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A question for Novato's Catholics: Does it bother you that the new archbishop of San Francisco, who oversees parishes in Marin County, supported the ban on same-sex marriage that was passed four years ago? Or are you glad he did?
Anyone from Novato's LGBT community have a viewpoint on that?
Salvatore Cordileone was installed in the role Thursday afternoon at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco after being appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in July to replace George Niederauer, who is retiring. But the move came amid protests from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups because of Cordileone's support of Proposition 8.
The New York Times published a story about how gay Catholics are worried about Cordileone's installment. About 25 protesters carried signs and marched outside St. Mary's while an equal number clapped and sang in his favor. The LGBT protesters waved rainbow flags and carried signs with messages such as, "We all deserve the freedom to marry." Other protesters' signs decried priest abuse of children.
"It's really a smorgasbord" of protests, said demonstrator Billy Bradford, 56, of Castro Valley. "... I'm here for gay people in general. Cordileone has said we're against the natural order of things. No, we're not. We're people. We're family. I should be able to get married so that my son can be protected by two parents."
"We do not support his anti-equality message or the work he does to deny legal rights to our families," Billy Bradford of Marriage Equality USA said in a statement. "The harm done to our community by Salvatore Cordileone cannot go unchallenged."
Those supporting the new archbishop carried a sign reading, "Neocatechumenal communities welcome the new shepherd." They clapped and sang, accompanied by several guitarists and drummers.
On the plaza in front of the church, which was closed to the public, a mariachi band played. The band was part of one of several ethnic festivities organized for the installation by the archdiocese to celebrate the diverse cultures it encompasses.
Meanwhile, a steady stream of nuns and priests entered St. Mary's Cathedral on the Gough Street side. Cordileone walked into the church at 2:06 p.m., wearing a gold-threaded robe and a white mitre.
On top of the same-sex issue, Cordileone was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in San Diego in August, and issued a statement apologizing for his "error in judgment" and "the disgrace I have brought upon the Church and myself." He is due back in court in that case next week.
His installation also brought skeptical comments from some members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at their meeting earlier this week.
Supervisor Christina Olague, who identifies herself as bisexual, said she was disappointed that the church would appoint "a person who has shown a great deal of intolerance for our community." Supervisor David Campos, who is gay, also noted what he said were divisive statements by Cordileone, but said, "I hope we can find some common ground."
Cordileone has served as bishop of Oakland since 2009 after serving as an auxiliary bishop in San Diego and spending time in Rome, Costa Mesa and Calexico.
Besides the city, the Archdiocese of San Francisco also includes San Mateo and Marin counties. The archbishop oversees the dioceses of Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Stockton, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City and Honolulu.
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- Where is the cancer located?
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Journalist Christopher Hitchens explains why he's no longer a socialist, why moral authoritarianism is on the rise, and what's wrong with anti-globalization protestors.
In the roughly two decades since British writer Christopher Hitchens arrived in the U.S., he has emerged as a singularly insightful, provocative, and impossible-to-ignore critic of American politics and culture. His regular columns for the left-wing think magazine The Nation and the glitzy celebrity sheet Vanity Fair stand out in both publications for their clarity of thought and prose. He famously served as one of the models for Peter Fallows, the memorable dissipated Brit journalist in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. His television appearances are legendary, none perhaps more so than his contretemps with Charlton Heston during CNN's live coverage of the Gulf War. Hitchens insisted that Heston list what countries have borders with Iraq. After Heston flubbed the answer, he upbraided the journalist for "taking up valuable network time giving a high-school geography lesson." To which Hitchens replied: "Oh, keep your hairpiece on."
Though the 52-year-old Hitchens clearly enjoys mocking the famous and the powerful -- he once derided the House of Windsor for "sucking off [Britain's] national tit" -- he's no mere gadfly. In books such as The Missionary Position, No One Left to Lie To, and The Trial of Henry Kissinger, he has crafted thoughtful and provocative extended indictments of Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, and the former secretary of state and Nobel Peace Prize winner; his recent collection, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere, was reviewed in the July issue of REASON. (See "Literary Legislators.")
Hitchens' willingness to put moral principles before political alliances has earned him the wrath of ideological compatriots. When he signed an affidavit contradicting testimony by Clinton administration aide Sidney Blumenthal that the president had never circulated tales of Monica Lewinsky as a crazed stalker, Hitchens was attacked as a liar and a snitch in the pages of The Nation and almost ended his relationship with the magazine.
Hitchens' newest book is Letters to a Young Contrarian: The Art of Mentoring (Basic Books), in which he exhorts youth to remain both principled and oppositional, freethinkers in the best Enlightenment tradition. Given such thoughts, it's not surprising that Hitchens' next book will be about George Orwell. Nor is it surprising to find him increasingly interested in alternatives to orthodox left-wing thinking. A regular reader of REASON -- a few years back, he wrote that he gets "more out of reading...REASON than I do out of many 'movement' journals" -- Hitchens has become increasingly interested in the libertarian critique of state power and its defense of individual liberty. "I am," he says, "much more inclined to stress those issues...to see that they do possess, with a capital H and a capital I, Historical Importance."
Appropriately, Rhys Southan, REASON's Burton Gray Memorial Intern and the youngest member of our staff, interviewed Hitchens in late August.
REASON: How were you different as a young contrarian than you are as an older one?
