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Davissigned a one-year contract two days before training camp started, an addition that could prove to be just as significant as signing defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh and trading for cornerbacks Aqib Talib and Marcus Peters.

Davis' intuition was right on, and he has found himself working extensively with the starting defense as an outside linebacker during the first three weeks of training camp. Coach Sean McVay has frequently identified Davis as one of the early standouts, though the praise apparently has not filtered down to the seven-season veteran who last played for Buffalo.

"I'm not looking for any kind of cheers or pat on the back from the coaches, but if they are fans of me, then obviously that's a good thing," Davis said. "My thing is going out there and not letting the guys down next to me. Just giving it my best and playing hard."

The quick transition Davis has made at outside linebacker is all the more important because the Rams must replace both starters there after trading Robert Quinn to Miami in March and not re-signing free agent Connor Barwin.

Quinn and Barwin combined for 13.5 sacks last season. Davis has flashed pass-rush ability with 14 career sacks, including 6 1/2 in 2014 for Jacksonville. Getting to the quarterback has always come naturally for Davis, but he is adjusting well to the coverage responsibilities of his new position. Recruited to Bethune-Cookman University as a tight end before moving to defense, Davis showed he still has soft hands during a post-practice session Saturday night catching balls from a JUGS machine.

Instead, the biggest change for Davis has been rebuilding his body to handle the athletic demands of playing outside linebacker. He reported to training camp at 280 pounds, which was fine by the Rams, but it quickly became evident to Davis that he had to drop weight.

"They liked the way I moved when I came in," Davis said. "I came in and ran (the conditioning test) perfectly fine and was moving around perfectly fine, but for me personally I knew I have to shed weight to be able to keep this up the whole year. I'm down 10 pounds already from the start of camp and I'm looking to lose another 10, 15."

"I know I had to switch over to Sam linebacker, but that's really why I came. The defense, the Wade Phillips defense is a good fit," Davis said. "I've been talking with the Rams the whole offseason. We kind of sensed that this is where I wanted to be, and we went back and forth about everything, but I was just glad to be here. The Rams, LA just made a ton of sense for me as a player. The atmosphere, the city, everything about it just felt right."

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During the real estate meltdown various collections companies that specialized in community association collections came to the forefront. Many understood the challenge and offered merit based services. This way a community with delinquencies would not be further burdened by the expense of collections that come with lawyers. There were a few that offered specialty financing along with their collection services to ease the burden of shortfalls. So, the question remains: Why are Collection Companies a better way to resolve Condo & HOA Collections then law firms? The answers are multiple:

In short: Is your association ready to become a rental community to accomplish the goals of Condo & HOA Collections. If you are then an attorney would be your best solution albeit maybe not the wisest one?

The most important thing the nuclear community can do to support space nuclear applications is the same thing we must focus on for terrestrial nuclear science: developing the trust of the American public.

ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.

Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.

The Office of Nuclear Energy is awarding $59.7 million to 25 U.S. colleges and universities, two national laboratories, and one industry organization to support nuclear energy research and development and provide access to world-class research facilities, the Department of Energy announced on April 15.

Constellation Energy has filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a subsequent license renewal for its Dresden nuclear power plant in Illinois. The extension would allow Dresden to run through 2051.

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research laboratory in Germany have investigated a microorganism capable of transforming water-soluble hexavalent uranium [U(VI)] to the less-mobile tetravalent uranium [U(IV)]. The researchers found that the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfosporosinus hippei, a relative of naturally occurring microorganisms present in clay rock and bentonite, showed a relatively fast removal of uranium from clay pore water.

In 2022, with the spin-off of Constellation as the generation and retail side of energy business (with the largest U.S. nuclear fleet), Crane led the creation of a stand-alone transmission and delivery energy company.

During a state visit to the White House by Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida on April 10, the Department of Energy announced that U.S. and Japanese agencies had cooperated to remove all high-enriched uranium (HEU) from the Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly (JMTRC) of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) two years ahead of schedule.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting on May 8 to discuss the license termination process for the retired nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah. During the meeting, NRC staff will discuss the license termination process and receive public comments on the remaining cleanup activities described in the license termination plan for the historic ship, which may see a second life as a floating museum.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To compare the rate of major erythroid response (MER) between lenalidomide monotherapy and combined treatment of lenalidomide and epoetin alfa in erythropoietin non-responsive low-/intermediate-1 (Int-1)-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients or erythropoietin treatment nave patients with low probability of erythropoietin benefit.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To compare the time to MER by treatment assignment. II. To evaluate the duration of MER by treatment assignment. III. To estimate the frequency of MER to salvage combination therapy in patients who fail to experience a MER with lenalidomide monotherapy.

