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A whirlwind of economic and environmental changes is destabilizing our world, sustainability experts told an audience Thursday at Blue Ridge Community College. But they said locals can weather the storm by learning from the self-reliance of earlier generations.
FLAT ROCK — A whirlwind of economic and environmental changes is destabilizing our world, sustainability experts told an audience Thursday at Blue Ridge Community College. But they said locals can weather the storm by learning from the self-reliance of earlier generations.
About 75 people attended the evening forum in the Blue Ridge Conference Hall, titled "Preparing for the Future by Reclaiming Our Self-Reliance." It featured two international sustainability experts and a panel of local "elders" recounting stories of living simple lives of resourcefulness.
Local historian Jennie Jones Giles related how Henderson County's pioneer families grew all their own food, supplemented with wild fish and game. What wasn't eaten was dried or canned for the winter, she said, while clothing was woven and sewn from scratch.
"These old-timers would tell me that once a month they might go to town," Giles said. "And there were four things on that shopping list: flour, sugar, coffee and salt, because you can't grow wheat up here, so flour was a luxury."
Alma Avery, 81, recalled working all day as a child in return for a single meal and cutting timber with a 6-foot-long crosscut saw with her sister.
"The old mules were so poor that we had to help the mules pull the logs out of the mountains," she said.
To heat their home, her family would throw giant oak logs in the fireplace to burn all night. "And our legs would be burnt and white in the front and frozen in the back," she said.
Avery still grows a bountiful garden, selling canned goods and baked goods at the Henderson County Tailgate Market.
Leon Pace, a member of the Henderson County Genealogical and Historical Society whose relatives were county pioneers, recalled growing up on local farms where his family grew large food gardens, raised livestock and lit its home with kerosene lamps.
"You don't want to burn up all your oil, so you'd blow the lights out and go to bed early and save the lights," Pace said. "And you don't want to play the radio too long, because it takes the battery down. So we went to bed early, and we got up early."
Nicole Foss, a Canadian financial and energy expert who edits the online journal Automatic Earth, warned audience members that the United States is on the brink of a "serious fiscal contraction" that she predicted will lead to deglobalization, protectionism and trade wars.
She urged attendees to invest in localized economies and accept more modest returns, pool resources such as tools and skills and build what she called "social capital" through means such as community gardens and local bartering.
Her message of localized self-reliance was echoed by New Zealand sustainability expert Laurence Boomert, who said modern society has the technology and design capabilities to adapt to global crises, but often lacks the power of local collaboration.
Humanity may be failing at a global level, but Boomert said it functions well when neighbors get together.
When neighbors meet and cooperate, "there is so much we can do," he said. "Of course, churches have been doing this for a very long time, bringing people together in all sorts of constructive and mutually supportive ways. How can we take that out into a 'whole town' kind of aspect, or a whole regional aspect?"
Boomert gave examples from his home country of the kind of resourcefulness he's advocating: edible gardens planted along bike paths; local-milk vending machines that give neighbors direct access to fresh, organic milk while boosting profits for farmers; and community feasts where young and old alike share meals and stories.
Thursday's program was sponsored by ECO, the Center for Cultural Preservation, Transition Hendersonville, the Hendersonville Co-op, the N.C. Humanities Council and Blue Ridge Community College.
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Don Schumacher Racing and Rocky have announced a multiyear sponsorship that will feature 2011 NHRA Funny Car champion Matt Hagan beginning with the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.
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Leaving the Nest: Reflections of a VolunteerMatch Intern
This post also appears on Volunteering is CSR.
Editor's Note: As our amazing interns transition out of their roles at VolunteerMatch, they're reflecting on what brought them to work with us, what they've accomplished, and where they're headed. We hope you'll be as inspired as we have been by these "ultimate volunteers!"
I'm Cris Bautista and I'm the Communications and Social Media Intern at VolunteerMatch. You've probably read my blog posts here about the importance of diversity and introverted volunteers.
Now my reign as intern is coming to an end, and I've been given the opportunity to write a bit about myself.
My Background
As a sophomore at Stanford, I began transitioning from female to male. As if figuring out my own identity wasn't complicated enough, my school often didn't meet my needs — professors called me the wrong name, housing was awkward, and it took two years to change my ID.
I started asking for things, and before I knew it I became an activist. I spoke with several student groups and administrators and even wrote a column senior year in order to help raise awareness and change school policies. Now Stanford is much more transgender-inclusive, and I'm glad I left that mark on my alma mater.
After graduation I soon realized that despite my school's inadequacies, they were tiny obstacles compared to the rampant inequality that existed in the real world. I live in a society that assumes people like me don't exist. Unemployment for transgender folks is twice the rate of the general population (four times the general population for people of color) and 44% of transgender people are underemployed.
When I logged onto Facebook or Twitter over my first cup of coffee each morning, I was bombarded with horrible things – transgender teens committing suicide, another transgender person murdered, the increase of hate crimes towards transgender women of color. I lived in a world where people like me were hurt and killed on a regular basis, and when we do survive, we are punished for it.
That was a world that I wasn't okay with, and a world I was going to change.
I discovered nonprofits like the National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Law Center — organizations whose missions matched mine. I realized the nonprofit world was my world.
I spent several months unsuccessfully applying to jobs. Then browsing through Idealist one day, I found an internship opportunity with VolunteerMatch. I applied, and to my surprise, I got it.
What I've Learned at VolunteerMatch
When I arrived to VolunteerMatch, I had the energy, but I didn't know what I had to offer. Thanks to the people here, I have not only learned specific skills in social media and communications, but I've discovered more about myself, how I work and what I care about.
Every cause is connected.
When I took on this internship position at VolunteerMatch, I had the initial plan of learning what I needed to learn and then find an LGBT nonprofit to work for. But as I interacted with nonprofits and volunteers I came to care for other causes, as well. LGBT issues are still important to me, but I've become more aware of the intersections between different social needs.
LGBT issues don't exist in a vacuum — they are entwined with immigration issues, challenges facing people with disabilities, women's rights, reproductive rights, children's rights, poverty as well as others. Through VolunteerMatch, I've realized that there are many causes that I am invested in, and I hope to work on these issues during my career.
Social media can catalyze social change.
Before VolunteerMatch, I always thought that Facebook was where all productivity goes to die. It had never occurred to me that there possibly was a connection between my borderline obsession with Facebook and nonprofits.
During my internship I discovered how technology is used to promote, support and connect with both nonprofits and volunteers. I was able to apply my experience with Facebook to other websites, from Twitter, to Pinterest, and even Google Adwords.
Each social media platform has a different set of tools and caters to different audiences — in particular, social media is necessary in order to connect with younger people, such as college students. I wrote about social media, like using blogs for volunteer recruitment and retention, and utilizing Facebook Pages for your organization (complete with a video tutorial featuring my awesome voice). I even tweeted at a conference once and made some great professional connections. Keeping an open mind and adapting to new social media is essential to maximizing nonprofit impact.
Marginalized communities, even when geographically spread out, can come together online and synchronize their voices and their cause. Nonprofits, by using social media, can reach more people than ever at little to no cost. The potential for social change through social media is so mind-numbingly exciting, and I get to be part of that.
Working for social justice is a marathon, not a sprint.
I can easily get excited about a project and work on it for hours on end. But more than once I've burned out from exhaustion.
While at VolunteerMatch I've learned about the nitty gritty practical stuff when working for a nonprofit. Yes, the drive and passion are necessary, but working for a nonprofit isn't a sprint. It's a marathon. When I come into the office, I have a set number of tasks I intend to complete for the day. I make sure I get those tasks done — no more, no less.
Many nonprofits are stretched thin, with employees working long hours in the office and even continuing to work when they get home. I know that I'll feel the pressure to do that as well. But I also know that taking care of myself and achieving a healthy balance in life is important, so when I'm at the office, I feel energized enough to maximize my productivity.
I've discovered the importance of working at a steady, sustainable pace, which I know will help me when it comes to fighting for causes in the long run.
So What's Next?
I'm glad I can add VolunteerMatch to my story. The people I've worked with have challenged me and pushed me to do my best, and for that I'm grateful. Now I can finally go out and help organizations achieve their mission.
After building up a couple years of experience working for nonprofits, I plan to get a masters in nonprofit management and support the marginalized of the LGBT community through empowerment programs, similar to the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative at the San Francisco LGBT Center. Eventually, I want to become a director for an LGBT community center somewhere in the United States.
Watch out, nonprofit world. This won't be the last you hear from me.
If you want to contact me for job opportunities or just want to know me a little better, my email is email@example.com. You can also follow me at @CristopherMarc and connect with me on LinkedIn.
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Great post Cris.
I am so proud of you and your age to be so active in transgender equality. I also see your beyond your years as you know how important it is in non profits and life to: " Be gentle with our selves and good self care…….I can't wait to hear what the future holds for you. Keep on that marathon…………..I work as director of volunteers at a non profit and love volunteer match.
