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Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)
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| Here's the project proposal that should have been out a long while back
| (apologies, I'm happy to take the blame on this one). Before anyone gets
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OpenSolaris fans in a tizzy over 'Project Copy Linux'
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| Sun Microsystems has moved one mailing list posting closer to explaining
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| [...]
| The Solaris vendor spent the early part of this century mocking Linux.
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"Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail Award *
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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today".
Solaris can never be Linux
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| Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its
| OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and
| Distribution Licence - which is incompatible withb the GPL - and
| some system code was not released.
I tried to dirty my hands on OpenSolaris Belenix 0.6
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| This reminds me of my initial days with Linux - about 8-10 years ago -
| when we were forced to configure each and every aspect of Linux
| configuration to simply work out things. Today, most Linux distribution
| do not require any advanced tweaking during their initial installation
| - most things work out-of-the-box and distributions like Xandros have
| simple, 4 click install options.
| It looks like OpenSolaris needs to travel a real long way, and journey
| has just begun.
Checking out Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris
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| I guess the appeal of Nexenta is... hmmm... I'm not really sure. It's
| running GNOME. It's brown. Looks an awful lot like Ubuntu. It's not
| using all GNU tools. Heck, it's not even using BSD tools. I mean,
| really, "ps ax" works on my mac and on my linux boxen. Does it work
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Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). It was created by an Act of Parliament and started broadcasting on November 2, 1982. Unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and all programming is financed through its commercial activities, which include advertising.
It is a publicly owned corporation whose board is appointed by OFCOM, in agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport. Like the BBC it is a Public Service Broadcaster and has a public service remit. It also has an obligation to provide schools programming.
Channel 4 nominally broadcasts only in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland; in Wales, its equivalent is S4C, which broadcasts a mix of Channel 4 programming along with Welsh language programmes. However many television viewers in Wales receive Channel 4 due to being tuned into broadcasts from the nearest English transmitter, either for reasons of reception or so as to access Channel 4. In recent years the introduction of digital television has also allowed Channel 4 to be broadcast alongside S4C, allowing the latter to focus on Welsh language output on its digital operation.
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In 1980 Britain had three television channels: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. The 1980 Broadcasting Act began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4 was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982. After some weeks of test broadcasts it began scheduled transmissions on November 2 1982.
From the start, the channel set out to provide an alternative to the existing channels. In doing so it sometimes, in the eyes of its critics (including the public decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse), overstepped the boundaries of acceptability, but it has arguably led to a liberalisation of the UK television industry. Programming such as the "red triangle" series, The Tube, and Network 7 often straddled the boundary between being pioneering and being beyond the pale.
Initially, the station was managed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority through subscription from the ITV franchise holders. In return, advertising on the channel (and advertising revenue) was handled by the ITV regions, thus overcoming any problems a public service broadcaster might have in attracting commercial advertisers.
The 1990 Broadcasting Act[2] act altered the organisation of Channel 4, transforming it into a public corporation with a board partly appointed by the new Independent Television Commission. While its original remit was preserved, the channel now had to manage its own advertising (a potential disaster for a public service broadcaster), with a 'safety net' guaranteed minimum income should the revenue fall too low (which it so far has not). This safety net was funded by large insurance payments which the company had to make to the ITV companies. These premiums were phased out by the government in 1998.
Under the Communications Act of 2003 the channel is expected to demonstrate innovation, experimentation and creativity, appeal to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society and to include programmes of an educational nature which exhibit a distinctive character.
Channel 4 is run by a chief executive, whose role is similar to that of the Director-General of the BBC. The chief executive is appointed by the chairman, which is a part-time position appointed by Ofcom.
- Edmund Dell (1982–1987)
- Richard Attenborough (1987–1992)
- Michael Bishop (1993–1997)
- Vanni Treves (Jan 1998–Dec 2003)
- Luke Johnson (Jan 2004–)
Chief executives
- Jeremy Isaacs (1981–1987)
- Michael Grade (1988–1997)
- Michael Jackson (1997–2001)
- Mark Thompson (Mar 2002–June 2004)
- Andy Duncan (July 19, 2004–)
Andy Duncan was appointed on July 1, 2004. He was previously the Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences at the BBC.
Channel 4 has had a long record of success in funding the production of films through Channel Four Films, later renamed FilmFour in 1998 to coincide with the launch of its digital channels. Among its biggest successes are The Madness of King George, The Crying Game, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. However, this dedicated film-making wing was effectively closed in 2002 as a cost-cutting measure in the face of substantial losses.
Channel 4 launched a subscription film channel, FilmFour, in November 1998. It is available on analogue and digital satellite television. Companion services, such as FilmFour +1, FilmFour World and FilmFour Extreme were also available on some digital services. In 2003 Extreme and World were discontinued, and replaced with Film Four Weekly.
Channel 4 launched a dedicated horse racing channel, attheraces, in 2000, however for a combination of financial and legal reasons the channel ceased broadcasting in 2003. It was subsequently bought by BSkyB and relaunched in June 2004, but Channel 4 no longer has any involvement with it.
E4, a digital entertainment channel previously available on the Internet, was launched in January 2001.
On 27 February 2004 it was reported that Channel 4 and Five were discussing a possible merger. Because of the special nature of Channel 4, any such merger would have required an Act of Parliament. However in November 2004, Channel 4 pulled out of the discussions.
In August 2004 the news came that Channel 4 is planning a digital radio station using the licence currently belonging to Oneword radio. For more information, see the article Oneword.
In September 2004 Channel 4 spent £55m reserving space for up to 14 channels on SES Global's Astra 2D satellite before the limited amount of air space is filled, though some of this may be filled with Channel 4's existing channels when more expensive contracts with BSkyB expire in 2008. At the time it was rumoured that Channel 4 were working on a new channel, with a working title of More 4, aimed at older audiences, which would broadcast programmes from the channel's archive of factual and documentary programmes. This channel has yet to be formally announced.
