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Analysts: Public outlook on Syria ignores inconvenient truths
At a public talk this month, a European Union official eschewed the bland language of diplomacy and told some hard truths about Syria: that the West had ignored Arab leaders' warnings that President Bashar Assad wouldn't go easily, that the opposition is in no shape to negotiate and that humanitarian aid reaches only a fraction of the needy.
"Wishful thinking harms people," warned Kristalina Georgieva, the EU commissioner for international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, speaking at the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington. "Because of wishful thinking, people die."
Yet blunt assessments of the situation in Syria are still rare in Washington, where Obama administration officials cling to the dream that a moderate opposition can coalesce, beat back al Qaida extremists and shape Syria into a pluralistic democracy after Assad exits via a negotiated transition.
In reality, none of the ground conditions for such an outcome are in place, according to analysts who monitor the country's civil war, which is in its third year with a death toll of more than 115,000. And with al Qaida and other militant Islamists dominating the rebel side, it's unclear whether there's even the political will anymore to see the opposition carry out the stated U.S. policy goal of toppling Assad.
"Anyone paying attention to the rise of radicals has to be coming to these conclusions. Assad is better for America than a jihadist win," said Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of the blog Syria Comment.
Though U.S. officials privately acknowledge many of the obstacles that Georgieva raised in her talk, there's little such discussion in public. At White House and State Department briefings, in congressional hearings and at think tank events, U.S. officials keep pushing a message that the Syrian opposition is becoming more unified, moderate forces will prevail and Assad must go. There's seldom an answer to the crucial question of who or what would replace him.
Day after day, the State Department gives updates on preparations for a long-delayed peace conference in Geneva, even though opposition leaders have said they won't attend.
Even if they were to show, they'd be representing shell organizations with little sway in the conflict. The civilian Syrian Opposition Coalition never had much constituency in the country, and the armed Supreme Military Command has seen its fighting core drift away this month to join Islamist rebel alliances.
And, of course, Assad rejects the very objective of such an undertaking – his departure – so there's little reason to expect negotiations on that topic, especially now that the regime is once again in the pole position as the rebels turn against one another and Washington takes military intervention off the table as long as a deal to remove chemical weapons holds.
Nevertheless, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the so-called "Geneva 2" conference will be in mid-November, and would be based on principles that were agreed to at a first Geneva gathering in June 2012. The same old sticking point remains: The opposition won't go unless Assad's departure is a precondition; the regime rejects any such preconditions.
At times, the U.S. administration's talking points seem so at odds with reality that exasperated journalists have taken to challenging them in tense exchanges.
At Thursday's State Department briefing, print and television journalists shredded U.S. policy on Syria, demanding to know how there could be plans for Geneva when the opposition, in the journalists' words, "is just in complete free-fall, complete collapse" and "the outcome is already handicapped" by Assad's refusal to step down.
Even if the Geneva summit did come to fruition, an Arab newspaper columnist chimed in, any deal brokered by the political opposition would be "nixed by those who are really effective on the ground, which control territory and have the guns and so on."
"We're not naive about how challenging it is," Psaki said. "But still, given the choices, this remains the best option."
Analysts of the Syrian conflict say the problem isn't so much naivete as a willful blindness. The U.S. strategic interest in Syria has narrowed to chemical weapons, and virtually every public opinion poll on the topic of Syria finds that the American public doesn't want any deeper commitment. That seems to be fine with President Barack Obama, who's refused to get dragged into a new Middle East conflict as the U.S. disentangles from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama's reluctance to wade into Syria has ripple effects across the Atlantic, where European nations might have more open debates on the conflict but "don't lead, either," said Volker Perthes, the director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
"Mostly, we've seen parliaments looking at what Russia and the United States are doing, then wondering how they should react," Perthes said.
Like the United States, he added, Europe doesn't see any obvious solution to the crisis and feels safe acting only on the chemical weapons issue: "It's embarrassing us all. We don't really know what to do about it."
Even the EU commissioner Georgieva, for all her outspokenness, conceded there was no clear-cut solution. She advocated being more inclusive of Assad's close ally Iran in international discussions, suggested using Syria's frozen assets to help pay for humanitarian relief for the millions of people displaced by the conflict and urged a cease-fire so that chemical weapons inspectors and humanitarian workers can do their jobs more safely.
While Georgieva couldn't offer a blueprint for a broader political solution – and she pointed out that it's not her job, as a humanitarian advocate – she emphasized that the starting point must be a "realistic assessment" of the conflict and a sober look at the unintended consequences of any international involvement.
Her remarks were so frank that the moderator, Leila Hilal, a Syrian-American scholar who's the director of New America's Middle East Task Force, felt compelled to thank her for her "candid comments," particularly on the magnitude and challenges of the humanitarian crisis.
"So many people came away from that event saying, 'I wish U.S. politicians talked like her,' " Hilal said later.
Matthew Schofield contributed to this article from Berlin.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith has announced the addition of three incoming freshmen to the Crimson's roster for 2012-13; AnnMarie Healy, Kit Metoyer and Shilpa Tummala. The group, which includes Harvard's second ESPN Top 100 Recruit, has won a combined three state championships and eight conference championships, and has garnered four all-state and nine all-conference accolades.
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AnnMarie Healy, 6-1, Forward, Edina, Minn.
