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Subject | [jira] [Updated] (LUCENE-2205) Rework of the TermInfosReader class to remove the Terms[], TermInfos[], and the index pointer long[] and create a more memory efficient data structure. |
Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:04:33 GMT |
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2205?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Robert Muir updated LUCENE-2205: -------------------------------- Attachment: LUCENE-2205.patch +1, nice work. just some tiny tweaks: added a missing license header, randomized the test, and when binary-searching bytesref.grow() versus making new ones in each comparison (this seems to help the pk-lookup perf test on my computer). When committing can we also add the packed ints test to 3.x, and also merge this improvement forward to 4.x's preflex codec? > Rework of the TermInfosReader class to remove the Terms[], TermInfos[], and the index pointer long[] and create a more memory efficient data structure. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2205 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2205 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core/index > Environment: Java5 > Reporter: Aaron McCurry > Assignee: Michael McCandless > Fix For: 3.5 > > Attachments: LUCENE-2205.patch, LUCENE-2205.patch, RandomAccessTest.java, TermInfosReader.java, TermInfosReaderIndex.java, TermInfosReaderIndexDefault.java, TermInfosReaderIndexSmall.java, lowmemory_w_utf8_encoding.patch, lowmemory_w_utf8_encoding.v4.patch, patch-final.txt, rawoutput.txt > > > Basically packing those three arrays into a byte array with an int array as an index offset. > The performance benefits are stagering on my test index (of size 6.2 GB, with ~1,000,000 documents and ~175,000,000 terms), the memory needed to load the terminfos into memory were reduced to 17% of there original size. From 291.5 MB to 49.7 MB. The random access speed has been made better by 1-2%, load time of the segments are ~40% faster as well, and full GC's on my JVM were made 7 times faster. > I have already performed the work and am offering this code as a patch. Currently all test in the trunk pass with this new code enabled. I did write a system property switch to allow for the original implementation to be used as well. > -Dorg.apache.lucene.index.TermInfosReader=default or small > I have also written a blog about this patch here is the link. > http://www.nearinfinity.com/blogs/aaron_mccurry/my_first_lucene_patch.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com | |
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Brooks B17 Select World Traveller Limited Edition 2012
Author: Extra UK | Mon, 14 May 2012
During a year in which we see the Olympics make their grand return to London, Brooks has created the B17 Select in a limited edition of 2012 pieces, to celebrate their long relationship with distance cycling.
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MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions / Meet the 2013 Recipients
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Collaboration and entrepreneurship to help house America
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The Housing Partnership Network improves the lives of millions of individuals, families and communities by sparking innovation and collaboration among 100 of the nation's affordable housing and community development nonprofits. By incubating innovative joint ventures and creating ongoing opportunities for peer learning and collaboration, the Network helps its members realize significant economies of scale, achieve greater collective impact, and exercise greater influence on public policy. Collectively, the Network and its member organizations employ more than 13,000 people in nearly 200 offices, operating in 75% of the nation's major metro areas and in every state in the country.
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Definition of patient
1 : bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
2 : manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain
3 : not hasty or impetuous
4 : steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity
5a : able or willing to bear —used with ofb : susceptible, admitting patient of one interpretation
adverbExamples of patient in a sentence
To pry apart violent Islamic radicals, the United States has to become knowledgeable about internal cleavages and be patient in exploiting them. —Samantha Power, New York Times Book Review, 29 July 2007
I pack them into the compartment for a visit, pack till it's full far beyond capacity and weep with them, share with them my scanty bit of good fortune, tell them I care, tell them be patient, tell them I'm on their side … —John Edgar Wideman, Harper's, December 2003
There's no sense being patient with people who make you wait, because they'll only make you wait longer the next time. —Andrew A. Rooney, And More by Andy Rooney, (1979) 1982
I hate having to stand in long lines. I'm just not very patient.
The teacher treated her students in a patient and understanding way.
"Aren't you finished yet?" "Be patient. I'll be done soon."
Proofreading requires patient attention to detail.
They put in years of patient labor on the project.
Origin and Etymology of patient
Middle English pacient, from Anglo-French, from Latin patient-, patiens, from present participle of pati to suffer; perhaps akin to Greek pēma suffering
First Known Use: 14th century
Definition of patient
1a : an individual awaiting or under medical care and treatment cancer patients psychiatric patientsb : the recipient of any of various personal services
2 : one that is acted upon are agents as well as patients and observers in the world — C. H. Whiteley
Examples of patient in a sentence
Several patients were waiting to see the doctor.
the nurse asked the patient to change into a paper gown
Origin and Etymology of patient
see 1patient
First Known Use: 14th century
PATIENT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of patient for English Language Learners
: able to remain calm and not become annoyed when waiting for a long time or when dealing with problems or difficult people
: done in a careful way over a long period of time without hurrying
Definition of patient for English Language Learners
: a person who receives medical care or treatment
PATIENT Defined for Kids
Definition of patient for Students
: able to or showing the ability to remain calm when dealing with a difficult or annoying situation, task, or person a patient response a patient teacher
adverbDefinition of patient for Students
: a person under medical care or treatment
Medical Dictionary
playMedical Definition of patient
1: a sick individual especially when awaiting or under the care and treatment of a physician or surgeon the hospital is equipped to handle 500 patients
2: a client for medical service (as of a physician or dentist) a good practice with a large number of patients
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Fizzy drinks are the beverages which contain soda water. Fizzy beverages may or may not be alcoholic and also, may or may not contain flavoring agents or taste imparting ingredients, even though most drinks are flavored, sweetened and aromatic. The fizzy drinks are characterized by the fizz or the bubbles in them, which is caused by the air bubbles or air globules in the water. The highly fizzy drinks give out a mild hissing noise when poured and often these fizzy drinks develop a thick frothy layer on the top, usually observed in soft drinks. To preserve the fizz or the carbonation of the drink, often a fizz keeper is used to seal the air bubbles in the bottle containing the beverage.
Some of the most popular fizzy drinks are sparkling water, cream soda, root beer, ginger ale, sparkling lemonade and orange soda.
Popular Fizzy Recipes
These are some of the best known fizzy beverages –
Fizzy Fruit Slush– This bubbling drink owes all its fizziness to the carbonated soda used in making it. One of the most refreshing fizzy drinks for the sunny summer months, this fruit slush is prepared with fruit concentrates and purees. The ingredients needed for this beverage are unsweetened pineapple juice, water, frozen orange juice concentrate (thawed), pureed banana, honey and chilled lemon – lime carbonated beverage. The pineapple juice, orange juice, banana, honey and water are then all combined thoroughly and frozen till firm. This firm mixture is then thawed to bring into a slushy consistency and to add the fizz, the lemon carbonated drink is finally added to it and it finally becomes one of the most delicious fizzy drinks.
Gin Fizz Cocktail– This cocktail is counted amongst the top fizzy drinks. This alcoholic carbonated drink uses gin, lemon juice, chilled club soda, crushed ice and lemon rind as the main ingredients. The gin, lemon juice and soda are mixed together in a glass and gently stirred. After that, drink is garnished with the lemon rind and served. The bubbles or the cause of the fizz in the drink is the club soda used in it. This happens to be one of the most preferred fizzy drinks in the bachelor parties.
