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ZMA® is a synergistic combination of Zinc and Magnesium designed to maximize absorption and promote recovery from exercise. Zinc plays a central role in the regulation of cellular growth and tissue repair, as well as the maintenance of a healthy immune system. Magnesium is essential for the maintenance of electrolyte balance, energy production and normal neuro-muscular function. Because physical activity can increase the need for these two minerals, ZMA® is the ideal supplement to aid in their replenishment.
Formulated with vitamin B-6 to further enhance zinc and magnesium absorption and utilization, ZMA® is a powerful, all-natural dietary supplement clinically proven to increase growth compounds and (IGF-1) levels and enhance strength significantly greater than a placebo during a strength training program.
ZMA® is a registered trademark of SNAC Systems, Inc. patent pending.
As a dietary supplement, men take 3 capsules (women take 2 capsules) daily, preferably on an empty stomach, 30-60 minutes before bedtime. For best results, avoid taking with dairy or other calcium-containing foods or .
Servings per 90 capsule container: 30 Servings per 270 capsule container: 90
ZMA® (containing Magnesium [as Citrate and Oxide], Zinc [as l-monomethionine and Aspartate], Vitamin B6 [as Pyridoxine Hcl]), Capsule Shell (Gelatine).
Free from artificial colours & preservatives, yeast, gluten, starch & lactose. No added salt (sodium chloride) or sugar.
Amount per 3 capsule serving:Magnesium (from Citrate and Oxide): 450mg Zinc (from L-Monomethionine and Aspartate): 30 mg Vitamin B-6 (from Pyridoxine HCI): 10.5mg
Deep Sleep
- (11 / Feb / 2014)
Have used these now for two months and I can say they definitely send me into a deep sleep. They don't have a drowsy effect but once asleep its a deep sleep. Will continue to use A+++Goes Well With:Alpha Men Multi vitamin
It helps, I think
Matthew Edwards
- (07 / Feb / 2014)
It's hard to say definitively say 'Yes this helps' as it is subtle.
It definitely helps you sleep and have crazy wonderful dreams. The rest, well I have lost a lot of weight and toned -up nicely over the past 3 months.
I use this on training days only.
- (05 / Feb / 2014)
Zma is great for sleep and seeing great result, definately helps train harder :)
Berry tabs!
- (05 / Feb / 2014)
Best tasting creatine supplement I've ever had!!!
If there was a bigger packet I would buy it.
Goes Well With:Anything as it's just sweet.
1st time I've used it
- (28 / Jan / 2014)
New product to me and to be honest can't say I have really noticed that it has had an effect on my overall well being. But the way I look at it is that it is not going to do me any harm.Goes Well With:Water and any multi vitamin
zma heaven
- (27 / Jan / 2014)
Love em, sleep better, train better, energised... HappyGoes Well With:The stomach
- (27 / Jan / 2014)
I have just started taking ZMA and I don't think that I have ever slept so well.
- (20 / Jan / 2014)
Absolutely necessary supplement in my case, as I always have had magnesium deficiency. All the symptoms (muscle cramp, trembling eyelids, even problems with sleep and digestive issues) are gone now, had them since I was 10 years old. I take two capsules a day before sleep, three if don't sleep enough due to work. Goes Well With:Water
Excellent product, noticeable improvement in sleep, feels like a deep sleep was achieved
- (16 / Jan / 2014)
Having taken ZMAfor a while now I can say it does the job . Can you take ZMA with casein ,some people seem to say it works on the label it says avoid dairy and other calcium products ?Goes Well With: HMB
Zma brilliant
- (11 / Jan / 2014)
Weight training at the moment, was recommended to try zma to help with recovery... Recovery was amazing, felt amazing when I woke up, it helped to have deeper sleep so next day I could go work and hit the gym after without feeling sore. Defo a must esp for weight training. Taste wise, it's a capsule - taste isn't so important nor does it even matter - results is what matters. Great product!!!Goes Well With:My protein whey isolate and cla
- (11 / Dec / 2013)
This works for me every time I use it! Helps with sleep.
ZMA experience
Big T
- (06 / Nov / 2013)
I bought this product after reading reviews and my quest for deeper sleep. Futhermore the quality was at a good prizing.
I initially used the recommended dose of 3 before bedtime, but have experienced that it takes 5 capsules for me to have an effect. I've tried more efficient ZMAs earlier, and the good price is not worth much if I almost have to double the dose.Goes Well With:slightly better effect with casein before bed also.
- (28 / Oct / 2013)
Brilliant product. I have been having it now for 3 months. Great results. Good night's sleep. Fast Muscle recovery.
Mat Woolford
- (23 / Oct / 2013)
Excellent product. Perfect before bed as gives you a good nights sleep and do not feel any aches or pains from the previous workout the evening before.
- (23 / Sep / 2013)
I used this product after it being recommend by a friend -at rugby - to stop the aches the day after a match. It really does work.
Quality Product
- (18 / Sep / 2013)
ZMA tablets are very effective, combined with proper diet and exercise - have noticed overall aesthetic improvements.
Also, definitely been able to get much deeper sleeps since taking ZMA.
Good value for money!
- (11 / Sep / 2013)
Does the job and is easy to swallow. No dodgy dreams as of yet.Goes Well With:Bedtime Extreme
Take after a hard session
- (20 / Aug / 2013)
I've used ZMA for about two weeks now, I found if I used it after a heavy session of sparring before bed it was very effective at helping me recover and feel more energised. Goes Well With:Water and at least 8 hours sleep but 9 to 10 would be better.
- (18 / Aug / 2013)
Just started using this ZMA but noticed instant results, highly recommend!
- (15 / Aug / 2013)
I've used other brands of ZMA before, this one works just as well at a much better price.
- (13 / Aug / 2013)
Great product at a great price.Goes Well With:Regular training
Sleep like a log
- (15 / Jul / 2013)
I've been using these ZMA for a week now and I can seriously tell the difference in my sleep.Goes Well With:Water
silent sleeper
- (07 / Jul / 2013)
I am never really sure if this works regardless of price or make, however I seem to sleep through my alarm every morning while taking the ZMA. So I assume I am getting a deeper sleep. Now set 2 alarms and all is fine.
Disappointed with myprotein
- (04 / Jul / 2013)
I bought this zma as it was cheaper than precision engineered (holland and barretts) brand, and I have been/will be taking zma for life as its such an important supplement for gettin me out of bed on the mornings and fixing my zinc deficiency. Despite having the exact same ingredients and doses as the precision engineered brand, myprotein zma did not make me feel fresh when I woke up at all, it also had the exact same effect on my girlfriend who takes It constantly, and we tried this for 2 weeks to no avail. As soon as we switched back to the precision engineered brand, we were straight out of bed and fresh as a daisy. I will continue to buy most of my other supplement stack from MP, however will be testing them vs other brands to see if I get similar results to the disappointing zma.
Very good
- (29 / Jun / 2013)
ZMA is a great product, I noticed a big difference although I think my diet may have been very low in Zinc. This is a little too expensive for what it is though but overall it's good. I've noticed I sleep better, with increased motivation.
Effective Supplement
- (25 / Jun / 2013)
Having been taking ZMA for the past few weeks, it is a great supplement for anyone looking to ensure their zinc & magnesium levels are kept strong and it also gives you a great nights sleep... no side effects experienced at all.
I will definitely be purchasing this once the first bottle runs out, nice one MyProtein!
Goes Well With:Water
- (17 / Jun / 2013)
I have been using these ZMA for a week and seem to get a better nights sleep from them.
