriteFont>("menufont"), Content.Load<Texture2D>("alienmetal")); Components.Add(startScreen); startScreen.Hide(); actionScreen = new ActionScreen( this, spriteBatch, Content.Load<Texture2D>("greenmetal")); Components.Add(actionScreen); actionScreen.Hide(); activeScreen = startScreen; activeScreen.Show(); }
So, what is going on here is I first create the Dictionary<string, SoundEffectInstance> to hold the music. Next I load in the iron-man music using the content pipeline as a SoundEffect. I then use the CreateInstance method of the SoundEffect class to create a SoundEffectInstance. I then set the IsLooped to true. This means that when the end of the music is reached it will loop back to the start. I then add the music to the dictionary using the name music1 and the SoundEffectInstance I created. You will want to use more descriptive names in your games. I follow the same process for the next song. Load it, create an instance of the SoundEffectInstance class, set it to repeat, and add it to the dictionary. This time I call it music2.
Now that you have the music you need to get it playing. The first thing to do is to create an event in the GameScreen class. I will be creating an event that conforms to the .NET standard, EventName(object sender, EventArgs e). I will be use a class that inherits from EventArgs called MusicChangeEventArgs. This class will take a parameter that will be the name of the music you want to change to as a string. Right click your game project in the solution explorer, select Add, and then class. Name the class MusicChangeEventArgs. This is the code for that class.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace ScreenManager { public class MusicChangeEventArgs : EventArgs { string musicName; public string MusicName { get { return musicName; } private set { musicName = value; } } public MusicChangeEventArgs(string musicName) { MusicName = musicName; } } }
Short and sweet and probably a little over kill. I could have made the field public but I try and follow good object-oriented programming concepts when I program. The field, musicName, will hold the string that maps to the music to be played. The property, MusicName, is a get and set property. The get part is public but the set part is private and is only usable in the class. Just a quirk I've developed when it comes to properties. The constructor takes a string parameter that will be the string for the music to be played. It then sets the field using the property.
Now that we have our event arguments class we can create our event. Add the following code to the GameScreen class, just below the SpriteBatch field.
public static event EventHandler<MusicChangeEventArgs> OnMusicChange;
What this does is create a static event that can be subscribed to. Because it is static it is shared by all objects that of type GameScreen, or classes that inherit from GameScreen. This was the best option because you have a single event that any class that inherits from GameScreen can raise, not directly though. You can call a method in the GameScreen class that will actually raise the method if it is subscribed to.
Now you need to be able to raise this method from other game screens. The best way I found to do it was to create a protected method inside the GameScreen class that takes as a parameter the string for the music to be played from the dictionary. Like I said, you will probably want to use more descriptive names than music1 and music2 for your games. You can add the following method to the GameScreen class, below the Show and Hide methods.
protected void ChangeMusic(string musicName) { if (OnMusicChange != null) { OnMusicChange(this, new MusicChangeEventArgs(musicName)); } }
Events should only be fired if they are subscribed to. If they are not subscribed to they will be null. So, I check to make sure the event is not null. If it is, I fire the event using this for the sender and create an instance of MusicChangeEventArgs with the name of the music to be played.
Almost to the finish line. The event needs to be raised in the StartScreen and ActionScreen classes. I decided to change the music when the Show method is called. The code is identical except for the string for the music to be played. If you recall, the Show method is virtual. That means that you can override it in any class that inherits from GameScreen. So, when you call the Show method to set the screen to active, you can raise the event there. The code for the StartScreen is first and the ActionScreen second.
public override void Show() { base.Show(); ChangeMusic("music1"); } public override void Show() { base.Show(); ChangeMusic("music1"); }
The only thing that remains is to subscribe to the event and process it in the Game1 class. You subscribe to the event like you do in a Windows Forms application. You create a method using the signature of your event handler and assign it to the event. Change the constructor of the Game1 class to the following.
public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); Content.RootDirectory = "Content"; GameScreen.OnMusicChange += new EventHandler<MusicChangeEventArgs>(GameScreen_OnMusicChange); }
The Game1 class is now subscribed to the event. Now you need to handle the event in the method GameScreen_OnMusicChange method. I will show the code and then explain.
void GameScreen_OnMusicChange(object sender, MusicChangeEventArgs e) { if (music.ContainsKey(e.MusicName)) { if (musicInstance != null) musicInstance.Dispose(); musicInstance = music[e.MusicName]; musicInstance.Play(); } }
What happens is I check to see if the string for the name of the music is in the dictionary using the ContainsKey method. Not necessary, but will keep your game from throwing an exception if the music isn't found. I next check to see if the musicInstance is not null and if it is true I call the Dispose method do dispose the object. You do this because if you try and assign another SoundEffectInstance to it the will both play at the same time. You should dispose the instance and assign the new one. I assign the SoundEffectInstance referenced to the musicInstance field. I then call the Play method to actually play the music.
That, in a nutshell, is a simple way to have your music change in your XNA games. I may write up a version using XACT as well as one that uses XNA 3.0.
Good luck in your game programming adventures!
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