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Book DescriptionThe Anabaptists were at the radical, utopian edge of the Reformation, ruthlessly repressed by Catholic, Lutheran and secular authorities alike. Hans-Jurgen Goertz gives a comprehensive account of their political and religious significance, their views, and their social setting within the wider context of the Reformation. Particular attention is paid to the role and experience of women and of 'ordinary' Anabaptists in addition to those of the educated elite. Whilst the focus of the book is on Germany, extensive coverage is also given to Anabaptism in England, Switzerland, the Netherlands and elsewhere. This English edition includes a new introduction which considers the historiographical context of the book. The opening chapter has also been expanded to include a section on the emergence of Anabaptism in England. The Anabaptists has been fully revised since its publication in German, and takes account of the most recent historiography on the subject. It also includes a selection of primary sources together with a full listing of important Anabaptist works.
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Book DetailsISBN: 9780415082389
(234mm x 156mm x 23mm)
Pages: 236
Imprint: Routledge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publish Date: 10-Oct-1996
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
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The Anabaptists were at the radical, utopian edge of the Reformation, ruthlessly repressed by Catholic, Lutheran and secular authorities alike. This book offers a comprehensive account of the political and religious life of the Anabaptists, their views and their social setting within the wider context of the Reformation.
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Cancer Services of New Mexico's Spring 2012 Family Cancer Retreat will be April 20-22, at the Marriott Albuquerque Pyramid North. The free, three-day educational program will provide New Mexico's adult cancer patients/survivors and their loved ones with the tools and information they need to manage the treatment and recovery process.
More than 250 people from more than 100 New Mexican families coping with cancer are expected to participate.
The program will combine discussions and lectures by many of New Mexico's leading cancer specialists with activities that provide a break from the day-to-day challenges of living with cancer.
Internationally award winning Belisama Irish Dance presents "Rhythm of Fire," at James A. Little Theater at the New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe. Performances are at 7 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets, $15 for adults and $10 for children, students and seniors, are available the The Lensic Box Office, 211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, by calling 988-1234 or visiting ticketssantafe.org. They are also available at Brownell's Hallmark. Call 505-670-1325 or visit belisamairishdance.com for more information.
On Sunday, the United Church of Los Alamos will hold their annual Mexico Mission auction. The silent auction starts at 2 p.m. A live auction called by the Los Alamos Monitor's own Mike Lippiatt begins at 3 p.m. The United Church is at 2525 Canyon Road.
Council meeting
County Council will hold a regular session at 6 p.m. March 20 in Council Chambers.
March on Hunger
Assets In Action is collecting food for the March on Hunger for local food banks. Those wishing to make donations can leave them at either senior center location, KRSN AM 1490, the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce or Chamisa Elementary now through the end of the month.
BPU meeting
It was a mixed day for the state of New Mexico during the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Portland, Ore., Thursday.
Fifth-seeded New Mexico held off Long Beach State 75-68 and the Lobos will face Louisville in a third-round matchup Saturday in the West Regional. Thirteen-seeded New Mexico State, meanwhile, was unable to handle Indiana inside and fell 79-66 to Indiana in the South Regional.
In the New Mexico game, Kendall Williams scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half and bottled up Long Beach State star Casper Ware defensively.
When New Mexico needed a big shot, Williams delivered. His 3-pointer with 4:38 left pushed the Lobos ahead for good after Long Beach State (25-9) took a 61-59 lead on a steal and windmill dunk from James Ennis.
On Thursday, the Los Alamos Board of Education hosted a Region II meeting, during which 11 school boards from north-central New Mexico attended. The three-hour event included a catered dinner, entertainment by student groups, tours of the new Los Alamos High School building and instructional seminars. At left, LAHS School Board Vice President Dawn Venhaus chats with a guest. Below, students provide entertainment.
Former New York Times reporter and consulting professor at Stanford University Philip Taubman spoke at the Bradbury Museum about nuclear security by taking an historical perspective from his newly published book.
He said the genesis for the book "The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb" was when as the Times Moscow correspondent, he saw — first hand--the underground detonation of a nuclear bomb in Kazakhstan in 1988.
Taubman described the motions of the shockwaves as a land tsunami. And his curiosity was peaked, he said.
The White Rock Civic Center, golf course improvements and a new teen center were the hands down favorites among six capital improvement projects considered by the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) committee Thursday evening.
The committee had recommended that six projects be moved to phase 2 statuses. However, insufficient funds are available to move all six projects forward this year. Considering its role of advisory committee to County Administrator Harry Burgess, the committee agreed to suggest priorities for advancing the projects.
"We recommended all of these, we like all of them, but I think we also all value some sense of prioritization," committee member Steve Lynne said.
Charette Lakes: No report.
Cimarron River: 3.6 cfs. More open water but fishing still very slow.
Clayton Lake: No report.
Conchas Lake: Fishing for walleye is good at about 50-60 feet with minnows. White bass are also being caught; however fishing pressure is still very light.
Costilla Creek: Still iced over.
Coyote Creek: Creek is still iced over.
Eagle Nest Lake: 15 inches of grainy ice. Warm weather this week may close the lake to ice fishing. Fishing is good for yellow perch and rainbows with Power Bait and worms.
Angel Fire
47-inch base of machine-groomed snow. No new snow reported. 72 trails and 7 lifts open.
Enchanted Forest
20-inch base of packed powder. No new snow reported. 35 trails open.
44-inch base. No new snow reported. 33 trails and 3 lifts open.
Red River
50-inch base of spring conditions. No new snow reported. 57 trails and 7 lifts open.
Sandia Peak
34-inch base of spring conditions. No new snow reported. 34 trails and 5 lifts open.
49-inch base of spring conditions. No new snow reported. 41 trails and 5 lifts open.
Ski Apache
The Duke City Soccer League is in full swing for the spring 2012 season. Los Alamos is well represented in the DCSL.
