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The Pilgrim's Road to Santiago by bike
Iglesia de Santa María de Melide
Doing the Pilgrim's Road to Santiago on bike is an exciting and unforgettable adventure. During the route, the cyclist will know ancient customs and welcoming people, will make new friends with which to share solidarity and feelings and will discover a unique nature.
Doing the Pilgrim's Road to Santiago means plunging into landscapes full of contrasts from plateaus to mountains, from fields to coasts, monumental sites, works of art in the way of cathedrals, bridges, roads and monasteries. But this experience goes beyond that. During this special trip throughout Spain, you will also share extraordinary experiences with pilgrims of all ages, coming from all over the world, in the hostels, on the track or on the road.
Choosing the route
It is essential to plan the route correctly before starting the trip. The first step is tracing out the route that leads to the Galician capital. There are several itineraries, although the French Pilgrim's Route, passing through the interior of the peninsula, is the most used by thousands of pilgrims every year on their way to Santiago. This network of pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela was declared World Heritage in 1993 by the UNESCO.
Planning the time
The route should be planned based on the rhythm, resistance and physical condition of each person or of the group. If you do not have much experience on long cycling trips, you should train before. But if you are in good physical condition, you can do stages of 80 to 140Km per day, although the ideal distance is 50Km a day. Keeping this rhythm, would mean doing the whole route in two weeks. If you do not wish to do the whole route, you can start from somewhere closer to Santiago. However, it is essential to do at least 200Km on bike to be an officially recognized pilgrim by a document called the Compostela, which you will receive upon arrival to the final destination and which proves you have satisfactorily fulfilled the pilgrimage route. During the trip, we recommend you alternate with some days of rest, to recover your energy and enjoy the most relevant sites of the route, there are plenty to see.
Preparing your luggage
Once the route has been chosen, the next step is packing your luggage. You should never pack too much, but we recommend you include spare parts for your bike (inner tubes, a tire, patches, wrenches, air pumps, a spray to remove grease, cloths); water; glasses; petroleum jelly to prevent blisters; a lock; a torch; appropriate clothes, including raincoat and gloves. And always wear a helmet and a reflecting waistcoat, specially when on the road. Do not forget a basic first aid kit, a sleeping bag, a washbag, sun protection, personal identification papers and a guide.
Starting out
Once the bike is packed, the route is planned and you are greatly excited, all there is left to do is to start out. Any self-respecting pilgrim should have a credential to validate in the different hostels and parish churches, proving you have fulfilled the Pilgrim's Route. You can get this document at the Association of Friends of the Road to Santiago found throughout Spain and abroad, in the Royal Collegiate Church of Roncesvalles and in the towns the pilgrim's road goes through. If you do not have the document at the start of your trip, ask at the tourist office of the town or village where you are. Please remember that, during the route, food and drink are crucial. It is important to carry some food in case of emergency (figs, nuts and dried fruit or chocolate); always have something to drink to avoid dehydration and never strain yourself: rest whenever necessary.
Enjoy the adventure
A new way of knowing Spain comes in motion. The route, perfectly indicated to avoid mistakes and constantly guide cyclists, offers villages, people, landscapes, festivities, gastronomy and countless artistic elements. It is a route full of contrasts, with exceptional nature reserves and natural treasures, including the Pyrenees; the banks of the Ebro river and its fertile market gardens; the great Castilian planes, with wheat fields covering the horizon; the ascent to the shrine Cruz de Ferro, which is 1,500m above sea level; and the pastures and green fields of Galicia and Asturias. And throughout the route, mountains lined by tracks. Each twist and turn of the pilgrimage route hides a surprise, either landscape or monument.
Doing the Pilgrim's Road to Santiago by bike is, therefore, a splendid chance to live a unique adventure through an itinerary that has fascinated millions of pilgrims for centuries. All in all, it is a different trip by which you can discover a good deal of Spain and will get to know yourself much better.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
MySQL: The Sequel
For those of you wondering what the license issue is, allow me to explain. There are two editions of MySQL: the MySQL Community Server and the MySQL Enterprise Server. The MySQL Community Server is the free edition of MySQL. It is open source and falls under the GNU General Public License or GPL for short. Basically, if code is released under the GPL, it means that anything that uses that code is also automatically GPL'd. Our new MySQL Community Server plug-in communicates with the MySQL Community Server via the Community Edition library provided by MySQL. That library was released under the GPL which means our MySQL Community Edition plug-in is also GPL'd. That also means that if you use this plug-in in your application, most likely, your application will be GPL'd and you will be required to provide the source code to the public. I'm not a lawyer, so before you make any decisions, you should check the MySQL web site for details, read over the GPL and consult with your attorney.
The MySQL Enterprise Server is NOT released under the GPL and it is NOT free. It's a commercial product. Soon we will be releasing a separate, non-GPL plug-in specifically for the MySQL Enterprise Server. If you want to use MySQL and want to make sure that you don't have to GPL your application, you will probably want to purchase a license for MySQL Enterprise Server. Again, I'm not a lawyer so you should check the MySQL web site and discuss this with your attorney.
To be clear, this is not a REALbasic or REAL Software licensing issue. This is strictly a MySQL licensing issue. The libraries they provide for use with these editions come with the restrictions I have summarized above. MySQL is very popular and part of the reason is that people believe it's free. As you can now see, that's not 100% true and it's not 100% false either. It really depends on your situation.
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It's great that RS is supporting these options again. It is unfortunate that MySQL licenses their lib this way.
So what we really need is someone to step up and build a clean room implementation of the current MySQL protocol using a TCPSocket so we don't have to include any of their software and talk to either server without the GPL issues... :)
- April 10, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- Geoff Perlman said...
That would then require a lot of testing and maintenance and it could break with each release of MySQL. If you don't want to pay for a database server and don't want the GPL issues, there are alternatives such as Postgres.