This was such a well-written post, Cris. Thank you for writing it.
I agree with you about nonprofit work being a marathon. One of the challenges I see a lot of folks facing is that they are so passionate about the work that is done by their nonprofit or cause and they get into that sprint-like mentality and burn out. To do our best work in the long run, we really do need to keep the marathon in mind.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors!
Cristopher. I enjoyed this post as well as your "introverted volunteers" piece – which I posted on Apricot Jam. Your observation – "Working for social justice is a marathon, not a sprint" can be the hardest lesson to learn for many of us when we're starting out. Good luck with your next career move.


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Following functional style in Java can require some forethought due to the language's roots. However, its possible to identify certain patterns and rely on libraries to make functional programming easier in the Java language. In a first post over at the cuberick blog, you can find a discussion on anonymous inner classes being a poor man's closure -- the latter term being a popular functional construct. On a second post, you can hear Mario Fusco's podcat on the Lambdaj project, which is also aimed at functional stlye in Java and of which he is the creator. Read the post 'Anonymous Inner Classes: A Poor Man's Closure?' http://www.cuberick.com/2009/08/anonymous-inner-classes-poor-mans.html Hear Mario Fusco's podcast on the 'Lambdaj Project': http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/08/08/J1-2009-MarioFusco-Lambdaj.html
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Liz V. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 283 diseños de 76 diseñadores freelance.
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I am small home builder. My husband and I have decided to branch off to specializing in "green" and energy efficient homes. I want my clients to know they are getting a professional company/builder who cares about the impact my product has on the environment, as well as overall quality and comfort of living in one of my homes.
My homes will be directed at a wide range of home buyers, whether it is green on a budget or all out custom, including:
1. "Earth friendly" first and/or second time buyers looking to lesson their footprint on the environment.
2. "Empty nesters" who may want to scale back and are looking for homes that are more energy efficient, budget friendly and less cost to maintain.
3. "Custom" buyers who can afford to make the home green from top to down.
I am looking for a simple sleek design logo that can grow as my company grows. The logo will be used in print (ads, business cards), web and signage. I would like a "graphic" type logo to stand out in ads etc. But "signature/text" logos also appeal to me as most Fortune 500 companies do not have fussy complicated logos. I would be greatly interested in something that would allow me to use just the text part of the logo when needed.
~ I am open to color options. I am currently using a cobalt blue with white. I am not opposed to green but it does not need to be the focal color either. No "girly" colors.
~ I would like something sleek, slightly edgy/modern but not trendy. I want the logo to grow with my company as it grows.
~As for signature logos I favor YvesSaintLaurent the most as it comes across classy and timeless but not over the top fancy. I also like Disney and Cartier because they are clean, simple, very recognizable.
~NO stock images or clip art. Please NO "3 roof tops over the name" as every other builder already has.
~My husband did like the idea of a leaf instead of a puff of smoke coming out of a chimney with a removable tagline of "because green is better".
I am not opposed to this if it looks professional and both the graphic and tagline can removed when needed.
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In This Issue
The "Nonpartisan" Kyoto Cheerleaders; NewsBites: Weather Trumps Washington; Revolving Door: Turner's Clinton Man; TV Downplays Clinton Donor Who Lied His Way Into Arlington Cemetary; Democratic Slurs Not News; One Overlooked Tornado; Institutions Ask Why Credibility Down; Janet Cooke Award: Ted Koppel v. The "Flat Earth Society"
The "Nonpartisan" Kyoto Cheerleaders
The "environmentalist" agenda is easily classified as liberal: regulation reigns at the center of their proposals. At the recent climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, environmental groups proposed the U.S. cut its emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels, a drastic, government-supervised suppression of American energy output.
But news reports drain the ideology out of the debate, casting it as "environmentalists" vs. industry instead of liberals vs. conservatives. In 1990, a MediaWatch study of labeling in three major newspapers from 1987 to 1989 found that in 2,903 news stories featuring ten "green" groups, analysts found only 29 ideological labels, or less than one percent. (Subtract 22 labels in 83 stories for the radical group Earth First, and the total was seven labels in 2,820 stories).
To update that research, MediaWatch analysts used the Nexis news data retrieval system to locate every news story in 1995 and 1996 on ten liberal environmental groups, and compared that to conservative groups in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. The story remains the same: in 1,089 news stories, liberal environmental groups were described as liberal in only five stories (or 0.5 percent).
By contrast, the largest "free-market environmentalist" think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute drew eight "conservative" labels in 29 stories (28 percent). In most of the stories in which they weren't labeled, they were described as "anti-regulatory," "pro-business," or "promoting private solutions over government action." Only the radical-left group Earth First, whose literature may have inspired the Unabomber's selection of bombing targets, rivaled to CEI's labeling percentage, with nine "radical" labels in 25 stories (36 percent).
Not only do reporters leave out any description of ideology motivating "green" groups, they fail to describe them as partisan activists in Washington seeking to overrule and overthrow Republicans. Reporters used advocacy labels (such as "activist," "advocate," and "lobbyist") in only 78 of 1,089 stories (7 percent). Among the liberal groups getting the "nonpartisan" treatment:
The Environmental Defense Fund, a very active proponent in the global-warming fight, was never called "liberal" in 121 news stories, and only carried advocacy labels in six articles. The New York Times did call them "mainstream" in a June 25, 1996 story on a intra-liberal debate on dolphin safety. A February 19, 1996 Washington Post story noted 37 "environmental, medical, religious and consumer groups, led by the Environmental Defense Fund urged oil companies not to use a manganese-based gasoline additive."
The Environmental Working Group is a network TV favorite, with its regular studies declaring the nation's drinking water unsafe. Its Web site touts the group's Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) for information on the "anti- environmental lobby," including a campaign by the "radical right" to "defund the left." But EWG inspired no liberal labels in 46 stories, and were only labeled as advocates in seven pieces.
Greenpeace is perhaps the best-known environmental group, due to its radical tactics, like interrupting nuclear tests and hanging banners from smokestacks. But in 178 articles, it never once attracted a liberal label — but The New York Times did include them in the "mainstream" faction on dolphin safety. Reporters tagged Greenpeace with advocacy labels in only 22 stories. A June 23, 1995 USA Today story did call Greenpeace "one of many groups fighting the GOP on several fronts."
The nonpartisan approach is most inaccurate with the League of Conservation Voters, which spent $1.5 million in 1996 on ads, mass mailings, and door-to-door campaigns against GOP candidates. But reporters gave it only one liberal label and ten advocacy labels in 62 stories. The January 27, 1996 Washington Post broke the mold in a story on the LCV helping to elect Sen. Ron Wyden with the headline "Candidate's Backers Hope to Make Oregon a Liberal Proving Ground."
The National Audubon Society successfully buries its liberal agenda beneath its bird-watching activities, drawing no ideological labels and only three advocacy labels in 64 news stories. A 1994 fund-raising letter scared donors by claiming they could "project with some accuracy the eventual end of the natural world as we know it."
The Web site of the National Wildlife Federation claims "Unless worldwide action is taken, we may be witness to the fastest warming of the climate since the last ice age." But NWF acquired no liberal labels and one advocacy label in 31 stories.
The Natural Resources Defense Council ran ads in 1996 claiming Republicans aimed to "block programs to protect our drinking water from deadly parasites, arsenic, and radioactivity." In 211 news stories, analysts found one liberal label and 14 advocacy labels. That one label was indirect: on April 2, 1995, Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz noted the Sierra Club and the NRDC aired ads "assailing the GOP for attempting to weaken environmental laws. Other liberal groups are joining the fray."
The Sierra Club spent $7.5 million to defeat GOP candidates in 1996, including ads calling Republicans "eco-thugs." Nevertheless, in 325 stories, the Sierra Club collected only three liberal labels (all in the Washington Post) and only 14 advocacy labels. They were also in the New York Times "mainstream" coalition in one story. In five New York Times stories and three Washington Post stories, reporters did underline their affinity for Democrats with terms like "almost always supports Democrats," "sympathetic to Democratic candidates," and "a potent force in Democratic primaries."
The World Resources Institute's founder, James Gustave Speth, is now the most powerful American official of the U.N. environment program. No labels of any kind were forthcoming in 27 news stories — unless you count The New York Times describing them in two articles as an "independent" monitor.
The Worldwatch Institute releases an annual "State of the World" report that Ted Turner has handed out to his CNN employees. They attracted no liberal labels in 24 stories, and only one advocacy reference. On January 14, 1996, the Washington Post didn't use a liberal label for a liberal proposal: "Environmental activist Lester Brown calls for a new tax on polluters in the annual environmental almanac released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute, the think tank he heads."
Balance in environmental journalism requires at least two obvious remedies: liberal groups should be described as liberal more often, and their conservative counterparts ought to be consulted in more than a small fraction of the stories in which liberal groups and their research are promoted.
