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Chemotherapy Followed by ESO-1 Lymphocytes and Aldesleukin to Treat Metastatic Cancer
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified September 2013 by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Cancer Institute (NCI) )
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First received: May 1, 2008
Last updated: February 19, 2014
Last verified: September 2013
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-This study uses an experimental cancer treatment that uses the patient s own lymphocytes (type of white blood cell), which are specially selected and genetically modified to target and destroy their tumor.
-To test the safety of the treatment and determine if it can cause the patient s tumor to shrink.
- Patients greater than 18 years and less than or equal to 66 years of age whose cancer has spread beyond the original site and does not respond to standard treatment.
- Patients have tissue type HLA-A*0201.
- Patients cancer cells have the ESO-1 gene.
- Workup: Patients have scans, x-rays, laboratory tests, and other tests as needed.
- Patients have leukapheresis to collect cells for laboratory treatment and later reinfusion. For this procedure, whole blood is collected thorough a tube in a vein, the desired cells are extracted from the blood, and the rest of the blood is returned to the patient.
- Chemotherapy: Patients have low-dose chemotherapy for 1 week to prepare the immune system to receive the treated lymphocytes.
- Cell infusion and aldesleukin (IL-2) treatment: Patients receive the lymphocytes by a 30-minute infusion through a vein. Starting within 24 hours of the infusion, they receive high-dose aldesleukin infusions every 8 hours for up to 5 days (maximum15 doses).
- Recovery: Patients rest for 1 to 2 weeks to recover from the effects of chemotherapy and aldesleukin.
- Tumor biopsy: Patients may be asked to undergo a biopsy (surgical removal of a small piece of tumor) after treatment to look at the effects of treatment on the immune cells in the tumor.
- Follow-up: After treatment is completed, patients return to the clinic once a month for several months for physical examinations, a review of side effects, laboratory tests and scans. They may undergo leukapheresis at some visits to look at the effect of treatment on the immune system and check the viability of the infused cells. Patients then return to the NIH clinic once a year for 5 years and then complete a follow-up questionnaire for another 10 years.
- Retreatment: Patients whose tumor shrinks or disappears following treatment and then recurs may receive one additional treatment, using the same regimen of chemotherapy, lymphocyte infusion and IL-2 treatment.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Metastatic Melanoma Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer Metastatic Cancer |
Biological: therapeutic autologous lymphocytes Biological: aldesleukin Drug: cyclophosphaide Drug: fludarabine phosphate |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Phase II Study of Metastatic Cancer That Expresses NY-ESO-1 Using Lymphodepleting Conditioning Followed by Infusion of Anti-NY ESO-1 TCR-Gene Engineered Lymphocytes |
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Further study details as provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Clinical tumor regression [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- In vivo survival of TCR gene-engineered cells. [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Toxicity [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 102 |
Study Start Date: | April 2008 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | March 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | March 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Intervention Details:
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Biological: therapeutic autologous lymphocytes
Biological: aldesleukin
Drug: cyclophosphaide
Drug: fludarabine phosphate
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 66 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
- Metastatic cancer that expresses ESO as assessed by one of the following methods: RT-PCR on tumor tissue, or by immunohistochemistry of resected tissue, or serum antibody reactive with ESO. Metastatic cancer diagnosis will be confirmed by the Laboratory of Pathology at the NCI.
- Patients with histologies other than metastatic melanoma, must have previously received systemic standard care (or effective salvage chemotherapy regimens) for metastatic disease, if known to be effective for that disease, and have been either non-responders (progressive disease) or have recurred.
- Greater than or equal to 18 years of age. and less than or equal to 66 years of age.
- Willing to sign a durable power of attorney.
- Able to understand and sign the Informed Consent Document.
- Clinical performance status of ECOG 0 or 1.
- Life expectancy of greater than three months.
- Patients of both genders must be willing to practice birth control for four months after receiving the preparative regimen.
- Patients must be HLA-A*0201 positive
- Seronegative for HIV antibody. (The experimental treatment being evaluated in this protocol depends on an intact immune system. Patients who are HIV seropositive can have decreased immune -competence and thus be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities.)
