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Roma Bistro offers diners a sumptuous array of entrees, all authentically prepared from the freshest ingredients and served in an exclusive, opulent setting. Enjoy!
Caprese $8.00
Mozzarella di buffalo, sliced tomatoes and garden fresh basil
Prosciutto e Melone $8.00
Pepperonata Arrostiti $7.00
Marinated roasted bell peppers with anchovy
Carpaccio $14.00
Thinly sliced raw filet mignon
Salmone Affumicato $12.00
Smoked Salmon
Mozzarella Alla Romana $6.00
Breaded buffalo mozzarella strips with marinara sauce
Calimari Fritti $7.00
Deep fried squid
Carciofi alla Marco $10.00
Artichoke hearts stuffed with spinach and smoked salmon, topped with Parmigiano cheese
Scampi Dello Chef $10.00
Sauteed shrimp scampi, white wine garlic, fresh herbs and lemon in a white wine sauce
Scampi Fradiadolo $11.00
Shrimp scampi in a light, spicy tomato sauce
Funghi Alla Piemontese $7.00
Fresh mushrooms sautéed in extra virgin olive oil, garlic and fresh herbs
Scallops al Safrano $14.00
Fresh New Zealand scallops in a saffron sauce
Crab Cakes $14.00
With a sauce made of red and green bell peppers, pineapple, mango and cilantro
Romana $5.00
Chopped lettuce with salami and mortadella
Ortolana $6.00
Chopped lettuce, mushrooms and Gorgonzola cheese
Arugula $9.00
Italian watercress with shrimp and sun dried tomatoes
Cesare $7.00
Misto $4.00
Mixed greens and tomatoes
Minestrone $4.00
Chicken Noodle $4.00
Mushroom Soup with or without Cream $5.00
Linguini Del Principe $14.00
Linguini pasta with artichoke hearts in a mushroom sauce
Conchiglie Alla Barese $12.00
Shell pasta with broccoli in a creamy garlic sauce
Spaghettini Alla Checca $12.00
Spaghetti with fresh chopped tomatoes, basil and garlic
Linguini Alle Vongole $17.00
Clams steamed in white wine, garlic and herbs, served over liguini
Fusilli Di Frederico $19.00
Fusilli pastas with green peas, fresh Salmon with creamy, Vodka tomato sauce
Fettuccine Al Gamberi E Funghi $20.00
Fettuccine topped with shrimp in a light tomato cream sauce with Cognac and mushrooms
Penne All'arabiata con Salsice $16.00
Penne pasta with Italian sausage in a spice tomato sauce
Meat Ravioli $14.00
Meat Lasagna $12.00
Eggplant Parmigiana $12.00
Boscaiola $15.00
Chicken breast in a mushroom sauce
Del Tandon $15.00
Medallions or chicken breast with onion, green peas and mushroom marinara sauce
Parmigiana $14.00
Al Pepe Verde $15.00
Medallions of chicken breast in a green peppercorn sauce
Principessa $17.00
Breast of chicken sautéed with onions, bell peppers and Italian sausage in a light brown sauce
Piccata Al Limone $14.00
Breast of chicken in a white wine lemon sauce with capers
Scaloppini Alla Checca con Carciofi $18.00
Veal in a sauce with diced tomatoes, garlic, basil and artichoke hearts
Alla Pizzaiola $18.00
Garlic, black olives in a tomato sauce
Marsala $17.00
Marsala wine sauce and fresh mushrooms
Limone $18.00
Parmigiana $18.00
Mahi Delizia $19.00
Fresh Mahi over a bed of sautéed spinach
Branzino Di Roberto $25.00
Filet of Chilean Sea Bass sautéed in a white wine tomato sauce with artichoke hearts and black olives
Salmone Alla Mustarda $19.00
Filet of Salmon in a light Dijon mustard sauce
Cuore Di Filetto Al Barolo $23.00
Sliced filet mignon sautéed with fresh shallots in a Barolo wine sauce
Filetto Al Pepe Verde Flambre $23.00
Filet mignon in a green peppercorn sauce
Filetto Rossini $24.00
Filet mignon in a Marsala sauce topped with Truffle Duck Pate
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Theodore O'Connor was a pony! 14.1 3/4 or something. Most incredible little guy.
Jack of Diamonds was a GP showjumper wayyyyy back when. 14.2hh.
There are tons of accounts of ponies jumping higher than their own height. 12.2hh ponies jumping 1m30 [that's 4'4"-ish!], Connemaras winning at puissance against 17.3hh jumping-bred warmbloods, the list goes on. Ponies can be awesome!