IV. To evaluate and compare the frequency of minor erythroid response by treatment assignment.

V. To investigate the mechanism and target of lenalidomide action in patients with chromosome 5q31.1 deletion.

VI. To evaluate the frequency of cytogenetic response and progression, and the relation between cytogenetic pattern and erythroid response.

VII. To evaluate the frequency of bone marrow response (complete response \[CR\] + partial response \[PR\]).

VIII. To evaluate the relationship between erythroid response and laboratory correlates outlined below:

VIIIa. Pretreatment and on study endogenous erythropoietin level (Arm A). VIIIb. To evaluate the effect of CD45 isoform profile on lenalidomide enhancement of erythropoietin-induced STAT5 phosphorylation in CD71\^Hi erythroid precursors and the relationship to erythroid response.

VIIIc. To characterize molecular targets relevant to lenalidomide cytotoxicity in del5q31.1 cells.

VIIId. To evaluate the frequency of cryptic chromosome 5q31.1 deletions in patients with non-del5q31.1 MDS by array-based genomic scan, and to determine the relationship to hematologic response.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. Patients with del 5q31.1 karyotype are assigned to Arm A.

ARM A: Patients receive lenalidomide orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-21. Patients undergo bone marrow biopsy at screening and during follow-up. Patients undergo blood specimen collection on study.

ARM B: Patients receive lenalidomide PO QD on days 1-21 and epoetin alfa subcutaneously (SC) once weekly. Patients undergo bone marrow biopsy at screening and during follow-up. Patients undergo blood specimen collection on study.

In both arms, treatment repeats every 28 days for 4 cycles. Patients who achieve a major erythroid response (MER) may continue treatment beyond 4 cycles in the absence of disease progression, disease conversion to acute myeloid leukemia, or unacceptable toxicity. Patients in Arm A who fail to achieve MER or who achieve MER but relapse after 16 weeks of treatment with lenalidomide may crossover and receive treatment in Arm B.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 6 months.

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \>= 18 years

* NOTE: Results of the bone marrow biopsy and aspirate as well as cytogenetics are mandatory to register subjects onto study, which are indispensable to determine International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) category needed for eligibility; please note that it is not necessary to wait for the week 16, week 32, or week bone marrow and cytogenetic results prior to starting the next cycle unless deemed necessary by the treating physician; one example of this exception can include if the subject shows signs of progression, such as increased peripheral blood blast percentage; at that juncture, the treating physician may prefer to await the results prior to starting a new cycle; if a cycle is started, and based on the bone marrow results it is felt by the treating physician that the subject should not continue on treatment, please be sure to note this information on the case report forms at end of treatment

* Patient must have documented diagnosis of MDS lasting at least three months (MDS duration \>= 3 months) according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria or non-proliferative chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) (white blood cell \[WBC\] \

* Patient must have International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) categories of low- or intermediate-1-risk disease; patients must have IPSS score determined by cytogenetic analysis prior to randomization; patients must have cytogenetic analysis done (to calculate IPSS); if the current bone marrow biopsy is a dry tap, patients with cytogenetic failure and \

* Must have symptomatic anemia untransfused with hemoglobin \= 2 units/month) confirmed for =\

* NOTE: For non-transfusion dependent patients (i.e., receiving \

* For non-transfusion dependent patients, a minimum of 2 pre-transfusion or un-transfused hemoglobin values are required

* Applies only for patients without the deletion 5q 31.1; patients must have failed treatment with an erythropoietic growth factor, or have a low probability of response to rhu-erythropoietin; patients with low probability of response to rhu-erythropoietin or prior erythropoietin failures are defined as follows:

* Prior erythropoietin failure-requires a minimum trial of \>= 40,000 units epoetin alfa/week x 8 weeks or equivalent dose of darbepoetin alfa for 8 weeks with failure to achieve transfusion independence in dependent patients or a failure to achieve a \>= 2 g rise in hemoglobin sustained for \>= 4 weeks in non-transfusion dependent patients

