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Razing Arizona
Deep in the desert Southwest, a battle is raging between an ex-maverick presidential nominee and a defeated congressman with a checkered history (and a penchant for bad jokes). In any other election cycle, this contest would be a laugher. But this year: Arizona's voters are royally pissed! Robert Draper goes inside the most entertaining race of 2010
The television studio is J. D. Hayworth's natural habitat, and in the greenroom of the Yuma, Arizona, NBC affiliate he's happily primping for an interview in which he'll defend his state's controversial new immigration policy. But right now he's chewing on his other favorite topic, Senator John McCain, whom Hayworth seeks to upset in the August 24 Arizona Republican primary—which, as a visceral paean to the far right, has become an emblematic brawl of the 2010 election year.
Hayworth is telling me about how McCain—"the patron saint of campaign-finance reform," he snorts—is exploiting a campaign-funding loophole. "He always does that," says Hayworth. "It's always, 'It's cool for me but not for thee.' " While condemning his opponent's lack of authenticity, Hayworth is self-applying a layer of Pan-Cake makeup with the casual dexterity of an opera diva. The red silk handkerchief in his blazer pocket perfectly matches his red necktie. His hair is short, full, and immobile.
Being a former sportscaster and talk-radio personality, Hayworth knows how to deliver a line, and this election year he has been treating Arizona audiences to an attack on his opponent that is both precise and devastating. McCain, he says, criticized the TARP bailout, but only after he voted for it. McCain, the Reagan Republican, voted against Bush's tax cuts. And on the white-hot subject of immigration, the former congressman lingers like a buzzard on desert carrion: "While my opponent five years ago was co-authoring an amnesty bill with the late Senator Ted Kennedy, I was introducing in the House of Representatives the Enforcement First Act."
Closing in for the kill, J.D. then intones, "Whether it is Barack Obama or Janet Napolitano or, yes, even John McCain, here's the fundamental problem. So many in Washington, D.C., view illegal immigration as a political problem to be managed, instead of seeing it for what it is: a national-security threat, an economic-security threat, and an invasion that must be stopped!"
Hayworth's immigration shtick came fairly late in his twelve-year congressional career, which ended when he was voted out of office in 2006. Other than his association with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the congressman's chief distinction was as a bombastic floor speaker who used his offensive-lineman's girth to intimidate Democrats. Soon after arriving in Washington, he picked a fight with Representative Steny Hoyer by passing out a flyer that said things like "Hoyer = sex training for federal employees" and "Hoyer = illegal drug use" and "Hoyer = New Age cult training."
These days, the 52-year-old Hayworth has both slimmed and toned down. Indeed, among this year's conservative agitators, he's surprisingly well-mannered, and his disapproval of abortion, gun control, and gay marriage play only bit roles in his windy denunciations of Big Government. He has a Rotarian's joviality and feathers his monologues with historical references and ten-dollar words—"He wanted you to know he wasn't a dummy," says congressional analyst Charlie Cook—yet his face is always red as if fighting back a primal scream. To rally the Tea Party faithful, he travels the state in a beige pickup truck à la Scott Brown, though not by choice: He has raised maybe a fifteenth of the McCain campaign's war chest and has no more than a half-dozen paid staffers. Wry and seemingly well-read, Hayworth nonetheless has, like other right-wing insurgents this season, the air of someone who's gotten a little ahead of himself. In the greenroom, I ask him a question about a hot-button issue among conservatives: whether he believes individuals who appear on terrorist watch lists should be permitted to buy firearms.
Hayworth looks pleasantly puzzled. "I haven't even taken a look at that right yet," he says.
I point out that the subject came up after the disclosure that the alleged Times Square bomber had purchased a rifle. Hayworth responds by orating generally on "how you preserve liberties and at the same time deal with security threats." In other words, he has no idea how to answer the question.
In any other year, J. D. Hayworth's campaign would merit little more than a few jokes on The Daily Show. Yet McCain, at 73, is regarding the congressman as an existential threat, burying the underdog on the airwaves while relentlessly challenging his conservative purity—and intelligence. In one notable exchange, after Hayworth's remarkable assertion that the United States had never formally declared war on Germany during World War II, the McCain operation circulated online ads mocking the claim, adding, "J. D. Hayworth—is it any wonder he was voted among the dumbest members of Congress?" The senator's operation has never subjected any opponent, including Barack Obama, to such a carpet bombing. When I ask McCain's communication director, Brian Rogers, about the daily savaging, he says, "It's not about Hayworth. It's really about the environment. When you have this massive anti-incumbent sentiment combined with issues about the economy, it's a devil's brew. And look, he's a very vigorous guy who has his lines down. He's gonna get noticed. So you confront him directly."
But McCain has done more than confront—he has converted, shape-shifting in the time-honored manner of a politician who fears his days are numbered. In the past few months—as his lead in the polls fluctuated from twenty-two points to five and, by press time, back to twelve—the senator has lurched to the right. He has backed away from his call to close Guantánamo and threatened to filibuster the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." He has also voiced his support of Arizona's notorious statute 1070, a bill that permits local police to stop an individual they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe is an illegal immigrant; if unchallenged, it will go into effect July 28. Even some of McCain's Republican friends, including former state attorney general Grant Woods and Senator Lindsey Graham, call the law unconstitutional and mean-spirited. "I think it does a lot of harm in the community," Woods says. "We're talking about doctors, lawyers, firemen, housewives, who were born here, whose parents were born here, and they already have that sinking feeling that they're being watched. And that's not right."
The senator's conservative shift, says Arizona State University professor emeritus and political guru Bruce Merrill, is not without risk. "Conservative ideologues tend to have long memories," he says. "I think that far from attracting their support, McCain's latest moves to the right are likelier to make them more suspicious." Hayworth agrees, of course. "You can see national trends, but ultimately what we're finding anecdotally is a feeling that John has had his time," he says. "He was the party's nominee for president. His position in history is secure. All these contortions to try and morph into my positions, that I hold, appear to be inauthentic and don't reflect well on his legacy."
As such, says J. D. Hayworth, "It's time to have a consistent conservative"—implying quite plainly that he is the man.
Nearly every night during the election year of 1994, Hayworth's maiden voyage for political office, the telephone would ring at the home of Bruce Merrill, and he or his wife would say, "That's J.D." Hayworth would be calling seeking highly specific advice on how to get out his message and organize a staff. Back in 1991, the sportscaster had taken Merrill's class, Public Opinion Political Communication, and had been an apt pupil. "The class was about creating reality," recalls Merrill. "Something can be true, but people don't have time to keep up on all the issues. So they believe what's presented to them. J.D. grasped that. As a broadcaster, he understood the media and how to manipulate it. He understood that controversy sells."
To rustle through John David Hayworth's life story is to learn that there are as many people out there who find him lovable and bright as there are who regard him as a bully and buffoon. But even among his admirers, the word authentic is never uttered. Born in High Point, North Carolina, he nonetheless "never acted or sounded like a southerner, even though he'd been one all his life," says Kenn Sparks, who anchored the Greenville, South Carolina, TV station where Hayworth spent the early '80s as a sportscaster. N.C. State awarded the offensive lineman a football scholarship, and in Raleigh he found work at a TV station, won election as student-body president, and never looked back. Hayworth was—like Reagan, whom he campaigned against in 1980 but would lovingly quote in years thereafter—a born performer and a politico, camera-ready. "J.D. wanted to be president, there's no doubt about that in my mind," recalls Sparks. But, he adds, Hayworth's political role model was a moderate: "I think he must've sprung from his mother's womb quoting Eisenhower." Back in the Greenville days, according to two of his former colleagues, a favorite Hayworth line was "I'm a liberal Republican and a drinking Baptist!" His signature phrase, however, was nonpolitical; when describing a home run, the sportscaster would invariably boom, "It's VAPOR!!!"
