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I still feel like I'm on this amazing high from publishing my book. Part of me doesn't feel like it's real, and part of me is so proud of myself for actually getting "A Christmas For Toys" out to the public.
As you can tell from my book, I'm a big lover of all things Christmas. Actually, Christmastime is my absolute favorite time of the year. While I absolutely love celebrating Hanukkah with my dad, I think even he would agree that there's so much more magic involved with Christmas than with Hanukkah, but I'm glad that the two holidays always coincide with the same time of year.
Though I love everything Christmas related, I hate celebrating the holiday too early. For me, I think that the holiday season starts after Thanksgiving, but especially once it's December 1st. On the first day of December, I change my car radio to the Christmas station, and I start watching Christmas movies pretty much 24/7 with my mom. Unfortunately for us though, Christmas movies start playing early in November, and with the new cable package we have down here, we can pretty much record thousands of hours of television without filling up the DVR's capacity. So that means that we've got tons of Christmas movies already recorded, and our plan was to wait to watch them until after Thanksgiving.
Well you may be able to record thousands of hours of television, but Christmas movies take up a lot of space. If we had any hope of being able to keep recording our regular shows that we watch throughout the week, we had to watch some of the movies. So guess what we did today? Even though it broke all of our rules about Christmas, we sat down to watch a bunch of Christmas movies all in a row. Oh, we took a break to bathe the twins and have food and whatnot, but then it was right back to movies.
While I still loved the movies, it just didn't feel like Christmas yet. Maybe it's because the weather doesn't get cold down here... everyone's all bundled up back in New York, and I'm walking around in a tank top down here. Or maybe it's just the timing, and it'll feel more like Christmas after this week. I guess only time will tell!
I'm looking forward to seeing all of my Christmas favorites this year. Some movies just never get old. Among my favorites are:
What are some of your favorite Christmas movies to look forward to in the holiday season? Tell me in the comments!
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What are citrus galls?
Citrus galls are unsightly swellings caused by a tiny female citrus gall wasp (Bruchophagus fellis) which lays her eggs in the soft new growth of citrus trees in spring. As the new growth hardens off, a woody gall forms around the growing wasp larvae. Each gall contains many wasp larvae, each in their own separate cell within the gall. Citrus gall wasps affect all citrus varieties, but lemons and grapefruits are more susceptible to attack, while mandarins are the least susceptible. .
Here's what the culprits look like, they're a shiny little black wasp about 2-3mm long.
Adult citrus gall wasp (Bruchophagus fellis) close-up
(Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries)
Do citrus galls harm the tree?
Citrus gall wasp does not kill citrus trees, but it damages the tree nevertheless. Yes, the galls are ugly and unsightly, but the harm is more than just cosmetic. When a citrus tree is infested with galls, it weakens the tree, reducing fruit size, tree vigour and yield. Branches with citrus gall become thin, spindly and brittle, and produce shoots growing in strange directions, often into the tree, ruining the shape if left unpruned. In extreme cases, the galls can cause dieback of the branches.
Where do citrus gall wasps come from?
The citrus gall wasp Bruchophagus fellis is a Australian native pest of citrus trees in Queensland and mid to north NSW. The natural host of this pest wasp is the Australian finger lime (Citrus australasica). This pest has found its way down as far south as Melbourne, and they've been travelling south on the back of a truck, I'm not joking! Most of citrus trees produced commercially in Australia for the nursery industry are grown in the northern states, and growers ship citrus trees to the southern states via road transport.
In the northern states, citrus gall wasps have natural predators such as the parasitic wasps Megastigmus brevivalvus and Megastigmus trisulcus, which parasitize the pest's eggs to control the pest populations. These natural predators don't travel by truck to the southern states with citrus trees, and they can't tolerate the colder weather in the south of Australia either. Unfortunately the citrus gall wasps can handle the colder weather and have established themselves very well in the cooler Australian regions.
When are gall wasps active?
Citrus gall wasps hatching in spring, cut open to show inside of gall
(Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries)
In the southern regions of Australia, citrus gall wasps are active after they emerge from galls formed the previous year, from late September to mid December. Within this period, their numbers are greatest from mid October to mid November when they are laying eggs. The tiny adult wasps only live for 3–14 days depending on the temperature. Once the females mate, they lay their eggs under the green bark of soft new spring citrus growth, and each female can lay up to 100 eggs.
The larvae (wasp grubs) hatch from the eggs after 14–28 days, and begin feeding inside the young citrus branches for 9–10 months, causing the galls to form. As the larvae get bigger, the galls swell and grows in size. The wasp larvae will feed inside the gall right through the summer, autumn and winter, then they'll briefly pupate in spring to turn into adults. These new adult wasps chew their way out of the gall, emerging in spring to repeat the cycle once again. As we can see, there is only one generation per year.
Adult citrus gall wasps do not normally fly very far, but can be carried longer distances by winds or by human transportation of infested branches or trees.
Control methods for citrus gall wasp
There are several approaches to controlling gall wasp – notice I said controlling and not completely eradicating them, because it can't be done! The best results are achieved when multiple control methods are employed.
Firstly, we can use cultural controls – practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival.
Fertilizing – If we consider that adult gall wasps are present in spring and early summer and only attack soft new spring growth, we can reduce the amount of viable growth for them by reducing an excessive spring flush, and we achieve this by not over-fertilising citrus in early spring. The gall wasp problem is exacerbated by the use of high-nitrogen synthetic fertilizers which push out a lot of new soft and sappy growth very fast. Fertilizing later will produce a summer flush of new growth which will miss the peak citrus gall wasp period.
Pruning – In trees that have a few galls only, the galls should be pruned off, put in a plastic bag, tied shut and disposed of in the garbage bin. the other disposal option is to burn any gall-infected twigs and branches before the end of winter. If a tree is heavily infested with citrus gall, it can be pruned hard (do not remove more than one-third of the canopy in any one year as it can weaken the tree) at least one month before the citrus gall wasps emerge. Pruning will stimulate regrowth, and since the new growth can be attacked by citrus gall wasp it must be protected with a gall wasp trap.
Watering – The lower canopy of citrus trees areas appear to be favoured by citrus gall wasps, possibly because of shading and the more humid microclimate that such a location provides. Sprinkler irrigation below trees creates more humidity below the canopy, favouring the pest, while drip irrigation, which is a much better choice, creates a drier environment.
Insect Traps – The reproductive cycle of the pest can be broken by trapping the adult pest. Citrus gall wasps traps can be purchased and hung in trees to provide another cultural control method against this pest.
Citrus gall wasp trap hanging in a grapefruit tree.
A citrus gall wasp trap is a long plastic cylinder covered with horticultural glue, a very stick pest-trap glue similar to the type used for glue-banding trees to stop pests climbing up the trunk. The yellow colour is attractive to a lot of pest insects. The trap also contains a lure, a chemical inside it, which draws the pest in by scent.
One of the biggest mistakes people make with gall wasp traps is forgetting to twist the top to open the hole at the side so the lure scent can waft out, and then they complain that these traps don't work. When the hole for the lure chemical is closed shut, the trap is just a sticky yellow plastic cylinder!
These traps last for about 3-4 months, after which the lure chemical runs out and the sticky surface gets completely covered in insects. They're hung in the tree in August, the last month of winter, before the pests emerge in spring.