- Seronegative for hepatitis B antigen and hepatitis C antibody unless antigen negative. If hepatitis C antibody test is positive, then patients must be tested for the presense of antigen by RT-PCR and be HCV RNA negative.
- Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1000/mm(3) without the support of filgrastim.
- WBC (greater than 3000/mm(3)).
- Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm(3).
- Hemoglobin greater than 8.0 g/dl.
- Serum ALT/AST less or equal to 2.5 times the upper limit of normal.
- Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.6 mg/dl.
- Total bilirubin less than or equal to 1.5 mg/dl, except in patients with Gilbert s Syndrome who must have a total bilirubin less than 3.0 mg/dl.
- More than four weeks must have elapsed since any prior systemic therapy at the time the patient receives the preparative regimen, and patients toxicities must have recovered to a grade 1 or less (except for toxicities such as alopecia or vitiligo).
- Six weeks must have elapsed since prior ipilimumabtherapy to allow antibody levels to decline.
- Patients who have previously received ipilimumab or ticilimumab anti-PD1 or anti-PD-L1 antibodies, and have documented GI toxicity must have a normal colonoscopy with normal colonic biopsies.
- Prior vaccination with an ALVAC containing vaccine for patients who will receive the ALVAC ESO-1 vaccine (cohorts 3 or 4).
- Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant or breastfeeding because of the potentially dangerous effects of the preparative chemotherapy on the fetus or infant.
- Active systemic infections, coagulation disorders or other major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory or immune system, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmias, obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease.
- Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease).
- Concurrent opportunistic infections (The experimental treatment being evaluated in this protocol depends on an intact immune system. Patients who have decreased immune competence may be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities).
- Concurrent Systemic steroid therapy.
- Known systemic hypersensitivity to any of the vaccine components, including egg products or Neomycin for patients who will receive the ALVAC ESO-1 vaccine (cohorts 3 or 4).
- History of severe immediate hypersensitivity reaction to any of the agents used in this study.
- History of coronary revascularization or ischemic symptoms.
- Any patient known to have an LVEF less than or equal to 45 percent.
Documented LVEF of less than or equal to 45 percent tested in patients with:
- History of ischemic heart disease, chest pain, or clinically significant atrial and/or ventricular arrhythmias including but not limited to: atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, second or third degree heart block.
- Age greater than or equal to 60 years old.
Documented FEV1 less than or equal to 60 percent predicted tested in patients with:
- A prolonged history of cigarette smoking (20 pk/year of smoking within the past 2 years).
- Symptoms of respiratory dysfunction
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00670748
Contact: June Kryk, R.N. | (301) 451-1929 | firstname.lastname@example.com | |
Contact: Steven A Rosenberg, M.D. | (301) 496-4164 | email@example.com |
United States, Maryland | |
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | Recruiting |
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892 | |
Contact: For more information at the NIH Clinical Center contact NCI/Surgery Branch Recruitment Center 866-820-4505 email@example.com |
Sponsors and Collaborators
Principal Investigator: | Steven A Rosenberg, M.D. | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
More Information
Additional Information:
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 10, 2014
Additional Information:
Responsible Party: | National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Cancer Institute (NCI) ) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00670748 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 080121, 08-C-0121 |
Study First Received: | May 1, 2008 |
Last Updated: | February 19, 2014 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Metastatic Cancer Gene Therapy Immunotherapy |
Tumor Regression Metastatic Melanoma Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Renal Cell Melanoma Neoplasm Metastasis Neoplasms Neoplasms, Second Primary Adenocarcinoma Carcinoma Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms by Histologic Type Kidney Neoplasms Urologic Neoplasms Urogenital Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Kidney Diseases Urologic Diseases |
Neuroendocrine Tumors Neuroectodermal Tumors Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Nevi and Melanomas Neoplastic Processes Pathologic Processes Fludarabine Fludarabine monophosphate Aldesleukin Vidarabine Antineoplastic Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Immunosuppressive Agents |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 10, 2014


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My husband loves the Chicago Cubs as much as any person could love a team. Although he lived in Chicago as a young child, his loyalty to his team persisted even after his family moved to St. Louis. (And if you're a baseball fan, you know that the Cardinals and Cubs are bitter rivals.) Somehow, he managed to stay loyal to the Cubs while being surrounded by friends and family who rooted for the Cards.