However, if you want to avoid the GPL issues and are willing to pay for a database server, take a look at REAL SQL Server. And take an even harder look at REAL Server 2009 when it's released.
- April 10, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I love REAL SQL Server and all but my cursory glance of the built in features seem way shadowed by the power of MySQL's abundant functions.
I think the real trick around this is to develop two applications, one that runs in the background (console maybe) and then interface your non-GPL'ed app with the background app, sending your queries and results between the apps. You may have to surrender the source to the background app but thats not a huge deal.
- April 10, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Geoff Perlman said...
That's a very clever way to get around the GPL. However, the middleware would slow down your app all to avoid the GPL. I'm not sure it's worth it.
- April 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM
- MGV said...
No, it would be worth doing.
I use sqlite in my very simple databases, and really, its a shockingly primitive database that has very little documentation.
If I had tried to learn it from scratch, I would have failed. Its really only because I knew enough SQL (from using microsoft products) that I could figure out what to do. That, and the rather excellent sqlite plugin for firefox, which makes the capabilities of RB look primitive.
I still don't understand why RB actually bothers with Sqlite. How about a database that actually understands what a date is, or can actually alter tables (eg to drop a field) after they have been created?
To try and build a commercial engine around this makes no sense to me.
- April 11, 2009 at 12:16 AM
- Unknown said...
@george or michael; whatever names you use for trolling lol
many "big" companies uses sqlite, including apple for mail. most people know that already.
you absolutely need to alter tables because you don't know what you are doing ?
what's primitive is your way to see things. maybe you spend too long with ms products ? any better idea except sqlite ? agreed the doc is not that good, but does your end-user cares ?
- April 11, 2009 at 5:40 AM
@Troll I mean George or Michael
You know what I like the most about SQLite? The primitiveness as you call it. It's simple but does the job I require it to do. In fact the more I use it the more I like it.
- April 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- MGV said...
Firstly - George is my middle name - commonly used by my friends - but it just happened to be the username that got me onto google/blogger. My full name is Michael George Veltman.
I find it amazing that people who post anonymously accuse me of trolling. In a sense, they have trolled me, because its getting a response right now - so I'd call that a successful troll on their part.
I own a licence to real basic professional, actually expired Nov last year, but I'm looking at renewing. I maintain a couple of (small) programs using real basic.
I won't be renewing for the studio product. I did give it some thought, but at the end of the day I cannot see the point in the studio.
Real software is obviously sinking a lot of money into developing this, and perhaps I can see why in relation to all the licencing issues outlined above. For me however the issue is that I would rather have a more functional system than one that scales.
I personally will not benefit from a SQL server until it can dish out web pages too. I know about HTTPsocket, I've written to RealSoftware about this, but I'm not a web designer, and there is not much point for me in separating the SQL server from the code until the server is more functional.
Ok, my situation is perhaps unusual. But perhaps it isn't. I used to write stuff in VB, but for a variety of reasons I develop on a mac now (but run the executables on a PC). Real Basic serves my needs better than any other alternative, if only because I don't have to buy a windows box to do this.
Anyway, to get back on topic, this whole real SQL server may be useful for enterprise level development. I'm not sure how many people develop at this level AND use real basic.
For me, I would rather that they put more features on the database, or at least on the RB front end to it. Like, as I have said, real date fields.
The fact that I have to write a lot of code simply to handle dates properly, and have to convert between a date object and a string field to save that date is wasted coding time.
Its just one example, and this isn't the right forum to put my rants on about RB in general (such as how they even handle the date object), but at least if the database could be consistent with the data objects used then this would be a good thing (in my opinion).
Which was, and is, my point.
Oh, and better documentation would not be a bad thing either for the database. Trying to find out how to do a nested inner join on the database from the documentation was my latest frustration...
- April 14, 2009 at 12:10 AM
- Airshift Media said...
I don't quite get it what is the point of having 'real' date data type. Whatever the database is, we always use sqldate and sqldatetime anyway since otherwise it will be a big mess when users access from various timezones and so on. Also I don't understand how it can be a big problem to construct a date from sqldate.
Anyway, as addition to the issue of GPL there is another issue on mySQL. It is not always clear for the customers when the community edition can be installed and when they should by a commercial license. That's why the enterprise -plugin is quite mandatory since I assume you wouldn't be able to connect enterprise version using the community plugin?
Naturally there is always another option: to use ODBC instead of native interface.
- April 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM
I have been using REAL SQL Server since it's first release. I have 2 databases that contain 40 GB of data. Yes, 40 gigabytes! I had to learn a little, but the queries are virtually instantaneous. The reason I choose REAL SQL Server is the simple client encryption.
I have users that connect over the internet and have you ever tried to create a standalone windows app that connects to *ANY* database server with encryption (without having the end user do *anything* at all)? With RSQLS it is nothing at all to setup.
Additionally, I played around with MY SQL, Postgre, MS SQL Server Express and even Valentina. In the end, I found that my time is much better utilized building software than learning how to use a database server. You cannot imagine how simple it is to get RSQLS up and running. Literally 10 minutes.
On top of all that...I have *never* once had a problem with the software. Marco Bambini even replied to me once directly via email when I posted a bug report (during beta) and he thanked me and fixed the bug within 24 hours.
- April 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- REAL Software said...
Can you please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com? I'd be interested in hearing more of your story and writing a case study about your use of REAL SQL Server.
- April 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Tomas Sancio said...
Although George has a point in that SQLite is limited, RealBasic is not the only development platform that uses SQLite internally. Both Apple and Adobe use it. Apple uses it for its Core Data part of the Cocoa API and Adobe uses it for file handling in Air applications. Their reason must be that it's open source with no strings attached.