Edit; and way back in the days of "high-jumping" competitions, before WW2, it wasn't unheard of for 13hh ponies to jump 7 foot high fences!

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CORNWALL, Ont. - The Jiffy Auto Services 200 finally arrived at Cornwall Motor Speedway with no less than nine champions were crowned on Sunday night with the final races for the Gaetan Chip Stand Canadian Nationals, the St.Lawrence Seaway Sportsman Series, the Mohawk Race Parts Pro-Stock Series along with the five Cornwall championships that ended.
A total of 232 laps of feature racing took place over the course of the night.
Matt Billings and Kyle Dingwall were on the top row of the 30-car field in the 125-lap Modified feature as Dingwall pulled in lead with Joel Doiron in third. Running in fourth David H�bert headed to the pits on lap 9 just before Brandon Sweet pulled off the track on the following lap. On the restart, Billings got the lead as Dale Planck jumped to second with Dingwall behind them. Planck was trying hard to pass the lead with 25 laps completed. As the leaders were in heavy traffic conditions, Planck was able to grab the lead on lap 26. Steve Bernard had a strong run as he was now third with Danny OBrien making his way on top in fourth with 90 laps to go. Planck made some nifty moves and got away from the rest of the pack while Bernard challenged Billings for second as OBrien was waiting in fourth. Bernard used the inside portion to grab second as Billings slipped to fourth with OBrien in third. Planck lost his huge lead as caution came out on lap 46.
Green lights came back on lap 55 as Planck was still in first as OBrien was strong on the top side of the track, he charged to second on lap 58 and was getting closer to Planck. Chris Raabe and Carey Terrance made their way in the top five as Doiron was back in fifth as Bernard lost a lot of real estate. Francois Bernier slowed in the backstretch and the yellow was out on lap 65. OBrien had a strong start and got the lead as Planck was still in contention with teammate Terrance now in third. The mandatory yellow was out on lap 75 as race teams were able to race on their cars.
After the 10-minute break, OBrien got back to the lead as Planck was running side by side with OBrien, the inside lane was working for Planck as he got back to the lead just before caution came out for Stephane Lafrance who had a flat tire on lap 81. Planck in front with OBrien right behind him as Raabe holds down third. Again, the leader used slower cars to his advantage as he pulled away from the rest of the field as Terrance was back in third. With only 25 laps remaining, Planck is still in the lead with OBrien, Terrance, Raabe and Dingwall, the front five. While running a strong fifth, Kyle Dingwall stopped in the infield and the yellow on lap 108. Planck in the lead on the green as Matt Williamson made his way to the lead pack and was running in fourth with 113 laps down. Williamson got by Terrance with only four laps to go. Planck led the final laps to capture the win over OBrien and Williamson completed the podium. With his third win of the season, Planck captured his third Cornwall Motor Speedway feature and first Canadian Nationals crown.
The final race of the 40-lap Mohawk Race Parts Pro-Stock Series saw Guy Viens in the lead for the first two laps as George Renaud got the lead with Ryan Stabler pulling in second with 5 laps down. Stabler and Renaud ran side by side as Stabler looked strong on top and took the lead on lap 12. New 2012 track champion, Joey Ladouceur was now in contention running third. Ladouceur passed Renaud for second just before he got clipped by Claude Parisien sending Ladouceur to the back and Parisien was black flagged with 16 laps to go. Stabler in the lead with Ghislain Valade moving up to third but St�phane Lebrun charged and got by Valade. Stabler was able to survive a few late cautions and won his third feature of the season over Renaud and Dion Oakes. Ladouceur captured his fourth track championship and Mohawk Race Parts Series in a row.
Chris Herbison jumped to the lead in the 40-lap finale of the St.Lawrence Seaway Sportsman series. Two accidents involving several cars occurred in the first 5 laps. With being late at night, decision was made to start counting caution laps. Herbison still in the lead on the green with Dylan Evoy making his way to second with Jessica Powers in third with 15 laps to go. Herbison and Evoy were in battle for the same lane and Evoy was able to pass the leader with 8 laps to go as the yellow lights were out. Evoy in the lead as Devon Caron and Louie Jackson slipped by Herbison and completed the podium. Herbison`s fourth place in the feature secured the track championship and St.Lawrence Seaway Sportsman series championship.
The 15-lap Evans Bus Line Semi-Pro feature had 18 cars for the initial green as Junior Delormier took the lead. Delormier led for four laps until Michael McCargar got the top spot. The leader had Derek Cryderman has a dancing partner at the halfway point. Cryderman was able to pass McCargar at the halfway point. Cryderman led the final portion to get his fourth feature of the season over McCargar and Wes Bilmer.