Christopher Hitchens: The book forces me to ask that question, and yet I don't quite. I must say that I've always found the generational emphasis on the way that my youth was covered to be very annoying. There were a lot of other people born in April 1949, and I just don't feel like I have anything in common with most of them. I forget who it was who said that generation -- age group, in other words -- is the most debased form of solidarity. The idea of anyone who was born around that time having an automatic ticket to being called "a '60s person," is annoying to me. Especially membership in the specific group that I could claim to have been a part of: not just of "the '60s," but of 1968. There's even a French term for it: soixante-huitard. You can now guess roughly what the political parameters were for me at the time. And you can also guess at least one of the sources of my irritation, which is that by generational analysis, Bill Clinton and I are of the same kidney and same DNA. I repudiate that with every fiber.
But I'm postponing an answer to your question. In those days, I was very much in rebellion against the state. The state had presented itself to [my fellow protestors and me], particularly through the Vietnam War, in the character of a liar and a murderer. If, at a young age, you are able to see your own government in that character, it powerfully conditions the rest of your life. I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer. Yet I have to concede that I didn't think there was a problem necessarily with the state, or government, or collective power.
I had been interested in libertarian ideas when I was younger. I set aside this interest in the '60s simply because all the overwhelming political questions seemed to sideline issues of individual liberty in favor of what seemed then to be grander questions. I suppose what would make me different now is that I am much more inclined to stress those issues of individual liberty than I would have been then. And to see that they do possess, with a capital H and a capital I, Historical Importance, the very things that one thought one was looking for.
REASON: When did your focus change? In Letters, you write that you've "learned a good deal from the libertarian critique" of the idea that the individual belongs to the state and you praise a friend who taught you that "the crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state."
Hitchens: It's hard to assign a date. I threw in my lot with the left because on all manner of pressing topics -- the Vietnam atrocity, nuclear weapons, racism, oligarchy -- there didn't seem to be any distinctive libertarian view. I must say that this still seems to me to be the case, at least where issues of internationalism are concerned. What is the libertarian take, for example, on Bosnia or Palestine?
There's also something faintly ahistorical about the libertarian worldview. When I became a socialist it was largely the outcome of a study of history, taking sides, so to speak, in the battles over industrialism and war and empire. I can't -- and this may be a limit on my own imagination or education -- picture a libertarian analysis of 1848 or 1914. I look forward to further discussions on this, but for the moment I guess I'd say that libertarianism often feels like an optional philosophy for citizens in societies or cultures that are already developed or prosperous or stable. I find libertarians more worried about the over-mighty state than the unaccountable corporation. The great thing about the present state of affairs is the way it combines the worst of bureaucracy with the worst of the insurance companies.
What I did was to keep two sets of books in my mind. I was certainly interested in issues that have always interested libertarians -- defining what the limits to state power are. The first political issue on which I'd ever decided to take a stand was when I was in my teens and before I'd become a socialist. It was the question of capital punishment. A large part of my outrage toward capital punishment was exactly the feeling that it was arrogating too much power to the government. It was giving life-and-death power to the state, which I didn't think it deserved, even if it could use it wisely. I was convinced it could not and did not.
In the mid-1970s, I first met someone whom I've gotten to know better since, Adam Michnik, one of the more brilliant of the Polish dissidents of the time. Michnik made the luminous remark you quoted about the citizen and his relation to the state. I remember thinking, "Well, that's a remark that's impossible to forget."
REASON: So, do you still consider yourself a socialist?
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For an intern, Rhys Southan did a damn good job with this interview.
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Winter is often the worst time to drive in southeastern Pennsylvania, as a cycle of freezing and thawing causes pavement in some places to crumble into scattered potholes.
A recent news release from AAA Mid-Atlantic (attached to this article) outlines the dangers of potholes as well as tips for avoiding or mitigating the damage they cause.
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- The tire is the most important cushion between a car and a pothole. Make sure tires have enough tread and are properly inflated.
- Make certain struts and shock absorbers are in good condition. Changes in vehicle handling, excessive vibration or uneven tire wear can indicate bad shocks or struts.
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- A hard pothole impact can dislodge wheel weights, damage a tire or wheel, and bend or even break suspension components. Any new or unusual noises or vibrations that appear after hitting a pothole should be inspected immediately by a certified technician.
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This recipe came about one night when I was trying to think of a new and different snack to serve the next day. The empty plate at the party signaled these rolls were a hit! —Darlene Abney, Muenster, Texas
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3 tablespoons spicy brown mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon prepared horseradish
- 5 flour tortillas (10 inches), room temperature
- 7 packages (2 ounces each) thinly sliced deli corned beef
- 15 thin slices Swiss cheese
- 1 can (14 ounces) sauerkraut, rinsed and well drained
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, mustard and horseradish until blended. Spread a heaping tablespoonful of cream cheese mixture over each tortilla.
- Layer each tortilla with eight slices of corned beef, three slices of cheese, another heaping tablespoonful of cream cheese mixture and 1/2 cup sauerkraut. Roll up tightly. Chill for 1 hour. Cut each roll-up into 1/2-in. slices. Yield: about 8 dozen.
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I left out the horseradish and added a little thousand island too. Very good!
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The guest at my party loved these as well as I did..so easy and yummy. Yes...I did use thousand island dressing instead of other filling called for however. Will make again
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These sound good but not a fan of horseradish or the spicy mustard. Has anyone tried using just thousand island dressing?
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Dr. Thomas F. Wylie, Senior Vice President and Provost at New England Institute of Technology, announced that the college has earned a prestigious position on The Princeton Review's just published-list saluting the best undergraduate schools in the United States and Canada to study video game design for 2013.
Compiled by The Princeton Review, one of America's best-known education services companies, the 2013 list names 15 undergraduate schools in rank order (1 to 15) and15 undergraduate schools as Honorable Mentions. The Company also reported a companion list of top graduate schools to study video game design for 2013 highlighting 15 graduate schools in rank order and five as Honorable Mentions. The listings are shown below.