In 1987, Hayworth and his black Corvette convertible departed Greenville for the larger market of Cincinnati, where he spent much of his time discussing politics with then anchorman Jerry Springer and contemplating a run for some office or other. His search for a political springboard intensified upon moving to Phoenix in 1988. Though an actual newsman would have been obligated to maintain a public pretense of objectivity, a sportscaster like Hayworth could regularly ercise his freedom to speak at local GOP "Trunk Tusk" gatherings. And sure enough, after a relatively unknown progressive was elected to Congress in 1992 in his very district, J. D. Hayworth began assembling staff for a run in '94.
With the full support of Newt Gingrich, who flew out to campaign on his behalf, Hayworth won the race in a landslide. And when John McCain called to congratulate him, the senator offered this advice: "Pick out one or two things to focus on. Because when you get there, you're gonna feel like a mosquito at a nudist colony—there are so many targets of opportunity." In fact, Representative Hayworth would focus, as always, on the camera, becoming the C-SPAN Shakespearean that Speaker Gingrich could rely on to unleash screeds against Clinton and "our good friends in the minority."
When he wasn't advancing the Gingrich revolution, Hayworth took time to speak his mind on issues as varied as campaign-finance reform and the environment. Charlie Cook remembers Hayworth arguing against expanding preserves for Arizona's endangered spotted owls. "Y'know, the way I figure it," the congressman told him, "if two teenagers can reproduce in the backseat of a car, why do spotted owls need a thousand acres apiece?"
Though other House conservatives would grow disillusioned by Newt's willingness to abandon strict term limits, disciplined budgets, and other precepts of the Contract with America, Hayworth "was a loyal vote for whatever the leadership wanted," recalls fellow Arizona congressman Matt Salmon. "I remember he ended up voting for the transportation bills when we thought they were full of pork. He was very anxious to develop a long-term political career." Indeed, when I contacted Club for Growth spokesman Mike Connolly to ask why Tea Party groups have been reluctant to underwrite Hayworth's Senate campaign, Connolly would reply, "He didn't vote like a Tea Partier when he was in the House."
Hayworth's loyalty to Gingrich paid off with an assignment to the elite House Committee on Ways and Means—though a former House colleague remembers, "I witnessed Hayworth crying in front of Gingrich, his face swollen and red, saying, 'If I don't get on this committee, I won't be able to raise the kind of money I need to win in my district.'" Hayworth's constituents, meanwhile, soon grew tired of the congressman's floor antics. "Entertainment is a big part of J.D.," says his former campaign manager, Scott Hildebrand. "That's his Achilles' heel—learning when it's time to turn down the volume. And that's hard to do for a guy who's spent so many years in front of a television camera."
Hayworth's showmanship seemed specifically designed to offend the sensibilities of John Character Is Destiny McCain. Though the senator gamely campaigned for Hayworth in 1998, the congressman's press secretary at the time, Jim Heath, recalls that "they'd get out of the plane and hug each other, then get back on and never once say a word to each other." In 2001, Hayworth publicly took umbrage with McCain's campaign-finance-reform position, calling it a violation of free speech. After that, "there was a huge freeze-out," recalls Hayworth. During the 2006 cycle, McCain was only too happy to tell people that Hayworth's ties to Jack Abramoff (which included $101,000 in campaign donations and frequent access to Abramoff's sports skybox) would sink the congressman that November. McCain was right. Hayworth lost his seat to Democrat Harry E. Mitchell. And though the Department of Justice never pressed charges, he was forced to return to Arizona and to the airwaves—this time as a talk- radio host whose chief target was…
"J Mac," Hayworth bellowed during a typical rant on his drive-time show on KFYI, "is bound and determined to institute some sort of worker program that involves amnesty…in the midst of double-digit unemployment!" Like most right-wing radio personalities, Hayworth focused his ire on the White House and Nancy Pelosi, but the immigration debate made McCain a ripe target. "McCain is out of touch!" callers said. "Please run for office. The country needs you!" Hayworth would often respond with a creaky imitation of the senator—"My friends, thank you for your support."
And was McCain aware of Hayworth's withering impression? "Oh yes," says campaign spokesman Brian Rogers. By April, the McCain campaign had filed an FCC complaint asserting that the candidate was electioneering on his show. Soon after, Hayworth left the airwaves to focus on campaigning full-time.
"I'm proud of my record—not being Mister Congeniality. I'm proud to have investigated Jack Abramoff, who certain congressmen stood along with.… And if I sound a little angry? I'm angry because you're angry!"
John McCain indeed looks angry, and for the precise reason he specifies. An American hero turned away twice by voters across the nation, he must now in his declining years be content with another six-year turn on the senatorial dance floor, only to come home and find that Arizonans are royally pissed…at him! Not just at him, of course, and maybe far less angry at him than at everyone else in Washington. Nonetheless, here he is, forced to remind his own people that he's the one guy who should not be blamed for all the mess, that he's the Maverick…oh…except that he told Newsweek he's never thought of himself as a Maverick…and God damn the liberal media! No more interviews! (My request was denied.)
He's red-faced and pacing the stage of a rec center in Sun City West, Arizona, while a hundred or so Anglo senior citizens listen to their senior senator go batshit about the border: "Now, I don't know how often you go down to the southern part of the state. But when you meet the ranchers, they'll tell you their livelihood is not safe.… And why is it? Because their borders are not secure!… Complete the fence, complete the fence, complete the fence!… We have to secure the border!"
But the audience is not with him. Immigration, as a McCain adviser has told me, "is his one weakness," and the senator's overcompensation is a discomfiting spectacle. When a woman asks how he's going to come up with the money to pay for his elaborate new ten-point border-security plan, McCain replies tartly, "I could find you 5 billion in funds tomorrow—from [eliminating] earmarks. That's not a problem, finding the money." When the woman wonders aloud how McCain is going to persuade Congress to give up the practice of earmarks, the senator mumbles, "Listen, I'm not saying it'll be easy."
A man stands up and interjects, "Just a small correction on your speech about immigrants. I don't particularly consider them illegal immigrants. I consider them illegal aliens."
The crowd murmurs its approval. "Thank you, thank you very much," replies the senator. This would have been the moment for him to say—as he once did with regularity, and as he did just this morning to a smaller, less inflamed gathering—that these people, whatever one wishes to call them, are "God's children." That moment passes.
Then comes a somewhat dissenting voice, from a man with a cane who stands up and wonders what, realistically and humanely, can be done about the millions of Hispanics who have crossed the desert at great peril to do honest work and who have raised families here in America. It sounds like the kind of question the senator himself might have posed, not so long ago. Taken aback, McCain jokes, "I thought you were gonna ask me, 'Why are you such a great American?' Look, we have to address this in a nuanced fashion.…" Having blurted out the dreaded N-word, McCain scrambles back to the right: "But the fact is, we're a nation of laws. And they broke these laws. So I would be glad to sit down and discuss that, once we get the borders secured. But certainly not until then."
To the skeptical expressions in the audience, McCain adds, "Some people say this is a change in my position. The last three years, the smugglers and drugs have dramatically increased. Twenty-two thousand Mexican citizens have been killed. In 2007, when I saw this coming, I said we have to secure the borders first!" This, as anyone who followed McCain's campaign in 2007 knows, is more than a little untrue. What McCain "saw coming" was not a darkening picture on the border but instead a growing resentment among Republican voters toward illegal immigrants—and toward McCain's comprehensive immigration-reform bill, which he thereupon disavowed.
A woman stands up and says, "Senator, I've voted for you every time since I moved here to Arizona. But I'd suggest that when you talk about Hayworth, that you be careful. Because I'd hate to see, if you're not nominated, that you'll be out there saying anything bad."
McCain snaps, "I'm not saying anything bad. I'm just pointing out his record. And that's what I'll continue to do. So thanks for the advice."
"You don't sound that grateful for it," the woman says with a smile.