Orange Fizz– This delicious fizzy juice in orange flavor is a crowd favorite. One of the easiest fizzy drinks to make, the orange fizz is prepared with the orange juice as its base ingredient. The best way to make this drink is to use frozen and thawed orange juice and mix it with some amount of blackcurrant syrup. To this juice mixture, effervescent lemonade should be added. It's the last ingredient that makes the drink frothy and makes it one of the most favored fizzy drinks.
Orange Tangerine Fizz– One of the sweetest tasting fizzy drinks around, this calorie packed juice owes all its fizziness to the soda added in it. This tangerine orange based drink contains 100 percent fruit juice with the addition of the carbonated water and this makes it one of the most popular fizzy drinks around.
Fizzy Water with Orange and Vanilla– One of the simplest fizzy drinks, the fizzy water is a perfect summer cooler and digestive aid. This drink can be either made with club soda or seltzer water. One can even use fizzy mineral water for making this drink. In this simple recipe, the fizz based water is mixed with some orange juice and vanilla essence.
Pomegranate-Key Lime Vodka Cocktail– One of the most versatile alcoholic fizzy drinks, the effervescence in this cocktail is directly contributed by the club soda which is the key ingredient of this beverage. The recipe uses ingredients like sugar, club soda, unsweetened pomegranate juice, water, vodka and fresh key lime juice. For this fizzy drink, sugar and water are boiled to make sugar syrup which is then mixed with all the ingredients in a martini shaker. This cocktail turns out to be one of the most drank fizzy drinks during the festivals.
Fizzy Fruit Drink– This fruit juice packs in a lot of effervescence or gas bubbles as it includes the club soda in its recipe. This easy-to -ake bubbly drink is prepared with ingredients like orange juice, pineapple juice and orange sherbet. Fundamentally all the ingredients are combined together and whisked. Then, the fizz is brought about by adding the soda water to the whisked juice mixture.
Berry Vodka Spritzers– One of the best known fizzy drinks in the world of cocktails, this spritzer can be easily prepared with ingredients like limes, sugar, club soda, blueberries, raspberries and ice. First, the juice is extracted out of the limes and to this lime juice sugar, berry flavored vodka and the berries are added and poured over the ice. The frothy feel or the fizzy feel of the cocktail is then introduced in the recipe by pouring the club soda in pitcher containing the mixture.


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Navy Seaman Mellisa L. Anderson, daughter of Joanne McKean of Ohio, Ill. and Scott E. Anderson of Cortland, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, Anderson completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
The capstone event of boot camp is "Battle Stations." This exercise gives recruits the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the fleet. "Battle Stations" is designed to galvanize the basic warrior attributes of sacrifice, dedication, teamwork and endurance in each recruit through the practical application of basic Navy skills and the core values of honor, courage and commitment. Its distinctly ''Navy'' flavor was designed to take into account what it means to be a sailor.
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A baby goat and a mad waiter
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Sunshine and fireworks
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MISSION OF BURMA + BIG BEAR are playing for free at MIT. The announcement says "rain or shine," although there's a clause in there that mentions cancellation in the event of a torrential downpour.
SENSES FAIL are at Harpers Ferry.
EVERY TIME I DIE are at House of Blues.
BLK JKS are at T.T. the Bear's Place
As you can see above, this Sunday, the day Mission of Burma plays a free show at MIT with special-guest openers Eula, the city of Boston will honor the band by declaring "Mission of Burma Day." While it is pretty cool, it should be pointed out that this city has a bizarre habit of handing these things out like they were free samples of organic cookies.
Aging Boston post-punkers Mission of Burma are at it again, still going strong after their 2002 revival with their latest album, The Sound The Speed The Light, which drops October 6. As we previously reported, they'll be playing a (free!) show at MIT this Sunday, an event for which eager local bands battled it out by a series of displays of physical strength uploading videos of themselves rocking out to Mission of Burma's website to score a gig opening for the band.
From the press release:
Clint Conley, Bob Weston, Roger Miller & Peter Prescott will be playing a free, all-ages outdoor show on the East Campus Courtyard of MIT just two days before the release of The Sound The Speed The Light, at 2pm on Sunday, October 4th!That's not all, there is a Battle of The Bands (or Battle For Burma, rather) being held in conjunction with this momentous occasion.
Fresh off their performance at East River State Park in Williamsburg (with Fucked Up!), Boston post-punk legends Mission of Burma announced (or, rather, their label, Matador, announced for them) today that they'll release a new album this fall. Entitled The Sound, The Speed, The Light, it's their third post-reunion release.


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2011-05-30, 03:59 | Link #43 |
Stupidity is Bliss.
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i'm kind of scared to watch this since the premise gives me the impression that it's about lolicon-ism. DX the man gets an ambiguously romantic situation with the kid which is his aunt??
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Shiki was 22 episodes last year and there have been a few other 2 cour shows so it could happen, it's just rather unlikely. I've heard that there's a timeskip in the manga so I wonder if they plan to end the show then or if there are any other good stopping points.
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LKK is correct. There's a manga thread for this series and you can find it here:
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=71214 Please address your speculations (made with manga wisdom) there and leave this place as a safe haven to manga virgins, who wish to enjoy the anime series without unwanted prior knowledge.
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Thanks for the heads up!
That was really good. Not only did this look stunning (I'm already in love with those backgrounds and the colors are lovely), but Rin's voice seems to work as well! It didn't get that much emotion across yet, but it's nothing close to wooden acting either so I can see myself growing to like it. Youtube embed, for however long it may last:
2011-06-10, 04:28 | Link #60 |
Starbucks > Your Waifu
Oh wow... if I was to describe that PV, it would be adorable. Adorable without feeling any unnecessary sexual, pedophile, incestual undertones that seems to plague anime these days. It was similar to what I expected (I'm following the manga and the last volume I happened to finish was volume 4 - lol @ poster above) and it captured the atmosphere just about perfectly.
One thing I would highlight is the voice acting. It was absolutely superb. It did not sound anime-ish at all but rather very natural, something you would expect from an Asian TV drama. IIRC, the same voice actors for concurrently airing live-action of this are used for the anime. Very looking forward to this.
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Losing some of the Wades may help. However, misplacing Wade has not yet been evaluated in a double-blinded controlled trial that was peer-reviewed and published in a major medical journal. Let us know if it works for you.
Q. I've read that curry is good for diabetes and heart diseases. I'm a groom in a big racing stable, and I curry horses all day. Will that help my diabetes?A. It might. But I think currying favors will work better. I always try to curry favor with stockbrokers, shipping magnates, or a rock stars who will support me in the style to which I'd like to become accustomed for the rest of my life. Unfortunately, so far it hasn't worked. I met a rock star once, but he turned out to be an impoverished geologist.
Q. I was just diagnosed with diabetes. What should I eat?A. I always recommend eating food. Consuming wallpaper paste, rocks, or small toys is not a good approach. It's also expensive.
Q. My doctor told me I need to have my blood tested. What does blood have to do with diabetes?A. One possibility is that your doctor is a vampire. Check into this before you give a lot of blood. If you're over 50, you've probably heard of "tired blood." Maybe the doctor thinks you suffer from "dumb blood" and wants to give your blood an IQ test.