The final feature of 2012 in the Crazy Daves DJ Services saw Mikael Blais take the lead over Justin Desrosiers and Mathieu Aubin. Blais led wire to wire and captured his third feature of the season over Aubin and Martin Bernard who captured third in claiming the 2012 track championship.
More than $20,000 in prizes were given during the intermission involving the 100% participation draws amongst the Gaetan Chip Stand Canadian Nationals, the St.Lawrence Seaway Sportsman Series, the Mohawk Race Parts Pro-Stock Series. Kayle Robidoux won the 2013 Bicknell chassis, Matt Billings left with a set of four Hoosier tires, Mario Clair and David H�bert won a barrel of VP Fuels and Tim OBrien, Brian McDonald, Danny OBrien, Chris Raabe and Joel Doiron each won a $250 envelope. In the Sportsman Series, Corey Winter won the GM Crate engine, Dana Aikens a set of four Hoosier tires and Dylan Evoy, Adam Rozon, Kenny Polite, Terry Ladouceur and Corey Wheeler each got a $100 envelope. In Pro-Stock, Ryan Stabler got the full body.
The 2012 season will end this Sunday with the annual Fireball Enduro, a great afternoon of racing for all the family, with more than 200 laps of racing mayhem involving 4, 6 and 8 cylinders cars. For more information on the upcoming events at the speedway, visit the trackwebsite at www.cornwallspeedway.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in cooperation with USDA and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has undertaken a program to study the presence of dioxin-like compounds in animal feeds. Two phases of this program have been completed, and this paper reports on the third phase. The first phase was a study on the mass balance of dioxins in lactating cows. The objective of that study was to quantify the role feeds play in total dairy cow exposures. The second phase of the program involved the collections and measurement of dioxins in minor feed components. Dioxins in specific targeted animal feed components of interest, including animal and plant byproducts were measured. The third phase involved sampling of total mixed dairy feeds and feed components from dairy facilities around the United States, and measuring for dioxin-like compounds.
Lorber, M; Ferrario, J; Byrne, C; Greene, C; Cyrus, A. 2004. A Study to Evaluate the Levels of Dioxin-Like Compounds in Dairy Feeds in the United States. Organohalogen Compounds 66: 1958-1965.
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Italy's top court has overturned the acquittals Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito received in 2011 from a lower court due to faulty DNA evidence used to convict them in the 2007 murder of Knox's roommate, Briton Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors in the case told Italy's Supreme Court that the acquittals were both "contradictory and illogical". Evidently the top court agreed with them. It's unclear at this point why the court overturned the acquittals. They have 90 days to announce the reasons for their decision.
What a weird and wacky judicial system Italy has. Instead of just overturning the convictions in the original murder trial, the appeals court actually acquitted Knox and her ex-boyfriend. The acquittals are now thrown out meaning that both Knox and her ex-boyfriend must face trial again for the 2007 murder. Why aren't the original convictions allowed to stand?
Knox now lives in Seattle, Washington. She can't be forced to return to Italy to again stand trial, but if she is convicted, Italy can try to extradite her back to serve her sentence in an Italian prison.
Speaking of Italian prison, Rudy Guede, a drug dealer from the Ivory Coast, was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Briton Meredith Kercher. He is currently serving a 16 year sentence. Since the Italian prosecutors already have a convicted murderer in prison for the crime, it seems weird that they also want to convict Knox and her ex-boyfriend of the same crime.
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Obama's Job-Killing Economy: The Continuing Saga
Six quarters of tepid growth and a net loss in jobs, but nothing really changes.
March 1, 2011 - 12:00 am
Friday morning, the government announced yet another downward revision to a previously published economy-related number. The nation's gross domestic product (GDP), thought to have grown at an annual rate of 3.2% a month ago, was downwardly revised to 2.8%. "Unexpectedly," of course; analysts thought that the figure would increase to 3.3%.
In the six quarters since the recession ended, the economy under Barack Obama has grown by about 4.4%, and by only 2.7% in the most recent four quarters. By comparison, in the six quarters after the early 1980s recession ended while Ronald Reagan presided, GDP increased by almost 10%, with 8.5 points of that growth taking place during quarters three through six. The economy under Reagan blasted off; under Obama, it's mired in something worse than mediocrity.
The glaring shortfall in growth under Obama might not be so troubling but for the catastrophic results it has caused in the employment market. In mid-January, I noted, based on data available at the time, that Reagan's first six post-recession quarters saw the creation of over 4 million jobs, while only 72,000 jobs were created during Obama's comparable six quarters.
That was before Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) completed its annual comprehensive revision. When it went on the books in January's employment report, it zapped hundreds of thousands of jobs from previously reported figures for the prior 21 months.