I just used the RealBasic version for internal file handling and quick querying and it worked just fine. In my case, I only needed to create simple tables.
For the rest, I'm looking forward to using the MySQL plugin. I've looked at Real SQL Server and when I have the chance, it will depend on the customer(s) whether I end up using one or the other. They're both free for development and charge for deployment, where you are more likely to pass the costs onto your clients.
- April 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM
[quote]Soon we will be releasing a separate, non-GPL plug-in specifically for the MySQL Enterprise Server.[/quote]
Are you able to give us an approximate timescale for this?
- May 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Geoff Perlman said...
I can't give you a time line yet but it should be fairly soon.
- May 11, 2009 at 8:13 AM


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The civil war in Syria and alleged use by Damascus of chemical weapons, political turmoil in Egypt and revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs are complicating Obama's efforts to keep the focus on the economy.
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The eclipsing of the U.S. recovery by other pressing events could be a factor in next year's midterm election campaigns and in the presidential contests two years later. Also, as Obama slips more and more into lame-duck territory, his ability to shape the national agenda seems diminished.
While the unemployment rate of 7.4 percent is still well above the 5 to 6 percent typical of a healthy economy, it has been tracking down steadily since it peaked at 10 percent in late 2009. House prices are on the rise and so is consumer spending. Big banks are reporting strong profits again and regulators are winding down investigations into reckless Wall Street lending practices.
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In recent months, the economy has looked "pretty good" for Obama, suggests Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University. "Not home-run good, but there's been incremental improvement in the economy."
Yet even without the crisis in Syria, two looming financial showdowns threaten that recovery.
The first is a possible partial government shutdown if Congress fails to pass legislation to keep the government functioning beyond the Sept. 30 fiscal-year end. The other is an expected new battle over increasing the government's borrowing authority. The Obama administration last week said that it would hit its borrowing limit in mid-October without a higher debt ceiling — earlier than widely anticipated.
The national debt ceiling now stands at about $16.7 trillion. The overall debt keeps rising even as deficits come down because the government still spends more than it takes in.
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Some conservative Republicans, including those in tea party factions, are even threatening to use the debt-ceiling battle to defund parts of Obama's health care law.
The administration is pushing back hard against the GOP threats.
"Our position is unequivocal," says White House press secretary Jay Carney. "We will not negotiate with Republicans in Congress over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that Congress has racked up — period."
In summer 2011, the White House and congressional Republicans sparred for weeks over a debt-limit increase. While they finally cut a deal to avoid a government default, the prolonged dust-up led to a first-ever downgrade of the nation's credit rating.
The White House has been working quietly with some GOP senators on a possible compromise, but with little headway.
Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution who studies governance, says control of the national agenda by any president is fleeting at best. Lyndon Johnson only exercised it early on, as did Ronald Reagan; Bill Clinton "never fully" had control and Obama did only "during the first two years with strong Democratic majorities."
"Foreign policy events often overtake presidential ambitions, as do opposition parties that manage to win control of one or both chambers of Congress," Mann said. "I don't think the economy is less important to Americans. It's more that they have come to doubt that anything constructive can emerge from Washington."
The brief government shutdowns of late 1995 and early 1996 came because of bitter budget and debt-ceiling clashes between Clinton and Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gingrich and his troops hoped voters would blame the shutdowns on the Democratic president. But polls showed they mostly blamed Republicans.
"Clinton and the people around him were good," said GOP strategist Rich Galen, who once worked for Gingrich and who sees peril ahead for Republicans if they can't get together on budget issues. "I remember saying at the time that a White House that is aggressively on message is unstoppable."
Galen said there's no Republican "opposite" to Obama and that it's hard to blame former President George W. Bush any longer.
"You could say 'Boehner' a hundred times and, out of 300 people, two would know who you were talking about," Galen said. "If you held my head under a water faucet and said, 'Tell me what the Republican economic plan is,' I couldn't tell you. I think what we've got to do is come up with an alternative that's easy to explain and where people go, 'Oh, yeah. Well, that makes sense. Let's go do that.'"
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One million vertical feet in one day.
That was the goal of the relay team from Six Pack Sports when it caught the first chair at Keystone Resort Wednesday morning. The 10 skiers weren't aiming for fame, though, they were aiming to raise money for a good cause.
The Six Pack Sports team took on its Million Vertical Feet Challenge to raise money for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado. Overall, the team raised nearly $13,000 for the nonprofit organization.
Big Brothers Big Sisters provides at-risk children with mentors. Its reach is national, with roots in Colorado going back to 1918. In 2012, the program supported roughly 1,900 mentoring relationships in the Denver and Pikes Peak areas.
Mike Kirkland, commissioner at Six Pack Sports for the last four years, has participated in Million Vertical Feet challenges in the past in other states. This year, he decided to bring the challenge to himself and his colleagues at Six Pack Sports to benefit a good cause.
The money raised by Wednesday's challenge will to go start the inaugural Sports Buddies ski day. Sports Buddies is a program offered by Big Brothers Big Sisters in which children and their mentors participate in organized activities, including attending and playing team sports. The money raised by Kirkland and his colleagues will provide for transportation, ski lift tickets, rental equipment and lunch for the participating children.
Kirkland plans to help make the Sports Buddies ski day an annual event.
"We're going to have a heap of these," he said.
Six Pack Sports is dedicated to promoting sports and similar activities throughout the community. A year-round sports league based out of Denver and Boulder, Six Pack Sports provides opportunities for adults to get together and share their love of sports.
Raising money for children to enjoy sports just made sense, Kirkland said. "I thought it was a natural fit for the fact that we do adult sporting events."
Kirkland's team did the math for what they would need to do in order to achieve its 1 million vertical feet in one day challenge. By completing 44 runs each, they could accomplish approximately 100,000 vertical feet per person.