NewsBites: Weather Trumps Washington
Weather Trumps Washington. On December 11 a grand jury indicted former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros on 18 counts of lying to the FBI about payments he made to a former mistress, Linda Jones. Cisneros is the second Clinton cabinet member indicted this year. But you wouldn't know much about it from watching TV.
Of the three broadcast networks, only NBC offered an evening story, as well as two brief updates the next morning. ABC gave it 18 seconds on the 11th, CBS nine seconds a night later. Both ignored it in the morning. More important to Dan Rather, two minutes on "The huge Pacific weather machine, whipping up the waves, is also giving a gentle lift to the tender wings of the Monarch butterfly. CBS's John Blackstone has the story and pictures that will make you flutter with delight."
Matt Attacks. On the April 8, 1991 Today, Bryant Gumbel gushed over Kitty Kelley's salacious book on Nancy Reagan that charged, among other things, an affair with Frank Sinatra. Gumbel praised Kelley's "courage" and "credibility." Fast forward six years and change the target to liberal icon John F. Kennedy and we see a different tack from a Today show host. Seymour Hersh, a hero to liberals in the '60s and '70s as the New York Times reporter who broke the My Lai massacre story, ran into a hostile Matt Lauer on November 10 and 11. Lauer greeted Hersh harshly: "The book, The Dark Side of Camelot, is out today, but the controversy began earlier this fall when a collection of Hersh's source documents on some of the most titillating topics proved to be fakes. Seymour Hersh, good morning...You handle the legacy of JFK with about as much tenderness as a steamroller. What was your goal with the book?"
Lauer praised Hersh's past work, when he was taking on conservatives, but raised the questions of Kennedy backers: "I know you've done some wonderful works in the past, but they think that possibly you've been twisting the words of sources. Some of your sources in this book have now come out and said you twisted their words. As a matter of fact, one gentleman, Jerry Bruno, a former Kennedy advance man, says after being interviewed by you and reading the final product that you should have called this book The Dark Side of Seymour Hersh."
Money-Grubbing Clinton-Haters? When questions were raised about big insurance companies footing the bill for President Clinton's legal defense in the sexual harassment case brought by Paula Jones, ABC and Time were in the vast majority of media outlets that ignored it. Recently, a double standard was exposed when these outlets made a big deal out of who is paying the bills for Jones.
On the November 12 World News Tonight, Peter Jennings suggested they were just evening out the publicity: "Paula Corbin Jones faced a round of questioning from the President's lawyers on her claim that she was sexually harassed by Mr. Clinton in 1991. The President's defense is being handled by a major Washington attorney, Bob Bennett, been in the news a lot. ABC's Jackie Judd reports tonight on the people providing the most support for Paula Jones."
Judd profiled Jones as she arrived in Little Rock "flanked by her representatives and backed by organizations associated with conservative causes." Judd played up the right-wing puppet angle: "The Rutherford Institute in Virginia has signed on to finance the lawsuit. It's known for defending religious rights activists and abortion protesters. It recently mailed 60,000 fundraising letters appealing for money, quote, 'to keep fighting for the truth.'"
Judd went on to Jones' spokeswoman, "some say her Svengali, self- described conservative feminist Susan Carpenter McMillan." Judd asked: "Is this about getting Bill Clinton?" After a soundbite of McMillan, Judd declared: "The President's supporters see some value in Jones being backed by conservative activists. They say it proves that this is not about sexual harassment but about politics and damaging President Clinton."
In the November 24 issue, Time White House reporter Jay Branegan profiled John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute: "Clinton's embarrassment is a spectacle many conservative groups are relishing." Like ABC, Branegan spun the fundraising angle: "He [Whitehead] says some of his traditional donors are 'horrified' that he's involved in such a seamy public episode. All the same, after taking up the case, he rushed out a fundraising letter."
Connerly the Cat's Paw. When 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace profiled Ward Connerly, he was astonished a black man would dare hold conservative beliefs. In the November 9 piece Wallace allowed Connerly, who led California's ballot initiative to do away with quotas in government hiring, contracting, and college admissions, to fully respond to each charge. But he accused Connerly of what he thought every self-respecting black man would hate most: being a tool of Whitey. Wallace asked, "Do you ever feel like you're being used by white conservatives to lead this thing, that you're the cat's paw?"
After Connerly asserted that he believed he furthers the idea of equality by opposing racial preferences, Wallace related that Connerly's "critics" believed him to be a race traitor: "One of your critics says: 'For someone to stand within the ranks and say, 'I'm not black,' but use it to destroy his own people, that's the kind we label a traitor.' That's how you're perceived by many people in the black community." To bolster his charge, Wallace interviewed Elizabeth Stansbury, Connerly's cousin and a quota activist. Stansbury charged that Connerly, who grew up poor in the care of his grandmother, was treated like a "little prince" by their family and that Connerly's rags-to-riches story was false. Finally, an incredulous Wallace lectured Connerly: "I get the feeling that you're looking at things through rose- colored glasses. I can see black folks across the country looking at him now and saying 'What world does this Connerly guy think we're living in?'"
Bitter Bryant. CBS's Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel may be doing poorly in the TV ratings, but it's doing very well in the liberal bias ratings, especially when Bryant Gumbel discusses racial matters. On the November 19 show Gumbel asked guest Oprah Winfrey: "You talked about the responsibility of being an African-American woman, and being the descendants of slaves. Conservatives are quick to point to you, and people like you...as an indication that ours is a color-blind society. Where do you come down on what is now the popular whipping boy in politics, affirmative action?"
After a profile of University of Texas Law School professor Lino Graglia on the December 3 edition, Gumbel tried to keep his cool when discussing the anti-quotas professor with correspondent Bernie Goldberg: "Bernie, let me see if I can address this in a civil tone and begin by assuming that Professor Graglia is an intelligent man. When he looks at scores as a barometer of intelligence, how does he just ignore factors of income, access, opportunity, all of which he surely knows impact education?"
Goldberg tried to explain how poor white children are the big losers in the quota game because they don't have the advantages rich white children have nor can they rely on a racially-based quota to admit them to a university like blacks and Hispanics. An exasperated Gumbel shot back: "Hard to believe that he thinks a white student doesn't enjoy more advantages in this society than a student of color. That's hard to believe."
Later in the same show, Gumbel used actor Will Smith to make the point that to him, America is still an unrepentantly racist place: "Smith's rap sounds similar to that of other young black men. Unfortunately, so do some of his all too real run-ins with cops. Do you think it would surprise people to learn that you still get stopped by cops for being nothing more than a young black guy driving an expensive car?"
O'Leary Amnesia. Lost in all the fuss over Attorney General Janet Reno's decision not to recommend an independent counsel to look into the fundraising practices of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, was her decision to let former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary off the hook. Reno decided not to recommend an independent counsel over Johnny Chung's allegation he gained a meeting for five Chinese officials after an Energy Department official suggested he donate $25,000 to O'Leary's favorite charity, Africare.
The story first broke in a Tom Brokaw interview with Chung on August 19. So did the networks send out their crack investigative "journalists" to get to the bottom of the story? No. Excluding brief mentions on the following Sunday's morning shows, here's how the networks covered the story:
The day after the Chung interview, NBC's Today uttered not a syllable about their own scoop. Later that night the Nightly News aired a follow-up report on the Chung allegations. Over the next week, NBC ran one story on the Nightly News and two on Today. The story then died on NBC until September 19, when the Nightly News did one story reporting on Attorney General Janet Reno's decision to look into the possibility of asking for the appointment of an independent counsel. This was the last time NBC would mention Chung's allegations.
A month after the Chung interview on NBC, CBS broke the story that Attorney General Janet Reno was being urged to appoint an independent counsel by lawyers at the Department of Justice. In their first story on Chung's allegations, Dan Rather reminded viewers: "It is important to note that O'Leary denies any wrongdoing." CBS then forgot about the story until December 2, when they reported Reno had decided not to ask for an independent counsel.
At least you can count on the all-news networks to develop and investigate the story thoroughly, right? Wrong. Between the August 19 interview and the December 2 decision, CNN's The World Today did just two stories on Chung. Inside Politics also only mentioned the story twice over nearly four months. PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and ABC have yet to run one story on the investigation.
Strike Good, Scandal Bad. On November 17, federal election officer Kenneth Conboy disqualified Teamsters Union president Ron Carey from running again for re-election after he diverted more than $700,000 in union funds for his own election in December 1996. The scandal threatens not only Carey, but top Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe (who was told of the illegal schemes), the AFL-CIO (whose Secretary-Treasurer, Richard Trumka, took the Fifth), and liberal groups who joined the illegal fundraising conspiracy. Big news? Not if you work at the networks. That night, CBS and NBC provided only briefs. ABC aired one story in which John Martin relayed the sad note: "One analyst called the day a disastrous setback for the union and the nation."