Also in September, the television regulator, Ofcom, announced it was looking into creating a new public-service broadcasting license for a channel broadcasting three hours per day dedicated to factual and current affairs programming. The new channel, if it is approved, will probably not be funded by advertising, and may be a subscription channel or funded by a top-up to the BBC's license fee. It was widely suggested in the news that Channel 4 would be the most likely candidate to run the new channel.
One of the channel's strengths is its comedy. In the early days they screened The Comic Strip Presents, a highly innovative series of hour-long one-off comedies produced by a rotating line-up of alternative comedians such as Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Cook, Peter Richardson, and Alexei Sayle. The Tube and Friday Night Live also launched the careers of a number alternative comedians. Latterly they have aired cutting-edge comedy shows such as Brass Eye, The Mark Thomas Product, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, Drop the Dead Donkey, Desmond's and arguably its biggest mainstream hit Father Ted.
The first voice ever heard on Channel 4 was that of continuity announcer Paul Coia, who intoned, "Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes (link to video clip) set to the station's David Dundas-penned signature tune, Fourscore, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade. The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, produced by Yorkshire Television and fronted by Richard Whiteley; it is still running as of 2005 and is contracted until 2009.
In contrast to the other terrestrial TV channels, Channel 4 makes few of the programmes it broadcasts, partly as a result of the terms under which it was founded. Its critically acclaimed news service, Channel 4 News, is supplied by ITN, and the channel commissions many of its programmes from independent producers.
The channel has established a tradition of broadcasting Raymond Briggs's animated film The Snowman every Christmas. In 2002, the film was controversially cropped from its original 4:3 picture format to the current widescreen standard of 16:9.
Channel 4 was the first UK broadcaster to use stranded programming with slots such as "4 Mation" showing innovative animation. Under Isaacs the channel also presented serious programmes on contemporary visual art such as "State of the Art".
Channel 4 pioneered the concept of After the Pub Television with series such as "Who Dares Wins", "Tonight with Jonathan Ross", "Friday Night Live" and "The Word" broadcast in the 10 – 11pm slot.
In 1989 the Channel launched a Breakfast Television slot produced by Mentorn Films that was soon replaced by "The Big Breakfast". After the massive failure of "Ri:se" the channel has quit original programming for the breakfast tv slot in favour of repeats.
On November 4, 2003, Channel 4 screened its final episode of Brookside, a soap opera which had run for 21 years, since the channel started.
For years, Channel 4 has broadcast episodes of the most popular sitcoms from the United States on Friday nights. In 2004, Friday-night sitcoms on Channel 4 included Friends, Sex and the City and Will & Grace. American drama is also a key part of Channel 4's portfolio, including ER, Without a Trace,The West Wing" and Six Feet Under. Many of these programmes are shown (and notably edited) for their Sunday morning T4 slot.
Channel 4 is also noted for the screening of Big Brother. Based on the original Dutch format, the UK version has attracted massive press attention for each of its five series from 2000 to 2004.
Channel 4 also has a strong reputation for history programmes and real-life documentaries. It has also courted controversy, for example by broadcasting live the first public autopsy to be carried out in the UK for 170 years, carried out by Gunther von Hagens in 2002, or the 2003 one-off stunt Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live.
The television chef Jamie Oliver could not reach a deal with the BBC after his contract with them expired in December, 2002. Channel 4 took him up. Since this happened, Jamie Oliver has created a number of documentaries like Jamie's Kitchen. Most recently, Jamie's School Dinners has been broadcast to coincide with his campaign to improve the quality of school dinners.
Starting in 2004, Channel 4 began a promotion of its channel consisting of the broadcast of short clips between programs of British or American actors answering more or less personal questions, such as "What animal do you feel most compatible with?", "What would you be doing if you weren't an actor?". One such clip led to controversy because it featured actors naming their favorite swear words. Many people were against having such vulgar words uttered on broadcast television.
Since 5 November 2004, Channel 4 has had the British terrestrial rights to show new-to-terrestrial episodes of The Simpsons, in addition to several of the classic seasons, rights that had previously been held by the BBC since the show started airing on British terrestrial (1996). This was considered a major scoop for Channel 4, which began promoting The Simpsons nearly a month in advance, using 18-frame teasers for the show (made up of various characters' faces being created using different-coloured Channel 4 logos) to lead into commercial breaks from October 8th onward. Classic episodes (usually from seasons 2 to 5) now show on C4 at 6pm on weekdays, with an extra, newer episode on Fridays at 9pm. Channel 4 and its associated channels do not cut programmes or movies for commercial timing purposes.
Audience records
The highest audience ever attained by Channel 4 was 13.8 million for the film A Woman of Substance, broadcast on 4 January 1985. Excluding films, the channel's highest rating was 10 million viewers for the final of the third series of Big Brother on 27 July 2002.
Channel 4 occupies a distinctive, purpose-designed building on Horseferry Road, Westminster, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership with structural engineering by Ove Arup & Partners. It follows on from, but is more restrained than, the Lloyd's building in the City of London, and was constructed from 1991-94.
See also
External links
- http://www.channel4.com/
- http://www.filmfour.com/
- Media Guardian special report on Channel 4
- Channel 4 Swearing ad WARNING: this clip includes vulgar language and may not be appropriate for children under 10 years of age.
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There is a channel in Finland called Nelonen, which is often called Channel Four Finland. This channel has no links to Channel 4 in the UK.