He replies, without a smile, "I will not allow anyone to define me and my record. And that's what I will do. Listen, I know that we're out of time…"
I later ask the woman, whose name is Stephanie Elitz, if she was satisfied with the senator's answer. "Not at all," Elitz replies. "I've always voted for Senator McCain. But I thought he was a bit arrogant."
J. D. Hayworth, she added, could now count on her vote.
The week i spend in Hayworth's orbit takes me through all corners of a border state roiled by the passage of Arizona's immigration statute, Senate Bill 1070. State senator Rebecca Rios, whose electoral base is part of Hayworth's former district, believes that racial profiling will inevitably result from the bill, then adds, "People clearly want to address the increase in illegal immigrants, border violence, and drug and human trafficking. Politically speaking, it's a hot-button issue that can very quickly rally folks behind you. I'm frankly disappointed to see McCain try and reinvent himself in this tough-on-immigration image. Hayworth, clearly that's what we expect of him."
Hayworth often chides McCain for his "conversion" on immigration. But the seal-the-border stalwart tells me he experienced one of his own, which occurred with a visit to an Arizonan's ranch in 2003. By 2005, the congressman was sponsoring the Enforcement First Act, a bill similar to SB 1070, and as his spokesman Mark Sanders says today, he "literally wrote the book on this subject"—which is to say, he wrote a book titled Whatever It Takes in 2006. In the book's opening chapter, the author says that when "I was first elected to Congress," flight crews frequently told him that their red-eye flights were full of illegals. They asked him, "Where is the Border Patrol?" Writes the author, "The real question is: where are the politicians?" Which, back then, would have included Hayworth.
Hayworth's sizable audiences are uniformly white, and on the immigration issue he fields an array of rather edgy questions. But I find that, when pressed in private, Hayworth often backs away from his most extreme rhetoric. For example, I ask what he means by his statement that "we need to stand up for our culture." Well, explains the candidate, "there's a concern about, for lack of a better term, a Balkanization. There's not assimilation anymore." I later ask him how assimilation can be legislated. "Uhh…that's an interesting thought," he says. He suggests that perhaps "the community sector, like YMCAs" or even Tea Party activists, can offer courses in English the way they're now doing on the Constitution. Then Hayworth says, "Of course, those people who play by the rules and want to come here—man, they're eager to learn!"
When discussing Spanish-speaking voters, Hayworth speaks often of "the myth of the Hispanic monolith," a unified voting block. And so I ask him what Hispanic groups are likely to support him. The candidate—who does not speak Spanish, other than when he refers to the "Hayworth hacienda"—mentions a single supporter, a Fountain Hills, Arizona, man who appeared with him on a Fox show, but confesses he's not sure about the guy's name. Maybe Rodriguez. I was a little surprised he didn't mention Pee Wee Maestas. Back in his C-SPAN days, Congressman Hayworth more than once praised the little Hispanic lady who operates the Wayside Café in Holbrook, Arizona: "She came to this nation legally. Her mother applied for a visa…was willing to work and play by the rules." I decide to drop by the restaurant, and a diminutive woman emerges from the kitchen and offers me a lemonade.
Pee Wee recalls visiting with her former congressman a few times—though she says she never voted for Hayworth, as she is a staunch Democrat. She says he didn't bring up the immigration issue with her, perhaps because her mother was born in the United States. Had Hayworth ever done so, Pee Wee likely would have shared with him the memory of having been one of the only Hispanic children at school and of having been punished by the teacher for an offense that one of the white students committed. Over a half century later, the recollection still pains her. "She wanted to make an example of me," Pee Wee Maestas says. "And how do you think that made me feel? People being singled out for their race—there's no worse feeling than that. Have you ever been prejudiced against? If you haven't, then you can't understand."
Pee Wee mentions John McCain's now notorious "build the danged fence" ad, in which the senator walks the borderlands with a beleaguered county sheriff and lists the issues associated with the border. "Remember how it starts?" she says, referring to the senator's first line—"Drug and human smuggling, home invasions, murder." "He should've said that they're not all criminals. He made it sound too harsh. There are a lot of good people that are coming over, just trying to feed their families."
Were she to make this point to McCain, he might well agree—or he might snarl, as he did at the Sun City West town hall, "Thanks for the advice." It's already evident that J. D. Hayworth will not be the biggest loser on August 24. All but obliterated from memory is the John McCain who once declared that he "would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war," who praised champions of unpopular causes in his book Hard Call, and who promised in his 2008 concession speech "to do all in my power to help [Obama] lead us through the many challenges we face."
Though the incumbent's campaign aides like to describe their candidate as "a competitive guy," in the end McCain is no longer competing against another politician or against a new strain of conservatism. He is now competing only against his own legacy as a statesman—which would be of no concern to us, were the very ranks of statesmen not already so badly depleted. Meanwhile, the legacy of J. D. Hayworth may be that he did his part in persuading the Republican Party to renounce everything that John McCain and its finest standard-bearers once stood for. If that is what prevails in 2010, then let's see the victory for what it is:
Robert Draper is a GQ correspondent.


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Allogenic Stem Cells Derived From Lipoaspirates for the Treatment of Recto-vaginal Fistulas Associated to Crohn`s Disease (ALOREVA) (ALOREVA)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00999115
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 21, 2009
Last Update Posted : January 26, 2012
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|Condition or disease
|Rectovaginal Fistula Crohn Disease
|Drug: Expanded allogenic adipose-derived adult stem cells
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|10 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Clinical Trial in Phase I-IIa to Study the Feasibility and Security of the Allogenic Use of Adipose-derived Stem Cells for the Local Treatment of Recto-vaginal Fistula in Crohn´s Disease
|Study Start Date :
|September 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2011
Experimental: Allogenic ASCs
Intralesional dose of 20 million cells at baseline with a possible second administration of 40 million in case of incomplete fistula closure following week 12 assessment.
Drug: Expanded allogenic adipose-derived adult stem cells
Administration will be preceded by localization and closure of the internal opening. Cell treatment injection will be performed following Major Ambulatory Surgery standards. Patients will receive an intralesional dose of 20 million cells at baseline. 50% of the cell suspension will be placed into fistula walls of the internal opening, with the remaining 50% being injected across the wall tracts of the target fistula. Patients without healing (complete fistula closure)at week 12 will receive a second dose of 40 million cells, using the same treatment approach.
Other Name: CX601 (company code)
- Percentage of subjects in whom the external openings of the treated rectovaginal fistula have closed [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- Quality of life assessment using the SF-36 questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- Adverse events [ Time Frame: 1, 4, 8,12, 24, 54 weeks ]
- Clinically relevant variations in laboratory test [ Time Frame: 1, 4 8, 12, 24, 54 weeks ]
- Quality of life assessment using the SF-36 questionnaire [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Signed informed consent.
- Patients with Crohn´s disease diagnosed at least 12 months earlier in accordance with accepted clinical, endoscopic, anatomopathological and/or radiologic criteria.
Fulfilling one of the following criteria:
- At least, one previous surgery for fistulous disease.
- Physical status which discourage liposuction.
- Rectovaginal fistula.
- Women of a childbearing age. Good general state of health according to the findings of the clinical history and the physical examination.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of severe proctitis (prominent friability, spontaneous bleeding, multiple erosions, deep ulcers) or dominant active luminal disease requiring immediate therapy, assessed by rectosigmoidoscopy
- Patients with CDAI≥201
- Patients with an abscess unless a complete toilet of the area with drainage of the collections and the absence of abscess and other collections is confirmed prior to treatment start
- Patients who have received infliximab or any other anti TNF agent in the 8 weeks before the cell treatment administration
- Patients who have received tacrolimus or cyclosporine in the 4 weeks before the cell treatment administration
- Patients with a history of abuse of alcohol or other addictive substances in the 6 months prior to inclusion
- Patients with malignant tumor, except for basal cell or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, or patients with a prior history of malignant tumors, unless the neoplastic disease has been in remission for the previous 5 years
- Patients with cardiopulmonary disease which, in opinion of the investigator, in unstable or sufficiently serious to exclude the patient from the study.