There was no question that we would see a spring training game in Arizona this year now that we live fairly close. Here's the play-by-play:
Saturday Morning
We're not the best when it comes to getting an early start. This day was no different. By the time we all got going and grabbed some Dunkin' Donuts, it was almost 11:00 before we left Las Vegas.
The first part of the drive was familiar, since we were retracing part of the route we'd taken when we moved to Las Vegas. It was actually fun to think back to that drive and the anticipation we felt as we rolled into Nevada.
Saturday Afternoon
We stopped for lunch in Kingman, Arizona because we knew from looking at the map that there wouldn't be many other options once we got on Highway 93. We saw mostly fast-food restaurants in Kingman, and decided to eat at Cracker Barrel. This is a road trip staple for our family, so a stop there is always fun.
The drive through Arizona was actually pretty fascinating. There wasn't much along the way in terms of places to stop, but part of our drive included a designated scenic route through Joshua Tree Forest. We also saw lots of saguaro cacti, which I think are really cool. Is it weird that I have a favorite plant? I could look at those saguaros all day long.
Saturday Night
We arrived in Mesa around dinnertime. After checking in at the Country Inn & Suites, we grabbed dinner at the On the Border located right next door. Dinner was surprisingly good. We're pretty picky when it comes to Mexican food after living in San Antonio for two years, but we found the food to be above average. I was especially surprised that the tortillas were so nice and fluffy, not the cheap, plasticy kind you find at many chain restaurants.
The highlight of our dinner wasn't the food, however. They had someone there making balloon animals for the kids, and E. was thrilled to be given a pink elephant that also doubled as a hat.
Sunday Morning
What can I say? It was another slow morning for the V. family! We eventually headed downstairs to have the free breakfast at the hotel, which was average.
After breakfast, we made our way to Ho Ho Kam Park. We wanted to allow plenty of time to find our way there, figure out the parking situation, and pick up our tickets at will call. Parking at the stadium was very easy and cost $7.
Sunday Afternoon
Game time! This will be the Cubs' last season of spring training at Ho Ho Kam Park before they move to a new facility. As with most spring training and minor league stadiums, there really isn't a bad seat in the house. We sat in the Terrace section, and our seats were perfect. We had a great view of the field and were in the shade for most of the game.
The stadium also has lawn seating in the outfield. Late in the game, we wandered over to take a look. It seemed like the lawn seating was popular with two very different groups: 20-somethings who want to drink with their friends, and families with small children. E. took a minute to roll down the hill, which was probably the highlight of her day.
We didn't make it through the entire game. E. was relatively well-behaved, but she started to get bored in the seventh inning. That's when we took our walk to the lawn and then left the stadium.
We grabbed a coffee on our way out of town, and then started heading back to Las Vegas. The weather had been perfect, and we'd all had a fun weekend, so we were a little sad to realize that the weekend–and our trip–were coming to a close.
Sunday Night
I think driving at night is the most boring thing ever. At least during the day, you can look out the window and enjoy your surroundings. We stopped for dinner in Wickenburg, a small town not too far outside of Phoenix. The drive went smoothly, and we arrived back home around 10:00.
I have a feeling a trip to Arizona for spring training will become an annual tradition for us. Next time, I'd love to stay longer and find some other fun activities in the Phoenix area. Let's hope we brought the Cubs some good luck for the upcoming season!

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my bluetooth doesnt work i tried installing softwares and driver but it still doesnt work wat do i do?
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my bluetooth doesnt work i tried installing softwares and driver but it still doesnt work wat do i do?
A few months ago after an update the mic started working, however, sometimes the recordings are garbled and some white noise is audible. Might be the very poor build quality of the mic because when booting in windows it is the same.
Working with fedora core 16:
Disable Hybrid in Bios, use only the build in Intel graphics, safes al lot of power and unless you are a hardcore gamer, I would not recommend it anyway for everyday use.
The, install jupiter and powertop (rpmfusion) and configure both to your liking.
Add the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi=acer" (in /etc/default/grub).