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My five year old loves to play this game. The board is made up of sixteen cards that show different rooms of a house. Each time, the board is set up in a different way, which adds to the interest of the game. On each turn, the player will spin one die that has either a color or a star on the side. If a color comes up, the player advances his/her token to the next colored place on the board. Since the board is constantly changed, that may mean a jump of ten steps or only one. If the die shows a star, then the player must pick a card which shows an item found in one of the rooms. The player finds the room that has this item and moves his/her token to that room. This may cause a player to jump to the top of the house or fall back to a lower level. The first player to reach the attic wins. My five year old loves the game and even I don't mind playing it.
This is fairly and squarely a kid's game. It uses a coloured die which means number and reading skills are not needed - my 3 year old can play it, but rarely lasts until the end of the game (he gets a bit silly). My 5 year old loves it.
BUT we play with a simple but important tweak. In the rules, rolling a star means that you must search the randomly placed rooms to find the object. This is fun, but there is no tension and it can even be disappointing if you are nearly finished and then you find the object in the very first room. What we do is that everyone must look for the object and announce when they have found it, and this determines the movement of the player who rolled the star. If the roller is first to spot the object they move to the fourth star in front of them, second they move forward 3 stars, third they move 2 stars and last only one star. When the player reaches the attic and there are no more stars, they move on the white spaces instead. You should adjust the movement for the number of players: with three players, move 4,3,2; and with two, move 4 and 2. We also do not allow a player to win by rolling a star and moving to the final white space if they were the last one to spot the object.


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The Hunter LbNA # 5277 (ARCHIVED)
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Difficulty: Easy
Distance to Letterbox: About 1 mile round trip
Status of Letterbox: Alive, but damaged (log book ruined) on 11/15/08. Hope to replace log soon.
"The Hunder" letterbox can be found in Burroughs Park, near Tomball, Texas. This day use county park offers ball fields, hike and bike trail, picnic facilities, and a catch-and-release fishing lake.
From Tomball, go east on Hwy 2920 for a few miles to Huffsmith Kohrville Rd (FM 2978 north), and turn left. Go 1.7 miles to West Huffsmith Rd and turn right. Go 1.3 miles to Burroughs Park entrance on the left. Turn in, and stay on main road for 1.1 miles to the back of the park (past ball fields and lake). At the end, circle around the loop and park near the trail board on the right side (northwest side of parking area).
To The Letterbox:
Starting at the trail board, go north on the trail that goes along the vollyball pits on your right. You will pass a small trail on your right in about 200 yards. Continue north on main trail. Soon you will pass a wooden bench on your right. Keep going. Next the trail splits, so go right. Continue to the next trail junction (pipeline). Cross over the pipeline bed, and go east on the small trail into the woods for 135 paces. This will put you beside a log on your left side, which runs along the trail. The box is about 3 yards from the west end of the log, tucked inside the middle cavity and hidden by two large sticks. Return the way you came.
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A delightful irony underlies Chris Buck's celebrity portraiture: Though he feeds our celebrity-obsessed culture with his images, the fact that he couldn't care less about boldface names is what makes his work interesting. "I'm definitely not precious about famous people," Buck says. "I'm making pictures for my clients and for the audience, and not for the subject."
The lack of awe allows Buck to ask his sitters for the unexpected, whether that means duct taping Sir Richard Branson to a wall, convincing David Cross to make a photograph in which he seems to be kicking a dog or photographing Steve Carell sprawled out with his head on a table as if he's simply had enough.
"It's very much a love-hate thing," Buck says of his interest in celebrity. He photographs the famous to make a living, but he has also probed and poked fun at the idea of celebrity and its cultural manifestations in his personal work. In one series, "Isn't," Buck photographed celebrity lookalikes. The pictures were convincing, playing on the well-known public personas of people like Madonna and George W. Bush to such effect that only careful examination revealed the ruse.
For his most recent personal project, "Presence," which has been published in a book from Kehrer Verlag that will be available in the U.S. in September, Buck asked celebrity subjects to hide somewhere in the frame of his images so that he could create a "portrait" of them in which they couldn't actually be seen. Buck titles the images with the subjects' names, and in the book includes a document, signed by a witness, stating that the person in question is indeed hiding somewhere in the image.
Buck says the images are "a great compliment to the celebrity because the images are changed knowing that Kathy Griffin is in the picture or Jon Hamm; they're enriched, they're made more interesting, and I think that's a very powerful statement about what these people and their stories bring to the picture.
"At the same time," Buck adds, "It's a bit of an 'F-you' because you've worked really hard to become successful, and now I'm not going to show you."
Buck began "Presence," which he's worked on for the past five years, as a promotional project. The idea was to show art directors and creative directors who might hire him for advertising work that he could "conceptualize and execute larger bodies of work," and that he has "a great imagination and can do interesting work that is genuinely surprising and creative."
Originally Buck envisioned a lot of images shot in studios or hotel rooms, with a celebrity hiding somewhere behind a chair or other prop, because that's where he often photographs his subjects for clients and he'd be piggybacking on those shoots. His first photograph, however, was of William Shatner, whom he was photographing on location. Shatner led him to a barn on the property, where he hid amidst several bales of hay and a pile of sawdust. The textures of the hay and the oddity of the scene gave the image an unexpectedly rich quality. "If we can get enough like this mixed in with the photo studios and hotel rooms," Buck thought, "this actually could have more legs" beyond a simple promotional series.
One of Buck's inspirations for the project was Philippe Halsman's Jump, a book of images of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor jumping in the air, which the photographer shot during the 1950s while working as a portraitist for LIFE magazine. The project "worked out so brilliantly because it was inherently positive," Buck explains. "The key thing about his series is that it was something that was hard to say no to," he adds.