This wasn't the first time the networks skipped over the Teamster scandal. This summer, the three broadcast networks aired 71 full stories and 17 anchor briefs on Carey's Teamsters strike against the United Parcel Service, but only six full stories and four anchor briefs on Carey's post-election decline and fall.
The Big Three morning shows aired 94 full segments on the UPS strike, but only three through mid-December on the Teamsters scandal. The strike led the morning shows 20 times. Within that sample, the morning shows aired 26 interview segments on the strike to just two on the Carey scandal. ABC's Good Morning America carried almost all of that; NBC's Today aired one anchor brief in three months, and CBS This Morning aired nothing. Clearly, the UPS strike has more news appeal to a broader audience than Teamster corruption does. But the prominence the Teamsters gained through the burst of strike coverage ought to make their current struggles more prominent than the near-blackout so far.
Revolving Door: Turner's Clinton Man
Turner's Clinton Man
Ted Turner chose a liberal Democrat to run the foundation he created to oversee distribution of his $1 billion gift to the United Nations: Tim Wirth, Undersecretary of State, will assume the position of President of Turner's freshly-created United Nations Foundation. Wirth previously served as a Congressman and Senator from Colorado, earning a very liberal reputation.
At the State Department Wirth had been in charge of the administration's environmental efforts. The Washington Times noted on November 20 that Wirth had pushed the administration from the left. Reporter Patrice Hill explained: "Wirth became a lightning rod for conservative opposition to the global warming treaty in Congress because of his moves calling on the United States and other industrialized nations to adopt legally binding reductions in carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gasses while exempting developing countries....Wirth prompted criticism by privately asking congressional delegates to the UN-sponsored negotiations not to criticize the administration's position in Kyoto."
Heading North, South & East
Two White House speechwriters have departed, one to take a media slot and the other to become an ambassador, while a newspaper veteran assumed a diplomatic post.
David Shipley, who joined the Clinton speechwriting staff in 1995 after stints as a New York Times editorial writer and Executive Editor of the New Republic, is traveling north. Shipley, who has been writing recently for the First Lady, left in mid-December to, as the November 26 Washington Post reported, "work on a series of special issues for the New York Times Sunday magazine."
In November the Senate approved the nomination of Carolyn Curiel as U.S. Ambassador to Belize. An editor at the New York Times and Washington Post before jumping to TV in 1992 as a Nightline producer, she joined the Clinton team in 1993.
On the foreign mission front, last summer Bob Healy, a former Executive Editor and in the early '80s the Washington Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe, hopped a plane for Dublin, Ireland. The Washington Post reported that he's "working in a senior job in the embassy on the U.S. Information Agency payroll."
In a December 1990 Globe column Healy complained: "Bush was saddled with a lot of the supply-side voodooism of the Reagan era ....Reagan was not the President of morning in America: he was President of the free lunch. He gave us growth, but the cost was borrowed money, more than a trillion dollars of debt."
Right Writing
The Christian Coalition tapped David Aikman, a Time correspondent until a few years ago, as Senior Consulting Editor of the group's magazine, the Christian American. At Time, Aikman reported from Asia, served as bureau chief in West Berlin and covered foreign affairs out of Washington....
U.S. News & World Report has brought aboard Michael Gerson as a Senior Editor to cover non-profits and philanthropy. Gerson, who has been Policy Director for Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), was hired by Assistant Managing Editor Steve Waldman, National Journal reported. Before jumping to U.S. News, Waldman had worked as top policy adviser to the chief of Clinton's AmeriCorps program.
TV Downplays Clinton Donor Who Lied His Way Into Arlington Cemetary
Addicted to Scandal? Hardly
The charge in Insight magazine that Bill Clinton may have granted "dozens" of waivers for burials at Arlington Cemetery to big donors soon imploded, but media disinterest in the whole matter left it to a conservative columnist to dig up evidence that one Clinton crony lied in order to be buried there.
Three days after the story broke on talk radio, Time's Margaret Carlson complained on the Nov. 22 CNN Capital Gang: "Republicans succeeded in spreading this despicable lie because the press is as addicted to scandal as they are."
Not quite. The Big Three networks passed up the story in those first days, with the exception of an 18-second brief on ABC's Good Morning America and a 17-second item on the CBS Evening News in which Dan Rather relayed the White House denial of "a deliberate political smear."
But within days, the Los Angeles Times reported that House investigators were focusing on M. Larry Lawrence, a $10 million Democratic donor who served as Clinton's Ambassador to Switzerland. He had been granted a waiver for burial in Arlington after he died in 1996. Conservative columnist Arianna Huffington tracked down a former Lawrence aide who recalled that he asked her to research Merchant Marine ships that served during World War II, suggesting a quest for details he could recite as a life experience.
On December 4, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Terry Everett announced a search of records found no evidence Lawrence ever served on the Merchant Marine ship on which he claimed he'd been wounded.
So that made it a big story? No. ABC's World News Tonight was the only broadcast network evening show to report the revelation that night. NBC Nightly News followed the next night. CBS, busy with El Nino features, took three more days to mention Lawrence, taking 22 seconds to report that his body would be disinterred but not explaining why. Rather called it "all part of the fallout from unsubstantiated accusations that the Clinton camp was selling burial rights."
Nightline devoted two shows to the matter, but treated it as an embarrassing new low in political attacks. ABC's Michel McQueen ended her December 5 piece by asserting that Lawrence may have been eligible for burial "because he died while serving as an ambassador, but in the rancorous atmosphere of 1990s Washington, the facts may be almost beside the point." But as the Los Angeles Times discovered, "of six ambassadors granted burial at Arlington ...three died violently in the line of duty while two had records far more distinguished than that of the sixth — M. Larry Lawrence."
Still, Koppel's first query: "Is this a scandal or is this just Washington at its worst?"
Democratic Slurs Not News
Gaffe Patrol on Break
Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry — even if you impugn a branch of the armed forces, implicate the House Speaker in the death of a fellow Congressman, or equate Republicans with Nazis.
The Weekly Standard reported that after Democratic Congressman Walter Capps died October 28 of a heart attack, Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) sent a sarcastic "Dear Colleague" letter complaining about Gingrich's hectic legislative schedule. To make his point, Farr attached a newspaper article headlined: "Farr: Hectic pace helped kill lawmaker." No news show, not even CNN's Inside Politics, covered Farr's far-out charge.
The gaffe patrol was also silent when Assistant Secretary of the Army Sara Lister resigned after referring to the Marines as "extremists" and "a little dangerous." She can hardly blame her ouster on the media spotlight — the only network coverage of her remarks, printed in The Washington Times, came in a brief on the November 13 World News Tonight. Even when she resigned the next day, only World News Tonight noted her departure with a Jackie Judd report that spun the focus from Lister's insulting comments to a defeat for women in the military: "As head of Army personnel, Lister was a strong advocate for women in the military, even allowing them to go into combat. Her supporters say that is what the firestorm is really about."
It seems nothing a Democrat says can raise an eyebrow. During House fundraising hearings on December 10 independent counsel Donald Smaltz recalled his presidency of the Young Democrats. The omission of his years in the GOP enraged Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.): "You remind me of the late and unlamented Secretary- General of the United Nations, Kurt Waldheim, who also had a lapse in memory. He conveniently forgot several years when he was a Nazi." Only CNN's Inside Politics aired it.
Lantos defended and expanded his comments three days later in the San Francisco Chronicle: "The more I think about it, the more I think I was totally proper and correct....If you for 30 years are a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and someone says, 'What are your views about racial issues,' and you say, 'When I was 15 I had a black friend with whom I played basketball'...you are not being truthful." Still, no media reaction.
One Overlooked Tornado
With all the talk about the destructive forces of El Nino, it is surprising another weather-related story was overlooked by all the network evening shows but one — except that it involves evidence the President may have lied to the Whitewater grand jury. Last spring, a tornado aided in the discovery of a trove of Whitewater documents in a damaged Mercury Marquis, including a check made out to Bill Clinton for $27,600 from James McDougal's failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
NBC Nightly News was the only one of the four network evening shows to report it. On November 10, Fred Francis reported: "Before junking [the car] mechanic Johnny Lawhorn pried open the trunk and found a cashier's check for $27,600 payable to Bill Clinton. Adding to the mystery, Bill Clinton has testified that he never borrowed money from his Whitewater partner. But the amount of the check corresponds exactly to the amount of a Whitewater loan repayment. So why was it made out to Bill Clinton? That's what the Whitewater grand jury wants to know."
ABC, CBS, and PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer all ignored it. Except for a 17-second Ann Curry news update on the November 6 Today show and a brief mention by Mark Knoller on CBS Saturday Morning two days later, the network morning programs didn't touch it. CNN's Bob Franken and Wolf Blitzer covered the story on Inside Politics, but it never made it onto CNN's evening newscast, The World Today.
Three days after the story broke, NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert interviewed the President one on one during the 50th anniversary edition of Meet the Press, and although he asked Clinton about his golf handicap, he forgot about the check. At least his network beat the competition on a very uncompetitive story.