The Princeton Review chose the schools based on a survey it conducted in the 2012-13 academic year of 150 programs at institutions offering video game design coursework and/or degrees in the United States and Canada. The Company's 50-question survey asked schools to report on a range of topics from academic offerings and faculty credentials to graduates' employment and professional achievements. Among the criteria The Princeton Review weighed to make its selections included: the school curriculum, faculty, facilities, and infrastructure, plus career services, student scholarships, and financial aid.
According to Wylie, "We are so pleased to receive this distinction from The Princeton Review. Our gaming faculty works tirelessly with students enrolled in our associate and bachelor degree programs in game design and game development technology. Our hands-on approach to learning coupled with a dynamic curriculum plus exciting gaming events and workshops prepare our students well as they enter this exciting field."
Said Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior Vice President/Publisher, "It has long been our mission to help students find and get into the schools best for them. For students aspiring to become game designers, we highly recommend New England Institute of Technology as one of the best institutions to study and to launch a career in this field. We also salute the faculty and staff at New England Institute of Technology and the other schools on our 2013 lists for their exceptional academic and professional contributions to their students and to the industry of game design."
The Princeton Review's full report is accessible at www.princetonreview.com/game-design. It includes profiles of the schools with application information and links to the school sites.
This year, The Princeton Review partnered with PC Gamer, a monthly magazine published by Future US, as its reporting partner on this project. PC Gamer has a feature on the list in its May issue. It is now available at www.pcgamer.com, and will arrive in subscriber mailboxes in mid-March and on newsstands April 2. The feature has information on the schools' degree options, class offerings, prominent professors, and alumni, plus fun facts about the school programs.
The Princeton Review's "Top 15 Undergraduate Schools To Study Video Game Design For 2013" are:
1. University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)
2. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
3. DigiPen Institute of Technology (Redmond, WA)
4. Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
6. Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
7. Shawnee State University (Portsmouth, OH)
8. Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA)
9. The Art Institute of Vancouver (Vancouver, British Columbia / CAN)
10. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
11. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
12. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
13. Becker College (Worcester, MA)
14. New England Institute of Technology (East Greenwich, RI)
15. North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)
The Video Game Development and Design Technology has two bachelor's degree tracks: Game Development and Simulation Programming and Video Game Design.
The bachelor's degree program in Video Game Design Technology will prepare students for entry-level and intermediate level careers in game design, animation and visualization as well as for entry-level and intermediate level positions in a variety of digital media production environments. Building on the skills and knowledge acquired in the associate degree program, students will learn and refine advanced design and development skills utilized in the game industry. Students will be immersed in high level programs, concepts and design challenges that will aid in their development of communications skills, refine their mastery of 2D and 3D animation concepts and introduce them to new technologies and trends in the industry. An important component of the curriculum is assembling a portfolio that will include game assets developed by students. Graduates from this program will be eligible for entry-level to intermediate level positions such as game designer, character artist, environmental artist, technical artist, level designer, and visual effects animator.
Program Mission:
The mission of the Video Game Design Technology bachelor's degree (VGD BS) program is to provide an advanced program to prepare students to become video game designers working in the game development or simulation industry, and to prepare students for further education at the master's level. Through a combination of theory, hands-on state-of-the-art laboratory experiences, small class sizes led by experienced instructors, and a capstone project, the program emphasizes application of knowledge to the design and development of games and simulations.
Program Goals:
1. The VGD BS program will provide appropriate learning opportunities to acquire knowledge of the design to production, including project management and documentation for the main game genres.
2. Provide the opportunities acquire knowledge of advanced principles of design used in the creation of the game user interface, game asset creation, and in game level design.
3. Present opportunities to acquire knowledge of advanced animation techniques for video game production.
4. The VGD BS program will provide appropriate learning opportunities to acquire knowledge of various game industry game engines and asset creation programs.
5. Provide the opportunity to prepare the student for entry into the game industry through the development of a portfolio and to develop and understanding of the industry's workings.
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1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the game development life cycle through video game creation projects from design to production, including project management and documentation for the main game genres.
2. Students will develop competence in utilizing advanced principles of design through the creation of the game user interface, game asset creation, and in game level design.
3. Students will demonstrate advanced animation techniques through the creation of visual assets for video game production.
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GDS 375 Simulation and Serious Games
VGD 371 Advanced 3D Modeling
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VGD 380 3D Digital Sculpting
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GDS 422 Emerging Technologies in Game Development
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I completed my MCSE Certification last year with MSExchange server 5.5. Currently, I am working on my CCNA 2.0. After completing my CCNA, I would like to update my WinNT 4.0 to Win2k. Which are the papers required to complete Win2k?
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Talk about a reinvention. Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, ex- of Panic! at the Disco, hinted at their love of '60s psych on that group's overlooked Pretty, Odd, but with their new outfit they indulge those impulses completely. Shelve everything you think you know about them: their debut draws heavily from the deep well of the Kinks and the Left Banke — and even adds a dollop of late '90s indiepoppers like Apples in Stereo — to create an album's worth of irresistible summer songs, the kind of music made for warm afternoons.
1:45 p.m.—2:45 p.m.: Gaslight Anthem
New Jersey's second hardest-working band made a worthy splash with 2008's gutsy The '59 Sound. Packed with heart-on-sleeve lyrics and meat-n-potatoes blue-collar punk instrumentation, the group radiated ragged charm and steely determination. Their upcoming American Slang is even better, incorporating dashes of gospel and R&B into the band's rugged formula. Live they're dynamos, barely breathing between songs and tossing lyrics from classics by the Clash and Social Distortion into their own roaring compositions.