- (14 / Jun / 2013)
I've been using these ZMA for around a week now, it seems to work pretty well along with the protein I use. I have seen some difference, I think these tablets support your body well and enable you to put everything into your body gets used better, I would recommend it.Goes Well With:Water
Quality snoozes
- (10 / Jun / 2013)
I used ZMA because I always react badly to multi-vitamins and this boosts some of the essentials. It gives me great quality sleep. I do wake up during the night but I feel I've slept for hours when I've only been in bed for one or two, which is a great feeling. My dreams are more vivid too.
I take a couple of days off it each week though as I struggle to wake up if I don't! And I wouldn't use it if I expect to get less than eight hours.Goes Well With:A bed and nine hours to spare.
Great Product
Liam O71
- (02 / May / 2013)
ZMA helps me sleep and recover really well. I have tried other brands, but Myprotein ZMA works best for me. I have lots more energy in the morning, even after a tough session the day before.Goes Well With:Take before bed on empty stomach
Works for me!
- (29 / Apr / 2013)
I've always struggled with getting a good 7-8 hours sleep per night, I tried all the usual 'pharmacist' aids but still found myself being irritated during sleep. I was recommended ZMA not only for healthy sleeping patterns but recovery as well and must say it's worked on both levels. My sleep is now uninterrupted and I sleep solidly for 7 hours and my recovery is limited to 24 hours DOMS max whereas before I could be recovering for 2-3 days post workout.
Anyone looking to use this for instant 'size and strength' gains don't bother, improve your diet before assessing supplements. I bought this to aid sleep and recovery and its worked perfectly fine for me.Goes Well With:A big comfy bed!
- (19 / Apr / 2013)
I found that my sleep wasn't aided. I had one nights sleep that was better than usual while taking this. Didn't see any gains in size or strength.
- (09 / Apr / 2013)
ZMA is a great supplement and the tablets are easy to swallow.
I could feel the effects straight away, I would be lost without this! Fully recommend it.Goes Well With:A mouthful of water!
- (08 / Apr / 2013)
ZMA is a great sleep aid. I always wake up feeling refreshed and like I've had a deep sleep.
happy customer
- (08 / Apr / 2013)
ZMA is a good product. It gave me excellent recovery, good sleep and enhanced immunity whilst training hard. I will definitely buy again.
- (02 / Apr / 2013)
I sink these ZMA whenever I haven't had a shake before bed, as they shouldn't be taken with dairy. When I do take them my dreams are so vivid and I have had one experience where I was in such a deep sleep I tried to wake up when my alarm was going but I couldn't move. It's excellent if you like dreams.
- (21 / Mar / 2013)
I have been getting up at the break of dawn for my training for a while now and it has to be said it has been an effort to keep it up. I had a back op around three mounts ago and I was really struggling to sleep. So the combination of the two my sleep was minimal, after taking the My Protein ZMA I not only sleep better but waking up in the morning I feel refreshed! Great product ! Goes Well With:Advance lean bundle
the best ZMA so far
- (31 / Jan / 2013)
I've tried many brands ZMA so far and this ZMA from myprotein has really make my sleep deep and wake up fresh in the morning.
Chris Jermyn
- (11 / Jan / 2013)
"I've been using these for a week and a half now and...they can certainly help with sleep but oh good lord - be prepared for some crazy dreams! No word of a lie, since I started taking these I've been experiencing some extremely crazy dreams. Mind, it's a small price to pay for a good nights sleep. I used to get about 6/7 hours a night, now it's anything between 8/10 hours which means it may not be best to take these on a work night (I'm lucky as I work 3-on-3-off). All in all a great aid to help with rest...but those dreams, the DREAMS!!!"
Andrew Smith
- (07 / Nov / 2012)
"2 Week study on ZMA. I know ZMA works but I wanted something tangible as proof so I set about doing a controlled test both on and off ZMA using my Zeo Sleep Manager. Over a 2 week period I was able to establish that when not taking ZMA my deep sleep accounted for between 15-25% with periods of light and REM sleep over an 8 hour period. Running the same test using ZMA, the deep sleep increased to between 25-35% over the same period. I was acutely aware not to change my sleep habits to skew the results and even I was surprised by how much improvement I got from taking ZMA over this 2 week study. "
Steve Prentice
- (08 / Sep / 2012)
Great product from myprotein for all your training goals. It gives me great sleep and i feel great the next day to carry out my daily routine on my training and i train 7 days aweek. I have used zma from other brands and to be honest they were no way as good as this and thats because its got good stuff inside without all the rubbish you don't need. 10 out of 10.
Steven Wood
- (30 / Apr / 2012)
"Not for me, read and heard some good things, so got the 270 capsules but unfortunately when taking my sleep seems worse and find myself waking up during the night and have found it very difficult to get out of bed in the morning after taking these as I'm still tired. Personally wouldn't recommend, however like I say I've heard it works great for some people so if you want to try it go for it but I would recommend you try before investing your money in a big pot. As for my protein great as ever."
Thomas Leary
- (21 / Apr / 2012)
"Tried these at the stated dose of 3 caps an hour before bed, 1st 2 mornings i woke up with stomach pains & spent the next hour on the toilet. Reduced to 2 tabs and didnt have this problem. Must be the magnesium that im sensitive to. Cant say it improved my sleep at all as it actually felt harder to drop off to sleep & i didnt really feel refreshed in the morning. Stopped taking after a week as i was taking other products with high amounts of zinc in but will give a whirl again sometime soon."
alex woodhouse
- (12 / Apr / 2012)
"Really not sure why MP use Magnesium citrate when compared to say asparate it is ridiculously less absorbed. This is something MP should look into as there are many studies out there that prove that citrate form of magnesium is clearly inferior and the body can hardly uptake it. Having said that can still feel some effects deeper sleep etc but if they didnt use citrate recovery would be much better, sleep would be nicer."
Tom Shaw
- (15 / Mar / 2012)
"I don't know about the sleeping patterns...for some reason this things put me in a really deep sleep but make me wake up every hour on the hour at 7, 8 and 9 in the morning if i dont get up before then! When this happens though, I'm able to fall back asleep within a matter of seconds so its not really an issue, its actually a benefit if you have to wake up to an alarm every day because it doesnt come as a shock. As far as results go, these things definitely reduce recovery time and I'm convinced theyve allowed me to keep more muscle mass. One thing i don't understand is how you are supposed to have them on an empty stomache if you take a shake before bed. Either way its a fantastic product and the ratio of Mg to Zn is spot on."
Stefan Ciulu
- (15 / Feb / 2012)
"I found it very useful as it really improved my sleep, and I wake up very easily in the morning now. No weird dreams to report yet (or maybe i'm too terrified to remember lol) Really happy with the product!"
ben perry
- (28 / Nov / 2011)
"patented so all is the same so order here to save money. ive taken this for about 6 months and ive had nothing but a good experience with it i diddnt notice any ill effect by taking it with my last meal even if that was 600g of cottage cheese, the effects i have seen are the ability to train harder and heavier a deep peaceful sleep, a sence of personal well being increased sex drive (mind you i am 21 lol) and am able to hit personal bests every week the only bad thing is its realy hard to wake up after 10 hours as it tends to knock me unconcious its realy the only supplement i bother with (me personaly) and a good old protein shake in conclousion train hard take a good protein shake like impact whey and this and the rest will follow"
Matthew Edwards
- (24 / Nov / 2011)
"The stuff dreams are made of! Literally!! I dream all the time but this is just amazing. It's like dreaming through a stadium size pa rig. The main effect I have noticed is that at my age (40) my recovery time has shortened and I can work much harder and for longer. I took them for one month whilst doing my normal 5 day per week gym routine of weight management and strengthening, and the second month of renovating a property. The renovations where harder than my normal gym routine. I flew through both. Each morning I would wake-up refreshed and ready to go. I also have had reconstructive surgery to my back so can be very stiff in the mornings but this product has reduced that. The only downside is that I am encouraged to work harder and harder, which is something I do to my own detriment. I have had to take ten days off to let my body catch-up with the sheer amount of work I have put it through in the past couple of months. I am now getting back to my normal gym routine and have started taking them again. They work for me."