Reboot. Now fn should work properly and backlight dimming will work.
Cardreader:To make the build in cardreader work download rts_pastor from Reaktek, read the README.txt, after each kernel update you have to repeat this step.
Install kmod-wl, after each kernel update wifi will work.
Works out of box. If you have a windows dual boot, booting into windows, restart and the booting linux will result in…silence.
Shut windows off, power off, power on and boot in linux will restore sound.
However, despiye many attempts to make the internal mic working; no dice. Any help is welcome. The slider option as suggested using alsmixer will not work.
Camera, HDMI, USB 3/2,ETH all work.
Got the Broadcom bluetooth and wifi card working:
get the Broadcom driver from Rpmfusion (wl) and install it. Reboot.
Press fn and F3. It works!
Sounds works.
Brightness with fn/smartkey not, sound does work, also volume settings.
Blurry is gone after update.
Did seem like a nice one! Bought one, but:
Booting Fedora 14 or 16 from bios with Live-usb difficult (only basic video), with Live-usb-cd succesfull.
No wireless networking, doesn't work out of the box, some blurry text with Gnome 3.0
Sound ok.
Camera ok.
Mic not working.
Put it back in it's box and will try a refund…
Working on 3.1 kernel at least if hibernate from Windows, seems like hardware issue (power of sound card control). One can also hear the sound if plug-unplug power supply for a half of a second, i mean playing music not the "beep".
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i have read that the tracker 3rd member will bolt right into a sami but what i am wonder is if it works the other way around also. if my sami 3rd members will work the same way in a tracker. this way i will have lower gears in my sami and better gas mileage gears in my tracker
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ONly the Front out of a tracker will "bolt" into a Samurai (front and rear). You may have to change the side gears.
The Tracker housings are aluminium where as the Samurai is Steel. And Trackers have 4.62 and 5.13 gears (for the most part) and Samurai's are 3.73 from the factory. So i'm really not sure what you are trying to do but it sounds f'd up. |
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Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez, left, congratulates Royals relief pitcher Greg Holland (56) after the Royals defeated the New York Yankees 5-1 in a baseball game Monday, July 8, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) |
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Guthrie neatly handled a nemesis and a long rain delay to pitch into the seventh inning, Billy Butler homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Yankees 5-1 Monday night.
All-Star Alex Gordon, David Lough and Johnny Giavotella each had RBI doubles, and Alcides Escobar added a run-scoring triple to help the Royals end a five-game skid against New York.
Guthrie (8-6) held the Yankees to just three hits over six innings that included a 59-minute delay for a sun shower-hailstorm in the fourth.
Leading 5-1, closer Greg Holland was needed in the ninth when Lyle Overbay walked and Luis Cruz singled to start the inning against Luke Hochevar. Holland gave up a hit to Chris Stewart to load the bases. But Holland struck out Eduardo Nunez, Brett Gardner and Zoilo Almonte to end it for his 21st save.
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Doctoral Student Furious After University Throws Out His Collection Of Lizard Dung
Typically, you don't want bags of crap hanging around for too long. But not Daniel Bennett -- he loves that shit! Now he's furious that Leeds University custodians threw away part of his doctoral work -- a 77lb bag of Butaan Lizard dung it took him 7 years to collect.
"Whether it was the largest collection of lizard shit in the world is uncertain, but it certainly contained the only dietary sample from that little-known species Varanus olivaceus, and probably the most complete dietary record of any single population of animals in South East Asia. Its loss left me reeling and altered the course of my life forever."
First of all, Daniel, I don't think "shit" is the proper scientific nomenclature. And secondly, if losing a bag of crap can alter the course of your life forever, well, it's time you take a long, hard look at your life anyways. Just saying, tons of birdshit on my car.
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Thanks to RyanThePerson, who is an actual human and not just shit stacked that high.
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Hutch has a good point too. Alot of guys shoot a release that's too long for them. I use the second pad of my finger to fire the release, not the tip of my finger. That helps prevent jerking the trigger.
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I use a qad drop away.