Q. Why does the nurse weigh me every time I go to see the doctor?A. If your doctor is a cannibal, it's to make sure you're fattening up nicely before the feast. Otherwise, I think they do it just to cause stress. That makes your blood pressure go up, and then they can prescribe expensive blood pressure reducing pills.
Q. Some people are telling me I should go on a low-crab diet, and other people say I should go on a high-crab diet. Which is better? I live in Maryland, where the soft-shell crabs are famous.A. I wish I were able to be on a high-crab diet, but crab is so expensive I'm forced to make do with a low-crab diet. Despite this, however, a lot of people say I'm very crabby.
Q. My eye doctor said I need a dilated eye exam. What does that mean. -
A. It means he'll dilate the price.
Q. My doctor said I should aim for Norma glycemia. Who is Norma, and why is her blood glucose level so perfect?A. Norma is one of those people everyone hates because everything she does is perfect. Doctors use her lab results to set the standard for everything. Her great-uncle Harpo, who later changed his name to Marx, had low values for all the lab tests. When you have Harpo glycemia, you should eat some carbohydrate to get your blood sugar levels back up.
Q. Some of your answers seem a little odd to me. Do you really have a doctor of medicine degree?A. Did I ever say I did? MD stands for "may be delusional."
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How do I get Followers to my blog?as if that is a holy grail of blogging. My first answer is always
Write interesting and relevant content for the blog, so people will read the blog, and will want to Follow the blog.But there is yet another detail, that not all bloggers seem to get.
Add a Followers gadget to the blog. Having a Followers gadget, with pictures of other Followers, will attract more Followers than just the "Follow" link in the navbar. The "Follow" link, besides not having pretty pictures, works differently than the Followers gadget.
You're going to get a different class of blog readers using the Followers gadget, than the Follow link. The Followers gadget lets people Follow the blog
- without signing in to Blogger
- using a different Blogger account
- using a non Google account
Also, the Followers gadget encourages readers and visitors, by making your blog into an active part of the Following community that contains your blog.
You add Followers, like every other gadget, using "Page Elements".
The navbar link, frankly, is a poor substitute for the gadget. If you have a blog that uses a classic template, with which people who insist on publishing by FTP are stuck, the navbar link will be your only choice. But if the blog has a layouts template, and you want Followers, the gadget is your best accessory to add.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
OCC Challenge - Brads & Buttons
For those who are visiting us for the first time, we're so glad you're here! You'll find NEW challenges posted on Saturday mornings, along with samples from the Our Creative Corner designers. We're aiming for lots of variety, so you'll see everything from sketches to color combinations to specific products - whatever the host designer can dream up! Subscribe to receive NEW challenges by email -- that way you won't miss a thing!
Without further ado, this week's challenge, brought to you by our June host, Cindy Haffner, is to use at least
1 button and 1 brad on your project. Easy! And fun! To play along, upload your project to your blog and/or to your SCS gallery. Leave a comment here with a link to your project to we can take a look. If you upload to SCS, please use keyword "OCCC" (for Our Creative Corner Challenge). We can't wait to see what you create!
In the meantime, take a look at what the OCC designers have put together:
Card by Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner
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Card by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper
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Card by Lynda Benden - Stamp Act
Card by Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps
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Beautiful cards for inspiration!! I needed a little push to get me going!! Thanks for the challenge.
Here's mine!
Thanks for looking!All of these cards are gorgeous! What an amazing group of stampers. :-) I made a card a couple days ago that fits the challenge - I'm going to try to play the challenge "for real" in the next day or so, but I felt the need to show you this card since I NEVER use buttons and just happened to - such a coincidence! :-)
http://stampinlibby.blogspot.com/2008/06/from-courtneys-closet-inspiration_19.html- Stephanie LJune 22, 2008 at 10:58 PM
I couldn't wait to see what the OCCC #2 challenge was this yesterday morning. My day was so busy, so I took some time to think about it, and here is what I came up with today: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/955389?nocache=1
Thanks for the opportunity to play! Thanks for a fabulous challenge again and the inspirational DT creations!
Here is my card
Thanks for having a look :)Woohoo! I got to play this fun challenge! :) Here's my card...
Feeling Groovy- TamaraJune 26, 2008 at 1:17 AM
Thanks for another great challenge! I was able to make two that fit the bill -
Thanks for looking! I know that I am a week late - but I hope I can still offer this card into pile. I was totally inspired by Dawn's card and I had so much fun making this card - so much fun - that I made TWO! I love coming onto this site! You ladies are doing such a great job!
You can find my card here:
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Sankari- AnonymousDecember 7, 2012 at 2:27 AM
Gorgeous samples, girls! Love each and every one of them. Thanks for the fun challenge, Cindy!
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Local woman becomes Catholic priest
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
- Jane Via, local deputy district attorney who is becoming ordained into the Catholic priesthood
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All four members of Body Language have clearly defined roles. Matthew Young writes most of the lyrics. Ian Chang creates crazy beats on the drums. Grant Wheeler mans the keys. And Angelica Bess? Well, she adds the sparkle.
"We have this ongoing joke that I'm not really a musician, I'm just a sparkler," said the Crown Heights-based singer. "I have the glockenspiel and eight passes on my synthesizer — they're all sparking sounds. And apparently my voice sparkles as well."
Her Lily Allen-esque voice (minus the British accent) has attracted the likes of Michael Angelakos in Passion Pit and Whale Belly, whom she's done backing vocals for. Together, Young, Wheeler and Bess also used to back for Theophilus London before he went solo. When Chang got on board, Body Language — and its electronic, R&B, Tropicalia sound — was born.
The band's most-recent EP, "Social Studies," has attracted fans for its danceable grooves, and lately, the quartet's been in Young and Wheeler's Clinton Hill-based studio to churn out more, which they'll bring to Southpaw on April 29 for a show with Melo-X.
"I never really knew dance music would get this much attention, because the whole indie lo-fi alternative pop thing has been such a movement lately," said Bess. "But people still love dance music."
It must be the sparkle.
Body Language at Southpaw [125 Fifth Ave. at Sterling Place in Park Slope, (718) 230-0236], April 29 at 9 pm. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. For info, visit www.spsounds.com.