For "Presence," Buck had a similar proposition—it was clever and subversive, but not humiliating for the subject in any way. The reactions he received were varied, but mostly positive, he says. Actor Russell Brand was delighted by the idea and spent a lot of time hiding in the lobby of The Plaza Hotel in New York City during downtime on a film shoot. Chevy Chase, Buck recalls, didn't initially believe any of the celebrities were actually hiding in Buck's photos. Musician Devendra Banhart and comedian Sarah Silverman insisted on hiding in places that were more difficult than those Buck originally suggested "because it was more fun for them," Buck says.
For Buck the series has been a creative outlet, something special to show clients, and it has yielded his first book. It also opened doors to the fine-art world, with Michael Foley Gallery planning an exhibition of the work in 2013. And in addition to its commentary on celebrity, the work also says something about the photographic medium. "One thing I realized when doing the series was how much we as photographers manipulate spaces to make them appear to be something other than what they are," Buck notes. "A lot of times people will say, 'I can't tell where they're hidden, there's nowhere to hide in this picture.' I never realized before how much we change and distort the physical location just by the angle or the lighting."
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In my own tentative shopping cart: Magento? Prestashop? Insterspire?
It seems that each offers something good, but also something bad. What I'd like is of course SEO-friendly, that's a given, but also one that's customer-friendly in terms of how the categories are laid out, and manager-friendly in terms of managing categories and products.
However, I have just come across a website where I really really like the way that the public side is laid out. It is:
But I can't figure out what shopping cart this might be - can anyone tell ?
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Yes, I have done inumerable demos until my eyes get fuzzy and my hair itches (and vice-versa).
What I can't understand is why there aren't any that are:
- easy to use as an admin to set up categories and products
- seo friendly
- out-of-the-box customer-friendly on the public side
Even the big players seem to have hopelessly user-unfriendly interfaces. Don't they study usability? That's the name of the game!
It didn't end up all that complicated to do. Mine is a mix of database and html pages (a bit like one of the shopping cart add-ons but slightly more database based for ease of management) but I reckon it's quicker for me to use a dedicated editor rather than a wysiwyg editor.
Best thing is the speed and flexibility. The only proprietary one I took a fancy to was aspdotnetstorefront. Didn't fancy the fun of asp.net though.
What I can't understand is that in all the carts that have been built, in addition to the features, they aren't also built on usability. Features without usability is silly.


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The lowest temperature that is theoretically possible, at which the motion of particles which constitutes heat would be minimal. It is zero on the Kelvin scale, equivalent to −273.15°C.
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Finally, the course compares how code is written in several different languages, the libraries and frameworks that have grown around them, and the reasons to choose each one.
- Writing source code
- Understanding compiled and interpreted languages
- Requesting input
- Working with numbers, characters, strings, and operators
- Writing conditional code
- Making the code modular
- Writing loops
- Finding patterns in strings
- Working with arrays and collections
- Adopting a programming style
- Reading and writing to various locations
- Debugging
- Managing memory usage
- Learning about other languages
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JavaScript is a scripting language, not a general purpose programming language, and its world is the webpage that loaded it, not your operating system, not your hard drive. Instead, it has some great functions for grabbing and manipulating what's on the webpage. JavaScript is using something called the Document Object Model or the DOM to do this. Now, I can't talk much about the DOM without also talking a little bit about HTML and webpages in general. So while the next few minutes by itself is a little specialized to be something I'd call a general programming fundamental, well, that's not really about this.
It's the bigger picture here that's important. And the idea which is fundamental is that the languages you use become specialized to the world that they work in. So if you work designing mobile applications, well you'll end up being able to write code to deal with what happens if the phone rings while your program is running. But you would not find that same ability when you're writing desktop applications. Instead, you might be able to write code to deal with the printer or the USB port because that would be your world.
And if you work in JavaScript, you'll find yourself being able to write code to deal with the webpage. You see, we've been focused on using JavaScript so far to illustrate the basics of programming, things like conditions, iterations, arrays, and using these annoying alert boxes. But we know JavaScript doesn't run with alert boxes all the time. Real-world JavaScript is all about reaching from our script into the webpage that we have, and causing that page to reach back into our script.
And we do that by understanding this thing called the DOM, the Document Object Model. Now, this is the term that's a little odd to understand the first time you hear it because it's kind of vague. People ask me, well, what is the DOM? Is it a language, is it part of JavaScript? What is it? Well, DOM is actually a pretty simple idea. And the best way to understand it is really to pull it apart into its three different words. Document, Object, Model. So we're going to take it apart piece by piece. We'll start with the first one. What do we mean by document? Well, if I'm in Microsoft Word, document might mean one thing, whatever I'm working on there, but we're not.
It's the same idea here, but JavaScript perceives the same webpage a third way, Same document with a different representation. So if the current page is all we mean by Document, what's the Object part of Document Object Model? Well, Object here just means the different elements, the components, the pieces of this document. If I was to talk to a user, I could say look at the headline on this page, look at the bullet point list on this page, look at the whole page, or even look at the third letter in the second word.
But if you're a web developer, I could use a different perspective. I could say look at the HTML, look at the h1 that represents the headline, look at the unordered list part, look at the whole document. All these things are objects. And yes, sometimes one object contains other object. That's okay. We'll have a way in JavaScript to get to every single piece, every object at whatever level that makes sense, from being able to grab the entire document to being able to grab the smallest piece.
That leads us to the idea of the model. The model simply means what do we call these individual pieces and how do we describe the relationships between them. The model here is like a business model or a data model. It's trying to represent something complex by making it abstract, making it simple. It's simply a set of terms that we can agree on. Do we call these individual pieces elements or nodes or doohickeys? What do we call them? We all have to agree. What we end up with is that the DOM in JavaScript is an agreed-upon set of terms.