* Low erythropoietin response profile-rhu-erythropoietin and epoetin alfa-nave patients receiving \>= 2U packed (p)RBC/month for a minimum of 8 weeks, and serum erythropoietin \> 500 mU/mL in the 8 weeks prior to randomization for a hemoglobin \

* Patients must be off all non-transfusion therapy for MDS for 28 days prior to initiation of study treatment, including all types of growth factors; patients may receive hydrocortisone prophylactically to prevent transfusion reactions

* Patients must have a serum erythropoietin level documented before randomization and =\

* Effective contraception must be used by patients participating in lenalidomide therapy, and all patients must agree to counseling by a trained counselor every 28 days about pregnancy precautions and risks of fetal exposure; females of childbearing potential (FCBP) must either commit to continued abstinence from heterosexual intercourse or begin TWO acceptable methods of birth control: one highly effective method and one additional effective method AT THE SAME TIME, at least 28 days before starting lenalidomide, during lenalidomide therapy, during dose interruptions, and for at least 28 days following discontinuation of lenalidomide therapy; females of childbearing potential should be referred to a qualified provider of contraceptive methods, if needed; males receiving lenalidomide must agree to use a latex condom during any sexual contact with females of childbearing potential even if they have undergone a successful vasectomy

* Platelet count \>= 50,000/mcL (50 x 10\^9/L) without platelet transfusion (within 56 days prior to randomization)

* Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \>= 500 cells/mcL (0.5 x 10\^9/L); hence ANC must be \>= 500/mcL without myeloid growth factor support (within 56 days prior to randomization)

* Serum creatinine =\

* Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT)/aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =\

* Serum total bilirubin \

* Inclusion criteria for crossover registration from Arm A (lenalidomide alone) to Arm B (lenalidomide and epoetin alfa):

* Patients must have completed 16 weeks of monotherapy with lenalidomide

* Patients must show failure to achieve MER (major erythroid response) or have achieved MER but relapsed on Arm A

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients must not have documented iron deficiency; all patients must have documented marrow iron stores; if marrow iron stain is not available, the transferrin saturation must be \> 20% or a serum ferritin \> 100 ng/mL

* Women must not be pregnant or breastfeeding; females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test with a sensitivity of at least 25 mIU/mL within 10-14 days and again within 24 hours prior to starting cycle 1 of lenalidomide; a female of childbearing potential (FCBP) is any woman, regardless of sexual orientation or whether they have undergone tubal ligation, who meets the following criteria: 1) has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or 2) has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months; FCBP must also agree to ongoing pregnancy testing)

* Patients must not have prior therapy with lenalidomide

* Patients must not have a diagnosis of uncontrolled seizure or uncontrolled hypertension

* Patients must not have proliferative (WBC \>= 12,000/mcL) chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML); WBC must be \

* Patients must not have MDS secondary to treatment with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and/or immunotherapy for malignant or autoimmune diseases

* Prior thalidomide therapy is allowed, however, patients must not have prior \>= grade-3 allergic reactions to thalidomide

* Patients must not have prior history of desquamating rash from thalidomide at time of study entry

* Patients must not have clinically significant anemia resulting from iron, B12 or folate deficiencies, autoimmune or hereditary hemolysis, or gastrointestinal bleeding

* Patients must not have used cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents or experimental agents (agents that are not commercially available) for the treatment of MDS within 8 weeks of randomization

* Patients must not have prior history of malignancy other than MDS (except basal cell or squamous skin cell carcinoma or carcinoma in situ of the cervix or breast) unless the subject has been confirmed free of disease for \>= 3 years

* Patients must not have any serious medical condition or any other unstable medical co-morbidity, or psychiatric illness that will prevent the subject from signing the informed consent form or will place the subject at unacceptable risk if he/she participates in the study

* Patients must not have a history of thrombo-embolic events within 3 years prior to study randomization

* Patients must not have known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 seropositivity because HIV can be an alternate cause of anemia.

* Patients must not have a known allergic reaction to epoetin alfa (Procrit) or human serum albumin

* Exclusion criteria for crossover registration from Arm A (lenalidomide alone) to Arm B (lenalidomide and epoetin alfa):

* Patients must not have a limiting unresolved grade 3 or greater toxicity from lenalidomide monotherapy or drug intolerance preventing continuation of lenalidomide treatment

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