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Chlorambucil or Fludarabine as First-Line Therapy in Treating Patients With Previously Untreated Waldenström Macroglobulinemia, Splenic Lymphoma, or Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as chlorambucil and fludarabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known whether chlorambucil is more effective than fludarabine in treating Waldenström macroglobulinemia, splenic lymphoma, or lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying chlorambucil to see how well it works compared with fludarabine as first-line therapy in treating patients with previously untreated Waldenström macroglobulinemia, splenic lymphoma, or lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Lymphoma |
Drug: chlorambucil Drug: fludarabine phosphate Procedure: quality-of-life assessment |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Randomised Trial of Chlorambucil Versus Fludarabine as Initial Therapy of Waldenström's Macroglobulinaemia and Splenic Lymphoma With Villous Lymphocytes |
- Response to therapy (complete and partial response rates)
- Duration of response
- Improvement in hematological parameters
- Toxicity
- Quality of life as assessed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life-30 questionnaire
- Survival
Estimated Enrollment: | 400 |
Study Start Date: | June 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | January 2013 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
- Compare the efficacy of first-line therapy comprising chlorambucil vs fludarabine phosphate in patients with previously untreated Waldenström macroglobulinemia, splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes, or non-IgM lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to disease (Waldenström macroglobulinemia vs splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes vs non-IgM lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive oral chlorambucil on days 1-10. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
- Arm II: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate orally or IV on days 1-5. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 3-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients undergo quality of life assessment at baseline.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Diagnosis of Waldenström macroglobulinemia, splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL), or non-IgM lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma based on morphological and immunophenotypic criteria
Bone marrow should be assessed by two-color flow cytometry for the expression of the following antigens:
- Surface Ig
Previously untreated disease requiring therapeutic intervention (as judged by the primary physician), as indicated by ≥ 1 of the following:
- Hemoglobin < 10 g/dL
- ANC < 1.5 x 10^9/L
- Platelet count < 150 x 10^9/L
- Clinical evidence of hyperviscosity in terms of neurological or ocular disturbance
- Patients with disease detected by clonal cells alone are not eligible
- Performance status 0-2
- Life expectancy > 6 months
- Serum creatinine < 200 mmol/L
- AST and ALT < 2 times upper limit of normal
- Negative direct Coomb's test
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for ≥ 6 months after completion of study therapy
- No severe or life-threatening cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, psychiatric, or metabolic disease
- No other concurrent malignancy
- No AIDS or AIDS-related complex
- No evidence of active hepatitis C infection
- Prior plasmapheresis for control of clinically significant hyperviscosity allowed
- Prior splenectomy for SLVL allowed
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00608374
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Study Chair: | Roger G. Owen, MD, MRCP | Leeds Cancer Centre at St. James's University Hospital |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00608374 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | December 21, 2007 |
Last Updated: | August 23, 2013 |
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
Waldenström macroglobulinemia splenic marginal zone lymphoma stage I marginal zone lymphoma stage III marginal zone lymphoma |
stage IV marginal zone lymphoma contiguous stage II marginal zone lymphoma noncontiguous stage II marginal zone lymphoma |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Lymphoproliferative Disorders Lymphatic Diseases Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases Neoplasms, Plasma Cell Hemostatic Disorders Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Paraproteinemias Blood Protein Disorders Hematologic Diseases |
Hemorrhagic Disorders Fludarabine Fludarabine phosphate Chlorambucil Vidarabine Antineoplastic Agents Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic Antimetabolites Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Immunosuppressive Agents Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating |
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Every time I listen to this young man sing this song…I'm blown away by the range of emotions that race through me. His voice combined with the powerful words carry me away and everything just feels right.
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Jul 11, 2010
im sorry i know some of you idolize this woman but damn she is annoying. ive been to savannah many times and the people are fantastic. most from there do not talk like that i cringe everytime she opens her fat mouth.
Jul 11, 2010
You're messin' with a Georgia icon here "Sport" I'd kindly advise ya not put yourself in Peril..lol
Jul 11, 2010
icon are you serious? lol shes just a little over the top with all that ya'll crap especially sense the more public she gets the more it pours on.
Jul 11, 2010
That accent is so fake that it is sickening. I know "we" Georgians have an accent, but NOT like hers. Savannah made the woman, yes, I know she had a hard life and worked to get to where she is, but still----- she needs to cut the nasal y'all twang and sound like a normal GA. woman who has made it big thanks to all of us in the Savannah area.
Jul 11, 2010
My..my..are'nt we a jealous bunch..a stupid "Yankee" from Ohio..and an old Mother Hen..lol
Jul 14, 2010
Ya oughta' learn how to spell and put a sentence together.. and then...just maybe..we'll take ya seriously..lol |
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Jul 14, 2010
Funny... I don't care for Paula's accent either and I live in GA!!!
Jul 15, 2010
How would we know..ya sure as hell ain't proud enough to post it on your location..if ya are ya must be a "Damn Yankee" transplant..lol |
Jul 15, 2010
I used to talk to her before her television career and she didn't speak with that much of a drawl. I think her handlers have helped her create a Southern personality somewhat like Dolly Parton has created her character. Paula's Southern persona has helped her move into the Forbes 100 richest persons. She may wear on some people's nerves, but others are moving her up.
"What? Huh? Doh? Whatever......" Since: Aug 08 542 Have called many towns Home |
Jul 16, 2010
What on earth are you rambling about?!?!? It makes no sense at all other than the "Damn Yankee" part, and sorry HJ, just good old southern girl here. |
Jul 17, 2010
There are "Haves" and "Have Nots"..the have nots always tend to do alot crybaby whinnin' and finger pointin' as they are ate up with anger and jealous frustration..get a grip.. the womean is rich..she is famous..and a Georgia icon..and a very kind Lady..why don't take aim at that worthless President ya helped get elected..now there's a real Fake..accent and all.
Jul 18, 2010
i guess u must be a have not harley if all you have to do all day is post retarded crap on here alllllll the time.
Jul 18, 2010
last time i checked "ya oughta" is not in the dictionary next time you try to bust someone out on their vocabulary check yourself. are you from "tiger ridge" or what? if not "ya oughta" check it out. dumb hillbilly. lol btw paula is made up alot more southern then she use to be |
Aug 3, 2010
I like her and everything about her!
Aug 3, 2010
If ya don't like "Southern" dialect..stay the Hell up north and outta hear ya "Hogheaded"."Ya nkee"...lol |
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Aug 3, 2010
Hey Harley July ~ first off, I am a "Damn Yankee" and I own "propptiy" ( as Y'ALL call it here ) so looks like I'm here to stay, huh ?:-)
I, too, cannot stand to listen to Paula Deen anymore... she is as fake as Dolly Parton's tits... when her restaurant was over by the court house, my colleagues and I used to have lunch there frequently and she did NOT have that whiny, nasal twang then. Her current restaurant is crap and the wait is no longer justified... it does'nt shine a light to one formerly near the court house. The buffet sucks, the desserts are given to you now (not like the formerly scrumptious dessert bar !) and she's not there to visit with the folks that have helped her rise to where she is now. I, too, agree that she (or her handlers) have created a personna to pander to what some folks think of as the "typical" Southern personality. The comments here have nothing to do with the "haves" and the "have nots" as you contend... |
Aug 4, 2010
hey redneck go back to tiger ridge im sure your husband/brother is waiting for ya! paula is fake and a joke she needs to get back in the kitchen and off the stage shes embarasing |
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Aug 7, 2010
Ah jeez what a shame!! a maggot like you ownin' property in my beloved South..you're right "Sport" ya are a "Damn Yankee"..and I sure as Hell don't have ta like it..lol |
Aug 8, 2010
That Dog ain't gonna hunt here Mr. Harry..lol..nice try however..My fans won't accept anythang less than the Real Deal..lol..stop tryin' ta steal my "Show"..that's copyright infringement..lmao
Aug 8, 2010
i personally think you three are true trailor trash
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Over the past few months, Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest has begun to take shape in the form of some pretty impressive headliners. Run-DMC will reunite and make an appearance, as will previously announced acts like Bob Mould, Rakim, Danny Brown, Atlas Sound, and more.