Two-time captain, four-year letterwinner … Led Providence Academy to the Minnesota State Championship as a senior and to a fourth-place finish as a junior … Also captured conference championships as a junior and senior … Named all-state as a senior and all-state honorable mention as a junior … Earned all-conference and all-section accolades three straight years, and was named to the Minnesota State All-Tournament Team twice … Career 1,000 point scorer … Also earned varsity letters in soccer (4) and track and field (3) … Led the soccer team in scoring four straight years and was named First Team All-State as a junior … Named Tri-Metro Conference Player of the Year in soccer as a junior and senior, and named all-conference four straight years … Helped the track and field team to conference championships as a sophomore and junior … Placed third in the 200 meter dash at the State Championships as a sophomore and took second in the 400 meter dash as a junior … Named Tri-Metro Conference Athlete of the Year, all-conference and team MVP in track as a sophomore and junior … Member of the National Honor Society … Awarded the 2011 Notre Dame Club of Minnesota Spirit and Spirituality Award … Has volunteered with the Missionaries of Charity for six years … Also enjoys skiing.
Head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith on Healy
"AnnMarie comes out of a great program and a great basketball state with a wealth of knowledge and athleticism. We are excited to have that kind of versatility in the program."
Kit Metoyer, 5-10, Guard, Houston, Texas
Two-time captain, four-year letterwinner … Led Cypress Falls High School to a 75-4 record in her final two seasons, including the first two State Tournament appearances in the school's history … Team finished the 2010-11 season ranked 13th in the nation by USA Today … Won back-to-back district championships as a junior and senior and 40 straight games at home … Cypress Falls finished as the top three-point shooting team in Texas each of her last two years … Named academic all-state, all-region and the Spring Branch Tournament MVP as a junior and senior … Four-time all-district selection … Also named to the All-Greater Houston Team and McDonald's Invitational All-Tournament Team … Set the school record for varsity games played and named the team's Most Outstanding Three-Point Shooter … Member of the National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society and the Principal's Gold Club.
Head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith on Metoyer
"Kit is a point guard who will help fill Brogan Berry's shoes. She is a great passer as well as a deadly three-point shooter which will give us a lot of flexibility in the one and two guard positions."
Shilpa Tummala, 5-11, Guard, Phoenix, Ariz.
Two-time captain, four-year letterwinner … St. Mary's High School finished the 2011-12 season with a perfect 30-0 record and ranked as the No. 1 team in the country by ESPN, USA Today and Maxpreps … Led her team to state championships as a junior and senior, and runner-up finishes as a freshman and sophomore … Won four straight Desert Valley Region Championships and team finished ranked in the ESPN top 50 three straight years … Team won the 2012 Nike Tournament of Champions and was invited to play in the highest division three times … St. Mary's was awarded the Team Scholar-Athletes Award three straight years … Never lost a game at home … Ranked No. 68 in ESPN's top-100 and No. 27 at her position … Invited to compete in the 2012 USA Basketball U18 National Team Trials … Took second in the National High School Three-Point Shooting Competition at the 2012 NCAA Men's Final Four … McDonald's All-America Nominee … Invited to the USA U18 National Team Trials and participated in the U16 National Team Trials … Named the 2012 Arizona Gatorade Girl's Basketball Player of the Year and was a Wendy's High School Heisman state finalist … Also named the Arizona Basketball Coaches Association Player of the Year and Arizona Preps Player of the Year as a senior … Two-time all-state and four-time all-region selection … Named the 2012 Nike Tournament of Champions Most Outstanding Player … Four-time recipient of the Scholar-Athlete Award and four-time selection to the First Honors Honor Roll … Member of the National Honor Society, National English Honor Society and Key Club … Four-year officer on Student Council … President of the Literature Club … Served as the head of the Blood Drive Committee for two years and helped develop the Retirement of Athletic Jerseys Committee as a senior.
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"Shilpa comes to Harvard with a very impressive resume. She is a strong, athletic guard who has made her mark nationally as a three-point shooter, but is also known for her incredible passing ability."


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We all love the movies. And why not? At their best, motion pictures can thrill us, move us, make us laugh, shock us, terrify us—in short, they offer up a vision of life that, distilled into 120 minutes or so, can make our own existence seem pretty drab by comparison.
Take The Lone Ranger, for example. As seen in several films, including the most recent, enormously hyped and critically slammed version from Disney, every minute of every day in the world of the masked do-gooder is filled with danger, cartoonish violence, repartee, clear moral choices, outrageous stunts and (of course) romance. We sit in the dark and watch, marveling—or sometimes not so much—at the derring-do unfolding in front of us, all the while not-so-secretly wishing that our own days and nights witnessed even a shadow of such excitement.
[Read Richard Corliss' lukewarm review of the Depp-Hammer movie]
But it's worth remembering that, like more than a few pop-culture icons, the Lone Ranger was born not on the silver (or the small) screen, but in the imagination of a man who wrote for that most democratic of early-20th-century mass technologies: the radio. Eighty years ago, in 1933, with the unmistakable thunder of the William Tell Overture pounding from the speaker and a stirring shout of "Hi-yo, Silver! Away!" the indelible hero—the creation of radio station-owner George Trendle and writer Fran Striker—made his debut on Detroit's WXYZ radio. Soon the Lone Ranger joined legends of the Golden Age of Radio like Lamont Cranston (the Shadow), the Green Hornet, Burns and Allen and other fictional and real-life figures as indispensable stars in the imaginative firmament of a nation.
The marvelous photo above, meanwhile, of actor Earle Graser inhabiting the role of the Lone Ranger (and wearing a mask, rumor had it, in order to "hide" from his legions of young fans when away from the microphone) suggests something elemental and profoundly appealing about radio that is quite simply lost when a title transfers to the screen. Namely, that the listener is gently but inexorably forced to pay attention to a radio play, bringing far more of his or her own imagination to bear on the entertainment than any of us are ever asked to bring to a movie theater.