Here are the results from some of the Los Alamos teams playing in the league:
During the week of Feb.27, Los Alamos' girls U13 Kixx 99 beat the Classic FC Titans 2-1 in a
relegation match to move up into the Challenge One bracket.
Goals for the Kixx were scored by Sienna Ahlers and Kayla Parker, while the win was secured through solid midfielding by Rachel Thoma and Alix Hailey and a strong defense led by Claire Ticknor and Ashley Logan.
Also that weekend, the U12 Kixx 2000 defeated the Classic FC Tamales 1-0.
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These researchers study data from a clinic in California and find that experiencing adverse childhood experiences such as parental separation or divorce increases the risk of heavy drinking, self-reported alcoholism, and marrying an alcoholic increased 2 to 4 times, regardless of parental alcoholism.
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Over the past decade, scientists, healthcare providers, the public, and policy makers have made substantial efforts to improve understanding of the sex/gender* differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD)† and to recognize the importance of heart disease in women. Federal and American Heart Association (AHA) initiatives to raise awareness and to reduce gender disparities in research and clinical care are listed in Table 1. There was a near doubling of the rate of awareness of heart disease as the leading cause of death in women between 1997, when the AHA launched its first campaign for women, and 2009; during that same period, the death rate resulting from CVD decreased by nearly half.2–4 The extent to which efforts to close research gaps and to heighten awareness of heart disease in women are causally linked to lower CVD mortality or have resulted in improved clinical outcomes for women is not established. The purposes of this article are to evaluate contemporary sex/gender differences in the burden of CVD, to assess the impact of recent clinical trials on recommendations for the prevention of CVD in women, and to examine factors that may facilitate or impede quality CVD preventive care in women. Recommendations for the design and analyses of future CVD clinical trials in women are also provided.
Although CVD remains the leading killer of both women and men in the United States, there are substantial sex/gender differences in the prevalence and burden of different CVDs, as outlined in Table 2. For both women and men, coronary heart disease (CHD) is the largest contributor to CVD morbidity and mortality. The absolute numbers of women living with and dying of CVD and stroke exceed those of men, as does the number of hospital discharges for heart failure and stroke.2 In 2007, women accounted for 60.6% of US stroke deaths.2 In contrast, more men are living with and dying of CHD than women and have more hospital discharges for CVD and CHD. As shown in Figure 1, the prevalence of CHD is higher in men within each age stratum until after 75 years of age, which may contribute to the perception that heart disease is a man's disease. Sex differences in CVD and CHD mortality largely reflect sex differences in US demographics. Because female sex is associated with a longer life expectancy than male sex, women constitute a larger proportion of the elderly population in which the prevalence of CVD is greatest. Alarming statistics among younger women 35 to 44 years of age show that CHD mortality rates have increased an average of 1.3% annually between 1997 and 2002, a statistically significant trend.5
As illustrated in Figure 2 the absolute number of annual CVD deaths among the female sex has exceeded that of the male sex since 1984. These data are often confused with CVD mortality rates, which, when adjusted for differences in age distribution, reveal that the CVD mortality rate is substantially higher in men than women (Table 2). In 2007, the age-adjusted CVD death rate in men was 300 per 100 000 compared with 212 per 100 000 women. The 2007 CVD mortality rate in women represents a 43% reduction from the rate in 1997. From 1980 to 2000, the age-adjusted death rate for CHD fell from 263 to 134 per 100 000 women; during the same time period, the rate fell from 543 to 267 per 100 000 men.4
The prevalence of CVD in women varies according to racial/ethnic minority status. The prevalence of CVD among women ≥20 years of age is 47% among blacks, 34% among whites, and 31% among Mexican Americans; the prevalence of CHD is 7.6%, 5.8%, and 5.6%, respectively.2 Asian women ≥18 years of age have the lowest prevalence of CHD (3.9%), according to the National Center for Health Statistics.2 The age-adjusted CHD death rate is highest among black women (122 per 100 000 compared with 94 per 100 000 in white women).2 The ominous trend for increasing rates of hypertension among black women is of particular concern because the increased risk for both CHD and stroke compared with white women could potentially widen the racial gap in CVD mortality.
Dr Bernadine Healy first introduced the concept of the Yentl syndrome in 1991, suggesting gender bias in the management of CHD.6 There is ongoing debate as to whether women have a poorer prognosis after a myocardial infarction (MI) than men, and why. Is any observed difference explained by delay in women seeking care, healthcare provider delay in recognition and treatment, underlying differences in pathophysiology, more comorbidities, or older ages at time of presentation among women compared with men?
Data over the past decade have shown that women have a higher 30-day mortality compared with men, and it is now recognized that the gender differences are largely explained by clinical differences at presentation.7,8 The higher mortality rate among women appears to be limited primarily to ST-segment–elevation MI.7,8 It has also been suggested that higher death rates may be restricted to younger women.9 Although women with acute coronary syndromes may have similar benefits from antiplatelet pharmacotherapy as men, they are more likely to have bleeding problems, possibly as a result of excess dosing.10 Women experience greater morbidity and mortality than men after coronary artery bypass grafting; this disparity may reflect technical difficulties resulting from differences in body size, more microvascular disease, and different risk factor profiles.11 More recently, it has been shown that increasing use of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting has narrowed the gender disparity in outcomes.12 Early studies that examined gender differences in outcomes after MI and revascularization may no longer be relevant owing to temporal trends in management and risk factor profiles. Recent data from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction showed that in-hospital mortality after an acute MI decreased more in women than in men between 1994 and 2006; the absolute reduction was 3 times larger in women than in men <55 years of age (2.7% versus 0.9%).13 This narrowing of the mortality gap was explained largely by greater improvements in risk factors in women than in men.