Today comes the full lineup for the fest, which takes place at Austin's Auditorium Shores November 2-4. Notables include: De La Soul, Santigold, Refused, Girl Talk, ASAP Rocky, Fucked Up, X (performing Los Angeles), Deerhoof, Public Image LTD, Against Me!, Sharon Van Etten, the Head and the Heart, and much, much more.
Comics include: David Cross, Hannibal Burress, Wyatt Cenac, Doug Benson, Eugene Mirman, and much, much more. For the full lineup of artists and comedians, head to Fun Fun Fun Fest's website. Tickets, including three-day passes, are on sale now, with a full schedule to come at a later date.
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Balloonup.com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 311 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
We are a French startup and we need a logo asap to start communicating about it. Balloon enables people who are at the same place to communicate with each other in real time.
The users are people who want to communicate in realtime in a place or during an event (campus, nightclub, museum, conference, bars...). We are talking about any person who desires to know what is going on in a place or say something about it.
The logo should only contain the name "balloon". You can play with it as you want (colors, font, design inside the name...). There is no subtext.
The name comes from this idea: you write something on a balloon, you throw the balloon with the message and anyone can grab it.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - layered .psd (RGB)
Here are some keywords that express our idea:
- Fun
Here are some stuff we want to avoid:
What is more we want an icon that we will be able to re-use for our iPhone app.
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Boston Is Locked Down With City Frozen From Tufts to Trains
Ted Bunker, Esme E. Deprez and John LauermanBoston area residents awoke to a city virtually paralyzed after a night of mayhem that left at least two dead and police searching house to house for a suspect believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.
As dawn broke over the city, police had already ordered a shutdown of all public transit in the region while officers armed with assault rifles conducted a search in Watertown, 10 miles west of downtown Boston, looking for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old foreign national who had escaped during a confrontation with police.
Governor Deval Patrick ordered businesses closed in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and Boston, while area schools from Harvard University to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College canceled classes. Companies that have told employees to stay home included Athenahealth Inc., Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.
"I'm watching CNN and looking at the streets around our office," said Guy Macdonald, the CEO of Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Watertown. "It looks like a movie around our office right now."
Tsarnaev ran over the other suspect, his older brother Tamerlan, during the shoot-out in Watertown, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Police Chase
The two men are believed to have robbed a convenience store last night before car-jacking a Mercedes SUV and leading police on a high-speed chase through the city's normally tranquil suburbs. The brothers are believed to have shot and killed a campus policeman at MIT in Cambridge. At least one other officer, from the Transit Police, was wounded in a shootout with the suspects, according to Massachusetts State Police.
"There is a massive manhunt underway," Patrick said at a televised news conference.
In an earlier statement, Patrick's office urged people not go to transit stations. "Residents should not answer the door unless it is a police officer, and are advised to stay away from windows."
Police urged residents to stay inside in a message on Twitter.
"Get in your house, get in your house," police told Watertown residents in the night.
Amtrak halted service between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. Logan International Airport remains open and operating under "heightened security," according to Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for Massport, the airport operator. Boston police earlier had suspended taxi service via Twitter.
Airline Waivers
American Airlines has issued a waiver for people flying to or from Boston's Logan International Airport today, allowing them to rebook flights without having to pay a fee. American issued the waiver because of the shutdown of mass transit in Boston and residents being advised to stay indoors during the search for the suspect in the bombings, said Andrea Huguely, an American spokeswoman.
US Airways Group Inc. also has issued a waiver for Boston, said Todd Lehmacher, a spokesman. United Continental Holdings Inc. also issued a similar waiver for Boston passengers, and Delta Air Lines Inc. will waive fees on a one-off basis if customers request it, spokesmen for the carriers said.
Area schools that canceled classes for the day included Harvard, MIT, Tufts University, Emerson College, Simmons College, Suffolk University, Boston University, and Boston College, with some advising students to remain in their dormitories.
Campus Evacuation
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, closed its campus and said on its website that it was in the process of an evacuation. The university said it had learned that a person being sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing had been identified as a student registered at the school.
Companies that have told employees to stay home include Merck and Pfizer, which have research facilities in the area, according to people who answered the phone there. New York-based Pfizer, with at least three offices in Boston and Cambridge, says it has shut all its facilities in the area.
Partners HealthCare, which operates Massachusetts General Hospital suspended shuttle service during the manhunt. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston isn't allowing staff, patients or visitors to leave its facilities, the hospital said in a statement on its website. It is allowing staff, employees, patients and their families to enter the hospital if they have proper identification and advising everyone to follow the advice of public officials, the statement said.
Biotech Companies
Companies in two major Boston industries - health care and finance -- were also advising their employees to remain at home. Athenahealth, a provider of electronic medical records and billing services for doctors, has more than 1,000 workers at its headquarters in Watertown, a sprawling campus of brick-faced buildings where police have been gathering during the manhunt. With that location shut for the day, the company has shifted work to Belfast, Maine, and elsewhere.
"We are all good," Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Bush said by e-mail. "Happy to be hosting half the law enforcement of the eastern U.S. at our offices."
State Street Corp. and American International Group Inc. say they have closed their offices and told employees in the area to work from home.
Tetraphase, which went public last month, has experiments running in its labs there, though those will have to wait, CEO Macdonald said. "I'm sure there's nothing that's critical, but we have some chemistry that we'll have to look at tomorrow," MacDonald said in a phone interview. "Catching this guy is way more important."
Biogen Idec
Biogen Idec Inc., the fourth-largest biotechnology company by market value, closed its offices in Cambridge and Somerville for the day and told employees not to come in, a spokesman wrote in an e-mail. Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge said it closed its offices immediately following the police press conference at 6 a.m. Vertex, the maker of drugs for hepatitis C and cystic fibrosis, has "processes in place for events such as this and do not anticipate any impact to critical business operations," spokesman Zach Barber said in an e-mail.
Lexington Office
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., the maker of the antibiotic Cubicin, has its Lexington office open for anyone who can safely get in, said Julie DiCarlo, a spokeswoman. Many employees, though, "are under lock-down and can't leave our homes," she wrote in an e-mail.
Most main tourist sites in Boston are closed or are opening late, including the Museum of Science, Boston Children's Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts. All branches of the Boston Public Library will have a delayed opening. State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein said via Twitter that the state "House of Representatives is CLOSED TODAY!!! Everyone stay in & stay safe."


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Homespun Knitwear Short-sleeve Henley Size Large
Will Ship To: CONUS
I don't really need to say much except I own a few of these myself and they are the tits. See for yourself in the macro shots; these are impeccably made. These shirts are even better with subsequent washes-- the slub fabric really takes on wonderful character once it hits the water. Anyway, the only drawback is the black marker through the tag, but c'mon-- it's an undershirt-- if you don't think you can get over it, don't buy it. $45, shipping included.
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2 nm Dodecanethiol-Stabilized Gold Nanospheres
- Unagglomerated and monodisperse
- Dodecanethiol functionalized surface
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Gold Nanoparticle Applications
Diagnostic Applications
Gold nanopaticles are readily conjugated to antibodies and other proteins due to the affinity of sulfhydyl (-SH) groups for the gold surface, and gold-biomolecule conjugates have been widely incorporated into diagnostic applications, where their bright red color is used in home and point-of-care tests such as lateral flow assays.