People mistakenly call these traps pheromone traps, but the lure is a general pest attractant, and not a pheromone. There's an important difference here, a pheromone is a specific substance that acts as a chemical messenger to attract a specific species only and elicit particular behaviour.
The lure in these traps is food grade ammonium bicarbonate, which releases a faint ammonia smell as it slowly decomposes into ammonia, carbon dioxide, and water. Since ammonia is naturally released during the decomposition of proteins and related substances, some insects use the smell of ammonia to guide them to food and to stimulate eating, so ammonium bicarbonate acts as a general feeding attractant for insects.
These traps will catch some flies and a few other insects too, I've been told by an entomologist that they'll trap some beneficial wasps, but I've never seen other beneficial insects such as bees, hoverflies, lacewing, ladybirds, spiders or praying mantises on these traps.
Citrus gall wasp trap ready to be replaced, this one's been out for a while and completely coved in bugs.
The glue on these citrus gall wasp traps is very strong, so it's best to hang them out of reach of curious pets and children. If you're worried about larger non-target insects or small birds making contact with the trap, you can build a small cage to house the trap in, which will let only smaller insects through, as pictured below. You can find instructions on how to build this gall wasp trap enclosure on the Bulleen Art & Garden Nursery website.
Gall wasp trap enclosure
(Source: Bulleen Art & Garden Nursery)
Biological controls such as the parasitic wasps Megastigmus brevivalvus and Megastigmus trisulcus discussed earlier, which parasitize the pest wasps eggs, are not viable in the much cooler southern states of Australia. In geographical locations where these natural predators can naturally establish themselves, they will offer some biological control, but in areas too cold to support them, they cannot be introduced as a biological control agent.
Chemical control is the last resort in integrated pest management (IPM), because they kill beneficial insects and make the pest problem worse, and they poison the environment and people.
According to the NSW Department of Primary Industries Citrus Research and Development Team, "Foliar insecticides are disruptive to IPM and do not always achieve effective CGW control due to the short residual periods of most foliar insecticides." Similarly, from Government of Western Australia, Department of Agriculture and Food, we receive a similar warning, "Note that pesticides are extremely disruptive to integrated pest management"
Some people just don't understand how spreading poisons in our environment eventually poisons us and everything else in the end, and they'll always ask what the farmers use and whether they can use the same. I'm a toxicologist and a horticulturist, so I'll answer that.
Why can't I just use the chemicals farmers use?
Current research by NSW DPI shows that a single application of a soil-applied systemic insecticide provides good control of citrus gall wasp in small to medium sized trees when applied in late spring to target the larvae that hatch from eggs inside the citrus branches. This method will not work satisfactorily for large mature trees. Systemic pesticides are ones that are absorbed by a plant or tree so that the poison circulates through the plant's tissues, poisoning any insect that eats it. The only soil-applied systemic chemical insecticide registered (permitted) agriculturally for gall wasp control is trademarked Samurai®, and the active ingredient is 500 g/kg clothianidin.
Why can't you use this in your home garden? Let's have a look at some information in the Sumitomo Samurai Systemic Insecticide Safety Data Sheet:
SECTION 2: Hazard(s) identification
- Health hazards Carc. 1B – H350 STOT RE 1 – H372
- Environmental hazards Aquatic Acute 1 – H400 Aquatic Chronic 1 – H410
Hazard statements
- Danger
- H350 May cause cancer.
- H372 Causes damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure.
- H400 Very toxic to aquatic life.
- H410 Very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects.
The rating "Health hazards Carc. 1B" indicates it's a class 1B carcinogen, which according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) rating, makes it a presumed human carcinogen. To better explain this, the IB category is defined as having carcinogenic potential for humans, largely based on animal evidence (that it does cause cancer in animals). That doesn't mean that humans aren't animals and aren't affected, just like every other animal, it means that this chemical hasn't been tested on human, for obvious ethical reasons, and there haven't been enough careless human accidental exposures to provide sufficient data.
On top of being a class IB carcinogen, clothianidin is also a neonicotinoid, the class of insecticides highly toxic to bees, implicated in wide-scale bee poisoning and banned in parts of Europe. The safety data sheets lists the LC50 Honey bees (acute oral toxicity) as 0.00379 μg/bee and the LC50 Honey bees (48-hour acute contact) as 0.04426 μg/bee. To put this into perspective, compare this to the bee toxicity ratings below.
- If the LD50 Honey bees (acute contact) is less than or equal to 2 micrograms per bee, the pesticide is classified as Toxicity Category I, "highly toxic to bees."
- If the LD50 Honey bees (acute contact) is less than 11 but greater than 2 micrograms per bee, the pesticide is classified as Toxicity Category II, "toxic to bees."
- If the LD50 Honey bees (acute contact) is greater than 11 micrograms per bee, the pesticide is classified as Toxicity Category III), "relatively nontoxic", and no bee caution statement is required on the label.
The bee toxicity of clothianidin is over 45 times more toxic than the level required to classify a pesticide as "highly toxic to bees."
According to the organization Beyond Pesticides, clothianidin is a member of the the neonicotinoid family of systemic pesticides, which are taken up by a plant's vascular system and expressed through pollen, nectar and guttation droplets from which bees then forage and drink. That means that every part of the plant becomes poisonous, posing a high risk to bees.
Looking at data from United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), we see that Clothianidin is also highly persistent.
- An aerobic soil degradation study was conducted with three different soils.Calculated half lives (DT50) were 143, 227,and 490 days for silt, silt loam, and loamy sand, respectively.
- A second aerobic soil degradation study was conducted with two silt loam soils.Calculated half lives (DT50) for the silt loam soils were 541 and 808 days.
- A photolysis study was conducted on a soil surface.The half live was calculated as 8.2 days.
What this means is that clothianidin stays in the soil, and stays toxic for a very long time, and any plants growing in the contaminated soil will take up the pesticide.
The US EPA conforms the FAO findings and also tells us that Clothianidin is highly mobile, gets carried with water to non-target locations and can end up leaching into groundwater. Here is an extract from the USA EPA document on Clothianidin:
"Clothianidin appears to be a persistent compound under most field conditions. Based on analysis of the laboratory studies alone, the major route of dissipation for clothianidin would appear to be photolysis if exposure to sunlight occurs (e.g., the measured aqueous photolysis half-life was <1 day and aerobic half-lives were 148 to 1155 days). Although photolysis appears to be much more rapid than other avenues of degradation/dissipation of clothianidin in the laboratory studies, the very slow rate of dissipation that was observed in field studies suggests that photolysis probably is not significant under most actual-use conditions. Photolysis may be quite important in surface waters if residues have reached clear bodies of water and are in solution rather than bound to sediment. Clothianidin is stable to hydrolysis at environmental pHs and temperatures. Degradation is also relatively rapid under anaerobic aquatic conditions (overall half-life of 27 days); however, metabolic degradation occurs very slowly in aerobic soil. Clothianidin is mobile to highly mobile in the laboratory [soil organic carbon partition coefficients (Koc) values were 84 to 129 for all test soils except for a sandy loam soil which had a Koc value of 3451, although only a modest amount of leaching was observed in the submitted field studies. Previous studies have confirmed that compounds with a similar combination of mobility and persistence characteristics have a potential to leach to ground water at some use sites. Volatilization is not expected to be a significant dissipation process."