"We got the first chair up and we're going all the way through the night skiing," Kirkland said from the gondola Wednesday. He and his companions chose Keystone Resort, they said, because of the night skiing option. They needed to ski for 11-and-a-half hours straight to meet their target, and even ate their sandwich lunches while riding up the gondola.
"It's a grind. We're bombing every single run. We need to go straight down the mountain every time," Kirkland said. He paused, then added, "It's a lot of fun."
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France produced a stunning performance to overturn a two-goal first-leg deficit and qualify for the World Cup finals on Tuesday, beating Ukraine 3-0 in Paris.
In front of a raucous crowd at the Stade de France, Les Bleus took the lead midway through the first half through Mamadou Sakho and leveled the tie on aggregate when Karim Benzema netted from an offside position on 34 minutes.
That strike came shortly after the Real Madrid man had seen a perfectly good goal disallowed, and the controversy continued as Ukraine defender Yevhen Khacheridi was sent off early in the second period.
France made their one-man advantage count as an Oleg Gusev own-goal put them ahead in the tie for the first time in the 72nd minute and Didier Deschamps' side saw out the rest of the game to win 3-2 on aggregate.
"Four days ago, we were in a bad position, but the players were fantastic tonight," Deschamps told French television.
"I didn't have doubts, but we played a huge match and this qualification is very important for French football," he said.
"It's a bit of a tradition that when French teams have their backs against the wall, they perform and we had a lot of heart and determination today," Deschamps added.
"Now we've qualified, we're capable of some great things," he said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine coach Mikhail Fomenko confirmed that he would continue in his role, despite the disappointment and added: "I am really sorry for the result, but the fact we got this far is already something positive."
As expected, Deschamps rang the changes, making five in all to his starting line-up from Friday's 2-0 loss in Kiev, with Raphael Varane, Sakho, Yohan Cabaye, Mathieu Valbuena and Benzema coming in.
For Ukraine, there were three changes, notably in defense, where the banned Oleksandr Kucher and Artem Fedetskiy were replaced by Yaroslav Rakitskiy and Vitaliy Mandziuk respectively.
The visitors must have been braced for a backs-to-the-wall job, but they could not have expected France to play with such a high level of intensity in the first half.
Ukraine were pinned back from kick-off, and goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov turned a Valbuena shot around the post inside three minutes, before Paul Pogba headed a Valbuena corner over the bar.
Just as the away side thought they had taken some of the early sting out of the contest, their defense — which had gone eight successive matches without conceding before this game — was finally undone in the 22nd minute.
When a Valbuena set-piece delivery from the right fell to Franck Ribery on the edge of the box, the Bayern Munich man's shot was blocked by Pyatov, but Sakho was on hand to convert the rebound from a tight angle, the Liverpool defender netting his first international goal.
France's hope turned to genuine belief, and the home fans rose to their feet as a glorious shooting opportunity fell to Pogba on the edge of the box. However, the young midfielder could only blaze his effort over the bar.
Controversy followed as Benzema bundled a low Ribery cross from the left into the net at the back post, only for the offside flag to cut short his joy.
It was the wrong decision by the Slovenian officials, but remarkably another error on their part allowed France to level the tie.
A scramble in the Ukrainian box saw the ball come off Valbuena and fall to Benzema. This time, he was offside, but the assistant's flag stayed down as he fired home.


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Women business owners are meeting in Novi this week with the intention of sharing the wealth — among themselves. Trust us, that's not a bad thing.
The 12th annual Women's Business Conference, hosted by the Center for Empowerment and Economic Development at the Suburban Collection Showplace, is two days of sharing a wealth of information, experiences and connections while prospecting opportunities for further growth.
Michelle Richards, executive director of CEED, said the capper to the two-day show is this afternoon's Meet the Buyers Procurement Event from 2-5 p.m. It offers women business owners an opportunity to meet with representatives at each contracting station so that personal relationships can be developed. She said 60-plus supplier diversity and procurement representatives from corporations, public institutions and government entities are expected to attend.
"Some of the participating corporations bring their entire purchasing team with them," she said. "This is a unique opportunity that is not offered anywhere else in the area. You will be able to accomplish months of sales prospecting in three short hours."
Now that's a lesson in managing time effectively.
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While dedicating the Pietro and Regina Culinary Amphitheater at Grand Rapids Community College recently, Peter Secchia joked he couldn't go around putting his last name on all the buildings in town, so he had to think up a name for the amphitheater besides Secchia. He settled on naming the new state-of-the-art room in honor of his grandparents. Apparently, the name was solidified only hours before the ribbon cutting.
In a jovial mood, Secchia also poked fun at professor and certified master pastry chef Gilles Renusson, who was charged with creating a sugar ribbon for the event. Listening to Renusson's instructions on how he should cut the ribbon, Secchia, the former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, said in a mock French accent that even after 20 years, he still can't understand what Renusson is saying. Renusson then brandished a cutting knife over an open flame in preparation for the ribbon cutting.
Secchia and Renusson go way back. Secchia hired the renowned chef straight out of Paris, and he was soon winning international awards for the new-at-the-time Amway Grand Plaza. In fact, Renusson did all the pastries for the world leaders who came here to honor former President Gerald R. Ford as part of the opening festivities for the "new" Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.
Secchia said he never could understand the man but always went along with whatever Renusson suggested because he was so good at his trade.
"But he's better now," Secchia said. "More understandable than he used to be."
Palate personality
Finally, a breath of fresh air. Or is it a bouquet?
Cambridge, Mass.-based startup Vinely will launch first right here in River City. Vinely is a brand new company focused on making it easy for consumers to identify their personal taste palate when it comes to wine. The company uses a methodology designed by MIT scientist and serial entrepreneur Joe Chung of Redstar Ventures.