Biomedical Applications
Gold nanomaterials can be conjugated to biomolecules to specifically target cancer cells, and used for photothermal cancer therapy, where their tunable optical properties cause them to convert laser light into heat and selectively kill cancerous cells.
Gold nanoparticles have unique optical properties because they support surface plasmons. At specific wavelengths of light the surface plasmons are driven into resonance and strongly absorb or scatter incident light. This effect is so strong that it allows for individual nanoparticles as small as 30 nm in diameter to be imaged using a conventional dark field microscope. This strong coupling of metal nanostructures with light is the basis for the new field of plasmonics. Applications of plasmonic gold nanoparticles include biomedical labels, sensors, and detectors. The gold plasmon resonance is also the basis for enhanced spectroscopy techniques such as Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) and Surface Enhanced Fluoressence Spectroscopy which can be used to detect analytes with ultrahigh sensitivity.
Ultra Uniform Gold Nanospheres
Our standard Au nanospheres have a variety of useful surface chemistries and narrow size distributions (CV < 15%), appropriate for a variety of applications ranging from lateral flow assays to optical coatings. Some applications, however, such as multiplexed dark field labeling or standards for nanoparticle size and shape, require even tighter tolerances on shape and size dispersity. For these applications, nanoComposix has successfully manufactured ultra-uniform, monodisperse gold nanospheres with sizes tunable from 10 nm up to 200 nm. As shown below, these gold nanoparticles have a nearly perfect spherical shape, smooth surfaces, and impressively narrow size distributions (CV < 6%, and for many sizes CV < 4%).
Optical and Scattering Properties
Due to their high uniformity in size and shape, these Au nanospheres scatter a single color of light under dark field microscope imaging (shown below). The high purity of their light scattering signatures makes these nanospheres perfect scattering labels for imaging and building blocks for plasmonic nanostructures and devices.
Surface Chemistry
The gold nanospheres are stabilized with citrate in an aqueous solution. With their stable, easily displaceable surface chemistry, the gold nanospheres can be readily functionalized with a wide variety of molecules, including polymers and small molecules with desired functional groups, inorganic coatings such as silica, and biomolecules including DNA and antibodies for your application.
Solvent Selection
To redisperse the particles, we recommend adding an appropriate solvent from the Table below to the dried powder and vortexing for 30 seconds. After redispersion, samples should be stored at 4°C and away from light, as described in our Storage and Handling instructions.
Solvent Refractive Index, n | Nanopowder Solubility | |
Toluene | 1.50 | High |
Chloroform | 1.45 | High |
Dichloromethane | 1.42 | High |
Hexane | 1.38 | High |
THF | 1.41 | High |
DMF | 1.43 | None |
DMSO | 1.48 | None |
Acetonitrile | 1.34 | None |
Isopropanol | 1.38 | None |
Ethanol | 1.36 | None |
Methanol | 1.33 | None |
Water | 1.34 | None |
Effect of Solvent on Nanoparticle Optical Properties
UV-visible spectroscopy can be used to detect the presence of aggregation or changes in particle size; such effects are readily observed in the absorption spectrum as a change in the width of the plasmon peak and/or the appearance of a secondary peak that is red-shifted from the plasmon peak. Samples of a hexane dispersion of 4 nm-diameter dodecanethiol-coated Ag nanoparticles were dried and re-suspended in a variety of organic solvents. The absorption spectrum of the resuspended sample is compared with that of the original hexane dispersion in the figures below.
Small changes in the UV-visible absorption spectra of the redispersed samples are seen when compared with the original hexane dispersion. The shifting and broadening of the the spectra are typical of those seen during solvent transfer due to a change in the refractive index of the solvent, and are not due to changes in particle size or agglomeration.


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Contract-First or Code-First Design - Part 1
While in London for a conference, Ted Neward ran into Adrian Trenaman, a fellow Web services geek who's been working with Web services for some years now, including having written several training courses on several different Java WS-* implementations. Naturally, their conversation swung from the usual "How are you enjoying the conference?" small talk to the more interesting - and heated - discussion of building Web services in general. Fortunately, unknown to either of them, a small digital recorder was capturing their conversation, and in an exclusive, highly-sensitive deal involving no fewer than three countries and two intelligence agencies whose name we're not even allowed to think about, much less disclose, the transcript of that conversation is now being made public through TheServerSide Interoperability Blog.
[Editor's note: At this point, both had consumed several beverages of questionably moral character - readers unaccustomed to raucous debate are forewarned.]
Adrian: So I heard you gave a talk on Java/.NET interop…
Ted: Yep. Adrian: … and that you said something along the lines of "WSDL sucks eggs".
Ted: (Laughs) I think my actual words were something along the lines of "Learning WSDL is an exercise best reserved for the residents of the Fifth Circle of Hell" or something like that.
Adrian: You're not a fan of contract-first?
Ted: You are?
Adrian: It's not that bad.
Ted: Dude, them's fightin' words!
Adrian: (Laughter) Seriously, you don't care for WSDL?
Ted: Nope. But you're welcome to try to convince me otherwise, if you want.
Adrian: Well, it just seems to me that learning WSDL and XSD can go a long way in improving the quality of the Web services experience.
Ted: OK, opening arguments. Begin.
Adrian: (Laughter) OK, here goes. I used to think that WSDL was pretty ugly; it is certainly verbose and largely non-intuitive to the beginner. When I started with web services using XMLBus in 2001, the support for code-first programming was hugely attractive: you could take a Java class, run a simple "java-to-WSDL" utility, and an appropriate WSDL contract was generated. Today similar approaches exist for JAX-RPC toolkits like Axis, and JAX-WS toolkits, such as Celtix. These approaches allow developers to swiftly web-service-enable their existing code, with little or no need for WSDL design, and seem hugely attractive. Why would a developer want to venture into the "Fifth Circle of Hell" when they just don't have to? I think the answer to this lies in the context of the service being designed. If this a tactical, short-lived service, then the code-first approach may be appropriate. However, if this service is to be long-lived within an enterprise, and engineered for reuse, then you may want to consider the following reasons to adopt a WSDL first approach.
Ted: Well, you're not saying anything I don't disagree with so far: context always matters, no matter the technology. And frankly, I'm not advocating the "code-first" approach, either; I believe in something hybridized between the two, sort of a "code-first/contract-aware" approach. But why in Heaven's name would you sign developers up to write 50 lines of obtuse XML that can't be verified until runtime just to specify a contract that can be more succinctly expressed in four lines of Java or C#? Adrian: Four reasons.
Ted: Cool. You put 'em up, I'll knock 'em down, one at a time.
Adrian: You'll TRY, you mean. (Laughter) (Editor's note: There is a pause here in the conversation as the waitress brings more beer and our agent surreptitiously turns up the microphone gain on the recorder cleverly disguised as a floral arrangement on the table.)


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. >> A Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban has been honored as Harvard University's humanitarian of the year.