Chris Wilko
- (06 / Sep / 2011)
"nice easy product to take, great to take, no horrid taste and effect of the caps was great. Also I found I had a nice deep sleep when taking ZMA but still woke up fine in the morning ready to start a new day of training."
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They say that, from the tip of Texas to the Florida Keys, it's the only historic resort on the Gulf of Mexico. And what a resort! The Don CeSar Beach Resort & Spa, in St. Pete Beach, is a classic beach resort with functional meeting space with breathtaking views, guest rooms that have recently been "enhanced" to the tune of $65,000 apiece, a pampering spa that's about to be doubled in size, and, they claim, its own resident ghost. "The Don" offers all that plus a setting on one of Florida's longest, cleanest, white-sand beaches, littered with sea shells and edged with sea oats wafting in the balmy sea breezes.
The Don's fifth floor is a dedicated conference level with more than 15,000 square feet of function space, a state-of-the-art kitchen, and killer views from the meeting rooms. Total function space throughout the hotel comes to 42,830 square feet, including a 5,400-square-foot grand ballroom, eight conference rooms, seven boardrooms, and five outdoor function areas.
The hotel has 277 guest rooms, 43 suites, and three restaurants. Its Maritana Grille features exquisite "Floribbean" cuisine.
The Beach House Suites by the Don CeSar, a sister property just a five-minute stroll up the beach, provides apartment-style living in 70 units, all with balconies and Gulf views, ideal for families and extended stays.

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Favre: Classic Cole Porter musical opens Tuesday at the Ahmanson in L.A.
Published 11/20/2012 at 3:23 p.m.
Classic Cole Porter musical opens Tuesday at the Ahmanson in L.A. "Anything Goes" — a wacky musical about mistaken identities, goofy gangsters and whirlwind romances — first bowed on Broadway 78 years ago. Since then it's been tweaked and revised ...
Favre: Skirball exhibits trace the roots of American democracy
Published 11/15/2012 at 4:05 p.m.
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans. We are all Federalists." Sound familiar? The above quote about bringing the country together echoes ...
Shuttle exhibit drawing huge crowds in L.A.
Published 11/8/2012 at 3:37 p.m.
There were 135 official NASA space shuttle missions over the past 30 years, and Americans in general began to lose interest in the program. But the 136th mission — Endeavour's journey from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science ...
Favre: Photo exhibit looks back at the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution
Published 10/31/2012 at 3:01 p.m.
The Mexican Revolution early in the 20th century had many key players during its 10-plus years of coups, battles and fighting among those who sought to reshape the country, most notably Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
Favre: Make it a 'Horrorthon' Halloween in L.A.
Published 10/25/2012 at 4:56 p.m.
The blockbuster franchise "Paranormal Activity" is the hottest in horror flicks today, but for the truly bizarre it's hard to beat a face-melting William Shatner in 1975's "The Devil's Rain," or the campy 1978 cult classic "The Manitou," which defies ...
Favre: Jeff Goldblum reprises Broadway role at the Ahmanson in L.A.
Published 10/17/2012 at 4:05 p.m.
Who in their right mind would want an egotistic, sadistic know-it-all criticizing them at work all day? Yet playwrights frequently subject themselves to such treatment in the form of writing workshops, where they pay for the "privilege" of being verbally ...
Favre: 'Night Watcher' is latest play to be recorded for L.A. radio series
Published 10/9/2012 at 10:32 p.m.
Tony-nominated actress Charlayne Woodard has never watched a video of herself acting on stage because she doesn't believe it would capture the true theatrical experience. But one night, while in her car, she heard herself on the radio performing her ...
Ray K. Metzker knows how to play with shadows and light
Published 10/3/2012 at 3:07 p.m.
The many styles of photographer Ray K. Metzker are on view at The Getty in L.A. People are prevalent in many of Ray K. Metzker's black-and-white photographs, but he is not a portrait photographer. Lighting is a crucial part of ...
David Mamet spoofs the White House in 'November'
Published 9/26/2012 at 4:10 p.m.
October hasn't even begun, but "November" is here already. Get used to it. The David Mamet play, which bowed on Broadway just as the primary season was beginning in the 2008 presidential election, could well become a theatrical staple during ...
Ancient city of Pompeii is subject of Getty Villa exhibit
Updated 9/20/2012 at 5:51 p.m.
Kenneth Lapatin, the associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, said there have been several recent exhibitions about the Roman city of Pompeii, including a major show at the Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art. But that's nothing. ...
'Silence of Lambs' musical — yes, musical — opens in L.A.
Published 9/12/2012 at 3:56 p.m.
It started as a joke, really. Brothers Jon and Al Kaplan, big fans of the 1991 thriller film "The Silence of the Lambs," thought it would be funny to hear the movie's at-large serial killer, Buffalo Bill, sing show tunes. ...
Favre: 'The Book of Mormon' opens Sept. 5 in L.A.
Published 9/5/2012 at 4:41 p.m.
With a successful career on Broadway for the past decade, Gavin Creel had no intention of ever leaving New York and going out on the road. But that was before "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker took their ...
Favre: LACMA photo exhibit examines our fame-obsessed society
Published 8/29/2012 at 4:50 p.m.
Los Angeles and celebrity go hand-in-hand. It often seems like everyone in the city is longing to have their faces splashed across magazine covers or featured on TV and in the movies.
Favre: 48th annual Cinecon festival will spotlight rarely seen films
Published 8/23/2012 at 4:49 p.m.
Robert Birchard was 18 when he first learned about Cinecon. It was a small-time festival for big-time film fanatics like himself. That was in 1968. Cinecon now is an L.A. fixture, and the 48th annual festival, which begins Thursday, has ...
Favre: Skirball exhibit explores the history of mah-jongg
Published 8/14/2012 at 9:20 p.m.
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Gidea Receives Brommel Award
Marian Gidea, professor, mathematics, was presented with the 2011 Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Award at the May 2011 Commencement ceremony. Gidea is the sixth recipient of this award, which is given annually to the tenured/tenure-track member of the NEIU faculty who best demonstrates excellence in research, scholarship and creative activity.
The Brommel Distinguished Research Award recognizes the achievements of one faculty member each year. The award is given to the professor who best exemplifies the values of scholarly research, based on the entire body of his or her research or creative activity. Gidea, who has been at Northeastern since 2000, has produced a substantial body of scholarly work ranging from research on difficult problems related to satellites in unstable orbits around a plant to arrhythmic heartbeats. He works in an area of mathematics referred to as dynamical systems, which has close ties to chaos theory.
Researchers in this area explore mathematical phenomena related to instability in physical and biological systems. They use various fields of mathematics such as topology, differential geometry and differential equations to get results.
Gidea has co-authored two books, edited four volumes, published 27 significant scholarly papers, presented at 50 national and international conferences, given 25 colloquia and seminar talks, and helped organize 11 international conferences. He has been awarded 10 important grants, including one from the National Science Foundation and another from the National Institute of Health. This prolific scholarship has garnered Gidea distinguished national and international recognition, including an offer of membership and participation in the prestigious Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University.
As the recipient of the Brommel Distinguished Research Award, Gidea received a $5,000 prize and will give a presentation about his research to the NEIU community during the Fall 2011 semester.
Other finalists for the award were Lawrence Berlin, professor, linguistics, and Erica Meiners, professor, educational inquiry and curriculum studies.
The Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Award has been made possible by the philanthropy of Bernard Brommel, professor emeritus, communication, media and theatre.


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No thread for Bioshock 2 yet? Is everyone playing COD? :)
Don't think anything can beat the twists of the first one, but I'm liking #2 for all the new stuff it has. Nothing was as freaky in about the last 10 years of gaming as those white plaster spider splicers that appeared from nowhere from the art-lover's level in the first one.
Back to #2... Dual-wielding is nice to have finally. Dealing directly with the Little Sisters now is different. Hacking is better. There are more choices of what to buy with your Adam. Weapons are good (from what I have so far).
The new enemies are nice (and tough). The AI seems a lot better as well (died a lot more so far using the normal difficulty). Story is entertaining, but I'm only in the run-down shantytown area (level 5?).
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CAB indexes 11,000 English and foreign-language journals. It is a good
place to start looking for the "how to" science of genetic engineering
of plants worldwide.
AGRICOLA is also an excellent place to look for the "how to"
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JSTOR includes the full text of many important ecology journals.
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Games, .NET, Performance, and More!
I learned my lesson with Fable, so I'll try desperately not to start a flame war of any sort here. Up front, I'm giving the game a definite thumbs up. If you are the kind of person that likes to flame, then leave now knowing that I've given your favorite thing my personal approval.
Let's start with the good. The campaign and story is pretty nice. The cinematic effect is definitely there, something I don't approve of in games most of the time. In this case the cinematics were rather short and they appear to have answered all of the questions from the first Halo, about what in the hell is actually going on in this universe. Don't expect a major story though, in all there is about 30 minutes of video (maybe someone will time that eventually). It appears in most cases that the actual game engine was used to produce cinematic sequences. I'm a huge advocate of this process, since it generally reduces the size of the game even if it doesn't allow for as much eye candy through complex, non real-time, shaders.
Playing from both sides of the story is another great feature even if the movement features are identical between the arbiter and the master chief. Of course you get to use all of the weapons no matter which side you are. A couple of the new weapons are even pretty nice and if you add dual wielding then you can really do some drastic damage. Getting used to the new weapons is a short process, but for the most part, just realize everything is going to take a good amount of shots in order to take down. Nearly every enemy has energy shields now, so making use of a good pairing of weapons is almost always required (for a good run-down of the weapons, head over to GameFAQs where someone has posted a huge review of all of the weapons, relative damage, recommended threat ranges, etc...)
Movement has been speed up a bit from a basic land speed metric. The jump has been increased as well. Most of the same movement considerations from the first Halo are in place and the game still has the same feel, while at the same time having an increased level of agility. I noticed that my look sensitivity 10 from Halo one has been dropped to 8, and the new 10 is fairly insane. I've managed to work my way back up to 10 and I have to say it is much closer to the look sensitivity in UT now. Thats definitely a good thing since I'm tired of getting punked in the back by a lamer while I'm trying to turn around. Now my more precise shooting abilities will take them out while they wing half their shots by my head.
We'll do 3 good paragraphs and 3 bad ;-) Not all of these are bad, just things I'm not all that happy with. While all of the new weapons are great they feel drastically underpowered most of the time. I think this was a balancing issue and I definitely agree that some weapons in Halo were far too powerful in multiplayer. Losing my pistol is hard though since that was definitely my primary weapon. I loved picking off people with that weapon. It is now a closer quarters weapon and a few weapons have stepped in to take it's place. They didn't add any more grenade types, something that would have been extremely nice. The usage of the flashlight has been minimized drastically and it now lasts indefinitely. I'm not sure why they kept it in, if for nothing more than to add a parity feature with the temporary invisibility you get as the arbiter.
I think the explanation of the story is great, but I'm not all that happy with the wrap-up. Halo in itself was an epic FPS which is something I'm not getting from Halo 2. Maybe this is the curse of the sequel. More importantly, most of Halo's intrigue after the initial month was driven by its multiplayer. I haven't gotten a good chance to play a few thousand hours of multiplayer yet, so I can't judge whether or not this game is equivalently interesting. The epic value may still be there, especially as the tournaments and ladders start to form. All in all, the basic campaign was a bit of a let-down for me.
Now for the flat-out bugs. The physics engine is better, but in many cases broken. There are cases where the environment is moving and in turn the movement drastically impairs your ability to aim and fire. I'm not sure if that was meant to be or a side effect of a real physics engine in play without the proper controls to ensure realism. In general though, only accelerating bodies would apply forces that might throw off your aim. All of the moving platforms in Halo 2 are massive enough and travel at constant speed, that the aim issues shouldn't come into play. Even more odd is that it only happened to me in one location. In general, I think many of the vehicles fall prey to some poor physics as well. Apparently getting run over by a ghost now just pushes you out of the way, many of the flying vehicles are cumbersome even with the new boost tricks.
One more good paragraph. I've written quite a bit on AI, and I have to say that the AI in this game is pretty good. The allied unit code works well most of the time, something you don't see in many games, even if they do shoot you in the back. I'm supposed to run in damnit, I'm the master chief, so quit shooting me in the back! The mission guys should get shot in a few instances where they provide challenges that are nearly impossible if you've lost most of your allied group. In some cases the allies just disappear or fail to follow you, something else that I think could dearly be fixed. The path-finding, beast aggro, cross side fighting, and tactics make up for everything wrong with the allies. I'm still thinking about what the best way would be to handle the battle between the brutes and elites where the two hunters come out. I played just that spot 8 times beating it different ways and trying to work out the appropriate weapons to minimize my ammo usage and leaving me with the least number of enemies to fight when the battle was over.
All in all the game is a graphical beauty, definitely a tribute to the amount of time it took in production (this is how a 4 year development process SHOULD end). I have some goodies to go along with it. I managed to produce a series of custom controls that mimic portions of the Halo 2 UI. I'll try and get them up on Project Distributor. I know that I made a Form, ListBox, and GroupBox, but I'm not sure if I finished any others. They don't allow much customization, so I'm adding the ability to change colors and simplifying the asset production code (I currently precompute the images used by the controls and need to change that over to dynamic creation at run-time based on properties). Give me a heads up if this type of control is interesting to you.
Enjoy your Halo 2 and feel free to invite me over to any gaming parties. Address and telephone number are in the resume link ;-)
Well, apparently you aren't allowed to have an opinion on the web anymore. I got flamed by an author after posting a personal review of his book. It wasn't an objective review, I didn't mark it as such, but I wasted a good deal of my life between reading the book and then turn that around with the extra hour I spent writing the review so I figured I'd put my real thoughts in there. Anyway, seems the author had some comments.
Guess what? Authors need to learn that not everyone can write a book. I don't care how technically able you are, how smart, or how much of an industry professional. I don't care if you've been writing X for Y years where Y > Z and Z is my age... Just because you've been working on technology since before I was born doesn't mean you have the ability to produce a book that is able to capture a wide audience and instruct them in a given area. I'll throw some points to back this up.
Microsoft Windows is a great piece of software and some insanely talented developers wrote the OS. But guess who wrote the documentation? Sure as hell wasn't the people that wrote the OS. What about the CLR? Super smart people doing super smart things over there. But how many of them dare write a book about it? Adam Nathan did a great job, but I think he took more than a year writing his. What about Brad Abarams and the annotated CLR? Well, that isn't a book of explanation but rather a book of comments that was very tactfully edited. The people that really write about the CLR are the tech writers that produced the oh so complained about .NET Framework SDK Documentation. If you think it's bad now, you wouldn't want to know what it would look like if there wasn't a dedicated team of technical writers with English degrees working on it.