This pesticide is insidious in its capacity to contaminate produce. If we look at the "Sumitomo Chemical TECH UPDATE – SPRING 2016, Samurai® for control of citrus gall wasp (Bruchophagus fellis) in grapefruit, lemons, limes, mandarins and oranges" media release, we see what happens when it's used on citrus.
"Withholding period – Harvest: DO NOT harvest for 19 weeks after application. Grazing: DO NOT graze treated area or cut treated area for stock feed."
The citrus becomes toxic and can't be eaten for 19 weeks, or nearly 5 months! That doesn't mean that residue levels are zero after that, there are warnings in the same document regarding residual pesticide levels in produce destined for export.
These are the very reasons why only farmers with restricted chemical permits are allowed to use these extremely toxic pesticides. Imagine what would happen in urban areas if the irresponsible public could use this stuff. They would poison themselves, their children, pets and neighbours in no time. The fact that farmers can use pesticides this poisonous on food is a real concern.
Now, to put pest management into perspective, consider the problem that citrus gall creates for a backyard gardener, and then compare this to the shocking risk of spraying something that causes cancer in people, hangs around the soil for years and makes edible plants toxic from top to bottom, and is extremely toxic bees. So, do you still want something to spray? Want some more chemicals?
The Government of Western Australia, Department of Agriculture and Food, tells us that "The only insecticide currently registered for control of citrus gall wasp is methidathion (Supracide®). Supracide® is a non-systemic pesticide. It kills adults on contact and needs to be correctly timed to be effective. Apply Supracide® to the spring flush of infested trees four weeks after gall wasp emergence is completed. As this pesticide is currently under review and may be removed from use, consult Infopest or the Agricultural Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) prior to use."
It's no surprise that it's under review and may be removed from sale! Methidathion is an organophosphate pesticide, this class of pesticides was derived from nerve gas developed during World War II. Its use is banned in the European Community. It interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses and has been implicated in the poisoning of farm workers and children in rural areas, leading to neurological and developmental problems. The EPA has also classified the pesticide as a possible human carcinogen.
Methidathion is among the top pesticides associated with pesticide poisonings, and in 2001, the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency cancelled all methidathion registrations, noting the high risk it posed to workers and the environment, especially when safer alternatives were available. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation listed methidathion as a toxic air contaminant in 2008, because of its neurotoxic effects, its carcinogenic properties, and its capacity to drift far from the farm fields where it is used, being found in the air in distant places such as in Sequoia National Park.
It should be obvious by now declaring chemical warfare on pests with extremely poisonous synthetic chemicals is a recipe for disaster.
Now that we've got that out of the way, there's one more cultural control I want to discuss.
The problem with dwarf citrus – when NOT to prune
Dwarf citrus are regular citrus grafted onto a dwarfing rootstock, suck as 'Flying Dragon' rootstock. There are very few ungrafted genetic dwarf citrus varieties around. The thing to consider with dwarf citrus is that they grow to 1.5m (5') tall by 1.5m (5') wide… after 5 years! They're great for containers, but at that growth rate you need some measure of patience. When you do the maths, you realize that they grow approximately 30cm (1') per year. So what you may say?
Well consider the advice to prune out galls from citrus. If you prune off 30cm off the top, you've lost a years growth! Is this a problem? I've seen far too many cases where I've been shown tiny, sorry looking citrus trees in pots and told they were a few years old, that had to be pruned for gall.
If we don't prune dwarf citrus, what can you do to prevent the spread of gall wasps? We can use Nature to help us out, especially the cold winter winds.
Some new gardeners mistakenly plant evergreen plants and trees in winter (spring or autumn as second preference is the time to plant evergreens) and wonder why they die. They assume there's plenty of water in winter, but they forget that there's no root growth, the roots are no larger than the pot they came in, and that cold winter winds can really dry plants out. When the pot-sized root ball uses up the small amount of water it can reach, and there's no rain for a few days, the evergreen tree or plant dries out and dies from lack of water – in winter.
We can use the drying effect of cold winter winds (or warmer season winds if we spot the galls that are beginning to form early enough) to kill the citrus gall wasp larvae without pruning off the branch.
To kill the gall wasp larvae, I use sharp secateurs to shave one side off the gall, opening up a 'window', which will dry out the pests inside, and possibly heal over in time if done early enough. You can use a pruning knife or any other blade for the task, just remember safety first when handling sharp tools!
NOTE: for safe blade handling, always cut away from your body or other hand, that way if the blade encounters resistance then cuts through, the sharp blade will not be moving towards your hands or body!
Shaving off the side of the gall causes the gall wasp larvae inside to dry out, which kills them
There's no need to go too deep, just enough to get the wood to dry out a bit, which will lead to the demise of the pests no longer protected inside. In this picture I've used large galls quite late in the season to make it easier to see the pests. Ideally you should shave the sides of the citrus galls of when they first appear, this will minimise the cosmetic damage and make it easier for the tree to heal over. When galls are advanced, the little grubs have eaten a lot of the wood inside, making the branch brittle.
This is what the completed cut should look like, take too much off and the branch will break or not heal properly, take too little off and the pests might survive
A close-up of a citrus gall with the side sliced off showing pests inside
If the citrus galls are covered in little holes, then it's too late, the young wasps have already hatched, chewed their way out of the gall, and flown off to infect new citrus spring growth.
Here's a close-up of an old citrus gall from which the gall wasps have already emerged. If this has happened and the branch becomes unproductive, then it may be a better option in the long term to prune the gall off to get stronger new growth.
In case you're wondering, if your neighbours have an unmanaged citrus tree that is badly infested with gall wasp, if it overhands your fence, as a preventive measure you can hang a gall wasp trap on their tree. I've done that with my neighbours tree, which is more gall than lemon tree but somehow manages to produce more lemons than anyone can use.
- NSW Department of Primary Industries – Citrus gall wasp in Southern Australia, October 2016 Primefact 2010, 3rd edition, NSW DPI Citrus Research and Development Team
- Government of Western Australia, Department of Agriculture and Food, Citrus gall wasp in Western Australia
- Beyond Pesticides – Clothianidin & CCD Fact Sheet
- United Nations FAO – Clothianidin Toxicology
- US EPA-Pesticides – Clothianidin
- Beyond Pesticides – Lawsuit Challenges EPA on Four Deadly Pesticides, April 7, 2008


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I buy a LOT of fruit…..especially when Alice comes to GrammaCamp. That girl can eat a whole container of raspberries! She loves every fruit, and I try to get Fresh whenever possible……instead of canned, which is fine, too.
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In December, Nelson Mullins lawyer Rhys Wilson wrote a very good article for Industry Today about how to prepare a business for sale. I liked both the content of his points and the order that he addressed them:
1st - Know your minimum sales price. Not second, not later, not based on what the market says. Do this first. In the article, Rhys explains the complexity of reaching a solid number. A thoughtful financial planner will identify things most of us would never think of.
For this blog post, I want to focus on conviction. Choosing a minimum sales price you believe in will anchor you during whatever decisions come next.
2nd - Know the value of your business. Rhys makes the point that this doesn't have to be a formal valuation. Second, not first, get an estimate from a M&A advisor (investment banker, business broker or consultant like Oaklyn Consulting) about where companies like yours might trade, so that you can compare your 'minimum sales price' with a 'possible sales price' and start to quantify your 'deal' and 'no deal' options.