We might feel engaged in a movie, but we can never, ever close our eyes and allow ourselves to be swept up in the narrative. For lack of better terms, the difference between watching a movie and listening to a radio play is the difference between passive enjoyment and active engagement—almost, one might say, participation—in the story itself.
We love movies. We always will. But the magic of radio—embodied by the late, great Earle Graser, alone at the microphone, conjuring an imagined world to life with the power of his voice—reminds us that some adventures play better in the unmeasured landscape of our minds and hearts than on the big screen.
Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com


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Ben Nunery lost his wife Ali to cancer just two years after they got married. The Ohio man wanted to keep the memory of the day they became newlyweds and the home they shared alive, so he decided to re-create their wedding photos with his 3-year old daughter.
In the touching series, Olivia, wearing a pink dress, mimic's her mom's poses and, in one photo, curls her hair, just like her mom did on her wedding day. In another, she poses with her father in a doorway to mirror the photo Ben had once taken with her mother.
Nunery, 34, wrote on his blog that his story isn't "about grief and loss and hurt." "Yes, I've gone through those emotions and still do, but that's not what I want people to see in these photos."
Nunery and his wife bought the Cincinnati house in 2009, a day before their wedding. Ali's sister, Melanie Pace, a professional photographer, took photos of the couple on their wedding day in the empty house.
In 2011, the 31-year-old schoolteacher passed away from a rare form of lung cancer, leaving behind Ben and Olivia.
The home was empty again this year because the Nunerys were moving, so Pace was able to re-create the images of the father and daughter. Nunery, who's also a photographer, thought the photos would help them remember the joyous times they'd shared in the house.
"It immediately brought up memories of being there the first time," Nunery told Today.com. "They were really good memories I cherish and want to remember. In a lot of ways, it felt like Ali was there, and doing that with Olivia I felt a closeness with both of them."
Pace wrote on her blog that she felt her sister's presence during the photo shoot.
"It's almost like she was nudging me along as I was shooting, telling me which places to go and what to use as props," she told Today.com "It was a very overwhelming feeling to have her so close even if she was not physically there."
Nunery said he hopes the photos would help others who have lost a loved one to heal and move on with their life.
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More than 29,000 people came to watch the soccer match between Beijing Guoan and Sanfrecce Hiroshima. The WSJ's Paul Mozur details what it was like to watch the game amid tensions between the two countries from their territorial dispute.
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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
A gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor is cancer that forms in the lining of the gastrointestinal tract.
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is part of the body's digestive system. It helps to digest food, takes nutrients (vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and water) from food to be used by the body and helps pass waste material out of the body. The GI tract is made up of these and other organs:
Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors form in the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, most often in the appendix, small intestine, or rectum.
Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors form from a certain type of neuroendocrine cell (a type of cell that is like a nerve cell and a hormone -making cell). These cells are scattered throughout the chest and abdomen but most are found in the GI tract. Neuroendocrine cells make hormones that help control digestive juices and the muscles used in moving food through the stomach and intestines. A GI carcinoid tumor may also make hormones and release them into the body.
GI carcinoid tumors are rare and most grow very slowly. Most of them occur in the appendix, small intestine, and rectum. Sometimes more than one tumor will form.
See the following PDQ summaries for more information related to GI and other types of carcinoid tumors:
Health history can affect the risk of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors.
Anything that increases a person's chance of developing a disease is called a risk factor. Having a risk factor does not mean that you will get cancer; not having risk factors doesn't mean that you will not get cancer. Talk to your doctor if you think you may be at risk.
Risk factors for GI carcinoid tumors include the following:
Some gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors have no symptoms in the early stages.
The growth of the tumor and/or the hormones the tumor makes may cause symptoms . Some tumors, especially tumors of the stomach or appendix, may not cause symptoms. Carcinoid tumors are often found during tests or treatments for other conditions.
Carcinoid tumors in the small intestine (duodenum, jejunum, and ileum), colon, and rectum sometimes cause symptoms as they grow or because of the hormones they make. Other conditions may cause the same symptoms. Check with your doctor if you have any of the following problems:
Symptoms of GI carcinoid tumors in the duodenum (first part of the small intestine, that connects to the stomach) may include the following:
Symptoms of GI carcinoid tumors in the jejunum (middle part of the small intestine) and ileum (last part of the small intestine, that connects to the colon) may include the following:
Symptoms of GI carcinoid tumors in the colon may include the following:
Symptoms of GI carcinoid tumors in the rectum may include the following:
Carcinoid syndrome may occur if the tumor spreads to the liver or other parts of the body.
The hormones made by gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors are usually destroyed by liver enzymes in the blood. If the tumor has spread to the liver and the liver enzymes cannot destroy the extra hormones made by the tumor, high amounts of these hormones may remain in the body and cause carcinoid syndrome. This can also happen if tumor cells enter the blood. Symptoms of carcinoid syndrome include the following:
These symptoms and others may be caused by gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors or by other conditions. Talk to your doctor if any of these symptoms occur.
Imaging studies and tests that examine the blood and urine are used to detect (find) and diagnose gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors.
The following tests and procedures may be used:
Certain factors affect prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options.
The prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options depend on the following:
After a gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor has been diagnosed, tests are done to find out if cancer cells have spread within the stomach and intestines or to other parts of the body.
Staging is the process used to find out how far the cancer has spread. The information gathered from the staging process determines the stage of the disease. The results of tests and procedures used to diagnose gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors may also be used for staging. See the General Information section for a description of these tests and procedures. A bone scan may be done to check if there are rapidly dividing cells, such as cancer cells, in the bone. A very small amount of radioactive material is injected into a vein and travels through the bloodstream. The radioactive material collects in the bones and is detected by a scanner.