Institutions Ask Why Credibility Down
Denying the Obvious: Bias
Last summer the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) and the Freedom Forum launched $1 million plus projects to determine why the press is losing credibility. They could save a lot of money if journalists would concede that liberal bias exists. Instead, as polls point to bias as a hindrance to credibility, much of the media remain in denial.
The latest example: A Fox News survey asked "What do you believe is the media's worst problem?" The most popular reply, "bias" at 44 percent. After announcing the result on the Nov. 9 Fox News Sunday, host Tony Snow turned to Time Managing Editor Walter Isaacson who conceded previous bias but rejected it now: "I don't think that there's a bias in the media now the way there used to be." Alerted to the many surveys documenting liberal views of reporters, Isaacson declared: "I'm not sure I really believe those polls."
Isaacson complained about how "we get blasted from both sides." A bewildered Brit Hume of Fox News replied: "Walter, do you really think the newsrooms of America are equally divided between conservatives and liberals?" Isaacson insisted: "I think that our newsroom at Time and the people who write there are open minded and are not Democrats and liberals as the popular perception is."
The October Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists, featured a story by former New York Times reporter John Wicklein who rejected the relevance of liberal views held by reporters since journalists "express a strong professional desire to be fair and honest in their reporting."
Unwittingly demonstrating the prism through which reporters miss bias, Wicklein insisted: "I've yet to find a paper in which I could discern a deliberate liberal — or conservative — slant to news stories. Instead, I've found reporters and editors working hard to play it straight." Indeed, Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie dismissed the public as ignorant, telling Wicklein: "I think people confuse reporting that exposes problems and seeks solutions as liberal bias."
But there may be hope. ASNE's magazine ran a February cover story titled "The Myth of the Liberal Slant." The September American Editor, however, featured Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page editor Ross Mackenzie's piece titled "Liberalism's Role in Our Collapsing Credibility." Up front, ASNE President Sandy Rowe, of the Oregonian, noted that reporters "dismiss the critics as cranky conservatives" but, she suggested, "we cannot improve our credibility with the majority of our public unless we are willing to examine bias through their lens, not ours." If only more journalists would take up her challenge.
Janet Cooke Award: Ted Koppel v. The "Flat Earth Society"
On February 24, 1994, ABC's Ted Koppel devoted a Nightline to Al Gore — not to studying Gore, but to Gore's opposition research on scientists skeptical of global warming and their alleged funding sources.
He concluded: "There is some irony in the fact that Vice President Gore, one of the most scientifically literate men to sit in the White House in this century, that he is resorting to political means to achieve what should ultimately be resolved on a purely scientific basis...The measure of good science is neither the politics of the scientist nor the people with whom the scientist associates. It is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth. That's the hard way to do it, but it's the only way that works."
That's a nice point, but Koppel has continued to base environmental programs not on science, but on the credibility of global warming skeptics. On December 9, Koppel devoted Nightline to another "ad watch" questioning the accuracy of ads run by business groups. For implying that warming skeptics were deliberate liars and comparable to the "Flat Earth Society," Nightline earned the Janet Cooke Award. The show began:
Koppel: "At the Kyoto summit on global warming, the fate of the Earth is being described in apocalyptic terms."
Al Gore: "More record floods and droughts, crop failures and famines."
Ross Gelbspan: "A slight warming could trigger an explosion of crop-destroying and disease-spreading insects."
Koppel: "But back in Washington, a $13 million ad campaign warns of an apocalypse of a different sort."
Woman in ad: "A proposed United Nations climate treaty could put me out of business by raising the cost of gasoline, natural gas, and electricity by 25 to 50 percent."
Carl Pope, Sierra Club: "Their ads are lies, and they know their ads are lies."
Koppel: "But have they worked?"
Ben Goddard, ad maker: "I think the campaign has worked very well."
Koppel: "Tonight, the ad campaign aimed at movers and shakers but designed to affect your future."
After leaving the impression that the ad makers intentionally lied, Koppel then joked that global warming might not be amusing like the Letterman or Leno shows, but what about the prospect of gas rationing, the loss of 650,000 jobs, or a treaty that will cost the American economy $350 billion a year? "I'd love to have your company, but I'm not sure we can vouch for the accuracy of any of those doomsday predictions."
He declared the ad campaign seems to charge "the Clinton administration is on the verge of giving away the farm at the global warming conference currently under way in Kyoto, Japan. It is not the conference that has seized our attention tonight, nor for that matter what may or may not be achieved there. It's the Chicken Little, sky-is-falling approach being adopted by both sides in the debate."
Despite Koppel's feigned balance, ABC reporter Chris Bury's set- up piece focused its heat only on warming skeptics: "The people running the ads call themselves the Global Climate Information Project, special interests from car manufacturers to oil companies to coal miners. Their $13 million dollar commercial campaign glosses over the science of the global warming debate to focus on two things: fairness and fear." Bury noted the ad's energy-cost estimates came from a study by Charles River Associates that was paid for by auto and utility companies: "Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, says the model is an extreme scenario." But Candace Crandall of the Science and Environmental Policy Project told MediaWatch: "The Pulitzer Prize board does not list him as a winner for any year or at any newspaper. We contacted Ross Gelbspan by phone and asked if he could fax a copy of his Pulitzer Prize citation. He admitted he has none."
Bury noted only six percent of Americans remembered seeing the ads, "but the ads were never really aimed at the American public." Pope charged industries were threatening politicians with putting up ads against them in the 1998 elections. Bury noted the Sierra Club "has tried to fight back with ads like this, but its ad budget is a measly $100,000." He did not note that the supposedly cash-poor Sierra Club spent an estimated $7.5 million in the 1996 elections to defeat Republican candidates.
Koppel's interview segment gave a larger megaphone to warming skeptics, matching liberal Environmental Defense Fund activist Michael Oppenheimer with skeptic Karen Kerrigan of the Small Business Survival Committee. But while Koppel posed very vague questions to Oppenheimer, he asked some tough questions of Kerrigan.
For example, he asked whether she believed the ads' estimates since "it seems all speculative and there is no agreement yet." He raised a liberal point in suggesting "fairness" would mean the U.S. should bear much of the burden: "One of the interesting notions that is raised by critics of U.S. policy as it has been in the past is that we represent one-twentieth of the world's population and we're using one-quarter of the world's fossil fuel ...Should there be such a thing, Ms. Kerrigan, as a certain amount of global fairness?"
Kerrigan told MediaWatch the show was not what she was led to expect: "We were told we were going to look at both sides' ad campaigns. Both would be asked to comment on the other. So either we would rip at each other's campaigns or each explain what we were trying to do." But Kerrigan said once she heard the show's introduction, "I knew 'I'm starting in a major hole.'"
But Koppel displayed his bias most distinctly by lashing out at Kerrigan's claim that many scientists were skeptical of warming: "I was just going to make the observation that there are still some people who believe in the Flat Earth Society, too, but that doesn't mean they're right." Kerrigan told MediaWatch: "It was a major insult."
Citizens for a Sound Economy recently commissioned a poll of state climatologists found that, by a 44 to 17 percent margin, they believe "recent global warming is a largely natural phenomenon." Nine out of ten agreed that "scientific evidence indicates variations in global temperatures are likely to be naturally occurring and cyclical over very long periods of time." Only 19 percent said "weather events over the last 25 years have been more severe or frequent than other periods" in their states' history, and less than a third of that small percentage attributed such weather to global warming.
ABC directed MediaWatch to Nightline spokesperson Sue Lin Chang, who promised she would find out who was that night's senior producer. She did not call back. The networks present themselves as objective referees of public debates. But on this issue, Koppel's show suggested that the fate of the planet is too important for a scientific debate, and skeptics would best serve the public by shutting up.


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Junior Mike Burwell Leads Four Tigers in Double Figures with 18 Points
RICHMOND, Ky. – The Towson men's basketball team posted its second straight wire-to-wire win with a dominate 79-40 win over Cincinnati Christian University in the final game of the 2012 Comfort Suites Invitational on Monday afternoon. The Tigers, who defeated Radford on Friday and Kennesaw State on Sunday, posted a 3-1 mark during the tournament.
With the win, Towson improves its overall record to 3-2, its best mark after five games since the start of the 2008-09 season when the Tigers also started 3-2.
The 39-point margin of victory Monday was Towson's largest since a 122-58 win over Buffalo on March 7, 1992.
Junior Mike Burwell led four Tigers in double figures with 18 points. The guard scored in double figures for the second consecutive game, netting three three-point field goals in each contest.
Graduate student Bilal Dixon registered his second double-double of the season with 10 points on 5-for-6 shooting and a game-high 11 rebounds. The forward/center added six blocked shots to his stat line in just 22 minutes of action.
Junior Marcus Damas (12) and sophomore Kris Walden (10) also scored in double digits, while junior Jerrelle Benimon posted nine points and grabbed seven rebounds in 21 minutes.