- Patients with any type of medical or psychiatric disease which, in the opinion of the investigator, could be grounds for exclusion from study
- Patients with congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies. HIV, HBV, HCV or treponema infection, whether active or latent.
- Patients allergic to local anesthetics or gadolinium (MRI contrast) MRI is unfeasible (e.g. due to the presence of pacemakers, hip replacements or severe claustrophobia)
- Patients who have suffering major surgery or severe trauma in the prior 6 months
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Patients currently receiving, or having received within 1 month prior to enrolment into this clinical trial, any investigational drug.
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): NCT00999115
|Hospital Universitario La Paz
|Madrid, Spain, 28046
|Principal Investigator:
|Damián García Olmo, MD
|General Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Ignacio Galicia, Professor, Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario la Paz
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00999115 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
EudraCT: 2009-010225-39
|First Posted:
|October 21, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 26, 2012
|Last Verified:
|January 2012
Keywords provided by Ignacio Galicia, Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario la Paz:
Rectovaginal Fistula
Crohn Disease
Adipose-Derived Stem Cells
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Crohn Disease
Vaginal Fistula
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Vaginal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Rectal Diseases
Rectovaginal Fistula
Rectal Fistula
Intestinal Fistula
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FAYETTEVILLE � The basketball court in Bud Walton Arena was damaged by flooding late last week.
Arkansas associate athletic director Kevin Trainor confirmed the damage to the playing court in an emailed statement on Tuesday afternoon.
�This past Friday, Bud Walton Arena experienced water infiltration on some portions of the playing floor and areas surrounding the playing floor following heavy rains overnight,� Trainor said in an email. �Currently and throughout the remainder of this week the floor will be unavailable while the athletic department works to remove any excess moisture and completes a full assessment of any potential long-term damage to the playing surface.�
The extent of the damage � or how much it will cost to fix it � is not immediately clear. But the issue has pushed the Arkansas men�s and women�s basketball teams out of Bud Walton Arena for the time being.
Trainor said individual workouts are being held at another location.
It�s also not known at this point when the floor can be used again, but both the men�s and women�s teams will begin preseason practices early next month.
The water damage came a few weeks after Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long revealed he has gotten more �resistance� than expected from fans and donors about the program�s plans to build a $20 to $25 million basketball practice facility. The facility, which is part of Arkansas� three-pronged �Never Yield� campaign, would provide practice courts for both the men�s and women�s programs.
�We want to provide some flexibility to do some things in Bud Walton Arena,� Long said at the time, adding that the facility would also open the arena for concerts and speeches on campus. �That basketball practice facility allows us to do it. And allows us to become more efficient with our student-athletes� time.�
Long admitted some of the resistance was because of the program�s struggles over the past decade. But he said men�s basketball coach Mike Anderson is on his way to restoring the program, but needs help and believes the facility is key.
�We all know in fundraising, people give far more to a winner than they do to a program that's trying to come up,� Long said in early September. �The conversation with donors, they want to be associated with winning programs. There are many reasons why our basketball program hasn't reached back to the heights we all want it to. But one of those, I will tell you, is a basketball practice facility.
�That doesn't take the place of a great head coach. That doesn't take the place of great recruiting. It doesn't take the place of a great university to attract them to in the first place. I'm very excited about what Mike Anderson's doing. He's going to build it. We're going to get this facility for him and when he does it's going to be a game-changer, just like the Fred W. Smith Center is for football.�
� Robbie Neiswanger � Arkansas News Bureau


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The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99
In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors including
, there's something about the game's deliberate pace, individual focus and enduring simplicity that seems irresistible to novelists. With that in mind, it was hard to imagine Chad Harbach's debut novel about a scrappy college baseball team offering much new to say about the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd or anything resembling Updike's "lyric little bandbox" in 2011.
And yet, that's what Harbach has done with "The Art of Fielding." Centering on an imaginary northern Wisconsin private school and its baseball star-in-the-making Henry Skrimshander, Harbach sidesteps much of the familiar mythmaking that can go along with spinning the American pastime into literature and instead delivers a rich, warmly human story that resonates even if you have no idea what a 6-4-3 double play looks like.
That's because instead of focusing on runs and hits, Harbach is most concerned with errors, that cruel statistic line unique to baseball that no one, not even an athlete touched by natural greatness, can ever eliminate. The issue for Henry, and the characters around him, is how recovery from these errors on and off the field gives shape to people's lives.
Henry is introduced as a gifted yet socially awkward shortstop and disciple of a handbook for middle infielders that gives the book its name, and his pursuit of perfection leaves him as something of a cipher in the early going. He's a repetitive motion machine full of workouts and rituals custom-built by his teammate and flawed mentor Mike Schwartz, determined to become bigger, stronger and more obsessed with the game than anyone else.
Before too many sports clichés can take root, the novel brushes aside Henry's rise from lanky prodigy to big league prospect and instead shares focus on those surrounding his development. First is his dorm-mate Owen, a brilliant, openly gay teammate whose effortless and near-messianic charisma feels like a nod to
's "A Prayer for Owen Meany," particularly as Harbach's sprawling yet intimately drawn story recalls Irving's immersive sense of detail.
Owen eventually catches the eye of Guert Affenlight, the college's middle-age president, who finds himself helplessly drawn into a career-threatening affair. And while the romance's September-May tilt feels somewhat predictable, there's a charming, clumsy sweetness to its development as affection rises around a deep-seated love of literature that becomes a hallmark of the whole novel.
Given that Harbach co-founded the smartly hip New York literary journal n+1, which recently published the hypnotically thorough study "What Was the Hipster?," it's reasonable to expect a bit of precociousness. As if to compensate for writing something as pedestrian as a baseball novel, Harbach surrounds his characters with an array of literary references, ranging from Greek classics to
. But even as some of these touchstones start straining credulity for even the most idealized student-athletes, the book's loving bond to
becomes something deeper.
On top of many sly nods to the novelist throughout the story (even Henry's name is a sidelong glance at "Moby-Dick"), Harbach cleverly attaches Melville's biography to the wind-swept, lakeside college, providing him a physical presence right down to the team's mascot, the Harpooners. Affenlight is a respected Melville scholar, and his reputation-building dissertation on the homoerotic underpinnings of 19th century letters becomes something of a meta-narrative for "The Art of Fielding," especially in the taut, training room bond between Henry and Mike.
Harbach deftly ratchets up the drama as Henry spends much of the book battling a wrenching string of errors that will ring familiar to baseball fans who remember the bizarre struggles of Steve Sax,
. As he spirals into fury, depression and near-madness with the loss of his identity, the tangled relationships around him grow steadily more complicated. Tipping points are reached concerning Affenlight and his lover, the codependent athletic tie between Mike and Henry, and a sweet but messy relationship between Mike and Affenlight's sharp but rudderless daughter — the only female to rise out of Harbach's Melvillean "Paradise of Bachelors."
"Deep down … we all believe we're God," Henry finally admits as he struggles through the Harpooners' pivotal final game, an inevitable but still irresistible
story. Shaken, humbled and inarguably transformed, Henry is talking as much about the superstitious fan who freezes between pitches as he is the idea that even the most tightly controlled among us can lead a life free of errors. It's overcoming that fallacy where the real art lies for Henry — and for so many of us in the stands as well.


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"We are responding to the March 20 article, "Are Title Rates Fair?"
The experts in the industry firmly believe that current rates are fair and reasonable, and fully expect that the upcoming data call will provide the factual basis to support that conclusion. Comparing loss ratios with casualty carriers totally misses the mark. The title industry spends a significant portion of its one-time premium to eliminate problems up front in order to meet consumer needs and expectations. Consider that expense as "prepaid claims." When you add those costs into actual paid losses, the loss ratios for the title industry are roughly comparable to those quoted for casualty carriers.