A launch event open to the community will take place 4-7 p.m. Wednesday in the Haworth Showroom space in Mo/Div, 40 Monroe Center NW.
So why would an MIT scientist's methodology be applied to wine tasting and, frankly, why here?
"Making wine accessible to all in a comfortable, stress-free environment that simplifies the tasting process in a fun, unique and innovative way is what Vinely is all about," said Bill Wittenberg, CEO. "Vinely was launched out of my own frustrations of not understanding the multiple varieties of wines, brand names and industry vocabulary. Vinely's mission is to make finding the wines you like easy and enjoyable. We take the guesswork out of it. You don't have to be a wine expert because you already are. You know what you like."
The event will mimic an in-home party and will allow guests to try wines and rate them based on their personal tastes. Vinely staff then will determine each taster's wine "personality" using the Vinely methodology. The more participants taste, the more refined the wine matches will be.
Hmmm. That makes sense.
Vinely officials say the methodology — a proprietary system developed to define each person's true wine personality — gets better with time and can help shape all future wine purchases.
"The decision to launch Vinely in Grand Rapids was due to the openness of the community to new entrepreneurial business and their responsiveness to new creative business endeavors. We look to utilize local wineries in every market that Vinely is launched in, and Michigan is no different," said Elizabeth Goede, vice president of marketing.
"Currently, shipments have included wines from three local Michigan wineries: Bowers Harbor, Brys Estate and Left Foot Charley. It is very important to Vinely that we provide wine locally in each market we are represented in, while also providing the best quality matched to a customer's taste and budget."
If the wooden shoe fits
The American Subcontractors Association of Michigan held its annual, sold-out dinner Oct. 4, the highlight of which is high recognition by regional subcontractors of area contractors.
Using a pretty stringent process and criteria such as bid ethics, jobsite supervision and schedule coordination, the subcontractors use a point system to vote for the Michigan Contractor of the Year.
Nominees included Christman Co., Dan Vos Construction, Elzinga & Volkers, Erhardt Construction, Owen-Ames-Kimball (the 2011 winner) and Pioneer Construction. All six were stars in a video shown during the program that discussed the values and integrity of the subcontractors, but it was the "out takes" at the end that had the sold-out crowd laughing.
For instance, Pioneer President Tim Schowalter, in mid-sentence during taping preparation, abruptly stopped and turned to the woman powdering his nose to say, "What are you doing to my face?!"
In further outtakes, Elzinga & Volkers CEO Mike Novakoski pleaded a vote for the Dutch guys. "I don't recall any other contractor won in this area yet. … You know, keeping with the Dutch theme, if the wooden shoe fits …" To the surprise of the audience, and especially Team Elzinga, the company was given the title this year. Novakoski, unfortunately, was out-of-state on business.
Earlier in the evening, during program practice, one of the ASAM leaders discovered the winner by accident and looked to Ann Plummer of Beene Garter (which tallied all the points and kept the secrets) asking, "Is this true? This is the winner? Outstanding! Outstanding. No one can ever say there is favoritism in the process. It totally validates our process and the integrity of the program."
Further note of that integrity was apparent when the nominees all gave one another and Team Elzinga high praise.
Abby the ArtPrize dog
Elliott's News is a small Grand Rapids shop known for many years to people who work downtown. Since ArtPrize began, Elliott's has been surrounded by the excitement, being virtually at ground zero — only yards away from the concentration of exhibits in the parking lot behind The B.O.B.
The newsstand is getting a lot more walk-in traffic, which gives Elliott's fixture, Abby, even more strangers to bark at than usual.
Abby is owner Bill Bennett's cockapoo.
Last year, Elliott's got into the ArtPrize spirit by decorating the glass container Abby sleeps in to make it look like a fish bowl. The name of that unofficial ArtPrize exhibit: Dog Fish.
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By: Larry Rulison, Business Writer
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ALBANY — A Long Island company that uses plant DNA as unique markers to authenticate fine wine, money and computer chips has forged a new research partnership with the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
The company, Applied DNA Sciences Inc., is a publicly traded firm located at a high-tech incubator at Stony Brook University.
Although Applied DNA is already putting its unique stamp on existing computer chips, its research at the NanoCollege will focus on using its DNA marker during different stages of the manufacturing process for new computer chips as they move through the supply chain.
Officials from the school and the company say the need for such authentication markers has increased as the Defense Department has raised requirements for chip manufacturers to employ anti-counterfeiting measures.
Terms of the deal were not announced. But the school and the company submitted a joint proposal to the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a national security program that puts money toward cutting-edge technologies for federal intelligence agencies, seeking to further develop the technology.
James Hayward, chief executive officer of Applied DNA, said Monday that the partnership with the NanoCollege will help accelerate its chip program. But more importantly, he said the work that will be done in Albany will help the military ensure that its expensive equipment in the field isn't compromised by second-rate or even malicious chips.
"It's an opportunity of critical national importance," Hayward said. "We'll be working to protect America against the scourge of counterfeit microchips."
Applied DNA is already working with electronics distributor SMT Corp. in a pilot program sponsored by the Defense Department to authenticate existing chips with its DNA mark.
But the work that will be done in Albany would take the DNA markers directly into the manufacturing process. Most chips go through hundreds of steps during manufacturing and in some cases are processed in multiple locations.
The Applied DNA deal wasn't the only good news the NanoCollege received this week. On Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that his budget designates $250 million for a new $4.8 billion research program at the college that will include efforts to move the industry to 450 millimeter wafers from the current 300 millimeter size, a giant leap in manufacturing efficiency.
NanoCollege Chief Executive Officer Alain Kaloyeros thanked the governor for "bold leadership, strategic investments and ongoing support" of the state's nanotechnology industry, saying the spending will create "significant economic growth" across the state.