3rd - Reduce risk = Increase value. In other words, start to change the value of the business by fixing the things that keep a business from being a market-ready asset. Most private businesses are not managed to be sold on any given day, and making a business market-ready takes time. Rhys's article includes some important headlines, and introductory conversations with thoughtful lawyers, accountants, M&A advisors can add helpful insight.
My recommendation: work through these steps with advisors who have your best interests in mind, will not push you into a deal, and will help you identify and quantify all your options.
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DI-B4 will be given weekly by intravenous infusion for four weeks. The study is in two parts. In Part 1, small groups of patients will be treated at increasing doses to find the highest safest dose and best dose for part 2 of the study. Approximately 16-20 patients will be treated in this part. In Part 2, the dose identified in Part 1 will be given to approximately 20 patients.
Patients recruited to the study will receive four weeks (cycles) of treatment. They will attend an end of therapy visit eight weeks after their last dose of DI-B4, and attend follow-up visits up to eighteen months after their first dose of DI-B4. Information on the overall and progression free survival will be collected for a period up to eighteen months after the final patient is treated on the study.
Patients will have blood and urine samples taken each week during treatment amongst other clinical tests. CT scans will be performed at the start of the study, at eight weeks post treatment and six months after the study start. Bone marrow biopsies and FDG-PET scans will only be taken if needed. Research blood samples will also be taken to look at what happens to the drug inside the body.
It is important to explain that patients will have advanced cancer so it is unlikely that patients will benefit directly from taking part but the study may help improve future treatment of cancer.
|Condition or disease
|Indolent B-cell Lymphoma Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia
|Drug: DI-B4
|Phase 1
Patients with relapsed or refractory CD19 positive indolent B-cell lymphoma, Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia or chronic lymphocytic leukaemia will be entered into this study.
For the vast majority of patients, B-cell non Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia are incurable using existing therapeutic approaches.
Although anti-CD20 directed therapy has improved outcomes, more than fifty percent of patients still relapse following treatment or are refractory to it and therefore additional novel non-cross resistant therapies are urgently required.
DI-B4 is a humanised, low-fucosylated anti-CD19 Immunoglobulin (Ig) G1 monoclonal antibody with potent antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) but minimal complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC). The target antigen, CD19, is the canonical B-cell marker that is expressed on all B-cells including the malignant B-cells in NHL, CLL and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The CD19 antigen is therefore an attractive B-cell lineage specific target for monoclonal antibody therapy. DI-B4 is expected to act through the depletion of normal and malignant CD19 positive cells, primarily via ADCC.
This is a multi-centre, Phase I, dose escalation/dose expansion study. For the first three cohorts, an intra-patient dose escalation scheme will be followed unless a DLT is observed. From Cohort 4 onwards, a standard 3 + 3 dose escalation schedule of DI-B4 will be continued until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is defined, up to a maximum dose of 1000mg.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|28 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Cancer Research UK Phase I Trial of the Anti-CD19 DI-B4 Monoclonal Antibody Given Intravenously, Weekly for Four Weeks, in Patients With Advanced CD19 Positive Indolent B-cell Malignancies
|Study Start Date :
|April 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 14, 2017
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 14, 2017
- Drug: DI-B4
DI-B4 will be administered once weekly for up to a total of four weeks. The starting dose will be 0.02 mg given as an intravenous infusion. A cycle is 1 week in duration and patients should expect to receive a maximum of 4 cycles.
- To recommend a dose for future trials with a new drug called DI-B4 by finding the highest safe dose which can be given to patients [ Time Frame: 38 Months ]
- Measuring of PK parameter values for DI-B4 including AUC, Cmax, Tmax, and half life T1/2. [ Time Frame: Samples taken during the four weeks of treatment and analysed in batches per cohort within 6 months of sampling ]
- To evaluate the effect of DI-B4 on the depletion of peripheral blood and bone marrow B-cells. [ Time Frame: Samples taken during the four weeks of treatment, and for 18 month follow-up and analysed in batches per cohort within 6 months of sampling ]
- To look for signs of anti-tumour activity of DI-B4 in patients with relapsed or refractory indolent B-cell malignancies. [ Time Frame: 38 months ]
- To assess immunogenicity of DI-B4 in patients with relapsed or refractory indolent B-cell malignancies [ Time Frame: 54 months ]
- To measure the time to disease progression and eighteen month survival [ Time Frame: 54 months ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Histologically proven relapsed or refractory indolent B-cell lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Patients must have received at least one line of previous therapy.
2. CD19 positive malignancy as demonstrated by immunohistochemistry or flow cytometry
3. Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks
4. World Health Organisation (WHO) performance status of 0-1
5. Haematological and biochemical indices within the ranges shown below. These measurements must be performed within one week (Day -7 to Day 1) before the patient commences treatment with DI-B4.
Laboratory Test Value required Haemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 9.0 g/dL (red cell support is permissible), Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.0 x 10^9/L (or ≥0.5 x 10^9/L if bone marrow involvement), Platelet count ≥75 x 10^9/L (or ≥30 x 10^9/L if bone marrow involvement), Serum bilirubin ≤1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN), unless raised due to Gilbert's syndrome in which case up to 3 x ULN is permissible Alanine amino-transferase (ALT) and/or aspartate amino-transferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 x (ULN) unless raised due to hepatic involvement in which case up to 5 x ULN is permissible
6. 18 years or over
7. Written (signed and dated) informed consent and be capable of co-operating with treatment and follow-up
8. Indolent B-cell lymphoma patients only: Patient has either at least one measurable lesion by CT scan (defined as >1.5 cm in one axis) or in the case of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, disease must be assessable by the protocol criteria.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Radiotherapy (except for palliative reasons), endocrine therapy, immunotherapy, chemotherapy or investigational medicinal products during the previous 4 weeks before treatment.
2. Ongoing toxic manifestations of previous treatments. Exceptions to this are alopecia or certain Grade 1 toxicities, which in the opinion of the Investigator and the Drug Development Office (DDO) should not exclude the patient.
3. Known to be serologically positive for hepatitis B (unless due to vaccination), hepatitis C or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
4. Patients with clinically active leptomeningeal or central nervous system lymphoma/leukaemia.
5. Patients with transformed lymphoma from a pre-existing indolent lymphoma. Patients with a previous history of transformation, but on this disease episode have a biopsy proven indolent recurrence may be included.
6. Patients receiving corticosteroids, except where the patient has been on a stable dose for the preceding seven days. Doses of prednisolone or equivalent >10 mg daily are not permitted whilst on the study, doses up to 20mg can be taken any time prior to Cycle 1, Day 1
7. Concurrent congestive heart failure, prior history of class III/ IV cardiac disease (New York Heart Association [NYHA]), history of unstable angina pectoris or myocardial infarction up to 1 year prior to patient enrolment into the trial, presence of severe valvular heart disease or presence of a ventricular arrhythmia requiring treatment
8. Ability to become pregnant (or already pregnant or lactating). However, those female patients who have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test before enrolment and agree to use two highly effective forms of contraception (oral, injected or implanted hormonal contraception and condom, have an intra-uterine device and condom, diaphragm with spermicidal gel and condom) during the trial and for six months afterwards are considered eligible.
9. Male patients with partners of child-bearing potential (unless they agree to take measures not to father children by using one form of highly effective contraception [condom plus spermicide] during the trial and for six months afterwards). Men with pregnant or lactating partners should be advised to use barrier method contraception (e.g. condom plus spermicidal gel) to prevent exposure to the foetus or neonate.