You see, just being an expert isn't a license to write a book. You have to take many considerations into play. You have to design content around your audience, get down off of your soap-box, and explain things in a detail that your readership will comprehend and gain value from. It appears Edward doesn't agree with me. I pointed out that I got nothing from the text of his book, but then he points me to the free source code download. I already knew about the download and had perused the source before and after posting the original review, but I don't think that is important or relevant. When you buy a book, you are buying the material that you can read while you are in a bus, in your car, on a plane, while you are walking down the hall, or if nature calls on the toilet. You really aren't paying for the source code. The source code is an extra in the world of publishing. It is nice if the readers make use of it, but you want to provide everything in the text if you can. Popping between book and source is annoying, and even worse, nearly impossible when the book and source aren't logically connected.
Raise of hands, if I gave you a 65k file whose name was Form1.vb and I told you the compiled program would represent a rather complex regular expression validating GUI called ReLab, what would you do? How easy would it be to quickly find the information you needed in that file? Would you even bother trying to understand the behemoth? What if the text of the book didn't tell you about the code itself, but rather about the program and how it worked? What if they just gave you a bunch of pictures of the UI and some walk-throughs of how it would work? What would you say the target audience is when the book is filled with pictures and there is a huge backing source repository that contains almost no explanation?
You don't have to answer all that if you don't want, but I'm interested in what you have to say. Good or bad, wrong or right, I don't care, because this is MY opinion, but I'm interested in everyone else's opinion. I'm tired of paying 40-60 bucks for a book that doesn't stand on it's own merit. If the source is really what I'm buying then why give it away for free here http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=213&sID=1895. What in the hell would I buy the book if everything important is in the source code shown here http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=213&sID=1895. Go ahead, download it and check it out. It isn't easy to digest by any means, and the book itself won't help you at all.
Edward is taking this as a personal attack, but everyone that knows me knows better. I buy a book a week at least. Some are great, some are mediocre, but I never, ever buy the bad books. I invalidate them during my initial review process and I rely on my professional insight to quickly spot and discredit the bad ones. I don't always take the time to give those I've spotted a shining review on my blog, but there are certain things that really get my goat and this was obviously one of them. You can't ask for just good reviews as an author. When was the last time a movie released with not a single bad review somewhere on the web or published in some newspaper? But, "Oh", the actor says, "You'd like the movie better if you understood how many shots it took for that scene you didn't like and the technical difficulties behind it"... In reality, I don't care if it took them 1 shot or 50 shots, I don't care if the author produces 1 line of code or 50 thousand lines of code. I see the end result, I see what I read, and I'm going to rely on perusal process within the bookstore before deciding to buy. If you aren't going to give me the material in your book to enable that process, then I'm not going to buy your book, AND I'll post an honestly bad review.
Anyway, I responded to Edwards comments, and put my own right after. I'm sure the comment space will get heated if you are into that. In conclusion, don't put your heart and soul into a book and then get all parental when someone doesn't like it. If you can't take the criticisms, then you shouldn't be publishing. Build on it, forget about it, discount it, do whatever you must, but don't whine and use political bullshit to try and get me to take my criticisms down.
The comments in the code-only article are fairly decent, but I dislike being extremely verbose in my commenting because then I can't see my code. A little explanation of the problem is probably in order because of the lack of extremely verbose comments. First, what is base N encoding or alphabet encoding?
Most people assume that encoding into any base in some way equates to mapping a number to some digits, plus some additional characters to represent values we don't have digits for. This isn't always the case. An integer encoded as Alphabet{0,1} = 1001 = 9 decimal is identical to Alphabet{+,-} = -++- = 9 decimal. I've just change the represenation or alphabet, but the base is still the same (aka base 2).
Explaining bases could take a few years of college courses, as you take the concepts and create increasingly more abstract versions of them. In fact, bases are strange things in some theoretical maths where concepts of groups, colors, stripes, and other words are used to describe how they work. A very simplistic view of the base is available over on Mathworld. In general though, the concept is that any base has a number of digits equal to the base number b (aka radix) where the digits represent the values 0 through b-1. That is easy enough, and it gives us a very generic method for converting a number to any alphabet and back.
To start, we'll denote an alphabet as a char[] of digits. Digit in this sense is any character that will represent the array index at which it is placed. The base of the alphabet is the length of the character array. The first element in the array at offset {0} has a value of 0 and for all other indices n greater than 0 the value of the digit at n is equal to the index n. That's all there is to it. Any alphabet of characters can now be translated to and from an integer using this mapping table and the base.
Code-Only: Arbitrary alphabet encoding (aka BaseN encoding) for base2 through base36.
Unfortunately I'm not talking about a Wiki that actually is artificially intelligent, summarily filling itself out and saving me gobs of time by learning off of the Google-Sphere. What I am talking about is a site focused on covering the algorithms that a first year AI student might be faced with during their coursework. Hopefully they'll get some additional material in there as well, but the initial focus is just that first yet.
If you are a .NET supporter like me, maybe you'll try and throw in your hat by providing alternate versions of some of the programs seen on the site. I have my eyes on a few of them already.
Project Distributor: Introduction to our distributed web service modelSo Darren and I have put in about a month now on the Project Distributor website. We are starting to reach that critical point where the site is pretty cool, we have plenty of users, we are thinking about running out of the allowable bandwidth for the demo site, and all sorts of other things that tend to happen all at once. Now, there are some problems you can design yourself out of, and others that you really have to throw some money at. Our latest enhancements can be summed up in a short list.
I'm here to talk about the last two, since Darren already bought some additional hosting for us. The concept will be to release a fairly stable version of the application so that groups can host tools, code snippets and other source/binary releases for their teams to share. The application is very lightweight and easy to set-up, so it won't require a bunch of hand holding and configuration to get up and running initially. From our standpoint we solve a number of issues at this juncture. The most obvious problem is what we classify the Lutz Roeder use case. .NET Reflector is the key type of application we'd love to get hosted because it makes it a bit easier to find, not that Google does a bad job, we'd just like to get a bunch of tools in one place, with some features for feedback, new releases, and some cool client tools for publishing.
Now, Lutz would put his application up and he'd whack our bandwidth. He is the prime example of someone that should be hosting their own tools, but possibly using our interface. He doesn't have to, we haven't even asked him yet in fact, but if he decides to do so, then all the better for the web application moving forward. Users such as Lutz probably want a certain level of control over their own sites as well in terms of branding and controlling access. This will only come from hosting the application yourself (and maybe some other features we'll see later).
From a security standpoint many teams will also want to host their own servers. In this manner they get control over the hardware their sources and binaries are stored on. They can accept tools up to any maximum (instead of our imposed limits) and provide unlimited download bandwidth if they choose. Or they can take advantage of our gating mechanisms to make sure their server doesn't get overloaded with downloads and open their tools up to the public.
The only major problem from this source release is that the initial problem we were trying to solve, promoting the visibility of tools, starts to erode. You see, the more sites that host their own tools the harder it is to find the right site with the right tools. We are trying to solve this in a number of ways. The first is allowing users of a site to store bookmarks to other projects and external resources. This is only a temporary fix, because it still doesn't allow a mass search and categorization infrastructure required to truly promote the visibility of the tools being hosted. We have to come up with a solution that brings all of the sites, but we don't want to create just another portal or gateway site. That is boring. Now you have the background, so how will we solve the fragmentation issue?
Designing away FragmentationI won't lie to you, I've implemented this model several times, but have never had a project that was capable of really showing off the feature set we are about to talk about. The concept is to unify all of the sites, by allowing them to easily manage views of data from all of the sites combined. Each site owns their own content, maintains their own users, but in turn peers with other sites to obtain additional content.