For the third straight game Towson got off to a hot start and after a Jerome Hairston jumper four minutes in, the Tigers led 7-0.
Leading 16-11 midway through the opening period, Towson tallied 13 of the next 17 points and the Tigers would lead by 20 at halftime.
Towson scored the first seven points of the second half to go up 46-19 and the Tigers would lead by as many as 42 in the second half. Towson held Cincinnati Christian to just five second half field goals in a dominating defensive effort.
The Tigers shot 56.6 percent from the field and won the rebounding battle for the fourth straight game, 46-22. Towson held the Eagles to just 16.7 percent shooting in the second half and 24.1 percent for the game.
All 13 Tigers played in the game, with 12 of them scoring
Towson will return to action on Monday, Nov. 26 at local rival Loyola. Tip time from Reitz Arena in Baltimore is set for 7:30 p.m.


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Anne Graham Lotz films video series with LU students
Anne Graham Lotz, the second daughter of the Rev. Billy Graham, was at Liberty University today to record a video series to accompany her new book, "Magnificent Obsession."
About 75 Liberty students participated as audience members today. The videotaping continues on Friday.
This is Lotz's second visit to Liberty. She was here on Dec. 2, 2009, to speak in convocation.
For the last 30 years, Lotz has traveled the world teaching the Bible in arenas, prison cells, stadiums, sanctuaries, seminaries and even the United Nations. She hosts a radio program that is heard on more than 700 outlets worldwide. "The New York Times" has named her one of the most important communicators of our time. She is a best-selling author of 10 books, including her signature book, "Just Give Me Jesus."
Her new video series is being filmed in an intimate setting, in what Lotz calls a "Town Hall" style Bible study, at the new Thomas Road Baptist Church fellowship hall. The two-day schedule includes five, two hour-long sessions that correspond with the chapters in the book, which is about how to build a friendship with the Lord, modeled after the Old Testament patriarch, Abraham. Each session opens and closes with prayer and musical worship and includes a highly interactive question-and-answer period. About 50 TRBC members are joining the students in the live audience. Participants are each given a complimentary hardcover copy of Lotz's book as well as worksheets corresponding to each discussion.
Lotz said she wanted the experience to feel more like a "spiritual retreat" rather than a video recording.
In one of today's sessions, Lotz discussed the relationship between Lot and Abraham and how we need to learn to let go of what we desire as humans to leave room for what God has in store for our lives.
"If you insist on what you want, He may let you have it, and you will just get less than what He would have given you," she said.
Lotz was appreciative of Liberty's involvement in the video series, and at one point congratulated an LU student who shared her views on relying on God for future uncertainties.
"Amen, that was beautifully stated and you are exactly right," Lotz told her. "That's one reason why I wanted to hold this on a college campus, to get the viewpoint of someone beginning their life journey."
The book is available at major bookstores across the country and the video series will be made available later this year.
- Lotz and her husband, Dr. Dan Lotz, reside in Raleigh, N.C. For more information about Lotz and her outreach, AnGeL Ministries, view her website.


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[Sr. Director FootJoy Gloves and Accessories] Maria joined the Acushnet Company in 1990 as a FJ Customer Service Rep. She has held almost every job for the FootJoy brand, Product Manager of Footwear, Sr Marketing Manager of Titleist/FootJoy Gloves, Director of Marketing for FJ Gloves, Socks and Outerwear and now currently Sr.Director of FootJoy Gloves and Accessories. She wakes up everyday passionate of the FJ brand. More importantly, she is extremely enthusiastic in creating new ideas/concepts for golf gloves and accessories to improve golfers overall performance, feel and look of their game!
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Driver: Titleist 907D2
Irons: Titleist AP2
Putter: Cameron Custom M.B. Putter
Shoes: New DryJoys with Boa Lacing System (among another 35 pair in the closet)
Glove: StaSof, SciFlex among many prototypes for 2009x
[President, FootJoy] Jim brought more than 14 years experience in merchandising and marketing to FootJoy when he joined the company in 1987. Jim began as the Director of Athletic Footwear and quickly ascended through the ranks to the role of Vice President, FootJoy Operations in 1989. Following several additional promotions, he was appointed to his current position of President in 1999 where he is responsible for ensuring the brand continues to build upon it's position as a leader and innovator in the golf industry. A graduate of Ohio University, Jim is an avid runner and Porsche enthusiast.
In the Bag:
Driver: King Cobra L4V driver
Hybrid: Cobra Baffler 20.0, 23.0
Irons: King Cobra UPi (Korea prototype of UFi, Vokey 56
Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport2
Ball: Pro V1
Shoes: ReelFit
Glove: FJ StaSof
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Kenny joined Team FJ in 2000 after graduating High School. He began his FJ career as a warehouse specialist before his transition to FJ's customer service team in 2004. Having recently moved into his current position as Web Content Coordinator, on FootJoy.com, Kenny works closely with the interactive marketing team to produce appealing content for FootJoy's global websites and interactive advertising campaigns.
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Driver: Cobra S9-1
Fairway: Cobra Speed LDF 15.5
Hybrid: Titleist 909H
Irons: Titleist AP1, Vokey 54, 60
Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio - Newport II
Ball: Pro V1
Shoes: ReelFit
Glove: FJ SciFlex
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Driver: Titleist D2 8.5 degrees/Speeder shaft
3 Wood: Cobra Speed LDF 15.5
Hybrid: Cobra Baffler 18.0
Irons: Titleist AP1, Vokey54, Vokey 60
Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio - Newport II
Ball: Pro V1x
Shoes: DryJoys, ReelFit, Classics Dry Premiere (Shield Tips), SYNR-G prototypes
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Driver: King Cobra L4V F/Speed driver
Hybrid: Cobra Baffler 20.0
Irons: King Cobra FP irons, Vokey 52, Vokey SM 58
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Phase III Study of Rindopepimut/GM-CSF in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma (ACT IV)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01480479
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 29, 2011
Last Update Posted : January 16, 2018
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This 2-arm, randomized, phase III study will investigate the efficacy and safety of the addition of rindopepimut (an experimental cancer vaccine that may act to promote anti-cancer effects in patients who have tumors that express the EGFRvIII protein) to the current standard of care (temozolomide) in patients with recently diagnosed glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer.
All patients will be administered temozolomide, the standard treatment for glioblastoma. Half the patients will be randomly assigned to receive rindopepimut and half the patients will be randomly assigned to receive a control called keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
Patients will be treated in a blinded fashion (neither the patient or the doctor will know which arm of the study the patient is on). Patients will be treated until disease progression or intolerance to therapy and all patients will be followed for survival.
|Condition or disease
|Glioblastoma Small Cell Glioblastoma Giant Cell Glioblastoma Gliosarcoma Glioblastoma With Oligodendroglial Component
|Drug: Rindopepimut (CDX-110) with GM-CSF Drug: Temozolomide Drug: KLH
|Phase 3
The purpose of this research study is to find out whether adding an experimental vaccine called rindopepimut (also known as CDX-110) to the commonly used chemotherapy drug temozolomide can help improve the life expectancy of patients with newly diagnosed, resected EGFRvIII positive glioblastoma.
The duration of participation in this study may be up to 5 years. After you are screened and enrolled in the study, you will be administered temozolomide and either rindopepimut/GM-CSF or KLH until either disease progression or intolerance to the medications. If your tumor progresses while on this study, your doctor may treat you with other therapies that are not part of the study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|745 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An International, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study of Rindopepimut/GM-CSF With Adjuvant Temozolomide in Patients With Newly Diagnosed, Surgically Resected, EGFRvIII-positive Glioblastoma
|Study Start Date :
|November 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2016
|Experimental: Rindopepimut/GM-CSF plus Temozolomide
Drug: Rindopepimut (CDX-110) with GM-CSF
Two intradermal injections two weeks apart, followed by monthly injections until tumor progression or intolerance.
Each dose will be 0.8 mL containing approximately 500 mcg CDX-110 and 150 mcg GM CSF.
Other Name: CDX-110 with sargramostim (GM-CSF) (Leukine®)
Drug: Temozolomide
150 to 200 mg/m2 for 5 days during each 28-day cycle for a minimum of six cycles or a maximum of 12 cycles, or until intolerance or progression.
Other Names:
|Active Comparator: KLH plus Temozolomide
Drug: Temozolomide
150 to 200 mg/m2 for 5 days during each 28-day cycle for a minimum of six cycles or a maximum of 12 cycles, or until intolerance or progression.
Other Names:
Drug: KLH
Two intradermal injections two weeks apart, followed by monthly injections until tumor progression or intolerance. Each dose will be 0.8mL containing approximately 100mcg of KLH.
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: During treatment and every three months from end of treatment through end of study or approximately up to 5 years. ]The primary efficacy endpoint of Overall Survival is defined as the number of months from randomization to the date of death (whatever the cause), and will be censored for patients who remain alive at completion of the study for patients with a gross total resection (~n=374). The overall survival of patients will be monitored and compared between the two study arms until the end of the study.