3:15 p.m.—4:30 p.m.: The Gossip
Possessor of one of the greatest voices in popular music, Beth Ditto is simply magnetic onstage. She's a disco star shot 30 years into the future, a technicolor wonder belting out big, impossible notes over thumping backbeats. Gossip shows are clubland gone grand scale, and in early evening Tennessee, their brand of fiery electro-soul is sure to generate heat.
4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.: Nas & Damien "Jr Gong" Marley
Nas is the rare rapper able to skillfully bridge the divide between commercial success and social consciousness, lacing recent albums with searing indictments of Fox News and racism. Marley has done the same for reggae, netting a world-beating crossover hit in the process. The just-released Distant Relatives finds both artists firing on all cylinders, delivering searing, Afrocentric songs against a sonic backdrop culled from reggae, R&B and Ethiopian jazz. Their live shows have been part party, part protest rally, and all energy.
5:45 p.m.—7:15 p.m.: The National
Forget how reserved they sound on record — in person, the National want to be your next U2. Their tense, quivering songs expand stadium size to shocking effect, Bryce and Aaron Dessner's pealing guitars darting firefly-like around Matt Berninger's basement baritone. It doesn't hurt that they're backed by a small army of instruments — a brass section, additional percussion, violins — or that Berninger has a fondness for climbing stage scaffolding and leaping into the crowd during the incendiary "Mr. November."
6:45 p.m.—8:15 p.m.: Tori Amos
Few pop artists are as idiosyncratic as Tori Amos. Say what you will about her recent efforts, there's no denying that the vision behind them is specifically hers. Whether it's an odd concept record about beekeeping or a meditation on multiple personality disorder, Amos aggressively seeks out the less-trodden path. Her musical tastes are equally restless. Though she started out favoring ethereal piano ballads, her palette has broadened over the years to include folk, glam rock and dance music. Her set ought to be a thorough examination of all of her impulses, making for a varied and gripping performance.
8:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.: Samantha Crain
Samantha Crain writes folk music, but she belts out notes like she's singing R&B. Her rich alto seems to have no bottom, and the sound of it against her bare guitar is enough to raise gooseflesh. Like Frontier Ruckus, with whom she occasionally tours, Crain inverts folk music and leavens it with other elements, placing square emphasis on her singular pipes.
9:30 p.m.—11:30 p.m.: Kings of Leon
Raise a glass to Southern boys done good. The Kings' transformation from Skynyrd-inspired gutbucket rockers to bona fide arena act culminated in their leap to arenas and headlining dates last year. Live, Caleb Followill's voice is often all the animus they need. It cuts upward at sharp angles, and grafts soul into their roaring, open-hearted anthems.
11:30 p.m.—12:30 a.m.: Warpaint
A late night set is an unlikely time slot for an up-and-coming L.A. band, but Warpaint's brilliant, crystalline music more than justifies the high billing. The all-girl quartet recalls the best aspects of groups like Pylon and Throwing Muses: sharp, darting guitars puncturing aching vocals, nervous rhythms that add tension and edge, tuneful, gripping minor key melodies. Warpaint are one of the few bands on the Bonnaroo bill mining completely uncharted territory — a quartet of gauzy phantoms moaning in the graveyard late at night. You can say you saw them way back when.
12:00 a.m.—2:00 a.m: Flaming Lips + StarDeath & White Dwarfs
What do you do if you can't get the band that recorded Dark Side of the Moon to perform it from start to finish? You get the Flaming Lips to do it instead. For sheer gonzo wow factor, this is the show to see. The Lips have built a career on their carnivalesque live shows, and sister Oklahoma band Stardeath and the White Dwarfs are turning out to be a kind of Lips-in-training (lead singer Dennis Coyne is Lips singer Wayne's nephew). There are one of two ways this performance goes: so ridiculous that it actually works, or so ridiculous that it just ends up being ridiculous. Either way, there won't be much else on the Bonnaroo bill like it.
2:30 a.m.—4:00 a.m.: LCD Soundsystem
James Murphy owns one of the world's greatest record collections, and he takes pride in synthesizing and redelivering it in with LCD Soundsystem. The group's catalog is practically a trip through the last three decades of pop music: a bit of New Order here, a bit of Bowie in Berlin there, a dash of Carl Craig to round the whole thing out. He injects his songs with dry wit and overplayed neurosis about aging, commercialism and human connection, making for the kind of rare dance music where the lyrics actually matter. Live, LCD go full-bore with a sweaty rave-up that demands full-body participation.
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SCRANTON, Pa. _ It was a cool, sunny morning in late February, and we were tooling down Interstate 81 in the silver pickup.
The snow was wet and heavy, like a soggy blanket with a few bald spots where withered grass and muddy leaves poked through. Spring was coming fast, which I regretted because we were on our way to buy a sleigh.
Uncle Chet shook his head, keeping his eyes on the road. "Better get ready to use this thing by next weekend," he said.
"I know," I said.
"Should have done this last fall," he chided.
"I couldn't find one," I said. "Not one that looked like Santa might be driving it."
"Or Mrs. Claus," he said.
"I'm going to get that song on YouTube," I said. "These days, you need video to sell audio, and you know I wanna be a rock star."
"In your 60s," he said.
"Yes," I said.
"What are you going to pull this sleigh with -- your dogs?" he asked as he lifted his coffee cup out of the holder.
"The tractor or the four-wheeler," I said. "I don't know how heavy it is. We'll experiment when we get home. Then I'll find reindeer costumes for you and Bruce, outfits for Santa and Sheila, and we'll shoot."
"Have you asked Sheila yet?" he asked.