Web services provide a dual feature set in this model. At the current level they allow us to generate really great client-side tools for managing, well, your tools! We have a drop-client target right now so you can drag and drop new releases to existing projects in just a few seconds. Some new tools for working with build systems to promote the source code up to the server are in the works. We natively integrate with your RSS reader and will have our own alert services in the drop client just in case you don't have one. There aren't any search or local caching features, but those are also planned for the drop client so you can background download new releases, just like Windows Update.
That doesn't solve fragmentation though, that just makes me realize how much work I have left to do. The second feature of web services lies in the ability for each site to aggregate data from the many other sites that are out there hosting the application. Remember, everything we make available at the service layer can also now be remoted. The more caching we put into the data layer, the more performant the entire process will be, and we can even tune the caching depending on whether the data layer is merging off-site contents or database contents.
Peer SitesI'm sure there is another name out there somewhere, but for the past 2 years I've called these peer sites. Each instance of the project distributor will have a number of options allowing for adding peers that will be aggregated and added to the local collection while users traverse the site. The first step is to get the peer sites running in a read-only mode. And set up some really great options so the entire process can be controlled. This solves a number of use case scenarios for us including the following.
Peer sites solve plenty of visibility issues, but that is pretty much all they solve for now. We still want to enable all of the features available to the client tools. After all, the web service methods and proxy infrastructure is in place to do so much more.
Master SitesWell, we want to solve another problem. That is where you edit your data. A master site is where the users, groups, projects, etc... are all hosted, but thankfully, you'll be able to log in through any site (assuming it is peered with your master site) and then edit your own projects and such. This is a remote principal context and is actually one of the cooler features associated with the peering functionality of project distributor. We'll be fully secure in our login and credentials region, but unfortunately we'll still be transferring data in open text in the short term. Maybe we'll fix that with enough push back.
Clone SitesA clone site is where we empower a site to act on behalf of a master site. For me, my local project distributor is currently cloned to the main project distributor site. What does this mean? Right now it means I get all of the data from PD, and that users who trust my site can log-in to their project distributor accounts and cross edit data. Pretty nice if you ask me. It basically means you can fully host a project distributor installation and never, ever have to install a database server. Users can just act on behalf of a remote server.
ConfigurationThis isn't a super reusable model like some of those you read about in the popular software architecture books, and it probably accounts for why master/peer/clone sites don't exist very often. The considerations for every option are heavily customized to the problem being solved, and I'm sure we'll be making modifications or updating the configuration context for a while. Right now you can independently configure your primary server type, whether master or clone, whether or not users can use you for a pass-through authentication and edit server, whether or not web services are enabled so peers can enable unidirectional only communications, setting up asymmetric security credentials. Man, you name it and it is in there
For the peer section we have full and selective modes. A full peer pulls all of the data on the remote peer locally for display (in a delay caching manner, just like you'd expect, unless you set up a scheduled pull which is also possible). I expect most people to configure full peers because they really are really easy to set up and maintain. A selective peer is where you specify the groups/projects that you want to display. This is best for a user setting up their own personal toolbox who wants to select a couple of items from many different peers.
We have an extensively exhaustive configuration module already and we'll be continuously adding more to it. The concept is to easily modify your toolbox to your own designs without having to touch the code. If we haven't given you enough options to satisfy your need then we'll have to make something up, because I'm just about running out ;-)
These are the basics of the model ideas I have for project distributor. That doesn't mean Darren doesn't have other great ideas happening as well. He has some pretty extensive UI enhancements, but I'll let him talk about those. We even have another product idea that is kind of a bolt-on for project distributor, but that is probably a couple of months out putting it into next year. Unfortunately we have too many ideas for our own good right now. Better than not having any ideas I guess. I'll try to drop some code with some of the ideas above, that way you can get a look at how the entire system is implemented. I have some diagrams as well, but I'm far too tired right now to add the img tags to the HTML view.
How'd you like that for an opening title? Did it grab your attention? Hell, your reading this far so I guess it did. The book I'm focusing on here is Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler and please, don't click the link and then go buy it. I don't care about the 50 cents worth of referral money I'll get if you do. I wouldn't even recommend the book if I got 50 bucks of referral money (well, money talks, so maybe I would).
The book starts out with the basics of parsing and regular expressions and all that jazz. But the extent of the code is a bunch of screen shots. We are writing a parser/compiler dang it, we aren't WYSIWYGing our way through life at this point, you have to show some real frigin code. What you end up with is a bunch of screen shots of many tools for writing a compiler, but not really the code, unless of course you go grab the CD and break through all of the code without a lick of explanation from the book. God I hope the code is well documented with comments, or you just bought an issue of Compiler's Illustrated and this isn't the Swimsuit edition. I'll include some of my own links at the bottom, where I give actual code for many of these processes.
OK, so you get to see a bunch of tools, and what do you get? Well, you get a bunch of half-assed tools (sorry for the language if your kid is reading my highly technical blog... In fact, if he/she is I could use some interns, must type 50+ WPM and be proficient at C, C++, or C#). A mathematical expression evaluator is the first. I think it is always the first. People always trivialize math. So make sure you look at all the pretty pictures and try to glean some wisdom from the text. I have a mathematical expression evaluator by the way, it's called calc.exe and from what I can tell it has shipped since 16-bit windows. He also makes an attempt at a regular expression workbench. You can't have enough of those (actually I'm not being sarcastic here, I always appreciate a new regex tool), but then he never writes anything or demonstrates compiler technology that uses regular expressions. Does he go into NFA/DFA technology? Well, he does talk about it for a few sentences. BNF format? Again a few sentences here and there. But wait, another tool is what you get and this time it is a picture of a drop-down menu with all sorts of really tantalizing names (convert from BNF to XML, display a BNF parse tree, display formatted docs, etc...). At this point use one of the pages to catch the drool coming off your lip, because that is as close as you'll get in this book to anything cool.
OK, so forget the tools. At some point he actually starts talking about real compiler technology. I think around chapter 7 maybe? I really should dig up the TOC on Amazon, but I'm only going to waste enough time on this book to finish this posting. Anyway, they start talking about the various parsing techniques. Recursive descent (RD), Top-Down, Bottom-Up... I think there are some other odd names they throw in there to mystify the reader. After reading all of the major compiler design books I shouldn't be mystified by something that could classify as a 4 Dummies book (unless it is something like Cross Dressing 4 Dummies, I could probably use that after my Halloween party)... Anyway, they really don't do the entire process justice, and I think at some point some more tools are used, Yacc might be mentioned, and bam, back to the pictures.
At this point I want to identify the worst problem I found throughout the entire book. Apparently the author didn't have time to finish the code so they left a bunch of exercises for the reader. Nah, nah... You don't leave the compiler as an exercise in a book on how to write a compiler. You leave bits and pieces, but not the important stuff. Going through my Knuth books, I'm actually surprised when he leaves problems as exercises that require more know-how than what has been provided in the chapter. I don't mind exercises for the reader, but there is a limit people. Imagine getting back from Home Depot with a 300 page picture book on building a house, that had a bunch of pictures of completed homes, and some text offering that the building of the house will be left as an exercise for the reader. Doh!
At the end of the book, it is apparent I'm not going to get anything of use and then it starts talking about code generation. Oooh, something with some meat. In reality, they've been naming their nodes for the calculator in such a way that the name of the node was pretty much the name of the op code that was going to be called. They may have some Quick Basic implementation code spits as well, but I'm confused at this point (and mystified) because I've been thumbing this book for an hour. In reality the act of spitting IL is probably worth an entire book of it's own (oh wait it is Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler and you really should buy this one so I get 50 cents). That isn't fair because that book is actually how IL functions and not how to spit it. But I'd think one does precede the other since eventually your going to run out of node names to match to IL op-codes and when opComplexOperation isn't mirrored by OpCodes.ComplexOperation I just don't know what you'll do.