Here's how the Reagan versus Obama six-quarter jobs comparison looks after BLS's comprehensive revision:
Eighteen months after the recession officially ended, the revised figures show that the economy under Obama is still in the hole by over a quarter-million jobs. That's because 44,000 job additions in the private sector have been far more than offset by 308,000 jobs losses in the public sector. Here's a supreme irony, considering that Obama is still somehow perceived as a hero by the state and municipal employees' unions: all of those seasonally adjusted government job losses — and then some — have occurred not at the federal level, where employment is up by 38,000, but at the state and local levels, where job losses have been 29,000 and 317,000, respectively.
Arthur Laffer and his fellow supply-side economists have more than enough justification to address Will Smith's line in I, Robot to leftist Keynesian holdouts like the insufferable Paul Krugman: "You know, somehow, 'I told you so' just doesn't quite say it." Krugman's latest laugher is that "the stimulus can't have failed, because it never happened." Stop it, Paul. The federal government has operated as one big, failed stimulus program since late 2008. Barring a miracle, whether you go with administration or Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers, Uncle Sam will show three years of reported deficits totaling over $4 trillion when the current fiscal year ends — even if Tea Party freshmen in the House get absolutely everything they want.


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The Senate voted 81-18 to end the 16-day partial shutdown and meet a Thursday deadline to raise the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. The House followed after 10 p.m., approving by a 285-144 vote the bipartisan agreement put together earlier in the day by senators.
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December 5, 2012
Under My Hat
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First sentence: "The stories all start with a hat, specifically a tall, black, pointy hat."
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I know it's bad form to start a review with "I never read x" but in this case it's true. I don't do short stories and I'm not a big fan of witches. (Tiffany Aching aside.) But, in this case, I'm glad for the Cybils: I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of short stories about witches.
The stories themselves were good, taking in a wide breadth of witch lore. It went from modern Wiccan (Holly Black's "Little Gods," which -- since this is a book aimed at the upper-middle grade audience, I feel compelled to add -- contains the book's only f-bomb), to traditional fairy tale (Jane Yolen's fabulous "Andersen's Witch") and everything in between. There are some fantasy heavyweights here as well: aside from Black and Yolen, Neil Gaiman weighs in with a quirky poem; Patricia McKillip has a story about a witch band fighting evil (way cool); Frances Hardinge was her elegant self in the smart, funny "Payment Due"; Charles De Lint explores the idea of a Hispanic witch in "Barrio Girls", and Garth Nix offers up a creepy boarding school witch story.
Obviously, there were some that I liked more than others, but hands-down my favorite was from an author I'd not heard of before: Tim Pratt. I guess he's solely a short story writer, which is why I haven't read his stuff, but his story "The Carved Forest" was amazing. It's basically the story of a girl who is having conflicts with her family, so she runs away to the witch's house. Her brother comes to get her, and discovers that the witch has an entire forest of carved trees. They're of people in his town, and the witch's job is to keep them rooted, never leaving her care. It works on several levels: as a brother-sister story, as a creepy witch story, and as an allegory for letting people follow their own path. Perhaps it's what I wanted to read right then, but it really affected me.
Overall, it's a great collection of stories, perfect for anyone who is into witches (or just wants to explore the topic a bit).
(Just for the record: because this is a Cybils nominee, I've been asked to make sure y'all know this is my opinion only, and not that of the panel.)
3 comments:
- Tim Pratt said...
I'm so glad you like my story! I do write novels, though most are in a series under the name T.A. Pratt.
- December 13, 2012 at 4:58 PM
- Melissa Fox said...
Tim! Thanks! I'll have to look up some of your novels now.
- December 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM
- Kailana said...
Oh, sounds fun! I will have to see about getting a copy.
- December 15, 2012 at 11:42 AM
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i was looking around at the phones available and the plans available and since im not to keen on signing any contracts, and i enjoy having some privacy, i figured i'd go for the pay as you go type of thing. the only service provider available around here is rogers and the phones the retailers are selling cost at least $150.
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Is there a 12-step program for Jewish singles? If so, sign me up for the JDA – Jewish Date-aholics Anonymous. Not, mind you, that I'm addicted to dating. To me, dating is only a means to an end. I can stop any time I want to. No, really. I'm just using it. Having my way with it. Then, when I find my Beshert, I'll kick dating to the curb, like an expired box of Manishewitz® matzo. But I'm spending so much time and energy dating that it sometimes feels like an addiction. Or at least another career. If only it paid. And didn't involve so much time at Starbucks®. And didn't require at the end of each meeting having to come up with a polite way to say, "It's perfectly okay with me if we never see each other again for the rest of our lives; in fact, I'd prefer it." Which usually emerges from my careful-to-be-tactful mouth in this fashion: "Very nice meeting you."