There are three ways that cancer spreads in the body.
The three ways that cancer spreads in the body are:
When cancer cells break away from the primary (original) tumor and travel through the lymph or blood to other places in the body, another (secondary) tumor may form. This process is called metastasis. The secondary (metastatic) tumor is the same type of cancer as the primary tumor. For example, if breast cancer spreads to the bones, the cancer cells in the bones are actually breast cancer cells. The disease is metastatic breast cancer, not bone cancer.
The plan for cancer treatment depends on where the carcinoid tumor is found and whether it can be removed by surgery.
For many cancers it is important to know the stage of the cancer in order to plan treatment. However, the treatment of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors is not based on the stage of the cancer. Treatment depends mainly on whether the tumor can be removed by surgery and if the tumor has spread.
Treatment is based on whether the tumor:
There are different types of treatment for patients with gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors.
Different types of treatment are available for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) carcinoid tumors. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with cancer. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment. Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
Four types of standard treatment are used:
Treatment of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors usually includes surgery. One of the following surgical procedures may be used:
Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells. There are two types of radiation therapy. External radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to send radiation toward the cancer. Internal radiation therapy uses a radioactive substance sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters that are placed directly into or near the cancer. The way the radiation therapy is given depends on the type and stage of the cancer being treated.
Radiopharmaceutical therapy is a type of radiation therapy. Radiation is given to the tumor using a drug that has a radioactive substance, such as iodine I 131, attached to it. The radioactive substance kills the tumor cells.
Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping the cells from dividing. When chemotherapy is taken by mouth or injected into a vein or muscle, the drugs enter the bloodstream and can reach cancer cells throughout the body (systemic chemotherapy). When chemotherapy is placed directly into the cerebrospinal fluid, an organ, or a body cavity such as the abdomen, the drugs mainly affect cancer cells in those areas (regional chemotherapy).
Chemoembolization of the hepatic artery is a type of regional chemotherapy that may be used to treat a gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor that has spread to the liver. The anticancer drug is injected into the hepatic artery through a catheter (thin tube). The drug is mixed with a substance that embolizes (blocks) the artery, and cuts off blood flow to the tumor. Most of the anticancer drug is trapped near the tumor and only a small amount of the drug reaches other parts of the body. The blockage may be temporary or permanent, depending on the substance used to block the artery. The tumor is prevented from getting the oxygen and nutrients it needs to grow. The liver continues to receive blood from the hepatic portal vein, which carries blood from the stomach and intestine.
The way the chemotherapy is given depends on the type and stage of the cancer being treated.
Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy with a somatostatin analogue is a treatment that stops extra hormones from being made. GI carcinoid tumors are treated with octreotide or lanreotide which are injected under the skin or into the muscle. Octreotide and lanreotide may also have a small effect on stopping tumor growth.
Treatment for carcinoid syndrome may also be needed.
Treatment of carcinoid syndrome may include the following:
Other ways to help treat carcinoid syndrome include avoiding things that cause flushing or difficulty breathing such as alcohol, nuts, certain cheeses and foods with capsaicin, such as chili peppers. Avoiding stressful situations and certain types of physical activity can also help treat carcinoid syndrome.
For some patients with carcinoid heart syndrome, a heart valve replacement may be done.
New types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
This summary section describes treatments that are being studied in clinical trials. It may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Targeted therapy
Targeted therapy is a type of treatment that uses drugs or other substances to identify and attack specific cancer cells without harming normal cells. Several types of targeted therapy are being studied in the treatment of GI carcinoid tumors.
Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial.
For some patients, taking part in a clinical trial may be the best treatment choice. Clinical trials are part of the cancer research process. Clinical trials are done to find out if new cancer treatments are safe and effective or better than the standard treatment.
Many of today's standard treatments for cancer are based on earlier clinical trials. Patients who take part in a clinical trial may receive the standard treatment or be among the first to receive a new treatment.
Patients who take part in clinical trials also help improve the way cancer will be treated in the future. Even when clinical trials do not lead to effective new treatments, they often answer important questions and help move research forward.
Patients can enter clinical trials before, during, or after starting their cancer treatment.
Some clinical trials only include patients who have not yet received treatment. Other trials test treatments for patients whose cancer has not gotten better. There are also clinical trials that test new ways to stop cancer from recurring (coming back) or reduce the side effects of cancer treatment.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. See the Treatment Options section that follows for links to current treatment clinical trials. These have been retrieved from NCI's listing of clinical trials.
Follow-up tests may be needed.
Some of the tests that were done to diagnose the cancer or to find out the stage of the cancer may be repeated. Some tests will be repeated in order to see how well the treatment is working. Decisions about whether to continue, change, or stop treatment may be based on the results of these tests. This is sometimes called re-staging.
Some of the tests will continue to be done from time to time after treatment has ended. The results of these tests can show if your condition has changed or if the cancer has recurred (come back). These tests are sometimes called follow-up tests or check-ups.
A link to a list of current clinical trials is included for each treatment section. For some types or stages of cancer, there may not be any trials listed. Check with your doctor for clinical trials that are not listed here but may be right for you.