How fair of a review is this? Well, I've read actual compiler books, quite a few of them. I've implemented my own parsers and compilers many times for many different circumstances. I don't think it is a hard process and I think extending the process to a more general development audience is important. There should be a relatively accessible book on writing your own .NET languages, but this book is certainly not it. I'll keep looking around, I hear there is another book focused on .NET language generation and I'll have to search it out. Maybe an O'Reilly publication? Can you get an accurate review from something in about an hour's time? Well, I read fast, the words were quite large, most of the content was entirely familiar and only about 30% of the page material was text, so I'd hope so. Take this for what it is worth, but if I see any referral money for that book, I'll know someone is going to be laughing hysterically when they get that book in a 2-3 days from Amazon. PS: I didn't and won't buy the book. I spent a couple of hours at Borders today running through two books that caught my eye when I was really looking for a great .NET Localization book. I need to dig up Michael Kaplan, since I'm sure he has written something somewhere.
Lexer/Parser/Compiler Code and articles for different types of parsersLexer, Parser, Compiler, Oh My! Postings, with code, on even more lexer/parser stuffftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/PTAPG/BookBody.pdf A more hard-core text on parser technologies
Think really hard for a second about how layout logic works... Oh, not that hard, you're starting to smoke. Here, how about I think about it for you and then you can point out where you have a difference of opinion... That works better for me anyway. To start, layouts come in several different formats that will help use discuss the issues at hand. Here are several different formats that I can think of off the top of my head.
When does layout go from fun to work? Well, laying out things in the designer is fun, but got forbid you have to do it in code. Code requires numerous properties be set on each control, that the control z-order be set properly, and that the programmer have a great grasp on exactly what the project looks like from a UI stand-point. Many programmers don't have this spatial visualization capability, hence the reason for sticking with the designer and forgetting about code based layouts.
A good mixture is required in my opinion. Certain things are easier to lay out in code and others much easier in the designer. Run-time UI generation is a requirement of many application as well that change dynamically based on configuration or data.
So how does that come into play during a resize? Well, someone has to write code. Explicit layouts look terrible when you resize them. They are based on precision and changing the precise sizes and locations of elements programmatically results in some nasty issues. Round-off errors also make for poor aggregate layout decisions and many times you can reset the form size and see a slightly different layout. Normally it is just good enough, but that doesn't fly with me. Flow and Tabular layouts are a bit better, they are based on more configurable and dynamic information and so they tend to resize much better. Composite layouts are the best because they localize the layout process to specific regions, and they allow you to configure each area most appropriately so that it looks best when things change.
Layout isn't just about the big scene, there are also some small scene items that have to be taken care of. Most layout systems don't control their container, in turn their container controls them. However, controlling minimum sizes at the container level is foolhardy. You don't know how small an area can be until you understand how small the control itself can be. Each layout manager should be able to determine what a safe minimum size is and a higher level component at the form level should aggregate this data in order to size the form appropriately. This disables scenarios where the user can screw the system.
I'm going to hit one more type of layout though. I call this the bump layout and it is a very programmer oriented approach. At the lowest level a bump layout is based around the first control placed on the form. As controls are added, using bump commands, a global bounding region is updated that can then be use to set the size of the form. This is a mixture of fixed layout programming, but is code oriented rather than designer oriented. A sample bump layout might be as follows.
Layout(firstControl, left, right, width, height); // Prevents property settingRightAlign(RelatedSize(firstControl, secondControl)); // relates second control to first control, returns second controlBottomAlign(RelatedSize(firstControl, thirdControl)); // same, you can wrap all sizings into a single call if you'd like
Layout(firstControl, left, right, width, height); // Prevents property settingRightAlign(RelatedSize(firstControl, secondControl)); // relates second control to first control, returns second controlBottomAlign(RelatedSize(firstControl, thirdControl)); // same, you can wrap all sizings into a single call if you'd like
Layout(firstControl, left, right, width, height); // Prevents property settingRightAlign(RelatedSize(firstControl, secondControl)); // relates second control to first control, returns second controlBottomAlign(RelatedSize(firstControl, thirdControl)); // same, you can wrap all sizings into a single call if you'd like
I call the above a bump layout because you bump the location of a control to an offset based on an existing control... Bump layouts have the ability to be turned easily into resizable layouts because everything is based around the first control. The first control could be sized based on the current form size, and then the rest of the layout just works correctly. You can also support FlowLayout and TableLayout quite easily by using the results of bumps. An overflow bump would put a control partially off the screen and so you can change the bump from a RightAlign to a BottomAlign. For tabular layouts you can align your columns based on the top row and then use those in bumps to generate the rest of the layout information.
I plan on putting some code behind this. There is some interest in programmatic layouts and I'm sure I could add some of my code to Whidbey and augment the existing layouts provided by the Windows Forms team. One of my more interesting layout patterns has been the radial layout, of which I'm very proud, that not only gives each control information about location based on a radius and angle, but also allows the control access to the layout information so that it can properly rotate and possibly resize itself to make sure its rotated contents fit within it's area. A second layout pattern, the markup layout pattern, is more based around the concepts of using an html table format, and an ID that matches the Name of specific controls. Using this layout mechanism is different from the more extensive XAML layout because it only focuses on a control's layout and as such can be easily added to an existing system.


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Green Legacy Hiroshima: Archived News
- October 23, 2013: 76th UNITAR Hiroshima Public Session "Green Legacy Hiroshima: Encounters with Nature, Science, War and Memory"
The UNITAR Hiroshima Office, in collaboration with ANT-Hiroshima, recently held a Public Session that examined the continued efforts of Green Legacy Hiroshima to spread worldwide seeds and saplings of Hiroshima's A-Bomb survivor trees. The Public Session served as an opportunity to reflect on the deeper meaning and message of A-bomb survivor trees, and was attended by more than 100 representatives of the wider Hiroshima community.
- September 19: First in the 2013-2014 seed-picking season – the Jujube!
The Jujube tree (Ziziphus jujuba) on Peace Boulevard offered the first bounty of the GLH seed-picking season this year. Thanks to botanical advisors Horiguchi san and Sera san, new efforts to have seeds germinate have started (last year we were not successful!).
In July 2013 GLH started its third year, now accompanied by partners in some 20 countries.
- On Saturday 27 April, 2013 Sally Fegan-Wyles, Executive Director of UNITAR, accompanied by the Green Legacy Hiroshima team, visited some of the survivor trees. Mr. Yasuyoshi Komizo, Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and Mr. Akio Nishikiori, President of the Hiroshima Architects Association - both members of the Green Legacy Hiroshima Working Group -- joined the tour on a beautiful sunny day. The visit took the group to the memorial of Dr. Marcel Junod, head of the ICRC delegation at the time of the atomic bombing, and a well-loved, renowned figure in Hiroshima. For this occasion, a second-generation Gingko biloba sapling, destined to be planted on the ICRC grounds at its headquarters in Geneva, was handed over to the UNITAR delegation. Thanks to Sally and Alex Mejia, the sapling has now arrived safely in the hands of the gardeners at ICRC headquarters, and will be planted this year in a special ceremony marking 6 August.
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- Visit to Hiroshima by Deputy Director of Irkutsk Botanical Gardens, Dr. Svetlana Sizykh, and Agricultural Counselor of Embassy of Chile, Tokyo, Mr. Vicente Pinto, August 2012(photos below)
- On 6 August 2012, the day of the 67th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima in 1945, UNITAR and the new entity representing Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative finalized a Memorandum of Understanding that will build upon the work undertaken over the past year during the pilot phase for three additional years. - Click for More
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To mark the visit of the UNITAR Executive Director Dr. Carlos Lopes, H.E. Mayor Matsui and the Green Legacy Working Group gathered for a tree-planting ceremony on 30 March 2012. On the occassion, a stone memorial was also dedicated by Dr. Lopes. Children from the chorus "I Pray" offered a musical performance in honour of the event.
