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Saturday, March 8, 2008
My Biggest Lisp Project
Over a couple of years we built a system consisting of eighty thousand lines of Lisp, having probably thrown away another fifty thousand along the way. We were in the classic situation described by Paul Graham in On Lisp: not knowing exactly what program we were writing when we set out on our mission. We also used C libraries for: writing and reading 2D barcodes; forms scanning; character recognition; generating TIFFs, and probably a couple I am forgetting.
The application was a nasty one:
-- capture clinical drug trial patient data as it was generated on paper at the participating physician's site, using scanner and handwriting recognition tools;
-- validate as much as possible with arbitrary edits; such as complex cross-edits against other data;
-- allow a distributed workgroup to monitor sites and correct high-order mistakes;
-- track all changes and corrections; and
-- do everything with an impeccable audit trail, because the FDA has very strict requirements along these lines.
Making things worse, doctors are often as sloppy about trial details as the FDA is strict about having the rules followed. But drug companies cannot run trials themselves because the FDA demands that investigators be independent to avoid conflict of interest. Getting compliance is tough, and that is the opportunity we were targeting -- more better compliance through automation at a granular, near real-time level sufficient to give drug companies effective oversight over investigator performance.
The stakes are tremendous. Blockbuster drugs can earn millions of dollars a day but only while under patent protection. Unfortunately, patents must be acquired at the start of the trial process, which can run for many years. A third or more of the revenue-rich patent life is spent just getting to market. Big snafus in trials can force months of delay with an opportunity cost of millions a day.
When I got the call from my good friend who was the angel and visionary on this project, he was two years in with not a lot to show for it and his last top developer had just given notice. I went in to hear what they were up to and do an exit interview with the dearly departing.
The business plan was to score big by handling hundreds of trials a year. This would be especially tough because every trial was different. Each involved a custom set of forms to be collected over a series of patient exams. These forms varied from exam to exam. Business logic dictated validation of the forms and how the trial was to run and varied from trial to trial as dictated by what is known as a trial protocol.
When I heard all this I knew we would have to find a solution that did not involve custom programming for each trial. The application would have to be configurable without programming, by a power user trained in the software. If Lisp is the programmable programming language, we needed a programmable application.
Later I learned that competitors in our space had half our functionality and could not handle more than fifteen trials a year and were not profitable. They attempted what they called a "technology transfer" to the drug companies, translating as "we cannot scale this approach but maybe you can". Hmm.
The departing guru showed me what they had so far, which was a system built in Visual Basic with an SQL database. First came the demo of the interactive module, a pure mockup with no substance behind it. Then he showed me the scanning and forms recognition tools in action. He printed out a form built using Word or Visio, scanned it back in, then opened the JPEG file in a manual training tool that came with the recognition software. Field by field he painfully showed the software where each field was, what its name should be, and whether it was numeric, or alpha, yadda yadda.
Ouch. The process was slow and created a brittle bridge from form to application. Worse, these forms might be redesigned at any time leading up to trial commencement in response to concerns from external trial review panels and they can change during a trial in response to field experience. At any given time multiple versions of the same form could be in existence (trials at different sites do not start and stop together), so not only would developers be forever retraining the recognition and then modifying the software to know about new or changed fields, but they also would have to keep alive all the multiple versions of form definitions and match them to specific forms as they got scanned back in or opened for editing.
I was already thinking about automating everything and this process was one that had to be automated. I asked the departing guru if the forms recognition software could be trained via an API instead of via the utility program he was using. He looked at me a moment and said, Yes, realizing I think that is what they should have done. I realized he was leaving in part because he was just a systems guy at heart and this was one deadly application problem to undertake.
To my friend's relief I agreed to give his vision a try. Now it was my turn, but I did not consider for a moment switching to Lisp. This was a serious business application and I knew my friend would never go for it. Nowadays with more experience that is exactly where I would have begun, back then I did not even consider fighting that fight.
No problem. I had pulled off table-driven designs in the past using COBOL and the table-driven design was going to be the key to our success, not the language. Making the table thing work also meant we would want a custom language so we could express the table data easily.
Back home, I looked up at my bookshelf for the manuals to various Lex/Yacc tools I had bought over the years. But I did not look for very long. I knew I could at least use Lisp to quickly prototype the language using a few clever macros, while Lex/Yacc were known to be bears to use --and I had only bought the tools, never really played with either in anger. So Lisp it would be to prototype the trial specification language.
Then I noticed something, my latest hobby creation using Lisp and my cherished Cells hack: an interactive version of the New York Times Double-Acrostic puzzle. It had individual boxes for each letter like any good crossword and that is what we needed for the patient data! So I was halfway home, and sure enough after a few hours I was looking at a perfect mockup of the first page of the sample clinical trial we were using to build the software. And my mouth dropped open at what I saw.
A blinking cursor. In the first character box on the page. I saw that and knew we would be using Lisp for the project. Hunh?
Well, we had to print these forms out, train the forms recognition software, scan the forms back in, feed the scan image to the trained software, and then -- wait for it -- let the users make corrections to the data. And there it was, the blinking cursor waiting for my input. I had been so concerned first with getting the form laid out and ready for printing that I had forgotten that I had cannibalized the code from the crossword puzzle software.
We're done! How famous are those last words? Anyway, my next step was to make sure this wonderful stuff running on my Macintosh under Digitool MCL would run on Windows NT, the planned deployment platform. I figured Lisp I could sell, but the Mac? In 1998? Not.
So on my own dime I acquired an entry-level version of AllegroCL and spent a few weeks porting everything to Windows and it was more of an OS port because Common Lisp is an ANSI standard with which vendors comply pretty well. When I saw everything working on Windows I called my friend, took a deep breath, and said I wanted to use Lisp.
"OK," he said.
"And an OODB," I said.
Some fight. The OODB was AllegroStore, then the vendor's solution for persistent CLOS. (Now they push AllegroCache, a native solution where AStore was built atop the C++ OODB ObjectStore.)
Why the OODB? I had noticed something while playing with the database design for the system: I missed objects. I had done some intense relational design back in the day and enjoyed it but by the time in question I had also done a ton of OO and I missed it in my schema design. Not only would AStore give me OO in my DB, it would do so in the form of persistent CLOS, meaning my persistent data would be very much like all my other application data. The whole problem of mapping from runtime data structures to the database -- something programmers have long taken for granted -- would go away.