"Sure," I said, drawing a deep breath, sinking back into the seat and exhaling, "almost four years ago."
He glanced sidelong and said nothing. We continued southeast, leaving Pennsylvania for northern New Jersey, sailing through pockets of overpopulated countryside.
"Should be there in less than an hour," Uncle Chet said, consulting the dash clock. He turned on the radio and searched until he found NPR, which was reporting on the latest Republican campaign to kill public radio and TV.
"Doesn't surprise me; they want to kill everything we jointly own," Uncle Chet said. "They want to kill the commons in America, divide it up among the billionaires. They want the Statue of Cheney in New York Harbor and Murdoch Monument in Washington, D.C. They want us to drive down the Exxon Thruway to the Halliburton Parkway and cross the Sam Walton Bridge into the borough of Goldman Sachs.
"Republicans stand for unlimited private wealth and nothing else. They work for that coterie of super-rich, right-wing megalomaniacs, and all the rest is window dressing," he said. "They've got the best liars money can buy, the biggest hypocrites in office and you can't show me a vote where they ever helped working people because they're too busy helping themselves.
"They don't want public radio because they don't want an informed public, which would promptly kick them out of office," he said. "They want to herd everyone to Fox, leave you no alternative to propaganda about how the billionaires who've shipped our jobs to China, and their millionaire lackeys need another tax break."
"Maybe you should turn off the radio," I said. "Take your news in doses off the Internet like I do."
"Oh, you're in trouble, too," he said, "because House Republicans are trying to kill net neutrality, drive up the price and steer traffic to big corporate sites. Then when you turn off the TV because you know Fox is lying, you'll find Limbaugh, Malkin and O'Reilly online, mouthing the same tripe." "I may have to go back to reading books, writing music," I said.
"You know, if it wasn't for net neutrality, you'd have no way to sell that song," Uncle Chet observed. "The way it is now, you can put this video out there and some corporate mega-studio can put out a similar song, and the better product will make it.
"But if they get their way, and the Verizons and Comcasts of the world are able to channel searches, control the Web the way they run TV, you can be sure you'll die a pauper, your song unheard."
"Then step on it," I said. "We're going to be on YouTube by March."
Cooperstown bureau Reporter Tom Grace is traveling with his Uncle Chet, who he says is imaginary. Grace's column appears every other week. For more of his columns, visit www.thedailystar.com/tomgrace.


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Attachmate, a privately held provider of technology services, said it's buying software provider Novell in a $2.2 billion deal. The deal marks the end of a drawn-out auction process the Novell board began back in March after rejecting an unsolicited proposal from Elliott Associates.
A chunk of the deal's value also includes the concurrent sale of some Novell intellectual property assets for $450 million to a consortium led by Microsoft. Novell and Microsoft have crossed each others' paths before when they struck a copyright deal over certain Novell assets in 2006. One theory is that this could be Microsoft's way of maintaining control over the details of that agreement and out of the hands of rivals.
Bailed-out insurer AIG is still shopping around some of its larger assets, restarting its earlier campaign to sell its Taiwan unit Nan Shan Life. A source close to the process told Reuters on Monday that first-round bids for the unit are likely in early December, shortly after due diligence ends. In August, Taiwan regulators rejected AIG's plan to sell the unit for $2.15 billion to a Hong Kong-based buyer group. The insurance giant is still struggling to repay its bailout debts to the U.S. government.
A day earlier, oil and gas exploration company Energy XXI agreed to buy nine Exxon Mobil oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico for $1.01 billion, an acquisition that will boost the company's reserves and production by more than 70 percent.
Federal authorities are on the cusp of filing a raft of insider trading cases against the likes of hedge fund traders, consultants and Wall Street bankers that could be among the biggest ever, several lawyers familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the FBI has raided two hedge funds in connection with the probe. The Journal, which first broke news of the three-year investigation, also has a piece on what tactics the FBI likely used in building its case.


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July 23, 2012 -- Watching self-help videos on the popular Internet site YouTube may help some people with vertigo treat themselves.
A new study found 33 videos showing the Epley maneuver. This maneuver is often used by heath care providers to help those with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV.
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May 24, 2012 -- Combining parts of two established treatments for tinnitus in a new way can work, according to new research.
Tinnitus is a persistent ringing or buzzing in the ears that can be debilitating.
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Nov. 17, 2011 -- Middle ear infections are common during early childhood, but the simple strategy of chewing gum with the sweetener xylitol just may be an effective way to help prevent them.
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Nov. 15, 2011 -- One in five Americans aged 12 and older has hearing loss that interferes with their ability to communicate, according to new research.
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May 19, 2011 -- Swimmers often regard inflammation of the external ear canal, known as swimmer's ear, as an inevitable, minor nuisance. But a new study finds that the problem adds substantially to health care costs and the number of annual doctor visits.
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March 1, 2011 -- Almost two out of three U.S. adults age 70 or older have significant hearing loss, according to a new study.
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Feb. 23, 2011 -- Certain heart disease risk factors, heredity, and having a noisy job are associated with hearing loss in middle-aged adults, a new study shows.
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Feb. 14, 2011 -- Older adults who experience hearing loss may be at increased risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. And the risk of dementia likely increases as hearing loss worsens.
Those are among the major findings of a new study aimed at addressing possible solutions to the exploding problem of dementia, which is estimated will afflict 100 million people worldwide by the year 2050.
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Jan. 12, 2011 -- Young children with ear infections recover faster and more completely if doctors give antibiotics right away rather than waiting to see if the kids get better on their own.
