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Posted Mar 6, 2013 0:41 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Ubuntu has now become an island that is growing more or more apart from any other bigger commercial Linux. [...] Canonical contributes barely anything to the Linux plumbing layer, much the same way they stay away from the kernel. (Source).
Ultimately, this move of Canonical will be one more step towards splitting up the ecosystem. (Source).
Posted Mar 6, 2013 0:52 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 0:57 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 1:11 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Thanks for making my argument
Posted Mar 6, 2013 1:19 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 1:43 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 1:50 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Kristian Høgsberg - Intel Daniel Stone - Collobora Dave Airlie - Red Hat Mathias Hasselmann - Openismus Carsten Haitzler aka Rasterman - Enlightenment
As you can see, it is a very broad group.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 10:20 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
they barely have anyone competent enough to write a display server, the fact that they are actually quite ignorant of how wayland works makes it even more apparent.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 12:01 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
That was you, upthread. If this was about one company unfairly dissing a competitor, that would be one thing. When it's basically the entire community, across multiple different companies (many of which aren't direct Canonical competitors) versus one individual organisation doing something different, that's another.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 13:14 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 15:15 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
These assumptions of corruption reflect more about how the writer sees the world and thinks in their own head than about the people who are the subject of their words.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 15:51 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 16:04 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Such biases do exist, at various levels of consciousness. That is not to condemn them. However, we should be aware of them, and take care to note affiliations.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 16:16 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
As far as I can tell, dissing Canonical provides no tactical or strategic benefit to any particular vendor who is involved in this discussion
Posted Mar 6, 2013 16:28 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
However, there's been a number of times over the last few years where from several rouge capped free software people have snipped at Canonical, with a common theme that Canonical is somehow free-riding. The sub-text seems to be that Canonical gets more of the user-base with Ubuntu and recognition than their share of the work deserves. Guess who employees a lot of the people doing the work?
To think there is absolutely no element of corporate competition to this story seems, I'm sorry, a little naïve. Both in terms of Canonical choosing not to hitch their wagon to Wayland, and in the (predominantly) RedHat and Intel employees' reactions to that. There are pure, technical elements too, of course...
Posted Mar 6, 2013 19:34 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (subscriber, #56129) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 15:56 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
[counter-sarcasm] I am sure David calmly and dispassionately reviewed once more the payroll list of Canonical, and checked the LinkedIn skillsets of all employees. Then ignoring all subconscious biases he might once have possessed, decided that they didn't have anyone competent enough to write a display server. [/counter-sarcasm]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 16:11 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
In any event pointing out the clear lack of familiarity with the technologies they are (not) using is not pre-judice, it's post-judice. I don't think it's unfair to also say that they have not demonstrated technical leadership very often in the underlying infrastructure technologies they depend on, bzr and upstart being two examples. They need not just the cojones but the talent to pull this all off.
I should also point out that I wish nothing but the best for Ubuntu, which is why I'm talking about this in the first place, if I didn't care I wouldn't comment.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:38 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
Intel told Red Hat to tell me to say this. Thats exactly how it went down.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:48 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 16:33 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
"Intellectual dishonesty" is just a weasel word for lying and if you want to accuse me of that because I disagree with you that this is somehow a Red Hat specific thing when I have clearly shown you otherwise (yet another criticism from KWin developer - http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/19qcix/k...), then I don't think you get to advocate against vitriol or badmouthing. If you have a counter point, please express is politely.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 17:12 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Let us leave him aside; another Red Hat employee (David Airlie) also badmouthed Canonical without offering any valid technical points, as quoted above (saying they don't have competent technical people). Other people expressed their opinions, in a mostly polite form, and with valid technical reasons; Airlie only made baseless accusations (such as lamenting the lack of source code, which was not true) and silly jabs (Jumping Sharks).
That is just one random Google+ thread, there are many other examples that I have linked above. I am not in the mood to curate any more examples for you.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 17:44 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
1) Lennart's dislike for Canonical is not based on his organizational affiliation. It has a much longer history.