About a year later we had the whole thing working and I was about to take a working vacation traveling first to San Francisco for LUGM '99, the annual Lisp meeting (here is the best talk) and then on to Taiwan for two weeks of work and socializing with friends. I decided to use this time to tackle a performance problem that had reached "The Point of Being Dealt With". The solution I had in mind seemed like it would be fun (more famous last words) and nicely self-contained and not too onerous for a working holiday.
Basically my approach to performance is not to worry about it until I have introduced enough nonsense that the application is running slow enough to hurt my productivity. Then it is time for what I call Speed Week, a true break from new development dedicated purely to making the system hum again. And we had reached that point.
Otherwise the application was wonderful, just as planned. A trial form was specified using defform, defpage, defpanel, deffield, etc etc. From that single specification came beautifully typeset paper forms, the corresponding DB schema, the unrestricted business logic, the automatic training, scanning, and recognition, and screen forms for on-line editing of the data once scanned in.
Life was good, but run-time instantiation of a form was a pig. It occurred to me that each time a page was instantiated the exact same layout rules were being invoked to calculate where all the text and input fields should fall. The forms author merely specified the content and simple layout such as rows and columns and Cell rules used fontmetrics to decide how big things were and then how to arrange them neatly. The author simply eyeballed the result and decided how many panels (semantically related groups of fields) would fit on a page. So coming straight from the source there was a load of working being done coming up with exactly the same values each time. Some timing runs showed this was where I had my performance problem.
What to do? Sure, we could (and did!) memoize the results and then reuse the values when the same page was loaded a second time, or we could... and then my mouth dropped open again. The alternative (described soon) would let me handle the six hundred pound gorilla I have not mentioned.
First I have to tell you about an overarching problem. One prime directive was that trial sites be fully functional even if they were off the network. Thin-client solutions need not apply. So we had to get client sites set up with information specific to all and only those trials they would be doing. And keep that information current as specifications changed during a trial. My six hundred pound gorilla was version control of the software and forms.
Now here is the alternative. What if we instantiate a form in memory, let the cells compute the layout, and then traverse the form writing out a persistent mirror image of what we find, including computed layout coordinates? Business logic can be written out symbolically and read back in because thanks to Dr. McCarthy code is data. We avoid the redundant computations, but more importantly we now had a changed form specification as a second set of data instead of as a software release. Work on the original performance problem had serendipitously dispatched Kong, because now the replication scheme we would be doing anyway would be moving not just trial data in from the clinical sites but also the configuration data from the drug companies out to the sites. We're done!
If it works. The test of the concept was simple. I designed one of the forms using the trial specification DSL (the macros), compiled, loaded, instantiated, displayed, printed it, did some interactive data entry. Cool, it all works.
Then I "compiled" the form as described above, writing everything out to the OODB. Then I ended my Lisp session to erase any knowledge of the original form source specification.
Now I start a new Lisp session and do not load the source code specifying the form. Using a second utility to read the form information back in from the database, I instantiate the form in memory. And it works the same as I had with the one instantiated from the original specifications. Life was good and about to get better.
Round about now we had the whole thing working, by which I mean all the hard or interesting pieces had been solved and seen to run from form design to printing to capture and validation. Work remained, such as the partial replication hack, but the DB design had taken this requirement into account and was set up nicely to support such a beast. That in turn would let us toss off the workgroup requirement by which remote trial monitors hired by drug companies could keep an eye on the doctors. But then came a four-day Fourth of July and I decided to treat myself to some fun.
For eighteen months we had been working with exactly one specific form from the sample trial. It occurred to me to see how powerful was my DSL, the mechanism by which eventually power users would be describing an arbitrary clinical drug trial to the generic trial manager application, and actually build out the remaining forms of the eighteen visit trial. The experiment would be compromised two ways.
First, I would be the power user. Talk about cheating. But we understood the friendliness of the specification language would have to be developed over time as folks other than me came to grips with it, and also that those power users would have push-button access to software experts when they got stuck -- we were developing an in-house application, not a presentation authoring tool for the general public.
The second compromise went the other way, making things harder. As I proceeded through the new forms I would be encountering specific layout requirements for the first time, and writing new implementation code as much as I would be simply designing the forms in power user mode. Regarding this, I imposed a constraint on myself: I would design the forms to match exactly the forms as they had been designed in Word, even though in reality one normally takes shortcuts and tells the user "you know, if you laid it out this way (which actually looks better) we would not have to change the layout code". But I wanted to put the principle to test that we had developed a general-purpose forms design language.
What happened? It was a four day weekend and I worked hard all four days but the weather was great and I a good dose of Central Park each day skating and fruitlessly pursuing romance. (I liked to concentrate on new skaters because they cannot skate well enough to get away from me.) On the development side as predicted I spent at least half my time extending the framework to handle new layout requirements presented by different forms. But by the end of the weekend I was done with the entire trial. Yippee.
I spent a day writing out the pseudo-code for the partial replication scheme and the other guy started on that while I started thinking about the workgroup aspect. It occurred to me that the mechanism for storing forms describing patient visits could be used for any coherent set of trial information, such as a monitor's so-called "data query" in which they did a sanity check on something that had passed validation but still looked wrong. The only difference with these forms compared to the trial data forms (already working) would be that they would not be printed and scanned, so... we're done!
Talk about code re-use. Somewhere along the way I had accidentally created a 4GL in which one simply designed a screen form and went to work, the database work all done for you.
Now I started working on the interface that would knit all this together. GUIs are insanely easy with my Cells hack. Downright fun, in fact. So much fun, so easy to do, and then so foolproof that I missed them almost immediately. The persistent CLOS database lacked Cells technology. Of course. It was just persistent data as stored by the AllegroStore ODB.
But Cells at the time was implemented as a CLOS metaclass, and so was AllegroStore... no, you are kidding... multiple-inheritance at the metaclass level?! That and a little glue and... we're done! The GUI code now simply read the database and showed what it found to the user. When anything changed in the database, the display was updated automatically. (I always enjoy so much seeking out the Windows "Refresh view" menu item. Not!)
For example, the status of form Visit #1 for Patient XYZ might be "Printed". Or -- since one business rule said forms should be printed and scanned in short order so the sytem could tell when forms had been lost -- it might say "Overdue for Scanning". So now the user looks around, finds the form, puts it in the sheet feeder of the scanner and hits the scan button. In a moment the user sees the status change to "Ready for Review".
The beauty of having wired up the database with Cells is that the scanning/recognizing logic does not need to know that the user is staring at an "Overdue" indicator on the screen that no longer applies. Tech support will not be fielding calls from confused users saying "I scanned it six times and it still says overdue!" The scanning logic simply does its job and writes to the database. The Cells wiring notices that certain GUI elements had been looking for this specific information and automatically triggers a refresh. And as always with Cells, the GUI programmer did not write any special code to make this happen, they simply read that specific bit of the database. Cells machinery transparently recorded the dependency just as it automatically propagates any change.
In the end we had taught Cells and the ODB a few kinds of tricks. It was possible for a dynamic slot of a (dynamic) GUI instance to depend on the persistent slot of a DB instance, or on the population of a peristent class ("oh, look, a new data query just came in"). Persistent instances can have dynamic slots in AllegroStore and these could depend on persistent slots, and perhaps the scariest bit: persistent slots could depend on other persistent data. The database was alive!
One change could ripple out to cause other change in the database. For example, "Overdue Form" was a persistent attribute calculated from the fact that a form had been printed but that it had not been scanned. If that status held for a day the database automatically grew a new persistent instance, an "Alert" instance visible to trial monitors who could intervene to see why the clinical site was not taking care of business. When the form got scanned, Cells logic caused the status to move up to "Scanned/ready for review" and the "Alert" instance got deleted. All in classic Cells declarative fashion: "an Alert exists if a document is overdue for one day" takes care of both creating and destroying the instance.
I'll never forget a religious moment I had scanning forms so I could work on the interface's mechanism for correcting scanner or recognition errors. When I called up page two of some form all the fields were blank. I had never seen the scanner/recognition software completely miss a page, but a peek at the log file showed the page had indeed gone unrecognized. (We used 2-D barcodes to identify pages.) Stunned at this first ever failure (out of hundreds of trials) I just grabbed the second page, put it back in the sheet feeder and hit the scan button.
The nice thing about the barcodes is that I could just do that, I did not have to tell the software "OK, now I am scanning page two of form 1 for patient XYZ." The barcode data was in fact nothing but the GUID we assigned to the page when creating it in the ODB, so the printed paper had object identity. :) The other neat thing here is what when instantiating a page we linked it to the version of the form template from which it was derived. This took care of the version control problem created by changing forms -- a scanned page was able to look in the database to find the template from which it was created and scan and open itself. Users never had to say what they were dropping into the sheet feeder or worry about the order. Back to my missing page...
The scanner started whirring, the page went through, and then log diagnostics from the recognition process started zooming by (OK, this time we recognized the page, the last time was truly a fluke) and then even before it happened I realized (Omigod!) what was about to happen.
I turned my eyes to the blank page still up on my screen and waited...Boom! The data appeared. Having wired the database to the screen, what happened was this: the recognition logic simply read the forms and wrote out the results as usual, updating each persistent form field with a value. The screen field widget had gotten its display value by reading that DB field. Cells told the screen field widget to "calculate" again its display value. It was different, so the Cell observer for the screen field generated an update event for the field. The application redrew the field in response to the update event.
That was so cool to see happen.
We're done! Literally. :( Eventually our tiny little operation was never able to persuade big pharma we could handle the grave responsibility of not screwing up trials, even though IBM itself loved our work and worked with us to pitch it to pharma. But that is another story.
12 comments:
- Unknown said...
That is a brilliant post. Well done.
- March 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- Larry Clapp said...
Awesome. So many Lispers focus on "why I use Lisp" instead of "how I use Lisp". Nice contrast.
- March 10, 2008 at 4:38 PM
- Unknown said...
That may be the best coding war story I've ever read. Bravo!
- March 10, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Kenny Tilton said...
Thanks all!
So many Lispers focus on "why I use Lisp" instead of "how I use Lisp".
I felt bad about how little time I spent talking about Lisp, but maybe that was the point? Apps like this are so complex functionally that our only shot at success is with a language that disappears when pushed hard. Whatever that means.
- March 10, 2008 at 5:07 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Kenny,
Did you use celtk for the GUI stuff?
I'd been interested to hear about this since I came across an old usenet post of yours talking about clinical trials stuff. I work for a wee company in Scotland who make software for the Pharmas. We've got some XML standards now for defining the form. I bet it wouldn't be much work to transform ODM documents into your form definition DSL.
- March 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Kenny Tilton said...
Did you use celtk for the GUI stuff?
No, this was closer in spirit to Cello (homegrown widgets from scratch), albeit with the win32 graphics API (GDI?) instead of OpenGL. We only had to cover win32, for one. And I did kill a couple of weeks integrating Cells with native win32 widgets hoping to leverage them but I just hated every button being its own window so fell back on rolling my own GUI, a big factor being that it only took two days to do a tab control from scratch and that was three times faster than integrating with (?) MFC.
I bet it wouldn't be much work to transform ODM documents into your form definition DSL.
I was looking at CDISC towards the end and it made me very happy. We had not been worshipping at the feet of the Oracle and we felt some trepidation over that -- hell, my design was RDB-ready if a sale had come down to it -- but it turned out people wanted XML anyway! Whew! And CDISC looked as if someone had raided our source. :)
Anyway, right, a tree is a tree and a document is a tree, any of these transformations is straightforward.
- March 10, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Please create for Cells the proper documentation it deserves.
- March 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Another lisp project bites the dust. Never mind, there was still that Paul Graham shopping app that was sold to Yahoo (but isnt used anymore) back in the tech boom, oh, and also the plugins for autocad.
Lisp Rules OK!
- March 11, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- Kenny Tilton said...
Another lisp project bites the dust.
Ha-ha, someone needs to read "Software Runaways": the problem with failed software projects is rarely the software.
- March 11, 2008 at 8:50 PM
Out of curiosity, what was the rationale for changing Cells from a metaclass-based implementation to its current non-metaclass state?
- March 19, 2008 at 7:25 PM
- Kenny Tilton said...
what was the rationale for changing Cells from a metaclass-based implementation
First, just as a fun side note, Cells started as non-metaclass-based.
I flip-flopped back to non-mc for two reasons. One was portability (not all CL's were strong on the MOP, tho CLisp has corrected that and now has a stellar MOP (says them, but I believe them based on what they did with their FFI once they got around to it)).
More important was performance. By adding specializations to slot-value-using-class I saw what seemed to be a 20% degradation in performance. With that on the table, I formed Tilton's Law of Lisp Programming: if you do not need a metaclass, do not use a metaclass.
It seemed cooler and cleverer to use a metaclass, but in the end I think the burden falls on the metaclass approach to prove it is necessary.
- March 19, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- frgo said...
... and I told you that Eye Bee M would blow the deal ... ;-) Nice write-up, Kenny! Thanks.
- March 24, 2008 at 5:20 PM


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Mischa Barton seemed to have it all.
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First came a DUI arrest and possessing marijuana in 2007. Then she was admitted into a psych ward under an involuntary hold after she threatened to take her own life in 2009.
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The Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings' hero doesn't get laid all the time for nothing. In this launch trailer for the Xbox 360 edition of the game, Geralt of Rivia warns of mature content in a way that'll have your parents purchasing the game for themselves.
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In a novel study appearing this week in Neuron, Brandeis researchers identify for the first time a specific set of wake-promoting neurons in fruit flies that are analogous to cells in the much more complex sleep circuit in humans. The study demonstrates that in flies, as in mammals, the sleep circuit is intimately linked to the circadian clock and that the brain's strategies to govern sleep are evolutionarily ancient.
In the study, researchers quieted ventral lateral neurons (LNvs) and induced sleep in the flies by essentially altering the excitability of these cells with GABA, a major inhibitory neurotransmitter. GABA controls sleep onset and duration by opposing arousal. The same mechanism governs sleep in humans, explained Katherine Parisky, a post-doctoral researcher who coauthored the study led by Brandeis biologist Leslie Griffith's laboratory.
When it is time to wake up, the LNvs are believed to release a neuropeptide known as PDF, rousing the cells, and in turn, the flies. The cycle starts over again when GABA kicks in to quiet these neurons and give the flies a good night's sleep. The study found that mutant flies without PDF or its receptor were hypersomnolent.
The researchers' findings have implications for how sleep-promoting drugs are tested and developed. Currently, drugs that target GABA receptors are among the most widely-used sleep-promoting agents.
"Normally, to treat insomnia in humans, you use global drugs that suppress GABA throughout the brain," explained Griffith. "But it would be ideal to suppress only cells that are part of the sleep circuit."
Sleep problems, from insomnia to narcolepsy, affect millions of people and are extremely costly in both economic and human health terms. The next stage of research will involve researching how PDF controls wakefulness, said Parisky.
"We're taking apart the circuit bit by bit to see how it affects sleep," she said. "We already know that in humans, some people have problems falling asleep, while others can't stay asleep, and there are probably two different mechanisms for these behaviors in flies, as well," Parisky explained.
Fruit flies offer an excellent model organism in which to study sleep because their sleep circuit is relatively simple yet seemingly very similar to the sleep circuit in humans. A greater understanding of how the sleep circuit works in flies could help scientists to design and develop drugs that strategically target different sleep problems.
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Were a Swedish Rollup producer and we're about to change our name and is therefore in need of a new logo. If we find the right designer we have more business for you.
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A year ago, after San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore got off to a slow start in the 2011 season, a Bay Area blogger posted a story listing the reasons why Gore "is done as a running back."
The reasons: At 28, he was said to be old and beyond his peak. Plus, he was injury prone and due for a letdown after signing a contract extension.
Of course, Gore went on to have one of his best seasons, rushing for 1,211 yards and eight touchdowns as the 49ers went 13-3 and won the NFC West.
Now, after two games, Gore is again a force, ranking No. 4 in the NFL with 201 yards rushing and the 49ers running game again looks formidable, ranking No. 3 in the league with 167.0 rushing yards per game.
Against the Detroit Lions Sunday, Gore churned for 89 yards on 17 carries and looked anything but old, showing both power and speed.
Right guard Alex Boone told Cam Inman of the Bay Area News Group that he loves blocking for Gore and seeing what Gore can do with the holes.
"He did a great job of finding the crease and hitting the holes," said Boone. "He's an elusive player and I love it."
Now, paired with second-year pro Kendall Hunter, Gore is part of a 1-2 running back punch that could be even better when Brandon Jacobs and LaMichael James are ready to play.
Head coach Jim Harbaugh says Hunter and Gore make each other better.
"Both are tremendous backs, and Kendall has raised his game," Harbaugh told reporters after the season-opening victory over the Packers, when Gore rushed for 112 yards and Hunter added 41. "Frank is one of the best there is and he's made Kendall better. Kendall brings to the table that kind of spirit, youth and desire to get better all the time. I don't think I'm exaggerating by saying that Frank has benefited from that as well."
This year, the 49ers have beefed up their running game at the point of attack, adding extra offensive and defensive linemen to block for Gore and Hunter on certain running downs. Harbaugh's commitment to make the running game work has turned the 49ers into one of the best running teams in the NFL.
"We're pretty far ahead of where we were last year, and he helps me a lot," Gore said of Hunter. "He has a different style, a change of pace, and it's been great for us. We're always ready to go out there."
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Bob Soven Invests in Cowtown Wakepark
FORT WORTH, TX – March 4, 2013 – Cowtown Wakepark, one of Texas' premier wakeboard facilities, is proud to announce that Bob Soven is now a partial owner of the complex, becoming one of the first pro riders to take an ownership position in the wakepark industry. Soven, though a ripe 21 years old, is a seasoned professional and one of the most respected athletes in the action sports community.
He is known for his unmatchable style on the water and his dedication to connecting with his many fans off the water. Bob is optimistic about wakeboarding's future and gracious for the opportunity to help it grow. "The opportunity to invest back into our sport is awesome," he says. "I want to do everything I can to help wakeboarding develop and reach it's maximum potential; I see getting new riders into the sport via cable as the best way to do that!"
Bob joins an experienced owner/management team at Cowtown which includes Fort Worth local and die-hard wake enthusiast, Tommy Fambrough as well as Tony Finn, founder of one of the world's top wakeboard companies, Liquid Force. "We couldn't be more stoked on Bob's involvement with the park," says Finn. "He has shown interest in getting involved for a long time, and we applaud him for being the first pro rider to take the initiative to get hands-on. His insight is priceless and is going to add a lot of value to the park."
The ownership adjustment is only one of many changes in store for Cowtown in the near future, and Soven plans to waste no time on putting his touch on things. "I have a lot of plans in mind to improve the entire Cowtown Park experience, but our first move is bringing in new rails which will be arriving in mid March. Cowtown has major potential and I'm ready to help fulfill that," says an enthusiastic Soven. Most improvements are scheduled to get under way in spring 2013 and finished for rider enjoyment by summer.
The collaboration of one of wake's most popular pros along with some of wakeboarding's top insiders should prove synergetic, leading to many exciting changes at Cowtown and within the industry. In true 'Bob' fashion, he leaves Texans with one piece of advice: "Tell your wife, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, Cowtown is going to be the place to be!"
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Now it should be noted that we said "you've successfully completed an argumentative essay". This doesn't mean your paper was successful, of course. To do my homework, I'll need to have included a combination of the following in your procedure.
- Pick a side and reflect.
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Now if your instructor picked your side then move on to the next subtitle. For those brave souls with no aim in your paper, pick a side in the argument. It honestly doesn't matter. You might feel strong for or against, but the most important thing here is cranking out a strong paper that will get you a high mark.
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New Roche leukemia drug shows clear advantage over Rituxan: study
Roche's newly approved leukemia drug Gazyva helped patients live nearly a year longer without the disease worsening than the drugmaker's top-selling Rituxan in a head-to-head trial that should help fend off competition from cheaper versions of the older medicine.
Gazyva, previously known as GA101, was approved in the United States last week as an initial treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, one of the most common forms of blood cancer. It is awaiting approval decisions in Europe and other markets.
Roche, in the trial, aimed to demonstrate the clear superiority of the new drug over Rituxan in order to protect and build on its $7 billion a year blood cancer franchise before Rituxan begins to face competition from cheaper versions known as biosimilars.
Rituxan's European patent protection expires late this year. It is not clear when the first biosimilar will arrive on the market.
Rituxan's U.S. patent does not expire until 2018, giving Roche additional time to switch patients over to Gazyva in the most lucrative market. As with Rituxan, Roche will share a portion of Gazyva profits with Biogen Idec after Biogen exercised its option on the new drug.
In the 663-patient study, patients who received Gazyva plus the chemotherapy drug chlorambucil on average went 26.7 months without their disease worsening, a measure known as progression free survival, or PFS. That compared with 15.2 months for previously untreated patients who took Rituxan and chlorambucil, according to data announced by the Swiss company on Thursday.
The difference translates into a 61 percent reduction in the risk of the disease worsening.
Three times as many patients who received Gazyva - 21 percent versus 7 percent for Rituxan - had a complete response, meaning no sign of a cancerous tumor after completing treatment.
By another less frequently used measure that tracks cancer cells in the blood following treatment, Gazyva was far superior. By that metric, 29.4 percent of Gazyva patients had no detectable disease in the blood, compared with just 2.5 percent of Rituxan patients.
Gazyva, known chemically as obinutuzumab, is an engineered antibody designed to better enable the immune system to attack and kill B cells, from which many blood cancers, such as CLL and lymphomas, originate. The drug, which recognizes B cells on the surface of tumors, was designed to be more potent in attacking them than Rituxan.
Gazyva plus chemotherapy had previously been tested against chemotherapy alone, demonstrating statistically significant PFS and response superiority. Roche said patients who took Gazyva in that arm of the study lived longer, but it did yet have median overall survival data.
No new safety problems turned up for either Gazyva or Rituxan, Roche said. There was a far higher number of Gazyva patients who suffered adverse infusion-related reactions, such as hives, itching or shortness of breath: 20 percent versus 4 percent for the Rituxan group.
But researchers found no increase in serious infections associated with Gazyva, with infections seen in 7 percent of patients in each group.
It is estimated that more than 15,000 Americans will be diagnosed and nearly 5,000 will die from chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2013, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Detailed data from the study, dubbed CLL11, will be presented next month at an American Society of Hematology meeting in New Orleans.
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Chuck's Plans For The 2009 Workshop
Greetings, all! 2009 is officially underway, so I wanted to take a little more time to hone down and elaborate on Chuck's wonderful post from January 2nd. There's a lot to digest there, and while Chuck got to the meat and potatoes of it, he didn't quite explain all the other amazing things that were featured on the dish.
First though, let's revisit those big bullet points again, just so I'm sure you all understand exactly what is happening here:
- In early February, we are unveiling a new version of the website.
- This site will feature a brand new Writer's Workshop. This is not our old Workshop with some added bells and whistles. Rather, this is a completely updated Workshop, with a whole new interface.
- Starting in February of 2009, we will be selecting approximately five Workshop submissions each month that will then be sent to Chuck Palahniuk.
- Chuck will read your work, review your work, and best of all, suggest ways to improve your work.
- Then, at the end of the year, Chuck and the editors on our site, will select the best stories of that year, to be published in an Anthology for 2010.
- The Anthology will include an Introduction by Chuck, and he will even go so far as to seek out and fund the publication of this book.
Now, I want you all to take that in for a moment. This is an unprecedented opportunity for writers, the likes of which have never been matched before. A best-selling author is not only going to possibly read your original work, but is also going to help you improve upon it, and even help you get it published!
Hopefully, you all don't need me to tell you that, anything with Chuck's name on it at this point, will not only be seen by millions of people, but will probably sell quite well. This is a tremendous chance of exposure for you writers out there, but more importantly, it's a chance to put yourself out there... take a chance... and possibly determine your career, by doing what you love. Finally.
I'm an independent filmmaker. It's all I want to do in the world. But like many of you reading this, with your writing, I'm stuck in the trenches right now. If I had the equivalent opportunity to do something like this with my writing and directing, nothing on Earth would stop me from taking that dive.
Chuck has some other huge secrets up his sleeve. He plans to do quite a lot with the selected Anthology writers. But he wants to reveal these other surprises gradually, throughout the year.
For now, please review a summary of what our site is offering right now, so that you may understand how important it is to act now and sign up for Premium Membership.
- For a total of three years now, Chuck has participated with our Writer's Workshop by submiting craft essays to the site. These essays served as lessons on writing, from his own personal toolbox of tips and how-to's. The experience and instruction included in these essays easily surpasses what you would learn in a $24,000 MFA program.
- Currently, all 36 of these essays are available in our Workshop, for Premium Members only.
- Premium Membership not only gets you access to these crucial lessons from Chuck, but also enters you into our Writer's Workshop, a unique experience to submit your writing and have it read and reviewed by your peers.
- Our Writer's Workshop was created in 2003. Since then, it has evolved into a place where independent novelists, poets, screenwriters and essayists, come to improve upon their craft. Many of our writers have gone on to become published, and look back at their experience in our shops as a pivotal time in their writing lives.
- Premium Membership in 2009 enrolls you into our Writer's Workshop and not only grants you access to all 36 craft essays from Chuck Palahniuk, but also his monthly Q&As with writers, his Homework Assignments, and of course, the Workshop experience itself.
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Our current Workshop is open, but any submissions you make there will be erased come early February, 2009. So if you have joined the Workshop recently, or are planning to today, you can use this time to brush up on Chuck's lessons by reading through his essays.
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Actor Dempsey: Coffee chain bid appears successful
Actor Patrick Dempsey said it appears his bid to buy a small coffee chain has prevailed in a bankruptcy auction that included Starbucks Corp.
Late Thursday night, Dempsey announced that his company, Global Baristas LLC, made the winning bid for Tully's Coffee. He noted in a KOMO-TV interview that a bankruptcy judge will have the final say on Jan. 11. Still, Dempsey tweeted "We got it! Thank you Seattle!"
Dempsey's company will pay $9,150,000 for Tully's and complete the purchase later this month after the court hearing, he said in a statement.
"I'm thrilled that we won and I'm even more excited about saving Tully's Coffee and its hundreds of jobs," he said. "Tully's is a great company with committed employees, and with its base in Seattle, one of the world's greatest cities, I'm confident we will be able to successfully build the brand and help grow the economy. "
Tully's Coffee has 47 company-owned locations in Washington and California. The company, with more than 500 employees, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October.
Dempsey, who gained the nickname "McDreamy" on the TV show "Grey's Anatomy" set in a fictional Seattle hospital, has said he wants to rescue the chain.
"Seattle has been very good to me over my career, and I am honored to have the privilege to own Tully's and work closely with the company's employees," he said in his statement.
After Thursday's auction, Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson confirmed his company participated and "is currently in a back-up position" for some of Tully's assets. The final certification of the winning bid won't occur until the Jan. 11 bankruptcy court hearing, Hutson said.
"We have to wait until next week to make sure everything — I believe the 11th — to make sure it's all finalized," Dempsey told KOMO-TV.
The Starbucks spokesman said his company made an offer for 13 of Tully's company-owned stores in the Puget Sound region plus 12 outlets at Boeing Co. sites. Hutson said another bidder made an offer for all other assets — and is in a back-up position for those.
Also in the running was Baristas Coffee, which operates a chain of drive-thru espresso stands featuring female employees in skimpy outfits.
Both Starbucks and Tully's are based in Seattle.
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One should be wary of plays that last almost two hours without an interval. I don't just mean in the obvious sense that you may find yourself desperate for a lavatory break long before the cast take their curtain calls.
It can also be a sign that the management does not have complete confidence in the piece and is anxious to avoid the embarrassment of having a notably smaller audience in the second half than in the first.
And certainly Polly Stenham's new piece often feels interminable and strikes me as a serious disappointment from a writer who made one of the most sensational dramatic debuts I have ever witnessed with That Face (2007), written when she was only 19.
In that saga of a damaged middle-class family with an alcoholic mother, a largely absent father and two understandably screwed up children, Stenham wrote with blazing intensity and emotional truth, and the piece won awards and transferred to the West End.
Her second play, Tusk Tusk, wasn't quite as strong and dealt with a similar subject matter of children trying to cope in the absence of their feckless parents.
And now, blow me down, comes this new piece about a mother-fixated, 24-year-old Peter Pan figure, who has dropped out of his music degree at university and goes completely off the rails when his mother becomes afflicted with dementia and he helps her to commit suicide.
One imagines that Larkin's famous lines beginning "They f*** you up, your mum and dad" must be handsomely engraved above Stenham's writing desk as a constant source of inspiration.
The first of the play's three acts, in which the anguished Robin helps his mother to kill herself is intermittently gripping, if long-winded. And Tom Scutt's wonderfully detailed and atmospheric design of the gloriously grand but shabby country house that has become our hero's refuge from reality sees you through the duller moments with its suit of armour, faded tapestry and stuffed animals.
After that, however, the play becomes one long binge as Robin retreats into booze and drugs, aided and abetted by two tiresome friends, a drug-dealer, and a 14-year-old girl who unaccountably has a crush on our often snivelling hero. You need to be a very good writer indeed to make the sight of people getting wasted entertaining. Albee did it brilliantly in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and so did Jez Butterworth in Jerusalem. Stenham makes it seem marginally less enjoyable than being stone cold sober at a raucous office drinks party.
Tom Sturridge does lots of whining and quivering sensitivity as the little boy lost of a hero, but I found it impossible to warm to the self-indulgent little creep, especially as he wears his hair in a bun.
Maureen Beattie is touching as his confused, doomed mother and Patrick Kennedy brings a welcome dose of sanity into the play as our anti-hero's sensible older brother, even if he is a sanctimonious Labour MP.
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U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, Northeast Pacific
Project DescriptionU.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics, http://www.usglobec.org/) is a
research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to
address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and
production of animals in the sea. The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently has major
research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and
the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the
Coastal Gulf of Alaska).
-To understand the effects of climate variability and climate change on the
distribution, abundance and production of marine animals (including
commercially important living marine resources) in the eastern North Pacific.
-To embody this understanding in diagnostic and prognostic ecosystem models,
capable of capturing the ecosystem response to major climatic fluctuations.
APPROACH: To study the effects of past and present climate variability on the
population ecology and population dynamics of marine biota and living marine
resources, and to use this information as a proxy for how the ecosystems of the
eastern North Pacific may respond to future global climate change. The strong
temporal variability in the physical and biological signals of the NEP will be
used to examine the biophysical mechanisms through which zooplankton and salmon
populations respond to physical forcing and biological interactions in the
coastal regions of the two gyres. Annual and interannual variability will be
studied directly through long-term observations and detailed process studies;
variability at longer time scales will be examined through retrospective
analysis of directly measured and proxy data. Coupled biophysical models of the
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SEATAC — Space might be the final frontier for Star Trek fans. In Olympia, it means jobs, and a chance to escape Boeing's shadow.
The state updated its aerospace industry strategy Friday, and the plan emphasizes supporting growth in newer parts of the industry, such as aviation biofuels, composite-material manufacturing, unmanned aerial vehicles — or drones — and space.
"We think in any number of emerging markets, we're on the leading edge," Gov. Jay Inslee said.
Another of the strategy's goals is helping Washingon-based companies become bigger parts of the supply chain for other airplane makers.
He hopes to do that this week at the Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom.
Washington is sending a trade delegation of about 25 public officials and industry insiders to the biennial event.
Inslee plans to meet with high-level executives from several companies considering expanding or starting operations in Washington, said Alex Pietsch, the governor's top adviser on aerospace. "I'm confident we're going to see deals materialize in the next 30 to 180 days."
Competition among states and countries for aerospace jobs has heated up in recent years. Before settling on Everett, Boeing held a highly- publicized nationwide search for a 777X assembly site.
Some industry insiders say the Chicago-based company was posturing to get better terms from the Machinists union, Some say the 777X line really could have ended up outside Washington.
Regardless, the process helped other states polish their pitches to aerospace companies.
"Everywhere you turn, people are saying, 'What can you do for us? This state offered us so many millions of dollars,'?" Pietsch said.
"We may not always be able to beat other states on the cost of labor or cost of doing business, such as in the south, but Washington has long term" values those areas lack, such as its highly skilled workforce, he said.
Despite those challenges, Brian Bonlender, director of the state's Department of Commerce, isn't discouraged.
"We don't have every single aerospace company in Washington yet, and until we do, we'll be actively recruiting," he said.
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Editorial: Time for Newspapers to Get Real About Election Endorsements
By: Kristina Ackermann
Between accusations of biased coverage, waning power to influence readers, and the very real potential to drive away advertisers, newspapers are better off keeping their political endorsements to themselves.
Over this past election cycle, E&P tallied every presidential endorsement we could get our hands on (the still-incomplete list is online at editorandpublisher.com/election) and noticed a few interesting trends. One was how far many endorsing newspapers were from actual voter preference; the other was the number of papers that chose to forgo issuing any endorsement at all. You could say that one begets the other, but that conclusion paints only a partial picture.
In the critical swing state of Ohio, Republican Mitt Romney was endorsed by a number of dailies, including heavy hitters the Columbus Dispatch and Cincinnati Enquirer. Columbus is the seat of Franklin County, which supported President Obama by more than 60 percent at the voting booths. Hamilton County, serviced by the Enquirer, favored Obama by nearly 52 percent, a margin that helped push Ohio into the blue and seal the president's re-election.
Arguments that newspapers are "out of touch" with their readership miss the point. The Dispatch and the Enquirer didn't intend their endorsements to be a bellwether of existing political sentiment; they were trying to persuade readers to vote in line with their own views. They failed. Meanwhile, those newspapers that sat out the endorsement game were trying to present the unbiased product promised to readers and advertisers. They succeeded.
E&P's Newsosaur columnist Alan Mutter wrote on his blog that "a newspaper lacking the gumption to endorse a presidential candidate looks pretty lame in a day when opinions are a dime a dozen on the Internet." I say this is precisely why newspapers should abstain from endorsing political candidates.
The last thing readers need is one more unsolicited political opinion. Opinions — both logical and ludicrous — are impossible to escape in our hyper-connected society, and while I don't know one person who made it through election night without defriending a longtime associate on Facebook, I do know many who would benefit from a healthy dose of hard facts.
Readers need facts to make informed decisions for themselves, and newspapers are perhaps the most historically well-regarded and trusted source of said facts. Any use of the opinion page to sway voters is a violation of that trust, and notable newspapers across the country opted out of endorsing a presidential candidate for this very reason.
There's also an element of respect shown in presenting news and giving your audience space to come to its own conclusion. When a paper respects its readers, readers in turn respect the paper and will be more inclined to renew their subscription once the election is over. Just ask the San Diego Union-Tribune, whose circulation has slipped more than 4 percent year-over-year since hotel magnate Doug Manchester bought the paper and began using it to trumpet his personal business and political agenda.
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Well stated, although I must add that the mid-western (I'll guess Chicago) whiny, "twang" of hers is irksome enough on its own; it puts me over the edge every time I hear this fake phone testimonial. My ears bleed when I hear this know-it-all tell us all how good it is. This false character needs a theoretical bullet, and I've blissfully visualized a vengeful, but appropriate narrative of my own. It involves a platoon of Schmeisser-armed Gestapo troops led by a Black-leather coated Oberleutnant, imported through a time warp. They are told of her horrendous acts and given a tip on her exact whereabouts in the South-Side. Aside from their own motivations to see her head roll, they are paid handsomely, in advance. The re-purposed Gestapo pay a visit as she constantly yaks of Dinovite on the rotary phone, smoking a Camel non filter, and eating a breakfast of melba toast, Chock Full of Nuts coffee, and amphetamines. In the fake phones' background, the sound of an old truck is heard pulling up to her building, screeching to a stop. There is a Shouting in guttural tones, Hobnailed boots hitting the street and running, then entering the building. After stomping up the stairs, Rifle butts begin pounding the door, a screaming Oberleutnant demands an entrance. Suddenly, the tinkling of glass-breaking is heard as grenades crash through a window, rolling on the floor next to the table. A wooden door shattering as it is kicked open. The whiny voice, reciting the product as happily as any other day, suddenly stops in mid-spelling of "D.I.N.O..." amidst the deafening explosions and chugging of machine pistols. The shooting stops momentarily, then the silence is interrupted by the sharp report of a pistol administering the coup de grace. A shell casing clinks on the floor after being ejected from the Oberleutnants' Luger . The body is then unceremoniously thrown out the window to the street.....After Action investigations determine she hasn't left the tenement building since 1950; but stayed there, consuming Dinovite for herself only, drinking vodka, coffee, and watching Arthur Godfrey.
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I hate these commercials, the lady's voice is very grating, too many Marlboros and Pabst. Can just see she probably has a puppy mill in her single wide.
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I was just thinking EXACTLY this!!! Texas Super Foods, Super Beets, Dinovite, others I can't remember. Makes me think of SOYLENT GREEN.
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Sonava...I know EXACTLY what your talking about! Our local religious station out of Hartford WJMJ loves those testimonials! They paste them into their station IDs ALL THE TIME! "I LOVE the MUSIC!" "It's INSPIRING" To be fair they do play good music. I think 99.1 WPLR and 102.9 The Whale do the same thing also. 91.3 WWUH and 89.9 WAPJ do NOT do testimonials sound clips. Those two stations have EXCELLENT playlists.
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San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) reached a tentative deal on Tuesday with one union, but most workers remained on strike in a dispute that has halted commuter trains for two days, a spokesman for the agency said.
The two sides resumed bargaining on Tuesday evening after the strike by about 2,400 employees triggered a second day of painful commutes for thousands in the Bay Area who were forced onto crowded roads, buses, and ferries with no train service.
Rick Rice, a BART spokesman, said he had no details about the agreement between BART and AFSCME Local 3993, which represents mostly middle managers. That union was not on strike but its members did not come to work to show support for coworkers who were on strike.
AFSCME confirmed in a written statement that a tentative deal had been reached and said it would "strongly advise" its some 200 members to return to work at the transportation system that serves 400,000 riders daily, he said.
The strike is the first by BART employees since 1997. The two sides have been far apart for months and talks with management faltered late on Sunday just hours before labor agreements expired.
BART has put forward a "fair and responsible" offer that included an 8 percent pay increase over four years that union negotiators rejected, according to its spokesman. Union representatives say management has not negotiated in good faith.
With BART trains out of action, local officials have added extra buses and ferries to shuttle commuters from cities on the east side of San Francisco Bay such as Oakland to San Francisco. The additional transport accommodates only a fraction of commuters who use BART trains. Routes to and from San Francisco and East Bay communities are among BART's busiest.
If they could, commuters worked from home. Many used car pools. But heavy traffic pointed to many others driving on their own and choking some highways, especially the Bay Bridge linking the East Bay and San Francisco.
Carol Bach of Oakland said she was surprised to board a San Francisco-bound bus on time after catching a bus on Monday on the same route that was well behind schedule due to traffic on the bridge.
But the ride into San Francisco on Tuesday turned out to be longer and the bus took on so many passengers several had to stand, said Bach, an environmental affairs manager at the Port of San Francisco.
"Traffic was much worse," she said. "It seemed like today more people were back to work."
Additional time commuters spend sitting in traffic will cost the San Francisco region's economy $73 million in lost worker productivity each day the strike persists, according to the Bay Area Economic Institute.


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A very pregnant Elsa Pataky was glowing at the 2014 Oscars on Sunday, March 2 at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
The actress and model, who is roughly seven months into carrying Chris Hemsworth's twins, wore a sparkling Elie Saab number with earrings by Graziela Gems and a bracelet by Dana Rebecca Designs.
This was a less common silhouette than we see on most pregnant stars who generally either loosely drape the baby bump, often with an empire waistline, or go with a fitted sheath. Elsa's drop waist gives the gown a cool, bohemian vibe but it hides her bustline making the shape feel a bit off.
Relaxed hair and make-up complement the feel of the dress and the earrings are a perfect accent but I struggle to fully embrace the dress without some definition under the bust.
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I am not really so vain, so everytime I travel, I usually carry just very few clothers. Sometimes, I just buy clothes on the place I go to to avoid carrying too many things
Make Flying Easy: The Ultimate Carry-On Packing List
Do you want to fit your travel packing needs into carry-on luggage, regardless of whether your trip is two weeks or two months? Look no further. The answer is the widget you find here, which, after a few tweaks and filters, becomes the ultimate carry-on packing list, whatever your itinerary. (See also: 10 Travel "Must-Haves" That You Can Live Without)
The carefully selected items included in this widget are the product of over six years of full-time travel; going from one main destination to another with a larger entourage, and then traveling for up to three months from each base with just carry-on luggage. I started with mountains of useless gear and utilitarian clothing, and gradually — through experience — whittled the contents down, and now my carry-on packing list is a well-oiled, well-coordinated machine.
Using the Widget
Click on any of the items and you'll see a description of why and how it fits into my carry-on packing list. Within each description is even a link that takes you to the item itself, so you can see descriptions and reviews. Play around with the different category filters so you can more easily navigate the list.
Optional Filter
I don't carry all of these items — even I'd be hard-pressed to fit it all in.
This carry-on packing list is flexible for multiple climates and scenarios. You'll see a number of items in the "Optional" filter — your need for these are dependent on where you're going and what kinds of activities you intend to do.
If you're the outdoorsy type and are headed for Switzerland, then you'll have your down jacket, warm scarf and hat, and sturdy shoes with hiking socks.
If you're city-slicking through Paris in autumn, you can leave the big shoes behind and stick to your ballet flats, but bring a fashionable scarf for chilly evenings, that funky fedora, and your DVD drive.
The Ultimate Carry-On Packing List
Additional Notes
Everybody travels differently, so not every item on this list may resonate with you. And fellas — I realize this is a pretty girly list, but if you can see past the fashion choices and toiletries to the core structure of this packing list (including various functions of clothing and shoes), I believe it's a universally applicable list.
Restrictive Carry-On Guidelines
Generally, you're allowed a carry-on suitcase/bag, plus a laptop bag or purse. I consistently carry all three. However if hard-pressed by a restrictive airline, I can fit my purse into one of the other bags, so I only have two. (See also: How to Avoid New Carry-On Luggage Charges)
Weight guidelines for carry-on bags vary by airline and route, and some budget airlines are pretty stingy. Depending on how much warm-weather clothing (and other "optional" items) you have, plus the weight of your electronics, you might have difficulty getting this packing list through.
But if you fly with larger full-service airlines (and if you are collecting and redeeming frequent flyer miles, you should), carry-on weight restrictions shouldn't be a problem. (See also: Everything You Need to Know About Frequent Flyer Miles)
Best Carry-On Bag?
The OR compression sack I carry might not be the absolute best choice for a carry-on bag (the backpack straps are solid but not beefy) — but it does a pretty fine job for me. It's part of my larger full-time travel packing list, so I can fill it using the compression straps to keep volume low, and pack it into my larger bag when I'm moving bases. The is so light and thin it takes up very little room of its own.
You might instead prefer to purchase a more traditional carry-on sized bag (maybe with wheels) that enable easier transport and access to contents.
You might not need the same electronic entourage as I do; my location independent career necessitates having the gear to work from the road wherever I am. This forces me to make tougher choices about what else I can carry, and carry in my carry-on. (See also: Location Independent Career Basics)
What's on Your Carry-On Packing List?
Okay, I've showed you mine; now you show me yours!
How do the contents of your own carry-on packing list differ from mine? Got any hot tips for useful items that I didn't include? Tell us in the comments!
This ultimate carry-on packing list widget was courteously designed and provided by Round the World Experts, who provide round the world flights to adventurous travelers, and there are some affiliate links in the widget. As I have purchased most of these exact items myself, all opinions are obviously my own.
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Don't forget.... 1. BANDAGES especially for blistered feet,
2. easily accessible PLASTIC BAGS for unexpected nausea
(I had a bag for my friend, and just in time too)
3. PACKETS of TISSUES for public bathrooms lacking toilet paper
4. LIP BALM with sunscreen
5. small COMB & HAIR BRUSH
The timing on this list is impeccable! I'm getting ready to pack for a trip to Italy and was getting overwhelmed. Can't wait to try this app!
I've got a question really. The toiletries here look like they exceed the 50ml for liquids carry-on rule that applies globally. How do you get these through customs with your carry-on luggage?
My best ever sandals (for being very comfortable super lightweight sandals ) were "River Rapids" I bought them many years ago at Biggs supermarket in Hasselt / Belgium and had leather soles glued on the EVA soles. They were super cheap but the best quality was : they were far more comfortable than any other sandal I had afterwards : Geox, Teva, and other "good" sandals (but all much too heavy to take on a small cityhopper)
Another VERY good item I cannot find anymore : the old supplex traveler pants from Royal Robbins (they were far better than the new ripstop pants : they stayed nice much longer : I had them for 17 (!) years - I used them too for light alpinism, MEETINGS and even weddings ! ) They weighed only 165 grams...


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