Malala Yousafzai, an outspoken proponent for girls' education, was at Harvard on Friday to accept the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said she was pleased to welcome Malala because of their shared interest in education.
Malala was shot in the head last October. Militants said she was attacked because she criticized the Taliban, not because of her views on education.
The 16-year-old Malala said she hopes to become a politician because politicians can have influence on a broad scale.
She spoke nostalgically about her home region, the Swat Valley, and said she hopes to return someday. She called it a "paradise" but described a dangerous area where militants blew up dozens of schools and sought to discourage girls from going to school by snatching pens from their hands. Students, she said, reacted by hiding their books under their shawls so people wouldn't know they were going to school.
"The so-called Taliban were afraid of women's power and were afraid of the power of education," she told hundreds of students, faculty members and well-wishers who packed Harvard's ornate Sanders Theater for the award ceremony.
Malala highlighted the fact that very few people spoke out against what was happening in her home region.
"Although few people spoke, but the voice for peace and education was powerful," she said.
Malala also described waking up in a United Kingdom hospital, where she was taken for emergency treatment following the assassination attempt in Pakistan.
"And when I was in Birmingham, I didn't know where I was, I didn't know where my parents are, I didn't know who has shot me and I had no idea what was happening," she said. "But I thank God that I'm alive."
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, paid a special tribute to Malala in a message read publicly during her award ceremony.
"Your courage," Jagland said in the tribute, "is sending a strong message to women to stand up for their rights, which constitutes a precondition for peace."
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One in five Greeks unemployed, half of all youth
(Reuters) – Greece's jobless rate rose to a record of 21.8 percent in January, twice as high as the euro zone average, statistics service ELSTAT said on Thursday, as the debt crisis and austerity measures took their toll on the labor market.
Youth unemployment remained at levels where more are jobless than in work.
Budget cuts imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund as a condition for saving the debt-laden country from a chaotic default have caused a wave of corporate closures and bankruptcies.
Greece's average annual unemployment rate for 2011 jumped to 17.7 percent from 12.5 percent in the previous year, according to ELSTAT figures. December's rates was 21.2 percent.
For the second consecutive month, those aged between 15-24 years were hit hard. Unemployment in that age group stood at 50.8 percent, twice as high as three years ago.
Greece's economy is estimated to have shrunk by about a fifth since 2008, when it plunged into its deepest and longest post-war recession. About 600,000 jobs, more than one in 10, have been destroyed in the process.
A record 1.08 million people were without work in January, 47 percent more than in the same month last year, according to ELSTAT figures. The number in work dropped 8.6 percent to a record low of 3.88 million.
As an increasing number of people claim unemployment benefits, the government is finding it increasingly difficult to meet its budget targets.
The finance ministry announced on Wednesday that the deficit of its central government budget had widened by 53 percent in the first quarter, compared with a target to narrow it by 38 percent in the full year.
For many of those still in work, the situation is also worse.
Under the terms of its EU/IMF bailout, the country's second since 2010,Greece slashed its minimum monthly wage by about a fifth to about 580 euros ($760), gross, to encourage hirings.
Starting this month, Greek unemployment figures are being adjusted for seasonal factors. The average jobless rate in the 17 countries sharing the euro rose slightly in January to 10.7 percent, from 10.6 percent in December.
(Reporting by Harry Papachristou. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.)


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Helping Nature Protect Us From Drought
To learn more about how we can cope with drought, nature.org spoke with Senior Freshwater Scientist Eloise Kendy, Ph.D., a hydrologist with The Nature Conservancy for the past six years. She studies groundwater depletion, the movement of water through landscapes, and how conservation can provide solutions to help keep water flowing to farms and cities.
The 2012 U.S. drought was the most severe and widespread in more than two decades, with persistent effects, and has been compared to the great Dust Bowl on the Central Plains in the 1930s. The recent Ken Burns PBS documentary on the Dust Bowl provides a vivid history lesson of how bad things got for Depression-era Oklahoma wheat farmers. Can we learn any lessons from the Dust Bowl experience in how to manage today?
Eloise Kendy:
During the 1930s Dust Bowl era, farmers would leave their plowed fields barren for much of the year. When drought came, the soil literally blew off the fields, causing huge dust storms that rendered farming impossible. Where native grasslands had once held soils in place, unsustainable farming practices combined with a prolonged drought to create the Dust Bowl. The disaster eventually led to adoption of better farming practices, such as terracing, use of cover crops, and no-till farming, and creation of the federal Soil Conservation Service (a precursor to the Natural Resources Conservation Service) to promote these practices. As a result, we've significantly reduced the rate of soil loss from farm fields.
But the Dust Bowl documentary ends on an ominous note. After suffering through unimaginable consequences of unsustainable farming practices, prairie farmers launched another: pumping groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer for irrigation. Now, as that water source dwindles, the regional economy is again at grave risk.
So, while we learned the most obvious lesson of the Dust Bowl – that is, how to retain soil on dry farmland – we have yet to learn the larger lessons: how to respect nature's limits, and how to use natural processes to buffer drought's impacts.
Meanwhile, worldwide we fill wetlands, drain farmland, and replace natural landscapes with impervious roads and buildings. In nature, wetland and forest soils absorb snowmelt and rainfall, slowly releasing it into underlying aquifers and eventually into lakes and rivers. That cool, clean water is what keeps rivers flowing, even when it hasn't rained for weeks or months. In contrast, drains and impervious surfaces rush rain and snow out of our way, into rivers, and from there to the sea. Draining rain rapidly away when it is plentiful means it's not here for us to use during drought, when we need it the most.
What kind of agricultural management strategies are working to protect soil and water, and can they be replicated in other places?
Eloise Kendy:
Two strategies are to increase the water-holding capacity of soils and, where supplementary water is still needed, to reduce that demand by improving irrigation efficiency.
Improving soil structure not only helps it retain water, but also reduces erosion and protects downstream waterways from pollution and sedimentation. In the Upper Midwest – for example, on the Paw Paw River in Michigan, the Boone River in Iowa, the Pecatonica River in Wisconsin, the Mackinaw River in Illinois, and the Root River in Minnesota – the Conservancy is demonstrating the use of conservation tillage (in which there is little or no turning of soil and crop residue is left to protect soil), as well as contour farming and the planting of cover crops in the off-season, to retain water and sediment on the land. During last summer's drought, fields where these practices were used had noticeably better crop yields than those that didn't; in many cases, the improved soil conditions spelled the difference between whether or not a crop was even harvestable. We are working with Congress, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the agribusiness community to replicate these and other smart farming practices on all high-risk cropland nationally.
In the Flint River watershed in Georgia, The Nature Conservancy is working with farmers to reduce their demand for irrigation water. With the federal government, we've worked to get water-saving technology into the hands of farmers. A team at the University of Georgia invented a new device that allows farmers to use GPS to shut off water to spots in their fields that don't need it – like wetlands or rocky outcrops. It makes a lot of sense – and saves farmers money – to have these "Variable Rate Irrigation" (VRI) sprinklers all in a line turning on and off, depending on whether the soil is wet or dry. However, whether irrigation efficiency harms or benefits nature depends on the legal and physical circumstances of each unique situation. That's why Conservancy scientists study all the water pathways to and from a farm before advocating for changes in irrigation practices.