What I can do is create a new variable. I'll call it headline and I want to grab that part of the webpage. The way that I do it is using the Document Object Model. I will say well, it's part of the document. Document is an object that actually exists anywhere in my JavaScript. Then I'm going to say that I want to get a particular element. There's a built-in function here called getElementById. It's one of the most popular functions in the whole of JavaScript.
I give it one piece of information, which is, what did I call it? Well, I called it mainHeading. And as soon as this line of code runs, I'll have this handle on that particular piece of the page. Then I can use this handle, this variable name, to say well, I'm going to reach inside of it, and set its own contents in our HTML to something new, "Wow, a new headline!" Okay, not the most exciting thing in the world. But if I save this, I jump back to my folder, and I run this page again, no alert box this time, but I can see that I'm immediately reaching into that headline, and actually changing the value of it.
It's not changing my actual HTML. If I look at the HTML file, it still says Interesting Headline. But what's happening is the HTML was loading, it's bringing in our JavaScript, and immediately our JavaScript is reaching back and changing the contents of this headline tag. And sure, while this by itself might not set your world on fire, if we can affect the headline, we can affect anything. We can change colors, we can change text. We are creating the contents of this page through our JavaScript.
All programming languages have an area in which they become specialized based on the world that they're working in. When you're a JavaScript developer, knowing the DOM and learning the DOM, being able to navigate through the page, is the single most important skill for being proficient in that language.


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In Germany a clinical trial must not be started before it is authorized by the competent higher federal authority. Depending on the type of investigational product two higher federal authorities with different responsibilities exist in Germany. Their competences are regulated by the German Medicines Act (Arzneimittelgesetz, AMG). The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, BfArM) is responsible for clinical investigations of drugs, medical devices and for performance evaluations of in vitro diagnostic agents, with the exception of those which the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute is responsible for. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institute (PEI) is responsible for performance evaluations of high risk in vitro diagnostic agents like vaccines, sera and blood and plasma derived products.
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices is an independent higher federal authority within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Health. It is the successor to the Institute for Drugs (Institut für Arzneimittel) founded on 1st July 1975 as part of the now dissolved Federal Health Office (Bundesgesundheitsamt, BGA). One of the main tasks of the BfArM is the authorization of finalized medicinal products on the basis of the German Medicines Act (Arzneimittelgesetz, AMG). In the course of these licensing procedures the authority reviews the proof of efficacy, safety, and adequate pharmaceutical quality of the finalized medicinal products. The authorization of finalized medicinal products includes the approval of requests for authorization of a clinical trial by a sponsor or authorized CRO.
The request for authorization of a clinical trial has to be made in writing. The BfArM's authorization is subsequently assumed, unless it has, within 30 days, stated reasons for denying its consent to a clinical trial. Furthermore, the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices has to be notified about the end of a trial within 90 days and about interceptions or an interruption within 15 days.
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Definition of automatize in English:
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Make automatic or habitual: the need to refresh automatized forms of literature
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- The point is that our experience of language, quite as much as our experience of the world, is habitual and to that extent tends to be automatized.
- After training, the degree to which a skill has been automatized has been measured using the disruption that occurs when targets and distractors are changed.
- The practice of reading helps to automatize the reading process.
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- It is this process of automatization that explains the laws of our prose speech with its fragmentary phrases and half-articulated words.
- They suggest that the automatization of cognitive skills is characterized by a reduction of the demands placed on cognitive resources and, in particular, on attentional and working memory capacities.
- It may be, as Roman Jakobson believed, that its virtue lies in its power to protect us from 'automatisation, from the rust threatening our formulae of love and hatred, of revolt and renunciation, of faith and negation'.
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Meet IESE's Admissions Director
Alberto Arribas says transcripts and test scores are important, but make sure you budget time for a social life
On December 20, 2000, our guest was Alberto Arribas, director of admissions at Spain's IESE (No. 3 on BW's 2000 Top 7 Non-U.S. B-School list). Arribas has been at IESE as a teacher, an executive MBA student, and for five years, as an administrator. He started as an associate director of admissions, in charge of Spain and Latin American countries in 1996 and now makes the final call on applicants. He was interviewed by Business Week Online's Mica Schneider. Here's an edited transcript of their conversation:
Q: Several of your U.S. colleagues have noticed an increase in the number of applications to their full-time MBA programs this year. What's happening in Barcelona at IESE?
A:We receive around 1,200 applications, with an intake of 210 students every year, or about 15% of applicants. This year, we have changed some things in the admissions process. Now, we have rolling admissions with four deadlines.
So far, we have increased the number of applications by about 40% in this first deadline compared with the same dates last year. We've received 180 applications so far.
In the past, our problem was that most of the applications [were due] from February to April. We wanted to have a more homogenous flow of applications, so we started this deadline system -- with good results, I think.
Q: Where do the majority of IESE applicants hail from?
A:Last year, we received 380 applications from Spain, or about 32%, our largest group. Around 250 applicants, or 21%, came from Latin America. And another 252 came from Western Europe, with 200 from Eastern European countries. Applicants from the U.S. and Canada sent 80 applications.
Q: It seems that IESE isn't attracting a large Asian contingent of applicants, unlike U.S. and other European B-schools.
A:We have around five [admitted] students every year from Asia.
Q: Why isn't the school attracting more Asian candidates?
A:Every year, we participate in an MBA fair [held in] different countries. And IESE has an important relationship with a European school in Shanghai called the China Europe International Business School.
MBA students from IESE can go there for a semester, and we receive students from that school's MBA program. Some professors usually go there to spend one or two months delivering and discussing business cases. We also have, I think, a very good reputation in the Philippines.
But with the rest of the countries, the competition is very hard, especially in the American market. We have traditionally linked with the British. But since we want a mixture of different nationalities, it's O.K. to have five or six Asian students every year.