The classic risk factors for CVD are the same in women and men, but there are gender differences in the prevalence of risk factors. Although women and men overall have nearly equal percentages of hypertension (1 in 3 adults), data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) showed that the prevalence of high blood pressure is greater in women >65 years of age.14 The highest rate of hypertension is among black women, 44%, and is increasing.15 The death rate caused by hypertension in 2007 was 37.0 per 100 000 for black women compared with 14.3 per 100 000 for white women.2
Diabetes mellitus is more prevalent among women than men ≥20 years of age (8.3% versus 7.2%).2 Type II diabetes mellitus imparts a greater risk of CHD in women than men and is not explained by differences in risk factors, but rather by the more favorable survival rate of women (than men) without diabetes mellitus.16 The prevalence of physician-diagnosed diabetes mellitus is highest among non-Hispanic black (14.7%) and Mexican American (12.7%) women.17 On the basis of the NHANES data, the age-adjusted prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is highest among Mexican American women (40.6%), which is ≈22% higher than in Mexican American men.18 The prevalence of total cholesterol ≥240 mg/dL in 2008 for those ≥20 years of age was 16.2% among women and 13.5% among men.2 In contrast, the percent of women with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol <40 mg/dL was 9.7% compared with 29.5% among men.
Lifestyle risk factors also vary by gender, race, and ethnicity. Cigarette smoking has decreased overall in the United States, but remains more common among men than women (23.1% versus 18.1%).2 Non-Hispanic white women have a higher rate of smoking (20.7%) than black women (18.8%) and Hispanic women (9.4%). Age-adjusted rates of physical inactivity in 2009 were higher in women than men (34.5% versus 30.3%).19 Adverse trends in levels of physical activity (> 12 times a month) reveal a decline from 1988 to 2006 from 57% to 43% in men and from 49% to 43% in women.20 The decreasing levels of physical activity parallel the rising rates of overweight and obesity in the United States. Two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese (72% of men and 64% of women) as defined by body mass index.21 Among women, non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican Americans are more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic whites (50% versus 45% versus 33%, respectively). From 1999 to 2008, the increase in the prevalence of obesity was greater among men than women.21 Full adherence to 3 heart-healthy lifestyle behaviors (smoking abstinence, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable intake) was nearly 50% higher among women than men without CHD in a 2000 sample of the US population.22 Overall adherence was low (<20%) for both women and men. These data suggest that population-wide approaches are needed to reduce the burden of CVD in both genders.
Arguably, a major explanation for the decline in CVD death rates for women and men has been widespread application of evidence-based preventive strategies. An analysis from the Centers for Disease Control concluded that approximately half of the improvement in CHD death rates in the United States from 1980 and 2000 was due to better control of major risk factors, including reductions in total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, and smoking prevalence.4 The other half was ascribed to evidence-based treatments, including secondary preventive therapies, which accounted for 11% of the improvement in mortality. In 2004, the AHA issued the first evidence-based guidelines for CVD prevention in women derived from a systematic search and review of the scientific literature designed to identify whether gender differences were present in response to preventive therapies.23 Only 75% of research articles that met the criteria to establish clinical recommendations included women, and inferences had to be drawn from trials that included only men. A 2011 update of the guidelines concluded that the evidence documented few gender differences in the efficacy of preventive interventions, but data evaluating parity in safety or cost-effectiveness were limited.24
Table 3 lists key clinical questions concerning CVD prevention in women that were unanswered in 2000. During the past decade, landmark clinical trials have transformed the practice of CVD prevention in women and men. Perhaps one of the most striking changes in medical practice occurred after the release of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) data in 2002 showing that menopausal hormone therapy did not prevent incident CHD and increased the risk of stroke in healthy women.25,26 Among women in the WHI with prior hysterectomy who were randomized to estrogen only, the increased risk of stroke did not persist in a postintervention 10-year follow-up study, and there were fewer CHD events among women 50 to 59 years of age randomized to estrogen compared with those randomized to placebo.27 The data are limited because of the observational nature of the extended follow-up study and the lack of data on the long-term safety regarding breast cancer; definitive conclusions about the balance of benefits and risks in this population are difficult to make. WHI findings were consistent with earlier secondary prevention data from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) showing no benefit from a combination of estrogen and progestin for the secondary prevention of CHD, an increased risk of MI in the first few months after initiation of hormone therapy, and an increased risk of venous thromboembolic events.28 Similarly, the selective estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene was not beneficial for the primary or secondary prevention of CHD and was associated with an increased risk of fatal stroke and venous thromboembolic events.29–31 The results of these trials led the AHA and the Food and Drug Administration to recommend against use of menopausal hormone therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulators for either the primary or secondary prevention of CVD in women.23,24,32
A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of aspirin available to 1997 supported the use of low-dose aspirin to prevent CVD in both high-risk men and women.33 The first large-scale clinical trial was the Physicians Health Study of men without CHD; aspirin reduced the incidence of MI and had no effect on stroke risk.34 In contrast, the Women's Health Study (WHS) showed that aspirin had no overall effect on CVD, the primary end point, although a reduction in ischemic stroke was observed.35 In a post hoc analysis of women ≥65 years of age, there was a significant reduction in the risk of ischemic stroke and a small reduction in risk of MI; among women <65 years of age, there was no MI benefit and a small benefit in reduction of stroke risk.35 Overall, the risk of hemorrhagic stroke and gastrointestinal bleeding appeared to mitigate much of the beneficial effects of aspirin in the WHS. The AHA suggests that aspirin to prevent CVD in older women be considered as long as blood pressure is controlled and the potential benefits are likely to outweigh potential risks.24 The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that aspirin use be encouraged only among women when the potential benefit of reduction in ischemic stroke outweighs the potential harm of an increase in gastrointestinal hemorrhage, a situation difficult to define for primary prevention.36 The gender differences in benefits associated with aspirin may reflect the later onset of CVD in women, the greater proportion of ischemic strokes among women compared with men, the relatively small incidence of MI among women and stroke among men, gender differences in aspirin metabolism, and the fact that aspirin resistance is more common in women than men.37,38