Dams now regulate natural high and low flows in many large rivers. Is drought a problem in places that have reservoirs to store water?
Eloise Kendy:
Drought can still be a problem in rivers with reservoirs – just take the Colorado River, dammed to provide hydropower, drinking water to 33 million people, and irrigation for 4 million acres of farmland. The demands are so high, that the Colorado rarely reaches the sea.
Where we have reservoirs, we can operate them better. For recreation, hydropower and water supply, you want to have your reservoir as full as possible. But for flood control, you have to drop the reservoir way down to capture the floods. So, there is a growing view that we can avoid using dams for flood control in the future. Instead we can allow naturally high streamflows to go over the dam where feasible, and allow floodplains downstream to do what they've always done - absorb the high flows. This approach keeps more water in the reservoir for cities and farmers to use during droughts. For at least a decade, The Nature Conservancy has been working with the Army Corps of Engineers to manage their dams in this way, through the Sustainable Rivers program.
On the Mokelumne River in California, for example, a study of dam management with the Army Corps demonstrated that relying more on natural floodplains had the potential to free up 25% to 50% of flood storage for "new" storage of public water supply – enough additional water for nearly 450,000 people per year – while increasing hydropower generation and improving habitat for declining salmon.
To realize these benefits would require securing conservation easements on floodplains to replace the flood storage that reservoirs currently provide. But the potential benefits to nature are enormous, as floodplains are among the most biologically productive places on Earth.
The Nature Conservancy talks a lot about managing watersheds, or in other words, rivers and their surrounding lands. How do forests, wetlands and other natural areas act as "green infrastructure" to protect public drinking water supplies?
Eloise Kendy:
We've learned that nature does a pretty good job of managing water all by itself, and is very complementary to built infrastructure. Natural or green infrastructure includes wetlands, marshes, grasslands and floodplain forests. All of these natural areas absorb high flows and storm water runoff, and filter and slowly release it to streams and aquifers, moderating against dry times. Upslope forests keep rains from flushing out hillsides, and protect water quality by reducing erosion and sedimentation into streams.
While it's clear people need water infrastructure made of concrete and steel, we're learning how to better integrate natural services into our man-made systems. Through our conservation planning, the Conservancy identifies important places where green infrastructure can help protect water supplies.
In Texas, the Conservancy worked with citizens to win ballot initiatives for funding conservation easements to protect the groundwater recharge area for the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio's primary water source.
In Florida, we're restoring wetlands on a large scale on agricultural landscapes to improve fish and bird habitat, filter pollution, moderate water temperature and ensure freshwater reaches the Everglades during dry periods while keeping these areas as working cattle ranches.
In Montana's Centennial Valley, we're recolonizing beavers because beaver ponds retain spring snowmelt, and slowly release it during the long, hot summer. In other places, scientists report that streams that lack beaver dams run dry in the summer, while otherwise similar streams that have beavers remain perennial.
In Illinois, we are helping the City of Bloomington protect its drinking-water reservoir from agricultural chemicals by assisting farmers to construct wetlands in surrounding farmland. The wetlands remove excess nutrients that come from farm fields and would otherwise contaminate the public water supply.
But these strategies are not one size fits all. The science is really important, because strategies for protecting water resources depend on many factors, such as the geology, soils, and climate, and how the water is used. That's where the Conservancy comes in. We use our conservation science to understand – how nature's water needs intersect with people's needs, and can then develop the most effective conservation plan to help keep clean fresh water flowing… especially during droughts.


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I wear glasses all day (im near sighted) i bought two pair of glasses and wore one pair because they were more comfortable about 90 percent of the time. a year later i started itching on my ear and thought nothing of it..it got got agravating then worse... then my other ear started with the same symptoms...i figured it was my glases by then and switched to the almost unused pair because the paint covering was coming off of the others i noticed.. well now i have these covered with bandaids and it has dramatically decreased the amout of itchiness.. it`s cracked and sore and still itches...how can i get it to finish going away!!! ive tried moisturizers and hydrocortisone(maybe not enough)my mom developed metal allergies after my siblings and i were born..guess i have done the same... thank you for any imput or help you can give...
It sounds like you may have developed a contact dermatitis. This can be confirmed by patch testing to a variety of common sensitizing agents. In the meantime, I would avoid these glasses and get a non-metal pair. It sounds like you may need a higher potency topical corticosteroid cream/ointment; if it is very severe occasionally a short course of prednisone (a corticosteroid) is required. I would see your physician or a qualified allergist/immunologist with experience in evaluation and treatment of contact dermatitis.
Jonathan Bernstein, MD Associate Professor of Medicine College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |


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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to die at the hands of Republicans opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires.
Obama has been waging a campaign-style effort seeking to rally public support behind the $447 billion measure, which will be the subject of a Senate vote Tuesday. The plan combines payroll tax cuts for workers and businesses with $175 billion in spending on roads, school repairs and other infrastructure, as well as unemployment assistance and help to local governments to avoid layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers.
The key elements of the jobs package reprise parts of Obama's $800 billion-plus 2009 stimulus measure and a Social Security payroll tax cut enacted last year. Unlike the controversial stimulus bill, the jobs measure would be financed by a 5.6 percent surcharge on income exceeding $1 million that raises more than $450 billion over a decade.
In making the case for the bill, the White House cites economists like Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics, who predicts that the measure would add 2 percentage points of growth to the economy, add 1.9 million payroll jobs, and reduce unemployment by a percentage point. But Republicans point to optimistic predictions about the 2009 measure that didn't come to pass; unemployment hovers just above 9 percent nationwide.
Republicans say the 2009 stimulus measure was an expensive failure and that the current plan is just like it.
The president has been struggling in opinion polls and his crusade for the measure has always been a long shot given that Republicans control the House and can filibuster at will in the Senate. Obama has nonetheless pressed for the bitterly divided Congress to pass the measure in its entirety rather than seek compromise with his GOP rivals.
"This is not the time for the usual games or political gridlock in Washington," Obama said in his weekend radio and Internet address. "Any senator out there who's thinking about voting against this jobs bill needs to explain why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation."
While Republicans backed the payroll tax cut last year and support elements like continued tax breaks for investments in business equipment, they're adamantly opposed to further spending and say the tax surcharge would strike at small businesses, which, in total, employ more than 300,000 people.
"It's not a jobs bill. In our view, it's another stimulus bill," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News last week. "I don't think it'll pass and I don't think it should." House GOP leaders say they won't bring the measure to the floor.
Democratic unanimity is not assured. Moderates like Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. — both are up for re-election next year in states where Obama figures to lose — may abandon the party, even as oil-state Democrats have been assuaged by a decision to get rid of an Obama proposal to have oil companies give up tax breaks
Tuesday's vote is on whether to cut off a GOP filibuster on a motion to simply begin debate on the measure. Cutting off debate would require 60 votes. If Democrats fail as expected — they control 53 votes in the 100-member Senate — it'll start up a fresh wave of partisan finger-pointing.
Both the House and Senate are then expected to turn this week to approving U.S. trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, one of the few areas of agreement between Republicans and the administration on boosting the economy.


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