The closing statement in the article was grossly out of date. The current federally required form was designed to promote consumer shopping and Florida law (changed at the urging of the insurers) forbids many of the fees set out in that example. Since this federal regulatory change was made, fees for the whole bundle of products and services, being search, exam, determining insurability, escrow and insurance, are not out of line with the rest of the Southeast.
The Florida Land Title Association (FLTA) promoted legislation this year authorizing the collection of the data necessary for OIR to set a fair and reasonable rate. That bill has passed the Florida Legislature and awaits signature by the Governor.
FLTA members are proud of their significant work during this difficult real estate market to deliver peace of mind to Florida homebuyers, and we encourage consumers to do business with members of the Florida Land Title Association."
Whenever I read articles about title insurance in the newspaper it saddens me to see how off-base they tend to be; the recent front-page story in the Palm Beach Post was no exception.
I've been examining titles & closing real estate transactions in Florida for over 28-yrs, followed in the footsteps of my father and grandfather, who (in the mid-70's along with the aid of a handful of other dedicated professionals) wrote the 1st teaching manual used in Florida ["Florida Land Titles"] portions of which are still required reading today.
In the briefest sense, the primary duty of the title industry is to protect the American Dream of homeownership. Title Insurance covers that –
To those who are currently in our profession that do not share that same principle and look at the industry as merely a job for money, I respectfully request you 'exit stage right' – your services are not required.
The story reads, "Consumer advocates say (title insurance) is a rotten deal for Floridians". My response is, there's much more to title insurance than meets the eye, and that I won't address all aspects here but I shall try to clarify a few misconceptions.
Cost of actual Title Insurance. Where else can one secure attorney representation (should it ever be needed) for the price of a one-time title premium? Retain an attorney lately, it's $5,000 before most will even consider your case. The cost for a title premium on a $100,000 home is $575, or lower if discounts apply. Title Insurance covers that –
Representation aside, in a worst case scenario you lose your home (thankfully that rarely occurs) but should that happen, the homebuyer's investment is protected. Title Insurance covers that –
Search a title lately? I have, about 30,000 or so. Think it's easy? It's not terribly difficult to find information but be prepared to outthink every person who's ever prepared a legal instrument or who index one. Technology aside, both are performed by fallible humans. Title Insurance covers that –
Some think technology (applying to title insurance) has solved all the world's problems. Granted they're many advantages, no doubt, but with it also come setbacks. There's typically much more to a title search these days than ever before; there's far more activity by more people with similar names, more liens, easements, restrictions and litigation, not to mention the F-word, yes I'll say it, Foreclosures. Title Insurance covers that –
Finding ALL of the information (volumes of which can vary wildly) relative to the history of a piece of real estate is only one part of the trick. Now it must be read and interpreted to determine how it affects the land; does it need to be corrected or clarified, will it hold up in court, does it create a lien, is it a restriction, is it an easement right over the land? Title Insurance covers that –
Highly skilled title examiners are scouring ALL OF THIS behind the scenes before you get to the closing table. Why? So that after you close no one comes knocking on your door with their hand out asking you for the keys, or for a check or to inform you they're about to plow through your backyard. Think it hasn't happened, it has; and when it has, it's not our finest hour but you know what? Title Insurance covers that –
The story reads, "Buyers have no idea they have a right to choose a title agent". Not necessarily true! Not if they're attempting to buy a home from a national lender (REO sale) the lender [or its Loan Servicing Company / Asset Management Company] will insist (most every time) that the homebuyer has to use their title company, they usually won't even consider your offer otherwise.
So what's their motivation? Simple, there's no money in it otherwise. Sure, they'll pay for your Owner's Policy, nice guys that they are (that's the hook they use to leverage a Buyer to their title company) but when the Buyer gets that final HUD-1, watch out! – THIS is where a Buyer is apt to be taken advantage of.
The scenario in most REO sales leaves a homebuyer stuck with a title insurance company not of their choosing and having their closing handled through the mail by faceless names who they'll never meet. The added bonus (in many cases) is they'll wind up paying more for the privilege than if they had chosen their own title company and had paid for all the title and closing costs themselves.
It's important to remember; title insurance deals with dirt, dirt in a given jurisdiction subject to local customs and it should always be investigated and closed by those who have knowledge of that dirt and customs in the given jurisdiction.
The typical traditional title agent in your community is not the problem with title insurance, the culprits (in my humble opinion) are controlled business arrangements, a/k/a affiliated business arrangements [fancy term for (deferred) legalized kickbacks] which are thriving at the expense of good service and increased costs to consumers. Their primary motivation is money first, with profession and service second, bass-ackwards.
In closing, to our regulators and legislators I say, regulate the aforementioned and by all means please do a data call ASAP, I cannot afford to go further into debt for the privilege of plying my trade & protecting the America Dream ––
PS: only scratched the surface
R.F "Bob" Booth, Jr., C.L.S.
Community Land Title Corp
Email: Executive Director, Scott MerrittEmail: Executive Assistant, Jena Daly
Phone: 850-681-6422
Florida Land Title Association is a 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © 2019. All Rights Reserved
Mailing Address:Florida Land Title AssociationP.O. Box 66145St. Pete Beach, FL 33736


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You already know that you need to use a brush to properly apply makeup but not just any brush will do. If you have ever tried to use those sad little brushes that come inside of eye shadow or brush compacts, then you know that some brushes are better than others. Buying a cosmetics brush is not just a matter of running to the drugstore and grabbing a brush that looks like it is the right size. You need to put a bit of thought into your selection or you can end up wasting a lot of money. Here are some helpful tips for choosing cosmetics brushes.
• You should always buy the best quality makeup brushes you can afford. Yes, they can be pricey but this is one case where you really do get what you pay for. Good makeup brushes are an investment. Bad brushes need to be replaced more often and can irritate your skin.
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• Natural bristles are generally better than synthetic ones. They also cost a lot more. Natural bristles are a must for large areas of the face but if you need to save some money, you can get away with synthetic fibers for any brushes that will be used with liquids.
• Pay attention to the material of the handle. Plastic is very easy to clean, which is important when you are working with liquids. Wooden handles, on the other hand, are more elegant and traditional but it can be very difficult to get stains out and these require extra drying time after washing. It's really a matter of personal preference.
• Consider the density of the bristles in relation to the intended purpose of the brush. Stiff, tightly-packed bristles are a must for an eyebrow shading brush but softer bristles work better for applying loose powder all over the face.
• Look at handle length. Longer handles are easier to work with whereas shorter handles travel better.
• Concealer brushes can be synthetic if you are using them for liquid or cream concealer. Look for a small brush with a tapered round tip for covering blemishes and a flat, tapered square head for covering dark circles under the eyes.
• A good blush brush will be significantly larger than those that are usually included in the packaging of most blushes, yet not quite as big as a powder brush. Look for soft, natural bristles with a tapered head.
• If you are new to brushes, you might want to purchase a brush set from a reputable brand. Brands like MAC and Shu Uemura are considered some of the best. If your budget is smaller, you might want to try Sonia Kashuk or Essence of Beauty. Brush sets take some of the guesswork out of brush selection and are a great way to get a collection of useful brushes together. This often works out to be cheaper than buying them individually as well.


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When a designer states that a collection is inspired by God in contemporary society, that fabrics are 'self-satisfied' with a 'holy look' and that creases in a skirt are inspired by the tablecloth of The Last Supper, you know you're not in Kansas anymore. You may, however, be in London, where Ann-Sofie Back decided to once again show her collection on the fashion week catwalk.
Unlike many a pretension-loaded predecessor, however, Back doesn't take this fashion malarky seriously. You often get a sense of gigantic quotation-marks hovering around her stated reference-points - you sometimes get them around the clothes too, but this time they were clean and clear. 'God is in the details', or so the saying goes, and Back found God in a collection that poked fun at austerity. That's a brave thing to do in a time where Minimalism has become a new fashion religion.