In the first three years following my divorce, I went on 150 coffee dates. And by coffee dates I'm using the standard Merriam-Webster® dictionary definition:  "first-time meetings, usually ending in disappointment." And I'm an optimist, mind you. Now, I realize that 150 coffee dates sounds like a lot, but spread out over three years, it's just one a week. Of course, depending on the person, fifteen minutes with the wrong person for the first time can seem like one week. But I learned something very important from those 150 coffee dates. I learned that if I had saved all the money I spent on them, I could have planted 1200 trees in Israel. Granted, four of the dates resulted in relationships. But 146 of them resulted in "Very nice meeting you." And a thorough knowledge of the differences between lattes, cappuccinos, and caramel macchiatos. If only that paid.
Sometimes I think this dating odyssey is God's way of getting back at me for never having taken chemistry in school. He's making it virtually impossible for me to find chemistry with my potential soul mate. Is mutual worship and adoration too much to ask? Of course not. You can ask for it all you want. Getting it – now that's the trick. Either they're not attracted to me or I'm not attracted to them. Sometimes they show up without a sense of humor, without a sense of playfulness, without even the realization that someone else is sitting across the table from them. They'll talk for a full hour about themselves without asking one question about me. Astounding. At least they're setting their red flags up on the table right from the start. I thank them for that.
I do like the variety, though. I've gone out with a judge, a cantor, a masseuse, a teacher, a network executive, a nurse, a college student, a speech therapist, a doctor, an actress, a psychologist, a lawyer, even a forest ranger. I've had a first date in an art museum that featured life-sized, anatomically correct male and female mannequins. One date, as soon as we sat down to brunch, removed a digital scale from her pocketbook and proceeded to weigh each item of food that was served. At one Starbucks, I sat waiting an extra half hour for my date to arrive, even though she was already seated a few tables away, because she looked so different from her profile's photo that I could not believe that this was the same person. Finally, I approached her and she confirmed that she was, in fact, my date. Though to this day, I remain unconvinced that she was not my date's mother.
Remember that Seinfeld episode where Jerry gets in trouble for being spotted making out with his date during Schindler's List? A recent date suggested, as a first date, that we see The Pianist, another Holocaust-themed movie. Beautifully done, very powerful and moving, but somehow doesn't quite set the desired mood of romance for kicking off a romantic relationship. Oh, sure, I did what I could to salvage the mood afterwards, with such comments as, "My apartment's in much better shape than that labor camp," "We Jews really have to stick together – wanna come home with me"? And, as a last resort, "How about a screening of The Diary of Anne Frank for our second date?", but to no avail.
And though I've done my share of rejecting, I've also experienced my share of being rejected. At first, I'd take it personally. Now I consider it part of the process. Often, women can't bring themselves to say, "Sorry, not interested" to my face, so they'll lie. In one case, when I asked about the possibility of a next date, she responded, cheerfully, "Call me!" I did and never heard back from her. Now when I hear a cheerful "Call me," I realize it's the kiss of death, not unlike that given by Michael Corleone in The Godfather. My favorite kiss-off, though, happened recently. I brought up the subject of a third date, and actually heard these words come from her lips, "I'm going to be really busy in December." Wouldn't a quick slap across my face and knee to the groin have made the point more directly?
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In the Western World, Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) is a leading cause of blindness. This disease was once thought to be a natural part of aging, but recent research has introduced effective treatments. ARMD is related to the body initiating an immune response in the eye, as if responding to an infection. Vision is impacted as ocular tissue becomes inflamed and new blood vessels form at the back of the eye, a process called angiogenesis. In the more severe wet form of ARMD, blood and fluid leak out of the vessels and impair the eye's structure and function. Many studies have shown that ranibizumab, a drug that stops the formation of new blood vessels (an anti-angiogenic agent) can delay damage to the eye and often restore vision. The investigators believe the best drug therapy will also stop the inflammation. Triamcinolone acetonide, a steroid drug, has shown the potential to effectively reduce inflammation in this application. The investigators aim to investigate if patients receiving a combination treatment of ranibizumab and triamcinolone acetonide improve their visual abilities more than those receiving just ranibizumab treatment alone. Secondarily, the investigators will also investigate how often patients receiving each drug therapy regime require re-treatment and how often they experience further vision loss.