10. Major thoracic or abdominal surgery from which the patient has not yet recovered.
11. At high medical risk because of non-malignant systemic disease including active uncontrolled infection.
12. Is a participant or plans to participate in another interventional clinical trial, whilst taking part in this Phase I study of DI-B4. Participation in an observational trial would be acceptable.
13. Any other condition which in the Investigator"s opinion would not make the patient a good candidate for the clinical trial.
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): NCT01805375
|United Kingdom
|Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust
|Liverpool, United Kingdom, L7 8XP
|The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
|Manchester, United Kingdom, M20 4BX
|The Churchill Hospital
|Oxford, United Kingdom, OX3 7LE
|Derriford Hospital
|Plymouth, United Kingdom, PL6 8DH
|University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
|Southampton, United Kingdom, S016 6YD
|Responsible Party:
|Cancer Research UK
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 6, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 5, 2018
|Last Verified:
|February 2018
Phase I, Cancer, CD19 positive, B-Cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Leukemia, B-Cell
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
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H.R.4560 - Auction Reform Act of 2002107th Congress (2001-2002)
|Rep. Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [R-LA-3] (Introduced 04/24/2002)
|House - Energy and Commerce
|Committee Reports:
|H. Rept. 107-443
|Latest Action:
|06/19/2002 Became Public Law No: 107-195. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
This bill has the status Became Law
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- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- Resolving Differences
- To President
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Summary: H.R.4560 — 107th Congress (2001-2002)All Information (Except Text)
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Auction Reform Act of 2002 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to determine the timing of and deadlines for the conduct of competitive bidding for, and the auctioning of, electromagnetic spectrum used by analog television broadcasters.
Passed Senate amended (06/18/2002)
Prohibits the FCC from commencing or conducting spectrum auctions 31 and 44 on June 19, 2002. Provides exceptions for the auction of certain C- and D-block licenses within the 700 megahertz band, requiring that auction to occur between August 19 and September 19, 2002. Requires the FCC to: (1) report to Congress specifying when it intends to reschedule such auctions and describing progress made in the transition from analog to digital television and in the assignment and allocation of additional spectrum for advanced mobile communications services that warrants the scheduling of such auctions; (2) return to the bidders for specified licenses of auction 44 the full amount of all up-front payments made; and (3) conduct auctions 31 and 44 prior to the September 30, 2007, termination of such auction authority.
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve television broadcast licensees of their current obligation to complete conversion from analog to digital television.
Prohibits the FCC, in granting a request by a television broadcast station licensee assigned to any of channels 52-69 to utilize any of channels 2-51 assigned for digital broadcasting in order to continue analog broadcasting during the transition to digital broadcasting, from waiving or otherwise reducing the current spacing requirements provided for analog broadcasting licensees within channels 2-51, or the interference standards provided for digital broadcasting licensees within such channels, if such waiver or reduction will result in any degradation or loss of service or an increased level of interference to any television household except as the FCC's rules would otherwise expressly permit. (Excludes any waivers previously granted.) Makes such restrictions inapplicable to a licensee seeking authority to vacate the frequencies that constitute channels 63, 64, 68, or 69 in order to make such frequencies available for public safety purposes.


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It's been awhile since I've posted. That's because, frankly, I am so completely disgusted at our president and inside-the-beltway politicians, and less and less able to see a way out.
The two biggest issues of our time are education and childlessness. Not only are these tough problems to fix – the fixes take a long time.
Il-educated by unionized "educators," we have now generations of ignorant voters. These ignorant voters vote into office the extremists on the Right and Left.
No, the parties have NOT been captured by "Special interests," they have been captured by the extremes.
How do you get extremes? Lack of education. By definition those in the extreme are ignorant. (Remember, it was the Dean of the Boston College School of Education who, in an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal in 1985, wrote that the students in the Schools of Education were the "dregs" of the student populace, and the "laughingstock" of the university students in academic disciplines. And he was the DEAN….)
Whose fault? Unions, pure and simple. Education has declined quickly – and steadily – since the advent of unionized teachers. The largest national study of the impact of teacher unions, done by Dr Caroline Hoxby (Harvard), showed that the faster a teacher union took power in a district, and the more power it was allowed to take, the greater the decline in test scores and the faster the increase in dropout rates. If you don't believe me, ask yourself why so many public school teachers send their own kids to private school….
Democrats don't "care about the children;" get real.
No serious republic that cared about its future EVER would allow unionization of the most important job in a democratic society – the education of the voters, or the holding of that position by any other than the best among us. To comment that many, perhaps most, maybe all, of our teachers are NOT the best among us… seems … unnecessary.
But – re-read those words: "No serious republic that cared about its future…"
Which is, of course, the second major issue: Those demanding social welfare policies, and that contradiction in terms, the oxymoronic "Social Justice," don't have kids. These policies are a free lunch for them. Just like Europe, which is dying demographically even more quickly than Blue-state America: These social welfare folks HAVE NO KIDS. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE. They understand that – when the bills come due — THEY WON'T HAVE TO PAY THEM, NOR WILL THEIR NONEXISTENT CHILDREN.
TAKE from society NOW and DON'T return later – the "Progressive" way.
All these pundits clamoring about stealing the future from our children either don't understand what is really happening – or are unwilling to lay the blame where it truly lies: On those entitlement voters who don't have kids: Democrats.
If these columnists either understood what's happening, or had the guts to print it, they'd be writing this:
"Childless Democrats demand all future Centrist and Conservative children pay for Democrat entitlements for the lazy today."
Voters in the Center need to understand what is happening. The Right can't fix this problem alone – and the Right is too stupid on too many issues to be trusted with the future of America, anyway – at least not without the restraining guidance of the Center.
It isn't any longer about does someone want an entitlement. It's about those without kids stealing the future from other people's children.
It isn't about Left or Right on the environment or war or abortion or politics… It's about who will be here for the future (and to pay for that future), and will it look Bladerunner or a 'Shining City on a Hill'?
I think we know which party supports – and enacts legislation based on – which view, correct?
Take healthcare for example: The voters who demanded it are entitlement lackeys – Democrats, in other words. Look at Blue-State demographics: They ALL are in net population decline. But – who will PAY for healthcare? Or for the $1T + deficits Obama and the Democrats are running-up…annually for the next TEN YEARS!
Will Democrats pay for them? How about their children or grandchildren? Are we talking about equal distribution across society of the cost of these entitlements?
Not only NO, but Hell No. DEMOCRATS DON'T HAVE KIDS.
Sort the table in the link above – Red states have fertility levels above replacement of 2.1 (replacement); Blue states don't. The exceptions? States like New Mexico and Colorado, both hugely red other than their largest city – where the Democrats live. Point? It isn't the Democrats having kids.
The voters demanding entitlements know THEY are not going to pay the bills when they come due. And as they have no children it won't be THEIR kids paying the bills… and with no children come no grandchildren…. Basically only those AGAINST this bill, AGAINST these entitlements, AGAINST the welfare state are going to be paying for that welfare state…. THAT THEY DO NOT WANT… And when they die it'll be THEIR kids.. and then THEIR kids ad infinitum.
This is the reason for dissatisfaction by the fiscally-conservative with the welfare state demanded by the extremes in control of the Democrat Party: Fiscally conservative voters are being forced to lower the standard of living for their FAMILIES – FAMILIES Democrats DON'T HAVE – to under-write entitlements for whining, lazy members of society –and of the species – who don't even procreate.