Back's collection was stripped back to austere basics - there was a monastic air to raw-edged, below-the-knee dresses. Well, you say monastic I say Jehovah's Witness. The intentionally frumpy mid-calf hemlines evoked that too, alongside the linen-woven. homespun appearance of Back's fabrics. The hardcore pressed creased were an obtuse stab at religious garb - but those folds also seem a clever solution to the paradox of minimal decoration. Clever and funny - just like the sheer socks that popped above pointy-point patent stilettos, the kind a good girl would never wear to church.
In her return to the catwalk, Back unveiled not one line but two. That crypto-religious stuff was for 'Atelje', her high-end line - BACK is her straightforward, straight-cut number. We won't use the phrase diffusion, although Back does allow ideas to seep from the main to this secondary collection. This time, the big story was a belt, skinny, patent and pulled through every look - dresses, skirts, tailoring, the lot. That, the standout darts and boning details are all derived from Ann-Sofie collections past. Back to Back basics, you may say. It works. It also perhaps expresses Back's discomfort with the fashion system, the first-but-worst rip-off culture of high fashion to high street trickle-down. Back has it down pat - who better to rip you off than yourself?


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As we all know, cars and trucks are increasingly being packed with all sorts of electronic systems designed to vastly improve their safety profile: electronic stability control, blind spot detection systems, heck even automatic braking technology to prevent collisions.
Now, however, Ford Motor Co. is trying to take things a step further – crafting a technological package to determine "workload stress" upon the driver, then re-adjusting the amount and levels of information being sent to driver in order to create a more "calming" operating environment.
Whoa! Sounds like a vehicle acting like a psychiatrist to me!
The heart of this system is based on biometric feedback obtained via sensors in the steering wheel, seat and seat belt to provide a more complete model of driver stress levels, according to Jeff Greenberg, senior technical leader at Ford's research and innovation division.
"Vehicle control inputs, sensors, road conditions and biometric information such as a driver's pulse and breathing can all be used to create a driver workload estimation that can then help manage certain functions in demanding situations," he explained.
Greenberg pointed out that data from the sensing systems within a host of driver-assist technologies can be used to determine the amount of external demand and workload upon a driver at any given time including traffic and road conditions.
In addition, there's a "health and wellness" side to this via ongoing research regarding the development of a biometric seat, seat belt and steering wheel that can monitor the condition of the driver to provide even more specific data concerning a driver's "state of being."
To accurately determine when "driver stress" exceeds safety norms, Greenberg said his team uses what's called a "driver workload estimator" algorithm using real-time data from existing sensors such as radar and cameras combined with input from the driver's use of the throttle, brakes and steering wheel. The result is an intelligent system enabling management of in-vehicle communications based on the assessed workload of the driving situation, he explained.
[At this rate, cars will be able to provide yoga lessons and discourse upon the 'Wheel of Dharma.']
For example, Greenberg said the side-looking radar sensors used within Ford's Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) and the forward-looking camera for the Lane-Keeping System are on watch even when there is no active warning provided to the driver. These signals could indicate there is a significant amount of traffic in the lane a driver is merging into as he or she enters a highway.
Combine that knowledge with the fact that the driver has increased throttle pedal pressure to speed up, and the workload estimate could be high enough to determine it isn't a very good time for an incoming phone call to ring inside the cabin, he pointed out.
Thus, the car could intelligently apply the "Do Not Disturb" feature that is already available as part of MyFord Touch package, helping the driver stay focused on the road during the high-demand situation.
"In addition to using existing vehicle data to estimate demand on the driver, we're researching ways to get an even better understanding of the stress level of the driver," added Gary Strumolo, Ford's manager of vehicle design and infotronics. "Biometric or health information of the driver can help us better tailor the experience when behind the wheel."
Turning new biometric sensors toward the driver will help to create a more complete picture of the driver workload, he explained. Ford's research team has built a biometric seating buck to test a number of different sensors and gather data on how drivers respond to a variety of inputs for a driver behavior model, he said.
The experimental system adds several sensors to the steering wheel rim and spokes to get more detailed driver information. "Anyone who has used modern exercise equipment like treadmills and stair climbers will be familiar with the metal pads on the rim that can be used to measure the driver's heart rate," Strumolo noted.
Infrared sensors on the steering wheel monitor the palms of a driver's hands as well as his or her face looking for changes in temperature, while a downward-looking infrared sensor under the steering column measures the cabin temperature to provide a baseline for comparing changes in the driver's temperature. The final sensor is embedded in the seat belt to assess the driver's breathing rate, he said.
"With a more complete picture of the driver's health and wellness blended with knowledge of what is happening outside the vehicle, the car will have the intelligence to dynamically adjust the alerts provided to the driver and filter interruptions," Strumolo said. "With the driver occupied in heavy traffic, the vehicle control system could increase the warning times for forward collision alerts and automatically filter out phone calls and messages, allowing the driver more time to respond. On the other hand, an alert driver on an open highway could receive incoming calls."
Now, while all of those features are still in the research phase, he pointed out that they show significant opportunity to leverage data already being captured by the vehicle and then apply it in an "intelligent decision-making system" to simplify the driving experience.
Sounds more than a bit funky, but if such technology could indeed modulate the interior environment of a motor vehicle in tough situations – blocking calls, turning down the radio, and minimizing all but the most critical information flow – it just indeed might help make driving a less stressful occupation. That's a lot of "ifs" of course, but it'll be neat to see if Ford and others can make it work.


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Saturday, December 06, 2008
What if... #6
This post is part of the 2008 advent series "What if..."
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We could get rid of criminals in an ethical manner by putting them inside it, and letting time run at a rate of one year inside during a second outside. They'd get to live out their full lives in prison, but to everyone else it would be the same as if the criminal had been executed.
- 7:01 AM, December 06, 2008
- Arun said...
We would have adventurous people who got into a room that runs slower, so they can be "pioneers" into the deep future.
- 7:59 AM, December 06, 2008
- Daniel de França MTd2 said...
I would put a computer with a lot of memory inside and compute lattice QCD up to planck scale.
- 8:07 AM, December 06, 2008
1. Colors would change as frequencies change: psychedelic.
2. You would become larger and smaller as space changes: psychedelic
3. Temperatures would change constantly.
In short, it's been done before and real experimental data can be gathered using Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
- 8:20 AM, December 06, 2008
- Phil Warnell said...
Everyone then could become over achievers with the only discernible difference being how quickly they appeared to have aged :-)
- 8:34 AM, December 06, 2008
- Bryan said...
1. Time could be made arbitrarily slow in such a room, by building rooms inside rooms.
2. Causality could be violated through the building of very long rooms: you could transmit a signal across the length of the room in arbitrarily little time. These long rooms would be like wormholes. That means:
3. Time travel would be possible (i.e., closed timelike curves would appear) through a Thorne (1998) style procedure. Take two very long such rooms, one traveling at relativistic speeds past the other one. Begin by entering the right side of the first room, traverse it and enter the left side of the second room, traverse it and finally come out before you began.
- 9:02 AM, December 06, 2008
- Rae Ann said...
I think it would cause cancer due to excessive tissue inflammation. Seems it would be like being in a room full of radiation.
- 9:14 AM, December 06, 2008
- Johan said...
Some mundane household uses:
A very slow room would be a great refrigerator replacement, preserving food at any temperature you like (what would heat transfer at the border look like?). Put the oven in a fast room to cook and bake in a flash. Power requirements would be huge if pumped in from outside - this would be true for computers or any other device as well.
I'd like my bedroom to be a fast room so I could always get enough sleep. But if I could make it run slow I could hibernate through the dark and depressing Scandinavian winter.
A fast wine cellar would be nice!