Wet Macular Degeneration
Drug: Ranibizumab
Drug: Triamcinolone Acetonide
Phase 2
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Sub-tenon Triamcinolone Acetonide in Age-Related Macular Degeneration as Adjunct to Ranibizumab
- Gains in visual acuity [ Time Frame: Baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Gains in visual acuity will be assessed by comparing best corrected visual acuity at each follow up appointment by the standardized vision testing, early treatment diabetic retinopathy study (ETDRS) visual acuity test. The ETDRS visual acuity test was first developed to effectively evaluate visual changes following panretinal photocoagulation in patients with diabetic retinopathy. This method of measuring visual acuity was more accurate than previous methods, and thus has become the global standard, especially for clinical trials where it is essential to have utmost accuracy.
- Changes in intra-ocular pressure [ Time Frame: Baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]To be measured by tonometry
- Rates of re-treatment [ Time Frame: Months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]To be measured by recording each drug administration date
- Rate of vision loss [ Time Frame: Baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]To be measured by ETDRS visual acuity testing and compared over the course of the study
- Rate of cataract progression [ Time Frame: Baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measured at each appointment with a slit lamp examination
- • Changes in choroid vessel activity in lesion growth and activity at choroid [ Time Frame: Baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The changes in blood vessel lesion growth and activity will be measured by OCT (Ocular Coherence Tomography) and fundus fluoroscein angiography to assess choroidal neovascular leakage
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Placebo Comparator: Ranibizumab
Ranibizumab is the current gold standard treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration. This intervention is approved by Health Canada, covered by OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) and used regularly by ophthalmologists in Canada. Participants will receive intravitreal injections of ranibizumab each month for up to 6 months, with ocular testing at each appointment as prescribed by the study protocol.
Drug: Ranibizumab
Intra-vitreal injections of 0.5mg/0.05 mL dosage, injected at months 0, 1, and 2. For those requiring additional injections, patients will receive monthly treatment up to a maximum of 6 months total.
Other Name: Lucentis
Active Comparator: Ranibizumab and Triamcinolone acetonide
Recent research has discovered that persons with wet or dry ARMD show an immune response, as if the body is fighting off an infection. The body creates a complex immune response to the growth of blood vessels into the eye tissue, which triggers side effects. It is believed that preventing this inflammation can lead to greater visual gains and a need for fewer treatment injections.
Animal studies have shown that Triamcinolone Acetonide, a corticosteroid (class of drugs that reduce inflammation) can prevent damage to vision from this inflammation. The hypothesis is that treatment with both Ranibizumab and Triamcinolone Acetonide will allow even greater vision improvements than Ranibizumab treatment alone for wet age-related macular degeneration.
Drug: Ranibizumab
Intra-vitreal injections of 0.5mg/0.05 mL dosage, injected at months 0, 1, and 2. For those requiring additional injections, patients will receive monthly treatment up to a maximum of 6 months total.
Other Name: LucentisDrug: Triamcinolone Acetonide
Sub-tenon injection of 40mg/mL dosage at months 0 and 2 with follow up for a total of 6 months.
Other Name: Kenalog
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Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD or AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in North America. There are two types of ARMD: dry and wet. Both forms of ARMD cause a progressive loss of central vision, the part of your vision that allows you to read, drive and see images in sharp detail directly in front of you. The wet form is typically more severe and is characterized by the growth and leakage of small blood vessels into the choroid layer of the eye, or the back of the eye. These leaking blood vessels disrupt the structure and function of the eye, causing loss of vision, particularly the sharp vision created by the macula area of the eye.
Upon being accepted to the study, participants will be randomly divided into two groups. One group will receive both ranibizumab and triamcinolone acetonide injections and the other group will receive ranibizumab injections and a placebo treatment. To participants in this group, there will be the appearance of a second injection but no actual injection will take place. An individual not connected to the study will assign participants to a group based on a computer-generated system, giving participants at 50% chance of being placed in either group. During the study, participants will not know which group they are in, but will be able to know once the study is finished.