I worked with it a little last night. I'm pretty sure that it was my grip. The way my sight system works is once its set, you have to repeat exactly the same sequence of hand position, anchor point, everything to get the front pin to line up with the rear dove tail. I'm pretty sure I had set the sight up with to aggressive of a grip. So I started from scratch, reset up the rear sight, re sighted in with the front pins. I now have the grip if the meaty part of the webbing of my hand, with knuckles roughly 30-45 degrees. My consistancy is much better. Still working on the dialing in, but at least I'm consistantly off the same every time. And the few groups I did shoot are much better at distance.
Just for clarity I have the eliminator extreme rear sight if it was a regular peep I would be done by now. But I like the system and want to work with it so I need to learn patience. My biggest issue right now is running out of left hand adjustment in the front sight. But I rewatched the instruction dvd last night and have a new way to attack.
Also have you guys noticed differences in how much a click or two adjust left or right on a sight at 10 yds compared to 30? Am I right in assuming just like a rifle scope, that close in it takes more clicks to get it centered, then further out?
If the question doesnt make sense check out the website for my sight, or my album has a picture of the rear sight.
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ok, that helps. I was trying to dial in to much at like 10 yds, just hoping to raise the sight as it got out farther. I think I will get it reasonable with some left adjustment left, take it out to 35 then dial in the left to right. that might just solve my problem.
"If Darwin saw the same sunrise and sunset, that I see from a duck marsh, or my tree stand; then he would know there is a God, and that He created all of it." -Ford-
Essentially you are trying the walkback method of tuning. You may have to tweak your rest a bit. Once this is done you should shoot dead center at all distances. Yes, if the sight is off a bit it will show up more at longer distances, but if your centershot is correct then you should be able to sight in at 30 yards or so and see no appreciable change at 10 yards or vise versa.
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Zebulon Pike Youth Services Center's (ZPYSC) vision is positive choices today for successful youth tomorrow. The facilities mission statement is to maintain a standard of excellence, which empowers committed youth to become productive community members by providing a structured environment, providing offender accountability to victims and communities and assisting youth in developing skills and competencies to successfully reintegrate into the communities.
ZPYSC is a 36-bed secure treatment facility for male juvenile offenders committed to the Division of Youth Corrections (DYC). Zebulon Pike serves youth from 12-20 years of age who have high-risk needs and have committed various crimes to include violent offenses, property crimes and/or sexual offenses.
Providing a safe and secure environment through clear directions, appropriate consequences and frequent rewards is a priority. The youth receiving services at ZPYSC present with complex needs; many are in need of Family Interventions, Substance Abuse Treatment, Parenting Classes, Vocational/Life Skills Building, Positive Replacement Activities and Self Esteem Building.
The Staff at ZPYSC committed to serving this complex population, consists of four administrators and their support staff, four counseling professionals and contractors. The facility also employs twenty-eight direct care staff that work with the youth on a daily basis;this includes residential, security and school personnel.
Zebulon Pike Youth Services Center offers an on-site education program that includes classroom instruction, GED preparation, business management, vocational programs and transition activities. Post Secondary education programs are an option for eligible students. Parent/teacher conferences are scheduled quarterly to ensure the academic success of the youth. Award ceremonies are held quarterly and graduation services occur twice per year.
ZPYSC provides structured, consistent treatment services in a safe environment. An individual treatment plan is developed for each youth within 30 days of arrival to the center. Zebulon Pike's registered nurse triages medical treatment on a daily basis. The Facility psychologist visits the facility weekly and on an emergent basis when indicated. Other interventions include treatment groups focused on Misuse of Power, Cognitive Behavioral Care Core Curriculum, Counseling overseen by licensed mental health professionals, Sex Offense Specific treatment by a SOMB (Sex Offender Management Board) approved provider and substance abuse treatment from a certified addictions counselor.
Transition is an essential part of each youth's preparation to successfully return to the community. ZPYSC focuses on a gradual return to the community and strives to introduce the youth to a variety of pro-social activities including social gatherings, community support groups, partnerships with local businesses and step down programs to help the child to safely return home or emancipate.
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Zebulon Pike serves male youth from 12-20 years of age
Visitation is an avenue to build and maintain healthy family and community relationships. Families of youth in the care of the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections are encouraged to visit the facility. All visits require a scheduled appointment. You can request visitation by contacting the Zebulon Pike Youth Services Center Control Center at (719) 329-6924.