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Every 12 weeks from Day 1 through progression or initiation of other anti-cancer therapy ]Compare progression-free survival between the two treatment arms
- Safety and Tolerability [ Time Frame: Until day 28 of follow up ]Safety and tolerability will be measured by comparing the two arms in regards to vital sign measurement, physical and neurological examination, adverse events reporting, ECOG performance status, and EORTC core Quality of Life Questionnaire
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria-
Among other criteria, patients must meet the following conditions to be eligible for the study:
- Adult patients, ≥ 18 years old
- Newly diagnosed glioblastoma
- Attempted surgical resection followed by conventional chemoradiation
- Documented EGFRvIII positive tumor status by a Sponsor designated laboratory
- No evidence of progressive disease from the post-operative period to the post-chemoradiation period
- Candidate for, and agrees to receive, adjuvant (maintenance) temozolomide therapy
- Systemic corticosteroid therapy at ≤2 mg of dexamethasone or equivalent per day for at least 3 days prior to randomization
- WHO-ECOG Performance Status ≤ 2
- Patients of childbearing/reproductive potential will be instructed to use birth control as defined by your doctor.
Exclusion Criteria-
Among other criteria, patients who meet the following conditions are NOT eligible for the study:
- Stereotactic biopsy only (without further surgical resection)
- Presence of diffuse leptomeningeal disease, gliomatosis cerebri, or infratentorial disease.
- History, presence, or suspicion of metastatic disease
- Patients who have received any additional treatment for glioblastoma, aside from surgical resection and chemoradiation with temozolomide
- Active systemic infection requiring treatment
- History of any malignancy (other than glioblastoma) during the last three years except non-melanoma skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, treated superficial bladder cancer, cured, early-stage prostate cancer in a patient with PSA level less than ULN,or other carcinoma in situ that has been adequately treated and cured.
- Planned major surgery
- Evidence of current drug or alcohol abuse
- Known allergy or hypersensitivity to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), GM-CSF (sargramostim; LEUKINE®), polysorbate 80 or yeast derived products, or a history of anaphylactic reactions to shellfish proteins
- Severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality that could increase the risk associated with participating in a clinical trial
- Women who are pregnant or lactating
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01480479
|United States, Alabama
|University of Alabama at Birmingham
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute
|Mobile, Alabama, United States, 36604
|United States, Arizona
|Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
|Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85013
|University of Arizona Health Network
|Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
|United States, Arkansas
|University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72205
|United States, California
|City of Hope Cancer Center
|Duarte, California, United States, 91010
|UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
|La Jolla, California, United States, 92093
|USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Orange, California, United States, 92868
|Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City Medical Center
|Redwood City, California, United States, 94063
|University of California, Davis
|Sacramento, California, United States, 95817
|University of California, San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
|Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University
|Stanford, California, United States, 94305
|United States, Connecticut
|Hartford Hospital
|Hartford, Connecticut, United States, 06102
|Yale University Medical Center
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
|United States, Delaware
|Christiana Care Health Services
|Newark, Delaware, United States, 19713
|United States, Florida
|University of Florida
|Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32611
|Mount Sinai Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33140
|MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32806
|Tampa General Hospital
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606
|United States, Georgia
|Atlanta Cancer Care
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30005
|Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|Georgia Regents University
|Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30912
|United States, Hawaii
|Kaiser Permanente Hawaii Moanalua Medical Center
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96819
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Rush University Medical Center
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|University of Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
|North Shore University Health System
|Evanston, Illinois, United States, 60201
|Loyola University Medical Center
|Maywood, Illinois, United States, 60153
|United States, Iowa
|Covenant Clinic / Iowa Spine and Brain Institute
|Waterloo, Iowa, United States, 50702
|United States, Kentucky
|University of Kentucky
|Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536-0093
|Norton Cancer Institute
|Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202
|United States, Louisiana
|Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
|Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809
|LSU Health Sciences Center, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center
|Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, 71103
|United States, Maryland
|Anne Arundel Medical Center
|Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 21401
|Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231
|Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, PC
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20817
|United States, Massachusetts
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Mass General Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
|Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655
|United States, Michigan
|University of Michigan Health System
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109
|Edward W. Sparrow Hospital Association - Sparrow Regional Cancer Center
|Lansing, Michigan, United States, 48912
|St. Mary's of Michigan Medical Center/Field Neurosciences Institute
|Saginaw, Michigan, United States, 48604
|United States, Minnesota
|Allina Health, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, John Nasseff Neuroscience Institute
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55407
|United States, Missouri
|Ellis Fischel Cancer Center
|Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65203
|Washington University in St. Louis
|Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, Nebraska
|Southeast Nebraska Cancer Center
|Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68510
|United States, New Hampshire
|Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
|Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756
|United States, New Jersey
|New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center
|Edison, New Jersey, United States, 08818
|John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center
|Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, 07601
|Monmouth Medical Center
|Long Branch, New Jersey, United States, 07740
|United States, New York
|Dent Neurosciences Research Institute
|Amherst, New York, United States, 14226
|Montefiore Medical Center
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10467
|New York Methodist Hospital
|Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11215
|The Long Island Brain Tumor Center at Neurology Surgery, P.C.
|Great Neck, New York, United States, 11021
|North Shore University Hospital
|Manhasset, New York, United States, 11030-3186
|Columbia University Medical Center - The Neurologic Institute of New York
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Weill Cornell Medical College
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|University of Rochester Medical Center
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|SUNY Upstate Medical University
|Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
|Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York
|White Plains, New York, United States, 10604
|United States, North Carolina
|The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
|Wake Forest Baptist Health
|Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157
|United States, Ohio
|University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45267
|University Hospitals, Case Medical Center (Cleveland)
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106
|Cleveland Clinic Foundation
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|Ohio State University
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
|United States, Oregon
|Providence Portland Medical Center, Oncology & Hematology Care
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97213
|Pacific Neurosurgical
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97227
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Lehigh Valley Physician Group-Hematology-Oncology Associates
|Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, 18103
|University of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Temple University Hospital
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19140
|West Penn. Allegheny Health System
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15212
|University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232
|United States, South Carolina
|Medical University of South Carolina - Department of Neuroscience
|Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29425
|United States, Tennessee
|University of Tennessee Medical Center - Knoxville
|Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37920
|Sarah Cannon Research Institute
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
|Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|United States, Texas
|Texas Oncology Midtwon
|Austin, Texas, United States, 78705
|Baylor Research Institute
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75246
|The Methodist Neurological Institute
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|United States, Utah
|University of Utah Department of Neurosurgery
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
|United States, Vermont
|Fletcher Allen Health Care
|Burlington, Vermont, United States, 05405
|United States, Virginia
|University of Virginia Healthcare System
|Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908
|United States, Washington
|Swedish Neuroscience Institute
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122
|University of Washington Medical Center
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98195
|United States, Wisconsin
|University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792
|Medical College of Wisconsin
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
|Australia, New South Wales
|Prince of Wales Hospital
|Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 2031
|Royal North Shore Hospital
|St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, 2605
|The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital
|Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, 2145
|Australia, Queensland
|Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
|Herston, Queensland, Australia, 4029
|Mater Adult Hospital, Mater Misericordiae Health Services Brisbane Limited
|South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4101
|Australia, South Australia
|Royal Adelaide Hospital
|Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5000
|Calvary North Adelaide Hospital
|North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5006
|Australia, Tasmania
|Royal Hobart Hospital
|Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7000
|Launceston General Hospital
|Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 7250
|Australia, Victoria
|Monash Medical Centre
|Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 3199
|Austin Health
|Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 3084
|Epworth Healthcare
|Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 3121
|Australia, Western Australia
|Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
|Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, 06008
|Liverpool Hospital
|Liverpool, Australia, 2107
|Medical University Innsbruck, Dept of Neurology, Anichstrabe 35
|Innsbruck, Austria, 6020
|Medizinische Universität Wien, Innere Medizin I, Onkologie
|Vienna, Austria, 1090
|Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen
|Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium, 2650
|ZNA Middelheim
|Antwerpen, Belgium, B-2020
|Ghent University Hospital
|Ghent, Belgium, 9000
|Hospital Mae de Deus-Centro de Pesquisa em Oncologia Clinica
|Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil, 90840-440
|Centro de Pesquisas Clinicas da Fundação Dr Amaral Carvalho
|Jaú, São Paulo, Brazil, 17210-120
|Fundação Faculdade Regional de Medicina de de São José do Rio Preto - Hospital de Base
|São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 15090-000
|Instituto Nacional do Cancer (INCA)
|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20231-050
|Hospital Albert Einstein
|Sao Paulo, Brazil, 05652-900
|Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo - ICESP
|São Paulo, Brazil, 01246-000
|Real e Benemerita Associação Portuguesa de Beneficiência/ Hospital São José
|São Paulo, Brazil, 01321-001
|Hospital A C Camargo
|São Paulo, Brazil, 01509-900
|Canada, Alberta
|Foothills Hospital Medical Centre
|Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T3J 5N6
|Canada, British Columbia
|British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver Clinic
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 4E6
|BC Cancer Agency - Vancouver Island Centre
|Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8X 4V6
|Canada, Manitoba
|University of Manitoba-Cancer Care Manitoba
|Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E0V9
|Canada, Nova Scotia
|QEII Health Sciences Centre
|Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1V7
|Canada, Ontario
|Juravinski Cancer Centre
|Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8V 5C2
|London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre
|London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4L6
|Ottawa Hospital, Regional Cancer Centre
|Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8L6
|Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N3M5
|Canada, Quebec
|Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal (CHUM) - Hopital Notre-Dame
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2L 4M1
|Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
|CHUS Hôpital Fleurimont
|Shenbrooke, Quebec, Canada, J1H5N4
|CHUQ L'Hotel Dieu de Qujebec
|Quebec, Canada, G1R 2J6
|Fundacion Santa Fe
|Bogota, Bogota D.C, Colombia, 000
|Hospital Ceske Budejovice
|Ceske Budejovice, Czechia, 370 01
|Umiversity Hospital (Fakultni Nemocnice)
|Prague, Czechia, 150 06
|Hospital Na Homolce
|Prague, Czechia, 150 30
|Multiscan s.r.o.