Carcinoid Tumors in the Stomach
Treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) carcinoid tumors in the stomach may include the following:
For patients with GI carcinoid tumors in the stomach and MEN1 syndrome, treatment may also include:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with localized gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor and regional gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Carcinoid Tumors in the Small Intestine
It is not clear what the best treatment is for GI carcinoid tumors in the duodenum (first part of the small intestine, that connects to the stomach). Treatment may include the following:
Treatment of GI carcinoid tumors in the jejunum (middle part of the small intestine) and ileum (last part of the small intestine, that connects to the colon) may include the following:
Carcinoid Tumors in the Appendix
Treatment of GI carcinoid tumors in the appendix may include the following:
Carcinoid Tumors in the Colon
Treatment of GI carcinoid tumors in the colon may include the following:
Carcinoid Tumors in the Rectum
Treatment of GI carcinoid tumors in the rectum may include the following:
Metastatic Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumors
Distant metastases
Treatment of distant metastases of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors is usually palliative therapy to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life. Treatment may include the following:
Liver metastases
Treatment of cancer that has spread to the liver may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with metastatic gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Recurrent Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumors
Treatment of recurrent gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
For more information from the National Cancer Institute about gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors, see the following:
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Author Pat Cadigan tells NPR how she and her friend concocted a fantasy life in the 1960s, in which they were twins from Venus, in charge of the entire solar system. But they still found time to advise the Beatles.
You never know how people are going to react after watching The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Beatles in Space image by Michael Gillette, via Lost at E Minor. [NPR]


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Jonathan Adler is now synonymous with the irreverent designs — pottery, housewares, furniture and beyond — that he sells around the world, but it all started with a college professor who didn't believe in him. After receiving discouraging feedback about his ambitions to be a potter, Adler wandered around New York City doing odd jobs that usually ended with him getting fired. After some soul-searching, Adler returned to his true love, pottery, and learned the value of ignoring the expectations of others and following your dream. Here, he injects his trademark wit while sharing how he found his underlying message of "irreverent luxury" as his business evolved from pottery to pillows to rooms.Adler preaches that we should keep other people's opinions out of our creative process and attributes his success to his disdain of focus groups and feedback.
Seventeen years ago, a little-known potter named Jonathan Adler was thrilled to receive his first order from Barneys New York. He couldn't have dreamed that today, in 2012, he would lead an international design company offering decorative accessories, tabletop collections, bedding, furniture, rugs, pillows, lighting, and fabrics, all featuring Jonathan's signature Modernist forms, bold colors and groovy graphics. Jonathan is obsessed with creating beautiful design mixed with impeccable craftsmanship. His motto is "If your heirs won't fight over it, we won't make it."


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Under the Silver Lake
Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment's swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels. '
Superfly - the film that helped define a genre in its characters, look, sound, and feel - is reimagined with Director X, director of legendary music videos (Drake, Rihanna), introducing it to a new generation.'
For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they've been playing since the first grade—risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down with the battle cry: "You're It!" This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they're coming...and he's ready.'
Incredibles 2
Everyone's favorite family of superheroes is back in "Incredibles 2" – but this time Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell) and Dash (voice of Huck Milner) to navigate the day-to-day heroics of "normal" life. It's a tough transistion for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack's emerging superpowers. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again—which is easier said than done, even when they're all Incredible.'
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Won't You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America's favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this emotional and moving film takes us beyond the zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart of a creative genius who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination. '
Hearts Beat Loud
In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father and daughter become an unlikely songwriting duo in the last summer before she leaves for college.'
Ocean's Eight
The tide has turned and it's a whole new "Ocean's" when eight women plan and execute a heist in New York. Oscar winner Sandra Bullock stars in the title role, alongside Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, with Rihanna and Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross is directing.'
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell. '
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
It's been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who's still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times. With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before. Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. '
The Yellow Birds
Against the explosive backdrop of the Iraq War, young soldiers Brandon Bartle (Alden Ehrenreich) and Daniel Murphy (Tye Sheridan) forge a deep bond of friendship. When tragedy strikes the platoon, one soldier must return home to face the hard truth behind the incident, and help a grieving mother (Jennifer Aniston) find peace. With a compelling mix of battle action and poignant drama, The Yellow Birds is an unforgettable movie whose power resonates long after the final frame.'


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World's Best CEOs: Who Made the List?
What does it take to be named Barron's World's Best CEO? Andrew Bary joins Markets Hub with a look at a few who made the cut. Photo: Getty Images.
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WASHINGTON — Even if U.S. lawmakers avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, higher taxes and brinksmanship in Washington are likely to continue damaging the fragile economy well into 2013.
In the early hours of the new year, the Senate passed emergency legislation to prevent deep spending cuts and even bigger tax hikes from taking effect. But the measure ran into fierce opposition Tuesday from House Republicans, leaving unclear whether a final agreement could be reached before the current Congress ends Thursday.
The Senate version would raise taxes on individual incomes over $400,000 and household incomes over $450,000 and on the portion of estates that exceeds $5 million. House Republicans are reluctant to sign on to those tax hikes — which would deliver some $600 billion in revenue over 10 years — at least without more cuts in government spending.
The higher taxes on the wealthy would likely slow the economy a little bit. But a bigger drag would come from a tax hike Democrats and Republicans aren't even bothering to fight over: the end of a two-year Social Security tax cut. The so-called payroll tax is scheduled to bounce back up to 6.2 percent this year from 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012, amounting to a $1,000 tax increase for someone earning $50,000 a year.
"It's a huge hit," says Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. "It hits people whether they're making $10,000 or they're making $2 million. It doesn't matter who you are … The lower your income, the more of your income you're (spending). So if you're taxes go up, it's going to come out of your spending." And that is bad news for an economy that is 70 percent consumer spending.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, calculates that the higher payroll tax will reduce economic growth by 0.6 percentage points in 2013. The other possible tax increases — including higher taxes on household incomes above $450,000 a year — will slice just 0.15 percentage points off annual growth, Zandi said.