Q: What is the ideal IESE MBA student?
A:Both professional experience and also personal experience count. We are looking for a candidate that, apart from the [exam] results and transcripts -- which have to be good -- through this professional experience and personal experience, has a professional maturity. That is something that we pick up on in the interview.
Q: Which IESE applicants land interviews?
A:All of the people we see as good candidates for IESE are interviewed, because we are very interested in knowing them. That's why all of the admitted students are interviewed.
When we receive a [complete] application, we have a committee decide if the candidate will have an interview or not. So if the candidate doesn't go to an interview, he is rejected. The interview is when we would discuss the [candidate's] professional experience, but also the separate activities.
Q: How important is the other evidence of performance IESE applicants have to submit, such as the GMAT?
A:The requirements are the usual requirements at every business school. The GMAT score has to be good. Our average last year was 655. [The student] has to be fluent in English, and one of the requirements for non-native English speakers is [scoring well on] the Test of English as a Foreign Language [TOEFL] exam -- we ask for a minimum score of 250 out of 300. Professional background and work experience before the MBA are important, too. Last year, the average was 4.5 years [of experience].
Q: How important is it for an applicant to demonstrate that he or she participated in extracurricular activities?
A:It's important, because we also want to have a global idea of the candidate.
Q: Applicants can choose whether or not they want to write their required essays in English or Spanish. Should applicants from North America write in Spanish? And should native Spanish speakers aim to demonstrate a solid grasp of English?
A:They have to write in the language they feel most comfortable with. It doesn't matter if it is in English or in Spanish, because the MBA program is bilingual.
The 210 students that we admit every year are divided into three groups in the first year. Two of the groups complete the first year completely in English and one group does so in Spanish. The English groups receive Spanish classes every day, so that at the end of the first year they are bilingual. Some of those students complete the application in Spanish. Also, in the interview, we assess the candidate's language skills, because some of the questions are in English and others in Spanish.
Q: That said, which admissions requirement holds the most weight?
A:From the admissions point of view, statistics -- the GMAT, for example -- count. But the important thing is the maturity of the candidate.
Q: What is the one thing applicants should avoid while applying to IESE?
A:I don't like to see arrogance in an interview. If a candidate comes here with the aim of being first in everything and the most brilliant student without caring about the rest of the class, that's something that we are not interested in. I don't want students that can't spend some of their precious time [with their classmates] -- especially in the first year.... Or even ones that won't make time for extracurricular activities, [such as] playing in a rugby or football match or going skiing.
Last year, a candidate had a GMAT score of 750, and very good work experience from different countries. So on paper he was "The Candidate." But during the interview, I saw that he was weak in the things we are looking for. He wasn't admitted, and he was really surprised. Even his boss phoned me to ask why we had done that.
Q: When accepted applicants decide not to attend IESE, which B-schools do they go to?
A:IESE has very tight competition, especially with INSEAD, in Fontainbleau, France, and London Business School. Every year, we have admitted candidates that finally [decide to go to those schools]. We have tight competition with those schools for candidates.
Q: When is the best time to apply to IESE? Is earlier in the application season better?
A:This is obvious, but the last deadline is very dangerous. In our case, the last deadline is at the end of April -- we usually have places open until that time.
Q: How long does it take for IESE to notify an applicant of its decision?
A:There is a maximum amount of time [we spend on an application]. For example, the first deadline was the 29th of November, and we have a decision deadline of the 14th of February [or two and a half months later]. But the committee gets together every week, so sometimes a decision is made in two weeks, if the interview can be scheduled quickly.
Q: IESE employs a wait list. How many applicants did the school accept from that wait list in 2000?
A:People that are waitlisted are accepted only there isn't room for them in the current class. Last year, 35 people were on the list, and 15 were able to start in October with the class. We rank the waiting list by when the person applied. This begins, more or less, at the end of April and beginning of May. We can't take people off of the list any later than July, because it is usually too late for the applicants to tell their companies that they are leaving and to move to Spain.
However, everyone on IESE's wait list is guaranteed a spot in the next class in the next year. The only condition is that in February they have to send us an updated resume and a deposit [to secure their place in the class].
Q: What closing advice do you have for prospective IESE applicants?
A:Be yourself. Sometimes we can give an applicant what they're looking for. Sometimes we can't. In that sense, it's better to be oneself and to have confidence in the people in admissions to help you decide if [you fit] our profile. If that's not the case, the best thing that we can do is not to admit him or her.
Second, this is a very serious program in terms of heavy workload, and you have to be able to share time with the rest of your classmates. You have to be able to lead a complete life. So be careful the moment you decide to complete the MBA and be careful [in choosing] the school in which you want to spend these two years.
One of the things that candidates looking for [in an MBA] is a good network. If you don't have time to establish such relationships, the network won't work.
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Issue No.03 - May/June (1999 vol.16)
pp: 46-51
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/52.765786

Often the technical and business sectors of IT organizations work in opposition, toward different goals and objectives. The authors propose a method that integrates strategic and project measurement systems, supporting long-term growth, stability, and competitiveness.

Shirley A. Becker, Mitchell L. Bostelman, "Aligning Strategic and Project Measurement Systems", IEEE Software, vol.16, no. 3, pp. 46-51, May/June 1999, doi:10.1109/52.765786


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Graeme Swann hailed "probably our most complete day" of a troubled Test winter after England took the ascendancy in Colombo.
Swann claimed three of the four wickets to fall this morning as the hosts were dismissed for 275. Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook then shared a steady 112-run stand before the tourists closed on 154 for one.
Swann's 3-4 today game him innings figures of 4-75. Strauss made 61 and Cook finished unbeaten on 77 with Jonathan Trott in situ.