Participants will be asked to come in for an initial assessment to determine their starting visual abilities and medical history. On the next appointment, participants will receive the first treatment injections. They will be asked to come into the clinic every month for six (6) months total for treatment injections and testing. At each appointment, study investigators will take 3-D images of the retina (the back of the eye) using an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging device, test eye pressure and determine if there are any signs of infection or inflammation from the injections. On months 1, 3 and 6 investigators will also test vision using Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) visual acuity charts, contrast sensitivity using a standard contrast sensitivity chart (The Pelli-Robson chart) and take images of the blood vessel growth using a coloured dye (fluorescein) to help see blood vessels. Before every treatment, anesthetic eye drops (proparacaine) will be applied to the eye so participants will not feel the injections. Participants will be given antibiotic eye drops (Zymar®) and will be asked to apply the drops 4 times a day for a few days after the injection to prevent infection.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) with evidence of sub-foveal choroidal neo-vascularization (CNV)
- Patients greater than the age 18 years old (male or female)
- Visual acuity must be between 20/40 and 20/320 in the study eye.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with CNV from causes other than ARMD
- Patients having intra-ocular surgery within past 3 months on study eye
- Patients with medically uncontrolled glaucoma
- Patients with prior vitreous/retinal surgery
- Patients with a history of past CNV treatment in study eye
- Patients with other ocular conditions causing vision loss that could confound the analysis of ARMD
- Individuals with a disability preventing accurate vision testing
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01249937
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|Sub-Investigator: Emmanuel Mavrikakis, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Robert Devenyi, MD, FRCSC
|Sub-Investigator: Sourabh Arora, BSc
|Sub-Investigator: Laura Schneider, BSc
|Principal Investigator:
|Wai-Ching Lam, MD, FRCSC
|University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital
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|Study First Received:
|November 26, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 8, 2011
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|Canada: Health Canada
Keywords provided by University Health Network, Toronto:
Macular Degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration
Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (Anti-VEGF)
Triamcinolone Acetonide
Vision loss
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Macular Degeneration
Wet Macular Degeneration
Eye Diseases
Retinal Degeneration
Retinal Diseases
Triamcinolone Acetonide
Triamcinolone diacetate
Triamcinolone hexacetonide
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Immunologic Factors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Therapeutic Uses
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Moving forward slowly but surely around here. It will never be the same, but at least it will be. Now comes the cold weather and the threat of another big storm. Many are still without power. Thousands are homeless. Gas is hard to find. It's difficult to concentrate on football, to put it plainly. At least the mayor had the sense to can the marathon this weekend. Here's some Giants' news….
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If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.
This post explains the flow of data within the Visual C++ compiler – starting with our C++ source program, and ending with a corresponding binary program. This post is an easy one – dipping our toes into the shallow end of ocean.
Let's examine what happens when we compile a single-file program, stored in App.cpp, from the command-line. (If you were to launch the compilation from within Visual Studio, the diagram below would have to include higher layers of software; however, these end up emitting the very commands I'm about to describe).
So let's imagine we just typed: CL /O2 App.cpp
The CL stands from "Compile and Link". /O2 tells the compiler to optimize for speed – to generate machine code that runs as fast as possible. This command launches a process to execute the CL.EXE program – a "driver" that calls several pieces of software: when joined together, they process the text in our App.cpp and eventually generate a binary file, called App.exe. When executed, this binary will carry out the operations we specified in our original source file.
Let's take a stroll around the diagram above and explain what's going on.
CL.EXE parses our command-line, and checks that it makes sense. It then calls the C++ "front-end", located in C1XX.DLL (the "CXX" is meant to suggest "C++", but dates back to a time when "+" was not a legal character in file names). The FrontEnd is the part of the chain that understands the C++ language. It scans, parses and transforms your App.cpp into an equivalent tree, passed to the next component via 5 temporary files. The "language" represented by these 5 files is called "CIL", for "C Intermediate Language". Don't confuse this with the intermediate code, generated by managed languages such as C#, sometimes called "MSIL" but also, unfortunately, named "CIL" in the ECMA-335 standard.
Next, CL.EXE calls the "back-end", located in C2.DLL. We call the BackEnd "UTC", which stands for "Universal Tuple Compiler", although this name doesn't show up in any of the binaries included into Visual Studio. The BackEnd starts by converting the information from the FrontEnd into tuples – a binary stream of instructions. If we were to display them, they would look like a kind of high-level assembly language. It's high-level in the senses that:
Because we asked the compiler to optimize for speed, via the /O2 switch, the Optimize part of the BackEnd analyses the tuples and transforms them into a form that will execute faster but that is semantically equivalent – that yields the same results as would the original tuples. After this step, the tuples are passed to the CodeGen part of the BackEnd, which decides the final binary code to emit.
The CodeGen module emits App.obj as a file on disk. Finally, the Linker consumes that file, resolves any references to libraries, and produces the final App.exe binary.
In the diagram, black arrows show flow of data – text or binary. Red arrows show flow of control.
(We shall return to this diagram later in the series, when we hit the topic of Whole Program Optimization, specified to the compiler with the /GL switch, and to the Linker with the /LTCG switch. We will see the same set of boxes, but connected in different ways)
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This blog will focus on the Optimize part of the compiler, with scant mention of the other components that make up the chain – FrontEnd, CodeGen or Linker.