The economy doesn't have much growth to give. Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo, predicts it will expand just 1.5 percent in 2013, down from a lackluster 2.2 percent in 2012. Unemployment stands at 7.7 percent.
A months-long political standoff over fiscal policy has already taken its toll, adding uncertainty that has discouraged consumers from spending and businesses from hiring and investing.
The squabbling seems sure to persist even if the House goes along with the Senate's partial fix.
Senators postponed tough decisions on government spending, giving themselves a reprieve from cuts that were scheduled to begin taking effect automatically Jan. 1. That just sets the stage for more hard-bargaining later, even if the House approves the Senate's version.
And another standoff is likely to arrive as early as February when Congress will need to raise the $16.4 trillion federal borrowing limit so the government can keep paying its bills. House Republicans probably won't agree to raise the debt limit without offsetting spending cuts that Democrats are sure to resist.
"Even if they cut some small deal, the process and what is left undone still means there's a lot of uncertainty," says Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group.
After Jan. 1, asks Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, "what induces the two sides to stop fighting and start compromising?"
The fiscal cliff itself was created to force Democrats and Republicans to compromise.
To end a 2011 standoff over raising the federal debt limit, they agreed to a Jan. 1, 2013 deadline to reach a deal over taxes and spending. If they didn't, more than $500 billion in tax increases would hit the economy in 2013 alone, along with $109 billion in cuts from the military and domestic spending programs. The sharp tax hikes and spending cut would threaten to send the economy over the cliff and back into recession.
But negotiations to avert catastrophe have highlighted once again how far apart the two parties are on taxes (Republicans don't want to raise them) and spending (Democrats are reluctant to cut government programs).
"We're learning about how deep the impasse is," Harris says. "Both sides have decided that they were willing to go to the last minute."
Political gridlock has been rattling financial markets and shaking consumer and business confidence the past two years.
Consumer confidence fell in December for the second straight month, according to a survey by the Conference Board, which blamed the drop on worries about the fiscal cliff. The uncertainty is also believed to have dinged holiday shopping, which grew at the slowest pace this year since 2008.
"Every kind of brinksmanship moment is a reminder to people to not trust the economy," Harris says.
Many economists are disappointed that Congress and the White House couldn't reach agreement on a broader deal that significantly reduces the deficit over the next 10 years. That could have boosted business and consumer confidence and accelerated growth .


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Videos tie mayor's brother to Mexico fire bombing
MONTERREY, Mexico — A probe into the deadly firebombing of a casino took a dramatic twist Wednesday with evidence the brother of the city's mayor may be entangled in shakedowns at gambling parlors suspected of being at the root of the attack that claimed 52 lives.
The newspaper El Norte, considered one of Mexico's best, posted videos of Mayor Fernando Larrazabal's brother, Jonas, entering local casinos, sitting down at tables, meeting employees and receiving wads of cash.
In the most recent video, which El Norte said was taken Aug. 19, the brother received what the newspaper estimated was the equivalent of $33,000 in cash.
The release of the videos jolted this industrial hub, coming just six days after gunmen stormed the Casino Royale, poured gasoline inside and set the crowded facility ablaze. Most of the people who died were middle-aged women wiling away the afternoon.
In a hastily called news conference, Larrazabal said he had no knowledge of the payoffs even as he conceded that his brother was the man shown in the videos.
"My brother will have to clear up questions that have arisen about this," the mayor said. "None of my brother's activities have, or have had, anything to do with this city administration."
The videos immediately raised questions whether gangsters from a transnational crime syndicate accused of shaking down casinos are in collusion with politicians.
Gov. Rodrigo Medina of Nuevo Leon, the state that surrounds Monterrey, immediately called for an investigation, saying prosecutors should arrest those behind the casino payoffs. "Let fall who may," he said.
Medina reiterated Wednesday that gangsters from Los Zetas, a gang involved in narcotics smuggling, extortion and a gamut of other criminal activity in Mexico and abroad, were behind the Aug. 25 attack.
Five of the alleged assailants were arrested over the weekend.
El Norte said the videos show Jonas Larrazabal entering other casinos in the Monterrey area on May 30, June 20 and Aug. 19 to collect packets or wads of cash.
In the most recent video, Jonas Larrazabal, wearing a blue shirt unbuttoned to his mid-chest, and with folded sunglasses hanging from a gold chain, arrives at a casino at 4:27 in the afternoon.
Five minutes after sitting down at a blackjack table, another man appears and fans bills on the table in the style of a card dealer. The video shows Jonas Larrazabal putting the cash in a red-and-black case and walking out of the casino a minute later.
El Norte said he climbed into a gray Nissan Sentra with license plates registered in his name.
The earliest video taken May 30 came just five days after armed commandos burst into four Monterrey casinos and caused destruction, apparently retaliation for the casino operators not making extortion payments.
It remained unclear on whose behalf — politicians or gangsters — Jonas Larrazabal was collecting cash at the casinos, and the blurring of lines only underscored disgust at the spread of corruption in the region.
One local activist predicted that Larrazabal, who a member of President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, would be forced to step down.
"Monterrey's mayor will fall very soon," said Miguel Trevino de Hoyos, head of the Civic Council of Nuevo Leon Institutions, an activist group. "If the mayor isn't capable of knowing that his own brother is extorting casinos, he shouldn't be mayor."
Since the lethal firebombing last week, politicians in the state have traded charges over who was responsible for irregularities at Casino Royale, including locked exits, and at other casinos, many of which lack permits but have been allowed by elected officials to operate anyway.