Based on a wealth of epidemiological data and support from basic science, there was widespread interest in the 1990s in evaluating the use of vitamin supplements for CVD prevention. The overwhelming majority of participants in early clinical trials were men. Supplementation with α-to-copherol and beta carotene showed no CVD protection and an increased risk of lung cancer among Finnish male smokers.39 Similarly, beta carotene supplementation showed no CVD benefit among 22 071 US male physicians40 or among 18 314 smokers or ex-smokers exposed to asbestos.41 Approximately 10 years later, the Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study (WACS) showed no benefit of ascorbic acid, vitamin E, or beta carotene on CVD events among 8171 female health professionals with CVD or risk factors.42 The folic acid supplementation arm of WACS also revealed no CVD benefit despite significant homocysteine lowering.43 Several other large-scale international clinical trials showed no benefit associated with folic acid and B vitamins on the incidence of CVD or stroke in patients with vascular disease,44 recent cerebrovascular disease,45 and advanced chronic kidney disease.46 A recent meta-analysis showed that dietary supplementation with folic acid had no benefit on cardiovascular events or cancer.47 On the basis of the totality of evidence, the AHA advised against the use of antioxidant vitamin supplements and folic acid with or without B vitamin supplementation for the primary or secondary prevention of CVD.24
In 1999, a large clinical trial (11 432 patients, <15% women) conducted in Italy demonstrated a protective effect of dietary supplementation with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients with prior MI on the rate of death, nonfatal MI, and stroke but confirmed no benefit for vitamin E supplementation.48 Similarly, the Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS) showed that eicosapentaenoic acid was associated with a 19% reduction in the incidence of major coronary events among individuals with hypercholesterolemia and was effective for the secondary prevention of CHD, but the absolute benefit among women was low.49,50 A recent clinical trial in the Netherlands among nearly 5000 patients (78% men) with prior MI and receiving state-of-the-art preventive care showed that low-dose supplementation with eicosapentaenoic acid–docosahexaenoic acid or α-linolenic acid did not significantly reduce the rate of major CVD events.51 The 27% reduction in major CVD events with α-linolenic acid among women was not statistically significant. Because of the limited number of women in the trials, low absolute benefits, and possible increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke, an AHA expert panel concluded that the usefulness of omega-3 supplementation in women is not established; they recommended that consumption in the form of fish or capsule (eicosapentaenoic acid 1800 mg/d) be considered for women with dyslipidemia for primary and secondary prevention.24
More data on the role of omega-3 supplementation in primary prevention are expected from the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL), which began recruitment of 20 000 US men and women in January 2010 to test whether daily supplements of vitamin D (2000 IU cholecalciferol) or fish oil (1 g omega-3 fatty acids) reduce the risk of CVD and cancer.52 The WHI did not show a reduction in coronary events, stroke, or mortality associated with combined vitamin D (400 IU daily) and calcium supplementation (1000 mg/d) compared with placebo.53 The dose of vitamin D tested in the WHI may have been too low, and CVD was not the primary end point. VITAL should inform the risk-benefits of vitamin D and fish oil supplementation for primary prevention of CVD in women.
Intensive control of blood sugar to nearly normal levels among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with prior CVD or ≥2 risk factors did not reduce the risk of fatal or nonfatal CHD or stroke and increased the risk of death 22% compared with standard treatment in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Trial (ACCORD).54 The median level of glycohemoglobin in the standard strategy group was 7.5% at 1 year; in contrast, half of the intensive control group attained a hemoglobin AIC level <6.4%. Hypoglycemia requiring assistance was more frequent in the intensive therapy group, as was the use of diabetes medications (52% on 3 oral medications plus insulin compared with 16% in the standard therapy group). Death rates were consistently higher in the intensive therapy group regardless of gender, age, or race/ethnicity. These findings led the AHA to downgrade its strength of recommendation to target a hemoglobin AIC <7% in diabetic women, if it can be accomplished without significant hypoglycemia, from a Class 1 to a Class IIa recommendation.24,32 The panel acknowledged the importance of prevention of microvascular complications with appropriate glycemic control.32
The benefit of secondary prevention associated with a reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in both women and men is well established. The proportional reduction in vascular risk has been linked to the absolute reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol achieved regardless of initial level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and is similar for women and men.55 The impact of lipid management among women without CHD is a topic of ongoing debate. Primary prevention lipid trials included few female participants until the Management of Elevated Cholesterol in the Primary Prevention Group of Adult Japanese (MEGA) study and Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention (JUPITER) trial, both reported in 2008.56,57 The MEGA study, which enrolled more women (5356) than men (2476), showed that pravastatin was associated with a significant benefit in men only; the nonsignificant 37% reduction in risk of all CVD in women was suggested to reflect the approximately one-third-lower incidence of events in women compared with men.56 JUPITER randomized 6801 women ≥60 years of age and 11 001 men ≥50 years of age without CHD and with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol <130 mg/dL and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels ≥2 mg/L to rosuvastatin 20 mg/d compared with placebo.57 The trial was stopped prematurely after a median of 1.9 years because of a significant 44% reduction in the primary end point (MI, stroke, arterial revascularization, hospitalization for unstable angina, or death caused by CVD) associated with statin therapy. The hazard reduction was similar for women and men, although the absolute benefit in women was lower, reflecting their lower baseline risk. The methods and results of the JUPITER trial have fueled the ongoing debate on gender differences in the use of statins for primary prevention.58,59 It has been suggested that lower-cost generic statins with wider eligibility criteria be applied unless long-term safety issues emerge.60 Although uncertainty remains, a recent Cochrane review concluded that current evidence does not support the use of statins in individuals with an annual all-cause mortality risk <1% or an annual CVD event rate <2%.61
Adherence to guidelines for the prevention of CVD is suboptimal for women and men. The extent to which physician behaviors, patient behaviors, and environmental factors explain nonadherence is not established. The limited systematic evaluation of provider performance in CVD preventive care makes it difficult to document gender differences in the delivery of care. Etiologic explanations for any observed gender differences in adherence to preventive recommendations are even more elusive. Most studies are conducted in select settings, use a variety of quality indicators, and report limited data on confounding or effect-modifying variables. Despite these research limitations, several themes consistently emerge regarding barriers to optimal preventive care.