But thinking again about thermodynamics at the border, perhaps a slow room would appear much colder outside than it was inside, and would be a very poor conductor of heat. An outside power source would appear much stronger inside. So perhaps we could practically achieve containment of fusion for power production. Outbound power would also be reduced, of course.
- 10:38 AM, December 06, 2008
- Arun said...
Thinking about the optics between a slow room and normal space, wouldn't normal space see a redshift? Continuing in that vein, aren't distant galaxies in the slow room?
- 10:53 AM, December 06, 2008
- Bee said...
Dear Arun:
I deliberately wrote 'what if we could build' and not 'invent' since it is not hard to invent a room to slow down time. Just put it near a very strong gravitational field. And yes, light would be redshifted then if it comes out. This effect would stretch all light signals to be 'slowed down'. Best,
- 11:04 AM, December 06, 2008
We can!
Time goes slower in a strong gravitational field as you know - so presumably it's possible in principle to build a room where time is 'speeded up' by shielding it from the earth's gravity...or consider a room in a satellite etc
- 11:07 AM, December 06, 2008
- Phil Warnell said...
Arun & Bee,
"Thinking about the optics between a slow room and normal space, wouldn't normal space see a redshift? Continuing in that vein, aren't distant galaxies in the slow room?"
"I deliberately wrote 'what if we could build' and not 'invent' since it is not hard to invent a room to slow down time. Just put it near a very strong gravitational field. And yes, light would be redshifted then if it comes out. This effect would stretch all light signals to be 'slowed down."
Yet with a black hole where the red shift extends all the way to black what sort of room would this then describe, perhaps no room to exist?
- 11:13 AM, December 06, 2008
- Phil Warnell said...
A suggestion inspired by Arun's previous comment:
'If a weapon in a far off galaxy had been triggered, which over time (at speed c) would destroy the universe, could we learn of it in advance of our demise?'
Actually when I come to think of it this question is not suitable in the context and spirit of Advent. Perhaps then I'll fore go asking it to be considered until just before New Year 2013 :-)
- 12:23 PM, December 06, 2008
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Bee,
I must say I truly like thinking about this one so I offer a few more possible uses.
-We could sequester all our leaders to a fast room until they have definitively solved all our problems.
-With the spaceship to Mars being a slow room the journey's distance would be of no consequence for the astronauts.
-Environmentalists would welcome the invention of nearly instantaneous composters.
-With fast rooms movie theatres could offer more showings without increasing space or initial investment.
-It would lend a whole new meaning to "time is money".
-All vehicle interiors could become slow rooms to eliminate the stress of travel.
-No more long waits for bread to rise or beverages to brew made in fast room.
-Hurried work lunches could be extended in a fast rooms to be leisurely.
-The terminally ill could be placed in a slow room until a cure was made available.
-Doctor's offices should become fast rooms to minimize the time spent in their waiting rooms.
-All golf courses would be built within fast rooms to increase the quantity and availability of tee times.
-In short it would lend a whole new meaning to having room for improvement :-)
- 1:54 PM, December 06, 2008
- QUASAR9 said...
You mean like a video
where we could fast forward and/or Rewind
Yeah bring it on.
I'd be in a permanent state of ecstasy and edit the other99.999999999999999999999999991 of my Time (or experiences), literally
But then again I am selfish and into sensual gratification - lol
- 6:12 PM, December 06, 2008
- QUASAR9 said...
Funny I was watching an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation, where there's a large anomaly and some talk of anti-time
but that would be like anti-gravity, right?
- 6:13 PM, December 06, 2008
- QUASAR9 said...
PS - the room could probably do wonders for my sex life
Though having time run faster is always handy when waiting for the pay cheque at the end of the month.
Pay day could last a month, and the rest of the month be over in a day.
Mind you orgasms that last 30 days (in real or actuaql time) could be very 'draining' - lol
Unless of course you don't actually experience any fluctuation in the speed of time when you are in the room - then orgasms will last no ore or no less than if one were outside the room. I'm guessing!
- 6:17 PM, December 06, 2008
- Plato said...
Since there exist in this four dimensional structure [space-time] no longer any sections which represent "now" objectively, the concepts of happening and becoming are indeed not completely suspended, but yet complicated. It appears therefore more natural to think of physical reality as a four dimensional existence, instead of, as hitherto, the evolution of a three dimensional existence. Albert Einstein
Subjectively, we can already make time go faster or slower in that room?:)
Conclusion: The state of mind of the observer plays a crucial role in the perception of time.
And then a "certain freedom and beauty" comes to mind, about no longer worrying about straight lines and such. That we are really "confining ourselves" while thinking "just about the room."
The value of non-Euclidean geometry lies in its ability to liberate us from preconceived ideas in preparation for the time when exploration of physical laws might demand some geometry other than the Euclidean. Bernhard Riemann
- 2:14 AM, December 07, 2008
- Arun said...
Bee, duly noted that putting something into a deep gravitational well is like the slow room. What is the fast room?
- 10:45 AM, December 07, 2008
- Bee said...
Dear Arun,
That is an interesting question. Is there, in GR, any background where time can run faster than in flat space? It might require some fancy type of matter. Consider that the redshift in a gravitational field comes along as sqrt(1-2M/r) for the frequency emitted at r and recieved at infinity, which goes to zero at the horizon, meaning time slows down. Now it seems the only way to get this to be larger than one is to have negative mass... Best,
- 12:39 PM, December 07, 2008
- Arun said...
It is also amazing how GR slows time for us without affecting the laws of physics in the way that would happen if we tried fiddling with (the dimensionless ratios) of physical constants.
- 1:41 PM, December 07, 2008
We already have rooms like that. In my house, at least, time runs faster on the upper floor and slower on the lower floor. To be honest, I haven't verified this, not having an atomic clock handy, but I'm willing to believe what I've been told about general relativity.
- 8:37 PM, December 07, 2008
- Phil Warnell said...
HI Bee & Arun,
"What is the fast room?"
How about a room that was orbiting close to a "White Hole"? That is if they exist as to find one. Another way to look at it is if you orbited normally close to a black hole's event horizon all places above this for you would fast rooms , that is relatively speaking.
- 10:56 PM, December 07, 2008
- Benjamin said...
Doesn't time move slower up here at altitude (I'm in Denver)? In relation to the Earth's center, we are moving faster than those of you at sea-level (and in between). Everything I know on the subject, I learned from Einstein's Dreams :), but a trip through any of the small mountain towns here should confirm my hypothesis.
- 5:11 PM, December 10, 2008
- Bee said...
Hi Benjamin,
Time actually runs faster at higher altitude (even though at a negligible rate). It runs slower where the graviational potential is stronger, i.e. in the valleys. Best,
- 7:03 PM, December 10, 2008
- Nirmalya said...
All sorts of weird stuff should happen at the boundary where time would be discontinuous. Like instantaneous shortening or breaking of objects and stuff like that.
- 8:32 AM, January 08, 2009


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Euro Car NA gathering at Yellowstone, EPIC road trip
Euro Car North America gathering at Yellowstone, EPIC road trip 2013
Yellowstone and Grand Tetons Epic drive and meet 2013
First item:
I have gotten some flak from people on the different forms for putting this on as well as asking people to only post if they were going or at least seriously interested. I am not being paid to do this nor am I asking for money. I am doing this because I love to drive and seem to be one of the few people out in the community willing to take on such a headache. All I ask is if you are going to post on this thread, please be serious about attending. Just posting to say "say not for me" or "to far" makes the thread long and does not add value. Thank you.
Second item:
There is no way I can please everyone for this event and nor am I trying to do so. I have done my best to make an event that balances the areas I felt were important.
Being able to see the sights you have not seen as well as take your ride on a drive you normally would never do.
Being able to drive the car in a fun manner at some points to "stretch its legs".
Make a successful event that we can have move across North America to see the sights.
Dates of the event
June 24-28 – for meet and group activities. If you include driving to base camp it would be June 22nd – June 30th possibly depending on location you are starting from.