It was just what Strauss' side needed, having been whitewashed by Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates and losing the first Test of two at Galle last week.
"It was a very good day and it was the day we were all looking for," Swann said.
"Four wickets quick and cheap was important, but probably more important for the overall vibe in the dressing room was a solid start and 154 for one.
"It's probably our most complete day of the winter. We've had some very good days scuppered by bad ones but this was a very good all round day."
Strauss and Cook laid the foundations for a decisive first-innings lead, in contrast to 193 all out in England's first effort at Galle.
"It was just what the doctor ordered, especially after the first innings at Galle," Swann added.
"It was important to get out and start well - 150 for one speaks for itself. It was exceptional from the top order.
"We're in a good position, but we're not completely there. There is going to be some attritional cricket on what is a slow wicket.
"We need to push past their score. We've got to look for 400 I think."
Strauss' fifty was his second of the Test winter and, although he is without a Test century in 24 innings, he confirmed the form he had hinted at in Galle.
"He proved himself today, he got another good start, and he'll be kicking himself he got 50 and didn't go on," Swann said.
"We're very happy. He's been having a few questions asked of him in the media. Everyone is behind him."
Asked if he thought the media pressure on Strauss was justified, Swann added: "Personally I don't, I'm Andrew Strauss' greatest ally.
"I think we should let him get on with scoring the hundreds he will undoubtedly do.
"He's probably frustrated (as) he's been in good form. Every time he bats he gets a start. He's probably in one of those patches when you don't quite perform as you like."
Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford admitted his bowlers would have to improve tomorrow to get back in the game, adding that a change in the England top order's tactics had left his side now needing to reassess on a pitch that did not provide as much turn as he expected.
"The way they played in the first innings at Galle and the way they played today was totally different," he said.
"They certainly looked like they had a good think about playing our spinners, although I was expecting the pitch to do more.
"It didn't really go that much, maybe that was the difference. It gives us something to think about.
"We've got to get back in the match tomorrow, so we'll have to bowl well up front. I expect my guys to be up for a scrap tomorrow."
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The annual dinner for Pocono Services for Families and Children at The Chateau Resort in Tannersville has been rescheduled for tonight. This postponement is due to flooding and extensive cleanup from a burst pipe earlier this month at PSFC's administrative offices and classrooms in East Stroudsburg.
A buffet dinner will begin at 6 p.m. and the program will start at about 7 p.m.
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I ought to have baking down by now. I have been cooking and baking for most of my life, and I left culinary school with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. I have churned out flawless soufflés and stunning French fruit tarts . . . and yet . . . sometimes I struggle with the simplest of baked goods.
Both because I find it completely irresistible on my plate and because I can never seem to get it right in the kitchen, banana bread has always been my kryptonite.
Whether developing my own recipes or attempting to follow a cookbook to the letter, something always went wrong in the execution. Too wet, too dry, too bland, too funky—you name it.
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Many banana bread recipes request buttermilk for its signature tang and acid content, but this go around I opted for something a little different. Pineapple juice stands in to lend sweetness, gentle acidity, and a fruity boost to the banana flavor in this delicious quick-bread.
Dark chocolate chips provide depth and contrast, but you could omit them or swap them out for ½ cup coarsely chopped nuts if desired.
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2 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
1 cup dark chocolate chips
3 ripe (very spotty) bananas
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup pineapple juice (unsweetened)
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease and flour a standard-sized bundt pan, making sure to get into all the little nooks and crannies. Place the bundt pan on a rimmed baking sheet.
In a large bowl, thoroughly whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Stir in the chocolate chips, and set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, use a fork to mash up the bananas with the brown sugar. Use a sturdy whisk to thoroughly incorporate the oil, pineapple juice, and vanilla into the banana mixture. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time, until fully incorporated.
Use a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour the banana mixture into the well, and stir until there are no visible pockets of dry ingredients. Avoid mixing too aggressively, which would deliver a tougher texture.
Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes or until the cake is golden-brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with just a few moist crumbs clinging to it.
Place the bundt pan on a cooling rack and allow the cake to cool in the pan for at least 20 minutes, or until it starts to pull away from the sides of the pan, before inverting onto the cooling rack to cool completely.
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Repeated failed attempts to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada have cost nearly £1million in legal fees, the Government confirmed.
Immigration Minister Damian Green admitted the bill since 2002 has reached £825,000 and is set to continue to grow.
Home Secretary Theresa May has come in for intense criticism over her handling of the case after confusion over an appeal deadline means Qatada could be released on bail within weeks.
Mr Green said the tally related to legal fees incurred by the Government in trying to return the cleric to Jordan.
No figures were given for how much Qatada, described by a judge as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, has received in legal aid over that period.
The Legal Services Commission (LSC), which runs the legal aid scheme in England and Wales, confirmed last week the 51-year-old has been receiving public money to fund his appeals.
Qatada was arrested by officers from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) on the morning of Tuesday April 17, just hours after the Home Office said the time for any appeal was up.
But Qatada's lawyers claim their appeal to the Strasbourg-based court, made at 11pm local time (10pm BST) on April 17, was just before the midnight deadline.
A panel of judges at the human rights court will now decide whether the appeal was in time or not. If the deadline had expired, the judges have no discretion to allow the appeal to be considered by the court's Grand Chamber.
Mr Green said: "Since 2002 the legal fees incurred by the Government to deport Abu Qatada are around £825,000. The case is ongoing and so further costs are likely to be incurred."
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- 3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
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- 4 teaspoons spicy paprika
- 4 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 4 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- pinch of salt
- fresh ground black pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup honey
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AUGUSTA, Ga.---Neighbors living in south Augusta are saying no to plans for a new development.