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Are making Purdue look very average right now. 34-21 with 13:53 left in the 2nd half. Purdue has no offense whatsoever.
Richmond was a very solid team least year.
they will be my sleeper pick in the tourney this year
Originally Posted by nickwc Sleeper? a lot of people will just look at them and say "oh its just richmond" when they fill out their brackets
Originally Posted by istater7 a lot of people will just look at them and say "oh its just richmond" when they fill out their brackets Actually, I'm usually the guy that gets screwed by moving Richmond past the first round when I fill out my brackets...
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I hate them every since they beat UNI in football, stupid fans were all over the hill (ran into a bunch of their idiots who traveled to CF, but didn't go to the game.)
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Originally Posted by JP4CY Richmond was a very solid team least year. I have Richmond finishing second in the A-10 behind Temple, getting an at-large bid. Of course, my preseason-prediction track record is impeccable.
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Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.
Declaration and notification made upon ratification:
The Arab Republic of Egypt, in ratifying Protocols I and II of 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, wishes to express its conviction that the provisions of Additional Protocols I and II represent the minimum level of legal and actual protection that must be afforded to persons and civilian and cultural objects in armed conflict.
On the basis of its strong conviction of the principles of the great Islamic Sharia, the Arab Republic of Egypt wishes at the same time to emphasize that it is the duties of all nations alike to refrain from the involvement of innocent civilians in armed conflict; furthermore they should make all efforts, to the maximum extent possible, to that end as this is indispensable for the survival of humanity and the cultural heritage and civilization of all countries and nations.
The Arab Republic of Egypt, while declaring its commitment to respecting all the provisions of Additional Protocols I and II, wishes to emphasize, on the basis of reciprocity, that it upholds the right to react against any violation by any party of the obligations imposed by Additional Protocols I and II with all means admissible under international law in order to prevent any further violation. In this context it wishes to assert that military commanders planning or executing attacks make their decisions on the basis of their assessment of all kinds of information available to them at the time of the military operations.
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American Government and Politics: Deliberation, Democracy and Citizenship, by Joseph M. Bessette and John J. Pitney, Jr.
To call this new textbook "thorough" is to do it a disservice—"monumental," "ambitious," or even "epic" would better describe the depth and detail the authors give to the history, institutions, and culture of American politics. Their survey begins shortly after the world cools, and covers pretty much everything from then until now, including federalism, civil rights and liberties, elections, the media, and political socialization. Throughout the text, the authors carefully and almost seamlessly integrate the theoretical and practical importance of deliberative democracy. The institutional chapters especially stand out. Navigating the complexities of the Congressional committee structure, the president's war making power, or the nuances of Footnote 4 of United States v. Carolene Products Co. and making it understandable to 18-year-olds is a daunting task, but one handled masterfully by the authors. American Government and Politics also works well with a varied student body. There is enough breadth and theoretical depth in the text to provide a challenge for advanced students, but the clarity and attention to basic details ensures that the text is also appropriate as an introduction to government in a large survey course such as mine. The authors clearly worked hard to be accessible to a broad audience, and included relevant human interest stories in the text in order to relate the (understandably) drier aspects of government to the students personally. My favorite is the sentimental-but-touching story of John McCain's friend "Mike" who, after hours of beating, used a makeshift bamboo needle to stitch a small American flag to his shirt, so that he and his fellow prisoners could recite the Pledge of Allegiance in a North Vietnamese prison camp. I can usually count on that story to pull my students' attention away from their computers and hidden phones long enough to slip in a short guilt trip about the importance of civic duty. I was also impressed by the authors' willingness to include appropriate context even when the facts may not support the dominant political opinion. The section on the Scopes trial, for example, reminds the students that as revolutionary as the new, Darwinian textbook was, it also contained blatantly racist and unscientific arguments in favor of eugenics. Given the flavor of most government textbooks, it's refreshing to find a text where the focus remains objective.