|Praha 5, Czechia, 155-00
|Masaryk´s Hospital Usti nad Labem
|Usti nad Labem, Czechia, 401-13
|Institut de Cancerologie de I'Quest-Paul Papin
|Angers, France, 49933
|Institute Bergonie
|Bordeaux, France, 33076
|Centre Leon Berard de Lyon
|Lyon, France, 69373
|ICM Val d'Aurel Montpellier
|Montpellier, France, 342298
|Institut de Cancerologie de L'Quest-Center Rane Gauducheau
|Nantes, France, 44805
|Service de Neurologie-GH
|Paris, France, 75013
|Centre Eugene Marquis
|Rennes, France, 35042
|Institut de Cancerologie de l'ouest-Center Rene Gauducheau
|St Herblain, France, 44805
|Institut Gustave Roussy
|Villejuif, France, 94805
|Klinik und Poliklinik fur Neurologie der Universitat Regensburg
|Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, 93053
|Strahlenklinik Universitatsklinikum Erlangen
|Erlangen, Germany, D-91054
|Dr. Senchkenbergisches Institut fur Neuroonkologie
|Frankfurt, Germany, D-60528
|University Hospital Hamburg Kopf und Neurozentrum
|Hamburg, Germany, 20246
|Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg, Neurologische Klinik, IM Neuenheimer Feld 672
|Heidelberg, Germany, 69120
|University Medical Centre
|Kiel, Germany, 24105
|Universitaetsklinikum Muenster
|Muenster, Germany, 48149
|LMU Munich
|Munich, Germany, D-81377
|Athens, Attiki, Greece, 11521
|"HYGEIA" Hospital
|Marousi, District Of Attica, Greece, 151 23
|Országos Onkológiai Intézet Sugárterápiás Osztály
|Budapest, Hungary, 1122
|Debreceni Egyetem Orvos- és Egészségtudományi Centrum Onkológiai Intézet
|Debrecen, Hungary, 4032
|Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Megyei Kórház és Egyetemi Oktató Kórház, Sugárterápiás Osztály
|Miskolc, Hungary, 3526
|Pécsi Tudományegyetem Általános Orvostudományi Kar
|Pécs, Hungary, 7624
|Szegedi Tudományegyetem Onkoterápiás Klinika
|Szeged, Hungary, 6720
|Vas Megyei Markusovszky Lajos Általános Rehabilitációs és Gyógyfürdő Kórház, Egyetemi Oktatókórház Nonprofit Zrt
|Szombathely, Hungary, 9700
|City Cancer Centre, Vijayawada
|Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India, 520002
|HCG - Bangalore Institute of Oncology, Bangalore
|Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 560027
|Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi
|Kochi, Kerala, India, 682 026
|Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
|Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 695 011
|Marathwada Regional Cancer Centre and Research Institute - Government
|Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, 431001
|Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute
|Andheri-West, Mumbai, India, 400 053
|Tata Memorial Hospital , Mumbai
|Parel, Mumbai, India, 400012
|Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
|Jasola Viha, New Delhi, India, 110076
|Sahyadri Hospitals Limited
|Erandauame, Pune, India, 411004
|Dr. Rai Memorial Medical Centre, Chennai
|Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600018
|HCG Shanti Mukand Hospital - Curie Cancer Centre, Delhi
|Delhi, India, 110092
|Soroka University M.C.
|Beer-Sheva, Israel, 84101
|Rambam Health Care Campus
|Haifa, Israel, 3109601
|Hadassah Medical Center
|Jerusalem, Israel, 91120
|SHEBA Medical Center
|Tel Hashomer, Israel, 52126
|Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
|Tel-Aviv, Israel, 64239
|UO Oncologie Medica Dipartimento Oncologico
|Bologna, Italy, 40139
|Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
|Milano, Italy, 20133
|Sacred Heart Catholic University
|Rome, Italy, 00168
|Universita e AO Citta delia Scienza, Universita Di Torino
|Torino, Italy, 10126
|Grupo Médico Camino S.C.
|Mexico, D.F, Mexico, 03310
|Hospital Civil de Guadalajara "Fray Antonio Alcalde"
|Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 34000
|Ensayos Clínicos y Medicina de Alta Especialidad, S.C.
|Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, 80020
|Servicios Medicos de Investigacion Clinica Sc
|Durango, Mexico, 34000
|Hospital Central "Ignacio Morones Prieto"
|San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 78240
|Medisch Centrum Haaglanden
|The Hague, Zuid Holland, Netherlands, 2512 VA
|Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1081HV
|Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center
|Nijmegen, Netherlands, 6525 GA
|New Zealand
|Christchurch Hospital
|Christchurch Central, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8011
|Palmerston North Hospital
|Roslyn, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 4414
|Waikato Hospital, Regional Cancer Centre
|Hamilton, Waikato District, New Zealand, 3240
|Waikato Hospital, Regional Cancer Center
|Hamilton, Waikato Distric, New Zealand, 3240
|Hospital Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
|Chiclayo, Peru
|Instituto Oncologico Miraflores
|Lima, Peru, Lima 18
|Clinica Anglo Americana
|Lima, Peru, Lima 27
|Clinica Ricardo Palma
|Lima, Peru, Lima 27
|Lima, Peru, Lima 41
|Institut Catala d Oncologia
|LaHospitalet De Lubregat, Catalonia, Spain, 08908
|Dra. Sonia Del Barco Berron, ICO Girona Avda,
|Franca, Girona, Spain, 17007
|Hospital Clinic
|Barcelona, Spain, 8036
|ICO Badalona-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol
|Barcelonia, Spain, 08916
|Hospital 12 de Octubre
|Madrid, Spain, 28041
|Kantonsspital Aarau Medizinische Onkologie Tellstrasse
|Aarau, AG, Switzerland, 5001
|CHUV, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
|Lausanne, VD, Switzerland, 1011
|Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI)
|Bellinzona, Switzerland, 6500
|Inselspital, Universitatsspital Bern, Universitatsklinik fur Medizinische Onkologie, Freiburgstrasse
|Bern, Switzerland, 3010
|Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve-HUG-Centre d'Oncologie
|Geneva, Switzerland, 1211
|Brain Tumor Center, University Hospital Zurich
|Zurich, Switzerland, 8091
|National Cheng Kung University Hospital
|Tainan City, Bei District, Taiwan, 704
|Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
|Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301
|Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Branch
|Taichung, Taiwan, 40705
|Taichung Veterans General Hospital
|Taichung, Taiwan, 40705
|Chi Mei Medical Center
|Tainan City - Yongkang District, Taiwan, 710
|Tri-Service General Hospital
|Taipei city - Neihu District, Taiwan, 00114
|Siriraj Hospital
|Bangkoknoi, Bangkok, Thailand, 10700
|King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
|Patumwan, Bankok, Thailand, 10330
|Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital
|Amphoe Muang, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 50200
|Songkhlanagarind Hospital
|Hat Yai, Songkla, Thailand, 90110
|United Kingdom
|Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
|Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom, SM2 5PT
|The Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre
|Bristol, United Kingdom, BS2 8ED
|Edinburgh Cancer Centre Western General Hospital
|Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH4 2XU
|Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centrel
|Glasgow, United Kingdom, G12 0NY
|Guy's and St Thomas' NHS, Westminister Bridge Road
|London, United Kingdom, SE17EH
|Nottingham City Hospital
|Nottingham, United Kingdom, NG5 1PB
|Responsible Party:
|Celldex Therapeutics
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|November 29, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 16, 2018
|Last Verified:
|April 2017
Small cell
Giant cell
Brain Cancer
Brain Tumor
EGFR variant III
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological