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Spring Data – Part 2: JPA

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Part 1: Spring Data Commons
Part 2: Spring Data JPA

After looking at the Spring Data Commons project in the first part of this blog series, today I’m going to introduce you to the sub project Spring Data JPA.

Being a part of JEE stack, JPA is a standard API to persist Java objects into relational database systems. With the JPQL query language, database queries can be written independent of a specific SQL dialect. So understanding Spring Data JPA requires at least a basic knowledge of the JPA API.

Spring Data JPA

Based on Spring’s standard JPA Support, Spring Data JPA further simplifies writing JPA repositories (and much more). Usually one or more parameters have to be set before executing a JPQL query. To do so, the developer writes boilerplate code like this:

@NamedQuery( name="myQuery", query = "SELECT u FROM User u where u.fullName = :fullName" )
public class User {
public class ClassicUserRepository {
   @PersistenceContext EntityManager em;
   public List<User> findByFullName(String fullName) {
      TypedQuery<User> q = getEntityManger().createNamedQuery("myQuery", User.class);
      q.setParameter("fullName", fullName);
      return q.getResultList();

This can be slightly reduced by using the fluent interface of a TypedQuery

public class ClassicUserRepository {
   @PersistenceContext EntityManager em;
   public List<User> findByFullName(String fullName) {
      return getEntityManger().createNamedQuery("myQuery", User.class)
         .setParameter("fullName", fullName)

… but still you are implementing a method that calls setters and executes the query for each and every single query. With Spring Data JPA the same query comes down to the following piece of code:

package repositories;
public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, String> {
   List<User> findByFullName(String fullName);

The basic idea is to derive all information that is required to execute a query from the signature of method declared in an interface(!). At runtime Spring injects a corresponding implementation that creates and executes the query via the JPA criteria API. This way, a very large subset of queries within a project can be written very fast and concise. The pattern can be combined with the common sorting and pagination features:

public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, String> {
   List<User> findByFullName(String fullName, Sort sort);
   List<User> findByFullName(String fullName, Pageable paging);

With Spring Data JPA, JPQL queries don’t have to be declared as @NamedQuerys in the class file of the corresponding JPA entity. Instead a query is an annotation of the repository method(!):

	@Transactional(timeout = 2, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
	@Query("SELECT u FROM User u WHERE u.fullName = 'User 3'")
	List<User> findByGivenQuery();

I really like this approach. The query is located in the place where it is executed and does not pollute the JPA entity itself. Separation of Concerns (SoC) at its best. A drawback is that you have to use a new Spring annotation @Query. Why didn’t they allow the use of @NamedQuery annotations?

A nice bonus is the validation of JPQL queries when the application context is assembled. This way JPQL syntax errors are detected as early as possible. Usually these errors are detected at query execution time.

I provide a maven project holding all example source code at Github. The examples use OpenJPA as a JPA provider and the RDBMS HyperSQL DB. The unit test jpa.JpaRepoTest is a good place to start.

The most important configuration part is the one that defines the package structure of our repositorie interfaces to be automagically JPA-ified:

	<jpa:repositories base-package="jpa"/>

If your are using more than one EntityManagerFactory, you have to specifiy which one should be used by your repositories.

Is there more?

Yes. As I said in the first part of this blog series, I’m just presenting some choosen aspects of Spring Data JPA. For a complete list of features, please check the project’s homepage.

What’s next?

Expect upcoming blog posts on Spring Data MongoDB or Spring Data Neo4J.

Tobias Trelle

Tobias Trelle

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  • Tobias,

    public @interface javax.persistenc.NamedQuery

    has this annotation

    While I agree with your preference of having the query on the method, the JPA Interface doesnt allow this.
    I wonder if a backwards compatible change to the spec allowing this at method level would be possible.

  • January 27, 2012 von Oliver Gierke

    The reason for introducing @Query is that we support some additional quirks (defining a count query e.g.) in it besides the fact which Fabian mentioned. Regarding the potential change of being able to use @NamedQuery on a method I don’t think this is gonna happen as this does not make sense in a pure JPA context and I don’t expect the expert group to add stuff to it just because some arbitrary framework would like to see this ;).

  • Good post, I didn’t know much about Spring JPA support but doesn’t it like combining JEE with Spring ?

  • Very cool. Ideally, I’d like to read the query from an external file (say myQuery.sql)
    This would allow me to not have to recompile the code every time the query changes.

    Is this possible in spring boot jpa?

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Live versions of F3 Tesla and Amazon demos (and some others)

Here are the live versions of these demos.

They're launched in a prototype F3 "Application Server", which makes it possible to run multiple isolated F3 applications in the same JVM. If you're running Java 1.6 you'll see an F3 icon added to your system tray. Double-clicking it will display a window titled "F3", listing the running applications, with some additional controls to manually kill such applications, and perform other system tasks. If you're running Java 1.5 this window will always be visible.

To shut down the whole thing, click the File->Shutdown menu in the "F3" window.

The F3 server application performs its own "web-start", meaning that it downloads the latest versions of jar files on demand (by doing conditional http-gets) and caches them. You can remove the cached files from your system by clicking File->Delete Cache in the "F3" window.

In addtion to Tesla, Amazon, and the Cars demo I added three others:

  1. Yahoo Maps
  2. Guitar Tuner
  3. Processing examples: Arctangent, Bezier, Mouse1d

(1) and (2) reuse artwork from some Yahoo Widget Engine examples, and demonstrate that F3 can easily do the kinds of things Yahoo Widgets do. (3) contains F3 versions of several simple processing examples, with source code.

Sorry for the large downloads for some of these. The size of the Tesla demo is due to the large number of images it contains (which are embedded in swf files in the original flash programs and can't be downloaded directly from the tesla web site). The Amazon demo uses Apache axis to contact the amazon soap service and so includes a bunch of jar files axis depends on. Finally, the guitar tuner example has to download about 1MB worth of wav files, hence the long delay while "loading sound".

Nice. I'm looking forward to this for some super-rich development!

Posted by Patrick Forhan on November 14, 2006 at 03:26 AM PST #

nice, nice and nice.

Posted by mic on November 14, 2006 at 03:39 AM PST #

Hi Chris. Why do you need to use Axis instead of just using the JAX-WS inside Java SE 6?

Separatedly, F3 looks like a nice language. I hope people see it beyond just a GUI design language.

- eduard/o

Posted by eduardo pelegri-llopart on November 14, 2006 at 11:54 AM PST #

Chris, very impressive. When do you think we'll be able to try/use F3? Thanks

Posted by Nico on November 15, 2006 at 05:16 AM PST #

Hi Chris, Really nice stuff, something I would like to start using right away... can you give me a date when it becomes public. Or can I download something already, just to give it a try? I have browsed the Internet for quite a while now, hoping to bump into some installation stuff for F3. For now I am hacking my way around with the tutorial, but I want to integrate with the software I produce over here of course. And when does the Netbeans plugin becomes available? Hoping to hear from you soon! Bas

Posted by Bas on November 15, 2006 at 06:48 PM PST #

Impressive! But F3 is not complete until it has a database abstraction layer in it. I imagine something along these lines:
database DB1 {
    table Customer {
        id: primary_key int
        firstName: string
        lastName: string

    table Product {
        id: primary_key int
        name: string
        code: string

    table Cart {
        id: primary_key int
        customerId: foreign_key Customer
        productId: foreign_key Product
SQL would be part of F3:
var customer1 = new Customer {
    firstName: "John"
    lastName: "Smith"
insert DB1.Customer customer1;
Queries would create data types:
var customerId1 = 1;
var productId1 = 2;
var q1 = select, Customer.firstName, Customer.lastName,,, Product.code from Customer, Product, Cart where Cart.productId == customerId1 && Cart.customerId == productId1;
forEach(cust : q1) {
    System.out.println(cust.firstName + cust.lastName +;
Such an abstraction would really help concentrating on providing solutions rather than the technical details (of which J2EE has plenty of).

Posted by Achilleas Margaritis on November 16, 2006 at 01:06 AM PST #

Any timeline on when this becomes generally available? What I am asking is what are the roll out plans if any. Also Achilleas's database abstraction idea would be absolutely brilliant. But this looks seriously productive.

Posted by Andrew on November 16, 2006 at 03:40 AM PST #

This is really gorgeous! Please let us know when it’s available at This is maybe one of the most important projects coming up, especially because of the bad reputation Java has for GUI. I’d like to use it not tomorrow but today, if it already works fine. I’m sure you’ll get a big community! I'll present it on my blog (javecua) and wherever I can at the moment you are getting open source!

Posted by Mario Bertschler on November 17, 2006 at 06:27 AM PST #

Damn Chris you did a great job!!!

Posted by Roberto Marra on November 19, 2006 at 04:29 PM PST #

Impressive!!! So that is the hidden ace up sleeves that I have been wondering about so long. Coming times are going to be very interesting. Kudos Chris!!! And give the lazy SUN marketing guys a kick on their bums... it's high time those guys get up and justify their worth.

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Digital home takes shape

I'm slowly moving forward with defining how our new 'digital home' will look like. After owning the same small hifi for 8 years or so, along with a small TV and only one computer purchase (an Acer laptop a few years ago), I think I deserve an upgrade!

The TV's been identified - a nice 40", 2 Mega pixel Sony LCD. Surround sound will be from a Bose 3-2-1 or Sony DAV-x10 - Bose sound quality is better but it's more expensive, Sony looks good and only one controller is needed to operate both surround sound and the TV. Mrs Saul wants a solution with the minimum number of speakers...

Mrs Saul will have a new laptop to use. The current Acer will trudge along for a year or so more as a general laptop/iTunes controller, streaming to an Airport Express plugged into the sound system. I may upgrade the Acer with an N enabled wifi card.

Central shared and backup storage was supposed to be provided by 'AirDisk', a usb drive attached to my new Apple Extreme router. This really isn't working as it should do. Assuming Apple don't release a firmware upgrade that improves things in the immediate future, I'll use a Linksys NSLU2 to store all our content centrally, wired to the . The disk attached to the Apple router can continue as a general back up disk. Surprisingly, despite trawling the electronics shops of London today, I couldn't find an NSLU2. If I can't get one in Dubai either, I'll order it from Amazon.

A decent way of playing music and downloaded or ripped content (legal content of course) directly on the TV or straight to the sound system is proving difficult. Current media-centres from the likes of D-Link and Netgear get good reviews from the press, but bad reviews from users. They also lack Blu-ray or HD-DVD, Gb ethernet and N wifi. Sony have a nice new media-centre PC out, but it seems like expensive overkill and doesn't have a Blu-ray drive. I think a new, HDMI enabled and Blu-ray equipped laptop may be a good compromise in a few months' time, unless other vendors get their act together and bring out something that works and has up to date networking.

I'm also not sure of the best way of getting music to the bedroom. I see there are several wifi enabled players on the market, but I need something that will read from a shared drive, rather than going through a PC. It should also be able to integrate with playlists created in iTunes.

I'm surprised that no one vendor has quite managed to pull all of this together yet.

If you are or have some friends that are solaris admins, you can setup a Solaris Nevada server using ZFS and CIFS to be a storage server if you check out I just built a new fileserver/media server, zfs is simple to admin the new additions to nevada make it easy to deal with storage and with a few minutes of shell scripting you can create automatic snapshots. So you can recover from most accidents with out having to worry about setting up backups.

The server I built claims to support hd playback using the on-board video, but I haven't tried it yet.

Posted by James Dickens on December 27, 2007 at 06:04 PM GST #

Just as as small comment - there is a very capabile home video, music player with wifi internet, blu-ray and 60GB HD that is getting better by the day - PS3... it's about 1699dhs now.

I use one with plus couple of external hard drives and use sync toy to back up / update.

It's not perfect, but I can watch mpgs, listen to mp3s, aac, etc and all is on on the ipod, laptop and avail on the PS3. As well as having the most cost effective blu-ray player...

Posted by Bluey on December 27, 2007 at 06:25 PM GST #

Chris - just a thought, how about a Roku Soundbridge for your bedroom? That's how I stream music from my Winamp library (iTunes also works) into my bedroom. We live in the Old Town and it works perfectly with our wireless router. Cheers, Patrick

Posted by Patrick Johnson on January 01, 2008 at 03:47 PM GST #

Thanks all.

James, I'll have a look at your blog.

Bluey, good suggestion...

Patrick - where did you get your Soundbridge from? They look like just the right thing.

Posted by Chris on January 03, 2008 at 03:08 PM GST #

I'm using a NSLU2 with a 500gig to stream music to my living room stereo via a Roku as well.

They're both tiny and don't use a bunch of juice or make noise.

Also, the quality is phenomenal. I rip all my CDs into FLAC files which the slug transcodes to WAV before sending them to the Roku. With the optical ouput of the Roku running directly into my receiver I have virtually instant access to perfect copies of every CD I own.

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Importing and exporting archives as zip files in UCM

Archive ZipOne of the features of Site Studio is the ability to backup and restore websites.  It takes all of the assets associated with the website and combines them into a backup directory that is stored on the server and can be downloaded as a zip if needed.  When it comes time to restore, you simply choose that backup from the server or upload the zip file saved earlier.  The mechanism that Site Studio is using in the background is simply a specialized Archiver process.  An archive is defined dynamically with the proper export criteria to grab the site assets and they are exported to that backup directory.  Then when you request a download of that backup, UCM zips that standard archive directory and delivers the zip file to the client browser.

Well, it turns out that this ability to download and upload zipped archives does not have to be for just Site Studio sites.  You can do this for regular content archives as well.

First, when you go to the Archiver applet, you're taken to the default collection of archives.  In the menu, go to Options -> Open Archive Collection.  There you should see another one with the name "<instance name>_sitestudiobackupcollection".  Select that collection and click Open.

Archive Collection

This collection got created when Site Studio was installed and is where site backups are archived. And even if you aren't using Site Studio at all, as long as you have it enabled, this feature will be available. If you've done backups or restores already, you'll see those listed. Now that you have the collection open, you can add your new archives here.  You can create those just as you normally would.

archive list

Now perform the archive Export process.  The content/table data will then get exported to the collection location on the server.

To download the archive, go to Administration ->; Site Studio Administration -> Backup and Restore.   Click the Managed Archives button.  You should now see your archive in the list.

Manage Backups

With the Actions icon, select 'Download backup archive as ZIP'.  This will zip up the archive and allow you to download it locally.  Note, large archives may take a while to zip up and may time out if too large.  For those types of archives, I'd recommend setting up the traditional ways of migrating the archive.

Now that you have your archive, you can just as easily import it into your target instance.  On that instance, go to  Administration -> Site Studio Administration -> Backup and Restore.  In the Upload Archive section, browse to your saved archive and click Upload Archive.  You'll then be taken to the archive information screen.

Archive Information

On the Actions menu, select 'Restore backup archive contents'.  This will now import the archived documents.  If you wish to include some import mappings, you can simply go to the Archiver applet and set up the mappings there and do the import right from the applet.

Hi Kyle, I have an archive which is larger then 2GB and I cannot upload it from the upload section. Is there any way to directly upload the zip file to the server and import it.

-- Sid

Posted by Sid on April 16, 2013 at 01:11 PM CDT #

Hello Sid,

No afraid not. Like I mention in the article, archives that are too large may time out. In those cases, it's best to work with your admins on creating a Transfer between Archivers or manually move the archive folders between systems.

Posted by Kyle Hatlestad on April 17, 2013 at 10:33 AM CDT #

Hi Kyle,

That's what I ended up doing. I zipped up the archive on the source UCM server and manually copied over to the target UCM server in the Site Studio backuparchive directory[where the other archives get stored when you use the Web interface to upload an archive]. But after that it didn't show up in the on the Manage Archive web page. I'm not sure if it's suppose to show up there if I manually put the archive there.

So, then what I did was started the Archiver in standalone mode, open site studio backup collection and added a new archive. When I used Archiver in standalone mode it gave me an option to "copy from" while adding a new archive. So I pointed it to the archive which I had copied manually and now I could see it in Archiver Applet and the Manage Archive webpage. Then I just just picked restore option from there and I can now see all the content in the target instance.

Everything seems to be working fine, only thing I'm not sure about it the way I had to run the Archiver in stanalone mode in order to add the manually copied archive. Is this the correct way or is there any other better way to do this?

Thank you
-- Sid

Posted by Sid on April 17, 2013 at 10:50 AM CDT #

Hello Sid,

Yes, as long as you have access to run the Archiver in standalone mode, that's just the way to do it. Standalone mode in Archiver is required to have access to the server's file system which the applet version would not have.

Posted by Kyle Hatlestad on April 17, 2013 at 10:56 AM CDT #

Great, Thank you Kyle.

Just out of curiosity, is there any other way to do this, say in case I cannot run Archiver in standalone mode? Our UCM server run on Oracle Linux without any graphical interface. Only way to access the server is though SSH. But I happen to know about Xming so I was able to run the Archiver in standalone mode using putty and Xming with X Server running locally on my laptop.

Thank you
-- Sid

Posted by Sid on April 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM CDT #

Hello Sid,

Not in an easy or supported way. But archives can be manually placed by putting the archive's folder within the collection's folder. Standard archives are in the ../archives/ folder and the Site Studio ones are in the ../data/SiteStudio/backuparchives/ folder. You then manually modify the collections.hda file to add the 2 lines for your archive: Name and Description. The next time the Archiver applet is launched it will read the collectionds.hda file and recognize the new archive. Making these modifications are not really advised and should be done AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Posted by Kyle Hatlestad on April 17, 2013 at 11:50 AM CDT #

At one point I thought of doing that. But then realized that Archiver presents you with more options when run in standalone mode, so gave gave a shot first.

Thank you, this is good to know, just in case
-- Sid

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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good People Turn Evil

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What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?

Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and inThe Lucifer Effecthe explains how–and the myriad reasons why–we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.

Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.

By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the “bad apple” with that of the “bad barrel”–the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.

This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves to act heroically. Like Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate,The Lucifer Effectis a shocking, engrossing study that will change the way we view human behavior.

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6 Affordable Places to Retire Abroad in 2012

There are many benefits and advantages of retiring overseas. Launching a new life in a new country at this stage of your life can mean better weather, new adventures and opportunities, and new friends. You can realize the beach life you've dreamed of for decades and sometimes even realize some significant tax savings by relocating overseas.

However, the primary advantage of retiring to another country can be a reduced cost of living. In some places overseas the cost of everything, including rent, groceries, a retirement home, medical care, health insurance, and dinners out, can cost a fraction what they cost in the United States.

[See The 10 Best Places to Retire in 2012.]

If living within a budget is a priority for your retirement planning, don't despair. Even on a very limited retirement budget, or perhaps even Social Security alone, you can afford a comfortable, interesting, fulfilling, and adventure-filled retirement lifestyle if you know where to look to find it. Here are six affordable places to retire overseas in 2012:

Chiang Mai, Thailand

--Monthly budget: $1,100

--Monthly rent: $400

Consider settling down in Chiang Mai, perhaps the world's most affordable place to retire comfortably. A retired couple can live here for as little as $1,100 per month, including rent and other basic expenses.

A frugal person could live here on much less. I know a single American man living in Chiang Mai on only $200 a month, with half of that going for rent. He makes a sport out of spending as little as possible. Another Thai American woman who bought an apartment in a small town outside Chiang Mai manages on her Social Security income alone, which is $600 a month. These are special cases, but you can live very cheaply in this part of Thailand.

House and apartment rentals can vary a great deal. You can rent a small home outside Chiang Mai for $100 to $150 a month. For a house or apartment that most American retirees would be happy living in, figure about $400 a month.

Las Tablas, Panama

--Monthly budget: $1,200

--Monthly rent: $400

My second pick for the most affordable place to retire in 2012 is Las Tablas, Panama, on the Pacific coast of this country's Azuero Peninsula. Other beach towns are certainly easier to access from Panama City. But these city beaches have gotten expensive. It'll take you four hours to reach Las Tablas from downtown Panama City. That's the bad news. The good news is that, having made the drive on the well-maintained PanAmerican highway, you are greeted by a charming and lively town center, a welcoming local population, and a long-established community of Panamanians and expats who savor their super-affordable seaside lifestyle.

A couple can live comfortably in Las Tablas on as little as $1,200 per month. You could spend more, of course, especially if you travel often to Panama City to enjoy the distractions of the big city. But if you'd be happy with a modest life, sticking close to home, passing your days fishing and swimming, Las Tablas could have your name written all over it.

One reason Las Tablas is such an affordable retirement choice is that the cost of rent in this part of Panama is dramatically lower than in Panama City or other coastal regions. You can rent a cozy, charming two-bedroom house within a few minutes' walk of the Pacific Ocean for as little as $400 per month.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

--Monthly budget: $1,250

--Monthly rent: $500

This developed Southeast Asian city is one of the world's most exotic and, at the same time, comfortable places to retire anywhere in the world. Kuala Lumpur qualifies as one of the best places in the world to live what can qualify as a luxury lifestyle on even a very modest budget of as little as $1,250 per month.

Life is different in the heart of the Malaysian peninsula than in the West. When you go to your neighborhood shop, you take your time and converse with the owner, ask about his family, and he asks you about yours. By your second or third visit, you'll be recognized and waved to when you enter. You may even be invited to dinner, or at least to share a cup of kopi (coffee).

Unlike many places in Asia, foreigners are genuinely welcomed in Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia is the only country in this part of the world that makes full-time residency a straightforward option for foreign retirees. Language isn't a problem, as almost everyone speaks adequate English. Medical care is among the best in the world, and Malaysia has developed an important and growing medical tourism industry.

[See The 10 Sunniest Places to Retire.]

Cuenca, Ecuador

--Monthly budget: $1,300

--Monthly rent: $500

In Ecuador, I believe Cuenca to be the best place for an expat to retire. It's not the cheapest retirement choice in this country (or the world), but it offers a comfortable and appealing quality of life for the money.

At just over 400,000 people, Cuenca is the perfect size. It's small enough so that you see people you know when walking around town. What's more, people know and remember you, making you feel at home and part of the community.

At the same time, Cuenca is not so small that it doesn't have all the services you need. It's the provincial capital of Azuay, so you have the state and municipal offices, making the administrative tasks of living in a foreign country easier to manage. Plus, Cuenca is a city of culture, with good restaurants, theater, orchestra, and festivals.

Public transportation is great, both within the city and between cities. City buses are plentiful and inexpensive, and a taxi ride is about $1.50. Owning a car is an unnecessary expense and often a burden. Rental cars are easily available when you're ready to explore the country beyond Cuenca.

Another advantage to Cuenca is the expat community that has developed here. It's big enough that it's not hard to find someone who speaks English, but small enough that the general population hasn't formed a stereotype about what American expats are like.

Leon, Nicaragua

--Monthly budget: $1,300

--Monthly rent: $500

Leon is not the best-known retirement option in Nicaragua, but it is the most affordable and also the most authentic. Sister colonial city Granada, with its central square, markets, restaurants, and thriving expat community, is a good choice too. But, because it's more discovered, Granada is more expensive.

Leon is Nicaragua in its natural state. If you want to experience this country without the expats or the false economy that follows them around, then Leon is worth a look.

Founded in 1524, Leon is home to 110,000 people and sits about an hour north of the capital of Managua. The climate is hot, but humidity is generally low and evenings are usually comfortable.

Always a center for Nicaragua's liberal and progressive thinkers, Leon boasts bookstores, coffee shops, museums, universities, and the younger population that typically accompanies those things. This is a city of colonial architecture, an impressive cathedral, markets, and most of all, a relaxed, non-hurried ambiance and friendly people.

Leon is an inland city that is close to the Pacific Ocean. The coast at Las Peñitas is less than 15 miles to the west when you're in the mood for swimming, seaside sunbathing, or fresh seafood in an open-air restaurant. Frequent bus service runs between Leon and Las Peñitas, making the trip easy and inexpensive.

[See The 6 Best Places to Be a Snowbird.]

Medellin, Colombia

--Monthly budget: $1,700

--Monthly rent: $500

Medellin is more expensive than the other places on this list, but you get what you pay for. Medellin is still a highly affordable option, but it offers a superior quality of life in many regards, not only to the other budget choices, but to other much more costly retirement options as well. In Medellin, you get an enormous bang for your retirement lifestyle dollar.

Colombia's city of springtime and flowers makes a good impression immediately and on many levels. Architecturally, this city is lovely. Built almost entirely of red brick, with almost every structure topped by a red clay tile roof, the place is pleasing in its consistency, especially when viewed from some height.

The city is also impressively green, with trees, plants, and small gardens everywhere, and remarkably clean. In the central neighborhoods, you see no litter. The metro, a point of pride for the local population, is spotless and like new. At every station and in every train we boarded, I looked for but was unable to find even a cigarette butt or piece of gum on the ground.

Medellin's primary cost advantage is its real estate market, which is a screaming bargain. El Poblado, in the heart of the city, is the top end, for both renting and buying. Here you're looking at $1,000 monthly for a one-bedroom and approximately $3,000 per month to rent a furnished luxury-level penthouse.

In less recognized neighborhoods those prices can fall in half and more. Right now you could rent a one-bedroom apartment in the safe and pleasant Laureles neighborhood for as little as $450 or $500 per month.

Another notable cost savings living in Medellin is utility expenses. Thanks to the spring-like climate year-round, you could live here with neither heating nor air conditioning, meaning your utility costs could be almost negligible. This could reduce your overall monthly budget by as much as $200 or more compared with other options.

Kathleen Peddicord is the founder of the Live and Invest Overseas publishing group. With more than 25 years experience covering this beat, Kathleen reports daily on current opportunities for living, retiring, and investing overseas in her free e-letter. Her book, How To Retire Overseas--Everything You Need To Know To Live Well Abroad For Less, was recently released by Penguin Books.

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My recent flare, which started early, early Saturday morning and isn’t quite over yet (Tuesday) is, to say the least, quite unsettling.

In the world of RA sufferers, I count myself fortunate. Yes, I’ve had major joints replaced, but on a day-to-day basis, I’ve been pretty functional thanks, to a great part, to modern medicine and, to a lesser degree, sheer determination.

This past flare is the worst I’ve ever had, basically keeping me on bed rest for three days. I’d still be there today (or at least at home) except for some deadlines that require me to be at the office.

The really scary part, based on everything I’ve read, is that things don’t get better (with the possible exception of those people who achieve a remission). That is, now that I’ve had one of these major flares, there are probably more in my future. It may be 10 days or 10 months in the future, but the fact is my disease has progressed to the point that it can now take control of body.

I somehow feel like I’m back where I started. You know — when you were first diagnosed and read that at 5 years, 30% of RA patients are work disabled and at 10 years, 50% of them are. Those clinical statistics that strike fear into your heart. At three years out, I had fooled myself into thinking that my life could continue on with the disease controlled and with minor impact as long as I took my meds, watched my diet and got a reasonable amount of exercise. These last three days, I found out how wrong I could be.

I’m not predicting the future and I’m not throwing in the towel. But what I am saying is that, like Mr. Scrooge in The Christmas Carol, I saw a ghost of a possible future and, like Mr. Scrooge, I woke up shivering in my bed clothes, scared of that vision.

It also gave me a refreshed respect for those with RA that face these battles every day. It takes an untold amount of courage and perseverance.

I hope that whatever ghosts haunt your day today are no more troublesome than Casper. Thanks for checking in.


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So, you say you know it all…Really?

Saint Teresa of Avila, pray for us!

I am sorry for not posting this yesterday.  I felt an overwhelming urge to post this, as we celebrated the life of this great Saint yesterday.  I am posting it today, but first, I am feeling called to share the first reading from the Mass readings yesterday.

Brothers and sisters:
I am not ashamed of the Gospel.
It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes:
for Jew first, and then Greek.
For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith;
as it is written, “The one who is righteous by faith will live.”

The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven
against every impiety and wickedness
of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
For what can be known about God is evident to them,
because God made it evident to them.
Ever since the creation of the world,
his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity
have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made.
As a result, they have no excuse;
for although they knew God
they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks.
Instead, they became vain in their reasoning,
and their senseless minds were darkened.
While claiming to be wise, they became fools
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God
for the likeness of an image of mortal man
or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

Therefore, God handed them over to impurity
through the lusts of their hearts
for the mutual degradation of their bodies.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie
and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator,
who is blessed forever. Amen.   (Romans 1:16-25)

Now, with the added perspective of today’s first reading from the Mass readings, I am left with an even more powerful urge to share this reflection that I received, as I read this reading yesterday.  It was the sincere act of loving God with our whole heart that will allow us to be filled with exactly what we need to understand in order to live our lives in accordance with His will.  It is not the amount of book knowledge we have learned or are learning that allows us to understand God, it is His grace that has allowed us to open up to the knowledge and we should receive it as a gift and not a kind of exclusive right that only comes to the intelligent or one who is able to comprehend complex thoughts or ideas.  Here is the reading from today that God provided for my perspective…

You, O man, are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment.
For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself,
since you, the judge, do the very same things.
We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is true.
Do you suppose, then, you who judge those who engage in such things
and yet do them yourself,
that you will escape the judgment of God?
Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and patience
in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God
would lead you to repentance?
By your stubbornness and impenitent heart,
you are storing up wrath for yourself
for the day of wrath and revelation
of the just judgment of God,
who will repay everyone according to his works,
eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality
through perseverance in good works,
but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth
and obey wickedness.
Yes, affliction and distress will come upon everyone
who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.
But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone
who does good, Jew first and then Greek.
There is no partiality with God.  (Romans 2:1-11)

It is important for me to hear that I cannot be proud of the things that God has revealed to me through scripture or through a spiritual book I read, I should look for ways to impart the knowledge I have been given to the child of God that is sitting in front of me right now.  The ability to be a messenger of God comes from grace as well, so it is important for me to not take that for granted either.  OK, what is the point of this post…Please go back and read the quote from Saint Teresa of Avila on the picture above…Enough said, for now…God bless you!

To continue yesterday’s theme, our hope in the Lord should bring peace…

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Gift:  Wisdom– With the gift of wisdom, we see God at work in our lives and in the world. For the wise person, the wonders of nature, historical events, and the ups and downs of our lives take on deeper meaning. The matters of judgment about the truth, and being able to see the image of God.

Reading:  They shall not harm or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.  (Isaiah 11:9)

Observation:  I read the readings at home this morning before I came to our communion service and I really didn’t have any particular verses that were speaking to me.  However, when I was sitting in our chapel this morning, listening to the lector read the first reading, I couldn’t get the picture of the earth filled with knowledge of the Lord, and that looking like the waters that covers the sea, out of my head.  It reminded me of yesterday’s focus of my journal that had to do with hoping in the Lord and thereby not allowing conflict to appear in our relationships.  Today, I am left with a picture of what this peace looks like, and not a practical application of how we could make it happen.

Personification:  Peace  I don’t remember if I focused on peace yesterday, but I will try to keep the idea of knowledge of the Lord covering the earth in my head, so that I can display the peace that comes from the grace of God.

Prayer:  Lord, allow me to display the fruit of peace in my life and supply me with the grace necessary to display it to everyone that I come in contact with today.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit.  Amen.

No one can serve two masters…

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Gift:  Fear of the Lord (Wonder and Awe) – With the gift of wonder and awe (fear of the lord), we are aware of the glory and majesty of God. A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all we desire: perfect knowledge, perfect goodness, perfect power, and perfect love.

Reading:  No servant can serve two masters. 8 He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.  (Luke 16:13)

Observation:  When I looked at the readings for today’s Mass last week, I felt like the readings were written specifically for the decision that I am now in the process of making about my future career.  However, upon reading them again this morning, I realize that a decision has already been made and I am not in control of that decision.  I should not ever serve mammon again in my life, but can I enter into a partnership with dishonest wealth to provide for my family’s future?

Personification:  Chastity – Able to form loving and caring friendships, which help us to act appropriately with our gift of sexuality.  It is my goal today to display the fruit of chastity in my life by creating new friends in the church today and finding new and different ways to be loving and caring to them.

Prayer:  Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Spirit.  Amen.

Not my will, but God’s will be done…

Here is the video reflection for the Gospel today…If you are reading my journal on any other day, you can click on the date of this entry on the calendar below the video and see Father Michael’s reflection for the Gospel that I reference in my journal.

Gift:  Knowledge – With the gift of knowledge, we understand the meaning of God’s Revelation, especially as expressed in the life and words of Jesus Christ. A person with knowledge is always learning more about the scriptures and Tradition.

Reading:  “The LORD forbid,” Naboth answered him, “that I should give you my ancestral heritage.”  (1 Kings 21:3)

Observation:  After reading the first reading today, I am left to ponder whether Naboth knew that there would be retribution from Ahab for standing up to him.  However, when they came to honor him, he must have been filled with love for the Lord for honoring him for doing what was right in standing up for what is right.  As he died, though, he was probably left with the thought, I should have just given him the land.  I am left with the feeling that it must have been really hard to be a Jewish follower of the law during those days.

Personification:  Peace – Quiet, inner confidence that keeps us from feeling uptight and anxious.  After reading the Gospel today and hearing the video reflection, I am hoping that I can display the fruit of peace that comes from following the will of God.  Even though, at times the decision can feel like I am not doing what is best for my family, I must follow what I know God is calling me to and I know that I will be at peace.

Prayer:  Lord, help me be at peace with your will for my life and always display that peace to the people that I meet today and for the rest of my life.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

The law and the truth was not abolished when Jesus came, it was fulfilled…

Gift:  Knowledge – With the gift of knowledge, we understand the meaning of God’s Revelation, especially as expressed in the life and words of Jesus Christ. A person with knowledge is always learning more about the scriptures and Tradition.

Reading:  13Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.  (Matthew 5:17-18)

Observation:  To me, Jesus’ mission was not to reveal the truth to those who already knew the truth.  Rather, it was to reveal the truth to those who had been misled about it.  The truth is obvious to anyone who seriously seeks it out in their own lives, Jesus is necessary because we do not always seek out truth.  It is part of the human condition or our sinful nature to seek out the things that look like truth, but fall short.  It is only by relying on God’s grace and accepting Jesus Christ as our savior that we can be saved from our own selfish interest in seeking our own version of truth.

Personification:  Goodness – A real desire to live a holy life, to set a good example by our conduct where we are.  The only way that I can set a good example is if I keep my focus on Jesus and the truth that was revealed through him.  It is his earthly walk that shows me how I should live out the rest of my days on this earth.  When the new Jerusalem comes, I will not have to focus on the truth any longer, because his truth will be as easy to follow as breathing because we will all be following the same truth.

Prayer:  Our Father, who is in heaven, great and powerful is your name.  Your Kingdom come.  Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  Forgive us our for our sinfulness, as we forgive others for their sinfulness as it relates to us.  Please do not let us be led into temptation by the evil one, but deliver us from all evil.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Spirit.  Amen.

Perfect love…perfect charity…

The song is “Perfect Charity”…I have a video that I will post later…Click on the link above and it will take you to the website where you can listen to the song…God bless you!

Gift:  Knowledge – With the gift of knowledge, we understand the meaning of God’s Revelation, especially as expressed in the life and words of Jesus Christ. A person with knowledge is always learning more about the scriptures and Tradition.

Reading:  Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.   (John 16:15)

Observation:  This morning, I am aware of the fact that if I am going to be made like Jesus, than I am going to be a servant to all.  It is not my will that can be done any longer, it is all His will.  In the words of Jesus in the Gospel today, I hear that the holy Spirit will give us all that is in Him, but that is nothing more than perfect love and perfect charity.

Personification:  Love (Charity) – Quick to sense the needs of the people with whom we work and live and respond as Jesus would.  It is my hope that the Lord would grant me the grace necessary to sense the real needs of the people with whom I work and live, so that I can respond as Jesus would.

Prayer:  Lord, continue to create in me a spirit of surrender, not so that I give up on this world but so that I give up my way of trying to bring the Good News to it, in favor of your way.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Spirit.  Amen.

The Word says that we are reborn as servants…Rejoice!

Gift:  Knowledge

Reading:  You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God, 11  (1 Peter 1:23)

Brought peace to your borders, and filled you with finest wheat.

4 The LORD sends a command to earth; his word runs swiftly!  (Psalm 147:14-15)

6 Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt.  But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.  For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  (Mark 10:42-45)

Observation:  I am hearing this morning in the beautiful words that come to me from the first reading of Saint Peter, the Responsorial Psalm and the Gospel of Mark that I am born anew, a new creation that is allowed to serve others, rather than focus on my own selfish interests.

Personification:  Joy – The ability to celebrate life even in the midst of pain and confusion.  I do not believe there is a greater joy on this earth than to serve others.  At least as far as I know, I haven’t seen a greater joy than the one that comes from serving others.  When Jesus says that if we wish to be great we should be a servant, I believe that greatness can be achieved on earth, in the form of great joy.

Prayer:  Lord, help me display the fruit of joy at all times by allowing me to find new and different ways to serve my brothers and sisters in Christ, as well as serving those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Spirit.  Amen.


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Liturgiam Authenticam 109

Section IV treats the issues connected with the actual publication of liturgical books. The first of seventeen numbered sections:

109. Of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite containing only Latin texts, only the one published by decree of the Congregation having competency at the time is designated the “editio typica”.[79] The editiones typicae published prior to this Instruction were issued either Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis or by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana; in the future, they are usually to be printed by the Tipografia Vaticana, while the right of publication is reserved to the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

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Welcome to the website and blog of CCSAGE Naturally Green, sponsored by the County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy (CCSAGE Naturally Green).  We are the #1 source for news and information on the wind energy development issue in Prince Edward County.

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  1. To SHARE credible information about the wind energy development issue with County residents, business owners and municipal government.
  2. To identify and promote ways to PROTECT the County from the adverse effects of uncontrolled, large-scale wind energy development in the County.

Our major areas of concern include social / cultural, economic and environmental issues and effects on:

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cbae wrote

I think Windows 8 could be improved considerably for mouse users if  they made the mousewheel scroll inertially. I have a mouse that physically spins inertially, which helps, but it would be nice if a quick rotation of the mousewheel behaved analogously to kinetic scrolling with a flick gesture with your finger. The issue then would be how to make the scrolling stop. I think a left mouse click, which is analagous to a simple finger touch to stop kinetic scrolling, would make sense as the action to stop an inertial scroll with a mousewheel.

There has to be some software patent holder preventing them from doing this. When using the mouse, the metro environment feels like anything but fluid. And then there is the issue of orientation. Mouse wheels are orientated vertically, while everything in metro is horizontal.

After that, you have the dead space. The white space areas of your app. You should be able to drag that space around with the mouse as you can with touch. I don't know the design reasons behind this, but I would think it has to do more with legal than engineering issues.


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TommyCarlier wrote:
C# and the .NET Framework probably started as a response to Java (the language and the platform), but has grown to something that Java is now trying to catch up with. .NET 2.0 was a big improvement, and .NET 3.5 will even be a bigger step forward.

Might be. But I tend to see it more as Microsoft effort to stabilize, standardize and make it easier for windows development. VB6 RAD is quite useful in the old days but it lacks the power and the extensibility while Windows API is just too big for general programmer consumptions (which makes then prone to bugs). I think Microsoft saw this potential problem (even from inside developments) and address it by creating the 'universal' platform taking examples from Java.


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Academic Advisor Health Profession

University of Massachusetts Amherst in Massachusetts

Date Posted June 17, 2014
Type Non tenure track
Salary Not specified
Employment Type Full-time

Academic Advisor Health Profession

College of Natural Sciences

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has an immediate opening for an Academic Advisor Health Profession.  For information on minimum qualifications and application instructions, please visit:

The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members.


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Safety and Efficacy of GMX1777 in the Treatment of Refractory Solid Tumors or Lymphomas

This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
(Study terminated prematurely due to financial constraints.)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries ( Gemin X ) Identifier:
First received: April 5, 2007
Last updated: August 27, 2013
Last verified: August 2013

GMX1777 is a water-soluble, intravenously-administered prodrug of GMX1778. GMX1777 is rapidly converted to GMX1778 in vivo. GMX1778 has potent anti-tumor activity against a variety of cell lines and models from different tumor origins.

Condition Intervention Phase
Solid Tumors and Lymphomas
Drug: GMX1777
Phase 1

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Single-Center, Open-Label, Phase I Study of Single-Agent GMX1777 Administered as a 24-Hour Infusion Every 3 Weeks to Patients With Refractory Solid Tumors or Lymphomas

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Determine the recommended Phase II dose; Characterize the dose-limiting toxicities; Determine the pharmacokinetic parameters [ Time Frame: 52 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Describe observed tumor responses [ Time Frame: 52 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 0
Study Start Date: March 2007
Study Completion Date: August 2010
Primary Completion Date: July 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:

This is a single-center, open-label, Phase I study of single-agent GMX1777 administered every 3 weeks to patients with CLL, MM, refractory solid tumors or lymphomas. No investigational or commercial agents or therapies other than those described may be administered with the intent to treat the patient's malignancy.

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients must have a histologically or cytologically confirmed solid tumor or lymphoma
  • No limitations on allowable type and amount of prior therapy.
  • Patients must have a life expectancy of greater than 8 weeks
  • Patients must have normal organ and marrow function
  • Patients must be willing to submit blood sampling for planned PK analysis
  • Patients must have the ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

  • No other agents or therapies administered with the intent to treat malignancy
  • Patients with prior exposure to GMX1777 or GMX1778
  • Uncontrolled, intercurrent illness
  • Pregnant women and women who are breast feeding
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT00457574

Sponsors and Collaborators
Gemin X
Study Director: Mark Berger, MD Gemin X, Inc.
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries ( Gemin X ) Identifier: NCT00457574     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: GEM301
Study First Received: April 5, 2007
Last Updated: August 27, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Immune System Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
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The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified April 2010 by Western States Endurance Run Research Foundation.
Recruitment status was  Recruiting
Information provided by:
Western States Endurance Run Research Foundation Identifier:
First received: April 23, 2010
Last updated: NA
Last verified: April 2010
History: No changes posted

The purpose of the study is to 1) evaluate incidence and primary cause of exercise-associated Hyponatremia (EAH) in race finishers participating in the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run, 2) determine if the ingestion of oral hypertonic saline (high salt) is as effective as intravenous administration of hypertonic saline to elevate below-normal blood salt concentrations (EAH) at the end of the Western States Endurance Run, and 3) determine if oral and intravenous hypertonic saline solutions are equally as effective at reversing mild (without altered mental status) symptoms associated with EAH.

Condition Intervention
Exercise-associated Hyponatremia
Other: Intravenous hypertonic Saline
Other: Oral hypertonic saline

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Incidence and Cause of Hyponatremia in Endurance Runners, Also to Determine if Oral Hypertonic Saline is as Efficacious as Intravenous Hypertonic Saline in the Correction of Below Normal Blood Sodium Concentrations in Runners With Hyponatremia Without Neurological Symptoms

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by Western States Endurance Run Research Foundation:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Blood sodium concentration post administration of oral or IV hypertonic saline. [ Time Frame: 1 hour post administration of hypertonic saline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment: 100
Study Start Date: June 2009
Estimated Study Completion Date: June 2010
Estimated Primary Completion Date: June 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Intravenous hypertonic saline Other: Intravenous hypertonic Saline
Intravenous 100mL bolus of 3% saline
Experimental: Oral hypertonic saline Other: Oral hypertonic saline
Oral 100mL bolus of 3% saline

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

  • consenting Western States 100 race finisher
  • hyponatremic

Exclusion Criteria:

  • altered mental status
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT01110655

Contact: Martin D Hoffman, MD (916) 843-9027
Contact: Bethan E Owen, BM

United States, California
Western States Endurance Run Recruiting
Sacramento, California, United States, 95835
Contact: Martin D Hofman, MD    916-843-9027
Contact: Bethan E Owen, BM
Principal Investigator: Tamara Hew-Butler, DPM, PhD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Western States Endurance Run Research Foundation
Study Chair: Martin D Hoffman, MD Western States Endurance Run Foundation
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Martin D. Hoffman, MD, Western States Endurance Run Identifier: NCT01110655     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: WSER 2009
Study First Received: April 23, 2010
Last Updated: April 23, 2010
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Western States Endurance Run Research Foundation:
Exercise-associated hyponatremia
Randomized treatment trial
Endurance runners

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Metabolic Diseases
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Sleep Disordered Breathing And Genetics: Effects On Cognition

This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)
Verified December 2013 by Stanford University
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Stanford University Identifier:
First received: May 7, 2010
Last updated: December 2, 2013
Last verified: December 2013

The current research program aims to study how sleep disordered breathing, age and genetics affect memory in older adult veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

The study will help researchers and clinicians better understand the relationship among PTSD, sleep disordered breathing, genetics and memory function.

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
Official Title: PTSD, Sleep Disordered Breathing And Genetics: Effects On Cognition

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by Stanford University:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test [ Time Frame: annually ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • APOE status [ Time Frame: sample taken at entry into study. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    APOE allele

Biospecimen Retention:   Samples With DNA

blood or saliva

Estimated Enrollment: 400
Study Start Date: September 2004
Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2015
Estimated Primary Completion Date: December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Veterans with PTSD
No intervention; this is an observational study.
Control group w/out PTSD
No intervention; this is an observational study.

Detailed Description:

The research project will clarify how sleep disordered breathing and Apolipoprotein (APOE) status affect cognitive decline in a population already at risk for accelerated decline-veterans with PTSD.

To fill this knowledge gap properly, we will conduct a longitudinal study and data include analytic techniques designed specifically to identify moderators and mediators of clinical change.

Ages Eligible for Study:   55 Years to 90 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Sampling Method:   Non-Probability Sample
Study Population

US war Veterans with PTSD and possible sleep problems

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age 55 years or older, male or female veterans of any racial or ethnic group.
  2. PTSD subjects will be positive for lifetime PTSD, related to any past lifetime traumatic experience and have a diagnosis of current, chronic PTSD by the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) criteria with current CAPS score > 40
  3. Capable of giving informed consent for the study
  4. Sufficient visual and auditory acuity for cognitive testing

Exclusion Criteria:

Psychiatric Exclusions:

  1. Current or lifetime history of any psychiatric disorder with psychotic features
  2. Current or lifetime bipolar disorder or delusional disorder
  3. Prominent suicidal or homicidal ideation
  4. Current exposure to trauma or recent exposure to trauma in the past 3 months.
  5. Currently or have within the past six months met DSM-IV criteria for drug or alcohol abuse or dependence (except nicotine).
  6. Presence of alcohol intoxication (by breathalyzer) or alcohol withdrawal (by exam) during testing
  7. Diagnosis of probable or possible dementia
  8. Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) < 23
  9. History of seizure disorder.

Medical/Medication Exclusions:

  1. Acute illness or unstable chronic illness (e.g., history of severe liver disease (cirrhosis, esophageal varices, ascites, portal hypertension, hepatic encephalopathy). Clinical or laboratory evidence of active hepatic disease will be recorded.
  2. History of neurologic (e.g., multiple sclerosis, seizure disorder, stroke, history of transient ischemic attacks) or systemic illness affecting central nervous system (CNS) function (e.g. liver failure, kidney failure, congestive heart failure, systemic cancer)
  3. Unstable or severe cardiovascular disease
  4. Unstable gastrointestinal disorder
  5. Uncontrolled hypertension
  6. Head injury within one year
  7. Loss of consciousness >24 hrs
  8. Use of systemic steroid medication (with the exception of Estrogen replacement therapy which is permissible)
  9. Illiterate or unable to read or write English or are judged by the investigator to be unable or unlikely to follow the study protocol
  10. Toxicology evidence of illicit substance use.
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT01120847

Contact: Timothy Kimball, PhD (650) 493-5000 ext 60482

United States, California
VA Palo Alto Health Care System Recruiting
Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304
Contact: Timothy Kimball, PhD    650-493-5000 ext 60482
Sponsors and Collaborators
Stanford University
Principal Investigator: Jerome A Yesavage Stanford University
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Stanford University Identifier: NCT01120847     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: SU-06302009-2920
Study First Received: May 7, 2010
Last Updated: December 2, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorders, Traumatic
Anxiety Disorders
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 21, 2012
Last updated: May 11, 2015
Last verified: NA

Responsible Party: [Redacted]
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01604967     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: P110597-600-602-603
Study First Received: May 21, 2012
Last Updated: May 11, 2015
Health Authority: Canada: Health Canada

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#1980 closed defect (fixed)

[patch] type casting for date field contains bug

Reported by: Rudolph Owned by: mtredinnick
Component: Core (Other) Version: master
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: UI/UX:

A DateField with null=True and blank=True returned an error when trying to save it from an edit_inline object. Solved it with the patch provided. If you can't replicate it, I'll try to create a model to do that.

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Changed 9 years ago by Rudolph

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by Rudolph

  • Summary changed from type casting for date field contains bug to [patch] type casting for date field contains bug

Trying to get some attention for this bug by adding [patch] to the title.

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by mtredinnick

  • Owner changed from adrian to mtredinnick

Not sure this is being done in the right place. The value must be set to None as is in this patch, not empty string, for example (the tests pick up that problem). But why don't we have the same problems in DateTimeField? It seems to be working a bit differently. I suspect there might be a deeper bug lurking that lets us get through to this point in the code with the wrong value.

Not committing this yet until I can look into it a bit more.

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by john@…

  • priority changed from normal to high

Also coming across this bug fairly regularly.

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by Rudolph

Mtredinnick, thanks for planning to look into it. A fix would be really nice.

comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by mtredinnick

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

This was fixed in [3277], but somehow I messed up the "auto-close" portion of the commit message. For the record, the commit message was:

Fixed #1980, #2155 -- made date, time and datetime html2python methods a bit
more consistent in their return values. All three now return None when the
passed in string cannot be converted to the required object (this is assumed

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Wright Investors Service Comprehensive Report for KMC (Kuei Meng) International Incorporated

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Hello and greetings to all members, my name is Josh, first time poster on this forum.

I am quite familiar with a Linux/UNIX environment, but I am not familiar with digital audio and recording. I am currently reading a couple books, Linux Music & Sound and I forget the name of the other. I am very interested in using Ardour in a non-production environment, but I do not want to sacrifice any quality that I may be able to achieve. Here is my current situation. I use openSUSE10.2 for my recording station. It is running on a 3.2 P4 Prescott core (1 MB L2 cache), 2 gigabytes of PC3200 DDR, and 240 GIG RAID-5 SATA. The motherboard is an Abit IC7 Intel Chipset.

Is this sufficient for a recording station?

I also have a question about which sound card I should use. I do not want top of the line, but can someone recommend a "budget" priced sound card that would work with 1 channel of recording at a time. I do not need to record live audio just 1 track at a time. The instruments will all be "live" i.e. guitars, drums, bass guitars, and vocals.

Can anyone recommend to a newbie how to get started out in this vast world of digital audio recording? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

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Yes, your setup is sufficient for a recording station.

I'm running a 1,4 GHz Athlon with 1 GB Ram (266MHz), 160 GB UDMA6 HDD and a bad sis900 MB chipset. Normaly I use about 10-12 channels and each channel with about 2-3 LADSPA effects in my mix and it works good. For much more effects my CPU is too slow, but you see that you should be able to do a lot with your stuff ;)

I use 2 M-audio soundcards - 1 with 2in/2out channels (M-Audio Audiophile 24/96) and 1 with 8in/8out channels (M-Audio 1010LT). Both are equiped with a SPDIF in/out.

The quality is really good - you can record your signals with up to 24 bits and 96kHz. Maybe check out the M-Audio homepage and searched the internet.

If you really need only 1 channel at a time, the Audiophile 24/96 is a possibility for you - you can record 2 mono (1 stereo) signals at a time with it. This card costs about 80-100 Euro (a bit more in dollars).

Maybe have a thought about more channels - If you want to record a drumset, you'll maybe need more channels than 2. The M-Audio 1010LT offers 8 (mono) channels to record. The price is about 200-250 Euro. There's also a more professional version of the card with a break-out box but the price is about 2x as high.

Remember that you'll need mic-preams in front of the cards (they only have line-ins).

I can only write about these cards as I own no others. But they are very well supported in ALSA, the quality is great, and the price is good for the level of quality offered.


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    How to restrict the user from inserting/updating into others user columns?

      Hi Everyone,

      I have a question for which i'm not able to find an answer.

      I have prepared a form in which there are fields for unit users as shown in the table below. My form looks exactly like the table below.

      Comp_detailsDue_dateUnit 3Unit 4Unit 5Unit 6Unit 7Unit 8Unit 9Unit 10Unit 11Unit 12Unit 13Unit 14Unit 15Unit 16Unit 17
      Name 15/3/2013
      Name 22/3/2013
      Name 35/9/2013
      Name 48/6/2013
      Name 295/8/2013
      Name 303/3/2013

      Here all the Unit Users enters the data in their respective Unit fields only like Unit 3 user enters the data in 'Unit 3' only.

      Now i want to restrict the users , such that they must not be able to enter the data in other unit columns.

      For that i can use the following code:

      set_item_property('IN_TAX.UNIT3', insert_allowed, property_TRUE);

      set_item_property('IN_TAX.UNIT3', UPDATE_allowed, property_TRUE);

      set_item_property('IN_TAX.UNIT4', insert_allowed, property_FALSE);

      set_item_property('IN_TAX.UNIT4', UPDATE_allowed, property_FALSE);

      /*and set all the other Units to FALSE */

      set_item_property('IN_TAX.UNIT17', insert_allowed, property_FALSE);

      set_item_property('IN_TAX.UNIT17', UPDATE_allowed, property_FALSE);

      But I should do this for all the columns that is for all the Units. The code will be too lengthy & tedious.

      Is there any other way to do the same in a simple & short length code?

      Thank You...


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If you delete a SQL agent job using a stored procedure (or if another user deletes the job) and you subsequently right-click on the deleted job in the SSMS GUI to "Start Job at Step...", the dialog window that pops up cannot be closed using the "X" menu shortcut, nor the "Close" button at the bottom of the dialog.
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We took a look at this bug along with several others recently.
Unfortunately, triaging it against other critical bugs, I do not think we would get to investigating this in the near future.
However, we have taken note of this internally, and when we revisit this functionality in the future, we will try and get this resolved.

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According to the technet,, whenever TDE is enabled on a database, TDE is also automatically enabled on the tempDB database on the same instance.  When querying the sys.databses DMV, is_encrypted correctly displays a value of 1 for the database where we explicility turned on TDE, but still displays a value of 0 for tempDB.  If this is indeed automatically turned on for tempDB, this view should also be updated to avoid confusion.
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5 October 2010

How to steal from your employer

Filed under: Training / Professional Development — Tags: , , — kevinmacdonell @ 11:56 am

Your work processes are more complex than "How to unfold a chair." Do yourself a favour and document them. (Image used via Creative Commons licence. Click for source.)

Looking for an easy way to cripple your employer’s chances for long-term success? It’s easy! Fail to document your work.

You don’t have to do anything special, or illegal. In fact, you’re probably already stealing and don’t even know it. To all appearances, you’re a model employee — cheerful, helpful, productive. But you’ve got a dirty secret: You’re not writing anything down.

I don’t care what work you’re doing. If you’ve got a process, then document it. A “process” is any set of steps that you tend to repeat, or are likely to need to repeat in the future. If it’s a task that involves more than one definable step, it’s a process. I am thinking primarily of knowledge work (such as data mining), but probably every job involves processes, and every workplace can benefit from having them recorded.

Yet so many of us don’t bother. Why?

When I am the victim of undocumented processes, when I am forced to slog through the Swamp of Unknowing, I curse the schmuck who with malice aforethought neglected to scribble the simple map that would have led me out of the barrens. But is it really malice? When I’m the one who’s the malicious schmuck (though I try hard not to be), I know what the reason is: I’m busy, and documentation just doesn’t seem as urgent as the task I need to complete. Nor do I think it’s about power — some urge to guard one’s knowledge in order to continue to be indispensable.

I think the reason is a failure to see the big picture. You may be doing your job today, and doing it well, but what about the future? Do you not owe something to the future? On any piece of documentation I produce these days, I include the admonition: “This file MUST be reviewed regularly and kept up to date as processes change. Any good you do in this world today is undone tomorrow to the extent that you leave your work undocumented. Try not to be a net loss to Dalhousie University. Thanks.”

That’s what I sound like when I get on my high horse. But do I have any practical advice? Of course I do.

If you’re an employee: Want to get better at documenting? Forget about the “hit by a bus” scenario your boss mentions every once in awhile.  No one expects to get hit by a bus. And anyway, benefiting your replacement is probably not much of a motivator. You need to think in more immediate terms. Think of how forgetful you are, and how helpful it would be to simply pull that how-to sheet out of the file every time you need to be reminded how to construct that spreadsheet formula, or build that SQL query, or whatever. Or consider how tiresome it is to have the same co-worker ask you over and over to explain that same process to them; send them the Word document and be done with it! Too pressed for time? Well, turn that idea on its head: Consider all the times that failing to take notes has actually added to your workload.

If you’re an employer: Consider how costly it is to have your organization reinvent the wheel constantly. Not just the big wheels but all those little wheels, like the spreadsheet formula. It’s up to you to develop a culture in which documenting processes is taken for granted. And don’t just think it of it in terms of coping with  turnover — that’s short-term thinking. Understand that even in a stable staffing situation, effective knowledge-sharing cannot happen in the absence of documentation. And if you do suffer from high turnover, consider how much of that is due to the fact that new hires spend way too much time rediscovering and re-developing processes out of nothing, simply because reference documents are not available. By the time they’re up to speed, a year has passed; they feel they’ve added nothing to the cause, and are thinking of finding more rewarding work elsewhere.

In a future post, I’ll talk about what documentation consists of, and the simple tools you need to create effective documentation. But at bottom, you don’t need tools. You just need to care.

  1. Thanks for writing this, Kevin. Since it was obviously something stressed in my text analytics course last year (come to think of it, I’m surprised it’s not stressed *everywhere*), I posted a link back to this blog on the course’s group linkedin page.

    Comment by Jennifer Schmidt-Olomon — 5 October 2010 @ 12:03 pm

  2. Right on man i hit this same topic last week on my blog. It’s the thing i did the littlest of when i was younger and the thing that keeps on coming back to bit me in the ass. it’s like making out carnie one time who keeps calling you once a year when there in town and they think your in a relationship with them. Thank god for caller id right ???? lol

    Comment by RIchard Lewis — 6 October 2010 @ 11:58 am

  3. […] MacDonell with a fresh way of looking at process documentation.  First hint should be the title:  “How to steal from your employer.” Possibly Related Posts:(auto generated)Basic Text Mining for FundraisersFinally have the time to […]

    Pingback by Jennifer Schmidt Olomon » SQL Saturday, and the Importance of Documenting Your Work — 9 October 2010 @ 5:30 pm

  4. […] — Tags: documentation, documenting — kevinmacdonell @ 7:36 am In an earlier post, I sounded off on the topic of documentation. Documenting your work is essential to making smooth progress in data mining, and in most other […]

    Pingback by The Hows and Whats of documentation « CoolData blog — 14 October 2010 @ 7:36 am

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Feelings Aren’t Damages

25 06 2012

Los Angeles

Parents Want To Sue LAUSD For Not Naming Daughter Valedictorian

A couple wants to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District for not granting their daughter, who earned straight A’s and a 4.50 GPA, the distinction of being her high school’s valedictorian, the Eagle Rock Patch reported.

Elisha Marquez was told that her classmate Jasmine Fernandez, who earned a 4.55 GPA, would be valedictorian of Eagle Rock High School’s graduating class and that Marquez would receive the 2nd-place Salutatorian award. The 18-year-old’s family said she earned the same grades as Fernandez but that her GPA ranked just .05 lower because she didn’t take as many AP courses as Fernandez.

“It’s just like Pacquiao and Jessica Sanchez — you’re being robbed of the title,” Elisha’s mother, Carol, told CBS2.

The family said Elisha was not in the school’s magnet program which prevented her from taking AP classes as a freshman. Grades earned in AP courses are weighted one point higher than grades achieved in other classes — an “A” in an AP class is counted as 5.0 towards a student’s GPA while it would be considered a 4.0 in other courses.

Don’t feel too sorry for Marquez — the recent grad is headed to Stanford in the fall and was accepted to several Ivy League schools. She was also selected for an engineering internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was granted a scholarship through the Gates Millenium Scholars program.

And that’s why the lawsuit is going nowhere.  Miss Marquez can’t point to substantial damages that she suffered for being salutatorian instead of valedictorian.  Pretend “Elisha Marquez” is white John Smith, and keep all the variables the same.  No Stanford, no Ivies, no internship at JPL.  I know “Bon of Babble” will have something to say about this.

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25 06 2012

Let’s see both of their SAT or ACT scores ……

27 06 2012
Bon, From the Land of Babble

I heard from a colleague last night that both the valedictorian and salutatorian of his large LAUSD school were both accepted at….Pasadena City College!!

Shocking, I know, considering both were Hispanic (school is 99.9% Hispanic).

Maybe there is some sanity somewhere?? Usually Hispanic top finishers are loaded down with scholarships to the most prestigious universities in the land, nevermind their ACT/SAT scores.

I try not to think about or remember what happened in our case, it’s too painful. And, as Whites we have 0 change of redress.

People have NO idea how much and how often White children are discriminated against.

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