A fundamental barrier to implementation of prevention guidelines may be the guidelines themselves. Shaneyfelt et al62 evaluated the guidelines process and found that longer guidelines included more standards than shorter guidelines but were more often ignored in practice. Evidence-based recommendations were used more often than recommendations for practice not based on research evidence, and controversial recommendations were followed less often than those that were noncontroversial.63 A study of AHA/American College of Cardiology Guidelines showed that adherence was higher when the recommendations were supported by randomized, controlled clinical trials.64 Guidelines are more likely to be followed if they are easy to implement and come from a highly respected source.65 The AHA has published 3 women-specific evidence-based guidelines between 2004 and 2011 for the prevention of CVD, but the extent to which these guidelines changed physician behavior or affected any gender gap in risk factor management is not known.23,24,32 The most recent AHA women's guideline 2011 update emphasized the importance of risk assessment to improve the quality of preventive care and highlighted challenges of available risk assessment tools: short-term focus, relevance of outcome measures (CVD versus CHD), and underestimation of risk in women.24 Further research is needed to determine whether improved risk assessment is associated with improved clinical outcomes.
Cabana et al66 evaluated 76 studies describing barriers to adherence to clinical practice guidelines; lack of awareness, lack of familiarity, lack of agreement, lack of self-efficacy, lack of outcome expectancy, and inertia of previous practice were recurring thematic barriers for following guidelines. It was suggested that AHA guidelines for the prevention of CVD in women are heterogeneous, and consequently there are different barriers to implementation of individual recommendations. 67 In a national AHA study of 500 randomly selected physicians, the most commonly cited barriers to implementation of CVD prevention guidelines were time, insurance coverage, and the patient.68 This study also revealed that physician assessment of CVD risk of the patient was the primary driver of quality preventive care. Gender disparities in treatment were explained largely by the provider's lower perceived CVD risk in women, despite a similar calculated risk compared with men. A subanalysis of this study suggested that solo practitioners and older physicians should be targeted to help promote the use of the guidelines.69 In a program designed to improve screening and management of CHD risk factors in women, internists and obstetricians/gynecologists were queried about barriers to primary prevention; physician time was perceived as a major barrier to the provision of preventive care.70 The authors suggest that the current structure and reimbursement system for health care must be addressed if the gender gap in CVD preventive care is to be reduced.
In a nationally representative sample of women, the most frequently cited barriers to heart health were confusion in the media (49%), the belief that health is determined by a higher power (44%), and caretaking responsibilities (36%).71 Psychosocial factors may also contribute to nonadherence to preventive recommendations in women. For example, depression and social isolation have been linked to CVD risk and may be mediated by nonadherence to preventive recommendations, although there is a lack of clinical trials to document that treatment of psychosocial risk improves patient outcomes.24 The roles of body image and other psychological, social, and cultural factors as mediators of nonadherence deserve further study. Systems approaches to CVD prevention have the potential to improve outcomes and to reduce disparities. The Get With the Guidelines Quality Improvement Program has shown improved adherence to secondary prevention guidelines over time for both women and men, but the data are subject to selection bias and secular trends.72
Progress in the inclusion of women in CVD trials reveals divergent interpretations. A study conducted in 2000 of NHLBI-funded studies of CVD concluded that federal efforts to increase the representation of women in clinical trials had been moderately successful, primarily because of the initiation of a small number of large single-sex trials that enrolled women. It also noted little progress in the sex composition of cohorts in the majority of CVD studies.73 The lack of inclusion of women in CVD trials was highlighted as a barrier to making clinical recommendations in the initial AHA evidence-based guidelines for the prevention of CVD in women in 2007.23 Among randomized, controlled trials cited by the women's guidelines, 87% included both women and men; the proportion of women increased significantly from 9% in 1970 to 41% in 2006.74 A 2004 review of published randomized, controlled trials found that federally funded trials inconsistently adhered to National Institutes of Health standards to include women: on average women made up only 37% of study participants.75 An updated analysis of trials published in 2009 that included both genders revealed that the median enrollment of women was unchanged since 2004.76 Moreover, presentation of analyses by sex was evident in only 35% of studies, 11% did not analyze by sex but provided an explanation, and 64% did not include sex in the analysis, did not provide an explanation, or both.77 Similarly, a recent systematic review of reporting of results of high-risk cardiovascular devices that received premarket approval by the Food and Drug Administration between 2000 and 2007 showed no report of sex of enrollees in 28% of studies and no increase in the enrollment of women over time (average of 67% men). The lack of gender-specific safety and effectiveness is a barrier to optimal CVD care for women. More research has to be conducted on effective lifestyle methods to prevent CVD, especially those approaches that have the potential for long-term sustainability among diverse groups of women.
Table 4 lists recommendations for the design, conduct, and reporting of future CVD trials in women. A 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine Committee on Women's Health Research recommended that the government ensure adequate participation of women in trials and analyses and reporting of data, both efficacy and adverse effects, by sex.1 The availability of such data will inform future guidelines and facilitate the translation of research findings into practice. It will be important to determine to what extent these data and their dissemination can reduce gender disparities in preventive care and improve clinical CVD outcomes for women.
We wish to thank Lisa Rehm for her assistance with literature searches and manuscript submission.
Sources of Funding
Dr Mosca is supported in part by an National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award (K24 2HL076346-06).