Base camp will be West Yellowstone. There is plenty of lodging, parking and activities for a hopefully big group. I will be working on group rates at the first of the year for everyone.
June 24th, 2013 - Yellowstone park North loop
June 25th, 2013 – Yellowstone park South Loop
June 26th, 2013 – Beartooth Pass drive. (This will be the drive day and will make for some great roads. This will be a LONG day, as we will cover some miles)
June 27th, 2013 – Leave West Yellowstone and travel to Jackson WY
- Explore Grand Tetons during the day on the way to Jackson WY
June 28th, 2013 – Explore Grand Tetons
In an effort to help facilitate getting people in touch with each other to arrange caravans, I have made a form that I will use to populate a Google document. I am the only one who will see this as a FYI.
What will we be doing there?
We are in the oldest national park in the world so we will be seeing the sights and doing some walking around. In addition, a few others and I are trying to arrange some group photo shots at the parks attractions. I have included one day for just pure driving for those who are interested.
What will this cost me to go?
You will be responsible for fuel, lodging, food, park fees and anything else you might want to do. The only fee that is 100% for sure is the $25 for a 7 day pass which allows you to see both Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.
If I get enough people interested, I could have some removable decals made to be placed on the side of the car to be like we are on a rally event. If you want me to look into these costs, let me know on the form above.
This sounds LAME!
I know some of you have posted you hated Yellowstone and would just do the Grand Teton or you just want to hall ass around all day seeing what your car can do. Sorry this is not the place to do that. The best explanation I can say why this is not lame is because you are going on a ROAD TRIP, which to me has always been a reason to go to places. This also is a continental wide event that hopefully will be the first of many more to come. Therefore, if you still think this is a lame idea then I wish you a safe summer in your adventures.
Currently I have four cars from Sacramento area 100% going. In addition, I know of a few in Montana that will be attending. This means we have about eight cars ranging from BMW, Audi, Ferrari and Lotus already attending.
If you wish to email me directly my email is
. Please make sure to let me know you are asking about Yellowstone as I organize many drives for the NorCal enthusiasts.
Here are some sample images of the visit my wife and I did in 2011 in our 2006 E90.
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For kicks I took the time to map out all the people that requested info. This is the caravan routes according to Google for the fastest route there based on ZIPs provided.
If everyone that requested info is able to attend, that will make for a truly continental event. Alaska is winning for furthest traveled as you can see.
If you have questions or have not gotten the last email update, please email direct -
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April is almost over so that means we are getting close. WOOT
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For those who were unable to make this trip, we must say you missed one hell of a week. The group was 14 cars strong, and we did have a few additional cars join us along the way, making the final group 16 cars at the largest point.
Here is a summary of the week:
Day 1 - The day started with the usual introduction, paperwork and review of the week's itinerary. We then headed out to drive the North Loop of Yellowstone Park, stopping at all the major attractions along the way. Everyone enjoyed seeing the sights and getting to know one another. Towards the end of the day, we quickly noticed that our group was becoming a side attraction to the park due to the Yellowstone decals we had on our cars to identify who belonged with the road trip group. The day ended with a fun dinner at a local BBQ joint where everyone continued to get to know each other.
Day 2 - The morning started off a little wet and chilly. We picked up two additional cars for the day as we headed out to explore the South Loop of Yellowstone Park. We had a few issues with parking as we toured the South Loop, as the tourist season had already started and some of the parking lots were small. However, we managed and were able to see everything we set out to see. Since we were in the busier parts of the Park, we started to gain even more notice due our Yellowstone Road Trip decals. We had park rangers and tourists alike, coming up to ask us all about the group. They were curious to know who we were, where we came from and what the road trip entailed. The day ended with dinner and drinks out at a local bar.
Day 3 - Today the trip began to gain more energy as we set out to tackle a drive over Beartooth Pass. We started our day at the Visitor Center, as we had in days past, and had more and more park rangers come up to admire our Yellowstone Road Trip decals and to ask about our group. Once we had everyone together, we headed out the East Entrance of the Park and picked up speed once we turned onto Beartooth Pass. The road winds its way up to a max altitude of 10,990 feet, before switch-backing its way down the other side of the mountain and into the small mountain town of Red Lodge. The speed limit over the pass is 70mph, but good luck keeping that average through the incredibly tight and continuous switchbacks. The drive itself was exhilarating, and the views of the surrounding valleys and mountain ranges were epic. The drive, to say the least, is one of the most thrilling, breath-taking and amazing stretches of road I have been on. We stopped in Red Lodge for an arranged lunch, and also made a few stops on the way back in order to take some group pictures and do some souvenir shopping at The Top of The World Store. The day ended with everyone grinning ear to ear and re-living the adventure over dinner.
Day 4 - We said good-bye to Yellowstone and hello to the Tetons. Our first stop was for an arranged group shot at the Old Faithful Inn, with the Old Faithful Geyser in the background. The photo shoot went fine, and a few park employees stood around commenting favorably on our group and cars. Then, things went sour very quickly when I was confronted by a head park ranger who was very angry he had not been informed that I had already completed all the necessary paperwork for our group to be there. After getting chewed out by the ranger, I was able to clear up the misunderstanding and we were allowed to finish taking our pictures. However, the ranger did inform us that our decals looked too close to the official park logo, and therefore it was unlawful for us to be using them. Keep in mind, the decals were about three times the size of the official park logo found on ranger uniforms and official park vehicles, and they were clearly labeled as, "2013 Euro Car Road Trip, Yellowstone." The ranger did not make us remove the decals, and we only received favorable comments about them for the remainder of the trip. (It is worth noting that I received an email when I returned home from one of my contacts saying that there is a law which states no facsimiles of the official park logo can be made. I continue to argue it is not a facsimile, and note that only one individual made a negative comment about the logo throughout the trip). After the photo shoot, we made our way to Teton National Park, where we enjoyed the stunning views and enjoyed the plethora of blooming wild flowers. Some participants took a ferry across Lake Jenny and hiked to a waterfall and vista point; while others took in the views and then went on to explore the town of Jackson. The day ended with everyone sharing an AWESOME meal at the Cowboy Bar, which is below The Million Dollar Bar. I definitely recommend this place for dinner and drinks if you are ever staying in Jackson.
Day 5 – For the last day of the trip we had a smaller group, as some participants had to start their trek home. For those who were able to stay, we made a trip to Teton Village, where we enjoyed a fun Aerial Tram ride 4,139 vertical feet to the top of Rendezvous Mountain, where we could see endless views of the valley floor and Teton Mountain Range. After riding the tram back down the mountain, we drove around the valley floor to see the Chapel of the Transfiguration, Menor's Ferry, as well as some old abandoned settlements. As the temperature started to climb, we decided to head back to Jackson and further explore the town. Dinner was at a great Mexican restaurant where many of us said our goodbyes before leaving for home the following day.
This is only a summary of the week's events, and it fails to fully convey the amount of fun the group had. Everyone got along incredibly well, and many new friendships we made. We were all sad to end the trip, as we were starting to become one big and diverse family.
The goal of this trip is to be the start of a bi-annual road trip series, which will provide future opportunities to discover more of our amazing country, enjoy our cars and continue to make new friendships. We are already looking forward to 2015 and our next chance to do some sightseeing, fun driving, relax and catch up. All I can say to you if you are reading this is, if you can join us in 2015, I highly recommend doing so! The event will have the same laid back, and social feel, intermixed with some fun driving and sightseeing.
Here are a few sample images with more coming. I will post the album link once I have them created. We have a LOT of images which all will be posted soon.
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Took a while but finally done. After sorting around 6000 images of the trip, here are the top 3375 from the trip.
That is far to many images to post to the forum so the link below is to the albums.
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Some people from the other forums asked if I would post the itinerary so here it is. The link below has the full weeks itinerary, images, and summary of the event for those who wish to do the trip on their own or with a group.
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