2) it has nothing to do with the current discussion
David's points were already shown to be true. You are however just engaging in the same tactics you seem to be critical of.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 17:50 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Now you will no doubt accuse me of the same, and so on. Bah.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 17:58 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:58 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
I summed up my thoughts at the time here, in the end C removed the lies, but I'll still bet we'll see them repeated by fanbois across the Internet for years, and developer time will have to be spent correcting them.
I'll update the blog post to mention that they have removed the original source of the technical untruths.
The thing is if you think this is was a purely technical decision at Canonical's end you are already sucked into their event horizon, sometimes you have to realise technical isn't the game that you are being played in and address it as such.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 21:32 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
As to the downside, there may be bad consequences, but I don't see how we may end up with three (or four!) different, incompatible display servers. Either they will be compatible somehow or only one will survive. Hey, even GNOME and KDE have agreed to a lot of standards, making our life easier.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 23:36 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (subscriber, #56129) [Link]
> As to the downside, there may be bad consequences, but I don't see how we may end up with three (or four!) different, incompatible display servers. Either they will be compatible somehow or only one will survive. Hey, even GNOME and KDE have agreed to a lot of standards, making our life easier. Yeah right. Gtk applications look alien on Qt-based Desktops to this very day. If anything, the Gnome/KDE history is a cautionary tale.
Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:51 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
Here's the thing, Canonical came out of the gate and bashed wayland. I'm not wayland's biggest supporter, but I don't like when companies uses lies and fanboi bases to make their arguments, to me it usually means they are hiding something.
As I've pointed out on my blog they are hiding something or they are technically incompetent. If they are hiding something, its most likely a control problem. If they really misunderstood how wayland worked and believed in what they posted, then its a competency problem, and I'd rather not base the future of Linux compositing on work done by people too incompetent to read and understand the few thousand lines of code that is wayland.
The other thing is Red Hat (as a corporation) doesn't even see this stuff, they do pay me to see this stuff, but they don't direct how I respond and I don't speak on their behalf. My job is to do what I think is best for Linux graphics in the long term, like seriously that is actually what they pay me for, and if I think pointing out flaws in Canonical's arguments for NIHing things is best for Linux then I'll go ahead and do it!
Posted Mar 6, 2013 21:25 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
If you cannot make technical criticism, why do any criticism at all? After all you started with your criticism before even knowing there was a public repo, making a blunder in the process ("I remember when open source project announcements used to come with source").
Once you found the missing repo, why not take your time and make criticism of the few thousand lines of code? If Wayland is also a few thousand lines of code, is it enough to define it or not? Apparently a few thousand lines of code is not enough for you to understand, since you cannot make technical criticism; but it should be enough for Canonical engineers to not only make technical points (which after all can be superficial), but to completely understand it. And apparently not taking the time to understand another project in depth before criticizing it is equivalent to not being competent. Or perhaps a few thousand lines of code are not sufficient to evaluate and understand a complex project.
As I've pointed out on my blog they are hiding something or they are technically incompetent.
Red Hat as a corporation sees this stuff, since you are part of that corporation and are paid to see it. As others have said, you would not be a good employee if you had not interiorized some business principles, such as avoiding projects not under the direct control of your corporation. Sometimes the goals of that corporation will align with the interests of Linux, sometimes it will not (like not publishing a git repo for the kernel). You think Mir is a not good idea; fine. You might also say "Let us wait and see what they come out with; there may be good ideas that we can adapt, and it is Free software after all" or "They have come with good stuff in the past that has served Red Hat well, like Upstart", but hey.
However, you are not only pointing out flaws in Canonical's arguments; you are actively despising them in public ("They should call the next Ubuntu Jumping Sharks"). It points to some kind of internal hostility towards Canonical, which somehow cannot surprise anyone at this point.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 0:05 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
If they aren't hiding something, and we can believe they believe they have the technical competence to design a replacement for wayland/X then you'd expect them to have the technical competence to understand wayland/X? Its generally considered a good idea to understand the thing you are trying to displace. Now if you write a page of falsehoods on the things you are trying to displace, you are either acting from malice, deliberately lying, or stupidity, lying through lack of knowledge. As I said on my blog posting, neither of these reasonings are the things I want to see from the group designing the next generation of display server.