According to the Proceso newsweekly, some 550 casinos operate in Mexico, nearly all of them opened within the past decade and as few as 126 operating legally. Gangsters are believed to control some casinos for laundering illicit streams of money while subjecting others to extortion.
Monterrey's mayor isn't the only one on a hot seat from videos.
Two other videos taken by people driving near the Casino Royale when it was firebombed show police in nearby cruisers not responding to the crime. The videos were posted earlier this week by another newspaper, Excelsior.
The state security chief for Nuevo Leon, Jorge Domene, told Milenio Television that the mid-level Zetas gangster behind the firebombing remains at large in the metropolitan area.
Domene also said one of the main owners of Casino Royale, Raul Rocha Cantu, had fled the country.
"We think that he is in the United States," Domene said.
Rocha Cantu owns property in Texas and has multiple business partnerships established in Texas, Florida and Maryland.
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A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes means your pancreas is no longer capable of producing insulin. Through multiple daily injections with insulin pens or syringes or an insulin pump, it will be up to you to monitor your blood glucose levels and appropriately administer your insulin. You will need to work closely with your healthcare team to determine which insulin or insulins are best for you and your body.
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The head of scientology may have to be taken down a couple of OT levels after a new published report revealed that the "spiritual leader" is prone to violence.
It takes an emotional man to stir the likes of Tom Cruise to go jumping on couches and make John Travolta do Battlefield Earth, but it appears the emotions may be getting the better of David Miscavige.
Four former church execs are claiming the religion's de facto leader hit staff members dozens of times, according to the St. Petersburg Times.
Miscavige would strike the staff without warning, sometimes for not answering a question quickly enough, and always as a punishment, according to the former Scientologists.
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Oh heavens! Once, when Sonia Sotomayor was a 21-year-old senior at Princeton, she wrote a long academic paper in which she dared to consider what Puerto Rico would look like if it were to gain independence from the United States. This obviously disqualified her from ever serving on the Supreme Court, as we cannot be packing the highest court in the land with radical Puerto Rican separatists.
As everybody can agree, senior theses are one of the best tools we have for evaluating potential Supreme Court justices. Forget about their postgraduate resumes, the many legal opinions they've written, or their history of rulings. No, if you want to know how a person will behave when they don those fancy black robes, you really need to look at their academic work from 30 years ago.
If any of this argument sounds familiar, it's because we had it around this time last year when the nation received word that Michelle Obama, who attended Princeton a decade after Judge Sotomayor, had written a senior thesis about race. Oh, it was truly scandalous to learn that a young African-American female at a predominantly white school might be interested in the experiences of other black people at that school! And it proved definitively that, 20 years later, Mrs. Obama was completely unqualified to be the First Lady due to her unhealthy obsessions.
Similarly, you might look at Judge Sotomayor's thesis and think, "Wow, her senior year in college she wrote a 180-page paper examining the many different angles of a complicated political issue, when most college seniors are just doing keg stands and trying to scrape enough change out of the dryer to buy a pack of Camels," but that is exactly the wrong thing to think. Instead, you should think about whether the Supreme Court really needs some judge who is so excited about Puerto Rican independence.
Sara K. Smith was too lazy to write a senior thesis, and now she suffers the twin punishments of toiling for NBC and Wonkette.


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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", p. 396
- ↑ Helge Fauskanger, "English-Quenya Wordlist (Quettaparma Quenyanna)", Ardalambion (accessed 25 June 2011)


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New "marshmallow test" suggests trust matters
The legendary marshmallow test psychological experiment has gotten an update in a new study. While the test still shows that some kids are willing to wait longer for an extra marshmallow, the new study suggests the trustworthiness of the person promising the added reward may also play a role.
In the original 1972 Stanford marshmallow experiment, scientists looked at more than 600 children between the ages of four to six to study the effects of "delayed gratification." Children were put in an otherwise empty room with a snack of their choosing -- either an Oreo cookie, marshmallow or pretzel stick -- and were told they could eat the snack now or wait 15 minutes and get a second snack. Many of them engaged in distracting behavior, such as kicking the table, covering their eyes or pulling on their hair, to get through the task. One-third of the children were able to hold off for the full duration to get the reward.
In the updated version, scientists tested not only the child's ability to wait, but also wanted to see if the reliability of the person who was supposed to provide the incentive played any part.
Lead author Celeste Kidd, a doctoral candidate in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., told USA Today that she was inspired to attempt the experiment when she was volunteering at a homeless shelter and saw a little girl eating a lollypop. When the child was about to eat the treat, an older boy stole it from her. Instead of crying, she didn't seem that upset, which perplexed Kidd. She then realized that these children likely weren't upset because they had adapted to the unreliability of their environment.
To test reliability's role in delayed gratification, researchers divided a group of 28 children, ranging in ages from 3 to 5, into two groups.
For the first group -- the unreliable group - the children were given bad art supplies and told that if they waited, they could get better materials. The researcher however would return 2.5 minutes later without anything, saying it was a mistake and there weren't extra art supplies.
Then these children were given a sticker and told that if they waited to use the sticker, they would get better stickers. The researcher would leave again and return 2.5 minutes later empty-handed. The same scenario was repeated for the reliable group -- except this time the researcher returned with what they promised.
Then, the experimenters gave all the children a marshmallow in a plain room and told them they could have one marshmallow now or wait for the researcher to come back and have two marshmallows instead. The parents and scientists watched the children and recorded how long it took them to have the first taste or if 15 minutes had elapsed. At the end of the experiment, everyone was rewarded with three additional marshmallows.