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Matthew J. Franck
Director, the Witherspoon Institute's William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution
Wilson D. Miscamble's The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan is an outstanding account of one of the most fateful decisions ever made by a statesman. Miscamble debunks various myth-makers who hold that Japan was "on the verge of surrender" before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or that the use of the bomb was the opening U.S. move in the chess match of the coming Cold War with the Soviets. The book is already engendering controversy for the extent to which the author is forgiving of Truman on moral grounds (Miscamble is a Catholic priest as well as historian at Notre Dame, and has unimpeachable pro-life credentials). But no one who wants to consider Truman's situation intelligently can skip this book.
Reading Eamon Duffy's The Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor is, if anything, an even more jarring experience than reading Miscamble's book. Duffy convincingly shows that in the brief five years of Queen Mary's reign (1553-58), there was a remarkable recovery underway of English Catholicism, which should be regarded as an abortive success story in the Counter-Reformation. Even the burnings of some 280 Protestants—which gave rise to the sobriquet "Bloody Mary"—are, in Duffy's telling, made somehow...understandable. Though he calls the executions a "horrifying moral blot on any regime purporting to be Christian," he argues that it is "quite mistaken" to regard them as counterproductive in the struggle to restore England to its ancient faith. This is thought-provoking historical revisionism of the first order.
Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon's The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, From Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt is a wise and wide-ranging book, focusing on the intersection of intellectual and political life. The book is episodic, with chapters on particular personalities, and readers might wonder about candidates who might have been included (Thomas More, for example, or Woodrow Wilson), but that would have made for a longer book, and not necessarily a better one. Cicero and Edmund Burke are Glendon's heroes, men who "are remembered for important contributions to political thought as well as for distinguished public service." Men we might rank higher as philosophers—Plato, Machiavelli—did not fare so well in political life. Glendon helps us ponder why.
Michael Novak and William E. Simon Jr.'s Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation is a thoughtful gift for any Catholic friends or family members who might benefit from thinking more deeply about their role in the life of their Church. By precept and example, Novak and Simon encourage a deepening of faithful involvement.
You'll laugh, you'll cry about the state of American higher education when you read Andrew Ferguson's Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College, and then Naomi Schaefer Riley's The Faculty Lounges, and Other Reasons You Won't Get the College Education You Paid For (which I liked more than my friend Jim Stoner, who reviewed it for the CRB).
Last of all, I recommend a new addition to the Everyman's Library: The Everyman Chesterton, edited by Ian Ker, and gathering together major works of G.K. Chesterton's literary criticism, Christian apologetics, fiction, and poetry in a singly handsome volume.
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Alonzo Hamby
Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio University
George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis
In 1981, when George Kennan reached an agreement for an authorized biography with John Lewis Gaddis, he surely knew that he had made a pact with a kindred spirit. Kennan gave Gaddis, America's premier diplomatic historian, full access to his personal papers, waived any review of the manuscript, and stipulated only that the book should not appear until after his death. Neither could have imagined that he would live for another 24 years before passing away in 2005 at 101 years of age. The book is worth the wait. Gaddis tempers his admiration for Kennan with a critical perspective that reveals his subject's flaws and contradictions.
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (trans. Arthur Goldhammer)
A Fortnight in the Wilderness, by Alexis de Tocqueville (trans. George Lawrence)
Letters from America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (trans. Frederick Brown)
Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide, by Joseph Epstein
If there is such a thing as an American character, the musings of a young French intellectual writing nearly two centuries ago remain the essential guide to it. An aristocrat whose family had—barely—survived the French revolution, Tocqueville combined liberal sympathies with doubts about mass democracy. His two-volume summing-up, well-translated in the Library of America edition, defies easy reduction to a simple argument, but provides numerous insights that both tell us much about the America of the early 19th century and ring true today. His short essay on his excursion into frontier Michigan and his letters to family and friends provide a contemporary context for his experience. Leo Damrosch chronicles a journey that begins in New York City, moves up through New England, detours into Canada, moves west to the Missisippi, then back up the east coast to an uncomprehending meeting with President Andrew Jackson. Joseph Epstein's brief, shrewd biography lacks the breadth and depth of Andre Jardin's more definitive work, but succeeds brilliantly in its assessment of the man and his American mission.