*Gender is referred to throughout this document as a person's self-representation as male or female or how that person is responded to in social situations on the basis of the individual's gender representation. Gender is shaped by environment and experience. Sex is the classification of female or male according to reproductive organs and functions assigned by chromosomal complement.1
†Throughout this document, CVD is inclusive of coronary heart disease, stroke, and other atherosclerotic conditions except when national statistics are provided in which CVD encompasses International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, codes 100 to 199.2
Drs Mosca and Wenger were members of the AHA expert panel on the prevention of heart disease in women. Dr Mosca was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Women's Health Research and has served as a consultant for Advise and Consent, Rowpar, Gilead Sciences, Inc, and Sanofi-aventis. Drs Mosca, Barrett-Connor, and Wenger were members of the Raloxifene Use for the Heart Study Executive Committee. Dr Wenger was a HERS and WHI investigator and a member of writing groups for these studies and chairs the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the Physicians Health Study, WACS, WHS, and VITAL trials. Dr Barrett-Connor was a principal investigator for the HERS and the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions trials.
PubMed Central Canada is a service of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) working in partnership with the National Research Council's national science library in cooperation with the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine(NCBI/NLM). It includes content provided to the PubMed Central International archive by participating publishers.


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All adults with Down syndrome (DS) over 40 years of age exhibit Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathologically, due in part to the overexpression of the amyloid precursor protein gene within the obligate DS region on chromosome 21. While the onset of AD was once considered an inexorable result of growing old with DS, a number of studies have clearly established that although adults with DS over the age of 50 are at substantial risk for the development of AD, risk does not appear to reach 100%. Substantial individual differences are evident within this population, suggesting that there should be biological factors that contribute to this heterogeneity. However, with the exception of age, apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype, age at menopause and cholesterol level, few additional risk factors have been identified. The overall aim of this study is to determine if a continuum of symptoms, including adiposity, glucose metabolism irregularities, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, influence cognitive decline and risk for AD in adults with DS. Adiposity leads to insulin resistance, which leads to hyperinsulinemia, which leads to glucose intolerance and/or diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and inflammation. This confluence of conditions has been referred to as the Metabolic syndrome. The key component of the Metabolic syndrome is high insulin levels (hyperinsulinemia). Hyperinsulinemia, as well as components of the Metabolic syndrome, in combination and individually, have been reported to be related to increased risk for AD in persons without DS. The guiding hypothesis of this subproject is that features of the Metabolic syndrome, and particularly insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia, is related to an increase in cognitive decline and AD onset in DS, as has been observed in persons without DS. A secondary aim is to determine whether the use of secondgeneration antipsychotics or statins may influence the risk for cognitive decline and onset of AD as a function of their physiological action upon the Metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia and other aspects of the Metabolic syndrome can be remediated through even modest weight loss, exercise and pharmaceutical intervention. Results from this study may suggest possible targets for subsequent clinical intervention leading to delay or reduction of AD incidence in persons with DS. Clinical trials to treat hyperinsulinemia in persons with AD without DS are already in phase III.
|Krinsky-McHale, Sharon J; Silverman, Wayne; Gordon, James et al. (2014) Vision deficits in adults with Down syndrome. J Appl Res Intellect Disabil 27:247-63
|Janicki, S C; Park, N; Cheng, R et al. (2014) Estrogen receptor ? variants affect age at onset of Alzheimer's disease in a multiethnic female cohort. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 38:200-13
|Janicki, S C; Park, N; Cheng, R et al. (2013) Aromatase variants modify risk for Alzheimer's disease in a multiethnic female cohort. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 35:340-6
|Krinsky-McHale, Sharon J; Silverman, Wayne (2013) Dementia and mild cognitive impairment in adults with intellectual disability: issues of diagnosis. Dev Disabil Res Rev 18:31-42
|Silverman, Wayne P; Zigman, Warren B; Krinsky-McHale, Sharon J et al. (2013) Intellectual Disability, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Risk for Dementia. J Policy Pract Intellect Disabil 10:
|Xing, Luzhou; Salas, Martha; Zhang, Hong et al. (2013) Creation and characterization of BAC-transgenic mice with physiological overexpression of epitope-tagged RCAN1 (DSCR1). Mamm Genome 24:30-43
|Zigman, Warren B (2013) Atypical aging in Down syndrome. Dev Disabil Res Rev 18:51-67
|Esbensen, Anna J; Mailick, Marsha R; Silverman, Wayne (2013) Long-term impact of parental well-being on adult outcomes and dementia status in individuals with Down syndrome. Am J Intellect Dev Disabil 118:294-309
|Chace, Constance; Pang, Deborah; Weng, Catherine et al. (2012) Variants in CYP17 and CYP19 cytochrome P450 genes are associated with onset of Alzheimer's disease in women with down syndrome. J Alzheimers Dis 28:601-12
|Prasher, V P; Sajith, S G; Mehta, P et al. (2010) Plasma beta-amyloid and duration of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 25:202-7
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The Legend of LUST [1st update]
Check out this RPG game which keeps growing. The game features lots of explicit sexual content, turn-by-turn based combat, different places that Lust will be able to explore and conquer, evolving characters and many more. Follow game tutorial to see all options.
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Virginity of Sansa
The first episode of our epic Game of Thrones parody series. Sansa Stark - the oldest daughter of the Stark family, has abandoned her home in Winterfell in order to go to King's Landing and join in her father's duty. She was afraid of her future life. She knows she will soon lose her virginity. Probably to the prince Joffrey.
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SimBro [v 1.8b]
First of all in this game you can manage your own escort service. Besides it gives you different sexy story lines and battles. Equip your place with bedroom, shower etc. Hire some girls and earn money from your customers.
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Crush on Candy
Don't click too fast, each image needs some time to load. Candy is a girl that you just met on a dating application. She was very flirtatious online, but you never know how she'll act in real life. If you'll treat her right I'm sure you'll get lucky tonight. Say everything girls like to hear and she'll give it to you.
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Finding Miranda
You wake up in the empty apartment. Your name is Lucas, and you're a computer programmer. Your life is good, but it used to be great. A few years ago you were married to a wonderful woman named Karen. You were a rising star at a hot startup and had stock options that were going to make you rich when the company went public. You couldn't have been happier. That's where our story begins.
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Jailhouse Lockhart
Tifa is captured once again. This time it's kinda 3D animation set with our favorite girl fighter. She thinks that she's really strong and can handle all this repeating humiliation. But even she can not resist constant pleasure.