What astonished researchers was that kids who were in the unreliable group waited three minutes and two seconds before eating the marshmallow, while children in the reliable group who trusted the researcher held out for 12 minutes and two seconds. Only one child in the unreliable group waited the entire 15 minutes, whereas nine kids in the reliable group didn't snack the entire time.
"I was astounded that the effect was so large," co-author Richard Aslin, the William R. Kenan Professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., said in a press release. "I thought that we might get a difference of maybe a minute or so... You don't see effects like this very often."
In both groups, the kids tried different ways to hide or ignore the marshmallow including dancing, singing or taking pretend naps. Some nibbled at the bottom of the marshmallows in order to hide their bites.
"Watching their strategies for waiting was quite entertaining," says Holly Palmeri, coauthor and coordinator of the Rochester Baby Lab, said in a press release. "We had one little boy who grabbed the marshmallow immediately and we thought he was going to eat it," recalled Kidd. "Instead of covering his eyes, he covered the marshmallow (by sitting on it)."
Aslin said the study shows that kids are more reliant on their parent's overall reliability or unreliability, but one single situation won't completely change their mind about how the world works.
"Don't do the marshmallow test on your kitchen table and conclude something about your child," Kidd added. "It especially would not work with a parent, because your child has all sorts of strong expectations about what a person who loves them very much is likely to do."
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Although the Bravo 65/72 is traditional above the waterline, its cutting-edge bottom is as slippery as an eel. Fexas drew the underbody narrow to minimize resistance, and kept the chine above the waterline for the same reason. From tank-testing, he knew that a chine crossing the waterline added a virtual "knuckle" in the hull lines that increased wavemaking and, consequently, drag until the hull was planing and the chine free of the water.
But Fexas also believed that a hull wasn't truly on-plane until its speed/length ratio reached 4.0 – that would be about 30 knots for the Bravo, faster than the intended speed. By keeping deadrise relatively low (13 degrees) and the chine out of the water, Fexas created a hull that would operate efficiently in the displacement and semi-planing speed ranges with reasonable horsepower. Originally the Bravo 65/72 came with twin 800-hp Caterpillar 406Es, but today standard power is a pair of Cat C18 ACERTS, 1,136-hp each. We haven't tested the boat, so can't report on speeds. Unofficial but reliable sources, though, suggest 24 knots top, around 21 knots cruise – again, don't hold us to these numbers.
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Not only was Cheoy Lee one of the first companies to build large production yachts in fiberglass, they also went one step further and used cored laminates extensively. Coring keeps the boats lighter without compromising stiffness, and Fexas insisted on paring weight to the minimum. The Bravo 65/72, designed in 1999, is built with Divinycell coring in its hull, deck and superstructure, sandwiched with high-strength bi- and multi-axial fiberglass fabrics laid in vinylester resin. Below the waterline, Cheoy Lee applies an epoxy barrier coat to forestall osmosis. The company covers the boat with a five-year structural and anti-osmosis warranty.
Fuel, water and holding tanks are fiberglass, integral with the hull. Integral tanks are more difficult to build, but add security by creating essentially a double bottom under the tanks. Cheoy Lee includes cleaning manholes in the tanks, a nice touch too often omitted. Eventually all tanks need cleaning, and having the manholes makes it easy. The hull is also supported by fiberglass stringers and foam-cored bulkheads; there's no wood in the structure.
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The Bravo 65/72 standard accommodations plan comprises three staterooms on the lower deck: a full-beam master amidships, VIP double forward and a twin-berthed guest in-between. Each cabin has an ensuite head – the master has a Jacuzzi and two sinks, too. An optional layout replaces a large walk-in closet in the master with a second head. There's also a washer/dryer on this deck.
The galley is up, on the main deck adjacent to the pilothouse, where there's a dinette for casual meals. The saloon is aft, down a couple of steps, and fitted with settees port and starboard, a wet bar and a day head. Since each boat is highly customized, the standard arrangement plan is only a starting point – details, joinery and décor are left up to the buyer.
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Since then, Lancaster University has risen to become one of Britain's top universities, with over 12,000 students and 2,500 employees within the Bailrigg campus that is now almost a small town in its own right. See our Campus Map.
In 2018 Lancaster University's campus was voted third in the Student Crowd's Top 20 University Campus Awards in a public vote by 7,849 UK students.
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- Banks & Shops: The campus is home to two banks, a post office, supermarkets and general stores, a bakery, hairdresser, charity shop – and even an ice cream parlour!
- Food & Drink: There are dozens of places to eat and drink across the campus, with cafes, restaurants and nine college bars - each one reminiscent of its college's individual character.
- Our multi-faith Chaplaincy Centre includes facilities for the Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islam and Jewish faiths and also a Muslim Prayer Room.
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Between October and March, you will find a varied programme of music on campus including orchestral concerts, chamber music, jazz, world music, opera and new music.
Lancaster students enjoy a vast green-field site with wonderful views of mountains and sea, yet the campus is just 5 minutes' drive from the M6 motorway and ten minutes from the main West Coast railway with direct services to Manchester, London and Scotland. Furthermore, as part of our travel plan, we have one of the most frequent university bus services in the country, one of the highest employee cycling rates in Lancashire (a traffic-free cycle route links the campus to the outskirts of the city) and our own car-sharing scheme.


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If you've ever accidentally dropped your laptop and immediately started praying for its life, then you might end up shopping for a "business rugged" notebook like the EliteBook 8460p. HP told us this was one durable laptop and even sent us a unit to test for ourselves. Not one to turn down a challenge, we sent our intrepid laptop and desktop reviewer, Matt Smith, on a mission of destruction. Matt took the Elitebook 8460p out on the town to see how it makes good on claims like resistance to spills, drops and more.