What part of, I do not speak for Red Hat, makes no sense to you. Just because someone gives me a pay cheque it doesn't translate me into a mouthpiece for them. I know its probably hard to understand for people who've never worked in an environment like Red Hat. I have a position in the Linux community and I make statements that I feel like making, if something pisses me off, I say this pisses me off, and try to analyse why! so what if I don't like Canonical, their methods of open source development are anti-community and the direct opposite of how every open source project I've worked on has worked. So maybe I make petty one liner statements, shoot me, its the Internet.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 0:20 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Do you apply the same criteria always? Because I am eagerly awaiting your criticisms of Google Android, Tizen and the GNU project, just to name three prominent examples that are run more or less behind closed doors. (GNU is more open but still requires contributors agreement; the others are worse because AFAIK they don't even accept external contributions.)
Me, I am grateful for what I get, and contribute back what little I can.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 0:34 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
If you believe signing the GNU contributors agreement equates to the Canonical contributor agreement, I have no further time for you, because frankly I expect to discuss things with people intelligent enough to interpret the agreements they sign and who they assign copyrights to.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 0:47 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
As to the GNU project, I think they do a great and necessary job, but their contributor agreement (reasonable as it is) and their development policies (cathedralicious according to some) have been criticized before. They are certainly less agile than they might be, and probably unlike every other project where you have worked before. Hence the comparison.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 1:35 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
I have given out about Android and their encouragement of closed source graphics stacks before, and I do quite often at conferences and anywhere else. I've bitched about HW designs like the raspberry pi and I believe the FSF encouragement of such designs is totally anti their real mission.
Again you say the GNU project, but really its not one big monolith, you seem to be unable to distinguish individual pieces moving in their own directions, GNU projects are not beholden to some GNU development overlord.
some of them are more agile than others, the GNU project is an umbrella framework. Contributors to GNU projects again come from many companies and all believe that GNU is a good steward of the copyrights. (even if they don't use it enough to beat GPL violators with).
The thing is I don't believe Canonical is a good steward for my copyrights or anyone elses, and I think contributing code as an equal to their projects is very difficult. I've gone from 0 to being an integral part of 3 major projects *before* I joined Red Hat, and have never felt my company affiliation mattered in any of them, and was never asked to assign copyrights in any of them. Why would I want to give Canonical rights to take my code proprietary when they don't give me the same right? If you want the right to take code proprietary license it under MIT, and give the same right to other contributors (ala the Mesa 3D stack and X.org), if you don't want it use a GPL variant like the kernel. I also disliked Qt for doing the same for years, and MySQL also ran like that. It discourages individuals and other companies from making any decent contributions to your codebase, so in general you lose a major benefit of being open-source in the first place.
Its generally okay to give copyrights to a foundation that is setup correctly, but to individual companies, my personal believe is it doesn't end well.
Posted Mar 8, 2013 14:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
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Posted Mar 8, 2013 15:05 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]
Let us see a practical example: inclusion in the project.The GNU project says about it:
Based on the evaluators' report, Richard Stallman (the Chief GNUisance) makes the final decision on whether to accept the contribution. [...] Thus, becoming a GNU maintainer is a somewhat formal process, since affiliating with the GNU project as a maintainer means you must agree to work (within the confines of the maintenance) with the GNU project's mission for software freedom.
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Posted Mar 7, 2013 4:05 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Actually, no. What I refused to accept is that they are criticizing a project because of company affiliation. You are entirely wrong about.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 11:54 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
However, there is clear evidence that even well-intentioned, professional people tend to be affected by their affiliations. They tend to have biases toward arguing or acting in favour of the interests of their affiliations. This can happen subconsciously, even against the logical desires of the person. It's well documented in other fields, medical research particularly, and there are various psychological experiments you can do to demonstrate what is thought to be the underlying behaviour involved.
No matter how logical and dispassionate we try to be, our wetware just appears naturally to have a predilection for biasing us towards groups we are members of. There is no good reason to think software people would be immune to this.
Rather than deny this general fact, the best thing to do is to acknowledge it, so we then can find ways to minimise it or work-around it.
Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:23 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Or as other commentators put it, communication issues. :)
Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:30 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (subscriber, #56129) [Link]
Sources of bias
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Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:49 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Posted Mar 8, 2013 14:27 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
However, you are not only pointing out flaws in Canonical's arguments; you are actively despising them in public ("They should call the next Ubuntu Jumping Sharks"). It points to some kind of internal hostility towards Canonical
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"In response to LUL's statement given on Thursday 5 July at 16:00 at ACAS, RMT is not arguing about the use of ICSAs working on stations alongside established staff. We are, however, totally opposed to ICSAs being counted towards minimum numbers for keeping a station open or for evacuation purposes.
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Station Supervisor(s) and [number] London Underground station staff fully trained, qualified, licensed and familiarised to a minimum of CSA level.
LUL has now decided, on the eve of the Olympics, to renege on this agreement by insisting on counting ICSAs (admin staff – some from TfL – with minimal training and not qualified to CSA level) towards minimum numbers.
The breaking of the current agreement by LUL has massive implications for staff and customers, threatening jobs and passenger safety.
LUL has given RMT no option other than to continue to defend the public, safety, jobs and agreements by balloting our members in all grades for action short of a strike."
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Difference between Abstract class vs Interface in Java and When to use them
7 comments :
- MCAndre said...
When should you use abstract classes and interfaces? Always. Subclassing makes testing and reasoning about your code more difficult.
- May 15, 2013 at 6:41 AM
- arijit das said...
Think the difference between abstract class and interface may be given point wise. More discussion on their restrictions should be attached.
- May 15, 2013 at 11:39 AM
- Parul said...
Great Post Javin. I have faced this question couple of times on interviews, but not able to give proper example, when it comes to choosing interface over abstract class or vice-versa. They always looks similar to me, but I love the way you explain things, If you don't mind, can you take an example and walk though us of using Interface over abstract class, and another example in which abstract class is more suitable than interface? Anyway, learn so many things on object-oriented programming from you, Thank you.
- May 15, 2013 at 7:46 PM
- Oguzhan Acargil said...
Well detailed notes about legendary diferrence, thx... my point of view, abstract classes are best fit in low levels of system architecture: persistency, network, web, ui to keep common things under control and reduce redundancy. Interfaces are as is above:)
- May 25, 2013 at 1:12 PM
- Javin @ puzzle asked in programming interviews said...
@Oguzhan Acargil, I sort of agree with you. Interface in my opinion can represent highest level of abstraction, and abstract class may be with slightly lower than, given they have some sort o implementation, which as you said good for low levels of system architecture.
- May 25, 2013 at 8:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
My reason of using Abstract class is simple, avoid using interfaces until Java 8 comes with default method implementation. I don't like empty methods and no functional code, which is the case with Java interface.
- June 3, 2013 at 12:50 AM
- Gauri said...
Hello guys, in state design pattern, should we use an abstract class or interface for modelling State abstraction? this was asked to me in a recent java interview. I said, concrete class because we definitely wants to provide default implementation of State and let's specific state only overrides methods, which make sense on those state. Please le t me know, if my answer is correct?
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HUMMELSTOWN _ A major moment in Evan Schwan's recruitment occurred under somber circumstances.
A few hours before Penn State defensive line coach Larry Johnson was scheduled to visit Schwan's home, Joe Paterno died of lung cancer.
Johnson, who worked 16 years under Paterno, including 12 as defensive line coach, didn't cancel his trip to Harrisburg.
"That speaks volumes to me," Schwan said. "We had dinner at my house. He seemed kind of somber in a way, but he didn't want to be stuck on that. He wanted to move forward."
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Schwan received a scholarship offer a week after Johnson's visit. The defensive end quickly decided to join the Nittany Lions.
Meeting Johnson on a draining day and receiving a scholarship offer capped an overwhelming senior season. Schwan helped Central Dauphin capture its first PIAA Class AAAA football title. His assertive play also landed him on Pennsylvania's Big 33 Football Classic team.