Alfred Kazin's Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook
This thick well-indexed volume, excerpting the daily musings over a half-century of a distinguished literary critic, is best dipped into selectively. It reveals the thoughts and character of a smart young Jewish boy from Brooklyn who achieved recognition as a major social commentator—in short, a charter member of the "the New York intellectuals." Kazin grapples at various stages with Marxism, Jewish identity, and existential angst. The one rather surprising aspect is the anger that runs steadily through the book, directed at intellectual antagonists, close friends, wives, lovers, almost any target other than a son whom he loves dearly.
Hitch 22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens
From here to eternity with the often entertaining, sometimes infuriating, gadfly who sketches a progression from Jewish heritage through military upbringing, the English school system, countercultural self-indulgence, and revolutionary camp following to something that might be mistaken for neoconservatism, but which he more accurately describes as "positive non-belief."
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley
This fine biography gives us the career of an entrepreneurial giant who founded a new style in American journalism. Brinkley cautions that Luce's influence on actual policy was slender, but his insight into trends, which he promoted earnestly was great. What observer did more to give us "the American century" and "modern Republicanism"?
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Steven F. Hayward
F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute
Keynes-Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott
The Keynes-Hayek debate—so central to current controversies in political economy—isn't just for YouTube any more. British journalist Wapshott explains the substance of their debate in the form of a narrative history—an excellent genre that is hard to pull off, but Wapshott succeeds.
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy, by Richard L. Velkley
Another elemental debate of the 20th century, though unlike Hayek-Keynes, this one was conducted more indirectly. For all of the work on Strauss, this is one of the few extended treatments of the fundamental contrast between these two philosophers. The winner of this debate will probably determine the fate of Western civilization in the 21st century.
The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition, by F.A. Hayek
Hayek's greatest book—much superior to The Road to Serfdom—was published exactly 50 years ago, yet reads almost like a Thomistic commentary on the errors of the Obama Administration. This new edition is annotated and includes updated footnotes on the bottom of the page instead of in an endnote section—very useful since Hayek did a lot of work in his footnotes.
Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies, 1878 - 1984, by Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Bradley, an independent energy analyst, has embarked on something almost never done any more: a serious but readable multi-volume history of a knotty, long-run problem in political economy. Edison to Enron is actually the second volume of a planned trilogy under the general title of "Political Capitalism" (the first volume, published in 2009, was entitled Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy), and as this general heading suggests Bradley explains how the politicization of the energy sector, going back almost a century now, has delivered us to our present confused state where a free market for energy barely exists. The third volume will take us through the collapse of Enron and up to the halcyon days of Solyndra.
A Constitutional Conversation: Letters from an Ohio Farmer (a project of the Ashbrook Center)
The letters from an Ohio Farmer are written for the Tea Party Congress elected in 2010, and are intended, like The Federalist, to "refine and enlarge" the constitutional populism of the present moment. The several authors of the Letters are anonymous, though their writing style might appear familiar to CRB readers.
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Daniel Walker Howe
Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University
Professor of History Emeritus,UCLA
King James Bible: 400th Anniversary Edition, with an Afterword by Gordon Campbell
A big, fat volume that will be a treasure for anyone who loves the Christian religion, English literature, or (as I do) both. Includes the Apocrypha along with Old and New Testaments. It keeps the original archaic spellings e.g. "vpon" for "upon." With its leather binding and gilt-edged paper, it maintains the wonderful tradition of giving bibles as gifts. There are lots of books that have come out recently about the making of the King James Version; one that has already been out for a while and has attracted a lot of favorable notice is God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson. I judge it will be especially helpful for people who don't usually read the Bible.


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- Sheets for your twin, extra long size bed (36 by 80 inches, approximately 6 inches thick.)
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Students may find information about rentals of fans, refrigerators, microwaves, linens and laundry services through the Brown Student Agencies website.
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Students completing course work in laboratories should keep in mind there are established practices for lab attire. Closed toed shoes or sneakers and long pants are required in laboratories. Sandals, shorts, skirts or tank tops may NOT be worn in laboratories.
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- Radio
- Recreation and sports equipment
- Beach equipment /sunglasses
- Laptop computer
You may NOT bring pets, cooking devices, air conditioners, or motor vehicles to campus (except commuter students).