This post has introduced lots of jargon. I'm not intending that you make total sense of it all at this point: this post is an overview, sprinkled with ideas that hopefully pique your interest, and ensure you'll come back next time, where I will start to explain all of that jargon.
Next time, we will look at perhaps the simplest optimization and how it works – the one called "constant folding".
"passed to the next component via 5 temporary files"
Why are temporary files used for this? AFAIK both the frontend and backend run in the same process.
"UTC", which stands for "Universal Tuple Compiler"
Heh, I always wondered what UTC stands for.
Nice post! Can't wait to see next. I love reading about compiler details.
So some questions, then some back story...
Does the VC team track stack usage as a performance metric?
What is the exchange rate between instruction size and stack size?
Back story:
About a year ago, I was debugging a buffer overflow in an x64 executable build with vc10. For the purposes of the discussion, it looked something like this...
inline void buffer_holder() {
char buffer[1024];
//do stuff with buffer
int main() {
return 0;
I noticed that the code generated for this program had main() reserve ~2K of stack space, instead of reserving ~1K, and reusing the buffer.
I have seen similar situations to this where a three byte instruction (add esp with an immediate value) could save hundreds of bytes of stack space. I would expect this to improve system performance, as the cache would be much denser, but I haven't measured. Do you have any idea where the break-even point is (in general) for instruction tweaks vs. stack space saved?
Outstanding post! Is there any chance Jim that at the end of your series you could collect all the posts together in a PDF? The above material is incredibly valuable and presentation is top notch - it's practically a Patterns and Practices level treatment of the material.
Like others here I'm really looking forward to seeing where you take this. Kudos and many thanks.
I wonder how much faster the whole compilation process would be without relying so heavily on the filesystem?
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You are an excellent write Sir! I am an engineer turned somewhat programmer. No formal training in coding. Compiling to me usually consist of Compile All from the IDE. But your article was very informative and interesting!!!
Your style of writing is great at explain things like the "UTC" explanation!
Great Job!!!
How to reduce the priority to -1 on build in new build? From historical data, a build completes in the same time but does not bring the machine to its knees begging for mercy. *Consider this and give us back our CPUs.
*Of course, it won't happen, but know that this is stupid to consume all CPU resources all the time when it is my machine. **I demand to control how it is used.
**Of course, this is like saying stop PRISM.
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Reasons for using temp files are historical - from days when memory was limited; before DLLs came into use, and the parts of the compiler launched as separate processes. However, with a writeback buffer-cache in the filesystem, the performance is good. (I was told that the team experimented with in-memory transfers some time back, but without much difference in performance). Note that these intermediate representations can be quite big. If you want to 'see' the temp files, use the undocumented /Bk switch. For example: CL /c /Bkxyz. App.cpp will compile App.cpp, and produce 5 temp files called xyz.db, xyz.ex, xzy.gl, xyz.in and xyz.sy. You can't do anything with these temp files, except see their size.
Note too that we use these temp files, packaged together, in Whole-Program (/GL /LTCG) scenarios. We'll cover that in a future post.
@Ben Craig
Re-using the same part of stack for different variables is called "stack packing". And UTC does this, where possible, for scalar variables. It's like register-allocation, except, instead of registers, we are dealing with "slots" in the stack. To be safe (ie, to yield correct results), the compiler needs to analyze the lifetime of each variable, to make sure the lifetimes of any variables that share the same stack slot do not overlap. The analysis required to do this for arrays is more involved than for scalars - in your example, checking that none of the 1000 bytes of the first instantiation could overlap, in time, any of the 1000 bytes of the second instantiation. This is made more complex if the code assigns a char pointer to any elements in the array.
Bottom line - yes, there are some situations where it's safe to stack-pack arrays; but the analysis can be involved, and the compiler doesn't currently do so. (In passing, it's the CodeGen part of the compiler that's responsible for stack-packing)
@Tom Kirby-Green
Gathering posts together? Yes - I am now realizing that some of the interesting discussion arises from questions, so a PDF summary would usefully require an editor pass to merge text and Q&A together.
I realize this probably isn't something that will ever be supported, but being able to target C2.exe from my own front-end would be cool - get a bunch of optimizations for free, possibly also with whole-program optimization support and binary interop. Doing something more sane like targeting LLVM is probably a better idea though :)
I might try pulling apart those /Bk outputs for fun some time...
@Simon Buchan - well, that was the idea with Phoenix but unfortunately Phoenix disappeared...
We don't document, or support, feeding parsed source code into UTC, unfortunately. And yes, that was (one of) the many aims of Phoenix (where I spent 4 interesting years). Although Phoenix disappeared as a shipping product, that technology, and part of the team, live on within another group inside Microsoft.
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