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A final batch of questions focused on how important major oil company dividends were to holding up their share prices? We believe it is an important consideration, but the question of dividends and the major oil companies may actually foreshadow a discussion of their future business models. If a company is stuck in a low-growth industry, which oil certainly is, then spending inordinate sums of money to lift the growth rate may not be worth it. For oil companies, the cost for finding and developing new oil production to boost a company's output growth rate from 2% to 3% to say 5% to 6%, without the company having any control over the price it receives for the product, should raise questions about their long-term business strategy. Maybe it is better to develop a steady, albeit low, production growth profile while using the surplus cash flow to maintain, and potentially increase, the dividend to shareholders. That might be a way to sustain a company's stock market valuation and secure stable shareholder support. This strategy implies that capital spending would always be at risk in low commodity price environments, but the strategy could lead to stable employment, which is critical for securing and sustaining the technical talent required in the petroleum business. This strategy, however, wouldn't work for smaller E&P companies needing capital to grow as their ability to tap the capital markets likely requires that they demonstrate rapid production growth. As we are learning, that strategy can be deadly in a period of low commodity prices. So if major oil companies were to adopt slow-growth production goals while defending and increasing their dividends, their share prices might not decline.
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Capital Expenditure budgets have evaporated as companies deal with the revised economics of oil and gas development. On the plus side they have already taken significant write downs so any production that comes online as a result of previous investment can be considered already funded. Companies like Exxon Mobil, at a rating of AAA, are considered better credits than many sovereigns and the removal of the burden of capital expenditure leaves them in a better position to sustain their businesses into the medium term.
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|Long line waits to visit Old Synagogue on the Night of Synagogues, 2011. Photo (c) Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
An article in The Forward advocates something that I have long urged travellers to do—use some of the many Jewish culture and other such festivals in Europe as anchor points for summer travels.
The article highlights just two festivals—the wellknown Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, and the lesser known festival in Trebic, Czech Republic.
The Třebíč festival is made up of storytellers, musicians, historians and dancers. Most are local, though some come from nearby Prague; the well-known mix with newcomers, locals who are investigating their history by learning the music, dance and literature of the past.
Krakow and Třebíč offer an alternative way to feel what was lost and experience what remains. Festivals are a means for heritage-oriented tourists to engage in more than anguish; a chance for those who want to experience a center of Jewish culture to do so unabashedly and, in the process, meet locals of a variety of faiths gathered for a communal celebration of Jewish life.
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/156823/finding-jewish-life-in-eastern-europe/?p=all#ixzz1w3Ye4ja1But—as I point out in the annual list of festivals that I compile for this blog —there are dozens of Jewish culture and other festivals around Europe each year. My annual list includes only a fraction. There may be as many as 20 or 30 in Poland alone.
One of the most exciting—and one of the ones that actually has a direct connection to reviving Jewish life—takes place next weekend, June 2-3. It is the second edition of 7@Nite, or what I called the "night of the living synagogues" in Krakow.
On that night, all seven synagogues (and former synagogues) in Krakow's historic Jewish district, Kazimierz, are open to the public, each one hosting a different event or activity that highlights contemporary Jewish life.
As I wrote in a JTA column last year, after the first 7@Nite:
I've never seen anything quite like it, even though I've followed the development of Kazimierz for more than 20 years—from the time when it was an empty, rundown slum to its position now as one of the liveliest spots in the city.
I've witnessed—and chronicled—the development of Jewish-themed tourism, retail, entertainment and educational infrastructure in Krakow, including the Jewish Culture Festival that draws thousands of people each summer. And I've written extensively about the interest of non-Jews in Jewish culture.
But Seven at Night was something different. For one thing, nostalgia seemed to play no role. And also, unlike many of the Jewish events and attractions in Kazimierz, this one was organized and promoted by Jews themselves.
It was their show, kicking off with a public Havdalah ceremony celebrated by Rabbi [Boaz] Pash that saw hundreds of people singing and dancing in the JCC courtyard.


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Join us Friday, Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. for our Friday Financial Forum. We will meet at the Friday Forum Room at Arvest's East Side Branch, located at 4225 S.E. Adams Rd. in Bartlesville, Okla.*
This week's featured speakers are Kary Cox, director at Washington County Emergency Management (WCEM), and Deputy Directors Melissa Lindgren and Eric Ashlock. The WCEM is a volunteer organization dedicated to minimizing the effects of disasters upon the people of the community.
The professional and volunteer staff of WCEM are trained to respond to a wide variety of technological and natural disasters. Hazard mitigation is an important part of group activities and includes the identification and elimination of possible long-term hazards.
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The staff and volunteers of Washington County Emergency Management answer the call for service and have worked extremely hard helping our community respond to and recover from disasters of every kind. In addition, they have also carried on with regularly scheduled events the organization normally participates in such as Sunfest, OK-Mozart, Relay for Life, Dewey Frontier Days and other community events.
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Invite a friend and come enjoy delicious homemade cookies and hear about what's going on in the Bartlesville area! If you have any questions or would like to be included on the invitation email list, please contact Billie Roane at (918) 337-4358. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Meander in the sunshine, lose yourself in intrigue, find yourself at Manly Market Place. Unique open-air markets showcasing emerging design, fashion and gifts.
The laneways of Sydney Road and Market Lane, right in the heart of Manly, transform into a hive of activity every Saturday and Sunday as locals and visitors alike enjoy.
Experience the family friendly atmosphere with whimsical entertainment for young and old. Soak up the surrounds of inspiring boutique shops, bars and restaurants in and around our local seaside village.
Manly Market Place is open every Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm.