Mayor of Hiroshima expresses his full support to the Green Legacy Hiroshima initiative, 9 February 2012 (Web Page)
- Hiroshima Mayor H.E. Kazumi Matsui meets with Green Legacy Hiroshima team at City Hall, 9 February 2012 (.pdf)
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LAUER: Yet even as you sold to Al Jazeera, you in the book blast other television news programs, saying this: "Virtually every news and political commentary program on television is sponsored in part by oil, coal, and gas companies–not just during campaign seasons, but all the time, year in and year out–with messages designed to soothe and reassure the audience that everything is fine, the global environment is not threatened." And the critics jumped, and they said, here's the guy who just sold to Al Jazeera, which gets an undetermined amount of funding from the country of Qatar, which gets its money from oil reserves. Isn't there a contradiction in that?
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Letrozole in Treating Postmenopausal Women With Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
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RATIONALE: Estrogen can cause the growth of breast cancer cells. Hormone therapy using letrozole may fight breast cancer by blocking the use of estrogen by the tumor cells or by lowering the amount of estrogen the body makes.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well letrozole works in treating women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
Breast Cancer
Drug: letrozole
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Other: questionnaire administration
Procedure: breast imaging study
Procedure: dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging
Procedure: neoadjuvant therapy
Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
Procedure: therapeutic conventional surgery
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Letrozole for Postmenopausal Women With Estrogen Receptor Positive Ductal Carcinoma In SITU (DCIS)
- 3-month and 6-month radiographic tumor volume [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Radiographic response of MRI-measured tumor at 3 months and 6 months [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Radiographic response as measured by mammography at 3 months and 6 months [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Type of primary surgery (mastectomy or lumpectomy) [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number of re-excisions required to obtain clear margins [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Extent of residual DCIS post surgery [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Presence of invasive cancer at surgery [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Size of margins (smallest) at surgery [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Treatment-related adverse events [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- To estimate the mean change in MRI tumor volume from pretreatment to completion of preoperative endocrine therapy in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), as well as to determine whether 3-month change in volume correlates with 6-month change.
- To assess radiographic-pathologic correlation between MRI findings and histopathology, including the prevalence of occult invasive cancer in patients undergoing neoadjuvant endocrine therapy for DCIS.
- To compare changes in MRI maximum lesion diameter and mammographic extent at baseline and following treatment.
- To determine practice patterns of adjuvant hormonal and radiation therapy in patients who complete neoadjuvant letrozole therapy for DCIS.
- To determine whether Ki67 is reduced with neoadjuvant letrozole treatment for DCIS, and to compare the reduction in proliferation between radiographic responders and non-responders.
- To identify baseline IHC and expression biomarkers predictive of response to treatment, with response determined by extent of Ki67 reduction.
- To examine whether germline polymorphisms are associated with clinical endpoints, including treatment-related toxicity or efficacy outcomes, or with expression of biomarkers in serum or tumor.
- To assess quality-of-life and musculoskeletal symptoms associated with neoadjuvant letrozole for ER+ DCIS.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Patients receive neoadjuvant letrozole orally (PO) once daily (QD) for 3 months. Patients then undergo MRI with an IV contrast. Patients with progressive disease discontinue letrozole and undergo surgery. Patients with complete, partial, or stable disease continue letrozole PO QD for an additional 3 months before undergoing another MRI and surgery. Patients continue receiving letrozole until the day before surgery.
Surgery (mastectomy or lumpectomy) must be performed within 30 days of the 3- or 6-month MRI.
Patients' core biopsy specimen and surgical excision specimen may be collected for correlative studies.
Patients may complete the Menopause Specific Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (MEMOQOL), the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-SF), the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General (FACT-G), the Self-Efficacy for Coping with Side Effects, the Medication Taking Behavior (MMAS), and the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaires at baseline and periodically during study.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up at 1, 3, and 6 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Pathologic confirmation of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) without invasive cancer of the female breast with diagnosis rendered on core biopsy only, completed within 60 days before registration
- Patients diagnosed with DCIS on the basis of surgical biopsy are not eligible for this study
- Disease stage Tis, N0, M0
- All patients must have had a diagnostic core biopsy with clip placed at time of biopsy or prior to baseline MRI
- Diagnostic tissue available for correlative studies
DCIS must express estrogen receptor, as determined by immunohistochemical methods on the diagnostic pathology sample, according to the local institution's standard protocol
- Greater than or equal to 1% cells will be considered to be positive
Measurable disease
- Mammographic extent of calcifications must be accurately measurable in at least one dimension with each lesion ≥ 1 cm and ≤ 5 cm
- DCIS must be visible on MRI without radiographic evidence of invasive cancer
- Patients with palpable DCIS or adenopathy are not eligible to participate
Patients must be postmenopausal* defined as:
- Age ≥ 55 years and one year or more of amenorrhea
- Age < 55 years and one year or more of amenorrhea, with an estradiol assay < 20 pg/mL
- Surgical menopause with bilateral oophorectomy (at least 28 days must elapse from surgery to time of study registration) NOTE: *The use of GnRH analogs to achieve postmenopausal status is not allowed.
- ECOG performance status 0 or 1
- ANC ≥ 1,000/μL
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/μL
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.7 mg/dL
- Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- AST/ALT ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal
Serum estradiol level assay < 20 pg/mL
- Required for patients < 55 years of age and one year or more of amenorrhea
- Not pregnant or nursing
- No contraindications to breast MRI
- Women diagnosed with osteoporosis may participate in this trial provided they are receiving appropriate therapy
- No prior surgical excision in the index breast for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or invasive cancer
- Any exogenous hormone therapy must be completed 4 weeks prior to registration
- Any patients with a history of tamoxifen or raloxifene use will be excluded
- No prior neoadjuvant/adjuvant therapy for breast cancer
|United States, Arizona
|Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
|Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 85259-5499
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - All Mayo Clinic Locations 507-538-7623
|United States, California
|CCOP - Bay Area Tumor Institute
|Oakland, California, United States, 94609
|Contact: James H. Feusner, MD 510-428-3689
|UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensi 877-827-3222
|United States, Kentucky
|St. Elizabeth Medical Center
|Edgewood, Kentucky, United States, 41017
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - St. Elizabeth Medical Center 859-301-2237
|United States, Minnesota
|Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
|Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - All Mayo Clinic Locations 507-538-7623
|United States, Missouri
|Missouri Baptist Cancer Center
|Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63131
|Contact: Alan P. Lyss, MD 314-996-5514
|United States, North Carolina
|Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
|Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7295
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Cente 877-668-0683; 919-966-4432
|Duke Cancer Institute
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - Duke Cancer Institute 888-275-3853
|Pardee Memorial Hospital
|Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, 28791
|Contact: James E. Radford, MD 828-692-8045
|United States, Ohio
|Bethesda North Hospital
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45242
|Contact: Ching Ho 513-745-1111
|Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210-1240
|Contact: Ohio State University Cancer Clinical Trial Matching Service 866-627-7616 email@example.com
|United States, Texas
|M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at University of Texas
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030-4009
|Contact: Clinical Trials Office - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the U 713-792-3245
|Principal Investigator:
|E. Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH
|Duke University
Additional Information:
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Richard L. Schilsky, Cancer and Leukemia Group B
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01439711 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 21, 2011
|Last Updated:
|December 18, 2012
|Health Authority:
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
ductal breast carcinoma in situ
estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
Breast Neoplasms
Carcinoma in Situ
Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating
Carcinoma, Ductal
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Aromatase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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