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Sildenafil to Improve Exercise Capacity in People With Thalassemia and Pulmonary Hypertension
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Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that can result in mild to severe anemia. Many people with thalassemia also have pulmonary hypertension, which is high blood pressure in the arteries in the lungs. This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the medication sildenafil at reducing blood pressure in the lungs of people with thalassemia and pulmonary hypertension.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Thalassemia Hypertension, Pulmonary |
Drug: Sildenafil |
Phase 2 Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Pilot of Oral Sildenafil for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Thalassemia With Comparison to Controls |
- Six-minute walk test (6MWT) distance [ Time Frame: Measured at Week 12 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Improved hemodynamics, pulmonary function and structure, hemolysis, arginine-nitric oxide dysregulation, hypercoagulability, inflammation, and cardiac load [ Time Frame: Measured at Week 12 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Characterization of pulmonary hypertension in thalassemia with respect to exercise capacity, hemodynamics, pulmonary function and structure, hemolysis, arginine-nitric oxide dysregulation, hypercoagulability, inflammation, and cardiac load [ Time Frame: Measured at Week 12 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Enrollment: | 27 |
Study Start Date: | March 2009 |
Study Completion Date: | November 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | June 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: 1
Participants with thalassemia who have pulmonary hypertension will receive sildenafil for 12 weeks.
Drug: Sildenafil
Participants will receive sildenafil for 12 weeks with the following therapy: 50 mg of oral sildenafil three times a day (TID) increased to 100 mg TID as tolerated in adults and children greater than 50 kg; 1 mg/kg sildenafil TID without dose escalation in children less than 50 kg Other Names:
No Intervention: 2
Participants with thalassemia who do not have pulmonary hypertension will be part of a control group and will only be undergoing screening/baseline assessments.
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Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body makes an abnormal form of hemoglobin—the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A potential complication of thalassemia is pulmonary hypertension, which is a condition characterized by abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. People with thalassemia who have pulmonary hypertension tend to experience more health complications, including shortness of breath and a reduced exercise capacity, than people with thalassemia who do not have pulmonary hypertension. Sildenafil is a medication that is used to treat pulmonary hypertension; however, it has not yet been studied in people with thalassemia. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of sildenafil at reducing blood pressure in the lungs of people who have thalassemia and pulmonary hypertension. Study researchers will also further compare the differences between people with thalassemia who have pulmonary hypertension and those who do not have pulmonary hypertension.
This study will enroll people with thalassemia who have pulmonary hypertension and a control group of people with thalassemia who do not have pulmonary hypertension. People with thalassemia and pulmonary hypertension will attend a baseline study visit at which time they will undergo the following procedures: medical history and medical record review; physical exam; a 6-minute walk test, which will measure how far participants can walk in 6 minutes; an echocardiogram to obtain images of the heart; blood collection; and for females, a urine collection. Participants will then begin taking sildenafil three times a day for 12 weeks. At study visits at Weeks 2, 4, and 8, participants will undergo repeat baseline testing, and some participants will take part in an exhaled nitric oxide test. At Week 12, participants will also undergo lung function testing and a chest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure.
Participants in the control group will attend one to three study visits at baseline, which will include the same baseline study procedures listed above, plus lung function testing, a chest MRI, a chest computed tomography (CAT) scan, and exhaled nitric oxide testing. They will not receive any medication or have any further study visits.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 7 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria for All Participants:
- Alpha, beta, or E-beta thalassemia confirmed by Hb-electrophoresis or molecular diagnosis
Inclusion Criteria for Participants with Pulmonary Hypertension:
- Pulmonary hypertension, defined as a tricuspid regurgitant jet (TRjet) velocity by Doppler echocardiography greater than 2.5 m/s
Inclusion Criteria for Participants without Pulmonary Hypertension:
- Lack of pulmonary hypertension, defined as TRjet velocity by Doppler echocardiography less than 2.5 m/s
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Hypersensitivity to arginine or sildenafil, based on prior use
Any of the following medical conditions:
- Severe kidney insufficiency, defined as use of hemodialysis or serum creatinine at levels greater than 2.5 mg/dL at the time of screening
- Cardiac disease with adjustment of cardiac medications in the 60 days before study entry
- Symptomatic coronary artery disease, as indicated by a history of chest pain, angina, claudication, or surgery to treat coronary artery disease in the 1 year before study entry
- Stroke, defined as a new focal neurological deficit lasting more than 24 hours in the 45 days before study entry
- New diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by ventilation-perfusion scan, angiography, or any other technique in the 90 days before study entry
- History of retinal detachment or retinal hemorrhage in the 180 days before study entry
- Use of nitrate-based vasodilators, prostacyclin (inhaled, subcutaneous, or intravenous), endothelin antagonists, or any other medication for pulmonary hypertension
- Acute asthma exacerbation requiring use of prednisone in the 60 days before study entry
- Initiation or dosage increase of calcium channel blockers in the 30 days before study entry
- Initiation of any other cardiac or pulmonary medication in the 90 days before study entry
- Presence of any other condition, which in the opinion of the investigator, would make the person unsuitable for enrollment or could interfere with compliance in the study, including but not limited to alcohol or drug abuse
- No measurable TRjet on Doppler echocardiography (i.e., presence of pulmonary hypertension cannot be confirmed or ruled out)
United States, California | |
Children's Hospital and Research Institute Oakland | |
Oakland, California, United States, 94609 |
Principal Investigator: | Ellis Neufeld, MD, PhD | Boston Children's Hospital |
Study Chair: | Claudia Morris, MD | Children's Hospital and Research Institute Oakland |
Principal Investigator: | Charles Quinn, MD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
Principal Investigator: | Patricia Giardina, MD | Weill Medical College of Cornell |
Principal Investigator: | Janet Kwiatkowski, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Principal Investigator: | Nancy Olivieri, MD | Toronto General Hospital |
Principal Investigator: | John Porter, MD | University College, London |
Principal Investigator: | Ali Taher, MD | American University of Beirut Medical Center- Lebannon |
No publications provided by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00872170 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 638, U01 HL065238 |
Study First Received: | March 30, 2009 |
Last Updated: | April 30, 2012 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government Canada: Health Canada European Union: European Medicines Agency |
Keywords provided by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI):
Pulmonary Hypertension |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypertension Hypertension, Pulmonary Thalassemia Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital Anemia, Hemolytic Anemia Hematologic Diseases |
Hemoglobinopathies Genetic Diseases, Inborn Sildenafil Vasodilator Agents Cardiovascular Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action |
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Newberry Hospital holds Lovelights celebration
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Share the warmth with the Coats for Kids Drive
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Gil Cohen: Aviation Artist
A new illustrated book brings aviation history to life.
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- AirSpaceMag.com, November 17, 2009
Gil Cohen
The Wrights at Huffman Prairie—1905. Oil on linen, 2003. The Wright brothers found the farmland outside of Dayton, Ohio, a good place to test their airplanes.
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I am a friend of Aviation artist Gil Cohen, he has help me to be a better artist, see my new website at www.artistforthestars.com , i have art work in 3 Museums and about to give more oil painting to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum in Savannah, Ga. over 100 portraits of the stars, i am a retired Technical Equipment Graphic Artist Illustrator of 38 years , age 76, i tried to give some of my painting to the Air & Space Museum some years back and they said because they were adding on and updating the Museum they did not have the room to take anymore art work, Thanks for reading my email, Artist Charles Silvey
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Torquey v Pompey 26th October 2013. No beer in the ground so went to "boot and laces" beer was expenses and service was slow. Burgers in the ground were horrible and not cheap. Staff were pleasant and helpful.
Torquey v Pompey 26th October 2013. No beer in the ground so went to "boot and laces" beer was expenses and service was slow. Burgers in the ground were horrible and not cheap. Staff were pleasant and helpful.