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TOGS™ 9000 instrument is a single test, precision, portable incubator utilizing the patented technology provide on-site testing of microbial contamination in drinking water. Used in conjunction with a chromogenic reagent, it provides an accurate, virtually fool-proof microbial test for field, rural and remote applications in the detection of Total Coliforms and E.coli to WHO standards using globally approved methods (USEPA, AWWA-APHA). This bio-photonic incubation/detection instrument can be electronically sent to an appropriate laboratory and or regulatory authority in a secure monitoring system using "AGACSS™" software and the internet, is revolutionary and its market global.
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Worldwide, over a billion water, food, environmental, pharmaceutical and clinical samples are sent to laboratories for microbial testing each year. That market is growing dramatically, fostered in the last few years by concerns about our food and water safety, spread of disease and pandemics, antibiotic resistant microbes, hospital transmitted infections, and bio-terrorism.
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BIOSPEC believes the progression of TOGS™ Technology is leading towards wireless data transmission. Connecting the TOGS™ 9000 to a cell phone like device for data transmission to a laboratory much the same way pictures are sent by a cell phone will be cost effective, allowing the technology to penetrate the huge consumer market which presently isn't addressed.
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My friend, Debbie, is getting ready to bring their beautiful little girl, Naomi, home from Ethiopia. They have a Just Love Coffee store going to help them raise those last pennies they'll need to cover their adoption expenses. I've been wanting to buy some of her coffee for a looooong time, but y'all, my coffee maker broke about 6 months ago and for some reason I've never bought another one. (I get all the caffeine I need from my diet Pepsi addiction anyway!) So instead of buying coffee that I can't brew- I am going to buy coffee for YOU! 2 bags to be exact.
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This giveaway will end at 8pm on Thursday night (2/4)- so hurry and leave me a comment! I'll use random.org to get a winner. (Yes- you can enter both giveaways!)
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Snyder's Jewelry & Gift Stop Closing….family business since 1946
It all started in 1946. And it's ending here in 2012.
Kind of sad, yet everyone deserves retirement. And Pat Snyder says "now's the time."
Snyder's Jewelry & Gift Shop, a staple in downtown Watseka is currently involved with its GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE.
Pat Snyder's been involved since way back when his dad, Ralph Snyder, first started Snyder's Watch Shop in 1946. Now, Pat says, it's time to step aside………….
(to do) :24 # 37
Drastically reduced prices….40 to 70% Off…are attracting shoppers, old and new. And that finds the Snyder's staff enjoying staff many acquaintances from over the years.
Pat says it's been a fun run…for all the family…………..
(38 yrs) :28 # 38
One of the area's longest-serving jewelry stores has been such a success. Why now, Pat ?.......... (as I am) 1:27 # 39
And being a part of the Watseka community. That's sure to bring a warm smile to Pat Snyder and the family…………….
(jewelry store) 1:02 # 40
And for Pat Snyder, it's not just running a retail store, but performing the fine-art of tending to a precise craft………
(do that) :28 # 41
Snyder's Jewelry GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE continues in Watseka.
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13 Definitions of Case
The meaning of the word case, the definition of Case:
n. - A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
n. - A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
n. - A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
n. - An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
n. - A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
n. - Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
n. - That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
n. - A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
n. - The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
n. - One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
v. t. - To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
v. t. - To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
v. i. - To propose hypothetical cases.
The word "case" uses 4 letters: A C E S
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This is an excerpt from Dance Anatomy by Jacqui Haas.
Every dance technique requires intense control, which is provided by core strength. Consider the incredible technique of Irish dance. These dancers must hold the spine firm throughout all of their combinations. Their trunk placement must be intensely secure so they can move their legs and feet with incredible speed. In Irish or any other form of dance, the technique is demanding and injury can keep you from training and competing. Include core conditioning into your dance training to improve body placement and reduce risk of injury.
We know that ballroom, social, or partner dance is fluid and beautiful to watch, but it is also quick and powerful. The male partner needs to know where the female dancer's center is at all times. The swing, waltz, and salsa, to name a few, require extreme coordination. Both dancers need to hold their waists firm to provide stability for the pelvis for the quick footwork and challenging partnering movement. Strong core musculature provides for a safe and efficient lift in the upper spine. Once the upper back begins to move safely into extension, a more effective spiral in the spine can be executed. Ballroom encompasses all forms of social dancing: folk, Latin, and vintage dancing. This field is also highly competitive. The contestants are judged not only on footwork and style but on posture, body alignment, and speed. Knowing what we know about deep core strength, wouldn't a series of exercises designed to improve posture and body alignment help to improve the efficiency of the rehearsals? Even the noncompetitive social dancers will benefit from core training to improve their skills. Being centered and maintaining postural control will have long-term positive effects for anyone who enjoys social dancing.
Take a moment to look at the modified swan exercise on page 68. This exercise gives the female partner that beautiful placement of the spine and focuses on gentle thoracic extension. There is an elegant lift in the chest with a long arch through the midback.
Modern choreography requires more tricky and creative jump combinations as well as challenging movement patterns for the spine. Without the ability to compact the core against the spine, the movement will be sloppy and weak. Landing from these nontraditional jumping steps will create injury risks if the spine and pelvis are unprepared. With extreme choreography, dancers must now take their bodies to the extreme and their conditioning to the next level. While some dancers can execute modern contract-and-release styles with ease, other dancers need to practice more with spinal and pelvic stability in mind. Specific exercises in this chapter can help you engage core musculature while putting the spine in more nontraditional lines. Look at the variation to the oblique lift exercise (page 63) as well as the trunk twist (pag 70); both exercises focus on nontraditional movement with muscular support for the spine. The focus is on abdominal bracing while working in various planes and patterns.