How stupid is THAT?
In what ecosystem, on what planet, in what dimension, do members of a species consume resources and not reproduce?
Fiscally conservative citizens are being forced to work hard to support civilizational and cultural parasites, to have stolen from their OWN CHILDREN the fruits of THEIR LABOR and have it GIVEN – not EARNED, given to lazy, literally-good-for-nothing, entitlement-demanding Democrat voters.
You may comment that lots of inner-city Democrat voters have kids. Sure – but no one can make the argument that inner-city kids become responsible adults raising responsible families in any quantity large enough to be statistically significant. Why? Democrat "leaders" ensure they see themselves as victims rather than participants in society, stay poor and stay on the plantation.
Democrat voters, rather than risk not getting the Democrat Black vote (without which the Democrats would not have won a national election since before 1960, BTW), give these entitlements to them – by stealing them from voters in the Center and on the Right – voters who HAVE CHILDREN. Voters who CARE about the future.
And when Blacks vote or talk about GOP themes such as fiscal sanity – they are tossed under the racial bus driven by the Left in complete contravention of Dr King's words: "The content of their character."
And inner-city Hispanics? If the GOP had fourteen working brains cells in DC or in the RNC, we would have gained both Black and Hispanic voters already: Both are culturally conservative groups, both want a better education than that being rammed down their throats by leftist unions, both want the higher wages a closing of the border would bring them. And Blacks, since they enter the workforce sooner and die younger, basically spend their entire working lives having Social Security drained from their paychecks to pay for the retirement of old white folks – NOT developing wealth that can stay in their community. But does the GOP even BRING THIS UP?
If the GOP leadership were conscious, they'd bring this up every day. They would recognize that CLOSING the border – and legalizing all illegals now here (there is no practicable, sane, humanitarian alternative), could, if properly campaigned, give the GOP the Black and Hispanic vote forever.
Fact: Including the economic multiplier, Mexico gets about 15% of its GDP from money sent home to it from Mexicans in America. Mexico would be a totally failed state – and a far worse disaster for America – if we tossed-out all the illegals. But if we managed the situation properly, built a hell-of-a-strong wall and legalized everyone here, we could begin to fix this problem. And if the GOP had a pair it'd force the discussion in this direction and become the party standing-up for a conservative, hardworking immigrant group that the Democrats just want to keep in the economic gutter.
Sure it'd take a while. But we've sat on our asses collectively NOT enforcing our own immigration law since 1976, through Administrations and Congresses of BOTH parties. How can one justify punishing those working hard and seeking a better life because WE refused to enforce OUR laws?
Dr John Searle: "The Right is too stupid to discuss; but the Left is evil."
And if you doubt the hardworking nature of illegal immigrants, here's an experiment for you: If you live in a large city and have beggars at all the freeway offramps, and day laborers at Home Depot, start looking at these folks and ask yourself: "what race are they?"
White and Blacks are standing there with signs for a handout. Hispanics are selling flowers, peanuts, oranges, whatever. And it's Hispanics populating the day-labor slots at Home Depot. Who is knocking on your door to shovel your snow? Mow your lawn? The neighborhood white kid? A Black kid from the inner city trying to get ahead? Nope: a Hispanic, probably a Mexican working for a better life rather than begging for a day's handout.
This column by Steyn is an excellent comment on the world today. But he dances around the fact that those voting for fiscal insanity are the same voters who refuse to have children to help pay for that insanity.
Someone in a position of power needs to begin standing up and telling anyone and everyone who will listen the following two points of fact:
1. It is the extremes – gained through lack of education brought to us by Leftist unions – that are controlling both parties and driving us off a cliff.
2. Those demanding entitlements aren't populating the culture to pay for them – only those demanding fiscal sanity are populating the culture – and are having the future stolen from their children and grandchildren by those who demand all but return none – not even children to pay for their profligacy.
This has got to stop.
Democrat state voters have got to be outvoted by the Center… or America is done.
Conservatives and Centrist voters…. have children, e.g a belief in the future. Democrats… don't… and don't.
Being intelligent voters, non-Democrats also are smart enough to understand that Democrat voters, by putting an absolute enemy of America and of Western Civilization in the White House, are robbing Conservative and Centrist children and grandchildren — AMERICA'S children, given that Dems DON'T HAVE CHILDREN – of any future other than that of Greece.
Newsflash for the political Center: Democrat voters DON'T CARE about the future – they aren't going to be here and they know it. And, parasitic babies that they are, they are perfectly willing to steal from you and your offspring for generations to pay for their insane, childish demands of today. THEY DON'T CARE.
Do you know what the national debt was in 1972, just before the Baby Boomer liberals of 1968 began holding office? $400B. And for that we had invented the modern world of vaccines, road, rail, auto, air and space travel, computers, communications and won all the wars we tried to win.
Now, 40 years later, the debt is $12TRILLION… and we have invented NOTHING (even the internet began life in the mid-1960s as ARPANet in the Dept of Defense; Boomer's parents, not Boomers, invented it). All we have for $12T of Debt…. is $12T of failed social welfare programs. And statist, il-educated, anti-American voters demanding more welfare, more entitlements, more failure….. MORE, always MORE….from YOUR children's future.
It is time – past time – for the Center to wake-up and recognize that the Left is killing America's future – and robbing America's children to do so.
It is time to stop this. Only the Center can do it.


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It's back.
Another edition of Trailer Talk that is.
And also- err– Prem.
Prem as in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.
As in that obnoxious Salman Khan character who reminds you of every single slightly lecherous family friend who hit on you at weddings. You know the type. He is the son of that obscenely rich relative who flirts with the subtlety of an axe cutting a twig, and is convinced that he is the smartest guy in the room. The one who all the mausis love , because of his slightly ribald sense of humour, the one you avoid because you just knew he would ask you why you don't smile enough, or laugh at your idealism in a knowing way.
Not surprisingly, those mausis (and the boys they tolerated), made the celluloid Prem a resounding success, and even as you squirmed in second-hand embarassment through the whole of Hum Aapke Hain Koun, they lapped it up and dreamed of a damaad like him. He would be impossible to live with- you'd argue. He would make any girl happy, they'd say with stars in their eyes.
That Prem is back- and in fact the entire trailer is an exercise in reminding you just how much you missed that Prem (you didn't, really).
And then there's the other problem.
When Prem was twenty-something you could blame a lot of his over the top personality to his being a sheltered young man just coming into his own. You held out hope that eventually he would calm down, and learn that those technicolored shirts weren't a great idea. You hoped that experience would teach him that women don't necessarily respond to his style of seduction, and that the mausis who pulled his cheeks are also responsible for keeping him in a state of arrested adoloscence.
But now he's nearly fifty. He still likes those wispy young things, he still hits on them with the subtlety of a Sehwag sixer, and his dress sense has clearly not improved.
Everything is glitzier now. While once he came from a world of over-the-top affluence, he is a prince of some sort now. Where a scruffy Pomeranian made his animal entourage a couple of decades ago, there are horses and horse-driven carriages now. Where Mohnish Behl looked slightly out of place acting as a credible foil to him in Maine Pyar Kiya, he has a buff ex-Bigg Boss participant now . And his love interest – is the impossibly beautiful, but woefully miscast Sonam Kapoor. She doesn't have Bhagyashree's demureness, nor Madhuri Dixit's star wattage. She wants to make films for young girls, and young girls love her. But here she is- stuck in a film she probably wouldn't watch herself, desperate for a Blockbuster against her name.