Tonight they made sure their voices were heard at a meeting with the Augusta Housing Authority and the developer at the Henry Brigham Community Center.
It was a packed house, standing room only. Dozens of south Augusta residents expressed their distaste and intense disapproval at the idea of building "mixed income" housing near their neighborhoods.
Most residents and almost all of the community's elected officials are against the idea. They say they've been in the dark about the project right from the beginning.
"I didn't get a phone call, I didn't get anything," said resident Dr. Jacqueline Williams, MD. "All I got was a letter in my mailbox."
"We don't know nothing," said Kay Norton. "Last night news, we watch Channel 12, they say, 'Oh! We gonna go there.'"
Members of the Housing Authority and the developer were present to try and calm the fears about property values and other issues. Many of the residents, however, were just not buying it.
"It's going down!" said Pheolian Evans III. "Property values going down!"
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SAN FRANCISCO -- After Italy's Luna Rossa handily won its third race in the Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals Friday, skipper Max Sirena lashed out against Oracle Team USA, which is under investigation for hiding lead pellets in the boats it raced in the America's Cup World Series last year.
"I'm not happy for my sport, not happy for the people watching us and especially because they are always the guys that are playing these games really clean and nice, but in reality they are always the guys that try to cheat," Sirena said with a strong Italian accent after Friday's decisive win over Sweden's Artemis Racing. "I don't even look at them anymore. I lost my -- how do you say in English? -- my respect. I lost my respect for them completely."
The latest trouble to hit the America's Cup is an embarrassing humiliation at the least for Oracle Team USA. The team has already forfeited its World Series trophies, but whether the team will be penalized by the international jury investigating the matter, or whether the America's Cup next month will be affected, remains to be seen.
Russell Coutts, CEO of Oracle Team USA, acknowledged Friday that the infraction is "serious," even though it occurred in 45-foot catamarans during four races in the ACWS last year.
The infraction was a "mistake" committed by unnamed workers without the knowledge of the team's management or skippers, Coutts said. When the problem was brought to the team's attention, the team immediately forfeited its titles.
"We don't condone breaking the rules," Coutts said. "We had a policy in place. That policy wasn't followed."
Coutts said this incident is nothing if not "stupidity," because adding "lead shot" inside the front "king posts" didn't help the overall performance of the boat.
"It's pretty obvious it's not designers that were involved," he said. "If you had designer input, they would have told you not to do it. It's actually going to make the boat go slightly slower."
The extra weight was discovered by a boat builder preparing one of the AC45s for the Red Bull Youth America's Cup next month. After America's Cup measurement committee members inspected it, they concluded that "the modifications appear to be intentional efforts" to circumvent the class rules "and are therefore serious in nature." The three AC45s in question were sailed by Oracle, as well as Ben Ainslie Racing.
Ainslie, an Olympic gold medalist who borrowed an Oracle boat to sail for Britain in the ACWS last summer, and Emirates Team New Zealand issued comments Friday.
"As skipper of the boat I had no knowledge whatsoever that the boat was being raced out of measurement," Ainslie said in a statement. "I am deeply disappointed by this incident and will do all I can to assist the relevant parties in any further investigations."
Grant Dalton, managing director of the New Zealand team, said he was "stunned" by the revelations.
"I find it difficult to believe that what we learned last night actually happened at the top level of our sport," Dalton said.
The only team making light of the news was Iain Percy, skipper of Sweden's Artemis Racing. He said he was so busy preparing for Friday's race against Luna Rossa that he barely had a chance to focus on Oracle's troubles, except to "have a chuckle, feel sorry for my mates across the way then get on with the race today."
The revelations overshadowed Race 3 of the best-of-seven Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals between Luna Rossa and Artemis Racing. On Friday both teams sailed their best races, with each improving its tactics and speed. Luna Rossa had a perfect start, hydrofoiled well through its downwind turns and beat Artemis by 1 minute, 18 seconds.
The teams face each other at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. If the Italians win, the Swedes will be eliminated and Luna Rossa will advance to the Louis Vuitton finals against New Zealand.
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April 4, 2006 (Washington) -- A test that characterizes tumors by their unique genetic fingerprint may soon help doctors to spot lung cancers earlier, when they're much more treatable, researchers report.
If it pans out in future studies, the test could help extend the lives of thousands of lung cancer patients, says researcher Avrum Spira, MD, of Boston University Medical Center.
Currently, fewer than one in five people diagnosed with lung cancer survive for five years, he says.
The bleak outlook is in part due to the fact that more than 85% of lung cancers aren't diagnosed until they have already spread beyond the lung.
"We believe this test can move up when we make the diagnosis and has the potential to change the course of the disease," Spira tells WebMD.
The research was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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The new test looks for a unique 80-gene signature that can distinguish with a high degree of accuracy which people have lung cancer and which do not, Spira says.
Currently, doctors can refer a person for a procedure called bronchoscopy to investigate suspicious lung lesions that might be seen on an X-ray. A thin, flexible, lighted tube is inserted into the nose and snaked down through the windpipe and into the lower airways of the lungs. Cells are collected and sent to the pathologist for analysis.
The new test piggybacks on the bronchoscopy. A little brush is attached to the scope. As the tube advances, the brush picks up cells lining the windpipe, much like a broom collects dust.
Genetic analysis of cells from the upper airways complements conventional analysis of lower airway cells, Spira explains.
"We are not subjecting people to an extra procedure," he says. "These patients were suspect for having cancer, and they were already undergoing the bronchoscopy. As part of the procedure, we took additional samples from a more accessible airway."
Piggyback Approach Spots 95% of Cancers
The researchers tested the dual approach on 152 former and current smokers who had been referred for bronchoscopy due to suspicious X-ray findings.