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Hey! Touch me
Will take some time to load, be patient, please. In this interactive touching game you'll have to find spots to click or drag to undress and fuck this beautiful girl after school. Find 5 different sex scenes for you to complete. Not all spots are easy to find so be patient and click around her body to find them.
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Zum Damenhaus [v 1.9]
Another brothel simulation game. Your task is to run it and organize your girls. Assign them to a workroom and check what they are able to do to satisfy your clients. I strongly recommend you to go through tutorial. Then you'll get the whole idea of the game.
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Christmas Eve In Metropolis
Merry Christmas everyone :) Santa is really busy this year fucking some blonde in his sleigh. Your task is to help him to collect and deliver presents. In this Christmas hidden object game you must find 10 objects that are required at the bottom of the screen. After that you'll have to deliver them to those who need them the most.
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Katarina: The General's Daughter
Meet Katerina - redheaded assassin who's on a mission to eliminate high ranking officer. She gets an opportunity to kill general instead. But that officer did a lot of bad things later. All her high command is really angry, that's why she'll be punished.
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Dark Forest
This story is about some tourist group who got lost in some mysterious forest and... of course got attacked by some horny monsters. But here you'll find some new things in AKATA games, like real cum animations by human male. See 124 animated scenes, most of them are simply angle variations.
- Current rating 2.86/5
Tifa's Shaking Ass [English Edition]
One of the rare games where you can spank her nice ass all night long :) All this will turn into multiple sex scene sex game. Game is intuitively understandable, but I recommend to follow link bellow description to read all possible instructions about this game. Be patient and you'll be able to shoot your load inside Tifa.
- Current rating 3.13/5
Epic Sexy Magic
We decided to combine all 5 parts of the game in one big game. Now you can totally follow the story and enjoy some improvements we made as well as a new ending to close these series. Keep pointing and clicking on objects to complete each puzzle and reach the end.
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Where is the Milk
It's Christmas Evening and you're hosting a party. You were planning to feast your guests with fresh cookies. The only problem is that You're out of milk. You didn't expect so many people at this party. There is one way to get additional milk really quickly.
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You'll see Yuna in a new way and from many different positions. This Final Fantasy heroine really loves to fuck and don't mind even for an anal sex. Click on the small images on the right side to switch between all 21 scenes.
- Current rating 2.99/5
Tower [v 0.32 light]
First of all be patient as the game loads (huge one). The game is about Dark Lord's universe. You have to clear the tall towers full of dangerous and sexual monster girls. Check all locations and try to complete the game.
- Current rating 3.97/5
Miss Fortune's Booty Trap
Really enjoyable animation for such a mini-game. Get laid with a sexy pirate girl. Actually you can turn her into other characters - look for items to click. Choose sex mode - anal or vaginal and enjoy.
- Current rating 3.70/5
Taboo Request [v 1.0d]
This game can take an hour or even more to complete. You play sex game in your room together with your friend. You start talking about your mom and how hot she is. That's where the story begins. In this game it's really important what you do, because your choices make an impact on next events.
- Current rating 3.30/5
Machou-Shoujo Misaki Mifuki
At the beginning you'll think that controls totally suck, but you'll learn how to handle them, don't worry :) Check them carefully at the beginning. Control two girls in this adventure action game. All monsters want to rape them in this underground dungeon. So be (or don't) careful.
- Current rating 2.85/5
Living with Lana
Lana and Douglas met each other at the university. They quickly fell in love with each other and started to think about renting an apartment together. Lana comes from a rich family, but Douglas not. So they doesn't pay that rent equally. Meanwhile Douglas have to do other stuff to keep his "investment" in family wealth kinda 50/50.
- Current rating 3.31/5
Shinobi Girl [v 2.10, Uncensored, English]
Got another update for this old school game. More poses, more monsters, more bug fixes and many more. Check in game instructions how to play it, or look for previous versions to check descriptions or comments to find some cheats.
- Current rating 3.92/5
This second episode is follow up for the game Tuition Fees of Queensport series. Explore the environments, get the sex toys, help the personal assistant and she'll reward you. Includes dynamic dialogue, area exploration, items to find and use and audio narrated interactive animations.
- Current rating 2.65/5
Panchira TOWN Hotel
Your task is to click twice on each hotel window when a target appears in it. I recommend you to start from one corner and as you close windows there move to other side. You have only 1 minutes for that. After you'll clear all windows you'll be able to see 23 sex scenes. To activate sex scene you must find a hot spot on the body and click it rapidly around 10 times.
- Current rating 3.15/5
Panchira Town Carnival
So, you see 23 girls dancing at the Panchira Town Carnival. You can click on all of them to play Rock-Paper-Scissors till three victories. They will strip after each win. After that a sex scene will unlock. Then you can enjoy lots of side sex scenes or undress all babes to see them dancing nude.
- Current rating 3.67/5
Tuition Fees [v 1.0]
In this interactive game you have to seduce sexy blonde girl who wants to become a cam model. Remember your choices so you can reach other endings next time you play it.
- Current rating 2.68/5
Rogue Courier Episode 1
In the vast expanse of the universe, a story is unfolding. From a dark past to a darker future. All that matters is the experience, power, fame, and wealth. But what really matters is the sex. You play as Kouia, you have to browse the space to seek battles and resources.
- Current rating 3.27/5
SimGirls GOLD [v 7.0]
This is a game with huge history like around 12+ years. As always new version comes with new features and many bug fixes. Here you'll find 7 new or improved story scenes including Akira, Tomoko, Sana, Karin and Kotomi.
- Current rating 3.18/5
Enjoy 3D Hentai from Yosino. This story takes place on a village of fictional island near Japan. The main heroine is AI-Chan who must lose her virginity through special ritual. In few words, almost all village and family will fuck her. But then story turns into different direction.
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The stunningly beautiful, sexy August Ames is your loving girlfriend. She loves you more than words could describe and she would do anything to please you. But what will YOU do to her and for her? How will you show her your affection? Can you keep her satisfied? Are you up for the task?