And then there are the stories- of the things that Prem did in the interim since you last saw him. He wants you to forget them and focus on how "family" oriented he is. But you can't unsee their ravages on his face, botox be damned.
When this Prem asks you to be thankful that you have a family (albeit with Upen Patel shaped problems), your mind rushes to the family he has allegedly destroyed, and you shudder. And yes, if the film is sufficiently good it can perhaps transport you out of real life crimes and misdemeanours. But this is not it.
Prem may be back.
But the doors to your house are closed.


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Make sure your flash investment pays off
Colm Keegan of Storage Switzerland discusses ways to ensure your flash investment meets your needs --now and in the future.
Many data centers have made an initial foray into flash-based storage.
The first stage of flash adoption is sometimes motivated to solve a performance problem for a specific application. But, frequently, end users become so enthralled with the performance of flash that they begin demanding it across a broader set of applications.
In this article, you will learn the variety of flash investment options in the market and how to make the transition from purchasing a point flash product to a data center-wide flash product.
Flash precision strike
Flash storage products are available in a variety of implementation options. From server-side flash PCIe cards, DRAM memory modules and drive form factor SSDs, to network and array-based flash storage systems. Each technology has its own distinct advantages and disadvantages, but what is more important is how these products can scale across the data center. Flash is significantly more expensive than hard disk drive storage on a cost per GB basis, so IT planners must ensure their investment in flash pays off.
Many organizations dip their toes in the flash waters by deploying server-side flash products. This represents a highly targeted approach since the flash resource can be installed right where the application lives -- on the host. What's more, server-side flash offerings from companies such as Intel, HGST, Virident and Toshiba typically provide lower latencies than other forms of flash because there is no storage network for read and write IOs to traverse; instead data passes over the backplane of the server motherboard.
Flash islands
One of the challenges with a server-side flash investment is the flash resources are captive to the host. If the host only uses a sliver of flash capacity, there's potentially a lot of expensive storage that's going to waste. This may not be regarded as a significant issue if flash is installed on just a handful of hosts, but if there are dozens of servers each with their own flash resources, low utilization will drive up the cost of flash ownership significantly.
Another major functional consideration with regards to server-side flash is how to best support virtual machine (VM) migrations. If a VM on a host with flash installed needs to move to another server, the administrator must make sure there is a flash resource with available capacity to host that VM before the migration takes place. Otherwise, users will experience a drop in performance. Keeping track of flash resource availability in this manner is not only cumbersome and time-consuming, but it could ultimately impact business agility and application quality of service (QoS).
Scale-up flash
Array-based flash products allow data center administrators to centrally manage flash resources across any host that is attached to the array via a network or direct connection. This alleviates many of the resource management issues described above, and it helps enable non-disruptive VM migrations. But some flash array platforms are based on traditional "scale-up" storage architectures. With these systems, you have to make an upfront investment in resources that may not be used initially. This means you could be significantly overpaying for flash if you are only using a small percentage of the system when it is deployed.
Another challenge with scale-up storage architectures is that the storage limits on these systems can potentially be exceeded. This typically requires either adding another array, which could lead to creating islands of storage, or performing a forklift upgrade to a larger scale-up storage array. In either case, this can drive up the total cost of ownership (TCO) as organizations would once again have to make another large up-front investment, and in some cases, the original storage array investment may not even be fully depreciated. Moreover, the IT organization has to allocate time to either implement a secondary system or perform a data migration to a bigger box.
However, it is important to mention that many all-flash, scale-up storage systems can provide significant performance and capacity in a relatively small footprint. Pure Storage, for example, offers an entry-level all-flash array that provides 40 TB of capacity with hundreds of thousands of IOPS. This type of system could easily satisfy the application performance and capacity requirements of many environments. And furthermore, it could enable some data centers to free up valuable floor space and save on power and cooling costs by consolidating their disk-heavy legacy SAN and NAS disk platforms. Also, some scale-up, all-flash arrays provide the ability to perform data in place controller upgrades. So, the next generation of performance can be achieved without having to buy a second storage system.
Scale-out flash
To step more elegantly into a flash environment, data centers may want to start out with a small flash footprint, but have the ability to scale out to meet business demands. Scale-out flash products provide a way to granularly add resources as they are needed. Products like EMC's XtremIO product, for example, enable storage administrators to deploy a single node of flash storage and scale out to multi-PB configurations. In addition, flash capacity and processing resources, like memory and CPU, can be added granularly rather than all at the same time. This allows storage planners to deploy the right resource at the right time without overprovisioning flash, CPU or memory devices.
Some scale-out flash offerings, such as those from SolidFire, require users to start out at 4 node cluster configurations, which provide 35 TB of usable capacity and 200k IOPS, but can then scale out in smaller incremental 10 TB capacities. These systems are priced for entry-level users and the benefit of a clustered configuration is that it provides more redundancy and higher availability than a single node deployment would. These systems scale into the multi-PB range and can be retrofitted on the fly with new flash devices for improved storage efficiencies. In addition, by allowing mixed generation nodes to coexist within the scale-out architecture, data centers essentially never have to perform a forklift upgrade to get improved storage performance or better flash economy.
Software-defined flash
Caching software manufacturers like SanDisk, Intel and PernixData provide software technologies that allow businesses to manage, share and provision server-side flash resources as though they were logically on a centralized storage system. These software products essentially aggregate server-side flash resources so data that is residing on server-based flash can be replicated or mirrored across multiple flash devices across multiple hosts. It also allows flash to be shared across those hosts that don't have local flash resources. This enhances flash utilization, data availability, enables non-disruptive VM migrations, and allows data centers to scale out their flash resources on demand.
Interestingly, PernixData recently announced the capability of its FVP software product to aggregate not only server-side flash (DRAM, PCIe and SSD) but to also manage flash resources on external arrays. This gives data centers the ability to deploy flash in any format, but still retain the ability to centrally manage and provision those resources. It also gives application owners the flexibility to choose the flash option that best meets their needs.
Organizations need to take a strategic approach towards implementing flash storage in the data center. Often in the rush to solve a performance pain point, storage and application administrators may quickly choose to implement a point flash storage product. But flash adoption will typically accelerate once the performance benefits are realized. Consequently, it is important for IT planners to consider those products that enable flash to efficiently scale out across the data center without leaving management challenges and cost overruns in its wake.
Next Steps
How all-flash differs from commodity storage
Comparing memory channel flash with PCIe flash storage


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Patek Philippe 5110G
- Stock #: WP0211
- Brand: Patek Philippe
- Series: Complications
- Model: 5110G
- Discontinued
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Condition: New
Gender: Men's
Dial Color: Silver
Case: 18k White Gold 37mm
Strap: Crocodile Leather
Bezel: 18k White Gold
Crystal: Scratch Resistant Sapphire
Movement: Automatic
Water Resistant: 30m / 100ft
Box: Yes
Papers: Yes
Certificate of Authenticity: Yes
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Brand new Patek Philippe World Time gent's watch, Model # 5110G.
18kt white gold 37mm case with a crocodile leather strap and 18k white gold deploy buckle. Automatic movement. Silver dial. Hours, minutes, 24 hour display, GMT (second time zone), 24 time zones. (Patek Philippe offers a wide variety of color in leather straps, usually black or brown.)