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Jan. 6, 2011 -- Driving a convertible with the top down may seem like fun, but people who go 55 miles per hour or faster may be increasing the risk of hearing loss over time, new research indicates.
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Suspect not located in a manhunt. Cass County sheriff's deputies, Nebraska State Patrol troopers, a search dog and the NSP helicopter searched the fields, woods and buildings around 12th Street and Leighton Saturday afternoon. (That is an area west of Highway 75 about 1.5 miles north of Union.)
The Cassgram reports a sheriff's deputy had initiated a pursuit of a stolen vehicle, a Geo Tracker, on Highway 75. The suspect abandoned the vehicle in a field near 12th and Leighton. The suspect took off on foot and the search began.
Later, authorities received information about a stolen Dodge Ram pickup from the area. The owner had left the keys in the truck.
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Louisiana's 21 casinos took in $203.5 million statewide in June, edging up one-half of a percentage point from a year earlier.
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The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is considering whether to get involved in a lawsuit against Gov. Bobby Jindal for his attempts to undermine use of the Common Core education standards in Louisiana's public schools.
Business First Bank has announced plans for a Baton Rouge market expansion through a merger deal with American Gateway Financial Corp.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
The latest meeting of a south Louisiana flood board that stirred political turmoil with a lawsuit against the oil and gas industry is taking place amid uncertainty over the future of the lawsuit — and the board's own membership.
The photos taken nearly a mile under the Gulf of Mexico are so clear that small holes are visible in a lifeboat that may have gone down or been scuttled when a passenger ship was sunk by a Nazi submarine in 1942.
Advocate columnist and Jindal shill Quin Hillyer has been against the New Orleans levee board lawsuit from day one, but a recent piece targeting author/activist John Barry prompted the perfect rebuttal from the board's former vice-president, who takes Hillyer to task on just about every distorted claim he's made on the issue.
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Thousands of people who bought health insurance through the marketplace created by the federal health care overhaul face price hikes next year that could top 10 percent.
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Style market slated for old Artesia
The city prosecutor has released the case file for Lafayette Parish School Board member Tehmi Chassion's simple battery complaint against Superintendent Pat Cooper, and the seven witness statements given to police illustrate two very different scenarios.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
Louisiana fell one spot in an annual national ranking of child well-being that looks at poverty, education and health access.
A federal judge has decided he doesn't need to hear more arguments in the case of a gay couple who want a Louisiana marriage license.
Saints again bring playoff aspirations into 2014 campaign.
New details in the case against the man arrested for last week's bomb threat and bank robbery has surfaced, including a MidSouth Bank surveillance video showing the alleged suspect attempt an early-morning bank robbery.
Citing conflicting witness accounts, the city prosecutor will not pursue Tehmi Chassion's allegation of simple battery against Superintendent Pat Cooper.
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Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers opens on Johnston.
Cirque du Soleil effortlessly combines circus art with beloved Michael Jackson hits.
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Parents and teachers who support the Common Core education standards sued Gov. Bobby Jindal Tuesday over his actions against the multi-state standards, accusing him of illegally meddling in education policy.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
An arrest was announced this morning in connection with last week's bomb scare at UL Lafayette.
Attorneys, judges and others interviewed by LaPolitics expect 15 to 20 district judge races this year.
JUL 24 This post on the Red Stick Blog reveals nine facts about Mike the Tiger, the LSU mascot who turns nine this week. That's interesting and all, but the best part of the post is the video of Mike playing around with a visitor, just like any other kitty. A massive, deadly, 400-pound, roaring kitty.
JUL 24 DIG Baton Rouge tells us about a local chef who makes an appearance on one of the Food Network's inexplicably stupid competition shows, Cutthroat Kitchen. The chef, who also appeared on Master Chef, talks here about Cajun and Creole cuisine and its place in American food.
JUL 24 Political consultants who switched candidates in midstream to work with Jindal buddy Garret Graves on his Congressional campaign are being sued by their former employer, the Picayune tells us in this post. Among the allegations? The firm started working for Graves before they left his opponent's campaign.
JUL 24 The recent articles about a study that found America's happiest cities are here in Louisiana have produced some raised eyebrows among those who have actually been to Shreveport and Baton Rouge. But the Today show did some research, and produced this article which talks about stuff that doesn't really represent those two cities. Are we still going with the drunk, fat and stupid brand?
JUL 24 Here's a story on Huffington Post that explores the connection between Gov. Bobby Jindal and the charter school business that sued him Tuesday over Common Core. The head of that business is recalling all the good stuff Bobby had to say about the curriculum - you know, back when it was cool to like it.
JUL 24 Blogger CB Forgotston has found another problem with the 11th hour bill that tacked $30K onto State Police Commander Mike Edmonson's annual retirement check. The move was missing a financial assessment that's required by statute. This is a red flag that was missed, CB says. You think?
JUL 24 Blogger Mike Deshotels prints a statement from three BESE members who are supporting the legislators who are suing the governor over the Common Core mess. He adds his own personal comment, as well.
JUL 24 The Lens is hosting a panel discussion on the cost of coastal restoration, and who should pay for it, next month in NOLA. It is planned to be a discussion of the realities of the coastal restoration master plan and its current funding, as well as what the future holds.
JUL 23 Blogger Stephen Sabludowsky is attempting to clear away some of the smoke that Bobby Jindal's been blowing about our economy. The press releases and "presidential campaign claims" of Jindal notwithstanding, the outlook is not that rosy, Sabludowsky says. He's got some comment here from the head of GNO Inc. as well.
JUL 23 This post on Mashable says Louisiana is poised to be the next (and better) Hollywood. Sure, blogger Travis Andrews is talking Louisiana in general, but the focus really is on New Orleans. And that's fine, because if NOLA and Hollywood get into a ambiance/food/style/crazy contest, we like NOLA's chances.