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Story continues as our Magician keeps his course to save the princess. As previously you'll have to solve simple point and click puzzles. Guide him to the end and get the main reward - sex with the princess. Don't forget to check previous game parts (if you haven't already).
- Current rating 3.28/5
Big City Campus
Something is wrong at the Big City University and it's up to Hannah and Lucy to find out what. Gaining experience and skills along the way, you must guide the girls on this sex-fueled adventure. In the daytime you can visit 2 locations with each of them. Each evening they can visit two locations together. You have time til the 31st August to complete the game.
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| hA-UkA chapter 1 . 3/15/2008
| sexion chapter 1 . 9/29/2006
Awh, you write great poetry, and I'm going to go read your other ones later because this is teh SPIFFY! XD
| Dark Mornie chapter 1 . 6/17/2006
i'm so in love w/ this darn poem *o*!
| Princesa7 chapter 1 . 6/6/2006
Hi, you asked me to read one of your stories so I did. I would have read another, but I really don't like FullMetal Alchimest. But that's alright, this poem rocked, as twisted as it was. I'm not a great poem writer, as you can see in Bloody Kisses. (I've got one poem there, and it's ghastly.)
Great poem!
| Fluffy-sama's lil girl chapter 1 . 5/30/2006
Kara-chan:Amazing! Your so cool my poem for gravitation suck compared to yours!*sweatdrops* i'd like my hikari to talk to but she got drunk and hit her head so now she's in the hospital!*Tsu-chan is Verry real!XD* So instead i'll have kira talk... not that she actually talks!*seatdrops*
Kara-chan: asnd on that note i'd like to request a poem...if i can? I like evil marik/Yami malik poems that are MxM!So if you don't thats okay with me!XD
| Primevera Took chapter 1 . 5/30/2006
O.O Fabulous, as usual!
RB, if I'm not mistaken. You've got a way with wprds, I like how the hikari is compared to most cherished treasures.
It's just so easy to picture the yami saying all these things, with the threat at the end and the hikari crying at the lullaby. It's really beautiful and entrancing
Thanks for the poem!
Primy (happy to be your friend)
| Vanya-Deyja chapter 1 . 5/30/2006
YES! EVIL YAMI! So good _
Must fave...*Glares at people* Review damn you! Falmers will burn in the pits of hell! MWHAHAHAHHAHAH!
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March 14 (Tuesday) 7 pm -- Flyleaf Books hosts London author Samantha Shannon for her new novel The Song Rising. "On the eve of a new decade, after two hundred years of Scion rule, a rebellion is stirring. Its unlikely cradle is the clairvoyant underworld in London, and even a shattering betrayal within the community cannot stop it. Paige Mahoney is now Underqueen in London, determined to fight for her fellow clairvoyants against overwhelming odds. Her tentative alliance with the Ranthen is tested, and her rule is threatened by a technology so powerful it could destroy the world as she knows it. Racing against the clock, Paige goes north in search of a solution—but with a new enemy pulling the strings, and war on the horizon, she will have to make dangerous sacrifices to protect the ones she loves."
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April 17 (Monday) 7 pm -- Quail Ridge Books hosts Scott Westerfeld for his new young adult science fiction novel Horizon. "He's one of the most fascinating speakers we've had, as well as one of the most inventive writers in YA fantasy today. Scott Westerfeld returns with Horizon, the start of a new supernatural series for slightly younger readers. Imagine Survivor on steroids. Eight young people crash in the Arctic. But instead of an icy landscape, they find themselves in a forbidding jungle, with impossibly bizarre flora and fauna. Survival means banding together, which may be equally impossible."
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-962?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12709515#action_12709515 ] Jeremy Bauer commented on OPENJPA-962: -------------------------------------- Committed manual_patch1.txt for Dianne under revision 774860. A couple of comments - - SequenceMapping.addStandardProperties() - there is some repetitive code that adds delimiters to properties. I think this logic should be refactored into a method. That can be done in the next round of code... :-) - There were some earlier discussions about producing a common naming interface/method set for these types of delimiting/naming operations. I see that starting to form in the new dictionary methods, but eventually providing an interface is a good goal to work toward, if possible. > Support the use of delimited-identifiers > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: OPENJPA-962 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-962 > Project: OpenJPA > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: jpa > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: Jeremy Bauer > Assignee: Dianne Richards > Attachments: manual_patch1.txt > > > This task is to support the use of delimited-identifiers as defined by the 2.0 specification. The 10/31/2008 draft of the specification has some open issues regarding this item and while the spec indicates delimited identifiers can be enabled per an element in the persistence.xml, the persistence schema does contain the delimited-identifiers definition. However, work could begin on this item and the enablement of delimited identifiers could be temporarily triggered via a config property (or some other means) to exercise the capability. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Cloud Cover Episode 17 - Using Queues
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- Learn about the Queue API in Windows Azure.
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Troubleshooting and Optimizing Queries in SQL Azure
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Thanks for the great show! But whats up with the throughput on these queues?? Isn't it about 500 msg/min or something?
According to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/10/windows-azure-storage-abstractions-and-their-scalability-targets.aspx, the scalability target for queues is 500 transactions per second (not minute).
Thanks Steve. I got it all wrong then. 500 msg per sec is actually pretty OK, and you can also put up as many queues as you like, right? So say I need about 2000 msg/sec throughput, I could create queue1 to queue4 and come out at about 2000 msg/sec. Thanks a lot for answering anyway! You guys way cool
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In the third inning, Joe Girardi removed Nick Swisher from the game with a tight left hamstring. Swisher left after walking against Max Scherzer. He is going for an MRI.
Originally, Swisher just trotted down to first base before Joe Girardi and trainer Steve Donohue check up on him. At first, he stayed in the game, but a moment later Girardi took Swisher out. Andruw Jones replaced him. Jones played left, while Raul Ibanez moved to right.
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