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My name is Willeke. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, niece, sister-in-law, cousin, granddaughter and simply a part of a special family.
I am, however, also an individual.
I am passionate, caring, goofy, alternative, tenacious and inquisitive.
I love writing, quiet spaces, history, psychology, helping others, the English language, photography, dogs, laughing, reading newspapers, animals, books, rugby, watching television and coffee.
I studied library sciences and counselling with merit. I loved working hard. I loved working, period.
I write my own blog as well as on other people's blogs. I am a volunteer spokesperson for the Irish MS Society, and advocate better neurological services in Ireland in general.
As you can tell, I have lots that strengthen me and drives me forward. I also have (dis)abilities: severe bouts of pain and fatigue, which I bent into a positive writing tool for others to lean on. My limitations serve as other people's motivation. Their motivation became my inspiration.
I am an individual with many things to cherish.
In 2005, I found out I have multiple sclerosis, main symptoms severe fatigue, neuropathic pain, trigeminal neuralgia as well as other symptoms. End date unknown, and in the meantime, I live in hope.
It's a much-talked-about, ongoing topic for people with multiple sclerosis. Every single one of us has lived the same misunderstanding, ignorance and irritation, which was once again talked about at a conference in Lisbon. If you have an invisible, chronic illness, it's never too far from your daily life. What others might perceive as you being overly sensitive, you know all too well that what you are going through, is real. But however real it is, don't let it define you.
People who know me, know the saying I live by. "When I go outside, I always make sure I don't look ill." Fake tan to hide dark circles under my eyes, hair nicely cut, contact lenses, lots of medication that keeps me up for now, and even more rest before and after events. Pride runs in my family from my grandmother to my own mum to me. Because of all this, I have seen doubt in people's minds when I tell them I have MS, or disbelief because I cannot do the things I used to do anymore.
Still, I am an individual. I am not my illness.
Not too long ago, I said: "I am not defined by MS. I define myself instead." I continue to live by that rule as a strong person, and I always will.
I hate pity. As soon as I sense as much as one syllable that resembles pity, I say that I am just fine, even when I'm falling over from pain and fatigue. I don't negatively label myself as "patient, sufferer, survivor" or other words that might weaken my strength and individuality.
The way I prescribe having MS, is like this "I have MS like I have shoes, boots and slippers. I put them on or off, store them or throw them away altogether. That is what MS is to me. Something an outside source might impact, but never the defining part of my wardrobe."
I am not my illness, I am an individual.
If/when I advocate for others with MS, or if/when I'm asked to join conferences, meetings and anything else to help others with MS, I am not letting my illness consume me. When chronic pain, fatigue, early retirement and MS doesn't define me, lobbying and advocating for others becomes very easy. When I volunteer for others, I don't even think of my own illness or fate.
Many of my friends advocate and lobby also, and many times we talk about situations I just wrote about. Because we are often more judged by others than we are by ourselves, we sometimes find it hard when we're not believed, when our motives are questioned. The heart of the matter is this: we will simply not be labelled. We use what we know best to help others on the same path of experience, of life.
A lot of people with invisible illnesses have people doubting them. My answer is this: "Do you really think that, if there was a chance of a cure, I would not want that cure? Do you really think I chose this life, this illness? I just want to make the best of what I have, of what was imposed on my brain and spinal cord against my will, and if what I do, helps others then that is what I will do."
What people think is their problem. When they blame you, when they take your identity away, calling you names because "you're not like you used to be anymore," all that says a lot more about them than it says about you.
In the end?
MS is not our fault, we are not our illness and it definitely does NOT define us. What we have done is accept our illness in our lives. We're individuals, and we are real.
©Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me, 2011-2014. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog's author and/or owner are strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.


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Here's What Hillary Clinton's Logo Could Have Looked Like
Hillary Clinton's campaign for the President of the United States has received a heap of coverage over the past week. It's not generally been about her policies or campaign strategy though, rather it's been about the logo chosen.
It's been described as looking like something drawn in Paint, ridiculed over the 'H' and torn apart by designers.
Here's the logo.
So graphic design crowdsourcing company, DesignCrowd, took to asking designers what they would have done if they could have designed Hillary Clinton's campaign logo.
Within 24 hours the platform had received more than 150 logos from designers around the world.
The brief said: "We think Hillary deserves a better, more creative logo, and that's where you come in.
"We want you to create a better campaign logo for Hillary Clinton, we know you're the best designers for the job, so show us what you've got! $391 up for grabs."
Check out some of them in the gallery above. Head here to see the rest of them.


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Brian Just is a composer and performer in Minneapolis who creates day dreamy, lazy-afternoon folk-rock tunes which incorporate 1960's Folk Pop sounds.
Brian Just is a composer and performer in Minneapolis who creates day dreamy, lazy-afternoon folk-rock tunes which incorporate 1960's Folk Pop sounds.
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"Twin Cities' craftiest purveyors of '60s-flavored paisley pop"
Chris Riemenschneider: Star Tribune
"The refreshing slice of pop rock magic belonged to Brian Just. His new single is "Staring Into The Sun". To leap out of the Current's playlist confounding me to ask, "Is this new? A Kinks outtake? Who is this?" I love it. That doesn't happen as often as I would like, so when it does, I pay attention and want to hear the rest of the tunes on their new record like yesterday."
Mary Lucia: 89.3 The Current
"Just has a keen ear for crafting melody and what really brings Changing Traffic Lights together is the infectious nature of each tune."
Jon Behm: Reviler
"The Brian Just Band played to every corner of the room, cycling through chamber folk-pop songs a la Belle and Sebastian and more heady, psych-influenced '60s pop. With players specifically dedicated to instruments like the flute, trumpet, and tambourine, it fleshed out the band's sound and added pretty counter-melodies and nuances -- when the entire seven-piece group chimed in with bursts of vocal harmonies, it was positively divine."
Andrea Swensson: The Local Current Blog
"A sunny and elaborate affair, artfully incorporating 60's Folk sounds reminiscent of the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society. By turns low-key and boot-stompin', their versatile blend of acoustic folk and bluegrass highlights their signature harmonies."
David Campbell: 89.3 The Current
"A perfect summer soundtrack, The Minneapolis sextets 1960s-esque If You Like To Be Alone Or If You Need To Be With Someone. Their single "Electric," a melodic stomper from the new record, has been in heavy rotation on The Current, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a sunnier driving tune."
Tom Pilcher: City Pages
"Brian Just seems comfortable with his particular set of musical skills. At no point on his new disc "Open Air" does he try to be anything he isn't. Nothing is forced, nothing is overdone, and everything sounds like it happened organically. The result is a cohesive project that makes for a pleasant listen. There is a hushed quality to Just's vocal delivery that simply draws you in and says "we're home, work is done, relax and put your feet up." He melds words together in a smoothly phrased style…"
John Ziegler : The Duluth News Tribune
"With a soulful and believable voice, Brian Just has some ace songs up his sleeve with traces of Nick Drake's reflection and introspection, but minus the dark shadows and impending doom"
Ian Fields: Americana-Uk.com
"Imagine yourself in 1938, at the corner of 26th St. and 27th Ave. in South Minneapolis. A light is snow falling outside. Inside, a tall thin man dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt grabs an over sized dreadnought guitar, leans towards the crowd and moans, in a comfortable voice, stories of life…"
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