Even if you are not interested in a career in professional ballet, you are probably required to take ballet technique classes as part of your training. If you enjoy watching ballet and take a couple of beginner ballet classes each week, you still need control for your spine. While other styles of dance are more grounded, classical ballet gives the illusion of a lifted, light, and airy quality. Ballet is based on various styles—Vaganova, Cechetti, Balanchine, and Bournonville—but the foundation stems from five basic positions with the legs turned out. This alone requires centering and abdominal control. For dancers of all ages who perform ballet, a strong center is extremely important for placement, turns, jumps, landing from jumps, and, of course, pointe work.We have Marie Taglioni to thank for being one of the pioneers in creating ballet movement en pointe! Ballet calls for extreme joint motion and torso control. Go back to our plumb line from chapter 2—alignment is crucial for spinal control and injury prevention. Once the alignment is learned, then strengthening can be emphasized.
As with all dance styles, the movement can be divided into phases: preparatory, ascending, flight, descending, and landing. The ascending phase usually engages muscles in a concentric-type contraction; the flight phase should have a "lift, hold, and hover" look, requiring extreme core strength and isometric contraction. The descending phase requires an eccentric contraction; some of the muscles lengthen but still support the movement while landing. This eccentric contraction and control on the descending phase are important for reducing injuries. Some studies show that landing from a grande jeté can create a force up to 12 times your body weight. This is why control is the key, and control comes from the core.
Learn more about Dance Anatomy.
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The Senate will soon vote on the Travel Promotion Act of 2009. The Act would create a government-run public relations campaign funded by a tax on international visitors. It is being touted as a way to increase travel to the United States. But the economic downturn has not just hit the United States—worldwide pocket books are feeling the crunch. Adding more money to the price tag of travel to the U.S. will likely just encourage international travelers to take a staycation, or spend their money on a trip to another country.
The U.S. tourism industry has definitely been hurt by the recent economic downturn. And it is a vital U.S. industry that must be supported. In 2008, foreign travelers spent more than $100 billion in the United States. Congress should focus, instead, on streamlining visa procedures and processes in a way that keeps Americans safe, but also encourages more folks to come here. The Visa Waiver Program—which allows foreign travelers from certain countries to come to the U.S. without a visa—is a great way to increase travel to the U.S., while stopping terrorists from ever getting here. Heritage Foundation's new Backgrounder, A Plan to Build on Success, describes how Visa Waiver meets both economic, public diplomacy, and security goals.
While taxes might put more money in the coffers of the federal government treasury, it won't do much to help this ailing sector of the economy. It's time for Congress to do what it needs to do—make travel easier—and leave the rest to the private sector.


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CT Pancreas Perfusion
|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: NCT00588367
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 8, 2008
Last Update Posted : April 15, 2015
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
- Pancreatic CT perfusion with a biofeedback breathing belt worn by the participant, and using novel post-processing techniques, is a reliable method which can be used to differentiate between pancreatic cancer, chronic pancreatitis, and autoimmune pancreatitis.
- Pancreatic CT perfusion can be used to monitor patients undergoing decompression treatment (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with stent placement) for painful chronic pancreatitis, and the change in the pancreatic perfusion parameters correlate with the change in the pain parameters (pain scale and analgesic use).
- Pancreatic CT perfusion parameters can be calculated using surrogate scan data sets at specific time points to replace the continuous scanning.
|Condition or disease
|Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Chronic Pancreatitis Autoimmune Pancreatitis
|Device: Mayo Interactive Breath Hold Monitor
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|CT Perfusion of Pancreatic Cancer and Chronic Pancreatitis: Feasibility Study
|Study Start Date :
|April 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2009
Suspected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Device: Mayo Interactive Breath Hold Monitor
Biofeedback device
Chronic pancreatitis and slated for decompression treatment.
Device: Mayo Interactive Breath Hold Monitor
Biofeedback device
Autoimmune pancreatitis.
Device: Mayo Interactive Breath Hold Monitor
Biofeedback device
- A reproducible technique to measure CT perfusion parameters may provide a method for non-invasively monitoring tumor response during treatment, or differentiating between autoimmune and chronic pancreatitis. [ Time Frame: Three weeks to three months for chronic pancreatitis. ]
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:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- a. Suspected pancreatic adenocarcinoma, age 35 to 99 years.
- a. Chronic pancreatitis with chronic pain, age 18 to 99 years. Must be a confirmed diagnosis by either CT, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
2b. To undergo endoscopic or surgical decompression with 0 to 10 days of first study visit CT perfusion scan.
2c. To answer pain questionnaire before first CT perfusion scan.
2d. To return within three weeks to three months after decompression treatment for another CT perfusion scan and complete the second pain questionnaire.
3a. Autoimmune pancreatitis, age 18 to 99 years either with diffuse or focal swelling of the pancreas confirmed by CT, MRI, or EUS or
3b. Irregular narrowing of the pancreatic duct on ERCP and either elevated serum immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4), or histological confirmation.
Exclusion Criteria:
1a. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tumors with vascular involvement but without vascular occlusion.
- b. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tumors less than 2 cm in size.
- a. Chronic pancreatitis with diffuse and extensive pancreatic calcification.
- a. Autoimmune pancreatitis with a prior pancreas surgery or steroid treatment for autoimmune pancreatitis .
Any Cohort:
4. Pregnant.
5. Prior iodine contrast reactions.
6. Iodine allergy.
7. Decreased kidney function being a serum creatinine greater than 1.5mg/dl.
8. Any contraindication to having a CT scan with iodine contrast.
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): NCT00588367
|United States, Minnesota
|Mayo Clinic
|Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
|Principal Investigator:
|Naoki Takahashi, M.D.
|Mayo Clinic
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Naoki Takahashi, Principal Investigator, Mayo Clinic
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 8, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 15, 2015
|Last Verified:
|April 2015
Chronic pancreatitis
Alcoholic pancreatitis
Carcinoma, pancreatic ductal
Pancreatic neoplasms
Pancreatitis, Chronic
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Pancreatic Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Agents