JUL 23 Here's New York Magazine's profile of Edwin Edwards, a well-written, thoughtful (and still unvarnished) look at Louisiana's most famous felon. There's a lot of history, but author Mark Jacobson doesn't get bogged down in pedantic rehashes here. It's a really good read.


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Williamstown, Mass. – November 23, 2008 - The Middlebury Panthers (3-2) finished the Williams Tip-Off Classic 2-0 on Sunday with a come-from-behind victory over Springfield (2-2). The Panthers mounted a late rally to overtake the Pride by a score of 61-58.
Panther point guard Emily Johnson led all scorers with 19 points on 3 of 7 from behind the arc (5 for 13 overall). Johnson also went 6 for 6 from the free throw line, including two big shots from the charity stripe late in the game.
Pride center Lauren O'Connor led the offensive attack for Springfield, scoring 18 points on an efficient 9 for 12 from the field. O'Connor also pulled down 10 boards, second only to forward Corey Finch's 15. Finch also finished the game with 13 points.
The Panthers enjoyed a huge advantage on the free throw line, going 14 for 18 to Springfield's 2 for 2. The margin no doubt helped to make up for the Panthers being out shot by the Pride (38% to 33%) and out rebounded 46 to 40. The Panthers, however, also held a +6 turnover margin on the game, and were able to force some key turnovers down the stretch.
Springfield led for most of the second half until the Panthers rallied in the last two minutes. Down 56-51, Johnson would hit back-to-back threes for Middlebury to put the Panthers up 57-56. Springfield answered on an O'Connor turnaround in the lane just moments later to take back the lead 58-57, and seemed like they might hold on for the win when Middlebury was unable to convert on their next couple possessions.
With less than a minute left though, senior Panther guard Ashley Barron made what would prove to be the play of the game, stealing a Springfield inbound pass at half-court to start a Middlebury fast break. Barron would miss the lay up, but luckily teammate Lauren Sanchez was there with the follow to give Middlebury a 59-58 lead.
Springfield came up empty on the next possession and had to foul, but Johnson swished both free throws to make it 61-58. Springfield got two pretty good looks but couldn't knock either down, and Middlebury held on for the win.
Seniors Emily Johnson and Ashley Barron were named to the All-Tournament team for Middlebury, while for the Pride senior Lauren O'Connor was tagged for the honor.


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Turnout led to big Election Day problems in Clark County
Large voter turnout, ballot shortages and training issues led to long lines and late tabulations on Election Day in Clark County, according to the county clerk.
Pence promises to go forward with education overhaul, tax cut pledge
Pence dodged some of the more pointed questions about Bennett, saying he'd leave to the press to speculate about the reasons for Bennett's loss.
But he also rejected the notion that Bennett's ouster at the hands of Democrat Glenda Ritz was a sign that voters rejected the sweeping changes in education, which include vouchers for private schools, merit pay for teachers and more high-stakes testing for students.
Davisson retains Statehouse seat
In District 73, final totals were not available on election night, but incumbent Republican Steve Davisson was able to defeat Democratic challenger Sandra Blanton with 13,354 votes, or 54 percent, to 11,159 votes, or 46 percent.
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Republicans gained control of the council by winning two of the three At-large seats. The council is now made up of five Republicans and two Democrats.
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In the 2012 general election 53.9 percent of registered voters, or 47,806 of 88,631 registered voters, cast a ballot. A total of 6,723 of those ballots were absentee.
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A Study Comparing Treatment With 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate to Octreotide LAR in Patients With Inoperable, Progressive, Somatostatin Receptor Positive Midgut Carcinoid Tumours (NETTER-1)
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Primary efficacy endpoint is PFS as measured by objective tumour response, centrally assessed according to RECIST Criteria.
CT/MRI tumour assessment in both arms will be performed every 12±1 weeks from the first treatment date.
- Safety assessments (Adverse Events, laboratory parameters, cancer related symptoms, Physical Examination, Vital signs, Karnofsky Performance Status, ECG) [ Time Frame: 72 weeks (unless early termination) : All adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) will be recorded starting from the signing of the informed consent until the last study-related visit in both study arms. ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
The following parameters will be monitored:
- Changes from Baseline in Hematology (WBC, platelets, haemoglobin, MCV), Blood chemistry (BUN, serum creatinine and creatinine clearance, uric acid, albumin, total bilirubin, AP, aspartate aminotransferase [AST/ASAT], alanine aminotransferase [ALT/ALAT], gamma-glutamyl transferase [γ-GT], [Na], [K], lactic dehydrogenase [LDH], glycosylated hemoglobin/hemoglobin A1c [glycoHb], free thyroxine [fT4]) and Urinalysis (RBC/hpf, WBC/hpf, casts/lpf, protein, 5-HIAA),
- Cancer related symptoms,
- Physical Examination, including heart rate, blood pressure and weight,
- Karnofsky Performance Status,
- ECG intervals.
All AEs and SAEs reported (spontaneously or not) by the patient will be collected during the study.