Being on holiday and missing a home game on my season ticket at Nottingham Forest I deceided to cheer myself up and visit Plainmoor to watch Torquay V Mansfield. This is a nice little ground for a nice little club which deserves more support from the locals to keep it going. The toilet facilities are clean although a little sparce.... More
I live in Paignton which is neighboring towns with Torquay. I support Plymouth Argyle FC and thankfully I have only got to visit this terrible stadium, in fact it isn't a stadium it is a ground with stands, and is horrendous. The food is terrible, half the ground is standing, the toilets are portaloo's and the team, Torquay united are... More
Over the past few years plainmoor has grown into i think one of the best lower league grounds in the country, the new bristows bench finishes off the ground and there is not a better viewing stand in the country... im a pop side fan and love to stand to take in all the atmosphere of the game and the... More
Torquay United vs Bradford City 01/04/13. Away fan facilities consisted of standing area behind goal, very clean toilet building behind stand, and a food/ beverage van. Small ground, general lack of atmosphere. Stewards were good humoured and engaged in friendly banter (re: Torquay keeper Rice's bright orange shorts) with a smile. Plenty of parking nearby. Nil response to our e-mail... More
We visited Torquay's football ground before & after the new stand was built. Facilities are poor, prices are high. If they get relegated I fear for their survival.
What is a lovely fourth division football ground has been spoilt and overrun in my opinion during a recent visit with over enthusiastic stewards. Myself and my daughter visited and posed little threat however the stewards were hostile and rude. No smoking in the ground..fair enough but at least consider opening the away end gate to let the smokers out... More
This is Plainmoor, home to Torquay United FC. The Ground is situated about a 25 minutes walk away from the Town centre and is easily accessable with buses running very frequently and lots of Tax firms for the non walker. The atmosphere is family friendly however to avoid children hearing stronger language then i would advise to purchase tickets for... More
Great game! Brilliant experience! Love the new stand! Pity the local people don't turn out to support their team overun with leeds fans. Pity they do not advertise the games in the town I am sure more holiday makers would have loved to gone along to the ground!
Undergoing new building work but needs to remember the general public are still visiting the ground. Not much help around for visiting supporters and the stewards were a disgrace obstructing the view of visiting fans at vital parts of the match. With the terrible condition of the ground and the low education values of the stewards maybe the Blue Square... More
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If you thought the previous entries in this series made me sound like a desperate and strange individual, this one isn't going to do me any favours (although if you didn't think that, please continue not to do so). The only comic I have ever regretted leaving on the shelf was this: My Friend Dahmer – an autobiographical account by a comic creator who knew Jeffrey Dahmer at school.
Without trying to sound mental, I have one a sort of morbid, purely academic fascination with cannibals. Personally, I blame my mother. Not in a Freudian was-never-breastfed sense, but because she always told me that her dream for me was that I would become a forensic scientist, and spent years buying books about Jack the Ripper's identity and killings, which I would also read.
At some point, I watched a documentary about Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who killed and ate Renée Hartevelt, a Dutch student in France. The account of the only murder he comitted reads like a Chris Morris film – against the traditional portrait of a cold, calculated, Anthony Hopkins psychopath, Sagawa's is full of panicked emotion and bungled attempts at corpse disposal. After he shot his victim, he immediately fainted at the shock of what he had done. He attempted to conceal the body in his flat, but didn't realise the smell would be so bad. After 2 days, he stuffed the corpse into several suitcases and attempted to dump them in a park lake, but he was witnessed getting out of a taxi at the scene, and easily traced.
And yet, despite this apparent incompetence, he still managed to end someone's life. In an interview I read, he explained that his obsession with eating a person stemmed from his youth (which, by all accounts, was relatively normal – more affluent than usual, even) and I couldn't help but wonder how someone would end up like that. Was it in him from the start, or something he became? Better psychologists than me have failed to come up with an answer.
Which brings me back to My Friend Dahmer. In it, the artist recounts their experiences together, and the changes in Dahmer's personality as he grows up that would lead him to become a man who would kill and eat at least 17 people. The one and only time I ever saw a copy of it was on the shelves at Forbidden Planet in Coventry – presumably the week it came out. I don't know why I didn't buy it. I read a lot of autobio comics. I am, undeniably, interested in the subject matter. What was it about this comic that made me think "no, actually, that's not for me"? I have a vague memory of flipping through the art and finding Peter Bagge-esque cartooning, which I've never been that fond of aesthetically (and was actively repelled by at the time) so it's likely that was my reasoning, stupid though it sounds to me now.
In any case, while writing this entry, I've gone and rectified the situation. My Friend Dahmer is available for purchase at the artist's website, Derfcity. Apparently, it was Eisner-nominated, which makes me wish even more than I had picked it up at the time. A mistake I have finally corrected.