- Long-term safety and efficacy assessment [ Time Frame: Every 6 months for a period of up to 3 years after the end of the study ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Patient will be contacted every 6 months up to 3 years after the end of the study (phone contacts or visits at Site). Laboratory assessments (haematology, biochemistry, urinalysis), SAEs suspected in relationship to the study drug, progression free survival (local evaluation) and overall survival data will be reported.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate
Drug: Octreotide
Other Name: SANDOSTATIN LARDrug: 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate
Four administrations of 7.4 GBq (200 mCi) 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate will be administered at 8±1-week intervals, which can be extended up to 16 weeks to accommodate resolving acute toxicity;
Active Comparator: Octreotide LAR
Drug: Octreotide
60 mg Octreotide LAR treatment every 4 weeks (i.m. injections) until the end of the study, unless the patient progresses or dies (see Dose Modifying Toxicity (DMT);
Other Name: SANDOSTATIN LAR
Detailed Description:
A multicenter, stratified, open, randomized, comparator-controlled, parallel-group phase III study. In this study, treatment with 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate plus best supportive care (30 mg Octreotide LAR) will be compared to treatment with high dose (60 mg) Octreotide LAR in patients with inoperable, somatostatin receptor positive, histologically proven midgut carcinoid tumours; these patients should be progressive under Octreotide LAR. In case patients in either arm experience clinical symptoms (i.e. diarrhoea and flushing) associated with their carcinoid tumours, Octreotide s.c. rescue injections are allowed.
Objective tumour response in both arms will be assessed every 12±1 weeks from the first treatment date according to RECIST Criteria. The baseline CT scan/MRI must not be older than 4 weeks before the projected randomization date.
Patients will be evaluated for safety and tolerability in accordance with the Visit Schedules for the 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate arm and the Octreotide LAR arm as indicated in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Presence of inoperable (curative intent) at enrolment time, histologically proven, midgut carcinoid tumour.
- Ki67 index ≤ 20%.
- Patients on Octreotide LAR at a fixed dose of 20 mg or 30 mg at 3-4 weeks intervals for at least 12 weeks prior to enrolment in the study.
- Patients ≥18 years of age.
- Patients must have progressive disease based on RECIST Criteria, Version 1.1 evidenced with CT scans/MRI within 3 years from enrolment; previous images must be centrally evaluated to confirm the disease progression under previous therapy:for the purpose of determining disease progression the oldest CT/MRI scan must not be older than 3 years and the most recent scan must not be older than 4 weeks from the projected randomization date. The CT scan/MRI scan should be one that was performed while the patient was on a fixed dose of Sandostatin LAR.
- Confirmed presence of somatostatin receptors on all technically evaluable tumour lesions documented by CT/MRI scans, based on positive OctreoScan® imaging within 24 weeks prior to enrolment in the study.
- The tumour uptake observed using OctreoScan® must be ≥ normal liver uptake observed on planar imaging.
- Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS) ≥ 60
- Presence of at least 1 measurable site of disease.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Serum creatinine >150 µmol/L or 1.7 mg/dL, or a measured creatinine clearance (or measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using plasma clearance methods, not gamma camera-based) of <50 mL/min.
- Hb concentration <5.0 mmol/L (<8.0 g/dL); WBC <2x10^9/L (2000/mm3); platelets <75x10^9/L (75x10^3/mm3).
- Total bilirubin >3 x upper limit of normal (ULN).
- Serum albumin <3.0 g/dL unless prothrombin time is within the normal range.
- Pregnancy
- For female patients of childbearing potential (defined as < 2 years after last menstruation and not surgically sterile) and male patients, who are not surgically sterile or with female partners of childbearing potential: absence of effective, non-hormonal means of contraception (intrauterine contraceptive device, barrier method of contraception in conjunction with spermicidal gel)
- Treatment with >30 mg Octreotide LAR at 3-4 weeks intervals within 12 weeks prior to enrolment in the study.
- Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) at any time prior to enrolment in the study.
- Targeted surgery, radiotherapy (external beam), chemotherapy, embolization, interferons, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)-inhibitors or other investigational therapy within 12 weeks prior to enrolment in the study.
- Known brain metastases, unless these metastases have been treated and stabilized for at least 24 weeks, prior to enrolment in the study. Patients with a history of brain metastases must have a head CT with contrast to document stable disease prior to enrolment in the study.
- Uncontrolled congestive heart failure (NYHA II, III, IV).
- Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus as defined by a fasting blood glucose >2 x ULN.
- Any patient who has both OctreoScan® positive and negative tumours.
- Any patient receiving treatment with short-acting Octreotide, which cannot be interrupted for 24 h before and 24 h after the administration of 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate, or any patient receiving treatment with Octreotide LAR, which cannot be interrupted for at least 6 weeks before the administration of 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate, unless the tumour uptake observed by OctreoScan® imaging during continued Octreotide treatment is at least as high as normal liver uptake observed by planar imaging.
- Patients with any other significant medical, psychiatric, or surgical condition, currently uncontrolled by treatment, which may interfere with completion of the study.
- Prior external beam radiation therapy to more than 25% of the bone marrow.
- Urinary incontinence.
- Other known co-existing malignancies except non-melanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix, unless definitively treated and proven no evidence of recurrence for 5 years.
- Patients who have not provided a signed an informed consent form to participate in the study, obtained prior to the start of any protocol related activities.
- Patient with known incompatibility to CT Scans with I.V. contrast due to allergic reaction or renal insufficiency.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01578239
|Contact: Maurizio F Mariani, M.D
|+39 0125 561 ext 206
|Contact: Paola Santoro, Biologist
|+39 0125 561 ext 221
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|Study Director:
|Paola Santoro, Biologist
|Advanced Accelerator Applications
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|Responsible Party:
|Advanced Accelerator Applications
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01578239 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 10, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 7, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Italy: The Italian Medicines Agency
Portugal: National Pharmacy and Medicines Institute
Spain: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Belgium: Federal Agency for Medicinal Products and Health Products
Keywords provided by Advanced Accelerator Applications:
Neuroendocrine tumour
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoid Tumor
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Gastrointestinal Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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